Your posts are good Joe, but I ain’t gonna pay for em

I loved the “I hate ads”. Same for me, as our free Mozilla Firefox block the most of the nasty pop-ups, the banners on the pages remain. I sometimes accidentaly click on those from time to time thinking that they might be part of the site content but no – i get directed to pages what i don’t have any intrest in.
I don’t use ad blocking software and i usually don’t mind the ads but if this scenario happens or the page loading times get really long then i really want to curse.

B.

I am trying my best NOT to sound facetious here but…isn’t that what we all should be doing?

Paul
.-= Paul´s last blog ..Simple adsense money making secrets =-.

No, I am not changing my mind, where do you see that happening? And who is the criticizing party? I don’t see that either.

Joe Hall

Posting-Tantrum Syndrome followed by Posting-Regret Syndrome.

You have written a professional opinion based piece with merit then you rewrite your article in the comment field after the criticized party directly responds.

Are changing your mind or what?

Remember this bold initial quote – “In my opinion marketing is fundamentally organizing people around information. So next time you (Ken Fisher) see a drop in your ad revenue don’t blame the users, blame the ads. They got you into this mess and they aren’t going to get you out! – Joe Hall”

Write it then stick to your guns.
Don’t rewrite it unless your changing your opinion and definiately don’t rewrite in the comments.

Stella Poppovich
Stella Pop

PS – I have made so many mistakes in life but the one thing I have learned is changing my mind is OK and expected. Just make sure to tell your trusting and adoring audience directly.
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Ad fraud is rife, whether it is adwords or display banner advertising. The incentive is huge. And yes a huge chunk of display inventory pushes scammy offers, services, and products. A great example are CPA networks pushing busllshit bizzops, Acai, Colon Clens, ringtones, teeth whitening and other nasty forced rebill offers.

As a direct marketer myself it’s extremely difficult for me to walk away from pushing these types of offers because the earnings values on these offers are extremely high. But I do, not because I am an angel or anything, but because these type of misleading offers piss me off and I would hate to think of one of my family or friends getting ripped off by them.

But after saying all that, direct advertising such as text ads, banners, contextual banners etc are still an excellent to get targeted and immediate results. I still read content sites that have banners,. As a user of the internet I understand on some level that I pay for the free content by allowing myself to be advertised to. I think everyone knows this at some basic level and that’s why they don’t really mind.

The last point I want to make is that I agree with your analysis of trends toward paid forums, premium content, etc. This year is going to see more of these type of models become more popular.
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By the way your comment system rocks. I use DISQUS. Just wondering which system you use?

I remember the sleepless nights trying to figure out what my golden egg would be, then I realize that just like my stock portfolio, I needed to diversify. I now sleep better.

One of the things that we do differently on Marketing Pilgrim is NOT sell ads on a CPM basis. We offer ads only on a flat monthly rate. That way we attract only those advertisers that understand the value of having their brand displayed to our awesome, affluent, intelligent, and down right good looking, audience!

Sure they get impressions, clicks, but they look at the bigger picture of branding. It all seems to work out and we get very few complaints from our readers–and when we do, we either pull the ads or make the advertiser adapt them.