Start a House Painting Business Part Time

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A house painting business can offer a good measure of financial security even during poor economic times. The key to success is having a good business plan and a good attitude. In most cases, house painting is is a real chore for most people. Most home owners appreciate a nicely painted house but painting is not something they enjoy.

A house painting business is a great home based business for several reasons. One reason is the fact that it is a real business and the business does not require renting a store front. Secondly, anyone can start painting on a part-time basis. House painters often work as painters for years before going out on their own. In the past 30 years I’ve encouraged several house painters to start their own successful businesses. An energetic man or woman will learn the trade from an established painting contractor by working for a time as a house painter. As soon as he or she is comfortable with the trade, there is little reason to work for someone else.

To start a painting business, one needs a knowledge of the trade and the desire to physically work for a living. Most people who go into business for themselves have dreams of sitting behind a desk or just supervising their own work crews. There is nothing wrong with this approach but I’ve learned that a smarter approach, especially during poor economic times is to work solo. With hard work, a small operation can prove to be most profitable. To make it in business, one needs a good plan and physical endurance. The simple fact of the matter is that when working for yourself, there is no one to take up any slack. But being your own boss has many rewards

Once a person makes the decision to go on their own, they really need a good house painting business plan. If you do not seek proper guidance it is too easy to overspend in areas of tools and equipment or advertising. A good house painting business guide will protect the new business owner from making many errors. Most would be surprised as to how many businesses fail the first year and most can attribute at least part of that failure to poor planning.

Tips to Avoid Designing a Bad Website

Websites are one of the biggest promotional and sales tools in business. Too often people do not put enough thought into their purpose and function, resulting in a poor website. A bad website can send away customers in droves, while a high quality website design will do the opposite. How do you know if you have created a good or bad site? Well, take a minute to see if you committed some of the worst mistakes that website designers can make.

Design a Site Strictly for You.
Your website should be designed for the convenience of your visitors, not yourself. Put yourself in their shoes and think about what they want to know. Usually, visitors come to a site because they want information, to make a purchase or donation, to be entertained. Decide which of these is the purpose of your site and design your site with this principle in mind. As you do this, remember that content is always more important that design. Visitors will forgive a poorly designed site, but they will never forget a site with poor content-and thus never return.

Forget that Your Visitors are Different from You.
You would not expect your visitors to drive the exact same car or be the same height, so do not expect them to be using the same computer. With each computer difference, comes a different web browser, monitor, operating system, etc. Take the time to explore how your site looks and works in different systems rather than assuming that it will always look the same no matter what.

Currently, Internet Explorer is the most commonly used browser. Firefox, however, is close behind. Further behind these are Safari, Konqueror, Gecko, Netscape, and America Online. If nothing else, make sure that your website looks good in Explorer and Firefox. Not all browsers recognize HTML codes the same way and the differences can be surprising. Before your site is finished, make sure that you test it in other browsers and using other display resolutions. This is not hard to do and, best of all, web browsers are free to download.

When it comes to monitors and display resolution, the choices are slightly slimmer. The most common size display resolution is 1024×768, but only half of users use this size. Approximately ¼ have a higher and ¼ have a lower display resolution.

Be Controlling.
This issue has to do with music, video, or some type of animation that automatically begins playing on your website. Not only is this obnoxious, but it is also annoying. If you feel the music or video adds something to your site, then place it with a player that prompts the user to play it.

Text size is another thing that visitors should be able to control. If you do not know how to use relative text sizing, learn. Instead of specifying a specific pixel size for your fonts, you specify what size the font should be (normal, smaller, or larger).

Make Users Scroll from Left to Right.
This issue goes back to understanding your visitors. Most people set their display resolution at 1024×768. If you design a webpage that does not automatically resize, this page will be too large to fit in their window causing them to have to scroll from left to right to read the text. This can be quite annoying. For best results, make sure you have a “liquid layout,” which adjusts in size based on the browser’s window. This will not only prevent left and right scrolling, but also ensure that visitors with larger monitors or higher resolution are not forced to look at a lot of white space.

