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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.

 

Are you suffering from surfing boredom

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boredomIt’s interesting when you lurk in the chat rooms at what you can listen to and all of a sudden a blog post idea pops up.  While surfing some promos today, I heard people talking about needing more coffee to wake up and that they were having a hard time staying awake so the question popped in my head – are you suffering from surfing boredom?????

If you answered this with a yes – well there could be many reasons why and going to list a few of them here.

Same ole, same ole ads

This can be boring on many sites if the members are seeing the same home page after another – you have heard me preach time and time again – make your page stand out do something different that will wake up that surfer.  Now I know you are thinking well I don’t know how to design pages and not creative – well have you tried?  If you think you CAN or you think you CANT…. you are probably right…….Henry Ford.

One ad after another

Have you ever been on a site and it’s just one ad after another – there is nothing to break up the routine – you are thankful to get to a bonus page as it woke you up.   Personally, when I’m surfing, I need something that is going to make me do something beside click, click, click.

Alot of people don’t agree with having games on sites  but personally I feel they break up the boredom.  On my site I have been testing things and have found that members are paying attention as weekly they have a new Treasured Site to find from clues in the emails and they have a chance to win an upgrade.  Also, I pick a text ad from the site and have them look for it and they have to click on it and send in the name of the site for a chance to get a free referral.

When this first started, I got maybe 5 – 6 support tickets but I’m so proud of my members as those support tickets are up to 50 – 60 a week now.  Now I know some owners are going OMG on that many tickets – but you know what is great to me – that has opened up the line of communication with me and my members and to my surprise I have some really smart “cats” out there (hehe)

So the next time you are surfing, think about it – does playing hangman wake up you up and are you more alert on the next pages that you view.  How about clicking on those frown faces – didn’t they wake you up and surfing didn’t seem so boring afterwards.

Same sales copy

“If you’re not using Manual Traffic exchanges you’re leaving 100’s and 1000’s of subscribers and Referrals on the table.”

How many of you have seen this and think oh no another same ole, same ole site well when I see this I’m am surfing boredom before I even get inside.  To me it tells me that the owner don’t care about making his/her site unique to them and I really don’t care how great your traffic is, what you offer on the inside – having this on your main page sends out a message to others – this is your place to add some excitement – make them want to join and come in and see what you offer on the inside.  JMO

So I ask again “Are you suffering from surfing boredom” think about how you can get some excitement in the exchange that you are surfing or the site that you own.

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

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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Promote, Promote, Promote – Does It Pay?

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promote2So 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 Transfer Received From
WebShooter Multimedia / New Plan Network
admin@thenpn.com
 Completed $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.

resultsYes 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

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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

Spamming for Referrals

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spammingWell 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.

spamming3So, 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.