Guess this is going to be a brag post, but I gotta say I'm pretty proud of this and I think it's a hell of an accomplishment.
This weekend I found out that I rank #1 on Google for the Keyword String "Real Online Business"
What that means is that anytime someone types that in, my home site shows up #1 - There are 360 MILLION results for that search phrase - I'm not sure, but i'm guessing that means there is a LOT of competition for that keyword string.
I'm proud because to me, that is really what the entire intention of Affiliate Curve is about - To help beginners start a real online business. I am in affiliate marketing (I guess, maybe it's actually online marketing or network marketing), but still my site is about resources of what I use and how to get STARTED in online marketing -
So the keyword string Real Online Business is very fitting, and exactly what I would choose (if i had a choice lol)
First, let me say I've never really focused on SEO. I never accepted offers for reciprocal links to other people's websites. I never exchanged links - I didn't do a bunch of SEO research or pay anyone to optimize my website.
I do use Spin Success - I still recommend it 100% - The first 3 months I was on Spin Success my Alexa ranking went up 700k spots. Basically took me from absolutely unknown, to a spot in the top 500k websites online (although obviously it would be even better to be in the top 100k)
But a couple months there I changed URL's and submitted my GDI site, the Real Money from Home site, and even my Best Places to Bet Online website -
Now it's back to Affiliate Curve being submitted - and I'm sure it will climb the Alexa ranks a bit more once it's steadily submitted -
A year ago I was getting 40-60 hits daily to my website - These days I get a stead 80-120, and quite often get over 150. I've also hit the 200 mark several times.
It's not YouTube traffic, but for a complete newbie, I'd say that is a fairly decent amount of everyday traffic for my website. And that keyword, Real Online Business, accounts for nearly 50% of my traffic - So that means I'm getting ORGANIC search engine traffic -
The best kind of traffic possible - No timers - they aren't clicking for credits - they are looking for something...Now with that has come more and more emails from people saying "How do I make money online?" and "I don't have time or money, can you help me" -
I understand where they are coming from - hey, we all want that big button. But I don't have an answer for them. Everything I have achieved and the business that I built is ALL because of work. I offer my own reviews and advertising resources that work for me, but still, it takes work -
The only thing that's making money for me that DOESN'T take work is Ad-Ventures 4U - But it does take money :)
anyway, had to post that I hit #1 on Google for that keyword phrase - To me, it's pretty damn impressive. And I've never gone after that - I didn't design my site or try to "fill" the stuff with keywords. I just wrote what I knew and about my experiences...
to me, that's pretty damn cool -
And yeah, I'm gonna throw a link in here to Spin Success - Cause it really is that good :)
here is your link to SPin Success - Now go find other keywords to go after - Real Online Business is on LOCKDOWN :)
(Actually, i don't really want any competition - i need all the traffic i can get :)
have a good night -
Paul
Monday, August 3, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
My Early Safelist Marketing Returns
I'm gonna start with some facts about online marketing:
95% of those wanting to make money online never make ANY
4% make some money, but not nearly enough to live on
1% can support themselves, their families, and make an ever increasing income
In order to succeed, you MUST learn how to advertise. No 2 ways around it.
The past couple weeks I've been focusing on learning Safelists. I read various sources that all said Safelists are actually very good advertising tools, if done properly.
There was 1 main reason I never used Safelists before - TIME - Everything I saw about safelists required clicking hundreds of ads - constantly - just to send 1 of your own. I didn't like what I saw in Safelists myself and didn't concern myself with them - I just didn't use them
I was wrong - Safelists actually are delivering VERY good results for me. Not anything near PPC quality, but better than Traffic Exchanges (although I love traffic exchanges for different reasons)
I still hate spending a lot of time on anything. I really prefer automated advertising - Set it and forget it! That's what I love - But that costs money.
A couple weeks ago I went through a 3 day period with ZERO signups for my newsletter - ZERO - It was because I had to cut my PPC costs significantly. I was disgusted - Success with ALL online business is about getting NEW Prospects, constantly.
So I focused on safelist advertising - Over the past few weeks my daily signups have gone from 0 back to 5-8 every day.
I've been advertising my home website, AffiliateCurve.com.
My GOALS when I started with Safelists:
Find out if they were effective
Use them with the Least Amount of TIME requirement Possible
That really was it - I didn't want to spend a bunch of time. I don't want to click ads endlessly. I don't want to be forced to view endless ads in order to send mine.
Here is what I'm using:
Elite Safelist - The 1st safelist I joined. Ranked #1 by Traffic Hoopla at the time. I ended up taking the 3rd offer giving me 25k monthly credits for $7.50/month. That saves me HOURS of clicking.
With Elite I'm able to save my messages - So I can just go in and click "Send with Credit Mailer" - It's fast and simple -
What I really LIKE about Elite Safelist is that it takes you Directly to the advertised website. So when people click my ad, they hear my voice and see MY website (not just an email where I have to become a copyright expert)
European Safelist: Again, found on Traffic Hoopla. I ended up getting a silver mailer member here. It's $3/month and comes with 10k bonus credits. You get to send your ads once/day - Again, the credits link takes people to YOUR website
Safelister: 100k credits just by joining. Post your ads when you want. 25k members. Excellent credit rewards here for reading emails. Downside is that because we all get so many credits, less people have to read the emails. So response rates are lower - Still, for absolutely free, you get to go in and email your ad all the time. And the 100k starting credits just for joining is a huge bonus!
Million Leads for Free: Been promoting this for awhile now. Great service - Totally free, click on 10 ads daily, send YOUR ad to 5k people everyday. They have over 3 million members and they have daily log in rates of 65% - 80% - This means a LARGE % of the member base logs in daily to read and send ads. Totally free - Takes 5 min's day - You send ads to 150k people every month - FREE - Unbeatable
IPost Ad: This is something I recently found and I absolutely recommend it. IPost Ad has a 1 click system where you join 2,913 safelists - OVERNIGHT - 1 click and your a member. You get to post your ads daily to over 3 million people, through 2,900+ safelists.
They also include a website submitter - Free
You also get a banner ad rotator - FREE
IPost Ad is running a special where you get the full upgrade for only $12/month. For this amount, you get to submit ads to 2900+ safelists, daily. You get everything included with that $12/month. Over 3million people will see your ads, daily - My results have gone WAY up because of IPost Ad.
Target Pro Blaster: I've used this one for a couple years now and STILL highly recommend it. You get to send your ad to 3+ million people every day. This is a 1 time $10 fee - That's a LIFETIME membership! You also get 100% resell rights. So you earn $10 each time you sell Target Pro Blaster.
You get to send ads daily and you get 100% resell rights. Unbeatable value
Here is how I'm using these:
The safelist reviewers I read say they like to send about noon because that is often a great time for people to go check their email. Sounds good to me -
I "try" to write GOOD TITLES! This is the difference between getting clicks and not getting them!
Try to be catchy and grab attention - Take a look at what gets YOUR Attention, and why - Use different titles and see what gets more clicks.
Getting credits:
You still have to click some - What I do is this:
Update: Important Tip! READ THE SOLO ADS!!! These always carry the most credits. You usually get 3-4x the credits of regular links. By reading 1 solo, you are often getting the equivalent of reading 4-5 single ads (people know this, which is why Solo's are SO Valuable!)
I surf every night for my Ad-Ventures 4U account. While I'm surfing, I just open my "List Email" and click ads for Elite Safelist & European Safelist (sometimes safelister when i'm low on credits)
By doing this, I get 110 credits each link from Elite, 75+ from European.
Since I'm already committed to surfing Ad-Ventures 4U, I take that same time and click ads then.
It takes me about 10 min's/day to send my ads this way
It takes me about 1/2 hour/night to get credits (so I can post daily ads!)
My website hits to Affiliate Curve have gone up 50-80 visitors DAILY since I started using these. My newsletter signups went from ZERO to 5-8 daily. I also got 3 GDI signups the first 2 days I used IPost Ad.
These are NOT PPC results - But PPC costs a lot of money - For very little investment, you will see results from Safelists.
I'm not going to say these are THE BEST safelists ever. These are what I started with, and what I'm using right now.
You can do this same thing in 30-40mins/day - These are proving to be excellent, inexpensive advertising options for me
And that is a VALUABLE combination!
Here are the links again:
Elite Safelist
European Safelist
IPost Ad (my best results so far!)
Target Pro Blaster (100% resell AND daily advertising resource!)
Safelister (100k free credits when joining!)
Million Leads for Free
to YOUR Success,
Paul
AffiliateCurve
95% of those wanting to make money online never make ANY
4% make some money, but not nearly enough to live on
1% can support themselves, their families, and make an ever increasing income
In order to succeed, you MUST learn how to advertise. No 2 ways around it.
The past couple weeks I've been focusing on learning Safelists. I read various sources that all said Safelists are actually very good advertising tools, if done properly.
There was 1 main reason I never used Safelists before - TIME - Everything I saw about safelists required clicking hundreds of ads - constantly - just to send 1 of your own. I didn't like what I saw in Safelists myself and didn't concern myself with them - I just didn't use them
I was wrong - Safelists actually are delivering VERY good results for me. Not anything near PPC quality, but better than Traffic Exchanges (although I love traffic exchanges for different reasons)
I still hate spending a lot of time on anything. I really prefer automated advertising - Set it and forget it! That's what I love - But that costs money.
A couple weeks ago I went through a 3 day period with ZERO signups for my newsletter - ZERO - It was because I had to cut my PPC costs significantly. I was disgusted - Success with ALL online business is about getting NEW Prospects, constantly.
So I focused on safelist advertising - Over the past few weeks my daily signups have gone from 0 back to 5-8 every day.
I've been advertising my home website, AffiliateCurve.com.
My GOALS when I started with Safelists:
Find out if they were effective
Use them with the Least Amount of TIME requirement Possible
That really was it - I didn't want to spend a bunch of time. I don't want to click ads endlessly. I don't want to be forced to view endless ads in order to send mine.
Here is what I'm using:
Elite Safelist - The 1st safelist I joined. Ranked #1 by Traffic Hoopla at the time. I ended up taking the 3rd offer giving me 25k monthly credits for $7.50/month. That saves me HOURS of clicking.
With Elite I'm able to save my messages - So I can just go in and click "Send with Credit Mailer" - It's fast and simple -
What I really LIKE about Elite Safelist is that it takes you Directly to the advertised website. So when people click my ad, they hear my voice and see MY website (not just an email where I have to become a copyright expert)
European Safelist: Again, found on Traffic Hoopla. I ended up getting a silver mailer member here. It's $3/month and comes with 10k bonus credits. You get to send your ads once/day - Again, the credits link takes people to YOUR website
Safelister: 100k credits just by joining. Post your ads when you want. 25k members. Excellent credit rewards here for reading emails. Downside is that because we all get so many credits, less people have to read the emails. So response rates are lower - Still, for absolutely free, you get to go in and email your ad all the time. And the 100k starting credits just for joining is a huge bonus!
Million Leads for Free: Been promoting this for awhile now. Great service - Totally free, click on 10 ads daily, send YOUR ad to 5k people everyday. They have over 3 million members and they have daily log in rates of 65% - 80% - This means a LARGE % of the member base logs in daily to read and send ads. Totally free - Takes 5 min's day - You send ads to 150k people every month - FREE - Unbeatable
IPost Ad: This is something I recently found and I absolutely recommend it. IPost Ad has a 1 click system where you join 2,913 safelists - OVERNIGHT - 1 click and your a member. You get to post your ads daily to over 3 million people, through 2,900+ safelists.