Build Your Investor Website

It sometimes can be challenging to find motivated sellers as an investor. Increasing competition, declining home values and a soft lending market make it tough on investors.

Thanks to a sagging economy finding motivated sellers is not difficult. Truth is, there isn’t. But how do you find them?

I found that an excellent way to find motivated sellers is on the internet. Of course, there is no shortage of services offering lists of motivated sellers. What I’m intimating is a website that an investor controls and owns. Summarily, a solution owned by you that generates leads of motivated sellers.

How should you put such a solution into action? It all begins with a quality website. It ought to demonstrate that you are a legitimate buyer andhave the wherewithall to solve the problems of sellers. It should prove that you have the knowledge to solve the visitors problem. You’ll want to use convincing copy writing techniques to convince your visitors to want to contact you. It must have a vehicle of allowing visitors to give you their information inlcuding details about their property.

Start by finding an expert designer to create a website for you or do it yourself. Or you can get a pre-designed template and make some modifications to it. Desiging something from scratch or even buying a template will require some design and HTML skills. It does take some capital to hire someone. Put a value on your time and decide whether it’s worth it. Is your time worth $15 an hour to construct the site yourself? Do you have time on your hands and not much money?

Convincing testimonials should also be included. Fashion your offline credibility kit to suit the online media. Use actual quotes, actual numbers and photos if you have them. You should also consider audio testimonials. Satisfied customers are the most convincing sales component.

Use convincing sales copy to prod your visitors to complete your online forms. I think Dean Kennedy is a phenomenal resource to tap when creating your content. He’s a veteran copy writer. You’ll get some excellent ideas if you buy his book, The Ultimate Sales Letter, and read it through. Then write each page of your website ending each one with a call to action.

Last but not least be sure to liberally place lead generators. These are forms online that your visitors fill out. The forms capture vital contact information as well as details about their property. This part will require some database work that will connect to the form fields and store the data for you.

The last trick is driving traffic to the site. One of the most efficient ways to do this is by using pay-per-click ads on Google. This can be accomplished with paid advertising or SEO to gain top rankings. Once you start receiving traffic you may find that you’ll need to tweak your copy. If you’re not getting the conversion rates you would like then change up the copy or move some things around. Landing pages that only offer the ability to fill out a form can be effective.

With a good overal web solution and effective PPC and SEO campaigns you’ll be receiving the motivated sellers you need to increase your bottom line.

How to get more traffic using Twitter For Business

The micro bloging platform Twitter has produced quite a media storm in the last few months with a frenzy of celebrities using Twitter on their TV shows , and business strategists telling you, we should use Twitter to hundreds of fans , the exposure to Twitter is pretty high. You probably know people on Twitter and you may well have received bribes o follow people on Twitter. That segues us to our main topic . What are YOU doing about it for yourself?

A lot of people, actually I think most, don’t even “get” Twitter. And that’s partly because it can be many different things to almost as many people. And to some extent, they may even be all true, at least to that person.

Despite what you think of Twitter for yourself, there are opportunities you should deploy and there’s a great FREE training video about that at http://www.TrafficHug.com/twittervideo/ but whatever you do, you should be doing something. The smallest benefit will be extra chances for impressions , ideally with some way of people finding you by your keyword, or your name. Some people will just try to type your name on Twitter and see if you come up.

In other articles we talk about how to get noticed for your keyword and how to manage your account for targeted conversion (also covered well in that free video I mentioned earlier) but let’s do something we can do right now.

Some business owners think of Twitter traffic as coming from within Twitter itself . A concept most Twitter directories encourage . But in the real Twitter , the advantages of having your existing traffic follow you on Twitter are plentiful . So valuable that we need to do something about it .

The easiest thing is to add a Twitter “badge” to your existing web entities . A Twitter badge is a graphic stating who you are on Twitter with an active link to your Twitter identity. In the videos I mentioned earlier , there’s more advanced material , but a badge will start us off in a good direction .

