Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Power Traffic 10: Inspiring Article

Here's an inspiring article for your success in this business:

You may have heard of Bill Britt, one of the most successful distributors in Amway. Some years ago, 20/20 did a feature story on Amway. They spent 19 minutes interviewing whiners and complainers -- several distributors who had failed and showed the garages full of products they couldn't sell.

During the last minute of the show, Mr. Britt was interviewed in front of his palatial home. He was asked, "Mr. Britt, this business has obviously worked for you. What's your secret?"

He replied, "There is no secret. I simply showed the plan to 1200 people. 900 said, 'No.' and only 300 signed up. Out of those 300, only 85 did anything at all. Out of those 85 only 35 were serious, and out of those 35, 11 made me a millionaire."

Like Mark Yarnell (who made millions with NuSkin), Bill worked through the numbers.

Like we always say - ANY business is a numbers game, plain and simple!

Remember that & be persistent & you WILL succeed.

Stack the odds in your favor, play the numbers and keep a steady flow of NEW business to YOUR website.

Power Traffic 8: List of Advertising Resources

I have included as a quick addition, a long list of resources. I know lots of you are looking for ways to advertise free - Here is a long collection of resources -

Other places to advertise (use biz opps or small biz categories):http://www.backpage.comhttp://www.craigslist.org

Advertise to 5000 Prospects a day FREE here:http://www.millionleadsforfree.com

Opt in email advertising is one of the BEST ways to promote online.
You'll need a second email address (use gmail).Here are some good places to advertise:
http://adsolutionline.com/safelistpro/s.php?futurestarhttp://www.safelister.com/index.cgi?id=futurestarhttp://www.myviralsurfer.com/futurestarhttp://vitaladviews.com/s.php?futurestarhttp://globalsafelist.com/s.php?futurestarhttp://adtactics.com/s.php?watsonichttp://cash4usafelist.com/members/index.cgi?futurestarhttp://cash-blaster.com/members/index.cgi?futurestarhttp://europeansafelist.com/s.php?futurestarhttp://www.herculist.com/members/index.cgi?futurestarhttp://www.businessworldlist.com/members/index.cgi?futurestarhttp://www.freesafelistmailer.com/s.php?futurestarhttp://www.revolvingadsdepot.com/?affID=futurestarhttp://elixirsafelist.com/index.php?ref=futurestarhttp://www.newage-mkt.com/safelistprox/index.phphttp://www.flyingsolos.com/http://utopiansafelist.com/safelist/index.phphttp://www.targetsolos.com/index.phphttp://safelistjunky.com/solos/http://www.oystersubmitter.com/http://safelistxl.com/http://www.activesafelist.com/http://www.trafficprolist.com/safelistprox/index.phphttp://safelist.optinlister.com/members/index.cgi?futurestar

To your success!

Paul
AffiliateCurve.com

Power Traffic 9: Differentiate Yourself!

I wanted to say thanks again for using my own Power Traffic Course. What I wanted to share with you quickly is my best tip for exchange success - Not that I have had a TON of success on exchanges or that I am some guru - I'm not - But I did get 200 signups to SpiderWeb in 6 weeks and I also got 700+ signups for the course you are reading now - power traffic...I did all of that only using exchanges.

No matter what you are promoting, I believe there is 1 important thing that you must do. Well, hold on - make that 2 - The first should go without saying and it is simple...You MUST ADVERTISE LIKE CRAZY! By either spending a few bucks or surfing exchanges etc. If you think 100 hits a day to your site is getting you anywhere, you are in for a rude awakening...You need to be sending MASSIVE traffic to your sites - Traffic Generation needs to be a daily routine for you - period - When I stop advertising, my signups go right down...If I don't allocate credits or surf, I dont' get signups - it's that necessary that you keep up advertising...I'm giving you a solid BASE to get a lot of traffic to your sites. You still have to do some work though. You must surf, you must work on effective advertising and you must be constantly learning!

Now that I've beaten that topic to a pulp :) Lets get to the main point here.

You Must DIFFERENTIATE yourself and your advertising pages! I will admit that the pages I use are kind of cheesy...but you know what? They are different and they catch more attention than endless pages of affiliate sites that we see everywhere...Now this could probably also fall under that "branding" theme I've seen so much of myself - Honestly, I have never looked into that a whole lot, but I understand the message - The more people see your face or your product, the more likely they are to begin trusting it -

Obviously if they keep seeing it, you must be doing something right!

