Marketing: a facebook add

Things have not calmed down at work like I thought they would by now. That will be my excuse for being late this week. :)

I am still struggling to know what to write each week too. Last night I thought I might be good to write about the very practical side of things that I am going though right now. Marketing. I have known for a few months that marketing my book is more on me then I thought it would be. I have said this all before, and I am still trying to figure this all out. One thing I wanted to try was a facebook add, but that seems to be way more complicated than I thought. I thought I would see if my dad could help me out at all, and when I went to my parent’s house yesterday, I sat down with him. But it turns out he does not know any more then I do. It also seems it would be pretty expensive. I am not writing for the money, but for a book that I spent too much on to get it published (over $3,000 though a publishing company) and that has yet to make me any money, I guess it grind a little to put too much more into it. Especially on something I have no idea if it will help at all or if this will just throwing money away. So I guess if anyone reads this and knows, please comment or email me if a facebook add is something I should do or not.

For the next step with this I would like to sit down and go through it with someone who has done a facebook add before, but that might me tuff for me. I could ask my cousin, but it would have to be done over the phone and that won’t be easy for either of us. I could ask my pastor as well, but he is often so busy I hate to bother him with something like this. I also need to think about how much money I can / am willing to put into this. (It was suggesting $20 a week which is WAY too much.) So it would be nice to know if this is even something that will help or not.

This post is just an honest one of me having no idea what I should be doing in this case. Marketing is something I don’t know that first thing about. And it intimidates the crap out of me. I was talking with me dad and we agreed that in good situations, whether it is in business or whatever, you have a partner who is good at whatever you’re not. Unfortunately it’s all on me for right now, and I’m just trying to figure it all out. If I keep a positive attitude, I can see this all as a good learning experience, but I won’t deny it’s easy to get discouraged real fast.

I was feeling calm, relaxed, and way less stressed before Christmas, but I seem to have fallen back into my all habits and have not been doing so well it that of late. This Sunday’s sermon was really good. It was about how drama is related to pride, and stress to control. To counter this we need to be humble and trusting of God (I would add submit to Him all things). This is something I need to work on, especially the giving up control. I stress way too easy. I need to let the Lord be in control and not try to take it all (or any) on myself.

If anyone has any words of encouragement or wisdom in any regard they can give me, I welcome it.

Thank you all for reading. God bless.