I have established new guidelines and policies and once again I’m giving links in the dog trainers directory.

If you have any suggestions or comments I am open to suggestions for improving our network of websites

Wishing you the best in business and in life,
Andrew Ledford

Wishing you the best in dog training and in life,
Andrew Ledford

I will continue to play with rethinkdogfood.com and I have a new experiment I want to run on this site.

Wishing you the best in dogs and in life
Andrew Ledford

http://ocdogboarding.com/

I am changing the free listing for the Phoenix Arizona dog boarding kennel. If you have a dog boarding kennel in the phoenix area let me know. I will also consider offering listings to kennels in other major markets. While I will give temporary listing for no charge the surest way to get on the website is to give us your financial support. The quality of the website offered will be in proportion to the financial support a patron imparts on this humble web word crafter.

I also list dog boarding kennels for sale. I am happy to report that inquiries into buying boarding kennels have risen recently. Let us hope the economy continues to improve and that the very bad times are now in the past.

Wishing you the best in dogs and the best in life
Andrew Ledford
The Dog Saint

I have had the site mildly active for several months. There was a little copy on the site announcing it was awaiting future development. The first step was to add some relevant copy to the site and wait for Google to reindex the page. While I am waiting for Google I am also announcing the page to my online social network. I thought this might speed up the indexing process. So far I have not noticed any difference from websites that are not promoted through my social network. However Google did visit my site three days after I started promoting it across my social network but Microsoft’s bing did not.

The increased traffic makes this is a good time to announce that I’m offering those who do protection dog training as well as those who offer trained dogs and puppies for sale an opportunity to have their own promotional blog on ProtectionDog.com

ProtectionDog.com has always ranked well in the search engines and since I no longer do any protection training I am offering other a chance to promote their training services as well as puppies and trained adult dogs on this site. Now your protection training services, supporting products, and working dogs can all share in the positioning I have gained. There are two sections where I am offering promotional opportunities. They are both brand new. I will be adding some content to them in the near future.

ProtectionDog.com The Working Dog Journal

http://protectiondog.com/k9dogs/

and
ProtectionDog.com The Puppy Journal

http://protectiondog.com/puppies/

Unfortunately I have been preoccupied with pressing business since the last post, I hope to be back to working on all my sites again after Wednesday.

I look forward to hearing what you think may be a valid low cost quick to start marketing campaign.

The bank ran a cutest pet picture contest and promised to donate a dollar to the Delaware Humane Association for every new checking account opened during the contest. This appears to be a fairly simple contest without much cost. Apparently it was also successful.

The article mentions professor JoAnn L. Atkin of Western Michigan University as the co-author of a 2006 analysis of animals in advertising called “Love dogs? Love the ad!”  According to JoAnn L. Atkin it appears that “When there was a dog within the ad, people seemed to like it more, and those positive attitudes transferred over to the brand.” The 2006 analysis of animals in advertising was published in the Journal of Business Research.

For people who have a strong affinity toward dogs there seems to be almost a magnetic attraction to all things dog, including advertising and marketing. While this affinity is strong, advertisers should take care not to abuse it. As B.F. Skinner stated, if the cultural system that supports the behavior of attraction (paying attention) is exploited to gain a temporary personal advantage at the expense of the target, then the system itself will break down. Gaining a temporary advantage at the expense of potential customers is a common practice I find in modern advertising. When the considerate behavior of an interlocking cultural system is tricked, considerate behavior begins to break down. Soon that system will not work or will need major modifications. These modifications will make life for everyone less enjoyable. This is what happened with email. Spam is so bad it is difficult to trust anyone with an individual’s email address. We see this happen all the time within sales and advertising. Trickery and cultural exploitation are the main reasons most people hate talking to a sales person and it has a great deal to do with trust. Each time a really good sales person gains our trust and sells us on false promises we are less trusting of all.