When you begin to purchase advertising for your site and programs you will find that a great percentage of purchases made will be through an automated process. First we will purchase advertising using a banner advert in the PTC section.

For this example I have chosen a program where I have just cashed out from, so you can see how you can use part of your balance to purchase ads with, even though you have not yet reached the payout limit. This is the same menu that you will see for all types of advertising. In this instance we are looking at the price list for PTC advertising. The figures displayed and underlined in red show the ads I can buy with my balance. You can still purchase the other options but my balance (in this case) is only big enough to purchase those mentioned. So you select the option you want, you will then see the following image;

The quantity you wish to purchase means how many sets of the ad we are buying. As the balance of my account will only allow me to purchase the ad once, there is a 1 displayed in the field next to it. If you were to advertise to sites, your site and your favourite program you would select a quantity of 2, below that you would then see two sets of ad details, labelled 1 and 2 accordingly. As we are only purchasing 1 with balance we will enter the details;

Your Comments & Notes: This is where I put the name of the site being advertised. Sometimes your banner will not load when displayed. This is only a rare occurrence and only for a short while, perhaps because the site hosting the banner (Photobucket in your case) may be doing some work on their server, meaning that site is off-line for a few minutes. The link to the site will still be displayed, but only in text form as access to the banner is temporarily unavailable. So you will see something called "Alternative Text", this will be whatever is written in the "Your comments & notes section", which people will click on instead of the banner. Because of this, I think it is important to tell your visitor what site they are about to visit. You may need access to this advert at some time in the future and this is the field that the program owner would use to find that add, and then alter it as per your wishes. This also means it is easier if you can remember what you entered in this box.
Ad description: We would simply enter the type of ad we wish to run, in this case a banner, so in that box we would put PTC Banner, if it were an email or text link we would alter it accordingly.
Paid link URL: This is the place you want the visitor to go to, in this case my site so here we enter, http://www.internet-earners.com or, if you were advertising one of the sites you are a member of, it would be your ref link.
Banner URL: This is the place you enter the Photobucket link for the appropriate banner.
When you have entered the relevant information just click "Send Advertising Request" and you have purchased your first set of advertising!The above method is the same for running banner and text link advertising, you would just see a field for the text of the advert to be entered in place of the Banner URL option.

The other way in which you will advertise is by email. The "Ad details" and "Quantity" section would remain the same. The only difference is that you have a large "Ad Text" field instead of the Banner URL field. So we would do the following;
Your Comments & Notes: Enter the title of the email ad, this is what would be displayed in the persons in-box before they open the mail. Again I use the name of the site here.
Ad Description: Email Ad, because that is the type of ad this is.
Paid link URL: Again its either your sites address or your ref link for the site you are advertising.
Ad Text: Now this is where we enter the text of the ad, in my case the following;

Hello,
Are You Looking For An Honest Review Of GPT Sites.
No Sales Talk Or Hype - Just The Facts.
Regularly Reviewed And Updated.
That Covers Over 200 Sites.
With Over 15 Different Ways Of Earning From Home.
And A Free Newsletter Packed With Help,
Tips & Industry Announcements.
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Welcome To Internet-Earners.com And
Thank You For Your Visit!

Craig
Internet-Earners.com

Make sure there are no spelling mistakes and you are happy with the layout, the ad is processed exactly as it is entered here.
When you are happy click submit again and that ad will be running shortly. You may wish to write this out in the same document that has your ref and banner links, then you have everything need for running any type of advertising all in one place. The only thing you have to do then is copy and paste the relevant info, no need to keep writing everything out every time.