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The Truth About Click Thru Marketing
Copyright © 2002 - by ClickMaster Pro

Did you know that I can show you a place to promote
your service or product where only pre-qualified serious
internet marketers are?

A place where people have proven they are ready, willing,
and able to invest money in your quality products and
services. And what if you could also make an additional
income at the same time you are promoting to these
marketing professionals?

Would you jump at the chance? Ask for a pen and say
'where do I sign?'? Sounds like a no brainer, wouldn't
you say?

The truth is, you do have that choice available to you.
The choice is offered to you through the system of
click thru marketing.

The concept of click thru marketing is very simple.
There are sites on the Internet called click thru
websites. People join these click thru websites
and become part of what I like to call a click thru
"community".

Each member of this community is able to generate
traffic to their own websites simply by visiting other
websites in the community.

Many click thru programs have great downline plans.
You recruit members that join under you, and when
they do their click thrus, you receive a percentage of
their credits, which is more traffic for your business,
all 100% free!. I like to call that "residual traffic".

The majority of the click thru programs on the internet
today are free to join. At first glance this appears to be
a great way to promote your service or product to a
large number of prospective customers. However,
there is one inherent problem.

These free programs primarily attract the freebie seeker.
By definition, that's someone who is only interested in
generating page views for their own website. The level of
commitment in the free programs is not consistent. They
are full of people who try one thing one day and something
else the next.

On the other hand, there are paid click thru programs,
or pro traffic exchanges. These programs attract the
serious internet marketer... the marketing professional.

You know that these people are not only interested in
promoting their own business but are serious about
seeing what other members have to offer as well!

How do you know?

Because every member has paid to be part of the
program! This also tells you that they are willing to
invest in a good opportunity when they see it.

Are free exchanges useless then? Definitely not! The
free exchanges will always have their place on the
Internet. You will find the serious marketers using the
free programs too, but they will be mixed in together
with your freebie seekers. So, your conversion rates
will be lower, or in other words, you will make less
sales.

Look at it this way...

Let's say you had two barrels of apples. In one barrel
you had one hundred juicy, ripe, red apples. In the other
barrel you also had one hundred juicy, ripe, red apples.
But in the second barrel you also had 900 nasty worm
infested rotten apples.

Would you rather pick through the barrel with the one
hundred good apples, or would you pick through all the
nasty rotten apples to find the good ones?

Or look at it this way...

Let's say you want to build an opt-in list of Internet
marketers and your choices of where to advertise are
free or paid exchanges. Where would you advertise?
The paid of course, because you would know that
*every* name and email address you collected had
paid to join that program. That means they are valuable
pre-qualified buyers.

I don't know about you, but I want valuable pre-qualified
buyers on my mailing list. :o)

The truth is...

In a free exchange, you might have a list of some paying
members, but you will never know for sure.

So, what should be your first choice when promoting
with a click thru program? You're already clicking for
credits, so why not put those credits to the best possible
use by targeting the marketing professionals?

Take your chances on a wormy apple, or bite into
a crispy delicious one. Sounds like a no brainer,
wouldn't you say?

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Article by Dan Moses. Dan has helped hundreds of people
drive high quality targeted traffic to their websites. Find out
how at http://www.clickmasterpro.com/cgi-bin/paypal/main.cgi?clickthru
For additional resources on click thru marketing, visit
http://www.ClickThruMarketing.com

Making A Full-Time Living From The Traffic Exchanges
Copyright © 2005 - by Dan Moses

Is it possible, and are there really people out there making
a full time living from the traffic exchanges?

Of course there are and even though most of them are
program owners themselves, there are people out there
doing very well financially within this industry without
having to own a program.

I want to talk a little bit today about making money using
and promoting traffic exchanges. Something I personally
like to call "Click Thru Marketing".

Now I'm assuming you all know what Click Thru Marketing
is, but just in case...

