Affiliate since: 09/19/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ashish's 3 other Ask SC answers

Paid or Free? It's a difficult question. It also depends on how much you are willing to invest in your online business.

Paid Advertising
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I consider it the most effective advertising medium because you can get wide exposure through multiple mediums like Pay-per-click, banner advertising, traffic exchanges etc. You can also find bloggers with similar interests in affiliate marketing, work from home opportunities etc, and sponsor their blog. They will place your banner and hopefully generate a lot of traffic to your SFI gateway.

This method can bring you thousands of targeted leads every day.

Free Advertising
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Many opts for free advertising methods to save money. I agree that the free methods works well but they are very slow in terms of traffic generation and bringing leads to your business. Time or money, you choose.

Some methods works better than others. for example, Article Marketing has been one of the best and most effective method for free advertising. You can submit articles to top article directories which allows you to include a short text ad and your link below each article.

Some other less effective free advertising methods are : Classified ads, Manual Traffic Exchanges, safelists, etc.

I hope this help.
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Paid or Free? It's a difficult question. It also depends on how much you are willing to invest in your online business.

Paid Advertising
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I consider it the most effective advertising medium because you can get wide exposure through multiple mediums like Pay-per-click, banner advertising, traffic exchanges etc. You can also find bloggers with similar interests in affiliate marketing, work from home opportunities etc, and sponsor their blog. They will place
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Affiliate since: 07/01/2008, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Gurmial's 4 other Ask SC answers

Which is more effective--paid or free advertising--and why?

From my own personal,online marketing experience of over ten years, I am convinced without the shadow of doubt that paid-advertising is always better than F.R.E.E marketing. Most owners of advertising sites keep the free ads for themselves. However if you want the 'cream of the crop,' you have to pay for your ads, in order to see some results.
I have lately discovered a couple of new mailers that do bring some traffic to your site, but the quality is questionable. F.R.E.E advertising is for people who have more time than money. If you want to see some results eventually you have to work at it for least 2 to 3 hours a day consistently, posting your ads on at least 300 to 500 sites for the minimum success strategy.
In order to see good successful advertising strategy
you have to be an upgraded member, wherever you can.
There is no single set and forget traffic source that will supply all the traffic you need.Its best to have as many as you can fit in your advertising budget. However you can rely on one marketing method for all your needs.
The best and up to date form of advertising is blogging your way up.There is NO BETTER Place On The Planet For Massive Exposure For ANY Program or Product. Blogging attracts thousands of leads daily, and, they remain on the internet forever and ever.
I hope this will help.
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Which is more effective--paid or free advertising--and why?

From my own personal,online marketing experience of over ten years, I am convinced without the shadow of doubt that paid-advertising is always better than F.R.E.E marketing. Most owners of advertising sites keep the free ads for themselves. However if you want the 'cream of the crop,' you have to pay for your ads, in order to see some results.
I have lately discovered a couple of new mailers that do bring some traffic
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I have been in the online advertising business for many years and very familiar with all types of online advertising. My experience has taught me that effective advertising, whether paid or free is of the utmost importance. By that I mean, an effective ad will:

1) Have a Subject/Title that Grabs the Attention of the viewer
2 The Body of the ad should be short, simple and to the point, Hi-Lighting and/or use of some Color text to pinpoint the Value you are offering.

Though paid advertising is often seen by more people and therefore, the opportunity for sign ups is higher, you must have a budget for it.

A combination of both can work very well. Always track your ads so you can see which are working.
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I have been in the online advertising business for many years and very familiar with all types of online advertising. My experience has taught me that effective advertising, whether paid or free is of the utmost importance. By that I mean, an effective ad will:

1) Have a Subject/Title that Grabs the Attention of the viewer
2 The Body of the ad should be short, simple and to the point, Hi-Lighting and/or use of some Color text to pinpoint the Value you are offering.

Though
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Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 298 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers

When choosing between paid or free advertising, you should make a list of questions how your advertising tool works effectively towards your goal.

The critical factor that you should consider is your money and time investments to attain your goal. Do you want to quit your job in 5 years? Do you want to start supplementing your current income in a year or two?

If you choose free online advertising, it may require considerable amount of time. Most of the sites that offer free online advertising will require you to click and read several ads of their partner sites, before you can place your ads and you may renew your ads only twice a month. This ad process is time consuming. It is not really free because time is money. This route will take you longer in achieving your goal.

On the other hand, paid advertising has a major advantage over free advertising, when it comes to time. You can choose how long you can run your ad and get a targeted traffic to match your prospects. You have a higher probability of finding quality affiliates here. Compare ad prices, shop to find the most reasonable one for this kind of advertising. For me time is a precious commodity, I will choose paid advertising as more effective in acquiring quality affiliates.

