OK so the challenge official begins today. I am using Vital Viral to keep tabs on everything so we can see what pages are working and which ones are not. If your not sure how Vital Viral works or just want some great tips you can grab Troy’s ebook that talks more about it by clicking here
Just a quick update to let you know where things are with the self imposed challenge.
Will go through the site and set things up over the weekend and will be back on Monday to get the promotion started at Max Traffic Pro.
OK folks I could be committing career suicide right now.
hopefully not though, I hope the results are going to be good, and if they aren’t I will do what ever needs to be done to make sure my results get better which should also help increase your results.
So what am I talking about?
Check out this video to see…
* Disclaimer – I am testing my own results. Your results could differ from them, the only way to know for sure is for you to test your own results!
Ok well off to go surf at MaxTrafficPro be back in a bit to let you know when the testing begins
What I mean about that is that Jon Olson and several other owners have completely embraced the social side of the internet. They have brought a lot of these aspects into their traffic exchanges and Jon has even published a free report about the importance of social traffic exchanges.
But not every one is convinced that social traffic exchanges are the way to go. In a recent post Bill Carr from Traffic Hoopla stated that the more social a traffic exchange becomes, the less effective it becomes as a hit exchange.
Now there has been some controversy around how hoopla does in fact gain their stats in the past, and I am not going to pretend I know how they get their stats, but I do know their reports for upgraded members do provide lots of information and numbers. I also know that when hoopla comes to town they bring a lot of referrals with them. ( their milkshake brings the boys to the yard )
But I do see one issue with the comments that they posted, this weeks results rate Startxchange and I love Hits in the top 20 sites. They also mention Sweeva ( which is the ultimate as far as social traffic exchanges go ) as an up and coming exchange.
Well by hoopla’s stats it looks like they do, even though their post says different. According to Jon though in his response to the above post, stats do not matter.
Social Traffic Exchanges are about building relationships making friends and connections with like minded members, and you can’t put a number on that.
If you know me you a know I am a pretty moderate person, which is funny since when I was growing up moderation was not a word I was familiar with.
My views on this are pretty moderate as well. I do think that traffic exchanges should be just what they are meant to do. Exchange traffic , you look at my site and I will look at yours. Anything that distracts from that diminishes results and takes away from the fundamental principle behind a traffic exchange.
I do how ever see how powerful social traffic exchanges can and will be.
I see social traffic exchanges as a big step into the future for traffic exchanges but I dont see it as the end all be all solution.
I work online I make a living and support my family with the income I make online. If I spend my day socializing and building relationships, I may have more friends be a happier person , and those friends would be more willing to look at a recommendation I have made and possible purchase from me.
To build up that many relationships and network to the level I could support a family of four , would take a long long time.
On the flip side,
If all I did was stay locked away, working on new projects, creating products and so on and not building any relationships, I would be much grumpier, and no one would buy them any way since no one knows who I am.
So I personally think moderation is the key.
Social traffic exchanges can and do serve a purpose but I see them more as a niche within the overall traffic exchange community. You should be getting your face out there branding yourself and your name, getting to know people, and getting people to know you.
But stats still matter, you need stats, you need information, so you grow your business. You need to know what is working and what isn’t or if you have holes in your system, relationships don’t pay the bills.
So there you have the two sides on social traffic exchanges, those that think they are not good for business, and those that think they are the new way to do business. I present you with a third view, my moderate view.
That social traffic exchanges, and traditional traffic exchanges are two separate sub niches living under a larger more general niche. For years we have been talking about how the way forward for traffic exchanges is to see more niche type exchanges coming out, and thats what is happening now. Traffic exchanges are expanding at a huge rate, there are now several different niches with in, the paid to surf ones, the tradition ones, and now the social traffic exchanges.
No one way is better than the other, though some will always argue that their way is the best way, which is natural since people follow their passions.
I am a strong believer that there is no right or wrong only what works for you. So try them out and see for yourself what works best for you. Some one will tell you that your wrong no matter what you do, so just do what feels right for you, use your own stats, since only you can measure how successful you truly are.
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On Saturday mornings I host the Affiliate Funnel Seminar, a free webinar where members and guests of AF get together and we discuss different topics related to building an online business.
Two Saturdays ago we were discussing the different type of rights some products come with and we got to talking about how many resale rights and PLR products etc.. we all had on our hard drives, just sitting there collecting “cyber dust”
This evolved into a conversation about different ways we could put these to use, and why so many people don’t make use of the resale license.
Turned out most thought that they would need some fancy script or membership site software to do it.
So we talked about how easy it is to do, and that any one with a paypal account can put up a page and sell a product.
Well I posed a challenge to every one in the room and told them that if anyone in the room took a product they had rights to and set up a site like we talked about I would promote it for them.
There were a couple of people that asked for more details and seemed excited about doing this.
But.. Monday came and went, as did Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday and I hadnt heard from any one.
Then Friday came and I thought for sure I would have a message in Skype or an email or support ticket or message in the Affiliate Funnel Forum.
Again though nothing, I was a bit disappointed. One of the things that has been discussed each Saturdays to the point its almost a Mantra is that it is great to learn but knowing how to do something isnt enough , with out any action nothing will ever happen.
So off to bed I went expecting to rant a bit the next morning, but when I woke up , there it was. A message from Diane Merriam, she did in fact take action.Actually she took it a step further.
Instead of just putting up a product she had on her hard drive. She put up a huge collection of products.
Check it out for yourself at Diane Merriam’s site.
What about you?
Do you have a hard drive full of products that you bought and thought to yourself I will put these up for sale?
Not sure how to do it?
Leave a comment below if you have any questions about getting those products up for sale. Maybe you think no one will buy it? Well you did didnt you?
If you put the site up there is a chance that people wont buy it, but if it just sits there on your hard drive there is a 100% chance that no one will.
Stay tuned too as I am putting together some videos that will walk through the steps for getting these products up onto a site.
