( October 28, 2008 )

Surf Responsibly - Don’t Surf and Ignore

 

Want More People To Buy Your Stuff?

Every traffic exchange, in order to work effectively, depends on each member’s cooperative participation. This means that if you want and expect others to pay attention to your advertising, you owe them the same courtesy in return.

You cannot simply surf and surf, ignoring everything you see, seeking only to gain traffic for yourself and expect others to behave differently.

If you are the type of person who surfs and never pays attention to what you’re viewing… who never signs up for or purchases anything… you are doing a disservice to other traffic exchange members, and a disservice to yourself too.

To gain the full benefit of using a traffic exchange, it is necessary to pay attention to and learn from what others are doing at a traffic exchange. You can improve your own results by paying attention to what others are advertising, how they are advertising, and what tools they are utilizing.

You should be watching for what catches your eye… what grabs your attention… what tempts you to or actually gets you to join or purchase. Take ideas from the use of titles, colors, and wording and use these in ways to improve your own advertising.

Please don’t plagiarize the exact usage but use things to perfect and test new ideas of your own that can greatly improve the reaction you get to your own advertising.

Try to be objective in your observations too. For instance, don’t automatically discount something being used by someone else simply because you don’t like it personally. A good example of this is audio.

Often, traffic exchange members express that they don’t like audio. Some even say they won’t purchase or signup for anything that starts audio automatically. However, it’s been proven time and time again, that simply adding an appropriate audio to a splash page or squeeze page, often greatly increases the conversion rate (number of sales or signups) of that page.

If you know that fact, as an advertiser, would you worry more about the few people that won’t like your advertisement because it has audio on it or the many more who will respond to it? Your answer had better be the later of the two or you might as well give up.

And finally, watch for products and services that might help you improve your own results, or that might offer more opportunity than what you’re promoting now. Don’t be constantly jumping from one thing to another, but be watchful of trends and changes in the industry. Watch for things that might stimulate ideas of your own.

And, be on the lookout for the better “mouse trap” — paying attention might help you pickup on when things are shifting or when a new idea is first being introduced. Sometimes, your timing and ability to recognize such things can make a significant difference to your financial success.

Keep in mind that if you want to change your success online using traffic exchanges it begins with you. You have to stop being passive, just letting things happen to you. You need to take an active part in making your success happen.

Just throwing a web page out there and driving traffic to it isn’t going to do it.  You need to learn how to get the most out of the traffic you drive to those pages.  How to make those pages convert to signups or sales.  You need to learn about list building.  You need to track and perfect your results.

There are many people who are successfully marketing on traffic exchanges… making six-figure incomes… are you?

What income are you making?

Are you making more than you’re spending?

How long have you been doing that?

If you aren’t making money and you’ve been at it for 6 months or more, perhaps it’s time to start listening to those who are.

I know it’s cliché but it’s also very true… its time to stop doing the same old thing you’ve always done and expecting a different result.

Remember, opportunity may knock but it’s not going to walk into your house, setup shop, establish customers for you, and deliver cash to your bank account all on its own.

So why the big speech on the “soap box?”

Funny thing is… most traffic exchange owners “actually” want their members to succeed.

Weird, huh? ;-)

Okay, get in there and make things happen for you!

Michael Kelly, a.k.a. The King
RoyalSurf.com

Discover 10 killer strategies for building a list of buyers who scramble to take out their wallets whenever you send an email. Click here now.

( July 23, 2008 )

How to Get 8 Active Referrals in 5 Days

Our Great $500 Gas Giveaway is one contest that EVERY citizen can qualify to win. This is so easy that every citizen should have several entries by time we reach the end of our contest. Come one now… who can’t use $200 in free gas? Your king wants to help you and your family, but you can’t win if you don’t participate, right?

Oh and please, let’s not have any citizens in this grand kingdom who say “I never win!”  That’s a self-fulfilling prophecy that you actually can make happen because when you believe that nonsense then you simply stop trying. If you don’t try, sure you can’t fail but you can’t win either. Actually, come to think of it, if you don’t try you already have failed. Folks, this applies to anything worth pursuing in life. If you don’t try then you’ve already failed. :(

At RoyalSurf, if you don’t win prizes every single week then you either aren’t surfing or you aren’t paying attention when you surf. We literally give away hundreds and hundreds of prizes every day! If you ain’t winning you ain’t trying. ;)

I hear some of our citizens saying that they are trying to get referrals but nothing they try is working. I’m sure this doesn’t apply to you because I know you know what they are doing wrong. Don’t you?

Sad thing is, if anyone is having trouble getting referrals for a program that’s free to join, and which is also giving away free gas, they are probably having trouble making money online too.

Rather than getting on my soapbox again to beat the “you must use splash pages” drum again, I’m going to give you a real example of what one of your fellow citizens did right here at RoyalSurf.

In just 5 days, this member went from having ZERO qualified referrals for our contest to having EIGHT and she took over the lead in our gas giveaway contest as far as referral entries go. 

Read that again… she did this is just 5 days!

How you ask? Simple. She created her own unique splash page with the most pertinent details of our contest, to include the incentives offered for them to join. And, it worked like bees drawn to honey. Was it the most beautiful splash page I’ve ever seen? Honestly, not even close, but it worked and that is all that matters!

She also left nothing to chance. She made sure she had her photo and Sponsor’s Greeting filled in at RoyalSurf and once they joined, she contacted each of them and offered them her own incentive to fully activate. She promised to send them X credits when they activated their account by surfing 250 sites.

Now, she’s not only got entries in our contest for herself but she’s already established a relationship with her referrals. Who knows what benefits she may reap down the road from those relationships?

Creating your own custom splash pages really isn’t that difficult to learn how to do. There are also, lots of citizens around readily willing to help you (visit our chatroom). And, finally, there are lots of great services that create quality splash pages at reasonable prices.

To help you get more referrals faster, from now through this Sunday, July 27th, I’m providing these additional incentives for you and your referrals:

On full-activation (upon surfing 250 sites)…

New citizens will instantly receive:

50 credits
25 banner impressions
25 text link impressions

As their sponsor, you will instantly receive DOUBLE your normal credits bonus:

Royal Citizen: 50 credits
Royal Squires: 70 credits
Royal Knights: 100 credits

* May I suggest that an effective use of the doubled amount might be to offer at least half to your referrals, that you reward to them IF they surf 250 sites by the July 27th deadline. You can determine this from the Thy Referrals link in your members area.

Oh, and how about some Free referrals for you too?

For every 2 active referrals you get by the deadline, I’ll give you 1 active referral. You will need to request this via our Contact Us form identifying yourself and the two active referrals who qualify you for this bonus.

If you really want to succeed at this, you’ll want to create your own splash page and get it out there right away.

 The King

|
| RSS | xHTML | WP | GFXedit |