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A project we have wanted to add since changing to the new script and re-launching Pro Click Exchange is now active.  We have always felt that HTML login bonus offers are effective on sites that have enough traffic flow to make it worth while.

While most sites including traffic exchanges have bonus login offers displayed, normally they belong to the owner or admin of these sites. It has been my desire to make it available for members. While it may seem like an easy process, the issue has been that many members may not have HTML knowledge. Nor did we want it to be difficult for anyone no matter the experience to add their offer.

Of course other issues included a method of rotating login offers so that all members would share in traffic views. All issues have been resolved thanks to our awesome programmer.

The new feature to allow members to add a login bonus offer to rotate on Pro Click Exchange’s login page and various other pages within the members area is now live.

In order to ensure user friendliness, we have incorporated adKreator.com as the source to create login offers because of it’s ease of use, professional design, and easily generated graphic login bonus offers without requiring html knowledge or other technical requirements.

To limit the number of offers, we have made this available to only our CEO upgraded members. An additional free option that does not require traffic credits or purchases. Each CEO upgraded member is allowed one login bonus offer with the option to change it at any time or as many times as they desire.

It is now live and functional… members may login and take advantage immediately!

Several months ago, Pro Click Exchange was destined for destruction, lack of participation, lack of new members, and certainly not a major player in traffic exchanges on the net. After long consideration and difficult decisions, we decided to change everything.  The options were, either shut it down or create something special.

We felt a deep obligation to the few loyal members who had been with Pro Click Exchange from the very beginning, so our only option was to make it worth something for their efforts and long term support.

Through our experience over the last few years of using and owning a traffic exchange, we had some ideas we wanted to put in place that would create a more result oriented traffic exchange and one that members would enjoy using.

Our main objective was to make the system easy to use, easy to read, simple instructions, larger font, details on each page, easy to surf and to maintain an uncluttered professional looking site all would enjoy using.

After several months of discussion, a few months of programming,  and a month of planning the new script changeover, all was complete. I am now happy to report that Pro Click Exchange has now been on the new script for about 35 days as of this writing.  Member feed back has been positive, more new members have joined in the past 30 days than in the past 2 years before.

That is with just members promoting without the help of JV partners, guru’s or online marketers with huge lists of subscribers.  Members only promoting and mainly using traffic exchanges to do so.  Just think if we had invited JV’s to promote. We could have gotten even better results but felt the members of PCE deserved more and less competition.

A few of the differences incorporated into the new script…

Surf bar remains in one place at the bottom of the screen, member banner in the middle, enlarged member text link to the right of the banner. Members receive banner and link impressions when clicking them, results are your banners and text links are clicked at a higher percentage than on other exchanges.

Many of the normal stats you see on a surf bar are now hidden, however still available using links below the member banner with a drop down menu.  Ease of use in reporting sites, banners or text links, all with one link.

Surfing is rewarded… each 20 sites surfed by members the surf ratio increases and the timer decreases up to max of 60 sites viewed.  Ratio and timer remain constant from that point on for the remainder of the day server time.

Upgrades are inexpensive yet have major rewards while surfing, referring new members and earning commissions.

Assigning credits is simplified with a quick assign mod to distribute credits quickly, applies to banner and text impressions also.

Adding/Editing Sites is done on one page, instructions on the top of the page for ease of use, site listings are formatted to show name, stats, current status and other useful info for members sites.

Site Rotator for members is provided that will rotate all their current active sites, banners, and text links, plus include their referral url to promote Pro Click Exchange.

Member testimonials can be added by the member including their favorite site url to be rotated on the main member page of PCE.

These are just a few of the new script enhancements with many more to come in the future.  We value each members comments and recommendations as we develop this site further.  With the help of members we feel that when we say “Pro Click Exchange” the emphasis is on the word PRO. Results do matter, that is our ultimate goal.

Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions below. We do listen and pay close attention to members needs!

