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:
http://www.blogestates.com/blog/How2-4Newbies You can contact her at: support [at] Kwalitytraffic4Newbies [dot] com.
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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.

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!

If you concentrate on building your list, it really doesn’t matter what unique niche your online business is concentrated in. This especially includes affiliate programs.

If you’ve been online for any length of time and or using traffic exchanges, you know that advertising standard affiliate pages can and will show slow to zero results. Why? They are not unique, plus thousands of others are promoting the exact same page.

However, lets think a minute. What if you created a unique splash page, lead capture page and offered to divulge the inside secrets or detailed instructions of how to make money with your particular program? All anyone has to do is provide their name and email address to get all the facts from you.

Let’s say down the road you decide to broaden your niche into more products, or add more affiliate products. What if the program you were promoting all of a sudden disappeared? Hey, it happens all the time, but thats another story entirely.

Point is, if you have been building your list of subscribers, you didn’t lose your list/customers. They are still in your autoresponder and if you’ve built a good relationship with them it would be rather easy to point them in a different direction.

Confessing that for a couple of years, I didn’t embrace this method or truly understand the power it possessed. That changed of course when working for hours each day for maybe 2 years with little to show.

Hopefully this will allow each of you to at least consider the options and value the power of list building. To assist in a little more detail of how its done, tools needed, and ideas thrown in, I’ve created an email series for your review.

This series is aimed at providing the necessary steps to begin your list building system with zero to very little cash investment. We call it List Building Simplified. There are no real secrets revealed, just simple steps needed, ideas for increasing your subscribers and the programs and tools that keep it low cost and effective.

One of the most effective uses for traffic exchange advertising is building your list. By providing this simple email series, my reward would be that your traffic exchange advertising become more effective, your income grows, and therefore you become a more excited and loyal traffic exchange member of my sites.

The email series is provided at no charge. The lesson plans themselves are good training if you watch how each is presented. We also offer you the opportunity to copy this email series to your own autoresponder once completed.

There is no obligation, you can unsubscribe anytime. This is the link for subscribing if you have the desire to embrace the concept of list building to improve your online business. List Building Simplified

That’s all for today. Thanks for being a loyal and active member of Pro Click Exchange. You truly are PROS!