Jude’s Eclectic Resources

Some people have a talent for marketing, but I’m not one of them. I am so inept when it comes to making money, I’m good at spending it though. When I decided I wanted to make money online I tried lots of different things. One of them was affiliate marketing because I didn’t have to put any money out for most programs however some do require you to pay, but most don’t and those were the ones I went for.

I made very little money even the programs I paid to join and knew firsthand how the products worked I still couldn’t convince people to part with their money. One of the best programs is Bluehost and when you get someone to sign up and get verified you earn 68 dollars, but everyone out there that has a hosting account is also pushing it.

At one point I thought about offering a portion of that back to the customer if they signed up under me, but I decided it wasn’t worth it. I decided I was a horrible marketer and more or less stopped. I unsubscribed from many different places and lost interest. I think I still belong to one program that I spend 119 dollars a year. Last year I didn’t even break even and this year I might so I’m going to cut my losses and drop it.

Nope marketing just isn’t my thing, I’m very lazy and don’t put in the time to push it because it’s not very interesting to me. When I worked in the salon I never pushed products if someone liked something I was using and asked me about it I would explain what it did and usually the product spoke for itself and they would buy it, but I simply wasn’t a good sales person.

When I worked in the food business if I didn’t think something was good I told them my opinion and most times I would go get them a taste of whatever it was so they could make up their own mind and if they decided they wanted to try it then that was on them if they didn’t like it halfway through. If they had been sweet to me I sometimes took pity and would let them have something else.

The only product that I never had to push was alcohol and of course most times I had to limit that. We humans sometimes just don’t know when to stop so we sometimes need intervention. I hate when I go to McDonald’s and they ask me if I want french fries or an apple turnover with that, I know what I want so leave me the hell alone.

I know that’s how they are trained and they have to say it, but it gets monotonous after awhile especially if you go there all the time and get the same thing every time. When I worked at Lowe’s we had to say the same things over and over, but I did try to vary it with each customer so it didn’t sound so mechanical. I hated working at Lowe’s, I lasted 6 months then I quit.

Okay that’s enough about my inept marketing ability I have to get moving and get some other stuff done. Have a good one.

New people starting on the Internet seek information from other webmasters all the time about how to make money online, how to set up a blog or website and should I use free webhosting or should I pay for it? I personally think you should pay for it especially if you are going to start a business because it looks more professional.

I know people that have used free webhosting and had so much traffic that they used up their allotted bandwidth and lost many sales because visitors couldn’t view their website for a certain period of time. As far as I’m concerned I wont buy anything from anyone that uses free webhosting. Of course it doesn’t bother some people, but I want to make sure it’s a professional site and my information is going to be safe.

Web Hosting Geeks can help you decide which web hosting is right for you because they find different webhosting companies and compare and rate them and not only that you can read other webhosting users reviews . Go read for your self what other people just like you and I have to say about a company before you use them.

It could save you a lot of time and expense if you know how a company performs before hand. I find that reviews are very useful if I’m undecided about something. If you’re a newbie you’ll like Webhosting Geeks because they have a lot of useful information all in one spot that will save you a lot of time searching. So go over and read the reviews before you make that important decision.

Today was the first day ever that I actually took a SocialSpark assignment. Someone had a friends request in so I went there to approve it and looked around. I saw a SS opportunity that was agreeable with me so I checked on it and it was actually open without having to queue for it so I did it. It was also a free service that I signed up for because it just made sense.

I have been reading so many blogs lately that claim to be SS rejects and I am very surprised at some of the rejections because I enjoy reading their blogs and all I can think is that maybe the reviewers really don’t know what they are doing. Bloggers can use SS and make posts knowing that they are totally within Goggles guidelines. Even Matt Cutts says SS is acceptable in this format.

All of the links are nofollow so Google wont penalize you for link selling. I don’t like standing in lines at grocery stores so I definitely don’t like having to stand in line for an opp at one price and have it drop to nothing when it’s available to me. So if it’s not open for me to take at the price advertised when I look I will pass until I find one that is and that I can honestly write about it.

I have noticed that I have a problem embedding videos because the code changes when I save it even if I’m using the code instead of visual part so I save everything up to the video part as I’m writing and then when I am ready to publish the post I add the embed video code and click publish and that takes care of my embed problem. As those of you that know me know I have never been very technical, but I always find a solution that works for me.

I have also rearranged this blog so all of the social programs that I use are on the left hand side and all of my blog information is on the right hand side except for the meta info which I moved to the top left just to sort of balance the sides. I hope it doesn’t look too lopsided, but it will have to do for now because I wanted my EC card to be seen right off the bat for those that don’t have time to read and for those that are featured here.

You see meme’s and people getting tagged all over the blogosphere and though it’s a nice idea to get a link for your site they are a pain in the buttocks. I have no idea why bloggers get upset when other bloggers don’t tag them because it doesn’t bother me at all. I played tag as a child and I could never catch anyone else to tag so I quickly learned to hate that game.

I don’t like following a bunch of rules that state I have to copy the same content and paste it on my blog and then find other people to burden with it. Or hurt someones feelings if I don’t want to do it, so I always have to write a short post and at least link the blog that tagged me if I like their blog.

Also if someone wants to give me an award please do it because I deserve it not because it’s another tag. Which of course we all know is another link exchange just ask me to exchange links and if I like your blog I will. You don’t need to soften the asking by giving me something especially if I don’t deserve it. That was just a small rant of mine, I’m done now.

I am happy to see that the Entrecard forum has calmed down and some ruffled feathers have been smoothed. Too bad it wasn’t nipped in the bud (slang use: To check or cut off the growth or development of) I just looked that up because I always said but instead of bud as a child. It’s a shame that some really good bloggers decided to leave the forum over this last upset. I really need to make time to participate more since I use the program.

I was reading the firestorm forum a minute ago and when I clicked back it was gone and this was in it’s place.

PhiRatE

The forums here are failing to serve their purpose. We will do what we have to to restore that purpose.

I was a little surprised, but not really that much because I read Cats With Thumbs last post and it wasn’t very nice and there was a very hostile feeling where I hadn’t really felt that before the dam burst open with Scratchin Post and that’s sad. Hopefully things will calm down, but who knows.

I really can’t say much because I really haven’t been that involved in the forums so I really have missed all the hostility that was said to be taking place. Every time I stopped in an read it seemed okay to me. I’ll wait and see what transpires, I guess now I know why I basically don’t get that involved in forums.