Tonight I added some articles to my section - I think the Beginners Guide to Traffic Exchanges was far too important to leave as just 1 link on a back page -
I'm still working on more - I started writing an article, but I can't just go on my site and write it - I have to write it where I can think about it and edit it: So I guess the "new" articles will have to wait...But just to share, I'm working on revamping a lot of stuff in my site this weekend...
Last night I added some of the Link Referral reviews - There are over 1,000 great reviews to choose from, so it was easy and quick to find a few nice ones - I'm trying to "add credibility" for even the "get rich quick" seekers...
Anyway, more coming later (I'm afraid to report this was originally a GREAT video from OBA all about MLM and the REAL story about why MLM is the BEST business model online - Problem is you have to be an OBA member...It looked like a generic link I might be able to link straight to, but alas is only for OBA members - Too bad cause it's an EXCELLENT video about MLM and Network Marketing)
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
Jotting some stuff down to work on later
Tonight I took a drive home to spend the weekend with my family. It was a nice chance to take a drive and listen to music for a couple hours.
I used the time to think about my projects that I want to work on - I have a lot of stuff that is "coming into focus" and a lot of stuff to add to my site
I should probably keep a little recording device on me at all times - I have so many thoughts for different stuff I could do and try out, then I don't get it on paper or remember it long enough to ever make use of it - So I wanted to take a few minutes and jot down some thoughts on upcoming projects
First, Article writing and my home site:
I have some ideas for articles, and I also need to "re-vamp" my site a bit. I get a lot of reviewers who say there is too much info on there - That's fine - My site is all about content...It's not meant to be glitzy or pretty - It's meant to provide my experience and opinion of programs...But it could use some touching up...
Article Ideas to work on:
One Time Offers - What factors should go into your decision making process when considering the MANY OTO's we encounter in online marketing
When did MLM Become a Dirty Word? I think I want to write something about a general misconception about MLM - See everytime someone hears MLM, they have negative connotations associated with it - MLM Simply means this: You AND I both earn THE SAME - The people who work harder and get more signups/downline members earn more - Those who do less work, earn less - I don't understand how people have such negative feelings when they hear the word MLM
Residual Income vs. Short Term Income - The difference and the goals we should have as business owners - This is QUITE a lengthy topic, but I want to have SOMETHING on my site outlining this simple concept for people - Certain businesses should be looked at as a Long Term Business (Like GDI for 98% of us) while something like Free Affiliate Insider is about instant income - I do believe we absolutely need both - My goal is to earn immediate income, while building a long term business with GDI - The entire point, for me, is to NOT have to work - I didn't get into online marketing to spend hours and hours online posting free ads or surfing traffic exchanges...If you are always building a long term business, eventually that can turn into residual income - When that happens, you don't "have" to do anything any longer -
Maybe that's too much stuff - who knows :)
Also, need to come up with some sort of "short and sweet" business builder - The one thing I have learned is that people in online marketing have a VERY short attention span - You can't give someone a huge downline building program with 40 different things and expect them to succeed - What you have to do is figure out What Works Where - For instance, traffic exchanges should be used for 1 thing: List Building - PPC traffic is used for Selling - Something like this
So I'm working and thinking about an "all in one" short series of how to build your business...Certain things need to be included - You MUST have your own Autoresponder. It comes down to a matter of being respectable online - You MUST have a web presence - Your own site is almost mandatory...I have stumbled across several blogs lately and those are great - They don't cost a dime, they do well in search engines, and you write and promote whatever you like -
Anyway, as you can see - Lots of projects and not much focus -
That was what this is - My own personal jotting down for stuff to work on this next week - I have another post coming up right away, but shouldn't be put here -
Oh - Traffic Exchange Page! New ideas - Build another traffic exchange page using JUST a free site - That way anyone can sign up...I HATED that google pages stopped accepting signups just weeks after I used them to build my TE pages...The best free service I ever used for building a quick splash page, and it's gone - So I'm going to use SynthaSite or one of the blogs and build a splash page JUST for list building on Traffic Exchanges...I got nearly 600 subscirbers to my Power Traffic Course - This is the best kind of list building anyone can do - And 600 subscribers isn't Thousands or Millions, but you know what? They read my emails - They respond and ask questions - They see that I'm just like them...I'm learning how to make money online - It's not easy, and I'm not an expert of any kind...But I'm past the initial learning curve and I'm beginning to figure stuff out - That's all I can try to do - Be honest and share what works for me.
So anyway, need another list builder page - Something that ANYONE can set up and do themselves - It will include the traffic exchange stuff, the beginners guide to exchanges, the best paid exchanges online and the best free traffic exchanges - I'm thinking of titles along the lines of "Are you past the Get Rich Stage Yet?" or something like "I'm here for the long haul, are you?" - ANyway, has to be catchy to get attention and has to offer what surfers want - So I will try to come up with a good title to entice subscriptions
Other stuff - Hmm, - Next blog post :)
I used the time to think about my projects that I want to work on - I have a lot of stuff that is "coming into focus" and a lot of stuff to add to my site
I should probably keep a little recording device on me at all times - I have so many thoughts for different stuff I could do and try out, then I don't get it on paper or remember it long enough to ever make use of it - So I wanted to take a few minutes and jot down some thoughts on upcoming projects
First, Article writing and my home site:
I have some ideas for articles, and I also need to "re-vamp" my site a bit. I get a lot of reviewers who say there is too much info on there - That's fine - My site is all about content...It's not meant to be glitzy or pretty - It's meant to provide my experience and opinion of programs...But it could use some touching up...
