Sitizens
is ‘officially’ about a month old. We’ve been very focused on this
project and we hope we have brought something new and very exciting to
the advertising / social gaming market. Here’s a few stats about
Sitizens that should really wet your whistle if you are an advertiser…
We
have over 5500 members with an average of 250-300 new players joining
every day! Here’s the best part, it has hit a small tipping point where
it’s spreading itself. We saw HUGE jumps in new players and active
players this week and we’re very excited to see how this progresses in
the future. 95% of these people are from OUTSIDE the traffic exchange
industry. If you are a traffic exchange advertiser this should be making
you drool…
Let me re-phrase that…300 new people are being brought into Sitizens that have never heard of a traffic exchange….Every day!
Crazy opportunity and of course, we released one of the final ‘pieces’ to the vision of Sitizens today…The Sitizens Advertising Dashboard!
You
can now advertise within the Sitizens network. This is targeted traffic
like never before seen in the traffic exchange industry and with all
these new people joining every day, it’s a great time to get involved in
the program.
For
a few short days we are offering dirt cheap pricing on all advertising
and with our dashboard you are in complete control of who looks at your
site, how much the view it and how often…
Check out the Dashboard and set up a campaign.
Let us know what your results are like and we hope this brings
something new to the traffic exchange industry that has never been seen
before…That’s the game plan, we hope you enjoy it!
(Note:
The Advertising Dashboard is separate from your Sitizens account on
purpose…As this site grows advertisers will be looking at ways to
promote but not play the game, this is why we have set up advertising as
a new ‘system’ on top of the game itself)
We have been looking for years for a perfect solution to our needs at TrafficExchangeLive.com.
We have been in Hot Conference for years, we started out in uStream and
just recently we played around with Stickam. Nothing worked like we
wanted it to. Hot Conference was such a one sided conversation, if you
could even call it a conversation. We hate that! We LOVE when the
members can interact directly with us and that’s what being part of a
community is all about. All the other options never provided reliable
audio and video until yesterday…
We have found Google+ and YouTube…I know, this is one social network I
really thought wouldn’t take off until I had a chance to really play
with Hangouts…Wow! It’s pretty much the greatest thing we’ve ever used!
Check this out, while you are looking at this blog right now you will be
a part of the brand new TE Live live broadcast….Directly on the world’s
largest video platform, YouTube! Press the big play button below to
get involved live
If you ever want to come hang out with us, simply go to TrafficExchangeLive.com
and click on the FishBowl link. This will provide you with live access
to the most interactive and fun community in the traffic exchanges! We
look forward to hanging out with you!
Oh yeah, add me at Google+ to stay up to date with everything we are doing in the TE Live Fish Bowl!
The
traffic exchanges were starting to get on my last good nerve. It seemed
every time I opened my trap or TimTech did anything, we got back
stabbed or thrown under the bus. And I know why, we cause a lot of this
ourselves but at the end of the day we know where our heart is. It’s in
online business. It’s in helping people. It’s in paying record
commissions. It’s in every thing we do.
These past few weeks, we’ve really got a kick in the rear. There’s been a breath of fresh air in TimTech and it does come from Sitizens as Tim sums it up pretty good in his latest blog post.
We are doing things for our happiness and our customers. The people
that dislike us or what we do, meh….You kinda had your chance to curb
stomp us while we ‘took it easy’ this summer but alas…We kicked our own
butt Here’s a few things on top of Sitizens which we have been playing with… First, is The Fish Bowl.
Justin and me have been DYING to do this for months and we finally
jumped into it this week. Basically it’s 24-7 live streaming of our
Skype calls. That’s right, we are being completely transparent and
opening up exactly how we think and how we communicate for all to see.
Nothing hidden, nothing held back. Stop by anytime and come hang out
with the Nerds…Or just lurk and clown us behind our backs. We don’t mind
either way LOL We just love being transparent and we think The Fish
Bowl is something new and exciting in the business.
We also fired up Traffic Exchanges Care
again for our 6th campaign to bring awareness to the need for fresh
water around the globe. To date, we have raised over $6,000 directly
from the traffic exchange industry and that translates into fresh clean
drinking water for 300 people for….20 years! That’s right. 300 people on
planet earth will have clean drinking water for 20 years because of
YOU, the traffic exchange surfer and owner!
Two
simple projects but they have really got TimTech back into the swing of
things along with Sitizens. We’re amped. We are refreshed and we are
ready to crush it like never before. Oh yeah, we are giving away $1000
EVERY WEEK in our Tournament at Sitizens.
Not prizes, not banner impressions, not credits, not over-hyped
marketing ebooks…Real cash! We hope you enjoy it and good luck in the
tournament!
Now back to doing what we do best…Putting passion into the traffic exchanges!
"It's
just not working," my client said dejectedly. "I've been doing exactly
what the experts say — networking, building referrals, following up, but
I still have only a handful of clients. I'm thinking about giving up
and getting a job." "How long have you been doing this?" I asked her. "How long have you been following this approach in the way you are now?"