As you know, branding an e-book has always been a task that takes time and effort, not to mention the necessity of owning your own website to deliver it. That just got so much easier for members of Pro Click Exchange.

You can now brand your copy of Pro Click Exchange Introduction without downloading a zip file or uploading the graphics and branded copy of your book to your own website. Now it’s possible to deliver your branded copy of the e-book with one single link, much like an affiliate link for other programs.

This has been made possible through a joint venture with Power Surf Central. a joint venture between Paula Zuehlke and myself, Ray White.

The purpose for the joint venture was to provide members of both sites extra rewards for doing what they do everyday. Surf both exchanges regularly, remain active, and keep their sites in rotation as all should, 24/7. By providing these extra rewards in advertising credits, we have created a system to give members what they deserve. We discussed and searched for months on how best to achieve this goal.

Our motto is, You deserve it, now we have the system to provide it!

BUT, that was to be only our first step. We have other projects in the works, and tons more working to continually add more benefits for members who want and deserve them, which leads me to this announcement.

Power Surf Central is adding a resource center with an easy way to grab free re-brandable e-books. Not only a resource for the books, but an easy system to re-brand and deliver your branded copy.

Best way to describe this is by demonstrating the delivery page for the Pro Click Exchange Introduction E-Book. Check it out HERE! Notice how you are provided with the download link, no email required. That is my branded copy of the book, delivered with an affiliate url.

That is the exact same page you could use to deliver your branded copy. Got it? No website uploads needed.

Of course if you wanted to use the book as a free gift to gain new subscribers, you could have them subscribe to your list first, then give them your branded link, which would be the above page.

Also note that instructions for rebranding the book are given. In this case to rebrand this book, instructions are given in the book itself and requires membership in Pro Click Exchange to get the details.

Those details are yours now after logging into your account at Pro Click Exchange and clicking on the “Marketing Resources” link. Members should check it out now, see how easy and smooth this operation really is.

Let me know if you have any issues with the links, download, test, and rebrand your copy. Use the contact link or post your results here in comments. Since you are getting the first notification of this process, would like to know your opinions.

And of course, once you have done your branding process and given your link, start advertising it to build your PCE referrals. Read the book to know all the benefits of doing so.

By the way, after the one time process of setting up your branding links, you will find more reports to brand. This is an ongoing project, more will be added later for your benefit. So be sure to keep the login link to get your branded links.

Comments and questions welcome.

Like most traffic seeking marketers, I am busy surfing Traffic Exchanges, not just for credits, but to see what is being offered out there for my eyes to consider.

What I am seeing has become a negative norm of advertising that needs to be attended to by all serious marketers.

It used to be typos that caught our eyes, now it is domain names going down, bad sites with broken links, people who drop programs as fast as they sign up for them and never clear up tracks of where they have been.

Less Professional Marketers or more …?

Ya gotta luv the garbage sites that promote the latest greatest piece of software you already have for free on your computer, or as part of the tools you are paying for in monthly subscriptions in good working programs you already belong to -IF you work them.

Professional marketers avoid these traps while the newbie or Internet business wannabe jumps in both eyes closed while they run up credit card debt.

From the looks of what I am seeing advertised, there are less professional marketers doing the right kind of promotions or more newbie wannabe are flooding the traffic exchanges with hopeless offers your grandmother would know enough to avoid.

When you see all the “NOT FOUND” pages, lovely sites with overly large headers with nothing above the fold to tell you what is even being offered, bad redirects that can mean frame breakers and name your poison sites that build companies at best, and never the
marketer, it is obvious we’ve got troubles Houston.

This rocket to the moon will take those poor wannabes around the block and dump them in the credit card pool of deadbeats and won’t earn them so much as a nickel to pay for the ride.

Less is MORE – The Lesson you better heed now

Dump the never win programs. STOP buying till you learn what you already have in upgraded programs. If you are not upgraded, then you need to be. FREE is a door opener but upgraded creates the satisfactory bottom line.