Article Ideas to work on:
One Time Offers - What factors should go into your decision making process when considering the MANY OTO's we encounter in online marketing
When did MLM Become a Dirty Word? I think I want to write something about a general misconception about MLM - See everytime someone hears MLM, they have negative connotations associated with it - MLM Simply means this: You AND I both earn THE SAME - The people who work harder and get more signups/downline members earn more - Those who do less work, earn less - I don't understand how people have such negative feelings when they hear the word MLM
Residual Income vs. Short Term Income - The difference and the goals we should have as business owners - This is QUITE a lengthy topic, but I want to have SOMETHING on my site outlining this simple concept for people - Certain businesses should be looked at as a Long Term Business (Like GDI for 98% of us) while something like Free Affiliate Insider is about instant income - I do believe we absolutely need both - My goal is to earn immediate income, while building a long term business with GDI - The entire point, for me, is to NOT have to work - I didn't get into online marketing to spend hours and hours online posting free ads or surfing traffic exchanges...If you are always building a long term business, eventually that can turn into residual income - When that happens, you don't "have" to do anything any longer -
Maybe that's too much stuff - who knows :)
Also, need to come up with some sort of "short and sweet" business builder - The one thing I have learned is that people in online marketing have a VERY short attention span - You can't give someone a huge downline building program with 40 different things and expect them to succeed - What you have to do is figure out What Works Where - For instance, traffic exchanges should be used for 1 thing: List Building - PPC traffic is used for Selling - Something like this
So I'm working and thinking about an "all in one" short series of how to build your business...Certain things need to be included - You MUST have your own Autoresponder. It comes down to a matter of being respectable online - You MUST have a web presence - Your own site is almost mandatory...I have stumbled across several blogs lately and those are great - They don't cost a dime, they do well in search engines, and you write and promote whatever you like -
Anyway, as you can see - Lots of projects and not much focus -
That was what this is - My own personal jotting down for stuff to work on this next week - I have another post coming up right away, but shouldn't be put here -
Oh - Traffic Exchange Page! New ideas - Build another traffic exchange page using JUST a free site - That way anyone can sign up...I HATED that google pages stopped accepting signups just weeks after I used them to build my TE pages...The best free service I ever used for building a quick splash page, and it's gone - So I'm going to use SynthaSite or one of the blogs and build a splash page JUST for list building on Traffic Exchanges...I got nearly 600 subscirbers to my Power Traffic Course - This is the best kind of list building anyone can do - And 600 subscribers isn't Thousands or Millions, but you know what? They read my emails - They respond and ask questions - They see that I'm just like them...I'm learning how to make money online - It's not easy, and I'm not an expert of any kind...But I'm past the initial learning curve and I'm beginning to figure stuff out - That's all I can try to do - Be honest and share what works for me.
So anyway, need another list builder page - Something that ANYONE can set up and do themselves - It will include the traffic exchange stuff, the beginners guide to exchanges, the best paid exchanges online and the best free traffic exchanges - I'm thinking of titles along the lines of "Are you past the Get Rich Stage Yet?" or something like "I'm here for the long haul, are you?" - ANyway, has to be catchy to get attention and has to offer what surfers want - So I will try to come up with a good title to entice subscriptions
Other stuff - Hmm, - Next blog post :)
Friday, January 2, 2009
2009 Goals & Programs
Hi,
That last post was ridiculously long winded - Sometimes I just can't help myself.
This post is going to be more serious - I need to outline my goals and programs for 2009.
First, my GDI Business - This is priority 1. In December I doubled my GDI Downline. I went from 32 members in 4 months, to just over 70 total now. I did it with 2 programs:
http://greatopportunities.tk/
and: http://realmoneyfromhome.info/
I did spend plenty of money - But in my mind, it's an investment. Every GDI Member that joins my downline has the potential to build the GDI business for me. I'm sure a lot of people look at a GDI signup as only being $1/month - I don't - I see it as a potential to have a GDI member who goes out and gets 20-30 in THEIR downline...And by me just getting that 1 signup, I could really be getting 20-30 (or more) each time -
So by investing the money up front, I am building a GDI team - A Team that comes to me for advice and promotion tips. And any of them could end up being like me - Someone who is driven to success and will do whatever it takes to accomplish it.
My goal for GDI this year is to have 200 in my downline - Last month I had 40 signups. I am hoping to have another 40 this month - Pretty soon, some of my team is going to be building their own teams and that is when GDI turns into a real income -
I built the Acme Page using Homestead - What a great service. You get a full 30 day trial without even using a credit card. And the base hosting plan includes a TON of great templates and easy to use features - And if you decide that you like what you built, it's only $5/month to have your site published and hosted.
That is a great deal - It's even easier to use than the Yahoo SiteBuilder and cheaper. I don't know if I'm ready to try and "move" all my websites to Homestead, but I'm strongly considering it - Yahoo is like $14/month - It's pretty pricey compared to most hosting plans. Then again, I'm such a clutz when it comes to FTP and transferring sites, I probably shouldn't bother - Besides, most of my important email is all on yahoo - And I don't want to screw that up - Not to save a few bucks/month -
But any new sites I'm building with Homestead for sure -
Okay, other programs: Dieting!
I joined Free Affiliate Insider and got my own diet site. This is a great program
First, I believe it's going to be big because it's obviously a market that is about to be FLOODED with traffic. Everyone goes on a diet after the New Year and this gives us a chance to earn some serious money.
You get hosting for roughly $47 - You pick your own domain name and follow the advertising instructions. It's all laid out very simple and easy to follow. Every time someone takes a free trial, you earn a $20 commission - Over and Over -
Worried about the cost? Free Affiliate Insider GUARANTEES you make $100 WITHIN 48 hours!
so in less than 2 days you earn GUARANTEED commission of at least $100!
Yes, it's true - I got my $100 in less than 2 days, so I can back this program 100%
You can get your own Diet Review Website from Free Affiliate Insider here:
I'm going to be focusing my efforts here as well - We all need to earn that immediate income, and this is a great way to do that - Simple and laid out step by step -
If you want to see my site, just go to http://www.realdiethelp.com/
As you can see, this is a very nice website that I believe is an excellent "seller"
OTHER PROGRAMS:
I never limit myself - I'm always looking for the easiest ways to make money online. I am focused on building my GDI Business, but like I mentioned throughout, we need to make money while we are building a long term business
So I'm promoting Acme People Search - This is what I built my own website for, http://realmoneyfromhome.info/
You earn up to $30/referral AND build GDI as a long term business.
Acme is an excellent program and there are lots of ways to make money. I am finding that people still will not commit to the advertising costs of $29/month. I get lots of signups for step 1 & 2, but then everyone freezes up at 3 I guess.
This is a tricky proposition because the referrals stipulate that you must have OK ratings for step 2 and 3 - 50% is OK - this is where it gets tricky for everyone. As much as Tissa has gone out of his way to really work with me, I am still finding little success in getting step 2 & 3 completions - Nobody Wants to Spend MONEY -
So right now I am heavily promoting Acme - It is building my GDI Business and I'm earning more than enough through just the Reunion referrals to compensate the costs, but I've got over $1k on hold because of referral ratings -
I'd love to sit here and sugarcoat everything but unless you are a good marketer, you may become very frustrated with Acme People Search. It's a brilliant system - It builds GDI, you earn money through 5 different sources...But there is just something about people spending $29/month for the advertising - I made my page Specifically so I could do the "pre-sell" - Still, finding the same results...Lots of step 1 & 2's, but little step 3's -
So if you join Acme (and I do recommend it highly), don't go in thinking all you do is "signup and get rich" - it takes work - I would recommend building your own webpage or blog and give YOUR experience with the program. Just pluggin in the affiliate page doesn't work very well - So if you join, keep that in mind. It's good for income and it's great for GDI - It's just not as easy as it sounds - I love it, but I spent a lot of time and money setting up the promotion campaign that I have - If you really want to succeed with it, you will have to put some work in -
That isn't everything I'm into of course - I have my OBA business going decently. I have another "clone" of affiliate junktion that seems to be okay. Basically, it's very easy to sell but you don't earn any long term income - But I need immediate income as well as long term - As of today I have been advertising for 2 weeks and earned just over $300, so it's easy, but I'm not ready to promote it to my close friends and email list until I actually get paid
I will tell you about something that is in the back of my mind though. Even before the AJ stuff, I realized that these businesses can come and go any time they please - The AJ program is simple, and it's brilliant really. Did you know that most hosting companies pay you up to $100 per referral? That is a big commission!
