Take Control In Your Own Hands With OIO Publisher
Blog monetization is not an easy subject. There are lots and lots of methods to earn a buck with your blog, but they either require a lot of energy and time from you, or they’ll cost you money through fees and revenue shares. But there’s also a different solution. It’s called OIO Publisher.
Full Control from the WordPress Admin interface
OIO Publisher is a blog monetization suite, but they most notable part is the WordPress plugin. The plugin in is a full option ad manager for banners, text links, in post ads and more and comes with full PayPal integration.
OIO Publisher lets you manage all your ads right from the WordPress admin interface. And payments for the ads are integrated. Your advertisers can pay directly from your blog using PayPal. Directly on your PayPal account (no waiting for money, or waiting to hit a payout threshold) and on your terms. That’s pretty cool huh?
Of course OIO Publisher is not entirely free. To get full access to all features you have to pay a one time payment of $37. Yes, one time. And after you paid for it, you can use it on as many of your blogs as you want. Considering all the advantages OIO Publisher gives you, it’s really a steal!
Deciding to spend the money
Okay, so the cost is obvious: a one-off fee of $37 with an unlimited domain licence. For that price I get the following potential revenue streams:
- Private advertisement sales (banners, text link ads)
- Private paid review sales
- Viral Blog Ads (once launched)
- Affiliate program for OIO Publisher (50%)
That’s convincing anough for me. The fact that I have 100% control, get 100% of the revenue and get my income directly on my PayPal account are very motivating aspects. And a full integration with WordPress is a very nice feature as well. I’m convinced!
Wait there’s even more!
Not convinced yet? Well I said before that OIO is really a blog monetization suite, much more than just a plugin. To name some more options:
- Unsold ad places can be filled with default ads you can configure. You can use affiliate links on these for instance. Sign up for an account at e-junkie and browse their catalog, there are loads of great products there. Sign up as affiliate for the product, copy and paste the code and your first banner ad is up.
- Or you can let those empty spaces be filled by ViralBlogAds, an ad network associated with OIO. ViralBlogAds is in alpha testing as I write this, so that’s more of a promise than a given at this time.
- There’s a marketplace where you can list your blog. Direct advertisers to your blog to buy ads or paid posts, or let them buy directly from the marketplace.
- There’s also an affiliate manager available, so you can manage your affiliates that sell your products. OIO managed to find a solution to do that as well. This looks promising!
There’s probably more that I haven’t discovered yet, but I’ll sure be looking into the various options this program has to offer.
Take a test drive
If you still feel uneasy about it, go ahead and download the free light version of the plugin. It’s functional, but lacks support for the most popular advertisement forms. Or hop on over to the OIO Publisher site and take a look at the live demo. Both are a great way to do a test drive, but if you like it you’re going to want the real deal.
I’ll post an installation tutorial for the plugin, including the setup process for the PayPal integration later this week. So stay tuned! Subscribe to the feed to make sure you don’t miss out!
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I’ve been using OIO since last October or November (back when the plugin was still free) and I’ve had success selling ads with it. It’s nice to have so much control over ads and and an easy way to sell them.
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I saw an ad about this and wondered. Thank your for sharing your experiences with the product. It helps to have perspective from someone who has actually used the service. I hope you get lots of revenue.
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