One of my resolutions for this year was to make a major marketing push to bring my blog out of it Grade C status and into the ever enviable elite circle of… Grade B bloggers.
Personally, I give my blog a B+.
The simple truth here can’t be avoided though. Just as you would in any other business, if you want to make a living and make money, you have to be willing to invest in it. Up to this point I’ve invested a significant amount of my time and effort to build this blog to where it is today, enjoying a dedicated and massive following of over five readers (four if you discount me) and being linked to by thousands of scammers and spam sites from all over the world. Yesiree, the work to establish my presence online has been nothing short of magical.
But while I’ve invested time and energy, I haven’t invested any money (other than hosting costs) into the project, and I think the time has finally come for me put down some serious coinage to really get things going here. I now have an advertising manager to help run my marketing campaign, and beginning next week I will invest over $800-$1000 upfront to help finally get some respectable traffic going for this blog, and also set aside a budget of at least $250 a month to maintain the campaign. Oh Mommy…
Ah well, that’s one advantage to being single at least. Otherwise that $1000 would have gone to buying pearls for the missus or milk for the baby. Instead I get to spend it all on meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I admit it is a lot to invest (for a blog at least), but I need to try, and if it doesn’t work out I can at least say I did pretty much all I could to bring in the traffic I needed to either supplement my income, or replace it altogether. Otherwise I’ll always wonder how far I could have gotten if I had just been a little bit more risky and daring.
After all, fortune favors the brave. Or is it the reckless?
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Four readers? Maybe that’s why my add didn’t get any hits. Maybe it’s time for me to take another leap. Actaully I checked out your add space. You have what appears to be a different company handling that now. Gotta go, the Arrogant SOB Obama is giving a speech.
Not a different company actually, just an old one whose ads I had to drop because they were getting too spammy and degrading, and they wouldn’t let me screen the content. Now they’ve introduced a few improved filtering methods you can use to effectively keep the spam out, so I’ve added them back… for now.
You do know linc, there are ways to market a site for free…though it takes a lot of time and patience…and get the same amount of traffic gains as other methods that cost money.
Wish you the best of luck my friend, I’ll be keeping an eye on the said advertising network also an will let you know of any concerns that may arise.
Tom, this is Linc’s way of sharing the wealth. Now as far as me. I could use some free traffic generating methods. I don’t have it like Linc. Used to but life happened.
I’ve been trying for free for almost three years though. Even though I’ve built up a decent online profile and have good search engine rankings, the traffic just isn’t there, so I probably need a little push.
I read somewhere before that once you can gain 1,000 dedicated readers, they pretty much do the marketing for you. You gain a thousand, you gain the world. :-D
Sounds like a plan. Perhaps as important as enlarging your share of the web-logos is continued reflection on how to thread it for best effect.
Right… what you said…
:-D
I’ll read it now! So that makes 6 (including you). Twitter is the way to go man. Tweet about this stuff and I’ll more than likely read it. Why do you have so many twitter followers if you have such little blog readership?
Always keep going. I just found this blog on accident (through twitter).
Woah, you have the best smileys of any website I’ve ever seen.
Thanks, I love my smilies.
Most of my followers on Twitter are probably spammers looking for a follow-back so they can spam me with their spammish spam. Oh well!