Creativity and passion go hand in hand from the first notion of owning your own site to constantly planning on making it better and better.

So many people don't realize how much work the admins really do - until they try to do it themselves.

For anyone reading this comment and think your site may have died or failed - you can bring it back to life or open a new site and try again.

Never ever give up!

Gina :)

We have been coaching internet marketers for years and see this happen almost daily.

Most fledgling internet marketers still have the "Overnight Success" syndrome, believing that the internet is a pot of gold and they'll have instant wealth.

Building a successful business takes investments of time, money, willingness to learn, a good mentor and HARD WORK!

Kudos to you Tim also Carl Bailey and my wife Gina Sprenkle-Gunning

Additionally there are a lot of people out there that are habitual starters, but never finish anything! Doesn't matter what the idea is they don't have a start to end plan, so they'll never get there!

Good comments, but unfortunately, they will be read, but not followed. There will be half a dozen new exchanges try to be born before the end of the month.

After 2 years of owning an already established exchange, I thought I would create my own from scratch. Being a programmer, I knew I could make it unique, and add new mods and updates. I opened it 4+ months ago, and my original exchange has slipped badly. I do not see how owners can have multiple exchanges and operate them properly. It takes a real balance, and constant work to keep them active.

That creates the problem I see... hands off owners. They own the exchange, but expect it to operate itself. They get these fancy help desks, then hire someone to do customer support, or they feel they can spend a couple hours a week sending out emails. I operate my exchanges, because I enjoy it. It's not a burden, even though I can easily spend 40+ hours at the keyboard "maintaining" it. It's fun and I enjoy the interaction with members, creating new material, and watching it grow.

If your going to start an exchange, first as Tim said make sure you WANT TO. They are not money makers! They can generate some cash flow, but you will make more money creating a squeeze page, advertising in the exchanges and being an affiliate marketer.

Owning a traffic exchange is not a wash, rinse, repeat mentality. If you have that thought... use it with niche sites!

Sorry to take up so much space... just one of my pet peeves... its those lousy owners that make it that much harder for the rest of us...

DA

Not much to say today but Thank you,
Doug

Personally I enjoy watching the numbers raise every day; new members, sites viewed, along with having contests, and just interacting with our members. It's fun!

I agree with what you wrote Carl - I also do not throw or push offers onto my members...I treat them how I want/like to be treated.

Thanks Tim for helping us with your tips, I look forward to your next post :)

~ Nicole Acosta
YourHotHits.com

So much for that plan.

Guess I'll keep working.