Nicole Alderman

Permies is a volunteer-managed forum, and there's a lot of posts and threads for us to moderate every day. Our skills are largely in helping prevent spam, stop flame wars, and keep trolls out, etc. Someone might PM you if they're inclined, but I think most of us are busy managing the forum.

It's probably best to go ahead and post your prospectus. If you want to make your new thread a "Wiki" thread so you can continually edit and refine the first post of the thread, you're more than welcome to!

This might also be a helpful resource for you advertising for free (and not-free) on permies.com

I wish to make it clear that I like the idea of promoting lots of things in lots of ways here.  

I like the idea of promoting:

• web sites / blogs / youtube channels
• products
• workshops
• convergences/conferences
• PDCs
• books
• DVDS/videos
• kickstarters
• groups
• seeds and starts
• singles ads
• real estate
• and lots lots more

Some web sites (and especially forums) want to make it seem like there is nothing in the world except for that one site.  I, on the other hand, like the idea that permies.com is packed with information about every other permaculture and homesteading site in the world.   And I fully embrace the idea that this site is a community for a certain flavor of odd ducks, while there are a thousand other sites that serve other flavors of odd ducks.   We are one community out of many.  And we like knowing about all the others. I want permies to be the richest place to find out about workshops and PDCs all around the world.

Facebook and other social media sites are making it progressively more and more difficult to let your audience know about your stuff unless you fork out oodles of money. You could have thousands of followers on your page, and only 300 of them see your post unless you pay to boost it. Permies is not like that at all. In fact, I feel both free (and not-free) advertising efforts will go a lot farther here on permies than elsewhere.


First, be aware of all the free advertising you can do here at permies.com:

• make a media rich thread about your organization/website/book/thing/whatever
        - if you buy a piece of pie, you can add your thread to more forums
        - every reply to your thread, bumps it to the top of our home page!
        - reply to it every few days with new info or videos about your thing
              - put our social media icon on your site and link it to your thread so it gets bumped more!
        - in time, your thread could become "best" and appear permanently on a forum page
• offering freebies to our pie people gets you listed to our heavily advertised pie program!
• put a link to your stuff in your signature and write lots of excellent posts!
• offer stuff in our book/dvd/event/pie promotions
• get your stuff lined up for a review.  Provide some of your stuff to our reviewers: book reviews or product reviews
• give your stuff to some of our staff and hope that they talk about it a lot
• check out our paid advertising stuff below and arrange a media trade.  Banner-for-banner, or mailing-list mention for mailing-list mention, etc.
• if we like your stuff, and you set it up in our digital market with a 40% affiliate fee, we might advertise the hell out of it.
• some stuff in our digital market qualifies to be in our dailyish freebie list - which mysteriously seems to end up being sold
• some stuff in our digital market qualifies to be in our future kickstarters - some of which we pay for

Oodles of details here.


How to avoid looking like a spammer:

• Make one thread about your service/product/event. Make this thread look nice and professional using formatting tags, and post replies, updates, new pictures, etc to that thread. Multiple threads saying the same thing look spammy.
• Add your one thread to multiple forums by using PIE &/or Thread Boost. This allows your thread to show up in multiple forums.
• Make your thread a wiki. This allows you to edit whenever you like to add new pictures or update information. You can make a post a wiki through the "wiki" tab when you compose or edit your post. The "wiki" tab is next to the attachments tab where you add pictures.
• Refrain from posting about your product/event/service on other people's threads unless it makes sense. If you make a lot of posts about your service on other people's threads, especially in a row, we will assume you are a spammer and your posts will be deleted. Add your link to your signature, and post only about your service/product/event when it is very relevant and helpful to the conversation.

The paid stuff:

• We have been having massive success with thread boost.  You create a thread for each product, or about your company, and then use a toolset to boost the thread.  It is a technique that fits well with our users - and now they learn about your products and your business as it is comfortable to them.
• banners at the top of the forums, plus get in on the big list which is linked to from every page
        - a 75% discount on impressions for linking to your permies.com thread instead of your site
• Buy Thread Boost on a thread you've made here on permies
• sponsorship in the podcasts
• a paragraph or so in the daily-ish email
        - a 75% discount for linking to your permies.com thread instead of your site
• a "tiny ad" in the daily-ish email
        - a 75% discount for linking to your permies.com thread instead of your site
• in-forum links
        - a 75% discount for linking to your permies.com thread instead of your site
• banners/offers throughout the content at richsoil.com
• producer credits/mention in upcoming youtube videos
• arrange to do a product giveaway or book giveaway and have a mention of your product/book at the top of the forums all week, and a mention in our weeklyish email (which goes out to over 63,000 people)
• run your video at the top of our forums
• we might be convinced to add a bumper sticker for you
• adding magic love to your thread so it gets more attention
• adding a mention of your product in wiki pages that can only be edited by staff
• Do a lot of the free stuff for you
• buy pie and give it out to folks that mention how great your stuff is
• buy pie and give it out to folks that might like you and your stuff