She
considered. "Two months, I think, since I really started marketing this
way. Before that, I was mostly running ads and trying to get website
traffic." "Do you think that's long enough?"
She
thought for a moment. "Probably not. I do have some new clients, but I
guess it might take a little longer to build relationships and trust,
and get to know people better. Then I might start seeing a bigger
impact."
"Right,"
I replied. "You should probably give it a bit more time before you
declare it a failure. Especially since you've already seen some
success."
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Another of my clients had a different concern. "The deal isn't going through," he told me. "They never got back to me on it."
"Did you call them?" I asked.
"I sent an email," he replied. They didn't respond."
"Suppose
for a moment that the deal hasn't fallen through," I suggested. "What
could be some other reasons you haven't heard from them?"
He
paused. "Well, maybe they haven't made a decision yet. Or maybe there's a
crash project that put this on the back burner for a bit. Or maybe the
department head went on vacation."
"So what do you think should you do?" "I should keep following up with them." He chuckled. "I guess I don't really know what's going on until they tell me."
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Client number three began by declaring, "I'm no good at marketing. I just can't do it."
"What is it you can't do?" I asked.
"I can't go to these networking things and meet people," she sighed. "I just freeze up. I don't know what to say."
"Is that all there is to marketing? Going to networking things?"
She thought about it. "No, there's a lot of different ways to market."
I probed some more. "Are there some of those you ARE good at?"
"Sure," she replied. "I'm good at talking to people one-on-one, once I know them, I mean."
"So are there some people you know that you could talk to one-on-one who might help build your business?"
She
brightened. "Yeah, a bunch of them! You mean I could stop going to those
awful networking things and just talk to people I already know?"
"Isn't that also called networking?" I asked.
She laughed. "Yeah, I guess it is. But that kind I can do!"
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These
three dialogues make one thing clear. It's completely normal to feel
discouraged at times about marketing. It does take time for your efforts
to pay off; sometimes you put yourself out there and get nothing back,
and some elements of marketing will be out of your comfort zone. But
none of these truths are deal-breakers.
If you
market yourself consistently using proven approaches, if you follow up
persistently with prospective clients over time, and if you seek out
ways to market that feel natural to you, you will see results. In fact,
when your marketing starts to work, it often seems almost miraculous,
because clients start to appear as if by magic.
But if
you allow yourself to be deterred because you don't get immediate
results, to feel rejected when all that happened is you didn't get an
answer, or tell yourself you're a failure just because there are some
areas where you don't shine, this "magic" won't happen.
It's
kind of like baking a cake. Mix some flour, milk, butter, eggs, baking
powder, sugar, and flavorings, put it in the oven for a bit, and
miraculously, it turns into a cake. But if you neglect to measure out
the ingredients and stir them together, don't let it bake long enough,
or give up halfway through because you've never made a cake before, the
miracle never has a chance to occur.
Marketing
isn't rocket science. It's much more like baking. The recipe goes like
this: Be consistent. Persist. Believe in yourself. Then don't give up before the miracle.
It’s no secret, TimTech has been very focused on Sitizens and
our new project to branch this business out into the rest of the
internet. We truly believe we have found a perfect mix between traffic
exchange and social game and we want the world to know about it. So we
have tried a few things that most ‘internet marketers’ might be shocked
at (especially our advertising budget) but we decided to do things
different and instead of spending money on ‘typical’ advertising, we
created a contest…..
Actually
it’s 3 contests and they happen every week. The player who refers the
most, gets a cash prize. The player that arrives at sites the most, get a
cash prize. And finally the player that explores the most, get a cash
prize as well.
Here’s the kicker….Cash prize.
Now
I understand marketing and I understand that credits, upgrades and
banner impressions have value but here’s a problem we have with it. You
can say $1000 in cash and prizes and never have to really invest a
penny. You see, as an owner of a traffic exchange you can fabricate
banners, text ads and credits. They don’t really cost anything, so it
looks really cool to say we’re giving away the farm when in fact, you
don’t really have anything invested.
But then along comes a contest where people can win real cash and well…$1000 cash and $1000 cash & prizes look the same…
For
the record, I have nothing against giving away upgrades and
credits…Heck I think it’s brilliant on a business side of things
especially if you are working with a limited budget…I guess I just want
some more disclosure. If you are giving away 100 bucks cash and 900
bucks worth of prizes..Say there is $100 cash prize and 900 dollars
worth of upgrades…That way the members get full disclosure and people
know exactly what they are being rewarded with.
What do you think? Make sense? Or is Jon thinking too much into it….lol
Hello Subscribers I hope you are having a great week so far. Join Sitizens on this link and win real cash by getting others to join! http://sitizens.com/?friend=Wo Explore and Rule the Web! Join on the link above and get Contest Details on the NEWS link (in White) at Top of Page after logging into Sitizens. Have a great day! Barb :)
