Soren Jordansen Got Pissed Off at Paul....Again?

This is not the first time I got Soren Jordansen pissed at me either. This time it occured at this morning's Affiliate Funnel conference room after responding to a few comments.

What exactly did I say that got him so pissed off at me? According to him, I was being negative and apparantly you can't do that when you attend these online conferences. In defence, all I was doing is stating the facts about the current dismal state of our economy and disagreeing with what they have to say.

Paul Kinder said something like, well 'my sales haven't been down at all' which is fine, good for him then I replied by saying like 'I wish I had a list of 30,000 or own a TE' then someone said how come every time you come here you are so negative, that's probably why you are a struggling marketer. I wonder why they didn't call me mediocre this time hmmm. Dude I know I'm not making tens of thousands of dollars but hey, I will do my best or I die trying right?

Hmm I wonder if I say like...why is it that the majority of people who are making thousands of dollars per month in the traffic exchange world are traffic exchange owners and not the advertisers or their affiliates? That will get me in so much hot water like you won't believe because, they don't want to hear that that especially if that's the truth.

To all the newbies out there, let me tell you something, it's perfectly fine if you are struggling or you are a mediocre marketer because there are tens of thousands of people out there including traffic exchange owners who are experiencing the same thing. You are not alone, some people are just pissed because they don't want to you to know the truth.

Lying sells and telling the truth doesn't.

Since no one is really asking the tough questions around there, I will and for some reason they don't like that because it will hurt their business. It is unfortunate that because I can't talk on those conference rooms due to technical difficulties, I have to type it which can sometimes be misunderstood.

These people don't know or have forgotten how to have fun anymore or they are so caught up in their own world. Get outside once in a while people! and smell the roses.

There were people who were swearing in there and the vulgarity my gosh? it would make Pope John Paul II turn in his grave man, yet that was ok because their comment wasn't negative I guess.

Then there's another bald guy there named Mike Paetzold that keeps telling me 'You Don't Listen'. So does that mean I have to do everything he ask me? or does that mean I have to spend hundreds of dollars on his products and services before he stop telling me that.

Just to let everybody know out there, there are other places to advertise other than traffic exchange programs ok. If I say that at the AF conference room, I probably will never see the light of day lol. There are over what 9 or 10 thousand Affiliate Funnel members in total (not sure the exact number) and only couple of dozens people show up sometimes less than that. Gee I wonder why?

Till next time.

Paul

Who Is Garland Coulson?

If you are asking me, I have no idea. All I know is that he owns a program called Free Traffic Bar and I wanted to ask him some questions, ya know, a short email interview about himself and his program and this is his response by email.

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Hello Paul,

I am available for interview by major media outlets or by web site owners that reach a minimum subscriber list of 5,000 per month.

For others who wish to interview me and use my comments in their own audio or video, there is a fee of $75 US for 1/2 hour of my time.

Garland Coulson
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Ok then I guess I have to wait until my list grows to 5000 per month or pay him $75 US for half an hour.

So how do you spell greed on the internet anyway. My goodness who the hell does he think he is Mike Filsaime or something? I guess an email interview is too much to ask for a regular joe like me.

Till next time.

Paul

Traffic Witch? Another New Traffic Exchange?..Oh Brother

Yes it's another week and yes there's a brand new traffic exchange program just launched today called Traffic Witch which is owned by some guy named Guido Nussbaum. I don't really know the guy that much but after I test out his new exchange and sending him a few emails maybe I will get know him better.

Almost all of the owners of the top ten traffic exchange in Affiliate Funnel are promoting this so if you don't have a list and want to promote it and want to received the most referrals with your traffic credits start with other well known exchanges where the owner is not promoting it to his entire member such as Savvyclicks.com

Traffic Witch is not just your typical, run of the mill, same old traffic exchange programs. Aside from wicked graphics, according to Jon Olson (owner of Ilovehits) whose helping Guido launching his new traffic exchange, Traffic Witch is not only being promoted within the traffic exchange world but it's widely being promoted within the internet marketing industry as a whole. What this means is that there will be so many new fresh eyeballs looking at your page that have never seen them before. The first few months will play an important role in getting your site seen as this exchange will be flooded with new members.

