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To me, blogging is simply a lot more personal. With galleries and free-sites, you build it, submit it and forget it and move to the next one, the next design. With a blog, it's a continuing thing that your constantly adding to and if you do more than write sales text it becomes an extension of you, your personality.
Plus, like Ronnie says, its stickie. You don't get only that one chance to sell a surfer because if it's interesting, they'll be back over and over and over. Plus, if your using multiple sponsors, your not only selling them once because they come back even after a join.
I've got one blog that only averages about 500 visitors a day but 25% of them are from bookmarks and out of those few "hits" I convert a sale a day.
I also disagree with Twn, the object is to get them into your network and let them wander around your network until they find something that convinces them to buy. I think a freesite, hub, blog strategy is a sound one. Very little of the SE traffic I get is specificly looking for blogs (that traffic comes from other sources) but are looking for specific niche's. Therefore with a niche specific domain, I wouldn't see any reason that a strategy of combining them wouldn't work. Remember, when linking to your own freesites, there is no reason to take them to your warning page so the only places your surfer has to go from your freesites is back to your blog or to your sponsor or to your hub.
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