WHERE CAN I GET MY TWITTER BADGE ?
You can get your own customised Twitter badge at no cost from this website ;
http://www.TwitterDominator.com/followme_badges.php – FollowMe Twitter Badge .

You just paste the HTML it provides in to your page .

You can also paste the pure HTML in to most blog widgets. I’ve inserted them on my own blogs.

The Badge is provided in its own HTML DIV so should live perfectly almost anywhere.

If you create a table or div tag to position it in , then you can just paste the code in in that place . With WYSIWYG html editors, there is usually an HTML “object” box you can place in the desired location and just place the code in to that. Adobe Dreamweaver users can just insert an AP Layer (from the insert menu) and then paste the code in to that using the HTML code view pane.

The benefits of promoting your Twitter profile from your regular web properties as I said are huge and yet it is something most Twitter users do not use. You will discover organic search benefits (SEO) of linking (it’s not reciprocal, see video) as well as “people” benefits. Wear your Twitter badge with joy.

Make Your Website Standout With a Favicon

The favicon is a tiny image that replaces the typical browser link image with a recognisable icon that signifies your branded website. Although the favicon isn’t a requirement for website design, it makes it easy for visitors to find your link in their bookmarked websites. Imagine viewing a list of bookmarked websites that all have the same link image, but one stands out – your website link – because it contains a customised icon that reminds users of your product. If you’re thinking of a creative way to market a product, a favicon is a simple addition that drives more traffic.

The Image

The favicon has specific dimensions, colours, and file format. The image is tiny, so developing its layout takes a few tests to ensure that it looks visibly distinct in the browser bookmarks. You won’t be able to do high quality images like you do for website pages. The icon format is only 16×16 pixels, so its size limits the amount of detail and quality.

The file type and colour capabilities of a favicon are 256 colours saved as a gif or bmp file. People who developed websites in the 1990s probably recognise the old colour scheme, and favicon limitations are similar to old web graphics. Regardless of the limitations, there is a surprising amount of options when creating the file. For instance, a common use for the favicon image is to use the corporate logo. Logos are usually simple and distinct, so using it as a tag for bookmarked links is an ideal way for your website to stand out.

After you’ve created the image, the next step is converting it to the icon file format. There are several tools used to convert saved gif and bmp images to icon files. AWIconsPro, Easy Icon Maker, EasyApps Icon, and GoldIcon are all good programs available on the Internet to create favicons.

Publish the Icon

After you’ve created the icon, it needs to be published on your website. Many webmasters save the file to the root directory, but the file needs to be saved in the location of the bookmarked link. If you persuade users to bookmark a webpage in a separate directory from the home page, then the icon needs to be saved in that additional directory. For instance, if you decide to convince your readers to bookmark a page named “yourdomain.com/myfavorites/index.htm,” then upload the favicon to the “yourdomain.com/myfavorites” directory. The advantage to this requirement is that you can have several icons with product brands dedicated to different directories. It’s also important to know that the file needs to be saved with the name “favicon.ico.” This file name and format tells the web browser that this is used as an icon for bookmark images. Wherever you save the image, take note of its location, because it’s needed for configuration of the web application.

Edit Web Page Code

The next step is editing the HTML code in your web page. Open your home page file. Most home pages are named index.html or index.aspx. Open this page in your favorite HTML editor. There is only one line of code needed, so you can even open the file in Notepad and add the code quickly. To add the new icon link, find the code that is located in the beginning of the file marked with the “” tag. This is normally found under the “” tag or close to it. Within this tag, place the following code into your web page:

/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>

This is the standard code for inclusion of the favicon file. Replace “” with the domain name and directory of the favicon saved earlier. After you add the code to the web page, save the file to your website.

Advantages of a Favicon

The ultimate advantage of a favicon is your brand on the customer’s computer with better opportunities for sales. When a customer has a good experience on your website, a favicon reminds them of the experience. It also spreads your brand name as a familiar logo on desktops. The favicon is the basic way to brand your website with little effort.

