chrystalia

Some of my favorite deletion triggers-- "Your Payment Is Overdue" "Unclaimed Commissions" "I Thought We Were Getting Along Great!" "Can You Help Me Decide, [Firstname]?" "RE: _________________________ (fill in the blank) My favorites to use, and the ones that get double digit openings and good conversions on viral mailers-- You Get What You Deserve.... I'm an Idiot. This is getting Creepy... I'll show You Mine If You Show Me Yours ;-). UPDATE: I still can't believe this! ----- >>> SPECIAL NOTE: This one is written short newsletter style, complete with updates, BTW, I update the body of the email, drop off the oldest stuff, and use a different color of highlighter for the newest stuff. It's interesting to see the open rate, CTR rate AND signup rate climbing by the mailing LOL. I'm using it for Leads Leap at the moment. I've actually had downline members ask if they could swipe my UPDATE email. I tell them not unless they are willing to put in their real information with proofs..... Yes, they are hackneyed, irritating, and downright stupid. But that little collection of gems has been working for me in the jackpot viral mailer market better than any of the canned ones programs provide. I would never use them in a serious email campaign, of course. But for the clicking crowd, they work.

After the DNS Hijack poor Jim got hit with at 3 a.m. eastern a few days ago, the site is back online and working well. I posted a notice at Fortunes telling my members to clear cache and cookies, and do a DNS flush of their Windows, and everyone is getting CS again. I'm just glad Jim was able to get it fixed so quickly--seeing all that "erotic photography" everywhere was disconcerting, and taking care of the fallout at Fortunes was a nightmare.

Amway, Then Fuller Brush, Then Watkins. Also did Shaklee, Melaleuca,Nutrition For Life, and have been with SFI since the very beginning. I did well in all of them, but NOT at building networks, at sales. It drove my "uplines" nuts--because they got all kinds of beautiful "BV" from me, but their down lines didn't grow. Every one that I quit before it collapsed, I quit because my uplines became so obnoxious. It's the same now--at the moment I am in Skinny Body Care as a "new" one. I tried their skin care products and loved them, so I decided to sel them for the heck of it. I signed up 8 customers in my first 3 days, and they all love the Ageless and the Instant Youth (I'm not pushing the weight loss stuff, the skin products are unique). All of them on autoship, 3 have increased their order, and I have 3 facial parties set up for next week (my own method of selling skin care products, stolen from Avon and Mary Kay LOL). And yet I have gotten 4 emails from my immediate sponsor wanting to know if I need help converting my customers to distributors, if I need help growing my distributor down line, and in the latest email she came perilously close to flat out asking me why I am sabotaging her network! For some reason, the majority of the people I end up under in an MLM have a problem with me wanting to actually sell product and use product rather than recruit more sales people. Go figure ;-)

Clickbank was the most reliable over the years, but of late I have found that promoting anything directly on Tripleclicks is working out very well for me. I have over time moved away from standard affiliate programs in favor of sites like Tripleclicks or even the EBay digital marketplace. To a great extent it's product dependent, though. I have moved away from promoting digital products in general (since I am too busy getting my own finished LOL) and have moved instead to promoting/selling physical products when I feel like selling. For income production, I now focus more on promoting programs with a free entry and an upgrade option, that work.

You Tube is the place to be going forward. I have clients that got into it early that are making bank now, and my other half's channel has gotten him a regular column in a real print magazine in his niche, as well as a job as a technical consultant for a well known cable TV channel that airs documentaries on his niche and others. The key is good content, and properly written video descriptions. I have found SEO to be invaluable on You Tube in getting his channel seen and subscribed to, because though his niche is extremely small, the keywords are all high competition. He's not selling any products yet, but the money he is making consulting for people (both TV people and small miners wanting claims assessed), writing magazine articles, and other things that have come along paid for his production gear, website, top of the line hosting on Wix, his Premier Pro video editing software, and all the website plugins he;ll ever need--with cash left over. His channel link is in my sig file--you'll see he doesn't run ads. And FYI, his total "production setup": 1. 3 portable LED spotlights, 30.00 each on Amazon 2. 1 wireless mic , 80.00 Amazon (for the top of the line) 3. 1 digital video camera-- 389.00 on Amazon, on sale, including (2) 40.00 rechargeable batteries 4. 1 4x8 piece of whiteboard, bought for 20.00 at Home Depot and screwed to the wall :-). 5. 1 tripod, bought from a thrift shop for 3.00 6. Adobe Premier Pro--20.00 a month. 7. Wix Website Hosting, the most expensive package--I believe it's 140.00 a year or something. So the equipment came to around 500.00, and the website and software was the rest. We then had a computer custom built for him, for video rendering--that cost 350.00. Blazing fast. And the antivirus is Symantec Endpoint, the Enterprise Edition, we protect our home network very well. We could have done it cheaper--we know one local here that got his production setup together for less than 200.00 with careful shopping at pawn shops and on craigslist. My other half has ZERO tech skills, and hates any computer that doesn't speak DOS and run 5 1/4 inch floppies (that's what his other computer does. Seriously). But with the new software, and essentially idiot proof video cameras, he is making some decent if not stellar videos.

