Dan Moses is a 27-year old family man living in Redmond, Oregon who came online over five years ago, and like most of us, planned to set out on a journey of finding his riches on the Internet. Of course, he quickly realized it wasn’t as easy as most would have you believe. But that didn’t stop Dan... Throughout his journeys he has become quite the entrepreneur by owning and operating close to 10 sites online
What’s the quickest way to get your name, email, and or website URL added to any sales page for free? Yes, this is almost the most valuable real estate on any website and you can be there for free!
Ask yourself, when you go to a website for the first time what do you look at? Most people look at the headline first... then the testimonials.
Today we’re not going to talk much about how to get testimonials, but instead we’re going to learn how to write killer testimonials any webmaster would practically ‘pay you’ to put on their website.
Why would they do that?Because testimonials give us (the viewer) a real sense of what to expect out of the product or program at hand. And it builds more trust for the program or product we’re viewing.
Not to mention that many times we will click on that persons URL in their testimonial to see who they are (if we don’t know them) and what kind of product and service they offer.
The truth is, you never know how much free traffic you will receive from a killer testimonial on a popular website that is seen daily by thousands and thousands of people.
Now we know how valuable testimonials can be and we know that webmasters want them. Not only do they want them, but all you have to do is write a better testimonial than what’s currently on the sales page and you should get yours added every time!
It’s that simple!Now you might not get the best spot, but it should be good enough. This could be because the webmaster personally knows the person whose testimonial is on top and doesn’t want to replace it. Or that person is well known and is giving his site great credibility.
Okay, now we know we want to write some killer testimonials and, if we can write the best testimonial on the web page, we now know we stand a great chance of getting ours added.
So let’s talk about how to write killer testimonials.
Okay, pay attention, this tip I’m about to give you will help you write anything you want on any topic you want including killer testimonials.
What you do is collect as much information about the topic as you can. It’s best to copy and paste this content onto a notepad document, or word file.
Usually, collecting about 10 articles or testimonials on a topic you want to write about is good enough.After you have collected enough information you will need to study it and learn all you can about that subject. Your goal is to absorb as much information about that topic as you can so that, when you sit down to write it, it will just flow out of you in your own words.
It’s also a good idea to test or try what you’re teaching before writing about it for more clarity on the topic. In other words, doing it is much better then just knowing about it.
That’s the best way to do it, but an easier way would be to take sections of what you have collected and place them on a notepad or word document. Then splice and dice them around until it’s not only in your own words, but it sounds good as well.
Of course the more that comes out of you on its own, the better your article will be. Keep in mind, the worst thing you could do would be to just steal someone else’s writing or testimonial.
So, make sure you don’t just change the words, but change the flow of the testimonial as well.Okay, now for writing testimonials. First you want to study the testimonials they have on their web page and if you can, try to find something that is missing.
What I mean is, if they have a lot of great testimonials about their product, then write about their affiliate program.Or, if you love their product, and everyone else is talking about how easy it was to sell, you talk about what you like about the product. Try to put yourself in the webmasters shoes and ask yourself, “What is this site missing? What kind of testimonial would complete this sales page?” If you can do this right, you will increase your chances of getting your testimonial added.
Of course you also want to be honest about what you’re writing and make sure that site is worthy of your comments before you write them. Especially as your name is on that website for life in most cases.
Once you have written that killer testimonial, then send it to the owner and let him know how much you appreciate his product or service.
Remember, EVERY owner loves to receive killer testimonials.Go write one today and try to do this every few weeks. You’ll be amazed how your traffic will increase and along with it your link popularity and name awareness will soar.
Okay. Get out there and get your name known. :o)Of course there are and, even though most of them are program owners themselves, there are people out there doing very well financially within this industry without having to own a program.
I want to talk a little bit today about making money using and promoting traffic exchanges. Something I personally like to call “Click Thru Marketing”.
Now I’m assuming you all know what Click Thru Marketing is but, just in case…Click Thru Marketing is marketing a service or product over the Internet by generating visitors to view your web page by way of click exchange programs, better known as traffic exchanges, start page programs, and hit exchanges.
