Free sites are great place to learn the ropes of this buiness. As Bill posted, "In either case, building gallerys or building TGPs, unless you know what you are doing, chances are quite good that you will lose money." Since free sites consume much less BW and you have 4 pages worth of ads verses only 1 for a TGP gallery you have much more to work with and learn with at a fair lower cost.
This is a complex business. You need to know how to write html code, a little javascript, a bit of design work,
Learn How To Sell, where are good sources of content, where are good sources of traffic, what niches you are good at selling, what sponsors work with the niches you are selling, how to build up your own traffic sources which includes proper linking strategies between your pages, and getting your name out and getting known, people prefer to work with familiar names. Coming to the boards was one of the best decisions that I every made.
