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Top 5 Traffic Exchange Tools

2012-01-18T19:02:00.000-06:00

Traffic exchanges are a great way to get your sites viewed, gain referrals and build downlines. Browse other member's web sites to earn credits which you use to get your own sites viewed.
All exchanges have a a certain credit to surf ratio. For example, view an ad for 20 seconds and receive 1 credit. Exchanges include a captcha of some sort to ensure user interaction and keep out bots. If you don't want to surf for credits, you can also just purchase advertising credits.
Quite a few exchanges have also started incorporating social media sharing buttons and chat into the surf bar. See an ad that you really like or interests you and click the tweet or like button. This helps your ad be seen by more than just members. If there is a chat feature, use it. Get involved with other members. Gain new connections and friends. I have learned a lot from chatting with other members while surfing.
I have been noticing traffic exchange owners stepping up their game to keep things new, fresh and fun. Most exchanges offer bonuses and prizes through contests and surfing. The best part is traffic exchanges are free to use. Of course, like most programs and services, they do offer special features to upgraded members.
Splash pages are the best to use in traffic exchanges because your ad is being viewed for only 10-30 seconds. You want your ad to be simple, to the point and eye catching. You can use your programs pre-made splash pages or you can choose to create your own. So finally that leads me to the tools part of this post.

Ad Kreator - A tool to create your own splash pages and banners with 100's of template designs. Why pay a designer? Even if you are graphically challenged, you can use this service.
TE Command Post - This service helps me keep all my TE's organized, thus saving me time. I have went into more detail about TE Command Post in a previous blog post you can refer to here: Traffic Exchange Command Post.
Traffic Exchange List - Basically the title says it all. It is a list of TE's and related services that you can also build a downline with. This service ranks TE's by monitoring statistics across 100's of exchanges. Enter your own top traffic exchange referral id's and generate your own favorite list to display on your blog or website. You can see mine displayed in the left sidebar of this blog.
TE Toolbox - A tracking service for TE's, safelists and list builders. Also included with this ad tracker is an in house banner rotator, website rotator and splash page maker. These tools are helpful and easy to use because they were created by actual traffic exchange users for traffic exchange users. Tracking your hits and conversions is important to determine which ads are working better at which exchanges.
Click Track Profit - This service follows a simple 3 step concept: Click in the BEST traffic exchanges, track to know what ads are working and what is not and profit by repeating steps 1 and 2 to be on your way. They offer great step by step training videos with some humor mixed in too. Nerd Surfing is a cool CTP feature also. All you need to do is surf the 4 signature exchanges at the same time to recieve more credits per click. While Nerd Surfing for extra credits, also collect cool exchange badges and even money badges. Below is a screenshot of the CTP badges I have earned so far.

CTP Badges Earned

Surfing traffic exchanges doesn't have to be boring or too time consuming. These tools save me time, earn more hits and conversions of my sites and make it an enjoyable experience. Happy Surfing to you all:)

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Top 10 Twitter Tools (Continued)

2011-12-04T14:30:00.000-06:00

In Friday's post, I gave you the first 5 of my 10 best Twitter tools. The first 5 tools on my list were focused on keeping track of and organizing your followers and who you are following. The next five tools are geared more toward Twitter content. So back to the countdown.

5. Buffer - This tool will analyze both your Twitter and Facebook account and determine what time of day your followers are on Twitter and when you receive the most retweets. After your best times are analyzed and picked you can add updates to your buffer and they will automatically be sent at your scheduled best times of day. Buffer also helps to not overwhelm your followers with too many tweets at one time. Instead just add the post to your buffer. They also have browser extensions to add to your buffer from any website.

6. Tweepi - Tweepi allows you to make sense of your Twitter account. The dashboard will tell you how many people you are following that aren't following you back and vise versa with easy options to clean these up. You can also choose to follow users based on user lists or a certain user's followers and even analyze other Twitter user's accounts. When you are choosing who to follow or unfollow, you can sort your list by certain criteria. You can see Klout scores, when last tweeted, how many tweets and retweets, if validated or not, how many followers and following and more.

7. Twylah -   Twylah takes the mess out of your Twitter stream. It filters and arranges your account into a single page that sums up who you are and what you talk about.

8. Twitter Karma -   It's a flash application that fetches your friends and followers and displays them, letting you quickly navigate through them. By default, the list is sorted by last update, showing those that most recently updated first. You can sort the list alphabetically either ascending or descending by Twitter ID. You can filter the list in several ways: only friends or only followers, all friends or all followers, and mutual friends.