I've had it in the back of my mind to come up with my own affiliate program - Something "like" Affiliate Junktion where you basically are selling hosting - But you sell it as THE PROGRAM. At $100/referral, you can REALLY rack up commissions in a jiffy.
But I don't know enough about the business aspect of that stuff - I would need someone who knows programming and can build "ready to go" websites - I would need someone to handle the business side of everything with setting up taxes and all that stuff.
But I'll tell you what I would do - I would give my affiliate a Fair Deal! I wouldn't cut 70% of their commissions after I promised to pay them for free leads and I wouldn't switch currencies on them whenever it pleased me.
Someday my goal is to run my own affiliate program - Something involving GDI would be excellent - Some simple $10/month business with some other immediate income generators...Something that practically anyone could do - Who knows - I'm surely a long way off with coming up with my own Affiliate Program - But ultimately, who makes all the money? The Boss, right? So to make the money, you got to be the boss - Maybe that should be my affiliate programs name "be the boss" - Yeah, like that's original :)
alright, till next time -
That last post was ridiculously long winded - Sometimes I just can't help myself.
This post is going to be more serious - I need to outline my goals and programs for 2009.
First, my GDI Business - This is priority 1. In December I doubled my GDI Downline. I went from 32 members in 4 months, to just over 70 total now. I did it with 2 programs:
http://greatopportunities.tk/
and: http://realmoneyfromhome.info/
I did spend plenty of money - But in my mind, it's an investment. Every GDI Member that joins my downline has the potential to build the GDI business for me. I'm sure a lot of people look at a GDI signup as only being $1/month - I don't - I see it as a potential to have a GDI member who goes out and gets 20-30 in THEIR downline...And by me just getting that 1 signup, I could really be getting 20-30 (or more) each time -
So by investing the money up front, I am building a GDI team - A Team that comes to me for advice and promotion tips. And any of them could end up being like me - Someone who is driven to success and will do whatever it takes to accomplish it.
My goal for GDI this year is to have 200 in my downline - Last month I had 40 signups. I am hoping to have another 40 this month - Pretty soon, some of my team is going to be building their own teams and that is when GDI turns into a real income -
I built the Acme Page using Homestead - What a great service. You get a full 30 day trial without even using a credit card. And the base hosting plan includes a TON of great templates and easy to use features - And if you decide that you like what you built, it's only $5/month to have your site published and hosted.
That is a great deal - It's even easier to use than the Yahoo SiteBuilder and cheaper. I don't know if I'm ready to try and "move" all my websites to Homestead, but I'm strongly considering it - Yahoo is like $14/month - It's pretty pricey compared to most hosting plans. Then again, I'm such a clutz when it comes to FTP and transferring sites, I probably shouldn't bother - Besides, most of my important email is all on yahoo - And I don't want to screw that up - Not to save a few bucks/month -
But any new sites I'm building with Homestead for sure -
Okay, other programs: Dieting!
I joined Free Affiliate Insider and got my own diet site. This is a great program
First, I believe it's going to be big because it's obviously a market that is about to be FLOODED with traffic. Everyone goes on a diet after the New Year and this gives us a chance to earn some serious money.
You get hosting for roughly $47 - You pick your own domain name and follow the advertising instructions. It's all laid out very simple and easy to follow. Every time someone takes a free trial, you earn a $20 commission - Over and Over -
Worried about the cost? Free Affiliate Insider GUARANTEES you make $100 WITHIN 48 hours!
so in less than 2 days you earn GUARANTEED commission of at least $100!
Yes, it's true - I got my $100 in less than 2 days, so I can back this program 100%
You can get your own Diet Review Website from Free Affiliate Insider here:
I'm going to be focusing my efforts here as well - We all need to earn that immediate income, and this is a great way to do that - Simple and laid out step by step -
If you want to see my site, just go to http://www.realdiethelp.com/
As you can see, this is a very nice website that I believe is an excellent "seller"
OTHER PROGRAMS:
I never limit myself - I'm always looking for the easiest ways to make money online. I am focused on building my GDI Business, but like I mentioned throughout, we need to make money while we are building a long term business
So I'm promoting Acme People Search - This is what I built my own website for, http://realmoneyfromhome.info/
You earn up to $30/referral AND build GDI as a long term business.
Acme is an excellent program and there are lots of ways to make money. I am finding that people still will not commit to the advertising costs of $29/month. I get lots of signups for step 1 & 2, but then everyone freezes up at 3 I guess.
This is a tricky proposition because the referrals stipulate that you must have OK ratings for step 2 and 3 - 50% is OK - this is where it gets tricky for everyone. As much as Tissa has gone out of his way to really work with me, I am still finding little success in getting step 2 & 3 completions - Nobody Wants to Spend MONEY -
So right now I am heavily promoting Acme - It is building my GDI Business and I'm earning more than enough through just the Reunion referrals to compensate the costs, but I've got over $1k on hold because of referral ratings -
I'd love to sit here and sugarcoat everything but unless you are a good marketer, you may become very frustrated with Acme People Search. It's a brilliant system - It builds GDI, you earn money through 5 different sources...But there is just something about people spending $29/month for the advertising - I made my page Specifically so I could do the "pre-sell" - Still, finding the same results...Lots of step 1 & 2's, but little step 3's -
So if you join Acme (and I do recommend it highly), don't go in thinking all you do is "signup and get rich" - it takes work - I would recommend building your own webpage or blog and give YOUR experience with the program. Just pluggin in the affiliate page doesn't work very well - So if you join, keep that in mind. It's good for income and it's great for GDI - It's just not as easy as it sounds - I love it, but I spent a lot of time and money setting up the promotion campaign that I have - If you really want to succeed with it, you will have to put some work in -
That isn't everything I'm into of course - I have my OBA business going decently. I have another "clone" of affiliate junktion that seems to be okay. Basically, it's very easy to sell but you don't earn any long term income - But I need immediate income as well as long term - As of today I have been advertising for 2 weeks and earned just over $300, so it's easy, but I'm not ready to promote it to my close friends and email list until I actually get paid
I will tell you about something that is in the back of my mind though. Even before the AJ stuff, I realized that these businesses can come and go any time they please - The AJ program is simple, and it's brilliant really. Did you know that most hosting companies pay you up to $100 per referral? That is a big commission!
