Advertising on Blogs

I promised myself that I would learn about and start one new marketing task every month but I haven't started one for September yet. SEO will be an ongoing task but it doesn't take up enough time any more to give me an excuse to skip a month.

I'm still feeling very resistant to setting myself up on Facebook and twitter. Doing an unscientific poll of all of my friends and family that are over 40 and finding out that not one of them had ever even bothered to look at facebook was not encouraging at all and the last thing that I need is a new time sink on the internet.

Now I'm considering paying for an ad on a well-known plus size fashion blog but I have to learn all about it first. I get confused when I see a rate sheet that refers to text links but then can't find anything that looks like a simple text ad on their site and all I see are banner ads with pictures. I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing yet.

Stephanie, can you tell us how you go about designing your ads and anything else that you know about how it all works?



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How Does Craftopolis Work?

Stephanie suggested Craftopolis as a marketing tool yesterday and I don't know much if anything about it. Someone else suggested that I link to my quilt tutorial there but I wasn't sure what they meant.

Can you tell us more about it, Stephanie? I don't want to bury it in comments on your last post because I'll never remember to get back to it. It's almost August and time for me to pick my monthly way to stick my toe in the marketing waters.

 Stephanie Says:
It's not a marketing tool, it's a batch editing tool, and an easy way to find out how many hearts you have received for your listings.

But there is advertising there too.



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