9. Strawberry Jam - This tool goes through the links in your Twitter account and picks out the most popular ones. You can show popular links form the last 24, 16 or 8 hours. You can also search anything you like and get the popular links for that topic. This tool helps you stay in tune with your followers and what they are talking about.

10. Who Tweeted Me - Content analytics from Hubspot. This tool will analyze a URL and show you its most influential retweeters, potential reach and timeline. Due to Twitter API limitations, It works best on blog post URLs that are between 1 day and 2 weeks old.

These are the tools that helped me get my Twitter account back on track, and I hope you find them useful also. If you have a favorite free Twitter tool, please comment below and share.
"Happy Tweeting"

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Top 10 Free Twitter Tools

2011-12-02T16:31:00.001-06:00

I have been a member of Twitter for a little while now, and had about 1400 followers. Then I got "Twitter Lazy". I was not very active for a few months. One day I got an e-mail from Twitter Counter with my stats. I had not checked out my twitter stats in some time, and I am so glad that I did. I had started losing followers at an increasingly steady pace. My follower count had fell below 1200.

I decided that I needed to take immediate action. I realized I was not using twitter properly and therefore not receiving any of the benefits from my account. I am sure you have heard these basic Twitter rules before, but they are very true. You MUST engage your followers, respond to tweets and mentions. Thank your followers when they mention you or give you a retweet. The other main rule is to tweet quality content. Your tweets should be interesting, helpful, humorous or inspiring to your followers.

I immediately started following these 2 simple rules and was quite impressed with the results. In just a few months, my main (work at home mom ) account just passed 2000 followers. I also started a 2nd Twitter account (movies & television) to go with my new blog, at around the same time. I now have almost 400 followers of that account. So, I figure just from a little extra effort I gained approximately 1200 new connections. I have met some great people, gained some valuable information, received referrals, got some laughs and more.

During this process I also found some tools that help me do this easily and save me time. I picked my favorites and developed a list of My Top 10 Twitter Tools. These are all free to use. Some have upgrade uptions for more detailed stats, but I am doing just fine without paying. To not make this post too long, I will post the first five today and the other five on Sunday.

Twitter Counter - I receive a weekly email with my account stats. It tells you how many new followers gained and predicts how many you will gain or lose next week. Graphs display your tweeting activity and you can also compare your stats with another Twitter account's stats. Alerts and automatic tweets can be set for reaching Twitter milestones.
Follow Friday Helper - This tool keeps track of all the people that have mentioned and retweeted you along with the details of those tweets.. You can easily tweet responses with tags such as #FollowFriday, #Gratitude, #TY, #MustFollow. One easy click on whoever you want to add to the tweet and send.
Formulists - This is the best tool for organizing your twitter account. You can create lists of your followers or whom you are following by filtering into different categories. For example, I have lists of new followers, who retweet me the most, have form of blog in Twitter bio and have marketing included in bio. You can filter by location, when last tweeted, bio information, key words and etc. These lists are self- updating, so it does all the work for you.
True Twit - This is a Twitter validation tool to avoid robots and spammers. All of your new followers are sent a validation request via direct message. If your follower successfully completes the CAPTCHA (or is already a TrueTwit user), you are sent an email indicating they are a TrueTwit-validated human! You can also choose to auto-follow new validated users and auto-unfollow users that have unfollowed you.
TwitPic - Share media on Twitter in real time. You can post photos or videos to TwitPic from your phone, from the site, or through email. Also view other popular or trending pics.

Remember to check back Sunday for 5 more top tools to improve your Twitter experience. Until then, wishing you Happy Tweeting:)

Empire Avenue Review Update

2011-11-13T02:31:00.001-06:00

I wanted to post an update of my experience since I've been playing Empire Avenue. If you haven't heard of Empire Avenue yet, check out my previous post Empire Avenue-The Social Stock Market.

A couple of weeks ago I participated in Empire Avenue's Pendapalooza. It was a 24 hr event in which you posted your ticker and people would start buying your shares. I had no idea what a success this event would be. I thought it just might help me get a few more investors, but it was a 24 hr buying frenzy. I also bought some shares back in anyone who invested in me and it was actually fun. Some think of Empire Avenue as only a game, but to me it has been so much more. I have gained a lot of new and valuable connections.

I kept some rough stats from that 24 hr event to help show how Empire Aveneue can help you and your business grow.