I've had it in the back of my mind to come up with my own affiliate program - Something "like" Affiliate Junktion where you basically are selling hosting - But you sell it as THE PROGRAM. At $100/referral, you can REALLY rack up commissions in a jiffy.
But I don't know enough about the business aspect of that stuff - I would need someone who knows programming and can build "ready to go" websites - I would need someone to handle the business side of everything with setting up taxes and all that stuff.
But I'll tell you what I would do - I would give my affiliate a Fair Deal! I wouldn't cut 70% of their commissions after I promised to pay them for free leads and I wouldn't switch currencies on them whenever it pleased me.
Someday my goal is to run my own affiliate program - Something involving GDI would be excellent - Some simple $10/month business with some other immediate income generators...Something that practically anyone could do - Who knows - I'm surely a long way off with coming up with my own Affiliate Program - But ultimately, who makes all the money? The Boss, right? So to make the money, you got to be the boss - Maybe that should be my affiliate programs name "be the boss" - Yeah, like that's original :)
alright, till next time -
A New Year and Lots Going through my Head
There is a lot of stuff I've been wanting to post in my blog lately. Since the Affiliate Junktion debacle, I got VERY serious about building my long term business with GDI. I spent a lot of time and money on Affiliate Junktion and it set me back quite a bit - To the point where my wife is telling me I need to quit. It's understandable - I spent about $4,000 or so over the past 3 months advertising different things, most of which was spent on Affiliate Junktion. That's how I was able to get so many signups - I was spending about $30/day just on my AJ advertising. After my last payment were I earned less than what I had spent in September, I was very disparaged. I was expecting to make $4-5k - Not less than what I spent in advertising.
So I got damn serious about GDI. I knew that even though it would take time, at least I would be building a REAL income. Something that would end up working for me.
In November my GDI Downline was at 32 - Today it is at 71...It easily could have been 100, but several of the signups quit before they gave it any chance. That's fine - That's the way GDI goes. They say that 90% of the people who join you will quit - Most people do not have the resolve that I do to succeed. That is just something you have to push through. What you hope is that by getting enough signups, some of those who join will take it very seriously and follow your lead. That's all it takes really - Having a few people in your downline who are serious and want to succeed long term.
I made the GDI Leaderboard for 3 straight weeks. I got the bonus money on 2 of those 3 weeks. This week I have 4 signups and hopefully will get a couple more for another bonus. The $100 bonuses are really the only way to offset the advertising costs
I won't kid you - I'm not building my GDI team using traffic exchanges. I'm spending money on Google & Yahoo advertising. I'm at about $15/day right now - And despite the fact that I am technically "losing money" on the surface, any of the members that stay on my GDI Team could possibly turn into someone like me. Downline members like that, in the long run, will be well worth the investment now.
So my GDI Business is coming along nicely. I believe that in a few more months, I will be up to 150 members. My goal is to get to 200 - At that point, I'm "hoping" that enough of my downline will follow my lead and build their own business. That is when GDI becomes a monthly, residual income.
And that is my goal - Passive, residual income that continues to grow month after month.
Of course what I am finding is that the biggest problem with GDI is that it IS a long term business. Unless you are one of the superstars like Tissa or Ash who get 50+ signups every week, you never see enough income from it.
So you have to earn immediate income in the meantime. This is the area where EXPERIENCE really comes into play - Despite wasting several thousand dollars advertising Affiliate Junktion and getting screwed (sorry, just a fact), I did learn how to advertise using Google & Yahoo Pay Per Click. Now I can plug in ANY program and start advertising it right away. That is why once I started advertising GDI Gold Rush, I got signups almost immediately -
Now it takes me about 1 hour to set up a new campaign and get PPC traffic to it - Right away. That isn't to say you can just plug in anything...For instance, I plugged in a bunch of different Clickbank products and made ZERO sales. I plugged in a Generic GDI Page and got no signups - I got about 100 "prospects" but nobody joined - I plugged in SpiderWeb and got another 100 or so Spider Members - I ended up with zero results there (not even GDI signups)
I 'believe' the trick with selling clickbank products MAY be having your own web page and describing the product or reviewing it. I'm not sure exactly - All I know is I sent about 1k clicks out on 4 different clickbank products and made no sales - Maybe I didn't use proper country targeting - Maybe it's the fact that all I used was a generic clickbank link (no cloaker, just the affiliate link - I've read that people HATE buying something if they KNOW someone is making a commission off it - that makes sense to me) The trick with ClickBank cloaking is a certain set of URL redirects, but they basically require you to use the redirects IN a webpage - So simply advertising them on Google & Yahoo doesn't work for cloaking (seems to work in emails though)
As you can see, I still have a lot to learn :)
Anyway, moving on - The good thing is that for my affiliate pages, Like GDI Gold Rush or the Acme Page, these are whole websites that do a great presentation. The Affiliate Junktion site worked like a charm - I could get 300 clicks daily there because you sell it as "FREE".
Losing myself again, but this is my blog and that's what it's for - here is what i'm GETTING AT:
With the Power Traffic course, the entire point is that you setup all of this marketing to use at YOUR DISPOSAL - Once you know how to drive traffic, you can use it to promote Anything You Want!
Anytime I start a new program (yes, I do all the time!) I simply plug it into my Track that Ad Rotator and it's done - Then I just go to my different exchanges and allocate the credits -
This is also what is so powerful about Google & Yahoo advertising - YES, it's expensive - But it lets you know right away if something is working or not - You can set a budget of $3/day if you want (or less even).
And once you set up advertising, you just leave it alone - It works around the clock - Some people might say it's spending your money around the clock, but for me, I don't like surfing exchanges. I don't like spending a bunch of time on the computer. I would much rather take my family to the zoo and come check my email when I get home. When I pay for advertising, that's all I need to do - check email -
Still, not a perfect science by any means. I already mentioned all the stuff about the Click Bank products and what not - you can't just plug in ANYTHING and make a ton of money.
Other stuff - If you read this far, I'm going to give you my biggest tip for Google or Yahoo advertising. I don't EVER pay their "minimum" click amounts - You don't have to! For Affiliate Junktion, I was only spending 9-10cents per click - For all my advertising now, I only spend 12-13cents/click - What is the trick? Keywords & Ads - Lots of EACH!
