| Traffic exchanges and purchased leads are a | | | | Free leads will not take place on a traffic |
| waste of money and a waste of time. This is | | | | exchange just your time wasted. |
| especially so for the Newbie. | | | | Purchased Leads |
| Traffic Exchanges | | | | The purchase of email leads is fraught with |
| The idea supporting a traffic exchange is a | | | | danger. The use of such leads almost always |
| reciprocal exchange of website information | | | | means that spamming can take place. To deliver |
| between internet marketers. You show me | | | | an email without spam taking place necessitates |
| "yours" and I'll show you "mine". | | | | the prospect contacting the seller and inviting the |
| The method is to click on a website page, hold | | | | seller to show hisher goods or service. A |
| for 20 seconds, and gain some credit points for | | | | purchase lead cannot be sent until this interchange |
| your trouble. Accumulated points can then be | | | | occurs. |
| used to establish your site add on the system. | | | | The lawful auto responder suppliers will not load a |
| Some traffic exchanges offer the chance to pay | | | | purchased lead without an initial email being sent |
| for the privilege of your site being hosted by the | | | | to establish the desired request from the |
| exchange. The thrust of the idea is that if | | | | prospect. An initial email such as this really |
| someone lands on your page while surfing, they | | | | dampens the sale procedure. |
| may buy from you. | | | | Some email lead sellers supply the name, address, |
| Virtually all sites listed on these exchanges are | | | | phone number, and email address of the |
| glitzy, hyped up garbage that guarantee the | | | | purchased lead. However, these personal statistics |
| reader millions of dollars for no work and no | | | | were not given to you the lead buyer, and so in |
| outlay costs. | | | | reality, you, the lead buyer, are spamming if you |
| "Join this scheme and make a fortune while you | | | | contact the prospective buyer by email. Dire |
| sleep." | | | | consequences can come from your action to |
| To advertise your site with this internet garbage | | | | contact the prospect by email. |
| is to demean your product or service. Your site is | | | | There are some email lead sellers promising to |
| considered in the same light as the scams | | | | email to over a million prospects for you. This |
| situated on the exchange. The aim of the | | | | blast out of emails for your site to individuals that |
| exchange is to send to your website targeted | | | | have no interest in your product or service is |
| prospects for free or a very low cost. The | | | | spam. Spam for a start, and pointless to the |
| system does not work. Perhaps in the early days | | | | extreme in the end. |
| of the Internet, traffic exchanges had some | | | | When you purchase leads that have been |
| value. Today they are pointless. To use them is a | | | | guaranteed to be only sold twice before, that's |
| waste of time and, if you are paying (God forbid), | | | | mostly a blatant lie. Or at best misleading this |
| your money. | | | | statement is false as the leads most probably |
| The problem is obvious. Neither the viewer, nor | | | | have been sold to another lead generation |
| the owner of the site being viewed, is in the | | | | company that sells to hundreds of others. |
| slightest degree interested in anything other than | | | | You are lead to believe that these fresh qualified |
| earning credits. I visit your site so you will visit | | | | leads are the answer to all your traffic problems. |
| mine. Targeted prospecting does not happen. | | | | Just lies and sales hype. Traffic exchanges and |
| It is not feasible that any real or valuable sales | | | | purchased leads offer you no solutions for gaining |
| could take place under such circumstances. Most | | | | visitors to your website. Give these two methods |
| newbie marketers that use these exchanges, are | | | | for prospecting a wide miss. |
| looking for a short cut or a free chance at leads. | | | | |