Internet marketing

During the past month I have devoted most of my waking hours to finding ways of promoting, selling, and distributing my new book, The Successful Home Business Guide. I must say it has been an educational experience.

What I have learned is that, using the Internet, there is an unlimited supply of resources (and time drains). In addition to networking sites, there are sites for posting and distributing news releases (some free, some at a significant cost), there are too many sites to count with free and dubious advice, there are sites filled with valuable resource material, there are on-line and brick-and-mortar bookstore sites, and sites all too willing to participate in selling my product (or at least participate in extracting money from my checkbook).

A little over two weeks ago I created my Twitter account and to date have sent out 46 updates. Through a trusted friend’s site I yesterday discovered a site called www.twello.com, which is a complementary site to Twitter and other social networking sites. Twello allows you to set up an account linked to your Twitter account and create Twittering categories. Now I really don’t have a clue as to the relationship between Twello and Twitter. What I do know is that as of yesterday morning I had amassed 79 followers. I created a Twello account yesterday and today I have 140 followers.

Will twittering and having people follow me result in book sales or consulting service? I don’t have a clue, but twittering is but one of many on-line marketing techniques I’m trying out. I’ll let you know what works.

By the way, you probably won’t be hearing from me next week as I have been called up for jury duty.

Will Limkemann
www.doublewarepub.com