Click Thru Marketing is marketing a service or product
over the Internet to generate visitors to view your web
page by way of click exchange programs, better known
as traffic exchanges, start page programs, and hit exchanges.

Click Thru Marketing is a specialized niche market with
the demographics of biz op seekers, MLMers, small
businesses, and hundreds of thousands of people
trying to make money online and looking for quality
products to sell and buy.

Click Thru Marketing, as a market, is still very young
and small in size (500,000+) but, despite that, there are
those of us who have learned how to make a living from
this industry.

And now our goal is to teach other marketers online
(with a drive to succeed and willingness to learn) how
to make enough money from this market to quit their
jobs and come home for GOOD!

I did it! So can you... :o)

Now I want to be completely honest with you. This
won't be a walk in the park.

This isn't something you can jump into and expect to
make thousands each month within a few weeks. On
the contrary, it will most likely take you years. Yes,
you read that right!

It has taken me 5 long years to accomplish all I have
(which is quite a lot) and within 3 of those five years
I was able to quit my job and come home full time
(how wonderful it has been to be home with my
family every day).

Now the good news for you is that there are people
out there willing to help you do what it takes to come
home full time (I know because I am one of those
people wanting to help you become successful by
sharing with you what to do and what not to do).

That's right! With some help you can shorten your
learning curve by years and years.

Whoa. I'm getting a little ahead of myself here. You
see, I haven't written down my road map to success
yet. In other words, I don't want you to think you can
buy something today that will spell all this out for you
(YET), but you can plug into my programs. You can
join in and get really active in our industry.

Listen up. In the next few minutes I'm going to share
with you what's been on my mind for some time now.
You see, I've been listening to how people inside this
industry feel about it and where our future lies within it.
The one true feeling that is very apparent to all of us is,
we all want our market to grow!

It’s unanimous! We want more and more people to get
involved in our market. Naturally, the more people in
our industry, means more money being circulated
throughout this industry.

Okay, now that we've established the consensus of
growing and expanding our industry, let me share with
you my idea that will greatly increase the activity of
our market.

By teaching people how to make money from within
this market, we will explode this market. Let me explain.
If I taught you how to quickly make a few hundred
dollars a month from within this market, would you
tell someone?

Of course you would. You would tell friends, neighbours,
relatives and anyone else that would stop and listen.
Well, maybe not anyone, but you would tell a lot of people.

Well, that's how I feel. I want to share with you what
I'm doing to make a full time living from
Click Thru Marketing.

Here's an in-depth look into my idea. I'm going to be
changing focus very soon (actually I have already).
You see, for the last few years I've been teaching
people how to build up their residual traffic networks,
build their mailing lists, and make a few bucks online.

Now I feel it's time to start focusing on the programs
that make the most money within our industry. Let me
say that again. It's now time to start focusing on the
programs that make YOU the most money within the
traffic exchange industry!

Doesn't that make sense? It amazes me how so many
people can twist that around to making us think that's
a bad thing to make money online. Isn't that why you're
on the Internet building a business anyway?

Then why do you think so many people take advice
and listen to others that aren't successful or have no
real track record of making great income from the
Internet?

I've been seeing a transition within our industry. More
and more traffic exchanges are adding ways for their
members to make more and more money from their
programs.

This is awesome! You see, these programs are already
set up for building downlines and referring new members.
And they all have amazing referral programs that allow
you to build residual traffic and commissions using their
systems.

Boy I love these programs! Folks, it's fun to build this
business! I absolutely love watching new downline
members join below me every day. Why? Because I
know that each one that surfs I'll receive a percentage
of their traffic (we call this building our marketing arm).

And if they upgrade (which more and more are doing)
we make some % of residual income. Folks if you
haven't figured out the power of working hard once
and then profiting from that month after month, you're
really missing the boat here. Residual income is truly
golden!

Personally, I feel this is just the beginning. This industry
is so young (4-5 years) it hasn't even reached it's
explosive phase.