Branding your website can cost a lot of money in marketing and resources. A favicon is a simple, inexpensive way to give a logo and an image to your corporate website. The Internet is filled with billions of websites, so standing out is a difficult part of marketing. This little addition to a corporate website gives it a little more recognition over all the others.

Are You Addicted To Google Adsense?

Some Google Adsense publishers have let this simple form of making money online take over their lives. 100’s of hours are spent by these people Split test Adsense, changing and manipulating, all in the hope of making enough money to tell the boss “I’m leaving”.

54% of all Google Adsense publishers admit addiction to click income. A recent online study conducted by a small group of Google Publishers found that 54% of all Adsense publishers where addicted to the income potential of Googles Pay Per Click system.

Some Google Adsense Publishers Need Therapy
It was also found that some publishers were so addicted they where checking their Adsense statistics up to 50 times per day.

Google Adsense is a system where individuals who own content rich website’s can earn money by placing small targeted ads within the content of their website.

The ads can be customised to fit within the scheme of the website and some successful publishers can earn in excess of $200,000 per month.

One publisher stated that her addiction started the day she placed the Adsense code into her html code. “I was introduced to Adsense by my boyfriend, who makes around a $1000 a month”. She went on to say that she doesn’t blame Google for her addiction, but the fever in which forums and blogs promote the fact that anyone can become rich with this scheme inspired her to keep adding pages and checking her stats.

 

Kate, did state that she was earning a reasonable amount of money from Google Adsense, but told us she also spent a considerable amount of money on scripts, ebooks and promises of gaining all you would ever want to know about Adsense, from forum gurus claiming they had made their fortunes and where willing to share their secrets if you deposited $97 into their PayPal account.

Rags to Riches in 51 Days
Another publisher I spoke to told me his addiction had made him a rich man in 51 days. “I was browsing the net on October the 15th last year and came across a website that had a photo of a guy holding a Google cheque for nearly $200,000 dollars. Under the picture it stated that this was just a 1 month pay check from Google. Lights and bells went off in my head as I thought, Man, this is what I have been looking for”.

David, had been dabbling in online money making schemes for about 6 years and to date had not been very successful. But he did have 3 website’s which had 1000’s of visitors to them and after reading all he could on the subject, David placed 2 small Adsense ads on each page of his 1000 page website. “I didn’t sleep that night. I was so excited, I checked my stats every 10 minutes all night” he said. Just when he was about to give up for the night, David did his final stats check. “It was 5.50am exactly and I nearly fell off my chair. 1000 impressions, 98 clicks and a total of $18 income. I couldn’t sleep that day as I checked my stats every 15 minutes and watched the income rose to over $58 for the day. I was addicted to this thing, this scheme was going to make me rich and I wasn’t going to miss a minute of it” David said.

David had gone from $32 in his Bank account to over $6,700 in just 51 days. He had checked his stats on average 60 times per day and had spent more than 612 hours during that 51 days optimising his sites and adding content. David also admitted just like Kate that he had spent quite a bit of his profits on “how to” books, but stated that it was money very well spent.

“I am addicted to Google Adsense” Kate told me, ” but what better addiction could you have than earning money, while doing something you love”.

Designing A Web Site For A Set Screen Resolution is Outdated

Introduction

In website development we regularly ask our clients what size screen resolution they would like us to build their new website at.

I was reading somewhere recently that apparently these days the only answer to that question should be ‘all of them’ and ‘none of them’. What this basically means is that new websites should be built to accommodate all different screen sizes these days, particularly with the increased popularity of hand help web browsers, smart phones, net books and the like. Of course there is also the other end of the spectrum in the new huge wide screen flat screen monitors. I recently treated myself to a 24 inch Asus which does 1920×1080 which is big enough to get two web browser windows on screen side by side, but if you make one of them full size, the majority or websites look, well, just plain odd!

What exactly is screen resolution then?

