Friday at Traffic Exchange Live was full of fun, frolic… and frozen webcams. No, seriously, it was like an epidemic with this one or that one freezing their cam. And a lot of other stuff that I misguidedly thought, “Oh, well, I’ll remember this”, and since I didn’t write a post Friday night and it’s now Monday… I’ve subsequently forgotten whatever all it was I was so sure I’d remember. Oops.

But here are the highlights anyway (I did at least get SOME of it written down, heh heh)…

Frozen Cam Friday on Traffic Exchange Live:

• Jon Olson, Tim Linden, and John Guanzon were all three on board Traffic Exchange Live on Friday, as was master programmer Austin Hallock who joined us later on when John had to leave.
• There was a long discussion in the room about IKEA, where Jon spent quite a bit of his Edmonton trip last week. I’ve never been in one and it turns out (after a little research) the closest one to me is in Atlanta, which is not very close. Jon filled the several in who had never been to IKEA on what they have and why we don’t want to go there (because we’ll buy too much/spend too much money). Apparently IKEA also has food and Jon said the Swedish meatballs are awesome. Ian Bakewell said you can get a full meal there for about a dollar.
• I have “Tim’s VIP mail” written down in my notes, and I wish I could tell you what that’s about but I have absolutely no clue what it was about.
• Jon bothered EasyHits4U again, as he does daily, and we had a whole lot of UStream users come in and participate for a pretty good while after that.
• One of the UStreamers was apparently a fairly active TE user and had a lot of questions about rotators and TEToolbox, which Tim and others addressed (and actually that took up a fair amount of the day’s chat that day).
• Austin hopped on after John had to leave for the day, and shortly thereafter proceeded to freeze his cam (though it was a very nice freeze frame):

• More discussion (as from Thursday’s TE Live as well) about Austin’s suspicious vacuum, but I still didn’t find out what was so suspicious about it.
• Tim had to answer another question and explain something to someone again, and warned Jon not to listen for the next couple of minutes because things were going to get really techy. Brenda Broyles‘ response to that was “Zzzzzzz…..”.
• Loooooong lengthy discussion about various autoresponders, performance, and opinions.
• Tim also managed to freeze/slash/almost break his cam as well (see below).
• Jon discovered something and went on a VERY.LONG.RANT. (We like it when Jon rants, though.)
• Jon said we (meaning the TE industry) reward stupidity and reward people who do not do anything new and copy everyone else.
• Tim disappeared right at about 4pm EST on the dot as usual.
• At which point soon after, Mike “UA” Gartner joined us (now Mike, Jon, and Austin) on cam.
• More discussion went on revolving around the earlier rant for a while, then we just all kinda chit- chatted, and TE Live actually lasted until nearly 5pm EST since we were all having fun chatting and goofing off, until Jon had to leave and thus ended TE Live for the week.
• GIVEAWAYS: No giveaways on Friday.
• I CALL YOU OUT ABOVE, YOU GET LINKAGE: Austin Hallock, Easy Surf Exchange (Ian Bakewell), Brenda Broyles, Mike Gartner
• ALSO ON THE SCENE: Diane Merriam, Stephen Whittle, Wanda Robinson, James Vest, Paul Brown, Frank Genny, Don Stratton, Martin, Bruce Formhals, Connie Mottala – and of course, Jerry Iannucci, Winter Perkins, and Randy Ritter.
• QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I’m Tim Linden, and I approve of this message.” – Tim Linden

*** Traffic Exchange Live is on UStream every weekday afternoon 3-4 pm EST ***

So, Lynn M. Is Waiting For Thursday Again: Why? Because after a few years now of NOT watching Survivor, I’ve gotten addicted again thanks to my boyfriend, who watched the premiere when it came on and told me about it. Otherwise I’d have been blissfully unaware and would not have known it was another all-star season… which I just can’t help myself watching when it’s an all-star season. And to make it even more impossible for me to not watch, they have the whole Heroes vs. Villains thing. Normally I would usually be rooting for the Heroes side, but Boston Rob is one of my favorite Survivors of all-time, bless his conniving little heart, so of everyone, that would be my pick, though I really don’t think he’ll make it that far. It’s still early yet, but I predict that if a Hero goes home this week, it’ll be either Candice or Amanda – should it be a Villain, probably Courtney. Wish I didn’t have to wait until Thursday to find out, sigh…