Gained during 24 hr Pendapalooza event:
+6.045 a share increase
11 new achievements
58 new shareholders
added to 12 lists
42 endorsements
26 Blog views
New Connections
Twitter - 9
Tumbler - 8
Facebook - 6
Google Circles - 9
Youtube - 3
Flickr - 5
Foursquare - 3
Get Glue - 3

I continue to play, logging in about every other day, and the numbers continue to rise. The connections I have made here are such an asset to my marketing and to me personally. I've noticed a lot of people who are just starting online, only like to join and participate in programs that show them some immediate cash. I don't believe that is the way to go. You need to network, brand yourself, learn and share if you want to make any real money online. Besides, you might be surprised at the amazing people you can meet if you just take the time.

3 Weeks To Form A Habit

2011-10-08T03:35:00.000-05:00

Experts agree it takes 21 days to break a bad habit and form a new one.

Bad habits are easy to make, but extremely hard to end. Good habits, on the other hand, tend to take more time to make. Luckily, scientists agree that the average person needs at least 3 weeks to form a good habit.

If you're trying to start a good habit, then you probably had a bad habit to begin with. If so,
empty your house and work space of the thing you're trying to quit, or any item that may make you want to end the habit-making process. If you want to quit smoking, get rid of cigarettes. If you want to eat healthier, get rid of most unhealthy foods in you pantry etc.

There are so many things we do in our daily lives that have become a "habit". Brushing our teeth is habit. How you answer the phone is a habit. The way you sit in the car when your driving is a habit. Have you ever tried to change the way you do something, after you've done it one certain way for so long. It's easy to do as long as your thinking about it. The minute your mind drifts to something else, you go right back to the old way of doing things. What is a "habit" anyway? It's a way of doing things that has become routine or commonplace. To change an existing habit or form a new one, can be a tedious task.

Fatigue, boredom, depression, stress can all make it difficult to stick with your program. But having a relapse isn't as important as how you deal with the relapse. If you are so devastated by failure that you call your good intentions into question, that will make habit change harder for you. But, if you allow for an occasional relapse and treat it as nothing more than a slight misstep that teaches you something, then you're on the right track.

The following are some suggestions to follow each day in order to sustain motivation and determination:

1. Review your list of reasons for quitting or changing.

2. Create mental pictures of yourself as having already succeeded with your habit change.

3. Make affirmations, positive self-statements about your habit change. For example, "I am filled with so much health and vitality now that I exercise four times a week."

4. Reward yourself. Make up a list of self-rewards. Reward yourself verbally.

Remember to take one day at a time. If you do backslide, don't label yourself as having failed. Get out your list or reasons for quitting or changing and begin again.

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The Social Stock Market

2011-09-01T20:30:00.000-05:00

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Empire Avenue - The Social Stock Market

Make valuable new connections online

Invest your social capital in people and brands for free using virtual currency!

Have fun building your online Empire

Earn Achievements for online activity, and use your virtual earnings to buy fun Luxury Items!

Get more value out of social media

Engage and expand your social networks, and learn how to use social media more effectively!

This is a great way to meet other marketers and gain exposure while having some fun. You can integrate your social networks and Empire Avenue is accessible through Facebook. You can also send shareholder messages to your investors or leave shout outs for other members.

Here is a profile screen shot so you can get a better view of what the site offers.

Join now and get your free virtual currency bonus! Looking forward to investing in you.
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Traffic Exchange Command Post

2011-05-16T22:31:00.001-05:00

I have been using traffic exchanges for awhile now and I do get decent results. My problem was keeping up with my surfing and assigning credits to my sites. Then I found TE Command Post. It saves me so much time and has everything organized for me in one place.

It's so easy to use, and in a nutshell this is what
you get for free...

* Up to the minute account information for every
listed exchange almost instantly.

* How many credits you have waiting to be assigned

* How many credits you have already assigned

* Which url's are running low on credits

* High converting Affiliate Tools designed to build
your downlines fast and bring you passive recurring
affiliate commissions for TE Command Post and many
other traffic-related sites

* TWO downline builders to get you passive referrals.

I took a screenshot of my TE credits page to give you an idea of what yours would look like.

You can also see your banner and text ad credits for each exchange also. Traffic exchanges are a great way to get more visitors to your site. Plus you can't beat free. Check out TE Command Post and let me know what you think.

Cash For Your Used Books

2011-03-09T03:40:00.001-06:00

Do you like to read?
Do you have a lot of books taking up space?
Do you like extra money?

