Basically traffic exchanges are about numbers, plain and simple. If you drive 30k hits/month to your sites, you will start to get signups/referrals/leads (as long as your using the RIGHT sites!) A great story is the one about Bill something (sorry, only the story is important) who basically made himself a billionaire with Amway. CNN interviewed a bunch of Amway business men who basically complained about how they couldn't do it and it's a waste of time...the typical stuff you get from online marketers who also fail...Anyway, the end of the show they interviewed Bill and asked him what his secret was..."There is no secret, it's just a numbers game - I showed the plan to 1,200 people, 900 said no. Of the 300 that said yes, 85 actually did something with it. Of the 85 who did something, 35 worked hard at it. Of those 35, 11 people were successful and made me a billionaire"
The point of this story is that online marketing is very much this same way. So many people sign up expecting to be rich and retire in a week. They are looking for that magic button where they promote it for a week and become rich. I did the same thing when I first started - It's easy to buy into all the hype out there! But it is really just about the numbers. If you show enough people, you will be successful. In my experience, I have about 10% of my signups actually do anything with a program. And that is AFTER I've gotten them to signup in the first place :) Now it's a bit disheartening, for sure, but it's just the nature of the game. All you can do is stick to it - Keep promoting as effectively as you can...things will come together - you WILL start to figure things out and have some success. Once you figure out which avenues work, your business will start to grow. Just keep plugging away at it and don't give up.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Beginner Guide to Traffic Exchanges
If your brand new to using Traffic Exchanges, there is a LOT to learn. This is my simple guide to using them effectively, in as short & sweet fashion as I am capable of :)
First I want you to keep this as simple as possible while you are learning. I recommend using at least 5 exchanges even as a beginner, but if you want to just use 1 to get a feel, go ahead.
My Guidelines for how to use Traffic Exchanges Effectively:
SPEND YOUR CREDITS WISELY! They go darn fast once you allocate them so spend them wisely. Try to figure out your montly goal and how to achieve it. For instance, if you want 2,000 hits/month, you need to earn 500 credits per week. If you use 5 exchanges all you need is 100 credits, per week, on each exchange - This is about 1 hour of surfing a week. Surfing is WORK, in my opinion - It's not fun - It is only a vehicle to promote my business and I don't waste my credits.
Promote mostly Free advertising for THEIR business. They are NOT interested in more business opportunities so no selling. Selling directly on a traffic exchange is a huge mistake. They are all their to promote their business, not join a bunch of new ones (when they aren't succeeding with theirs in the first place)
Use only Splash Pages - Quick & to the point pages. You only have a couple seconds to grab attention and if they have to scroll, it's not going to work very well. Your results will go WAY up if you are promoting FREE Opportunities that are simple and to the point!
Remember that this is a process: You aren't going to get rich next week. You are going to spend your first couple weeks only learning about how exchanges work. Please be patient and don't give up when it doesn't "Happen Overnight" for you
Don't Miss Your Bonus Pages: HitSafari, 4x4Hits & TrafficSplash Especially are on this list because of the bonus credits you can earn. Learn where they are and try not to miss them. Those 3-7 bonus credit links will add up Quick, so make sure your getting them.
Don't be stupid - If your goal is to get referrals on other traffic exchanges, don't waste your credits promoting an exchange on the same exchange. As in, don't put up a HitSafari Referral Page ON the HitSafari site! I hope you just said "I would never do this", but I see it all the time while i'm surfing - PLEASE don't waste your credits this way. THEY ARE TOO VALUABLE TO WASTE!
Focus your efforts! Promote only 3 or so websites at each exchange. Remember that a GREAT signup rate is 1 for every 120 page views so choose your BEST pages to promote. Don't promote 12 different sites poorly. Promote 3 sites with efficiency and get maximum hits! You will figure out quicker what pages work and which don't. If your trying to promote 20 URL's, your going to get poor performance for 20 sites! Even as a pro member at many exchanges, I only promote 3 or 4 different sites, and I drive a LOT of traffic.
Okay, for beginners I recommend only FREE Exchanges - And the best free ones I know are as follows:
LinkReferral! This is the best Free Targeted Advertising you will get - 20min's per day will keep your site in the top 10. ESPECIALLY effective for Money Making Opportunities! You absolutely MUST join Link Referral.
Manual Surf Exchanges (timed and you click through)
EasyHits4U - 1:1 surf exchange so every page you surf, you get a hit on your site
HitSafari - 2:1 ratio but GREAT bonuses and highly ranked on TrafficHoopla
TrafficSplash - Bonus credits every 15 pages, Top Ranked!
TrafficBunnies - Escalating Surfing Bonuses - Quick & Fun (super cheap pro membership 2)
4x4Hits - 2:1 ratio but good bonuses
WebBizInsider - Top Ranked by Traffic Hoopla and easy to get lots of credits
Join LinkReferral for sure and pick 3 or 4 other Exchanges above to get started.
Download FIREFOX
Firefox automatically blocks all pop-ups for you. It is THE SAFEST way to surf! And it's also the quickest way to earn large amounts of credits! You can open 3 or 4 tabs and surf them all at once. In the same time it takes to surf 1 site, you can surf 3 or 4 very easily, earning triple the credits (or more) for the same effort. It SOUNDS intimidating, but really it's pretty easy.