So how do I differentiate myself? I use eye catching headlines and pages that are different. Are these hard to do? NO - Do you have to be an expert web designer? NO - The previous email about using Syntha Site to build your own list is a great resource. You can add YOUR Autoresponder and build up your very own personal list.

I used Google Page Creator and that is absolutely what I would have recommended to you, but they stopped allowing new signups - You can use a blog and just have an eye catching title, short description and a link to your product.

SynthaSite is a Free Resource and you can use it to make a quick splash page for exchanges.

Here are some of my creations -

http://realmoneyfromhome.info/

http://affiliatecurve.googlepages.com/powertraffic

http://paulsteam08.googlepages.com/perfectbusiness

Again, these aren't pristine web pages done by an expert - These are simply enter the text and add some color - Now google pages is not accepting new signups, but you can easily create something like this using Google Blogger - Also, Google Sites pages are free and you can do the same kind of thing

What you want to do is Make your own mark!

It's easy to get caught up and want everything to happen for you overnight. Believe me I KNOW THE FEELING! But instead of working your butt off promoting the Wrong Way, spend some time creating your own splash page - Differentiate yourself from the crowd - Otherwise your just promoting the same old affiliate site like everyone else who isn't making any money or getting any referrals.

I have a core desire to succeed in online marketing - So I'm willing to spend money and do whatever it takes to succeed. If you want to succeed, you must make it your mission and work to achieve it.

It's up to you - My opinion is that creating your own look and getting your name out there will do wonders for you. Once people see you regularly, they start to trust you and think "maybe this person is doing something right"

These are examples above - Create your own and enjoy MUCH more success -

Power Traffic 7: Getting Organic Traffic to YOUR Site

Traffic Exchanges are a very important part of my online marketing campaigns. I wanted to share another resource that I use called Spin Success.

So what is Spin Success, and what can it do For YOU?

Spin Success is a search engine submission service that specializes in promoting Affiliate Websites for online marketers. I know if you are using traffic exchanges like I do, it can be tedious surfing for hours upon hours. But we do it because we know we need traffic, right? After all, without traffic, there is zero chance of sales...and thats why we got into online marketing in the first place!

What Spin Success will do is Hand Submit your site to 15 major search engines as well as auto submit your site to an additional 100,000 other search engines. They do this every month! As soon as you sign up and submit your site, you get an email confirming this has been done within 24 hours! They take service to another level.

Okay, so they do that but what does that really mean? Quite simply it means they do all the work of getting your affiliate site (or any website) indexed and ranked highly in the search engines. This process guarantees a huge influx of regular, TARGETED visitors to YOUR website, Automatically.

See the difference between exchanges and search engine traffic is simple: Traffic Exchange users are looking to promote their business. Search Engine users are looking FOR something. They aren't on a 10 second timer. They aren't their to get their credits. They are looking for your website!

Did you know that every 2 seconds someone new starts looking into starting an online business? That is a Staggering amount of fresh new prospects every single day. They may end up using traffic exchanges, but they won't often be starting there, right?

That is what Spin Success will do for you. They get Real, Search Engine Traffic to YOUR Website. This service alone can cost you thousands. Ever looked into getting SEO services? I found one that was $800 PER MONTH!

Spin Success has a special offer where you get your first month for only $9.95. You can try it out for a full 30 days to see what it can do for you and your affiliate site. Think about how many sites you might have to surf to get that kind of value?

Not only that, they also have a very rewarding affiliate program that pays you on 5 levels. You can get tons of traffic to your site and earn money with the same program. Many people get 1 to 5 signups daily and earn a large income just from this alone.

You also get $200 every month in Pay Per Click funds. They have a special deal with 2 search engines and you get $100/month at each...replenished every month.

See if you choose to join Acme People Search and make it your main business, Spin Success can start generating organic traffic to your site every single day.

Once you see for yourself, I am sure you will see the potential that Spin Success can bring to your online business...and it's done on autopilot for you.

Check out the main page and see for yourself. I think you'll be surprised at just how much you really get with Spin Success.

Check out Spin Success for yourself now

Power Traffic 6: What to Promote?

Welcome to Part 6: What to Promote

So now that you have these exchanges set up, what do you promote? I am sure you have at least 1 affiliate program you are a member of. I know in my first 6 months I tried over 20 different programs. They all fell short for me and I ended up giving up on a lot of them.

Everytime I quit one, I learned something about it that I did or didn't like. In general I felt that most of them left me to do ALL the work and didn't give me much help when it came to that. I understand it takes some work, but without help I was bound to fail. I had no idea what I was doing or how to do it. They just signed me up and shipped me off.

