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Thought it was about time to bring everyone up to speed on all the latest additions at Soaring4Traffic. Just to summarize what’s been happening as of late.

First thing we did was change the letter hunt game for better understanding and increased the value when the word phrase is completed. Now when you complete “Soaring with Eagles”, 100 bonus credits are added to your account.

Next we added a prize page script to better deliver the various prizes to include credits, banner, text link impressions and even cash. We have further plans for this script in the very near future. Stay tuned for that.

Realizing how boring surfing can get at times since we do take our business very serious, we thought maybe some comic relief might be in order. We’ve added some comic pages in rotation, unique to Eagles, hope they bring a smile to your face or perhaps an outright chuckle. Let me know what you think about those.

Right now there is a total of 10 comics. They are controlled by sessions, so if you want to see all ten, probably have to surf approx 250 pages in a session. If you stop surfing and start again, you will see them from the beginning. Sorry, controlled by the script setup that displays them. If you like those, maybe we will have more created next month.

Now I have to tell you about this new program being launched today, 9 A.M. PST, so you’re getting it first.

Yes its a traffic exchange, but a very unique one. Built from the LJ script much like Soaring4Traffic was originally, but highly modified. Ryan Hogan and Ed Tyner have gone all out to create something totally different and unique. Not only does it have your standard website views, banner and text link advertising, but also a unique way of earning credits.

Oh, that’s not all, it has an opt in list builder, personal program builder, an affiliate tool box, plus ability to chat and network with other members in real time. As you can see these guys have put a lot of time and thought into the development of this program, well worth your time to check it out. Promo Lotto is the name, unique is the word from go.

Congratulations to these guys for creating something different and exciting. Look for yourself here, get all the details.

That’s it for today, here’s hoping you are getting good results from your Soaring4Traffic advertising. Quick reminder, not building your list yet, put that on the top of your things to do. Top priority.

Oh almost forgot, more prize pages are being added today, we never let them run out.

Before we jump up on the soap box, are you receiving Soaring4Traffic email? This blog post is being sent from Aweber, maybe you will receive this and realize you haven’t. Since we are on a new server, new IP address, some members email providers are bouncing our emails.

Believe it or not, some are important. For instance, commissions received, downline notifications, special bonus days, and last but not least replies to your support questions.

We have taken every step possible with the major email providers to authenticate our server IP for better email delivery, however some of the less known are still in the blocking mode. So if you are not receiving emails from our server, please white list our domain. If you are still not receiving, would suggest changing to a Gmail account.

Ok back to the soap box again talking about list building to increase your online results. Believe me, I wasn’t always this passionate about list building. At first didn’t understand the power nor was I very good at it. At some point not even sure when or what triggered it, became determined to learn.

Guess mainly hanging out with other TE owners and members through forums, conferences who were in fact getting good results from advertising in traffic exchanges above the norm, just wanted to see what and how they were making it work for them. If you’ve followed my emails or previous blog posts, we continually stress the need to “Brand” yourself and “build your list” using traffic exchanges. Much of this falls on deaf ears as it did me for a long time.

First there was the fear of writing an email series that would have any real value. Setting up an autoresponder was really the easy part, writing was the real issue. Then I realized that all you need to do is be yourself, write about whatever subject is your main focus. Since becoming a traffic exchange owner, this is my focus.

Focused on growing the exchange, but more importantly focused on members getting better results when using them to advertise. My gain is simple, if your results increase, you will be more active, plus hopefully tell others of your results and therefore recommend my traffic exchanges as a place to advertise. No hidden agenda here.

Hence the reason for my latest email series written for those that want to start building a list, simplified step by step with all the necessary tools, ideas, suggested email series you can copy right to your autoresponder. Also includes suggested programs, affiliate products to promote in building your business.

All are free programs, but keep in mind each will present you with an offer for more benefits. No need to be offended by these offers, its totally your choice to make. If you don’t see an advantage for you, then by all means pass them up. That simple. They are included as part of the training series so you see how and why things are done to increase one’s income.

Now here’s where you get the link to the email series called List Building Simplified. Totally free, no obligation, unsubscribe anytime. Not all of the emails are personally written by me, copied with permission, but personalized, which again is part of the training to show that you don’t have to know how to write an email series. Many affiliate programs have pre-written series provided for you.

By the way, no big secrets revealed in this series, just ideas, free programs to use, and lessons learned from those who I’ve learned from.

Don’t misunderstand, traffic exchanges are not the only place to build your list but for sure one of the best uses of your advertising credits.

Writing articles, safelists, and viral list builders come to mind as other means to increase your list building. Just as in learning how to best use traffic exchanges, each method has its own learning curve to be truly effective. In fact before you start using safe lists, save yourself lots of time and wasted effort. Get Soren Jordansen’s Ultimate Safelist Survival Guide, will be the best $10 you ever spend.

