Just thought I'd Share...

As you can probably tell by reading this blog, most of my advertising is through Craigslist. I have come across a program that is almost as indispensable as my auto posting software. It is called Auto Account Creator and it creates and manages how ever many gmail or yahoo emails you need as well as their corresponding CL accounts. I highly recommend it.
It has made my life a lot easier.

Solo Ad 2

Well, I ran my second solo ad on friday and it looks like I am around 20 OPT-INs for it, which again, I think is pretty good for the price. I have decided to be a bit more pro active from the stand point that a wise man told me that no matter what anyone tells you, follow up with your leads is the most important part of the processes. I'm going to send a short email to each one of my opt ins a few days later to just introduce myself and offer my services to answer any questions they have...NOT a sales email to sell them on signing up....Just not my style.

I'll post my results as they come in.

Have a great week!!!

www.giftinguy.com

Just a quick tip...

I have learned a lot working with TOCS, but I think the single most important lesson, I have learned in the last week. When it comes to any sort of internet marketing, One word sums up the most important thing anyone can do...
FOLLOW-UP

Although TOCS does your callbacks for you and automatically sends periodic messages to your leads to remind them about the site. A simple personalized email from you will go a LONG WAY.
It doesn't take too long to do, and you will see your conversion rates improve if you just do this simple step.

SO EXCITED!!!!

My sponsor and I just made a break through!!!! Most people know that craigslist is the best online classified ad site on the internet. But the it is VERY hard to post more than one ad, post in more than one city and "advertise" anything, especially in the job sections, which incidentally is the most popular section of the site.

Well, after much trial and error, we have "cracked the code" to being able to post the SAME ad in 50 cities everyday of the week month after month!!!

I am sharing this technique (for FREE of course) ONLY to those that are on my team.

If you would like to join my team, check out my site.

www.giftinguy.com

Keep it movin'

Things continue to move an progress very well with my gifting program. As I expand my marketing scope the opt ins keep pouring in and as that's the name of the game. I keep learning new ways to improve my marketing techniques as well as streamline the process so I spend less time to accomplish the same things on a day to day basis....

This has become a "side" goal at this point.

USA Today Ad part 2

OK, it seem that the USA Today ad was not the best use of my budget. For my $110 I got about 40 hits and 3 opt ins...so far anyway. I haven't given up total hope though. I was told that with print ads especially, the leads may take a long time....up to a month or so...to "act" whether its just visiting the site, opting in, requesting a call back or actually signing up.

I'm going to give it some time, but I'm not going to jump up to place another ad this weekend. We'll just see what happens. My next venture is going to be posting A Featured ad on USFREEADS.com I've heard it gets better results than craigslist.


Time will tell....but I press on...

My ebook is Done!!!!

Well, its finished.
You will notice that there is a link at the top of my blog now to download my gifting report!
If you are reading this a LONG time after this post was written, and for some reason, its not there any more, here it is. Enjoy!! right now it is being hosted on rapidshare. all you need to do is click the link and click the "free account" button to get the download link for my report. If it becomes a real popular download, I'll probably build a small site for it and upload it there...we'll see ;)

Actually, If anyone downloads it and has any comments or constructive critisizm, feel free to email me or post a comment here.