Why do I surf?

Very fast returns on relatively little work. Plus, lots of hits to my websites (surfing is actually a traffic exchange program).

It's extremely risky. However, the returns can be quite good.

My best surf has just converted itself to an SEC-licensed investment organization. However, prior to this, my monthly earnings (which are all currently invested) for this year were:

Jan: $17,343

Feb: $28,553

Mar: $38,090

Bear in mind these are gross earnings. The amount from January was used to generate the amount for Feb., Feb for Mar., etc.

Before this program closed down to reorganize as an investment program, my net monthly earnings would have been in excess of $10,000/month just from one autosurf.

Hi Kathy,

Surfing is a GREAT way to bring immediate traffic back to your website.  When i surf consistantly i bring in 5 or so people into my organization (actually, more than that if you count the other programs i am involved in) every day. 

To be most effective doing this, though... you should have a splash page.  Here is the one i am using now: http://www.new-net-mail.ws/referral/iquitmyjob.htm

It works really well, and i get lots of clicks to my sponsored ads - which brings money straight into my yahoo account. So actually i make money while i build my business...   : )

You need to surf many exchanges at once to get anywhere with these, though... downloading the CRAZY BROWSER is a way to do this because you can have multiple tabs. 

I actually use the FSC OVERDRIVE - which allows me to surf up to 25 different traffic exchanges at one time.

SURFING isn't a waste of time if you know how to do it   : ) 

I will announce right now....I don't know what surfing is and I have no idea where to do it.  I told you on the phone Kathy....I can WRITE.  I can turn a phrase and make some interesting copy.

You're talking about networking and doing something really different.  I've never been taught about this surfing stuff.  Can you help me?  What do I do?  Where do I start?

If you have to read, well I'm an A++++ because I'm a speed reader and have good comprehension. I should be able to surf fast I guess.

I'll really be excited about it if surfing can help build my JERKY DIRECT business. JD is soooooooooo exciting.  It's moderately priced, tastes great and pretty healthy!  So start me off surfing and I will turn the world on to jerky!!

Thanks, Pat

Hi Pat,

Surfing, as it's being discussed here, is essentially a traffic exchange system. The basic system of a traffic exchange is fairly simple. After you join, you input your URL, then surf a rotator to earn credits that can be assigned as hits on your URL. Each credit you earn is worth one view of your website in the rotation viewed by another member.

Most free traffic exchanges have a ratio greater than 1, so you have to view, say, 2 websites to earn one view of your own site. Some may offer the opportunity for you to build a downline where you can earn a percentage of hits from those you bring in, increasing traffic to your website.

There is another level of surfing where people do bring in a lot of extra money just from the surfing they do. In general, I don't recommend this unless you have an advertising budget you're willing to part with. With these surfs, you earn a percentage of your purchase back for viewing a minimum number of sites each day (say, 10%), and your purchase will last for a set number of days (say 12 days). In this model, you can earn anywhere from 120% to 150% of your purchase in a fairly short time...but it is addictive and quite risky. You can (as I have in the past) become obsessed just with getting these high returns and end up neglecting your primary business.

So let's stick with the free traffic exchanges and go from there.

The question you want answered is "can this build my Jerky Direct business." The answer is "maybe." It can work for you, but like all advertising you have to know the tricks to get the conversions.

Here are some realities we have to deal with:

1. all of the surfers who will be viewing your site already have businesses they're trying to sell to you;
2. your company's landing page has too much information on it to be absorbed in the 20 seconds it will be on the prospects monitor;
3. other surfers will very likely be surfing more than one site at a time, and so are less likely to really be reading the whole sales message.
4. MLMs and other network businesses are harder to sell in this format, because they require a focused prospect to make the pitch.

So what you need is a more compact webpage that's direct and to the point. Unfortunately, with a product and business as organized as JD, this could be difficult. This is where having a newsletter, autoresponder course, or blog would come in handy, as you can use the traffic exchange to bring you prospects that are interested.

Imagine putting a flyer on a magazine rack that rotates constantly. There are 20 people standing around the rack, looking at all of the flyers that spin by.

Now, if your flyer is like your company's prefab page, it would be like asking each of those people to walk around the rack as it spins, carefully reading and scrutinizing your whole flyer to get your whole sales message as they walk, hopefully ignoring all the other flyers.

If you do it right,however, your flyer will be a "Take me home" page, photocopied on a single sheet. The people standing around the magazine rack can simply pull the flyer off the rack and take it home with them. They can look at it on their own time. They can contact you for more information. Even if they ignore it, at least you've got the advantage of them taking it home. This is the kind of website you should have.

My suggestion is that you join a free exchange and figure out how it works. Our friend John Partington has such a site, and the traffic quality is quite good: http://www.autosurf247.jpbp.com/?ref=1 Just use the URL you have and feel it out. But I think you'll see as you do your surfing for credits that having a lot of information isn't to your advantage in this type of advertising.

I hope this helps. There seems to be a lot of interest in this kind of advertising, so I'm getting to work on a report that will make these things a bit clearer. Hopefully I haven't confused things even more...but feel free to ask me more questions if you need a hand; it'll help me decide what info needs to be included :)