In case you think I'm just bs'ing you, here is a short list of stuff I failed with.

SpiderWeb - I got 200+ signups in 6 weeks and made NO money. It's a brilliant system, but everyone signed on thinking everything is free. The fact was that you had to be a paid member of the programs to earn anything. I got a few signups for GDI and that was it. I couldn't afford to spend the several hundred per month to join all the programs.

Contact Them - 215 signups in about 2 months. I made $9.95 total from this business, then they disappeared on me. I guess they later came back, but after they disappeared I will have NOTHING to do with them anymore.

Affiliate Junktion - This was a HUGE one for me. I spent Thousands in Pay Per Click Ads. They ended up changing the terms several times and cut off 70% of my approved payments. I got less than 1/2 of what I spent in advertising. (For that full story, read my blog - and Yes, I'm still upset)

Those are some of the big ones. I don't want to go on and on - All we can do is learn from what happened before. Besides that, many companies I failed with early in my online career when I had NO IDEA what I was doing. I just wanted to let you know that I am not some cry-baby who is trying to sell you my latest program just because I signed up for it. I realize you don't make money by advertising a program for 2 days and give up. I spent a lot of time, effort and money getting lots of signups and still got no results.

In my experience, I get the most results from what I focus ALL my energy on. The reason I mention this is because it's VERY easy to get strung out, trying to find the latest and greatest program. Then you join ANOTHER program and try to start advertising it - Only to do it all over again.

What I recommend is you focus on a long term business and a short term income earner (or both if you have that program!)

The more effort you put into any 1 thing, the better your results for that will be - Period.

If you go join 20 programs, then try to promote them all, you will get poor results and get frustrated.

This is just my experience - You may be different and you might have done well this way. I don't recommend it though, at all.

Take 1 thing at a time, work hard at it, and THEN judge your results. The point of all this is that you want to spend your time, effort and money in the Right Place.

Beyond this, you need to figure out how to earn short term income AND residual income.

Without building a real business in the background, all your hard work can up and disappear at any time. I choose GDI because it's been online for over 10 years now. Entire marketing systems are built with GDI as the centerpiece.

I've had about 5 programs that I worked hard to build up and get referrals for which all disappeared on me. And after Affiliate Junktion, I decided to build up my GDI Business, even though it was work, in the long run that would pay off -

And that is what it is about for me, Long Term Income.

My long term business is GDI - But I never had much success promoting GDI Directly. This is a key point and the reason is simple: Almost everyone has heard of GDI and has "made up their mind" about it. What I do now is promote GDI using GDI Gold Rush and PPC traffic.

Here is my GDI Site that gets results: http://greatopportunities.tk

For traffic exchanges, I promote Viral Pond. This builds up some GDI signups as well as Freebie Force.

That is why I like Viral Pond especially for Traffic Exchange use, since I'm in GDI & Freebie Force. The system applies no pressure and I get a chance to build both by just promoting a great service in Viral Pond.

I also realize that while GDI is great for a long term business, you need immediate income. Without that Immediate Gratification, you will get frustrated and quit.

So what I have compiled is my personal list of both short term & long term business building tools. I put it on 1 website as a "short and sweet version"

It's got a few different programs listed for each Immediate & Residual Income.

Check it out and see if you like any of the programs. I believe the 20 ways to make $100/day is a great opportunity. I paid 1 time and have sold a lot of copies now. You get the 20 different ways to make $100/day, AND 100% resell - That is a great program with wide appeal.

http://realmoneyfromhome.info/
To YOUR Succes

Power Traffic 5: Get your Promotion CRANKING

I know I'm throwing these at you fast, but again, the most important thing is for you to have some early success. By following the advice and recommendations in this course, you will get a really solid handle on using traffic exchanges to begin building referrals and your list.

This email is about getting your promotion campaigns really going strong!

The first place I am going to recommend is Link Referral - Now, it's not a typical traffic exchange with timers, etc. Quite simply it's the Best Free Targeted advertising you can get! LinkReferral is great - I can plug in almost any opportunity here and get leads and signups. For free traffic, you can't beat it.

Join Link Referral Here

Getting TONS of hits to your site, with less surfing, will require some money. I am of the opinion that it is worth it to spend some money, rather than a bunch of time.

If you can spend some money, I recommend the Home Income Team Traffic Exchange Upgrade.

The Home Income Team Upgrade can start sending 10 - 15,000 hits per month (or more) to your sites, Right Away. Without advertising you will get very few results...and then you will quit (like 97% of online marketers). I have wasted a couple thousand in online advertising that got me ZERO results over a 3 or 4 month period.