If you are not familiar with screen resolution, the simple answer is that it is the size of your screen. However, this can be quite misleading because it is actually the number of pixels that make up the display area on the screen of your monitor. Still not clear? Well let’s look at some examples to help clarify exactly what screen resolution is.

Currently what would appear to be the most popular screen resolution is 1024×768 (accounting for 62% of my website visitors). This is a screen that is 1024 pixels wide by 768 pixels high. What is a pixel? A Pixel, derived from the phrase Picture Element, is basically one of the thousands of tiny dots that make up your display screen. However, this does not necessarily determine the physical size of your monitor (14 inch, 15 inch, 19 inch etc) because most monitors are capable of displaying the screen in different screen resolutions. It is fairly accurate to say that if you want to run your monitor at a high screen resolution then you will need a large monitor, the larger the monitor the greater the resolution it can display at (assuming your graphics processor can support a high resolution).

All getting a bit technical? Put simply the higher the screen resolution the more things you can fit on your screen before they have to go onto the next line, or before you have to scroll down or scroll right.

What’s this got to do with Web Site Design?

When creating the visuals for a new website design, traditionally the experienced graphic designer would be working to a specific resolution in order to make sure that the design fits in your browser window without having to scroll right. (Thankfully most website owners don’t demand you make their pages so that you don’t have to scroll down anymore!)

The most popular screen resolution of 1024×768 will have areas of screen with nothing on them when viewed at a larger screen size such as 1920×1080 or larger so a professional ecommerce web design ideally has a mechanism for dealing with this issue.

When designing at a fixed resolution you can deal with larger display settings by either aligning the site to the left and having a huge great big gap to the right, or you can centre align the website in the available space and then the extra screen resolution will be on either side of the content area.

However, the sensible, modern day approach is to make the site flexible to accommodate all screen resolutions by creating ‘fluid’ content that will flow to fit the available page space irrespective of what size screen resolution it is viewed at.

Also, because of the increased popularity of the web the challenge for a website owner is how to engage your viewers and get them to stay on your website for as long as possible and show them as much content as possible. One way to help with this is to make full use of all of the available space. Two great big blank areas either side of a tiny web page is simply just a waste of space. Imagine if you picked up a newspaper or magazine and only half of the front page had got any content on it, the editor would get the sack for sure! So by creating fluid web pages, web site owners can take advantage of larger publishing spaces available on bigger screen users, whilst optimising content for display on smaller screens as well.

Another advantage with big screen displays is the ability to use the new area for re-publishing. Re-publishing is a way to put content from another area of your website onto a different page, thereby bringing it forward for the viewer. An example of this that we did on one site we created was to insert an alphabetical list of names of the products available on the website below the left hand menu on pages that were very long.

All pages tend to be different lengths, as determined by the content on the page, so we used a clever widget to create this list of product names and squirt it in the gap until it ran out of space. This was great for SEO too as it gave a direct link to specific product pages based on their product names without having to crawl through category pages first, also website users would often see something in the list they wanted and click straight through to the page and buy the item.

Ultimately this has evolved into what would now be thought of as a web 2.0 ‘tag cloud’ a list of tags that are usually user generated, to indicate and link directly to a specific content group or item. Using a tag cloud is a great way to fill stretched spaces on larger screens that you can fill with what are effectively links to other parts of the website.

How do you make fluid content?

Fluid content is quite simple to create, the majority will be words of course, which are naturally fluid so on a small resolution screen you might get 5-10 words to a row, on a larger screen you can get 20-30 words or more. However the challenge comes with images, and particularly website graphics. A photograph, whilst it can be made smaller and larger offline, it can’t be automatically resized by the web browser at the time of viewing (not taking into account the Zoom function in Internet Explorer).

