We added two new features for publishers this week. Every Publisher’s account now has a Profile Completion Widget that’s accessible through the “setup” tab. This page helps you track what’s been left hanging in your account, and makes it very easy to see what steps are left before you’re fully up and running with BuySellAds.

We also allow publishers to set the minimum quantity of impressions an advertiser can purchase. We all know that purchasing a couple thousand impressions on a large site is a recipe for poor ad performance, so publishers can now counteract this mistake before it even becomes an issue.

You can set this number in your BSA account by logging in, clicking on your dashboard, and clicking the “actions” pulldown menu to the right of the ad zone you’d like to adjust. Select “ad settings” and you’ll see it added to the list.

Let us know if you have any questions about these features!

BuySellAds is ranked number 248 of the top 500 fastest growing businesses in the US, as featured in the Inc 500. BSA also ranked #35 in the Advertising/Marketing category overall and #11 in Boston.

We’re looking for someone to be the second in command of our online marketplace (the largest such marketplace in the world).

Why you should be interested:

• You will make a direct impact on the entire company and help sculpt the process with which we handle all of our website recruitment efforts and improvements. Like any job, there are daily tasks that aren’t thrilling, but we can legitimately say that you will have more power to affect an entire company than you could almost anywhere else.
• Online advertising is a booming industry, and we’ll give you amazing professional development and experience by teaching you everything there is to know about online marketing.
• We’re a fast growing, bootstrapped, and profitable company with health and dental benefits, a 401k plan, and a whistle-worthy laptop for all full-time employees.

What we’re looking for:

• The publisher facing side of our company is currently manned by one employee who receives help from the other members of the team, but really needs a protege to help guide that entire side of the business. You will be part of a 4 person team within the company, a tight knit group that really knows how to get things done.
• If you’re familiar with the basics of online advertising, either as an advertiser, or a publisher, that’s a plus, but it’s not required… because you soon will be.
• You have to be able to write a damn good email. It sounds simple, but since that’s our primary mode of communication, it’s an important skill to have.
• You need to be friendly and legitimately like getting to know people better.
• We like self-starters, as we don’t have the time, or inclination, to micro-manage (that doesn’t mean we won’t give you all the support you need).

What you’d do:

• We receive over 150 site applications a day, and only accept around 15. We do our best to automate ourselves out of a job, so this process is something we are making more streamlined every day. We need your ideas on how to make this even more efficient.
• There are millions of high quality websites out there that we could sell ads for effectively, and we need someone to head our recruitment efforts, through any means necessary (whether that’s email, calls, sending T Shirts, or going to conferences and taking people out to lunch).
• Optimizing! There are over 3,000 sites in our network, and we often give them recommendations on how to attract advertisers. You’ll directly communicate with our publishers, and also design guides, walkthroughs, or tutorials (with the help of our in-house graphic designers), to pre-empt any questions.
• Anything and everything Publisher-facing will be your domain.

BuySellAds is technically based in Boston (and you’re welcome to work from our Boston office), but we also have several team members working in the Triangle, so you could join us in a co-working space, or work from home.

If this all sounds like something you’re interested in, send us an email via Jobs AT BuySellAds.com with the subject “Strategic Accounts Manager” Please include your resume, and if we think you’re a great match, we’ll reach out.

So are we! If you’re interested in meeting one of us in real life, tweet at Marc Wasserman (@marcman), our marketplace manager, and he’ll do his best to catch up with you.

If you are in New England or eastern Canada like some of our team, I hope you are enjoying the 2 feet of snow that’s hitting the ground right now. We released some nice updates to our Pro product this afternoon to keep you entertained over the weekend. Here’s a quick summary:

Improved Geo Breakdown

Inline access to modify a creative’s serving priority from the inventory detail and ad detail views

Improvements to the sources breakdown, so that you can see the distribution of your earnings

We’ve had a lot of users request new sources to be added, and plan to add them over the coming weeks. If you have an earnings source you would like to keep track of in Pro, let us know and we will do our best to get it added for you.

Quick access to the status settings

We added this to Campaigns Overview, Inventory Detail, and in the header of the Ad Detail views. The goal here was to give you an easier way to toggle an ad’s status in your serving lineup.

There is a lot of great stuff on the way, and we will post updates to the blog here.

We’ve had a new messaging system waiting in the wings and undergoing testing for a few weeks now, and I’m happy to say that today it’s live for all users in both our Marketplace and Pro products.

The messaging system allows advertisers and publishers to mutually agree to a connection (just like LinkedIn), and from then on, they can freely communicate within the BSA application. We have the “connect” buttons live for advertisers on all of their ad detail views throughout the app, and we’ll be adding the same for publishers in the next couple weeks. It’s important to us that advertiser and publisher privacy is respected (and, let’s be honest, we want to avoid a bunch of spam), and this is why both parties are required to explicitly agree to the connection before any communication can occur.

It’s quick and easy to get going with this new feature. Here are some screenshots of it in action:

The “connect” button on ad detail views for advertisers:

Confirming the connection request before sending

The “messages/inbox” section of the app

For Pro users, messages flow right into your inbox there as well: