March 29, 2009 by DSM.

I found ViralURL recently when I started getting into the new Twitter phenom.  Yes, I know, now I need to start adding my own tweets for everything that I am doing, LOL.  Well, with an Internet and Network Marketing business, there is always something that needs to be done.  So I should have lots of updates that I can post.

While I was checking out someone’s Twitter page, I found a link for Viral Followers to help build your own Twitter following.  I have used this kind of site before.  They post an update on your Twitter page, as a way of advertising their site and building a mini-twitter downline to help build your followers.

On the Viral Followers ad page, they had a link for ViralURL, so I clicked it to see what it had to offer for extra internet advertising potential.  Once I gave them all of the personal information, clicked the email authentication links to make sure it was me, I was able to login. After each login they help you with the setup by displaying the Text Ad setup or Banner ad setup pages.  Kind of nice to help you get started.

As part of ViralURL they offer to help build your downline automatically, and the usual we can help make you money.  I have a hard enough time managing my primary businesses, without worrying about how some other site can make me money.  If I get a few extra visitors to my site, to help with my own marketing efforts that’s all I am interested in.

They also have a Success University sign-up link on their profile page, which can be used to increase your downline.  That is one of the reasons that I did not just chuck them into my Junk Email list.  I am always interested in new ways of recruiting new people into my Success University business.

There are also ClickBank, and Add2it links.  Not sure what Add2it is all about.  I ignored most of the special one-time offers when I first created my account. I am still learning more about how they can be used, but one of my mentors Janet Legre has an account, so it can’t be that bad to use.

When you have their code added to your own website, their ads are displayed on your site.  You earn credits to advertise your business on another website, who is also a ViralURL member.  Kind of like a text/banner ad exchange. From my own site testing, it seems like the text and banner ads have one of yours as the first one, and then someone else for the second ad.

Once you create your own ViralURL account and during your own website testing, you may notice a slight delay in loading the ads, since ViralURL has to find the right ads to display.  Not sure why it takes them so long, all they have are URL links and images to lookup and load.  My blog site does the same and it does not take that long.  I guess they underestimated their growth and have not kept up with their web and database server farms.  So when they hit peak periods, their servers have terrible performance.

Here is my ViralURL signup link, so you can evaluate them for yourself:

http://vur.me/millerds

and my ViralFollowers link to help build your own Twitter followers:

http://ViralFollowers.com/darrinmiller/vu

and my Twitter page so you can follow me:

http://twitter.com/DarrinMiller

Here is one of the ViralURL code segments that you can post on your site to earn credits to display your text ad on other sites.

Here is one of their banner ad code segments, that you can post on your site to earn credits to display your ads on other sites.

…Darrin…

See part 2 here… http://blog.lazy-mountain.info/viralurl2/

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March 24, 2009 by DSM.

When using Traffic Exchange (TE) sites, I get good results using a tab rotation technique with Firefox.  This type of setup helps to get the most clicks in the least amount of time, without waiting for the site timers.  In this article, I will provide each of the steps needed to get this type of free advertising setup and working for you.

What is a Traffic Exchange site you might ask?

They are sites which allow you to advertise your own Network Marketing, Affiliate, or Business website; in exchange for viewing other member websites.   There are free and paid TE sites, but for this discussion the free sites are good enough to get started.  Different kinds of sites offer automatic or manual viewing.  The manual TE sites are the most stable and have better results, since it requires someone to click a link to continue to the next page in order to get credit for that page view.  This provides the advertiser a good chance to grab the viewers attention in 10-20 seconds.

First step, install the free Mozilla Firefox browser.  Here is a link for their download page.  You can also use IE, Safari, or Chrome.  I like using Firefox since it has better options for groups and tabs.

Second step, here are 9 (nine) of my favorite manual Traffic Exchange sites, that I have organized onto a separate page of this blog site with each of the referral links and banners.  I have used all of them over the years with good results.  Open each site and start the process of creating your own free TE accounts.

Traffic Swarm = Free and Pro traffic exchange site.

Traffic Syndicate 25 (ts25) = Free and Pro traffic exchange site.

Fast Freeway = Free and Pro traffic exchange site.

Traffic Pods = Free and Pro traffic exchange site.

Hit Safari = Free and Pro traffic exchange site.

ILoveHits = Free and Pro traffic exchange site

HitPulse = Free and Pro traffic exchange site

WebBizInsider = Free and Pro traffic exchange site.

HitGusher = Free and Pro traffic exchange site

After you sign up as a new member, you can enter your URL’s (web-speak for the http://mysite.com… web page address).  Once you complete so many initial page views your account will be active, and they will start using all those credits you earn to show your site to other members.  Each site has their own requirements to get started.

Third step, create a group called “Manual TE Sites” and add a bookmark for each of your TE sites into that group.  At the bottom of the group, Firefox has the “Open All in Tabs” feature to open all of those bookmarks at once into their own separate tabs.  If you have a larger monitor with a high-resolution or one of the wide-screen monitors, you could fit 15 or more TE sites into their own separate tabs, leaving room for you to see the name of each TE site name.  On my normal monitor (1024×768) having 8 TE tabs open is about the limit that it can handle.

Rotation step(s), make sure your TE accounts are open in each tab, and they are all on the Surfing for Credits first page view. Click the right icon or number to open the next page view.  At that point that site timer will start counting again.  Using the tabs at the top of Firefox open the next one, and continue the process of clicking the right icon/button for the next web page to be displayed.  Move to the next tab and continue until you reach the last tab, and then you start again with the first tab.

TrafficSwarm note:  Use the right-click menu & “open link in a new tab” option on the “Start Surfing” link in your members section, to open that page in a separate tab.  Otherwise clicking the link will open the surfing page in a new window.

By organizing your bookmarks and their tab order, you can have them all working together in sequence.  This will allow you to earn credits on other sites, while the previous site timer is still counting.  With practice you can have them all setup and working together, and waiting for you to click the timer/button, instead of you waiting for just one site timer to finish.

Using this technique also gives you a chance to advertise more than 3 of your websites, which is the limit that most of the free accounts have.  Some sites have Banner and Text Ad rotation too.  With 8 TE accounts you can have about 25+ of your site links in the rotation at the same time.  You can also use any of the open advertising spots, to advertise your other TE sites as a cross-promotion matrix.

…Darrin…

Sign up for the recommended Traffic Exchange sites…

http://Blog.Lazy-Mountain.info/Resources/TrafficExchange/

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March 18, 2009 by DSM.

Here is another update for my network marketing journal.  I plan to update this category as I find my own inspiration to share.

Over the last two weeks of editing this blog, I have started to get more organized.  As part of that training and frustration, I decided to add some pages so I can put everything into their own sections.

Near the top of the blog you will now find new pages/sections for Resources, About, and Contact Me.  We also added a Mailing List, so if you don’t understand RSS you can receive emails when we update content.

http://blog.lazy-mountain.info/mailing-list

On the Resources page, I have started compiling all of the network marketing programs that I have joined, as well as the other internet tools and sites that I use for promotion and advertising.  Some of them I have used for years, and others I am currently in the process of testing.  As I find out which ones have the best results, I will add more notes to this journal for your review, and/or post new articles in the Internet Advertising category.

http://blog.lazy-mountain.info/resources/

The About page is just a copy/paste from my first post, explaining how I got started in network marketing, and why the site name is named after a mountain in Alaska.

http://blog.lazy-mountain.info/about/  

Now on the Contact Me page, are my personal details if you would like to send me an email, call on the phone, or send letters or packages for my birthday (hint, hint, it’s June 14th).

http://blog.lazy-mountain.info/contact/

…Darrin…

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March 12, 2009 by DSM.

The Leaders Club has a lot of free training resouces, to help you understand all that they have to offer on the inside.  They have a weekly newsletter, CD’s and DVD’s, also online training materials in print, audio, and video.

Check it out for yourself:  http://LC-FreeTraining.Lazy-Mountain.info

Here is a detailed list of the items available on their Freebie page:

==>  Solving The 8 Greatest Challenges In Network Marketing

==>  The Top 10 Ways To Jump Start Your Network Marketing Business

==>  How To Use What You Already Have To Grow A Profitable Network Marketing Business

==>  Unstoppable Income: The 5 Elements of Network Marketing Success

==>  What Network Marketing Prospects Really Care About

==>  How To Evaluate A Network Marketing Company

==>  Why Your Support Team Is Critical To Your Success

==>  Creating A Comfortable Fit With Your Successful Future

==>  How To Get Experts To Help You Solve Your Specific Marketing Challenges

==>  The Truth About Network Marketing

==>  E-mail Marketing 101: The New Secret To Maximize Prospecting Results

==>  Leaders Club MarketingPower Network Marketing Newsletter

==>  MLM Income Calculator

==>  Network Marketing Survival Guide

Check it out for yourself:  http://LC-FreeTraining.Lazy-Mountain.info

…Darrin…
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March 9, 2009 by DSM.

Are you trying your own ways of advertising online?

What have your results been?

Have you created your own ads yet?

Did you find places to put those Banner ads, Text ads?

Consider joining the Directory of E-zines    

It seems a little expensive, at $197.00 for Lifetime membership (with a company who has already been in business 11 years).  They have an ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC group of bonuses, including free personal consultation, custom ad writing done for you (THEY WRITE YOUR SOLO AD FOR YOU!), UNLIMITED classified ads, etc. 

Seriously, this investment could make the difference for you. 

Check  it out!   http://DOE.Lazy-Mountain.info

(After all, you ARE starting a business, and this is a great investment.)

The full package includes …

Check  it out!   http://DOE.Lazy-Mountain.info

…Darrin…

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March 5, 2009 by DSM.

This is copy-paste from a Leadersclub - Mastermind forum post.

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Well, as part of my Individualized Success Plan (ISP) - Week 1.  I need to post some information about why I joined Leadersclub, and what my plans are for the next 90 days.

I joined Leadersclub over a year ago, since it was part of a program list that my sponsor was using for network marketing business building and training.  At the time I already knew about Leadersclub from someone introducing it to me years before.

Once I first started to explore what Leadersclub had to offer, I was amazed to see all of the audios which were available for download or to listen to online.  That is part of what has kept me active for so long, by listening to the training I have been able to keep my interest high and also provides daily inspiration when needed.

I started the ISP process recently and still am in the first week of assignments.  My plans for the next 90 days are to start using prospecting & sales more as separate steps, rather than trying to sell everyone when I first contact them.  At the end of the 90 days, I will have a better understanding of the entire sales process, and will be able to sponsor more people into my business with less hassle and with better results.

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If you would like to learn about how to start your own Individualized Success Plan, here is a link/banner for my Leadersclub site.

http://LC-Success.lazy-moutain.info

For anyone who is already in Leadersclub, Global Domains International (GDI), Empowerism, or HotConference. Here is a link/banner to the Follow Our Lead team training site that I am a part of.

http://FOL.lazy-mountain.info

…Darrin…

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March 3, 2009 by DSM.

I have had a few people ask me what is Lazy Mountain Information?

To answer that, here is a little history about my network marketing career.  About 7 years ago I moved to Alaska, to work at a computer job my buddy offered me.  Since I was not working at the time, I said why not and made the decision to accept his offer.  So I packed up my bags, got rid of 90% of my accumulated junk, loaded my Honda Accord with all of my possessions, and started driving from Michigan to Alaska.

Once in Alaska, I started to feel the financial stress from what happens when you have been unemployed for any length of time, combined with the lack of savings, escalated by how much debt I had created.

Since Alaska was a new town for me, I had too much time on my hands and started using the internet to keep me busy, with online gaming and email communication to my friends back home in Michigan.

During that time I started seeing all of these SPAM email ads for online businesses.  After checking out a few of them, and seeing other banners on search engines, I decided that I could do this.  So I joined one or two programs which seemed to be a good fit.

Most of my business training from college always talked about companies and their names, so I started thinking of names that I could use for myself as a virtual identity.  Then I fell into the Alaska name trap.

So many business names up there are Talkeetna this, and Denali that, with Alaska plumbing, etc.  Since I lived in Palmer, Alaska, at the base of Lazy Mountain.  I decided to call my new online world, Lazy Mountain Information.

After 2 wonderful years in Alaska, I had to pack up my stuff and drive back to Michigan.  I guess my underlying thoughts were about being homeless, and decided that living in my parents basement in Michigan, was better than no options in the Alaska wilderness.

Now I get to share my wisdom over the last 41 years, 17 of those spent in the corporate world working with computers, 4 of them at Northern Michigan University, and the last 7 trying to make my mark in the network marketing industry.

Not that it will take everyone 7 years to build their own network marketing business.  My efforts were interrupted many times by unemployment, new jobs, new places, frustration, and different levels of chaos.

Now here we are on this blog site, and I welcome you to share in my experience, to help you build your own network marketing business.

…Darrin…

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