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Are signatures actually effective? I've seen a lot of them and some have been around for many months. Wouldn't it be pointless to continue further after already having advertised for a couple of months?

i would think they are, i figure the service owners wouldnt bother running sig campaigns if they werent effective.

signature campaigns?

they must be in some extention, or there would not be much campaigs around now

honestly i don't think runnong a signature campaign is worthless because we don't even know that how many peoples are really watching the advertisement banners so that means we are paying some users for nothing and some users for something

Agree with you! But every product/firm/company need to be advertised in order to get the customers. And yes, advertisment (sig. Campaigns) will be worthless on some point, so it should be limited. And it'll always efective.

asked guy with coinut sig :P

after a couple of months probably, most signatures are only active for few weeks or months then are cancelled, I think it is only effective for a short time

It is effective but just like in real life it depends on who is wearing them.
If the signature is attached to a user with negative feedback or negative trust or known scammer, others will find the signature not worth to try

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My understanding of advertising in general (not Signature Campaigns here) is that advertising is expensive and needs to be systematic for quite a while.

If that holds here, brief Campaigns may be disappointing to the advertisers.  The ones who advertise on and on may be the winners.

But, who knows?  :)

then why most of the campaigs are brief?

Well the Bit-x campaign started on Nov 9, 2014 and its probably give out tons of BTC over this (almost) year. Is it really useful in running a signature campaign for that long???

They're effective for me but I don't own Playtodos.com...

Seriously though, there have been several campaigns that have ended (e.g., Primedice, CryptoVPN, DaDice) and cited a saturated market or too much expense for the benefit of advertising via signature ads.

Don't be worried about the campaign's effectiveness - these business owners know what they're doing. And when it doesn't work they're not going to wast their time paying people to advertise.

Don't forget Rollin.io, they closed their signature campaign last month due to not enough direct business from this Forum.

Keep the post constructive, kids, otherwise these campaigns will just be history...

of course it is effective as majority of the people in crypto world are known to this forum and share their opinions and problems on this forum.
but it is tottaly senseless to promote anything unrelated to crypto here as well.
without the SIG's this forum has only 50-60 users ,all this crowd is helping this forum and getting good AD revenues to thermos and more funds to forum,if no sig's then no crowd and eventually isolated and non-profit forum,which the admins dont like too.

I get your point, but I'm fairly sure many people already know what bit-x is because of their signature. The only reasonable explanation is that the advertisements are for users who just joined the forum.

Rollin.io running fixed signature campaign which is different payment method if we compare DaDice or Bit-X ( pay per post scheme )
Ofcourse it will effective if signature campaign using ppp scheme.

If you say signature doesn't effective, why we still can see PRC,FJ,Victor,etc still buy advertise slot on Auction..

not only wjho just joined but also to those who dont spend 10 hours on this forum posting or finding opportunities to earn some coins.
not all people know what sig's are.

actually yes.it is really effective.
and even its around already for a long time its still worth it.
because everyday , we have a lot of new bitcoin users.
some of oldies in bitcoin may say that its useless,
because they already know about the sites.
but think about how will the newbies, or new in bitcoin, will
know about the sites? it will be easier for them to see it through sig. in this forum.
since almost all of bitcoin users know about this site.

They are moderately effective the longer it's around the more visibility it has
That said besides awareness an investment in attracting users to the service is needed.

I would say Yes, They are incredibly effective. Especially on newcomers. In time they lose effect but who cares...

I dont care. If the campaigns are still running and we get some cents for it it already great.

By this there comes more and more people who are spending BTC and that's a good jib.

Effective for start ups company so that their company name will be introduced to the public
Effective for launching new products of a site
Effective for beating competitors who don't run a signature campaign

I think any new site ore service is trying to offer a good signature campaign to gain the trust of bitcointalk community as they will be the users of this services if they like it

Yes, of course they are super effective. This forum has millions of viewers. Bitcoin businesses want to promote their site here because this forum is the first place every Bitcoin user come and check.
They can track how many people come from this site and how many register. If it wasn't effective they wouldn't pay up to 0.002BTC per message.

Because this forum is the biggest bitcoin community in this planet, it will be effective for company which offer a bitcoin service or related to cryptocurrency.

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Another reason the sig campaigns are effective was pointed out in another thread. 

While the payments are relatively low (for most of us), that is just not so for many members who live in developing countries.  Payments in Bitcoin are worth a LOT MORE in places like Venezuela.  The campaigns allow more posts advertising the services, and help keep their (service providers) own costs lower...

I have no problem at all with my payments even though I will not get rich from them.  They are a blessing to at least some members, and do provide visibility for service providers at a reasonable cost.

Not mine!

Am I the only one that has never clicked a signature? lol

Saying that though, I have had quite a few imprint on my subconscious for sure and if I was to need a dice site or a different exchange I would have somewhere to go as the chances are they are trusted or why else would they be around for as long as they are.

Bit-x is doing well after all this time Guess it would be a good idea to ask marco of the owner has it been effective etc

You have never clicked on a signature? I find that odd personally.

I think signature ads are effective, but business owners need to know how to use them. I think it is better to advertise for a long period with less members than a short period with lots of members. I tend to have more confidence in a business if they can afford to advertise for a longer period. Bitmixer could be an example of that.

Even if you never clicked the signature ads, you can see a company name, company service with what they offered and something make you interesting like promo or ect. which it will can see to people here on this forum without they go to ANN official company thread, because some member here wearing the signature ads.

Indeed, I also never clicked a ad but I know when I need to mix my BTC i could use Bitmixer. Never was on their website but I see their name a lot here in de signatues.

You mean you did not even clicked the signature you are wearing now (secondstrade) to see how the site you are promoting looks like or how it even works?

I would say that they are very effective, because why would there be so many signature campaigns and why would they have survived for such long time if they weren't effective? I know some people that promote casino's with their ref link in the signature and they actually getting some people to signup under them.

Yes I didnt click on the ad, just the url in the topic. So I know what site i am promoting.

If signature doesn't effective, why would they still purchase the auction to advertise through this forum ?
I believe if someone keep advertise through this forum will bring significant amount of traffic so it's good for bitcoin business

Also i see some signature campaign advertise they site through ads on this site, they purchase the auction to advertise here with some banner. this is prove if make advertisement here is worth.