Royal Messenger to the Kingdom

A recent mention in Jon Olson’s HitExchange News, has made me realize that perhaps a lot of people think it’s strange that an advertising service, especially one based on medieval times such as RoyalSurf manual traffic exchange is, would give away free gas.  It certainly is true that it’s quite an impossible stretch to keep such a promotion within the theme of RoyalSurf.  The reason for this particular promotion is simply timing and interest level.  I mean, right now, who isn’t talking about the quickly rising price of gasoline and the huge bite it’s taking out of our budgets.  It’s a hot topic of discussion and pretty much has captured the attention of the whole world.

To my thinking, this makes giving away free gasoline the perfect way to reach out beyond the bounds of typical traffic exchange promotions to bring in fresh new members.  It’s a way to help our current members reach people who might not typically be able to reach, rather than just gathering new members from all the other traffic exchanges that exist. 

This is also a HUGE opportunity for our members who are wise enough to take advantage of the great features we have provided them.  Most specifically, the ability to add your photo and personalized greetings that each of your own referrals will see whenever they login.

 With this promotional contest people are motivated to login and to surf, to qualify for our free gas giveaway and to win the tons of daily prizes we are giving away, including cash and other cool merchandise from the Royal Shoppe. That means your referrals will be logging in more frequently. Please, please use the personalized Sponsor’s Greeting and Sponsor’s Note to your advantage.

The Sponsor’s Greeting is a great place to introduce yourself and encourage your referral to fully activate their account, and to offer your friendship and help. Invite them to join you in the Royal Sign Post (our chat area) when they surf… but then of course you need to be there sometimes so they can find you.

The Sponsor’s Note is the perfect place to continually communicate with the people you sponsor and encourage them to contact you via email, phone, or our Private Message (PM) system, based on your own comfort level. This is the perfect place to establish profitable relationships and friendships. It’s also a great place to offer a free giveaway item so that you can get your referrals on your own list. Afterall, you put in effort to get them to join so why not present them opportunities to join your list? 

And don’t forget, changing your Sponsor’s Note frequently will make it more effective. Otherwise the people you sponsor will get use to seeing the same thing all the time and they’ll tune it out.

This is an awesome feature that is lost opportunity if you don’t use it.

I want to quickly mention some other great resources too that fall along the lines of building your lists and establishing relationships that can be profitable and work for you too.  If you aren’t already using these resources you should be. Jon Olson’s ILoveHits Profile Pages are an excellent way to further expand your reach on the Internet and I highly encourage you to put them to good use. I think you’ll find what he’s implemented goes well beyond mere Profile Pages.

Another great addition is Cindy Battye’s introduction of social networking to TrafficBunnies, with great features that I can’t even beging to do justice to by describing here. She calls this great service TB Connect and I’m sure it’s only going to get better… and it’s pretty awesome now!

Finally, a resource that a lot of people rave about, is Robert Puddy’s Advertising Know How List Builder. Unfortunately, like all of the features I’ve mentioned here, it is under-utilized by the very people it can help most.

Sorry folks, but regardless of all the hype you continue to hear, the things that will really help you achieve success require effort on your part to learn, setup, and maintain.

People do make money, lots of it, on the Internet, but don’t be fooled into believing that they didn’t put in work to get it started.

People do get results from the traffic exchanges but they use them the right way in a manner that serves them.

So where are you in all of this? Are you using the resources being provided to you to their fullest potential? Do you take the time to learn how to use traffic exchanges in an effective manner. Or, do you do like so many do and just surf till you drop and then walk away saying that traffic exchanges don’t work?