Is paid advertising worth it?

[harrygreen90]

Hi everyone,
is paid advertising worth it? and which ad formats works the best for you?
Between paid advertising and free advertising, which one would you prefer? why?

Thanks
Harry

 

[samimnoorzaitgc]

Both free and paid ads does their own work. Yes, Paid advertisement worth a lot. Any Ad type can work for you that best fits your budget. You should explain how your service/product works in few words in a banner ad. Like: -Safe -Cheap and -Reliable.

It depends on your own choice, But I think paid ads takes very little time than you do it with free one.

 

[Nytshade]

Each has their own advantages. Paid traffic can bring you fast results as compared to free traffic, that makes it easy to scale and grow your business a lot faster.

With free traffic you have to be hands-on, basically you exchange money for time. The advantage here is in the long run, once you've built a strong following then you simply market to them instead of paying every time you need traffic. With free traffic there's no risk involved, unless you're spamming then the risk is getting banned.

My advise would be to use both if you can.

But to answer your question in short: It really depends on how soon you want to see results, budget and how much time you got in your hands.

If you want to see fast result then paid traffic is your best option. If you have a good budget then paid traffic might be a good option as well. If you don't care about fast results and don't have a good budget then free traffic is your best option.

 

[Alex - A2Hosting]

Both forms of advertising can work but with paid traffic you're risking money as not every campaign will work.

If you consider paid advertising, only budget what you can afford to lose in the event you don't get the returns you hope for. Try out different campaigns (different audiences etc) and start with very small budgets. Find out what works best and then drop the losing campaigns and increase the budgets for those that actually work.

 

[vishwa]

Both mean of advertising works great. It depends on how you use it. Paid advertising is quite risky if you are completely newbie and does not have any knowledge of how keywords bidding works. While free traffic will take some time but will give you last long result.