The correct way to market with traffic exchanges

Instead of advertising your affiliate sites on traffic exchanges,
which will get you hits but probably not sign-ups, there's a more
effective way to market with traffic exchanges.

Use splash pages, or lead capture pages, to build your downlines
in the traffic exchanges. Why would I want to do that, I hear you
ask, when I want to build my downline in my primary business? In
other words, advertise TE (traffic exchange) A in TEs B & C, or
use a downline builder like HIT to build your downlines in several
different TEs. Then when your downline surfs, you earn extra credits.
Once you've built up a healthy downline, you can use your extra
credits to advertise your main business. And you might even earn
some extra cash along the way if any of your downline upgrade or
buy advertising!

As part of your HIT system you'll get numerous splash pages with
your affiliate links embedded, and these have proved exceptionally
good at getting signups for my HIT system and the TEs it promotes.
So you'll be offering the TE surfers something of value which they
will be more inclined to sign up to than if you were just offering
them a TE. And in turn you're getting signups to your HIT team as
well as extra credits for you to use as you wish. This is known as
indirect marketing, and you should endeavour to use this whenever
you can - offer your prospects something of value, and you are more
likely to get rewarded in return.

Marketing With Traffic Exchanges

The HIT system will teach you, among other things, how to
successfully market with traffic exchanges (TEs). Many of
the programs listed in their downline builder are TEs, at
no time are you required to join any of these, but if you
are already a member, enter your ID, if you are still
looking for ways to promote your business online, then I
suggest you join at least some of these. HIT has proved
extremely useful to me for building downlines in the TEs.

So what is the best way to promote using TEs? There's a
right way - one that will bring you results, and ultimately
money, and a wrong way, which will see you clicking for
credits ad infinitum and getting nowhere. This goes not
only for TEs, but most other marketing methods - safelists,
advertising sites, classifieds etc.

So what is the 'right' way to advertise? Ok, so once you've
joined an opportunity and got your shiny new replicated
website, you need to get it up there and receiving as many
hits as possible, right? Wrong. Unfortunately this is what
most people will tell you to do, but this direct marketing
doesn't work - it won't make any difference how good your
website is. Very few people will ever sign up from your
affilitate website - you'll get the traffic but you won't
get the conversions from this 'direct' marketing.

So what should you be doing?

What Can I Promote With HIT?

On first signing up for the HIT system, it's essential to
get everything set up to maximise your promotional power.
If you're new to online marketing or don't feel you have
much technical expertise, don't worry, because they really
have made it easy for you.

On logging in to your new system, you'll see, on the left
hand side just below 'Main Members Area Home', 'HIT Success
System Training/Setup'. Clicking this will give you an over-
view of the system, and then take you step by step through
the set-up process, enabling you to update your profile,
including entering your Paypal details so you can get paid!

After that you'll have the option to enter your affiliate
id's for various programs - if you are already a member you
enter your existing id, or if not you can choose to join the
program - at no point do you need to join anything you don't
want to.

You will also be given the url's for your personalised lead
capture pages, advice on how to use these pages to best
advantage, and tips on driving traffic to your capture pages.
Some of this will take time to set up and read through, so
feel free to work at your own pace, but make sure that you do
follow all the steps - it really is worthwhile training for
you, as well as optimizing your system.

All this leads ultimately to the creation of your own personal
webpage, which can be uploaded to your own webhost or, if you
choose, to your new GDI account.

And you get all this help and training for.... no cost!

So What Are The Advantages?

What are the advantages of using a marketing system like
HIT to promote your business? Why not create your own
marketing material and build your business that way?

The main and most obvious advantage is it saves you time,
and as any business owner knows, time is money! You might
well be able to create your own traffic exchange splash
pages, and capture or 'squeeze' pages, but how much time
does it save me to have those already created for me,
ready to use with my affiliate links built in? I know
that this alone is worth a lot of money to me. I could
create them myself, but I probably wouldn't do quite as
good a job, so the alternative would be to outsource this
task (= money). Or use the HIT system, where I also get
ready-made downline builder pages.

Using these pages I can promote my core business through
HIT, as well as many of the tools and resources I use
every day as part of my online business - autoresponders,
trackers, traffic exchanges, safelists etc. All of which
are additional streams of income which come together to
build an online income.

Incentives to offer my downline?

I forgot to add to my previous post, that I wanted any system I was going to use and promote to my downline, to offer some incentives, particularly to those who might be new to the internet (having been there not that long ago, I know most people can use all the help they can get, particularly if it's from a real person and not some 'guru' in his million dollar mansion).

So what does HIT offer? Membership to the HIT system includes affiliate training - learn the correct ways to make money as an internet marketing affiliate, information which can cut the learning process by many months!

For further details of all the benefits involved, follow the link above, or take a look at my website MakeCyberDollars (my first website, built using the Home Income Website Builder)

Learn From Your Mistakes!

Anyone who has visited this blog before or read any of my old posts will realise that up until a few months ago I was promoting a marketing system which, while being reasonably priced and offering a good service, was costing me money every month without bringing any returns.

I finally saw sense (does wisdom really come with age??!) and realised it was time to change what I was doing. So, after some much-needed navel-gazing, I reached a conclusion. Free was better. Of course, I hear you say, but it's also true that 'you get what you pay for'.

So I needed a marketing system with no monthly costs, that allowed me to promote all my programs in one place. If it offered a 'funded proposal' or way of earning money while I build my business, then so much the better. Of course, it must include splash pages, oh and can it build a website for free? This would be a good selling point, because I want it to have an affiliate program too.

Then it dawned on me. I had this already, I'd just stopped promoting it actively. HIT (Home-Income-Team) was one of the first things I'd joined when I started online, but I'd allowed myself to get side-tracked. So I revisited it. And of course Michael Cobb has kept it updated and improved, so it's an even better system than the last time I'd used it. So feeling rather foolish, I set about getting acquainted with the system once again, and actively promoting it wherever I could. And guess what, it works!