The HTML code that makes up your web pages is again designed to allow fluidity by fitting content into the available page area, so some best practises that can be employed to make content fluid include not using tables in the code (which are depreciated these days now anyway), not setting specific screen width in pixels, use 100% instead. By fading images into blocks of colour in the website graphics, you can create a stretchable element that will scale to fit all window sizes. Use little boxes to put stuff in, these can then flow around the screen as required without having to be in any particular place, they also help to draw the eye to special offers, discounts, newsletter sign ups etc, and can of course be styled by your graphic designer with curves and shadows and gradients to look great.

Conclusion

Any of the many Loughborough web design companies will agree that a fluid scalable design is really the only option to consider these days, as it maximises the available publishing space on larger screens and with the rising popularity of smart phones and netbooks it ensures you site also works well on these smaller screens.

 

Website creation basics

Tim Berners-Lee published what is considered to be the first website in August 1991. Berners-Lee was the first to combine Internet communication (which had been carrying email and the Usenet for decades) with hypertext (which had also been around for decades, but limited to browsing information stored on a single computer, such as interactive CD-ROM design). Websites are written in a markup language called HTML, and early versions of HTML were very basic, only giving a website’s basic structure (headings and paragraphs), and the ability to link using hypertext. This was new and different from existing forms of communication – users could easily navigate to other pages by following hyperlinks from page to page.

As the Web and web design progressed, the markup language changed to become more complex and flexible, giving the ability to add objects like images and tables to a page. Features like tables, which were originally intended to be used to display tabular information, were soon subverted for use as invisible layout devices. With the advent of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), table-based layout is commonly regarded as outdated. Database integration technologies such as server-side scripting and design standards like W3C further changed and enhanced the way the Web is made. As times change, websites are changing the code on the inside and visual design on the outside with ever-evolving programs and utilities.

A web site is a marketing tool but in basis is a collection of information about a particular topic or subject. A web site might be compared to a book, where each page of the book is a web page. Multimedia and diseño web is the key for a success website.

There are many aspects (design concerns) in this process, and due to the rapid development of the Internet, new aspects may emerge. For non-commercial web sites, the goals may vary depending on the desired exposure and response. For typical commercial web sites, the basic aspects of design are:

The content: the substance, and information on the site should be relevant to the site and should target the area of the public that the website is concerned with.

The usability: the site should be user-friendly, with the interface and navigation simple and reliable.

The appearance: the graphics and text should include a single style that flows throughout, to show consistency. The style should be professional, appealing and relevant.

The visibility: the site must also be easy to find via most, if not all, major search engines and advertisement media.

A web site typically consists of text and images. Since a website can be a business, selling and trading on internet is comercio electronico.

Once a web site is completed, it must be published or uploaded in order to be viewable to the public over the internet.

Once published, the web master may use a variety of techniques to increase the traffic that the web site receives. This may include submitting the web site to a search engine posicionamiento google, exchanging links with other web sites, creating affiliations with similar web sites, etc.

Multidisciplinary requirements

Web site design crosses multiple disciplines of information systems, information technology and communication design. The web site is an information system whose components are sometimes classified as front-end and back-end. The observable content (e.g. page layout, user interface, graphics, text, audio) is known as the front-end. The back-end comprises the organization and efficiency of the source code, invisible scripted functions, and the server-side components that process the output from the front-end. Depending on the size of a Web development project, it may be carried out by a multi-skilled individual (sometimes called a web master), or a project manager may oversee collaborative design between group members with specialized skills .

Review of Google Ambush

This Google Ambush Review explores the true merits and drawback hazards of Google Ambush. Google Ambush is a learning software and Pay per Click PPC management service made by Andrew X and Steven Lee Jones. Its main selling point is to allow the affiliate marketers for maximizing and controlling the use of Google in order to set up keyword bids and effective ad campaigns. This software cost about $77 as a membership fee. The tool is more efficient that equip affiliate marketers, providing tactics and techniques on leveraging Google as marketing tool. A Review of Google Ambush makes you recognize in relation to the Google Ambush software. It is very much useful for setting up keyword bids and effective ad campaigns. This Google Ambush software has five modules such as finding a cost effective product, investing on the correct keyword, enhancing PPC campaigns, automating landing pages, and performing tracking.