Click Thru Marketing is a specialized niche market with the demographics of biz op seekers, MLMers, small businesses, and hundreds of thousands of people trying to make money online and looking for quality products to sell and buy.
Click Thru Marketing, as a market, is still very young and small in size (500,000+) but, despite that, there are those of us who have learned how to make a living from this industry.
And now our goal is to teach other marketers online (with a drive to succeed and willingness to learn) how to make enough money from this market to quit their jobs and come home for GOOD!
I did it! So can you... :o)Now I want to be completely honest with you. This won’t be a walk in the park.
This isn’t something you can jump into and expect to make thousands each month within a few weeks. On the contrary, it will most likely take you years. Yes, you read that right!
It has taken me 5 long years to accomplish all I have (which is quite a lot) and within 3 of those five years I was able to quit my job and come home full time (how wonderful it has been to be home with my family every day).
Now the good news for you is that there are people out there willing to help you do what it takes to come home full time (I know because I am one of those people wanting to help you become successful by sharing with you what to do and what not to do).
That’s right! With some help you can shorten your learning curve by years and years.Listen up. In the next few minutes I’m going to share with you what’s been on my mind for some time now. You see, I’ve been listening to how people inside this industry feel about it and where our future lies within it. The one true feeling that is very apparent to all of us is, we all want our market to grow!
It’s unanimous! We want more and more people to get involved in our market. Naturally, the more people in our industry, means more money being circulated throughout this industry.
Okay, now that we’ve established the consensus of growing and expanding our industry, let me share with you my idea that will greatly increase the activity of our market.
By teaching people how to make money from within this market, we will explode this market. Let me explain. If I taught you how to quickly make a few hundred dollars a month from within this market, would you tell someone?
Of course you would. You would tell friends, neighbours, relatives and anyone else that would stop and listen. Well, maybe not anyone, but you would tell a lot of people.
Well, that’s how I feel. I want to share with you what I’m doing to make a full time living from Click Thru Marketing.Here’s an in-depth look into my idea. I’m going to be changing focus very soon (actually I have already). You see, for the last few years I’ve been teaching people how to build up their residual traffic networks, build their mailing lists, and make a few bucks online. Now I feel it’s time to start focusing on the programs that make the most money within our industry. Let me say that again. It’s now time to start focusing on the programs that make YOU the most money within the traffic exchange industry!
Doesn’t that make sense? It amazes me how so many people can twist that around to making us think that’s a bad thing to make money online. Isn’t that why you’re on the Internet building a business anyway?
Then why do you think so many people take advice and listen to others that aren’t successful or have no real track record of making great income from the Internet?
I’ve been seeing a transition within our industry. More and more traffic exchanges are adding ways for their members to make more and more money from their programs.
This is awesome! You see, these programs are already set up for building downlines and referring new members. And they all have amazing referral programs that allow you to build residual traffic and commissions using their systems.
Boy I love these programs! Folks, it’s fun to build this business! I absolutely love watching new downline members join below me every day. Why? Because I know that each one that surfs I’ll receive a percentage of their traffic (we call this building our marketing arm).
And, if they upgrade, (which more and more are doing) we make some % of residual income. Folks if you haven’t figured out the power of working hard once and then profiting from that month after month, you’re really missing the boat here. Residual income is truly golden!
Personally, I feel this is just the beginning. This industry is so young (4-5 years) it hasn’t even reached it’s explosive phase. The key is to not just think about making money with your own program or related product. Think outside the box!Don’t focus all your efforts on one program. Make money from many programs and then you’ll never have to worry about any one program going out of business (huge secret of the rich - multiple sources of income).
That’s it! That’s where my focus is going (and has been for all of 2005) I just want everyone to realize that they too can make money from 30+ different programs online, month after month, year after year.
If we can do it, why can’t you? (keep in mind that this is a slow process). You must focus on one program at a time until that one is built up enough to move on to the next.
Okay, I would hate to leave you hanging here, but our time is up for now. The good news is I’ll explain how to proceed in more detail in the next article, by showing you how to start off by following the game plan in detail.
