Author Archives: Nancy Radlinger

Win A Prime Advertising Spot

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Well if you have been surfing at Zaney Clicks – you have been seeing a new banner in the surf bar and I wanted everyone to get use to seeing it on EVERY page. To me this is a prime advertising spot and I have thought about it on how someone can earn this spot.

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After going thru all the things that I reward members for, I have decided to give that spot to someone EACH week from the list of buyers for the week.

So for a chance at this spot, you just need to purchase something for the week. The week will go from Sunday to Sunday like the rest of the weekly rewards. And the other answers to your questions is that yes the login spotlight pages do count as a purchase. The other question that I’m sure that I’m going to get is does that mean commission buys also – the answer is YES.

With the weekly winners, I will be adding this in the template and the winner will have to send me their 125×125 as that is what I’m using to resize it for this spot along with the referral URL to the site.  It’s just that simple and easy – good luck to the upcoming winners

If you have any more questions that I have not covered here – then leave them in the comment box, or send in support ticket, or Skype me @ nancyradlinger.

Help Me I can’t decide

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thinkingThere are so many times that I hear from members that there are just so many pages at a site that it makes them hard to pick the one to use to promote and I hear Help Me I can’t decide.

While I can tell you which ones get the best results for me as I track – I have also found that what works for one does not work for others.  So I have a simple solution for you  and it really does not take that long to set up and this WILL save you time and credits in the long run.

In sites where there are so many wonderful pages to choose from and even I have hard time deciding which ones to pick – well here is what I do…………….I go to Zaney Clicks and then I pick out 5 of the ones that I want to use and I set them up as trackers – now if you want to save time down the road – you can add them all in there and then go and set up a rotator.

161777811584436570_IxPBd3u7_bFor this example, I will use Zaney Clicks as there are soooooooo many to promote – I simply set up zcsplash1, zcsplash2.  Believe me I started out that way and now I get a little more descriptive in my names zccatsrule, zcspring, zcwaitingcats – well you get the idea.

After you add your trackers, then you go and set up your Zaney Rotator and then you add five of them in that rotator – then take that rotator URL and put it all over.  That’s right this is a great way to save credits – as the 5 trackers that you have added will rotate each time your rotator is shown – pretty cool huh

Now here is the best part, test these and if you are not getting referrals, then go in and pick a couple more to change out.  This is where you learn to work smarter and not harder – because you have your rotator URL all over – you just go back to Zaney Clicks and take out a few and then add a few more and test them.

You know how much time you just saved yourself because you didn’t have to chase all over and change the URL – you make your changes and they are changing where ever you had that rotator URL

cat14That is how you save time and credits – because now instead of trying to assign credits to 5 of your favorite URL’s you only have to assign them to ONE URL .  Now I know you are thinking wow I could do that with 5 favorite sites, my 5 money makers, or my 5 sites that get me referrals – easy peasy huh???????

I don’t know about you but do you ever get to the point that you get CRS and you can’t remember where you even have your links – well I admit that I suffer from that occasionally – well until I started using the free tracker and rotator services that many sites offer – when you look at your stats – you will see exactly where everything is showing and how many times.

So the next time that you just can decide and want to say Help Me I can’t decide – try this and as always would love to hear how this works for you – I know it’s been a true blessing for me now that I have gone back to work.

shhhhhkittyTIP:  Some sites have a splash page rotator and that is even a gold mine – put that in YOUR rotator and that site is covered – then just find 4 more that offer that shhhhhhhh don’t tell anyone that I let that slip out

Why I Filter My Emails

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Well so many times I’m asked why I filter my emails and you know me by now that if I am asked a question often enough that I will get a post done up for you.

Teaching catThe main reason that I filter mine is that when you belong to 500 plus sites you get lot of emails and I learned early on that it’s not fun opening your email to find out that you have thousands of them to go thru AND if you were like me – you missed out on the ones that you should be seeing.

So my solution to this was to start filtering my emails and yes I do it by site – I create a folder for the site and automatically send all the emails from that site to that folder – it’s like cleaning up your file cabinet.

This is no different – you are creating files for the info that you want to store in your file cabinet and the more automated you make it the more time you are going to save.

Now once you have your folders all set up – then it makes it easy for you especially on the mailers and safelist that you might belong to.  If you are like me and on a budget, then you can’t be upgraded on all the sites and have to click for your credits.

WHY would you want to click – well the reason that I do is that I watch the opening lines of the emails and add ones that I like to my swipe file to use later.  Also, by clicking , I can see what others are promoting, which sites are popular, watch the bodies of the emails for new ideas to use on mine and of course the credits.

The great thing about clicking when they are in all ONE folder for one site – you just keep clicking till you have enough credits to send out your solo or email and then you can select all and delete the rest of the emails.   Then when you need to send again from this site, you will have the newest emails in your folder.

get organanizedAND if you are like me, you just don’t have time to click them all – so keep this in mind when you are doing your emails or solos – the person clicking time is limited and is wanting to get to that link to get their credit – so short and sweet and to the point in the body of your email.

