Branding – is it worth the time

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Nancy Radlinger

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?

Promote, Promote, Promote – Does It Pay?

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Nancy Radlinger

So often I get asked how do I earn money online and what is it that I do that causes me to get so many referrals, earn commissions and grow my sites. The bottom answer is promote, promote, promote – Does It Pay?

Well I have some examples that I would like to share with you and some of the mistakes that I have made and what I have learned over the years. First of all I hear so many talk about not having their own program so don’t know what to do and that was my first excuse that I used. Well the first thing I suggest doing is find a program and become an affiliate for the program.

Now I’m not just saying join a bunch of sites and throw out your referral links – I’m saying find a program and yes it can be a traffic exchange, a product someone has created or a program that is something that will benefit others. It took me many years to get this thru my head but finally that light bulb went on.

As most of you know that I have been a member of Global NPN for years and I know the first question that I get is what is NPN. Well NPN is a program that offers tools that you need to grow your business and saves me money each month – I have everything I needed before I got my own site and this is where I started. This program offer tracking, rotators, page creator, your own blog, autoresponder, domain hosting all under one roof.

I started this program at the entry level and have worked my way to the director level and receive a nice monthly income each month.

6/15/2013

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$135.00 USD

The training videos in the back office has taught me many ways to get traffic but still boils down for promote, promote, promote. Looking for a program to get started take a look at My NPN Profile Page.

Back in May you will recall that I wrote a blog post Are you drowning? Here is your lifesaver well I am pleased to report that many of you are doing quite well and are very active in this program and I really thank you. There is nothing like getting up on Monday and starting your week off with Just thought you’d like to know ViralCommandoProfits sent you 146.30 USD. Now why did I get an email like that well, bottom line again promote, promote, promote and it’s does page.

I know most of you have seen the page that I created and plastered it all over – and this is why I tell you all the time do something that is going to be different, something that will pause the member when they are surfing, and yes I also use mailers but everyone got to see this page http://zaneyclicks.com/t/vcp3 and yes I left the link in here so that I can show you that I set the page up on a tracker so I know where the site was being seen, how many hits it was getting.

Now for all of you that grab a referral link and pop it in here and there and add say 1000 credits to it and then think wow well this site didn’t work – well after watching the hits that this page and anything that I promote gets 1000 is NOT enough these days to get you the results you are looking for. The problem that I see so many doing is giving up before doing all they can to make it work.

You see when I believe in a program, I keep at it – promote, promote, promote – does it pay? Yes it does and all I can say is find something that you really believe in, learn that program, and then get out there a do everything you can think to do to tell people about that program. It can be a splash page, a blog post, a video, sending out solos on the mailers and safelist, etc – try it all – track what you are doing and your will soon find what works for you.

Yes I said YOU, I can sit here all day and tell you what I am doing but what is working for you may not work for you and what you find that will work for you might not work me me or anyone else. BUT if you don’t do something – take action – you will NOT get results. So stop making excuses, stop blaming everyone that you are not earning money – get out there and take some action.

Instant Transfer Problem at PayPal

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Nancy Radlinger

Well, 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

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Nancy Radlinger

You 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

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

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Nancy Radlinger

There 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

Spamming for Referrals

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Nancy Radlinger

Well most of you know me and that I am a traffic exchange owner but also a mega surfer and I can only go for so long on things that I see is wrong and have to bring attention to what I see happening and thus this post Spamming for Referrals.

Is this post going to be well liked – probably not – as this is going to really piss some people off. The first situation that I want to bring out in the open is what I see happening in public CHAT Rooms. Because I surf so much, I lurk in alot of rooms and it’s amazing how much wheeling and dealing I see going on. EVERY DAY I watch people swapping links in the chat rooms and it’s I will join any site you want if you join my site so that they can get a referral.

Now I understand that getting referrals are important and pressure is put on lot of people trying to win a referral contest BUT just my opinion this is spamming. You are adding a link to your profile page and swapping with someone else for their link. I maybe old school but I feel that the people that are doing this is devaluing the traffic exchange industry.

The idea behind traffic exchanges is that you add your site, surf and view others site in exchange for them viewing yours. When you are swapping links in public chat rooms you are not setting a good example at all – you are only teaching others to spam. My personal opinion is that you are putting the message out that traffic exchanges don’t work and you have to resort to this method of getting referrals. If I am thinking this all wrong, please someone tell me your logic.

One more thing to say on this one is let me ask you a question – if you are getting referrals by spamming in chat rooms – what type of referral are they – to me they are just a number and I don’t know about you but I want more than just a number – I want someone that will be ACTIVE and not just a number. I want someone that wants to learn, wants to be an active surfer and get results, wants to give the traffic exchange an chance to prove that they work.

