The Products Are Coming
Even though I am still fairly new to the traffic exchange industry, I can feel the advertising atmosphere is evolving. Traffic exchanges which used to be filled with promised riches from matrix programs evolved in to ads for other advertising venues. Nothing wrong with building up your advertising resources and creating affiliate income but, at one point, it seemed you didn’t see any other type of ads, but ad places, while surfing. Now, the evolution continues – with the leadership efforts of Shielda Wheaton and Patti Boquist, product advertisements are becoming more common place while surfing. I admit, I love it! For traffic exchanges to evolve in to a substantial advertising venue, I personally feel the influx of products will be good for the industry.
You Don’t Have To Be First
It’s kind of ironic because Shielda is not the first person I have seen advertising jerky in traffic exchanges. There is another guy who goes by the username, the jerkydude, (I think) who I have noticed his ads. So, how is Shielda opening doors and creating excitement? She is engaging with traffic exchange owners and members. To take your advertising to the next level, you must engage with the very people you hope will purchase your service or products. Kudos to Shielda for actively engaging anyone who will listen.
Taking It Further
Not only is Patti advertising her jewelry products on traffic exchanges and giving some of her items away as surfing prizes, she has developed a traffic exchange which only allows product advertisements. Really Smart Deals is a niche traffic exchange / shoppers club which is carving out it’s place and building a membership full of buyers.
Commit To Your Product
Whether you have a product or are an affiliate marketer, commit to the item you are promoting in 2013. If you are promoting peanuts, become known as the peanut guy. Engage with others and talk about peanuts every chance you get. Shielda and Patti have done an outstanding job of engaging and are representing their ideas and products with conviction. I hope 2013 is the year many members carve out their own niche in this ever evolving advertising world in the traffic exchange industry.
Wow! What an awesome Blog post! Thank you Hot Flash Hits Owners!
Cathy and Jolynn are super TE Owners and they are very open to product promotions on their TE and to supporting online sellers of real products!
This is a perspective that really needs pursuing as I believe online sellers really need to be using the traffic and fresh “eyes” on their websites and products for sale that advertising in Traffic Exchanges can bring them!
And just a little “secret”…the Members who are using Traffic Exchanges are real people also…and with some good advertising of your products, they can easily become your next customers!!!
Thank you so much Cathy & Jolynn! I hope this post will help more sellers come to realize that we actually want and need to see their products for sale in Traffic Exchanges and that they can benefit greatly from the advertising and exposure they can gain from using Traffic Exchanges!
Online Sellers and Traffic Exchanges are a good “fit”!
Well having been around for awhile, this is very nice to see happening – as I remember when I first discovered traffic exchanges – you were not welcomed with open arms to have products listed in traffic exchanges.
See I stumbled upon traffic exchanges as I was a seller on Ebay and was looking for fresh eyes/potential buyers. Now I can’t say that it was all the TE’s fault as I know that the pages from Ebay at the time caused framebreaks. I personally think this was why some of the people that sold from Ebay had such a hard time and therefore was not welcomed as they should have been.
Being frustrated myself I finally went to Ebay and told them what was happening and finally found the pages that would not cause framebreaks but by the time that happened – the sellers on Ebay were not happy with TE’s and TE’s were not happy with Ebay sellers.
As I still sell on Ebay and do advertise in TE, I for one am glad to see that the doors are being opened again.
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Cathy hit the nail on the head! It is time to evolve or become irrelevant! We need an infusion of companies that are increasingly using the internet to advertise but look at the Traffic Exchange Industry as a waste of money.
Let the changes begin…
Shielda Wheaton
Yep! Whole reason I came to TEs over a year ago was to advertise my Avon. Why not!
Absolutely Meredith.
How could I forget the TE Avon Lady.
You have been advertising products for a long time.
I think you have developed some innovative ideas and I look forward to seeing what kind of ad campaigns you come up with in 2013.
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