Sign into your back offices and learn to navigate the menus and see what you already have in marketing tools you will never use if you don’t search them out and learn to use them.

TRACK EVERY PAGE you promote. Find out what is working for you and what is not in Traffic Exchanges.

Give them fair time to prove themselves first. Surf and earn enough credits – 1000 every three days or so – to prove the sign up rates you are getting or not getting – then dump the ones that do not bring in results. Your trackers and your web stats will show you the results. It takes time – a minimum three weeks for the experienced using the right tools for measurement, to three months to prove a good or bad advertising strategy.

What you do promote and how you do it – splash pages, lead capture pages, good copy that grabs, direct marketing mail campaigns, and follow up and follow through with your leads, all become accountable actions you need to be taking EVERY DAY - not just
when the mood strikes you.

Attend the conferences you don’t have time for. Learn what experienced marketers who give these conferences have to teach and test their theories. Make that time and be an interactive participant. What you learn may save you untold hours of overwhelming work.

STOP wasting your time on useless actions that only frustrate you. YOU are the one who has the control over what you are doing.

Improve on your goals; set one now and then and stick to it until you have some measurable results!

AND most important, be a super sponsor. Share your knowledge with your subscribers. Use in-house mailers, your auto-responder for great teaching mails, and any other form of communications that will reach them with the help they need – even if they do not ask
you for it. You KNOW they need your help so give it generously.

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Author Box: Fran Klasinski is a professional Internet Marketer, publisher, and marketing Trainer. Read more of her articles here:
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About 5 days ago, I asked a question of all Pro Click Exchange members. Would you like to see auto playing audio allowed on Pro Click Exchange? While I’m not sure we have gotten everyones opinion to date, would like to give the results so far and offer more opportunities for discussion here.

First the overall results.

75% voted No to auto playing audio…..25% voted yes to allow it on Pro Click Exchange.

These numbers do not surprise me in the least, since I experimented with a similar test on Soaring4Traffic last year. But, we did have some interesting comments and suggestions.

Of the 25% that said yes to allow it, over half said it really didn’t matter because they have to surf traffic exchanges with their sound muted anyway, mainly because surfing with 3-5 tabs open, auto playing audio becomes a real nuisance. Of those that voted no, a great percentage also stated that as their main reason for voting no.

Some comments were:

“yes auto audio gets my attention but only to look for the pause or stop button”

“Auto playing audio is the reason that I don’t surf traffic exchanges with my ’speakers on’…”

“If someone wants an audio file on their site they can make it clickable or place it on a follow up page. The first page you see should be *short *simple *lightning fast to load on a slow connection and *get your attention to stay on site and click to the next page. People try to put way too much on the first page.”

“I would be curious as to where these people that get results with sound, are truthfully getting the results….and if everyone is turning off sound, the results just may be coming from the page itself.”

“If they want audio then it should have to be clicked on to start it, NO AUTOMATIC AUDIO”

“When surfing TEs, auto-playing sites represent a serious disturbance. I have disabled all use of audio and video in my browser, and for site owners who are using this, they are throwing away their energy, time and money.”

“I say yes allow them. If you don’t want to hear them just shut off your volume.”

“People have mute buttons on their computers and can turn off the speakers if they don’t want to hear sound. It’s their choice but to ban them for everyone is wrong. Allow them and then let your members decide on their end what action they want to take, Same goes for video. The future of traffic exchanges is video and sound!”

“My opinion is to leave it like it is. When I click on a link, if the page has audio on it I close the page. If there is something I want to read, audio is irritating.”

Comments above are not necessarily the entire email, just excerpts from each. Those are just a few from those that did make a comment, many just voted with a simple yes or no.

Now, for some personal thoughts.

First, I do believe that audio and video on web pages can be more effective advertising. Wow, believe that.. and yes there is a but…well actually more questions. No expert here, just some thoughts to ponder.