The key is to not just think about making money with
your own program or related product. Think outside
the box!

Don't focus all your efforts on one program. Make
money from many programs and then you'll never
have to worry about any one program going out of
business (huge secret of the rich -- multiple sources
of income).

That's it! That's where my focus is going (and has
been for all of 2005) I just want everyone to realize
that they too can make money from 30+ different
programs online, month after month, year after year.

If we can do it, why can't you? (keep in mind that
this is a slow process. You must focus on one
program at a time until that one is built up enough
to move on to the next)

Okay, I would hate to leave you hanging here, but
our time is up for now. The good news is I'll explain
how to proceed in more detail in the next article, by
showing you how to start off by following the game
plan in detail.

The game plan consists of joining the traffic exchanges
that will allow you to make the most amount of
commissions from referring new members to, then
promote, promote and promote some more!

I will go into detail in the next article which programs
these are and which one's I've made the most
commissions from.

Until then, surf, surf and surf until you earn enough
to pay for upgrades and more quality traffic. You
must stay focused on building downlines in the best
programs. It's a fact that the most successful marketers
in our industry have huge downlines and don't let
anyone tell you otherwise. :o)

In part two of "Making A 'Full-Time Living' From
The Traffic Exchanges" we will cover:

* What it really takes to generate referrals.
* What exchanges pay out the most commissions
and are the easiest to profit from.
* What exchanges don't pay out much, but produce
the best results for your advertising (these are must
use programs).
* What tools are absolutely necessary to take you from
A-Z in the shortest amount of time.

Plus a whole lot more...

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dan Moses is a 28-year old family man living in Redmond,
Oregon who came online over six years ago, and like most
of us, planned to set out on a journey of finding his riches
on the Internet. Of course, he quickly realized it wasn't as
easy as most would have you believe. But that didn't stop
Dan... Throughout his journeys he has become quite the
entrepreneur by owning and operating close to 10 sites
online, the most popular being... Recommended Links:
PageSwirl.com,ClickMasterPro.com,FreeClickThruClub.com
ProTrafficShop.com

Making A Full-Time Living From The Traffic Exchanges - Part 2
Copyright © 2005 - by Dan Moses

In part one we briefly talked about ways to make money
from the exchanges, but today we're going to go into
more details on how this is accomplished.

First off, you must understand that this is going to take
some time. I say this because without the downlines in
place you aren't going to receive much in the way of
commissions and residual income.

Your set up plan consists of building downlines as
your primary focus. Think of it this way... with each
new downline member you receive, that puts you one
step closer to your end goal... which in this situation is
residual income in the thousands each month.

Fact: Each downline member adds more potential to
reaching that goal and should be treated as an important
part of your focus.

And there are ways to motivate that downline member
to get more active so you can reach your goal faster.
We will get into that in the future with effective ways to
email your downline and motivate them to surf every day.

The most wonderful aspect of the traffic exchanges is
the downline building capabilities that are programmed
into their systems. Every time a new downline members
joins either your downline or your downlines - downline
(usually 5 levels deep) you benefit.

Keep in mind, that the most benefit comes form your
first level downline since this is where you make
commissions from. But since you receive residual
traffic from the other 4 levels this can be a huge
benefit to you as well.

So your efforts should always be to generate more
first level downline members and then teach your first
level downline to do the same. Once you teach them,
they will teach their first level downline and that will
keep them active and surfing the exchanges everyday.
This is important so that you will always have them
helping grow your business.

Okay, once you have put into place this system of
everyone helping everyone build their downlines, you
will always have a steady flow of residual traffic
building up month after month.

This is very important to make sure your business
stays stable and continues to grow for the long-term.

Now the second very important part is where you send
your traffic. Remember you will receive more and more
residual traffic as your downlines grow and you need to
know where to send that traffic to create an ongoing,
compounding process.

