Have You Found Out How To Make Money From Your Surfing Yet?

Before I downloaded the free report-- Traffic Exchange Profits [TEP], I used traffic exchanges in a rather haphazard way, advertising too many programs, surfing as much as I could and getting the occasional bite.

Now I have them much better organized and can concentrate on advertising just the one splash page for TEP.
This will then bring me, and those who download the free report, and follow the advice given, several regular income streams, which is what we are all here for, isn,t it?

If you haven,t done so already, have a look at Traffic Exchange Profits and see how you can make money from your surfing.

Know you should be using an auto responder and don’t know where to start.

Everybody says “the moneys in the list” and there are list builders everywhere.
However once you have a list you need to nurture it, and you need an autoresponder to do this. Obviously these cost money and it can be daunting leaping in, if you don’t know where to start.

One of the best auto responders, is Trafficwave.

This is reasonably priced, has tutorials to show you how things work, can import lists of contacts, allows an unlimited number of campaigns and has it’s own lucrative affiliate program.

Compared with the other well known competitors, Trafficwave is really good value for money, and even better, has a full 30 day free trial so you can suss things out, and decide if it’s for you.

As already mentioned it has a really generous affiliate program that would make a really good, stand alone business, in it’s own right.

So if you’re looking to take this step up, spend an educational 30 days perusing and experimenting with-- Trafficwave.

Get The most From Traffic Exchanges

Hoped you liked the canal photo, in my last post, because here’s another one.

The Shropshire Union Canal towpath is an ideal place to take my elderly step mum for afternoon walks, as it meanders through the lush dairy pastures of Cheshire. In this shot we are posed by one of the typical bridges we encounter at regular intervals. Then we normally call at a picturesque canal side or country hostelry for a leisurely drink, before heading home.
Definitely a pleasant existence at this time of year.

Now To Business.
Last year I wrote a post on traffic, and touched on using traffic exchanges. Most people use these, but the majority fail to get the best results from them. I have already mentioned that for best results you need to surf 5 or 6 T.E.s at once, and that it is a complete waste of time advertising generic sales pages, and especially don’t try to promote your primary business here.

Fellow surfers don’t want to buy into a new business--They already have one, but they are always likely to be interested in programs that will help them sell it.
Therefore a straight to the point splash page, with a snappy headline, offering something that will help them achieve this, is the most likely thing to stop people in mid surf.

This week I have taken a major step forward in getting my use of traffic exchanges better organized. I have joined Traffic Exchange Profits, because it streamlines my business building. Here’s why---

First, it combines everything you need to succeed on TE's - income, referrals and how to make the absolute MOST out of your surfing time!
They know exactly why we surf exchanges - To Make money.
I can go on and on with every little detail about everything you get, but I'm going to let Traffic Exchange Profits do that for me.
I'm going to simply ask you to get this free report - Right now.
Traffic Exchange Profits

That is one of 15 FREE Splash Pages that I get as a member of TEP

Traffic Exchange Profits is an Incredibly simple, yet powerful program.
Don't waste any more of your time. Get your free copy of the Traffic Exchange Profits and see for yourself.
This system is completely automated. You just give surfers what THEY want. The system does everything else -
Traffic Exchange Profits

Hope that, like me, you can see how beneficial this will be.

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Free Report Could Make Us Some Extra Income

The weather here has been fantastic up to the last few days.

This fits in well with my routine of taking my step mum for walks and then stopping for a drop of amber nectar afterwards.
She has now become fit enough to walk along the disused railway line, behind where we live, until it crosses the local canal. We then follow the towpath towards town arriving at the canal basin.
Here stands this impressive old building [built by Thomas Telford], which is now an attractive watering hole..
A pleasant place to cool down before tottering back again.
Probably a couple of miles each way.

Then I can look for exciting ways to make some extra income, like this one that has just come to my attention.

I received this Free Report recently, It's very simple, easy to start and costs nothing - Just send visitors their own reports and earn up to "$2,475 per 100 visitors" - Here's just some of the benefits of the Aaron Ling FFI Free Report, as listed on the website.

*The system is absolutely Free. You are not required to spend a penny, now or later!

*It's not something you have ever seen or heard of before..

*You can get started right away, in a matter of minutes..

*You don't need a website or a list or any of that jazz to use this system..

*Using this system, you will lock for yourself a steady stream of long term profits..

*It's a very simple system. Anyone, even without any computer or technical knowledge, can get started right away..

*All you have to do is refer people to this Free Report. And the system takes care of the rest..

*The Free Report will also teach you five cool tricks to generate referrals & increase your income at your own will..

*Aaron Ling does all the work. You just sit back, relax & watch the cash pile up..

Still waiting to see how this works out, but it’s free, gives you some valuable information and hopefully “does what it says on the tin” and make us some money.

Get your free FFI report here

And then give it away.

Three Programs In One To Push Up Your Bank Balance

Many apologies for the recent lack of posts.
I have had mega broadband problems, which is not easy to deal with when you’re caring for another person, who doesn’t understand modern technology and wonders what I’m doing all the time.
Still my step mum’s lovely most of the time, which obviously brings it’s own rewards.

Not that I haven’t carried on with my online ventures, I am still concentrating on promoting GDI and using several of the programs that help me do this.
I have already mentioned a few of them and here is some info. on a couple that I have been concentrating on lately.

The first of these is viralpond which is set up to provide easy to follow steps for anyone to build a residual income. They do this by focusing on what they believe to be the two most “proven, legitmate, long term companies on line today.” One of these is GDI.
They have a free and a really cheap optional upgrade level, but they encourage people to join for free first until they have had time to get used to things. A refreshing change from all the one time offers etc that you are forced to wade through with most programs.
You can also earn money from Viralpond itself, via free or paid membership.
Since I started promoting this program I have had a very positive response, especially with the feedback I’ve had through Linkreferral, and if you are in GDI it brings in an automatic stream of recruits.