I gave up on Google some time ago--Bing actually pulls better sales numbers for most of the people I know, especially those who belong to the Bing answer to Adsense/Adwords. The way I see it is quite simple--Bing is my search engine, and the engine I direct my best SEO/SEM/UE tricks towards, because they pay me for searching. Granted, it only amounts to 15.00 a month or so--strictly a token, considering the value of the data they get from me from a psychographic segmentation/ marketing point of view. But at least they pay me that token. The amazon gift cards have proven useful for enlarging my Maneki Neko collection LOL.

For MArketing? Depends. For disseminating information? Definitely. I use SEO, SEM and UE (hotjar is an amazing blog plugin!) on my every website I put together for people who will be using adsense and the similar services--knowing how to target for low competition keywords can make a big difference in a tight niche. For my other half's site, I am slowly adding in the final on page SEO, and will be adding hotjar in a month or two--but I won't be seriously pushing for keyword recognition until we actually begin selling his products and services. I have found SEO for You Tube can make a big difference in a micro niche like his--just changing the keywords targeted in his introductions on You Tube really increased the traffic. For my own websites--on my hubpages, yep. Keyword for Amazon and CB, to pull some sales here and there. On my blogs when keeping them up, yes--for Search engine placement more than sales, as my blogs are NOT for marketing, but for disseminating information.... For instance, the blog I have right now covers whole body vibration machines, psychographic segmentation, and politics. I did manage to sell one ZAAZ 15K WBV machine entirely by accident (nice accident, it's a 3000.00 piece of equipment LOL so the Amazon commission was a happy surprise), and a few books here and there. But the primary purpose is teaching people about psychographic segmentation and highlighting the problems with the uniparty running the country. When Cambridge Analytica became an open participant in our political process I figured it was time to sound the alarm on what my favorite long time hobby can do, since CA's parent company is jokingly called "coups R Us" by the spook community. I haven't had time to post anything for several months, as I got waylaid by life, but I will be getting back to it shortly. And when you're educating people on something extremely important that almost nobody understands (or even believes in at times), you need any tools you can grab to get the word out.

My motto: Write Daily. Keep everything. Let Posting take care of itself. 1. Write daily. Every day, without fail, I write up and save anywhere from 2-5 "things"--poems, sales letters, articles, short stories, it doesn't matter what. Like old school pen and paper writers, I keep "the trunk" full. That way, when I need something fast, or inspiration, or an idea has marinated long enough, it's there. All writers have a trunk--mine just happens to be a 2TB external hard drive, with full double encryption :-). I even keep the journal in there. 2. I keep EVERYTHING. Because I have been writing 37 years now, off and on--and I have used things I wrote 2 decades ago probably a dozen times in the last few years, when filling orders for clients. Before computers, I had speckled composition books filled with observations, thoughts, aphorisms, and useless trivia (and I still have those notebooks, BTW). You never know when something will come in handy, or fit beautifully with that crazy idea you had 5 years ago, or be the answer to a plothole that has been annoying you for years. So save it all. Digital storage is cheap. 3. When I get the new site operational, in the beginning I will be posting regularly--but it won't be "me" all the time, per se. I already have about 50 evergreen articles in my chosen niche stored away, that can be optimized seven ways to Sunday for a huge variety of keywords. Those will be set up to autopost once a week. "I" will be writing in between, as and if needed--but mostly promoting the site through posting on social media, disqus, Reddit, and everywhere else, and engaging members in the comment and forum sections. In my experience, your readers will let you know how often you need to post-- if, for instance, your readers fully engage your content with comments, observations, and questions, you can use their feedback to decide what to write next and how quickly to deliver it. My M.O. is usually to under-promise and over-deliver, so people stay very happy. Ideally, you want your readers actively suggesting new topics, and actively asking you when your next post will be live. But it can take a while to get there :-). At the least, once a month. Preferred, once a week (with no direct duplication multiple places, take the extra ten minutes to manually "spin" your content. simply re-posting the same article everywhere looks bad). Ideally, once a week posting, the rest of the week engaging commentators on your own site and elsewhere while the next masterpiece is patiently waiting to be autoposted LOL.