The game plan consists of joining the traffic exchanges that will allow you to make the most amount of commissions from referring new members, then promote, promote and promote some more!
I will go into detail in the next article which programs these are and which one’s I’ve made the most commissions from.Until then, surf, surf and surf until you earn enough to pay for upgrades and more quality traffic. You must stay focused on building downlines in the best programs. It’s a fact that the most successful marketers in our industry have huge downlines and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. :o)
In part one we briefly talked about ways to make money from the exchanges, but today we’re going to go into more detail on how this is accomplished.
First off, you must understand that this is going to take some time. I say this because, without the downlines in place, you aren’t going to receive much in the way of commissions and residual income. Your set-up plan consists of building downlines as your primary focus.
Think of it this way. Each new downline member you receive puts you one step closer to your end goal that, in this situation, is residual income in the thousands, every month.
Fact: Each downline member adds more potential to reaching that goal and should be treated as an important part of your focus.
And there are ways to motivate that downline member to get more active so you can reach your goal faster. We will get into that in the future with effective ways to email your downline and motivate them to surf every day.
The most wonderful aspect of the traffic exchanges is the downline building capabilities that are programmed into their systems. Every time a new downline members joins either your downline or your downlines - downline (usually 5 levels deep), you benefit.
Keep in mind that the most benefit comes from your first level downline since this is where you make commissions. But, since you receive residual traffic from the other 4 levels, this can be a huge benefit to you as well.
So your efforts should always be to generate more first level downline members and then teach your first level downline to do the same. Once you teach them, they will teach their first level downline and that will keep them active and surfing the exchanges everyday. This is important so that you will always have them helping to grow your business.
Once you have put into place this system of everyone helping everyone build their downlines, you will always have a steady flow of residual traffic building up month after month.
Now the second very important part is where you send your traffic. Remember you will receive more and more residual traffic as your downlines grow and you need to know where to send that traffic to create an ongoing, compounding process.
You must have a URL (a website) that grows your business. This is the central location from where you not only send your traffic, but where you can best use that traffic to the fullest.
From personal experience, this main URL needs to be a downline builder program or list builder. Preferably a downline builder that helps build your downlines in the best traffic exchanges online.
For myself this has been FreeClickThruClub.com (a club designed to help you build your downlines in the top traffic exchanges online). This program accomplishes three things right off the bat.1. When a member joins FCTC you receive the name and email address of that person (you can also add that name and email into your personal autoresponder and send out emails to get to know them and help motivate them to the fullest).
2. Through the program they have access to the best traffic exchanges you want them to join. In other words, this program does the work for you. It gets the person to join, it suggests to this person to join 20 other exchanges and puts them right into your downlines in the best exchanges online. Not to mention it teaches them how to do it so you don’t have to.
3. Making money... yes, FCTC has a list of the best Paid traffic exchanges that pay out commissions when a new member joins. This means that when a member joins one of these programs you will make commission on the spot.
Now let me quickly share with you what it really takes to generate referrals. These are the averages for FCTC I have tracked and tested out.
Right now it takes about 300 page views to get a new member to join my FCTC downline. 1 out of 10 of my FCTC referrals will join all the programs inside FCTC. 1 out of 5 will join at least one program in FCTC. These are the average numbers.
In other words, there’s no hype here and there’s no fluff. This is what you can expect as an average.You might do better then this or maybe even worse. I just want you to know what to expect before you get going. Okay, so let’s go over some more figures here.
Let’s say it takes 10 new FCTC members to make a commission of $5 (this tends to be the worst case scenario). That would mean it takes 3,000 hits to make your first $5. But keep in mind, that even though it might take 10 FCTC referrals to get a sale for a paid exchange, there are other huge benefits we’re not discussing right now for the other referrals that join some programs. One of those benefits is the residual traffic aspect when your downline surfs.
Let’s say that you do get 10 FCTC referrals and that you did get a $5 commission. What else are you receiving?One: a serious referral in your downline that is willing to spend money online.
Two: You get 10% in residual traffic of what this person surfs.
So if he surfs 100 sites a day, you receive 10 hits to your URL. Multiply that by 30 days and that’s 300 free hits for you each month. Wow - that’s just one referral!
