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Microsoft AdCenter has been running a great promotion for some time now, I think since January, where you can get $75 in free clicks if you are a new user. (You may just be able to open a new account with a different credit card. I haven’t checked that out though.) However, the promotion is ending as of June 30th, so you only have 2 more weeks to take advantage of free advertising.

Through personal experience and what I’ve read on some blogs, the MS AdCenter interface tends to be a little difficult to use. It is a lot less user friendly than the Google Adwords interface, but while some see that as a disadvantage, you could look at it in a different light. Less people will be using it, giving you a better opportunity to take advantage of their search network. Other people, such as Jeremy Palmer, refer to both Microsoft Adcenter and Yahoo Search Marketing as the hidden gems of PPC advertising because less advertisers use them and in some cases the traffic tends to convert better, especially from MS Adcenter.

Regardless of how easy they are to use or how well they convert, it’s always nice to get free advertising from a PPC search network. 

If you want to take advantage of this offer, you can visit Microsoft Adcenter to get $75 in free clicks until June 30th.

I’m hoping Jason Calacanis can help me out here. Everyone knows that Jason loves to stir up trouble at Internet conferences and he recently caused quite a stir at Affiliate Summit West a couple months ago when he referred to Zac Johnson’s $300,000 check from Yahoo as pathetic.

Well Jason, here’s where you can help me out. I just received an extremely pathetic check of $1,309.21 from Google Adsense yesterday and I’m hoping you will embarrass me (and of course generate lots of publicity for me) at the next Internet related conference you attend by displaying the picture below of me holding that extremely pathetic check. What I’m trying to accomplish is rising from the ranks of extremely pathetic to just pathetic. I mean, if Zac can earn $300,000 in a month’s time from Yahoo Search Marketing and only be at the pathetic level, well, I’d darn sure like to be there.

Anyway Jason, here’s my pic and I’m hopin’ you think of me next time you speak somewhere. I need the publicity so I can afford to fix my teeth.

Thanks Jason. If you need one, I can send you a pic suitable for framing.