Understand what you are here for! Your efforts should be focused on getting Leads & Advertising. Not getting sales or directly recruiting. Your promotions should be Free & Beneficial for other surfers. I've wasted so many credits on exchanges while learning this the hard way. But once I started promoting the Right Sites, my referrals, signups & income all began growing.
For example Here is what I Promote on Traffic Exchanges (use your BACK browser as these don't open in a separate window)
www.home-income-team.com/info/affiliatecurve/freereport.html
http://viralurl.com/affiliatecurve/ferrari/
http://affiliatecurve.googlepages.com/powertraffic
The Home Income Team pages are great - They bring leads and build my email list. The Google Pages is my own design. It is meant to be different - it may not be a great splash page but it should illustrate the point - Quick, To The Point, FREE and something to Help Them! The Ferrari page is my GDI Lead Capture page and it is about the only "flashy" thing I use - But it draws attention...
That is a good starting point I think. I have more tips but you aren't going to learn everything in a day or 2. It's going to take you some time. Join a couple exchanges and get a feel for them. It took me 5 months to get to this point now. I know this article will save you at LEAST a month of wasted, Frustrating time on exchanges.
Just remember that opportunity seekers don't surf exchanges for FUN - They surf to promote their business and are looking for things to benefit them. Keep that in mind and you'll figure out your own style and what works for you.
Return to AffiliateCurve
First I want you to keep this as simple as possible while you are learning. I recommend using at least 5 exchanges even as a beginner, but if you want to just use 1 to get a feel, go ahead.
My Guidelines for how to use Traffic Exchanges Effectively:
SPEND YOUR CREDITS WISELY! They go darn fast once you allocate them so spend them wisely. Try to figure out your montly goal and how to achieve it. For instance, if you want 2,000 hits/month, you need to earn 500 credits per week. If you use 5 exchanges all you need is 100 credits, per week, on each exchange - This is about 1 hour of surfing a week. Surfing is WORK, in my opinion - It's not fun - It is only a vehicle to promote my business and I don't waste my credits.
Promote mostly Free advertising for THEIR business. They are NOT interested in more business opportunities so no selling. Selling directly on a traffic exchange is a huge mistake. They are all their to promote their business, not join a bunch of new ones (when they aren't succeeding with theirs in the first place)
Use only Splash Pages - Quick & to the point pages. You only have a couple seconds to grab attention and if they have to scroll, it's not going to work very well. Your results will go WAY up if you are promoting FREE Opportunities that are simple and to the point!
Remember that this is a process: You aren't going to get rich next week. You are going to spend your first couple weeks only learning about how exchanges work. Please be patient and don't give up when it doesn't "Happen Overnight" for you
Don't Miss Your Bonus Pages: HitSafari, 4x4Hits & TrafficSplash Especially are on this list because of the bonus credits you can earn. Learn where they are and try not to miss them. Those 3-7 bonus credit links will add up Quick, so make sure your getting them.
Don't be stupid - If your goal is to get referrals on other traffic exchanges, don't waste your credits promoting an exchange on the same exchange. As in, don't put up a HitSafari Referral Page ON the HitSafari site! I hope you just said "I would never do this", but I see it all the time while i'm surfing - PLEASE don't waste your credits this way. THEY ARE TOO VALUABLE TO WASTE!
Focus your efforts! Promote only 3 or so websites at each exchange. Remember that a GREAT signup rate is 1 for every 120 page views so choose your BEST pages to promote. Don't promote 12 different sites poorly. Promote 3 sites with efficiency and get maximum hits! You will figure out quicker what pages work and which don't. If your trying to promote 20 URL's, your going to get poor performance for 20 sites! Even as a pro member at many exchanges, I only promote 3 or 4 different sites, and I drive a LOT of traffic.
Okay, for beginners I recommend only FREE Exchanges - And the best free ones I know are as follows:
LinkReferral! This is the best Free Targeted Advertising you will get - 20min's per day will keep your site in the top 10. ESPECIALLY effective for Money Making Opportunities! You absolutely MUST join Link Referral.
Manual Surf Exchanges (timed and you click through)
EasyHits4U - 1:1 surf exchange so every page you surf, you get a hit on your site
HitSafari - 2:1 ratio but GREAT bonuses and highly ranked on TrafficHoopla
TrafficSplash - Bonus credits every 15 pages, Top Ranked!
TrafficBunnies - Escalating Surfing Bonuses - Quick & Fun (super cheap pro membership 2)
4x4Hits - 2:1 ratio but good bonuses
WebBizInsider - Top Ranked by Traffic Hoopla and easy to get lots of credits
Join LinkReferral for sure and pick 3 or 4 other Exchanges above to get started.
Download FIREFOX
Firefox automatically blocks all pop-ups for you. It is THE SAFEST way to surf! And it's also the quickest way to earn large amounts of credits! You can open 3 or 4 tabs and surf them all at once. In the same time it takes to surf 1 site, you can surf 3 or 4 very easily, earning triple the credits (or more) for the same effort. It SOUNDS intimidating, but really it's pretty easy.
