Traffic Exchanges are sites that offer to send a visitor to your website in exchange for you taking the time to visit another exchange member's site. For new online marketers, Traffic Exchanges are an effective way to start getting traffic to your site.



However  without a smart game plan, Traffic Exchanges can be a tremendous time waster. Use these 7 easy steps to quickly profit from your Traffic Exchange efforts.

1. Be Realistic

Traffic Exchanges are great sources of free visitors for your site. But you should be realistic about the quality of the visits that you will soon be receiving. A large portion of your visitors will be curiosity seekers who are not interested in your particular product at that moment.

However a good number of visitors will be curious about your product. To profit from these "warm prospects" you should make sure you have a solid plan for encouraging them to "raise their hand" for your product.

2. Be Patient

Don't get seduced by the idea of making a killing within minutes of signing up for a Traffic Exchange. I've seen many site owners give up because they hoped to sell their $99 product to a ravenous crowd that immediately wanted their product.

Traffic Exchange surfers are a savvy and educated group of consumers. While they ignore bold pitches, and outrageous claims -

They will happily provide their name and email address for a free report, booklet, or audio seminar. It is best to woo these prospects with good content provided at a "patient pace".

3. Focus on Building A List

"It's the list that matters nothing else". My first mentor drummed this into my head at every opportunity. And, it is excellent advice.

Remember this, the only guaranteed way to profit from Traffic Exchanges is to use your site to build a list of interested prospects. If you follow the tips in this article, you will build a list that will pay you a steady income for years to come.

4. Make it Simple

Studies show that web site visitors make a decision to stay or click away from a site within 3 seconds! In those three seconds, they quickly decide if they will do business with you. If you beat around the bush, you will lose the prospect.

So, have only one goal for the page that will be featured within the Traffic Exchange you choose. If you learned "Step 3", you already know that your goal should be "to build a list"

Don't worry about selling your main product or service. You will have many opportunities to do so. But for right now, first things first. Focus on making it very simple for your visitors to provide their name and email address.

More on this in Step 5 -

 

5. Use a Squeeze Page

Have you heard of "Squeeze Pages?" Well, for years top online marketers have quitely used this killer tactic to build massive lists of hot prospects. It has only been within the last 6 - 8 months that the secret power of squeeze pages have been leaked to the general public.

Squeeze Pages are simple one page forms that:

1) Have A Great Benefit Headline

2) List the most attractive benefits of a product or service

3) Offers a "free" booklet or report filled with great information

and 4) Has a simple 2-3 field form that collects the visitors name and email address.

They are called "Squeeze Pages" because they "filter" the warm prospects from the curiosity seekers - in effect the squeeze your traffic through a gatekeeper who collects the name of the interested - and send the rest on their way.

So do Squeeze Pages work? You bet they do. In my own tests, I've seen 20 - 47% jump in my leads and sales! Well worth you giving them a try.

6. You Gotta Give Before You Can Receive

Every customer is hungry for information. In fact, offering solid, easy-to-understand, information is the only guaranteed way to hold your visitors attention long enough to make a sale.

Take the time to create a brief booklet or report that you can offer "free-of-charge" to prospects in exchange for their name and email address.

Your customers will appreciate the time you took to give them quality advice and they will reward you with their business.

7. Test, Test, Test

I suggest that you sign up for 3 or 4 traffic exchanges initially. Each traffic exchange is slightly different and offer various ways for you to earn credits that can be redeemed for site visits.

Once you select your Traffic Exchange, make sure that you watch your visitor traffic information. You will soon observe that one or two of the Traffic Exchange converts much better than the others.

Now, you have a guaranteed free traffic provider that reliably fills your prospect list with warm to hot leads. At this point, drop the poor perfoming Exchanges and focus your time on the winners.

I've used these steps to repeatedly build profitable prospect lists that turned into impressive sales. The beauty of these steps are that they are free and easy to implement. Implement these steps now and watch your profits soar.

Stan "The Ideas Man" Smith. is the author of the Billion Dollar Marketing Secret provides marketing coaching that help businesses profit quickly from unique, unorthodox, and easy to use ideas.

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