They also include a website submitter - Free
You also get a banner ad rotator - FREE
IPost Ad is running a special where you get the full upgrade for only $12/month. For this amount, you get to submit ads to 2900+ safelists, daily. You get everything included with that $12/month. Over 3million people will see your ads, daily - My results have gone WAY up because of IPost Ad.
Target Pro Blaster: I've used this one for a couple years now and STILL highly recommend it. You get to send your ad to 3+ million people every day. This is a 1 time $10 fee - That's a LIFETIME membership! You also get 100% resell rights. So you earn $10 each time you sell Target Pro Blaster.
You get to send ads daily and you get 100% resell rights. Unbeatable value
Here is how I'm using these:
The safelist reviewers I read say they like to send about noon because that is often a great time for people to go check their email. Sounds good to me -
I "try" to write GOOD TITLES! This is the difference between getting clicks and not getting them!
Try to be catchy and grab attention - Take a look at what gets YOUR Attention, and why - Use different titles and see what gets more clicks.
Getting credits:
You still have to click some - What I do is this:
Update: Important Tip! READ THE SOLO ADS!!! These always carry the most credits. You usually get 3-4x the credits of regular links. By reading 1 solo, you are often getting the equivalent of reading 4-5 single ads (people know this, which is why Solo's are SO Valuable!)
I surf every night for my Ad-Ventures 4U account. While I'm surfing, I just open my "List Email" and click ads for Elite Safelist & European Safelist (sometimes safelister when i'm low on credits)
By doing this, I get 110 credits each link from Elite, 75+ from European.
Since I'm already committed to surfing Ad-Ventures 4U, I take that same time and click ads then.
It takes me about 10 min's/day to send my ads this way
It takes me about 1/2 hour/night to get credits (so I can post daily ads!)
My website hits to Affiliate Curve have gone up 50-80 visitors DAILY since I started using these. My newsletter signups went from ZERO to 5-8 daily. I also got 3 GDI signups the first 2 days I used IPost Ad.
These are NOT PPC results - But PPC costs a lot of money - For very little investment, you will see results from Safelists.
I'm not going to say these are THE BEST safelists ever. These are what I started with, and what I'm using right now.
You can do this same thing in 30-40mins/day - These are proving to be excellent, inexpensive advertising options for me
And that is a VALUABLE combination!
Here are the links again:
Elite Safelist
European Safelist
IPost Ad (my best results so far!)
Target Pro Blaster (100% resell AND daily advertising resource!)
Safelister (100k free credits when joining!)
Million Leads for Free
to YOUR Success,
Paul
AffiliateCurve
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
How to get MAJOR traffic from Traffic Exchanges
I am writing this blog post because I want to have a "Quick Start" to get traffic exchange success for my Traffic Exchange Profits signups.
However, this is also very applicable to ALL Traffic Exchange Users, if they want to learn how to REALLY drive Traffic with Exchanges.
UPDATE Sept 13 - I've had a few questions about how many hits I'm talking about. I'm talking about 20,000+ hits, every month - That's what I send on Traffic Exchanges - That's what I've been sending for awhile. Over the past 3 weeks (since launch my own exchange, EasyRiderHits.com, I went and bought even more credits and am on a pace to send about 30k this month)
Surfing wise I used to surf 6-8 hours each week. I would surf 9 to 10 exchanges at the same time. Using Firefox this is actually easier than it sounds - On avg, I would get 100 hits on each exchange, per hour - So a 1 hour surf session would earn me 900 to 1000 hits -
So with this math, my approximate surfing results would generate 6k - 8k hits/week -
I did spend some money also - Traffic Splash, Ilove Hits, Swat, HitSafari and a few others I have pro memberships at -
I was surfing this much when I was focused on building Traffic Exchange Profits. Over a 6 week period I got over 250 prospects into that system.
I also used this to build my own Power Traffic Email List - Got over 550 people on that list, but it took several months - *end of update :)
I want to keep this as short and informative as possible, so I will TRY to avoid going into too much detail - Fact is I could write PAGES of tips about what to promote, how to get referrals, how to earn income, what type of pages actually work on traffic exchanges, building your own list -
Short & Sweet "Trust me on this" tips -
Download Mozilla Firefox - Surf 5 exchanges at the same time with Tabbed Browsing - You will get at LEAST 5x as much done this way!
Use a ROTATOR! Enter JUST your rotator URL on ALL your exchanges. Many reasons for this, but most of all it's a huge TIMESAVER! By updating JUST your rotator, you automatically update ALL your traffic exchanges at the same time (vs. having to go into 10 different exchanges updating your websites!) I use Track That Ad - It's 100% free with zero reason to upgrade.
Use ONLY Splash Pages! Short Sweet Pages that demand an action. Do NOT promote an affiliate link or sell anything directly on an exchange. Surfers are only there to get credits to advertise THEIR websites
That's enough to start:
Traffic Exchange Profits is what I use. This is the most streamlined and effective Traffic Exchange system I have found.
It builds referrals for traffic exchanges - You earn instant income - You build residual income - It comes with TONS of EXCELLENT advertising pages - And it only costs $5 to enter and use this system
Short & Sweet Results list from TEP - 72 referrals for Traffic Splash, 42 referrals for Traffic Witch - 5 Traffic Wave signups - $285 instant income - Various other referrals for traffic exchanges because of Traffic Hoopla.
The system does all the selling - All I have to do is give away the free reports - The system does all the followup, all the explaining etc.
In my first 5 weeks with TEP I have 185 prospects - People who have signed up for the free report and are receiving the follow up letters.
Those are OUTSTANDING results from Traffic Exchanges - However, I'm not going to kid you. I send MASSIVE traffic in order to get those kind of results.
Lets get to the DIRT :)
The Best FREE Traffic Exchanges:
WebBiz Insider - Easy to earn credits, top ranked, email your downline features.
Traffic-Splash - Always top ranked, bonus credits, great promotions
EasyHits4u - Great free traffic exchange
Hit Safari - Lots of bonus credits, highly ranked exchange
HitsBooster Pro - Newer exchange, outstanding to surf
4x4 Hits - Great free exchange - Good to VARY your promotions on different exchanges also!
Now, you take 5 of those, add your rotator (only!) as your 1 website, and allocate all hits to it.
Reality Check Time: If you think you will get results from surfing 1-2 hours/week, you are way off. These are the best FREE Exchanges and you can earn enough credits to start achieving results, but you will NEED to surf - The best way to get MORE credits from your surfing is to surf longer sessions - As in, give yourself a 2 hour block of time, open up 5 exchanges, and surf them all.
Why? Because most traffic exchanges give you ESCALATING surf ratios. As in, you will often get more credit after you surf 100 pages in 1 night, vs. surfing 30 pages daily all week long.
Like Traffic Splash has a great promotion where everytime you surf 100 sites, you turn in a support ticket and get 2,500 text ad credits - FREE
So surf 2 to 3 nights/week for a couple hours each night.
How to Spend SOME Money and get MUCH Better Results!
I am a spender when it comes to traffic exchanges. I have several pro memberships and I will buy the OTO credit specials when I have some extra money. The Traffic Exchanges below are NOT worth surfing, unless you are a pro member -
I might be writing too much, but there is 1 important part that I want you to get when it comes to spending any money on Traffic Exchanges:
You don't spend money on a pro upgrade so you can advertise 30 different sites - This does nothing but DILUTE your efforts! You don't upgrade for the 700 credits/month or whatever. You don't upgrade for Banner or Text credits (although you SHOULD be using them - never buy them, but always USE them - they are FREE!) -
The only reason to pay for an upgraded membership is the Surfing Ratio - That's it - With many free exchanges, you have to surf 3 sites to get 1 hit. Those sites are NOT included in my best exchanges (aside from Traffic-Splash, but that is made up for with the bonus credits)
Yeah, even if you do spend money, you should still be surfing. But when you spend money, you get 2-3 times as many credits as free members - That's the ONLY reason to upgrade
Here are my favorite exchanges that I recommend a Pro Membership for:
Traffic-Splash - Good for free also, but the pro earns you 50% commission and a much better surfing ratio
ILoveHits - $9/month gives you at least a 1;1.25 surfing ratio. You will OFTEN be earning 1.5 hits and sometimes 2.5 hits for each site you surf
Hit2Hit - Always top ranked exchange, but don't join unless you get a pro membership. What I did was join free, then waited for a special offer. Right now I'm on a $7.50/month pro membership with 500 credits/month, but I get the 1:1 surf ratio - So take one of the special offers, or don't use it
SWAT Traffic - The sister exchange to ILoveHits - Some of the best upgrades online. 5k hits/month for $15 (special!), $9/month for 2,500 credits, 50k banners, 100k text ads (again, special one time Offer thing - otherwise pro members pay like $16/month here - not worth that much)
Traffic Witch - If you can afford the OTO, GRAB IT! Here is why - $67 for an entire year is a GREAT deal. But beyond this, you will earn 50% on all upgrades. By getting just 1 upgraded referral, you earn $50 INSTANTLY! Nearly paying for your entire year membership! If your using TEP, I would highly recommend getting the upgrade here (and not just because i'm in it :)
HitsBooster Pro - You get an automatic 1 week upgrade here when you join. What I was offered after this was a full 1 year membership for $35! With that I get the pro surf ratio, 50% commissions, monthly credits etc - All on a Traffic Exchange that is top ranked by Traffic Hoopla! This works out to be about $3/month - That's a STEAL
HitSafari - Special offer to TEP members. Inside the TEP members area you will find a very special link where you get a pro upgrade at HitSafari for $6.99/month - The regular pro membership includes 500 credits/month (around that) - With the TEP Pro Membership offer, this same membership gives you 1,500 credits every month! Again, this is ONLY for TEP members.
If you can spend, say, $40/month on traffic exchanges, you will get exponentially more traffic for the same work. You earn higher commissions, you get better surf ratio's, random referrals etc.
Even if you can only spend a few bucks, get a Traffic-Splash pro membership and the ILoveHits membership - You get a LOT of extra traffic this way :)
So yeah, I highly recommending spending SOME money on traffic exchanges - If you want results, you will have to send massive traffic. That comes down to either Time or Money - Save your time and spend some money -
Here is 1 more "hidden gem" - Each time you get a Traffic-Splash referral, you are offered a 1 time credit special for Fast Easy Traffic (in the Da Da Da Downline Email). The special is $10 for 2k traffic credits - If you purchase this from Fast Easy Traffic, you will then get ANOTHER offer for the same 2k credits from Traffic-Splash - If you can afford to buy credits, do this! The regular 2k hits at Traffic-Splash is about $15, so you save $5 each time - And 2k hits is about 20 hours of single page surfing...so it's worth it - if you can do it -
Like I mentioned, this is specifically geared for my TEP signups. But you can use the same exchanges listed here to drive a lot more traffic to your sites - Whether your in TEP or not -
If you want to earn instant income, build referrals for ALL traffic exchanges, and build residual income, use Traffic Exchange Profits!
If you combine this traffic exchange training with TEP, you WILL get outstanding results!
