Before Facebook Was A Thing

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This is for the older more experienced marketers who have been in the game longer than Facebook has been around. I was just struck with a some curiosity after i was thinking about Facebook, their PPC ads, and i wondered, how was PPC before Facebook? For IMers it's most commonly used for PPC ads. The site was created in '04 and i have no idea when Facebook started allowing users to create PPC ad campaigns. All i do know is that ut was something from '06 - '08?Google Adwords didn't take off until '01-'02, but i assume the conversions were crap. So before PPC ads were a thing, what was your primary traffic source? Please enlighten me...
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  • In those days as an entrepreneur, a common strategy was to build a website and once you received significant traffic, you would get others to put big ugly banners on your pages advertising their website in exchange for income.

    Visa versa, as a marketer looking to advertise, you would ask a website owner how much they would charge to place your big ugly banner on their site for a period of time.

    Online Ad banner networks have been around for a while as well.

    Here's an interesting article. Enjoy.

    Web banner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    Arnold Stolting - Stolting Media Group
    "I LOVE The Song! The Vibe Is Positive And Firm!" - Kymani Marley. (Son of Bob Marley).

    "Very High Quality!" Jeremy Harding - Manager / Producer. Sean Paul.
    "They Are FANTASTIC!" - Willie Crawford.

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