The other program it promotes is Pyrabang.

I had already joined this, through a recommendation and am very interested to see how it pans out in the long term. [There will be increasing profits for successful members]
Pyrabang is an unusual program as it is set up to advertise anything that members want to promote, or discuss, using pay per click type ads. The difference being that instead of paying per click you EARN PER CLICK..

To do this Pyrabang has it’s own currency “bangs” which you can earn or buy and is convertible to cash, or can be used for further advertising.
How do you earn bangs? Well the ads that you place are judged on their popularity and other members can invest in a proportion of your ad, giving you a much greater number of hits and you make a profit with your bangs.
You really can get a lot of exposure here and I recommend that you visit the site to fully understand the potential help that this will give any business. They have a long list of the questions most people are likely to ask.
You can place as many ads as you like, and then check your portfolio to see how well they are doing, which are the most viewed and whether anyone has invested in them etc.

www.pyrabang.com/go/wudbskibum

Don't Make These 13 List Building Mistakes

Been back from ski-ing for a while now, where did the time go?
With the weather here being unusually pleasant I have been taking my stepmum on a variety of local walks and discovering places on my doorstep, whose existence I have missed after a lifetime of living in or visiting the area. Rather mind blowing, I think.

Anyway back to making money.

If you're a serious marketer, you will be trying to build a list.
Don't know how, or what to do with it when you've got it?

To help you find the answers to these questions I am giving away a new e-book called
13 list building Tragedies.

This is a high quality book that will tell you what most would be marketers are doing
wrong, and how you can avoid these mistakes, build your own list and utulise it.

Like me you can give this book away, to your list, via squeeze pages etc. and also have
the chance to earn income and referrals in various programs.

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth--Download 13 List Building Tragedies now.

Lots Of Ski-ing So Far

Wouldn’t you know, arrived in Val d’isere and it was St.Patrick’s day.
Good job I’ve got naturally green hair.

Ski-ing is good, pistes/runs rather hard as it’s still quite cold, but very sunny so far.

Here’s a bit more on Viral networks.

One of my favourite marketers Paul E. Watts has written an ebook explaining how to get the most from VN, and also how to easily obtain enough credits to qualify for the monthly profit share.

I will give the link to anyone who signs up under me.



E.Lottery now covers the Spanish Super Draws

I don’t usually push E-lottery very strongly here, because our Americans friends are no longer allowed to join, owing to the current laws they have to live under.

However for those of us who live in the rest of the world, E-lottery now covers the Spanish Superdraws, as follows:--

The Spanish Lottery Superdraw has some of the richest prize pools in the world, ranging from €84 Million all the way up to a staggering €2.6 Billion. Millions of people take part in these draws every single month, giving them the chance to win life-changing prizes. Because of how the numbers are drawn, there is not just one incredibly lucky winner, but thousands of winners.

E-lottery is giving YOU the chance to play the smarter way - with their system every Spanish Superdraw syndicate will win at least one cash prize in the January ‘El Niño’, Christmas ‘El Gordo’ and Summer ‘San Ildefonso’ Special draws, and 3 cash prizes in the 9 other Superdraws - GUARANTEED!

To see how you can win a prize in the next draw, currently worth €84,million, please click on the banner---




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To Be A Successful Marketer You Need To Network

Lot’s of people who start internet marketing, flounder around on their own, drowning in a sea of information, and eventually give up.
To be successful it is imperative to form relationships with other marketers and share information and ideas.

Obviously it isn’t difficult to make your own contacts, but a place where marketers can meet online and discuss things, where there are groups you can join for specific programs, has got to be a good thing.

Therefore I would like to point you in the direction of Viralnetworks, which does all of the above and much more.

To explain it better here is a copy of part of the blurb from the site---

{ViralNetworks is a Unique Social Networking site that rewards you just for taking action. You are rewarded with credits for actions such as posting on the forum, or uploading a video. ViralNetworks is also a ListBuilder with a twist. Everyone you refer, and who they then refer and so on down 5 levels goes in your downline that you are able to contact via the internal messageboard!

Here are just a few of the amazing things you will have instant access to… Free:

Make Real, Valuable Contacts With People Around The World Who Share Your Vision

Build A List on AutoPilot That You can Contact with Our Internal Mailing System

Share Your Knowledge and Experiences with others, branding yourself as an Authority

Learn from others who are sharing their methods and success stories

Publish Videos, Start Groups, Share Pictures and share what you are up to

Promote your websites and yourself simply by taking part }

Also for people who earn enough credits, they share the profits they gain from advertising every month.

So if you want to interact with other marketers, and have a chance to virally build a large downline and list, for free, you have to check out---
Viralnetworks


Hooray, I’m going ski-ing at last

Yes, I’m actually hitting the slopes for a couple of weeks, and cant wait.

Now, that I’m organised in my new/old home in Chester, one of my stepsisters is able to keep an eye on my step mum, and I am able to slope off.

So Val d’isere, here I come.

My partner in ski-ing crime is already working out there, so all I have to do is turn up. Cant be bad.

Speak again when I get back.

Time To Get Leaping Again

I’ve done a small review of Leadsleap in a previous post, but they have just added a new feature that makes this a good time for those who haven’t joined up, to have another look.

Previously I wrote--

With this program you promote your site with a text ad, which is similar in style to an Adsense ad. These are shown on the Leadsleap website and blog, plus the newsletters that are sent out. Your ads are always featured on the newsletters to your downline, to 10 levels. This makes the system viral as a downline of this size could easily bring you thousands of hits. There is no lengthy surfing with this system and you only need to click on ten ads per day to get the maximum number of credits possible.

The new feature is a widget that you can add to your website or blog.