This will cost you $54 to start and will start getting you results almost immediately. That is a very small amount to pay when it basically covers your advertising costs for a couple months.

Once you start getting referrals and leads, you are much more likely to stick with your online business. Please name me 1 other business you can start (effectively!) for $50? It took me 5 months and a LOT of frustration before I started figuring anything out. This can help you right away. Sign up as a free member and get the offer for Traffic Exchange Pro Upgrades at 7 different, QUALITY exchanges - This is $54 and gives you a pro upgrade at 7 different exchanges - Most of which are 3 months. This, along with about 20min's/day surfing, will enable you to get 40,000 visitors to your site, for a 1 time fee. This is the best deal regarding traffic exchange advertising that I have found.

Join Home Income Team and get the Traffic Exchange Pro Upgrade Here

The main reason I recommend the Home Income Team Upgrade is because it saves you MASSIVE TIME. You get 40k hits to your sites (over 3 months) AND the Pro 1:1 surf ratios. Meaning you get twice as much traffic (at least) as surfers who are free members. With the Home Income Team offer you will save yourself Hours & Hours & Hours of surfing time. You will be able to plug in your Track that Ad rotator immediately and start driving large amounts of traffic THIS WEEK.

It is up to you, but in my experience this is the quickest way to get big traffic.

Go get it HERE

If you want to start driving huge amounts of traffic, here are some of my favorite ways to spend a little money.

Swat Traffic 5,000 credits/month package for $15. This will enable you to send 150 hits to your site every single day of the month, and never have to surf. Swat is part of the Home Income Team Pro Upgrade and you get 1 month pro membership here...after that it's $15/month for pro membership. What I decided to do was cancel my pro membership here and just buy the 5k hits. It works out to 50cents/day for what "should" get me 1 signup/day (if I get 1 referral out of 150 page views)

ILoveHits - This is the only place I INSIST you keep your Pro Membership! It's $9.97/month but ILoveHits has the BEST surfing ratio's for pro members I've found. You get at LEAST 1.25 credits for each page viewed and they also have "Henry Hours" where you earn 2.5 credits for each site surfed. Also, the more you surf, the higher the ratio goes. If you surf an hour here on a Henry Hour you can earn 3.5+ credits PER SITE! You can rack up 500 credits here in 2 hours of surfing! That's CRAZY GOOD! Also, they have another hit package where you get 3,500 hits/month for $12/month.

HitPirate - 3,500 hit package for $11/month. Again, this is a way for you to send 100+ hits to your site, everyday, for about 40cents/day. You cannot beat this kinda deal! Also, they have pretty good surfing bonuses here. I kept my pro membership and surf here everynight - I love HitPirate.
With the 3 credit packages above, we just got you 12,000 hits every month for $38/month...This takes care of almost 1/2 of our monthly surfing needs for a little over $1/day!

Compared to how long it takes to surf for this many credits, this is a STEAL! (even if your not a pro member at these exchanges, you can join free and buy these hit packages. In my opinion, it's the best investment you can make for this much hands off advertising.

WebBiz Insider - Not only is it my favorite free traffic exchange, they also have some very good premium membership deals. You don't have to jump at it right away, but read the emails for credit. They offer some very good deals sometimes. The one I bought was 6 months Premium Membership for $60 total.

This sounds like a lot, right? Well here is what I got - 2,800 credits/month, delivered on a daily basis. 5 downline members added every month (30 total downline members that I can email and send promotions to). 2 credits for every site I surf AND Credits from my referrals surfing! So basically I end up with 30 prospects and 120+ hits/ every day for $10/month! On a Premium Traffic Exchange! Oh yeah, this also included 10,000 banner impressions every month and a bunch of text link impressions. That's a lot of traffic for $10/month.

When you see something that good, it's worth looking into.

Target Blaster Pro:

This is a 1 time fee of $9.95 and allows you to send YOUR ads everyday, to a opt in list over 2million people. It also comes with 100% resell rights.

This is a no-brainer -

Anyway, this isn't a be all and end all list for you - It's just some suggestions to get you STARTED. Nothing in my program is set in stone. As much as I'm trying to teach what works for me, there are things you have to learn yourself. You also have your own personality and creativity. Some of the exchanges I love, you might hate.

You may have some great advertising resource I've never used.

So take it for what it is - An immediate way for you to drive traffic to your websites. Once you start driving traffic, you WILL get signups and referrals...it's just a matter of numbers.

