Today’s advertising industry grosses billions of dollars yearly, both in the U.S. and worldwide. Make no mistake about it, the ad world is BIG business. A lot of larger companies involved in online advertising (think Google), as well as offline agencies and the like, are getting or have already gotten rich from other people’s advertisements. Gotta love free enterprise.

Even we hubbers are involved in the promotion game, trying to ever increase our AdSense earnings while satisfying our urge to write. When fun and profit go together, it’s a beautiful thing.

Though we may be on the cutting and trendy edge of technology today, advertising is far from young and modern.

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I’d be interested to know what the ROI was with these
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