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Fighting Burnout and Changing your Name

June 25, 2007

So the last week I pretty much got burnt out from spending too much time on the computer. To prevent it from happening anytime soon I'll be trying to limit my hours more. I'm also thinking of changing my name. Well when I sign up to things..  It's difficult going through the emails seeing which [...]

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Be careful who you listen to

June 19, 2007

"If exchanges are getting Way Over 130 daily per url, they are dirty with cheaters" That was some advice given by an exchange owner recently in one of their newsletters. Now I can tell you StartXchange can delivery way over 130 hits to a website each day, and it isn't dirty with cheaters. So just [...]

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What do you want to learn?

June 6, 2007

I posted asking what are you learning recently. Well, what do you want to learn? I have been playing with screen capture software and creating video tutorials. If there is anything you don't know how to do, but want to know, post a question. I'll see if I first know how to do it, and [...]

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How To Track Your Results

June 2, 2007

You hear about it all over the Hit Exchange industry. Track your results! But how in the world do you actually do it? Method 1: TEtoolbox For those who are completely new at it, I would recommend TEtoolbox. You can create splash pages and it automatically will track the clicks for you. The splash page [...]

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Back Online

May 24, 2007

Well I had some unexpected downtime. My new computer parts came in, and all went smooth until I found out the DVD drive would make windows crash. I've got it running now, don't ask what did it or why, but it'll take some time to get everything installed *again*.

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Tired of being Tired

May 11, 2007

Lately I've been feeling too tired to do anything. Having a baby takes alot of energy, but some people manage to have one and still live. Got any ideas?

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StomperNet

May 8, 2007

So I'm thinking about joining StomperNet. I've heard alot about it. Still unsure if it's right for me. Listening to the T minus audios makes me think the 30 day trial is SIMPLE. And not the fancy acronym they created. If you are inside StomperNet..  Is it really simple? Or is the 30 day trial [...]

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Traffic Exchange List gets RSS Feed

April 30, 2007

Earlier this morning I added an RSS Feed to Traffic Exchange List. Pretty cool. You can now subscribe and know when the latest report comes out. The feed will tell you the top 10, and it has a link to the full report. This is great if you want to syndicate the feed on your [...]

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Check out my Customized Theme

April 29, 2007

I customized the old theme on the blog. It is not enabled by default (yet). To see it, on the right menu select the 3 column theme. The photo in the theme I took fairly recently. It's of Narragansett Beach in Rhode Island. Apparently a recent storm knocked down a big fence that used to [...]

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How do YOU Make Money?

April 26, 2007

Tired of seeing ads that ask if your tired of surfing? LOL I thought it would be fun to do a reverse advertisement. Instead of me asking if you are tired of surfing, and telling you how to make money, I want you to tell me how you make money and why you surf! You [...]

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Peer-to-Peer Website Marketing Noticed!

April 14, 2007

I posted about it previously, how a friend suggested calling StartXchange peer-to-peer website marketing. Before writing a post, I did a Google Search for it, and found 0 results. After, I find my websites and a few that stole my RSS, but interesting enough I found another exchange using it! I've never heard of the [...]

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Peer-to-Peer Website Marketing

April 9, 2007

I was talking to a businessman I know, and was explaining the concept of traffic exchanges. The next day he came back to me and said something along the lines of "So it's basically peer-to-peer website marketing". Wow I thought. I think it sounds better than "traffic exchanges" when I tell people what I do, [...]

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How to Increase your Findability Factor

March 27, 2007

Jon Olson and Dan Moses are starting new podcasts, and in the first one they mention the Findability Factor. What is it? Basically the number of page views it takes before you see a person or program in an exchange, whether it's a banner or a text link or a splash page. Well I took [...]

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Before Buying a Softball Team..

March 21, 2007

My friend and I started a business called RI Foto. We've decided to sponsor a local softball team for advertising. It's not complete yet, but we don't foresee any problems with it. Well except one.. Is our site ready? Please take the time to visit it now: www.RIFOTO.com and reply with your comments. I already [...]

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How do you do it?

March 19, 2007

My biggest problem with working online is email. I have trouble keeping up with it, and have tried various methods to make it organized. How do you organize your email? I use Gmail, and one thing I've done is created filters. I try to create a filter for every automated email I get, that I [...]

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Robert Puddy gets me Everytime!

March 11, 2007

You see it all the time..  Titles are so important for getting results. Whether it's a blog title, or a subject line for an email. A good one can get alot more eyes reading it, while a bad one can leave you behind. For instance right now I have 872 emails in my email account [...]

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Using your Photo, Does it Work?

March 5, 2007

There is a thread in Net Marketing Forum about Photo Branding. I was going to comment, however with 3 pages of comments it would most likely get lost. My Testing Shows: In most cases, using your photo will increase your results. However there were some splash pages that did better without a photo. Things to [...]

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Unique vs Returning Traffic

March 3, 2007

There is a large debate among traffic exchange owners and users. Which is better? Unique hits, or returning traffic? Unique Hits Each unique hit is a new person visiting the site. Most new users will want the most people to see their site, so they'll want the highest amount of unique hits. Returning Traffic When [...]

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To cache or not to cache

March 2, 2007

Well caching reaks havoc on websites that are dynamic and change every page view. Like StartXchange's surfbar. On the other hand, it can be so useful. Like all those banners being advertised. Things would load really fast if all the banners were cached that you see come up so often. I've been trying to figure [...]

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March Contest on StartXchange

February 27, 2007

I decided to try something different for March. Instead of me spending $100 to advertise StartXchange on other exchanges, I'm going to be giving it away to the top 5 promoters for the month! The top 5 will receive $50, $25, $10, $10, and $5. Afterwards I'll look at the growth of the exchange and [...]

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