What do Zig Ziglar, John C. Maxwell and Brenda Broyles have in common?

Take a step back and think about that for a moment and ask yourself…Are you doing everything you can to HELP others in this business, regardless of whether or not they are in your ‘downline’?

What do you think you can do to step up to bat for folks looking for guidance, help and assistance in online business?

Here’s a HINT….The social chats are ALWAYS alive with people looking for a tip or two…Why not help a surfer today?

P.S. It’s Vault N’ Keys time with The Legacy Hits guys! Be sure to surf Legacy and StartXchange today!

P.P.S. A special Happy 3rd Birthday goes out to Randy Ritter’s Top Flight Traffic! It turned 3 yesterday and here’s to another great year ahead!

We’ve had one amazing week at TimTech and it’s ended with the biggest commission payment in the history of our company… This week we paid out $4062.17…Yes you read that right, that’ a THOUSAND dollars over our previous commission payment record and it’s only going to get better from now on…

But that was just the END of the week, check out all the happenings of the past 7 days…

- For the first time in years, TimTech partnered with KRM to do two record setting surf promos. Numbers were the best ever at TezakTrafficPower and I Love Hits. And then Traffic-Splash and StartXchange broke the record for most Vaults opens. WOW! And we cannot thank the guys enough, we made history and we are looking forward to doing it again!

- We did awesome Vault N’ Key promos with the Bad Marketing guys, Randy Ritter, William Miller, The Legacy Hits Guys, The Showbiz Hit Ladies, Walter Mulder and Barry Langdon…Every traffic exchange that we partnered with saw some HUGE numbers and EACH site had a record breaking day for surfing and activity across the board! Thank you to EACH owner for stepping up and supporting the Vault N’ Keys promotion!

(Side note: We actually had some servers go offline because of the activity seen from the Vault N’ Keys…… #winning)

- We have added brand new live stats to the members area of ClickTrackProfit! We’ve blown past 33,000 members and are quickly approaching 2 million badges claimed….Yup, 2 million BADGES!!!! That’s awesome sauce!

- And we also hit 30,000 members at AdKreator….

And wow, I just had to ask the Nerds if I forgot anything. It’s been THAT good a week and it’s because of you that this is happening. Thank you for all your support. All your business! And all your surfing! This is what is amazing about this company and this industry…..We feel like we are JUST getting started!

We have a huge weekend and week ahead so be sure to stay tuned, this is going to be a GONG SHOW!

This is a pretty big day for me personally but also for all of TimTech. There is a group of guys in this business that I have worked with for years and years. I’ve even been their partner with Affiliate Funnel but recently, because of different views of business we have not worked as closely as we used to.

No matter what, Tony Tezak and the entire KRM family LOVE traffic exchanges and love this business so today I’m soooo thrilled and honored to let everyone know that we’ve loaded up the Vault N’ Keys game at I Love Hits and….TezakTrafficPower! But wait it gets even better….Tomorrow we’re adding StartXchange along with Traffic-Splash!

Yup, this is HUGE! 4 of the biggest traffic exchanges on the planet, are coming together for 2 days to give surfers a TON of cash, prizes and lots of traffic.

TimTech is VERY happy to have these guys on board for these next few days and we would love to see record breaking surf numbers across the board. Be sure to surf TTP and ILH today and then SXC and Traffic-Splash tomorrow…It’s going to be quite the gong show!

Thanks KRM and Tony….You guys rock! Let’s go make some history!

Yup, crazy how time flies huh….It’s been exactly two years since we had this crazy notion to change the way traffic exchanges were ‘surfed’ and what an incredible journey it has been…54705 members later, we are just getting started!

Happy Birthday Sweeva!

Also, I cannot forget about the awesome sauce news this week from the TimTech nerds. We launched the Vault N’ Keys game earlier this week and just recently showed the industry how much fun you can have with a spinning wheel

Be sure to join Legacy Hits and I Love Hits today and tomorrow for the Vault game and even more joint surf promos throughout the weekend with more awesome sauce traffic exchange owners…

And finally…$2684.24 was paid to TimTech affiliates this past week. Anyone doing the math that’s over $34000 dollars since January 1st…Not too shabby!!! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!!

