The joys of building a list

I am so happy to be building my lists. Finally, I've got a way to tie together everything which I am promoting, and to present it to people in a sensible way which can help them.

My first list is called "You have the Power - make money your way and be financially free". It shows people how to get their confidence back in online marketing, especially if all they've done is spend money and go broke trying. I've had one appreciative email already, which was a real boost.

My second list is called "Build your list with ease". I show people how to set up their first list in 4 easy steps, using free resources. After all, you can always switch to expensive paid resources when you can afford it, but in the meantime you are making some money and, perhaps even more importantly, learning by doing.

Now, back to promoting!

Internet Marketing Success Formula

Since I'm building my first list, it was great to find Soren Jordansen's Internet Marketing Success Formula. It's a step-by-step guide to making money online, and covers many topics of interest, beginning with a brief (but very meaningful) analysis of who the typical internet marketer is, based on surveys he conducted. Since this is my main market, I need to know this stuff! Soren goes on to explain how to build a list, drive traffic to your squeeze pages, and much more at a level of detail which is very helpful and clear.

You can download the book for free, but if you take the one-time-offer you will get rebranding rights, which could be very useful as he has a lot of links in the book. Of course, you can apply the information without signing up for all his programs. The book is valuable either way.

Click on the link to get your free copy now:

http://viralurl.com/carolw44/IMSF.

I'm building my list!

After all these months of promoting affiliate links, I've finally taken the advice of the experts and am branding myself and building my list.

I was going to become a mentor but decided that's a bit ambitious for my first launch, so I've started with a series of free emails to empower people who are broke and have just about given up on network marketing.

A lot has gone into the preparation, including the building of a Wordpress blog called You have the power - make money your way and be financially free. The hardest thing was to come up with my unique offering. It had to be something which I understood well and could offer honestly, and I wanted everything which I offer to be available for free.

I launched yesterday, and have my first signup already. I feel really jazzed!

You can sign up for my emails here if you are curious. You'll learn some good stuff!

I'm finally on the right track...

It's been a while since I've posted. I've been having a rethink, and finding my balance in all this frenzy of internet hope and hype.

My first exposure to internet marketing was on Yuwie (the social network). Someone told me about GDI, and I felt interested and signed up. Then I tried out a few other things, as this blog will attest... and worked very hard at promoting all of them.

At some point I realized that I've just been promoting stuff, and trying new stuff, and not really making any money. My first real profits came with 3 Hour Profits, but I don't really have the temperament to repeatedly post classified ads, so I kind of faltered with that... (I think it's a good program if you've got self discipline or don't mind repetitive work).

I decided to take another look at paid-to-click (ptc) programs. Originally I was introduced to them at the low end of the range where they pay a measly 1/10 of a cent per click, and that really put me off. Since then I have found many which pay 1 cent per click, and if I do 10 or so at a time, it's ok. I won't get rich from ptc, but they will give me money to put into my other online ventures, such as passive programs. I'm expecting to show a profit this month, yay! You can see some of my free money programs here.

Then I found E-tradeXchange, an advertising program which provides revenue sharing. A $5 ad pack gives me many link, banner and text exposures and pays me back $8.75. I think they do it by selling advertising to non-members, and then sharing the profits, though they keep some for the company so that it can continue to grow. My ads are being shown in all sorts of places which I just couldn't get to myself (as I can see from tracking them for free with ViralUrl). I will write up my results when my first ad pack matures.

It is such a relief to finally be making money. A lot of my stress is gone. I'll build up my ptc downlines and income, and use the money to promote other programs or products when I can do so with ease.

Rotate your own banners on your blog or site or social network profile

Banners on your blog or website need to refresh and change so that visitors don't keep seeing the same one all the time. If you are displaying your banners on a social network such as Yuwie, you really don't want to get too blatant and have too many of them, or you'll get your profile shut down for abuse of TOS. The answer is to rotate your banners.

What's the best way to rotate banners on your blog, website, profile or traffic exchange? Use a banner rotator, of course!

My preferred rotator is Banner Keyring. Free members get 3 "keyrings" or rotators, with 5 banners each, plus basic statistics (number of clicks, number of times each banner was displayed). Premium members get unlimited keyrings and banners and really excellent statistics, as well as other goodies.

Set up all your banners here, then display them using your Banner Keyring codes which look just like the codes you would use for an individual banner. Most traffic exchanges have no problem with Banner Keyring banners.

If you change your mind about which banners you want to use in your promotions, simply change them in one place, at Banner Keyring, and that will be reflected everywhere that you display your banners.

Click here to check it out now for free.

A shift in my perception

I've been earnestly promoting all sorts of business opportunities which look sound and worthy, and yet I've had very little success considering all the hours I've put in.

