Out of Obscurity

There is a ton of different ways to make money online. I admittedly have scattered my efforts trying to learn as much as I can without focusing on becoming efficient at one specific technique and that is why I am floundering to make money. For a couple weeks, I stuck to the strategy of three hour profits. Then I read about article marketing and dabbled in that, then I became a wealthy affiliate and found much more information and resources than I had the time to learn about. Now, I realize that I need to focus on some of the basics. I’m going to pick two products to promote and do classified advertising and article marketing only. I might spend a few minutes driving my twitter followers to my articles, but not more than twenty minutes scheduling tweets. If I don’t get all my articles posted in twenty minutes, I’m moving on and that is it. I will create and post the advertisements like they said to do in 3 hour profits. However I will not spend any more time than three hours per day on their methods. Posting classified advertisements is boring and I have absolutely no passion for it at all. The last time, I tried to cut corners with an advertising software, but I don’t believe they were placed effectively. I don’t think they made it to Craigslist the way that I created them and so now, I’m going to do the actual work for at least one month and see if my advertisements are effective. I’m also going to research opinions on article submission software. It seems like it takes a long time to get articles submitted and create backlinks.

Sometimes as an internet marketer, you have a tendency to overlook tried and true marketing methods that are not online. For exmple, a great way to gain exposure can simply be putting an advertisement in the newspaper or in a magazine. Many time it is inexpensive or even free depending on your product. We get so caught up in the idea that everything has to be related to getting a better page rank, more exposure from social media or search engine optimization, that the traditional methods of marketing are neglected. I was making decisions on what stores to shop in from the newspaper years before internet access was available. I see a newspaper laying around somewhere everyday. People read them on the bus, at work, in their homes, and children do reports on them. Print advertising is still around and i is still effective. If your company has a simple URL, include that. Most readers will remember an eye catching headline hours later if it relates to them or sparks their interest. Driving traffic to your website does not have to be done solely through a link from a traffic exchange, a social media site or an online article. While most traffic will come from search engines, some people do type in the URLs of website that they want to view.

I have learned all about backlinks and their importance. I’m thrilled to be writing and thinking up creative ways to present information. I find it entertaining and challenging, so article marketing is where it is at for me. I couldn’t stand writing a sentence and posting it on twitter. Creating classified advertisements lacked some appeal after awhile, so article marketing is my challenge right now. While I only have earned $32.96 from adsense through hubpages advertisements, I can see that amount increasing with my ever expanding amount of articles that I create. What I’m interested in getting is article submission software so that I can easily submit my articles to multiple sites for a better page ranking. I’d appreciate any advice. I’ve read some bad things about article submission software, but I’ve also read favorable opinions about it as well. The reason I’m interested in the software is that it will not only save time, but I will be able to submit multiple articles. I’m still waiting for some of my submissions to be reviewed by Buzzle and Ezine. It seems like it usually takes a week for an article to get approved, which is why I prefer Hubpages with its instantaneous publication.

I have been shooting for thirty articles today. I’m up to about fifteen and I want to quit. The good thing is that it is getting easier. However, I get burned out after about two hours of writing and I just can’t seem to get myself back on track. I really am considering getting an article submission software program so I won’t have to submit each one by hand. I was planning on submitting ninety articles to ten different article directories. That is going to take up a huge amount of time. Imagine if I continued to submit articles to different directories continuously. That would be exhausting. The articles that I’m currently writing are based on internet marketing promoting making money with classified advertisements. I used the information that I learned in 3hourprofits and figured out nine different situations where the online ebook would help someone. Then I tailored the writing style to that specific need. I’m looking forward to trying it out for other products onlin as well. I am enjoying becoming a more proficient writer. Hopefully I will start earning money a reliable income from my efforts, but for now, the experiences are worth the effort. Hopefully tomorrow I will find a way to hone my writing skills even more and be able to come up with thirty articles in one day.

I had the highest of ambitions to write ninety niche articles in three days. Then I went in to substitute teach today. Administering tests and taking attendance is so mind numbing. When you write, you want to be in your best frame of mind and having thirty teenagers ignoring you when you are giving direction and trying to take advantage of you does not put me in the writing frame of mind. I just want to be like them, go home, zone out in front of a lame sitcom until dinnertime. I really love the idea of writing the articles. The idea was to take ten common problems and spin them three different ways each day. Then submit them to ten different aricle sites, which would create 900 backlinks and help bring you to the top of the organic searches in google. It is a great idea, but will take some work. I wrote six unique articles in a couple hours on Sunday, but today, I’ll be lucky if I am able to crank one article out. Maybe the person who did that was not trying to juggle an eight hour workday.

