Which is best, free or paid advertising?

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Quan Barley, Aff (Florida, US) Top Author Forum Guru 7/24/2013 9:45 am
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It all depends on how much time you have on your hands. Most of us work a full time job and cannot devote a lot of hours to the business like we want to at the beginning. I think its best to use both free and paid advertising. I do a little bit of both following the training the company provides us. The paid advertising has been very productive for me building my team and residual income, but if you have a part time job and time you can certainly do well with free advertising.
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Lyle Kannenberg, Aff (Alberta, CA) Top Author Forum Guru 7/21/2013 10:58 am
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Paid advertising in my book works a lot
faster.

But you must know your target audience before
using paid advertising.

If you don't know your target audience, or
even if you paid advertising resource has
the target audience available, you could
be wasting valuable time, and your money.

Research your paid advertising resource.

Look for ones that have the option to
Pause and edit the ad.
Provide detailed stats
Have
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3648 votes
Kamaruddeen Ep, Aff (India) Top Author Forum Guru 7/20/2013 1:03 pm
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you can free advertise as below

1. Tell your friends and family to check out TC
2. Refer friends and family to specific URLs of individual products. You can find a URL to a given product within the SFI Affiliate tab on each product's details page.
3. Share information about TC products via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and other social networking sites you visit. Just click the Share It button on each product's details page and follow the instructions. Be sure you're logged
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3619 votes
Samuel Bareng Tsagae, Aff (South Africa) Top Author Forum Guru 7/20/2013 10:19 am
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I quite appreciate your question although it seems really difficult to out-rightly say with confidence which affiliates are best.

Your free advertising medium may bear you much fruit by getting very active affiliates or vice versa. It is only you who will know whether this or that affiliate comes from your free or paid efforts.

The main issue here depends on the passion or hunger of the affiliates you are going to receive. Some of them may just be dormant and inactive from the
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3610 votes
Neha Yadav, Aff (India) Top Author Forum Guru 7/29/2013 12:59 am
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Anything Free is always better than anything for which we have to pay.
But having said that, you have to see if the free thing is of any use at all or not.
So before answering the question you have to see the result.
If you are getting response by free advertising,there is no need for paid but if you are not getting adequate response from free ad ,please go for paid one instead of wasting your time which is also not less costly then your money.
3599 votes
Lawal Sunday Joshua, Aff (Nigeria) Top Author Forum Guru 7/20/2013 7:24 am
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This one wonderful question. Thanks.
For me i'd say both are good. But if u ask me which one is more profiting i will say the one you pay for.
Bcos you will have control over what you are advertising. You will be able to draw a profile target for ur audience, you will reach at will and in time. When you use a free medium exaggerated claims are made.
For paid adverts
1. YOU have time to draw your objectives clearly
2. YOU know what to do on ur adverts to gain attention such
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3592 votes
Riza Versoza, Aff (Saudi Arabia) Top Author Forum Guru 7/21/2013 4:20 am
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Hi
I will give my asnwer according to my experience ,Its good to heared that we've made adverts but why you go on PAId if theres FREE. For me I Did both,some of my gateways I used to google ads the by free and some Site.I got few response who LIKES my ads but they didnt join 1 TC Refferals I got on it.Then in Facebook I tried the paid one in 1 day more that 100 LIKES I got I continue till 5 days. In 5days duration more than 700 likes I got all over. but on that 7000 only 1 PSA and 1 TC member
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3571 votes
Ashley Nicholls, Aff (United Kingdom) Top Author Forum Guru 7/21/2013 8:48 am
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My initial answer is paid, however there is more to it than that.

Its more about speed. IF you have budget to pay for adverts it generally works much more quickly, with less effort on your part.

Free methods CAN be just as effective, however they are generally slower to show results and will require more effort on your part.
3565 votes
Anil Upadhyay, Aff (India) Top Author Forum Guru 7/21/2013 3:36 am
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Hi Svetlana,
As the saying goes by that "Nothing is free in this world." Everything has a price tag attached to it so is the advertising. So go for paid advertising as it would yield better results. Even free advertising are not free actually as there are conditions attached to it. So don't run behind free things as they have hidden price attached to it in some form or the other.

So in my opinion, paid advertising is always best and yields better results as it is managed
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3554 votes
Gordana Kljajic, Aff (Serbia) Top Author Forum Guru 7/22/2013 11:24 am
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Hi,

that is so tricky question.

I think that everything is in skill and knowledge how to use in best way your ad and to choose right places where you will place it.

If you determine budget for paid advertisement make sure you have prudence to do so, or you will just spend in vain your money.

Also if you have skill you can successfully advertise any business infinitely and at no cost for your budget, and for me this is great.

So, the answer
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