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Rumor is they do not work

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rumor1After chatting with a friend of mine this morning and we were talking about places that we get referrals from and then it came up that rumor is they do not work.  Have you heard this before – I know I have many times and you know how you can stop the rumors – track, track, track and I’m going to give you some examples.  These examples are from my tracker mod and it tracks where members have their links – the admin stats are separate and not listed.

CTP – love them or hate them – sometimes you run across things that you may not totally agree with the way the owners are doing things or you simply don’t like the owners – but ask yourself are why are you making the decision to use or not use a site and here are the results from there – copied from my tracker and you will see the domain name, amount of hits and then last number is amount of signups

clicktrackprofit.com 1549 124

Donkeymails – rumor is they do not work – now I know I have heard that this site is a spam site, it don’t work and is a waste of time but after seeing the tracking results

donkeymails.com 32 5

PTC sites – rumor is they do not work and are waste of of time – how many times have you heard that.  All the people on PTC (paid to click) just click and don’t really look at the ads – sound familiar?

clixsense.com 14014 3

Mailers – rumor is they do not work as I have sent so many emails and not one signup – one thing that people do it blame the site – have you ever thought about changing what you are sending out, change your headline and test, test, test.

buzzymailz.com 112 3
clickfrede-mail.com 300 2

Brand new sites – often I’m asked why jump into a new site when you don’t know the owner or if the site is going to stick around and have always felt that you just need to keep you site out there so that you can prove to people that YOU or your site that you promote is one of them that are – be seen everywhere you can – JMO

costaricaclicks.net 2190 4
traffix.us 30 3

Downline Builders – why spend the time to fill your referral id’s in  – no one ever looks at them anyway – well I have one example that proves they they do

trafficleads2income.com 9 2

Site is too Big and has too many members – forgot this one and came back to add as this is also important one as lot of people tell me this site don’t work also

easyhits4u.com 17683 3

Now the other thing that I want you to pay attention to is how many hits it takes sometimes and for the people that tell you try a site – buy 1000 credits and if no signups move on – well think the stats tell all.

So now I hope that you can see how important it is to track, track, track and then you don’t have listen to the rumor is they do not work.  This is the only way that you will know for sure.  Now keep in mind what works for one person may not work for another that is why you have to test, track, test, track.

Changes and Updates

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It’s been interesting all the talk around TEland on the some of the changes and updates that some sites are making and when I listen to the good and bad of all the comments well you know me I have to add my 2 cents.

judgingcatChanges and updates are not the easiest thing for me either especially when you get my age – I’m a little set in my ways but there is one saying that always sticks in my head and wanted to share.  A friend of mine told me this years ago so I really don’t know who said it – but It’s not what happens that really matters but how you handle it will make all the difference.

In this world of computer and technology, you have to learn to go with the flow – changes and updates happen all the time and when they do you are not going to understand them all the time but there is usually a reason behind them.  It’s not easy  working online as there are so many out there that are just waiting to take advantage of the hard working honest people.

In TEland there have been some changes and updates and it’s been geared toward security of people sites.  There are behind the scene changes and updates made on sites that you are on everyday and most of the time you don’t even know they are happening.  The one that most don’t even pay attention to is site terms – when is the last time that you have read your favorite site’s terms?

Yea I’m just as guilty as most of you – we all are so busy trying to just keep up, to get our referrals, earn commissions that we forget about these behind the scene things.  Most site owners try and inform their members via their emails but the % of member read them is so low that most don’t have a clue when changes and updates happen.

changesSo I thought I would let all of you know here that Zaney Clicks also did some changes and updates – some you will like – some you want but they were done for the health of the site.  Zaney Clicks is not here just to flaunt high surfing numbers, high member numbers, etc.: it’s here to help you promote your site, get traffic to your site, give you a place that you know the owner is active and working hard to help you learn and earn.

004I054YQm2Also, I believe in keeping the line of communication open at Zaney Clicks and that is why I encourage members to talk to me.  You will see that it’s very easy to get in touch with me – there is a contact me tab on the site, there is a Zaney Clicks Skype support room and can be easily joined from your members page, there is an ask Admin on the members page, there is a daily email that I send out,  Zaney Clicks has a group on Facebook, you can always contact me on Skype @ nancyradlinger   Don’t be afraid to contact me I answer all my support tickets and I love hearing from all of you.

So hope that as changes and updates are made on some of your favorite sites keep in mind my quote “It’s not what happens that really matters but how you handle it will make all the difference”.

