Hey All How You Doing? Fine I Hope

Well its been a while, but remember I have grown so much now that it takes me awhile to get around to all my Blogs and Social media sites now. If you don't see me here. I am somewhere else on the Net or WWW usually at Facebook on one of my four pages there or at Tagged, Myspace, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon or etc etc. That and keep in mind that I have always something burning on another burner somewhere and I end up getting lost in the shuffling of things from Time to time. I have made a lot of busy work for myself to keep me moving and grooving along. Running with the Pack and the Big Dogs takes a lot out of an old fart like me.

I am still working the Vemma System and Hey I made the "Bronze Leader" a few times last month. Which means I earn a cycling bonus or two. I hate to say it but its true I have earned more money with Vemma in the short run then all my others these past two years. The next step is to start cycling five or more times in a monthly period of time. That will put me at the Silver level of volume sales.

Always remember to become secure or independently wealthy you need vast sources of income streams diverse from one or the other as not to be effected by any one thing or all at the same time.

I want you all to know that is is not hard at all to do with this Vemma Product Line to start a viable income stream, but it does take a little getting use to. You Must always be paying attention to others conversations and taking note of when the opportunity to introduce the Vemma Product and the Vemma Business model to prospects comes. Both to your warm Market or to a Cold Call.

I have not really been hustling the product or the opportunity just yet, because as I have said I have so many irons in the fire this year. That I've little time for all of them just yet. I have been always accused of being a daydreamer. And I am okay with that but. Now is the Time I am wishing to fulfill some of these my dreams.

The website is going to be three years old well four but three years running here on the web and only two full years in operational mode. This July 10th will mark PW&OSfStSM's second full year and she has grown from a few web pages unto a fully operational website with three domains and seven Blogs that Blog about her and what I am doing with her.

Some of her Pay Per Click Publishers are still slow in earning daily, weekly, and monthly income, but they are all earning pennies 365 days a year 24/7. The website and her Adsense is running cold  to Luke warm from month to month depending on how I promote the writes from my Pay Per Click Publishers, also with just a few pennies daily, weekly, and monthly coming from them but again they are earning. And the power of compounding is starting to become visible.

Some of this is my fault, well okay it is all my fault because I am spread so thinly wherever. That I am not keeping my set schedules correctly which in turn throws  my Alexa rankings back up which decreases my chances of picking up personal adspace renters at the website.  This is where the life changing income comes from. My person adspace rentals. But without the Traffic or the content which brings that traffic there is no chance of renting or attracting repeat renters.

But keep in mind it takes money to make money, and it takes Time to grow certain things. You will rise and you will fall and you must pay attention to what creates these cyclings for your sites and their traffic. Without the traffic there can be no growth or steady income. You need to develop a cash flow to grow consider it to be the water, the life water of your business this cash flow. Which you can only get when it rains and no one can wholly control the rain.

I need to start to earn a monthly income large enough to hire at least two other people to help run this Venture with the website. And I will need a lot of Technical help here soon when she does start to earn any significant amount of money which could take a few more years, months, weeks, or days. There is no way for me to tell just yet when the site might go viral or if she will even come close to going viral.

But until she does it is only a day dream or a scheme to the masses, but once she does then she will attract others with her success by her success. As to now she continues to have growth spurts and growing pains. And she is in need of extra funds to keep her on  the crazy tracks that I have laid out. All by myself so far. And without out them the funds she will continue to grow slower and slower until the bubble she is in; bursts.

Well I need to stay busy and create more content and learn to direct even more traffic to her. Until we meet again; may the Good Lord always be at your side and the sun not in your eyes, but bursting out through your lips let your light shine.

CYA Latter Tatters! Get out of that computer chair and do something, anything!
Donnie/ Sinbad the Sailor Man
     

Do You Remember Billboards? Do You Think They Still Work?

Do you remember those who were advertising on billboards? They where and still are everyone from Doctors, Lawyers, and Dentist. Even local Churches. And when I say everyone I mean everyone. I am talking about the ads you see at bus stops or even on the sides of the buses themselves, as well as upon the benches that were provided for that very reasoning.

And I am also talking about ads that run on gas pumps, or a top of Taxis in almost every major city through out the world. This Idea and these adverts are not new; they have been around for quite awhile now. I'm talking about billboards real life or virtual Space (hyper space) to be rented and/ or sold to advertisers.

You know those huge poster boards that dot the main highways and by-ways of our great land. They now dot every website and their pages. Web Traffic or Hi-way traffic. To me there is not much of a difference. They both have about 2.8 to 3.6 seconds to grab your attention as you pass them by at 65 mph or or even quicker when you are browsing the Web.

I don't know about you, but I am in a car or some other mode of transportation for approximately 45 minutes to an hour and a half each day one way, but I am in front of my computer about 12 hrs a day working or playing or just looking around.

