Get it All - Advertising and Autoresponder

If you've been doing this for any length of time, you've no doubt heard you need to do three things to succeed: advertise, capture lead information and follow up.

Advertising can be free, but it's fairly time consuming. (See my previous post). Advertising that's not free can get costly, especially if you aren't targeting your Pay Per Click properly

Capturing leads requires an autoresponder, which automatically collects lead info and sends a series of e-mails. Good autoresponders cost ($10 to $20 a month or more); and you still have to write the e-mails.

Enter MTE Advertising Coop. This web site works like a Traffic Exchange gateway. It allows paid members to post a web site (or splash or squeeze page) and automatically displays the page on 50 member traffic exchanges, and the list includes some well known names including I Love Hits, Dragon Surf and Start Exchange to name a few. They guarantee 3000 hits per month to your entered site at a rate of more than 100 hits per day on average.

And to quote the As Seen on TV commercials, But Wait, There's More.

On July 21, MTE added a complete Lead Capture System for its paid members that includes a choice of several custom pre-designed squeeze pages (several of which have a text block that you can customize) and four pre-written e-mails that you can also edit to closely match your program.

The cost for all of this? $10 a month for their standard Pro package (1 site promoted) or $20 a month for the ultimate package that lets you promote two sites and has more banner and text link impressions.

Oh, and banners. You get code to display banners and your web site and if you use it your banners are displayed on other member's web sites.

Check out the banner on this blog that appears right below the two columns of vertical banners. It's from MTE. And the link ads -- those are MTE as well. Both of which are getting me text and banner displays on other web sites.

It's the best "all in one" solution to marketing our programs I've come across.

Ways to Advertise your Business.

OK, I realize there are entire books written on this subject. But here is my own quick and dirty round up on how to advertise you ACME People Search (or any biz actually).

These are programs I use to one extent or another. They each have their advantages and disadvantages as I'll go into here.

First some terms:

Credits: Points the website gives you that you can spend on things, e.g. sending e-mails or purchasing advertising on the site. All these programs award initial credits and are more than happy to sell your additional credits.

Impressions. An "impression" is when your banner, splash page, text link, etc. is displayed one time for one visitor.

Banner: The most common form of advertising on the Internet. Generally 468x60 pixels but can be any size.

Splash Page: A simple, scaled down, bare bones web site generally used in Traffic Exchanges. Loads fast and generally sends the user to your full sales page.

Squeeze Page. Like a splash page but is designed to collect e-mail and contact information before sending the visitor on to your site.

Solo Ad: In a Traffic Exchange, an e-mail ad that goes to the member of that Exchange only. In a Safe List, will go to the "contact" e-mail instead of the list e-mail and is worth more points when reading.

Super Solo/Exclusive Super Solo. In TEs, goes to members of more than just the one TE, usually to the TEs also owned or operated by the same person.

SAFELISTS
As the name implies, Safelists are programs that give you a "safe" list of e-mail addresses to send to. When you join you get an initial supply of credits to use to send e-mails. You earn credits by clicking on a link in the e-mail which takes you to a web page. You must view the web page from 0 to 20 seconds in order to earn your credits.

My Favorites. Green-Elist -- No wait time to earn credits to mail.
Active Safelist. Mail twice a day if you have the points.

TRAFFIC EXCHANGES
Take a Safelist and add in the ability to click on ads on the website to earn credits and you have a Traffic Exchange (TE). Traffic Exchanges (which sometimes call themselves Text Ad Exchanges) usually start you off with a supply of credits, banner expressions and even (in some cases) Solo Ads. Once you've signed up for a few TEs or Safelists you will no doubt get e-mails that want you to sign up for other TEs that include Promo Codes that will give you additional advertising if not complete complimentary upgrades. You get most of your credits reading e-mails, and like with Safelists you must view the web page that is displayed for up to 15 seconds or more to get the credit.

Some of my Favorite TEs
Real Time Mega Traffic
E-Traffic


MANUAL TRAFFIC EXCHANGE
The final type of program (at least in terms of ads) is the Manual Traffic Exchange (MTE). The main point of the MTE is that you can surf web pages within the MTE's web site, for which you get credits and on most MTEs earn bonuses. You can't view text links or banners; although you can enter these types of ads that are displayed along with the web pages. Like when you click on the links in TEs and Safelists, you must view the web page for 10-20 seconds before you get credit, and they all have a method of making sure you don't get credit if you move on too quickly. Usually it's clicking on a matching image.

A little trick I use is to open up two MTEs in different tabs in your browser and switch back and forth while the timers are running. Saves a little time and you ARE still looking at both MTE's displays. Some MTEs do have e-mail, but you have to earn or purchase credit to use them.