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One is a lonely number

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Well I am going to date myself but do you remember the song by Three Dog Night – it was called “ONE” and the line One is a Lonely Number.  For all of you that want a walk down memory lane – watch the video below.

Now I know what you are wondering what in the world does that have to do with my blog post – well actually alot as I have been meaning to write this for awhile.  AND I want to gear this post to all the people who I hear that they don’t get any referrals, they are not earning any money online, and they don’t know where to turn.

Well now you will see where the “ONE” comes from – if you are a person that can relate with any of the above – maybe it’s time to back up and reevaluate what you are doing.  When I first started as an affiliate, I found myself joining many programs and then not knowing which one to promote first.

My advice to you is to step back, look at all your affiliate programs you are in no matter what they are and ask yourself some things.  Break down your list into sites that I am upgraded in vs you are a free member of.  Do you have a monthly upgrade or do you have a lifetime membership.  Now research and see what your commissions are in each of the upgraded programs you are in.  Got that info yet?

Ok do you know which if any of these programs you have gotten referrals in?  Have you been tracking to know what page got you the referrals.  Did you connect with your referrals that you did get – do they know you are their person to go to.  You would be surprised how many times I ask this and 80% of the time people have no clue who they joined under and have never heard from the person they joined under.

Once you have done this – what did you learn?  If you listen to your referral, you will find out why they joined under you and you can start developing a game plan.  Was it because you had a branded page, did you design your own page, which page did they join from and what kind of help do they need.

numberoneGetting a layout of your game plan now?  Well you should be – you should know by your tracking and talking with your referral what worked to get them to the site.  Now that you have that, then start with the ONE site with the most referrals and get out there and promote that ONE site for the next 30 days doing all the things that you have just found out – why your referrals signed up, what page worked, from tracking what sites worked.

If you found that it was a safelist, mailer, text ad site etc., then you may want to join a few more of these type of sites and get your ads out there.  Use your ONE ad and put it in everyone of these sites that you belong to and just repeat it for the next 30 days.

Now I know you all are thinking about what about all the other sites that I’m an affiliate of  – well they have to go on the back burner for right now.  You can NOT promote multiple sites and get results until you have some kind of game plan on what it working and get that game plan down – once you are getting signup from what you are doing – then you add a 2nd site – and do what they call a rinse & repeat,

Is this going to work for every site that you are an affiliate at – the answer is no – but at least you have an outline of what to do to get your game plan – and then tweak it for each site.  Just remember ONE is a lonely number but get a game plan on that ONE site and you will be able to move on after that.

Judging a Traffic Exchange

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judgingcatAround the TE world, I know that you have heard many, many reasons why a person joins a site and thought I’d share some of the things that I have heard on how people are judging a traffic exchange.  Why did you click that join button?

Design

This is one that I hear from most that you have to have a fancy expensive design or people are not going to join – a fancy design will get them to join.

Owner/Admin

Well this is one that personally I feel that will make or break a site.  If the owner is never around to keep the site running smoothly, approving sites, and answering support tickets – that makes me wonder why the site exists.

qualityTraffic/Exposure

This one I have heard a lot about – quality vs quantity and I find this interesting as there are so many different points of view on this one.  Personally, if you track what you are doing you will see where your results are coming from.

Referrals

Do you get any signups from this site – and do you if you are – you have to be tracking to know for sure.  Some sites have a mod that will tell you where your referrals came from, do you know?  When you win referrals, are you getting active referrals or just some number in the system just so they can say they gave you a free referral.

Cash/earning potential

This one of the most talked about and where you like it or not, personally I feel cash is here to stay.  Now the key is how do you get that cash and what is the earning potential of the site.  Does the site pay free members, do you have to be upgraded, is there a certain amount to reach to be paid AND does the owner pay

Activity of the Site

Thought this one was interesting when listening in some of the chat rooms – this could include timers. promos, team surfing, chat – sometimes you learn alot from just lurking and listen to what others are saying.  What do you consider an active site.

711a9ba4f608404a8216d90Promotion/Advertising

Does the site give you plenty of options for promoting your referral url or just have the basics – main url, 1 splash, 1 banner?  Do you see the site you just joined being promoted by others?  Can you brand yourself with this site?  What is this site doing to help me?

Themes/Ad Copy

Personally, I feel that your advertising on each site should be geared toward the viewers of a particular site and with a little imagination a great page that will convert could be made.  AND how about the same generic ad copy on the main page – this is one of the most over-looked areas – with all the sites out there tell me WHY I need to click that join button.

Well I can see that I could go on and on here and please as you leave comments I’d like to hear from you on your thoughts on judging a traffic exchange.

