Life on the Road

Many thanks to Staci at Desktop Designs, who graciously agreed to help me with a banner and a plug button to help let people know about this blog.

I figure, heck, I’m already out there leaving our ads on plugboards for our dental benefits, our business opportunity, and even for Tupperware…  So why not stick this one on there, too? 

The more readers, the merrier, right?

Have you seen our plugboard?  Just click “Plug Board” in the box of “Pages” in the top right corner of the page (that’ll work at least until I change the layout, eh?).

The thing that frustrates me about some online advertising - including plugboards, is that I haven’t found a good way to track traffic, and know whether they are doing me any good.

When I send people to our dental benefots site personally, or on our business cards, we use our forwarding domain, http://www.LowCostDental4U.com - better to have something easier to remember, which is the whole point of getting a forwarding domain, after all.  With clickable graphic ads online, I can point people directly to the actual benefits site, including a “code” to track traffic.  I don’t use tons of different ones, but for instance I might use http://tiffany.my123card.com/plug for Plug Boards.

But I don’t have a good way to track traffic to the business opportunity site. 

I prefer to send people who are new contacts to my info-gathering site at http://www.TiffanyBlitz.com.  I have a trackable site for the business like the one for benefits, above, but it seems to me that I’d rather get their info and talk to them before sending them on to that.

And when you ask people (on the form, or when you talk to them on the phone)?  they tend to vaguely say, “I saw your banner on one of those WAHM sites”…  Which of course covers almost everyplace I advertise!

Anyone else out there have a good idea?