The Nexus Connection

Today is the last day of 1:1 Weekend at Nexus Exchange. All members, including our free members, are earning one full credit for every site viewed until 11:59 pm tonight New York City time. Now is the time to login to your Nexus Exchange account and rack up some credits while viewing your fellow members’ products, services and offers. Remember to assign credits to your campaigns so that other members will see them. The bonus credits link on the surf bar is currently set to award 8 credits when clicked, and it shows every 25th site that you view. Bonus credits from the surf bar are NOT included in auto-assign, so you MUST manually assign those credits to the campaign(s) of your choice.

Don’t surf just for credits, though. Personally, I think surfing in traffic exchanges is a great education in marketing. I see what others are doing and apply what I like to my own advertising arsenal. Traffic exchanges are a great place to test your splash pages. If you can sell to a fellow marketer, you can sell, baby!

Now, about the daily referral page view contest, I thought it was a wonderful win-win situation. Members get advertising credits for their campaigns and Nexus Exchange gets exposure and new members. Well, the same set of people are winning the contest everyday, and that’s no fun. I want to spread the advertising love to all active members of Nexus Exchange. So, the daily referral page view contest will run through January 31, then it gets retired as a failed experiment. But please, if you are going to promote Nexus Exchange, use the splash page that you can put your name and picture on. Everybody looks good in purple!

Anybody got anything shiny for me to try for my next promo?

Ray White, owner of Soaring4Traffic.com won the free one-month Expressway upgrade in the UN-referral contest. Congratulations!

I can hear the grumbling now … NOT FAIR! A TE owner won the upgrade. Ray played by the rules, and won fair and square. Ray is a free member of Nexus Exchange. He took advantage of last weekend’s promotion and won the referral page view contest 2 out of 3 days. He advertised for me, probably at the expense of advertising his own exchange. I gotta respect that.

This weekend we will have another 1:1 weekend. ALL members will earn one credit for every site viewed Friday through Sunday. I will send out an email before then to remind you. And, as always, you are GUARANTEED at least 5 BONUS CREDITS every 25 sites that you view when you click the bonus credits link on the surf bar.

Don’t want to wait for special promos to get a 1:1 ratio? Expressway membership is now just $8.97 per month. Comes with 1:1 view ratio on a 8-second timer plus 400 credits every month. Extra banner and text link impressions, too! It’ll save you lots of clicking time. Login to your Nexus Exchange account and go to Upgrade Account to check out the options available there.

Now how about a freebie? Sunny Suggs has a new ebook out that explains the world’s largest online payment processor. If you want to handle money online, you NEED this book! Grab your free copy here.

Oh, and anybody ever notice extra credits showing up in their Nexus Exchange account? When I get bored, I check the surf stats and award credits to surfers at random, anywhere between 20 to 50 credits. You might be next.

Nexus Exchange now has a splash page that members can customize with their name and picture, thanks to William Brant, full-time online marketer and owner of most notably MaxTrafficPro and 13 Deadly Traffic Exchange Tragedies.

I had the design for the splash page months ago. I finally got the hang of HTML to make a web page look decent, but I haven’t learned PHP coding yet. PHP code makes web pages do things like pull the correct picture or name from a database or place the person signing up on the page under the correct sponsor. My brain wasn’t designed for programming code.

But William Brant is a renaissance man. Not satisfied with mere site ownership, he is taking the bull by the horns and learning PHP. When he found out about my dilemma, he offered to take on the project, just to see if he could figure out how to do it.

Voila! Check out my personalized Nexus Exchange splash page.

Login to Nexus Exchange, go to Promotional Tools, and get your own personal, customized splash page. Your name and picture can be put on the new splash page. You can add a testimonial, and it will be saved for use on future splash pages. The current splash page does not yet have a space for a testimonial.

William Brant, you so rock. Thank you.

Ya know what? Travis Millward is right. Networking is the word, join the evolution.

Ok, yesterday I used the script Tim Linden developed to amass followers through Twitter. Today, I spent most of my free time going through my 50-some-odd new follows to decide who I should follow back. Say what?

I used to blindly follow everyone who followed me. I have over 500 followers now, thanks to Tim Linden. Five hundred tweeters translates into a lot of tweets to read.

I use Twitter as a link to the world outside of traffic exchanges. I have met some awesome web designers, copywriters, artists, bloggers, mental health advocates, inspirational speakers, political commentators, as well as marketers. I have learned so much about so many things since joining Twitter in May. I’ve picked up some great SEO tips, found some fantastic WordPress templates, gotten all kinds of information on branding and copywriting, and made some great friends. Hopefully, I am getting on some people’s radar, but if not, who cares? I am learning an awful lot about advertising and marketing on the internet. I can become a mover and shaker in my own right someday.

Twitter won’t make me, or you, famous, but it can get your name out there. Followers get your tweets in their personal timelines, so you want lots of followers. But people, or “tweeps” get selective after awhile, so you have to give them something worthwhile to follow.

How to use your Twitter profile to get me, and probably a few others, to follow you back:

• Use your real name or company name in your profile
• have a website, not a splash page or lead capture page in your profile
• use a picture or logo
• make the most of your bio and introduce yourself
• tweet once in awhile, and I don’t mean the automated kind

Twitter is a great tool. Use it responsibly and you will be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams.

Now join Twitter and go check out Twitter Me Fun from Tim Linden.

Ten Must-Follow traffic exchange owners on Twitter

• Jon Olson
• Sunny Suggs
• Cindy Battye
• Soren Jordansen
• William Brant
• Tim Linden
• Steve Ayling
• Stephen Ayer
• Paul Conway
• Jon Atwood

I had a hard time choosing just ten. I apologize to the TE owners that I missed.

Who is on YOUR top ten list? What? You aren’t on Twitter yet? What are you waiting for? It’s not an affiliate or referral program, so go to the index page and join Twitter now.

What is Twitter? It’s the easiest way on the planet to keep up with your friends, family, or the movers and shakers of your industry. Try it. You won’t regret it.