Either on my way to work or to somewhere else. Each morning I'll see an average thirty to forty pieces of advertisement. As well as about an hour or so on my way home. And I notice billboards and old Barn signs and their roof tops or water towers and their side walls. Now I readily admit I am not your average person; I am a Marketer. These things did sell and they still do Sell everyday.


Del Reeves~ "Girl On the Billboard"

The reasons for this; my fascination is simple, I am always looking to advertise something and do it for a reasonable price. Just because this is what I like to do or want to do; sell Advertising. I look at billboards and I have been studying them here lately. I notice when a new ones goes up, and/or when an old one comes down in my area.

I notice the sides of railroad cars and Tractor trailer trucks, School Buses. I am noticing that many of them are now becoming mobile billboards. There are even special made vehicles in my home town areas. Which are beginning to sprout up and out around the commercial parts of the near by little cities. Rest stops in the men's bathrooms and tacked to the stalls doors. Adverts are everywhere and they are being re-vamped to sell, sell, sell.

Why? You maybe asking yourself do we care? How is it people use to do things. Well by now you know that I believe in what goes around comes around and what has been will be again. So you can begin to see where I am leading with this line of questioning. I believe that out door Advertising still works most efficiently. Don't you?

I look at things from a different perspective as many of you may do as well. But of course this is not about me or you. No this is about our fellow consumers and whether or not they respond to billboards. Be they of a traditional or of a digital nature. Do they have any impact on us all; when it comes to making a purchase.

I went looking for some research and what I found was not much. Either way, the findings, I think, would be very relevant and paint a very interesting picture into the minds and psyche of the American consumer and what impact, if any, billboards have on us when it comes to marketing and advertising.

Now the first thing to know is we spend a lot of time in our cars and at least three to four times as much in front of or digital devices; be they mobile or not. On average each of us spends upwards of 20 hours per week and travels more than 200 miles per week. I can only guess how much time we spend in front of our computers and mobile devices or how that would compare to the miles or distance we travel.

Of course what this all means is there is ample time for us to be exposed to all sorts of billboard advertising. The question, of course, is do we pay attention to it and if so, does it cause us to make a purchase? Some of us have tuned adverts totally out consciously, but are we able to do so sub-consciously?

Well, the question of whether we pay attention to billboards, is an obvious one for me, as I am a highly visual person. We all are, we are vision originated beings with four other senses. Sight is at the top of most everybody's list to keep when it comes to losing all, but one of these God given gifts. If I could keep, but only one of these gifts it would be Sight.

As to exactly what information we are gleaning from any given billboard varies as according to some studies more than half of billboard viewers aged 18 or older have learned about an event they were interested in attending from a billboard.

Talked about something funny they saw on a roadside billboard. Been reminded to tune into a TV program from a billboard or a radio station noted or been reminded of a popular businesses phone number or Web site.

The jingle jangle lyrics of these advertisers run through our minds 24/ 7 every second of the day and night after we have heard them for but a few times. So we only need to get a glimpse of them else where to set them off, hence billboards.

Now I don't know about you, but I never remember a website address or phone number that I have seen on a billboard. And I am OK with this for if I want to know something about a given company, I will do what millions of others do every day when they want to know something I'll Google it.


Well, according to some studies that I have skimmed over, “billboard viewers make shopping decisions while in their cars.” Consumers often times decide to or plan to shop on their way home from work.

Some of them say they were motivated to visit a particular store that day; because of an outdoor ad message. Or they visited the retailer they saw on a billboard later that week. They also reported receiving directional information from a billboard or have immediately visited a business because of an outdoor ad message.

Not surprisingly, but grocery stores/supermarkets or large retail chains were the locations most often cited by respondents as the places they visit on their way home. Which is often times just before the evening meals. This may explain why fast food chains and dinners or restaurants will advertise on these outdoor billboards or so, it would appear, at least to me. From my past experiences driving around the country.

Yes I would say outdoor advertising does work, at least in the sense that people A) notice it and B) are influenced by it to some degree. But, this does not mean all marketers and advertiser should run right out and start a billboard campaign. Or should they only have just a billboard campaign.

You have to do it right. Which leads me to how I want to end this article a billboard done right and a billboard done, not so. Can and will make a difference in the Traffic you receive. Think of your ads as little billboards where and how they are placed makes a world of difference.

I don't think I have to tell you which one is which, do I? OK, if you insist. The one done right is the one that conveys a message in an entertaining or clever manner; as opposed to the one that conveys a very crowded message with various fonts and colors and leaves you with a splitting headache. Keep your ads above the fold as often as possible, and place them next to relative content when below the the fold.

TTFN
CYA Later Taters!
Thanks for stopping by.

Donnie/ Sinbad the Sailor Man