I have not had anyone come and ask for help building a business on the Internet that had not already tried to build a business and felt that they were stuck in mud not going anywhere.  Many of them have joined Traffic Exchanges, Safelist, Text Exchanges and other programs.  In almost all the cases they have not done the basics.

When you join a site it is important that you use all the tools available.  The most overlooked one is the downline builders inside many sites.

One of the first things I have people do is go back and fill in all the information on all the sites that they have joined to generate traffic before we do anything else.  You would be surprised how many people didn’t even bother to fill out the information in their profile so they can get paid much less fill out the downline builder

Why is that important?

When you finally start building your business the right way you are going to have people join your downline in traffic programs. You want them in your downline unless you want to spend the rest of your time on the Internet paying for upgrades to get credits or surfing to get credits to build traffic.  When people in your downline surf, send emails, place text ads and other things they generate credits for you.  Also when people in your downline upgrade they generate cash for you at most sites.

So the more people in your downlines the less you have to surf, freeing time to concentrate on other things.   The goal is to have enough people in your downline that you use the Traffic Exchanges or other programs to take action and to upgrade so that you earn credits and you earn enough to pay for your upgrades.

If you start changing what you have been doing.  Yes, if you have not been making money you have to change what you have been doing.  If you start changing what you are doing you are going to have people joining programs in your downline.

Some of them will read this or have been taught by others to fill in the downline builders.  When they join programs that they are not members of from the downline builders link and your ID is not there they go into someone else’s downline.  So instead of having one person join one program and ending up in four or five other programs in your downline you have one person join your downline and then end up in programs in someone else’s downline.

If you do not fill out the downline builders by default they join in the downline of whichever member of your upline bothered to fill the downline builder out.  Yes your effort builds someone else’s downline and they show up as a direct referral of someone else.

Oh, wait a minute if you fill out your downline builders in the programs that means anyone that is in your downline who doesn’t their referrals have the potential to become referrals. Yes, it does.

So here is your action step and it is a big one.  Take the time to go to the programs you are going to be adding referrals into and be sure you fill out the downline builders before you do any thing else.  If you are going to build a business and traffic you have to use everyone of the tools available.

“Wait a minute”!!!!! You scream.  “Do you know how many programs I joined it would take forever to go back?”

Do a few at a time but stay at it until they are all filled out.

One suggestion if you use Traffic Exchanges and Safelist is to go to Traffic Hoopla http://www.trker.com/go/36021 and Affiliate Funnel http://botipton.com/likes/afunnel.html and sign up for their free accounts.  Then check to see which are the top exchanges and safelist and start using and building them first.

Go back and fill in the downline builders before you add another advertisement anywhere.  Imagine how you are going to feel if you start adding people and then find out that they used the downline builder in the program and joined programs under someone else.

Also, from now on  when you join a program make sure you fill out your profile, downline builder and anything else that is a tool in that program.  If you do not have time to do that then chances are you do not have time to use the program so why are you joining.

Action Step:  Fill out the downline builders in programs you are part of.

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I know many of you have been searching for the Secret of Making Money on the Internet.  All over the Internet you can find courses, software, coaches and other ways to learn how to make Money on the Internet.

I am going to save you a ton of money and time and reveal the secret today right here on this blog to making money on the Internet. Now I apologize before hand because I am going to use the four letter work that most people try not to use.

Okay here goes.  The secret to making money on the Internet is (drum roll) you have to SELL something.  Yep there is that four letter word sell.  I didn’t use market or any other word I cut right to it.  You have to sell something.

It also has to be something that has value.   If you want to continue to make money after the first sale you have to make sure that what you are selling people will be able to use.  If you do you can make money on the Internet for years.  If you don’t sell something that is worth what was paid for it you will have to get very good at setting up fake ID’s on the Internet as people will remember you sold them junk.

You do not have to sell a product that you can hold in your hand it can be information but it has to be worth something.  Not fluff, not information you can find anywhere on the Internet, not information that has just been reworded and put into a different e-book cover but worth something.

Let me give you an example.  People come on the Internet and need to learn how to build websites and much more.  There is a former High School history teacher who now teaches on the Internet called Bob the Teacher (Follow Bob On Twitter).  Bob put together a series of videos on how to work with a website and how to use cpanel.  http://www.trker.com/go/38897/blog.  This is good information and everyone that I know that has bought it thinks it is great.

Remember this it is important; Sell a good product at a fair price and you make money.

Now before you start saying, “Yes, but, but, but I don’t have my own product to sell I just started”.

You do not have to have your own product you can find a worthwhile product that someone else has put together and market it.  It can be an e-book, a video, a training course, a membership website or a ton of other products.  It can even be a product that you hold in your hand that you sell on eBay or elsewhere.

When you sell someone else’s product it is called affiliate marketing.  Someone else did the work to put a good product together and you market it and keep part of the money.

Most people who start out on the Internet will start out as an Affiliate Marketer selling someone else’s products.

It is very, very, very important to pick a good product to market.  There are a few of them out there and we will be talking about them here.  One rule of thumb is if you have not used the product how do you know if it is a good product or not.

That is why you will not find me promoting the next great, best, better then sliced bread and cotton candy product.  I will not promote them because I have not tried them.  If I say it works it does and not because someone else told me it did.  Until I try it I do not promote it.

Okay so you are going to sell your product or someone else’s.  To do that you need two things, targeted traffic to a website that is your own or someone else’s.

Have a good product, lots of targeted traffic and a good converting website and you will make money.  As time goes by we will talk about each of these.

You’re Action Step for Success.  Find three products that you can look someone in the eye and tell them honestly that you know it works.  Don’t know of three then be patient and we will talk about some of them here.

To be continued