Paid Advertising VS Free Advertising

Dude stop waisting time with free stuff.

Also I make ship loads with keyword content videos and then sending PPC traffic to those videos. No one is doing this, and I early about $200 a day in a stupid niche by doing this.

Once you get into paid traffic you will wonder why you have been doing free for 2 years. I konw many very profitable IM gurus, and they do not use FREE traffic, not one of them. WHY? its slow results, and not really scalable. With paid it is, and its where the HUGE money lies if you want to do well.

Start small and scale up huge. OUr companies make about $400 - $500 profit a day after using paid traffic. its were the big biccies are at.

If only it were that easy. There's a lot more to adwords than just working hard and understanding how it works. Understanding how to beat your competitors is a lot more than hard work. Special spy tools and a big budget are needed to succeed in that. It's a lot more info than working 2 hours a day. This is not a pipe dream.

Yup, well said.

You're right.

And I want to add that "Easy traffic is paid one". Free traffic can also be more targeted, but if you really work hard to get it. You need to get involved in forums related to your field and give as much help as you can, so you can occasionally recommend one of your products. It is worth it to spend 30-40 hours to be involved in the community so you can place a reference to a product ? Sometimes it worth because if you help others and give great advices, people on that forum will trust you and you can generate few sales a month. If your income is 20$ for every sale, then the week you worked on this might worth it in the long run. Then there are community websites like stackexchange or quora, where you can help people out.

But again, you can make the same money from paid advertising, much easier ( considering you have a good offer ), but you will have to pay the bill every month. I think that a good Internet Marketer will count both on paid and free traffic. Paid traffic so there will be a nice income to have a business ( pay the rent, pay someone to help you, etc ), and free traffic for long term growth.

You would have made a lot more had you used paid traffic!!!

I guess it all depends on what you call success

I always go for paid methods these days because the because the ROI on my investment is far higher. Think how much better off you would have been if those were two $350 sales.

Great! thanks for everyone's posts! So the big money really is in paid advertising then.

I noticed a lot of big time earner in different industries use PPC, PPV, and any different kinds of paid advertising which is crazy but so effective!

I feel that "free marketing" through social media sites will just be effective if you're some kind of popular or something. lol

I recommend do not start with adwords.

You can start with BING, and 7search for starters. But most people hate these guys, but they are very good if you konw what you are doing.

Even adcenter, i would try these cheaper alternatives first and then move to adwords when you get some winning campaigns.

This is a great point, and why free traffic is free. (But hey some people have to start somewhere.)

Other than judging by conversions...

Look at the referrers, source countries, IPs, and time on your site ect.

What are you promoting?

Where do you get the bulk of your traffic from?

How long did it take you to get 'about $500 a month'?

And how many hours a week did you have to put into your 'free' methods?

Well that's one idea (and it's a common one ) but here's where I personally found it fell down) and I've seen many others get tripped up over it too:

You would agree that free methods take a longggg time to produce results in terms of sales (and even then they are at best modest) - and sales are the reason we are all online, to create wealth. Lots of wealth!

You would also agree that time is finite. You have only so much and once you use any of it, it is gone forever.

Given that understanding, the use of time consuming free methods not only cost us in terms of time, but also in terms of lost opportunity cost. While we are playing around with free methods opportunity is passing us by . The time we are wasting would be better used on other, faster and more effective, means of dropping boatloads of cash in our pockets.

Think of the logic of being in business. Do you know of any decent wealth producing business where the owner didn't invest to gain that success?

No,of course you don't. And the same applies online.

And that's why investing in the speed and superior results from paid buyer traffic pays off so handsomely.

I advise readers to make the investment!