Lynn M.’s Traffic Tidbit of the Day: There’s a hefty multi-TE promo going on today! Fast Easy Traffic, Tezak Traffic Power, and Traffic Taxis have gone in together today for a huge one, giving away $45 total in cash (three $5 prizes at each) and 18,000 total credits, banners, & text impressions between the three – just surf 250 pages or more to be in the draw!

Also, the brackets have reordered for the week in Bracket Surfing at I Love Hits (I came in 3rd in lowly Division 10 last week, heh). Most everyone I know is in Division 1, where I’ll never hope to be because I can barely stand to surf more than 100 pages a day most days. But this week, I moved up to Division 4… which is also Tim Linden and Austin Hallock’s division this week. This is gonna get ugly and there’ll be trash talking galore in TE Live and I Love Hits chat, I guarantee it. :-)

Surf’s Up Site of the Day: Traffic-Splash

Why: Read my lips – TRIPLE.BONUS. CREDITS… all day long!

Hey, Check This Out: I guess this is “give props where props are due” week this week. I’ve had some really good results recently with several safelists and list builders that I haven’t really spotlighted on their own here (and as well good results with some I have highlighted before) so I’ll probably do that most of this week or so.

Global Safelist is one that kind of fell off my radar for a month or two but all of a sudden got very – VERY – responsive again… like within minutes of me sending out a mail responsive last week. So kudos for that – they all kind of ebb and flow and will do better some weeks than others, and do better with some campaigns than others – but this one’s been very hot for me the last few weeks anyway, so if you are into (or want to get into) safelist marketing, you might wanna give Global Safelist a shot right now…

’til next time, I’m your faithful, but very very sleepy, TE Live reporter from the scene… I hope I can stay awake long enough for Affiliate Funnel tonight, ack…

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Yes, here I finally am with the whole week’s worth of Traffic Exchange Live updates! This week has just been a real whirlwind for me with tons of stuff needing to get done (much of which didn’t get done anyway) and a sore throat for a couple of days, which had me sleeping more than usual (and being late to TE Live two days in a row). I guess it’s just been one of those weeks!

We were Jon-less a few days this week, but I still have plenty of notes from all four days, so let’s take a look at what all happened on the TE Live front this week. Here goes…

A Whole Week’s Worth (Almost) of Traffic Exchange Live (Monday thru Thursday):

• We had all three hosts on Tuesday – Jon Olson, Tim Linden, and John Guanzon – but were without Jon Wednesday and Thursday since he had to drive to Edmonton to take his kid back, and house hunt a little while there (apparently, however, he spent most of his time in the IKEA store, I’m told).
• Jon said that every Internet marketing office must have hot sauce, and showed us his.