Being we are starting the new year, this would be a great time to get your email more  organized and for me make better use of my time.

 

Adult Friend Finder

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Well after surfing so many sites and finding that this is an issue on many traffic exchanges, I decided that it was time to let people know what I have discovered and why this issue is hard to resolve.

First of all, my support guy, a dear friend and I have spent sooooooo many hours trying to resolve this issue and here is what we have come up with……….. There is an add-on that you can add to Firefox and this is the link Firefox Add-on Cloudacl

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What we have discovered is that there are many sites that will be blocked from your viewing while you are surfing.  The reason that this route was taken is that with so many sites out that unknowingly don’t even realize they have a issue.  Our first idea was to block the sites but then thought that education was the best policy here.

This gives sites a chance to get things cleaned up on their sites, also let owners know that they even have an issue and give members a way to not be exposed to all this.   Believe me, it’s not fun to be surfing along and have the Adult Friend Finder throwed in your face and it’s happened to me alot.

Anyone that would like to discuss this further or have other ideas on what they are doing to prevent this – I would love to hear your thought, idea and suggestions.

Did you just close the door in my face?

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I’m sure this is a topic that everyone has gone thru now and then and with so many sites out there – just how well is your customer service. Do you really want me to use your site or did you just close the door in my face?

slamdoorWhen I first opened my mailer, Zaney Mailz, I looked around and thought that some of the extra mods that I was seeing would kinda be nice to add but I always like to try mods out and see how easy they are to use and how I feel when I do.

Well the one that I am considering is the claim this spot as that is my choice if I want to use it and sometimes I have the time – so that one is not so bad.

The one that really has started to make me feel like you don’t want me to use your site is the one that I HAVE to read 2, 3, 5, 10 and even 20 emails before I can send my own.  Well did you just close the door in my face?

After using mailers more and more, I have joined and use mailers alot even more so after Marty’s great site Referral Frenzy  But the one thing that I am finding is that I really don’t like to be told I can’t come into your site (store) unless I read emails.

AND yes I am aware that the idea behind a mailer is to get people to read emails but there are other ways to coach them or give them a reason to want to read on your site.  It has gotten to the point that I have separated off the sites from my list that force me to read and yea you guessed it – don’t use as often.

When I started looking at this list, I didn’t realize how many there really was, but for me I am more apt to go and use a site that I feel welcome, where I can run in and get done what I need – you do have to keep in mind that lot of people are strapped for time.

opendoorSo, bottom line – don’t force me to read emails to use your site as the more that I have to do that to less I’m going to use your site.  AND if I upgraded on your site and you are still forcing me read emails – well shame on you as you just lost a sale.  There is a reason that I bought the upgrade so that I would have the credits to mail my emails – and not feel – Did you just close the door in my face?

Now I would love to hear the pros and cons on this – so leave me a comment and let me hear your side.  Thanks in advance.

Work Smarter, Not Harder (part 2)

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161777811584436570_IxPBd3u7_bWell I’m going to take a few minutes to put an answer to a question that I have gotten over and over the last week on the previous post Work Smarter, Not Harder and I love the feedback that I get from these post – so feel free to leave comments here or Skype me @ nancyradlinger

People have mentioned to me that they has been trying this theory and so I asked each one to tell me what they had been doing with the site they were promoting.  Each said they had put in the site url, added a banner and text link in other TE’s and assigned credits to that one url, banner and text – that the sites would only allow the url to be added once.

cat14After hearing this, I realized that I didn’t mention that the way to utilize ALL of your sources that is available to you did not fully explain what I was thinking and that you all are not mind readers – sorry my fault for not explaining further.

Here is what I do when a site will not allow the same url to be repeated – I will go to the site and grab the urls of the splash pages as they are all different urls – and if you go to the site that you are promoting you will hopefully see that the site has offered you a variety of pages to promote.  Oh I know you are thinking why would I want to do this.

There are a few reasons why this important to do – when you are picking out a splash page to promote you are picking the one that you like and I learned from years ago that just because I like it – others may not have the same taste as I do.

See I owned a gift shop for years and when I would go to buying shows I would take a couple girlfriends along to go with me and then I would order a variety of things from what I liked and what they liked.  This is a big mistake I made for years with the gift shop till I learned that just because I would never like this particular thing – it doesn’t mean someone else might.

Well the same works in promoting your ONE site – when you are picking the splash pages that you like based on the graphic, colors, etc. – you are limiting your audience.  So that is why it’s important to pick a splash that you don’t like, colors that you think are just ucky as there are some out there – it could be their favorite and they click.

cutekittenNow I know you are thinking, Nancy you have really gone Zaney – there is no way that someone is going to click on an add just because they like the colors, the graphics etc. well I did a test oh about a year ago and tested it – same ad and just changed the background in it – now here is the interesting part – I got the same results from each page.