Speaking of viral list builders, one I’ve seen advertised all over the net lately and just recently realized it was created by a couple of fellow traffic exchange owners. So for the ever increasing desire to improve my list building and promote Soaring4Traffic, I signed up after chatting with one of the owners. These things do work, some of the top online marketers use them daily.

You’ve probably seen the advertisements also, its called Downline Builder Direct. Free program, yes, but again has advantages for upgrading which you will see when joining.

All right then, off the soap box for now. Hopefully, through some of these posts and emails you will begin to not only get ideas but start acting upon them to assist with your online endeavors.

That’s all for now, thanks for reading, thanks for being a member of Soaring4Traffic. Look forward to your comments.

Ray

In the previous post we tried to express the benefits gained from networking in forums. This was a test more than anything to see if we could increase activity for a single thread in the Members Forum.

It worked very well, thanks to those that participated and got involved. At last count the thread had reached its 6th page.

Activity in other threads was also noticed. First let me stress how important it is to use forums. The networking is probably the most important. Meeting new like minded people, getting answers to questions, and offering your own opinion for various subjects. This really does work. Whether you like the answers received really doesn’t matter, people have different personalities and therefore come across differently.

The other important aspect is how fast these active threads get indexed by search engines. A good signature file is important. Your full name, your site links properly placed etc. Example of this can be found on the 6th page of this thread where Doug Pare has given some links to verify how search engines have reacted to this thread. Check out the entire thread here:

http://www.themembersforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5298

While that thread is still active, why not join, make your post relative to the thread content? If you’ve already made a post, be sure to setup your sig file. There is a thread with instructions of how to do that also.

For more exposure, links to your sites, your name exposed etc, these are my favorite forums to visit, in no particular order. I have each one bookmarked on my browser and try to visit each day, check out new threads, find ones of interest, and leave a comment if the mood strikes me.
NetMarketing Forum
The Members Forum
Affiliate Funnel Forum - must be a member. Sign Up Here!
The Soaring Eagle and Friends Forum - Bet you didn’t know we had one, haven’t promoted it much, but will be reviving it soon!

Other great places to leave your name for branding purposes and your site url are blogs of course. Hint below…

Find other blogs on the main page of this blog under “My Favorite Blogs”, in fact Tim Linden recently posted an interview with me that was done about 4 months ago on his blog.
http://www.timlinden.com/blog/interviews/interview-with-ray-white/

Why not leave your comments?

And now as a follow up to the previous post on list building. Since in my opinion it is one of the best ways to build your business and make use of your traffic exchange advertising. The email series List Building Simplified is my answer to begin building your list without much cost if any.

No need for a website, domain name, hosting, or even expertise in html, php etc. Of course later you will want these things but to begin they really are not a must have. In this email series, we try to provide tools, products, follow up emails to copy and paste, all at no cost.

One thing you must understand up front, each free product will likely come with a special OTO for upgraded status with more benefits. Free products almost always do. Webmasters must pay their programmers, designers, hosting and domain costs. Whether you upgrade or not is strictly your choice, just don’t be upset when these offers are made. Easy to turn them down and go the free route for now.

One program not currently added in the email series, mainly because it was just launched yesterday is Daily Niche Idea. Not only a good source for more products but also new niche ideas come on a daily basis. Likely will be added as soon as possible.

All is explained in the email series, which I must say is going well. Using the exact same techniques and programs in the email series, 50 subscribers the first 24 hours with very little advertising.

So in summary, to get your name known and begin building your business without costs, use forums, blogs, list building and the lowest cost advertising on the net, Traffic Exchanges!

As always, leave your comments or experiences below.

Have an awesome Soaring Eagle day!

Ray

Two subjects one post, actually they are both related.

The idea for both are to increase your success with advertising when using traffic exchanges. Better results means more active members, which in turn benefits all.

First is List Building. It has been hammered repeatedly how best to advertise in traffic exchanges. Almost every active owner or successful user of traffic exchanges try to instill in all members the most effective advertising techniques.

While it may be easy to use program standard affiliate pages and or long sales letters, these have proven to discourage more users of traffic exchanges to just give up. When spending hours surfing or valuable dollars purchasing credits without results it is only natural to be discouraged and decide that traffic exchanges don’t work. They do by the way!

You see, I’m no different. That is exactly how I started my traffic exchange advertising and believe me it was disappointing to say the least. How were others being so successful and yet no results for me?

This is where forums came into play and actually put me on the path I needed to be. I finally got it through my thick skull that it wasn’t traffic exchanges at all, it was my way of advertising. Guess what, most of this info came from forums.

Ok, first thing I learned was the need for personal splash pages to brand one’s self but more importantly “lead capture” pages to build a list of subscribers. Much simpler to build a list, build relationships, then make your recommendations. In other words lets not call it a “list”, has bad vibes, more appropriately your customer base.

List building is what I finally embraced and in my efforts to simplify things, (my style) wrote a series of emails that might interest you if you are willing to give it a go. Have gotten many emails lately from members wanting to know how to build splash pages, where to learn html, how to build lead capture pages, etc.

