Affiliate since: 01/05/2011, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Bob's 135 other Ask SC answers

Personally, I love Free Classified Advertising. It is a forum where
I can develop my ads and test them before moving on to paid advertising.
I use free advertising as proving ground to test Keywords, subject lines,
ad script (description) and photos.
It does take a while to develop a good list to work with.
SFI provides a starter list for you.

Once you have established your proven advertising portfolio,
paid advertising provides a much stronger activity base for targeted marketing.
The resulting sign ups usually prove to be much better.
You must test the waters, as they say, until you find one
or more PPC sites or other paid traffic resources that provide
results with your advertising campaign.
Most free advertising sites offer some form of paid advertising.

The bottom line is, if you are just starting out, use Free advertising to get your feet wet. Then move on to paid advertising.
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Personally, I love Free Classified Advertising. It is a forum where
I can develop my ads and test them before moving on to paid advertising.
I use free advertising as proving ground to test Keywords, subject lines,
ad script (description) and photos.
It does take a while to develop a good list to work with.
SFI provides a starter list for you.

Once you have established your proven advertising portfolio,
paid advertising provides a much stronger activity
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Affiliate since: 07/28/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ingrid 's 138 other Ask SC answers

It really a matter of choice which advertising you want to use and the amount of funs you have at your disposal.

Free Advertising:
The goal of all advertising is to get your name out there. And when it's free, it's even better. You can use free advertising to showcase your knowledge about a product. If you are simply putting free ads on a website, you have limited space to show how your business can help customers.
Depending on the type of free advertising you are receiving, you can hit the audience you are targeting with your business.

Paid Advertising:
The main benefit of paid advertising is the immediate results that can be achieved to drive traffic to the advertisers website to see super fast results with sometimes a huge burst of traffic immediately. It can get your business up and running fast, fast, fast! You should be able to see measurable results within a few days. You can also make changes to your wording on the fly and see the results of your changes almost immediately.

Paid advertising lets you control what your listings say and how they look on the page showing all the search query results even though you will be limited in the number of words you can use. It requires you to focus on a few very important keywords and focus, focus, focus. Your message gets a read.

Paid advertising has an inexpensive start up costs. If you do it yourself, setting up your initial account(s) won’t cost more than $5-10.

Paid advertising programs also have options to identify searchers by geographic locations.

Since I am new to advertising, I will choose to go with the paid advertising.


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It really a matter of choice which advertising you want to use and the amount of funs you have at your disposal.

Free Advertising:
The goal of all advertising is to get your name out there. And when it's free, it's even better. You can use free advertising to showcase your knowledge about a product. If you are simply putting free ads on a website, you have limited space to show how your business can help customers.
Depending on the type of free advertising you are receiving,
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Affiliate since: 03/27/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Stefan's 93 other Ask SC answers

There was a question just like this not long ago and I posted an answer there. I will paraphrase what I stated prior since the questions are identical.

This is an simple question to address for those whom have capital to use in their business to bolster their SFI marketing and build their business.

Both free and paid advertising are great resources and you should capitalize on both methods if you can. However, if you want advertising that converts well and have the marketing capital to expend, paid advertising is the most effective resource at your disposal as it typically provides you the greatest benefit.

The flip side to this is you need to be well trained and educated in carrying out paid ad campaigns or paid advertising will literally put you out of business as it gets you into negative cash flow very fast. Then, it is not BEST but the opposite the worst.

If you can effectively carry out a paid advertising campaign properly, it will afford you the ability to access a very targeted demographic group of buyers or takers that are hungry for your product or service and that are already looking for what you are offering.

This is the the golden nugget. It's not how many people you target but the quality of the people in correlation to your product and their specific need that if done correctly convert to high sales. Basically, if you can hit a target market right on demographically and you promote your campaign to that market only, the higher the conversion will be or sales or signups of affiliates in the case of SFI.

Paid is referred to as paid because in order to find these high quality optimal lists, it will cost you money and the more targeted the more it costs.

In free advertising, you are working with probability and odds and more a numbers game. The idea is easy, hit as many medians as you can and just promote promote promote and eventually it will convert some sales. This is more time consuming but it does work if you have the time and know all the medians to advertise and is available to those with no budget.

The more targeted demographically your group the higher cost and the typically the highest conversions. This is why paid is the most optimal if you can afford the cost and the most effective.