These should help get your marketing going so at this point you should be focusing on driving traffic to your sites. There is more to come, but for now, you are ready to get started. This series is not over...I have more tips & tools, but I want you to focus on driving as much traffic to your sites as you can.

For me, I get the stuff listed above and surf about 4 to 5 hours a week. I'm getting nearly 30,000 hits/month with this simple setup and a few other traffic exchanges I use. For you, decide how many hits you want to your site and base your surfing & spending on that. If you want 20k hits/month, you simply need 2,000 hits/month (avg.) on 10 different exchanges. That works out to 500 hits/week for each exchange, or about 70 per day. Figure out what you want and how to accomplish it. Go in and allocate your credits on a daily basis and try to keep up. Adjust your goals and figure out what works for you.

Power Traffic 4: How to Surf efficiently

Welcome back to Power Traffic. I want to use this email to help you shorten your learning curve with surfing, and how to best use your time.

I would recommend surfing about 4-5 hours per week, possibly more. By using Firefox and 5 exchanges, you can get about 100 hits per hour, per exchange. So 1 hour would equate out to around 500 hits, if your using my exchanges and getting the good surfing ratios.

Once you get comfortable, and find a few more exchanges, you can surf 8-10 at once, earning even more credits and driving more traffic.

Only you can decide when to move up to surfing 10 exchanges at once. When I first started surfing 5 at once I felt like I was going nuts :)

But within a few sessions I got the hang of things and slowly added more exchanges to surf.

Just make sure you don't miss bonus pages and credits. Missing a 3 credit bonus link is like having to surf 6 extra pages!

What I do is I get all my surfing done in 1 or 2 sessions per week. I'll go in and crank out 2-3 hours of surfing one night, then a few days later, go do a couple more. I try to surf 5-6 hours per week, but never all at once.

You need to figure out your own surfing schedule. Some people like to go in and just do a quick 30 minutes and be done.

1 reason I don't do that is because a lot of exchanges have PROGRESSIVE surf ratios. What that means is the longer your surf session is, the more credit your getting towards the end. This gives you a chance to earn more credit for the same amount of surf time.

You'll often see happy hour surfing times, or weekend specials where you surf 100 and get extra credits etc.

You always want to get the most credits you can when surfing. So do what works best for you, but keep that in mind.

How Many Websites Should I Promote?
This is something I feel is crucial to Traffic Exchange success, and I want to expand my thoughts here. If you have more than 2 or 3 sites that you are promoting on exchanges, STOP.

Traffic Exchanges often offer "unlimited URLs" as incentive to go pro. I feel that promoting more than 2 or 3 sites is a huge mistake and here is why:

You Dilute your effort!

How do you know if your advertising is getting results if you send 30 hits/day to 10 different sites? It is much more effective to send all those hits to 1 or 2 sites that build your list and get referrals in multiple areas.

I saw on Traffic Splash there was a testimonial about how the guy was getting 1 lead for every 120 page views.

That was a testimonial from someone who really knows how to use exchanges!

Think about that for a moment, cause it really tells you a lot. Most of all it gives you some idea about what kind of results you might be expecting. If his campaigns get 1 in 120, you might get 1 in 150. So for every 150 credits, you get 1 lead.

So you want that lead to give you a chance to really DO something for you.

My entire goal with traffic exchanges is to get a lead - That's it. By getting that lead, they can then go check out the program or my email list on THEIR time.

So whatever your promoting, make sure it is focused on getting a lead and send ALL your traffic to that!

I used to have 30 different websites and try allocating credits to all of them. They were all just affiliate sites that didn't work. I didn't get signups, I didn't get an email list. I just wasted Thousands and Thousands of credits.

Don't do that - Even if your not using the programs I recommend, make sure you are using a splash page and make sure that it builds your list and gives you a chance for the surfer to check things out later, on their time.

Allocating Credits:
Most exchanges are going to have forced allocation of credits, so that whenever your surfing, a certain % of your credits are automatically allocated. I set mine as low as possible.
I like to go in manually and allocate my credits. I don't want all my credits allocated JUST at night, or JUST in the afternoon.

I also like to have some credits to use later. What I do is go in and allocate 100 credits and do it on a daily basis. This spreads out my credits and I get to show my sites everyday.

There is no hard and fast rule here, I just want you to realize that traffic credits go FAST. You don't want to surf for 3 hours and be out of credits after 1 night surfing. Your page could have been shown to the same surfer 5 times -

Goal Setting:
What I recommend is you set yourself a goal. Something like "I want to send 10k hits/month to my sites". By setting a goal, it gives you motivation and a way to keep track of your results.

