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.

Pick up this weekend's USA Today!!!

Well, its officially a "done deal" my sponser and I have a 4 line ad running in USA Today From Friday through Sunday!!! I'm really psyched about this!!! This is a HUGE paper and we even get a free week of our ad posted on the USA Today online site!!!

I can't wait to see what kind of results we get!!! We have split the traffic up 5 ways. 2 of 5 visitors get my gifting site, 3 of 5 get one of his sites (obviously he paid more than I did).


Its all very Exciting!!!!

My Solo Ad...

Well, so far it seem like solo ads are a good value for your ROI. My ad has been active for just over 3 hours and I have 14 new opt ins on my gifting page from the ad!!!

What a great start!
Now one thing to remember is that the process takes time. People generally won't sign up "right away" Some will join in a few days or even a few weeks....But cash gifting is a game of numbers. Just keep sending people to your site, and you will make money....its the law of averages.

Have a Great Weekend!!!!

Joint Venture...

Today I just solidified a deal with my friend (and sponsor) to split the cost of an advertising campaign for our gifting sites. We are buying an ad in USA Today!

I'm really excited about this!! And its not as expensive as you might think. The total cost is $240 to run an ad and you get 4 lines of text....This could be real interesting if we play our cards right!

You might be wondering how we be sure that the traffic from the ad will be split evenly...
Easy. We are going to print 1 URL in the ad that we will add a link rotator to. This guarantees that each of us will get the same amount of traffic from the ad, its all automatic.

If you are interested in cash gifting programs but have some questions about them, feel free sign up for my FREE 7 day report...It is for informational purposes only and is free of SPAM and viruses (and all of that other bad stuff).