Understand what you are here for! Your efforts should be focused on getting Leads & Advertising. Not getting sales or directly recruiting. Your promotions should be Free & Beneficial for other surfers. I've wasted so many credits on exchanges while learning this the hard way. But once I started promoting the Right Sites, my referrals, signups & income all began growing.
For example Here is what I Promote on Traffic Exchanges (use your BACK browser as these don't open in a separate window)
www.home-income-team.com/info/affiliatecurve/freereport.html
http://viralurl.com/affiliatecurve/ferrari/
http://affiliatecurve.googlepages.com/powertraffic
The Home Income Team pages are great - They bring leads and build my email list. The Google Pages is my own design. It is meant to be different - it may not be a great splash page but it should illustrate the point - Quick, To The Point, FREE and something to Help Them! The Ferrari page is my GDI Lead Capture page and it is about the only "flashy" thing I use - But it draws attention...
That is a good starting point I think. I have more tips but you aren't going to learn everything in a day or 2. It's going to take you some time. Join a couple exchanges and get a feel for them. It took me 5 months to get to this point now. I know this article will save you at LEAST a month of wasted, Frustrating time on exchanges.
Just remember that opportunity seekers don't surf exchanges for FUN - They surf to promote their business and are looking for things to benefit them. Keep that in mind and you'll figure out your own style and what works for you.
Return to AffiliateCurve
Friday, July 18, 2008
No magic buttons, but here are my preliminary thoughts
I know you HATE long reading about ways to make money online etc - It's not perfect because I am Not an internet master. I am not making a fortune with my efforts...I don't have a magic key or program for you that says "if you sign up for me today, you could be rich tomorrow" - BLAH BLAH BLAH - I'm a avg guy trying to make money online, that's all -
First, here are my disclaimers (as if the previous paragraph wasn't enough lol!)
I am Average - Not a guru, not an expert, not some online marketing master who can give you the Magic Button where you do nothing and still make money
Now that is out of the way, I'm going to try to give my own guide to generating traffic & creating a real online business that will benefit all of us.
Here are MY Goals:
Residual Income - The real kind where you and I both work LESS and earn MORE.
Auto-Pilot - Programs that do a lot of the follow up FOR YOU (it's a lot more work otherwise!)
FREE Programs - Easy to "sell" and get lots of signups for - Surfers want Free, Period.
Simply Put - My goal is to build downlines and earn RESIDUAL income with the least amount of work as possible. I don't want to call people - I don't want to spend hours online - I want to build an online business where I can help my dowline succeed. If they succeed, I will succeed...It's that simple - So despite all the big promises and wild claims of online marketing, I'm going to "TRY" and stay honest - I know that sounds stupid, but I can't help it.
Now that we have MY goals out of the way, we can talk about HOW we get to the above -
This is MY current project and recommendations on how to START:
I am trying to implement a "funnel" system - My Main Income Generator is GDI. Now you may have heard of GDI. I know I had heard of them for several months. I never signed up because it didn't seem like a good opportunity. All I saw was the same boring lead pages everywhere.
Why did I choose GDI? Because it's an incredibly powerful residual income tool. IF you can get signups and those signups get other signups, you can make SERIOUS money with GDI. The keyword of course is IF - So GDI CAN BE a great program - The only question is HOW DO WE MARKET IT SUCCESSFULLY?!?!?
Do I have the "formula" for successful online marketing? Afraid not. I don't have pages of income statements I can show you. I don't have my Paypal Cashouts to show you proof that THIS WORKS.
I have what I feel is a good start...
Here is what I promote on traffic exchanges:
http://paulsteam08.googlepages.com/home
http://makinezmoney2.googlepages.com/home
http://splashpagemaker.com/splash/?rid=1723&id=2046
http://www.hits2u.com/?580867
I promote these main pages for a few reasons:
1: Traffic Exchange Surfers Need FREE tools to promote THEIR Business
2: Splash Pages are much more effective in General (again, my opinion but short & sweet is key)
3: I'm TRYING to be different - I can TELL you I'm different 1,000 times, but how do i PROVE that I'm actually going to be here for YOU when you get stuck? I can't prove it - but i can differentiate myself from the crowd and that MIGHT be enough to get extra interest.
So that all sounds great but WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THESE PAGES?!?!?!
It comes down to 1 "end" purpose - Promoting GDI - The more signups I get into my free programs, the more likely I am to get people who see the value of joining GDI. It may take 100 free signups to get 1 real person involved, but that comes down to a simple numbers game. If I get 100 signups and 1 person joins GDI, then all i really need is MORE TRAFFIC. 200 signups would be 2 GDI signups, right? This is approximate and completely exaggerated of course. Some programs will get you 100 signups and ZERO that follow through, while others you can have 5 signups and get 4 people who understand how great it is and work hard with the program.
So how do we get enough signups so that we end up with enough "real" prospects?