I write 20-50 different ads - each one with a different keyword. Then I have several keywords outlining that particular ad - For instance, Earn Money Online would be the title, then just type in everything you can think of relating to that title (in keywords)
Do that over and over - Set your bids for 10-12cents and include the Content Network - ALWAYS have the content network on! You will never get keyword clicks with prices that low, but you will get content clicks - and that's where all my clicks come from -
I never bought any of the Get Google Ads Free things (although maybe I should have :)
I got that tip from an online marketing friend who sadly left my GDI downline right when I gave him the Gold Rush site. He and I have gone around a bit about Affiliate Junktion - Fact is I'm very soured by AJ and once I am soured, I hold grudges - There are TONS of affiliate opportunities online, and I will not waste my time with a company that screws me over like that - period -
Someday I do have to get over it though, don't I? :)
maybe not - This is going to be my super long dragged out post - I need to write another one for the new year and my goals and programs - something more "short & sweet" since us online marketers have zero attention span :)
coming right away - 2009 Goals & Programs
So I got damn serious about GDI. I knew that even though it would take time, at least I would be building a REAL income. Something that would end up working for me.
In November my GDI Downline was at 32 - Today it is at 71...It easily could have been 100, but several of the signups quit before they gave it any chance. That's fine - That's the way GDI goes. They say that 90% of the people who join you will quit - Most people do not have the resolve that I do to succeed. That is just something you have to push through. What you hope is that by getting enough signups, some of those who join will take it very seriously and follow your lead. That's all it takes really - Having a few people in your downline who are serious and want to succeed long term.
I made the GDI Leaderboard for 3 straight weeks. I got the bonus money on 2 of those 3 weeks. This week I have 4 signups and hopefully will get a couple more for another bonus. The $100 bonuses are really the only way to offset the advertising costs
I won't kid you - I'm not building my GDI team using traffic exchanges. I'm spending money on Google & Yahoo advertising. I'm at about $15/day right now - And despite the fact that I am technically "losing money" on the surface, any of the members that stay on my GDI Team could possibly turn into someone like me. Downline members like that, in the long run, will be well worth the investment now.
So my GDI Business is coming along nicely. I believe that in a few more months, I will be up to 150 members. My goal is to get to 200 - At that point, I'm "hoping" that enough of my downline will follow my lead and build their own business. That is when GDI becomes a monthly, residual income.
And that is my goal - Passive, residual income that continues to grow month after month.
Of course what I am finding is that the biggest problem with GDI is that it IS a long term business. Unless you are one of the superstars like Tissa or Ash who get 50+ signups every week, you never see enough income from it.
So you have to earn immediate income in the meantime. This is the area where EXPERIENCE really comes into play - Despite wasting several thousand dollars advertising Affiliate Junktion and getting screwed (sorry, just a fact), I did learn how to advertise using Google & Yahoo Pay Per Click. Now I can plug in ANY program and start advertising it right away. That is why once I started advertising GDI Gold Rush, I got signups almost immediately -
Now it takes me about 1 hour to set up a new campaign and get PPC traffic to it - Right away. That isn't to say you can just plug in anything...For instance, I plugged in a bunch of different Clickbank products and made ZERO sales. I plugged in a Generic GDI Page and got no signups - I got about 100 "prospects" but nobody joined - I plugged in SpiderWeb and got another 100 or so Spider Members - I ended up with zero results there (not even GDI signups)
I 'believe' the trick with selling clickbank products MAY be having your own web page and describing the product or reviewing it. I'm not sure exactly - All I know is I sent about 1k clicks out on 4 different clickbank products and made no sales - Maybe I didn't use proper country targeting - Maybe it's the fact that all I used was a generic clickbank link (no cloaker, just the affiliate link - I've read that people HATE buying something if they KNOW someone is making a commission off it - that makes sense to me) The trick with ClickBank cloaking is a certain set of URL redirects, but they basically require you to use the redirects IN a webpage - So simply advertising them on Google & Yahoo doesn't work for cloaking (seems to work in emails though)
As you can see, I still have a lot to learn :)
Anyway, moving on - The good thing is that for my affiliate pages, Like GDI Gold Rush or the Acme Page, these are whole websites that do a great presentation. The Affiliate Junktion site worked like a charm - I could get 300 clicks daily there because you sell it as "FREE".
Losing myself again, but this is my blog and that's what it's for - here is what i'm GETTING AT:
With the Power Traffic course, the entire point is that you setup all of this marketing to use at YOUR DISPOSAL - Once you know how to drive traffic, you can use it to promote Anything You Want!
Anytime I start a new program (yes, I do all the time!) I simply plug it into my Track that Ad Rotator and it's done - Then I just go to my different exchanges and allocate the credits -
This is also what is so powerful about Google & Yahoo advertising - YES, it's expensive - But it lets you know right away if something is working or not - You can set a budget of $3/day if you want (or less even).
And once you set up advertising, you just leave it alone - It works around the clock - Some people might say it's spending your money around the clock, but for me, I don't like surfing exchanges. I don't like spending a bunch of time on the computer. I would much rather take my family to the zoo and come check my email when I get home. When I pay for advertising, that's all I need to do - check email -
Still, not a perfect science by any means. I already mentioned all the stuff about the Click Bank products and what not - you can't just plug in ANYTHING and make a ton of money.
Other stuff - If you read this far, I'm going to give you my biggest tip for Google or Yahoo advertising. I don't EVER pay their "minimum" click amounts - You don't have to! For Affiliate Junktion, I was only spending 9-10cents per click - For all my advertising now, I only spend 12-13cents/click - What is the trick? Keywords & Ads - Lots of EACH!
I write 20-50 different ads - each one with a different keyword. Then I have several keywords outlining that particular ad - For instance, Earn Money Online would be the title, then just type in everything you can think of relating to that title (in keywords)
Do that over and over - Set your bids for 10-12cents and include the Content Network - ALWAYS have the content network on! You will never get keyword clicks with prices that low, but you will get content clicks - and that's where all my clicks come from -
I never bought any of the Get Google Ads Free things (although maybe I should have :)
I got that tip from an online marketing friend who sadly left my GDI downline right when I gave him the Gold Rush site. He and I have gone around a bit about Affiliate Junktion - Fact is I'm very soured by AJ and once I am soured, I hold grudges - There are TONS of affiliate opportunities online, and I will not waste my time with a company that screws me over like that - period -
Someday I do have to get over it though, don't I? :)
maybe not - This is going to be my super long dragged out post - I need to write another one for the new year and my goals and programs - something more "short & sweet" since us online marketers have zero attention span :)
coming right away - 2009 Goals & Programs
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Affiliate Junktion - FORGET IT!