• Canada is the greatest hockey nation on earth (per Jon).
• Jon: “I love all you American people, but if you guys had won yesterday, I would have cussed you all.”
• Wanda Robinson was up against Jon in I Love Hits‘ new bracket surfing on Monday, and was already up to 385 pages at TE Live time.
• Tim got pulled over by the cops three doors down from his house for having expired registration. He was especially unhappy about this because his neighbors don’t talk to him now, and now they watched him get pulled over on their street.
• Discussion and general consensus in the room that most all of us get nervous whenever having to deal with cops, even when we haven’t done anything wrong – Jon, Winter Perkins, Randy Ritter and myself all agreed, as well as others in the room. Ian Bakewell gave the room a link to a related video.
• More discussion of the Wanda vs. Jon matchup in bracket surfing.
• Of course it had to be pointed out that Jon was getting beaten by a girl.
• Jon was up at 9:30 am on Monday morning and no, he wasn’t sick.
• Ian asked Jon not to promote Affiliate Jumpstart anymore. (At the time, they were currently tied as JVs.) Heh. :-)
• Playstation Online was having issues. Jon didn’t have to worry about that because he’s got Xbox.
• Jon went over to bother EasyHits4U again. He asked them if they were surfing for pennies, and did they want to surf for a Slap Chop.
• At least Google can’t do anything about Jon’s daily harassment of EasyHits4U surfers.
• One angry EasyHits4U surfer proclaimed that they make “500 grand a month” and were only 18 years old.
• An anonymous UStreamer asked for tips for promoting a new TE. The response from most everyone in the room was to get their name out there, and get out and be seen.
• Wanda was staying about 100 pages ahead of Jon in bracket surfing and asked him if he wanted her to take a nap. Jon: “Yeah, take a nap for about 12 hours.”
• Jon got fax spam from the cancer society, which perturbed him because he said he would have donated to them anyway, but now here they were fax spamming him.
• Jon proclaimed John Guanzon “our resident Rico Suave” and the “Thrilla from Manila”.
• Jon sang the New Kids on the Block’s “Step by Step”.
• Jon’s son visited on cam for a minute and said hi, wearing a new San Jose Sharks jersey. Jon said he tried to convince him to stay with the Oilers but now he loves the Sharks.
• Jon was having problems dealing with his sites in ThumbVu because the difficulties he was having were veering a little too close to the techy side of things. John helped him out live.
• John burped.
• Jon announced he wouldn’t be at TE Live several days this week, since he was going to Edmonton.
• On Tuesday’s TE Live, Tim referenced his getting pulled over again from the day before. They are leasing the car and turns out the check for the registration was sent in, but was never cashed. He’s a good example of why you should never lease.
• There was an empty supersize Pop Tarts box in Tim’s office. Tim asked his eldest daughter why. Her response: “Because.”
• The littlest Mini-Tim brought in a gardening catalog for her dad. Tim doesn’t know why they get this catalog.
• Tim asked his opponent that day in I Love Hits’ bracket surfing how many credits it would take to buy him off.
• Reference to the film Silence of the Lambs was made in the room. Tim said that movie creeped him out on TV as a kid and he didn’t know why his mom let him watch it. It might not be that scary now, though, he admitted.
• Most in the room agreed that Asian, French and German horror films were usually very scary.
• Tim had a conversation on cam with one of the Mini-Tims.
• A little later, Tim shut his office door and it swung right back open with the littlest Mini-Tim standing there holding an upside-down Barbie (though it’s right side up in this pic).

• The littlest Mini-Tim got in her dad’s lap for a bit and chewed on Barbie’s foot.
• Discussion about the pending New Baby Guanzon. Tim talked about his wife’s pregnancies and especially the first birth. At some point while waiting, Tim went to Dunkin Donuts and said the people there probably though he was extremely excited about his coffee.
• For the second birth, when his wife was in labor, the midwife hit the red button and the room immediately filled with hospital staff and freaked Tim out, who didn’t know what was going on.
• Discussion of Google prestige in the room.
• Google keeps a team of doodlers on hand just to design for the holidays.
• Tim said he can’t find the time. The time wasn’t found.
• Then Tim showed us his clock, which said 4:04 (i.e., 404 Not Found).
• Winter wants a “Talk nerdy to me” t-shirt.
• Tim showed us a photo from his RI Photo site of the Galilee Bird Sanctuary.
• Jerry Iannucci wanted to know where the birds were.
• John: “There are no birds in your sanctuary.”
• Ace programmer Austin Hallock, who totally rocks, joined on cam several days of TE Live this week.