Here are the advantages, direct from LeadsLeap--

Why add this widget to your website?

1) Earn more EASY credits
Whenever someone visits any blog link on your widget, you'll earn 1 credit (5 credits if you're a PRO member). Special launch offer: From now till 31st March 2009, you will earn 10 credits for every visit. So hurry!
(Note: Unlike members' ads, you do not earn credit for clicking the links on your own widget. Only clicks from your website visitors are counted.)
2) Build your network
All links from your widget are embedded with your referral ID. This means you are building your LeadsLeap network at the same time.
3) Make more recurring income
Of course, if any of the traffic from your widget purchases any of our products or upgrade to PRO, you will earn recurring income. The conversion for our one-time-offer is about 10%. This means for every 10 members who sign up, 1 will purchase the offer. Many newbies make their first online commission through LeadsLeap.
4) Add values to your visitors
LeadsLeap widget ONLY consists of links to our SELECTED blog posts. Why? Because we believe in providing values to your visitors. When your visitors click through your widget to read the blog, we want your visitor to say, "Wow, that information is great. Thanks for the recommendation."

This saves you having to click on members ads to earn credits, plus the blog posts you are syndicating are keenly read by complete newbies, right up to experienced marketers, such is their quality.

If you are looking for a viral and free way to advertise your business, and don’t want the hassle of receiving hundreds of unwanted emails in return, Leadsleap is for you.

Adjusting To My New Life

I have been busy settling in to life in Chester and looking after my elderly step mum, [pictured at her 80th last year] free from the job I have been doing for the last twelve years, and able to live on my several small pensions, together with my online earnings.

My step mum has put on several pounds since I arrived. I like eating and cooking, and I think she had lost the motivation to eat much, while on her own. The plus side of this is she is getting quite strong, and I can take her on some reasonably long walks and then indulge her favourite pastime, by stopping at an attractive waterhole afterwards. This also helps to stop me from getting to sedentary.

However, this has left me with less time than I would have liked for internet marketing and I’ve also suffered from a worn out motherboard that needed replacing, losing me a few working days.

I have however been consistently posting to my list building programs:- Thelistauction and Listjumper. Posting to these ensures that there is a steady stream of hits to my main programs:-- GDI and Acme-people-search, plus E-lottery.

Acme has been very useful for making some quick money, which I am using to be an upgraded member of my list building programs. This helps me in my long time aim of building up a substantial downline in GDI.

As I’ve said before, a lot of people have preconceived ideas about GDI, as they’ve seen it so many times, but it really is a good solid business, which can be built up over time to provide an ever growing income.

Like a lot of other businesses, many of the people who join wont bother doing anything, but amongst the duds along comes the occasional gem, who will work hard, build there own downline, and add considerably to my, or your, income. One of the reasons that this is so helpful is that, unlike most programs, you receive the same commission for all levels of your downline.

If you would like to see how much you could make with GDI, please go to my site and click on the income calculator.

To close here is another advertising idea for you, which is a bit different.

This is a blog that you can advertise your sites on.
All you do is scroll down the page of members ads and then add your own.
Like most programs it has free and upgraded membership levels, the bonus being that some of the commissions for bringing in new members can be extremely high.

To check this out, please click on the banner.

Wishing You A Successful 2009

Hope you all had a good new year and that you have resolved to make more money from internet marketing [IM] in 2009.

I say this because like me you have probably often seen the well known statistic--97% of people who get involved in IM fail.
Having been involved in this for a while now I can see the reason why, or to be precise I can see the two main reasons.

1} People don’t want to put the effort into it. IM is hard work.

2} They also expect to do everything for free, and think money will roll in.

Why do I think this?

Because I can see the behavioural pattern of the people who join programs under me.
About half will sign in and then do nothing. OK, this is fair enough. If they sign in to have a good look and decide the program is not for them, that’s fine. It’s their choice.
However, if they are put off because they realise there might be some work involved, they will never get anywhere.

Of the ones who sign up and activate their accounts, many appear to do nothing, don’t build their own downlines and only a minority upgrade.
Now I realise that some of these people might be working very hard to attract referrals, and to them I apologise, they need as much help as possible, and this is one of the reasons I write this blog. There should be something in here that they can use to get traffic, or build a list, and become successful.

I also realise that if you have a tight budget, upgrading is difficult. All I can say here is, get in as much money as you can with free methods, and gradually upgrade when you can afford to, as it will make a big difference. When you do this, have a look at some of the one time offers or special deals that most programs regularly put out.
To learn about free marketing have a look at www.thebummarketingmethod.com, a very popular source of information, by Travis Sago. You will learn a lot about article marketing, and much more.

The other thing I would advise anyone to do is to join IM forums, read the posts and join in the discussions. You can learn practically anything there and save yourself a fortune, by not needing to buy expensive ebooks.
I am a member of several but particularly like ewealth.com and whydowork.com.

I have put this post in to wish everyone a Happy New Year, and to try and galvanize, those that need it, into action.
I haven’t put in any supersonic new programs in the hope of making a few extra bucks, there are enough of those, in previous posts, to keep any serious marketers happy.

On a personal level, now that I have retired from my 9-5 job I am experimenting with moving back to my home town, Chester. I have an elderly step mum there, who can no longer look after herself very well, and I am going to see whether my sharing her house would be a suitable arrangement for both of us.

I haven't made enough money yet, to swan off anywhere, and start my posts "From the yacht of". Just not having to rely on a meagre pension is a good enough reward for the moment, plus having a pension at all has it's own novelty value, when it's a new experience.

Will, however find time to hit the slopes, in the near future, and will try not to break anything.

Happy and successful Christmas To All Readers

Yes, I hope you are all prospering and that we will go on to bigger and better things in 2009.

This is an exciting time for me as I officially become old this Christmas, and am retiring from my day job and will have more time to concentrate on internet marketing.
I should also be able to spend some time ski-ing this winter, and hopefully be able to do spend more time in France in general, as I am a committed Francophile.

Right, back to the normal subject of internet marketing.

Regular readers will know that I have been concentrating my efforts on acme-people-search and GDI.
I have decided to make GDI my main business and continue to promote acme, as that is bringing in regular income, and also some GDI sign ups.

Now I know many people have pre-conceived ideas about GDI and have decided not to join for one reason or another, but how many other programs have been successful for 7 years, provide a useful product and service, and pay the same amount of commission, down to 5 levels.
Most programs are either outright scams, or they fizzle brightly for a few months, and then become saturated and eventually disappear.

Most people probably haven’t really looked at what GDI has to offer, and for their benefit I list the main features here:-


* .WS Domain: Secure a place on the internet and carve out some personal space. Give a small business a big helping hand with a domain name.

* 10 Email Addresses: Everyone has an email address today, but it's rarely personal. Get a truly unique address, personal or professional, addressed at your own domain name. Access these addresses from our brand new webmail interface at Email.ws!

* SiteBuilder: Building a WebSite on a new domain is easy, just use our most recent version of SiteBuilder. We continue to make improvements daily!

* Web Hosting: For those who know their way around a WebSite, we offer hosting.

* URL Forwarding: If someone already has a site, using forwarding on their domain will make it look like they have two sites!

* Income Opportunity: Earn a substantial residual income just by referring others to GDI Products and Services.

Now to the main point of this post--
I have recently been given access to a brilliant program for obtaining sign ups by my GDI sponsor.
This includes $100 of free advertising on Yahoo, plus 5000 daily leads.
To find out all the benefits, it would be better if you read this website,
www.incomebooster.tk, especially the second page, as it does a better job of explaining things, than I feel I can do here.

This is not available to existing GDI members and is inclusive to the downline I belong to and I will email full details, of how to proceed, to anyone who signs up through this site.
www.incomebooster.tk

This should certainly help you boost your income for the new year.

STOP PRESS

I have just been made aware of a brand new advertising site that is giving away free, lifetime pro memberships, for the first 500 that sign up. Rush to it here:- Xfactorads

I Jumped To The Top

That’s right I managed to jump to the top of the list at ListJumper.
That means that when I did my-every three days-random mailing, to those below me, most of the deliveries would go to people I hadn’t reached before, especially as there are new members coming in all the time.
OK this isn’t the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to me, but it gives me an excuse to put up the dolphin picture. Hope you like it.

Both the Listjumper and TheListauction bring in sign ups every time I post, and as I use the squeeze pages from instantmlmsqueezepages, rather than the generic sales pages from the opportunities I am promoting, I get new members to that program as well as the main opportunity, and sometimes both.

One feature of Thelistauction is that gold members can place ads at the top of random letters sent out by other members. This is in the form of a text ad and a url.
Now, the gold members tend to be the more experienced and professional marketers and one thing that stands out is that they almost all use Viralurl to cloak their links.

Regular readers will know that I have done a couple of posts about Viralurl, and I cannot understand why anyone would promote a long ugly website address, or expose their affiliate link to the possibility of being hacked off, when there is an excellent free program like this, to solve the problem.
Not only does it tidy up your urls, but you can put a small ad on the Viralurl bar that shows at the top of web pages that have been cloaked, and others look at when clicking on to your links.

Viralurl do a series of videos explaining the system, one of which is a review and can be watched HERE.



Lastly, here is another downline type program that has GDI among the various ones in it’s list. It is called The3cashmachine and is reputed to be an excellent money building set up in it’s own right.
Paul at affiliatecurve, who is my sponsor and does very well with GDI, says that The3cashmachine and Hits2u, are his main sources of referrals for that program.
You may also want to look at GDIincometeam which I have only just come across, and obviously does the same job.

Squeeze Into This

Most affiliate programs provide you with an all bells and whistles sales site with which to advertise their program, and get yourself referrals.
These are usually very professional and include a long written message from the program owner, proof of payments received photos, glowing testimonials and bullets listing the various features and advantages. There is often a video to watch as well.

This is all well and good, but stick this on your traffic exchanges etc and nobody will give them more than a glance. To regular surfers these sites all look the same, besides which, these people already have their own program to sell, they’re not looking for another one.
However, if you use a squeeze page, instead of the take all day to read sales page, you will get some interest.
This is because squeeze pages just give enough small snippets of information, to raise people’s curiosity, then ask them to fill in their details to find out more. These can then link to the regular sales page, which they might read on this occasion, and possibly sign up.
If they don’t you have their email address and can send them a follow up message and add it to your list. Some programs will do this for you automatically.

Luckily the two programs that I have talked about on this blog both provide their own squeeze pages, as well as the regular sales ones.
You can see Acme’s by clicking HERE, and one of GDI’s HERE.

This brings me to the main point of this post.
I have joined a program called InstantMLMSqueezePages.
The idea is you are provided with squeeze pages to promote any MLM/affiliate/networking program.
These squeeze pages actually advertise a free report, such as---How To Get Rich Building A Lazy Downline--which is packed with information which is invaluable to any internet marketer, and is valued at around $97. Click HERE to see what this looks like.
As I said previously, surfers aren’t looking for a new business, but they are interested in anything that might help them promote the one they’ve already got. So, they sign up for the free report.

What’s in it for us then?
Well, firstly the report is rebranded with your Instantmlmsqueezepages ID, which is a lucrative affiliate program in itself, and also has a link to your main business, which people are also encouraged to look at.
So you see you are killing two birds with one stone, as sign ups to either program should see you in the money.
Plus, you will get the information from the people who fill the form in, and can add them to your list for follow up messages, even if they don’t immediately become active.
More experienced marketers who sign up for the platinum level of membership have the opportunity to transfer these signees, automatically to their Aweber autoresponder.

Where do you promote these squeeze pages?
Just go back to my “traffic” posts and there’s plenty there to get you going.

Incidentally, as I said previously InstantMLMsqueezepages is a worthwhile affiliate program in it’s own right, and this also applies to most of the list builders that are out there.
I think you could make money promoting these various programs on each other, especially as you know the people involved there, have already bought a similar product.

Here's One To Jump Into

A quick update on my traffic building post..

I have just signed up to a new program called List Jumper.
This is another program for emailing random members, but works in a different way to the others.

Everybody is placed in a vertical list on joining and starts at the bottom. Then you can earn credits by reading emails and JUMP up the list. You can then mail quantities of members below you every few days.
Like most programs there is a free version and various upgrades. The paid versions allow you to email more people and also to rise up the list automatically.

The reason I am putting this in a quick post is that the program is still in pre-launch, and anybody getting in early is going to be starting from further up the list.
Also, and I think this is a big attraction, all members can make a residual income from this, by getting sign ups, right down 7 levels. Even free members can do this and I think that the commissions look quite generous.

Again, as with other programs you‘ve got nothing to lose, by having a look and getting a proper understanding of what‘s involved..

I personally think this one has a lot of potential.

It's All About Traffic

If you have been following my ventures here, you will hopefully have signed up with acme-people-search and Global Domains International.

Acme will bring you sales with the affiliate programs they use, plus $30 for each referral, who stays in the system.

GDI will add a growing residual income, once you introduce more than 10 people to their program.
Something I’ve only just realised with GDI is their leaderboard bonus plan.
If you refer five people in a week you get a $100 bonus, 10 people $200 and so on.
This will galvanize me into action, promoting this program, which of course, neatly brings me to traffic.

Unless you have your own opt in list to sell to, you’re going to need traffic.
Even if you have a list, you need to keep finding new things to try and sell to subscribers, which is hard going, and can end up being seen as too pushy for some.

So, list or no list, we all need fresh traffic, so here are some of the methods I am using.

First of all Thelistauction.
As readers will know I joined this fairly recently, to promote acme, and upgraded to their silver membership. With this I can email up to 2500 random members every 5 days.
It costs $19 per month which means I only need one sign up per month to be in profit.
As I have been getting several per posting this is looking like being, the proverbial, no brainer. To get maximum credits, so that you can post to the full 2500 you need to read received emails. To take the hassle out of this I have a separate mail account, just for these, and look at as many as I need to and delete the rest. You also have control over the number of emails that you want to receive per day from the back office.

Another good sauce of traffic is Leadsleap.
With this program you promote your site with a text ad, which is similar in style to an Adsense ad. These are shown on the Leadsleap website and blog, plus the newsletters that are sent out. Your ads are always featured on the newsletters to your downline, to 10 levels. This makes the system viral as a downline of this size could easily bring you thousands of hits. There is no lengthy surfing with this system and you only need to click on ten ads per day to get the maximum number of credits possible. This is quite an unusual system and I would recommend reading it’s web page for a better understanding of how it works. This one is completely free, and the newsletters themselves are probably worth signing up for.

Next Linkrefferal
I wont say a lot about this because I think many of you are already members, and absolutely everybody recommends it. Again this is viral and getting referrals will explode the number of people viewing your site. The paid version will save having to do so much surfing and keep your site in the front rank without any effort.

Next, that old stand by--traffic exchanges.
Now I realise that the success ratio on these is not very high, but traffic is traffic, and there are ways to use TEs to maximum advantage. None of these ideas are original but for any of you new to TEs, here goes.

Firstly join 5 or 6 TEs and list acme and GDI using the splash page options, as surfers never stop to read the standard sales pages, which they might have seen a hundred times before. Also list, Thelistauction, Leadsleap, Linkreferral and you could also advertise the different TEs on each other, as they are viral too.

You will find that not all the TEs allow this many sites to be advertised, but there is a way around this. Many TEs will allow rotators, so listing all your sites on one of these will solve the problem, and will also keep all your sites in one place for editing purposes.
The most popular rotator is Pageswhirl, which has a free and paid version. For completely free, I have been using Freerotator.com without any problems.

The next step is to surf them efficiently. You will need the Firefox browser from Mozilla.com to do this or any browser that utilises tabs.
Put all your traffic exchanges in a separate favourites folder and then click “open all in tabs”. Now you have all your TEs set up ready to surf, you just click on them all in turn, for as long as you want to.
As you start to make money it’s worth ploughing some of your profits back into upgrading some of these programs, as often you will get a lot more for not very much.

Here is a list of the exchanges that I use, but of course you may already have your favourites.

Trafficswarm, Webizinsider, TrafficG Easyhits4u,

Dragonsurf, Hovertraffic Trafficroundup

Don’t forget about Traffic Digger and FreeViral [see previous post]. These are completely viral, and need no surfing, just promoting.

As I said it’s all about traffic and hits are hits. Therefore any other ways of getting your main programs seen is worth using. Anything from free classifieds through to article posting will all make a difference.

Hope there is something here that is useful and good luck.

Should We Get Entangled In This Web

Hi--Long time no post.

Things have been ticking along quite nicely lately. You cant join exciting new programs every week, it’s nice to sit back and watch things tick over.
The first referrals that signed up for acme-people-search have now been members for over 30 days , and the payments are being steadily approved, in my account.

However, much as I’d like to, it’s folly to sit still because you can’t plateau, you have to keep pushing forward. So I decided to look at one of the programs I’d joined to promote GDI--The Spider Marketing System.
Before joining I had seen a lot of sales pages for it, which suggested that it is pretty popular, and I’d read one or to comments, all of which were favourable.

The system is very comprehensive [there are 22+ possible streams of income involved] and because of this there are several videos explaining what it is all about, to watch when you sign up.
These are quite time consuming but, by the time you’ve watched them you realise that there is a tremendous opportunity here, to earn a lot of money.

Rather like a Downline club there are a number of programs to join, all under the umbrella of The Spider Marketing System, Most people will join all of them, there are good reasons to, but none are compulsory, it’s your choice.
The programs are not your usual downline PTC and PTR sites but companies like Commission Junction, Adsense, Miva and of course GDI. These programs don’t deal in amounts like 1 cent, they pay $45, $50 and $100 bonuses in some cases, and the system does most of the work for you.

I have to admit that I am still learning about this and trying to digest all the information. I am not finding it simple but am getting my head round it and have joined most of the programs.
One of the things that has forced me to get on with it is that I have started getting referrals, and if they join the programs before I do, any payments earned will go to the person above me.

To summarise, this is a very comprehensive program that can potentially earn us a lot of money, I am still sussing it out, and learning how it works, but think that it would be well worth your while having a look at.
You might be brighter than me and get your head around it much quicker.
There are glowing testimonials from people who have earned several hundred dollars within days of joining.

What I suggest is this.
As the system is completely free, sign up and watch the welcome videos. Once you have watched these , you will know whether you want to participate or not. If not, all you have lost is a bit of time, but I think that you will end up joining at least some of the programs.

To join, please click the link
Thespiderwebmarketingsystem

From The Person Sitting At The Desk Of Wudbskibum

Just a quick update which I can assure you that I am writing myself.
I am fed up with seeing sales pages written by people's desks, presumably while they laze about on their yachts.

Yesterday I upgraded to the Silver level in Thelistauction and was able to send an email, promoting Acme-people-search to 2500 subscribers. This morning I had 9 new sign ups, potentially worth $270, for my $19.95 investment. I think this is terrific in just one day, with another 30 to go B4 next month's instalment. Plus, I can email another 1500+ every 5 days.

By then I may have decided to upgrade to Gold, sending my messages to over 3000 random members, every 3 days.
This is shaping up to be an excellent program, in my quest to take things to the next level.

Speak to you soon--My desk needs a polish.

The Easiest Program For Getting Referrals I Have Ever Joined

Yes it’s true.

I have promoted a number of affiliate programs over the last few years and acme-people-search has been by far the easiest for attracting affiliates.

Why is this?

Well this program ticks all the boxes.
It provides a service that 30% of people, using the major search engines, are looking for.
It gives affiliates a possible 5 income streams, through the programs Acme uses to generate sales, plus commissions from their referrals.

Since I joined I have had a steady stream of people signing up under me, resulting in my having several hundred dollars in pending payments. I say pending payments because commissions start to be paid after 30 days, when sign ups fully commit themselves to staying in the program, after their free trial finishes. There are then further commissions paid over the next 35 days. If these sign ups keep going for this period, my current pending payments will be doubled or trebled.
And why shouldn’t they keep going, as they will be in a similar position to where I am now?

To repeat what I’ve said previously, you only need one referral per month to break even, any more are worth $30 profit, each.
As if this is not enough, you also have your $125 signing up bonus to look forward to. Yes you get $125 just for joining Acme-people-search.
You only need three referrals to trigger this, [minimum payout is $200] and you’re well in profit.
Add on whatever money you make in sales, and don’t forget Acme are promoting your site for you, on top of your own efforts, and I think that it would be difficult not to make money out of this program.

Of course how well you do will be partly down to your own efforts.
I currently obtain traffic through using traffic exchanges, lead generators and this blog.
Most of the programs I use I am a free member of, but as money grows in my PayPal account, I am gradually upgrading. In general you get a lot more if you do this, and the results can explode very quickly.
Everybody says “the money is in the list” and, at the moment, mine is still very much a work in progress.
If you already have a decent list you will be able to make a lot more out of Acme, than I have.

However, for those of you without a big list I have been recommended a new program called The Listauction. Like most programs it has a free membership and upgrades.
The idea is that you can send emails promoting your business/opportunity and earn credits by reading emails sent to you, which enables you to post to a greater number.
Free members can email to between 500 and 1500 other random members every 7 days, silver to 1500+ every 5 and gold 3000+ every 3. Upgraded members can also auction or buy and sell credits and can post feature ads. This is a tremendous amount of exposure.
For the emails you receive it is best to create a separate email address just for these, and then surf them rather like a traffic exchange. The friend who recommended it to me says, he is getting tremendous success from this. I am presently trying out the free option, though may upgrade to silver soon, and suggest you have a look at it too.
Will probably talk about this further, in a future post.

Random Jottings

These are a few further points about programs already featured here, plus a musing about Adsense.

Viralurl
I’ve already talked about the benefits of Viralurl-- how essential it is to have a decent link cloaker if you are promoting affiliate programs, how you can build an ongoing, residual income from the referral program, and how it will help you to build a list.

The thing I didn’t mention is just how handy it is.

Most of us have to repeatedly insert the links for the programs we are promoting into any number of places. This usually involves struggling to remember long urls, that stretch into the distance, or going to the affiliate site, finding the referral link and then copy and pasting it.

However with Viralurl you only have to remember the core part of the url, which will then be the same for all your programs, and add an Id to it. For instance the Id for this blog is obviously weeklywinna and the second page winna2.

I find I can remember the Ids for most of my programs and when required, just type them in off the top of my head.

I would like to think that this program will help you save, and make money, and will make your life easier too.

GDI
One program I didn’t mention in my previous post is Networkstarteam.
They call themselves “the hottest Training Center For Your GDI Business”
They exist solely to promote GDI and like most programs are free with an optional upgrade.
One thing that is useful is that they have a direct link to a number of GDI capture pages, which are hidden away somewhere, if you wanted to find them, on the GDI site.
I hope this info. is useful to GDI members.

Free Viral
Traffic Digger
I haven’t done a post on these two traffic building programs, but have advertised them quietly in the background.
However if, like most of us, you are forever looking to send traffic to your sites/biz ops etc. they are worth a serious look at.
They are completely free and allow you to put an ad on their page.
All you have to do to get traffic to your ad is get referrals, you don’t have to do any surfing.
If you use traffic exchanges you are probably fed up with surfing anyway, but by adding these two programs to your exchanges, you will pick up referrals, which will build up the number of hits on your ads. As your referrals get referrals the number of hits to your ads will grow sharply and your site will get increasing traffic, with next to no effort on your part.

Acme-People-Search
Bit early to give a full report, but this is looking very promising.
I am getting a steady stream of referrals all of which are worth up to $30, if they carry on in the program, after their free trial period.
I am almost at the end of mine but will definitely stay in, as I only need one of the referrals to keep going to be breaking even, any number above this is profit.
Also, don’t forget that Acme is doing a lot of the work for me, and will follow up leads for twelve months provided I stay in the system. I am also making money from the leads that I am sending to one of the programs that I have become an affiliate of, through joining Acme.
Will post further when a reasonable number of the referrals have got to the end of their trial period and I have a better idea of how things are likely to go in the long term.

ADSENSE OR NONSENSE?
Lots of people who have websites and blogs cover them in Adsense aka Google ads.
To make any money out of these you need to have hundreds, probably thousands of clicks. Not easy unless you have hundreds of websites.
I am always coming across websites/blogs that are so infested with these ads it is difficult to read the content that is hidden amongst them.
What prompted me to comment on this is that earlier today I clicked on a site that sold screensavers.
When I arrived at the site, right in my eyeline were two large Google ads for, guess what --screensavers, because Adsense picks ads to display, that are relevant to the site they are displayed on.
Therefore visitors will possibly click on one these before they even look at the site itself, and never return. This is sales down the pan.
I also believe that if you use Adsense on sites that are on traffic exchanges, your account can be closed down, and you wont get it back. Worth thinking about.

Heavens I've Joined GDI

Yes I’ve joined GDI [Global Domains International].

Why am I surprised? because I’ve been aware of this program for ages, it’s been around since 1999ish, but I’ve always resisted joining.
Not sure why. I think it’s because I’ve always found it a bit pushy. Especially the noisy red car video--You must have noticed it.

Having said that ,I have to admit that it is obviously successful.
I personally know that one of the top earners at E-lottery, which probably means he makes a six figure income [GBP] out of it, uses GDI as his main business!
So why have I joined now?

Well having signed up with Acme-people-search I found that GDI was amongst the programs you need to join, to make money from it.

There are about three others that you need to join to receive commissions, all free, but GDI is different as you can make money from referrals through it, this being part of the package you get if you subscribe to Acme’s advertising program--See previous post.

GDI costs $10 a month but you receive a domain name, of your choice---GDI promotes .ws [website] which it thinks will eventually be a big alternative to .com, when that suffix exhausts most of the possible name combinations. You need very few referrals to be well ahead of your $10
At this point I was just going to leave it as part of the Acme P S set up, and mostly leave them to it, and maybe display a few direct GDI ads myself.

However, by pure coincidence I received an email with a new post from one of my favourite sites--affiliatecurve--all about promoting GDI.

The ideas in this were too good to resist , as they involved joining free programs that are already set up to promote GDI. Here is what is involved---

Obviously if you want to go along with this you need to join GDI and register your username so that you can use it for id in the free programs.
To join GDI please CLICK HERE, watch the video and sign up.

Once you are signed up you need to join Hits2u.

What Hits2U does is give visitors a place to submit an ad for THEIR site. Lots of people will be only to keen to submit their site for free advertising. Meanwhile, in the background, Hits2u offers your prospect more free advertising for their site - It shows them how to do that - By taking a trial of GDI and promoting the same Hits2U Link - What is great about this is that it's all done AUTOMATICALLY FOR YOU! You join Hits2U, enter your GDI Username (not your website, just your USERNAME) and anytime you get a "lead" that person may/may not check out GDI - All you do is promote Hits2U and the system does all the rest.

To join Hits2u, please CLICK HERE

Next join The Spiderweb Marketing System

This system is fairly new but I have read several good reviews of it, and Paul at Affiliate curve thinks that is the best place to promote GDI

Including GDI it promotes 22 different income streams which you can set up free of charge, including tutorial videos, for each one.

As luck would have it GDI is the first video set up on the Spidermarketing page and therefore the first one new signees will look at.
The video will do a very good job of selling GDI to these prospects but the system automatically follows them up with emails and tips.

To join the Spiderweb Marketing System please CLICK HERE.

All you have to do now is promote these two programs, along with Acme people search if you have joined, and these sites will do all the work for you.

You can also promote GDI directly with one of the several referral links on their site.

I hope Paul at Affiliatecurve doesn’t mind me pinching a couple of his ideas.
I have signed up to the above programs under him, and along with anyone signing up here, we’ll all be in his downline.

People Searches--Is This The Real Deal?

A few days ago I signed up with a people searching program.

Why? Well out of all the hundreds of online business sites, I am constantly seeing, this one looks really promising.
Why again? Apparently, trying to find lost friends, relatives, work colleagues etc. is involved in a massive 30% of all searches on Google. This must make it the biggest niche market, by a distance. And we are always told to"find our niche".

Now the first thing I have to say is that this program isn't free, but I think it's worth having a go at, and I will be letting you know how lucrative, or not, it is, as soon as it becomes clear.

Here is an overview of what's involved when you sign up.

