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A new opportunity

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I just got some great news. I’ve been part of the Glam Network for 3 years now. Two of my blogs are listed with them and are part of their advertising network. It’s been a good way to get my sites seen by others as well as a way to make some decent money via advertising.

Well … they just invited me into a very special new advertising network. I have to read all of the details in the information that they just sent me, but it sounds great as far as I can tell. I’ll still have control over my site and advertising choices and when I choose to take part in their offerings. Sounds good doesn’t it?

Darn, I just remembered, I’ve got to call my mother in law. Maybe I won’t be reading the new advertising network information tonight as I’ll be on the phone. LOL She wants to learn more about a health product I was reading about the other day so I think I’ll be talking to her for a while. Sigh …





Off topic ads?

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I have the strangest thing happening on one of my blogs lately. One of the advertising companies I use to supply ads has been showing some totally irrelevant ads – at least on my end.

It’s on my gardening blog. I’m seeing ads for weight loss supplements and oddly enough one that says moving companies Los Angeles. Odd.

It’s especially odd when you consider that I talk about my garden, give gardening tips and discuss specific plants on that blog. Nothing close to the ad topics that have been showing up!

Do you use advertising on your site? If you do, have you noticed that occasionally your ads just don’t fit with your sites main topics?

It seems like everyone is trying to sell their home in our area

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Over the last few months it seems like 30% to 50% of our neighbors have thought about selling their homes. I’m amazed at all of the “for sale” signs that I see as I walk through the neighborhood with our dog.

The house immediately beside me and the one on the corner (two houses down) are still up for sale. Both have been up for sale for about a month. The housing market here in Toronto has apparently slowed down a bit … not drastically, but there’s been a few articles recently that say it’s slowing down. Hopefully my neighbors homes sell soon. I’m curious as to who our new neighbors will end up being. Hopefully we’ll get along ok!

If the other houses that I see up for sale on neighboring streets are sold soon they’ll be a convoy of moving trucks roaming the neighborhood soon! LOL .. like that will happen.

Are there any homes for sale close to your house? Are they selling slower than they normally do?

Our name must be on a telemarketing list, grrr

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I don’t know what it is lately, but in the past few weeks we keep getting calls, like 10 a day, from marketing companies.

These companies are asking us to participate in surveys, offering us free products -in the form of “You just won a …”, or they are from auto insurance comparison companies and so on.

Our name must have been added to some list. We do have our name on a National “Do not call” list, but I suspect some of these calls are coming from other Countries- like the US … and that’s how they are skirting our “do not call” request.

How many calls a day or week do you get from marketers?

I have my own tech store

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I don’t think I’ve mentioned this on My World yet, but I won some fantastic software a few weeks ago in a blog contest. The software is called StoreStacker and it allows you to easily build a store that carries products from Amazon, Ebay, and a few other big online stores.

I built my first store on a sub-domain of one of my Tech blogs and it only took minutes to set up! Well ok … setting up categories for the products etc took a little longer than that, but once it came down to filling the store with products that part only took minutes! It’s amazing! I now have an online store with maybe 5,000 products or perhaps even more than that. I know the sitemap is HUGE!

I set up the store to carry high tech items like computers, computer accessories, computer games, video games like xbox 360 vintage PC’s, HDTV’s, digital cameras and more.

I probably won’t make many sales until I start getting some traffic to the store, but it’s a neat concept and you can’t beat free software! When I have time I create a few more stores – one that fit with my particular sites niches. Those stores will probably do better than the first store that I just created.

Have any of you tried using Storestacker or any other type of software to build your own store almost automatically?

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