was great to see you again dude, and to get my photo taken with THE duck!

having a great day today just playing catchup. seminars are fabtastic, good fun, great to meet new people, do deals, exchange ideas etc but man oh man, this is the first time since I started that I’ve been offline for a whole week and I very much doubt i’ll ever do it again!

I was not getting an answer from a TE owner that I had paid for a year’s upgrade and got locked out after a month, and I tried to file a dispute after a half dozen attempts in a month’s time…and PP told me that type of service is not covered in their Dispute Resolution Program.

So I’m really scratching my head over this information.

Anyway, as far as the sardine can goes, I don’t know why, but I always enjoy flying, and I like it when there is turbulence. Heh heh.

Although I heard recently of a woman whose neck was broken while sitting in the ‘loo” and there was MAJOR turbulence. THAT I would not like.

Maybe they should put seat belts in there.

I was hoping you would have given Listsurfing another mention with 5000 membership in just over 4 weeks since launch on April 2nd.

Solomon Huey

Although there may have been a brief moment I thought about owning a traffic exchange, I decided to leave that up to the gals and guys who are running successful ones.

I’ll just do my part to help with their success by using them to brand myself, build my lists and grow my business.

It’s a very exciting time in the traffic exchange industry and I’m just glad to be part of it.

Jimmy Adames

As you know I launched Major League Hits about 17 months ago to very little fanfare.

In fact, I think 4 people, including you, may have made mention of it in a newsletter or email they sent out to their subscribers on launch.

Through the sweat of my brow and listening to some really savvy people I have been able to grown that to 8,900 members as of today.

Having said all of that, I agree that launching a new traffic exchange is not the best of ideas at this time unless you have really good partners at your back AND a new twist on the concept like Darren Olander did with ListSurfing.

Still, I will say that even if you don’t have a new concept or lots of partners you CAN turn a poor performing business into one that brings in a steady income IF you are willing to learn and put in a lot of effort to test, track, and tweak things.

A couple of months after I launched MLH I was only bringing in about $200-$300 per month. In April I brought in over $2500 per month in sales alone and several hundred more in affiliate income. So I think with a little hard work and a lot of learning and discipline you can turn something like a TE into something great if you really have the drive.

I don’t plan on ever launching another traffic exchange unless I sell the one I currently own (even though I “co-own” HelpHits it really is Connie’s show now).

I do agree that a TE related service is the way to go now.

I’ve always appreciated your views on the industry and the longer perspective that you have had.

Thanks again for something new to think on!

Mike Coursey