We are pretty pumped to announce the launch our new ‘Vault N’ Keys’ promotion. It’s a spin on the surf promos that have been around the traffic exchanges for quite sometime. Obviously, these promos have been popular but we never wanted to ‘do what everyone else’ does…So we changed it up a bit and WOW the surf numbers after one day have been nothing short of record breaking…

Yesterday we started the promo with StartXchange and our first partner program SiteXplosion. The BAD Marketing guys have been loving it so far and the members have been getting LOTS of bonuses, real cash prizes, tokens, batteries and so much more…

How does it work? Simple, surf 77 pages in the two partner exchanges and get a unique key from each site…Get both keys and presto, you unlock the vault…

Tomorrow, we are introducing Surf Skeleton to the promo and we expect huge numbers for tomorrow’s promo as well.

Did we revolutionize anything? Nope. Did we change the idea behind a surf promo? Nope.

We just added a different spin on it. This is the ‘nugget’ today, when you have an idea or see an idea you like, just put your own spin on it. You don’t need to change the world, and you don’t need to re-invent the wheel. You just need to add your own flavor to it.

The power to stick out from the crowd is one of the most important aspects of building a solid business online and you will notice, time and time again, the people that do things their way, always come out on top.

Be unique, try something new and above all else, have fun with it! We hope you enjoy the new ‘Vault N’ Keys’ surf promos and expect lots more cash and bonuses for doing what you already do…Being social and surfing =)

P.S. Did you click those links in the post above? Those are ‘jump links’. They go to your link for each of those sites when someone in your downline reads this blog post. That’s right, we are building your downlines in our blog posts and emails =)

Here’s is a brand new ‘video blog’ post for your viewing enjoyment. I hope you all have a fantastic weekend and thanks so much for all your support for my company over the past few months. It’s been an absolutely blast and I’m about to get rid of some ‘urban myths’ about TimTech in the video below…

Be sure to check out AdKreator this weekend for the ‘Justin Is Tied Up’ lifetime upgrade…And I’ll see you on Monday!

Pitch pitch pitch…I opened up my inbox today to see some wonderful ‘pitch’ emails in there over night but the best was from a ‘marketer’ that literally copied and pasted the affiliate email provided to them by the program they were promoting…How do I know, because in the email they forgot to replace this with their real name….

(Your Name Goes Here}
(Your Contact Info Goes Here)

Urgh.

O.K. rant aside about the lack of any kind of personal touch to this email, what kills me is this…The traffic exchange industry is plagued with ‘same old same old’ campaign and regurgitated spew from marketers it’s become quite an eye sore. Don’t even get me started on the ‘surf promo emails’ that are slowly killing the effectiveness of list marketing…I know, I know…We should all love each other and be snowflakes but when is it enough…

Want to know the REAL secret of selling and making money online?

It’s quite an eye opener but when you STOP trying to sell, you actually begin to sell and make money. When you put people first and promote YOU as someone they can ask for advice from, look to for guidance and expertise, you put yourself in a great position where the magic happens.

The magic is that people come to YOU and ask you for the sale. You don’t need to pitch. You don’t need to make any bold claims. You don’t need to under deliver. You don’t need to beg for a sale.

Recommending a product or service is one thing. Hey word of mouth advertising is the best form of ‘selling’ there is and I will ALWAYS check out something that is recommended to me by a close associate or friend. But outright…Dirty…Snake oil sales techniques. I don’t think they have a place for this kind of business practice in today’s environment.

So my advice, is to learn how to position yourself as an expert in a topic or niche. Become someone that people look to for advice and expertise. Become THE resource for said topic or niche. And above all else, put people before the pitch and the profits. How do you do this? Stick out like a sore thumb, be unique, don’t steal other people’s ideas and remember that your personal brand (name) is the most important asset you will ever have!