So with so many talking to me this week with similar stories thought I would do a follow up post on Work Smarter, Not Harder as there might be more of you out there with the same issues.  Grab those splash page url and add them to your tracker and bet you will be surprised what your results will be.

Work Smarter Not Harder

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smartcat3It’s interesting how ideas of post can pop in your head as I stopped by the chats today in TE land to wish everyone a Happy Easter.  As I lurked and watched what was being said all I could think if only these people would work smarter not harder.

Now I know lot of you are not going to be happy with me and hopefully you will listen and really think about what I’m going to tell you.  You have been around internet marketing long enough to know the money is in “the list”.  Have you been creating your list or have you just been out there following the crowd.

You have heard many people tell you to pick one program and promote, promote, promote build up your downline and then when those referrals are earning you the credits and money that you need to that site – then find another and repeat.

Why would I want to build my downline in ONE program- there are  reasons – and I will highlight a few of them here.  The first is that most programs that you are an affiliate of will pay you for bringing in referrals.  Now think about it how long do you spend a day surfing to earn .25, .50 or even 1.00?  A way to work smarter, not harder – 1 referral for .25, 2 referrals for .50 and 4 for 1.00 @ .25 each.

Now if you took that time and promoted ONE program all over – putting all your advertising sources to work for you and yes I mean ALL.  Most of your have credits built up from all the surfing that you have been doing earning those pennies, nickels, etc. right?  Well use them credits up and start promoting, promoting, promoting your ONE site and I know all of you have a favorite site, maybe one you have been paid at already, one that you surf all the time etc.

Now here is the secret that most don’t know – most sites give you a % of credits for your referrals to the point that when you get lot of referrals – you don’t even have to surf the site anymore to keep credits – now that is how to work smarter, not harder.  Most of the time new referrals need to surf to build up a credit surplus and if you look at the membership levels at your favorite site bet you will find even as a free members you get a % of credits

smarter2Got you thinking now huh?  So if one of your referrals surfed 100 pages and you get 10% – that would be 10 credits earned x 10 referrals – well you can do the math.  See how easy it can be to work smarter not harder – which is better a few hours promoting vs many hours surfing or clicking email for the same .25, .50. or $1.00 even.

So grab your favorite site’s URL and work smarter not harder and would love to hear some feed back on how much time you save in the long run and how much more money you will earn.  Thanks for listening

When is it SPAM

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spammingIt’s been interesting over the years all the definitions of SPAM as when you Google the word this is what you get irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the Internet to a large number of recipients – so want to mention a few things as to when is it Spam.

Over the years, when someone drops a link in a chat room they were considered to be a spammer and people had no tolerance for it but I listened to James Dias Traffic Exchange Daily  the other day and I have added it here and this will help clear up some questions on when is it SPAM

So how many have done that on the social sites??????? I know I’m have been guilty and this was an eye opener for me as I have been banning people for years for adding a link to my chats on my sites and even in my Skype room – YET I would throw links out on Twitter and Facebook.

Would love to hear any feedback on this and also any suggestions on how I as a site owner can change things up when I’m asking you to hit that Twitter or Facebook buttons on the site.

So the next time before you hit that button or throw your link into the social media – hope you will think about this post and when is it SPAM.

Bullies in TE Land

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judgingcatIt’s interesting as you keep quiet and just watch rooms and other site owners at how much you can learn just by listening.  And from what I can see, hear and read there seems to be a group of bullies in TE land.

I don’t know about you but I was always taught ye without sin cast the first stone and I really don’t know what give some owners and admins the right to think that they know everything there is to know and that their way it the “only” way.

Personally, I would like to pat everyone on the back that is trying to learn and earn online whether it’s by surfing or by being a site owner.  With all the TE’s out there – yes we do compete with each other but does that give a certain few to get in a public room and put others down.

Again, I was taught that if you don’t have anything nice to say – then don’t say anything.AND then you wonder why there is so much negativity in the TE World – why so many say TE’s don’t work – maybe the next time you are pointing your finger at someone you should be reminded of the ones that pointing back at yourself.

Also, while I’m a little rant here getting things off my chest, another thing I was taught was you should never speak badly about anyone until you have walked in their shoes.  What happened in this world to helping others, being there for someone if they need help and turning the other cheek when needed.

It just seems that some like to forget how it was when they started and all the mistakes that they made but I don’t recall a group of bullies talking about it in a public room.  Back years ago, you went to that person in private and aired out your differences.

Call me old fashion, old school or just plain old but I am also one that believes what goes around comes around – so people should watch what they say, how they treat people and don’t always think that your way is the right way.

You will see many successful owners that would never do that in public and I would like to pat them on the back – there is a time and place for everything you do and talking about others in a public room is NOT the time and place – JMO

So for all the bullies in TE Land, I hope that you start thinking twice before you know everything about everything.  AND I would like to applaud all the owners and surfers that don’t pay them any mind and do it “YOUR WAY”  Kudos for you, you hold your head high keep on doing it and I will end with a song from the “King”