lowell78

Martin here,
 
Retired after 40 yrs of administering anesthesia.  Still like to dabble in hypnosis.  Have been on line over 20 years and find marketing fascinating. California is home for me and my wife.
 
I spend 1-2 hours a day testing new sites.  I try my best to weed-out the scams.  When I find a site that meets my criteria, I test it a few more days to see what kind of response I get and then I recommend it to my private list called, the  "Active Players List"
 
My criteria can be seen here:        http://sensible-marketing.blogspot.com/
 
My fav saying:  "Emotions are stronger than intellect".

I just want to learn and no upset anyone and do the worng thing in a forum.
Thanks for the help in advance

Beware of companies that simply offer "clicks" to your site - more often than not they either have a gaggle of people who just sit at their computers and click on links all day long without even looking at the page, or they have an automated system that does the same thing (using "proxy" servers to disguise the fact that all the clicks are coming from the same place). These are holdovers from the days when the search engines used less-sophisticated means to determine a site's "relevance," counting only the NUMBER of visits to a site, without taking into account where those clicks were actually coming from. Those days are long-gone!
 
I agree with Matt that solo ads are probably the best way for new marketers (I refuse to insult them by calling them "newbies") to enter the "paid traffic" scene. I would definitely stay away from Google AdWords until you have a firm understanding of exactly how it works, or you could end up like so many fledgling marketers who ended up wasting SERIOUS amounts of money on traffic that didn't convert for a wide variety of other reasons. Using AdWords effectively requires a lot of research into keywords, trends, and a number of other factors. (IMHO, handicapping a horse race is child's play in comparison!)
 
I also STRONGLY recommend that you don't send "paid" traffic directly to an "affiliate site" that the vendor gave you to promote the product/service. If you're serious about being an online marketer, then you should be using that paid traffic to build your own list! That way you have multiple opportunities to recoup your investment in their original "click" by communicating with them. If you don't have an autoresponder and corresponding squeeze page, GET ONE NOW - and learn how to use them!
 
Lastly, if you're serious about your online business, DON'T use a Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL or MSN email address in your online correspondence. It's a dead giveaway that you're an "amateur" at best, and most people don't have to understand a lot about online marketing to recognize this. GMail has become the preferred "third-party" email provider of marketers, although the best address by far is one that's associated with your own domain (e.g: "me@myonlinebusiness.com").
 
Sorry if I wandered off the original topic a bit, but in a roundabout way it all ties together...

The thought of buying traffic might seem pretty scary to you but it shouldn't. Buying traffic requires a mindset shift that can really help move your campaigns out of loss and into profit. The reason is simple: You get to fail faster! By doing this you find out what is and isn't working much more quickly than by using SEO or other “free” traffic methods.
 
(I put “free” in sarcastic quotation marks because no traffic is truly free. It will at the very least cost you time).
 
When you buy traffic, you buy data. That data tells a story. It tells you how your headlines and calls to action are performing. From that you can learn the true motivation of the people in your niche. From that you can refine your campaign and beef up your profits.
 
Don’t get me wrong. SEO is awesome and we love free traffic as much as the next person, but buying traffic forces you to think differently. It brings home the importance of your ROI (Return on Investment). That’s something which is too easily overlooked when you don’t have a price tag attached to the clicks you’re driving to your website.
 
If you’re looking to just dip your toe into the paid traffic pool I would recommend solo ads. I've done very well with them.
 
And if your interested, I have a few sites that I have recently launched, check them out.
 
Thank you.
 
 

Hi there,
 
I know I have written about this before, but it is still doing it. I am happily working way on my machine using Google Chrome and then all of a sudden Firefox fires up and shows me some page or other.
 
Anyone know where I can find this lurking and how I can kill it?
 
Best regards and looking forward to hearing from you soon, John.

I just want to learn and no upset anyone and do the worng thing in a forum.
Thanks for the help in advance