Tony Tezak Says…….

Ryan Hogan, TrafficPunk and Ed Tyner, RoadRunnerSurf have joined to launch a new traffic exchange - Promo Lotto.  They put their heads together to come up with a manual  traffic exchange that is different.  This is not a cookie cutter traffic exchange.

Promo Lotto has a unique system based on lotto numbers that rewards members credits when their numbers are matched on the surfbar.  To reward activity, several bouses along the way are included during surfing as well.  But that’s just a scratch on the surface..

-  The first Traffic Exchange to offer a customizable surfbar.  It can be changed “on-the-fly” at any time!
-  Fully integrated Private Messaging System.
-  Unique team based system featuring weekly activity rewards.
-  Live Chat system for networking with other team members.
-  Opt-In list builder for all members. (Special listings for Premium)
-  Unique, Fully customizable Program Builder offering full control - you decide what is in your downline builder.

It also features a free rotator.

My favorite subject with new exchanges is ‘What are the commissions?’

Free members: 20% on upgrades, 10% on purchases.
Premium members: 40% on upgrades, 25% on purchases.They are doing it right - expecting success from the beginning - they are launching on a fully dedicated server.

As with the launch of all sucessful programs, there will be outstanding one-time-offers.  Since PromoLott will be successful, read the one-time-offers carefully before moving on.

This is one Unique, Fun and Innovative traffic exchange.

Sometimes I am a bit harsh on traffic exchange owners.  So I thought I would start my 3-week RV trip with some positive words about some of them.  Some are doing mighty fine things, but the ineffective ones get in the way of positive press for the good ones.

Paul Kinder, Traffic Splash, is a real leader in the traffic exchange world.  His traffic exchange has exploded in membership, surfing activity, and more importantly in results.  His active role in increasing surfing at numerous traffic exchanges by JVing with other owners in surfing activity is to be commended.  Oh….and the commissions aren’t bad at Traffic Splash either.

Jon Olson, The TE Guy, continues to grow ILoveHits membership by hundreds every week.  His new profile ‘thingy’ at ILoveHits gives member a place to do some social networking.  I give it an A+!  His SWAT Traffic upgrade is one of the best in the traffic exchange world.  It gives you access to some of the best minds in traffic exchanges thru its weekly seminars.  You get to pick their minds for information.  Almost every week owners will offer credit package specials for the attendees - 2 for 1 and even an occassional 3 for 1.  Of course his HtExchangeNews is now 5 years old and as always covers a full range of information on traffic exchanges.

Robert Puddy, ‘the no-nonsense, tell it like it is guy’, is always willing to give valuable advice on succeeding online.  AdvertisingKnowHow helps you grow YOUR list in 3 ways - 1} By way of its thank you page or co-registration service.  2]  Article submissions. 3} Generate traffic to your existing squeeze pages on the traffic exchange.  He even gives you a 7 email series to put in your autoresponder.  It certainly has incresed by subscribers to my lists.

Robert has added a new program to his downline builder, started a surfing/referral incentives and even announced a way to ‘throw tomatoes at him’.  Check out his blog for details.

If you need help building a squeeze page, Robert gives you the solution - Free -  in his Instant Squeeze Page Generator.  Instant Squeeze Page Generator takes the hard work of designing a professional squeeze page and makes it so easy a baby could do it. If you can point and click, you will be creating squeeze pages in minutes.

Cindy Battye, The Bunny Lady over at Traffic Bunnies, quietly does some amazing things.  Before I forget, please do not tell her you eat Bunny Stew.  She gets upset.

Cindy has completely over hauled her exchange.  It look is great.  You can edit your profile details, tell people about yourself, find friends - meet new ones.  Do business with people who you actually know - follow along with people you would like to learn from, and share what you are up to!  You can share messages directly onsite, or connect through the site with MSN, Yahoo, AIM etc.

In her spare time, she created Daily Niche Idea.  Each day you will be sent an email with a niche suggestion!  It’s all about giving you the ideas, tools and tips to help you make money.  Basically one can build an income from multiple affiliate networks by advertising a single link.

Better stop for today - kind of long winded already.  If you live in Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, or Colorado, I’ll wave to you as we ‘RV’ thru these states for the next 3 weeks!

Scott Martin has finally taken the last step to make his Blue-Surf traffic exchange even better.  Scott is now paying commissions - finally!

You can now earn up to 40% commissions.  Scott even came up with a new splash page to advertise the update to his traffic exchange.

It gave me the reason to upgrade in Scott’s exchange.  I took the discounted 6-month gold upgrade.  So now in addition to great traffic and results, we can earn a residual income at Blue-Surf traffic exchange.

