Move over Entrecard, make way for CMF Ads (Changing Marketing Forever) and make money at the same time as promoting your blog. Not only can you earn credits on CMF Ads by advertising on your blog, and use these credits to advertise on other blogs, you can buy and sell credits from CMF too: a credit costs $0.25. Member blogs are manually checked to ensure quality.
How does CMF Ads work?
You can see the CMF Ad slots in my sidebar – there are various combinations to choose from, ranging from one Ad spot to a 4 in one block. The Ad widget runs in iframes so as not to slow your page load time.
You set your own price for the cost of advertising on your own site; so there is no being priced out of the market, as with Entrecard. You can change your price to suit your current situation. Ads, which last for a month, are rotating so you can accept multiple ads at a time. I currently have 5 ads running between the two ad spots, at a cost of 3 credits each. If you have more than one blog then you can manage these all from the one account.
Dropping in on other sites is not necessary as you get to know other members through the CMF forums. These have proved to be very friendly and helpful. although I am not surprised considering the bloggers who have spent a great deal of time to set the service up: coming up with the idea to begin with, coding the site, refining and testing it. I was fortunate to have been accepted as a beta tester, although, to my knowledge, everything was running smoothly even at that stage.
The forums, as well as providing help and support on CMF, allow you to join groups to promote your other social networking profiles (Stumbleupon and Twitter so far). A post of the week competition, decided on by a poll of members, allows you to submit your posts to gain some extra recognition. A blog critique forum will give you feedback on your site. The Marketplace section allows you to offer services in exchange for buying an ad on someone’s site or to offer/request guest posts, site design or paid blogging jobs.
CMF Ads Control Panel:
| CP Home | Find Ads | Manage Ads | Ad Stats | Balance | Buy Credits |
Statistics show you the number of page views and how many clicks have been made on the ads on your own site and how many have been produced by your ad on other sites. Individual profile pages show a rank and the number of unique visitors to a site over time. These tools help you to place your ads to the best effect and a categorization system allow you to target your ads to a selected audience.
Who created CMF Ads?
So who are the people behind CMF Ads? – Three bloggers who were heavily involved with Entrecard..
Firstly, Ben Barden, a banana loving, Dr Evil look alike with diabolical vision, who has been an honorary Aussie for the last year or so. We will be sorry to lose you back to England, Ben. He is the author of Ben Barden (not surprisingly), Top Ten Blog Tips, Zen Working and the developer of Injader. If you are not familiar with Injader, it is a CMS system, which provides blogging features like WordPress with the extra CMS features of a Joomla/Drupal type system (without the steep learning curve}.
Joining Ben is turnip and Stan. Turnip of Turnip of Power is a wonderful source of knowledge with tutorials and balanced reviews on blogging, advertising networks and the best social networking practices (he puts the latter into practice well himself too). I did not know Stan until I joined CMF, where is he very helpful in the forums- nothing to do with his blogging ability rather his blog topic Fantasy Baseball – I am not a baseball fan.
Joining Up
If you join up (by registering with the forums) please let me know here – I have some credits available for advertising and if I advertise on your site then you will gain credits yourself.
Nice review!
Thanks for the positive review, Sublimely. If any of your readers need any help, don’t be shy about posting in our support forum.
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Hello,
Great advice my blog is just starting out and although I am diligently working to build up content I have found that since I started utilizing SU, my traffic has grown a little. I am definitely going take all these tips and try them out.
Thanks
StumbleUpon is great for sites that actually provide value. Since StumbleUpon is user-approved, it’s tough for MFA or spam sites to benefit from it. I’m glad to see that StumbleUpon is helping your site.
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Hiya Sue
I like the idea that you can buy and sell your credits, but also use them for self ads – pretty cool idea..
Andy
I have not yet started any serious advertising in my blog. This is however very valuable information. Thanks.
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I was thinking about going back to Entrecard recently…but it just seemed like no one was using it – not to mention I was afraid of it being a violation of adsense terms…
I might check out the CMF ads though, could be just what I need
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I am still going to continue to use Entrecard because it has a larger member base and it just upgraded some nice new features
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Donny, you raise a good point. One of the challenges for new advertising networks is growing to be large enough to have advertisers in a wide variety of areas. While general interest blogs can use general interest advertising, niche blogs will want some advertising in their niche. Until an advertising network gets large enough, many niche topic bloggers might stay with the larger advertising networks.
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Thanks for the review. I’ll check the service out.
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Nice review.If you are going to be successful online you will need several income streams.I will check this one out.
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It seems interesting. I will give it try…
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One aspect of CMF Ads that is interesting is how it fulfills a unique niche for bloggers who have no interest in making money from their blog but would like more traffic. By allowing publishers of CMF Ads to use their credits to buy advertising on other blogs, CMF Ads has created a way for new bloggers to increase their blog traffic for no cost by allowing advertising on their sites.
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Its very interesting and useful. Thanks for giving valuable information. Keep rocking.
Sue I’m not sure I see where this is so much different from all the other similar services out there. From what I know they’ll only really be worth your while if you have highly trafficked sites which most of the people actually signing up for these things don’t
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Thanks for the review on this service. I will try to check it out sometime.
I’ll check it out, I’ve never done fantasy baseball either.
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I have heard that 125×125 banners are the way to go in advertising. has anyone else found this to be true?
Great and informative post regarding CMF. I, too, belong to both EC and CMF. While I don’t plan on leaving EC any time soon, I’m thrilled with the way CMF is run and the features they offer.