To YOUR Success - Paul
However, this is also very applicable to ALL Traffic Exchange Users, if they want to learn how to REALLY drive Traffic with Exchanges.
UPDATE Sept 13 - I've had a few questions about how many hits I'm talking about. I'm talking about 20,000+ hits, every month - That's what I send on Traffic Exchanges - That's what I've been sending for awhile. Over the past 3 weeks (since launch my own exchange, EasyRiderHits.com, I went and bought even more credits and am on a pace to send about 30k this month)
Surfing wise I used to surf 6-8 hours each week. I would surf 9 to 10 exchanges at the same time. Using Firefox this is actually easier than it sounds - On avg, I would get 100 hits on each exchange, per hour - So a 1 hour surf session would earn me 900 to 1000 hits -
So with this math, my approximate surfing results would generate 6k - 8k hits/week -
I did spend some money also - Traffic Splash, Ilove Hits, Swat, HitSafari and a few others I have pro memberships at -
I was surfing this much when I was focused on building Traffic Exchange Profits. Over a 6 week period I got over 250 prospects into that system.
I also used this to build my own Power Traffic Email List - Got over 550 people on that list, but it took several months - *end of update :)
I want to keep this as short and informative as possible, so I will TRY to avoid going into too much detail - Fact is I could write PAGES of tips about what to promote, how to get referrals, how to earn income, what type of pages actually work on traffic exchanges, building your own list -
Short & Sweet "Trust me on this" tips -
Download Mozilla Firefox - Surf 5 exchanges at the same time with Tabbed Browsing - You will get at LEAST 5x as much done this way!
Use a ROTATOR! Enter JUST your rotator URL on ALL your exchanges. Many reasons for this, but most of all it's a huge TIMESAVER! By updating JUST your rotator, you automatically update ALL your traffic exchanges at the same time (vs. having to go into 10 different exchanges updating your websites!) I use Track That Ad - It's 100% free with zero reason to upgrade.
Use ONLY Splash Pages! Short Sweet Pages that demand an action. Do NOT promote an affiliate link or sell anything directly on an exchange. Surfers are only there to get credits to advertise THEIR websites
That's enough to start:
Traffic Exchange Profits is what I use. This is the most streamlined and effective Traffic Exchange system I have found.
It builds referrals for traffic exchanges - You earn instant income - You build residual income - It comes with TONS of EXCELLENT advertising pages - And it only costs $5 to enter and use this system
Short & Sweet Results list from TEP - 72 referrals for Traffic Splash, 42 referrals for Traffic Witch - 5 Traffic Wave signups - $285 instant income - Various other referrals for traffic exchanges because of Traffic Hoopla.
The system does all the selling - All I have to do is give away the free reports - The system does all the followup, all the explaining etc.
In my first 5 weeks with TEP I have 185 prospects - People who have signed up for the free report and are receiving the follow up letters.
Those are OUTSTANDING results from Traffic Exchanges - However, I'm not going to kid you. I send MASSIVE traffic in order to get those kind of results.
Lets get to the DIRT :)
The Best FREE Traffic Exchanges:
WebBiz Insider - Easy to earn credits, top ranked, email your downline features.
Traffic-Splash - Always top ranked, bonus credits, great promotions
EasyHits4u - Great free traffic exchange
Hit Safari - Lots of bonus credits, highly ranked exchange
HitsBooster Pro - Newer exchange, outstanding to surf
4x4 Hits - Great free exchange - Good to VARY your promotions on different exchanges also!
Now, you take 5 of those, add your rotator (only!) as your 1 website, and allocate all hits to it.
Reality Check Time: If you think you will get results from surfing 1-2 hours/week, you are way off. These are the best FREE Exchanges and you can earn enough credits to start achieving results, but you will NEED to surf - The best way to get MORE credits from your surfing is to surf longer sessions - As in, give yourself a 2 hour block of time, open up 5 exchanges, and surf them all.
Why? Because most traffic exchanges give you ESCALATING surf ratios. As in, you will often get more credit after you surf 100 pages in 1 night, vs. surfing 30 pages daily all week long.
Like Traffic Splash has a great promotion where everytime you surf 100 sites, you turn in a support ticket and get 2,500 text ad credits - FREE
So surf 2 to 3 nights/week for a couple hours each night.
How to Spend SOME Money and get MUCH Better Results!
I am a spender when it comes to traffic exchanges. I have several pro memberships and I will buy the OTO credit specials when I have some extra money. The Traffic Exchanges below are NOT worth surfing, unless you are a pro member -
I might be writing too much, but there is 1 important part that I want you to get when it comes to spending any money on Traffic Exchanges:
You don't spend money on a pro upgrade so you can advertise 30 different sites - This does nothing but DILUTE your efforts! You don't upgrade for the 700 credits/month or whatever. You don't upgrade for Banner or Text credits (although you SHOULD be using them - never buy them, but always USE them - they are FREE!) -
The only reason to pay for an upgraded membership is the Surfing Ratio - That's it - With many free exchanges, you have to surf 3 sites to get 1 hit. Those sites are NOT included in my best exchanges (aside from Traffic-Splash, but that is made up for with the bonus credits)
Yeah, even if you do spend money, you should still be surfing. But when you spend money, you get 2-3 times as many credits as free members - That's the ONLY reason to upgrade
Here are my favorite exchanges that I recommend a Pro Membership for:
Traffic-Splash - Good for free also, but the pro earns you 50% commission and a much better surfing ratio
ILoveHits - $9/month gives you at least a 1;1.25 surfing ratio. You will OFTEN be earning 1.5 hits and sometimes 2.5 hits for each site you surf
Hit2Hit - Always top ranked exchange, but don't join unless you get a pro membership. What I did was join free, then waited for a special offer. Right now I'm on a $7.50/month pro membership with 500 credits/month, but I get the 1:1 surf ratio - So take one of the special offers, or don't use it
SWAT Traffic - The sister exchange to ILoveHits - Some of the best upgrades online. 5k hits/month for $15 (special!), $9/month for 2,500 credits, 50k banners, 100k text ads (again, special one time Offer thing - otherwise pro members pay like $16/month here - not worth that much)
Traffic Witch - If you can afford the OTO, GRAB IT! Here is why - $67 for an entire year is a GREAT deal. But beyond this, you will earn 50% on all upgrades. By getting just 1 upgraded referral, you earn $50 INSTANTLY! Nearly paying for your entire year membership! If your using TEP, I would highly recommend getting the upgrade here (and not just because i'm in it :)
HitsBooster Pro - You get an automatic 1 week upgrade here when you join. What I was offered after this was a full 1 year membership for $35! With that I get the pro surf ratio, 50% commissions, monthly credits etc - All on a Traffic Exchange that is top ranked by Traffic Hoopla! This works out to be about $3/month - That's a STEAL
HitSafari - Special offer to TEP members. Inside the TEP members area you will find a very special link where you get a pro upgrade at HitSafari for $6.99/month - The regular pro membership includes 500 credits/month (around that) - With the TEP Pro Membership offer, this same membership gives you 1,500 credits every month! Again, this is ONLY for TEP members.
If you can spend, say, $40/month on traffic exchanges, you will get exponentially more traffic for the same work. You earn higher commissions, you get better surf ratio's, random referrals etc.
Even if you can only spend a few bucks, get a Traffic-Splash pro membership and the ILoveHits membership - You get a LOT of extra traffic this way :)
So yeah, I highly recommending spending SOME money on traffic exchanges - If you want results, you will have to send massive traffic. That comes down to either Time or Money - Save your time and spend some money -
Here is 1 more "hidden gem" - Each time you get a Traffic-Splash referral, you are offered a 1 time credit special for Fast Easy Traffic (in the Da Da Da Downline Email). The special is $10 for 2k traffic credits - If you purchase this from Fast Easy Traffic, you will then get ANOTHER offer for the same 2k credits from Traffic-Splash - If you can afford to buy credits, do this! The regular 2k hits at Traffic-Splash is about $15, so you save $5 each time - And 2k hits is about 20 hours of single page surfing...so it's worth it - if you can do it -
Like I mentioned, this is specifically geared for my TEP signups. But you can use the same exchanges listed here to drive a lot more traffic to your sites - Whether your in TEP or not -
If you want to earn instant income, build referrals for ALL traffic exchanges, and build residual income, use Traffic Exchange Profits!
If you combine this traffic exchange training with TEP, you WILL get outstanding results!
To YOUR Success - Paul
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Free Site Signup Review - Go To HELL
I hope this doesn't come off as TOO much of a frustration post - It might, but it is NOT my intention to complain...It just comes so naturally :)
Holy SHIT I've never been so frustrated with an Affiliate Program - Well, not never, but it's been a LONG time since I've been so fuming -
Free Site Signup is KILLING ME!
Last month they sent me 18 notice of earned commissions - Those at $50/each, along with my bonus, had my READY TO BE PAID commissions at $1030 -
Couple days later I go in and it shows only $250 earned - And my signup bonus of $100 GONE -
I have went around and around with these guys - After I paid the 1 year hosting, they somehow cancelled it for a few days. I had to call support to get them to look it up and get it back on -
I spent 2 weeks asking them to fix 1 of the links at the bottom of my page. They kept insisting it was correct, and all i needed to do was "clear your cookies and hit refresh" (As if I'm some f'ing moron, right?) - I finally told them I checked the link on 3 different computers, work, home and my buddies work computer - ALL of them had the same WRONG LINK - Just like I had explained. Suddenly they went in and fixed it -
Over my first month I was getting 1-2 signups (paid signups) everyday, spending about $8 advertising each day. This was a hefty profit margin, since Free Site Signup pays $50/referral. So for my advertising money, I was earning possibly $50 - $150 each day - On Limited advertising dollars
I was intentionally keeping it limited, because of all my experience with Affiliate Junktion. I was NOT going to drop $5k in advertising again and get totally screwed (sorry this isn't a very family friendly email, but i'm pissed still)
After I started to see 2-3 signups daily in pending commissions, I raised my advertising. I was like "FINALLY< some money to be made here!" I mean for me, this is what i KNOW how to do - Pay per click advertising - Yeah, it costs, but it drives visitors in - I am able to get 100+ visitors every day for about $10/day spending. If only 1% convert to a sale, that's $50 earned for each $10 in advertising....
Then the wheels all fell off - Several people from my personal email contacted me, saying their links weren't working right. I took a look and noticed no signups over 7 days, despite increasing my traffic over 2x - I contacted support who insisted everything was fine - But I was positive something had to be wrong - I mean, how do I go from 1-3 signups daily with light advertising, to zero signups over a full week, with 2x as much advertising?!?! Yeah, doesn't make sense at all -
I shut off all my advertising - I didn't email my list - I updated my site and moved it way down the ranks - But still, I somehow had faith in them. I guess it wasn't faith so much as it was almost desperation perhaps.
Because the truth is that if Free Site Signup could keep accurate records, I could easily earn $300+ every day with the program. I know exactly how to get MASSIVE traffic to a website - It's just a matter of if that traffic is WORTH me paying for
Free Site Signup is still telling me that everything they show is accurate and correct - but here is where I'm at as of this blog post (or should i call it Pissed Off Rambling :)
Yahoo charged me for over 5k clicks sent to my Free Site Signup page
I had 12 people from my PERSONAL email list contact me, telling me they joined, and 3 of them sent me their receipt (I had offered my list a special deal where I gave them my own PPC tips and tricks to get massive traffic for cheap - and yeah, several of them took it)
My pending commissions as of yesterday were $250 - Meaning only 5 people joined and upgraded?
