Thursday, January 29, 2009

Surfing for Credits

Hi,

Just a teeny rant.

I have touched on this before and said I was not sure if manual TE's are effective. Seems like a lot of time consuming surfing to get 1,000's of impressions with what appears to be no return.

I will continue to surf on a couple of sites to look for the clicks that may be few and far between. I mean, if no one looks you can't make a referral.

Since I have to surf to some extent, there is one thing I dislike very much. Maybe someone having a surfing site will see this.

When a pop-up or a drop-down form covers the message, I quit checking out the site to see if it is something I could use. I just accrue my credits and wait for the next site. Sometimes I think both the advertiser and I lose out.

Joe

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

A Milestone Reached

Before I continue, I want to remind you that this is a personal blog of my Internet marketing experiences. See 'My Internet Marketing Experience' on the left. I don't mind sharing them with others, should they find their way here. Who knows, I may get a visitor that will help me with my Internet marketing efforts.

I probably don't have to say this but, you may click on any hot link to chech out GateWay2Hits and/or Viral Co-op.

After almost seven months of learning, experimenting, working long hours with the goal to earn money on the Internet, I reached a milestone. Received my first commission check from Viral Co-op.


So far Viral Co-op is showing promise. I advertise my URL for GateWay2Hits with them. It is providing hits and now income. The hits are logged and reported by GateWay2Hits. Unfortunately, the origin of a conversion is not availablel. The number of conversions for GateWay2Hits is slowing down. Is it co-incidental that the day I signed up with Viral Co-op, I also got 2 GateWay2Hits conversions?


Gateway2Hits is working well for me, too. Since early November I have been working on my 3X10 forced matrix with much spillover. I now have 780 members in my downline, reaching the 10th level. Upon launch in early March I expect to receive between $500 to $1,000 in commissions if my matrix does not grow any larger. Still have a month and a half to work on it and also expect to get growth from my downline members and spillover.


As they say at Viral Co-op, "Keep the Snowball Rolling".

To your Internet marketing success.....

Joe

Friday, January 23, 2009

This Provoked Some Thought

One of my projects is GateWay2Hits. It has been successful for me to this point. See prior blog posts.

One feature I like is that it tracks my hits. Today I checked and found that there were seven hits so far. Will get more as the day goes on. Depending on when I surf, network and send e-mails, I get 50 to 300 hits per day.
They were from:

AdlandPro

DirectMatches

ListJoe

WebBizInsider

TrafficSwarm

CreditAdsDepot

My co-op ad with GateWay2Hits


I got 1 sign up for GateWay2Hits. The problem is, I can't tell where the sign up was obtained. That would be good information in order to know what is working.
I know, I should try to find an ad tracking site. Tried one a couple of months ago and it went out of business. Don't want to do that to another one. :) :) :)

When I surf I know I get impressions from the surf sites, but rarely do I get a click on the site. ListJoe is where I send 500+ e-mails every 3 days. AdlandPro and DirectMatches are Networking sites which I work. GateWay2Hits offers the co-op advertising plan where they rotate my URL along with their own and other member's URLs.

Interesting, but no banana.

To your continued Internet marketing success....

Joe

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

This inexpensive advertising is KILLING IT.

Hello Fellow Internet Marketer,

You've got to check this out. It's a seriously effective and
inexpensive way to drive traffic to your web site and get more
prospects and sales.

The only thing is... you have to do it now since the very nature
of this makes it really LIMITED (you'll see what I mean).

For less than .14 per day, you can get an ever-increasing
snowball of visitors to your site, and they aren't just junk
visitors who never buy.

Instead of me trying to explain, go here and see what this is
all about and how it works.

http://www.viralcoop.com/r/joefrain

I think you'll be impressed at the genius of this like I was.
It's almost too easy. Especially for being so inexpensive!

Joseph Frain

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Change of Direction

Here is a progress report on my web experience.
Not bragging or complaining. Just the facts.

After about 7 months online trying to earn income with affiliate relationships I have to admit that I am in the 95% that have trouble becoming successful. Am now evaluating what I have been doing and try some different tactics.

Just trying to get someone to view this blog is tough. I pit it in a signature of many of my e-mails. Have set it as a personal page on networking sites. No response. If you have found me, read through and leave a comment. Good or bad, I can handle it.

First, I am finding that traffic exchanges are not effective (for only me?). Most, if not all members, surf to earn credits so that their page will be surfed. No one seems to click on the ad pages as they surf. Of the 1,000s I have seen while surfing, I haven’t click very many.

I have earned thousands of credits surfing, purchased credits, purchased downline and tried an upgraded membership. Cannot attribute any clicks to WebBizInsider or Traffic Swarm.. They provide 1,000s of impressions through my efforts, both free and purchased. The effort to get impressions is huge and the payoff is nil.

ISOR is much the same. Purchased advertising to no avail. Their impressions and clicks are tracked so there is no guesswork in this. They do offer other functions that are pretty good. Free auto-responders, list builders, free web page, free advertising and more free functions. You may like it for that and I plan to keep my membership. After all, I purchased the upgrade for reasonable one-time fee.

Have tried a couple of other traffic exchanges, but it is not possible to support more than a couple of surfing sites. Again. Too much time without any payoff, Surfers look for whatever time period is necessary and go to the next web page. Even me.

Will drop EarthFriendlyBiz. It requires that you belong to a number of traffic exchanges with upgrades to make it work. By now, you know how I feel about traffic exchanges. There is not enough time.
Have posted free classifieds and banners on several sites. They are ignored, even by me. I think there are a couple more like that I have. Will drop them , too.

My proof is the dozen or so sites I have promoted. No sale. Some are even free.

My switch will be incremental. First, I will keep my memberships in WebBizInsider and Traffic Swarm. Then I will decrease my surfing efforts to give me more time with AdlandPro. Who knows, someone may click and convert somewhere, sometime.

Second, I am going to stop my subscriptions to MonsterList and GDI. Can’t track any clicks to them either. Purchased downline so I could e-mail members. Nothing. Had a couple of e-mail problems with GDI. Not worth the effort to resolve. No one takes ownership of issues that span more than one entity. Fingers point in all directions. Will examine some other relationships in more detail, as well, and eliminate non-contributors.

Third, I have joined AdlandPro. They have more functionality than any one marketer can use. There are many free and paid options. Going to use the money gained from deleted memberships to finance an ad for GateWay2Hits. Will select the functions I need to utilize AdlandPro to my advantage. If they prove effective, I will invest more in advertising. Effective will be defined by whether I get any sign ups for GateWay2Hits or not.

AdlandPro will require a significant effort since I plan to use their networking function. They have 10s of thousands of members and so far they seem to be very active. That is a whole lot of potential leads!

My purpose here is not to refer you to AdlandPro, but if you think it may have the functionality you need to promote your products, click on the banner.

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Oh heck, look at GateWay2Hits, as well. It is the one bright light I have encountered. See a prior blog about its promise.


Good luck with your Internet marketing efforts . Check back later to see if my Internet life has improved.

Joe