So I have a new task at hand. Marketing a new blog to a local audience. Here’s the second catch. The blog (hopefully) will only be relevant for less than 3 months.  How to market this?

Let me explain a little. I live in a suburb of Chicago. Villa Park is a small suburb of about 22,000 people. Since I moved here and bought a home, I’ve become interested in local politics. Being that I have, well, a big mouth, I’ve become a bit known in the circle of local politicians. (in a good way, I think) A new issues has come up for our village, we are having a referendum in Feburary to enact home rule. I’m involved with trying to get this initiative passed and we are forming a citizens Committee for Villa Park Home Rule.

Naturally, the first thing on my mind was "We need a website!" So I registered a domain, Villa Park Home Rule, nd have started to build a blog on the domain. This site needs to be informational. Since the election is in just under 3 months, I dont have much time to do traditional offpage SEO, and that wont likely help much anyway. I dont know people are going to search for terms such as "Illinois Home Rule" and "Villa Park", so I’ll chase those keywords. One of the tricks is going to be to get local newspapers to link to us. If I can accomplish that we should be able to get the rankings and traffic to get the information out there. ANother method I think I will use is the Digital Point COOP Ad Network, since its free and quick. I’ll talk more about the DP COOP at a later date.

Anyway, so I have a pretty good challenge on my hands with this one. But that’s how we learn, through experience.

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I found a great new place for embroidered jackets, polo shirts, hats, etc.

I recently had custom embroidered jackets made for a few of my websites. Forum owners especially know how hard it is to do decent custom clothing. Most suppliers want relatively large minimum orders and costly digitizing fees. Well, I found a guy who generally doesnt require minimum orders and who doesnt charge an arm and a leg to digitize a logo for embroidery.

Champs Clothing - 708-277-5067 - the owner’s name is Jim. His work is great. just clic the image and see a few pics of some of the jackets he’s made for me already. The best part is that he isnt expensive! Jackets such as the one pictured run about $55 each and he makes them for you as you need them, so you dont have to buy 24 or 48 of them at a time and then never seem to have the size you need. Give him a call and tell him Joeychgo sent you!   I think I’ll have a few things made with my new Joeychgo.com logo and we’ll have a contest or two!

Oh, and in case your wondering - he isnt a aid advertiser or anything, and I dont make a nickle if you buy anything. I try to pass on good sources that can help other website owners and this is just one of those sources I felt the need to pass on.

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This is a new area of concentration for me. Music. It should be interesting. I recently bought a network of music sites. I have alot of work to do on these. They all run nicely, but I think they could have some better design and of course, I need to add a forum to the network. I would also like to develop some sites which are about music other then Jazz.

The 26 Website network I now own is: I Love Smooth Jazz - The most complete Smooth Jazz Directory on Earth! Local Jazz Radio Websites

• Atlanta Jazz

• Baltimore Jazz

• Boston Jazz

• Charlotte, NC Jazz

• Chicago Jazz

• Dallas Jazz

• Dayton Jazz

• Denver Jazz

• Detroit Jazz

• Kansas City Jazz

• Miami Jazz

• New York Jazz

• Oklahoma City Jazz

• Orlando Jazz

• Philadelphia Jazz

• Phoenix Jazz

• Raleigh, NC Jazz

• Sacramento Jazz

• San Francisco Jazz

• Seattle Jazz

• Los Angeles Jazz

• Tampa Jazz

• Washington, DC Jazz

Main Network Page:

Smooth Lee Jazz Music He doesnt look like me too much huh? Well, thats something to work on as well. Ive also updated the blog a bit. I added several pages (listed on the top right of the page) which explains what sites I own and what each is about. I hope everyone has a great and safe Labor Day!

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