You must have a URL (a website) that grows your
business. This is the central location from where you
not only send your traffic, but where you can best use
that traffic to the fullest.

From personal experience this main URL or URLs needs
to be a downline builder program or list builder. Preferable
a downline builder that helps build your downlines in the
best traffic exchanges online.

For myself this has been FreeClickThruClub.com (a club
designed to help you build your downlines in the top traffic
exchanges online).

This program accomplishes three things right off the bat.

1. When a member joins FCTC you receive the name and
email address of that person (you can also add that name
and email into your personal autoresponder and send out
emails to get to know them and help motivate them to the
fullest).

2. Through the program they have access to the best traffic
exchanges you want them to join. In other words, this
program does the work for you. It gets the person to join,
it suggests to this person to join 20 other exchanges and
puts them right into your downlines in the best exchanges
online. Not to mention it teaches them how to do it so you
don't have to.

3. Making money... yes, FCTC has a list of the best Paid
traffic exchanges that pay out commissions when a new
member joins. This means that when a member joins one
of these programs you will make a commissions on the spot.

Now let me quickly share with you what it really takes to
generate referrals. These are the averages for FCTC I
have tracked and tested out.

Right now it takes about 300 page views to get a new
member to join my FCTC downline. 1 out of 10 of my
FCTC referrals will join all the programs inside FCTC.
1 out of 5 will join at least one program in FCTC. These
are the average numbers. In other words, there's no Hype
here... there's no fluff. This is what you can expect as an
average.

You might do better then this or maybe even worse. I
just want you to know what to expect before you get
going. Okay, so let's go over some more figures here.

Let's say it takes 10 new FCTC members to make a
commission of $5 (this tends to be the worst case
scenario). That would mean it takes 3,000 hits to make
your first $5. But keep in mind, that even though it might
take 10 FCTC referrals to get a sale for a paid exchange,
there are other huge benefits we're not discussing right
now for the other referrals that join some programs.
One of those benefits is the residual traffic aspect
when your downline surfs.

Let's say that you do get 10 FCTC referrals and that you
did get a $5 commission. What else are you receiving?
One, a serious referral in your downline that is willing to
spend money online. This is what we call a customer.
Next you get 10% in residual traffic of what this person
surfs. So if he surfs 100 sites a day, you receive 10 hits
to your URL. Multiply that by 30 days and that's 300
free hits for you each month. Wow that's just one referral.

Remember... this all adds up each month. The more
downline you refer the more free traffic, the more
commissions you make.

And this is just the beginning... out of those 9 other
referrals in the example above... you will receive
residual traffic for the one's that surf. It's truly
amazing how this can compound on itself.

Now let's talk about how you can make this move faster
for you. There are other ways to speed up this process
and get you to the point where you are making money
faster.

1. Emailing your downline... once you have their name
and email address you can first email them a welcome
email with information on who you are and that you
know ways to help them get started. This is one of the
most effective ways to build relationships with your
downline and the most prosperous in the long run.

Plus once you build those relationships... it makes it much
easer to share and endorse products with them to make
commissions in the future... this is key to building a profit
producing list.

2. Make commissions when they upgrade... now a days
there are more and more free and paid traffic exchanges
that offer commissions to you when one of your first
level downline members upgrade to a Pro member in
that program.

This is how I personally make extra money each month
and is another huge benefit to growing large downlines
and teaching them how to do the same.

Now in 'part one' of this article I said I would share with
you what traffic exchanges I make the most commissions
from. Hands down it's the paid exchanges I make the
most money from, but I also make some from the free
ones.

Let's start with the free exchanges first...

1. So far this year I have made over $2,270 dollar from
TopSurfer.com. This program offers a wholesale
membership that pays out directly to the member
when someone buys into it. Another important point
is that I only have 352 first level downline members
and it costs me $10 a month to have the opportunity
to make money in this program.