The stats shown in my Free Site Signup back office shows over 1,756 clicks - Aside from the fact that this is RIDICULOUSLY low, lets say that's an accurate hit counter - Out of 1,756 clicks they are saying only 5 people paid $8.95 to join and get their $100 signup bonus???
For what it's worth, I have read that 'about' 1% of clicks or visits to your sites will "convert" into a sale for your website - Pretty low percentage, but lets look at that.
if only 1% converted, I would have earned 'about' 18 sales (again, I am 99% positive that their counters are VERY low) - So what Free Site Signup is now telling me is that they have The Worst Converting Pages in the INDUSTRY???
That is VERY hard to believe -
And beyond this, my signup bonus of $100 is gone from my pending commissions. Not exactly sure how that happened, and despite me sending in 4 different support requests, they continue to NOT answer that question specifically - They keep saying "We are aware of your case" -
When I was promoting affiliate junktion, they did a "pay per lead" deal - everyone that visited your site, then clicked through and left their email, earned you $2 each time. I was REGULARLY getting $250+ days there. I was sending 500+ clicks regularly, and would get 75-150 "leads" everyday -
And this is after NUMEROUS support requests sent in by me - They cancelled my account AFTER i paid the hosting fee - They had the wrong links in my page and insisted it was ME who didn't have a clue -
I stuck around so long here because of the earning potential - Fact is I could make a fortune with this - If it would keep stats accurately -
But instead, it looks like I wasted another couple months, about $500 - $600 in advertising, and countless hours of effort and promotion...
And you want to know what is worse than ANY of that? My reputation with my list - My clickthrough % from my personal email list is DISMAL these days. I used to regularly get 15% clickthrough (meaning 15% of the people on my list opened my emails) - Of that, I would also get a healthy "clicked links" % as well -
Nowadays, my opened and click %'s are TERRIBLE - Like often below 5% -
That is far worse than losing the Free Site Signup money. I really do my best to promote GOOD opportunities to my list - And the Free Site Signup fiasco made me look like a fucking idiot - Yeah, obviously I use my email list to earn money and build referrals - But I ALWAYS did it with the best intentions, and I always did it AFTER I tried the program out myself...In this case I did try it out - Everything did seem fine to me - Support was prompt - signups were showing up - Money was rolling in -
I don't really feel like any of it was "my fault", but I know for a fact that my reputation with my list will never be the same now -
and that just fucking sucks - As if it's not hard enough to build a list of subscribers, I gotta have a shitty affiliate company make ME look like the jerk -
Thanks a lot Free Site Signup - Go to hell -
And I do apologize for the Non Family Friendly blog post - But in this case, I still don't think it's enough
Holy SHIT I've never been so frustrated with an Affiliate Program - Well, not never, but it's been a LONG time since I've been so fuming -
Free Site Signup is KILLING ME!
Last month they sent me 18 notice of earned commissions - Those at $50/each, along with my bonus, had my READY TO BE PAID commissions at $1030 -
Couple days later I go in and it shows only $250 earned - And my signup bonus of $100 GONE -
I have went around and around with these guys - After I paid the 1 year hosting, they somehow cancelled it for a few days. I had to call support to get them to look it up and get it back on -
I spent 2 weeks asking them to fix 1 of the links at the bottom of my page. They kept insisting it was correct, and all i needed to do was "clear your cookies and hit refresh" (As if I'm some f'ing moron, right?) - I finally told them I checked the link on 3 different computers, work, home and my buddies work computer - ALL of them had the same WRONG LINK - Just like I had explained. Suddenly they went in and fixed it -
Over my first month I was getting 1-2 signups (paid signups) everyday, spending about $8 advertising each day. This was a hefty profit margin, since Free Site Signup pays $50/referral. So for my advertising money, I was earning possibly $50 - $150 each day - On Limited advertising dollars
I was intentionally keeping it limited, because of all my experience with Affiliate Junktion. I was NOT going to drop $5k in advertising again and get totally screwed (sorry this isn't a very family friendly email, but i'm pissed still)
After I started to see 2-3 signups daily in pending commissions, I raised my advertising. I was like "FINALLY< some money to be made here!" I mean for me, this is what i KNOW how to do - Pay per click advertising - Yeah, it costs, but it drives visitors in - I am able to get 100+ visitors every day for about $10/day spending. If only 1% convert to a sale, that's $50 earned for each $10 in advertising....
Then the wheels all fell off - Several people from my personal email contacted me, saying their links weren't working right. I took a look and noticed no signups over 7 days, despite increasing my traffic over 2x - I contacted support who insisted everything was fine - But I was positive something had to be wrong - I mean, how do I go from 1-3 signups daily with light advertising, to zero signups over a full week, with 2x as much advertising?!?! Yeah, doesn't make sense at all -
I shut off all my advertising - I didn't email my list - I updated my site and moved it way down the ranks - But still, I somehow had faith in them. I guess it wasn't faith so much as it was almost desperation perhaps.
Because the truth is that if Free Site Signup could keep accurate records, I could easily earn $300+ every day with the program. I know exactly how to get MASSIVE traffic to a website - It's just a matter of if that traffic is WORTH me paying for
Free Site Signup is still telling me that everything they show is accurate and correct - but here is where I'm at as of this blog post (or should i call it Pissed Off Rambling :)
Yahoo charged me for over 5k clicks sent to my Free Site Signup page
I had 12 people from my PERSONAL email list contact me, telling me they joined, and 3 of them sent me their receipt (I had offered my list a special deal where I gave them my own PPC tips and tricks to get massive traffic for cheap - and yeah, several of them took it)
My pending commissions as of yesterday were $250 - Meaning only 5 people joined and upgraded?
The stats shown in my Free Site Signup back office shows over 1,756 clicks - Aside from the fact that this is RIDICULOUSLY low, lets say that's an accurate hit counter - Out of 1,756 clicks they are saying only 5 people paid $8.95 to join and get their $100 signup bonus???
For what it's worth, I have read that 'about' 1% of clicks or visits to your sites will "convert" into a sale for your website - Pretty low percentage, but lets look at that.
if only 1% converted, I would have earned 'about' 18 sales (again, I am 99% positive that their counters are VERY low) - So what Free Site Signup is now telling me is that they have The Worst Converting Pages in the INDUSTRY???
That is VERY hard to believe -
And beyond this, my signup bonus of $100 is gone from my pending commissions. Not exactly sure how that happened, and despite me sending in 4 different support requests, they continue to NOT answer that question specifically - They keep saying "We are aware of your case" -
When I was promoting affiliate junktion, they did a "pay per lead" deal - everyone that visited your site, then clicked through and left their email, earned you $2 each time. I was REGULARLY getting $250+ days there. I was sending 500+ clicks regularly, and would get 75-150 "leads" everyday -
And this is after NUMEROUS support requests sent in by me - They cancelled my account AFTER i paid the hosting fee - They had the wrong links in my page and insisted it was ME who didn't have a clue -
I stuck around so long here because of the earning potential - Fact is I could make a fortune with this - If it would keep stats accurately -
But instead, it looks like I wasted another couple months, about $500 - $600 in advertising, and countless hours of effort and promotion...
And you want to know what is worse than ANY of that? My reputation with my list - My clickthrough % from my personal email list is DISMAL these days. I used to regularly get 15% clickthrough (meaning 15% of the people on my list opened my emails) - Of that, I would also get a healthy "clicked links" % as well -
Nowadays, my opened and click %'s are TERRIBLE - Like often below 5% -
That is far worse than losing the Free Site Signup money. I really do my best to promote GOOD opportunities to my list - And the Free Site Signup fiasco made me look like a fucking idiot - Yeah, obviously I use my email list to earn money and build referrals - But I ALWAYS did it with the best intentions, and I always did it AFTER I tried the program out myself...In this case I did try it out - Everything did seem fine to me - Support was prompt - signups were showing up - Money was rolling in -
I don't really feel like any of it was "my fault", but I know for a fact that my reputation with my list will never be the same now -
and that just fucking sucks - As if it's not hard enough to build a list of subscribers, I gotta have a shitty affiliate company make ME look like the jerk -
Thanks a lot Free Site Signup - Go to hell -
And I do apologize for the Non Family Friendly blog post - But in this case, I still don't think it's enough
Sunday, June 28, 2009
How To Make Money with Traffic Exchanges
I've spent hundreds of hours surfing, hundreds of dollars on credits and upgrades, I've surfed over 40 different traffic exchanges.
I've also gotten hundreds of referrals, thousands of free credits and built up an email list of over 600 people using nothing but traffic exchanges.
When I first started online marketing, I promoted nothing but affiliate links. Long drawn out sales pages that nobody wanted to sign up for - See traffic exchange users surf exchanges so they can promote THEIR business. It took me months to even realize I was wasting all my time & credits advertising stuff that nobody wanted.
I was determined to succeed though. I know that people using traffic exchanges were just like me. Newbie marketers who wanted to build an online business and get as much "free" advertising as they can.
I quote free because traffic exchanges are TECHNICALLY free - But in order to get some results with them, you either have to spend some money or spend hours and hours of time.
Neither your time or money are free - I want to make sure you understand that this post isn't about a "sign up, do nothing and get rich" system that I have - This still is going to take some effort and time from you - And some money - hopefully as little as possible, but it will make a big difference if you can spend a little *unless you are willing to surf 3-4 hours everyday - i'm not :)
The most important thing to Traffic Exchange success is this: You need to give surfers what THEY need! And that is more credits with less work.
There are a couple ways to get more credits with less work - Pay for them or build referrals. Paying for them is an option, but you need to be careful here. I spend about $40-$50/month on traffic exchanges and I still surf 3-4 hours per week. I spend my money on upgrades at the better exchanges and spend my surfing time their as well.
The other way, and much better, is to build referrals - When you get referrals for traffic exchanges, you earn a % of their surfing - So when they surf, you get free credits. The more referrals you have, the more free credits you get (the more free credits you get, the more free advertising you get for YOUR websites!)
Now as easy as that sounds, a lot of people go about this the wrong way. They will advertise traffic exchanges directly (on other traffic exchanges) as a way to get referrals - This takes a LONG time to build any kind of a good base.
There are better options, like a downline builder. Where you promote 1 page, and it builds up traffic exchange referrals under many traffic exchanges.
The best program for this is Traffic Hoopla - They rank the top 25 Traffic Exchanges every week. You put YOUR links in for each exchange, and then anyone you refer to Traffic Hoopla can build up referrals for you across any/all of the best Traffic Exchanges.
But here is the thing - We are surfing exchanges to MAKE MONEY! And building up free credits is great, but at some point you have to be making some money.
Despite all the free credits I built from Traffic Exchanges, I was making very little money. Even less than what I was spending monthly on my upgrades. Not a great way to spend your time :)
See I learned, tested and worked on these concepts above for about 6 months. I surfed exchanges like a madman, advertised various programs like crazy, and STILL got no results. I was getting signups, and building a list, but still not making any money!
A few weeks ago an online marketing friend sent me a link to a program called Traffic Exchange Profits.