This made me wonder about what was actually going on, and I realized a few things:

1. Nobody actually wants a "business opportunity" - what we all want is the money and the freedom to do what we want. We accept the "opportunity" because we believe it will give us some sort of shortcut to achieving our dreams. Now this might seem like a very small distinction, but to me this little kernel of truth is a very important and fundamental idea because it affects the way I choose what I will promote and participate in.

2. I realized that for some reason, I felt that I had to really work at a program to get useful results, so I just dismissed those programs which promised to give me something just for participating. What if they are not all crap? What if I can press the "easy" button for a change?

3. I've been so obsessed with promoting these great products which are supposed to bring me financial bliss that I have put my creative projects very much on the back burner, and yet it is these creative projects which are more likely to actually get me real money in the long run, as they are unique and useful in their own niches. Not to mention, they are a whole lot more fun!

So, as these thoughts were gelling in my mind, I began to see the opportunities before me differently. Suddenly I found that "easy" opportunities were in my face all over the place. I chose one called Gorilla Millions, and my downlines are growing before my eyes! I'm not saying that Gorilla Millions is the holy grail, but so far it is looking really, really nice!

Learn to market online successfully with 3 Hour Profits

MLM not paying too well? Try this to generate some money...

3 Hour Profits is a complete business system, with full instructions and an affiliate product to promote.

It is designed for people who are new to marketing online, so the instructions are specific and reasonably simple to apply.

I bought my copy at 10:00pm, had it set up by 1:00 in the morning, went to bed, and had my first sale waiting for me in the morning. After pushing my favourite MLM programs for weeks on end with no results, this was definitely an encouraging result.

Once I get really comfortable with the system, I will apply it to market other products which appeal to me.

Why I think PayDotCom is the Best Affiliate Marketplace on the Net!

If you are familiar with Clickbank, or even if you are not but you want to make profits online, then you will want to check this out ASAP ...

It is a new FREE marketplace where you can sell any product you want.

Your OWN product...

- OR - (the best part)
You can become an INSTANT Affiliate for ANY item in their HUGE marketplace, which includes a wide range of products on topics ranging from online marketing to home and family, and everything in between.

It is called PayDotCom!

Did I mention it is 100% FREE to Join!

This site is becoming very popular, and almost EVERY SINGLE SERIOUS online marketer has an account with PayDotCom.

So get yours now and see how much they offer...

Here is one product which I am promoting as an affiliate through PayDotCom:



OH! - Also, they have their own affiliate program now that pays you COLD HARD cash just for sharing the site with people like I am doing with you...

They give you cool tools like BLOG WIDGETS (see one in my sidebar), and they even have an advertising program to help you get traffic to your site.

If you want an ARMY of affiliates to sell your products for you, they also allow you to have Free placement in their marketplace!

Even better... If your product becomes one of the Top 25 products in its category in the marketplace (not that hard to do)...

...then you will get Free advertising on the Blog Widget which is syndicated on THOUSANDS of sites World Wide and gets Millions of impressions per month.

So, what are you waiting for...

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Thanks,

Carol Walczak

P.S. - Make sure to get your Account NOW while it is Free to join.

A gift from Google Adwords helped my SpiderWeb business

The SpiderWeb Marketing System is meant to take 5 minutes a day to promote. That's if you can afford the Google adwords, otherwise you must resort to clicking on the traffic exchanges or using safelists. I followed the SpiderWeb setup videos with interest and set up my Google adwords campaign, but did not activate it due to lack of funds. So, the campaign sat there until one day last week when I got a phonecall from Google Australia! They wanted to know why I hadn't activated my campaign, if there was anything they could do to help, and if I'd like a free credit of $50! Well yes! So now my campaign is launched, I've used about $29 of the credit, and I've got 8 new signups which comes to a total of 17 referrals. Adwords really works, I'll be using them as much as possible from now on.

Four signups in CyberWheelers!

Well, I'm happy! It took about 5500 exposures of my CyberWheelers pages to get my first signup, and now they're rolling in rapidly.

It takes a day or two to set up CyberWheelers correctly, as you've got to sign up with the different traffic exchanges and put your links in the directory, but after that it's easy going. I've got signups in a dozen or so traffic exchanges from each of these wonderful people already, and one day they'll have time to check out the special program which CyberWheelers recommends for funding your advertising and maybe they'll join that too.

How would you like all your surf links in one place? Check out mine here.

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10 steps to internet based financial independence

If you've been experimenting with online business, you'll probably know that there is a tremendous amount of potential out there, and you'll be itching to get your share of the pie.

So, where to start? By now you've seen and read so much information, it is probably confusing and overwhelming you, especially if you have not yet had the success you desire.

In the free e-book "The New Age Work at Home Plan", you will be taken step-by-step through the process of setting up your own online income in a way which makes the most of your personal interests and talents.

The author begins with an explanation of why an online income is desirable and the 10 myths which prevent people from expecting to be successful on the internet. He then takes the reader through 10 steps to setting up their own financial independence on the internet. The steps are basic foundations with enough leeway in them to allow for personal preference and creativity.