First of all you have to choose, and then pay for, a domain name for your own people search website. I chose--- http://www.peoplelocata.com/
You have to pay for hosting, and you are given a link to the hosting company that the people search program is synchronized with.

Now you have your own people search site, and, as is usual with most online businesses, you are an affiliate for the program you have joined, giving you two prospective sources of income--- people, searching for people, and referrals.

With everything set up you will actually have three websites to promote.
Mine are as follows---

People search site--- http://www.peoplelocata.com/
Referral pre-sell site--- http://viralurl.com/extrasec/searches
Referral direct link--- http://peoplelocata.com/tissa.htm

At this point most programs leave you on your own to find ways to promote your sites.
Many will give you advice, or tempt you into upgrading so you can email your downline, get bigger commissions etc.

However Acme-people-search is different.
For a monthly fee, they will promote your search engine, on Google, Yahoo, MSN and others. using Pay per click etc.

Anyone who has tried ppc, and lost money, will know how complicated it is, and be relieved to have someone, with expertise, doing it for them.

Even better they give you a month's free trial, which involves 100 clicks, and if you're not happy you don't have to subscribe.
To make this offer they must be very confident of results, and of course you can still do your own promotion as well/instead.

And here's the best bit, they give you $125, just for signing up.
This easily covers your start up costs-- only thing is, they don't pay out until you reach $200, so you have to do some work and give the program a little bit of time before you receive this, but it's certainly a worthwhile incentive to give it a go.

Anyway that's what it's all about and I will report back when I see how things pan out.

Handy Disposable Email.

Are you overun with spam?

The problem is the more people you give your e.mail address to, the more spam you get.
Especially if you sign up for the many competions on offer at sites like Cashcrate and Plum prizes etc.

You sign up for a load of comps. and offers [Cashcrate pay you just for signing up to offers] and the next thing you know, you are deluged with spam and other unwanted messages.
One answer is to get a separate email address just for these sign ups and then abandon it when it becomes over subscribed.

However, while I was browsing Linkreferral, yesterday. I came across this alternative option.

It's called MailEater and is a site that provides you with temporary email addresses.
You just choose an identity, add it to MailEater.com and use it for sign ups. You can use your identity as many times as you like and go back to MailEater to check for messages, if you want to.

The messages are only kept for 4 hours before being deleted. You can change your identity as often as you like, there is no need to sign up and everything is completely free.

Very useful when you dont want to use your primary addresses.

Good Holiday/Vacation, Plus Some Unexpected Money

Great to have had a break, and plan my days around the unpreditable weather that the French Alps have to offer--red hot one day, then a mixture of variable to full blown thunder storms.

Annecy, near to where I was staying, provides a picturesque old town at the head of a large, crystal clear lake, surrounded by mountains, and an ideal water temperature for swimming or any other activity that your limbs will allow.

Of course I also kept up with my online activity, while I was there, and was surprised to find money coming in from an unexpected source.

A little while ago I joined, and started a limited amount of advertising for ViralUrl

I thought that this was a useful service, as it is a professional looking link cloaker that would save affilates, especially of Clickbank, from having there identities/hoplinks stolen and replaced.
It also keeps a tally of hits, showing where they are coming from, and allows you to put your own ads on other peoples sites.

I must admit that I hadn't looked at all the other services and upgrades provided, in any detail, and therefore was pleasantly surprised to find that, not only were people signing up, but some were upgrading to Gold membership, which brings me a payment of $9.40. Nice enough but having now studied the site more closely, I have found that these are not just one off payments, but recurr monthly.

Having had a good look I found that there are about five different membership levels, all of which provide a list building service and allow you to post to downlines of thousands, on a regular basis. With Gold membership you can also add colour and make your own ads bold.

All in all the more I look at this the more I see the huge potential that is on offer.

There are three main advantages to membership--You can protect your links and keep track of them, you can build a list and e.mail to downlines of thousands and you can build a recurring and steadily growing income from referalls.
Plus you can do much of this with the free version, if you're not yet in a position to consider the upgrades.

Therefore I thoroughly recommend that you have a good look at ViralUrl

It's done me a favour while I've been away and can do the same for you.

PS. Add on 27-7-08

Viral Url have just added a feature where you can put a small banner in your Facebook profile.
This means that whenever any other Facebook member visits your profile they may click on this,and possibly sign up.

For active Facebook members this could be very lucrative, especially if you promote yourself around the site.
Those of you who are serious enough to upgrade to Gold will receive around $120 per sign up, or $48.50 per month, depending which package they choose. Gold isn't cheap, but the above figures are for just one sign up, imagine how much money even a regular trickle of signees would bring in.

I'm getting quite excited about ViralUrl and hope some of my enthusiasm is rubbing off on you.

I'm Sloping Off

I'm sloping off for a couple of weeks, to La Clusaz in France, which is a ski resort, though unfortunately, not at this time of year. Still it's in the Alps, which is a great place to be in the summer, and my mate has an appartment there.
Therefore I am not likely to be posting for a while, I dont like posting for the sake of it anyway.

Anyone who was interested in the web2 upgrade site will realise that having passed July 1st the upgrades will have started.
The web2 upgrade people now have there system working in beta, which basically means it's up and running, though they will be ironing out any bugs as they go along.

If you want to see how this works you can go to the site and download their "buzzbot".
This puts an icon towards the top right of your screen. Clicking on it reveals a drop down menu which enables you to interact with other surfers on any site, or at least sites that have the same software, which could be loads of them if this is a success.
Basically they are hoping to provide a Facebook/Myspace/Youtube type experience with any site. So you will be able to interact with any of your friends or contacts, who have the Buzzbot, irespective of what site they are on.

I have a fairly open mind on all this and suggest if you want to weigh it up and see if it's for you, please click on this new link---
Web2upgrade

Have fun while I do---talk again in a couple of weeks