I’m going to town these days at I Love Hits. Last year was a real bad year for all my traffic exchanges as I got very ‘lazy’ and well way too comfortable. I thought I was at the top of my game and no one could ever hurt my business.

I was so wrong.

So wrong in fact that at the beginning of this year I made a conscious effort to roll up my sleeves and turn everything around. It all had to start with my baby though, it all started with I Love Hits. The best thing that has happened to my traffic exchange was that I brought Austin Hallock on board. This guy has literally saved my life in more ways then I can mention, he’s a great guy and one of the best programmers I have ever met.

Also people like Tim Linden, John Guanzon and the entire family at TE Live have been such an amazing group of people…They all helped turn I Love Hits around with the release of Bracket Surfing so this week I needed to ‘celebrate’ by doing something a little different for the prize….Check out the video to see what I mean…

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

- Huge news this past week as the guys at KRM have done it again with the purchase and ‘re-launch’ of Traffic Dealer. And if I know Paul Kinder and Tim Rash, they’ve already got plans to grow this exchange outside of the industry like no one else could do. Jump in the game, this could be quite the ride!

- TE Browser has been getting a lot of press lately. From being the first ever program NOT owned by Logiscape to be promoted by them, to the recent security issues addressed by Traffic Hoopla, it’s amazing to see how well this program may or may not do for it’s upcoming launch. Stay tuned…

- So the guys at TE Live have been bumping heads together and we think we may have one of the coolest new programs ever to be seen on the traffic exchanges…And we’re almost ready to launch it. Stay tuned for breaking news when we do as it could be as soon as later this evening *crossing fingers* Another reason why it’s a good idea to hang out at TE Live…You never know what people will come up with…

- Oh yeah and finally another bit of news from I Love Hits, I’ve started to pay commissions at the ‘little traffic exchange that could’. I decided it’s time to let loose and really go to town. So now if you are a Heavy Weight member you can earn up to 30% on all upgrades and purchases your downline makes. And yes, Light Weights can make money too. New promo tools will be ready very soon…

- Notice: Cast your vote today for your favorite traffic exchanges at Affiliate Funnel’s Surfer’s Choice ranker. This is YOUR voice and YOUR opinion on what traffic exchanges you feel are the best in the business. Be sure to vote every day and get your opinion heard!

- Splash Page Hall of Fame – How’s this for traffic exchange specific? Michael Purvis gets it! It’s simple, it uses audio and video and it’s been very effective. 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. Hit Safari
2. Tezak Traffic Power
3. StartXChange
4. Traffic Splash
5. Max Traffic Pro
6. Traffic Swarm
7. Thumb Vu
8. Traffic Witch
9. Dragon Surf
10. Traffic Era

Note: Analysis and Tracking by T.E. Toolbox – The Official Link Tracking Service of Hit Exchange News!

Question: Hey Jon, how come I Love Hits and SWAT Traffic 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 Ramblings

This Week At Traffic Exchange Live, And Tim’s Blog…

Wow! That’s what I think when I look back at the past 48 hours or so at both Traffic Exchange Live and Tim Linden’s blog. To say ‘we struck a nerve’ would be an understatement and I just wanted to go over a few things about the Ocean Swell team and it’s creator Rusty Shelton…

First off, Rusty is brilliant. I mean the man has created this ‘movement’ and very popular Traffic Wave downline builder by using two simple tools. A rotator and an autoresponder. Remember all the whining I’ve been doing about being creative, well this guy is creative plus some…I applaud his vision and his team atmosphere.

The problem I had with how things were set up were the promises. The wording on the squeeze pages I saw were that some people were guaranteed a downline in as little as 1.8 days and the main focus of this Ocean Swell team seemed to be the money side of Traffic Wave, not the benefits of list building.

Now I understand there are different ways to make money with a program like Traffic Wave and that’s cool. I just know how powerful list building can be and how important a tool like Traffic Wave can be for anyone’s marketing.

All in all, Ocean Swell is a pretty cool idea. If it was worded a bit differently to encourage the USE of the autoresponder first, the affiliate program second and that there was no ‘guarantees’ I think this thing could be bigger than it is now. People love the idea of downline building, heck I love the idea of building huge downlines, I just don’t want to see something this innovative go the way of randomizers and doublers.

So I salute Rusty and the entire Ocean Swell team for doing something new, unique and very simple. Innovation doesn’t need to be programming masterpiece, it just needs to get people thinking differently.

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Things That Make You Go Hmmm…

- It’s official, I’m completely done with my Acer computer and PC’s forever. Jon Olson is now 100% Apple compatible…

- Speaking of Apple. Wonder who will be the first traffic exchange to have an iPhone App?

