Murphy Gold News – October, 2009 issue has been published.

October 13, 2009 by JD · Comments Off
Filed under: Murphy NC 28906, Murphy North Carolina 

It’s October and fall is here in Murphy, NC.

The nights are getting cooler and the days are more comfortable. Before long, all the mountains will be covered by trees showing off their best fall colors.

New Businesses

I’d like to welcome three businesses to Murphy Gold this month:

(The complete list is in our Local Business Directory.)

Advertising – Direct Mail Print Advertising: The Green Sheets, owned by Audrey and Tom.

Auto Towing and Wrecker Service: Timco Transportation, owned by Tim Dockery.

Movie Theater: Henn Theatre, owned by Bill Grove.

New Special Offers

You’re invited to take advantage of these new special offers:

Advertising – Direct Mail Print Advertising

Audrey and Tom, owners and operators of The Green Sheets, are happy to offer merchants this special offer: 10% off your first advertisement!

Movie Theater

Bill Grove, owner and operator of the Henn Theatre, is pleased to offer you a Free upsize on any drink or popcorn (get a large for medium price, medium for small price).

We hope you’ll take advantage of these and all the other Murphy Gold Special Offers. You get more for your money by asking for these special offers when you purchase at a Murphy Gold Business. Just tell them you heard about them at Murphy Gold, or, if you prefer, print out the coupon and take it with you to the Murphy Gold business of your choice.

Get the rest of the news.

Go read Murphy Gold News, Issue 2, hot off the presses:

Murphy Gold News, Issue #002 — October, 2009 — More new businesses and special offers for you!

All the best,

JD

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Working like crazy behind the scenes

July 13, 2009 by JD · 8 Comments
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Dilbeck Marketing, Internet Marketing, Murphy NC 28906, Murphy North Carolina, Products at Amazon, Site Build It 

If you look at the home page of this blog or read the RSS feed, it looks like I’ve been a lazy boy for the last month or so.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

I’ve been working behind the scenes to fix a major problem, update a large site, and bring a new site online.

My goal of bringing the new site online by July 1 was delayed about a week, but I’m making progress with it, again.

Dumped by Amazon

In the last week of June 2009, I received a notice from Amazon.com that they were terminating my affiliation with their associates program.

To say that I was surprised would be a huge understatement.

To top it off, it had nothing to do with me. I was dumped because I live in North Carolina and Amazon.com dumped all their associates in the entire state in one fell swoop.

This was done in anticipation of changes in the NC tax laws that had not been passed nor gone into effect!

I’ve been a proud associate of Amazon.com for about 13 years, but, after this, I’ll never recommend them to anyone and I won’t buy from them. I’m done with Amazon.com.

Rebuilding a large site

As a result of being dumped by Amazon.com, I have started to remove all links to their site. This is going to take me months to accomplish. I have links to their products on just about every page of most of my sites, and some of them have over 1,000 pages.

It’s a second-level priority, right behind building a new site, because I don’t want to send them any customers with no possibility of receiving a commission for my work.

I’ve removed links from most of my blogs, but modifying my static sites will take much longer.

Over the last couple of weeks, I completely rebuilt JohnDilbeck.com. This is one of my oldest and largest sites. In the process, I deleted several hundred pages that were out of date or no longer relevant.

Rebuilding the site was something that I’ve planned to do for a while, but being dumped by Amazon.com was the catalyst that motivated me to take action as quickly as I could.

My affiliate marketing business has taken a hit

After the world economic downturn last September, my marketing business has been hit hard by a big reduction in income.

This was not entirely unexpected, but the suddenness came as a surprise.

Since December, I’ve been making new plans to shift a part of my marketing efforts from affiliate marketing to helping locally-owned small businesses in Murphy, NC attract new customers and enticing existing customers to come back, again.

Murphy Gold is live

To do this, I worked for six months to plan how to accomplish these goals and started planning a new site.

Although there is still construction debris all around and parts of it still need a fresh coat of paint, Murphy Gold is now live.

I still have a lot to do on that site, but I’ve been working at it diligently. I’ve researched over 2,000 keyword phrase combinations and have been doing the initial traffic building work.

I’m not ready for a grand opening announcement, but I’m hoping that one will be forthcoming in a couple of weeks.

Back to my cave…

In the meantime, I’m going back to my cave in the mountains of western North Carolina and I’ll be working all hours of the day and night to get everything on my to-do list done as soon as possible.

One of these days, I’ll be able to write on this blog more frequently than I’ve been doing over the last several months.

Act on your dream!

JD

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