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The Pizza Plan was released this week and I have been absolutely floored by the wonderful reviews and comments from across the internet about my first non-traffic exchange related product.

You see, when I started to write this book, I wanted to give readers an honest, to the point budget that helped me develop my online business. Far too many times, we do not plan our attack in this business so we spend and spend and spend, without an end goal in mind.

With The Pizza Plan, the right tools are outlined and budgeted in so that you get the best from your marketing tools and it does not cost you a small fortune.

What’s even better, The Pizza Plan let’s you earn cash from the programs within the system, so while your budget might be $75 a month, you can quickly recoup the costs by recommending the tools in the plan (oh yeah, and the affiliate program on the Plan ain’t too shabby either)…

So be sure to grab your slice today and enjoy the Plan! It’s been an absolute blast to put this report together and hopefully people stay the course with the services in the Plan to find their path to success like I did. Enjoy the Pizza!

Thank you very much for being a reader of Hit Exchange News and have a wonderful week!

Jon Olson
The Traffic Exchange Guy

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The News

- Congratulations to Traffic Splash for reaching another wonderful milestone. 40,000 members! Wow. This has been one of the most successful traffic exchanges in history AND in such a short time. Great stuff guys, congrats all around!

- Our little 2008 Year In Review survey is still taking place at Net Marketing Forum. be sure to swing by and give us your thoughts on what were the best and not so great moments in the traffic exchanges this year!

- Check out the latest joint contest from Traffic Witch and Bootscootin Traffic. 75,000 credits are being given away each and every month by these two forward thinking traffic exchanges. Very cool stuff and a great example of two newer exchanges working together to further their businesses. Thumbs up!

- Be sure vote today for your favorite traffic exchanges at Affiliate Funnel’s Surfer’s Choice ranker. This has quickly become the most popular ranking service on the net as the surfer’s are finally getting their say. Combined with the stats to back it up and our exclusive ‘new members joining’ statistic, you can see which exchanges are showing and proving, each and every week!

- Want to win your own copy of the best selling traffic exchange book on Amazon.com, Hits, Clicks and Misses, (actually, it’s the only published book about T.E.’s on the planet), simply post a comment about this week’s issue of HEN! Congratulations to ‘Mario’ for winning last week. Be sure to send your mailing address to me so that I can ship you a copy (hitexchangenews at yahoo dot com)!

- Splash Page Hall of Fame - The Pizza Plan is featured this week, but mostly because Cindy Battye is a graphics wizard. Check out her very generous contribution to the Plan! Note: Why do I focus on splash pages every week? Simple, you MUST be using them in the traffic exchanges to get results. Get a custom made splash page by clicking here!

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The Famous Hit Exchange News Top 10 (Disclaimer: These are my top performing exchanges for the past week. Alexa rankings and fancy numbers have nothing to do with how I rank my list. This is based on my results and my opinion, nothing more, nothing less.)

1. Traffic Splash
2. Easy Hits 4 U
3. StartXChange
4. Dragon Surf
5. Traffic Swarm
6. Advertising Know How
7. Royal Surf
8. Traffic Witch
9. Free Traffic World
10. Traffic Era

Note: Analysis and Tracking by Hits Connect - The Official Link Tracking Service of Hit Exchange News! Sign up today and get your 30% Discount!

Question: Hey Jon, how come I Love Hits, SWAT Traffic and Click Crazey are never on the top 10 list? Since I own them, I feel it would be a conflict of interest to place it on any of my rankings. (But we all know how great they are anyways lol)

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Deep Thoughts - Jon’s Weekly Rambling

Why Bother?

Tim Linden’s blog is one of my favorites around. He lays it on the line and discusses real topics that deal with the issues facing every traffic exchange surfer and online marketer. His recent post called ‘Is it all pointless to promote’ really hit home with me because it’s a topic that seems to come up all the time.

“Why should I promote something when all the big guys take all the business”?

You see, how does one become a ‘big guy’? It’s basically like this, you get on other big guys radar by promoting things to your list, creating that relationship with them so that they buy from you and then, slowly but surely, people take notice. But it does not happen if you say ‘Well people will all buy from the big guys and it’s not fair’….

Every single person on the net started with zero people on their list. Sure, you could have inherited a program like let’s say I Love Hits but before ILH I had built a small list using the tools in The Pizza Plan. When I started out, way back when, I had zero people on my list. I built it up, just like every other marketer has done.

But I didn’t build my list by saying ‘it’s not fair’. I built it because I wanted to be one of the big guys. I was determined to build relationships with my readers so that they valued my advice. And if I recommended something, I wanted them to KNOW I would never lead them down the wrong path. Is it a perfect formula? No, we are human and we do mess up but the drive and end goal where always in view.

So while some nay-sayers may tell you it’s not fair, and that the big guys are taking up all the referrals…You can look at my number one affiliate in The Pizza Plan (Paul Kinder) and remember, about two years ago he had a list of zero…But he had the drive and the vision to get to where he is today….

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Things That Make You Go Hmmm…

- Wow, I am really starting to enjoy Free Traffic World!

- 50 plus people on Monday night, 60 plus on Saturday and 40 plus on Wednesday night…I guess these seminars at Affiliate Funnel and SWAT Traffic are starting to get popular =)

- Did you join Twitter, like the millions of other Tweet fanatics?

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