I have never been so mad with an Affiliate Marketing program as I am with Affiliate Junktion. This is a program I joined when I first started in February. Of course, I didn't know much at all about marketing when I started, so I get very few signups.
Around September I started using Google & Yahoo advertising. I needed to make some real money with this stuff and I figured the exchanges were okay, but I needed immediate response. With PPC, I got it.
In September I got 2,148 confirmed leads. If you don't know much about Affiliate Junktion, this is the summed up version.
You get a $75 sign up bonus when you buy hosting ($60). You upload your site and then you start advertising. You get paid $2 per lead. When you hit $200 in earnings (excluding the bonus), you get paid.
Here are the problems I found over my past 3 months advertising:
NZD - That's right - Instead of $2/lead in USD, they switched the platform to NZD. At the time, that was about 70cents on the dollar, so you still got about $1.40/lead - Not that bad. As time has gone on, that same NZD is now worth about 52cents.
So for each $2 lead, you are barely getting a little over $1
But it gets better. See they don't actually pay for these "leads" - Nope, what they do is they keep all these leads in Pending Status. The payment terms USED to be 30 days after the month commissions were earned. Now it's 45 days. That money that I earned in September was JUST released yesterday (November 30th)
It Gets EVEN BETTER PEOPLE! Here is the real kicker - You know that whole "Paid for Free Leads" thing they advertise? Well, I sent nothing but Yahoo & Google PPC advertising to get my 2,148 leads in September - How much are they going to pay me? $1,473....NZD - This works out to be about $750ish -
That $1,473 NZD INCLUDES my previous earnings of $193 (Including my bonus and the previous signups)
So for me spending about $1,300 in PPC advertising in JUST September, I am getting back ROUGHLY $800....60 days AFTER I spent all that money.
Affiliate Junktion holds onto the payments for that long because not all these leads are "approved" - Now, I understand normal terms and conditions. I'm not some huge whiner who thinks I should make what the owner of a company makes. But by them paying 1,473NZD they cut off nearly 70% of my APPROVED LEADS! (Not clicks - I got THOUSANDS of clicks, these are just the "confirmed leads" that I was SUPPOSED to be paid for....
Cutting off 10-20% of my leads I MIGHT understand - But 70%!?!?!?!
What does Affiliate Junktion make from users who buy hosting? An IPower Affiliate Earns $100 per signup
So even if only 10% of my 2,148 signups followed through, Affiliate Junktion would have made over $20,000 - Oh, and I'm just GUESSING, but I would assume they get paid in USD still.
I think 10% of my signups would be too low actually - I think Affiliate Junktion sells itself damn nicely and I would venture to say that closer to 20% of my leads would actually follow up and use the program.
Now obviously I don't actually KNOW how many of my signups went through and bought hosting. But doesn't 10% seem like a reasonable number? My 2,148 signups were people who visited my AJ site, clicked through and THEN left their name & email to figure out more info -
Wouldn't it make sense that at least 10% of those people, after giving name & email info, would actually follow through with the program?
So out of $20,000 (Probably more), I am getting about $800...And that's AFTER I spent close to $1,300 on advertising to get those leads.
This payment is just for September. In November my Affiliate Junktion signups went way down. I kept sending in 180 to 220 clicks daily, but suddenly I was only getting 15-20 signups/day. I changed my site to something I thought looked better, and I sent in a support ticket.
I got a response that users were committing some type of fraud, so they implemented some type of double confirmation for a lead to count.
Over the past 2 weeks my "leads" haven't even covered my advertising costs.
Affiliate Junktion has changed the terms and conditions of their website continuously over the past 3 months. NZD was just the start. They used to have a program where if you got 2,500 signups/month, for 3 months, you would start earning $4/lead. That is now gone. When I first signed up in February they paid $2-$5/lead - USD - Now it's $2, but NZD - IF you don't get 70% of your leads slashed, of course.
Affiliate Junktion offers no residual income. You get the $2/lead (if you actually ever get it) and that's it - They offer no bonuses - They took that away. They also had a guarantee of $150/day in your first 30 days when I first signed up in February - That was cancelled by March...
I also get nothing but robotic email responses to my inquiries -
I am fed up with Affiliate Junktion myself. The program seems like such a great way to make money online, but the actuality is that they don't take care of affiliates AT ALL. Maybe it doesn't matter - Maybe they have so many now that a couple of unhappy people won't bother them one bit. But as for me, I know I have a lot of people ask me about Affiliate Junktion. I used to say go for it, it's an easy way to make money...Get paid for free leads you know?
But the reality is that they change the terms & conditions whenever they feel like it. The NZD payments structure is incredibly cheap. And the slashing of 70% of leads is outright wrong - Remember, those are the actual LEADS - not just people who "visit" the site - The banner ads of Affiliate Junktion say "Get Paid for Free Leads!" - It's a crock -
No bonuses, no residual long term income. Forget them - I'm going back to focus on GDI. I don't need a company that changes terms and conditions any time they please. And I may not be some top marketing guru with thousands of fans, but I do have about 100 visitors every day. I'm going to tell each one of them about it - I hope I can save you from making the same mistakes -
Around September I started using Google & Yahoo advertising. I needed to make some real money with this stuff and I figured the exchanges were okay, but I needed immediate response. With PPC, I got it.
In September I got 2,148 confirmed leads. If you don't know much about Affiliate Junktion, this is the summed up version.
You get a $75 sign up bonus when you buy hosting ($60). You upload your site and then you start advertising. You get paid $2 per lead. When you hit $200 in earnings (excluding the bonus), you get paid.
Here are the problems I found over my past 3 months advertising:
NZD - That's right - Instead of $2/lead in USD, they switched the platform to NZD. At the time, that was about 70cents on the dollar, so you still got about $1.40/lead - Not that bad. As time has gone on, that same NZD is now worth about 52cents.
So for each $2 lead, you are barely getting a little over $1
But it gets better. See they don't actually pay for these "leads" - Nope, what they do is they keep all these leads in Pending Status. The payment terms USED to be 30 days after the month commissions were earned. Now it's 45 days. That money that I earned in September was JUST released yesterday (November 30th)
It Gets EVEN BETTER PEOPLE! Here is the real kicker - You know that whole "Paid for Free Leads" thing they advertise? Well, I sent nothing but Yahoo & Google PPC advertising to get my 2,148 leads in September - How much are they going to pay me? $1,473....NZD - This works out to be about $750ish -
That $1,473 NZD INCLUDES my previous earnings of $193 (Including my bonus and the previous signups)
So for me spending about $1,300 in PPC advertising in JUST September, I am getting back ROUGHLY $800....60 days AFTER I spent all that money.
