Always Check Out Your Member's Area Carefully

Hey, There's Promo Codes In Here!

Nearly every ad site or program you join has a Members Area. Many even have a home page or a page that says something like Start Here!

It is very important to check out your member's area carefully.  This may take you a little time, but guess what?  There is valuable information in there.

Carefully studying the member's area is important for a few reasons:

• You will learn about the site or program and how it works
• You will learn how to make money (very important)
• You will pick up all your affiliate tools here
• Links
• Banners
• Sample ads
• etc.
• You may find bonuses and promo codes or special offers!

As I was reading through my member's area at ConversionSurf I found a page called "OTO Bonuses." On this page I found promo codes for somewhere around 10,000 credits for sites I was already a member of.  These credits are worth a lot of money! Had I not taken the time to look around, I would have never found them.

Hope this helps you get off to a great start this week!

To your success,

Bob Swetz

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A Great Ad Site Starts With a Great Admin

How Do You Choose A Great Ad Site?

Look For a Great Admin!

There are many things that make a great ad site, whether it be a Traffic Exchange, Mailer, or some other type of advertising program.  One of the most important characteristics to look for in my opinion is a great site owner or Admin.

Marty Petrizza of Referral Frenzy is one of those site owners that stands out above many of the rest. First of all, she doesn't even know I am writing this, so I hope it doesn't get me into trouble. Anyway, I first learned about Marty when I joined Referral Frenzy and was totally impressed by how she put that site together.  One of the main things that stood out to me was the value she offered in return for my monthly investment.

Here are some of the things I like about Marty and how she runs her sites.  These are things I would look for in any site admin or owner...

• She offers a significant level of value at each site for free members including the ability to earn commissions (at most)
• Most of her sites have multiple ways to gain exposure to your programs
• She is always coming up with new and innovative ways to drive traffic to your programs
• Each of her sites offers something new and different
• She is in close touch with the membership, which makes for an increased response to your advertisements
• I typically get a much higher rate and quality of response to my ads from Marty's sites
• She is very responsive to support tickets, I don't have to wait long to get an answer to a question
• She is always coming up with new promotions to make upgrades affordable for more members at more sites

With that being said, if you come across a site owned by Marty, joining is highly recommended and upgrading is most likely a wise investment.  Here are a few of her sites I belong to that I really love:

(FYI Referral Frenzy is a Pro Only Site Just for Sending Mail)

I hope you find this information useful.  And have a wonderful weekend.

To Your Success,

Bob Swetz

Rjs@Home

Create Beautiful Splash Pages and Capture Pages for Free

I Finally Found A Great Capture Page Builder

For Free

First, for those who are not fully aware of what a capture page is, let me explain a little.  These pages go by many names such as squeeze pages, landing pages, lead pages and splash pages.  They are essentially short, one page ads that are intended on capturing the audiences' attention with the goal of getting them to click on your ad or fill out a form, thus leading them to your autorepsonder email series.

Many programs and ad sites that you join offer these pages for your use in selling the program.  They are great for placing on traffic exchanges, using in safelist ads, etc.  However there are times that you may want to create your own pages.  This may happen in several circumstances.  Here are 2 common examples that may cause you to want to make your own pages...

• Your program does not offer a page that allows you to capture email addresses
• This is very important if you are trying to create an email series or trying to build a list for future use
• You simply do not like the pages offered by your program

Whatever the case, if you find yourself in the market for a page builder, you will find the good ones are all fairly expensive, especially for those on a tight budget.  Also, even if you have the money, you may not want to get into a $30 per month commitment just to make a couple pages here and there.  I found myself in the second category.

So, I set out on a massive search looking for a free or low cost program that I could use to create a few pages, and let me tell you I spent hours and hours searching until one late night I found the one!

Here is the link.  https://www.bestpagepro.com/discover-how/

This is not an affiliate site, so I do not have an affiliate link for you to join under, but this is what you have to do to get it free.

1. Click the link above
2. Once you get there, click the orange button at the top
3. Fill out the form (they have only sent me one or 2 emails)
4. They will email you instructions
5. Basically what you have to do to get it free is share their site 5 times
6. That's it
7. I really love the program

Hope you enjoy and this helps.

To your success,

Bob Swetz

Rjs@Home  

Good Goals Will Help You Make a Good Plan

Once Your Goals Are Set You Can Make a Plan

Yesterday we talked about setting goals.  I just wanted to do a quick follow up on that topic.

When it comes to setting goals it's a good idea to start at the end.  What I mean by that is to start by setting your long term goals.  When you do this, you can then begin to formulate your action plan as to what steps need to be taken in the short term to reach those goals.

Your action plans then become your short and medium term goals.

Let's just go over a quick example.

If you set as a long term goal to make $1,000 per month by then end of your first year, you begin to formulate your short and mid term plans or goals that will help you to reach your long term objective.

• Long term goal = Income $1,000 per month in 1 year

• Thought process = What steps need to be taken in the short and mid term to reach this goal?