I will keep you posted as soon as I learn more about Guido Nussbaum and his brand new traffic exchange.

If you are interested in adding more paid members to your Traffic Witch downline, join my team and I will help you get more paid signups. Remember! Traffic Witch is giving away up to 75 % commissions.

Click This Link and Join Traffic Witch Right Now!

After you have joined, email me your Traffic Witch referral ID so I can add it to my downline builder.

Important Point! You must upgrade your account before I can add it to my downline builder. It doesn't matter which upgrade level you choose, as long as you upgrade your account ok.

Till next time.

Paul

How To Create Your Own Squeezepage or Splashpage

So you finally decided to start creating and designing your own squeezepage huh! Good on ya.

Getting signups to your favorite program or affiliate sites is not about driving a truck load of traffic to it, it's about creating a high converting professional looking squeezepage or splashpage that will get results.

Here's how you do it.

Click the e-book cover and sign up an account at Justin's Shark Frenzy Graphics. Once you have verifed your info, log in and then you can read the step by step instructions guide.

I have to warn you before we go on any further, in order to upload any of your finished squeezepage or splashpage to your server, you will need a domain And a hosting service. If you need help setting up your own hosting account and getting a domain name go to Zoothost.com, Jon Atwood will help you set it all up.

Believe me when I say that you can create squeezepage or splashpage using free methods but they don't convert well compare to a professionally designed templates.

You will need the following tools to get started as mentioned in the e-book.

HTML Editor
http://kompozer.sourceforge.net/

File Extraction Program
http://www.winzip.com/downwz.htm

FTP program - for uploading your squeezepage to your
server
http://www.ipswitchft.com/products/ws_ftp_home/try/

I know for a fact that you will encounter problems or get stuck along the way and you will end up losing interest so you have to push yourself to get your first squeezepage done and upload it. Once you do that then you can start testing it.

So how do you go about split testing your splash page?

Use Google's Analytics Tool - It's Free !!
http://www.google.com/analytics

I will have more on how to use google's analytics tools and creating content for your squeezepage. So stay tuned.

Till next time.

Paul

Free Traffic Bar Update

After couple of weeks testing this Free Traffic Bar, I have some disturbing stats to share with you.

Your Ads Shown: 1,647
Ad Clicks: 3

Basically I changed my text ad to this ---> "....http://www.paulpenafiel.com" As soon as I did that, I got 3 clicks within couple of days. Of course the link pointed to this blog which is not a good idea because I have no opt-in form so I'm not building a list.

I will be testing different text ads that I have used in other viral advertising programs where I had better click thru rate. Stay tuned.

I have also emailed the owner Garland Coulson to ask him some questions about his program but I have not yet received any response, what's new.

Regards,

Paul

What Is Video Marketing Exactly?

The term 'video marketing' means basically what it says, using video as a means to market your product or services online. What makes video marketing so effective is that the message is right there in front of you in living color.

Anyway, I was searching on Youtube for videos on video marketing and making money from home and I saw this video.

Watch the video here

Noticed how Jonathan Burke keeps bragging about all his commissions from GDI and other affiliate programs using the Spider Web Marketing. Don't get me wrong here, the numbers are very impressive but what every newbie marketers would like to know is HOW did he do it.

So I email him and asked him specifically what exactly did you do to promote Spider Web Marketing and how did you recruit so many GDI members ?

He email me back and said a bunch of things but short on specifics. Here's a copy of his email.

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Hello Joseph

One of my biggest ways of building traffic is video marketing.

I also do link exchanges, email advertising, craigslist, backpage, and other free or mostly free methods.

I do a little bit with google adwords, but 99% of my traffic just costs the time that I put into it.

Get started and I'll be glad to show you how to get it started.

I hope that this answers your question a little. (yep sure does, just a little)

Sincerely,

Jonathan Burke
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Remember that email I got from Connie a week ago, sound similar doesn't it. Both are basically saying, 'oh a bit of this and a bit of that' and that's it. Both didn't say what subject line or headlines they used or how much money they spent, nothing.

I think I will start picking Jonathan's brain to see if I can get more detail information from him. Stay tuned.