If your goal is 10k hits/month, then at 500 hits/hour, you would need to surf 20 hours a month.

This sounds like a fair amount of surfing, and it is. But if you want to start getting referrals, signups and building a list, you need to get those hits.

Use the right splash pages, surf when you can, and set goals for what you want to achieve.

Doing it right now will be very beneficial for you later on.

Power Traffic 3: How to build YOUR OWN List

Welcome back to Power Traffic. The first 2 emails are about laying the groundwork for you to build a solid base.

Whether you choose Affiliate Funnel or Viral Pond or you have your own program that you really like, I want you to see the main reasons I use them: Both are 1 program that builds VARIOUS areas for you. They are also specifically centered around traffic exchanges, which is what you want. Quick splash pages that offer surfers what THEY need.

If you just used those, you would begin building a decent foundation.

There is something I feel is crucial to your success and that is building your own list.

With your own list, you are able to contact people anytime you find great new stuff.

You know how many times I've updated just THIS training series? At least 6 times - I'm always finding new stuff that I think will help other online marketers the same way it helps me. I am always learning and always searching for new ways to earn money.

By spending the time to build a list, you will have it available to you anytime you find a great new exchange, or a new affiliate program you like.

The problem here for a lot of online marketers is the cost. Having your own list requires an autoresponder. And not the endless "free" ones where they make you join 3 different programs to use what equates out to nothing better than a safelist.

When I first looked into autoresponders, I tried everything cheap. I got for a 1 time payment of $19.95. Supposed to be "easy to use" and required no technical knowledge.

It came with a 16 page manual and all kinds of crap - I spent about 8 hours trying to put it together before I finally just gave up.

I have tried several others as well. Trying to save some money. I would recommend you do yourself a favor, and just get Aweber right from the start.

It actually IS easy to use. You get unlimited autoresponders and you can create follow up messages and do broadcast emails anytime. It also comes with a Spam filter to let you know how your email "ranks" before you send it. This is important because the simplest words and phrases can send off spam alerts like crazy - With Aweber, it tells you exactly what it is so you can re-phrase or delete stuff and make sure your emails get delivered.

Here is an Aweber link, if you don't have an account -

The reason you need this is to build your very own splash pages and use them in Traffic Exchanges.

Get an account with SynthaSite - They give you free web hosting and pages to use. You can upload pictures there, edit the layouts and put whatever you want to. Most of all, you can add YOUR autoresponder form and begin building a list.

What should your page say? I have dozens of thoughts for splash page titles, but all I can say is that this is up to you. While your surfing exchanges, what catches your attention? What draws you into checking out some offers over others?

What got you to sign up for THIS course?

Try to catch their attention and fast - You only have a few seconds.

Create your own follow up series - About what? About whatever you are using, trying, etc. Things that work for you and things that don't.

At this point, you might not be ready to do that. And that is fine. You need to learn how to do things yourself, before you can offer help to others.

But even something simple like "your favorite traffic exchanges" will work - Out of over 40 exchanges I've used, I only recommend a few. That's my experience and that's what I can use.

Eventually, this will be your biggest asset in your online marketing career. You can mess around and try different pages, edit writing your own follow up series. It's no rush -

But this is something you will really appreciate having, after you put the work in to making it happen.

There is much more still coming in this series, but I feel like this is an important aspect in your online marketing efforts. So when you have time, start working on it.

To YOUR Success

Power Traffic part 2: Building Your List

Welcome to part 2 of the series, building your own list.

It took me a long time to realize that I wasn't focusing my energy in the right places. I splashed all over the place. I would just sign up for program after program and go add it to my exchanges. With no idea if what I was doing was even working.

What your goal should ALWAYS be is to get the most effective results, with the least amount of work

If you are simply promoting straight affiliate links to business programs, you need to stop. The short answer is it doesn't work. Even if you drive massive amounts of traffic, you don't get many signups this way.

The longer answer is this: You will hear a lot of people say that traffic exchanges don't work and that they are a waste of time.

The truth is that traffic exchanges are full of people like you and me. People who are looking for ways to build and promote their own business.

Traffic Exchanges absolutely work, but you need to use them right.

When I say using them right, I also mean as effectively as possible. What this means is that you promote 1 or 2 things and drive massive traffic for each of those 1 or 2 things.

Your main goal with Traffic Exchanges needs to be building a list. You should make it your core goal, cause it is that important.

I sort out list building into 2 types: Program or Dowline List Building and Personal List Building.