I'm still on the books at iwriter and hirewriters, Both have their place, and are good training grounds for newbies to the internet writing game as well as the more seasoned writers, though at times the clients at iwriter can be a bit of a pain. Up until I went on hiatus last year to write for myself instead of others, I found the majority of my clients the last several years through word of mouth/other clients when it comes to creating digital information. Once you are known to be a good ghostwriter, the challenge isn't finding work, it's deciding which work to turn down LOL. I have always found all my offline clients through word of mouth, as my offline writing is all in academia/technical/trade journals as a ghost, editor/proofreader/research coordinator. It pays extremely well, and you'd be surprised at how many of those doctoral dissertations and papers published in academic journals are ghosted, in part at least (and in more than one case--wholly). I tend to stay away from the freelance services personally, as I know far too many people who have been cheated, and have had problems with places like Fiverr, Odesk, SEOClerks. The rule of thumb with those services is to choose your clients very carefully, from what I have seen.

It depends on what you are advertising, how, and where--all traffic is not alike. All TEs are not alike, either :-). I have been using TEs since they were invented, and now own one, which is a tale in and of itself. Fortunes began life as a perfectly honorable tax dodge. Unfortunately, it became successful even faster than my last tax dodge. My other half has told me these are two of my very few failings; my refusal to run a business poorly, or run a poor/dishonest business. he's joking, of course, but he's also right. My members report that they are getting signups from the login ads, and the regular traffic, and I offer some really good benefits to my Nekosamas (the life time members)--including an automatic upgrade and freebies in all my future tax dodges LOL. But Fortunes is evolving into a combination play place, wealth redistribution portal, and stealth sales funnel. It's actually rather fascinating to watch. If you have a bright, explosive splash and banners, short timers and fun sites work well. I use the old school sites--the ones with longer timers and NO games, contests, zubees, etc., to advertise squeeze pages and freemiums, and sites like funguppy and leads leap--free with good paid options. And both types work well for me. On sites like Fortunes I can chat, play games to win cash and traffic, collect zubees, and find the occasional cool, new, free thing. On the old school sites, I can surf and examine programs without distraction. Of the last 10 programs I joined, I found 7 through traffic exchanges of one kind or another, and the other three through Jackpot Viral Mailers. And in the last year I bought 4 digital information products online--2 I ran into through viral mailers, one I ran into on Traffic G, and one I found on Fortunes while surfing. There are plenty of buyers, clickers, and hard driving types on traffic exchanges--it just takes longer sometimes to run into them.

In Order, my favorite cash PTCs: 1. Clixsense 2. Cashons 3.The Entire Donkeymails family LOL--Jill's clicks corner, Donkeymails, No-Minimum, My Free Shares. The easiest to make a stable income with part time is Clixsense, especially if you live in a tier 1 country and like surveys and playing games on a smart phone/tablet :-). Cashons is low paying, but with 1 3.00/3 month upgrade, a reward for logging in daily, and a 10 cent daily click contest prize (which I win every day I decide to compete) you can easily make 4.50-5.00 in a month. And the ads I run there get good response. The Old Standbys of the UROGroup--the Donkeymails family--have great places to advertise and click. I typically will buy an upgrade every other year in one or more of them, add a few hundred people to the downline, then go "free" again. I let the cash pile up until Christmas shopping time, or keep it there for buying ads when I decide to promote something. For Bitcoin sites: 1. Coinadder 2. BTC Clicks. Coin Adder doesn't have as many ads as they used to, but they pay reliably and give a fair amount. BTC clicks pays reliably and a person clicking alone can hit the minimum cashout in a week or so if you're diligent. They are both good sources, along with the best faucets, for bitcoin to play around with.

