You Didn’t Get Your Mail

Just wanted to write a short blog post – stop laughing – I can write a short one.  Anyway just wanted to let you know about the changes that have and going to be taken place on Zaney Clicks and ……….

 Over the last week, we have been testing email delivery or should I say the lack of.  We thank all of you for your support tickets, skype messages letting us know that you didn’t get your mail and believe me it was just as frustrating for us as it was for you.

We would chase around in the back office trying to figure out what happened to it, why didn’t it get delivered, did it go to spam and they miss it, is it floating out in cyber space somewhere or was it fighting with the cron jobs and the list of reasons go on and on.

frustrated2Well guess what, you are NOT going to have to say that You Didn’t Get Your Mail anymore because all you have to do is sign into any of the above sites and click the button that says Daily Mail – how cool is that

No more skimming thru 100’s of emails looking for today’s codes, no more waiting for delivery to be disappointed that it didn’t show and no more getting multiple emails in the same nite because someone like me put in the wrong code – you just have to login to the site and click Daily Mail.

With that being said, I would like to thank all the members of the above sites that suggested that we do this as this week has just been running lot better on all the sites yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh to all of you – you have another winner – WTG – keep those suggestions flowing – we love you for it.

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Rotators – how to use them and why

Well, so many folks have asked me to explain rotators – how to use them and why – so thought I would come here and give you an easy to follow explanation. I’m sure there are those who have wondered also and just not asked yet!  I know rotators mystified me when I first started with Traffic Exchanges!

First of all, a rotator combines multiple sites urls into one “rotating url”, hence the name “Rotator”. Each time your rotator is viewed on a Traffic Exchange, or in a Mailer e-mail message, a different url that you have placed inside your rotator will be viewed. This is an amazing marketing tool as not only can you add multiple sites URLs inside the rotator, but using a rotator will save you time, credits, and makes it so much easier to track your results! In Zaney Clicks, we offer this terrific service for FREE! To get started, you just need to login and scroll down to the Menu button that says “Rotators”.

Adding a Rotator at Zaney ClickAdding a Rotator at Zaney Clicks: This is the page that you will see when you click on the button “Rotators”.

The first thing that you will want to do is click on “tracker” – now a tracker is simply a way to give you information (statistics) about where your URL is being seen, how many hits you are receiving daily and this info will help you to gradually see what is working and what is not – this is very important for you to know!

Here is an example of the rotator that I made to help me get referrals.  I especially like these two in this rotator and want to give a shout out for offering this on their sites.
Your Business “Success” Story! and what I call my “Money Page

Not that hard huh? Then, I would pick 5 – 7 URL’s and add them as your tracker urls then I will explain what you do next. After you have added your trackers – then you click on rotator at the top and that lets you set up your rotator.

The next step is to give your rotator a name– you can be as creative as you want as the name that you pick will be part of your rotator’s URL  Me, I don’t get that fancy as you can see from my final URL which I just named Referral Rotator and the my other one is Nancy Recommends

Now to view this rotator you can click on the link and then click your computer’s F5 button and you should be able to see how the pages change in the rotator. Because this was not my normal amount of urls for use in a rotator, I went back and added more trackers in this example.

NOW for the BIG reason for this blog post – Rotators – how to use them and why. Once you have plastered this ONE rotator URL all over and assigned credits to it – you have just saved yourself time and here is how.

One – you only have one link that will need credits so you don’t have to surf as much to keep one URL going but, you are keeping 5 – 7 sites in front of people, at all times! If you are a person that has an abundance of credits, then I would go back and create another rotator and add either the same sites or, you can add more trackers – and then add a second or third. I know what you are thinking – why should I make a new rotator and not just add this first URL 2 or 3 times – well some sites do not let you add the same URL more than once.

Another BIG reason this will save you time is that you don’t have to remember where you added a site, you don’t have to chase all over when a site “disappears” on you or changes their url, you don’t have to chase all over when your favorite site comes out with a new splash, new promo, etc. – you just go back to Zaney Clicks and add another tracker with your NEWEST url that you want to add. Click on Rotators and add/edit sites and click to add the newest url and unclick the one that you don’t want to use anymore.

This will also take the guess work out of trying to remember, “Now, where do I have to surf for credits?”, or “Which sites am I currently using to promote – drive traffic to – my sites?” as you can come back to your Rotators Page on Zaney Clicks where you will now be able to check your tracker statistics. On the page that lists your trackers, you will see where it says “daily stats” – click that and it will tell you the site where your url is being seen and how many hits (page views) your URL received for the day.

Now, if you want to see where you have your Rotator URL – then click on “rotators” – “daily stats” and that will show you all the places that your rotator was seen today. If your list looks like it should be bigger, then I go to the left of that screen and click the arrow buttons and go back to an earlier date and you will be able to tell which Traffic Exchange you need to surf next where your Rotator is most likely to be out of credits.

How can you tell how many hits (views) per day you are receiving – well on the left side, if you click on the graph of each day (that little dot on the graph) the date will pop up along with the number of hits for that day.

I hope all this will help give you a start if you have not been using rotators because you were unsure of how to use them and I hope you will give them a try! I think you will Love using them as much as I do! Remember, if you have any questions, comments, or need help – I’m here for you – just send in a support ticket or Skype me

You know it wouldn’t be me if I didn’t give some type of incentive to everyone that takes action – so what I will do – for everyone that sends me their Zaney Clicks rotator url– I will add it to all the Magical Jewels Marketing Group Sites and with a start of 100 credits – now get me those Zaney Clicks Rotator URLs!!!

