Advertising globally for .99 cents a month

**Southern_Lenders** · 03-18-2010 02:01 AM

Would you be interested, yes or no?

**noob** · 03-18-2010 02:06 AM

Depends on the marketing method. It doesn't really matter if its that cheap, it is promoted in a way that could damage your business or send highly untargeted traffic, even if it was free I wouldn't take it. More details would be helpful like traffic from where, targeting, demographic, volume...

**Southern_Lenders** · 03-18-2010 02:41 AM

Done online, similar to craigslist, but very different look and feel. But to advertise to the WORLD for .99 cents who would turn that down? Seriously tho.

**party-fouls** · 03-18-2010 03:13 AM

like he said above. I would turn it down no matter the price if it was not something to suit my business and bring a positive influence to it.

Can you expand by what you mean craigslist style? I don't quite understand it because i can advertise on craigslist for free.

How would you advertise? You mean you would create a forum and it would be the clients job to advertise themselves?

**Artist411** · 03-18-2010 04:07 AM

Originally Posted by Southern_Lenders

Done online, similar to craigslist, but very different look and feel. But to advertise to the WORLD for .99 cents who would turn that down? Seriously tho.

If the site has good traffic, definitely.

**noob** · 03-18-2010 04:21 AM

I'll give you a slightly imperfect example but a lot of businesses get traffic from Yelp. Whether they like it or not, they can't remove themselves from Yelp. And there is a massive number of small businesses who absolutely hate Yelp. There have been more than a dozen of them who outright have sued Yelp (some probably with valid reasons and some probably with invalid reasons). Whatever the case, that might not be the best example off hand but lets just say that price isn't everything. If the traffic doesn't serve a positive purpose for my business, I rather not have it. Not to mention if I get say 10,000 visitors but not a single one stays longer than a second, bothers to click on an ad (if I was serving any) or do anything other than take up bandwidth, it'll just end up costing me more. There are two sides to every coin and I want to know if I'm paying or hell, if someone is offering free traffic, that I'm getting the traffic I actually want.

**Southern_Lenders** · 03-18-2010 05:41 AM

To Party and Noob. I herd of Yelp but I'm not very familiar with it. I don't really ever visit there, and I don't know their "listing fee" if any. This would be a monthly service, and anyone could cancle at any time.

I cant give out too much info, but It would be like craigslist in two ways:

#1 Content is User generated. Advertisers create a "profile"
#2 Diversity. Advertising doesn't just go with business, but to anyone looking to buy or sell a service. So even though a business may not want it for their marketing plan, an Individual might love the service we would offer, at a very low price point.

**mcfarldr1** · 03-18-2010 10:26 AM

Wouldn't there be so many ads on the "craigslist style" page that potential customers may not be able to find you?

**noob** · 03-18-2010 12:31 PM

Yelp doesn't charge a business any listing fees. Its a review site and consumers can add or review any business for free. It automatically grants traffic whether a business wants it or not. They do monetize by trying to upsell businesses on premium spots, etc.. but as far as just getting free exposure, they get it whether they want it or absolutely hates it.