What promo tools are you using?

[InterShark]

What kind of promo tools are you using to promote your publisher programs at the moment? The reason im asking is that we are currently putting together a range of promo tools for our upcoming publisher program launch and wondered what type of promo tools would be best to offer our publishers.

Are there any specific banner sizes you typically use? Also, what type? static, animated, flash? Right now we are working on some standard banner sizes 468x60, 120x60, 728x90, and a couple of other sizes in static and gif animated format. Do you think flash banners should be something we should add as well?

Do any of you use hosted promo tools such as hosted mini-sites, hosted reviews, or hosted articles? If not, would you? We've been discussing offering publishers an arrange of promo tools that we would host on our servers[mini-sites, reviews, articles, and landing pages] that publishers could link directly to and be credited with any sales made from these sites. Do you think this would be something that you would use if we offered them?

Thank you for any advice or feedback you have to offer on these questions. I look forward to reading your responses

[sharpie]

I prefer to use my own domain, hosting and autoresponder separate as opposed to a mini-site or some type of canned webpage with a built in responder.

You have better control over the entire system for one thing. Mainly with your own personal autoresponder you have all the optin leads right where you need them.

[InterShark]

We're not looking to add email collection or auto-responders, these hosted mini-sites will basically be like a promo tool you can use to add more content to your own site with the added benefit that any sales made to the products being promoted on the site will be credited to your publisher account, so you will actually make money by using these types of hosted promo tool