Hitting the Snags Forces Creative Thinking

 

Snags. What a pain in the butt-kiss. Snags are small problems, still problems that need solving, none the less.

My latest? GoDaddy. Let me back up a bit. I started a website, Visages Gift Store, through GoDaddy. Having little money to spend, I opted for the cheapest plan which offered no perks. My plan was to just get up and running; get SEOs out there in the Internet world. In the world of marketing, it simply means "to get known".

One of the sections in my website is called Gift Ideas. Yeah, not so creative of a title, but what I publish truly are gift ideas. I've been publishing new gift ideas since May of this year, I think. At least somewhere around that time, but I wasn't and don't publish new gift ideas everyday. Perhaps once or twice a week.

Yesterday, I was working on marketing stuff (funny t-shirts for hunters and personalized thank you favors). I generally start with Zazzling Gifts, my Google blog, then head over to my other blog, Miller's Wrapped Expression and finally to my website's gift ideas section.

All of that takes a while. It's not instantaneous. It's time consuming.

Anyway, I opened GoDaddy, signed in then clicked "edit" to edit my website. Either GoDaddy is r.e.a.l.l.y slow or my laptop is because each action takes freaking forever. Actually, I suspect it's my laptop.

When I opened Gift Ideas and prepared to add a section, GoDaddy told me I couldn't add another section for the funny hunters t-shirts I was going to market. WHAT?! I can't add another section? What the...? Now what am I going to do?

The answer is: I don't have a clue. The Gift Ideas section is completely full. I don't want to delete anything because it's been a part of the Internet for months. If I delete a section, there goes all the keywords or tags. Pffft... gone.

What if I add another page and call it Gift Ideas Re Deux? Won't that look kind of hinky?

If any of you have a suggestion, I'll listen.

Miller out...

Patience, Grasshopper... Positive Results from Your Marketing Takes Time.

I'm Not Going to Give Up. Putting One Foot Infront of the Other and Marching On.

Marketing isn't easy when you don't have the money to spend on advertising and you simply have to rely on posting on your blogs, your website(s) and social media. It takes time out of my day instead of doing what I really enjoy which is creating.

I'm in month ten of marketing my Zazzle products and products of others. The commission is really good on promoting others' products, but - again - I really enjoy creating instead of copying and pasting into various resources.

Anyway, my Zazzle store is showing progress. Not enough for my taste, but - still - progress is progress. I should say, I actually did receive a royalty check recently that went straight to bills. Bills that I don't have to pay this month out of my SS check.

My books, on the other hand, aren't showing a lot of progress despite continuous marketing primarily on my blogs. I should do more on social media, but I don't want to dis what few followers I have by over exposing them to a constant barrage of posting about my books.

And, I constantly have to remind myself that keywords or tags take time to weave their way through the web of search engines. It can take months. Or, maybe I not using the right keywords or tags so people aren't able to find me. Ugh.

Everything you do in marketing is a test. The big guy marketers and advertisers will tell you the same thing.

In the end, patience is what is in order... Everyday, patience is the order of the day. So, I'm going to hang in there. It's only been ten months. I would suggest you also hang in there and keep putting one foot in front of the other.

That said... Please check out my children's books for toddlers and preschoolers ages 2 - 5.

Links and images are below.

The Little Bear and the Lollipop Tree

The Cloud Show