Social media and internet marketing is great. Heck I literally like yesterday opened up a business that designs blogs, posts, SEO and social media pages! And believe me SEO works! My page about my recent book, Stars Behind the Tortured Soul: Healing Past-Life Memories Through Astrology, and about past lives and reincarnation went from a PR0 last week to a PR3 today! I was really thrilled. However, the fact of the matter is, old style marketing is just as effective. In fact in some ways it is more!

I have decided to put an ad in Radio-Television Interview Report because if I get radio stations interested in my book and any of the stuff I can offer, then that will only deliver more exposure. Especially if I am interviewed in the morning or afternoon while the majority of people are stuck listening to the radio in their cars during traffic jams! So lets see what ends up happening with it. Hopefully I will get a lot of interest or I will end up with none. But the guys who work there insist that many radio stations are interested in topics having to do with reincarnation, astrology, and anything esoteric.

Book signings as it is will not drum up enough interest in the beginning because what if no one knows about it? I could show up for a book signing and only have five people come by. That would be a let down. This way, with radio, especially the bigger stations (which should come later since I need to get used to being on radio more) will have more of an audience listening and THEN I can do the book signings. This way if more people know about my work, and are interested I would hope to have more than five people coming.

Again internet marketing is great, but old style marketing is still more effective than what people give credit for. I will have my ads running as of September to December, and lets see what happens after that.

I am a member of several marketing forums and I have seen several threads on this topic- which are about safelists. People have wondered if they are worth your marketing efforts. Some thought they were, but many others believed they were a waste of time.

Here are my thoughts on this. Ten years ago, before social media, using safelists were not a bad way to market. I remember using them and had some success with them back in the day. Obviously, some lists were better than others, and you always had the most response with credit based safelists. Even though those who use these safelists are there to recruit you into whatever they are doing, I found that other users were open to what you were offering. I even made a few friends by using safelists. However, nowadays, I feel they are a waste of time- even the credit based safelists.

I did try using some of the “best” ones (which some had told me about) recently and all it was, was a spam fest! I know what you are thinking which is “well safelists have always been spam fests, even ten years ago”. Okay yes, true. But I found because there were less ways to market and to find online businesses, people were more responsive and read through some of the spam to look at other opportunities that were offered. However it seems like nowadays, those who use it are not caring to look at other opportunities but to just spew their own and hoping other members will take the time to read it.

No, I seriously do not believe that those who are seriously looking for a way to earn an income from home will be reading spam from safelists. Safelists today are so old school- especially with the majority who are using facebook, twitter, youtube, and all sorts of other kinds of much more useful ways to market. Besides, people are busier than they ever were, so it seems anyway. Again, I believe if someone was wanting to look for a way to earn income online, he or she would search for an opportunity through work online forums, as well as methods that I had just mentioned- but not by sifting through spam in safelists. Who has the time, or patience with that since there are much better ways to market your business online?

I am sure many of you who are involved in heavy marketing understand the importance of getting your site and/or blog known as much as possible. That includes writing articles and submitting them to high ranked article directories; bookmarking; tweeting; submitting links to high ranking sites; blog commenting, and receiving lots of blog comments on your blogs. The more your site and/or blog is out there, the higher the page will rank on search engines. And the odds of your stuff being found becomes very high! And that would be great news for you but bad news for your competitors! However, unfortunately in order for your stuff to be out there and marketed properly, you need to really get your stuff out there! Meaning yes, you need to have articles written, you need to get your links out there and submitted to high ranking sites, and you need to bookmark, and even create videos, oh and the list goes on.

And you are probably wondering “how the heck am I gonna have time to do all of that?” and if you are looking to outsource your work, you are probably thinking “how can I possibly afford to do all of that?”. Well you are right, nothing comes for free! But I have great news for you! It IS cheap to outsource, that is if you find the right place to do it!

Go visit the following site: http://www.fiverr.com! And why is it called fiverr?? You guessed it! It is because there are plenty of people out there who are either not as busy as you are and want to make some cash- or have quick ways to do amazing things and want to make some cash– and they are there to outsource your stuff for $5/task! That is right! That means if you want one person to do a load of social bookmarking; and another to submit your links to tonnes of high ranking sites; and another to comment on your blogs; and another to write articles for you- that ALONE would only cost you $20!! You get the idea! And if you look for 20 different people to do 20 different tasks for you on fiverr, that would be $100- which is quite inexpensive when it comes to outsourcing! You CANNOT go wrong with that. And remember this, if you are unhappy with what they produce, you can get a refund (because they would rather give you your money back than to get a “thumbs down” rating)!

Set up an account on fiverr, and look towards the right side of the page which will show appropriate categories for your needs such as advertising, social marketing, etc. You will be impressed with what you find and you will not have to worry about time AND money when it comes to getting your stuff out there!!