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Sorry - I managed to reply to the wrong post, so here is my reply in case you didn't see it earlier! Thanks, my link is https://joyhealey.com/trdomsales (https://joyhealey.com/trdomsales) Hope you get some great results :-)

Thanks Dave, my link is https://joyhealey.com/trdomsales Hope you get some great results :-)

Hi Dave, Well the good news is that Clickbank refunded my $20 without any argument. I see that there are many similar sounding variations of this "traffic source" going around now - WhatsApp, Facebook etc etc. Sorry being a bit vague because I set up a "spam" filter on my emails and any similar sounding titles just get marked as Junk and put into a spam folder so I don't have to waste time deleting them. As for good traffic sources, the jury is still out because I have been side-tracked by my offline business. Done two tests: I got 28 leads and no conversions from 100 clicks with Traffic Academy, but in fairness when I looked more closely at the offer I wasn't happy with it myself and decided to abandon ship on that offer and just take my leads to another offer. I would have bought more leads from TA to try them out but there was a membership required and I didn't want to pay a membership to buy traffic. May investigate further when I have time. Traffic Domination was better, I got a couple of $6 sales (and 19 leads) from 55 clicks. Encouraged enough to try them again when I get chance, but it's a slow and expensive process :-(

Hi, As part of my 'list building' exercise, I'm doing some 'traffic source testing', so for the $20 I decided to have a punt. Bottom line, the traffic was total rubbish. I asked them to rerun the ad as promised and they did but I didn't get a single sale (the offer I was promoting was about $5) and overall they sent about 20,000 "leads". I checked it with a tracking link and the traffic was coming from all over the place, but they certainly weren't the "buyers" that were promised. I was using a tested funnel. I asked for a refund and they said they would run the ad again, which they did, and still no good. I haven't asked for another rerun because it's probably a total waste of time. I must look back and find which ad I responded to to complain to "whoever". Avoid!

Know just what you mean about being wiped out after setting up all those mini programs. I did it once..... Now I have several smaller affiliate offers that I promote on my blog, BUT whatever anyone tells you, the best way is to build a list and promote to the list. It took me a long time to admit this, probably because I was finding it too hard and the traffic I was getting was rubbish. (Which I finally proved to myself using a tracker.) Now I am promoting a program that helps you build a list from just one link. So you have: 1) List Building 2) Auto-responder 3) Traffic source all in one program. It took me about a couple of hours to set up, but after that it's a matter of promoting the one link (actually there's a choice of links) to help you build a list and there's an income stream from the 3 elements. There's also a neat twist where they buy-back people on your list you don't purchase anything. So, I'm promoting ONE program to help me build my list, and then promoting smaller offers on my blog (before I knew better LOL) and to my list. In short, concentrate on anything that helps you build a list - it's an asset every Internet Marketer needs. I wish I'd admitted it to myself earlier. Good luck.

Rather late to this party.... but in my experience there are two main reasons why people fail at MLM: 1) A non-duplicatable training system. In our business we have a 3 minute video to pique people's interest, and then (if interested) they are passed to see a business overview presentation, finally to an "expert" to answer questions. So the new distributor is NOT presenting the business to people. We are using a duplicatable system, and the prospect thinks "yeah, I can show people two videos" 2) People get fed up of buying from the same range of products month after month, when they haven't used up or sold their previous month's supply.

Definitely self-hosted WordPress as noted above! However, be careful when choosing your hosting company. I used shared hosting and got badly hacked several times. I'm sure it was from being on shared hosting because I was using strong passwords, no "admin" and tried several different security plugins. It was only when I move to managed WP hosting that I stopped getting hacked. Also check that your hosting company is backing up your site (better still do it yourself) AND that you know how to restore your backup. I stupidly assumed the hosting company had a backup. No they didn't, and I had no idea how to recover from the backups I had taken myself (using a plugin). I lost 3 blogs :-( That was probably 2 too many, so I just started again - more intelligently this time :-)

I was a member for a few months, but no-one I introduced stayed for more than a couple of months so I was just trying to replace the team all the time. The webinars were interesting but too time-consuming and a lot of it was just gurus and their victims going "woot woot". The version of WordPress they introduced was dire - why would we want one anyway? No I didn't make a profit and I really wished I hadn't bothered. I was warned and took no notice. Silly me. In the end the 100% commission lie was the killer for me.

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Ah - thanks. I'm so "old-school" I just have a radio close by if I want sound - but actually I prefer the "sound of silence". Thanks for explaining.

The biggest problem I had - before I applied common sense to the process of making money online - was that I believed the myth that you could make money for "free"!! Then I got to thinking - hmm, that's charity, not business.... and no-one is likely to be giving me any charity. You either pay for traffic (aka potential customers) with time or money. Money wasted can be replaced. Time wasted never can. So I realised that I needed to invest a little bit of money to get started. I can't think of any business where you can get going for less money than when opening an online business. Well.... maybe window cleaning - a good honest trade, but not one that appealed to me. Then I decided that because I'd been a computer programmer for over 30 years, I'd find it "easy" and could teach myself. WRONG! I wasted so much time and money (potential profits) by making mistake after mistake and having to re-do things. My biggest mistake ever was not "building a list" from day 1. I had a site in a very specialised health niche that sat at the top of page 1 of Google for years - and I wasn't collecting the contact details of those who didn't buy. Bad mistake. There's plenty of affordable coaching and training "out there", some even with self-help groups. Swallow your pride and be ready to learn. Stop chasing bright shiny objects (like I did). There's no big secret - it largely comes down to "you need traffic and a good product that people want". Not just "any" people, specific people. My final words are "The harder I work, the luckier I get".

I use the free WordPress plugins StatCounter and PrettyLink on my blog. But I must admit I'm not good at tracking. I started off using one of the free cloakers (THINK it was bit.ly) but then had a shock one day when I revisited links I'd previously created (and checked) and found they were pointing somewhere completely different to what I'd started with. This happened to me more than once, so I don't think it was just me being inept. Has anyone else noticed this?

I just mute the sound from a little speaker button I have on the bar at the bottom right hand bar (sorry - not very technical). It has a slider scale to turn it up or down and a little button to turn it off altogether.

My VERY first was selling burglar alarms!! How on earth I imagined I could do that I have no idea. I sold one to my poor sister and it broke down the day after the company collapsed. She kept it blinking ominously on the sideboard for many months as a warning ! Since then I have had many "learning experiences", until finally settling on my current company that fixes all the problems I found. Looking back over a chequered MLM career, one company I did well with was Dorling Kindersley Family Library (educational books), but then the UK changed the laws on book pricing and everybody was just cutting prices, which destroyed the whole thing. Great shame - but my back was starting to hurt from lugging boxes of books about. I was most successful with VWD (e-Lottery) a few years ago and my MLM income from that exceeded my job income. Luckily I kept on both and just used my VWD commission to do up the house and help my son start his business - otherwise it would have been a disaster to have lost that income. I tried several nutritional MLMs but my team and I usually quit because we weren't able to meet the auto-ship requirements working on a part-time basis. I did Kleeneze too (way back when) and the whole family used to help deliver catalogues (pre-Internet) often hanging them on the washing line to dry when people left them out in the rain! Lots of laughs and a few tears along the way - but many friends made and lessons learned!