Alright, so...

 

I had $100 worth of advertising credits that came with my website account and which I had never used. I decided to go ahead and plug in a campaign for the SpaceVenture Kickstarter on the google search engine.

 

These ads, according to google, should begin almost immediately. PLEASE, do NOT click on them if you are already aware of the kickstarter - as they will stop running once my promotional balance is used up.

 

To try and avoid excessive clicks from being used up, I have them set to display only twice per day maximum to any given unique web surfer. Also, given that the balance is for only $100, I have the quota set to $3.45 per day. What this means is that you may not see these ads at all if the quota gets reached quickly each day; though assuming the adds cost $1 per click (I can't remember exactly what they cost), that's still about 100 more people being led to the SpaceVenture Kickstarter.

 

I also have credits for facebook and yahoo. I'll be setting those up next.

 

Sincerely,

 

Johnathon

Alright dudes!

 

The credit has been used up. Between yesterday and today, the google ads received 253 clicks leading to the spaceventure (guysfromandromeda.com, so they could see the whole website first, and then be lead to the kickstarter). The ad itself mentioned the kickstarter and encouraged surfers to pledge at least $15 :)

 

I've been a bit swamped the last few days, so I haven't gotten around to using the facebook and yahoo credit yet, but I'll be doing that very soon.

 

P.S. Had wound up changing the daily quota to $90 per day to get more action.

Holy bajombers, that's some real dedication right there! Amazing, Johnathon.

I've setup a campaign, sending people to TGAkick. Don't bid against me, or click the ads ;)

This is such an epic thing to do!! Brilliant!! Great freaken job guys! :)

Colin, I'm so glad to be reading this. I was hoping some others might be inspired to do the same.

 

And, thank you Chris and Troels, but trust me, I'm no saint. I've had those ad credits for two years, and hadn't used them. It was no skin off my back; though I'm very glad I had them to use for a cause such as this. I REALLY want to see the Two Guys successfully take off with their new company. :)

Really good job fellas. Kudos :y:

 

It's not much, but I added a permalink to my forum news section mentioning tgakick.com.

Just in case anyone else tries this, they rejected my ad for linking to TGAkick.com, since that redirects. They insist that you link to the final site.

Alright dudes,

 

Sucks having to tell you this, but while I've set up two more campaigns (Yahoo/Bing and Facebook) using my web account promotional coupons, I can't seem to get them to run without attaching a credit card.

 

Google Credit was pretty straightforward, in that it just let me use up the coupon; but I've been trying to get these other two to work, but they don't offer prepay options, and require a real credit account before they accept the coupon, and seeing as that I'm not able to keep a close enough eye on these things 24/7 and my credit card accounts (all of them), are nearly maxed out, I just don't see myself going that route.

 

The google campaign may turn out to be the only thing I could have done to further help promote the SpaceVenture, and looking at the pace it's been running, I'm worried that even with that little extra help from me (and all of us here), it still might not make the goal. What has this world come to in the last 20 years? :(