Getting a lot of free signups is great - It means you are learning about what ACTUALLY Works, at the very least. But you don't need 50 free signups - What you need is a System that goes step by step and holds their hand and walks them through the process. For instance, Home Income Team is the first site that taught me HOW to promote, but their system doesn't do automatic follow up and it doesn't guide signups through each stage. What does? SpiderWeb & GRIN team! So what do we do if we believe that is true? We try to get signups for SpiderWeb & GRIN because those programs will be LEADING prospects into the business. See the difference? With SpiderWeb especially it walks you through each step - Using video training and thorough explanations to map out WHY the SpiderWeb System Works.
Wow I got off on a serious tangent there, but my blog is for tangents and my own thoughts :)
Basically, here is what I am doing:
I got the Home Income Team Traffic Upgrade Offer - This gave me pro upgrades at 7 exchanges. It's $54 (2nd chance - cheaper if you sign up for the one time offer). I like most of the exchanges it gives upgrades for.
In order to get 20k hits/month I need an avg. of 2k hits/month for 10 different exchanges
With the HIT Traffic Upgrade I get the montly credits and a better surfing ratio, but i still MUST SURF to get value here. I HATE surfing - It's all work in my opinion - So I want to do the least amount of surfing as possible -
You Need 500 hits/week OVERALL on 10 exchanges to generate 20k hits/month. You will not get 500 hits/week on EACH site unless your a surfing maniac (i'm not!) so you have to allocate your credits and choose your surfing time wisely!
I pay for packages at 3 or 4 exchanges. I buy the 5,000 hits/month package from SWAT Traffic, the 3,500 hits/month from ILoveHits and 3,500 hit package from HitPirate - In total these cost me $36/month - BUT, this is 12,000 hits/month I don't have to surf for. For me personally, my time is very valuable - $36/month for 12k hits is a great deal!
If you can't buy hits or want to stay free, I totally understand - In this case, spend your time at the following!
HitSafari - 2:1 exchange ratio BUT lots of bonus credits
EasyHits4U - 1:1 exchange ratio - best free site around
ClickRanch - 2:1 exchange ratio but good results here
TrafficSwarm - Decent free hits, but the Hoopla "bounce" report makes me leary
Link Referral - This is your #1 source of Targeted Advertising, Period!
WebBiz Insider - Great surf ratio and even more of the business aspect
This is a pretty good start for STRICTLY free traffic. My only thing is you have to spend more time to get your hits, vs. spending a bit and getting a LOT of hits
I have totally lost my place - but this is free hand and not very well organized.
Don't give up! Promote FREE programs and you can succeed. Spend a little and surf less is my motto - If you can't spend, use my best free exchanges above and you'll do fine. You can generate a lot of hits from those above.
I will come back and finish this post. I know I keep meaning to get this properly set up so you can just "plug it in" but I'm afraid I'm still learning myself - I still don't have THE ANSWER - All I can clue anyone into is what I'm doing. What I do is working, but it's a long process.
It's a super long tangent and my thoughts are running all over the place.
In Essence!
Promote Free Programs that help other surfers promote THEIR business!
Focus on Building Leads that you can follow up with
Your programs should be FREE!
Differentiate yourself
There is still more to come - I thought I had this post all "figured out" but despite me doing this for several weeks, I still don't have the great answer - I'm still working though and will figure out how to get my thoughts into an easy to follow system that can be duplicated for success.
Until then....
First, here are my disclaimers (as if the previous paragraph wasn't enough lol!)
I am Average - Not a guru, not an expert, not some online marketing master who can give you the Magic Button where you do nothing and still make money
Now that is out of the way, I'm going to try to give my own guide to generating traffic & creating a real online business that will benefit all of us.
Here are MY Goals:
Residual Income - The real kind where you and I both work LESS and earn MORE.
Auto-Pilot - Programs that do a lot of the follow up FOR YOU (it's a lot more work otherwise!)
FREE Programs - Easy to "sell" and get lots of signups for - Surfers want Free, Period.
Simply Put - My goal is to build downlines and earn RESIDUAL income with the least amount of work as possible. I don't want to call people - I don't want to spend hours online - I want to build an online business where I can help my dowline succeed. If they succeed, I will succeed...It's that simple - So despite all the big promises and wild claims of online marketing, I'm going to "TRY" and stay honest - I know that sounds stupid, but I can't help it.
Now that we have MY goals out of the way, we can talk about HOW we get to the above -
This is MY current project and recommendations on how to START:
I am trying to implement a "funnel" system - My Main Income Generator is GDI. Now you may have heard of GDI. I know I had heard of them for several months. I never signed up because it didn't seem like a good opportunity. All I saw was the same boring lead pages everywhere.
Why did I choose GDI? Because it's an incredibly powerful residual income tool. IF you can get signups and those signups get other signups, you can make SERIOUS money with GDI. The keyword of course is IF - So GDI CAN BE a great program - The only question is HOW DO WE MARKET IT SUCCESSFULLY?!?!?
Do I have the "formula" for successful online marketing? Afraid not. I don't have pages of income statements I can show you. I don't have my Paypal Cashouts to show you proof that THIS WORKS.
I have what I feel is a good start...