Hope this helps.
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There was a question just like this not long ago and I posted an answer there. I will paraphrase what I stated prior since the questions are identical.

This is an simple question to address for those whom have capital to use in their business to bolster their SFI marketing and build their business.

Both free and paid advertising are great resources and you should capitalize on both methods if you can. However, if you want advertising that converts well and have the marketing
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

According to me, both kind of advertising (paid and free) are effective.

The advantage of free advertising is, an affiliate who is new in the business and has some financial challenges (especially in the initial days), cannot afford to spend money for paid advertisement. He can build his team by using free advertising. This will be a learning experience for a new affiliate about how to build a strong team and do right kind of sponsoring without taking any risk. But the disadvantage is, your progress will be very slow due to the quality of leads you generate. Also you need to do more numbers.

Once you are confident about building the business, and start making some income, you can always invest some money for paid advertisement.

Paid advertising option is suitable only for those affiliates, who are already confident about the business from the day one and also they can afford to invest to some extent. They have enough knowledge about network marketing and hence they don't want to waste time in experimenting. The major advantage of paid advertisement is, you can build your business quicker and faster as the quality of leads you generate is much better than the leads you generate from free advertising.

Now it is upto you to decide whether you want to go fast or slow in the business. Accordingly you can choose your method of advertising.

Cheers!
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According to me, both kind of advertising (paid and free) are effective.

The advantage of free advertising is, an affiliate who is new in the business and has some financial challenges (especially in the initial days), cannot afford to spend money for paid advertisement. He can build his team by using free advertising. This will be a learning experience for a new affiliate about how to build a strong team and do right kind of sponsoring without taking any risk. But the disadvantage is,
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Affiliate since: 11/13/2001, Power Rank: 74 | Read Jeannette's 241 other Ask SC answers

Both free and paid advertising are effective, and neither one is any more or any less. You have to work hard at it, no matter which way you choose. It takes investment of much time to do free advertising, but you may still find good affiliates and customers. You must invest much cash when doing paid advertising, but it is just as effective. The reason is you never know whether people will really be committed to this business or not, and you never know whether people will become your customers or not. You just have to try, just like you have to plant seeds.

When you plant seeds, you don't know which plants will come up and bring a harvest. You know that something will happen. There are many factors that come into play. Seeds have to be watered, the soil has to have nutrients, you need fertilizer, sunshine and the right climate. If something goes wrong with the weather pattern, crops can be lost.

The same thing is true with both paid and free advertising. There are many factors that work together. The kind of website, flyers, banners, business cards, word of mouth, attitudes of people, needs of people, abilities of people, whether they have access to the Internet, whether they have the patience to work at a business opportunity such as this, and more come into play. The only thing you can do is try.
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Both free and paid advertising are effective, and neither one is any more or any less. You have to work hard at it, no matter which way you choose. It takes investment of much time to do free advertising, but you may still find good affiliates and customers. You must invest much cash when doing paid advertising, but it is just as effective. The reason is you never know whether people will really be committed to this business or not, and you never know whether people will become your customers
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Affiliate since: 02/04/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Bryan's 47 other Ask SC answers

This depends on your advertising goals.
For short term, paid advertising is the best. This will get you the most traffic to your website or gateway in the shortest amount of time. You can target the exact prospects you're interested in and the exact segments you want to look in.

The downsides to paid advertising are the cost and the longevity. The cost can be quite expensive. The price will vary depending on where you're advertising, the length of time you want to show your ad and how many people you're looking to target.

For long term, free advertising is best. There really is no such thing as free however. Optimizing your website for search is way less expensive, but it's not free. It generally consists of placing some content online and driving traffic to it through links.

The content you place online needs to be keyword targeted, which is how you define the specific segments and individuals you're looking for. It's not as precise as paid, but still can get quite specific depending on the keywords used.

Another benefit of search engine optimization (SEO) the length of time it can last. With paid advertising, as soon as you run out of money, your ad stops. With SEO, your online content can remain out there forever. You can theoretically get traffic from a single article for years.

It will take some time to get your content ranked in the search engines depending on the methods used. This can be a downside for people looking for quick traffic.
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This depends on your advertising goals.
For short term, paid advertising is the best. This will get you the most traffic to your website or gateway in the shortest amount of time. You can target the exact prospects you're interested in and the exact segments you want to look in.