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When choosing between paid or free advertising, you should make a list of questions how your advertising tool works effectively towards your goal.

The critical factor that you should consider is your money and time investments to attain your goal. Do you want to quit your job in 5 years? Do you want to start supplementing your current income in a year or two?

If you choose free online advertising, it may require considerable amount of time. Most of the sites that offer free
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Affiliate since: 10/24/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Moch. Arif's 76 other Ask SC answers

To answer the above questions we must look from a different point of view. To simplify our thinking, the following will be delivered or paid advertising excess free advertising.

The advantages of paid advertising:

1. Fewer advertisers
Advertisers on fewer paid ads. This will reduce the number of our competitors.Targeted advertising can focus more on the ads that are served.

2. The quality of media ads better.
The quality of paid advertising media will be better. The more expensive the quality of media advertising is usually the better services and a growing number of features offered.

3. Limited and quality targets.
Target media advertising limited amount paid because they know the ad is served usually requires people who have funds big enough to be able to join the advertising activities


An excess of free advertising that is:

1. Target more.
Free ads target more than paid advertising.They knew that it must have been advertised.

2. Avoid the risk of loss.
Free ads can prevent us from the risk of loss, whether caused no active affiliation or failure in recruiting a affiliates

3. Frequency of outsource more.
Advertise on frequency of free advertising will be more than paid advertising.
We will advertise more often and do not fear the issue of sufficient funds.

That's the advantage of paid ads and free advertising, where we choose depends on condition we are and what we want to achieve.

The affiliate also determined the quality of our relationships with our guidance and referrals to referrals in achieving success in the SFI

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To answer the above questions we must look from a different point of view. To simplify our thinking, the following will be delivered or paid advertising excess free advertising.

The advantages of paid advertising:

1. Fewer advertisers
Advertisers on fewer paid ads. This will reduce the number of our competitors.Targeted advertising can focus more on the ads that are served.

2. The quality of media ads better.
The quality of paid advertising media will be
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Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers

It's good to answer this question with the bases of comparison in mind.

1. As to RESULT - Paid ads is more effective because the site have already visitors that are always coming back to their site. It also have little competition compared to free ads therefore have better chance of getting affiliates.

2. AS to COST - Free ads are obviously better. But if you monetize the efforts that you do then paid ads may turn to be less cost.

3. As to EFFORTS - paid ads take lesser efforts that the free ads.

4. As to TIME to get Results - Paid ads can give you results in shorter time.

5. As to QUALITY of affiliates - It will be fairly the same, no one can guarantee the quality of sign-up in both.

Conclusion,

If you have money to do paid ads go ahead its the best and more effective. But if none, well, what can you do but to go to free ads.
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It's good to answer this question with the bases of comparison in mind.

1. As to RESULT - Paid ads is more effective because the site have already visitors that are always coming back to their site. It also have little competition compared to free ads therefore have better chance of getting affiliates.

2. AS to COST - Free ads are obviously better. But if you monetize the efforts that you do then paid ads may turn to be less cost.

3. As to EFFORTS - paid ads take
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Affiliate since: 09/08/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Antonija's 19 other Ask SC answers

Hi, this is good question.

I think that each has their positive and negative sides.

Paid advertising is good if you know what are you doing. If you have money to invest in paid advertising you should put your ad on google or bing. Not much effective paid advertising is PTC (paid ot click) sites advertising - why? Because, people are not interested in your ad, they watch it for money - keep this on your mind.

Free advertising is the BEST way of advertise. Why? Because people surf Internet and just read things they are interested in. If you have a good blog (you can open it for free), and know how to write, you will bring people to your blog and they will read about your work and success in SFI and on this way you will get very active PSAs who are willing to work as you do - so lead them with your blog, or website.

You can focus to promote your blog on Facebook, twitter, G+ and other social medias, in this way you will get more visitors to your site.

Wish you all the best.
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Hi, this is good question.

I think that each has their positive and negative sides.

Paid advertising is good if you know what are you doing. If you have money to invest in paid advertising you should put your ad on google or bing. Not much effective paid advertising is PTC (paid ot click) sites advertising - why? Because, people are not interested in your ad, they watch it for money - keep this on your mind.

Free advertising is the BEST way of advertise. Why? Because
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

Generally speaking, paid advertising is always best because the venues that allow you to secure paid advertising are more effective than free, alternative methods. There are some cases such as advertising on your own website that can work better but only if you are an expert in SEO and more specifically "on page SEO."

I personally use paid advertising more even though I have some high traffic web sites. The reason is because in the case of paid advertising you are targeting a niche audience. A website that is not designed primarly to attract people seeking the opportunity SFI provides will not bring favorable results although it may bring some.