- “If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires…” – Abigail Van Buren

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• Issue 294 – The Birth of TE Teams & I Love Hits Is Bananas (8)
• Issue 300 – Yup, That Means 300 Issues Of Hit Exchange News Since 2003… (16)
• Issue 292 – The Passion, The Click, The News (11)
• Issue 285 – A Month Later…Hit Exchange News Is Back! (7)

In this week’s Deep Thoughts, I really get emotional in my post. Some folks are going to take it the wrong way, some folks will agree with me but please understand this…

Everything I write about, talk about, teach about, surf about…All this is from the heart. I have been in love with traffic exchanges since day one and Hit Exchange News has always been my release. Instead of keeping thoughts all bottled up, I write (passionately) every week about these programs.

When something is good in this industry, I am glowing. Sounds cheesy I know, but nothing makes me happier than seeing programs like Traffic Exchange Solutions, T.E. Toolbox, Thumb Vu (just to name a few) get launched and supported. It’s good for the industry when quality programs are seen by the masses.

And when something bad happens in the industry, I cringe. The whole cash for surfing thing, I know people may love it, but when I see this, I scratch my head. I always thought this way about exchanging traffic? When I see constant ‘commercial scripts’ get released with absolutely no innovation at all, I cringe even more.

I know I’m being critical. I know I may annoy some of you, but please remember. All this is from the heart, and not some commentary from someone without any interest at all in surfing. You would be blown away at the amount of people that claim they love traffic exchanges and support them but don’t surf a single page a week.

This is Hit Exchange News. This is traffic exchange commentary from the heart. We’re almost at issue 300 and I don’t plan on slowing down and changing how I write anytime soon.

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

- We have started something big over at I Love Hits. Bracket Surfing has been a huge success and well, way too addicting. One glance in the ILH Chat and you’ll see what I mean. Special thanks to everyone for making this such a success, it’s all because of the members =)

- Traffic Splash has passed 90,000 members! Wow. Amazing to think of how this program started out, stumbled and then found a guy by the name of Paul Kinder and well, the rest is history. Way to go KRM!

- Keith Butterworth’s Traffic Exchange News is a must read for anyone looking for daily deals, specials and news about EVERY traffic exchange out there. Great stuff and a bookmark I will be checking out for months to come.

- Notice: Cast your vote today for your favorite traffic exchanges at Affiliate Funnel’s Surfer’s Choice ranker. This is YOUR voice and YOUR opinion on what traffic exchanges you feel are the best in the business. Be sure to vote every day and get your opinion heard!

- Splash Page Hall of Fame – Mike Gartner (the brains behind Thumb Vu, Link Crews and Traffic Dealer) is up to something… This is going to be HUGE! 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. Tezak Traffic Power
3. StartXChange
4. Max Traffic Pro
5. Hit Safari
6. Dragon Surf
7. Traffic Swarm
8. Traffic Witch
9. Traffic Era
10. Thumb Vu

Note: Analysis and Tracking by T.E. Toolbox – The Official Link Tracking Service of Hit Exchange News!

Question: Hey Jon, how come I Love Hits and SWAT Traffic 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 Ramblings

We Don’t Need More Of This…

It’s not new, commercial traffic exchange scripts have been around since the beginning of this industry. And while we’re no longer in the days of 4 new traffic exchanges launching every day, we still see new programs launching on a weekly basis…

Here’s what I like and what I think we need to change. First, I love the business savvy of people. Program ownership is very empowering and something I encourage everyone to dive into. You will make so much more money online OWNING something rather than just promoting something. At least from my experience. So I do believe in it, and encourage it.

BUT!

I don’t think the world needs more ‘cookie cutter’ programs. We do not need another commercial script with nothing new to add to this business. I always teach in my seminars that the market for traffic exchange users is very profitable if you release a product catering to them, they don’t need another ‘same old’ traffic exchange but they can use another ebook on how to get results, another training tutorial on proper squeeze page creation, etc…

I see it far too many times, people purchase a script and immediately think they are going to be in business. This takes THOUSANDS of dollars and months upon months of networking to launch a new traffic exchange properly.

Sure you may make a few bucks to start with but the real test comes a year down the road after the hype has died down. Is it still profitable? Is it growing everyday? Are your members talking about new features you are releasing?

I’m trying to scare you away, seems mean, but the truth of the matter is after a decade plus of doing this, there have been way more horror stories than successes when it comes to traffic exchange ownership. If you are going to launch one, PLEASE do something different. Create something that ADDS to our industry and gets everyone talking about it.

I don’t think there can ever be enough good traffic exchanges, I just think there are too many poorly managed ones…

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Things That Make You Go Hmmm…

- Have you seen the latest RANTS in Net Marketing Forum? They may surprise you…

- LOL Read the ad copy on this. It’s pretty funny, courtesy of Tim Linden!

- “My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can…” – Cary Grant

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• Issue 297 – Social Networking On The Traffic Exchanges. Something You Should Be Doing More Of… (8)
• Issue 294 – The Birth of TE Teams & I Love Hits Is Bananas (8)
• Issue 285 – A Month Later…Hit Exchange News Is Back! (7)
• Issue 282 – Traffic Exchange Live Has Changed My Life…Scary Huh? (9)