banner advertising

[Lpspider]

Does anyone here do a significant amount of advertising, as in with an advertising network, such as Adwords? (or the thousands of other ones available)

In general, how much money do you need to set aside for this sort of paid advertising to actually take an effect and drive the needed traffic to your website in order to make a prophet? In other words, is paying money to an ad network worth the time, money, and trouble, or should one take other means to get traffic?

Does anyone here use this sort of advertisement, and if so, how much do you spend per month, and would you recommend it?

[da king]

I suggest avoid pay per click campaigns - they tend to use up your resources. I haven't personally used one, but I have several online friends that tried them and they didn't work. However, if you are a web ad publisher - you place the ads on your site - then pay per click ad networks can brign in the money, depending on how you work it. Generally, the best way to go with this sort of advertising is either in pay per lead or pay (percentange?) per sale. I have little experience with this, so you might not want to take my advice.