Paul

Who Uses This FreeTraffic Bar Thingy Anyway?

Great, found another potentially useless tool to promote your programs or business opportunity or scam or whatever the hell you're promoting online.

First of all what kind of people that are using this tool anyway and how many of them are using it? How long have this tool been around?

Is this another one of those tool that marketers forget as soon as the next thing arrives? I mean how many of these toolbar do I need to install in my already crowded browser.

That's what I'm trying to find out so stay tuned.

For those of you who don't know what Free Traffic Bar is, click the link and see for yourself.

Didn't someone invented Instant Buzz? if you don't know what that is, it's the same old crap with different smell.

If you are looking for other ways to promote your online business opportunity beside this Free Traffic Bar thing, I would highly recommend you go to Leadsleap and sign up because there's thousands of active online marketers that go there that are looking for all sorts of stuff. The best part is you don't need to install ANYTHING!!

Take care.

Paul

Need A Reality Check ?

A facebook friend of mine sent me this video the other day and I have to tell ya folks! it made me laugh so hard, I nearly peed in my pants.

Make sure your speakers are turned on!!


Funny thing about being happy, good things happens to you when you are happy.

Peace !

Paul

Reading Between The Lines

A few days ago I sent an email to a traffic exchange owner name Connie Motala of Hitlion.com asking her about her testimonial on the front page of Affliate Funnel.com.

Basically I wanted to ask her exactly what she did to get that many subscribers because I've wasted so much credits already on several splash page still no signups.

Here's what she said:

"Hello Paul

Let me explain how it all happened.

I have been to every meeting ever held in the affiliate funnel conference room and in the SWAT conference room. I have stayed for hours upon hours in those conference rooms just listening to Jon Olson, Jerry Reeder, Mike Paetzold, Paul Kinder, Soren Jordansen, Cindy Battye & Robert Puddy.

It all started with the help of Jerry Reeder and his Squeeze page, thank you page and sales page teaching on Tuesday nights and Mike Paetzold on his blog and tweet training. I have made over 12 different squeeze pages.

I joined Instant squeeze page generator to get my start off and Resale rocket to get a bunch of great giveaways.

Then I began putting the pages all over the place, into safelists, traffic exchanges, blogs, twitter, facebook, myspace even on google.

Then I learned from Ian Bakewell about adsense and detailed sales marketing. I took it one step further by learning niche marketing from Cindy Battye. I took all that I learned and hoped I knew what I was doing and went in google ads and looked to see what people wanted and narrowed down the field to about 1,000 people per specific ad and created a page specifically geared to answer to their needs.

Since it was exactly what they wanted 70 - 80% of them signed up to my squeeze page each time.

So to honestly answer you, I only actually have 16 people in my affiliate funnel listbuilder. All the others are in other listbuilders.

The next thing I need to learn now is how to sell to my list over and over again. I have been told that is where the money is, in the list.
some of my list is responsive but most are not really interested in affiliate funnel of traffic exchanges, but that is not going to stop me.
I will find a way to reach them, I just need to learn how to write good emails.
I hope this answers you.

--
Connie Motala

Owner/Operator Hit Lion Traffic
http://www.trker.com/go/19776/HLemail

Profit from your list building
http://www.hitlion.com/recommends/beginnerslistformula.html

Get free professionally designed squeeze pages
http://www.hitlion.com/recommends/sharkfrenzy.html

Free Ebook: Step-By-Step Guide To Making Money Online:
http://www.hitlion.com/recommends/imsuccessformula.html "

This is a copy of my email I sent her:

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On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:48 PM, <my email address> wrote:

Hello Administrators,

Hello Connie,

First, I just wanted to say hi as I saw your name on the front page if Affiliate Funnel.com. Your compelling testimonial is the reason why I'm emailing you today.

I was wondering if I could do a quick interview with you asking your tactics as to how you manage to get over 12,000 subscribers. I'm been promoting it myself for quite sometime with zero signups.

The interview is basically a list of questions no more than 10 to 12 list of questions and you can include your links to your site as well. I wish to publish the interview on my blog once it\'s finished so everyone can follow your success.

Thank you for your time. Your reply is greatly appreciated.

paul penafiel

Till next time.

Paul