If you answered YES to any of these questions, then I have a great way for you to make some extra cash. Sell your used books online at Cash4Books.
I have sold text, reference, fiction and non-fiction books with this site. It is so quick and easy.
Just look on the back of your book for the ISBN number that is right above the bar code. It is either a 10 or 13 digit number. Enter this number and Cash4Books will instantly let you know if they are purchasing this title and if so, will give you an instant quote. After you have entered all your books and have your quote, instantly print out the pre-paid shipping label. Than just put them in a box and ship.
They don't give quotes on antique books. The newer the book, the higher the quote.
Within 3-5 days of receiving your books you will receive a credit in your paypal account. If you do not have a Paypal account, you can choose to have a check sent to you.
I made a little over $100 for selling 16 books. That's some nice extra cash, especially with these rising gas prices.
So, you may want to clean out your closet and make some easy money. Get cash back fast, shipping is free and no fees.

Free Gift

2011-02-23T01:21:00.001-06:00

In the never ending quest to drive targeted traffic to our websites there is one form of advertising that is often ignored even though it produces some amazing results when used correctly.

I am talking about safelist marketing.

Safelists are a great way to drive targeted traffic to your sites but if you don't know what you are doing you could find yourself wasting a lot of time and money.

That is why you should check out Jerry Iannucci's "Safelist Marketing Tactics"...

Jerry has created a guidebook that shows you the PROPER way to market with safelists and this stuff really works!

Inside you will discover...

- How to drastically reduce the time spent clicking for credits while still sending your ads to the maximum number of readers.

- How to setup your inbox to make managing multiple safelist accounts a breeze.

- How to stand out from the competition by creating stunning html emails with just a few clicks of your mouse.

- How one simple safelist email can generate multiple streams of income for you over and over again.

And a whole lot more!

You can download a free copy from:
==>SAFELIST MARKETING TACTICS

I am also doing some tracking research on my safelist advertising. I will post the results in the next few weeks. I use several mailers, so be sure to check back and see which sites gave me the best results and why.

Spring Break Contest!!!

2011-02-14T23:32:00.000-06:00

Can you survive Spring Break 2011?

I'm hosting a virtual investment contest on Updown.com!

I'm from the Texas gulf coast so of course Spring Break is a very big event. We have 100's of thousands of people flood our city and beaches. What do tons of young, carefree, ready to party individuals equal? They equal $$$ revenue. Some local businesses rely on their spring break revenue to sustain them for the entire year.
So in the spirit of making money, belly shots, bikinis and hangovers, I started a friendly Spring Break Contest on UpDown. I have mentioned UpDown in a previous post. It is a great site to practice investing. You manage a $1,000,000 virtual portfoilio. It's free to join and depending on your performance, you can earn real money.
Come join me and see who can survive Spring Break 2011. You can still join until Feb. 20th and the contest ends on April 15th.
I have never been good at keeping secrets, so sshhh......there may even be a prize. More will be revealed about that as the contest progresses.

Here are some current standings.

1 Shadoglare 16.02% 2.86%
2 Debi Fitzsimmons 7.67% 1.05%
3 Gavin Jensen 2.46% 1.39%
4 Filius Bonacci 2.40% 0.76%
5 Shakil Kassam 2.27% 0.30%
6 GregO 2.22% 0.78%
7 sheest 0.00% 0.00%
8 Alex Valotto -0.01% 0.00%
9 Patrick O'connor-0.32% -0.06%
10 David Fao'tusia -0.63% 0.00%
JOIN CONTEST

GOOD LUCK & SEE YA ON THE BEACH!

Beta Release of the PeopleString Social Portal - Yahoo! Finance

2011-01-25T21:40:00.000-06:00

Peoplestring is now publicly traded. They have the best homepage technology called the Insta Portal. Own the web with me and start earning. Just check out the article below that was published on Yahoo Finance today.