Depends. For "serious" traffic I use Traffic G, Hit Bandit, Traffic Swarm, Top Surfer, and Easy Hits 4 U. Also GOTSafelist, both as a TE and a safelist. For "fun" traffic I belong to a few dozen LFMTE exchanges, and I also run my own LOL. I love the LFM script, all the mod options, the games, chat and ZUBEES along with VTG games. When it comes to directly "making money" from TEs, the LFM exchanges are where it happens. But for sales and the "long haul" signups to anything, I rely on my favorite Safelist/TE (GOTSafelist), my core group of "old school" TEs listed above, and Leads Leap. I look at a few things, but the most important is always what type of marketing campaign I am running, as all traffic is NOT created equal, and neither are all TEs. Put Put an ad on the WRONG TE, get nowhere. Put the same ad on the RIGHT TE, get results.

My go-to site for advertising just about anything--I never fail to cash in 50 credits daily, and I don't think I've had a single day go by in months when I haven't gotten one signup for leads leap. Heck, last month I tracked over 1100.00 worth of sales back to Leads Leap, my highest total for a non-holiday shopping month in a while. I'd probably be doing far better if I devoted more than 20 minutes a day to this one LOL.

I joined, as it will provide some really valuable data for my information pile. When it went into Beta testing, I started watching videos--about 20 minutes (or 10 videos) a day. This means, at the average video length, we'll be watching 300 videos in 10 hours, and getting paid 25.00. So, let's "go to the whiteboard" and check some math here: On Clixsense in the Websites explorer section, you are watching, on average, 2.5 minutes of video for 1 cent. If you get a slide show, it averages just under 3 minutes for 2 cents (10 slides on Hypermax offers), and 1 cent for 5 slides, which can range from 1 minute to 2 minutes. So, 30 cents/hour on a good day= 3.00 for 10 hours. Lately, there have also been large numbers of 1/2 cent ads on Clixsense featuring XOXOLY videos. These ads pay you 6.00 for 10 hours, at Clixsense rates. I mention them specifically, as They represent what I *think* thwglobal is going to be doing. When XOXOLY videos first started showing up 3+ months ago, the XOXOLY site was basically new and "naked"--only the videos, Facebook comments, and an ad or two. Then, over time, the site filled up with ads of 3 types--the "in video" ads, the banners on the sides served by known ad serving companies, and "other", unidentified, ads. So it would seem that this new website decided to jump start their online presence by spending a very large chunk of change on Clixsense ads. These produced a large amount of 24/7 traffic, plus a lot of buzz. They then used that buzz and the numbers to establish accounts with ad serving companies to get the "best rates" (those companies pay different rates based on several factors--total raw visitor count, site stickiness, and full engagement for starters). By getting their accounts AFTER they had established traffic, they will get paid more money than they would have otherwise. At that point, they were also able to show prospective clients they had traffic to sell their own ad space also, or arbitrage ad space. XOXOLY has almost no written content, and all their videos, plus about 1/2 their ads, come from other sources. But they are making enough profit that they can afford to use Clixsense as a major traffic/advertising driver. Even at the bulk rates they likely negotiated with CS, it's still far from small change. In the traditional advertising world, the rule of 5 applies--an ad is a success if you can show 5x the ad cost in profits on paper. So if you buy a 100.00 ad in a magazine, the ad is a success and worth continuing if you make 500.00 in NET profit (not gross). On line the math is tougher, for a huge pile of reasons--but there is also more leeway, so to speak. Online, an ad that gets you 0 sales but 50 signups to your ezine can return thousands over time. On the other hand, a totally free ad on a good site make make you hundreds. This company can make money at least a half dozen ways--they can: 1. get paid by Vimeo, Wotchit etc. for propagating videos. 2. They can negotiate a share of embedded video advertising revenue. 3.They can also be a broker and sell that embedded ad space for affiliate fees. 4. They can direct sell views of videos. 5. they can direct sell likes and comments of videos. 6. they can get paid for hosting banners etc. in the remaining page space. 7. They can direct sell the remaining page space. And that is just the beginning. Can they afford to pay 25.00/hour? Believe it or not, it's entirely possible--IF they get enough tier 1 users, IF they get enough quality comments that "count" for traffic, IF some of the advertisers with banners/buttons get sales or visitors from those banners, IF they add other engagement options. Do I think they can do it, even with all the above factors? Not right out the door. BUT, they are also now offering a wildly overpriced "business" package of some sort, around 4 figures, supposedly "discounted" during "soft launch". And we have no idea at all how much startup capital is involved (if any), what kind of deals are already in place (if any). I'm enjoying the quality of the videos, speed of the site, and the relaxation time while gathering data. If they pay me, cool beans LOL. If they don't, nothing lost. But it isn't a program I would ever promote actively anyway.