A lot of people send me ads all the time. I have quite a contact list and I advertise all the time. So it's natural to expect some reverse advertising. I can usually tell the difference between someone who is "selling" to me and someone who is genuinely making a recommendation because something is working for them (and believe me, online networking in THAT regard, is the most valuable networking you can get! When you build a friendship and trust with someone, and they recommend something, it's worth looking into)
I'm trying not to ramble on and on - really :)
When I saw Traffic Exchange Profits it all clicked - I had actually signed up for TEP a couple times before, but never taken it seriously - Just glanced through it, figuring it was more garbage like the other stuff I'd done.
But Traffic Exchange Profits actually makes sense.
It builds every aspect of a complete business - Instant Income, Automated Follow Up and Residual Income - All by just promoting 1 link.
Traffic Exchange Profits comes with 15 different landing pages. All these are short and sweet and designed specifically for Traffic Exchanges (as in Splash Pages). These pages offer 1 thing - A Free Money Making Report. So anyone who is surfing an exchange can grab that report and take a look at it on THEIR time.
When surfers are checking email or whatever, they can go and see the report.
This is one of the best aspects of Traffic Exchange Profits - Here is why: It does all the "selling" for me. It explains how to build traffic exchange referrals, how to earn instant cash and how to build residual income.
It showcases 2 traffic exchanges that are Excellent for earning cash from: TrafficSplash and TrafficWitch - You can earn 75% commissions on your referrals upgrades through TrafficWitch. This is an unbelievable commission rate! You can also earn 50% commissions on your Traffic Splash referrals.
Both exchanges also pay 10% commissions to free members - So even if you can't afford the upgrade right away, you can still earn cash by getting your own referrals.
Traffic Exchange Profits then explains why we need an autoresponder (my autoresponder is my best online business tool - period)
With TEP, you get a free 30 day trial for the TrafficWave autoresponder. Doesn't require a credit card! So you don't have to remember to cancel in 30 days. If you don't like the system, you just let it lapse - No payment, nothing to lose - It's completely risk free (which is rare in the online marketing industry :)
Once you enroll in Traffic Wave, you get 25 autoresponder messages to upload into YOUR autoresponder! These 25 messages send continuous follow up to your prospects for you - AUTOMATICALLY - All you do is set it up, customize your links (so you get referral credit!) and then go promote Traffic Exchange Profits yourself.
These 25 follow up messages are excellent. Professionally written so that your leads see the benefits - Nice templates make TEP look VERY professional - And the writing explains the system for you. There is no hard selling - No false promises - It's nothing like your typical marketing bs. It simply outlines the benefits of joining Traffic Exchange Profits and using the same system themselves.
The follow up is crucial. Many online marketers have a short attention span (myself included!). We need information fast and it has to tell me what's in it for me. Traffic Exchange Profits does this perfectly.
So why does Traffic Exchange Profits work?
First, it streamlines your entire business. You don't have to promote an autoresponder, and traffic exchanges separately. By just giving away the free report, you begin to build traffic exchange referrals, instant income AND residual income. All in the background - Without you pushing or hard selling anything
It also works because nobody HAS to pay anything. Even prospects who just read the report have a chance to earn you referrals on Traffic Splash and Traffic Witch (right on the report). This builds up referrals and free credits for you. I get referrals for both these exchanges every single day, despite those people not using TEP for themselves.
Automatic Follow Up - #1 in my book. A lot of us will often overlook 2 or 3 messages from stuff we signed up for. But when you start to see 7, 8, 9 emails, prospects are much more likely to take another look. The Traffic Wave autoresponder sends out the 25 emails. This follow up turns a LOT of prospects into signups!
Traffic Exchange Profits gives surfers what THEY need: Ways to earn more credits for less work. By doing this, you build prospects. Remember Traffic Exchanges are a numbers game - The more prospects you get, the more referrals and sales you get.
Extremely Low Cost! To use the entire Traffic Exchange Profits system costs $5. This gives you a copy of Stacked Income and the ENTIRE Traffic Exchange Profits backoffice.
The $5 is our way of earning instant income. And when you refer others, you earn $5 over and over. You get 100% resell rights and the money is sent straight to your account.
Unlimited Earning Potential! With Traffic Witch you can earn $50 for each upgrade. With Traffic Splash you can earn $4-$5 each month from each referral. Traffic Wave pays you 100% up front commissions of $17.95 for each signup, plus a monthly commission from your active referrals. You also get a % of THEIR referrals. Traffic Wave pays you through 10 levels! You can EASILY build up a serious monthly residual income with Traffic Wave.
So why is this such a lengthy post? Why didn't I turn this into a super flashy sales page?
For me it's simple. The people who will REALLY see the benefit of Traffic Exchange Profits are those surfers who are FRUSTRATED with traffic exchanges. This is actually most surfers, to be honest. But what happens is that those people often give up. Remember, 97% of online marketers fail to make $10/week -
I recognized how valuable and effective this system would be right away - But that was because I am a longtime surfer. I've used countless systems and wasted hundreds of surfing hours and thousands of credits, along with hundreds of dollars.
So I'm a bit lengthy in my explanation, because I have been through the crap for a LONG time. And I work a lot harder at it than most people.
Anyone who is serious about succeeding with traffic exchanges will instantly see WHY this works so well.
It provides you the best splash pages. It does all the follow up. It does all the selling. It gives you multiple income opportunities. It earns you instant income along with building residual income.
And it does it all with just 1 link -
It's the most effective system I've used for Traffic Exchanges. In my first 2 weeks I've already gotten 26 Traffic Splash referrals, 18 Traffic Witch referrals, a free Traffic Wave signup and $175 in cash through upgrades and sales of OBA.
Start earning money with Traffic Exchanges yourself
Get your Free Report from Traffic Exchange Profits
to your success,
Paul
AffiliateCurve.com
I've also gotten hundreds of referrals, thousands of free credits and built up an email list of over 600 people using nothing but traffic exchanges.
When I first started online marketing, I promoted nothing but affiliate links. Long drawn out sales pages that nobody wanted to sign up for - See traffic exchange users surf exchanges so they can promote THEIR business. It took me months to even realize I was wasting all my time & credits advertising stuff that nobody wanted.
I was determined to succeed though. I know that people using traffic exchanges were just like me. Newbie marketers who wanted to build an online business and get as much "free" advertising as they can.
I quote free because traffic exchanges are TECHNICALLY free - But in order to get some results with them, you either have to spend some money or spend hours and hours of time.
Neither your time or money are free - I want to make sure you understand that this post isn't about a "sign up, do nothing and get rich" system that I have - This still is going to take some effort and time from you - And some money - hopefully as little as possible, but it will make a big difference if you can spend a little *unless you are willing to surf 3-4 hours everyday - i'm not :)
The most important thing to Traffic Exchange success is this: You need to give surfers what THEY need! And that is more credits with less work.
There are a couple ways to get more credits with less work - Pay for them or build referrals. Paying for them is an option, but you need to be careful here. I spend about $40-$50/month on traffic exchanges and I still surf 3-4 hours per week. I spend my money on upgrades at the better exchanges and spend my surfing time their as well.
The other way, and much better, is to build referrals - When you get referrals for traffic exchanges, you earn a % of their surfing - So when they surf, you get free credits. The more referrals you have, the more free credits you get (the more free credits you get, the more free advertising you get for YOUR websites!)
Now as easy as that sounds, a lot of people go about this the wrong way. They will advertise traffic exchanges directly (on other traffic exchanges) as a way to get referrals - This takes a LONG time to build any kind of a good base.
There are better options, like a downline builder. Where you promote 1 page, and it builds up traffic exchange referrals under many traffic exchanges.
The best program for this is Traffic Hoopla - They rank the top 25 Traffic Exchanges every week. You put YOUR links in for each exchange, and then anyone you refer to Traffic Hoopla can build up referrals for you across any/all of the best Traffic Exchanges.
But here is the thing - We are surfing exchanges to MAKE MONEY! And building up free credits is great, but at some point you have to be making some money.
Despite all the free credits I built from Traffic Exchanges, I was making very little money. Even less than what I was spending monthly on my upgrades. Not a great way to spend your time :)
See I learned, tested and worked on these concepts above for about 6 months. I surfed exchanges like a madman, advertised various programs like crazy, and STILL got no results. I was getting signups, and building a list, but still not making any money!
A few weeks ago an online marketing friend sent me a link to a program called Traffic Exchange Profits.
A lot of people send me ads all the time. I have quite a contact list and I advertise all the time. So it's natural to expect some reverse advertising. I can usually tell the difference between someone who is "selling" to me and someone who is genuinely making a recommendation because something is working for them (and believe me, online networking in THAT regard, is the most valuable networking you can get! When you build a friendship and trust with someone, and they recommend something, it's worth looking into)
I'm trying not to ramble on and on - really :)
When I saw Traffic Exchange Profits it all clicked - I had actually signed up for TEP a couple times before, but never taken it seriously - Just glanced through it, figuring it was more garbage like the other stuff I'd done.
But Traffic Exchange Profits actually makes sense.
It builds every aspect of a complete business - Instant Income, Automated Follow Up and Residual Income - All by just promoting 1 link.
Traffic Exchange Profits comes with 15 different landing pages. All these are short and sweet and designed specifically for Traffic Exchanges (as in Splash Pages). These pages offer 1 thing - A Free Money Making Report. So anyone who is surfing an exchange can grab that report and take a look at it on THEIR time.
When surfers are checking email or whatever, they can go and see the report.
This is one of the best aspects of Traffic Exchange Profits - Here is why: It does all the "selling" for me. It explains how to build traffic exchange referrals, how to earn instant cash and how to build residual income.
It showcases 2 traffic exchanges that are Excellent for earning cash from: TrafficSplash and TrafficWitch - You can earn 75% commissions on your referrals upgrades through TrafficWitch. This is an unbelievable commission rate! You can also earn 50% commissions on your Traffic Splash referrals.
Both exchanges also pay 10% commissions to free members - So even if you can't afford the upgrade right away, you can still earn cash by getting your own referrals.
Traffic Exchange Profits then explains why we need an autoresponder (my autoresponder is my best online business tool - period)
With TEP, you get a free 30 day trial for the TrafficWave autoresponder. Doesn't require a credit card! So you don't have to remember to cancel in 30 days. If you don't like the system, you just let it lapse - No payment, nothing to lose - It's completely risk free (which is rare in the online marketing industry :)
Once you enroll in Traffic Wave, you get 25 autoresponder messages to upload into YOUR autoresponder! These 25 messages send continuous follow up to your prospects for you - AUTOMATICALLY - All you do is set it up, customize your links (so you get referral credit!) and then go promote Traffic Exchange Profits yourself.
These 25 follow up messages are excellent. Professionally written so that your leads see the benefits - Nice templates make TEP look VERY professional - And the writing explains the system for you. There is no hard selling - No false promises - It's nothing like your typical marketing bs. It simply outlines the benefits of joining Traffic Exchange Profits and using the same system themselves.
The follow up is crucial. Many online marketers have a short attention span (myself included!). We need information fast and it has to tell me what's in it for me. Traffic Exchange Profits does this perfectly.
So why does Traffic Exchange Profits work?