• I was late on Wednesday and especially Thursday so I missed quite a bit of Thursday, but I’m told among the things I missed was “The Log Song”.
• I also missed a cam tour of Austin’s new apartment, but everyone else got to see it.
• I’m told they also got to see Austin’s vacuum. (Editor’s Note: On Friday’s edition of TE Live, there was mention of “Austin’s suspicious vacuum”. But since I didn’t see the vacuum in question I have no idea at this time why it’s suspicious.)
• There have been lots of vacuums featured on TE Live, including John’s, which was a prominent part of TE Live for a month or so after he got kicked out of his office to make room for the new baby’s nursery.
• Apparently vacuums are popular on video here at TE Live.
• Discussion in the room, initially about Internet marketing in general, turned to Donald Trump and the fact that he is selling mattresses now and involved in a healthcare MLM.
• Diane Merriam waited on Donald Trump once when she worked at Harrah’s. He was an average tipper.
• I waited on two of the New Kids on the Block (Jordan and Donnie) once many, many years ago back when I worked at a record store and they were in town for a concert. They were really rude and surly and basically total jerks.
• Diane said Sonny and Cher were the worst tippers of any celebrities she waited on.
• Discussion in the room about celebrities hiring people to treat them like “real people”. The motto: “Guaranteed to treat you like crap or your money back.”
• Tim said he was leaving and suddenly disconnected. John: “You still got two minutes.”
• GIVEAWAYS: No giveaways this week.
• I CALL YOU OUT ABOVE, YOU GET LINKAGE: Wanda Robinson, Seamless Web Solutions (Winter Perkins), Top Flight Traffic (Randy Ritter), Easy Surf Exchange (Ian Bakewell), Safelist Marketing Tactics (Jerry Iannucci), Austin Hallock
• ALSO ON THE SCENE (all or some days): Brenda Broyles, Dorena Begonia, Paul Brown, Stephen Whittle, John Wagner, Diane Merriam, Sean Supplee, Walter Mulder, Connie Motala, James Holmes… and probably some other folks I missed since I was late a couple of days this week (sorry!).
• QUOTE OF THE WEEK (so far): “I need an ‘ummm crap’ button on my keyboard.” – Winter Perkins

*** Traffic Exchange Live is on UStream every weekday afternoon 3-4 pm EST ***

So, Lynn M. Is Getting Better Again: RE the aforementioned sore throat and all that… yeah, I’ve been getting sick a lot this winter, it seems. And Winter Perkins is probably right – she said the other day she’ll be glad when the weather warms up so maybe I won’t get so many colds and sore throats and stuff (since I have terrible heat here). Spring is definitely finally in the air here now, though, so I guess we’ll see!

Lynn M.’s Traffic Tidbit of the Day: Jon wrote about I Love Hits‘ new Bracket Surfing on the ILH/SWAT blog today right here. I can say that surfing is just wild over there right now and there are all these super competitive “death matches” (LOL) going on between people I know, it’s been a hoot. I’ve gotten to where every morning I log in just to see who’s up against who every day, and sometimes I just go hang out in chat just to see what’s happening. I think everyone who’s been actively participating has really had a lot of fun with it, and it’s been pretty neat to see that people who are around and actively networking a lot at TE Live, Affiliate Funnel, SWAT, and other venues are there for hours every day chatting (and potentially networking) some more – as well as seeing quite a bit of participation in chat and actively and competitively surfing the brackets between folks we don’t usually see “out” at all those places who are just active surfers, too. Some concern was expressed on the ILH/SWAT blog about what the results would be like and whether people would actually subscribe or click on sites, but actually I think it might improve results because I can say, for me, I am frequently spending more time on pages than I normally would while “regular” surfing – and I even subscribed to a list the other day while surfing ILH that I don’t know that I would have paid that much attention to regularly surfing elsewhere.

Anyway, Bracket Surfing is very cool, and the competitiveness has been hilarious, and it’s fun and the new chat room is always hopping these days – check it out at I Love Hits! (PS – I also was told by Tim this afternoon that they just put in the option to be notified by e-mail if you get passed by your opponent!)

