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Re: Affordable Online Marketing Solutions... Dec 30, 2007 3:49 PM
There are literally thousands of providers that would love a chance to take you up on your offer. I, on the other hand am not one of them. I believe the best way is to learn to walk before running. I advertised my company (
http://www.m5forex.com/default.htm) on search engine PPC with the big three (Google, Yahoo and MSN) on my own for the first six months. I feel that I now can comfortably handle this area should my marketing person walk out, and am adept at reading the monthly/quarterly reports.
The reasoning behind this was two fold. 1) Your site is not let out of the "sandbox" for about 6 months so mistakes don't hurt as much - and 2) The knowledge of the operational aspects (even as basic as mine are) will serve me for life.
Even when not aggressively advertising we maintain a presence with the search engines at a $1 a day limit to keep exposure and branding with our keywords.
Other providers we use that I can personally vouch for as receiving the clicks and exposure we pay for are Bravenet Media (
http://adbuy.bravenetmedianetwork.com/login.php), Miva (
http://www.miva.com/us/) and Exact Seek (
http://www.exactseek.com/featured_listings.html).
Good Luck and remember the new Triple Bottom Line "People - Planet - Profits