Remember, this all adds up each month. The more downline you refer, the more free traffic and commissions you make.And this is just the beginning. Out of those 9 other referrals in the example above, you will receive residual traffic for the one’s that surf. It’s truly amazing how this can build on itself.
Now let’s talk about how you can make this move faster for you. There are other ways to speed up this process and get you to the point where you are making money faster.
Once you have their name and email address you can send them a welcome email with information on who you are and ways to help them get started. This is one of the most effective ways to build relationships with your downline and the most prosperous in the long run.
Plus, once you build those relationships, it makes it much easier to share and endorse products with them to make commissions in the future. This is key to building a profit producing list.
2. Make commissions when they upgrade.These days there are more and more free and paid traffic exchanges that offer commissions to you when one of your first level downline members, upgrade to a Pro member in that program.
This is how I personally make extra money each month and is another huge benefit to growing large downlines and teaching them how to do the same.
Now, in ‘part one’ of this article I said I would share with you what traffic exchanges I make the most commissions from. Hands down it’s the paid exchanges I make the most money from, but I also make some from the free ones.
Let’s start with the free exchanges first...So far this year (2005) I have made over $1,800 dollar from TopSurfer.com. This program offers a wholesale membership that pays out directly to the member when someone buys into it. Another important point is that I only have 352 first level downline members and it costs me $10 a month to have the opportunity to make money in this program.
Next is HitSafari.com where I have made close to $300 dollars this year. HitSafari pays out 10 and 20% commission to the free and Pro members when someone buys traffic or upgrades. I am a Pro member and I pay $5 a month for it. I also have 336 first level referrals.
MysticalMaze.com is another one that has a great commission plan in place for its members. It pays out 50% commissions to its toplevel pro members and that costs me $10 a month. I have made close to $200 so far this year and I have 423 first level downline members.
Then there’s ClickinFingers, DeepSeaHits, ProHitsPlus and TrafficTribe where I’ve made over $400 this year in combined commissions.
All of these free exchanges are just a few of the many exchanges that now offer commissions to their members. Just make sure to take a close look at the exchanges you join and see if they pay.
As far as the paid exchanges go the numbers are much higher mainly because they not only offer a front end commission, but also offer ongoing residual commissions for upgraded members. Many more people upgrade in these types of programs.
So far this year I’ve a made a little over $3,000 combined commissions in GoneClicking, PowaSurf (before I owned it), RoyalSurf, ProClickEsate, CashinPro, TEB, and MoreActualVisitors. Keep in mind, I’m not including the one’s I own... which are ClickMaster Pro, ProClickExchange, and ProTrafficShop.
Naturally, you make a lot more commissions from the paid exchanges and this is where a lot of your focus ought to be when working towards making serious money from the exchanges online.
Some other points to keep in mind. Once you have built a number of downlines you can send emails to, you can promote other products and services related to their needs and make more commissions and profits each month. This is another area I personally profit from in the thousands every year.
There are other programs like WebmasterQuest and CashClicking that are harder to make commissions from, but are the best for producing results from advertising. They also have other benefits that most people won’t tell you how to use like their “email your first level downline” feature. I’ve personally made many sales and grown my lists sending emails through this system. Of course you must build your downline in these programs first.
Now, let’s discuss some tools out there that are absolutely necessary to take you from A-Z in the shortest amount of time...1. You need an autoresponder where you can upload emails to and have them sent out to your list on specific intervals. This is part of the relationship building process and is critical to keeping yourself organized and automated.
2. A PayPal or StormPay account. This is where you will receive commissions that you can forward onto your bank account.3. You need a professional edge. This can be best accomplished by getting your own domain name and email address. It’s much more professional if someone receives an email from YourName@YourSite.com then 47732_joeblow@hotmal.com. Without it you will have a harder time building those key relationships.
Bottom line? You need that professional presence online.That’s it. Those are the three main tools you need. There are quite a few more that will help like Rotators, Trackers, Splash Page Creators, Multi-Tabbed Browsers, and so on, but those first three are the most critical.
