It really isn’t that difficult to do the right thing – agreed? I was reading a blog post by my friend Jon Olson on ‘Hit Exchange News‘ titled “The Biggest Joke In Internet Marketing” and the topic is on product launches in the Internet Marketing industry. It is a very interesting topic and there certainly remains plenty of room for improvement among both large and small marketers in our niche.

For all of the finger pointing and thoughts about Internet marketing tactics, I would like to propose a simple little test to guide all marketers on how to serve their customers and a basis for their customers to evaluate marketers and launches.

Marketers: First Examine Your Motives

1. Do your motives originate from truth?

2. Do your motives foster fairness for everyone concerned?

3. Do your motives build value for your customers and associates?

Marketers: Second Examine Your Actions

1. Will your actions support a worthy long-term objectives?

2. Will your actions be responsible for harming another person?

3. Will your actions deliver value for your marketplace?

I have spent thousands of dollars over the years on my online education. I have purchased $7 reports and $2,000 courses and I can tell you that I have gotten considerable value from 95% of everything I have received. I have purchased from unknown marketers and gurus like Yanick Silver, Frank Kern, Russell Brunson, Eben Pagan, Mike Filsaime, Perry Belcher, and Ryan  Deiss. Again, I have received considerable vaule from 95% of these products.

So what is the secret?

I have added myself to the equation! Which is to say that I have actually unpackaged (or downloaded) and studied the material, I have tested and split-tested the recommendations. I have discarded what did not work for me and taken massive action on the strategies, tactics and advice that have yielded results. I have taken a long-term view on my business, not looking for overnight riches, but rather leaning skills and concepts to build a sustainable online business.

I write this post not to defend the “Guru Marketer,” there is plenty to criticize in the make money niche to be sure. But I will say that I think painting the most successful Internet marketers with a broad brush of conspiracy and shame is too easy to do and too often done without supporting facts. In the end this doesn’t serve anyone – especially the newbie online seeker for whom it is presumed to forewarn.

I would love to hear you personal experiences when dealing with Internet marketers and their product launches. I would like to know if you have been able to advance your goals as a result of your direct personal experience. Please be sure to post a comment below and thank you for making time to read my blog.

I am here to help you succeed!

P.S. I have made it a policy to participate only in launched that meet my published criteria which can be read here:

http://askjamesholmes.com/jv/

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As you may know, I recently purchased S.W.A.T. Traffic Exchange from Jon Olson and I have been busy putting a number of changes in place, which our members will have access to beginning January 1, 2011 – just a few days away.

In a few of days, I will be removing the life-time membership option because the new and improved S.W.A.T. Traffic will deliver so much value that providing a life-time membership is like giving away the farm – it is just too valuable. Those who are lucky enough to have secured their life-time membership will be blown away by what they receive month to month and they will never have to pay another dime to get all of the benefits!

So, the bottom-line is that $67 for life was just too little to charge and I am taking it off the market and will provide an annual membership option instead. The good news is that you still have time to grab a life-time membership for a one payment for life!

Here is what you will get:

* EXCLUSIVE Private S.W.A.T. Training
* Add up to 30 Sites, Banners and Text Ads
* E-Mail Your S.W.A.T. Downline
* 1:1 Surfing Ratio
* 750 Credits Per Month
* 1000 Banners Per Month
* 1500 Text Impressions Per Month
* Bonus Offers and Specials
* One-Time Payment for Life!

Here are the Bonuses:

* Promo Codes for Dozens of Top Viral Marketing Sites
* Exclusive Russell Brunson Insiders Webinar Video
* 27 Ways to Raise Fast Cash E-Book
* 27 Essential Rules of Internet Marketing E-Book
* Maximum Impact Social Media E-Book
* Traffic Exchange Masters MP-3 Audio Files
* Bonus of 10,000 Credits at S.W.A.T. Traffic
* Total Package Value $997

One question you may have is “when will this offer end?”

I am going to leave this offer open until Mid-night December 31st or when 100 life-time memberships have been sold and then it will close forever!

