Okay. I know this blog is a mess. I tried creating a second blog just for this journal, called Tracker Mo Tells All (that's a pretty lame name, I guess... what about: Tracker Mo's Adventures in the Internet OutBack?... I'll work on it. Post comments, please.) but it didn't save the first post because of a glitch, which really annoyed me. That was on the 26th. On the 27th and 28th, I was wrapped up in re-fining my TCC campaign. Today, I've been busy submitting an article and doing taxes, so I've hardly had time to breathe never mind update. But it IS next on my agenda.
Well, the war's over. In fact, I got a nice email from Matt, at articlesnatch.com, and he explained that with the software he has he can't take any one person off the list-- the only way to remove yourself from the emails is to cancel your membership with the article submitter. He apologized and I asked if I could re-join using a less common email address. He agreed and, to make it up to him, I submitted about half of the articles I've written so far to him.
ArticleSnatch uses a common type of submission software, too...
But, it's amazing. Ever since I wrote and complained to him, I've received very little junk email from the other article submitters. ooh. Weird. Is there a ripple effect going on here?
I just think that's taking unfair advantage of us, as writers. I mean, okay, maybe all our articles aren't gems, but we're already providing content so they can get the attention of the newsletters... don't know what kind of deals they strike, but it seems fair that, IF we offer a good, compelling article and IF they decide to publish it, we get a little blurb in our byline-- whoopee. Having to put up with even more email doesn't seem like a part of the deal. I mean, I could do the same thing... add their email addresses to my aut0-responder. I WOULDN'T, because it would be just as bad.
Well, The Country Club (TCC) and OPFM are both heating up again. OPFM is going into another flip soon-- and it promises to be a doozy. No details have been divulged about the new program, except for what Thomas Thompson has mentioned on the conference calls. But, from what he said, it's like a "bottomless matrix" and a completely new system. I just hope it works.
As for the Country Club, I just heard that tomorrow, 100,000 people are going to be loaded into it-- and anyone in the matrix before then will go in on top of them... WOW. I haven't gotten even one sign up yet. I almost wonder if my page is set up correctly. Every day the TCC office sends out an email with all the people who did get sign-ups. And there's hundreds. What am I doing wrong?
Well, that's why I redid my webpage. I "punched up" the details about TCC. Speaking of which--
You know there are all kinds of marketing styles. I have several friends who maintain about 10-15 different websites (no exaggeration), and all of them have a group of different programs. That 's fine. But, for me? I think it's better to focus all your energy on ONE, well-organized site and really build it up.
In fact, I've changed the byline of all my articles so they all just point to my web site. And I'll keep working on that to build it up. If nothing else, it will be easy for people to remember-- one-stop-shopping, if you know what I mean. Oh, I'll continue to add pages.
In fact, I'm planning to add two pages (Marketing FAQs and a contact page, as well as an About Tracker Mo Page... or is that too, um.... well, let's see if I can come up with anything worth seeing), plus re-organize the pages I have now. I was thinking the articles about writing should go on the article submission links page and keep the marketing articles on a separate page. Plus, both of them should get a good shot of Google Adsense. (Can't help it-- it's starting to pay real money!)
But, the point is, if you focus on one site, won't that site get more traffic and, as a result, higher page rankings? Of course, my friends don't seem worried...
Well, time to get back to work.--mo
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