The book is short, only 40 pages, but the information is truly valuable. Check it out now and gain the confidence to build your dreams.

Building traffic exchange downlines - not so easy!

I realized early on that I need downlines in the traffic exchanges to get enough credits. Sometimes, my credits earned are used up before I've even finished surfing.

I've been promoting the highly recommended Traffic Hoopla, which has resulted in about three referrals. I'd like a better result than that! Something about it just doesn't grab people, even though it is a good and useful system.

The new Marketing Resource Center is going ok. Two referrals so far.

My best and newest find is CyberWheelers, which promotes all the best traffic exchanges and Traffic Hoopla as well. It makes a list of all your traffic exchange surf links, making it easy to sign in to all of them with tabbed browsing, and it has a variety of pages which you can advertise with. Nice system!

If you want to know more about tabbed browsing with Firefox, read the CyberWheelers article here.

Was I hasty in dismissing Online Business Alliance as a dud?

I'm having second thoughts here. I've seen so many positive reports on OBA, and I really like the atmosphere in the back office. The people are genuinely friendly and helpful, it feels good to be there.

In the meantime I have learned that it is much easier to promote a product which helps many online marketers, than to promote a business opportunity directly. Perhaps I've been comparing apples with oranges.

For example, I had no problem getting signups for PayitForward4Profits, Marketing Resource Center, and SpiderWeb, all of which are tools for building downlines and residual income in several programs.

I'll give OBA another chance, but this time I will be promoting it indirectly with CyberWheelers, which is a traffic exchange downline builder and very useful for any online marketer.

Reality Networkers, growing quietly in the background

Months ago, I joined Reality Networkers. This is a team-building network, where you build a team to take into any program of your choice. You then have a group of solid and reliable entrepreneurs under you, and the dead wood has been weeded out!

My downlines at Reality Networkers have been growing steadily, with not too much effort on my part. People can readily see the value in the program.

I am waiting for my first level of 5 to become "active", which means they have each brought in at least 5 people and paid their $25 fee. At that point I will get a small commission, and we'll keep working to build my team.

Progress report on the SpiderWeb system

It's been about a month now and I've got four people signed up with the SpiderWeb Marketing System. I am confident that more will be joining them soon.

It took a while to set up the system, following the video tutorials. Once that was set up it was simple to promote. My computer was at the repair shop for a while, which set me back.

To make the most of the time-saving features of SpiderWeb you need to buy Google ads. I've been doing without that feature due to lack of funds, just advertising on the traffic exchanges. Now I've found a couple of other places to advertise and I expect to have a much better downline to report very soon.

Disappointed with Online Business Alliance

I've been earnestly promoting Online Business Alliance for a month or so, surfing the traffic exchanges for hours every day, and I've got nothing to show for it...

I'm pulling the plug on OBA.

~

Note: 21 May 2008 - see my new post Was I hasty in dismissing OBA as a dud?

The SpiderWeb Marketing System

Hello,

My name is Carol Walczak. Welcome to my network marketing blog. I'm from Eden NSW, and I've been involved in MLM for less than a year. I'm now a member of The SpiderWeb Marketing System, which is the most powerful, efficient, and effective network marketing tool ever invented. But before I tell you about it, let me tell you how I ended up as a part of this groundbreaking new system.

I want to become financially self sufficient and well off. I already have a small internet business selling my own book ("Choose to Live!"). My first affiliate business was GDI, then SFI and Online Business Alliance. I've been promoting these for a few months without much result, spending many hours on the traffic exchanges. I want to speed up my business building and greatly increase my income. SpiderWeb looks like it will help me without costing me money which I don't have.

So that's my journey through the world of MLM. Its been challenging, but I've learned so much and I'm excited to now be apart of the best system in the industry, The SpiderWeb Marketing System. Please check back for the next entry in my blog.

One of the greatest parts about this system is that it is 100% FREE! Check out the site here to find out more:

http://www.TheSpiderWebSystem.com/carolw44

Thanks,

Carol Walczak

p.s. This entry is an automated blog posting from the SpiderWeb Marketing System.

Signed up with SpiderWeb tonight

A friend emailed, and said he had already added 4 to his Global Domains International downline with this system in a short period of time. I had looked at SpiderWeb before, and was turned off by the seeming complexity... but now I decided to have another look, and I like it!

You'll be seeing a lot more about the SpiderWeb system in this blog soon.

Just moved from IE7 to Firefox, and Wow!

Firefox is great!

I resisted for a long time, thinking there would be hassles in changing over from IE7. Well, there were no hassles, and the benefits are great, I'm still smiling!

Firefox remembers passwords. It remembers and can reload all the tabs you had open last time you worked. For surfing traffic exchanges it is a lot smoother as it blocks more of the pop-ups. I'm sure it does other great stuff which I have yet to discover, but these things alone make it worth having.

Did I mention Firefox is free? Enjoy! You'll find a download button here.