Comments on: Freebie Seekers

By: Jordan McClements

Jordan McClements — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:12:08 +0000

I agree.

I get a load of people to my images web site (looking for free images).

It is impossible to monetize this traffic with CPA stuff.

If a CPA offer requires my visitors to pay more than $0.00 then they are not interested.

(CPC Adsense ads work well though!)

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By: earn online

earn online — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:08:34 +0000

You can talk another view on this though. You can capture those people then convince them they need a paid product more. Free sells and always does, but it works well when you’re using it as an incentive (aka bundling one thing with another).

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Cindy King — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:18:33 +0000

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By: Marcus Hochstadt

Marcus Hochstadt — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:23:04 +0000

See? That’s exactly what I mean… One may get a flood of subscribers by using the word FREE but what about their quality? That can be quite another story…

~Marcus

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John; Vancouver WA Realtor — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:16:23 +0000

Marcus, I’ve seen many Realtors employ the “Free Report” bait and obtain many leads however, the quality and cost of those leads may not be the best way to start a relationship. I am however, more than happy to provide complementary items of value to those who are clients or subscribers to our services. The complementary items provide an important element of our “touch” program.

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By: terlan

terlan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:54:04 +0000

I’d have to agree with you on this one marcus. Especially the complaints part.

I run or maintain several websites offering completely free services and they generally have mostly passing traffic. Theres a few solid repeat visitors for every couple of thousand. But in general they arrive expect free stuff and the feedback is mostly positive.

However in contrast another site of a client offers free products when you purchase a main product. This produces a wealth of problems, from customer complaints that the free products are wrong in some way or other, or if they return the main product they should be able to keep the “FREE” products. We tried various connotations of the word and eventually had to settle on complimentary and outline in the terms and conditions various limitations to the word complimentary.
But when using PPC using free is very powerful, as long as its made blatantly clear that its buy this, get this free. That way peopel are clear that they are going to buy to get the freebie.

By: Marcus Hochstadt

Marcus Hochstadt — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:51:52 +0000

That makes sense, Ben. Another saying goes like, “You don’t need to know everything; you just need to know where to find the information once you need it.”

That makes me remember an ex-girlfriend of mine. She’s an NLP professional and used to occasionally hire her trainer for a coaching session. His rate (in 2001) was 160 EUR per hour ($250).

He always insisted to offer his coaching session to her for free because of all the good things she did for him and his company. But my ex insisted to pay 160 EUR per hour because she knew she would take that session more seriously only when she pays the full fee.

When looking back I know why…

~Marcus