I joined Blue-Surf Traffic Exchange in January 2008. It has a membership base of 5100.  It will continue to grow with the addition of commissions.  Way-to-Go Scott!

Cindy Battye’s the owner of Traffic Bunnies traffic exchange recently launched Daily Niche Idea an unbelievable free resource for niche marketers.

Cindy says it best on her sales page : “What If Someone Did The Research, Provided The Materials, Turned It Into A Money Making Funnel AND Handed It To You For FREE.”  Well, she has done it.

Daily Niche Idea gives you a very simple 4-step procedure for success in niche marketing.

Plus you get these valuable resources:

- A 7 day plan to setting up your first blog.

- A guide that takes you through the process of creating your own ebook.

- A tutorial on setting up your own squidoo lens.

- A free website builder.

- You have total rights of the PLR articles that you are provided.  Including the option to use them for information for video.

- An ebook that not only covers the set up needed for affiliate marketing, but is useful for nearly every area of internet marketing.

-  Each day you will be sent an email with a niche suggestion.  You will also get the statistics about how many people have searched for your niche - giving you a good idea of your target audience.

Jon Olson in his HitExchangeNews says “I really feel this is the ‘no excuse tool’ for building a mailing list.”

Sometimes the surfing traffic exchanges improvements are so simple you just have to hit your head - Duh! Jay Hines has hit a home run with his Quick Tab Change.

Quick Tab Change is software that allows you to swap tabs using a one-key shortcut of your choice. No need to click tabs while surfing your favorite traffic exchanges in a tabbed browser.

It is so simple that even I, ‘Mr Non-Techie’, was able to get it to work the first time.

I have been using it and can report that it works on Firefox and Internet Explorer. It has streamlined my surfing efforts.

There are dozens of List Building programs online and I recently joined The List Auction. It is really nice, works great and is a source of income. It is owned by Mike Purvis.

What makes The List Auction stand out from other List Builders?

Mike makes it easy to earn credits by clicking ad, but adds an Auction.
Mike’s Credit Auctions give you an opportunity to buy credits at a very low price. Plus you can actually earn money by auctioning off your credits. Yes, you can earn money by auctioning off your excess credits.

One of the most common problems newer marketers face is the lack of a great product or service to promote. If this is you… start earning some good money by promoting The List Auction. As a Gold Member you can earn 60% commission on direct sales…

Bonus: You can watch your inbox for the daily “Golden Nugget” email…..can’t reveal much more here.

Downline Ads - These powerful ads put your product or service right in front of every single member you refer to The List Auction. When a member of your downline logs in to the system, your ad will be the first thing they see. The feature is available for all members.

Featured Ads - Featured Ads are displayed in the lower 3 positions of the “Featured Members” panel. Just upload your image (or enter in your preferred text), put in the web address to your site or affiliate program of choice and you’re done. This Feature is only available for upgraded members. Your Ad will be rotated evenly with other Gold and Silver members.

Top Mail Ads - As a Gold Member, you can have your ad displayed at the top of emails being sent from all members of the program!

There are a limited number of upgraded memberships available. Only 10% of the membership can be a Gold member.

Mike has put together an outstanding Quick Start Video Series.

The List Auction is a program you ought to really check out.

I think the answer to the question ‘Can surfing traffic exchanges less be more?’ is yes.

My surfing patterns have changes several times over the years. I used to surf as many traffic exchanges as humanly possible for as long as humanly possible. <grin> Eventually I stopped and actually thought about what I was doing.

My surfing ratio is 0.50 - for every page I viewed
I earned half a credit.

I surfed 50 times on each exchange. My site was
viewed 25 times on each exchange.

Since I surfed 25 exchanges every time I surfed,
my sites were shown 625 times spread across 25 exchanges.

Stopping and thinking about my surfing activity for a moment, I realized ‘my way’ was not effective, nor efficient.

I changed!

Without changing my available surfing time, I started to surf only 10 traffic exchanges every day, but surfed much longer on these 10 sites. I also tracked my results.

I discovered that my results increased by only surfing a core group of traffic exchanges every day. Does that mean I only ever surf 10 traffic exchanges? No, when there is extra time, I surf other exchanges outside of this core group. If for some reason one of my core group traffic exchanges do not deliver the hits I earned, I skip it that day and substitute another traffic exchange.

Today, I have my core group of 10 exchanges. I ensure my splash/squeeze pages rotate in these exchanges 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Where does one start in choosing which traffic exchanges to use? Why not start with the ten that surfers voted as their top 10 traffic exchanges. It is a good starting point.

One should really track all of their advertising efforts to really determine which traffic exchanges work best for them. I have successfully used HitsConnect for years as my rotator and ad tracking.

Bottom line….