Symbol	Price	Change
PLPE.OB	0.86	+0.86

Press Release Source: PeopleString Corporation On Tuesday January 25, 2011, 8:00 am EST

RED BANK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- PeopleString Corporation (OTCBB:PLPE.ob - News) announced today the Beta release of its new Social Portal, featuring its patent pending “InstaPortal” technology. The Social Portal allows users to create new social relationships and aggregate existing ones, such as Facebook and Twitter, in order to share in the financial benefits of their social connections. PeopleString’s recently released “InstaPortal” enables users to create their own social portal pages that feature continually updating slices of their favorite websites. Users can quickly preview, organize and visit their favorite sites and social networks.
PeopleString offers a wide array of content and organizational tools such as tabs, favorites, widgets, rss feeds, search, email, social games and connection tools for other social networks. Additionally, PeopleString has its own social network that features friend requests, blogs, message boards, photo albums, event invites, games, virtual goods and many other tools to connect and stay in touch with the “string” that you create.
“We see the opportunity for leveraging existing social relationships into a social group selling platform as one of the most exciting applications of the PeopleString technology. A single consumer does not have much clout, but by harnessing their social relationships you are creating a potentially powerful force that reshape traditional methods of marketing,” stated Darin Myman, President and CEO.

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Free Income Opportunity

2010-12-31T01:29:00.000-06:00

Have you ever wondered how Twitter and Facebook were able to host your personal profile site on the internet?

They collect ad revenue by placing advertisements on your page.....go look right now at your Facebook page and see for yourself.

Facebook took in over $1 billion last year in advertising revenue.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could share in their prosperity?

Facebook and Twitter do not share with you but you can take a look at this Social Networking site and see for yourself that you can begin to share in this advertising revenue.

>>Own The Web

It's totally free (for life) and you can get paid to:

Check Your Email
Browse The Internet
Window Shop Online
Receive Postcards That Pay You
Google Search
Login to Twitter
Login to Facebook

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5) Cuts out the Middle Man and Pays you from your internet and home use and from your downline
6) Average person generates $30-65/month and doesn't even know it's happening. You get a percent of your downline income. Even Free Accounts.

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Are Your Affiliate Commissions At Risk?

2010-12-03T12:54:00.000-06:00

Don't lose affiliate commissions, secure your affiliate links!

So you have finally stepped into the world of making money online. You too, like many others, have decided to start with the affiliate programs. Also, you must have heard that it is possible to make good money with affiliate marketing, provided you choose the right programs and do some strategic planning while promoting your affiliate products. So far so good.

Whether you are promoting other people’s products or promoting your own products – that doesn’t matter because after all it is nothing but your own business and your means to earn good money. So whichever be your case, I am sure you would not want to leave money on the table and invite others to steal your share of profit.

Even though the industry of affiliate marketing is pretty competitive but if you are cautious and are strategic in your marketing techniques then, it could be very profitable for you.

Take a close look at the industry, you will see that not every one who gets into affiliate marketing is successful. People who are doing well leave no room for failure and take all security measures and understand its importance.

Yes! Security is one of the key factors in affiliate marketing. If you do not adopt proper security measures, then your business will be at high risk. One of the most important way to restore security is to protect your affiliate links. Do not take them for granted. A bit of carelessness on your part in regards to affiliate links may cost you a lot of dollars.

Do you know the long complicated links that you send to your prospective customers not only look convoluted but they can create a lot of problems too! If you send such an affiliate link to your customers, then the smart ones will definitely figure out that you are promoting someone else’s product and they would rather visit the parent company. Also, if your link does not function then your customers have to type a really long URL into the browser, which will definitely put him or her off.

You could be a victim of even a worse situation. What if some devious Internet pirates steal your affiliate links and replace them with theirs. If they do that, then you get no commission at all.

Did I scare you off with all of the above possibilities? Well, that certainly wasn’t my intention. I just wanted to open your eyes and state facts that actually happen in the world of Internet. It happened with me until I came across ViralURL , that brought a revolution to my online ventures.

So, if you are not getting the desired results out of your affiliate marketing,don’t lose hope. There’s definitely a remedy to this problem and that is ViralURL.com

Do I hear you asking, what is it and how can it help in averting any adverse situation for an affiliate marketer like me?
Be patient and read on, if you love your business.

ViralURL is a link cloaker that protects you in the truest sense. There may be many unethical people lurking around, who might play with your affiliate links by cutting them off or replacing them with their own etc. How much effort you put in towards building your business and advertising your business, if your links are tampered with, then all your hard work will be rendered useless.

In order to avoid such a rip off, ViralURL gives you full protection and sees to it that your affiliate links never get exposed to others.

So save yourself from getting ripped. Get all the commissions to your account that you rightfully deserve. All this is made possible by ViralURL.com

It is a blessing for every affiliate marketer like you and me, who wants to achieve success in their endeavor.

Is ViralURL limited to only link protection?

NO!