Next is HitSafari.com where I have made close to $350
dollars this year thus far. HitSafari pays out when
someone buys traffic or upgrades at 10 and 20%
commission to the free and Pro members. I am a
Pro member and I pay $5 a month for it. I also have
339 first level referrals.

MysticalMaze.com is another one that has a great
commission plan in place for its members. It pays
out 50% commissions to it's top level pro members
and that costs me $10 a month. I have made close to
$220 so far this year and I have 430 first level downline
members. I've also made ($430.08) to date with this
program.

Then there's ClickinFingers, DeepSeaHits, ProHitsPlus
and TrafficTribe where I've made over $400 this year in
combined commissions.

All of these free exchanges are just a few of the many
exchanges that now offer commissions to their members.
Just make sure to take a close look at the exchanges you
join and see if they offer commissions.

As far as the paid exchanges go... the numbers are much
higher mainly because they not only offer a front end
commission, but also offer ongoing residual commissions
for upgraded members and many more people upgrade
in these types of programs.

So far this year I've a made a little over $3,300 combined
commissions in GoneClicking, PowaSurf (before I
owned it), RoyalSurf, ProClickEsate, CashinPro, TEB,
and MoreActualVisitors. Keep in mind, I'm not including
the one's I own... which are ClickMaster Pro,
ProClickExchange, and ProTrafficShop.

Naturally, you make a lot more commissions from the
paid exchanges and this is where a lot of your focus
ought to be when working towards making serious
money from the exchanges online.

Okay some other points to keep in mind. Once you have
built a list of downline you can send out emails to, you
can promote other products and services related to their
needs and make more commissions and profits each
month. This is another area I personally profit from in
the thousands every year.

There are other programs like WebmasterQuest and
CashClicking that are harder to make commissions from,
but are the best for producing results while advertising
through. They also have other benefits that most people
won't tell you how to use like their "email your first level
downline" feature. I've personally made many sales and
grown my lists sending emails through this system. Of
course you must build your downline in these programs
first.

Now let's discus some tools out there that are absolutely
necessary to take you from A-Z in the shortest amount
of time...

1. You need an autoresponder where you can upload
emails to and have them sent out to your list on specific
intervals. This is part of the relationship building process
and is critical to keeping yourself organized and automated.

2. A PayPal and/or StormPay account. This is where you
will receive commissions to and where you can withdraw
those to your bank account, or get a debt card to use at
the ATM's in your area.

3. You need a professional edge. This can be best
accomplished by getting your own domain name and
email address. It's much more professional if someone
receives an email from YourName@YourSite.com then
47732_joeblow@hotmal.com Without it you will have
a harder time building those key relationships. Bottom
line... you need that professional presence online.

That's it... those are the three main tools you need... there
are quite a few more that will help like Rotators, Trackers,
Splash Page Creators, Milti-Tabbed Browsers, and so on...
but those first three are the most critical.

Now let me leave you with this... Once you have built up
thousands of downline and list members, you will have
many more doors opened to you and your business.
Once you have a list.. the sky's the limit.

You could then learn things like...

* How to create 7-15 page reports that can make you
quick money from your existing lists.

* How to turn your subscribers into "Marketing Partners".

* How to get a flood of profit with one "Super Partner" you
find from your list.

* Setting up JVs with your downline

And so on...

Remember... this all starts and continues by first setting up,
and then managing your exchange accounts while you surf
them every day. Just set up a game plan and stick to it until
you succeed.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dan Moses is a 28-year old family man living in Redmond,
Oregon who came online over six years ago, and like most
of us, planned to set out on a journey of finding his riches
on the Internet. Of course, he quickly realized it wasn't as
easy as most would have you believe. But that didn't stop
Dan... Throughout his journeys he has become quite the
entrepreneur by owning and operating close to 10 sites
online, the most popular being... Recommended Links:
PageSwirl.com,ClickMasterPro.com,FreeClickThruClub.com
ProTrafficShop.com

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