Traffic Exchanges

It is no secret. Traffic exchanges are an excellent free advertising medium for those interested in internet marketing. They are extremely easy to use, and you can achieve great results!

Ok, so you've surfed the exchanges, but these awesome returns and conversions are starting to sound like a myth. Herein lies the trouble with TEs-they are easy to use, but you have to use them right.

To use TEs the right way, you just need a few simple pointers. In this report, I will present to you all the free tools and information you need to increase your efficiency and turn the time you spend surfing into real results. Finally!


Tip #1: Smart Surfing Mechanics

When trying to increase your efficiency and returns, the most obvious strategy is to find a way to surf smart and maximize the number of credits you get per hour.

First off, you need to be using a tabbed browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer

7.0 or Mozilla Firefox. Load around 5 exchanges into your browser, one in each tab, and go from tab to tab, spending a few seconds to view the websites and then click on the surf bar anti-cheat image.
This will increase your credit efficiency dramatically, but there's more! Whatever you do, don't click the tabs to change tabs. You are wasting a HUGE amount of time. Use a shortcut to switch tabs. Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Tab. Now, if you are using that shortcut, you can still shave even more wasted time off of your surfing sessions.


Tip #2: Smart Surfing Behaviors

As you are surfing, you will be bombarded with advertising messages. Don't let all of these offers bog you down by having a surfing schedule and retaining your focus.

First of all, keep your head about you as you surf. If you see a page that interests you, by all means explore it or submit your contact details to find out more. Just don't waste
your time investigating all of the programs you come across. Many of them are junk. If it looks too good to be true, guess what? IT IS!

Don't lose your focus. Once you have a campaign running, stick to promoting that site.
Don't constantly search for something new to promote and jump from program to
program. Have a plan, and above all else, stick to it!

If you are struggling with charting your plan, and don't know where to start, take a look at Internet Marketing Success Formula. The 41+ page report describes the exact plan I've followed to build my list and earn money in the traffic exchanges, and it sure does
work.

Also, you will never see any results if you efforts are diluted across loads of exchanges. Lord knows there are plenty exchanges out there and you can't be in all of them. Strive to have your ad in constant rotation in a few big exchanges, rather than receive 300 or so odd hits daily from twenty different exchanges. This will increase conversions, building awareness of your offer in the TEs.

You may wonder how often to surf. It would be easy to tell you to surf as much as you can, but that is completely unrealistic. You need to create a schedule, and this can be a difficult task.

Lucky for you, there is a really neat free tool to help you out with exactly this! Grab Darrell Dean's Surfing Calculator. It will help you automatically calculate an optimal surfing schedule, and it's free to join!

Now you just need to figure out which traffic exchanges are the ones you want to be in.


Tip #3: Surf the Right Exchanges

It is no secret. There are lots of sub-standard traffic exchanges, and you don't want to do business with them. You won't see the slightest results, and you will waste your time and money.

How will you find the best ones?

It's super-easy. Every week, Affiliate Funnel publishes a list ranking the TEs. Unlike other lists, this one is voted on by the surfers! You will not risk surfing shoddy exchanges if you stick to the highly voted exchanges. Others use them, and are getting superb results and service, as is reflected in the votes.

This list is not published outside of Affiliate Funnel, so you'll have to join up and claim your free membership. You'll want to join for more than the ranker though. They truly are a must-join service for anybody promoting on TEs.


Next week we will continue this great post that I have used with permission by Jay Hines
I will also give links for all of the programs that he is talking about in this list.

Why Affiliate Marketing?

Today, I am going to introduce you to affiliate marketing. It is one of the fastest and easiest ways to make money on the internet. If you want to work from home, affiliate marketing is the way to go. It takes no major investments, no risks; the site you are representing does all the work and takes all the risk.
There are many sites that you can find companies to represent; Clickbank, Commission Junction, PayDotCom and many more. A search on Google will bring up many of these merchants for you to be an affiliate for.
You will need a blog or a website, a squeeze page and an agreement to represent the merchant. A blog is best set up up at WordPress or Blogger. The advantage to WordPress is that it is your site, not Googles. With a blogger account, Google has the right to shut it down at any time where WordPress is an independent site run by you alone. I am moving to WordPress today.
When you are ready to become an affiliate marketer, research is the biggest chore ahead of you. Making sure that there is a market for your product is of the utmost importance. Second, making sure that there are not so many other representatives of the same product that you get lost in the shuffle.
Use your keywords well, research them, research them and research them. Then do the same for your target market. After you are confident that you have a great niche and the market is there, the product is there - GO FOR IT!
I wish you all the best in your endeavor. If you follow the rules, you will be a major success and we will see your name in the list of "guru's".

How Will We Market Our Products for Tomorrow?

How Will We Market Our Products for Tomorrow?
This is a great question - there are so many answers that are totally different from anything we have done in the past. I hope to show the many different ways that are opening up to us for the future. I will be showcasing several products out there that I feel are the answer to many of our questions of marketing for the next generation of online sales.