I also love the forums.
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This is the first time I heard of CMF.. still wondering how is it any different from Entrecard, except without the dropping. The only way is to test it out to be sure. No harm on trying while gaining a little traffic along the way.
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I never heard this thing before and now I am doing searching on it,I still have blur perceptions about the system how to`s and what to`s ,however I appreciate this sharing and since I fans of entrecard I will look forward this ,who knows it is better then the rest
Thanks for the information, I was looking for an alternative to EC just mainly because I didn’t like how it doesn’t allow you to name your price for your ad spot.
I will be sure to look further into it.
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Hayden, you raise a good point. CFM Ads’ ability to let you set your own rate is very useful, and gives it a nice edge over its competition.
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Really this information is very useful and thanks for sharing it.
Great stuff!
It’s my first time here and I will be back for more.
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I better tried this one. I recently removed EC on my sidebar and I am looking for something to replace with my PJ. Thanks to this post, I’ve found what I needed.
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Great advice! I will surely try it. Thanks you so much for sharing a very cool stuff.
Thanks so much for the valuable advice. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the information and it is really very useful.
It looks like a very flexible system, allowing you control over the price of the ads on your site, you can create multiple sites with one account and you can also use for affiliates.
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and always think.
thanks and great job
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I’ve signed up for the CMF Ads, got the widget put in my blog, at the same time ready the profile and join the forum, so now it’s to wait for someone to approach me, right? If not, then I’ll be serving CMF a bit favour by giving them free advertisement online. ha.. they are certainly clever.
I think this a good idea for working on my blog … i will try it … thanks
How does the system of credits work?
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Never heard of this but it sounds like the idea is good at least. I guess time will tell if people take to it or not.
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a friend of mine was talking about how he was doing this only the other day, didn’t fully understand but makes more sense now! cheers.
‘was planning to join entrecard, now that i have
stumbled on this new one CMF, migth postponed that and signed-up here instead.
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Great post! I too added CMF on all my websites recently and got my first ad too!. For all the new CMF users, you can find a guide to register and install CMF ads on your blog at http://sidekickblog.com/adding-cmf-ads-to-your-website-37.htm
Sounds reasonable. I guess you could make some money off of it but it just seems to risky and untested for me. Even after your review I’m not 100% convinced I’ll wait for more opinions.
A really usefull to promote a blog.
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very interesting i have never heard of cmf but am familiar with entrecard i will be sure to check them out
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this is such awesome advice. thanks for sharing.
thanks for the reference on CMF ads. just beginning to expand beyond adsense and am looking for other networks to use.
CMF ads looks really interest, I had not heard of it before until I read your post. I used to use Entrecard, since its inception, but after a few months passed.. I just didn’t like the direction it was going in, so I just got rid of it all together. Maybe I’ll give CMF ads a try
I’m going to give this a shot Sue. We get a lot of traffic to our website and CMF seems to be a viable option to start monetizing the traffic we are receiving. ~ Colleen
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so… i’ve been trying CMF ads for about two weeks now with only limited success. hopefully it will become more lucrative as time goes on.
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I don’t focus to make money currently,, I wanna boost my serp first.
this info will be useful for my next plan..
thx.
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My web site ricemallonline sells name brand products at discount prices. What is the best way to get the word out on this web site?
Very interesting tips, but this kind of monetization is better then AdSense?
Very nice information. Thanks for this. You really have a very informative site, thank you for sharing!
This is another way of earning money. Any payment proof for this? Thanks!
WOw very nice maney making tips. I like it so much.. Thank you guys..
This is Good News! Any evidence? I hope you will share more about this. Thanks!
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nice tips.I find many here have never heard of CMF..its great.am also doing my research work on it
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Will have to check it out more!
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I first time heard about CMF Ads. It’s interesting and i’ll try it. Thanks for useful information.
My site. http://www.asiantalkers.com, is finished after modding it for a while, but how do I advertise it without spending money?
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As far as advertising there are plenty of great articles on this blog =D
Till then,
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I am really interested in CMF campaign to earn money fast by using my blog!
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Thanks for featuring an alternative online advertising option, Sueblimely (Great name by the way). The flexibility and control of managing several sites in one control panel is also a fascinating and enticing feature.
As Google continues to change its algorithm for marketers, it is refreshing to see the ingenuity and experimentation in finding other means of profiting markets online. Beta testing is sublime.
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Good information about CMF Ads. It’s really good for advertising. I’ll join this forum. Thanks.
First time i hear about CMF , i quess it’s a mixture between advords and adsense. Sounds interesting .
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How can you promote your own web site without spending a ton of money?
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I like the idea that you can buy and sell your credits, but also use them for self ads – pretty cool idea..
A few great tips there…I’m gonna head home tongight and get stuck in to trying to make some money
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You can make money from google ads, clickbank affilliate, ringtones, contextual ads (ie highlighted text ads). To promote your site you need to know how to SEO (search engine optimization) of your site. One thing to do is have a link page and exchange links with likeminded sites.
Thanks for providing this money-making as well as promotional guide:)
Great advice…There so many ways that we can promote our site without spend a bit of money. For example you can use facebook or twitter. The downside of this is you need to work hard and a lot of patience in promoting your site for free. When i starting to build my own blog I have found that since I started utilizing SU, my traffic has grown a little by little. I am definitely going take all these tips and try them out. Good Job.
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Thanks for sharing this method – I couldn’t imagine that such a method exists:)