Also, related sites that sell "royalty positions" or any form of "shares" are illegal under U.S. law, as these are considered "unregistered securities". The SEC assessment of TM was absolutely accurate, BTW--I did the math myself to double check them. They, like a few other VERY well known programs in the "ad pack" business, had sold far more advertising than could conceivably be delivered. Any site that offers "BAP" of any kind is illegal in more ways than one. I'll be the first to admit, there is money to be made in the rise and fall of the adpack, revshare, "crowdfunding" programs. I also take every opportunity to warn people to stay far away from them. I was glad to see the SEC finally get off their bureaucratic backsides and shut this one down.

I call programs like this .comzombies--they never really die *sigh*. Just like there are some amazing serial scamming admin/owners out and about (can anyone say SCOVILLE LOL??). We all know who they are--the ones that have had 4,5,6,10 websites go full on scam. A big part of the problem is, sadly, members. When you spend as much time reading the various user forums around the internet, you see all kinds of people whose definition of "trusted program, honest admin" is paying, now--regardless of whether the actual business model is stable, sustainable, or even legal. It's frustrating sometimes, to point out to people that just because a program is PAYING does not mean it is a legitimate business model, and have them totally not see the distinction. Until consumers, as a group, stop joining illegitimate programs (especially when they are being run by someone who has started, and closed multiple websites), we'll always be overrun by scammers and .comzombies.

Hey, Cap'n I have been seeing you everywhere, literally for as long as I can remember, so I would say your list is complete. However, you missed the most obvious (and highest value) traffic sources entirely: 1. ezines 2. ebooks 3. blogs 4. Real Life And with the 1st three, I mean writing them, or in the case of ezines and blogs, also guest posting in them. As a professional ghost writer, I have seen more than one of the ebooks I wrote go viral on CB over the years, or on JVZoo. Right now, If I wanted to ruin my reputation for NOT "outing" my clients, I could lay claim to 3 of the free viral reports I can think of off the top of my head, and there are likely more than that. Frankly, my own private list of ezine subscribers--a group of less than 500 people that get MAYBE one ezine from me every 2 or 3 months, plus an occasional email--is worth about 60.00/name. That group, between what they bought directly from me, what they bought based on my recommendations, and what I earned from commissions when they joined the ONE program I recommended last year, made me a shade under 30,000.00. My other half guest posts occasionally on small blogs in his field--micro-scale hard rock gold mining. Each of those guest posts will bring him a steady stream of tightly targeted and highly motivated traffic, for years. He also lucked out this past year and has gotten a few articles published in an actual print magazine in his field--International California Mining Journal (the lucky bugger, I would give someone else's right arm to get published in a print magazine LOL). The bio box on his articles insured him a steady supply of really high quality traffic before we even had a WEBSITE built for him, and the traffic grows with every article. The same with his You Tube channel. And I haven't advertised my list ANYWHERE for years now. About 10-20 new people a year land on it, when someone already on it contacts me and asks me if I will accept them LOL. Those people know they won't hear from me often, and it might be years between programs that I tell them to join. But they also know when they DO get something from me, it will be nearly guaranteed money in the bank, and any program they join will be around and paying for years. The goal should NOT be, simply, "more traffic". The goal is the RIGHT traffic. And you get the right traffic by becoming known as someone who has hard hitting, concise, and useful information for others. I, for one, would buy a 7.00 ebook you wrote in a heartbeat--and as the person usually writing those not buying them, you should consider that high praise indeed. And I can tell you right now when my new site is up and doing well, you will be one of the people I will be begging to write guest posts as well ;-). As you pointed out, you already have the reputation, and the titles that go with it--so put them to their proper use. Nail your flag to the mast, so to speak, and establish yourself as an official Guru--then we can talk about how you introduce your wisdom to the 98% of the internet that has never heard of you LOL. P.S. Don't confine guest posting to your particular niche or our particular corner of cyber space, either. Guest posting on hobbies and interests entirely unrelated to the IM/PTC/TE part of the internet has led to quite a few sales/signups etc. for me. It's a funny but true thing about people--many people will assume, when they see you are an expert at ONE thing, that you are also expert at other (entirely unrelated) things as well, and will be inclined to pay attention to things when you suggest them. As someone who has signed up literally over 100 people to Clixsense while chatting with people online about gourd art, knitting, and other crafts, I speak from experience LOL. Last week I got a new Clixsense member while in line at Walmart in the middle of the night..... I don't hesitate to pass out business cards (with QR codes on them, of course) EVERYWHERE. I also pin them on community bulletin boards. When I was a state delegate for the GOP in AZ a few months ago, I gave business cards to several hundred people--everyone from fellow delegates to janitors, hotel staff to convenience store clerks. Since I don't have a blog operating at the moment, I direct them to an email addy, then when they email me, I send them a link to my dropbox--where I have a collection of free reports they can download. Even with this ridiculously inefficient and haphazard method, I still end up with a stream of signups to my programs of choice, and once they are under me, I help them succeed. Real life is full of opportunities--from teaching a class at your local extended university or parks department, to volunteering with local causes. Every person you meet is a potential partner :-).