Here is what I promote on traffic exchanges:
http://paulsteam08.googlepages.com/home
http://makinezmoney2.googlepages.com/home
http://splashpagemaker.com/splash/?rid=1723&id=2046
http://www.hits2u.com/?580867
I promote these main pages for a few reasons:
1: Traffic Exchange Surfers Need FREE tools to promote THEIR Business
2: Splash Pages are much more effective in General (again, my opinion but short & sweet is key)
3: I'm TRYING to be different - I can TELL you I'm different 1,000 times, but how do i PROVE that I'm actually going to be here for YOU when you get stuck? I can't prove it - but i can differentiate myself from the crowd and that MIGHT be enough to get extra interest.
So that all sounds great but WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THESE PAGES?!?!?!
It comes down to 1 "end" purpose - Promoting GDI - The more signups I get into my free programs, the more likely I am to get people who see the value of joining GDI. It may take 100 free signups to get 1 real person involved, but that comes down to a simple numbers game. If I get 100 signups and 1 person joins GDI, then all i really need is MORE TRAFFIC. 200 signups would be 2 GDI signups, right? This is approximate and completely exaggerated of course. Some programs will get you 100 signups and ZERO that follow through, while others you can have 5 signups and get 4 people who understand how great it is and work hard with the program.
So how do we get enough signups so that we end up with enough "real" prospects?
Getting a lot of free signups is great - It means you are learning about what ACTUALLY Works, at the very least. But you don't need 50 free signups - What you need is a System that goes step by step and holds their hand and walks them through the process. For instance, Home Income Team is the first site that taught me HOW to promote, but their system doesn't do automatic follow up and it doesn't guide signups through each stage. What does? SpiderWeb & GRIN team! So what do we do if we believe that is true? We try to get signups for SpiderWeb & GRIN because those programs will be LEADING prospects into the business. See the difference? With SpiderWeb especially it walks you through each step - Using video training and thorough explanations to map out WHY the SpiderWeb System Works.
Wow I got off on a serious tangent there, but my blog is for tangents and my own thoughts :)
Basically, here is what I am doing:
I got the Home Income Team Traffic Upgrade Offer - This gave me pro upgrades at 7 exchanges. It's $54 (2nd chance - cheaper if you sign up for the one time offer). I like most of the exchanges it gives upgrades for.
In order to get 20k hits/month I need an avg. of 2k hits/month for 10 different exchanges
With the HIT Traffic Upgrade I get the montly credits and a better surfing ratio, but i still MUST SURF to get value here. I HATE surfing - It's all work in my opinion - So I want to do the least amount of surfing as possible -
You Need 500 hits/week OVERALL on 10 exchanges to generate 20k hits/month. You will not get 500 hits/week on EACH site unless your a surfing maniac (i'm not!) so you have to allocate your credits and choose your surfing time wisely!
I pay for packages at 3 or 4 exchanges. I buy the 5,000 hits/month package from SWAT Traffic, the 3,500 hits/month from ILoveHits and 3,500 hit package from HitPirate - In total these cost me $36/month - BUT, this is 12,000 hits/month I don't have to surf for. For me personally, my time is very valuable - $36/month for 12k hits is a great deal!
If you can't buy hits or want to stay free, I totally understand - In this case, spend your time at the following!
HitSafari - 2:1 exchange ratio BUT lots of bonus credits
EasyHits4U - 1:1 exchange ratio - best free site around
ClickRanch - 2:1 exchange ratio but good results here
TrafficSwarm - Decent free hits, but the Hoopla "bounce" report makes me leary
Link Referral - This is your #1 source of Targeted Advertising, Period!
WebBiz Insider - Great surf ratio and even more of the business aspect
This is a pretty good start for STRICTLY free traffic. My only thing is you have to spend more time to get your hits, vs. spending a bit and getting a LOT of hits
I have totally lost my place - but this is free hand and not very well organized.
Don't give up! Promote FREE programs and you can succeed. Spend a little and surf less is my motto - If you can't spend, use my best free exchanges above and you'll do fine. You can generate a lot of hits from those above.
I will come back and finish this post. I know I keep meaning to get this properly set up so you can just "plug it in" but I'm afraid I'm still learning myself - I still don't have THE ANSWER - All I can clue anyone into is what I'm doing. What I do is working, but it's a long process.
It's a super long tangent and my thoughts are running all over the place.
In Essence!
Promote Free Programs that help other surfers promote THEIR business!
Focus on Building Leads that you can follow up with
Your programs should be FREE!
Differentiate yourself
There is still more to come - I thought I had this post all "figured out" but despite me doing this for several weeks, I still don't have the great answer - I'm still working though and will figure out how to get my thoughts into an easy to follow system that can be duplicated for success.
Until then....
Friday, July 11, 2008
Email to my online marketing friend
I got an email this morning from an online marketing contact basically asking me how I promote successfully. My first thought of course was, I DON'T KNOW...I know everyone wants to know exactly WHAT they can do to be successful online, w/out losing a bunch of money. His question was very straightforward and honest - It goes to the exact reason most people quit online marketing...There is no ANSWER - There are no magic buttons or any magic programs that give you everything you could ever ask for and more. All that I have found is Trial & Error. After almost 5 months in online marketing, I am JUST getting to the point where I'm figuring some good stuff out. I know how to deliver traffic and I have a "general" understanding of what does work better with traffic exchanges. But again, I don't have any "answers" for those type of questions. All I can give is my own experience and what kinda works for me - Here is my (LONG) response to him:
Hi Kevin,
I primarily use Traffic Exchanges as my main advertising source. I spend about $200/month overall on my advertising - I could spend less, but I would rather pay a little bit for pro memberships at exchanges and surf less. I pay $35/month for top advertising at Link Referral - This is, by far, my best advertising for any free money making opp's - I always get lots of signups this way.
