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Adam Thompson, Aff (Arizona, US) Top Author Forum Guru 7/23/2013 12:35 am
Affiliate since: 06/12/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Adam's 1 other Ask SC answers
Depends what kind of results you want to achieve in your campaign. If you want organic growth then time and free is the case in this method. Paid advertising has its advantage as well on the upscale you can get good results quickly over time, as to with free advertising consistency is a must to achieve results.If you are just starting then free is best way to get that consistency going in your business. As time goes on paying for the advertising is best for the quality of the leads you will receive
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Dr Sudhanshu Pati, Aff (India) Top Author Forum Guru 7/19/2013 11:33 am
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To me FREE advertising is much more beneficial than paid advertising. From my experience, I have learned that whether its free advertising or paid, you never know the affiliate gonna active or not....Then why should I pay for advertising then???

1. You purchase paid to click advertising, but you must be knowing those who all clicks are just clicking to earn money. So even if they sign up they never love to work in a long term business like SFI

2. Paid to sign up are very common
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, () Top Author Forum Guru 7/21/2013 4:04 pm
Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999
This depends on your budget. If you're just starting out and have little or no money, free advertising will help you get started, but you will have to understand that anything that's free comes with it's own set of restrictions and rules. For instance, you may only get to send one ad per week, while paid members can send every day. So you have to join at least 5 or 6 free sites to get the same advertising which takes more of your time.

Most people use their tabbed browsers to login their
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Igor Rosenthal, Aff (Finland) Top Author Forum Guru 7/24/2013 12:53 pm
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Free Classified Advertising
One of the great ways to advertise your business is using free Classifieds. There are a huge range of these on the internet many of which are FREE to use. Most require you to sign up and create an account. But having done that allow you to post a number of adverts under the section of your choice and even allow links back to your website and allow you to download pictures.

People always say a picture can say a thousand words. Your advert will be one of
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Williams Ford, Aff (Georgia, US) Top Author Forum Guru 7/19/2013 9:10 pm
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Paid advertising is the most responsive but free advertising is the most sustainable. So when it comes to a comparison between the two, I'd say if you can afford paid ads run them. If you can not then there are free ways to advertise. What most people are looking for is a silver bullet approach to advertising. There is no such thing.

No matter which form of advertising you use, you will need to test, retest, tweak, and retweak. Fine tune and readjust. There is no easy way out.
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Nelia And Robert, Aff (Florida, US) Top Author Forum Guru 7/20/2013 5:25 am
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Hello Svetlana,
what a great question!

In my honest opinion I feel both are best. my reasoning is sometimes an ad on a free site can be upgraded to a paid ad to be a featured ad even though there are hundreds of free ads on that site having yours up on top so it is seen first can really improve the odds of the potential PSA to see it more often and we all know it takes anywhere from 5-10 pageviews of your ad before anyone clicks on it or not (some less some more).

But I
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, () Top Author Forum Guru 7/21/2013 3:46 am
Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999
This is an very good question

1.Social media
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
Youtube (Video marketing)
Ibotool box (Social media for Home based Entrepreneurs)

2.Email marketing
Creating auto responders
using leading auto responder services

3.Blogging and website
"hpage" is very helpful for making free websites
website with in a minute and with automated templates and designs
frame just need to write
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, () Top Author Forum Guru 7/21/2013 1:41 am
Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999
My advice on this matter is going to be quite simple, since I have been on both sides of this fence.

I believe EVERY affiliate should have some FREE advertisements somewhere; whether they are rotating banners, advertisements in Craigslist, on Google ad-words, something. FREE advertisements are necessary no matter what - so it shouldn't even be an issue - get FREE advertisement.

Should you get paid advertisement is a better question. Rule of thumb for paid advertisement - if
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3771 votes
Venkateswara Rao Peesapati, Aff (India) Top Author Forum Guru 7/22/2013 8:09 am
Affiliate since: 10/03/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Venkateswara Rao's 1 other Ask SC answers
This is a very good question.
Ad vertere (Latin) means "to turn toward." Advertising is a form of communication for marketing to encourage consumers to buy a product. The consumers takes a positive action. The objective of advertising is to promote a product and the consumer uses the product. A satisfied consumer also tells to others about the product.
There is no dilemma between Free advertising and Paid advertising. One has to decide where to start with.
If the funds
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3763 votes
Ayaz Khan, Aff (Pakistan) Top Author Forum Guru 7/22/2013 1:13 am
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In advertising, paid is better than free because paid advertising gives you guarantee that the message will be delivered to the proper addresses. But in addition to that, I will say that self advertisement and communications is much more beneficial to promote SFI and Tripleclicks. It is free but needs time and efforts.

By self advertisement, I mean the advertising that is done by yourself including distributing flyers, post-cards, and communicate to friends and family. In this way, you
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