Should it be of the auto playing variety or have a start button? Should auto play be used in traffic exchanges? Are those reporting increases of 33% or better results from audio of the auto playing variety and are those results strictly from traffic exchanges?

With the encouragement from so many to add audio to your sites actually mean that more TE users will mute their sound? Will so much audio on traffic exchanges mean that more people will get annoyed and not surf at all?

Do the people that use auto playing audio in traffic exchanges actually surf or just buy credits?

Funny thing, audio is certainly not something new. Websites have had audio for several years now, but it does seem that more and more are putting those pages in traffic exchanges. As one member stated above, when I surf 3 or 4 exchanges at once which is my normal, many times every site will have an auto playing audio file. Sorta jumbles things up for me…lol

This is one of those subjects that always seems to get a lot of attention and opinions on both sides. Neither of which I feel are wrong. I will be testing some audio and possibly video on certain web pages soon, but not of the auto playing type.

When I purchased Pro Click Exchange, not allowing AUTO playing audio/video was two fold. First, I wanted to encourage members to be creative, use fast loading splash pages, lead capture pages, and pages that would not annoy other members, yet be effective.

Secondly, it was my intention to be different, to offer a smooth fast loading system without interruptions so members could relax and take the time to read what other members were offering.

We have always allowed and encouraged the use of audio and video files that do not automatically play. We feel they can be very effective, yet allow members to listen or view as desired. This of course means you need to give them valid reasons why they should click the play button.

In reality, I believe that well done professional audio files are not annoying at all, rather most times very informative, interesting, and sometimes funny. However for the most part, the ones I’ve seen in traffic exchanges do not fit in that category.

You the members have spoken, so for now Pro Click Exchange will not be changing its policy. We will not allow audio and video of the AUTO playing variety.

Thanks for the time you spend with Pro Click Exchange, and many thanks to those that have given your opinion to date.

As always, we encourage more discussion and your comments below. Let your voice be heard.

P.S. Speaking of professionally designed splash pages, did you download the free graphics pack from Justin Ledvina yet? If not, you really should, unless you are a pro yourself. See this: Free Graphics Pack!

Quick note, we have turned on “Double Bonus” credits today. You will know when these are on with the notification on the surf bar. Just login to surf to know for sure. We will try to keep it on through Sunday, no promises.

By the way, Joanne Hammer won our 300 credit drawing yesterday. Congrats Joanne, credits were added last night. Anyone can win today, just surf a minimum of 100 sites to be in the drawing.

Now is the time to gear up and prepare for the fall season coming soon. Online Internet marketing usually increases quite nicely around this time of year. New people coming online, vacations over, people have more time to spend online with their business.

Not to mention that the economy is in a lull at the moment which also brings more people online that just want to add a few dollars each month to their income to help pay the bills. So now is the time to put your plans together and prepare for the best time of the year.

One of the ways to do this is by referring more members to Pro Click Exchange. Extra profits can be made by doing so. $4.50 for each new referral and with our upgrades now at an all time low of $6 with added benefits this should certainly increase your commissions quickly.

We have also tweaked splash pages 1 and 2 which seem to be getting better responses now. Check them out if you haven’t lately.

More Advertising Sources!

In other news, there have been some interesting new programs launched recently that can and will add to your advertising and list building capabilities.

Promo Lotto is a new traffic exchange with unique new script and a very effective list building optin program. My results have been good so far with an average of 2 to 3 new subscribers per day just from Promo Lotto. Not to mention all the other cool things offered.

James Grandstaff the creator of the original Downline Secrets script has recently launched a new program that has been very effective in adding subscribers, not to mention the commissions that can be made. His new system provides 4 E-books which can be re-branded with your name and website to give away free.

The system is easy to setup and use but way to much info to detail here. It’s called Instant MLM Squeeze Pages and has shown to be very effective so far. Check it out, see if its right for you.