Wow! $3037.03….

I still cannot believe it but this is the first time in my 14 years of being online, I have ever been a part of such a weekly pay day. Sure there has been program launches where the commissions where higher, but this week was just like any other week.

No program launch. No JV invite. Just another Friday, or PayDay, for TimTech and wow, what a huge week it was…

$3037.03…In commissions paid!

I cannot thank you enough, every single person who has ever promoted TimTech, raved about our services and heck yeah, even the haters (cause I know there’s a lot of you out there)….Every single person has had a huge hand in the massive amounts of commissions we are able to pay out to affiliate every week!

Without any new programs….Cool huh? Just the same old, boring programs…Ever green, +1 business models. Nothing new, just fun stuff to help people get advertising to their web sites.

There’s the lesson I think in this blog post…You do not need to come up with new stuff every month for a cash grab, you just need a solid game plan and the ability to stick to it. Long term growth is what we are after and this past week showed me how solid that plan really is.

So once again, thank you for your support and get ready because next week should be another fantastic affiliate commission payout…

P.S. Oh yeah…..Speaking of +1, we are doing out lifetime upgrades at ClickTrackProfit this week…If you wanna learn exactly how we are able to pay out $3000 in commissions by NOT being sexy and by collecting silly badges, be sure to get your upgrade today. It’s awesome sauce!!!!!

I saw something remarkable at Traffic Exchange Live earlier this week and I have to share with you how amazing this was…

On Tuesday Randy Ritter hosts his Avenues To Success seminar series and like always it was a fantastic presentation. As the night was winding down, Randy got to talking and brought up an attendee who was at the seminar. Her name was Chris and she is the co-owner of Show Biz Hits.

So here is Randy, someone I know, like and trust, recommending not the program that Chris owned, but Chris as an individual. He was raving about her and was stating she was a solid person. That’s all I needed…

I then asked for a referral link to Show Biz Hits and Monika Tuttle (another person I know, like and trust) provided me with her referral link to Show Biz Hits. I signed up.

Does anyone see how powerful social marketing and being engaged with people can be?

This is word of mouth marketing at it’s core and why I have been such a fan of social surfing and the community at T.E. Live. You see, all it took was a recommendation from one person that I knew and trusted, which resulted in a sign up to Chris’s program, which got Monika a referral and finally, got a post about it on Hit Exchange News.

Amazing huh? So what’s my message today? Get out there, be engaged with the community, come to Traffic Exchange Live and OPEN your big mouth…Word of mouth is THE best advertising you can give and get!

I read a blog post earlier this week and it made me chuckle. It was going on and on about how important building downlines are and the importance of them and how you cannot survive without them….You know, the same speech we have heard from controlling ‘gurus’ for years and years. So I wanted to share with folks a little story…It’s called my ‘Easy Hits 4 U Downline Story‘…

It’s arguably, the biggest traffic exchange on planet earth. It caters to both a traffic exchange market and of course a Paid To Click market. At any given time of the day, there are thousands of active surfers online in the system. And it’s always rated in the toplists of must join programs and has the most active members on any T.E. online…

Back when it started in 2003, I decided to join and I stuck my referral ID in various blog posts, forum posts, downline builders but NEVER did I promote the direct referral link in a traffic exchange. I promoted me. Jon Olson. The TE Guy. The loud mouth…

9 years after the program was launched, my downline is more than 10% of the entire program.

Yes, you read that right…In a traffic exchange of over 550,000 members, I have a downline of 59424 (at last count, it goes up by dozens a day).

Ha!

So instead of worrying about ‘building downlines’ and how important it was for me to build a downline…I worried about a PERSONAL brand. I worried about building my name in the business and RECOMMENDING EasyHits4U through the back end of my businesses.

Pretty cool numbers huh? So what’s the message I wanted to share….Stop worrying about the ‘numbers’ and the ‘downlines’ and worry about your personal brand. Build you and YOUR business first and believe me, here’s the proof, the numbers will follow. They always do!