Surfing longer on fewer exchanges is an effective traffic exchange advertising strategy. Less is more. Establish your own core group of exchanges even if it’s only 5 or 6. It doesn’t really matter. You want your sites seen on that core group 24 hours a day. What does matter is that you track your results. Tracking is the only way to determine which traffic exchanges are best for you.

I consider Ray White, Soaring4Traffic traffic exchange, an excellent owner and guess what? Soaring4Traffic was created one year ago. Ray says: “It’s PARTY TIME!” Ray is having a 7-day First Year Anniversary Party and everyone is invited! Let’s Party!

Ray will be giving away prizes in the 7-day referral contest to include, cash, upgrades, and credits. There will also be drawing each day from members that surf a total of 100 pages. The prizes will be 1,000 credits, 5 winners each day.

The Party includes giving $1 per referral, rules apply, plus $50 each to the top 5 referral winners!

All members that surf 100 pages in a day will have a chance in the final drawing, 7 chances if they surfed 100 each day, to win either a one year Soaring Eagle upgrade, 2 one month upgrades, two 5,000 credit packages, and or one of five 1,000 credit packages from Soaring4Traffic.

For new members who join, Ray is offering some incredible one-time-offers [OTOs].

These include a one-year upgrade and a fantastic Life Time upgrade. Each of these OTOs come with 9 Bonuses. I won’t give you all the details…you will have to read them for yourselves. The savings is not 20%, not 30%, not 50%, not 60%….it’s is more!

Here is the Kicker! Ray has given me permission to offer the readers of my blog a special deal. Ray is unable to offer these OTOs to current members because of the script limitations. So here is the deal…….

Current members of Soaring4Traffic can submit a support ticket and ask for ‘Tony’s Special Price’ and tell him if you want the monthly, yearly or lifetime upgrade.  Ray will give you the OTO upgrade prices. Do not tell anyone, but the incredible prices are :  Lifetime upgrade:  $299.97; Yearly upgrade: $79.00; or Monthly upgrade: $9.99.  These are his top notch Soaring Eagle upgrades.  See you just never know what you will find at my blog.

The referral contest, surfing rewards, daily winners and complete celebration details will be posted on the Soaring4Traffic Blog for all to see.

An excelent tool for traffic exchanges is born - Banner Keyring.

Banner management wase a pain in the neck for me. You have to set up your banners at every traffic exchange you use, assign credits to your campaigns, and then, just when you think you’re finished… you start using a new banner or promoting a new program and you have to do it all over again! Not any more!

Dan Smith and Kyle Hoskins just unveiled a new service that makes managing banner ads a piece of cake - Banner Keyring. I have been using it and it seems to work fine.

You can now put all of your banners on a single rotator and get a single image URL and link URL to use in all of your banner advertising campaigns. No more logging in to ten, twenty or more traffic exchanges every time you need to change a banner. You just log in at Banner Keyring, change it once, and the new banner starts rotating at every traffic exchange you use!

It also gives you some stats so you can see which banners are being clicked. You can easily add and delete you banners very easily.

They included an advertising co-op in Banner Keyring. You can purchase a co-op spot, and get your banners rotating in all of the top raffic exchanges without you ever having to log in to a single one!

As with most new programs, there are some very special offers in the members area … pay special attention to them. Almost forgot, you can join Banner Keyring for free.

Today I thought I would pass on some numbers of a good traffic exchange. That’s what we all want is a traffic exchange with active surfers looking at our splash pages.

Have you ever wondered about the activity of a traffic exchange? What are the number of surfers actually surfing in a Good traffic exchange? Ever wonder if an exchange owner will give you the numbers?

Well one of the truly excellent traffic exchange owners gave his record numbers….Paul Kinder, Traffic Splash.

Paul gathers his stats every Tuesday. Today he released the results for Traffic Splash and the numbers are impressive.

Traffic Splash surfers smashed the daily record for people surfing 100 pages in a day - record was 661 and is now 735.

Surfers smashed the weekly average for number of people surfing 100 pages in a day - record was 572 and now 625.

Surfers smashed the weekly average for number of url’s receiving hits in a day - record was 3,162 and now 3,243.

Traffic Splash members smashed the record for number of active surfers in a week - was 3,844 and now 3,893.

Only a handful of f (non-PTC) traffic exchanges in the world that can compete with these numbers.

I contribute Paul’s activity success to communication, communication and communication. Nearly every email he sends has something to do with activity.

Folks, Traffic Splash is an excellent traffic exchange and I certainly want all my squeeze pages flowing to these active members.

I wonder when other traffic exchange owners will release their numbers? Traffic exchange owners are encouraged to add a comment giving us their numbers.