| >I'm surprised that a community of internet entrepreneurs is so disinterested in advertising considering how many of your own sites are dependent on it. I followed a Facebook ad the other day - it was some really spammy looking marriage guidance ad and I wanted to see if it was as fraudulent as I guessed it was going to be. They used every trick in the book, a very long audio intro with what this was going to do for you including an excellent push for a high price expectation and some logical sounding smack talk about opposing options. Good calls to action, strong pressure sell. You could write a marketing lecture on it. Obviously didn't have any thought of buying. To me it looked as close to being a con as you can come without being illegal, all advertised direct through Facebook. Also occasionally I'll look at a spam site (from email spam) to see where it originated or who might be behind it. >Look at Reddit as a great example of how to advertise. One text ad and one picture ad per page. Reddit beg their readership for money as well. I'm not really sure it's as great an example as first appears. >ads on Facebook are pathetically horrible See above. Also I keep telling them that Farmville, Townville, Zombieville, etc., etc. aren't interesting to me but they keep showing me the same ads. |