• Advertising = Membership in 60 Safelist Mailers within 6 months, upgrade in 12
• Advertising = Membership in 12 Traffic Exchanges within 6 months, upgrade in 6

• Programs = Membership in 3 core income earning programs in 6 month

• Financial = Upgrade cost of Mailers and TEs $150 per month
• Financial = Upgrade cost of Income programs = $90 per month

• Time = Mailing and Surfing start at 2 hours per day, increase to 4 per day by month 6

Ok, this is a pretty simple layout of a plan that is formulated based on your income goal of $1,000 per month and admittedly I have not spent a ton of time mapping this one out.  It is just for illustration. But hopefully you get the idea.

Spending an adequate amount of time planning 

is always time well spent!

One important point I also want to make is that if your long term income goal was to make $100 per month in 1 year, the remainder of your plan would be very much different.

Hope this gives you something to think about.

To your success,

Bob Swetz
Rjs@Home

Setting Goals and Weight Training

If You Don't Know Where You are Going

How Will You Get There?

Setting goals is an extremely important part of running a home business.  I learned this lesson at a very unlikely point in my life.

When I attended college at Penn State University I took an elective physical education class, Weight Training! I took this class mostly because I wanted to get into shape.  The very first day, the instructor asked us what our goals were for the class.  Most of the students said things like...

• I want to get stronger
• I want to look better
• I want to lose weight
• Etc.

The instructor corrected all of us quickly stating that in any activity you MUST have a specific goal. If you do not have a specific goal, you will never know if you get there. So, the goals above would be more appropriately stated as follows...

• I want to be able to press 200 pounds
• I want my chest to be 40 inches
• I want to lose 35 pounds

In internet marketing, we need to set goals for many things such as how much money we want to make, how quickly we want to make it.  Also, we should set goals for our daily activities. Each of us would have our own unique goals of course.  Some examples of goals may be as follows...

• I will post 50 ads per day
• I will join 2 new ad sites per day
• I will post on Facebook each day
• I will spend $50 per month on advertising
• I want to make $250 per month in 3 months
• I want to make $500 per month in 6 months

These are just a few ideas.  I suggest you take a good look at your business and set some goals this this week.  It will help you immensely.

To your success,

Bob Swetz

Rjs@Home

Make Sure Your Free Gift Offers Value

I Have a Gift For You

I common technique in internet marketing is to offer a free gift to entice prospects to join or sign up for our programs.  The concept is generally works in one of 3 ways...

1. Get a free gift (usually a PDF download) to join my list
2. Get a free gift (usually a PDF download) that contains branded links, when clicked will join the reader into my program
3. Combination of 1 and 2

This concept can be a valuable tool in building your internet business.

Make sure this gift offers value to your prospects!

This is very important as it goes a long way towards building Your Brand and your credibility with your prospects.

The example I like to use is my TripleA Plan which give frequently as a free gift. To be quite up front, this book is packed with links to many of my programs.  If you click on any of them, you will be taken to a sign up page to join that program as part of my downline.

However, if you never join any of my programs from this book, it is packed full of a wealth of information that will help any internet marketer tremendously in building their online business. Honestly, that leaves me with a pretty good feeling knowing I am able to put that in as many hands as possible, whether or not they join any of my programs.

Hope this helps keep you on the right track.

To your success.

Bob Swetz

Rjs@Home

A Unique Traffic Generating Machine

I Just Can't Say Enough About Leads Leap 2.0

I joined this site about a month ago as a free member and liked it so much that I upgraded after about 2 hours.  The value to an internet marketer is really incredible.  Now I am not suggesting that everyone has to upgrade because I know all too well about tight budgets, so you can judge for yourself whether or not an upgrade is worth it.  You can join for free, and there are a lot of benefits to free members.  Heck, you can even earn revenue sharing there as a free member.  They have a nice "Membership Comparison" that will help you make an informed decision.

Here are some of the features Leads Leap 2.0 has to offer:

• The Real Tracker This is a link tracker and rotator, which I have spoken about before.  The difference here is that it will track what they call "real" visits, which are visits of more than 5 seconds to your links.  They try to weed out the robots and those that are not really viewing your ads.
• Traffic Exchange Ads These are text ads you can post for free (if you have credits) or Pro if you are a paid member.  The really cool thing about these ads is that there is no ad timer in the TE.  Folks just view your ads and when they are ready, they move on.  Also, they rate them. This is so helpful in determining which ads work and which do not!
• Blogging Tools There are several of these
• The Pop-up Expert Allows you to put a pop up ad on your blog
• The Leads Leap Widget Puts a widget with ads on your blog so you can earn points and traffic
• The Rebranded Giveaway Is a free gift you can offer to get new leads

Well, I may be missing something, but hopefully you get the picture that Leads Leap 2.0 is really a Must Have for the active Internet Marketer. 

Click the banner below to have a look for yourself.

To your success,

Bob Swetz

Rjs@Home