The downsides to paid advertising are the cost and the longevity. The cost can be quite expensive. The price will vary depending on where you're advertising, the length of time you want to show your ad and
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Affiliate since: 08/21/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Sebastian's 3 other Ask SC answers

Generally, Paid Advertising would be more effective.

Do not get me wrong though. There are some very good and effective Free Advertising options out there.

I say Paid is better because 9/10 times, free advertising would be very limited and restricted.

For example:
a free solo ad- you can send that ad once a week to 1000 unique people
a paid solo ad- you can send that ad every 3 days to 10 000 unique people

Free hits- you can get 100 unique visitors to your site/ad weekly
Paid hits- you can purchase credits used for acquiring hits (20 000/day for example)

Note* Those are only examples.

So you see, the paid option would give your ad a lot more exposure in a shorter duration.

Most advertising services/websites work on this principle. They will offer you the free option, but it may take your ad longer to get to the right people opposed to the paid option.

Do hope this helps!

:-)
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Generally, Paid Advertising would be more effective.

Do not get me wrong though. There are some very good and effective Free Advertising options out there.

I say Paid is better because 9/10 times, free advertising would be very limited and restricted.

For example:
a free solo ad- you can send that ad once a week to 1000 unique people
a paid solo ad- you can send that ad every 3 days to 10 000 unique people

Free hits- you can get 100 unique visitors
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Affiliate since: 02/15/2022, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Mujibur's 13 other Ask SC answers

There is no such thing as free advertising!

You still have to put in your most valuable resource (time). We all have a limited amount of time.

If you have a lot of time to spare, I would suggest that you create a blog and start posting articles related to SFI, Triple Clicks and the ECA program. Also post general articles related to making money online and residual income...

Place your links to SFI to the blog articles and also on different parts of your site (Header, Footer, Sidebar...)

This will be slow at first, but it will continue to bring in free visitors to your SFI Gateways.

With paid advertising, track your visitors to see how effective it is before you start spending large amounts of money on a campaign.

Paid advertising will free up your time, but most affiliates get started with SFI because they don't have much capital to invest.

It's a catch 20 situation, but only you and your situation can be the best judge of the advertising methods you use.

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There is no such thing as free advertising!

You still have to put in your most valuable resource (time). We all have a limited amount of time.

If you have a lot of time to spare, I would suggest that you create a blog and start posting articles related to SFI, Triple Clicks and the ECA program. Also post general articles related to making money online and residual income...

Place your links to SFI to the blog articles and also on different parts of your site (Header,
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Affiliate since: 07/12/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Abdul's 2 other Ask SC answers

Paid advertising will be more effective the reason why is, you can target what demographics or countries that you want to advertise to.

This is important as your ad is laser targeted to the certain group of people that you want your ad to get to. General untargeted ads are good too but targeted ads are more effective and more bang for your buck.

Another reason is Paid traffic will be faster than free advertising. Traffic will be pouring in through your links that you want to advertise once you activate your advertising!
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Paid advertising will be more effective the reason why is, you can target what demographics or countries that you want to advertise to.

This is important as your ad is laser targeted to the certain group of people that you want your ad to get to. General untargeted ads are good too but targeted ads are more effective and more bang for your buck.

Another reason is Paid traffic will be faster than free advertising. Traffic will be pouring in through your links that you want to
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Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999

I would say 'Both'.

If I recruit someone in my team, I will always ask them to go for 'Free advertising'. This will give my downlines some time to settle in the business without taking much risk. Usually people hesitate to invest in the initial stage. If you ask a new affiliate to invest some money for 'Paid advertising', there is a high chance that he/she will disappear forever.

But once they get some hands on experience and also confident about SFI business, we can always promote 'Paid advertising' methods. In fact, the affiliates will themselves understand the importance of 'Paid advertising' as it will help them to go faster in the business.

At the end of the day, it is upto you whether to choose 'paid advertising' or 'free advertising'!

Regards
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I would say 'Both'.

If I recruit someone in my team, I will always ask them to go for 'Free advertising'. This will give my downlines some time to settle in the business without taking much risk. Usually people hesitate to invest in the initial stage. If you ask a new affiliate to invest some money for 'Paid advertising', there is a high chance that he/she will disappear forever.

But once they get some hands on experience and also confident about SFI business, we can always
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