And what I read today on Tim Linden’s Blog and later – Jon Olson’s Hit Exchange News, was, well…EERIE jumped out FIRST – so it was certainly weird with paramnesian overtones.

It all started for me while blizzards tore through unprepared communities. That’s when Tim Linden asked, “What should the owners of dead traffic exchanges do?”

Hit Exchange News figures 95% of exchange owners fail.

I ask, “How can a traffic exchange die when it never lived?”

Tim doesn’t figure design is one of the 5 reasons why traffic exchanges die. “You can’t live with a crappy design,” I say

Jon Olson’s, “How to Not Run a Traffic Exchange” is a must read for aspiring owners. And surfers better read it too. You don’t want to fall victim to the imperfectly spawned exchanges.

“They are broken ghouls and don’t even know it,” I say.

And the way I see it, the pathological approach confirms what Jon says, what I say, what others say too. That shouldn’t come as no surprise to you when you realize we say entirely different things

And to think, today is Valentines Day.

I was going to write about how romancing your leads can triple your response rates but then with mind blowing clarity it struck me; do you have any leads to begin with?

Confusing isn’t it?

I admit it. I did it on purpose because being confused is necessary to fully understand and implement an important marketing principle.

Before we get to the principle…

… it’s time to clear your mind of confusing confusers. Don’t even think for the moment or two. Breathe in deeply and slowly, really slowly let it out.

Now think how overwhelmed new marketers are when they start finding about the hundreds of little details about building lists

Its’ no wonder they don’t do it. We are confusing them with information overload. We need to see things from our audience’s eyes.

That’s why my new newsletter, my Traffic Wave newsletter, is far different from anything you seen from me

The initial email series teaches the stuff new marketers want to learn

Stuff like the 3 Steps to Building Huge Downlines from Scratch

How to get going promoting yourself when you haven’t started a list yet

An easy way to overcome biggest hurdle that stops most folks dead in their tracks before they even get started

And yes, we will be talking about lists a lot but not all the time

And you get all that plus the 10 Laws of Getting Paid Signups over at DeadlyAffiliateTactics.com

Think of what means.

Basically, you can use 13 Deadly Traffic Exchange Tragedies as an incentive to build big fat lists of people interested in traffic exchanges

You can also use it to provide valuable content to your subscribers and members. And if you pick up the rebranding rights, then you can create additional streams of income just by giving the book away

But don’t take my word for it. Go read it yourself at http://13deadlytrafficexchangetragedies.com

But it’s time to face facts

Most people don’t make money with them for two big reasons

And I am not talking about using them to build your own personal list

In fact, I use safelists and list builders to promote giveaways and other hot time sensitive programs and so do many other successful marketers

The two reasons are….

1) Not using them consistently

That should come as no surprise to you when you consider how many list builders and safelists are  out there

It easy to get overwhelmed  with keeping track of emails, login information, when to email, subject lines and a whole whack of other things

I forget to use them too

And not using them consistently is costing you and me sales and referrals

2) Not getting your emails read

The competition to get safelist and viral list emails read is insanely intense.

And using the same subject lines as everybody else is a recipe for unmitigated disaster,  no matter how often or many emails you send out

The way to beat the competition at their own game is use hypnotic subject lines that get people to open your emails and take action now!

Now, I can almost your mind thinking, “well, that’s all well and good to tell me this stuff. But I want to know how to actually do it.”

Well, the secret to constantly using the list builders and safelists is organization

And two of the highest selling marketers using list builders just released the ultimate tool for doing exactly that

Imagine having on place to ….

* manage all your emails
* save your emails… no more losing swipe files,
* keep track of when you email
* referral ids

Its designed to discipline you and is designed to make you take action…. and that, my friend, is what you and I need.

