promotion – Marilynn Dawson's Musings

December 19, 2018 Marilynn Dawson Products, Reviews

AdFeedz Review from Songdove’s Viewpoint

(Note: Article contains affiliate/referral links, and title provided by AdFeedz to comply with review guidelines)

Have you ever used a traffic exchange that let you add as many website URL’s as you wanted? What about a mailer that let you send emails to however many people you had available ad credits for, no minimum? How many free ad services out there let you put up a login page full-page ad without paying for an ad pack first?

Now add in presentation features such as those found on 1popeasy and AdBTC, and throw in an earning system reminiscent of InfinityTrafficBoost but with significant differences, and you have a brand new traffic exchange system that just launched November 16th 2018.

Currently, surfing or reading until you have 10 points (1 for every 10 sites or emails surfed/read) earns you as little as 3 cents USD to 7 or 9 or even 15 occasionally. Payment however, is offered via BTC if you prefer once you reach $10 minimum cashout. At the moment, you can take advantage of an introductory bonus offer that will potentially give you up to $2.50 just for following the tutorials around the site via the purple bar on your dashboard. Everyone can earn even if you don’t build a team of surfers under you. The surfer’s pool is open to everyone. In the month since I joined, I’ve earned $1.61 myself, and a total of $3.14 overall. I didn’t complete the tutorials as that meant purchasing an ad pack, so I only received $1.50 of the introductory bonus.

One major difference between AdFeedz and other services linked above, is that when you run out of ad credits, your URL’s are paused until you click the green arrow to enable them again. This means that after every surfing session, you need to check your various listings to re-enable them manually. I give Traffic Exchanges 100 sites per day if I have the time to do so each day. This earns me anywhere from 100 to 500 ad credits depending on which surfing option I choose: frame/tab/reading, and how many ads are available in each option.

Surfing ads via frame earns a single ad credit for every site surfed. Surfing via tabs earns 2 credits for every site surfed. Reading the text offers earns a whopping 25 ad credits for each text entry viewed. This kind of makes AdFeedz both a traffic exchange and safelist in-site mailer all-in-one. The only other “all-in-one” site that I currently recommend is FreeAdvertisingForYou, but while they have a ton of advertising options, they don’t pay you to surf. AdFeedz does.

AdFeedz is also not staying static. Since I began to write this blog article, they’ve already added more features, including a cash-links feature where you can earn without also earning ad credits. So if your focus is about earning and not promoting anything, you can do that too.

It’s only one month since I joined, but so far the system is easy to use and unique in its presentation. We’ll have to see how long it takes to cash out. If you want to cash out sooner and earn from building a team under you, you also need to purchase ad contracts as they call them. These purchases open up several other group-style earning opportunities on the site, including commissions earnings.

If you’re looking for another advertising platform that pays you to use it, this is definitely one to check out.

May 20, 2018 Marilynn Dawson Reviews

Metrics, Marketing, and Methods from the Past!

When it comes to building an income online, marketing and promotion are huge components of your business-building strategy – even more so than brick-and-mortar store fronts. At least with a store on the street, the very fact you have a sign over your door is passive marketing right there. People walk or drive past, see your sign, stop and come in. The Internet back in the 90’s and early 2000’s was very similar. The adage “build it and they will come” was very true. Some of the marketing aids available today hark back to those early days. AdlandPro by Frank Bauer is one of them. He was an early promoter of email safelist marketing and classified ad marketing as you’ll see on the linked page, and AdlandPro continues to be a going concern. When I first signed up to this service back then, I had no clue how to organize myself so that my inbox wasn’t flooded in safelist emails. It got so bad that I eventually stopped using the service. I just couldn’t figure out how to stay on top of it. Decades later, I find myself disillusioned with social media marketing avenues and both re-discovering and revisiting former methods. Now however, I’ve developed better organization methods, better time management skills, and thus can make better use of such services as a safelist marketing.

No matter what marketing or promotional service, method, or system you choose, you won’t know if it’s benefitting your end goals if you don’t set down some metrics for yourself. Basic metrics you want to pay attention to are:

1) How many hits your site is getting.
2) Where those hits are coming from.
3) Conversions or stickiness because of those hits.

If you use a wordpress site, jetpack’s sitestats give you a fair bit of this information already. You get stats on how many hits from various sources visited what pages or posts on your site from what countries using what devices with what operating systems and browsers in use. Some of these stats you can get from within your wordpress dashboard, others you get from connecting jetpack to your wordpress.com account and clicking through the jetpack sitestats to view the more comprehensive information.

How many hits came from where is VERY important information to have when deciding how best to utilize your time with free marketing efforts. In general, free marketing efforts involve you trading your time for the results you are after. You are still invested in the process, you’ve simply chosen time as your currency instead of cash.

To this end, it was helpful for me to observe trends taking place as I used InfinityTrafficBoost to promote my primary link listed there as a free member. I’ve also begun using a webring service and safelists again. The webring traffic and signups has picked up in the last few months from the time stamp of this blog post, but was quiet for some time. Safelist marketing is something I’m starting to watch a little more closely because those that provide me with “email open” stats are generally showing maybe a 1 – 3% click rate. This means if I send to 100 people on a site that only gives me 10 credits per email read (that’s 10 emails per safelist) I might see a max of 10 people actually bothering to open my emails.