Thread Boost

Thread Boost allows you to choose exactly how you want to promote your thread about your business/event. There's options for every price point. Here's just some of the options:

• Similar Threads--have your thread show up on multiple related threads in their "similar threads" section
• Auto-link--Select a word or phrase, and a ‘look-up’ will be done to find out how many threads contain that phrase
• Add to more forums--Add your thread to one or more other related forums.
• DX5 ads -- DX5 ads are the tiny ads that appear at the bottom of every thread. You can chose the wording of your ad, how often it shows up, where it shows up, and a lot more!
• Tiny ads for emails--DX5 tiny ads in all of the emails that get sent out.
• ...and many more options!

Find out more here!


DX5 - Self Service In-Thread Ad Terminal


This service we're allows you to create your own simple ad, right down to the number of impressions. Simply enter the information into the online form, submit payment through Paypal, and your ad will immediately start running.

Here's what these ads usually look like:



They appear at the bottom of a thread, with a random line of what we call 'silly text'. The original version, DX1, was just that simple, however, DX5 has conversion rate optimization built into the software. As your add runs, the CTR is tracked alongside the text that is run with your ad. The text with the most effective CTR gets run the most, and the process continues to sharpen and fine tune itself.

To create one of these ads, click here.

If you have a web site and you would like to do some media trade, please contact gir at richsoil.com

If you are all ready to part with coin, please email paul at richsoil.com.

Thanks!

Hi Ty, welcome to permies!

I moved your thread to our landshareforum. Please don't keep making new threads--instead, add to this current thread. That will help "bump" the thread up in people's feeds, and will give you more visibility.

Any new identical threads will be deleted, and if they continue, we will sadly have to assume you are a spammer.

I hope this helps! If you're confused as to how our forum works, please check out the Permies FAQ in my signature.

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Ty Lee,
I have merged your topic into this topic. I hope that helps.

I merged your stuff with the following thread. I hope that is okay by you.

Hi Jeff, welcome to Permies!

I've moved this thread to the Intentional Community forum. This is the place to advertise your off-grid community.

Feel free to add details to this thread about your community (or create a new thread). As long as your post meets our Be Nice policy and avoids debates about politics, religion, or other controversial subjects, you should be good to go!

Saying things like, "This is a community founded around these principles:________" is fine. Avoid saying things like "You need to believe this_____" or "People who believe _____ are stupid and wrong."

I hope that helps!

Because I couldn't find any free Ogham worksheet that I liked, I made my own!. Some of the parents in my homeschool co-op like to take worksheets home, so I try to offer some to go along with every lesson. Sometimes, I can find them online for free, but it's getting harder because (A) a lot of things are paywalled, and (B) a lot of stuff is generated by artificial intelligence. But, hey, I realized I can make worksheets in Word, so I'll just make some for the kids if I can't find them in the wild!

Oh dear, I just realized I'd saved the images as PNGs rather than JPG! Click on them to enlarge them, right click them, and then click "Save image." If that doesn't work, just use the PDF!

I've been trying to find hands-on activities to go along with studying (King?) Arthur and pre-Anglo-Saxon Britton.  I've decided maybe it'd be fun for the kids to learn to write/carve in Ogham!

Ogham was the writing system used by the Irish from around 300-600s. We find stones carved with it in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. There were a lot of Irish people coming over to Britain during the time period King Arthur would have lived, so I could see them using Ogham--maybe even using it to write secret messages!

For fun, I made a series of worksheets for kids to use--including an alphabet reference.

I've benefited a lot from the free resources people have put online, so I want these activity pages to be free to anyone who needs or wants them.

That's so cool Jocelyn! We were just in Everett and almost stopped by the Arboretum. Now we have an even bigger reason to go! My husband and I used to go there all the time before we moved away from the city, but I don't think we've visited it since our son was 2...10 years ago!