Surf’s Up Site of the Day: Traffic Dealer

Why: It’s the latest addition to the KRM group (Traffic-Splash, Fast Easy Traffic, etc.) – more on that tomorrow!

Hey, Check This Out: Looking for hosting? Everyone that’s into Internet marketing of any sort needs hosting, and this might be the solution for you.

If you are a frequent reader (or TE Live attendee), then you likely are well familiar with the name Winter Perkins. Winter’s not only the co-author of the fab TE List Building, but she also co-owns Seamless Web Solutions, a hosting and design company that hosts and/or has designed several TEs and related program, safelist, and other sites you are probably familiar with – including Reactive Adz, Tony Tezak’s new Traffic Exchange Solutions, the new The Traffic Dance, and Eternity Traffic (with a brand new design that just went up this week, and hosting), to name just a few (as well as the TE List Building site of course!). They also do PTC/PTR/GPT sites, if you’re into that kind of thing, as well. Seamless is actually hosting a new blog of mine that just hasn’t gone live yet, too, and Winter is well known around TE Land for her prowess at designing great sites and great graphics.

If you’re just starting out and looking to start your own site or your own blog, Seamless has some excellent solutions, including a 5 GB plan that starts at just $2.49 a month (or $2.25 a month if you go for the yearly instead) – perfect for blogs (and they offer Fantastico with WordPress, which makes blogging even easier). You can count on reliable, 99.9% uptime and live support – matter of fact, some other frequent faces at TE Live and elsewhere work behind the scenes at Seamless – and goodness knows you can almost always find Winter herself at TE Live most weekdays, LOL.

I like and use both ZootHost (which also offers excellent live support) and HostGator as well, but I personally think Seamless is probably the best solution of the three for beginners just starting out – especially if you want to do a blog – simply for the live and one-on-one support that’s available, the availability and ease of Fantastico and WordPress, and the super duper low cost for the 5 GB plan. You might want to comparison shop, but I do highly, highly recommend Winter and her team at Seamless Web Solutions – not only for hosting but design needs as well. Check them out today!

’til next time, I am your TE Live nose for news…

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Hiya everyone! It’s been a few days, I know – I wound up having to miss Traffic Exchange Live on Friday due to some personal offline stuff that needed doing, and then I kinda wound up taking the weekend basically “off” (if TE people can ever really “take off”, LOL) ‘cos some more stuff needed doing.

But I’m back in the groove today with Thursday’s TE Live update comin’ right atcha. If there was a theme on Thursday, everything seemed to be about food and I’m not exactly sure why – it just started out that way then kinda stayed that way! Anyhow, here we go!

Tasty Thursday on Traffic Exchange Live:

• Jon Olson, Tim Linden, and John Guanzon were all aboard the Thursday TE Live train.
• Some discussion of my virus removal problems the night before, which was a little unusual and quite disturbing.
• Jon cooks super hot chili.
• John told a story about his grandmother, feral cats, chicken & dumplings. And that’s really ALL you want to know about that story. :-)
• Jon bought a Slap Chop Wednesday night (see Thursday’s post for pic).
• The Slap Chop is going to make Jon’s life exciting.
• Jon has a craving for dirty rice, SlapChopped onions.
• Jon’s son was on cam for a bit and said hi to the room. He asked his dad to make shrimp rolls.
• Jon can make shrimp rolls now that he has his Slap Chop.
• Tim showed us what I think was a new photo of a Rhode Island lighthouse (that I now can’t find or just can’t remember which one it is). You can see all of his awesome Rhode Island photography here.
• Jerry Iannucci was missing again on Thursday. It’s very odd at TE Live (well, more odd than usual) when Jerry’s not there because he’s ALWAYS there.
• Quite a bit of discussion in the room about conversions for Traffic Exchange Solutions and Affiliate Jumpstart. It seems that several who had great conversion rates with the former aren’t having as much luck with the latter, and vice versa.
• The Foot almost took Jon’s food away.
• John needed to go, and the other two called it a day shortly afterwards, thus ended TE Live for Thursday.
• GIVEAWAYS: No giveaways on Thursday.
• I CALL YOU OUT ABOVE, YOU GET LINKAGE: Safelist Marketing Tactics (Jerry Iannucci)
• ALSO ON THE SCENE: Brenda Broyles, Charles Smith, Stephen Whittle, Wanda Robinson, James Holmes, Brett Phillips, Diane Merriam, Ian Bakewell, Carl Bailey, James Vest, Annette R., Paul Brown, Lynne Sherman, Martin, Melody Smith, Sean Supplee – and of course, Winter Perkins and Randy Ritter.

