Blog Traffic

You know, I go to all this trouble to write a blog, to talk about family and my business, and my biggest question? Is anyone even reading it?

So I did what any first-timer, so someone new to the game would do. I signed up at one of those surf for traffic sites. This one happened to be TopSurfer, and the lure was that while I was surfing to get traffic to my website, I could earn money. So I am frantically surfing to make my $10 to get paid for them, but at the same time I am thinking it is not doing any good. Is anyone even seeing my blog? What about my storefront sites, which is more important to me right now anyway? I don't think so! I am so frustrated! I just want to find a good and honest way to get people to see my blog and my store front and to really take the time to look and comment if not buy.

So what am I to do? I don't know, but today when reading another blog (yes I surf blogs to get ideas) someone mentioned Blog Explosion, and so I am in the process of checking them out. It seems more tailored to blogs than those traffic surfing sites, so I hope this works better, but that remains to be seen.

Thanks for reading!

Driving Traffic to my Blog

So you know that without traffic coming to the blog, no one will know about "a TAMM creation", or be able to find the items and purchase them. So to that end, I have been researching traffic sites.

Buzzfuse is a different type of traffic/marketing site. It is not one of those surf to earn traffic places. Although I am using those right now, the only things I ever see on them are those get-rich-quick things and not real store or product sites. So I doubt that the people that are seeing my blog and storefronts from those are the type of people who will buy, but they are free and right now that is important.

Buzzfuse allows me to submit a blog post and they market it. I went ahead and signed up for their FREE membership level, they also have paid levels, but right now that is not an option, and although I like the questionaire that you can attach that goes to those who see the post, I just am not in the position to buy that right now. Right now, it is marketing the post to people I already know, and so I am not sure how that works. I need to look at it a little better, because I need to figure out how and when they will market it to people I don't know.

But, all in all, I think that it might be a great way to drive traffic to my blog, espically if I can get friends to agree to see the blogs, and then they tell others and so on and so on, and then maybe I can even get more people to subscribe to the blog so that more people will see it. Not sure how it is all going to work, but I can tell you this, I have nothing to lose but to try!

a TAMM creation

You know, I have tried to figure out what to do with my business for the past few days. I love what I do and I want to grow it more to allow me more time to be home with the kids.

I have some things listed on two storefront sites:
http://www.atammcreation.etsy.com/
http://www.homegrownmarket.com/michellelr

Both sites are for handcrafted items, so it will bring me the people who want handcrafted items, but will it bring me the traffic needed to make it a profitably business?

I am looking at my own website, but then that brings the whole idea of marketing and getting people to look at it. I can't seem to get good traffic to this blog, how will I get good traffic to the store?

I guess my next step is to look into traffic and marketing plans. I have to get the name and product line out to the public and get them noticed!
Thanks for listening!!