Affiliate Junktion holds onto the payments for that long because not all these leads are "approved" - Now, I understand normal terms and conditions. I'm not some huge whiner who thinks I should make what the owner of a company makes. But by them paying 1,473NZD they cut off nearly 70% of my APPROVED LEADS! (Not clicks - I got THOUSANDS of clicks, these are just the "confirmed leads" that I was SUPPOSED to be paid for....
Cutting off 10-20% of my leads I MIGHT understand - But 70%!?!?!?!
What does Affiliate Junktion make from users who buy hosting? An IPower Affiliate Earns $100 per signup
So even if only 10% of my 2,148 signups followed through, Affiliate Junktion would have made over $20,000 - Oh, and I'm just GUESSING, but I would assume they get paid in USD still.
I think 10% of my signups would be too low actually - I think Affiliate Junktion sells itself damn nicely and I would venture to say that closer to 20% of my leads would actually follow up and use the program.
Now obviously I don't actually KNOW how many of my signups went through and bought hosting. But doesn't 10% seem like a reasonable number? My 2,148 signups were people who visited my AJ site, clicked through and THEN left their name & email to figure out more info -
Wouldn't it make sense that at least 10% of those people, after giving name & email info, would actually follow through with the program?
So out of $20,000 (Probably more), I am getting about $800...And that's AFTER I spent close to $1,300 on advertising to get those leads.
This payment is just for September. In November my Affiliate Junktion signups went way down. I kept sending in 180 to 220 clicks daily, but suddenly I was only getting 15-20 signups/day. I changed my site to something I thought looked better, and I sent in a support ticket.
I got a response that users were committing some type of fraud, so they implemented some type of double confirmation for a lead to count.
Over the past 2 weeks my "leads" haven't even covered my advertising costs.
Affiliate Junktion has changed the terms and conditions of their website continuously over the past 3 months. NZD was just the start. They used to have a program where if you got 2,500 signups/month, for 3 months, you would start earning $4/lead. That is now gone. When I first signed up in February they paid $2-$5/lead - USD - Now it's $2, but NZD - IF you don't get 70% of your leads slashed, of course.
Affiliate Junktion offers no residual income. You get the $2/lead (if you actually ever get it) and that's it - They offer no bonuses - They took that away. They also had a guarantee of $150/day in your first 30 days when I first signed up in February - That was cancelled by March...
I also get nothing but robotic email responses to my inquiries -
I am fed up with Affiliate Junktion myself. The program seems like such a great way to make money online, but the actuality is that they don't take care of affiliates AT ALL. Maybe it doesn't matter - Maybe they have so many now that a couple of unhappy people won't bother them one bit. But as for me, I know I have a lot of people ask me about Affiliate Junktion. I used to say go for it, it's an easy way to make money...Get paid for free leads you know?
But the reality is that they change the terms & conditions whenever they feel like it. The NZD payments structure is incredibly cheap. And the slashing of 70% of leads is outright wrong - Remember, those are the actual LEADS - not just people who "visit" the site - The banner ads of Affiliate Junktion say "Get Paid for Free Leads!" - It's a crock -
No bonuses, no residual long term income. Forget them - I'm going back to focus on GDI. I don't need a company that changes terms and conditions any time they please. And I may not be some top marketing guru with thousands of fans, but I do have about 100 visitors every day. I'm going to tell each one of them about it - I hope I can save you from making the same mistakes -
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Brand new Downline Builder that looks AWESOME
Tonight I got an email from Michael Cobb - The owner of Home Income Team and someone who REALLY taught me alot about online marketing. So when I get an email from him, even on a massive email list, I open it.
He sent me a link to Affiliate Funnel, which I had heard about before but hadn't checked out yet. Unlike so many people I hear talking about how "busy" they are, I actually AM really busy :)
So I went to check it out - And I'm very impressed.
It's a COMPLETE business building tool. Instead of joining to promote OTHER peoples programs, you get to enter YOUR programs. Also, you get to enter your affiliate id's for 20 different exchanges. It also includes a ton of lessons for everything from using Traffic Exchanges to safelists (yes, I'm going to be updating my power traffic course soon, cause this is better :)
Beyond all that you also get expert help and lessons from the TOP guys in internet marketing. The REAL guru's who know how to make money online
Affiliate Funnel is simply How to Make Money Online in a nutshell.
It is the best affiliate marketing building program I have seen yet.
And guess what else? It's free to join!
Of course there is an upgrade option. Myself, I signed up for the $67/year OTO - I got 10k credits at 10 top ranked exchanges and a bunch of free downloads (I probably won't use them - I actually hate free products because it basically just means it's MORE for me to do! LOL). But the 10k credits alone were worth the cost.
Free gives you good options also - you get everything except the credits. You still get referral money from upgraded members and you still get all the lessons and seminars.
With the Gold membership I get to promote 6 of my own programs, all by just promoting Affiliate Funnel! That's what I call a REAL downline builder -
Again, very simple - Lots more to it than the3Cash Machine, but very VERY valuable info.
You need to join Affiliate Funnel - You will build exchange referrals AND your own business at the same time. You will build a list you can email.
It's really the best complete online business building tool I have seen and I'm excited about joining it
Join Affiliate Funnel here
He sent me a link to Affiliate Funnel, which I had heard about before but hadn't checked out yet. Unlike so many people I hear talking about how "busy" they are, I actually AM really busy :)
So I went to check it out - And I'm very impressed.
It's a COMPLETE business building tool. Instead of joining to promote OTHER peoples programs, you get to enter YOUR programs. Also, you get to enter your affiliate id's for 20 different exchanges. It also includes a ton of lessons for everything from using Traffic Exchanges to safelists (yes, I'm going to be updating my power traffic course soon, cause this is better :)
Beyond all that you also get expert help and lessons from the TOP guys in internet marketing. The REAL guru's who know how to make money online
Affiliate Funnel is simply How to Make Money Online in a nutshell.
It is the best affiliate marketing building program I have seen yet.
And guess what else? It's free to join!
Of course there is an upgrade option. Myself, I signed up for the $67/year OTO - I got 10k credits at 10 top ranked exchanges and a bunch of free downloads (I probably won't use them - I actually hate free products because it basically just means it's MORE for me to do! LOL). But the 10k credits alone were worth the cost.
Free gives you good options also - you get everything except the credits. You still get referral money from upgraded members and you still get all the lessons and seminars.
