> I am thinking about advertising in the
> ezine, but it seems very expensive. I know
> my website will help a lot of internet
> entrepreneurs out there, so I want to get it
> out there. As I said it is very expensive,
> has anyone advertised in the ezine. And what
> kind of results did you see? Thanks a lot.

Hi JBW,

I noticed your link was to adplacing.com ... Out of curiosity, I clicked on the link and went there....

I must admit, the site looks suspicious to me.

To check it out more, I did a search at the "Friends in Business" message forum (which is good to find out about various biz-opps and -- dare I say it -- scams)....

To read what I read, go to this page and do a search for "adplacing" ....

The overall view there seems to be that they think it looks mighty suspicious too.... They say that while you might get paid some money, most likely it could take you a lot of work to make just a little bit....

To answer your question, to my understanding ads in some ezines could work well for some products -- though I'm basing this on what I've read, I haven't placed any ads in ezines myself....

It also depends on how good the ad is. An ad with too much HYPE will lack credibility....

In general, it depends on having a good match between the kind of people who would be interested in your product, and the readers of the ezine.... and how much the ezine is read! The main rule regarding ads in any medium is TEST, TEST, TEST....

Anyway, adplacing.com looks suspicious to me.... The "Current Ads" also looked full of HYPE, which to me isn't a good sign.... It's as if they don't even know how to write effective ads -- OR maybe they PURPOSELY don't want people to respond to those ads.... (Not that I'm the greatest at writing ads, but their "current ads" look even worse than the really bad ads I wrote when I just started trying to "experiment" with business online a few years ago....)

If you want to make money online, the FIRST thing you should do is read Gordon Alexander's "Before You Buy Anything," available right here at Sowpub.... And you can ask further questions here on this forum....

But, in my opinion, you're probably going to go much further by creating your own product, or even creating your own web site to sell products from an affiliate program (at least that will give you some practice selling, though it can be tough because there's lots of competition to sell identical products)....

I hope that helps.... :)

Dien Rice