It’s called Viral Mailer Profits

And you join it without spending a dime here

http://viralmailerprofits.com

And while it manage your email and subject lines, it won’t create them for you

That’s why Mike Paetzold and I are going to give anyone who gets a gold membership under me, our top secret subject line templates that we use get results from the emails we send

Basically, you will get 21 proven tested templates you can use to blow the lid off your email marketing profits

All you need to do is grab a gold membership at Viral Mailer Profits and then open a support ticket at http://askmikepaetzold.com and include your receipt

Here is what you do next

Step 1 Join Viral Mailer Profits
Step 2 Grab Your Gold Membership
Step 3 Claim Your Bonus

Do step one now by clicking here

And one way to do  that is by creating a news letter for your referrals

Here is the newsletter I sent yesterday to my Traffic Wave referrals

It will get better I have only been in Traffic Wave for ten days

Welcome to the First Issue of Jerry Reeder’s
Traffic Wave Report

Inside this issue

Opening Remarks
Beginner’s Advice
Leaderboard
Downline Building Tips
What to Expect From Me

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Opening Remarks
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We just started a week ago Friday and there are
now 15 people in the downline and 12 are
upgraded

And edy57 is leading the pack. She is already
building her second row. Way to go Edith, I am
proud of you

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Beginner’s Advice
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First of all, make sure you are listed as an
affiliate

How to make sure you are Traffic Wave affiliate

1. Login https://www.trafficwave.net/login.html

2. After you log in to your back office, under
Member Extras click “Affiliate Manager”

3. When you see this message:
You are not currently registered as a
TrafficWave.net Affiliate.

To register, click here …. Click “click here”.

4. Check the appropriate selections

5. Click: “Submit Form and Register as an
Independent Affiliate”

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Video Shows You How to Start Building Your List in
Just 317 Seconds
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Brain Rooney has a video showing you the fastest
way I have seen to start building your list and promoting
Traffic Wave on the backend

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Leaderboard
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Get one paid referral and you will be entered in
a draw where I will use the winner’s link to
sign up a referral in the New Year, And the first
person to get 2 paid referrals will get another
referral from me as well

jerryreeder 10 referrals 8 upgraded
edy57, 3 referrals 2 upgraded
joreeder 1 upgraded referral
adsncash Jason Wise 1 upgraded referral

* Note the referral contest was announced late
December 9th so only signups from December 10th on
count

That means only one of edy57’s referrals count, so
it’s wide open. Jason’s and Jody’s referrals
happened before the contest, so they do not count

And neither do mine

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Downline Building Tips
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One extremely powerful way to build your downline
is by using covert downline builders such as rebranded
e-books like the book you get at Jerry Iannucci’s
http://safelistmarketingtactics.com

Then you simply give the book away to your list

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What to Expect From Me
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I am rewriting my email series to promote Traffic
Wave and new programs that have changed the way I
market with traffic exchanges

I will also be creating squeeze pages to be used
in TE Toobox or with your own webhost

Then I will finish the generic email series
targeting network marketers and affiliates who do
not use traffic exchanges

You will be able to import these series for you
own use.

I will probably move Traffic Wave Report to
it’s own list

That’s it for this the first issue of the Traffic Wave
Report

We’ll talk soon,
Jerry Reeder

http://trafficexchangetactics.com

P.S. forward this email to your own referrals

My email today mentioned why I used Aweber to send an email instead of my Traffic Wave Account

But several people replied to me telling me to use Traffic Wave

Here is my reply

NAME, I know you want to build your Traffic Wave
downline. And now’s the time to do it. After all,
there is a lot  of buzz about Traffic wave right now.

That’s because me and a few friends started it,  This
what Brian Rooney, Owner of Traffic Wave, says about me
on his blog

http://emailmarketingdirect.com/big-names-switching-from-aweber-to-trafficwave-net/

We’ll talk soon
Jerry

P.S. You really should be cloaking your links. I suggest domain
names for your main programs and Phantom
Link Cloaker for everything else

http://twittertrafficvirus.com/likes/thephantom

P.P.S Did you know you can reach over 20,000 network
marketers who will love Traffic Wave’s comp plan at the
http://themlmadnetwork.com?

If you are anywhere in my downline, and you get 1 paid downline member to join under you, your  name will be entered in a draw for the next paid member I get after.

I will announce the winner on January second

Basically,  I will use your referral link when signing up people

And the first person to get two paid members will get a third paid member from me

All you have to do is get a paid Traffic Wave account and  tell your friends

Click here to join Traffic Wave now

But what a stir this caused on Net Marketing Forum, Lynne McCutcheon’s blog has outstanding coverage and Scott Douglas even referenced it on the OBA forum

Jon Olson explained his reasoning behind his decision on Ilovehits blog, Tim Linden did the same on his blog and I guess it’s my turn now

First of all, I did not make this decision lightly or in haste. Jerry Iannucci of Safelist Marketing Tactics and I have been talking on Skype about switching for a couple of weeks now.

