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AdlandPro has really expanded since I joined in June of 2001. At that time I saw it mainly as a chance to place classified ads, and a newsletter where members writing in were quoted quite liberally. Sometimes I learned from those exchanges. It was like a forum by email. But then I got busy with my web design projects, and slacked off on promotion, and sort of forgot. Although I did hear of and try out various features as they came up.

Like, the classifieds page script I could put on my site, and the traffic exchange start up page (I gave up that whole genre of promotion when I switched to Linux and don’t miss them at all). Sometime last year they started an active community where you can post all kinds of things about yourself, your links that you want to market, and forums were set up, and the place just got very busy. I looked at what came through and deleted it.

Then the other week they added a line of photos of those who were currently online at the site. Well, my photo gets turns too, and whoosh, suddenly my inbox was flooded with invitations to “Be their Friend.” I would go check out their profile and click approval, because of course I’m not likely to turn down a friend, am I?

However, I decided it was time I went to look over what the site offers, and what exactly it takes to benefit from all this.

There are six folder tabs across the top and each one is like a complete sub-set of the site;
Classifieds, Advertisers, Affiliate$, Networking, Learning, My Account.

CLASSIFIEDS:

You can do following at no cost to you:
1. Place your free ads in our classifieds and community pages ($2.50 value)
2. Place your free ads in our Free Traffic Exchange (120,000 users) ($2.50 value )
3. Free subscription to our “Adland Digest” Newsletter ($5.00 per month value)
4. Obtain free leads for your business using our community system ($5-$10 per lead value)
5. Earn big money with our affiliate program (up to $10,000/month)
6. Participate in discussions to learn more about marketing and promotions through the Adland Digest ($5.00 per month value)

ADVERTISERS:
Free members can use, free class ads, traffic exchange, community advertising, text/banner ads can be earned or paid for, and there are additional paid services available.

Free Affiliates get;
Unlimited number of ads per month to everybody who joins our affiliate program.
It is fast, easy and totally free to become an affiliate. As a member of our program you will have all the benefits of a free member, and get additional benefits.
* Get paid up to 25% commissions
* Earn traffic credits
* Get your ad displayed on the top of our pages
* Get statistics on performance of your ads
* Free promotional tools
* Earn up to $1 from one click from displaying our pay per click results.

As a gold member, you will get all adlandpro services for Free contained in one easily manageable package. (see the site for that long list!)

AFFILIATE$:
Be one of 44746 affiliates and get paid for your link to AdlandPro, Earn up to $1 from a click by displaying results of our Pay-Per Click Advertisers. You can earn 20%-25% commission on each service sold at AdlandPro and get an extra exposure for your ad, when you place link to us with your special id. For each 1000 credits earned from traffic to AdlandPro, you will be paid bonus of $5 US and $2 US for each 1000 credits generated by affiliates you sponsored.

NETWORKING:
This is where all that community and inviting and accepting friends happens. The forums too. I’m getting the impression that really getting involved here could fill up any lonely or bored person’s day! Since I’m plenty busy already, I’m proceeding here with great caution. I see that a weak person could easily get drawn into all kinds of programs because every friend you make or person who approaches you has the right to advertise to you their links and programs that they want to market. If you work this like a level-headed business person, this could all work to your advantage. I just know that I can’t quickly cancel everything else I’ve got going to hang out here, tempting though it might be..

LEARNING:
Under this tab you can subscribe or unsubscribe to the ezines, and find 6 tutorial courses with lessons right online there. You read what you need and want to use.

MyACCOUNT:
this brings up another row of nine tabs where you can set what you wish for your ads, how you want them displayed, and where, and when, get access to your profile, free email, choose the marketing tools you want to use - and yes, pay for some.

My conclusion?

I don’t need to take the WHOLE AdlandPro package. I can pick and choose, and change as my needs and interests change. But it does have stability and the prices are reasonable, especially considering that there are close to 33,000 members already, and Bogdan Fiedur the Founder/CEO has been doing this since 1996.