The second safelist stat comes from my wordpress sitestats instead. This is the number of clicks my promoted link got within those emails. Some of my stats are currently skewed because of lack of time in my day over the past while to regularly stay on top of the safelists I have (over 15 at last count), but because of that skewing, I am looking at my stats asking myself where to spend my time. You can find the full list of safelists I use on my “where I promote” page in the top menu bar here. I’ve already axed a couple sites where the email to marketing ratio was only 2:1 or 5:1. Now the only sites up on the list are at least 10:1 where I get 10 credits for every 1 email I view. Each credit is a person I can send a mailing to as a free member.

So far the click-through response rate has Freeadvertisingforyou.com on top followed by bigmailer and US Largest Safelist. 1ProfitWebring is sending me traffic now regularly as is 1TAE which is both an ad bar and a traffic exchange. The webring and ad bar are both passive ways to get email and/or visit credits simply by having their code on the pages I am promoting. So they piggy-back on my landing pages, sending me credits. 1ProfitWebring lets me send out emails every 7 days so it is also a dual-duty free service.

Some of the safelists have surprised me with how little I get in responses. Others have surprised me with how responsive they actually are. Bigmailer doesn’t just claim to have a responsive mailing list, my stats show an actual active readership.

I am testing out another traffic exchange that lets me add multiple website links as a free member, and I’ve recently begun testing a new bitcoin mailer, sister site to InfinityTrafficBoost. So far that one takes a fair bit of time to do the 100 sites per day but the daily earnings are pretty good right now! 100 sites earned me 44100 satoshi in one 2hr session as a free member! I did a test email send yesterday to see how that would go. However, if this turns out to be one of those “surf every day, send every two or three days”, it might become a solid way to get paid while promoting my sites!

Unless you are actively promoting a mailer’s paid advertising packages, most of the time you won’t earn anything. The idea of being paid to read emails is fairly new and I think only one other site is doing anything similar, but on the “read to earn” scale, not the “read to earn and read to send” end of things.

Interestingly enough, both InfinityTrafficBoost and now its sister-site, “InfinityMailerBoost” are co-owned/created by Frank Bauer! I feel as if I’ve run smack back into an old acquantance as a result!

Using InfinityMailerBoost as a free member means only marketing URL’s that you have created a tracking code for, so that you can visit your own stats will show how well your emails are doing. The link I used in my test email did not have a tracking code, so that’s my mistake, not theirs. Members who buy one of 11 ad packs designed very closely after what I am used to seeing on ITB, do get open and click stats. So the testing continues over at this new mailer to see how it will perform. In the meantime, I get to earn satoshi while I’m at it, so that’s a good thing.

That’s two sites now that pay you to promote your own link!

September 22, 2017 Marilynn Dawson Reviews

When One Thing Leads to Another And. . . Business and Ministry Collide???

As anyone who follows this blog now knows, I began a blockchain experiment back in February, outfitted my day-job’s website to accept Bitcoin as payment for services in May, and began a new business venture in late June. More recently in August, I found a marketing platform that has potential to earn a decent monthly income once I can find 4 people to copy me on that platform. I have 9 immediate referrals in that program and two more referrals under two of them, but so far no one is following my lead despite weekly team mailings. I’ve set up a support group on Facebook hoping to get the team members over there to share tips and tricks, but so far no one has taken action to join the group.

While the lack of action in this marketing platform is a little disappointing, I have run across another user somewhere around the world who is using the platform in a very surprising, encouraging, and uplifting manner. Two others are using another marketing platform I am part of, for similar purposes.

Imagine using your primary source of income to share the hope of the Gospel with people?! It is my hope that this marketing platform will become a significant monthly source of income, and I came to that conclusion early in August when the income-generation side of it was first made clear to me. Here we are almost at the end of September now, and this ministry opportunity is staring me in the face!

It’s interesting that I’d come across these users’ methods of using these platforms this week. I’d realized after a tea with a friend earlier this week, that not everyone who might want to use this platform to bolster their income will have anything to promote. The platform is a marketing method, so you do need something to market to others. If I run into Christians who could use this system of income, I now know what to suggest they promote: None other than the Gospel of Jesus Christ! The Salvation message! The current user doing this has created a page called The Four Steps to Salvation, complete with Scripture, video, and links to more information. Another user on the other platform has a picture of Christ and John 3:16 under it before carrying on with sharing their business opportunity. That user has created quite a gap on their page between the salvation message and the biz opp.

Earning commissions on advertising sales while sharing the Gospel of Christ is probably the best merging of two worlds I’ve seen so far! I am a huge proponent of the fact that the Internet is the final missions frontier. I had never thought of using existing marketing methods as a way to spread the Gospel, but stop and think about it a moment. . . Other business owners, other affiliates, other networkers, other opportunity seekers are signing up to use these services. They see your site just like you see theirs because they want to get their own message out about their opportunity. However, in the process of getting their own message out, they run across yours – the Gospel message. Opportunity seekers are often desperate for financial help. Affiliates are trying to augment household income, and business owners are looking for traffic as well. But while their goals may be somewhat different from each other, they ALL need Jesus. Once again we see another opportunity to use the tools of the day to spread the message of hope and healing, provision and eternity. Talk about tent-making! If Paul could make tents while preaching, we can earn sales commissions while sharing too! So far as I can tell only three people are doing this on two platforms, but hey, the door is there. . .

Now I know why I created the FB group image the way I did! (see image at top of post) It captures several things all at once: Technology (the bitcoin), teamwork (team songdove), and the Holy Spirit (the dove). My username (songdove) incorporates music too, because singing has always been my love language between me and God. Whether music plays into the business venture I don’t know, but the other elements now all make sense.