Maintenance Checklist

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maintenance2When a person is on their computer as much as I am there are sometimes that you can tell when something just isn’t doing what it’s suppose to be doing or you catch yourself saying to yourself wonder why it did that – well I drop what I’m doing and get out my maintenance checklist.

In answering support tickets, I hear so many people having issues with a variety of things and there don’t seems to be any logical reason – well when that happens to me the first thing I do is stop everything that I’m doing and do what I call my maintenance.  Now I know you don’t expect your vehicle to keep running smooth without after a certain amount of miles – you stop and do maintenance.

You computer is your vehicle and even tho you have an anti-virus system on board – it’s like the vehicle you drive – things happen.  After all the miles you put on your vehicle, when you are using that vehicle everyday – you can just tell when something just isn’t right – well that is how I feel about my online vehicle – go by your gut – if it’s doing things that are just not normal and you are thinking why did it do that – do your maintenance.

Maintenance Checklist

1.  Clean all your cookies
2.  Clean your history, all temp files, caches
3.  Run your anti-virus (I know you are thinking I have it on auto to run – well run it again)
4.  Run Malewarebytes
5.  Run Spybot
6. Reboot,  test your computer again still not acting right
7. Do all of the above in the safe mode (when booting up hit F8 and that will get you to the safe mode)
8. Reboot,  and test your computer again

maintenanceNow when I get to this point and it still doesn’t seem to be right then I go and bring out the big guns lololol  Run ESET online scanner.  The last time I ran this after all the other security that I have this program found 2 Trojans and 6 other things that I had no clue what they were – after that cleaning – knock on wood – my computer has been lot faster, has been working great and don’t see those strange things happening.

So hope this helps you to at least know some things to try when things just don’t seem right with your computer.  To keep this handy, I just opened notepad and copied all these things to do so this forgetful mind don’t miss a step and named it Maintenance Checklist.

 

So You Want Your Own Traffic Exchange

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Well after reading blogs this week, attending the Friday wrap meeting, I thought this would be a great blog post.  So You Want Your Own Traffic Exchange.

questions3There are certain things that should be considered before you jump into owning your own site and this speaking for a TE Owner that learned alot the hard way.

First of all – the name of your site – it needs to be unique – you need to do some research on a theme, will your domain name be different from the zillion that are already out there, will it be easy to brand you or your theme.  Why would someone join your site vs all the other sites that are already out there?  What are you going to do different so that people will want to join your site? Why are you starting your site?  Do you have a business plan?  Do you have money to invest? These are questions that a person should answer before you even get a domain name.

Next in my book – is how long have you used traffic exchanges, how long have you been surfing.  Do you know the TE language?  What is a framebreaker?  Do you know how to get around in a cpanel? Can you explain to someone what your surf ratio is?  Have you compared memberships on other sites?  Do you know the difference in credits earned and hits delivered?  How well do you write ad copy, know HTML, any designing skills, good public relations person, etc.  I could keep going as when I started I sure did not know the many hats that a person had to wear.

Before you think that traffic exchange owners have it made and are just rolling in money – think again.  It’s very hard work – and something that I didn’t keep in mind is that that the internet is open 365 days a year 24/7.

Yea I know most of you think that things run smoothly because your favorites sites are always there for you BUT believe me things do not happen at a convenient time – they are going to happen on your spouse bday, on your kid’s graduation, your kid’s or grandkid’s wedding day – these are things that you need to consider before you tie yourself down.

The other thing is how techie are you?  Are you going to be able to fix things when your site has problems or will have to hire someone?  I know this is lot of questions but you need to think about all this and more.

I personally have been thru all the above and more and really don’t want to see anyone else go thru all this and not know.   Being a surfer for many years, researching, reading everything I could find  and even doing admin work on TE’s before buying,  I really thought, I was ready and then made one mistake after another – the major one buying an existing TE with the name Zaney Clicks – sure didn’t think that one out – where is the freaking theme for a name like that.

Oh I can laugh about it now but believe me there were many tears shed before I got to this point and alot of “what were you thinking”  BUT by accident a friend of mine found some cats one day flipping up in the air and said he thought of me as they were Zaney looking and now you know the rest of story on why cats rule on Zaney.

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The bottom line here is buying a domain, adding hosting and throwing up a script is not the way to launch a traffic exchange.  So you want your own traffic exchange – do your homework, research and planning that it takes and be prepared to put in some very long, long hours OR if you don’t want to do that have a nice bank roll for outsourcing – you are going to need it.