Other than that, I pay for premium memberships at about 4 exchanges right now - This, along with my 2 hours of surfing a week get me about 20k hits per month. I'm still in a beginner stage myself and don't KNOW the best ways to advertise - I had actually spent $1k my first month online and got nothing - No signups, nothing. So I know what it's like to waste a bunch of money -
If you can do traffic exchanges and surf say 3 hours a week, you can get signups this way - What I use is the Home Income Team Traffic Exchange offer - It's $54 but gives you pro membership to 7 different exchanges...Most of which are 3 months long (some are only a month though, and if you don't like the exchanges, make sure to cancel) -
If you want to go that route, let me know - I'll give you further info -
What I do is I have 1 account with GDI - It's $10/month but I use the SpiderWeb System, Home Income Team & Hits2U as free ways to promote it - Now I know I'm getting signups, but as far as "does this make a lot of money", I can't say - I know I have 4 signups in 5 days just using my own email list and traffic exchanges - You can make a lot of money with GDI, but you make money when others start referring others -
See this is still pretty new to me as well. All I know is that traffic exchanges DO work, you just have to know WHAT works. For instance I only advertise 4 referral links on exchanges
http://paulsteam08.googlepages.com/home
http://www.home-income-team.com/info/affiliatecurve/freereport.html
http://www.home-income-team.com/06/info/affiliatecurve/converter.html
http://affiliatecurve.googlepages.com/home
These are quick and to the point - The Google Pages are rough, but I made them myself. If you decide to use traffic exchanges, which i recommend, you should ONLY use quick, splash page type of advertising with the intention of getting leads - that's it - not signups, not sales, leads -
The SpiderWeb System IS absolutely conducive for newbies. It walks you through each video series step by step as you set up each system. GDI is $10/month, but I set up the rest of the system w/out spending a dime...Also, Yuwie should be a good additional stream of income - They say Social Networking is the next wave of online income, so it's good that I'm learning that now -
Right now I'm at the Google AdWords step - I haven't started yet because I'm not sure exactly if I want to spend that couple hundred yet...It might work well, but it's a $$ commitment - Then again, you can set a daily expense to keep your costs down.
Also, SpiderWeb Support has NOT been that great for me - I spent a full week setting everything up and I got no answers from the forum messages I left or anything. That's why I'm trying to be as helpful for my team as I possibly can - I want them to have a good experience and succeed with it - I know I've lost a good few months online, spent plenty of money and got nothing accomplished - That's why so many people quit.
I believe this is a good program and that is my 100% honest opinion...It's a brilliant program, actually - They are rolling out the new income streams this week so we'll have even more ways to earn - But as far as Super Effective advertising, I'm only good with Traffic Exchanges...and to do that, you have to get a LOT of hits to your sites...
To put it in perspective, there is a testimonial on the front page of Traffic Splash from an online marketing GURU who gets 1 signup for every 120 views...And that is the Front Page Testimonial! So it's about getting HUGE amounts of traffic here to be successful. But think about this - If you have 1% from 20k hits/month, you'd have 200 signups/month - Now that's over-simplified of course, but that's the way you should be looking at exchanges. Low conversion rates so you MUST send TONS of traffic!
Anyway, I hope I helped a teeny bit, but go ahead and let me know what you would like clarified - I know I tend to ramble
Here is the Home Income Team link where you can get the Traffic Exchange Upgrade if you like:
http://www.home-income-team.com/06/info/affiliatecurve/signup.html
Please let me know if that helps
thanks,
Paul
Hi Kevin,
I primarily use Traffic Exchanges as my main advertising source. I spend about $200/month overall on my advertising - I could spend less, but I would rather pay a little bit for pro memberships at exchanges and surf less. I pay $35/month for top advertising at Link Referral - This is, by far, my best advertising for any free money making opp's - I always get lots of signups this way.
