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Promoting Home and Online Businesses w/ Craigslist

Craigslist is one of the best classified ad resources on the net. We have used it sell vehicles and to promote our home-businesses, as well as promoting the tools that we use to promote our home-business.

Craigslist is structured geographically so that if you live in Denver and want to sell your couch and loveseat - it may be a good idea to post that to the Denver area. However, if you are marketing a travel service, health product, etc. - you would obviously want to spread the ad outside your area and likely even nationwide.

Craigslist will not allow you to post the same article to more than one area w/in 48 hours, so i have come up w/ a method to reach out to the entire nation without violating Craigslists policies.

I have a couple of main businesses i am working, 3 social networks, and a growing number of traffic generating/marketing referral sites that i would like to promote. So i have created a spreadsheet that on one of the worksheets has 3 columns, name of the business/ product/ service, a headline, body of the ad i want to post.

In the next work sheet i entered a date column and put in the current date then copied it out for 3 months or so. Then i added other columns for each the different items i am promoting. Now you will want to make a list of cities (minimum of 15) my list is over 40.

In the column of the 1st item you are promoting type in the 1st city on your list, then go down 3 rows and type in the next (your first city will be in the row of today's date, then your next city will be in the row of the date 3 days from now) continue entering the cities 3 rows apart until your list is exhausted.

Now go back to the top and highlight all of the cities that you just entered, right-click copy, then move to the cell one-down and one to the right of your top city and paste it there. Continue the pasting until you have filled in all of your columns. If you stepped down properly pasting then you will have some empty cells at the top right of your sheet. You can fill them in as you like. (at the bottom of your list will be the opposite affect you can use those cells to fill in the blanks at the top)

There you have it. Now every day you can open your sheet and look to see what items are to be promoted that day. Then go to craigslist and put in your add. Its a lot quicker if you cut/paste from your first worksheet the headline and body. This should take less than 10 minutes a day once you get the hang of it.

Leverage the "idleness of your past" into marketing for today

I have always been a bit of a "chat-nut". I remember even back in the mid to late '80s, i used my Commodore-128 (state of the art at that time) and got "online" over a 240-baud modem. It was my first online chat experience.
In subsequent years the "Chat Industry" really exploded. Millions upon millions were signed up w/ AOL, or MSN or Yahoo. I was a big AOL user back in the late 90's. And as a bachelor, i actually ended up meeting in real life, women who i had established contact with online. I think i did this 6 or 7 times.
Now that i am married - i pretty much try to stay away from the chatrooms as there is really nothing to be gained .... or is there?
A couple nights ago, i logged into Yahoo Messsenger and went into one of their small business chatrooms. It was there that i had kind of an "aha moment". I struck up a conversation w/ a young lady from Indonesia who was promoting her business and i noticed that in her "status" she had a link to her website. It dawned on me there that i could do the same and get some absolutely free advertising from it.
My experience that night brought me the realization that I could actually use the tools of my "former idleness" and leverage that today to grow my own network. If you are currently a Yahoo Instant Messenger user and have a nice long "friend's list - then you are perfectly staged to do this. Here is how:

1. Login to YM
2. Right-click your name at the top of the window and select "New Status Message"
3. Type in something like... "Home Business Opportunity: www.myurl.com"
4. Click ok.

You are now setup and all of the people who have added you to their frineds list will see that message next to your name in their YM window.
If you are not currently a YM user i probably would not advise you to "drop everything and join". But if you are a current user - then why not scrape up a few more contacts.
Lastly, I like to login to YM daily and keep it open. I usually go to one of the small business chatrooms, and leave that window open. Normally, i will get 5-10 IMs a day for people inquiring about my business. You can also just read the traffic in the chatroom and when you see someone submit a message about his/ her busieness - then send them an IM like ... " Hi (name) i was curious as to know how you are promoting your business...." This is a good started for getting a Yuwie referral or even getting a referral to your main business.

For what its worth....

My Favorite Time of the Day

Every night around 8 pm either myself or my wife - or - as is usually the case - both of us - puts our 20-month old daughter to bed. The routine is usually say a prayer thanking God for Olivia and asking that He would grant her a good night's sleep; a hug for mommy, a hug for daddy; then into the crib.

There is one point during this process that usually fills my eyes w/ the stuff of tears. It is the point that Olivia nestles her head against my shoulder as i am holding her. It is a moment of total surrender and total reliance. She is telling me without words....

"I love you and trust you, daddy...I have no idea what this world is about - but I know you are here to care for me and protect me."

This single moment makes every difficulty, inconvenience, annoyance, perplexment, disdain, aggravation, every dirty diaper, every snotty nose and all other negatives concerning caring for a toddler - worth every bit of the ride.