Google Ambush gives you a great number of advantages that other software may not make available. It offers 60 days of test time era or if you are not satisfied with it then they will give complete refund. It comprises of instructional video, which is easy to follow. Leverages on clickbank information and Google tools are provided. A single hub for tracking, ad and landing page creation, keyword searching, and researching products is provided. It is very easy software for creating web pages. It allows inserting of html pages anywhere. The system is easily accessible] through browser and internet and there is no software or client download is required.

Although Google Ambush software is one stop hub for every affiliate marketing requirements, it is a disadvantage for the beginners. New comers may find all the information as confusing and overwhelming. It is currently interfaced along with click bank, which for some users have a limitation.

What is a Text Ad Exchange?

 

A text ad exchange has similarities to Traffic Exchanges & Safelists, in that you earn points by reading other peoples ads and can swap those points for your own advertising. You can earn points in a number of ways. Firstly there are the text ads, which are a single line of text (100 chars). If you find one interesting click on it, and the site that is being promoted will open. When you have viewed that site for more than 10 seconds you will be awarded points to go towards your own advertising. HTML ads work in the same way.

You can add banners to a text ad exchange and can earn points by clicking on any banners on the text ad exchange and viewing the promoted site for more than 10 seconds. Banners appear on the text ad exchange itself and whenever someone clicks on a credit link in a solo ad (see below), they appear at the top of the window.

Guaranteed Traffic Links are a great feature of text ad exchanges. They guarantee a number of unique visitors to your site. They are available in 50, 100 & 200 views. The traffic links are featured on the text ad exchange and can be clicked on to earn points. You can only earn points from each traffic link once and if someone clicks on your traffic link more than once, it will only count as one view. That way it guarantees you will get a set number of unique visitors to your site.

You can swap your points for a solo ad to all the members of the text ad exchange’s contact email addresses. We send a maximum of 5 solo ads a day at THE Text Ad Exchange (some text ad exchanges send a lot more!) and don’t send them all at the same time of day so that each ad gets the attention it deserves. Each solo ad has a credit link at the bottom which links to the site being promoted and earns you points. Solo ads earn you the most amount of points for a click so people like to click on solo ads.

When you login to a text ad exchange an ad is displayed for 10 seconds. You can swap your points for one of these login ads for a number of views (not all text ad exchange have this feature). When you have logged in to the text ad exchange you will see a navigation bar on the left of the window. You can add your own navigation button to the menu for a period of 7 days in exchange for points.

One other way of earning points is to refer other members to the site. You will earn points every time they log in and a percentage of the points that they earn. You will also earn commission on your referrals upgrades and ongoing advertising purchases. So referring others is a great way of getting free traffic & commissions.

If you don’t feel you have the time to be clicking on lots of ads to earn points you also have the option to buy points and advertising at text ad exchanges.

Some other features of the sites are, Downline Builder, Viral URL Cloaker, Weekly Draw for free advertising, Email Your Referrals, Plus More are added all the time.

There are two levels of membership at THE Text Ad Exchange, Free & Pro. Pro membership means you receive more points when you click on ads, free points each month, higher commission levels, more URL cloaker links, ability to save more ads, email your referrals more often and a pro bonus section. You can pay to upgrade to pro or can swap points for a free pro upgrade.

I hope that gives you a good overview of a text ad exchange. When you reduce it down to the basics it’s a case of you look at my site and I’ll look at yours. So you need to make sure your site catches peoples attention pretty quickly. Often a splash page of some sort is the best way of doing this. Also you need to realise that often people wont pay attention to a site until they have come across it a number of times and curiosity get the better of them! So you need to advertise constantly to get the best results. If you have a good landing page and advertise consistently you will get results from text ad exchanges. I know, I have, and that’s why I decided to set up THE Text Ad Exchange.

My name is Seb Brown and I run THE Text Ad Exchange which is a free advertising site.

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