First, it streamlines your entire business. You don't have to promote an autoresponder, and traffic exchanges separately. By just giving away the free report, you begin to build traffic exchange referrals, instant income AND residual income. All in the background - Without you pushing or hard selling anything
It also works because nobody HAS to pay anything. Even prospects who just read the report have a chance to earn you referrals on Traffic Splash and Traffic Witch (right on the report). This builds up referrals and free credits for you. I get referrals for both these exchanges every single day, despite those people not using TEP for themselves.
Automatic Follow Up - #1 in my book. A lot of us will often overlook 2 or 3 messages from stuff we signed up for. But when you start to see 7, 8, 9 emails, prospects are much more likely to take another look. The Traffic Wave autoresponder sends out the 25 emails. This follow up turns a LOT of prospects into signups!
Traffic Exchange Profits gives surfers what THEY need: Ways to earn more credits for less work. By doing this, you build prospects. Remember Traffic Exchanges are a numbers game - The more prospects you get, the more referrals and sales you get.
Extremely Low Cost! To use the entire Traffic Exchange Profits system costs $5. This gives you a copy of Stacked Income and the ENTIRE Traffic Exchange Profits backoffice.
The $5 is our way of earning instant income. And when you refer others, you earn $5 over and over. You get 100% resell rights and the money is sent straight to your account.
Unlimited Earning Potential! With Traffic Witch you can earn $50 for each upgrade. With Traffic Splash you can earn $4-$5 each month from each referral. Traffic Wave pays you 100% up front commissions of $17.95 for each signup, plus a monthly commission from your active referrals. You also get a % of THEIR referrals. Traffic Wave pays you through 10 levels! You can EASILY build up a serious monthly residual income with Traffic Wave.
So why is this such a lengthy post? Why didn't I turn this into a super flashy sales page?
For me it's simple. The people who will REALLY see the benefit of Traffic Exchange Profits are those surfers who are FRUSTRATED with traffic exchanges. This is actually most surfers, to be honest. But what happens is that those people often give up. Remember, 97% of online marketers fail to make $10/week -
I recognized how valuable and effective this system would be right away - But that was because I am a longtime surfer. I've used countless systems and wasted hundreds of surfing hours and thousands of credits, along with hundreds of dollars.
So I'm a bit lengthy in my explanation, because I have been through the crap for a LONG time. And I work a lot harder at it than most people.
Anyone who is serious about succeeding with traffic exchanges will instantly see WHY this works so well.
It provides you the best splash pages. It does all the follow up. It does all the selling. It gives you multiple income opportunities. It earns you instant income along with building residual income.
And it does it all with just 1 link -
It's the most effective system I've used for Traffic Exchanges. In my first 2 weeks I've already gotten 26 Traffic Splash referrals, 18 Traffic Witch referrals, a free Traffic Wave signup and $175 in cash through upgrades and sales of OBA.
Start earning money with Traffic Exchanges yourself
Get your Free Report from Traffic Exchange Profits
to your success,
Paul
AffiliateCurve.com
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Haven't posted Since May 4 - WOW
Let me start by saying it's NOT because I haven't been busy :)
I'm going to try to do a quick recount, and let you know what I've been doing, without going into too much detail (If I go into detail, the entire blog is gonna be just this entry! lol)
Basically, I've been on a "MAKE MONEY" binge - Right now, Affiliate Curve is pretty automated. I did go in last week and do some revamping. I deleted a few advertising resources, a few programs, added my PBX YouTube video etc.
I got GDI as my #1 program - I updated my reviews for Pyrabang, Acme, Free Site Signup, etc.
But that was only 1 night out of the last 6 weeks :)
I started looking into domain name selling - Not as easy as it seems, at least in my first full month. I'm very good at grabbing and picking domain names. But despite how much I think they must be worth, just randomly putting them up for sale doesn't seem to work so well - I bought about 15 names - great names, i think, like realeasytraffic.com, easyaffiliatetraffic.com, easytrafficdaily.com, fastfreetraffic.net, realeasyhits.com - Etc. Put them up for sale at GoDaddy, Afternic, and SEDO - Bought 1 premium listing at Afternic -
So far, around 18 domain names, have gotten roughly 15 total views - in a month - no offers, no watchers etc. I haven't wanted to spend the money on appraising the domains, and I haven't wanted to pay for premium listings.
I was kinda just thinking "These are great domain names and I could easily sell these for a profit" - Maybe I've been using too many traffic exchanges and online marketing programs though, because when I look at the names now, I see nothing but affiliate marketing and traffic exchange type names :)
Still, I will look into that more and see what I can do -
I've REALLY wanted to start my own traffic exchange. I've been researching scripts and prices. I specifically bought realeasytraffic.com because I had the intention of starting a traffic exchange. With my email list, and how many hits I can send on exchanges, plus PPC, I think I could get a fairly decent subscriber base -
But I am not a fool - I realize that starting and running a traffic exchange would be a LOT of work. And even with the potential to earn good money, promote my own programs and build up a big email list, the time involved is not something I take lightly. I don't have programming skills, so I need something that is pretty easy to run. And being a heavy traffic exchange user myself, I don't want my surfers to have to worry about those assholes who put bad sites up there that redirect and break frames and what not - So I want to make sure I get the best script I can, for the money - and be able to handle it myself...
I will start one though, someday - hopefully soon :)
Websites - WOW - I started several websites over the past couple weeks. I've been taking my domain name finding skills and seeing how they rank in Google Searches. Basically, I'll type in some keywords, see how many results it comes up with, and then see if a similair domain name is available -
The first site I built was www.bestplacestobetonline.com - I wanted to start building referrals for BetUS and Full Tilt Poker. These are affiliate programs I joined way back when I started BadLuckHandicapper.com -
So one day I was looking through Google - Started typing in Best Places to Bet. The Google indicator put up 'best places to bet online' as the suggestion - It pulled up 25million results.
Went to look at GoDaddy and what do you know? bestplacestobetonline.com was available!
So I built a blog on weebly and sent the domain to it - Then I realized that a weebly blog couldn't quite do everything I wanted, so I added an account at Homestead - Since I'm already using Homestead for another site, it was only $2/month to add another website - Pretty good deal really
SO, I built the site, posted my review of BetUS, put some cool affiliate gadgets in there like Live Lines, and then I put in a "Tips from the Pro's" live gadget from Full Tilt Poker - and got my site online...
Submitted my site to Google -
Tonight when I type in "Best Places to Bet Online", my new site is #4 in google search results.
I don't know a lot about this stuff - Page Rank, Best Keywords, Search Engine Ranking, etc. But my GUESS is that is a search phrase pulls up 25 Million Results, that a fair amount of people will be searching for that term. And for my website to be #4 there, JUST because of my domain name, seems to be a good enough reason to me to do this -
It must work at least a little bit - Today I had my first email signup from the website -
I gotta post a link here - for extra exposure :)
BestPlacesToBetOnline.com
Online Gambling is a HUGE market - But you can't use PPC on Google or Yahoo due to the online gaming bans. So the only way to get a website to show up in results it keywords and natural results (organic is the term actually)
So there is 1 of my sites - Oh, to try and boost the links, I started 3 blogs - 1 on Google, 1 on WordPress and 1 on Weebly - I basically left my same review on all 3 blogs, put some links in there to the main website and what not - So that is 4 places online that all point to my website.
I just did the same thing with "How to Build GDI" - Lo and behold, HowToBuildGDI.com was an available domain name (that actually surprised me, a LOT, considering how many GDI businesses and systems there are online) - So I bought it, right away -
Last night I did a Google Blog, posted my reviews on GDI, how to use Gold Rush and Acme People Search - and wa la (badly mispelled lol)
Now when you type in "How to build GDI" into google, my site is #3 in the rankings...There are just under 1.5 million results for that search term -
There are PPC ads on the side as well - Not sure if that's JUST because of GDI being a keyword in that search phrase or not -
But again, common search phrase, 1 blog entry and a domain name, bam - My site shows up #3 in results...
Here it is: HowToBuildGDI.com
I've been reading about these "mini-sites" and how these people create bunches of these - each earning a few bucks/day - but when you build 100, then your making $300 each day, right?
I don't know how much search engine traffic I can generate by JUST using domain names and blogs (I ALWAYS point my domain to the blog, so it shows up as a Website - not just a blog)
But if these begin to generate some traffic, then I might as well keep doing it - I've got some decent skill at finding domain names.
And who knows - Maybe someday I can write my own ClickBank product - How to create organic search engine traffic with the right domain name :)
The other big focus for me has been Traffic Exchange Profits - I LOVE TEP! the only thing I dislike is the target market - Traffic Exchange Users - I will try to be as gentle as I can here, but the truth is they are 98% useless - The follow through and desire of your average traffic exchange user is next to nil - They are there for the quick buck and will quit before they ever really give anything a chance -
That makes up most of them - On the flip side, and this is the BIG side, is that those Traffic Exchange surfers who ARE serious, will LOVE TEP - They will instantly see how much it does for them, all by promoting just 1 link -
And it doesn't take many of them to really build a profit here - In my first 2 weeks I have DOZENS of referrals for Traffic-Splash and TrafficWitch - I have a few upgrades from traffic splash and a couple from TrafficWitch - TrafficWitch is amazing because they pay 75% commission to upgraded members - I paid $67 to take the one time offer for a 1 year pro upgrade - By selling just 1, I make $50!
And traffic Wave - Powerful affiliate program structure - 100% up front commissions on your sales, so you get $17.95 right away - Then you get $6/month for each active member - Beyond this, they have a 10 level affiliate program - I can't even explain it well, but basically you get 3 referrals as your "main level", then each of those referrals earns you a % of their referrals - Down 10 levels!
So this will take some time and effort for me - BUT, If I put that effort in, I will end up with THOUSANDS of traffic exchange referrals earning me massive amounts of free credits every month - I will get commissions on referrals - I will build Traffic Wave referrals - And I'll earn money through OBA ($5/each sale, with the $20 ad space lease option)
So you can almost make $100 in commission from just 1 referral!
If your reading this, and haven't given this a serious look, get your report now:
Traffic Exchange Profits Free Report!
Like I mentioned, this will take time because 95% of the people who even sign up, will never do anything with it - BUT, once you get a few signups of those people who are fed up with traffic exchanges, THOSE are the people that really see the beauty of TEP - Just like I do - And a few people like that in your downline can earn you some serious money -
It's like the GDI principle, but it actually pays more -
so yeah, I'm very ACTIVELY promoting TEP right now :)
Also, started another website - As if all this above wasn't enough to do!
It's called YourOnTheMic.com - It's a forum for aspiring rap artists - A free place for them to post their materials, lay out their rap verses, give themselves a plug if they have a YouTube channel, website etc -
check it out - We are gonna be pretty cool :)
YourOnTheMic.com
Damn, and this was the SHORT VERSION :)
I'm going to try to do a quick recount, and let you know what I've been doing, without going into too much detail (If I go into detail, the entire blog is gonna be just this entry! lol)
Basically, I've been on a "MAKE MONEY" binge - Right now, Affiliate Curve is pretty automated. I did go in last week and do some revamping. I deleted a few advertising resources, a few programs, added my PBX YouTube video etc.
I got GDI as my #1 program - I updated my reviews for Pyrabang, Acme, Free Site Signup, etc.
