Setting up some sites...

Okay, with things being silent as a tomb when it comes to my online business... I decided to do some setting up of other affiliate type sites to try to get in some money. The hype seems to state that all one has to do is set up an affiliate site and then send visitors to it... Sounds simple... Trouble is nothing is that simple.

Oh setting up the sites are mostly simple. Especially if you know your way around a little HTML and such, but that isn't the problem. Once the site is there, now what? How do you get all the visitors that they tell you to get to even know that the site is there...? Of course the guys making all the money tell you that you can do this in a number of ways...

• Tell your list about the site. (Trouble with this is that you don't even have a list if you're just starting out...)
• Blog about it on your social network sites. (Tell me the truth, does this BS even work anymore...did it ever?)
• Send out emails to your network... (You know, family and friends that don't want anything to do with this stuff...)
• Pass out business cards with the website on them. (Yeah we all know what people do with these cards.)
  
• Post in groups, forums and other online areas like these. (Until the moderator gets ticked at your constant posts.)
• Do Google or some other type keyword pay per click system. (I've never really found the Google experience very satisfying.)

So, what is the answer if this isn't working for you? Heck if I know! I'm stuck in the same boat myself...

I've been trying to put together these affiliate sites - the ones that are "supposed" to be really easy to put together. For the most part, Amazon.com and Zlio.net seem to be the easiest to figure out. Now, I've not generated a dime from either of them as yet... so when it comes to making money with them I'm sort of left hanging... Granted I only just found zlio.net a week ago so I'm still waiting to see how it pans out.
Another one for easy set up is Template monster, since you can customize a storefront to set up on your own domain. You don't really need a domain for the amazon or zlio stores as they set them up for you. Amazon offers a way to put your store right into your website with iFrames which makes it a good choice if you want to keep people at your site.

I have been trying to keep from getting depressed now that the new month has arrived. It isn't easy trying to figure out what bills to pay, but then there are a lot of people dealing with the lack of funds. It isn't about who to pay, but who to pay first with the cash on hand and who will have to wait till you can get your hands on some more money. With the long weekend coming up I'm planning on having a yard sale... having succeeded in getting the stuff out of storage - (yeah...) I'm going to see about reducing the amount of things we have and hopefully get up the needed money for this month.


I have been putting my writing up on Writer's Cafe...may enter a few more contests, sharpen up my skills some. It's good exercise and keeps me from getting too down in the dumps. I like a good writing challenge and try to keep my mind sharp. Just wish that I could find some writing jobs. Guru and Freelance may let you find jobs via their site, but applying for them is nearly impossible, unless you pay for a membership or upgrade. That's like our main employment service in town, you have to pay over a hundred bucks to get a job through them. No guarantee you will get one, but the employer doesn't pay - the job hunter does! If I had a couple hundred dollars on hand, I sure as heck would not be giving it to them... I'd be paying my bills! The reason I need the job in the first place...


Plus the issue of being disabled isn't a problem when finding work online, since I can do my work via the net and get paid via PayPal.  But transportation, special equipment and such are an issue if I try to find work outside of my home and computer. Where I can outsource several tasks and get work done in my own time - be it 4pm or 3am... that is what I can do at home. Even though I've gotten rave reviews on my work and designs, it's not putting cash into my bank acct. which is still recovering for as long as my disability holds out... which should be till I pay my mortgage. Then it will be back on life support... ::sigh:: poor little checking acct. - at least I have it though...

Well, I'm going to end this post and sum it up with the sites I've got up so far... If anything odd happens, like they start to make a few bucks...I'll update this.

• Kittara's Curio Shop  ( this is my daughter's store that she put together hoping to get some sales.)
• Creative Starr Designs  (This was my web design site, now it's a template affiliate site. They do offer some good templates and some free ones too to try out.)
• The Bookworm's Corner (of course I just had to make my own bookshop since I love reading & writing.)
• Game Central eStore  (This one my older boy set up for his game site...)
• Gaming Zone eStore  (Of course, the other one had to set his own store and site up... nothing wrong with some competition...)
• SirBec Health Supplies (This is a site I did for a friend a few years ago.  Unfortunately, he moved on. But I still have the store I made him.)
• Magick's Gift  (Then my sister had to join the party and make her own estore...)

(Since Geocities websites are gone, I'll have to relocate several sites to a new home. I'll be posting about them when they are finished being set up...)

Hope you all enjoy the upcoming long weekend...

Carpe Diem!