Advertising Update

How did you learn about our scriptural rosary site?

Please post a comment and let us know.

I need your help more than ever before getting the word out.

Why? Well... In the beginning I advertised on both Google and Yahoo. Many if not most found the site while searching information about the rosary.

If you don't already know, I'm a volunteer working in Florida. It is a one year commitment. I am paid a very small stipend. After a while, I had to pause the Yahoo advertising. Yesterday, I had to pause Google advertising. Both due to a shortage of funds.

Only 17 rosaries were prayed yesterday... our lowest count in a long time.

I thank all of you for your prayers and participation. For those interested in our mission to spread awareness and devotion to the Most Holy Rosary, I really need you. Please help spread the word. Blogs, emails to friends (no spam please), word of mouth, church bulletins and anything else you think may work. If you find something that works well please let me know and I will share it with everyone else.

Perhaps when my volunteer service ends I will be able to resume the advertising again.

I wrote this post particularly for those that follow the daily count. If yesterday was any indication, it looks like it may be down for a while.

Thanks again to EVERYONE that uses our site to pray the Holy Rosary. I am eternally grateful for your participation and prayers.

Bill

Happy Memorial Day!

What a wonderful day to reach a milestone.

Memorial Day 2009, near to my heart as my father was a veteran and I currently work with homeless veterans... a little more special this year as we surpassed 10,000 rosaries prayed at our scriptural rosary site.

Thank you all very much!

Please continue helping us in our mission to increase awareness and devotion to the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

God Bless,

Bill

Attention Marketers!

Hello Everyone,

Many people market online. If you are one of these people there is a new free text ad exchange that can help you advertise. I am renting the site and may purchase it if this works.

If you don't market, you probably won't find this post useful... at least for now.

Membership is FREE and EVERYONE has an opportunity to earn commissions from referral purchases. If you decide to upgrade, your commissions are increased as well as your points received for various activities.

This is an easy way to help support our Scriptural Rosary site for anyone trying to earn extra money online!

One very important thing to know! While there is never any obligation to purchase anything and membership is FREE, you will receive emails from other members that are promoting their products and services.

So... please DO NOT join if you do not wish to receive these emails!

You will need a free email account from google to join.

I own two other similar sites and you'll find them in the members area. I never intended to invite Scriptural Rosary participants but the theme of this new site seemed appropriate. You can see what I mean by visiting the link below:

Heavenly Adz

Thanks to all for your continued support and participation. We're approaching 10,000 rosaries prayed. I think that is truly amazing and hope that EVERYONE is experiencing the Benefits and Blessings of the Most Holy Rosary of Our Blessed Mother in a new and powerful way.

God Bless,

Bill

Please Pray For My Intention

Hello,

Many of you know that I am currently serving as a Catholic Volunteer. I work with homeless veterans at an organization named WIN/Vet.

My volunteer service ends in August, 2009. Please pray that the Holy Spirit will guide me so that the choices I make about what to do when my service is complete will be Christ centered and not self-centered. Perhaps you will be kind enough to include this intention in some of your rosaries prayed.

I thank you for your prayers.

On a different note, it looks like 10,000 rosaries will be reached this month. I hope that all are experiencing the joys and rewards of this Holy prayer. May our prayers be pleasing to Our Lady and her Son, the Son of God, Jesus and may God produce many good fruits from our efforts.

Thank you all for your participation and prayers!

God Bless.

Something New!

Here is a new way to promote the Scriptural Rosary site.

Please visit http://www.cafepress.com/rosarystore.

Every purchase helps!

Lord, Prop Us Up

I received the following from one of our participants and thought I would share it with you on the blog. If you have something to share please send it to me.

While on retreat the members of Catholic Volunteers In Florida worked at the Camillus Home in Miami, Florida. They serve breakfast, lunch and dinner to over 300 homeless people every day. They do a whole lot more too! If you are interested you can check it out at www.camillushome.org.

Every time I am asked to pray, I think of the old deacon

who always prayed, 'Lord, prop us up on our leanin' side.'

After hearing him pray that prayer many times, someone asked him why he prayed that prayer so fervently.

He answered, 'Well sir, you see, it's like this...

I got an old barn out back.

It's been there a long time; it's withstood a lot of weather;

it's gone through a lot of storms, and it's stood for many years.

It's still standing.

But one day I noticed it was leaning to one side a bit.

So I went and got some pine poles and propped it up

on its leaning side so it wouldn't fall.

Then I got to thinking about that and

how much I was like that old barn.

I've been around a long time.

I've withstood a lot of life's storms.

I've withstood a lot of bad weather in life,

I've withstood a lot of hard times, and I'm still standing too.

But I find myself leaning to one side from time to time,

so I like to ask the Lord to prop us up on our leaning side,

'cause I figure a lot of us get to leaning at times.

Sometimes we get to leaning toward anger,

leaning toward bitterness,

leaning toward hatred,

leaning toward cussing,

leaning toward a lot of things that we shouldn't .

So we need to pray, 'Lord, prop us up on our leaning side,

so we will stand straight and tall again, to glorify the Lord.''


If you stare at this barn for a second you will see

who will help us stand straight and tall again...

Happy Easter

First, I will be on retreat this week with Catholic Volunteers In Florida. I will do my best to maintain the site while I am away but there is a chance that the rosary count and prayer requests may be delayed until I return on Saturday.

This also means that orders from the Scriptural Rosary Store will be delayed. I will not be able to ship any orders until Monday, 4/20/09.

Finally, you may have noticed that the weekly rosary count was down by about 50. This is probably due to the fact that I had to quit advertising on Yahoo. Before last week, I was advertising on both Yahoo and Google. The budget was set at $2 per day for both so the total budget was $4 per day. The average click cost on Google is $0.07 per click. The average click cost on Yahoo is $0.09 per click. So we have lost about 22 new visitors per day last week because I could no longer afford to advertise on Yahoo.

If you don't already know, I serve as a Catholic Volunteer and I live off a very small stipend. I rely heavily on store purchases and/or donations in order to advertise the Scriptural Rosary Site. Unfortunately, at present, these do not cover the costs of advertising.

If you want to help so that we can continue to attract new visitors and spread awareness and devotion to the Holy Rosary you have a few options. First, you can spread the word yourself by telling friends and family or asking your priest to post a notice in your church bulletin. If you blog or use My Space, Facebook or the like, please advertise the Scriptural Rosary. Second, every purchase from the Scriptural Rosary Store helps with costs. Finally, if you are able, a small donation goes a long way. Every dollar donated will allow us to advertise to 25 new people.

Thank you all for your prayers and participation in the Scriptural Rosary site.

God Bless and Happy Easter!

Bill