Ok while I’m on a roll here – let me touch on SKYPE and I know that I am going to step on lot of toes here but I have bitten my tongue long enough and just need to get this out. When you add someone to your Skype it should be so that you can get to know the people and build relationships – I’m not saying that once in awhile you can share links BUT how about a Good Morning – how you doing? I see that you love cats by your site – let me share a cat story with you, check out my profile find out what I like.

When you send me this solo ad, that should be put in a mailer or text ad site, to me that is spamming for referrals. When you send me a link of a new program that just launched this is spamming for referrals. I will tolerate that for a few times BUT if that is all that you keep doing you are coming off my contact list. Either you want to know who I am and work with me OR you just want me on your list just to spam me for referrals.

So, I just want all of you to know and putting it out here for everyone to see – I will not swap links with you in chat, I will not sign up if you send me a link in Skype. If you want me to join your program or site then add it to Zaney Clicks. I join new sites all the time BUT I join them from members that are getting referrals the way traffic exchanges are meant to work – adding their site, adding credits and letting me view them inside the traffic exchange..

It’s just that simple everyone – and unless you are willing to do it this way – then don’t you spread rumors that traffic exchanges don’t work because I know they do. Thanks for listening and will love to hear your opinion now that you have listened to mine.

What is the difference in 50, 100, 125, 150, 200

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Nancy Radlinger

Today while I was surfing some of the promos that were out there, it was interesting how many different amounts were out there the amount of pages that were required to be eligible for the prizes so was got to thinking what is the difference in 50, 100, 125, 150 200.

Now I know many owners role is to get as many views to their sites that they can and I understand that most have their own preference. From an owners point of view I know it is important to get as many eyeballs on a members site as you can but I have been watching my promos and the amount of people that surf at these different amounts.

No I’m not going to bore you will all my stats but what I am going to tell you that when I do a promo where members have to surf 50 pages at each site – I see two things – I see MORE member surfing and most of the time they surf more than the 50 pages.

Now I have been trying to figure this out and think that the reason that this happens is that members don’t feel the pressure to surf that they do with the larger amounts. Also, I feel that when surfing at a more relaxed pace they view what they are seeing more.

With my stats, I have been seeing good results with surfing 100 as for the same reasons but see a drop in the amount of people that surf when the numbers go to 125, 150 and 200. I have also been watching the amounts with the promo codes and also am seeing the same results.

With all the promos that I have, I have also had a few surfers thank me for not having so many pages as their feelings are they belong to many exchanges and like when they don’t have the pressure of too many pages – that way they can surf at more sites in the long run.

So I thought I’d do a post and would love to hear from other owners and surfers on what your opinion is on the difference in 50, 100, 125, 150, 200.

Are you just a number?

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Nancy Radlinger

It’s interesting as I was surfing this weekend of the things that I noticed and one of the things that I saw was people in the chat rooms swapping their links to be a referral for each other and that got me to thinking are you just a number.

When you join a site do you know the person you joined under, do they contact you, do they try to help you if you have questions or are you just a number. Personally, I want some attention from my upline (person I joined under) not that I want to bug them but want to know that they are there if I have questions.

There are so many times that I have joined different programs and it’s not long I feel I get lost in the numbers and I can understand that as a person’s list get bigger – BUT there are many ways to keep the doors of communication open and one way is doing what I’m doing here – blogging – give your upline a place to go where they can hear from you, teach them something, answer some questions so it helps everyone in your downline

The other thing would be your emails – do you send out emails that just keep wanting people to buy or do you try and help the people that are on the other end. This is one of the ways that I think people don’t do enough and then they wonder why they are not earning money or getting more referrals. Stop chasing the quick easy money – reset your mind and the money will come.

If you have let your downline become just another number – then maybe you should take a look at your downline again – ask yourself why are they there – did they join because of what you were offering and then afterwards just become another number on your list.

Did they join under you because they wanted someone to teach them, they wanted to be your referral because you presented yourself as a teacher or mentor – well do you?

Or did you join with the intention of just being just a number – you joined just to get a referral to another program or to win a contest and have no intention in giving the program you joined a chance to show you it works. This happens so often – you join then your upline drops the ball because you were just a number to them – you were not taught how to use the program, you had questions that you couldn’t find the answers, etc. – and what happens after that – you get disgusted and quit – so I’m just saying think about it the next time that you join a new program or someone is bugging you to be a referral for them – are you just a number OR will it benefit you the way it needs to,

That is why it’s important that you back up and remember your “why” and if you don’t know your “why” then stop everything that you are doing until you have your “why” This will help you understand if you fall into the rut of “are you just a number” OR if you are going to treat this like a business so that you can learn and teach – because if you can do that then the earn follows – just that simple.

