We’re all about supporting local. We’ve worked with The BlogFrog before by featuring the online Boulder company that allows bloggers to create instant community on their blogs, by letting readers connect, interact and share content. BlogFrog is like attaching a social network to your blog.
Well, we’re featuring them again because they just launched their Frugal Living Community!
To get the community going, The BlogFrog launched The Dream Team (many of which, are also using Lijit’s custom search, stats and advertising – see the crossover?)
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Ryan Sawyer manages two main websites, wrapcandy.com and BabyAnimalz.com, in addition to a number of other sites like his personal site, ryansawyer.com. Wrapcandy sells software for creating personalized candy wrappers and party favors. There’s some really cool stuff you can do using wrapcandy so check them out if you’re looking to get a little creative! BabyAnimalz provides light-hearted photos and commentary on baby animals and there’s no better place to go for a little cheering up.
Lijit sat down with Ryan, Lijit publisher extraordinaire, to learn some of his tricks of the trade.
I know, I know – we’re a little backed up on our Get To Know Lijit series but it doesn’t mean we forget about our amazing team here at Lijit. Although Matt has been with us for some time now, he deserves this shout out as our official, in-house web designer and developer.
Matt makes our website pretty and shiny, plus his enthusiasm is infectious. So without further ado:
What is your Lijit contribution?
I am the designer/developer at Lijit and I help communicate product ideas into usable designs or prototypes. I essentially put the shiny wrapper of graphics, usability and interaction onto every Lijit product, whether that be icons for a report or the layout of our blog, website and tools.
What are you passionate about?
Engagement. I think most of the web is a really noisy place with no purpose, and I really enjoy turning that into useful and engaging designs and content. Outside of design I always enjoy meeting interesting people, playing frisbee with my dog Vida and snowboarding.
What is your least favorite word and why?
I’m not a fan of the word “no”, especially when a person does not provide a reason or alternative when they say it. NO it can not be done or NO that will not work… I always like to be positive and stay away from negative comments. When someone says no I would rather go prove them wrong then accept it (unless I agree).
What is your favorite sound and why?
Waves crashing on the beach. Reminds me of great times in Brazil staying on the coast and enjoying caipirinhas all day. Sometimes I’ll even set my phone to play beach sounds when I go to sleep.
What profession, other than your own, would you like to attempt and why?
I’ve tried many jobs from full-time snowboarder, to snowcat operator & EMT. Since joining Lijit though I’ve really enjoyed the work style at start-up companies, I’m not big on corporate jobs. Eventually I want to open my own start-up or boutique design studio in the US or Brazil. I love Brazil, there is a huge opportunity down there in the design/tech/ad world.
Something you’re guilty of…
Dropping out of college to be a snowboard bum. Yes I did it, and although I DID go back to college it was an awesome experience to spend 2 winters snowboarding every day with friends. Life is short, you have to live it up sometimes.
It’s okay Matt, we don’t blame you for being a snowboard bum. Good call (although we’re glad you’re making things shiny at Lijit!)
Find Matt out yonder: Twitter, Personal Blog and Tumblr.
The 3 R’s : Recurring Payments, Real Time Status, and Referrers
Jul 16th
by Daniel Weiss in Company, Lijit publishers, features, release announcements
We just finished rolling out yet another software release packed with new features . This release has new functionality and improvements to just about every aspect of the Lijit product. There are advertising account updates, search result updates, new stats, and much more.
Automated Recurring Payments
Let’s start with Automated Recurring Payments. If you haven’t checked out Lijit Ad services yet, you should. This new feature makes it even easier for you to get the money you earn by placing Lijit display ads on your site. Instead of requesting a payment each month for your outstanding revenue, you can now provide us with your payment details and we’ll automatically pay you at the end of the following month. If you happen to forget to update your payment information, we’ll send you a friendly reminder.
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Lijit Is Sponsoring the SavvyBlogging Summit
Jul 8th
by Grace Boyle in Community, Lijit publishers, events
We love to connect with our publishers which is why we find conferences, meetups and events so gratifying to meet face-to-face with bloggers and Lijit publishers.
This weekend Doni, Perry and I will be attending and presenting for Lijit as one of the sponsored partners for the 2010 SavvyBlogging Summit in Breckenridge, Colorado.
Beginning in August, Lijit will provide auto payment processing for all publishers earning advertising revenue. This change should streamline the payment process because publishers no longer need to request payment every month. To take advantage of auto payment, please set your payment details between July 19 and July 31 using the following instructions:
- Login to your account and select the “Account” section
- Select the “Earnings” tab, and click the “Edit Payment and Registration Info” button
- Fill in your Paypal payment details and tax information and select “Save Changes”
Additional auto payment transition details:
- Request payment deadline for June revenue is July 19th. If you don’t request payment by the July deadline, your next payment will be processed as part of August’s auto payment.