But that was only 1 night out of the last 6 weeks :)
I started looking into domain name selling - Not as easy as it seems, at least in my first full month. I'm very good at grabbing and picking domain names. But despite how much I think they must be worth, just randomly putting them up for sale doesn't seem to work so well - I bought about 15 names - great names, i think, like realeasytraffic.com, easyaffiliatetraffic.com, easytrafficdaily.com, fastfreetraffic.net, realeasyhits.com - Etc. Put them up for sale at GoDaddy, Afternic, and SEDO - Bought 1 premium listing at Afternic -
So far, around 18 domain names, have gotten roughly 15 total views - in a month - no offers, no watchers etc. I haven't wanted to spend the money on appraising the domains, and I haven't wanted to pay for premium listings.
I was kinda just thinking "These are great domain names and I could easily sell these for a profit" - Maybe I've been using too many traffic exchanges and online marketing programs though, because when I look at the names now, I see nothing but affiliate marketing and traffic exchange type names :)
Still, I will look into that more and see what I can do -
I've REALLY wanted to start my own traffic exchange. I've been researching scripts and prices. I specifically bought realeasytraffic.com because I had the intention of starting a traffic exchange. With my email list, and how many hits I can send on exchanges, plus PPC, I think I could get a fairly decent subscriber base -
But I am not a fool - I realize that starting and running a traffic exchange would be a LOT of work. And even with the potential to earn good money, promote my own programs and build up a big email list, the time involved is not something I take lightly. I don't have programming skills, so I need something that is pretty easy to run. And being a heavy traffic exchange user myself, I don't want my surfers to have to worry about those assholes who put bad sites up there that redirect and break frames and what not - So I want to make sure I get the best script I can, for the money - and be able to handle it myself...
I will start one though, someday - hopefully soon :)
Websites - WOW - I started several websites over the past couple weeks. I've been taking my domain name finding skills and seeing how they rank in Google Searches. Basically, I'll type in some keywords, see how many results it comes up with, and then see if a similair domain name is available -
The first site I built was www.bestplacestobetonline.com - I wanted to start building referrals for BetUS and Full Tilt Poker. These are affiliate programs I joined way back when I started BadLuckHandicapper.com -
So one day I was looking through Google - Started typing in Best Places to Bet. The Google indicator put up 'best places to bet online' as the suggestion - It pulled up 25million results.
Went to look at GoDaddy and what do you know? bestplacestobetonline.com was available!
So I built a blog on weebly and sent the domain to it - Then I realized that a weebly blog couldn't quite do everything I wanted, so I added an account at Homestead - Since I'm already using Homestead for another site, it was only $2/month to add another website - Pretty good deal really
SO, I built the site, posted my review of BetUS, put some cool affiliate gadgets in there like Live Lines, and then I put in a "Tips from the Pro's" live gadget from Full Tilt Poker - and got my site online...
Submitted my site to Google -
Tonight when I type in "Best Places to Bet Online", my new site is #4 in google search results.
I don't know a lot about this stuff - Page Rank, Best Keywords, Search Engine Ranking, etc. But my GUESS is that is a search phrase pulls up 25 Million Results, that a fair amount of people will be searching for that term. And for my website to be #4 there, JUST because of my domain name, seems to be a good enough reason to me to do this -
It must work at least a little bit - Today I had my first email signup from the website -
I gotta post a link here - for extra exposure :)
BestPlacesToBetOnline.com
Online Gambling is a HUGE market - But you can't use PPC on Google or Yahoo due to the online gaming bans. So the only way to get a website to show up in results it keywords and natural results (organic is the term actually)
So there is 1 of my sites - Oh, to try and boost the links, I started 3 blogs - 1 on Google, 1 on WordPress and 1 on Weebly - I basically left my same review on all 3 blogs, put some links in there to the main website and what not - So that is 4 places online that all point to my website.
I just did the same thing with "How to Build GDI" - Lo and behold, HowToBuildGDI.com was an available domain name (that actually surprised me, a LOT, considering how many GDI businesses and systems there are online) - So I bought it, right away -
Last night I did a Google Blog, posted my reviews on GDI, how to use Gold Rush and Acme People Search - and wa la (badly mispelled lol)
Now when you type in "How to build GDI" into google, my site is #3 in the rankings...There are just under 1.5 million results for that search term -
There are PPC ads on the side as well - Not sure if that's JUST because of GDI being a keyword in that search phrase or not -
But again, common search phrase, 1 blog entry and a domain name, bam - My site shows up #3 in results...
Here it is: HowToBuildGDI.com
I've been reading about these "mini-sites" and how these people create bunches of these - each earning a few bucks/day - but when you build 100, then your making $300 each day, right?
I don't know how much search engine traffic I can generate by JUST using domain names and blogs (I ALWAYS point my domain to the blog, so it shows up as a Website - not just a blog)
But if these begin to generate some traffic, then I might as well keep doing it - I've got some decent skill at finding domain names.
And who knows - Maybe someday I can write my own ClickBank product - How to create organic search engine traffic with the right domain name :)
The other big focus for me has been Traffic Exchange Profits - I LOVE TEP! the only thing I dislike is the target market - Traffic Exchange Users - I will try to be as gentle as I can here, but the truth is they are 98% useless - The follow through and desire of your average traffic exchange user is next to nil - They are there for the quick buck and will quit before they ever really give anything a chance -
That makes up most of them - On the flip side, and this is the BIG side, is that those Traffic Exchange surfers who ARE serious, will LOVE TEP - They will instantly see how much it does for them, all by promoting just 1 link -
And it doesn't take many of them to really build a profit here - In my first 2 weeks I have DOZENS of referrals for Traffic-Splash and TrafficWitch - I have a few upgrades from traffic splash and a couple from TrafficWitch - TrafficWitch is amazing because they pay 75% commission to upgraded members - I paid $67 to take the one time offer for a 1 year pro upgrade - By selling just 1, I make $50!
And traffic Wave - Powerful affiliate program structure - 100% up front commissions on your sales, so you get $17.95 right away - Then you get $6/month for each active member - Beyond this, they have a 10 level affiliate program - I can't even explain it well, but basically you get 3 referrals as your "main level", then each of those referrals earns you a % of their referrals - Down 10 levels!
So this will take some time and effort for me - BUT, If I put that effort in, I will end up with THOUSANDS of traffic exchange referrals earning me massive amounts of free credits every month - I will get commissions on referrals - I will build Traffic Wave referrals - And I'll earn money through OBA ($5/each sale, with the $20 ad space lease option)
So you can almost make $100 in commission from just 1 referral!
If your reading this, and haven't given this a serious look, get your report now:
Traffic Exchange Profits Free Report!
Like I mentioned, this will take time because 95% of the people who even sign up, will never do anything with it - BUT, once you get a few signups of those people who are fed up with traffic exchanges, THOSE are the people that really see the beauty of TEP - Just like I do - And a few people like that in your downline can earn you some serious money -
It's like the GDI principle, but it actually pays more -
so yeah, I'm very ACTIVELY promoting TEP right now :)
Also, started another website - As if all this above wasn't enough to do!
It's called YourOnTheMic.com - It's a forum for aspiring rap artists - A free place for them to post their materials, lay out their rap verses, give themselves a plug if they have a YouTube channel, website etc -
check it out - We are gonna be pretty cool :)
YourOnTheMic.com
Damn, and this was the SHORT VERSION :)
Monday, May 4, 2009
Email to an online marketing friend -
Today I got an email from a marketing friend I've been talking to a bit over the past couple weeks.
She sent me a couple links and asked me if it was too many programs...
I quickly realized that this is a HUGE problem we face as online marketers. We join way too many things and try to get way too much stuff done yesterday.
What I told her (in essence) was this:
You have to ask yourself, What are Your GOALS?
I still join too much stuff - I've signed up for stuff and never opened it - never confirmed response, nothing. Dozens of things like that. I've also signed up for Dozens of things where I took a 3 second look at it and knew it wasn't for me - I've also signed up Dozens of things I liked, promoted them for a couple days, and gave up -
Anything you can think of, I've done :)
When I started getting very serious though, I realized I couldn't just Bounce Around - I had to be really BUILDING something.
So I got damn serious about traffic exchanges. I created my own splash page, bought an upgrade through Home Income Team for pro upgrades at 7 exchanges, and started surfing about 8-10 hours/week (and yes, that is a lot of damn surfing :)
I focused ALL my energy there - I built my own follow up series on my aweber account - Called it power traffic - Used it to promote GDI, some of my traffic exchanges, and my tips on getting the best results from our surfing efforts -
I think it turned out AWESOME - I have over 150 referrals for Web Biz Insider - I have over 300 referrals for Easy Hits - I got over 100 referrals for HIT - I got 50ish referrals for Traffic-Splash, 40ish for Hit Safari - I got over 100 people on my personal email list -
Still wasn't making much money though - Traffic Exchanges are not good for this - But I kept working - I figured as long as I was building an email list, things would work out
Long story short - I kept thinking about my own marketing. What didn't work, what did work - What online marketers would sign up for, what they wouldn't - Ways to advertise to my list - How to get more on my list - All kinds of stuff - I was always thinking about ways to improve and streamline my business -
This is the email I sent - I think it's good advice for anyone:
I don't know how many programs you are in overall, but it is definitely a BIG problem to have too much going on at once -
What I do is focus my efforts into 1 thing at a time - Some things are simple. The million leads for free thing is great - I just spend 3min's/day here, click through a few ads, and then post my ads - It's also easy because I now have 4 different ads that are saved. So I just go in and hit send on whatever I want to advertise that day -
I'm all about automated advertising - I earn my real money using Pay Per Click marketing. My latest site, free site signup, I have 7 signups now over the past 3 days - That's $350 earned - and it cost me about $15 in advertising - and all I ahd to do was setup my campaigns (about an hour), then test different pages to find out what got people to sign up -
I would recommend you focus on 1 thing at a time - I would learn traffic exchanges and use that million leads for free to start - I know you want to stay free - You should be building a list or downline in something though - Just randomly joining new stuff is one of the quickest ways to get frustrated and quit - You need to give something TIME - But you also need to be ready when it doesn't work and it's time to move on (i've had to move on from about 100 different things that were just garbage)
Right now I'm focusing all my efforts into 1 thing: Getting people to MY website - In turn, getting them to join MY Email List - This in turns give me a way to keep in contact -
So all this advertising and work your doing, you need to ask yourself - What is my GOAL here? Where do you want your traffic to go? What do you want them to do? What do you want it to do FOR YOU?
She sent me a couple links and asked me if it was too many programs...
I quickly realized that this is a HUGE problem we face as online marketers. We join way too many things and try to get way too much stuff done yesterday.
What I told her (in essence) was this:
You have to ask yourself, What are Your GOALS?
I still join too much stuff - I've signed up for stuff and never opened it - never confirmed response, nothing. Dozens of things like that. I've also signed up for Dozens of things where I took a 3 second look at it and knew it wasn't for me - I've also signed up Dozens of things I liked, promoted them for a couple days, and gave up -
Anything you can think of, I've done :)
When I started getting very serious though, I realized I couldn't just Bounce Around - I had to be really BUILDING something.