Solomon Huey released a new credit based safelist a couple of months ago which has grown rather rapidly. If you are currently using Safelists or think maybe you should start, Elite Safelist would be a good choice. Another advertising source not to be over looked.

After I saw what Solomon was able to accomplish so quickly with his new safelist, when he recently released Fast Action Ads, had to check it out further. Unique system, like a safelist, text ad exchange, traffic exchange with other forms of advertising all rolled into one. Each form of advertising offered can be used with points you have earned. Check it out, think you’ll like it.

And last but certainly not least is the “Frog” has been re-launched with new owners, new ideas, a referral contest and a whole new look and attitude. The “Frog” is of course something we are all familiar with, a free traffic exchange, Rain Forest Clicks, check it out soon.

That should be enough new programs to check out for now in gearing up for your fall promotions. I do know of another coming soon, but its not quite ready yet. Think it should be ready by the 25th of August. Keep an eye open for this one.

Enough for today, and don’t forget to check often, see if the Double Bonus credits are turned on.

When Traffic Era first began, all the TE owners promoted it claiming it was going to be the biggest thing to ever hit the internet.

Pure hype. However, I jumped on the bandwagon and joined and then joined a team…007 Soaring4traffic.

Chatting with team members was and is a great feature of the exchange. One thing I noticed when I first began…some people spend all of their waking time surfing Traffic Era. C’mon get a life. I enjoy surfing too but I like doing other things as well.

Many people joined teams because it was a novelty. The team I am on was a good one at first but then too many members stopped participating. The novelty wore off. The team leader was having to spend too much of his time on Traffic Era and asked someone to take over. That person was me.

Over a span of several months the team has always been in the top 20 teams despite numerous personnel changes and the team is currently stronger than it has ever been.

Here is what I like/don’t like about Traffic Era:

Don’t Like – Too many inactive members. I have 61 referrals and the majority have never surfed. There are numerous teams where none of the members surf. This is not good.

Like – The generosity of credits earned by surfing and the ability to sell those credits to upgrade your membership or help a team member upgrade.

Don’t Like – Members who write nasty blogs about other members and criticize members in chat rooms. This is childish and has no place anywhere. There are unteamed members with fantastic pvs who will not join a team because of backbiting, insults, and gossiping.

Like – If you are smart, you can pay for a platinum membership and sell enough credits for logibucks to upgrade in TS25, Hit Pulse, and Traffic Pods.

Like – My teammates. They are a great group of people.

Don’t Like – The same teams being in the top 5 week after week. All these teams have one thing in common…they have 1 or 2 members who are super sponsors…they attract the best surfers and no one can realistically compete with them. This discourages other teams and they give up.

Like – The ability to earn tokens to trade for credits.

Like – Loyalty points. Upgraded members earn points every month which results in your site being shown when you don’t have credits assigned to them.

Don’t Like – Recruiting. The unteamed member list is basically a list of members with good pvs who don’t want to be a on a team.

Bottom line – Traffic Era is a good TE that needs a major overhaul.

http://www.trafficera.com/?ref=shadow50

Gary G.

Traffic is the single most important ingredient if you hope to be recognized to do anything on the Internet. It doesn’t matter how good you are at at your desired business without traffic (visitors to your site) nothing will happen. It’s been said that there are 3 types of marketers in the world.

There are those who make things happen there are those who watch things happen and all to many, particularly in the world of Internet Marketing, Wonder What Happened.

As for the third group it is generally the case because the face of the internet changes so quickly it becomes very difficult to keep up with and even more so If you are new. Not only does one need to learn the Hows Whats when where who and whys of the net they also must learn to get ahead of the changes and stay their.

This is hard enough even for the experienced marketer let alone for the Newbie. So what can be done? How can one get ahead and establish themselves as a successful Internet Marketer?

The very first thing required to become recognized is summed up in one word and that is…Branding.

Branding or labeling Primarily yourself. By a constant stream of advertising your face and name everywhere and as often as you can. Why? So your potential customers see you realize your authority and learn to trust you.

