[ESPCamaro]

Have you considered how much free advertising you've given away?
And what do you get in return?

For instance we may buy something (say a set of wheels) and the wheels are great and service good. Why advertise for them for free? They did their job in giving you good service.


Do we now EXPECT sucky service? And in receiving good service are so surprised by it, that we sing the praises of a shop that did their damn job?

[Sam Strano]

I run Stranoparts stickers and Insane exhaust stickers along with every other sticker for contingancy and SCCA requirement stuff. I'll run stickers of companies that are good to me and/or do great work.

And I thank you for that (as well as the others who run my stickers). I also appreciate it greatly.

For the record, I don't really consider the "advertising" completely free. After all, I do spend a LOT of free time discussing options and often times talking people out of more expensive stuff if they don't need it.

And the best advertising is word-of-mouth, or referals. No ad in a forum, or in a magazine works as well.