- To be paid for July revenue, all publishers must set auto payment details by July 31.
- We have amended our publisher agreement to include auto payment updates.
Please visit us here for more information on Lijit’s publisher advertising services.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at feedback@lijit.com.
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Note: the following email was distributed to all Lijit publishers on June 23. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at: feedback@lijit.com.
We would like to inform you of an upcoming service upgrade that we have scheduled for Friday, June 25th starting at 11:00 p.m. MST. Here are the key points we want you to know in advance of Friday’s service upgrade:
No action is required on your part.
- Your Lijit search box will be temporarily unavailable to your readers while we conduct this service.
- Your ad passback tags will work as configured.
- The overall performance (i.e., page load times, etc.) of your site will not be effected during this service.
Lijit service windows are rare and this is the first time in three years that we have had to make back-end infrastructure improvements to better support our growing publisher base. We have chosen this day and time because it reflects low impact and low traffic times for our publishers.
Advertising Services: We will not have the ability to serve any Lijit ads during the upgrade. As stated above, passback tags will still be available for publishers using them as part of their Lijit configuration. Please see our advertiser FAQ for additional information on passback tags: http://www.lijit.com/help/pub-ad-faq#_Toc_passback.
For more information on our advertising services, please see http://www.lijit.com/publishers/commercial-publishers.
We appreciate your understanding and apologize in advance for any inconvenience this service interruption may cause.
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This is our first software release of the summer and we definitely consider it a “blockbuster”. We work hard every month to bring you valuable tools to make you a better publisher and to help you monetize your content. We think this software release does both!
More Ad Stats-
We greatly expanded the range of ad stats available to you in your stats dashboard. Prior to this release we limited the ad stats data you could report on to the previous month, and current month. You can now run reports for any date range you wish, as well as have quick access to your current day stats, yesterday, week to date, and month to date. This should give you even more visibility into how Lijit is helping you monetize your site, and allow you to see the “big picture” when it comes to ad performance on your site.
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Doniree (also known as Doni) and I first met through our blogs and Twitter (geek at first sight), which then led her to Lijit working as a contractor for two months, which led to her current full-time gig as one of our Publisher Services Manager. She hails from the South, but grew up in Minnesota. With a little Southern charm, her strong grasp of the online world (and love for champagne), we’re happy to have Doni on the team.
What is your Lijit contribution?
I’m a Publisher Services Manager, which means I maintain relationships with our current publishers as well as identify new publishers that would benefit from the Lijit search. In short, I surf the internet for cool new blogs and publications to work with all day – not bad from a digital native who loves being in this space, right?
What is your least favorite word and why?
I’m too much of a word nerd to dislike too many words, unless you start getting offensive, but I can tell you that my favorite words are: copacetic, blissful, brilliant and delicious. (Yes, I’m as sunshine-y as I sound).
What is your favorite sound and why?
The pop of a champagne bottle opening because to me, it means celebrations and bubbles. I’m also a firm believer that champagne isn’t only for “big” celebrations, but that so many moments in life are celebrations and deserve champagne. Or maybe that’s just my excuse for champagne anytime.
What profession, other than your own, would you like to attempt and why?
I want to be a celebrity guest judge on Iron Chef America. Because I love food and dining and am always fascinated by the cool ways the chefs use the secret ingredients on the show.
Something you’re guilty of…
Not allowing myself to stop and unwind. I tagged along on a girlfriends’ trip to Breckenridge while my friends snowboarded, and I managed to try to fill up my “relaxation” schedule until I got a migraine that forced me to chill the f#$% out. I love doing things, being physically active and have a pretty social lifestyle, so sometimes it’s tough for me to reach a point where I don’t feel guilty doing nothing.
You can find Doni on the interwebs at her personal blog (http://doniree.com/), her foodie blog (http://nomadicfoodie.com/) and she tweets here.
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Note: The following is a post from Todd Vernon, Lijit’s fearless leader and CEO.
Since the beginning of the year Lijit has been aggressively talking with Ad Agency’s and Brands about leveraging our publisher base to reach targeted audiences in the mid and long tail of publishers. Our position has always been that audiences in the mid and long tail are much more engaged than the glossy publications at the head of the publisher chain. Delivering search technology and data to our publisher base allows us to see what consumers are interested in which is valuable to our agency partners.
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