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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BSF" data-source="post: 1748760" data-attributes="member: 13098">This is intersting.  Perhaps it is because of your relatively low post count, but I don't remember seeing your .sig until after I saw your banner ad.  So, if I saw your .sig before then, I passed it off as white noise.  I rarely have time to make it to other sites.  As I have stated previously, I don't even get to the news page all the time.    Call me a messageboard fool.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Actually, the fact that you are offering a free product is part of the reason why I chose to respond to you. First of all, I made the assertion that not even the words "Free" are an automatic lure for me as a customer.  Second of all, you are less likely to feel like you have anything to lose by sharing some of your marketing information.  You become a relatively "safe" test case and I tend to wonder how many people are reading this and wondering if they can learn something that will give them a little better understanding on how to advertise and stand out from the competition.  Besides, you spoke up and I had seen your banner, without clicking on it.  It just very relevant to the conversation.  Curiosity is good.  If I were in a store and something drew my eye, I would stop and check it out.  But that is partially because I am there to look for something new.  Currently, I come to EN World to participate in the community.  Finding something new to buy is a secondary concern.  When I get to the purchase time of my month, I look a little bit more for new product I might be interested in.  I think most of the publishers want to penetrate my awareness before I begin making decisions.  The more successful ones do that by establishing a presence in my mind, and by knocking on my mental doors with easy to identify product ads.  Even if your product is free, you did take the time to use a lot of the advertising options here on EN World, including banner space.  (BTW - Thanks for that too!)  I am hoping that our little conversation has been of some interest to the other potential advertisers, and to Russ.  Advertising can only work for EN World as a revenue stream if people use it effectively.  I am a little concerned that people get more results from just using the news page to submit press releases.  It makes sense, once I stop to think about it.  But there must be ways to make paid advertising a better value to the publishers.</blockquote>

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