Content vs direct sales sites

I'm going to tell you right now that I'm not a big fan of content sites. It seems to me that it's a lot of work to constantly create articles and optimize your site for the search engines just to get FREE traffic. It can take a couple of month's to get up and going before you start getting ranked and pulling in some decent traffic. What I will say is that if you really have a strong passion about something then by all means do a content site if you feel you have enough knowledge to keep a site like that updated.

Me, on the other hand , I like a one page salesletter that I can drive traffic to through some free and paid avenues. The thing that really gets me is that everyone is so obsessed with free traffic that they overlook paid avenues. If I can place an ad for 100.00 and it makes me 500.00 then I'll keep on using paid advertising all day long. It's a lot quicker and who cares if it costs me money. Use places like Ebay, Google adwords, paid ezine ads, joint ventures, and affiliate programs. You can find out a whole lot faster if your product is going to be a success. Wouldn't it be ashame if you spent months putting together a content site and nobody really cares...

The choice is yours and this is my two cents! See ya maties..