*** Traffic Exchange Live is on UStream every weekday afternoon 3-4 pm EST ***

So, Lynn M. Has Bananas: I’m so happy! I LOVE fruit, but I almost never buy any since it’s just me here for now and it inevitably usually goes bad before I eat it all, but I bought some bananas today and am soooo psyched. I also twisted my foot really bad (ow! ow! ow!) while at the store, but that’s another story… ugh.

Surf’s Up Site of the Day: Traffic-Splash

Why: Double credits all day today (and also 100% surfing bonus for Super Surf today)!!

’til next time, I am your TE Live snoopy scoop on the scene (headed back for more in just a few minutes, matter of fact!)…

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Tuesday and Wednesday at Traffic Exchange Live wound up being kinda mainly chitchat days amongst the attendees and hosts (there’s a reason why TE Live tends to be “the water cooler of the TE industry”), while at other times there were very lengthy discussions/ideas being tossed around about various things, so I really don’t have a ton of anecdotes for either day. Plus I was a little late getting there Wednesday after being stuck in line out at a store (having already avoided one other store after walking in, seeing huge lines at the only open cash registers, and walking right back out). I really, really hate shopping and though the Internet’s done pretty well, it hasn’t quite caught up with me yet in letting me shop online 100% and I do so wish it would.

Anyway, let’s see what havoc there was wreaked (lol) Tuesday and Wednesday…

Tiny Update Tuesday & Wee Update Wednesday on Traffic Exchange Live:

• Jon Olson, Tim Linden, and John Guanzon were all on board both days. We didn’t really expect to see Jon on Wednesday since he was having to drive to Edmonton that day, but he was on TE Live Wednesday anyway.
• Lengthy discussion of (and many kudos all around) about the new bracket surfing at I Love Hits. Some needed additions/modifications were brought up, like the possibility of users having an option to be notified by e-mail if they get passed by their opponent.
• Jerry Iannucci was not in attendance on Tuesday, which was odd. However, the sky did not fall down, the world didn’t end, and Hades didn’t freeze over, so it was cool, but his lack of presence was definitely noticeable!
• A visit from the Mini-Tims. The future programmer in the house immediately went to work on StartXchange.

• We saw a hand behind Jon. Someone asked if The Foot knows The Hand is there.
• Jon said The Foot is injured right now.
• John was going to have his ThumbVu users “slap” Twitter on Wednesday, Tweeting about ThumbVu and someone would win a $50 prize, others would win credits.
• Jon declared the continual lag program as Rhode Island and California’s fault.
• Jon said he wouldn’t be at TE Live on Wednesday, as he was driving to Edmonton (but he was there after all anyway).
• John said something about the “pressure of entertaining” on TE Live. We told him/them they don’t have to work that hard or make a big effort to entertain us, we’re all easily amused.
• Tim showed us a really cool new photo he has on his photography site.
• Jon gave The Foot a hand.
• Winter Perkins is making a 125×125 banner for StartXchange and Tim asked her where it was (see “Quote of the Day(s)” for the rest of THAT story).
• Jon pointed out an American flag on Canadian money.
• John told us about a joke you can play on people, asking them to find the milk product, the song, and the famous person on any American bill. The joke involves tearing the bill in half and tossing at the end. There was discussion about how one might get one’s booty kicked depending on how big the bill in question was.
• Jon had to leave.
• Tim wanted to know if Canadians used the term “whipped” in Canadia (sic).
• John was looking at food. He said Arby’s curly fries are the worst, but they look soooo good.
• Long discussion about the differences in fast food places, chain restaurants, etc. John talked about ordering “animal style” at In-N-Out again.
• On Wednesday, a majority of TE Live was spent discussing the finer points of I Love Hits’ new bracket surfing and Facebook fan pages, and answering questions about both.
• Tim stepped away a second and came back with what he said was one of his favorite things – Cadbury chocolate Mini-Eggs. (This must be his favorite time of year.)