No Brainer for me-- LEADS LEAP. http://www.leadsleap.com/?r=chrystalia I really don't know how I survived for so many years without their tracker. Or their rotator. The Website Widget. Heck, there's NOTHING I don't love about this site LOL.

I read there, and like the other posters I have found a few good nuggets here and there among the trolling and opinions. But I don't post there.

I have done much the same thing--while there are a few CB programs I promote, I tend to promote places like this and other programs that allow free members and have upgrades. Some of my best earning programs even today are the old school PTCs I have belonged to for a decade or longer--Donkeymails, Clixsense, Email Pays U etc. They are also some of the best places to advertise. I am going to be self-publishing my ebooks, and probably will NOT be vending them through CB, as much as I like their platform. I want someplace where I have more control over my product, I am really liking the options available through Tripleclicks, Amazon (of course), and Ebay when it comes to selling digital products. Somewhat off topic here--does anyone else find it hilarious that there are several "hot" CB programs right now that tout earning 6 figure incomes "without spending a DIME" ? It seems to me that spending 7.00, 17.00, 27.00, or even 47.00/month subscriptions isn't exactly building a 6 figure income without spending a dime....

Good feature, and I am looking forward to becoming a regular poster once I have read through everything here. As a matter of fact, even without the points, you might find me hard to shut up once I get started LOL.

Hello, All! Since I despise my given name, you can call me by my most common screenname, Chrystalia, or Chrys for short. It's a holdover from my days as a tarot reader on 900 lines ;-). I am also known as NEKO, the intrepid Admin and owner of Fortune's Traffic. I have been working online since the days when a 56K dialup connection was blazing fast, and my computer ran on windows 3.0. I am a professional ghost writer, researcher, editor and proofreader both for internet marketers and offline clients, with the majority of my internet work being marketing ebooks, the majority of my offline work turning the cryptic notes of post graduate geeks into readable dissertations. Given the amount of academic and technical writing I have done over the years and the research accompanying it, my business cards identify me as Genius At Large--and the title is both earned and deserved LOL. But this is the year I have chosen to actually do some writing for myself, rather than for everyone else in the universe (much to my clients' dismay). So I am in the process of writing an eclectic collection of ebooks, while building a second website, overseeing my other half's website and You Tube Channel, and actively participating in every reward program known to mankind in my spare time. Needles to say, having a severe sleep disorder is proving to be very convenient :-). I look forward to getting to know everyone, and while I won't be taking on any serious writing jobs, I don't have an issue with giving advice, editing/proofing, or researching things for friends :-).