You want to choose where you get your paid advertising so that it reaches people interested in what you have to offer. Paid advertising offers more options that can allow you to reach the people looking for business opportunities or work at home opportunities. When this occurs it will help build your business faster.

Remember, this is a business, not a hobby. In a hobby we look for free options because we are not looking to secure high earnings. In a business such as this, investing a few dollars every month can help boost your business growth considerably.

So all in all, I would say paid advertising is the best way to go and most effective for every dollar spent.
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Generally speaking, paid advertising is always best because the venues that allow you to secure paid advertising are more effective than free, alternative methods. There are some cases such as advertising on your own website that can work better but only if you are an expert in SEO and more specifically "on page SEO."

I personally use paid advertising more even though I have some high traffic web sites. The reason is because in the case of paid advertising you are targeting a
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Affiliate since: 07/31/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read JAY SHRI KRISHNA's 8 other Ask SC answers

Hello friend Thanks! for asking such a mindful question:

Hello I dicussed below fully but want to give you a good thing is that you can't succeed if you not invest money anywhere.


If you have tried free advertising you know that it's difficult to make any progress. You ads rarely get seen and when they do they are largely ignored.

Ask yourself, if you had a service to sell and a business to sell it would you give it away? You might use a free whatever as a hook to draw in paid customers, but you can't run a viable business for free. We all need to make a profit to be in business at all.

Paid advertising is not without its faults either. You can spend a hefty amount and get little results. Most direct mail advertising gets perhaps a 1% response rate and those are not sales.

Yet, without some form of advertising a business won't last long. It's where you spend your money and what your Return on Investment ROI measures to be. Would you send $100 to advertise and get no signups? Yet many spend countless hours doing just that. Time is money.

A paid program in my opinion will work better in general, but the question is what paid program should you use. This is where some reseach comes in. Asking other affiliates about their successes and failures and learning from others mistakes as well as good choices.

Why frustrate yourself paying for advertising that fails and is not getting the audience you hoped for.

In my opinion, the S-Builder Coop is one of the best choices you can make. This advertising is targeted and successful. Sometimes the amount of signups vary, but if you set up a standing order, you will get consistent returns overall.

There is one free form of advertising that is always at the ready. You! Word of mouth is the most powerful form of advertising you can tap. Question is can you do it? If your timid, don't believe in your business customers will smell it like a dog smells a steak.

So, you need to develop some skills that you may not have. It takes time, effort and work. But, you didn't expect it was free did you?

Those who truly think they can sign up for any business opportunity and not work at it are just plain lazy. We all know the results that brings. But if you can use your own skills, spend a little for some help and work at it, you will succeed.

Just be smart about where you spend that advertising dollar and learn from your mistakes.

Thanks! for reading
See you at the top.

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Hello friend Thanks! for asking such a mindful question:

Hello I dicussed below fully but want to give you a good thing is that you can't succeed if you not invest money anywhere.


If you have tried free advertising you know that it's difficult to make any progress. You ads rarely get seen and when they do they are largely ignored.

Ask yourself, if you had a service to sell and a business to sell it would you give it away? You might use a free whatever as a
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Affiliate since: 08/29/2023, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Osaro's 206 other Ask SC answers

No matter what you may have heard, paid advertising is more effective and the reasons are:

1. It gives you more options in terms of space, style and quantity of pictures to include in your ad, unlike some free ads that restrict all these, while others do not even allow pictures and styles for example. These options make your ads more attractive to your target audience; hence the possibility of conversion is more likely.

2. Paid ads enable your ads to be placed in positions where they enjoy priority viewing over the free ads. They may be placed on front page, as top ads and in some cases, nation-wide placement. This kind of placement has the benefit of significantly increasing the visibility of your ad, which will lead to a higher traffic than the free ads. Note that the higher the traffic, the better the possibility of conversion.

3. Another reason is that paid ads enjoy the benefits of auto repost without you doing that manually every time your ad expires, or to make it visible because new ads tend to override old ones in a very rapid pace. Therefore, even if you forget about your ad, it may continue to be active and generate results because it allows it to run on auto pilot.

4. The time it takes paid ads to expire is far more than the time it takes for free ones to expire. It is as good as some paid ads lasting for a year (depending on the package you choose) and it is as bad as some free ads lasting for just a day.

There are many more but these are the essential reasons and it does not mean free ads are not effective, but that they are more time consuming in having to place them manually everywhere and in most cases every day, with the possibility of very low traffic.
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No matter what you may have heard, paid advertising is more effective and the reasons are:

1. It gives you more options in terms of space, style and quantity of pictures to include in your ad, unlike some free ads that restrict all these, while others do not even allow pictures and styles for example. These options make your ads more attractive to your target audience; hence the possibility of conversion is more likely.

2. Paid ads enable your ads to be placed in positions where
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