It does much much more than that. Let’s see what ViralURL can do for us:

*ViralURL helps us in protecting commission.
*ViralURL helps in building mailing lists.
*ViralURL helps in tracking statistics.
*ViralURL helps in earning extra ad credits.

In short, ViralURL allows us to create massive business leverage.
I don’t see any negative aspect associated with ViralURL. All you have to do is join it for free, then cloak your links, promote them and see your business soaring higher and higher.

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Free Stock Market Fun

2010-11-17T14:24:00.000-06:00

Are you interested in the stock market? I found a cool and fun site where you can build your own virtual stock portfolio. Even if you know nothing about the stock market, it's a great way to learn without any risk and it's FREE to join. If you do know the stock market, this site is also for you. Up/Down has monthly contests where top performers can earn real cash. You can post your own stock analysis and read what other members are posting about popular stocks, or start a contest with your friends. Come check out the FREE fun and see how you do in today's market.

Learn more

An Alternative To Clickbank

2010-10-29T02:12:00.000-05:00

Just a quick post to let you know about another marketplace that can give you an alternative to Clickbank.

While I like Clickbank, and they are a great marketplace... they are limited to many restrictions to sell products or earn affiliate commissions...

Well, there is a GREAT NEW SERVICE now...

It is a new FREE marketplace where you can sell any product you want.

You can sell your own product or become an INSTANT Affiliate for ANY item in their HUGE marketplace.

It is called PayDotCom.com!

Did I mention it is 100% FREE to Join!

This site is going to KILL all other marketplaces. Check it out and see what they have to offer.

Click Here to Sell Your Products or Become a Super Affiliate

Check Received

2010-10-20T17:53:00.000-05:00

I received my first check. Send Earnings will pay you to read e-mails, take surveys, play games, shop and more. You can also receive credit from the earnings of anyone you refer. Now that I have received my first check, I am automatically upgraded to Gold Member. Gold members receive special offers, double the sweepstakes entries, random referrals and weekly payments instead of monthly. Send Earnings is a trusted site that has been paying it's members for over 10 years. So why not get paid for activities you already do online. Also FREE to join.

Earn Cash Today

Top Management Uses Blogs To Increase Business

2010-10-13T14:22:00.001-05:00

Top management executives at corporate giants like Sun Microsystems, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, General Motors and Hewlett-Packard are in the blogging arena. What is prompting these busy executives to take time out form their hectic schedules to join in the conversations in the blogosphere? Simple, it is the desire to promote a new atmosphere of openness with employees, shareholders, customers, prospects and the general public in the process not only increasing business but, more so, giving a human voice to the company.

Why are the bosses blogging?

“What began as an experiment has become an important means of communication for GM. It has given me, personally, an opportunity to get much closer with you, the public.” These are the words of former General Motors vice chairman Bob Lutz. His blog has received more than 5,000 visits and 13,000 page views a day.

Blogging provides management with a fast and cost-effective means of conducting two-way communications with the company’s audience. Management and customers, industry peers or the public all have the opportunity to respond either in the comment box or their very own blogs. Management wants to find out how the public views the company so it can improve its products or services. Listening and engaging the blogging community can turn out to be a highly effective way of discovering what your targeted audience thinks about your company.

Top management can use feedbacks, good and bad, to their advantage. Unfavorable comments are not filtered out. Management evaluates these inputs and responds accordingly. GM vice chairman Bob Lutz emphasized it is extremely important to run the bad with the good comments or else credibility will suffer.

As a whole, top management executives use blogs to help generate sales thereby increasing business. Blogs help them develop a human voice that customers, prospects, shareholders, industry peers, employees and the general public can relate. Giving a human voice to the company is significant as people basically do business out of relationships as they do out of prices and benefits. Blogging promotes a two-way communication about what is important to companies and communities – dialogue that more often than not builds a working relationship.

With the amount of blog readers rising daily, expect more top management executives blogging to increase business.

Lightspeed Payment Proof

2010-10-08T14:52:00.001-05:00

Lightspeed Consumer Panel is a popular survey panel. It is on my top 10 list of best paid survey sites. I usually get a couple survey invites a day and qualify regularly. Lightspeed works on a point system. Surveys pay anywhere from 50 -300 points. I cash in my points for paypal payments. (575 pts=$5) Lightspeed also has a monthly sweepstakes drawing for $5000. I have earned $50 with them so far and below is my latest payment proof.

Don't Lose Any More Time And Money...

