Stumble Upon & Marketing

In my efforts to spend more time marketing my published articles and less time writing new articles, I've found that the most hits are coming from Stumble Upon. For example, a few days ago I submitted an old article, "He's cute, but is he single?" and by the morning I had more than 75 hits. Another example this morning is an article, again old, that I wrote about women seeking a divorce and some practical advice for what they should do. In less than an hour after submitting the article, it had nearly 30 hits. Marketing and promotion does work for gaining hits and readers. What is important is that I'll have to keep up the marketing and if I'm lucky, one of those articles will hit a nerve with an audience and the big numbers of hits will come.

I'll keep you posted of my progress. Thanks for reading and thank you for all of your suggestions on how to reach my goal of earning $1/day publishing with Triond.

Anne

Welcome!

It's good to see that traffic has picked up here. I'm hoping to get some good advice from Triond veterans and even new writers should have some experiences to share. I am moderating comments, but for the most part everything will get posted unless you're spamming or selling, so thanks to those who have commented. I've added some subscription and follower links for the reader who asked, I hope these help.

My hits on published articles have more than doubled in the last few days. I'm seeing the value of marketing. It does take time, but not nearly as much time as it does to write the article. So, I do need to consider the marketing aspects of an article as part of the publishing process. I have so many good, solid articles published, it is too much of a waste not to promote them so that many people can benefit from the information.

Again, thanks for visiting the blog. I'll keep posting, and writing, AND promoting!
Anne

Marketing Matters!

During the weekend, I made it my goal to take care of marketing my current articles. I completely took the focus off of writing new articles and to catch up with the cashe of published articles I have.

Marketing matters! It really does. I used Stumble Upon, Digg and Reddit and while I didn't get a ton done (the sites are slow and they only allow new people to link a few articles at a time), the difference over night has been noted. My typical earnings doubled. Instead of a .25 gain, it was a .50 gain. Not enormous dollars, but it does show how this works.

I've received a lot of comments from Triond friends about what works for them and what doesn't. For some, they don't have the time to devote to all the marketing sites I've listed above, so instead they market through Triond friends or their own email list or other Web sites with a common interest. Either way, it's marketing.

What have you done to promote your work? What works best for you? Share your ideas and I'll post them here!

Thanks for reading and keep writing!
Anne

First post of 2009 -- Much to update

Ok, I've not been very up to date with my posts here. Sometimes, life gets in the way of Triond, writing and all the other stuff going on. But alas, here we go...

The last income numbers I posted were from Dec. 2008, so I'll start with this year:

Jan 2009: $25.37

Feb 2009: $7.65

Mar 2009: $6.21

Apr 2009: $6.23

May 2009: $5.97

June 2009: $6.36

Some information on articles and publishing. I published two articles at the end of December and then published nothing until June 2009, and then only three new articles. So, all the income for the first six months of 2009 is coming from the cashe of articles -- nothing new.

I currently have 83 articles publishes. I've been lame at promoting them, but getting better about using technorati and delicious. I'm also getting much better at adding links in the articles to help people find my other relevant articles.

But, the bottom line is, I've not yet reached my goal of earning $1 a day publishing for Triond. Any suggestions?

Thanks for reading.

Anne