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Sunday 25th February - Rain stops play!

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Posted by: knightrider45 Monday 26th February 2007, 12:25am

Thank you rain! Thanks to you I've been excused gardening duties today. Brilliant. So i've spent 14 hours today on the business, and hooray! the first part of my spreadsheet is finished.

For those that don't know, what I'm doing is monitoring how effectively my message boards & advertising groups work (Yes, I know, YAWN!)

Like everything else on the Internet, there are scams and I'm monitoring all these JUST to make sure that they do exactly what it says on the tin. And, on checking my spreadsheet now, out of 423 groups, found out that there's 15 that definately don't send their ads out, and I'm suspicious of another 7 at the moment. But in addition to that, there's a total of some 43 Failures!

Anything legal is sold through these groups, called safelists. Ranging form home working opportunities, business, software, household, discount stores, and even psychic readings. Basically, its internet or email marketing.

The whole point of setting up a message board is to collect members. If your message board is good, and the members are responsive, you can get people to pay money and upgrade their membership so that they can send their ads out every day, instead of just once weekly.

Aim for 100 members each paying £10.00 monthly. Then aim for, say, ten different groups each with 100 paying members. Get my point? Easy, and professional, way of earning money from home.

I TRY and test each group before I put them into my submitter, to make sure the script works OK, and that the group is ethical and legitimate. And thats how I discover the fraudsters.

So, today, due to the onset of rain, I've just finished collating my results and updating the spreadsheet. I monitor each group for a week at a time, making notes and storing the emails they send out.

I've done some advertising today using my submitter as well. And that's all I've done. for 12 ish hours. And I'm up to date.

This leaves me clear to upload my retail web site this week and, hopefully have it working by Sunday!

Lifes good when everything goes to plan. even the Teenage One has returned to the roost tonight, and I've seen middle daughter too.

And I've done all this just because I wasn't working my "proper" job. No 12 hour shift today, I've lived life instead. Good, isn't it? And I didn't have to go out either. Wonderful.

Until tomorrow

Paul

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