My Favorites:
Traffic Splash
Traffic Swarm
Warfare Traffic

UPGRADES
A word on upgrades. All of these programs are free to join. As a Free member you get some advertising; and many have promo codes that get you upgraded advertising upon joining, and in some case upgraded memberships. Upgrades otherwise are in one of two categories: A one-time fee or a monthly subscription. The most common upgrade categories above free are Pro and JV. Some sites (Such as Warfare Traffic) have their own names. WT calls their upgraded categories Sergeant, Commander and Major. :)

When you upgrade you get more credits for reading things and higher commissions when you recruit people. Like anything else in the Internet Marketing Game, the more you invest the more you can earn.

New Mega List in Pre Launch -- It Starts Today

How often do you get to get in on the ground floor of a new list. You can today at Streamline Funnel which launches at 7 p.m. on July 7.

Even if you miss the pre lanuch, this is going to be huge.

Check it out here.

The highest converting traffic I've ever seen...

Traffic Python is a new site that says it guarantees more web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost. More importantly, it promises higher CONVERSIONS--signups and sales. So I decided to put it to the test...

My first impression was the site looks professional and clean, with an attractive look and feel. It is easy to read and understand. Joining the site was easy and painless--they do offer 2 upgrade options but they are not required to gain the benefits.

The Members Area is very well laid out and intuitive--I could figure out what to do after only a few minutes and was able to get up and running in less than 5 minutes. Inside the site, you create links and ads--the links you simply enter any URL links you use into the generator and it transforms them into "Traffic Python" links. You create ads for anything you want to promote using the Traffic Python Ad Generator, which is very easy to use. You can create as many links and as many ads as you like. And they are organized in a logical way--links are displayed in the order you create them but also your 5 most recent links appear on the main page for quick reference. Also, since the link generator is the tool you'll use most, it is also right at the top of the main page when you login. Very smart!

After you've created at least 1 link and 1 ad you can start to generate traffic. Just use and promote the new Traffic Python link instead of the original source link you had. Every time the Traffic Python link is clicked, the page loads followed by a small ad window in the lower right corner. It displays 3 ads PLUS an image with your affiliate link that goes back to Traffic Python. So if anyone clicks the Traffic Python image they see the site, and if they signup they become your referral. It's a great viral feature because you can build referrals without even trying to just by using the site.

Now every time the ad window displays (your Traffic Python links get clicked) you earn credits that get YOUR ad displayed in the ad windows when other members' links get clicked. So the more clicks, the more times your ads get displayed.


And this works virally--meaning as you make referrals into Traffic Python (either by promoting it or just using it and visitors click the Traffic Python image on the ad window to join) you also earn ad credits on THEIR link clicks. And this works up to 5 levels deep. So you can create a massive amount of free ad views and web traffic by referring others to Traffic Python also.

I didn't get to test the full effect of a big downline yet (I just got the tool) but I can tell you the rest of the site works exactly as stated--my links got clicked, I earned credits, and my ads got displayed. Traffic Python even tracked my results so I know how many clicks and how many ad displays. That was an impressive unadvertised extra feature.

There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all--downline emailing. You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Traffic Python really shines. They took time to make the emailing often enough that it's valuable as a user, but no so often that it's a burden to your downline. But the best part about this feature (and actually the credit earning too) is that it tells you exactly how long until you can mail again. Now THAT's cool.

Overall I have to say I am impressed with Traffic Python. It is simple yet powerful, and delivers on its promises. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to increase traffic and advertising.

See it and join here:

http://trafficpython.com

Get your $20 in free clicks

Hi all,

Getting started on advertising -- either your People Search engine or the GDI opportunity. Bidvertizer is giving $20 in free PPC advertising, new codes, no coupons, nada. They do ask for a CC and you are signed up to pay if you continue, but if you just want the $20 in free ads, just keep an eye on it and cancel your ad after you spend the free $20. I plan to suspend mine before I get close to make sure I don't go over. :)

Cheers,

Ed

Welcome

Greetings, and welcome to my People Search Business Blog.

I've been on the Internet basically since the beginning. No, I don't claim to have invented it, I'll leave that to Al Gore. :)
But I was an "early adopter." I first experimented with online services using ViewTron, the "videotext" service of The Miami Herald, the first fledgling Internet. Then there was CompuServe and so on and so on.
I've seen a lot of Internet Businesses come and go and even worked a few of them. But the what made me pass on most was the up-front costs.
So the reason I'm giving Tissa's Acme People Search a full-blown go is the fact that there are no up-front costs. The fact that you get 7 days of web hosting and 30 days of advertising to get you up and running was what convinced me to go with it.
So stay tuned. I'll post when I get referrals, and how a got them. The things I do that work, and the things that don't.

Cheers,

Ed