Program List Building is where you use a program that gives you the opportunity to build referrals and leads (and a list) for various programs, by just promoting 1 link.

Personal list building is different in that you build your very OWN email list of people you can market new programs to. This will be your most effective list, if you do it right, and is incredibly valuable.

This email is about Program or Downline List Building.

I have joined a ton of different downline building programs and had varying degrees of success. Some just have so many programs in them, that 90% of referrals never even do anything with the program - It's just too complicated.

What you should be looking for is the best and most efficient way to build a downline, with the least amount of work.

Here are 2 programs that I use and why: Affiliate Funnel & Viral Pond

Affiliate Funnel is great for building up your own email list. It is also a great way to start building up referral credits in traffic exchanges. By building exchange referrals, you get more hits for your sites, by helping other people find good traffic exchanges. There is also a business building aspect where you get to promote you and your preferred programs.

It gives you a ton of great splash pages with your links already in. If you only used Affiliate Funnel, you will build up an email list, traffic exchange referrals and some extra income. It also gives you some leverage with business building, by giving you a spot to promote your programs.

I really like Affiliate Funnel for these reasons. It really teaches you a lot about how to start building a complete business online, while giving you all the tools to build a very solid base.

There is another program I use that builds up an email list and my business - whether you are in 1 or all of them. If your not in any of these programs, it gives you a chance to review them on your own time and take a look if they are right for you or not.

If you are already a member of GDI, Freebie Force or Pyrabang, then this is a great way to build up referrals in these businesses, while building your email list as well. There are some other downline builders here as well, but I'm trying to focus on the real reason I use this one:

Building residual income.

The problem most people have as members of any of the 3 programs above is finding ways to promote them. Viral Pond gives you a great way to do this.

Viral Pond uses GDI, Freebie Force and now Pyrabang as the 3 core businesses. It explains the benefits of each program and gives your referrals a chance to join any or all of them.

Affiliate Funnel gives this opportunity as well, but it's more "in the background" in my opinion, while Viral Pond makes building your residual income a top priority.

It does all the explaining, all the selling, and builds referrals in the background. By just promoting Viral Pond, you are really given a chance to build all 3 businesses with just 1 tool.

The most crucial thing, in my opinion and experience, is to get the most effective results for your advertising efforts.

Affiliate Funnel & Viral Pond both will build your list for you. You will gain traffic exchange referrals and business knowledge, while building a long term business that works for you behind the scenes - All you do is focus on giving exchange users what THEY need. And that is ways to build their own list, and promote their own programs etc.

When surfers see the same program over and over, they begin to trust it. When they start to see that so many people are in it, they begin to think they should give it a look.

You get all of that by just promoting 2 pages. The rest is done on autopilot.

And no selling! That is a big one -

Once you join and take a look around, you will hopefully begin to get an even clearer picture of what I'm talking about above.

Join Affiliate Funnel Here

Join Viral Pond Here

That should give you enough to do tonight. Join Affiliate Funnel & Viral Pond. Take a look around and pick 1 or 2 of the splash pages to add to your rotator.

Remember all of this is still setting up to get your promotions started strong and smoothly. We will get there shortly, but setting up right is crucial.

If you are in other downline builders and prefer them, that is great too. These are what I use for the reasons outlined above.

The next email is about building your Personal list and I believe it is the most important list you will have. In the meantime, you need to begin building a little bit of everything, with the best tools you have at your disposal -

Building your own list, getting more exchange referrals and begin building YOUR business plans

Training Series Part 1: Getting Started with Traffic Exchanges

First of all, I just wanted to take a moment and thank you for subscribing. This will be a short series that I put together from my own experience of what works for me. It will take you a little bit of time and effort to get setup, but remember that anything worth value is worth putting your time into!

The most valuable thing you can get by learning this is Promotional Power. What I mean by this is that no matter what programs you join, you will be able to promote them all, instantly, anytime.

Because I have spent SO many months building my list and learning how to drive traffic, I am now able to send my ads to over 750 people on my PERSONAL email list.

I am able to send over 20k hits/month with minimal surfing.

Yes, there is some work involved here. But you must keep in mind the ultimate goal - And that is in a few months you will be able to drive traffic to ANY site you like. Building referrals, downlines and income all at the same time.

I spent 3 months learning this stuff the hard way. I also worked my butt off for Another 3 months to really "get this down" and as streamlined as I could.