2010-09-29T09:27:00.000-05:00

When I first started out online, I joined a lot of programs and services that ended up being a huge waste of my time. They sounded so great and made promises of money and benefits, but most of them were just hype.

I no longer waste my time with worthless programs and products because I found Internet Marketing Report Card.

IMRC is a community that's updated daily with reviews of popular internet marketing products, services and people.

Wondering if that product or service you're thinking of buying is worth it? Now you can find out before you buy. You can get real reviews from real users like yourself. Also find out who and what are in the top 25.

You can also grade products you're familiar with, report scams, add comments and write your own reviews, and even earn points just for participating.

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How to increase traffic through Social Networking sites?

2010-09-13T12:36:00.000-05:00

Nowadays, Social networking sites popularity is increasing day by day like Facebook, Twitter, Google etc…., we can say social networking is one of the best and free ways for increase traffic on our site. Social networking is important in blogging and if you can’t do social networking then it’s a rare chance that you’ll be successful in blogging. Leaving comments and trackbacks is part of social networking.

Increase traffic through Friends
Friends are the heart of the social networking attitude, and when promoting content this can be a valuable tool
in viral marketing. The more friends you have in your network, the more visibility you will have when
promoting. But be somewhat careful when accepting friend requests. You don't want to end up with 500
friends that you have nothing in common with. You want people that are in the same field, have similar
interests so you can help each other grow your business.

Increase traffic through Blogs
Blogs are one more great way to spread the word, most blogs allow you to post comments. I use these blogs
to post a comment then I include a link to one of my sites. I achieve a free back link for simply commenting on
a story. Just make sure you are leaving good comments that actually pertain to the blog post.

Put a face with the name
You may not understand it, but by passing on uploading your picture, you are also passing on an opportunity
to get more people clicking on your articles. Why? Well, for one, it is known that spammers don't usually take
the time to upload a picture. Second, it is called ’social’ networking and ’social’ bookmarking sites. If you are
trying to be ’social’ then you should put a face to your name.

Increase traffic through Profile Pages
If you are a keen online social network's, you will have a pimped out profile page. Here are a few examples of
how you can increase visibility to your content. On my profile pages at Myspace, Facebook, Peoplestring and
etc., I have links to all my social network profiles & personal projects. This does 2 things; increases my link
back total to my projects and shifts visitors to my other profile pages so I get more friends! Promote your RSS feeds via your profile pages, the service displays recent RSS activity and the service is free.

Increase traffic through bulletins
Bulletins use your friends list, basically the more friends you have the more views your bulletins receive.
Common sense! Some people use bulletins way to much and you do not want to get known as a spammer. So my advice is to use this angle a few times a month and keep them simple, this keeps the bulletins friendly and not to over bearing.

Increase traffic through Content
Nothing is more important than content. If you are a good writer and you write about interesting topics, you
are going to do well on the social networking sites. People seem to like top 10 lists, top 20 lists, etc. Also put
some personality into your writing. I like when people relate the subject matter to a personal experience or
story.

Finally, make sure that you are part of a few of the more popular social networking websites. These
memberships will build your own network. As your social network grows you can invite your contacts to join you on other sites. This should start a sequence reaction that will get them inviting their own contacts and so on. Finally your network will grow to a point where it becomes truly helpful.

Please feel free to check out some of my social profiles, leave a comment and tell me what you think! You can view all my profiles from my Faceplate. Check it out and you just may want to make your own Faceplate for free.

Keeping Track Of Your Site's Visitor Statistics

2010-08-25T23:13:00.007-05:00

When it comes to internet statistics, the most important statistic at the end of the day is how many orders or inquiries you received. However, your ability to improve your orders and site performance will depend on your understanding of your website’s other underlying traffic statistics. Here are some things to watch out for.

First of all, forget about “hits”. Whenever someone requests a file it is a hit. If you visit a web page, then you are requesting several files all at once: the file for the page and the files for all the graphics on the page. By visiting one page on a site you are registering several hits. “Hits” is a very vague term and doesn’t give you a good picture of what is happening on your site.

A better indicator of your traffic is the amount of unique visitors you receive each day. Your number of unique visitors will give you a rough idea of how many people visited your website on any given day. Compare this number to the amount of orders or inquiries received, and you can figure out your conversion rate.

Another important internet statistic to keep you eye on are the referrers. A referrer is the website where a person was visiting prior to landing on your site. Search engines are important referrers, and sites that link to you are other referrers. Compare your referred traffic to total traffic and you will see how many people just typed in your url and how many came after seeing your link in another location.