• Jon needed help with his Facebook fan page.
• Tim said fan pages are for your business and talked about why people should have one.
• Jon left a little early, since he was going to be spending five hours driving to Edmonton.
• Around ten after the hour (yes, ten after!) John and Tim left as well, and thus ended the Wednesday edition of TE Live.
• GIVEAWAYS: No giveaways on Tuesday or Wednesday.
• I CALL YOU OUT ABOVE, YOU GET LINKAGE: Safelist Marketing Tactics (Jerry Iannucci), Seamless Web Solutions (Winter Perkins)
• ALSO ON THE SCENE (one or both days): Brett Phillips, Brenda Broyles, Charles Smith, Paul Brown, Cat Heiter, Lynne Sherman, Ian Bakewell, Sarah Cozad, Wanda Robinson, John Cheshier, Brett Phillips, Dorena Begonia, Diane Merriam, Austin Hallock, Bartender Mo, Cherrie Ryning, Phil Ames, Sean Supplee, Stephen Whittle, Carl Bailey – and of course, Randy Ritter.
• QUOTE OF THE DAY(S) – Tim Linden, to Winter Perkins: “I thought you had one-hour turnaround time.” Winter: “This isn’t one-hour photo!”

*** Traffic Exchange Live is on UStream every weekday afternoon 3-4 pm EST ***

So, Lynn M. Is Somewhat Rested Lately: Yeah… I’ve actually been getting more sleep lately than I normally do. It’s kinda weird, but good.

Lynn M.’s Traffic Tidbit of the Day: Well, not really a traffic tip or anything like that today, but I just wanted to publicly thank Mark Hodgetts for the very nice post about me and Traffic Pro-X. That was a nice surprise, I’m very honored and humbled and thank Mark very much for all the kind words. We don’t always agree (in fact, that’s how we got to talking in the first place because of a little and very brief disagreement between us spawned from Twitter, LOL), but he’s a good guy, we just have some different ways and opinions on doing some things. Anyway, Mark’s blog is pretty cool and has a wide and broad take on many different and varied aspects of Internet marketing, so check his blog, Traffic Exchange Secrets Revealed, out!

Surf’s Up Site of the Day: Visit Maniac

Why: Sean’s really been busy amping up the action at VisitManiac & I’ve gotten some good results lately there!

Hey, Check This Out: In case you haven’t noticed, I have finally had enough time to do some updating of links and other stuff in the sidebar lately, including links to many of most recommended tools, all of which I use (or have used) myself and give a big thumbs up to. I’ll be adding to it as time goes on (and especially as I upgrade and rebrand stuff… you really shouldn’t do much promoting of stuff you’re not upgraded in or haven’t rebranded, though I do make an exception for a few, but otherwise you’re just building the program owner’s list and not your own). Anyway, for now, I have built a little virtual library over there of all the resources and tools I use and like, especially all of what I consider my “MUST HAVE” tools.

So here’s one of those things in my “MUST HAVES”  that most of you probably already have – but if you don’t (and especially if you’re new to all this stuff), you really need it (AND need to follow it, AND rebrand it for maximum value to your pocketbook)… Mr. Olson’s spiffy little Pizza Plan graphic below basically tells the story of what it is, so just take a look, click it, and get your copy today!

’til next time, I’m your TE Live Snoop on the Scene… ciao!

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