I want to start off with a scenario today. Lets say there is a great new program that was just launched.
It has a great product, great conversions, and a killer commission plan.

You get an email about it and decide to check it out. The sales letter sucks you in and you make a purchase.

You are excited about the commissions and think it’s a great product. You want to promote the product right away.

If you have been building a list, you simply log into your auto responder account and send a broadcast email, or maybe work it into your followup series. You tell your subscribers all about this great new product. Your work is done, now you can go back to building your list.

If you haven’t built a list you might hurry and log into all your traffic exchange accounts, change your URL to your new affiliate link, and assign however my credits you have to it.

If you don’t have a lot of credits then you start surfing as much as you can and assign more credits. You keep surfing and assigning credits to your affiliate link.

If you were one of the first people to do this you might get a few sales but, then as your surfing you start seeing other affiliate links for the same site. Before you know it there are 100 other affiliates doing the same thing you are.

The site is still getting the same amount of people joining from traffic exchanges as before but you now only have a 1 in 100 chance that it is going to be from your link.

You are not getting very many (if any) signups anymore. It seems like the program is just not converting anymore, so you look for the next big thing to promote.

Do either of the above sound familiar to you?

I was the second person in that scenario for a long long time. It took a while before I realized the people that were actually doing good online were those that were sending the emails I joined things from.

It was then that instead of spending all my credits on the next big thing, I spent them on building my list.

I stopped changing my URL’s every time a new program came out and started only to change them when I was testing a new page that built my list.

If I get excited about a new product now, I will tell my list about it, but I continue building my business first.

If you find yourself in the second category above, take a moment to think about those around you that are more successful than you. See what they are doing and see how you can apply it for yourself. And start promoting you instead of someone else.

Affiliate Funnel has done it again. They launched as the downline builder for its members, not for the owners. They have done a great job of providing all the tools you need to build your own list, and build your own business.

It may seem strange that promoting another program would actually help you build your own business and not the owners but that is truly what they have accomplished, especially with their latest feature.

When I first heard the name of this feature it I was confused, but after it was explained to me I couldn’t believe what they were doing.

The feature is called “Jump Links” and my first thought was clickbanks Hop Links, but as you will see they are nothing like them.

You see when you promote most programs you are essentially building the program owners list for them, yeah you may earn commissions or whatever they offer for you helping to promote them, but in the end you just put someone new on their list.

Well since affiliate funnel is all about you promoting your business, when ever they send out a promotional email to their list your affiliate link will automatically “jump” into the emails of your referrals.

You don‘t have to worry about building someone else’s list anymore. No matter who sends the email out to your downline it will be your affiliate link in the email.

This shows just how serious they are at Affiliate Funnel about building your business and not theirs. That in combination with all the great tools and training they provide make for a winning formula, that I have not seen anywhere else.

Wow, I am sitting here in the SWAT conference room with 24 other members right now and getting some great advice.

What I think is funny though is that there are only 24 other members, well actually only 23 since one is Jon Olson who host’s the weekly conference.

There are over 11,000 members of SWAT Traffic and only 25 people have come to get some great advice on how to better build their business.

There is a catch, in order to get the link for the weekly conference you have to be an upgraded member, and I don’t know what Jon’s numbers are but I am sure that there are a couple of hundred upgraded members in SWAT Traffic.

So, out of those hundreds that paid for the privilege of getting these meetings, only a fraction is attending them.

It just blows my mind that there are people paying hundreds or even thousands to attend events and get the kind of advice that is given away in these weekly conferences, yet there are people paying only $20 for this same advice and not even logging in to get it.

If you read a lot of marketing forums you will see that there are plenty of people that don’t beleive in the power of using Traffic Exchanges. I myself know better and even wrote a book about how to use them effectivly.

Another form of traffic generation that is also dismissed by many is safelists. I can see why they have been given a bad name, with all of the auto-submitters and email box cleaners ect..

But to group all safelists together is like saying there is no difference between a auoto and manual traffic exchange.

It is compairing apples and oranges.

You see with safelists you have two options, there is the regular old ones, and there are credit based ones. THe credit based ones work similar to a manual traffic exchange and they do work.

My Freind Soren Jordanson, wrote a book about how to effectivly use safelists about a year ago. It was taken off the shelf for a little while but after such a continue demand for it it has been updated and re-released.

I consider this book to be much like 13deadly TE Tragedies, except for it gives you the details on how to get better results from safelists.

If you are using one you should be using both becuase the traffic you can generate from safelists and traffic exchanges together is exactly what you need to get your business started or boost your current business to the next level.

Be sure to check out Sorens book for ways you can improve your converions using safelists.