Hello and thanks for your posts, both Linda and Lawree!
First to address Linda's question: I am not promoting the internet marketing get rich quick products you mention. In fact, I have avoided those like the plague. Instead my top traffic sites are devoted to custom tattoo designs online. other sites and products with which I am working include bonsai gardening, dog training, and second language acquisition. I have started working on a movie and television show review site that I plan to link to downlad services. I feel that market is rather large and the site will mostly be for my own entertainment, so it is on the slow burner (but not off the stove, as it were,) and I work on that one as I get time.
My courses of action (somewhat outlined in my first post) goes something like this:
I set up a review site, Squidoo Lens, or blog (usually all three)
Then I post US Free Ads to get some traffic to the site
Next I write an article that has something to do with the product indirectly (Tips on getting your first tattoo, et cetera)
I make sure to link back to the review sites that have my hop links tastefully placed throughout the page.
Sometimes I go back and place more US Free Ads directly to the hop link. I also spend free time posting articles to more sites (I have about 250 article sites in my bookmarks now and I use them as I have time, keeping EZ Articles, Go Articles and a few others as the first choices.)
I have been watching my traffic ramp up from zero to as many as 50 visitors per day on each site (the Squidoo Lens do the best consistantly) but as I have mentioned, no conversions yet.
To turn to Lawree's concern about the product I purchased, I would have to say that although I have not gotten the immediate responses to my emails that I would like, I will say that they never claim that you will get rich quick or over the top sales pitches like that. They are geared towards beginners and what attracted me to their service is that they are up front about telling their customers you will have to do some work. They did make it sound like I would have my first conversion by now, however, and thus I am slightly panicking. Overall, though, the Average Joe package seems t be a great source for gaining an understanding for the channels of internet marketing and there are some good
SEO tricks and low to zero cost marketing techniques I would not have know about otherwise. The service is updated, too, and the cost of the package includes lots of great tips and tricks, not just ebooks to resell.
I will be the first to admit, though, that I am new to all of this and that the things included in the package my not be for everyone, nor may they be useful past the beginning level. I skipped over many such packages when I was first researching how to get started with all of this.
With that being said, I am off to read more of the postings and see if there are any other suggestions that I can gather, especially ones that are things I would never have thought of on my own to put into action!
Thank you again, Linda and Lawree, and I will post more questions here as I get more techniques under my belt. Please feel free to post things for me to try, just in case, too! I will always be appreciative of new ideas!
Cheers!
Will