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<blockquote data-quote="cliffordcooley" data-source="post: 236309" data-attributes="member: 45290">Mike, I can understand why you advertise. The thing is, no amount of advertising will make someone interested if they don't have their mind open to the product from the start.I don't trust ads and will never purchase based solely on the ad. Advertising has a way of making someone advertise when they normally wouldn't use the product themselves. I would like to think I am not alone when looking at ads this way.I've grown accustomed to following my own links from search results, not the links from websites. I've followed links from website ads before and was bitten by viruses. Since then I made it my own policy never to follow links from ads on any website. I would also like to think I am not the only one that follows this rule.Could you by any chance use promotional codes instead of ad links? Promotional codes could prove to be more valuable as they would be tied to an actual sale of the product.What software do you purchase for your own use? Promoting a product that you don't use yourself is something that users can sense. I know I would have trouble promoting a product that I didn't use myself.I hope you don't mind me voicing my thoughts. I honestly don't know what you have tried, considered, or what has failed in the past. I can only hope that one can understand why clicking website ads can be terrifying to the end user.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cliffordcooley, post: 236309, member: 45290"] Mike, I can understand why you advertise. The thing is, no amount of advertising will make someone interested if they don't have their mind open to the product from the start. I don't trust ads and will never purchase based solely on the ad. Advertising has a way of making someone advertise when they normally wouldn't use the product themselves. I would like to think I am not alone when looking at ads this way. I've grown accustomed to following my own links from search results, not the links from websites. I've followed links from website ads before and was bitten by viruses. Since then I made it my own policy never to follow links from ads on any website. I would also like to think I am not the only one that follows this rule. Could you by any chance use promotional codes instead of ad links? Promotional codes could prove to be more valuable as they would be tied to an actual sale of the product. What software do you purchase for your own use? Promoting a product that you don't use yourself is something that users can sense. I know I would have trouble promoting a product that I didn't use myself. I hope you don't mind me voicing my thoughts. I honestly don't know what you have tried, considered, or what has failed in the past. I can only hope that one can understand why clicking website ads can be terrifying to the end user. [/QUOTE]

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