A good example can be seen in door to door sales, which more often has a very poor success rate. However, contact a good friend who has learned to trust you, as over a period of time you have gotten to know each other and they realise you are an authority on the product your selling.

Generally the sale is made for that reason. That Is Branding. You are branded by your friend as a Trusted authority because they know you over time. That is a must do If we are to be successful on the Internet. We Must Brand Ourselves

Today has been nothing less than exciting. Two brand new programs launched today, both of which are very unique and great additions to our online advertising needs.

As you saw from the previous post, Sunny talked me into joining Twitter. This is a pretty cool way to communicate what you are doing in real time, right up to the second. And of course I like it even more because its free. You can follow me if you like at:

http://www.twitter.com/soaringtraffic

OR, better yet look on the right side bar and you will see my latest 5 twitter comments. That is one of the new programs I just mentioned above. It’s called Tweet My Blog, fits in well with any wordpress blog plus combines the power of immediately notifying anyone following you when a new blog post is made.

The point here is, if you have a wordpress blog, plus you use twitter (which you should) this is a must have program that combines both for the best of both worlds. For instance, anytime you come to this blog, you will see what I’ve said in twitter recently. This program is free, has a OTO if you see the benefits but that is your decision. Sign up here: Tweet My Blog

As I said there was two programs launched today. The other is a very unique traffic exchange that combines the standard advertising package as well as opt-in list building, social networking, team surfing, add your own programs to the downline builder and a ton of other features not seen on your average traffic exchange.

My friends, Ed Tyner and Ryan Hogan put lots of thought, time, new ideas and I’m sure tons of money in developing this script. Knowing these guys, it will be around for a long time to come. You can even change the surf bar color to suit your preference and it has a unique way of giving bonus credits, lotto style.

You’ll just need to check it out for all the details. By the way, in less than 12 hours from launch time, it has already added 10 new subscribers to my email series. I was invited to preview the program 2 weeks ago and still find new things to work with. Really exciting new program if you ask me. Get all the details here: Promo Lotto

Pro Click Exchange news. Activity is increasing daily, new members joining us. Things are really starting to pick up. Don’t forget we will be awarding 5 members 200 credits each Sunday morning. To be in the drawing, all you need to do is surf a minimum of 50 sites, 4 days out of 7, week starts each Sunday and runs through Saturday. That’s New York time for our servers.

Good luck to everyone and thank each of you for being such loyal and awesome PRO members!

Don’t forget to check out the programs mentioned above, let me know your thoughts in comments below.

By the way, if you are following me on Twitter, every time a post is made here, you get instant notification.

Can you believe it? Ray White is finally now Twittering. He’s gonna have a ball.. he just doesn’t know it yet.

Are you Twittering? Do you know what it is? Well, run over to Twitter.com and sign up. I’ll wait.

Go!

Okay… then go to http://twitter.com/sunnys123 and follow me! Yup.. click on that “follow” button under my adorable picture!

Now.. you’ll get to see EVERYthing I say! I know you’re thrilled.

Check out the other people that I’m following, and who they’re following, and so on. You can click “follow” on any one of them!

A useful tool you’ll need to keep up with this, is called Twhirl. It sits on your desktop, and when somebody “tweets” (that means they say something) it will be shot through the internet at lightening speed (every 5 minutes or so) straight to your desktop! Woohoo!

From Twhirl, you can post comments, too. You can send them to everyone, or speak directly to someone… while everyone sees it, or you can send private messages. withOUT logging onto Twitter!

You can get this at http://www.twhirl.org/

What do you do with this? Network, silly! Jon Olson, Mike Paetzold, Robert Puddy, Soren… they’re all using it to let people know what’s goin on in their part of the world. They let us know about blog updates, conferences, stuff like that. It’s an AWEsome way to keep up with your downline, or subscribers!

So come follow me! oh, and Ray, too.. lol

Sunny!