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Why I Filter My Emails

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

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

This is like setting parental control over the sites that you will be viewing and you can  see from this screenshot that you have many options.Antiporn Configuration 2014-10-15 07-01-57

 

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?

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

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

Patting a member on the back

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You know one of the biggest complaints that I hear from people is that they can’t get any referrals and that all the site owners get them all.  They wish there was a way to build their list and get referrals to some of their favorite programs.  Well as I was surfing, I spotted this page and doing this blog post as a way of patting a member on the back.

Now I know you are wondering how in the world can a person get referrals when they don’t own their own site, well this is one clever way that I have seen and want to give kudos to Robert Moreno for coming up with a way to build his list.

Robert Moreno’s Top 8 Traffic Exchange Celebration

Now how cool is that – awesome looking page and I give him credit for believing in his programs that he’s willing to spend money to have a promotion like this on his own.  So you see – you don’t have to own your own site and you can have your own promo.  Isn’t that an interesting concept.

While I’m patting a member on the back, I would also like to thank Robert for sponsoring Zaney Clicks in some of the promotional hunts that are out there also.  So the next time that you get all down in the dumps because you are not getting referrals – think outside the box and you can even follow Robert’s lead and get creative.

So everyone get your thinking caps on and I know that you will be able to come up with a way to get them referrals coming in.  Would love you hear your comments of how you think outside the box – feel free to share in the comment area.

 

Banners Do Not Work

How many times have you heard that before as I know I hear it all the time.  In preparation for the upcoming event of Zaney Clicks celebrating their 5000 member celebration – I was in cleaning up the banners that were not showing and thought I would write this post.

Banners do not work if you don’t have banner impressions assigned to the banner and it was amazing how many I seen with 0 in the impressions assigned column as I was cleaning up the ones that were not showing.  This is one of the easiest and overlooked things that a member can do as you really get more bang for your credit here.

See for that ONE credit you are using to get your site seen – that ONE credit (depending on the site) can either give your banner show anywhere from 10, 20, 20 and I have even seen 45 on some sites.

So here is my zaney thinking – your banner gets view say 20 times – name in their face and then your site comes up – and they just might be more apt to click on your site – why? well because you kept it in their mind, it’s something they have seen before and that might just be the time that they say – well I need to check this out now.

Banners do not work because another thing that I noticed when checking these banners is that your image is not showing and yet you have impressions assigned to them.  There could be a number of reason but I will keep it to just a few so I don’t write a book here.

The first is that you added the urls wrong and believe it or not I have done this – am in a hurry and reverse the urls and put the image where the target one should go and then it don’t show.

Image URL:  http://zaneyclicks.com/images/banner1.jpg
Target URL:  http://zaneyclicks.com/?rid=57987

OK you know you put it in right and all of a sudden it’s not showing – well there are a couple of things that could have happen – one that site is down as they are having server problems at the time.  Heaven forbid but the site could have just vanished and is no longer around and that does happen – so periodically check your banners to see if they are showing right.

Banners Do Not Work and here is another one that I learned the hard way and it was nothing that I did wrong but the site owner made new banners and instead of reusing the banner name it was given – deleted it and add it as a new one – so even tho you did nothing wrong in putting it in – the site owner might have made some changes and I see this alot with sites that like to do seasonal banners.

Standard Banner 468×60

The one last thing that I will mention – there is a right size and a wrong size when inserting your image urls.  So many times I see people trying to put a 468×60 image in a 125×125 area and all that happens there is that your image is so crunched up that it’s not readable. I know there are many names that some of the banners are call but the standard banners are most 468×60 and then there are the square banners, button banners well those are the 125×125.

Square Banner or Button Banner

http://zaneyclicks.com/images/banner1.jpg  as you will see from this URL the .jpg or some will have .gif or .png – this is what you want as your image url.  On the LFMTE scripts now you will also see http://zaneyclicks.com/getimg.php?id=2 and that is telling the site to go get the #2 image at Zaney Clicks

So hope this has cleared up some of the questions or problems that you have run across and when you hear one of your referrals say Banners Do Not Work – now you know what to tell them as to some of the reasons why.

Ending 2013 – Beginning 2014

It’s funny chatting with people about things that run thru  their head when ending 2013 and beginning 2014.  You hear so many saying that they made resolutions that they didn’t keep or that they wish they had done this and wish they had done that – WELL got a few things to share with you – you know me I love quotes and this posted in the Zaney Skype room got me thinking …………….

Its New Year Again!!!
Make it count!
Don’t make resolutions,
Make A DECISION to leave the past in the past.
Start over, start fresh, chase your dreams,
Set your goals,
take action,
Make 2014 YOUR best year ever!

dreamAbility is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.~ Lou Holtz

“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something you only do it when it’s convenient, when you’re committed you take no excuses only results.” Author Unknown

“You don’t have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great.” – Les Brown

It’s not where you came from,it’s where your going that matters. Your past does not define you,it is what you do today that defines who you will be tomorrow.You cannot change the past,but you can sure change the future by making the right decision today! ***CHINKEE TAN***

“When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow–
You may succeed with another blow,
Success is failure turned inside out–
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit–
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.”
~ Unknown

journeySo if you didn’t reach your goals in 2013, if you didn’t get everything you wanted to do in 2013 – then this is your chance to grab the bull by the horn and make it happen in 2014.

Where do you start – well I wrote a blog post once on a 30 day challenge and as a reminder from a friend am going to post the link again – this is a great place to start if you don’t have a game plan – this will get you committed to your first 30 days to help start taking action – after all that is the key that so many are missing. Are You Teachable

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top.”   Bob Moawad

“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
Rudyard Kipling

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