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Hello All,

In the Handbook, Rosalind recommends against using newspaper advertising, as not many people will put down the paper and run to their computers to put in an URL, especially a long, complicated affiliate ID-embedded URL. I also thought listing a classifed would be too much of a pain. However, I found a service called "Nationwide Advertising." http://www.nationwideadvertising.com/ They have various plans, inlcuding one for $180 to have a 20-word ad placed in several papers with a combined circulation of 1 million. You submit the ad to them once, and they send it to all the papers. So I am trying an experiement.

I found a program with a relatively high pay-per-sale flat commision. I went to GoDaddy.com and continued to search for untaken domains until I found one short and sweet that summed up that product, was easy to remember, and was not already taken. I then bought a domain ($9) and set domain forwarding to my affiliate link. I wrote a 20 word ad (the URL counts as two words) and submitted it. I need to get at least three sales for the advertising to pay for itself. The ads haven't run yet, so I don't know what the response will be like, but I thought I would share this idea. I'll post again in a few weeks to let everyone know how it went.

Best,

Kevin

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Hi Kevin - Let us know how you get on. It depends on what you are selling - the price, and how many people want is, as to how you will get on. But, I will say, with any kind of newspaper advertising, repetition is best - you would need to run 3 or 4 ads in a row, and bigger ads tend to be better than smaller ones. Name recognition is a big thing in advertising, and people only tend to buy your product or service after they've seen your name three or four times.

Still that is cheap advertising - but be careful - my mother got some cheap advertising a few months ago - the ad company went bankrupt before the ads ran and she lost almost 1000 dollars.

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is - and a million newspaper ads is a lot for only $180.