Whoa, Back Up to Day 3, Pardners

by kirkeberg on September 1, 2009

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I think that one got away!

Here is a place where I am conflicted.

I blog because I both enjoy doing it and, limited as my creativity may be, blogging gives me an outlet. Several outlets, actually.

I also blog to make money. I am doing very well at it. As an Amazon Associate, I’ve made $1.28 already this year, and in the Google thing, I am up to almost $2.00. At least part of what that means is that I haven’t mastered the skills of copywriting yet, and the other part is the same reason I am not out selling Kirby vacuum cleaners. I have a hard time asking for the sale.

Yes, I am just like all the coaches I run into who say they don’t get coaching clients because they hate selling. Let me ask you, don’t most people dislike selling?

So, here I was thinking about how do I promote a post on a blog that hasn’t got a lot of posts to promote.

And I didn’t consider promoting a post on a product I really like.

I wrote a post a few days ago about TweetAdder . Frankly, I think it is a great product.

But promoting it would be spam, right? You see my dilemma.

I thought about this for quite a while. You notice I am way behind in my 31day challenge.

And it occurred to me, why am I involved in social networking? Do I do it just because it is fun? If that were the case, then why do I send my blog posts to Twitter and Friendfeed, and Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Because one of the reasons I am involved in this is because I, too, need to put cheeseburgers on the table. Literally – meat, no bread; you won’t go wrong>

The key is that I only promote products I think are worth having. So I did begin connecting to some of the social networking sites to promote my posts.

Respectfully. Thoughtfully. And I don’t inundate.

Now I feel like I am going forward again.

Thanks for listening.

By the way, here is the product -