Internet Marketing Tycoon

**natedubbya** · 04-07-2006, 03:35 PM

I'm starting a website and hope to sell banner and textual ad space, not just through something like Adsense. I'm by myself, not with a business, and don't have any sort of financial infrastructure...definitely don't know how to accept credit cards.

What is the typical form of payment that advertisers use to pay web sites for advertising? Do they expect a credit card option? Is it appropriate for me to request a check, or will that just result in endless laughter at my expense? Is Paypal a common method?

I know I can signup for a service to handle credit card payments for me...but I'd rather not, unless that's really the expected method.

thanks...

**JeremiahB** · 04-09-2006, 02:27 PM

Paypal is usually used.
People can pay you with a credit card through Paypal even if they don't have a Paypal account, if you run into someone who doesn't have--or want to set up--a Paypal account.

**deannam** · 04-09-2006, 06:27 PM

I use PayPal and ClickBank and that has covered just about every marketing opportunity I've had come up (since 1999). PayPal is most common but some people don't like it or their country can't do it so I like to have a second option.