Now let me leave you with this. Once you have built up thousands of downline and list members, you will have many more doors opened to you and your business. Once you have a list, the sky’s the limit.
You could then learn things like...l How to create 7-15 page reports that can make you quick money from your existing lists.
l How to turn your subscribers into “Marketing Partners”. l How to get a flood of profit with one “Super Partner” you find from your list.
l Setting up JVs with your downline
And so on...
Remember. This all starts and continues by first setting up, and then managing your exchange accounts while you surf them every day. Just set up a game plan and stick to it until you succeed.
Well, not only is it truth to the fullest, it is one principle used by the most successful people in the world.
Every person that has become successful has at one time or another helped someone else with his or her success. And in the process, those other people have helped make them even more successful.
Think about it. If you invest in people they will invest in you. They will also be the most loyal people you will know, especially in business. When something goes wrong in your business they will be the first people there for you. When you need help they will be the first to come to your aid in any way they can.
Helping others is so important that it’s key to your success with your online business.Here are 3 steps you can do to start helping other people with their success online.
1. Be Empathetic
Think back to when you started working your business and how hard it was to understand the lingo or how you felt when you first started trying to make money online.
What helped you the most? What was a waste of time? What did you learn by trial and error that could’ve been made easier if you’d only had someone to show you the way? What are some tools you didn’t know about that would’ve been the most helpful in getting your business off the ground?
2. Make a ListWrite down the things you did that helped you learn how to do different tasks. Don’t forget to include the things you found that didn’t help or proved only to be a waste of time. Make a list of those do’s and don’ts and put them into a word document, note pad, or on a web page. Be sure to take your time and perfect the list until they are very easy to understand and follow.
3. Show It OffShow your list to people every chance you get, even if you think they are more knowledgeable than you are. It really doesn’t matter who they are, because if you can help them in any way, you’ve begun your path to success.
Exchanging phone numbers is a great way to build relationships and trust in people, and to find those who are truly interested in what you have to offer. You can communicate your information to a lot of people at once on a website, but you can only talk to one person at a time on the phone. That quality time with one right person could be the best investment you will ever make.
As time goes on and more people you come into contact with and are able to help, you will notice that they will start helping you in return. This could happen in a variety of ways. They may show you things that they’ve learned. They might refer more people to your page or content. Or, they may turn out to be your most loyal customer.
This can be very easy when you take this one step further and add affiliate links into your free do’s and don’ts list.For example, if one item on your list is how you have learned to use an autoresponder system and your success with following up with people who use it, then make sure you include a link to that autoresponder service that you use in your content.
There are many terms people use for this kind of marketing. They might call these free reports, viral e-books, or mini-reports. The key factor here is that you are honest and genuine and that you make sure to include any affiliate links you can for the products and services you use and share with people on your do’s and don’ts list.
If you write it in a manner that is truly helpful to others (which is what your focus is) they will respond in the way you want. The extra time you spend creating a quality page with helpful content and not merely a bunch of links will be well worth the effort in the long run. The easy path is not necessarily the best path.
When you’re first getting started, all you want to focus on is the most helpful do’s and don’ts list you can write. When you’ve got it perfected, then add links where it’s appropriate.
Here’s a personal story on how I was able to pick up hundreds of dollars worth of products absolutely free and how I met my mentor who was the key factor in my success.
If you can remember back a few years ago when there was no real encryption software for PayPal and, if you knew how, you could steal any product online that used their services.
I did something that most people wouldn’t do. But, because I did I built some lasting relationships that were key to my online success. What I did was very simple. I went looking for products that I could steal.No, I didn’t steal them, I just found products I COULD steal easily if I had chosen to. All I’d have to do was find a product that used PayPal and look at the source code. If I found the source code with the PayPal info, I could copy and paste the download link and, voila, I’d have had the product in no time.
However, since I’m such an honest person, instead of stealing them I emailed the owner and let them know I could steal them and how.I would say something like... “I found your product and wanted it so bad I almost stole it. But instead, I decided the honest thing to do was to send you an email and let you know about this security breach in your system.” Then, I gave them details of how I could’ve stolen thei