Monday, November 9, 2009

Online Marketing and what you have to "Learn for Yourself"

Been too long - I know - I'm still working daily but I haven't been focusing on my blog or updating stuff...

You know how it is when you "get a hair up your azz" (children friendly lol) - Tonight I got one and have to share an email -

The bottom line is this: No matter how much I 'tell someone" what they should or shouldn't be doing, there is only so much advice a person can give - I've been talking to someone who I really like, but was at a point where I didn't feel like i could help her - I wanted to, i really did...

tonight i got a very friendly warm email from her - I got that "hair" and sent her an email back - with the best advice i could give...(Yes, this is LONG! :)

Hey Norma,

how are you? Anytime you get a subscriber, you will receive an email notification that says something along the lines of "subscriber campaign alert" - that tells you anytime someone signs up -

With Alert Pay - Make SURE you are able to accept payments to it - Even pay yourself if you need to. I had some stupid setting on there (months ago and I forget now, sorry) and had 4 payments sent to me that I never got the money for - It's one of those "why would Alert Pay even make that an OPTION" kind of stupid thing - So, send yourself $5 or whatever, but make sure it's accepting your payments - Has nothing to do with upgrading to a business account or anything, it's some stupid back door setting and caused me to miss money -

If anything doesn't work on Alert Pay, then just use Paypal - Better to lose a few sales on people that won't use alert pay, than to lose several sales by having Alert Pay as an option but not taking your money -

day and night - this is tough - it's not an easy thing for me to pinpoint...Traffic Exchanges are good for building a list...they aren't good for selling and the people who mostly use them are part of the 97% who fail - What I mean by this is they are mostly newcomers, looking to get rich - As derogotory as that sounds, I say it for a reason - You MUST be thick skinned when it comes to exchanges as well as safelist advertising and even every other type of online advertising out there - People are looking for easy, and if it's not easy enough, they bounce right on to the next person telling you how easy THEIR system is...so to say "online marketing is tough" is extremely understating it - What my goal is now is to get 100 "prospects" - Out of those prospects, maybe 10 will actually even look at the emails or pay any attention to it at all - Out of those 10, maybe you get 3 or 4 who have seen enough crap to realize that TEP is actually an incredibly powerful system - Of those 3 or 4, you get 1, maybe 2 people that join -

Now as bad as these sound, and I admit it sounds bad, it's just reality - Out of 100 people that actually Sign UP for more information, very few will ever do anything with it - I myself signed up for TEP 3 or 4 times before I paid attention...But when I did, it all clicked -

Those are the people that you WANT - Here is why TEP works so well - Remember those 100 prospects kinda thing - when i say 10 will act6ually look, you still benefit - and here's why - More than 10 people of those 100 WILL join under you in Traffic Splash and Traffic Witch - That alone is worth the time your putting in now - Not because "those people" will make you huge commissions, but because they are surfers - They need more credits for their time. And so you have to keep in mind that each referral you get for Traffic Splash and Traffic Witch is another chance for you toe earn commission (hopefully) and traffic credits -

i'm going too deep here - but i'm trying to get to the point :)

I have a thick skin with online marketing because I've been around awhile - Now, I understand that most of our prospects are basically tire kickers looking for easy answers - I'll take them because they MAY eventually realize how good this system is - And once I get a few of those, then it's only a matter of time before they quit or get serious - And THAT is what we are out here for - The SERIOUS people - Once someone has seen enough crap, they realize it's do or die time - Most of them die and quit/give up whatever...but that's normal - When you get a few of the serious people, THEN your downlines REALLY take off...

and at that point, you start earning - You get the OBA upgrades, you get the Traffic Witch Upgrades - Traffic Splash Upgrades - And Traffic Wave referrals - That is the BIGGEST part of all this - Traffic Wave - If you get 5 or 6 SERIOUS people in your Traffic Wave downline, you will start making Real money -

These are all things that took me a long time to realize - So have a thick skin and see where the potential is - Remember we are all out here advertising OUR program...It takes a LOT of the same thing (people seeing the same thing) before we start to think "what is THAT program doing that makes IT so successful" - We all WANT to be successful of course, there is just so much crap out here it's nearly impossible to find anything good -

if your not getting prospects, focus on building a list of some sort elsewhere - For instance, when I first started I advertised EasyHits4U HEAVILY on my website - I didn't have a hidden agenda, I just thought it was the best exchange - and I am about helping people learn from my own experience...Anyway, i'll cut this down a bit :) - By advertising EasyHits4u, i built a downline of people I can email - Same thing with 4x4 hits - Same thing with a lot of exchanges - By following up with your downline, you can share what works for you - now even if it's not working up to what your expectations are (*this is where it gets grey for me honestly - the difference between sharing and selling is a tough one for me - My best advice is to just sell, because nobody likes to be "shared")_anyway, your expectations might not be close to reality - BUT, NOONES REALITY IS LIVING UP TO EXPECTATIONS OUT HERE - And if you show them YOU have something that can help them, then they need that (whether they realize or not - this is extremely helpful and would have saved me MONTHS of wasted time if i'd just concentrated on TEP only)_

so build your email list somehow - traffic exchanges, the TEP system - use the safelists I recommend - Whatever it is that you can go in and send an email to people - it's SO MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE than an "ad" that they see over and over....

I now have an email list over 1k people - it took me a LONG time to build it and to be honest, they are pretty useless - only useless from the standpoint that they don't buy anything from me - And bottom line is what we can get people to buy - lets be honest :)

So i know i've gone on and on now - Work the system - work the best exchanges - send as many hits as you can to your ad's - Try different TEP ads - i would say track them, but this has neven been my cup of tea - I just sent TONS of traffic and hope for the best...If you know how to track your ads, do it - see which is working best and what is a waste of time -

but do this - STICK - stick with this - It IS a great system and it DOES work very well - Just try to focus on the long term goal (traffic wave referrals) and the little stuff will trickle in (oba sales, traffic exchange referrals, free credits and so on)

I hope this helps - I know i got super long winded - I really FEEL where your at - When I started I had all those same feelings...My problem was i wasn't desperate for any money - I just wanted to succeed and felt like the money would just come in time....So I hear what your saying and where your at - Just keep working and learn - when your surfing, learn - what catches your attention? What makes you want to take a 2nd look - Compare those to YOUR ad's and is it getting the same results....

I wish i could "impart" 2 years of surfing knowledge on you, but it doesn't work that way...I do what I can, but there is just that "have to learn for yourself" stuff that nobody can teach you...

I hope you stick with it - I really do - cause it is that good...even though it feels SO frustrating to not get results like we want/expect or even need -

And if you read this far, you are truly looking to be successful - So here is my link for Traffic Exchange Profits: