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Common Mistakes | Article #35 : GAME PLAN EXAMPLE 2

Let's take a break from our marketing blunders so that you don't get too bogged down with negative stuff for a bit. It's always nice to focus on the positive things in our business in spite of the fact that we do have to be aware of what not to do, otherwise we are bound to make some serious mistakes. In this article we're going to present another hypothetical game plan for promoting your site.

Let's for the sake of this example choose to use the following means of promotion.

Safelists

Forums
Message Boards

Let's begin with the method that is going to take you the least amount of time. That would be safelists.

Needless to say, there are countless thousands of safelists on the Internet. Joining all of them and promoting to each one individually would not only take an enormous amount of time, it would be literally impossible. Plus, as I said in an earlier article, safelists are only so effective. So you don't want to spend a lot of time on them. To do this, I suggest joining a safelist submitter service. IpostAd is the best but there are plenty of others to choose from. The point is, you want your submission to these safelists to be one click each day and you're done. You'll sign up, enter your ad, and let it go out. I suggest you do send a different ad at least every few days as with the FFA hosting sites. Otherwise, if people see the same ad day after day, it won't be as effective. So you're going to have to give yourself about 30 minutes every 3 days to write an ad and about 5 minutes each day to send your daily ad. Like I said, safelists don't take up much time. This leaves you plenty of time for the next two things.

Let's move on to message boards next because they won't take as much time as forums. In a previous article I gave you a list of responsive message boards. What you want to do is break them up into groups of maybe 5. Then, each day, go to each of the 5 message boards at least 3 times per day, morning, afternoon and evening, and post an ad each time. Some boards don't move as quickly so you won't have to post as often. Others, like WAHM, move so fast, your ad is gone in an hour. But it will be seen by lots of people. This process should take you about 15 minutes for each group of postings, or 45 minutes for the day, tops. This leaves the rest of your day for forums.

Forums are very time consuming. Why? Because it takes time for people to get to know you. So you're going to have to spend a lot of time there each day. Plus, you'll want to frequent at least a few of the top forums for your niche. This should take up a few hours of each day. Over time, this will be time well spent, I promise you. You may even get an offer to be a moderator if you behave yourself.

Between these 3 methods you have some direct promotion (safelists and message boards) and some indirect promotion (forums) going on at the same time.

Sincerely,

Steven Wagenheim
Creator Honest Income Program
http://www.honestincomeprogram.com/

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