Guide to free advertising
Guide to free advertising
By Rebecca Gilbert When I first started my internet home
business, I realized that in order to make money I would have to
bring visitors to my website. I didn't have a lot of extra cash
laying around, and my mentality at the time was "Why would I pay
for it, when I can get it for free"? So, I starting searching
the internet for places that would accept an ad for my product
for free. I was very happy to find literally thousands of sites
willing to accept my ad. As the weeks went by I worked hard and
learned a lot. The phrase that comes to mind when I think back
is, "you get what you pay for". I was placing ads on the
internet every free moment I got and was getting very little
results. Not being one to quite, I figured I would move on to
another form of advertising or figure out what I was doing wrong
with the free advertising. As soon as I placed my ad, I would go
back and look at it. I expected my ad to be at the top of the
list since I had just placed it. Much to my surprise, my ad was
listed down the list a little way. I realized that at the very
moment that I was placing my ad, others were doing the same. And
as each person placed an ad, mine moved further down the list.
In my infinite wisdom... I realized that potential visitors
would probably not search past the first page before choosing a
product. So then I decided that I would go into that site and
place my ad every few hours. This way I knew it would always
stay close to the top of the page, and hopefully be viewed by a
potential customer. How right I was!!! Eventually, I had my
first customer and had made my first sale on the internet! What
a feeling! I was ready to take the internet by storm... The week
ran into the weekend, and I continued in the same way with my
free ad campaign...and no luck. Several weeks went by were I was
getting visitors and making sales through the week, and none on
the weekend. Are you seeing a pattern here? I sure did. I soon
discovered through statistical data that I pulled up from a
search engine that the internet traffic on the weekend is super
low compared to the weekdays. I also learned that the internet
traffic is at its peak around the noon hour in the US. From that
day forward, I didn't waste my time advertising on the weekends.
Instead, I would sit down around 11:00 a.m. every morning and
run as many free ads as was humanly possible. I could just about
plan each day at noon that I could get a potential customer,
affiliate, sale. I'm also a firm believer in the phrase "work
smarter, not harder". It didn't take me long to figure out that
I could utilize copy and paste and run the same ad in every
category that it applied. I also used the back button on my
browser a lot. Most of the time by using the back button, all my
information was still there and I could just choose a different
category. It wasn't long before I had several paying customers
and was bringing in a small monthly income from my small
internet business. I often try to teach this method to my
members who cannot to pay for advertising to start out
with...without much luck unfortunately. Many will not sacrifice
their time to this extent, or they will run one ad on the
internet and expect to get up the next morning and be a
millionaire. For those of you who don't have the money to
invest, you will HAVE to invest your TIME. How much is your time
worth? Many are drawing 6-figure incomes from the internet
within 2-5 years. The internet has made more millionaires from
the average Joe than any other vessel in history. Is 2-5 years a
hard pill to swallow? It shouldn't be. How many of you are going
to work your nine to five job for 40-50 years and have nothing
to show for it? Am I still running free ads? No, I'm not. I took
my very first paycheck that I earned from free advertising and
put it back into paid advertising. I can reach a vast number of
customers with paid ads with no effort on my part at all.
Instead, my time has been filled with teaching others to do as I
have done, and building my own business day by day. Not a day
has gone by in the last year and a half where I have not built
onto my business. I started out running free ads, then I moved
on to paid ads, ppc's, email lists, enzine ads, then I built and
optimized my own website, got link partners, got listed with the
search engines, etc... If you want to turn your life around and
live without any financial constraints, then the internet is the
place to be. All it will take is patience, persistence and the
will to succeed on your part. Best Wishes for your future
success and prosperity! Sincerely, Rebecca Gilbert
http://www.101homebusiness.org
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**** Rebecca Gilbert has been an successful network marketer
since July, 2002. Visit her at: http://www.101homebusiness.org
Rebecca will show you step by step how to create a successful
internet business of your own.
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