If you are wanting to open your own and would like to get the script that I have then you can just click this LFMTE and be on your way

 

Branding – is it worth the time

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brand It’s interesting when I first came online and started learning, I had a friend of mine tell me that to make it online you have to learn to sell yourself, brand yourself and at the time I thought right – who is going to want to know about me.  Well I learned fast that he was right and I have some examples today that I’d like to share and then you tell me – Branding – is it worth the time

You know it’s funny as actor/actress have been doing this for many years when you think about it and it don’t necessarily have to be your name – example when you hear these lines does an actor/actress come to mind
I’ll Be Back – right away you picture Arnold in the Terminator
May the Force Be With You – didn’t Star Wars pop in your mind
There’s No Place Like Home –  didn’t Dorothy pop in your head from the Wizzard of Oz
Go Ahead, Make My Day – Can’t forget Clint Eastwood
Beam Me Up Scotty – can’t forget Star Trek

Well you can do the same thing online and I have been watching many people in the traffic exchange industry to the same

IT – now James has done excellent job with just this one word
Fred – Doug decided to use his dog – everyone on TEland knows Fred
Cows – everyone know that you don’t mess with Mo’s cows hehe
Flash – didn’t you think about Cathy and Jo right away and their name was not used
Horror – Bet Don popped in your head with that scary header he has
Frogs – didn’t Froggy just leap into your head
Krazy –  Only one crazy enough to use Krazy – WTG Kaye
Splash – bet the dolphin popped in your head right away
Tezak – and bet you are a tezzer now

Now I could go on and on with examples – you don’t necessarily have to use your name to brand yourself – but you do need to have something that will make people think of your of your site right away.

I have one more example that I want to share as it’s kinda impressive what branding can do for a person – you all have heard of TimTech.  Well they just launched a new PTC site and because everyone does know them, they know they have been around and will be around, and because they have branded themselves – I just happened to notice the stats on their main page today at Nerdbux

Total Members: 18973
New Members Today: 1093

Members Earned: $4,683.87

So think about it some and then leave me a comment – Branding – is it worth the time?

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Instant Transfer Problem at PayPal

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paypalWell, over the weekend I encountered a problem especially for all of you that rely on the instant transfer from your bank when your Paypal funds are low.  There is an Instant Transfer Problem at Paypal and when you call there is no solution, no answers or at least anything logical that they told me.

This is my story and it caused me alot of grief and many unnecessary hours on hold, time trying to get thru an automated system that wanted to know what my problem was – and it don’t understand that you want to talk to a “REAL” person.

Ok what happened was that I normally I keep an average of $100.00 in my Paypal and the rest I send to my checking like I have always done for the last 6 years.  When I pay things and then there is now enough in there is has always been instantly taken from my checking account until this weekend.  AND no it didn’t matter that my account was a verified account in good standing.

This weekend that option was NOT available – the only option that was available was echeck from my bank or credit card.  Well the echeck would take 3 – 5 business days and I really don’t like using my credit card and it’s only on  there for emergencies.  So I got on the phone and called them.

Now grant you I had to go thru so many loops and run around from so many different support people that transferred me to another person that transferred me to another and finally to a supervisor that had to transfer me to their supervisor to hear – get this – that this is a “new” security system that they have installed to help them with fraud.

So they apologized for this as they see that my account in in good standing and that they would override the system so that I would have instant again.  AND this one supervisor did and for the rest of the weekend this worked great UNTIL today – same thing again.

Again I called to go thru all the same crap again to only hear the same crap again but this time this person said that they could not override the system and tried everything that they knew to try and it was not working and asked him so now what???????

Well the answer I got was that you can try again in a couple hours and it might go thru – see this “new” security puts all the transactions in a big pot and then it randomly picks this one to pay instantly and this one it will not.  By this time I was steaming and said so you are going to put my account in that random pot – someone that has been a loyal paying customer for 6 years and in good standing – that just does not make sense.

So then they tried to tell me that the computer just picks numbers and it’s nothing personally against me.  Well you know me by now as I like to keep things on a personal basis am fuming – so now I’m just a number in your big pot – does matter that you have always got paid from my bank all these years.  I even told them that I can understand you reasoning for wanting to do this and think that the accounts that have ripped you off, not paid you should be the ones in that big pot – not your customers that are in good standing.