For me there where several factors that warmed me up to the idea of using Traffic Wave.

First and foremost, is Brian Rooney. He is an active member of our community. He is deeply concerned about getting email delivered as evidenced by taking time to address the deliverability concerns, I and other marketers raised at net marketing forum.

He also espouses the same philosophy I and every other established marketer does when it comes affiliate marketing; Promote Yourself First and only promote affiliate links after you have gotten them on your list

And Aweber is getting more and more complex. All the features can be overwhelming to new marketers. And some of the new features I really didn’t to too much about because I had other solutions that did the same thing already in place

But there was one big thing that kept Jerry and I stuck in the just talking about it phase

Its going to take hours upon hours to modify all the pages I have in rotation, I have a new back office to learn. I have to set up my campaigns change variables

At the Affiliate Funnel Saturday Seminar, Jon Olson said, “don’t switch.” That’s good advice because it is a tremendous amount of work even with Brian graciously offering to have his support staff to do much of the work

Talk about service

He is what drove me forward, Jon signed up during Friday’s Traffic Exchange Live broadcast. Jon and I have hoisted a couple beers together and I could see his genuine excitement with the Traffic Wave back office. Jon isn’t a techy type of guy.

And that was push I needed to make the decision I wanted to make but wouldn’t because of the work involved

That’s exactly why I echo Jon’s advice, don’t switch if you are already entrenched with Aweber, there is just too much work to do

But the back office is a blast. It’s straight forward and very easy to navigate. I am really glad I made the change.

And I say to everybody not building their list yet, get Traffic Wave and start as soon as you can

I say that because Affiliate Funnel seminars are about teaching marketers the real secrets of making money online

Where else will you hear an owner say, “the worst thing you can do is promote somebody elses’ site instead of your own and that includes mine.” Jon Olson and Paul Kinder say that all time

But nearly other seminar I have attended in the traffic exchange and business opportunity niches tells people to use the splash pages, the banners.

Look if you promote other peoples websites, then you are building their brand awareness, their list and you are fattening their bank account – not yours

Here I will show you what I mean

A good traffic exchange with dynamite one time offer and compelling login offers may get 10 percent of their members to upgrade. You might get $3.50 to $5.00 per referral per month

That means if you want to make $500.00 per month by building downlines in traffic exchanges you would have to refer 1000 people

How many hundreds of thousands or millions of credits will take to get 1000 referrals?

It’s astronomical

And while the owners will gladly pay you for your 100 upgrades, they got 1000 people they can email offers to, they got their names stuck in hundreds of thousands people’s heads and they have 1000 members clicking on ads inside the member’s area

It doesn’t have to be that way

You don’t need to own a traffic exchange to make money with traffic exchanges. But you can make money by doing the things traffic exchange owners do

And the first thing to do is get the names and email addresses of your visitors. Then you  give them good reasons to visit your blog or pages inside your website like download pages

That way they will be clicking on your ads and your affiliate links instead of somebody elses’ affiliate links

I know it may seem overwhelming to you. Making money online is not easy and don’t let anybody tell you different. But people do make money when they are first starting out and they do it by building a list

If you don’t where to start, grab John Guanzon’s and Winter Perkins Free TE List Building e-book.   You can even rebrand it and use it to build your own list or give it away to your list

Or you can buy my home study course with 2 ½ hours of audio, a 94 page companion guide and a whole whack of bonuses at http://thelistmarketingsystem.com/

Even though I chomping at the bit to share these numbers with you, there is an easy to fix issue with the Internet Explore that I want to deal with instead.

Some people using Internet Explorer are have problems accessing the member’s area while surfing. It’s not a problem with Tezak Traffic Power – it is merely that two settings in Internet Explorer need to be changed.

The video explains all:

Let’s recap…

I       Click on The Blocked Pop up Bar

II      Select Always Allow Pop Ups From This Site

III     Click the Yes Button

IV     Click on  Tools

V       Select Internet Options

VI     Press the Tab Settings Button

VII    Select the Open Pop Ups in a New Tab Radio  Button

VIII  Press Okay

IX      Press Okay Again

If you are having those problems with IE, I hope this helps you

Jon Olson talked about last week’s Town Hall Meeting and later he revealed how he builds massive traffic exchanges downlines.

It is a must read for anybody who wants to build their own traffic exchange downlines.