Other than that, I pay for premium memberships at about 4 exchanges right now - This, along with my 2 hours of surfing a week get me about 20k hits per month. I'm still in a beginner stage myself and don't KNOW the best ways to advertise - I had actually spent $1k my first month online and got nothing - No signups, nothing. So I know what it's like to waste a bunch of money -
If you can do traffic exchanges and surf say 3 hours a week, you can get signups this way - What I use is the Home Income Team Traffic Exchange offer - It's $54 but gives you pro membership to 7 different exchanges...Most of which are 3 months long (some are only a month though, and if you don't like the exchanges, make sure to cancel) -
If you want to go that route, let me know - I'll give you further info -
What I do is I have 1 account with GDI - It's $10/month but I use the SpiderWeb System, Home Income Team & Hits2U as free ways to promote it - Now I know I'm getting signups, but as far as "does this make a lot of money", I can't say - I know I have 4 signups in 5 days just using my own email list and traffic exchanges - You can make a lot of money with GDI, but you make money when others start referring others -
See this is still pretty new to me as well. All I know is that traffic exchanges DO work, you just have to know WHAT works. For instance I only advertise 4 referral links on exchanges
http://paulsteam08.googlepages.com/home
http://www.home-income-team.com/info/affiliatecurve/freereport.html
http://www.home-income-team.com/06/info/affiliatecurve/converter.html
http://affiliatecurve.googlepages.com/home
These are quick and to the point - The Google Pages are rough, but I made them myself. If you decide to use traffic exchanges, which i recommend, you should ONLY use quick, splash page type of advertising with the intention of getting leads - that's it - not signups, not sales, leads -
The SpiderWeb System IS absolutely conducive for newbies. It walks you through each video series step by step as you set up each system. GDI is $10/month, but I set up the rest of the system w/out spending a dime...Also, Yuwie should be a good additional stream of income - They say Social Networking is the next wave of online income, so it's good that I'm learning that now -
Right now I'm at the Google AdWords step - I haven't started yet because I'm not sure exactly if I want to spend that couple hundred yet...It might work well, but it's a $$ commitment - Then again, you can set a daily expense to keep your costs down.
Also, SpiderWeb Support has NOT been that great for me - I spent a full week setting everything up and I got no answers from the forum messages I left or anything. That's why I'm trying to be as helpful for my team as I possibly can - I want them to have a good experience and succeed with it - I know I've lost a good few months online, spent plenty of money and got nothing accomplished - That's why so many people quit.
I believe this is a good program and that is my 100% honest opinion...It's a brilliant program, actually - They are rolling out the new income streams this week so we'll have even more ways to earn - But as far as Super Effective advertising, I'm only good with Traffic Exchanges...and to do that, you have to get a LOT of hits to your sites...
To put it in perspective, there is a testimonial on the front page of Traffic Splash from an online marketing GURU who gets 1 signup for every 120 views...And that is the Front Page Testimonial! So it's about getting HUGE amounts of traffic here to be successful. But think about this - If you have 1% from 20k hits/month, you'd have 200 signups/month - Now that's over-simplified of course, but that's the way you should be looking at exchanges. Low conversion rates so you MUST send TONS of traffic!
Anyway, I hope I helped a teeny bit, but go ahead and let me know what you would like clarified - I know I tend to ramble
Here is the Home Income Team link where you can get the Traffic Exchange Upgrade if you like:
http://www.home-income-team.com/06/info/affiliatecurve/signup.html
Please let me know if that helps
thanks,
Paul
Thursday, July 3, 2008
New Marketing Theory
Been spending the past few weeks 'reinventing' myself, if you will. It started when I found Home Income Team. The entire theory behind HIT is to give online marketers what THEY need. Once I started reading through the HIT introduction I was hooked. I'd been online for several months and had not found a program where I didn't have to "upgrade" to get any benefits. HIT gave me great splash pages that didn't include me buying a bunch of extra stuff like hosting, autoresponders, any of that - It's all on "auto-pilot" - Well to say the least, I was hooked. This actually made SENSE for me! Online marketers are not looking for another business. They are looking for advertising for THEIR business!
So I started promoting the free reports and free signup pages like crazy! I bought the Home Income Traffic Package which was $54, but gives me pro membership at 7 different exchanges! Most of them are for 3 months. I purchased this because it just made a ton of sense - If I surfed an "avg" of 30 sites/day, I would get 40,000 hits overall with this upgrade package! That is serious traffic - And it works like a charm - In 3 weeks I have over 50 signups and about 20 leads. I have actually been delivering close to 20,000 hits in 3 weeks. I have Link Referral, EasyHits, ClickRanch and Traffic Eagle & Surfing2Success already - So with those I just allocated hits. I spend about an hour and 1/2 surfing per week where I just POWER SURF! I open 8 tabs and just wiz through those bad boys. I get myself about 300 credits/week this way on each exchange. Between the pro credits already and my surfing credits, I'm easily able to deliver 20k hits/month in only 2 hours surfing/week - which is an amazing amount of traffic!
What this leads me to is my new marketing theory! DUH - Hey, my blog is FOR my long-winded self :) So with Home Income Team you have a choice to sign up for the "income streams" - GDI is one of these streams - $10/month - Now, I never had any interest in GDI - Saw the same stagnant sites over and over. But with Home Income Team, it's part of the "option" - So I figured since I was getting signups, I might as well get GDI for $10/month and see if anyone signed up under me. Seems logical that if you get a new program, you also want to earn money with it...I figured I would get at least a decent % of GDI customers...I tried Success University but as soon as I read about calling people and talking to prospects, I was out - A lot of Big Time Online Marketers use that though, so maybe I'll have to look into it later...
