This can be confusing.

With all of the ways to advertise your online projects, things can get pretty confusing at times. It seems like I spend a lot more time sitting in front of this computer than I do working at my regular job. Traffic exchanges, mass emails, article writing, blogs, and the whole social networking thing seem to take up more time than ever.

Out of all of the methods that I have tried for advertising, the best and most responsive so far has been on the social networking sites. Twitter seems to be the best one for reaching the most people at once, but with a couple of third party programs, I am able to send out messages to around 25 different sites with just one mouse click, so there are some ways to save a little time.

I am just getting this blog page started, so I will keep this one short. Leave me a comment with your suggestions or advice on what kinds of things should be covered in this area. I am always trying to learn new ways of doing things, and any help would be appreciated.

Craig

Sunday 01/18/2009
Ok. Part 2 of this thing.

I have been sending out a lot of safelist emails lately, and the response that I get is pretty low. I would guess that most people do not read the emails that they get from these safelists, since there are just too many that show up in your inbox. It looks like the way to go with these safelists would be to use the solo ads that they offer. I open up most of them just to get the higher credit numbers, so I do see at least the splash page being used for each ad.

From what I have been able to tell about the safelist credit mailers, they are free, so they can be used without much effort and without dipping into your budget. Just don't expect to get too many results from them. Solo ads are OK, but not nearly effective as the responses from traffic exchanges. I guess I will still use them all until I am able to build up a large enough subscriber list.

Craig.

Tuesday 01/20/2009

I would like to focus a little bit on the concept of attraction marketing. Two books that I have read, The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattle and Thought Vibration by William Walker Atkinson, focus on using positive thoughts to overcome the mental barriers that most people have to making money and becoming wealthy. Both of these books were written in the early 1900's and still hold merit today.

I do not know how well the actual money attraction part works, since I have not seen any vast improvements to my income just by thinking positively about it, but I will say that having the proper mindset and focus about what you are doing makes it much easier to write things like this blog, articles, and advertisement emails.

If you have not had the opportunity to read either of these books yet, you need to take the time to do so. The Science of Getting Rich is probably the best known of the two, and was the inspiration for the most recent positive thinking book, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.

Right click on the links and choose "save link as..." to download the two books.

The Science of Getting Rich

Thought Vibration

As always, your comments are welcome. Let me know what you think about the idea of attraction marketing, and whether you think it works or not.

Craig