I lack confidence in my sales abilities and while I have some concept of search engine optimization (SEO) and social media marketing (SMM), I find it overwhelming to think about competing with all those people who are already online with links to their sites and backlinks. The more I learn, the more I understand why people struggle when they start trying to make money online. There is a ton of competition and unless you have a clue what you are doing you are not going to make it. Greate ideas are all over the internet. Many of the best ones you have to pay for, but you need to buy books or check them out of the library. Lots of information is free, but you don’t want to waste time sifting through a lot of useless advertisements. I read a tutorial by someone at weatlthy affiliate which explained how he created 90 articles in three days then by submitting them to ten different article sites, had 900 backlinks. Wow! That is a lot of backlinks. If you start social bookmarking those sites, it will be even more! My attempt is to write 90 articles in 3 days and submit them to article directories. Right now, hubpages has been super simple and easy to use. I am going to submit to ezine, squidoo, amazine, buzzle, articlecity, articlepro and a few others. I have confidence in my writing abilities. It should be fun.
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This banner promotes a clickbank product that I started out using, 3hourprofits. It is great for the beginning internet marketer and even some intermediates. It teaches you exactly what you need to know to make the best use of classified ads, including premade banners, pictures to promote the product. I do not know HTML and I did not need to figure out how to create the image. It was all done for me and included when I purchased the product. 3hourprofits also teaches how to get around some of the Craigslist rules so that you can post hundreds of different advertisements per day. When making money online, you definately do not only want one ad. You will get lost in the competition. You want to be posting multiple advertisements in different cities to reach as many people as possible. 3hourprofits details how many advertisments you should have to be able to achieve success and where you should post them as well. While the main focus is on free advertising, it does detail how to start using pay per click advertising. I don’t think that it is the best resource for pay per click advertising, but it is a great introduction for beginners. I started out with a very limited knowledge of marketing and found that while their techniques are basic and don’t extend into social media, I was able to make some sales with them. It was great!

I’ve discovered that while I’m not an expert in anything and only have passing interest in most hobbies, I can write about almost anything. Today, I wrote a hubpages article about avoiding weight gain. I have always been a size eight and never needed to lose or gain weight. I never thought I’d write an article promoting a weight loss product because I thought I didn’t have exprience in that area. Then I realized, that while I didn’t ever need to lose weight, there are some subtle differences in the way I live my life and the way that overweight people live that I can point out. I found a clickbank product that matched the content and if people think that my article is informative and helpful, they might click on the link under the resources secion that I included. I also found a way to add amazon products to my hubpages article. I will get a small commission if my readers chose to buy the amazon products that I highlight in the hubpages articles that I write. I’ve also branched out into the health alternatives niche, but that doesn’t seem to be going too well for me. I need to master search engine optimization a little better.

My vacation was to include a day of flying with my older brother and sight seeing in sunny California. Unfortunately, my father’s atrial fibrillation acted up and he flew home early. Since there was too much fog, my brother couldn’t fly us around the Bay Area. We had hoped to see Fleet Week and enjoy the Blue Angels’ air show, however there was too much fog for them to perform. The real disappointment came the next day, when instead of enjoying San Francisco, I found myself coughing. I had caught something from another passenger on the plane and it was not fun. I doubt it is the swine flu, as it seems to be clearing up, but it just shows the necessity of having posts on hand in cases when you don’t feel well enough to write or do anything for that matter. Sorry that I didn’t update the past two days. I should feel better in a day or two and be back to my old researching and writing self again. I read that it was an important action to take, but until you are in a situation, sometimes it is difficult to plan for the future. Sometimes you only will learn something from experience. For me, I needed to feel an urgency to update daily. Now that I have people reading my blog, I don’t want to lose my readers by neglecting to update. However, when you are out of town and sick, it is very difficult to create daily updates. I should have had a back up plan.

A great marketing tool that many business owners overlook is the social networking site called Facebook. Facebook is a social networking site that allows users to share information and interact. Being part of any social network site can help you build your business. Facebook is one of the best social networking sites to join to aid in the building of your business. Over 35 million people and growing are members of facebook. You can build some customer clientele, promote your business, and build important business contacts that can enhance your business. You can have deeper interactions with people to enhance their opinion and experience with your company. Utilizing facebook to build your business gives you direct marketing toward anyone in your friends list. Plus, your friends are automatically updated when you change anything in your profile. You can use this instant notification process to send sales information, company information, or new product releases. Facebook is a great marketing tool that many businesses overlook because of its reputation as a college site. This is rapidly changing and everyone is on Facebook networking. Facebook also has many additonal features that make it easy to interact and promote to the masses. Facebook allow you to easily without any hassle soft sell to other members. You have much more freedom on facebook than other social networking sites to post links and other forms of media. Many other social networking sites ban or delete you for selling or promoting claiming it to be spam. A little or a lot of shameless promotion is not prohibited on facebook. This makes it an excellent tool to use to build your business.

There are six ways facebook can help you build your business. The first way you can use facebook to build your business is through branding. The popularity of facebook among a diverse age demographics can be a great way to generate brand awareness as you build up your customer base. The second way to use facebook to build your business is to use it to drive traffic to your site by posting links. The third way to use facebook to build your business is to target pecific vertical markets with specific business objectives. Facebook has searches and software that can help you find a particular demographic to add as friends or join in your group. The fourth way to use facebook to build your business is to focus on client retention. Using the various features on facebook to interact with potential clients or customers building a trusting relationship with them via facebook. The fifth way to build your business by using facebook is to engage the customer. Business is all about the customers and gaining as many as you can. Using facebook you can entice people to learn about your brand, products, or service. The sixth way you can use facebook to build your business is by reputation management. You can read what other consumers post about your business and brand. Majority of facebook profiles are indexed in search results making your page automatically optimized. This is a very cool helpful tool in promotion.