Anyway, so I joined GDI - Then I remembered Hits2U ALSO has a GDI program...You sign up for the free advertising and if you WANT, you can use Hits2U as another income source by signing up with GDI and then anyone else who you refer can choose to join GDI as well - Thereby giving you more referrals -
See the beauty of these programs is that they only give FREE advertising away - That's it - See it's hard to "sell" anything online - Think about it...What are you surfing exchanges for? To get credits to promote YOUR business. And you don't want to surf endlessly - it's part of the "work" - So when you see free advertising and free resources, you are more likely to pay attention and maybe consider the offer - Then if you give an email, sign up whatever, you can take a look into it later. That's all these free resources are designed to do - Give away free advertising and hopefully the surfer will check it out later, when they get a moment - But at least you get a chance to tell them about YOUR products, when they aren't on a 10 second timer...
So here I have 1 GDI account and I have 2 free programs that both INDIRECTLY promote GDI - No pressure, no signing up, no "pro upgrades" - It's a very warm way to welcome someone into your business. Does it work? It works better than selling online, for sure, but as far as really working, I would say a 1% signup would be GREAT - That's the point of delivering massive amounts of traffic to your sites though - 20k hits/month, maybe 1% return would get you 200 signups a month -
This is the thiking anyway....I also joined the SpiderWeb System and GDI is their MAIN income earner, so I will have 3 good ways to promote GDI - Only problem is I'm getting ZERO support from Spider Web - I like what they talk about and I know how to deliver traffic and get signups, but it's never good when I post 2 messages on the forum and nobody answers me.
Anyway, what I'm trying to get is a "funnel" system...I don't know if it's THE ANSWER, but it's a step in the right direction for sure - My signups and referrals have never been better -
Oh, and I joined team GDI Pro as well - Here is my "splash page" from Google!
http://affiliatecurve.googlepages.com/home
I'll try to expand/organize later - see how much stuff I've got going on! :)
So I started promoting the free reports and free signup pages like crazy! I bought the Home Income Traffic Package which was $54, but gives me pro membership at 7 different exchanges! Most of them are for 3 months. I purchased this because it just made a ton of sense - If I surfed an "avg" of 30 sites/day, I would get 40,000 hits overall with this upgrade package! That is serious traffic - And it works like a charm - In 3 weeks I have over 50 signups and about 20 leads. I have actually been delivering close to 20,000 hits in 3 weeks. I have Link Referral, EasyHits, ClickRanch and Traffic Eagle & Surfing2Success already - So with those I just allocated hits. I spend about an hour and 1/2 surfing per week where I just POWER SURF! I open 8 tabs and just wiz through those bad boys. I get myself about 300 credits/week this way on each exchange. Between the pro credits already and my surfing credits, I'm easily able to deliver 20k hits/month in only 2 hours surfing/week - which is an amazing amount of traffic!
What this leads me to is my new marketing theory! DUH - Hey, my blog is FOR my long-winded self :) So with Home Income Team you have a choice to sign up for the "income streams" - GDI is one of these streams - $10/month - Now, I never had any interest in GDI - Saw the same stagnant sites over and over. But with Home Income Team, it's part of the "option" - So I figured since I was getting signups, I might as well get GDI for $10/month and see if anyone signed up under me. Seems logical that if you get a new program, you also want to earn money with it...I figured I would get at least a decent % of GDI customers...I tried Success University but as soon as I read about calling people and talking to prospects, I was out - A lot of Big Time Online Marketers use that though, so maybe I'll have to look into it later...
Anyway, so I joined GDI - Then I remembered Hits2U ALSO has a GDI program...You sign up for the free advertising and if you WANT, you can use Hits2U as another income source by signing up with GDI and then anyone else who you refer can choose to join GDI as well - Thereby giving you more referrals -
See the beauty of these programs is that they only give FREE advertising away - That's it - See it's hard to "sell" anything online - Think about it...What are you surfing exchanges for? To get credits to promote YOUR business. And you don't want to surf endlessly - it's part of the "work" - So when you see free advertising and free resources, you are more likely to pay attention and maybe consider the offer - Then if you give an email, sign up whatever, you can take a look into it later. That's all these free resources are designed to do - Give away free advertising and hopefully the surfer will check it out later, when they get a moment - But at least you get a chance to tell them about YOUR products, when they aren't on a 10 second timer...
So here I have 1 GDI account and I have 2 free programs that both INDIRECTLY promote GDI - No pressure, no signing up, no "pro upgrades" - It's a very warm way to welcome someone into your business. Does it work? It works better than selling online, for sure, but as far as really working, I would say a 1% signup would be GREAT - That's the point of delivering massive amounts of traffic to your sites though - 20k hits/month, maybe 1% return would get you 200 signups a month -
This is the thiking anyway....I also joined the SpiderWeb System and GDI is their MAIN income earner, so I will have 3 good ways to promote GDI - Only problem is I'm getting ZERO support from Spider Web - I like what they talk about and I know how to deliver traffic and get signups, but it's never good when I post 2 messages on the forum and nobody answers me.
Anyway, what I'm trying to get is a "funnel" system...I don't know if it's THE ANSWER, but it's a step in the right direction for sure - My signups and referrals have never been better -
Oh, and I joined team GDI Pro as well - Here is my "splash page" from Google!
http://affiliatecurve.googlepages.com/home
I'll try to expand/organize later - see how much stuff I've got going on! :)
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