Momma Never Said There’d Be Days Like This!

(Some More Lessons Learned)

Hello there! Good to see you! Are you ready for some more lessons learned? Great! We’re off and running (er….reading)!

Free Classified Ads:
I truly believe that utilizing Free Classfied sites for advertising campaigns DO work. The trick is to post DAILY and post many ads. Meaning 400 to 500 a day. (No you are not hallucinating, I said 4 to 5 hundred). The “free” way takes time, patience and consistancy.

I strongly recommend investing in some sort of software that will assist you in your quest for posting massive amounts of ads. Personally, I use AdWizard. You get to try before you buy. AdWizard is what is called Shareware. Shareware is software that you purchase at usually a relatively low price. You can find AdWizard at:

http://hop.clickbank.net/hop.cgi?msmom663+pbeuger

By the way, you do get a 60 day trial. Then if you want to keep it, you pay, if not delete it and go on about your business. If you decide you want to keep it, you’d better get a payment sent in before your trial period is up or a “time bomb” that is written into the program deletes ALL of the info in the program. This means that you worked for 60 days setting up classified sites and such and it will be all gone. How do I know you ask? I have a very busy life. The 60 days went by so fast, I didn’t realize it and low-and-behold two months of work went bye-bye. Yep, I cried. This was one of the not-so-good’s that I was talking about!

Note: I want to stress, what, in my opinion is very important. All Classified sites have guidelines to follow when posting your ads. It doesn’t matter if you are going the Free or the paid route. Don’t hack off the Sites’ owner or you may not be welcome to post at all. Always follow the wishes of the Owners.

Ezines:
There are literally thousands of Electronic Magazines or more commonly called Ezines. Ezines are an excellent source for advertising your business opportunity (bizop). There are Ezines for any subject you can dream up. Quite a few Ezines offer free ads, but you must be a subscriber to post. Many Ezines are Opt-in only. This means that all of the Subscribers have signed up receive the Ezine, by their CHOICE. I consider Ezines an invaluable resource.

Utilizing Ezines for advertisement purposes is highly effective because Ezines are what is called “Targeted” advertising. Since all of the subscribers have Opted-In to receive the Ezine, you know they are interested in say Marketing or Internet Business Opportunities.
Cool huh! Many Ezines offer 1 or maybe 2 Free Ads per week. The Editors have their own guidelines. It is very important that you follow all of the guidelines or your ad might not be published. Here are a couple of Directories to get you started:

This one houses 2000 Publications
http://www.ezinehub.com/

This one houses 7,807 Publications
http://ezine-universe.com/

Message Boards:
There are endless Message Boards out in Cyberspace, with every type of speciality you can imagine. Many Message boards are free to join and free to post. I have found mountains of advertising tips, scam alerts, marketing tips and much, much more on message boards. A number of boards will allow you to include your URL you are promoting at the end of your post. Do a search trying several Keywords to find some good boards. Here are two of my favorites to get you started:

Friends in Business:
http://www.friendsinbusiness.com/board1

Anthony Blake Online:
http://www.ablake.net/forum

I look forward to sharing more of my Online adventures with you. I hope I have answered some questions and maybe even extinguished some doubts in your mind! Well, that’s it for this round. See you next time!

© Lisa A. Reddell, 2002

About the Author

Lisa A. Reddell is a Free-Lance writer and a
domestic engineer. She started her first
Internet Business 16 months ago. Visit Lisa’s website tinyurl.com/1p9l

msmom663@hotmail.com
http://www.tinyurl.com/1p9l