You can learn in 2 weeks what took me 6 months. There is also additional resources later on in the series that give you even more promotional power. A lot of that was learned by me over the past few months.My disclaimer is simply this: I don't have "The Answer" - I don't find online marketing to be particularly easy. It's work and if you think you'll become rich in a week, stop fooling yourself. However, what this WILL do is give you a rock solid foundation for generating traffic and begin building a real online business.

Experts estimate that a new person looks into making money online Every 2 Minutes. That is a staggering number! Did you know that 97% of them fail? It can be very frustrating and I have almost quit a few times myself. I have been involved with over 20 different affiliate programs myself. I started in February 2008 and my first 6 months I invested a lot of time, money and resources. For the most part, all I really got were tough lessons.

I'm going to dive right into the training series so you can get going right away. Please don't get overwhelmed! There will be a lot of stuff here but just take your time and do it step by step.1st thing you need to do is get yourself a Rotator. You will be using 1 rotator on all your traffic exchanges. A rotator is essentially a tool you can use to add any website address you want, and assign it a weighted value. The higher the value, the more of your hits get sent to that particular site.

The best thing about a rotator though is that it makes your life a LOT easier. Instead of running around changing your websites at 10 different exchanges, you just change your rotator. Whatever your rotator is set to will AUTOMATICALLY update all your exchanges for you. This is a great tool to have and I wish I had found one earlier in my marketing career - It would have saved me a LOT of time!

First, join TrackThatAd

For the purposes of this email series, you only need the 1 rotator.

For starters you will need your rotator URL - It will look like http://www.trackthatad.com/?s=xxxxx (with the xxx's being YOUR personal rotator number). We are going to enter our rotator as our Main URL on ALL Traffic Exchanges.Using 1 rotator is going to allow you to maximize your advertising efforts. Traffic Exchanges are simply a numbers game - A rotator will allow you to focus your efforts to the sites that perform the best for you.Also, if the exchange only allows 1 url (like WebBiz Insider) then you just enter your rotator as the 1 site.

Anyway, I'm probably going on and on, but once you use one and have to change things 1 time, you'll see how useful this is.Now that you have your rotator, it's time to setup (or update) your traffic exchanges.These are my top 5 list of free exchanges:

EasyHits4U - Great surf ratio, unlimited website, always highly ranked.

TrafficSplash - Lots of bonuses, super quick surfing, run by Great Owners!

WebBiz Insider - Great surfing here, lots of great information, easy to earn lots of credits

HitSafari - Lots of bonuses, great exchange

Traffic Swarm - The biggest exchange online, recently ranked #2 at Traffic Hoopla!

Already in any of these? maybe looking for 1 or 2 others?

Other Top Considerations:

ILoveHits - Fast surfing, bonus pages, outstanding exchange
4x4Hits - Nice bonuses, previously my #5
Traffic Bunnies - Fun to surf, very nice exchange

If you want to know the reasons these are my top Free exchanges, read this article:

http://affiliatecurve.blogspot.com/2008/11/difference-between-free-exchanges.html

It explains the differences between free exchanges, and "not so free" exchanges.

Best example: Hit2Hit - Great exchange, top ranked, and I'm an active member. But you get a 3:1 surf exchange unless you upgrade at some point, meaning you surf 3 sites and get 1 credit. There are better ways to spend your time than by surfing other exchanges where you are working 3x as hard for the same traffic.

The sites above are always well ranked and excellent if you don't want to spend money. If you can spend some, that comes later:You need to download Firefox and learn how to surf with what is called Multi Tab Browsing - This sounds complicated, but it's really very easy to learn. Download Firefox, type in the address for 1 exchange and log in. Then, just go to FILE and open a new tab. Open your next exchange and log in. Rinse & Repeat. Personally, I get the most surfing done with 8 pages. You can open 12 or more, but with 8 you will be able to get through the pages faster - This will help you REALLY rack up credits. Surfing 8 pages on Firefox means your basically getting 8x the results, with the same effort. Start with 3 or 4 to get the hang of it, but add more as you learn it. For me, I'm able to get almost 800 credits each hour of surfing (overall).

This is the only way to surf anymore. We need massive credits to generate traffic. You need to get those credits as efficiently as possible. Don't go so fast that you miss your bonus credits though. Make sure you can at least see what's going on :)

SO, Spend tonight getting your rotator and adding JUST your rotator to whatever exchanges you are a member of (or join some new ones)The next email is on how to start building your own list - This is going to be the most important thing you can build. Even if you find that magic program, you should always be building a personal email list. Programs come and go, but YOUR list is yours forever - And one of the most valuable things you could spend your time on.

By the time this series is over, you will be able to plug in ANY program and get referrals and income.