Hello Darren -

I wanted to stop by and thank you for the excellent interview today. I appreciate your openess to share so many valuable tips as well as giving the listeners an chance to hear your story and learn from your experiences online.
I encourage others to listen to the interview and take good notes as much of what you said is immediately actionable and provide proven results.

You have added tramendous value to this years Traffic Exchange Summit event!

James
My recent post Facebook is Tracking Your Every Move Online! Here is How to Stop It!

Hey Darren -

Congratulations to both you and Matt for creating a truly valuable and leveraged traffic exchange and list mailer double punch! I like everything about the new List Surfing and highly recommend it.

Have a blessed day!

James
My recent post List Surfing Re-Opens as the Ultimate Social Exchange

Hey Darren -

Great tips... I would also add using audio and video to create additional channels to repurpose content and to make it unique.

Very actionable!

James
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Hello Darren -

Excellent advice and collection of resources. As you know, I really like 99 Designs as a great way of getting a variety of ideas and in the end a very good design. The advantage is that you avoid paying for design concepts as normally would be the case with an agency. My advice is to offer a larger than average prize to get the largest number of good designers... you will still save a bundle of money.

Thank you for the information.

James
My recent post Targeted Viral Traffic Surf Promotion

Hey Darren -

Great information as usual as productivity is among the most challenging pieces of the puzzle to solve in order to continue advancing online. I particularly like the idea of stepping away for short breaks as it helps you refocus and see your projects with a fresh set of eyes.

Keep up the excellent content as usual!

James

Hey Thomas -

I really like your blog! Traffic Exchanges provide such a great opportunity for anyone looking for a low cost and high return on value vehicle to grow your online business. I always give a thumbs up to TE enthusiast willing to invest their time and share their knowledge to expose exchanges to others online.

I will be back and keep up the great work!

James Holmes, Owner
S.W.A.T. Traffic Exchange

Hey John -

Interesting post and a debate that certainly has been heating up. I view this entire debate as our industries version of a great political debate complete with it's own propaganda campaign. Propaganda defined as mis-information.

For those of us who are experienced and inside the traffic exchange industry, we can easily read between the lines. My concern is for the new advertisers and surfers. These are the people we wish to attract to traffic exchanges - they are not being served by this debate.

If an exchange "must" be a new school style exchange with social media integration and features like chat, etc. to be deemed a success, then what of all of the other "old school" yet very successful exchanges out there?

Stop the presses! The ranking services like Affiliate Funnel, Traffic Exchange List, and Traffic Hoopla must have it all wrong. Sites like Hit2Hit and Hits Booster Pro rank in the top 10 consistently in all three rankings, yet they totally old school and have none of the new features central to this debate.

I have made the choice to evolve S.W.A.T. Traffic to include chat, social media integration and other "new school" ideas. However, I do not believe there is a right or wrong answer in this debate. Both types of exchanges will thrive and appeal to their unique markets - the market as always will decide.

I appreciate you posting on this and I think it will be interesting to see where this all goes.

Thank you for being a leader!

James

Hey John -

Great idea ... list building is a vital and often mis-understood tenet of most successful Internet marketers. I look forward to attending your web-conferences.

James

Shannon - Excellent post and I have to compliment you on the graphic presentation, coupled with the content overview from Seth Godin I found this article impossible to pass up. I found this to be very insightful and we are witnessing many of these trends playing out at present.

Ryan - I liked your high dollar illustration, it really was right on point! The blog is the center of everything and I agree with your point about hosting your own blog within your a hosting account you control. The free services are great for matters other than a revenue generating business, but you would never want to give control over the foundation of your business to a company in exchange for free hosting. Most hosting companies offer plans under $10.00 to start, FTP software is free and easy to use and you can start with a free theme, a non custom paid theme or even better pay to have a custom theme created the really takes your blog to another level.

The design services you mentioned sound interesting and I think your blog is very creatively designed.

Thank you for the video and content!

James
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