So I got damn serious about traffic exchanges. I created my own splash page, bought an upgrade through Home Income Team for pro upgrades at 7 exchanges, and started surfing about 8-10 hours/week (and yes, that is a lot of damn surfing :)
I focused ALL my energy there - I built my own follow up series on my aweber account - Called it power traffic - Used it to promote GDI, some of my traffic exchanges, and my tips on getting the best results from our surfing efforts -
I think it turned out AWESOME - I have over 150 referrals for Web Biz Insider - I have over 300 referrals for Easy Hits - I got over 100 referrals for HIT - I got 50ish referrals for Traffic-Splash, 40ish for Hit Safari - I got over 100 people on my personal email list -
Still wasn't making much money though - Traffic Exchanges are not good for this - But I kept working - I figured as long as I was building an email list, things would work out
Long story short - I kept thinking about my own marketing. What didn't work, what did work - What online marketers would sign up for, what they wouldn't - Ways to advertise to my list - How to get more on my list - All kinds of stuff - I was always thinking about ways to improve and streamline my business -
This is the email I sent - I think it's good advice for anyone:
I don't know how many programs you are in overall, but it is definitely a BIG problem to have too much going on at once -
What I do is focus my efforts into 1 thing at a time - Some things are simple. The million leads for free thing is great - I just spend 3min's/day here, click through a few ads, and then post my ads - It's also easy because I now have 4 different ads that are saved. So I just go in and hit send on whatever I want to advertise that day -
I'm all about automated advertising - I earn my real money using Pay Per Click marketing. My latest site, free site signup, I have 7 signups now over the past 3 days - That's $350 earned - and it cost me about $15 in advertising - and all I ahd to do was setup my campaigns (about an hour), then test different pages to find out what got people to sign up -
I would recommend you focus on 1 thing at a time - I would learn traffic exchanges and use that million leads for free to start - I know you want to stay free - You should be building a list or downline in something though - Just randomly joining new stuff is one of the quickest ways to get frustrated and quit - You need to give something TIME - But you also need to be ready when it doesn't work and it's time to move on (i've had to move on from about 100 different things that were just garbage)
Right now I'm focusing all my efforts into 1 thing: Getting people to MY website - In turn, getting them to join MY Email List - This in turns give me a way to keep in contact -
So all this advertising and work your doing, you need to ask yourself - What is my GOAL here? Where do you want your traffic to go? What do you want them to do? What do you want it to do FOR YOU?
If you just say "make me money", then your in the wrong direction - That is a slot machine marketing mentality and it's the exact reason 97% of people fail
You see what I've done last week right? With the Viral Ebooks campaign - I give away the ebook to entice people to join my email list - Once they join, then they see the ebook ad - I have 16 downline members in less than 1 week now for this program. Everyone who joins my email builds my list AND has a chance to earn income for me - PASSIVELY
It takes time to get to this point, but you have to ask yourself really, what are you doing? What are your real goals? You need to be building downlines and ways of getting OTHERS to do some work "for you" - You give them good products, but if you keep doing the same thing, you get the same results...
Do these articles direct people to you? And your products? If not, then why spend your time there? Do you have a blog? Do you have your own web presence? Why would you do article marketing, if people will ONLY go to an affiliate site if they click through?
I wrote tons of articles, and all of them direct to me and my home site -
Just ask yourself where you are heading - That should tell you where you need to focus your efforts
And this is what I'm talking about - The more I learn, the more I realize so much more there is -
But if you are asking yourself these kind of questions, you can only improve yourself and your online marketing -
To your success - Paul
Monday, April 27, 2009
Newest Marketing Thought - Passive Income while building my list!
Over the past month I've been focusing on building my list. The biggest thing I've learned about online marketing is that programs come and go, but having your own personal email list is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Build
Yes, there were some CAPS in there for emphasis :)
A little over a week ago I thought it would be a good idea to offer a free ebook to prompt visitors to join the mailing list. So I got that 13 Deadly List Building Tragedies -
It got a few people to get that ebook, but I kinda realized it was kind of a lousy program. Maybe lousy is too strong of a word, but what I mean is that the ebook had minimal amount of usefulness (at best) - And really wasn't filling anyone's needs. If your giving something away, I would think it much better to give away something people actually NEED :)
But I liked the idea of adding a free product to my subscribers...
During last week I was working on my newest project Viral Ebooks. This seemed like a really good way to give away something VALUABLE - So I joined, branded my own ebook and put it on my site as a free giveaway.
I was also reading something about autoresponders and the "thank you" pages we use. AWeber does a really good job about getting us Useful Information and ways to keep our subscribers happier.
I realized I wasn't using a Thank You page at all.
So last night I build a Thank You Page for all people who join my Affiliate Curve email list -
Now, what I put on that Thank You Page also builds income and referrals for me as well. What I did was add My Viral Ebooks link and explain to all my subscribers that this was a great way to build THEIR email lists as well.
This is how I am using it: Read to the end to see where this all comes together
I give away the Ebook I made from Viral Ebooks. All my subscribers get a valuable product.
As soon as they sign up, they are directed to my Thank You page where they can see what I'm doing. They can join Viral Ebooks and start making their own ebooks - By giving them away (or even selling them i suppose) they will be giving away valuable products and building a list at the same time.
Anyone who joins Viral Ebooks has a chance to get the One Time Offer (yes, I hate them too but this is a good deal) $47, but a full 30 day trial with 100% refund -
If they pass on that, but later upgrade, it's $17/month - Of that, 50% goes to the affiliate
So I make either $30ish on the OTO purchases from my referrals, or I make $8.50/month for each upgraded member...
Even if they join free, that is fine too - They are still subscribers. And if they truly want to BUILD their business, they might see this as a pretty easy way to do that - By giving away their own branded ebooks -
So the more people I add to my list, is just more people that give me a chance to earn PASSIVE income from.
I get ALL of that by just making a Thank You page and giving away a great ebook.
That is what passive income is all about - Now all I do is promote my website and get as many people as possible to join my email list. Yes, I take care of my subscribers and I go out of my way to give them GOOD resources -
What would you need to do this? You need an autoresponder first - And a GOOD ONE! Not some crappy downline builder thing you can't use. You need to create forms, add them to webpages etc.
Get AWeber - seriously, don't waste your time with anything else. I've tried DOZENS of other ways to save a buck or 2 - They are all garbage or super complicated.
You need hosting - A Blog is an okay way to start here also, and it's free - But eventually, you should get your very own hosting account. Build your website, give away an ebook and use your AWeber account for keeping good subscribers!
Yeah, I like Home Stead here - Very easy to build pages, add forms etc. It's a great hosting plan for beginners!
Also, you need something to give away (obviously right :) - I really like Viral Ebooks. Not sure if there is better or not, but these are FULL of great products. I'm using it to give away stuff on my site, but I also listed the book for sale on ebay. You can sell the books - You can give them away - Another benefit of building these is that you put in YOUR Referral Links! So by giving away ebooks, you build your list AND have a chance to earn income through ClickBank, AWeber, etc - All these ebooks are rebrandable - That income portion isn't the most important to me, right now. I think it's more important to focus on my list -
Join Viral Ebooks -
By giving away Viral Ebooks on my Thank You Page, it gives me a chance to earn passive income and even more referrals by just giving away ebooks and showing my subscribers how to do exactly the same thing!
And it's all passive income - It took me 1/2 hour to build my thank you page last night. After that, I just changed my Thank You web address in my Aweber autoresponder to direct all my confirmed subscribers to my own Thank You Page. And then everyone that subscribes to my list can join Viral Ebooks just the same way -
I think it's genuis - I think it's something ANYONE can follow - And I love it
Yes, there were some CAPS in there for emphasis :)
A little over a week ago I thought it would be a good idea to offer a free ebook to prompt visitors to join the mailing list. So I got that 13 Deadly List Building Tragedies -
It got a few people to get that ebook, but I kinda realized it was kind of a lousy program. Maybe lousy is too strong of a word, but what I mean is that the ebook had minimal amount of usefulness (at best) - And really wasn't filling anyone's needs. If your giving something away, I would think it much better to give away something people actually NEED :)
But I liked the idea of adding a free product to my subscribers...
During last week I was working on my newest project Viral Ebooks. This seemed like a really good way to give away something VALUABLE - So I joined, branded my own ebook and put it on my site as a free giveaway.
I was also reading something about autoresponders and the "thank you" pages we use. AWeber does a really good job about getting us Useful Information and ways to keep our subscribers happier.
I realized I wasn't using a Thank You page at all.
So last night I build a Thank You Page for all people who join my Affiliate Curve email list -
Now, what I put on that Thank You Page also builds income and referrals for me as well. What I did was add My Viral Ebooks link and explain to all my subscribers that this was a great way to build THEIR email lists as well.
This is how I am using it: Read to the end to see where this all comes together
I give away the Ebook I made from Viral Ebooks. All my subscribers get a valuable product.
As soon as they sign up, they are directed to my Thank You page where they can see what I'm doing. They can join Viral Ebooks and start making their own ebooks - By giving them away (or even selling them i suppose) they will be giving away valuable products and building a list at the same time.
Anyone who joins Viral Ebooks has a chance to get the One Time Offer (yes, I hate them too but this is a good deal) $47, but a full 30 day trial with 100% refund -
If they pass on that, but later upgrade, it's $17/month - Of that, 50% goes to the affiliate
So I make either $30ish on the OTO purchases from my referrals, or I make $8.50/month for each upgraded member...
Even if they join free, that is fine too - They are still subscribers. And if they truly want to BUILD their business, they might see this as a pretty easy way to do that - By giving away their own branded ebooks -
So the more people I add to my list, is just more people that give me a chance to earn PASSIVE income from.
I get ALL of that by just making a Thank You page and giving away a great ebook.
That is what passive income is all about - Now all I do is promote my website and get as many people as possible to join my email list. Yes, I take care of my subscribers and I go out of my way to give them GOOD resources -
What would you need to do this? You need an autoresponder first - And a GOOD ONE! Not some crappy downline builder thing you can't use. You need to create forms, add them to webpages etc.
Get AWeber - seriously, don't waste your time with anything else. I've tried DOZENS of other ways to save a buck or 2 - They are all garbage or super complicated.
You need hosting - A Blog is an okay way to start here also, and it's free - But eventually, you should get your very own hosting account. Build your website, give away an ebook and use your AWeber account for keeping good subscribers!
Yeah, I like Home Stead here - Very easy to build pages, add forms etc. It's a great hosting plan for beginners!
Also, you need something to give away (obviously right :) - I really like Viral Ebooks. Not sure if there is better or not, but these are FULL of great products. I'm using it to give away stuff on my site, but I also listed the book for sale on ebay. You can sell the books - You can give them away - Another benefit of building these is that you put in YOUR Referral Links! So by giving away ebooks, you build your list AND have a chance to earn income through ClickBank, AWeber, etc - All these ebooks are rebrandable - That income portion isn't the most important to me, right now. I think it's more important to focus on my list -
Join Viral Ebooks -
By giving away Viral Ebooks on my Thank You Page, it gives me a chance to earn passive income and even more referrals by just giving away ebooks and showing my subscribers how to do exactly the same thing!
And it's all passive income - It took me 1/2 hour to build my thank you page last night. After that, I just changed my Thank You web address in my Aweber autoresponder to direct all my confirmed subscribers to my own Thank You Page. And then everyone that subscribes to my list can join Viral Ebooks just the same way -
I think it's genuis - I think it's something ANYONE can follow - And I love it
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