As I write this email, there are only 88 of these memberships still available. If the offer is still open you will be redirected to Pay Pal Checkout when you click the link below. If you are taken to Pay Pal you are in luck and I congratulate you in advance. If the offer is sold-out, you will be redirected to S.W.A.T. Traffic to sign up as a monthly member.

Here is the link for the entire offer:

http://trckrs.com/26870/AskJamesHolmesVIP

This is a fantastic offer and a great way to kick off the New Year with a life-time of traffic and promo codes worth hundreds of dollars in Solo Ads, Traffic Exchange Credits, and Text Ad Credits. This is a massive traffic package that will pay you back month after month for life.

Once your payment has been received, you will be redirected to S.W.A.T. Traffic to sign-up for your account and I will personally handle your upgrade and delivery of all of your bonuses.
Please feel free to contact me directly with any questions you may have and I hope you are one of the lucky 100 and I will see you in the training room.

Have a safe and blessed New Year!

P.S. As I write this post there are 84 Lifetime Membership Available:

http://trckrs.com/26870/AskJamesHolmesVIP

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Have you ever wanted to get behind the curtain meet the men and women who own and operate the most popular traffic exchanges on the Internet. For the first time ever many of the leading owners are gathering for series of podcast interviews where you will hear their personal stories, learn about their exchanges and benefit from their advice on how to maximize your use of traffic exchanges.

In total there will be 10 interviews conducted over 5 days for a total of 10 hours of amazing content and actionable advice to help you launch your traffic and list building strategy.

Go Here to sign up for a free virtual ticket and daily gifts from members of the TE Community:

http://discovertrafficexchanges.com/special-events

Here is the line up!

Monday, October 4th, 2010
	Tim Linden, StartXchange at 1:00pm Startxchange has a number of unique member features and over 83,000 members. Tim also co-owns Sweeva and TE Tool Box.
	Tony Tezak, Tezak Traffic Power at 3:00pm Tezak Traffic Power is a “New School” exchange that consistently rewards it’s active members. Tony has amazing knowledge to share and a heartfelt desire to share it!
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
	Lynn McCutheon, Traffic Pro-X at 1:00pm Lynn McCutheon is a very vocal advocate for traffic exchange industry and her exchange is one with an interesting history to explore.
	Robert Puddy, Advertising Know How at 3:00 Robert Puddy believes in being different and he has developed an amazing portfolio of traffic generating and money making sites!
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
	Randy Ritter, Top Flight Traffic at 1:00pm Randy Ritter has a very clean and fun to surf and as he is a new friend I will be eager to hear and share Randy’s story.
	Marc Eglon, Jetstream Traffic at 3:00pm Marc Eglon share a few golden nuggets with me last year that totally changed the way I looked at traffic exchanges… He will spill the beans!
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
	Guido Nussbaum, Traffic Witch at 1:00pm Guido is seemingly everywhere and in addition to being a TE owner, he is a master and free giveaway event. We have a lot to discuss!
	John Guanzon, ThumbVu at 3:00pm John is one of my best friends in the traffic exchange niche. He specializes in list building with great effect!
Friday, October 8th, 2010
	Jon Olson, I Love Hits at 3:00pm I have to say that Jon Olson has changed my life… how? He sold his beloved S.W.A.T. traffic to me and now must be considers a mentor.
	Kym Robinson, Traffic Showdown at 6:00pm I love Kym’s energy and so will you. Kym is a classic Aussie – very cool! A fabulous marketer. The perfect interview to end our week!

My acquisition of Swat Traffic Exchange

I appreciate all of the readers of my blog, listeners to my podcast and subscribers to my mailing list. Many of you have made a personal connection with me over the past three years and have either become business associates and in many cases friends. I want you to be among the first to know about a major business objective that I achieved and how this benchmark can benefit you.

Over the past 9 months I have been in pursuit of a traffic exchange membership site for a number of reasons. First,  I owe the industry a dept of gratitude as traffic exchanges and safe-list played a major role in my business when I first came online. It was through traffic exchanges that I found my initial mentors like Russell Brunson, Ewen Chia, Mike Filsaime among others.

