Comment by JohnMakin

Comment by JohnMakin 10 months ago

13 replies

I personally have never had any kind of positive ROI from online ads - I'm skeptical many people do and have a conspiracy theory it's all a scam except for maybe a small percentage of users. I know factually this can't be true, but IME, I cannot fathom how anyone returns a positive ROI from online ads in this climate.

paulcole 10 months ago

Imagine a marketing/advertising professional said, “I’ve never had any kind of positive ROI from trying to write software.” What would you think their issue is?

  • JohnMakin 10 months ago

    But that’s not the promise of this ad software, right? Can you imagine it from that perspective?

    • paulcole 10 months ago

      Do your best to imagine the hypothetical scenario I posed.

      A marketing professional claimed that they’ve never had any profitable success from attempting to write software.

      What might their issue be?

      • JohnMakin 10 months ago

        That they sucked at marketing. Sure, I do. Your socratic method has been illuminating.

      • JohnMakin 10 months ago

        So, now that I answered your question - what’s your point? is your position that most ad buyers see positive ROI? Or that if you don’t, they suck at marketing? Surely the salient point here is that the advertiser with the monopoly (google) is selling a product that doesn’t benefit everyone, and mostly benefits them. This is well supported by what is coming out in the courts eight now. At least that’s what my point was, anyway. Thanks for your line of inquiry.