101 Ways To Advertise Your Website - This is the title of a book found at a cheap publisher's outlet in town for about three quid and purchased out of interest.

So, we sat down with a cup of coffee and worked our way through the index, see what these people thought was useful, and if there was something new there.

I've just had the most amazing experience. I got up this morning and thought, oh I'll have a go at asking The Genius Symbols for a good idea to market The Genius Symbols with my morning coffee.

The idea was to go through the 23 symbols and get one idea on each symbol, write them all down and pick the best one to start working on today.
Only, I never got that far ...

Search engine optimization? Marketing with social networks and blogging? "Driving insane amounts of traffic to your website"? LOL ...

There is a lot of s*** about on these topics on the web, but I found someone who I like and who knows what they're talking about - The SEO Blog.

Talk comes to writing advertisements, as it does. And some members of the list are tying themselves into ever decreasing knots of pain with all the marketing books and good "advice" on how to "construct" a sales page, to the degree that NOTHING WAS BEING ACCOMPLISHED AT ALL any longer.

After weeks of revisions, toing and froing, hacking, cutting, pasting, deleting, stitching, stretching, messing with this and that and everything, there was NO LIFE LEFT in their sales pages, in their writing WHATSOEVER!

That's when I wrote the following to the list because I couldn't stand it anymore!

I was asked the other day, "How can I sell more of these training DVDs? Do you know any places on the Internet where many people get together who would be good customers and buy them?" I thought about it and said, "Have you done a benefits analysis?"

The person looked confused and said, "No, you misunderstand, I just want to sell more of them, see?"