With the Gold membership I get to promote 6 of my own programs, all by just promoting Affiliate Funnel! That's what I call a REAL downline builder -
Again, very simple - Lots more to it than the3Cash Machine, but very VERY valuable info.
You need to join Affiliate Funnel - You will build exchange referrals AND your own business at the same time. You will build a list you can email.
It's really the best complete online business building tool I have seen and I'm excited about joining it
Join Affiliate Funnel here
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The Difference Between "FREE" Exchanges
Sometimes I forget how far I've come along from where I started in February. I've surfed so much that I kinda skip over the basic stuff too often. Even in my email series, I realized it's assuming that people already know how to surf and use firefox etc. Tonight I added the Traffic Splash section to my list of best exchanges. The reason was because it's one of the best FREE exchanges that I've found online.
Yes, technically all exchanges are free - But there is a MASSIVE difference in the amount of time you have to spend at most traffic exchanges. The most basic example I always give is Hit2Hit - Outstanding traffic exchange. Tons of members, easy to surf, always highly ranked by traffic hoopla. But for those who are just starting, they may not realize that Hit2Hit is a 3:1 surf ratio. What that means is that if you don't buy an upgraded membership, you have to surf 3 sites to get 1 hit on yours. In my opinion, this is not how you should spend your time! Now, if your willing to spend some money (like I do), then it's a great exchange. Same with MaxTraffic Pro and SWAT Traffic, Dragon Surf - There are tons of them - and the bottom line is it sucks. We need traffic to our sites. When I say traffic, I mean TONS of traffic. I used to think getting 30 hits a day was good - It's nothing - You have to get hundreds of hits each day to get results. You have to get thousands of hits per month if you REALLY want to get any type of results.
So when I list my best free exchanges, it's based on them actually being good if you do not want to spend any money. Of course the short 5 list is kinda short - Great "free" exchanges are few and far between these days.
But if you want to stay free, while still getting the best results possible for your time, then join WebBiz Insider, Traffic Splash, EasyHits4U, HitSafari & maybe ClickRanch. For me, these are the best free exchanges I've found online. You get regular bonuses, quick surf timers and fair surf ratios. 5 Exchanges is actually a pretty decent number of exchanges to work with. Learn to use Firefox and surf them all at the same time (different windows - tabbed browsing) and you'll be fine
Using Traffic Hoopla can be very beneficial in building up downlines for your overall traffic building. But keep it simple until you can handle everything. As good as CyberWheelers program was, they recommended I surf 3 hours/night! For me, that is a ridiculous amount of time to spend surfing. It is MUCH BETTER if you focus your time & energy on 4 or 5 GOOD exchanges, versus spreading yourself out all over getting a few hits here and there, trying to manage 20 "free" exchanges.
Bottom line is this - Unless you get some results, your going to get frustrated and most likely quit. If you spend your time wisely, you will start to get results. Focus on the best free exchanges and move up when your ready -
Yes, technically all exchanges are free - But there is a MASSIVE difference in the amount of time you have to spend at most traffic exchanges. The most basic example I always give is Hit2Hit - Outstanding traffic exchange. Tons of members, easy to surf, always highly ranked by traffic hoopla. But for those who are just starting, they may not realize that Hit2Hit is a 3:1 surf ratio. What that means is that if you don't buy an upgraded membership, you have to surf 3 sites to get 1 hit on yours. In my opinion, this is not how you should spend your time! Now, if your willing to spend some money (like I do), then it's a great exchange. Same with MaxTraffic Pro and SWAT Traffic, Dragon Surf - There are tons of them - and the bottom line is it sucks. We need traffic to our sites. When I say traffic, I mean TONS of traffic. I used to think getting 30 hits a day was good - It's nothing - You have to get hundreds of hits each day to get results. You have to get thousands of hits per month if you REALLY want to get any type of results.
So when I list my best free exchanges, it's based on them actually being good if you do not want to spend any money. Of course the short 5 list is kinda short - Great "free" exchanges are few and far between these days.
But if you want to stay free, while still getting the best results possible for your time, then join WebBiz Insider, Traffic Splash, EasyHits4U, HitSafari & maybe ClickRanch. For me, these are the best free exchanges I've found online. You get regular bonuses, quick surf timers and fair surf ratios. 5 Exchanges is actually a pretty decent number of exchanges to work with. Learn to use Firefox and surf them all at the same time (different windows - tabbed browsing) and you'll be fine
Using Traffic Hoopla can be very beneficial in building up downlines for your overall traffic building. But keep it simple until you can handle everything. As good as CyberWheelers program was, they recommended I surf 3 hours/night! For me, that is a ridiculous amount of time to spend surfing. It is MUCH BETTER if you focus your time & energy on 4 or 5 GOOD exchanges, versus spreading yourself out all over getting a few hits here and there, trying to manage 20 "free" exchanges.
Bottom line is this - Unless you get some results, your going to get frustrated and most likely quit. If you spend your time wisely, you will start to get results. Focus on the best free exchanges and move up when your ready -
Saturday, September 20, 2008
My BEST Tip for Traffic Exchange Success
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 220+ signups for my power training course...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 goes 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 week 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 - end of story...
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 weird web pages and eye catching headlines. Are these hard to do? NO - Do you have to be an expert web designer? NO - There are plenty of free resources you can use to make your own splash pages - I used Google Page Creator and that is absolutely what I would have recommended to everyone 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. Here are 2 of my creations -
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
Here is my latest page using just a Google Blog:
http://www.makemoneywithacme.com/
Now I happen to be advertising this pages using Pay Per Clicks, so it's a little longer than what I recommend for a traffic exchange splash page. But I made it totally free using just Google Blogger. I bought that domain name because I wanted to give it a unique name, but otherwise it's totally free. I threw my picture in at the bottom (don't laugh!) and even gave a link to my home site....don't copy my stuff, but you should see the point - 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.
To YOUR Success,
Paul
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 weird web pages and eye catching headlines. Are these hard to do? NO - Do you have to be an expert web designer? NO - There are plenty of free resources you can use to make your own splash pages - I used Google Page Creator and that is absolutely what I would have recommended to everyone 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. Here are 2 of my creations -
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
Here is my latest page using just a Google Blog:
http://www.makemoneywithacme.com/
Now I happen to be advertising this pages using Pay Per Clicks, so it's a little longer than what I recommend for a traffic exchange splash page. But I made it totally free using just Google Blogger. I bought that domain name because I wanted to give it a unique name, but otherwise it's totally free. I threw my picture in at the bottom (don't laugh!) and even gave a link to my home site....don't copy my stuff, but you should see the point - 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.
To YOUR Success,
Paul
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