To me that’s techie stuff not necessarily needed in the beginning. Especially when there are programs that do it for you, including products to sell and even follow up copy and paste emails you can use. It just doesn’t get any simpler than that.

In my List Building Simplified email series, all of this is made available if you have the desire to go this route. You can always unsubscribe anytime and of course there is no obligation, just some straight facts.

Sign up here if interested: http://www.soaring4traffic.com/lbs.php

Let me know what you think.

Okay now back to networking in forums. The question has come up many times why more people do not participate in forums? They are a great place to learn, get to know like minded people, build relationships, and even JV partnerships. Soaring4Traffic would not be where it is today without a couple of forums like TMF and NMF, and that’s a fact, plain and simple.

Now I want to hear your opinion! I really want to know the reason you do not participate in forums. First a thread has been started in The Members Forum about inactivity. Would really like you to go to this thread and give your honest opinion. For doing so, I’ll sweeten the pot by adding 100 credits to your Soaring4Traffic account, but only if real reasons are posted. Just be honest. This is the thread link:

http://www.themembersforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5298

Now for those that rather not post in the forum, you can leave your comments below. BUT posting your reasons here are only worth 50 credits. Oh be sure to use your real name or username familiar to S4T so credits can be applied properly. Please do this, its important and would be valuable information to know.

Okay, fine, that’s enough for now..

Tomorrow there will be another post on this blog, be sure to check it out. It will fit in well with those interested in adding ideas and products to sell to your List, when of course you get to work on that.

Keep Soaring with Eagles, we appreciate your support and value your friendship more than you know.

Ray

Hope everyone had a nice relaxing Fathers day! Also hope everyone had some fun, racked up lots of credits for your advertising and maybe even won some cash or prizes during our week long party.

All parties must come to an end. Sad I know, but really want to thank everyone for your enthusiasm and support during the one year anniversary celebration. The Party might have ended but the traffic at Soaring4Traffic won’t!

Now down to business. The final Soaring Jackpot drawing was completed yesterday. Had a little help from some friends. This way you can blame them if you didn’t win. Only wish there was a way to furnish prizes for everyone that participated.

Don’t have exact numbers, but a good guess would be over 2500 tickets in the drawing. Some may have had the max of 9 tickets, some may have only had 1 or 2, we didn’t keep tabs on that either. Only each member would know how many days they reached the 100 site minimum.

And now, what everyone has been waiting for. Find out if you won below.

Drum roll please, and the winners are:

Soaring4Traffic.com Winners

One Year Soaring Eagle Upgrade - tough2beat
6 Month Soaring Eagle Upgrade - ph5050
3 Month Soaring Eagle Upgrade - susanweisenburg
5,000 Credits - crisco
$25 Cash - cron02
2000 Credits - carly690
1 Month Soaring Eagle Upgrade - jthunt
1,000 Credits - saphyre
5,000 Banner Impressions - jace1
10,000 Text Link Impressions - blaise

Traffic at the Races Winners One Thousand Credits won by each of the following members:

gptrgarden, bebes, dcubed, tazmart, southernpal

Affiliate Funnel Winners - One month upgrades have been won by the following two members:

lavonna, vixen

Jeff Schuman Consultation was won by johndilbeck

Traffic Heroes Winners

The following 5 members have won 2500 credits each:

cjs727, network, spedeedoo, farmangel, srp1661

Following 5 members have each won a one month Super Hero Upgrade:

dwenglett, smiley64, patles17, hopkinsdw, panther57

Surfing For Success Winners - The following 2 members have each won a one year Pro membership:

cassiemay, hamelin

VinterChange Winner - of 500 credits goes to - millhouse

Gladiator Hits Winners

Six Month Upgrade was won by - harmony2004
5,000 Credits was won by - bamit
2,000 credits + 2,000 text link impressions won by - grandmaj

For a grand total of 34 winners in the Soaring Jackpot drawing, another 48 winners in our daily drawings, and of course thanks and congragulations to the top 5 referral contest winners! Congratulations to all Winners!

If you didn’t win a prize during the week long plus celebration, stay tuned, we have much more planned in the near future.

We would also like to thank the program owners who offered these great prizes strictly out of kindness and generosity. You added much to our total prize package and we truly appreciate and thank you from the bottom of our heart for your participation.

Winners of Soaring4Traffic prizes, your awards have been added. Check your account.

For the winners in other programs, please send me a support ticket with your username for the program in which you won a prize, or leave a comment here. Either way, we will notify the owners of each program with your usernames so the prizes can be awarded.

Hope everyone had a good time with this Party. Thanks to everyone for participating, and again congrats to all winners!

“Soaring with Eagles” just flat out ROCKS!

Ray White - Very Proud Owner
http://www.soaring4traffic.com

P.S. Wanna add another quick 7 bucks to your portfolio? Brand new traffic exchange just launched and they’re paying you $7 to join if you are one of the first 700 to do so. Might as well get your $7 now at Traffic Dynamite.