Knowing as many details as you can about where your visitors came from is very important. That is why you should also look for the search terms that people used when coming from a search engine. Most trackers or log analysis program will give you the search terms that were used on the referring search engines. Take a look at these terms and see if you are really getting targeted traffic. If what you consider to be your most important keywords are not high up in the list of search terms that people are actually using to find you, then you have to adjust the content of your website accordingly.

The activity of people on your site is also important. Which pages do visitors use to enter and exit your site? What pages are visited the most and the least? Finally, what is the pattern of the traffic on your site? A good tracking or analysis program will tell you the click-path that people take through your site. The click-path is the sequence of consecutive pages that people follow as they go through your site. For example, if your visitors are not ending up on your order page, but following a sequence that leads them out of the site without ordering, you can look at your site again and correct the weak spots.

You can get access to these statistics in a few ways.

1. Your hosting provider may have a built in traffic analysis program.

2. Install a java script tracking code to your pages. Several sites provide script trackers such as GetClicky. Once your tracker is installed, all you have to do is to log into the site to see your stats.

3. Use tracking software installed on your computer.

4. Google offers a statistics reporting service, free of charge, in their Google Analytics program.

Gather your website statistics using a method that is easy for you and use this data to improve the performance of your website. When you get an idea of who your visitors are, how they are finding your website and which pages they are visiting on your website, you can then make changes and upgrades that will boost your online success.

5 FREE Ways To Get Your Website Noticed

2010-08-23T00:37:00.000-05:00

If you have a website, then you are certainly concerned with getting it noticed and increasing your traffic. However, you might not have a large budget for advertising or marketing and simply don’t know what to do to get your website noticed without spending a lot of money. Well, the following 5 tips will help your website attract attention without spending any money!

Tip #1 Submit to Directories
Submitting your website to directories is generally free and all you have to do is provide your website’s URL, a brief description, and then your site will be listed in the directory for people to browse. In addition, not only will people be able to browse the listings, but your site will also have more one way links pointing back to your site that will increase your rankings in the search engines.

Tip #2 Submit to Search Engines
If you want to get your site noticed then you want to make it easy on web surfers to find your site. So, submit your site to the search engines to have it indexed. Then , when people search the web for certain keywords they just might find your site and drop by to take a look.

Tip #3 Reciprocal Links
Reciprocal links are another good idea if you are interested in increasing your search engine rankings. Simply trade links with other websites and you host their link on your site and they host your link on their site. This does not take much effort or time and once you have the links you will basically have free advertising.

Tip #4 Include Your URL Everywhere
Your URL needs to be on all types of communication you use. For example, make sure your URL is included on your stationary, business cards, in all of your e-mails, and the like. When your URL is posted everywhere you will surely increase your site’s traffic.

Tip #5 Email List
You can create an email list from all the visitors that have visited your website and periodically send them updates advertising different services or specials. Before you know it you will have more people visiting your site and others recommending your site as well.
Have a great day and get started on increasing your traffic.

Payment Proof

2010-08-01T01:35:00.000-05:00

I just received a $25 Paypal payment from Surveyhead. Surveyhead has many daily surveys. Most of the surveys pay at least $1to $5 and some higher. The minimum payout is $25, which is easy to reach. Also when you join Surveyhead you will receive a $5 sign up bonus. The only downside is it takes 4-6 weeks to receive payout. Below is the paypal proof of my payment.

The World Is Your Marktplace!

2010-07-14T02:43:00.000-05:00

I wanted to share with you some interesting Internet World Statistics.

If you were to open a convenience store, you would think long and hard about the store's location. It would not make much sense to open it in a remote area with few customers. When you start a website, every person with online access is a potential customer. Have you ever wondered how many people actually use the Internet? Is it a few hundred thousand, a few million or more?

According to the Internet World Stats website, out of a total 6.5 billion people on the planet, about 1/6th of them go online. That is a staggering 1 billion people! Obviously those who could potentially access your website is less than that since for example not everyone speaks the same language. If you are developing a website in English then you have access to at least 330 million people considering just North America. Of course there are many more English speaking countries so that number is much larger.

In addition, consider that there is still the other 5 billion of the population that does not have online access. Every year more people get access to the Internet as the infrastructure is improving worldwide while the cost of access is decreasing. It might be that growth in North America is slowing down but it is increasing rapidly in less developed countries. Take a look at internet world stats.


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