Many of you have been through this - if so, take a moment to reflect on the times that you had w/ your infant/toddler and remember that you were the most important person on earth to someone at sometime. Put that memory in a place where you can always access it.

Who are these guys?

I am thinking that is the question that baseball fans in Philly as well as most east-coast baseball media, when they think of the Colorado Rockies.

The Kids from Blake Street have reeled off the following accomplishments...

• Won 13 of 14 games (including sweeps in San Diego and LA) to finish the season in a tie with San Diego for the National League Wild Card spot.
• Came from 2 runs down in the bottom of the 13th to beat the Padres in the tie-breaker game.
• Swept the Philadelphia Phillies to advance to the NL Championship Series against Arizona.

This is the stuff of wild dreams. I have never, nor, probably will i ever, have this much fun following a baseball pennant run.

Still fast asleep...

I couldn't post anything last week because i was too drained after each game during the Rockies incredible streak. Monday night was the ultimate culmination of an incredible playoff drive as the Rocks ignored a 2-run deficit in the 13th inning and came back a stole the game and the final playoff spot from San Diego.

Following suit - the "Blake Street Boys Club" went into Philly today and delivered a nice little hook to the jaw of the Phillies.

This is too much fun.

The Dream Continues...and i don't care to be awakened...

The Rockies roll on. Beating the self-destructing Padres 7-3. The boys knocked out Greg Maddux early (in the 4th) and brought home a big win today. In the past week the Kids have swept the Dodgers and the Padres...no small task.

As it stands the Rockies are 1.5 games from the WildCard leader, San Diego. and 4 back from division leader Arizona.

Not that winning 83 games in MLB is something to hang your hat on - but, the Rockies set their franchise season high by winning their 84th game today.

A day off on Monday will help rest the bullpen and this year's MVP (i don't care to hear any argument on this...as if someone reads it...) Matt Holliday. Then on Tuesday they begin a 3-game set in LA, a team that would only be happy to spoil everything ... (If i am a Dodger, nothing would make me happier than to ruin a contender's run)
If we can get 2 of 3 from the Dodgers...then we can lay it all on the line as the "Over-Achieving" Diamondbacks come to the Coors Field confines next weekend. A Rockies sweep would be required.
Its my dream .... I will wake up when i please...

Rockies still rolling....

Brad Hawpe - en fuego!

Rocks win 6-2 tonite over the Padres making 9/22 the latest date that i really cared since 1995.

Keep the dream alive...

Rockies nip the Padres in 14...

Up late tonite basking in the glow of a dream of postseason baseball in the Rockies.
Brad Hawpe poked a 14th inning dinger (does it hurt to poke a dinger?) and the Rocks inched a bit closer.

The win moved Colorado to 3.5 games out of the wild card and 5 games off the division lead - with 8 games left. This still seems insurmoutable - but they are playing the teams in front of them (SD and Arizona) 5 more times in the final 8 games.

I wonder if i can get a Yuwie referral and sign up Todd Helton. He only makes 17mil...i am sure he could use some extra cash. Will keep you all posted on my progress there.

What on earth is happening where we have to see former NFl stars testifying in Washington for the purpose of getting some better retirement benefits. There are hudreds of former players who gave their heart, sould and more literally - their bodies for the game and enabled the NFL to reap enormous incomes over the past 20 and 30 years. The NFL needs to act on this swiftly and save its own face - not to mention the dignity of its alumni.

Pre-Paid Legal information

I recently signed up for a membership and as a Pre-Paid Legal Independent Associate.

Since then, i went through a constant roller-coaster ("what have i gotten into?"...."this will be great!"...."what have i gotten into?"...."this will be great!"....)

I have done some research on the company and have provided some links below. There are pros and cons. I tried to remain totally objective. I get uneasy when thinking about "multi-level" or "network" marketing. Many MLMs appear to be no more than pyramid schemes.

According to Wikipedia, pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, usually without any product or service being delivered.

I don't believe that Pre-Paid Legal can be considered a pyramid scheme - because there is a real and to many, valuable product/service being delivered. Also, I don't believe that a pyramid scheme can stay in business for 35 years - nor can one get traded on the NYSE.

• Pre-paid legal's Yahoo stock ticker - click
• Article from Forbes - click
• Some pro's and con's from CBC (Canada) - click
• Complaints and rebuttals from Ripoff Report (virtually all of 35 complaints have a rebuttal)-click
• Better Business Bureau listing - click

I am satisfied that I have done my homework, and am happy with my uplines. I don't believe that they have mislead me into believing that i am going to be rich tomorrow, next week - or even next month. I do believe that i can make a few hundred dollars in the next month or two, and from that we will see how it goes.

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