Drop It and Forget It

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Nancy Radlinger

Today I have been going thru my sites and cleaning and it’s amazing how it seems that so many members (me included sometimes) just put a link, banner etc in a site and do what I call drop it and forget it.

It was amazing how many banners that I deleted today because the image was now showing and it’s not all your fault as if you are like me you jump in and jump out of sites and see if you need to add credits, banner and text impressions.

Well don’t waste you credits, banner and text impressions on nothing being there – so many times the site might change things – delete splash pages and add new ones and all of a sudden your favorite one is not being seen and unless you checking on them once in awhile – in your mind you might blame the site when it’s not the site’s fault.

Grant you, it’s gotten better over the years and there are scripts that will kick out a bad URL and thank to some members they will report them so that site owner can take them out of rotation. But let me ask you – how many of you are so busy to get to the next site that you don’t take the time to hit that report button? hmmmmmmm

Well I use to do that when I first started because the word report was like I’m telling on someone and didn’t want to cause problems. BUT you are actually helping a fellow member and the site owner and that is a good thing. So the next time you see a page that it says that the site is not available, can’t find site, etc – take a few seconds to hit that report button.

Now I know you are thinking I don’t have time to do that as some sites don’t seem to care what is showing and why should I help them out. Well there are a couple reasons that I report them – as that is less competition and my site will come up faster in rotation getting the bad sites out.

The other reason is I’m from the old school and if that was my site – I would WANT someone to report it for me so I can make the change. So I try to do what I would want someone to do for me.

So the next time you are in adding credits, banner and text impressions and have not viewed your sites, banner and text ads – take a few minutes and view them – don’t be one of those members that just goes from site to site and drop it and forget it.

Don’t feel bad either and where I see this the most is in the mailers, text ad sites and even paid to click sites – and that is even worse as the site owner is paying someone to view your site, banner, text and it’s messed up – that does not set an example that I want others to see – how about you?

Getting back to the basics

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Nancy Radlinger

Starting on the internet years ago and discovering traffic exchanges – this was all new to me and like a different language. So I thought I would do a post of some of the highlights that I see people struggling with in getting back to the basics.

The first new word I learned was Gravatar and I still see people struggling with how to get one, what they are so let me explain. Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog.

Now I know lot of you would like to use the rotator or the personal splash pages but not sure how to get your picture to show up. Well you go to Gravatar.com and sign up with your email account and then upload your picture. Every time that you use that email addy when you sign up at a site your picture will follow you – it’s that simple and easy.

On the site for the personal splash pages, you simply go to personal splash page and type in you name and then upload your picture, add a banner link and image if you want, and also a testimonial about the site – click save. Then you can go to the bottom of that page and view the pages that are there to see what it looks like and then use those links to help brand yourself.

The other thing when I started was banners – wow they were so confusing for me – so will try and give you examples to hopefully make it easier. On most sites the standard banner size is 468×60 and unless stated is what you should be adding.

This is a 468×60 and can be found by clicking on the tab Affiliate Toolbox

Now to add this to other site you will go to that page and look for the image URL and then your referral URL and this is what they will look like – AND make sure you add them in the right place otherwise they will not show – you will get that dreaded square with x
Image URL http://zaneyclicks.com/getimg.php?id=2
Your Referral URL http://zaneyclicks.com/?rid=57962 (this would be the main page)

Now I know it can be confusing when you get to the Affiliate Toolbox as you see alot of splash page URL and you are going which one do I use – well for all of you that can’t decide like me – well you can use the link under splash rotator. What this does is on other sites when your link comes up to be shown – all the splash pages will randomly show each time – pretty cool huh? http://zaneyclicks.com/splash_rotator.php?rid=57962

One more thing before ending here, when you sign up to a site you are asked to put in your email address – now there are many reasons for this but the main one is so that the site owner can communicate with you and keep you informed about new things, promos, and other things that you may need to know.

So when you enter a bogus email you are only hurting yourself because on this site – if your email bounces (means you can’t get it and it comes back to me undeliverable) then that tells me that you are not serious about want to learn and be part of this site. So what happens is that you get suspended till this is fixed.

AND if you don’t go to your profile and fill in your Paypal address – well when it’s time for the site to make payouts – it will skip over you and not pay you. So if you want to be paid take the time to fill in your Paypal address

Hopefully this will help some of you that are getting started and fill lost and if you were like me didn’t want to ask – well let me tell you ASK – don’t be shy and there is no stupid question. Even today, when I run into things I type my question into Google and guess what I find my question is not that stupid because someone else asked it to and there is an answer for me wooooooohooooooo Now you know my secret for learning new things daily and a little on getting back to the basics.