So warning – if you rely on instant transfer from your bank – don’t be surprised is this is not available for you sometime – so when you are paying make sure that it’s saying instantly from you bank – otherwise echeck from your bank or this will show as xyz on your credit card.  Being so upset after all this, I went to Google afterwards to see if I was the only one that was having this problem and this is what I found – pretty disturbing if you ask me – from a processor that so many of us rely on. Read this Instant Transfer Problems

I look forward to hearing your comments and your views on the instant transfer problem at Paypal – and am hoping to find some solution

 

Why I LOVE What I Do Online

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murphyslawYou know if you has asked me yesterday do I love what I’m doing you might have gotten a different answer as yesterday was just a Murphy’s Law Day – everything that could go wrong sure seemed to yesterday and believe me it was a day that would have been easy to say enough is enough BUT………….

You get up this morning get put on hold with Paypal for 2 hours and listen to all their sales pitches while you hold telling you all the benefits when at the time all you want is a REAL person that you can talk to and find out the answer to your issues.  Finally got an answer that it was a new security measure they added and out of all the account it decided to pick me as one to test – anyhow guess it didn’t realize it picked the wrong Zaney Grandma hehehe

Just got out in time to make it to the Affiliate Funnel webinar and listened to Marci talk about personal branding and get some great tips from her.  But the best part was when she PM me on Skype and said I have commissions to her new product Viral Commando Profits and had I checked lately.  Most of you know me I just keep promoting, promoting and look at my Paypal when I have to lololol  Well that sure made my day.

It’s funny how most of the time when I win promos – members will come and tell me that I won – I just enjoy helping others and promoting Zaney and my other programs that earn me money so much that I forget to look at my commission tab.  You see I have always believed that it’s more blessed to give than to receive and God always knows when the bills are due and the money always seems to be there – I am very blessed that way.

Today is also the day I read mailers and build up my credits so that I can mail out and do my promoting and talking about a surprise – I was reading emails and this is what I saw
A Newbie at Zaney.

I like this site. Why?

Nancy Radlinger, the owner/admin, a very kind woman, always  there  to answer questions. She’s an email away.  You can even chat her on Skype.

Every day you can earn up to  30 cents.

Every day you can can up $ 5.00 by joining  promos.

You can earn referrals and upgrades too.

You will mail everyday with promocodes, ( you need to read your mail)

It has games, hangmans and icons too.

That’s all i can say .

Try joining now and there’s nothing to loose.

Just click the link and join.

See you inside,

Eleanor Untalan

This ONE of the many reasons why I LOVE what I do online and then I’m on a mailing list for another member’s blog and this is what he had to say – check out his blog BigJohnG’s World of Internet Marketing

Picture I should also mention, there is only one TE where I actually bought their cheapest upgrade.  That is Zaney Clicks at $7. a month.  And I only did that because I am getting very close to the payout minimum of $25. in commissions and you need to have a paid upgrade to receive a payout.  So I’ll still get $18. in profit, and enjoy the perks of being upgraded.

Zaney Clicks is also the only TE that I promote.  Not so much because I think I’ll make any commissions from sign ups (you can read the Traffic Exchange page on this site to learn my views on why promoting TE’s is a waste of time), but just because I have become close friends with the owner, Nancy Radlinger, she is very sweet, and I just think it’s the best TE out there right now.

Then I had another member Skype me and asked if this page was telling the truth and I had to chuckle when I seen it Click Here to View and I said yes it is she has earned and been paid 75.00 and is getting close to her next pay out.

So while all this was fresh in my head I wanted to put this in a blog post for a couple reasons – I wanted everyone to see that if you have a “WHY” and keep working doing what you love doing – you will be rewarded.  Also, when you have one of those Murphy’s Law Day – don’t throw up your hands and say this is enough – you just put on your determination smile and keep going, remember you have to get ONE more time than you fall.

Hope that you enjoyed this post and if so would love to hear your comments, your stories, your “why” – now you know why I LOVE what I do online.

Advertising with Traffic Exchanges

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dragonsThere are so many that use traffic exchanges for their source of advertising for many reasons as TE’s are easy, TE’s are free join, TE’s gets you referrals, TE’s let you start earning an online income and TE’s work.

Advertising with Traffic Exchanges can be fun and entertaining at the same time and you have to come up with ways that well get you referrals.  Most people just use the same ole same ole main page link and a few people will use the sites many splash pages and even a few will create their own pages but today I ran across a blog of a surfer and member of Zaney Clicks and wanted to share.

Now keep in mind this member is justasurfer (his screen name) and I just love the way that he used a story to tell about his experience with traffic exchange.  This is, too me, a person that took action and came up a unique way to get his referrals links out there and believe me I know he is a MEGA surfer.

So I invite you to check out his blog Website Traffic Control Center  and read his story The Dragon Spoke to Me (A Magical Tale of Traffic Exchanges)  Hope that you enjoy this post as much as I did and Kudos to you Doug – Awesome