In addition to finding a few mentors and many valuable training resources, I learned how to build a list and begin to network with other experienced marketers and grow my sphere of influence. This took both time and effort, but I believe I am at a tipping point where many of my major goals are going to come to fruition.

Gratitude is a great motivator and I have long been an evangelist of the traffic exchange industry so my desire to become an exchange owner seems like a natural progression. But many goals are easier to imagine than to achieve and this has been a nine month journey.

Over the past nine months I have been in pursuit to launch or purchase a traffic exchange and I had no idea how challenging an idea this was for several reasons. First, it is very difficult to launch a unique exchange as a new owner in a very crowded industry with scare development resources as it relates to web coders and scripts. My best option was to purchase a quality exchange from an existing owner, but that also provided to be a challenge as the good rarely change hands.

I became acquainted with Jon Olson the author of “The Pizza Plan” and owner of “I Love Hits” and “Swat Traffic” several months ago when I hosted Jon as a guest on my podcast. We had sense become friends and every now and then he would mention that Swat Traffic could be bought! For a dozen reasons I wont go into here, I never really thought there would be an opportunity to purchase an exchange like Swat Traffic but that is exactly what has occurred.

So, I guess you can say there is a “new sheriff in town” and I am proud to pick up Jon’s legacy, an exchange that he created from an idea and has grown to nearly 30,000 members over the past couple of years. I have some new ideas and a commitment to build a large thriving community of Internet marketers who have a desire to achieve true freedom and live the Internet lifestyle.

If you already are a member of Swat , you will be hearing from both Jon and me in the coming days – we have a very special offer to make to you. If you are not yet a member of Swat, I invite you to visit my site and sign up for your free membership and consider the special sign-up offer.

I will be posting here frequently on the progress of my new venture and sharing a tremendous amount to value to you, which will represent a sample of what will be inside the members area. Please leave me a little feedback and share your thoughts and let me know what BIG audacious goals you have set for your business – I would love to read them and help you in any way I can.

Have a blessed day!

I am here to help you succeed in your business and life!

P.S. You Can Claim: FREE Swat Traffic Membership

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I have developed some really great friendships among my Internet Marketing peers, some I have met in person and an even larger number I have gotten to know through telephone conversations, Skype chats, email exchanges and live streams. All of these relationships have added value to my business and my  life and every now and then they produce some pretty cool experiences – just like friendships in the offline world.

Last Wednesday was one such occasion as I had a chance to jump onto “TE Live” hosted by Jon Olson and Tim Linden – the show airs weekdays on UStream TV.

My TE pal Lynn McCutcheon owner of Traffic Pro-X and all around awesome person, summed up my appearance on her blog as follows:

• James shared a lot of good input and insight on the discussion we were all having about the negativity in TE Land in general and some other great stuff (always great coming from James), and after we all talked about it all at length a little more, the mood changed a little bit and some of us talked about how those of us who still support what we know traffic exchanges can do probably need to work a little harder at trying to keep a more positive outlook on things TE-wise and keeping on trying to help teach people the right way to do things to get results (a la Affiliate Funnel, TE Live, etc.).
• We also found out James has a daughter who’s in college. I am still suspicious that he can’t possibly be old enough to have a daughter in college looking so young himself!
• James’ daughter was asking him about TE Live when she was there recently, and we had some discussion about the kids of TE Live. Tim and Jon were talking about going to get coffee and we all wondered why, when they both have kids there (as Jon’s son is visiting this week), they haven’t trained any of those kids to bring them their coffee.
• Tim went to get coffee with his headset on, so we could still hear him but couldn’t see him. Then we heard his coffee maker.
• Then when Tim got back, Jon went to get his coffee.
• James didn’t go get any coffee.
• I really don’t know what Jon’s doing here:

Lynn pretty accurately described the free for all… part serious and part totally random… just the way we like it!

If you haven’t yet experience the “water cooler” conversation that is TE Live, I personally invite you to stop by and spend some time with us. When I first started participating in TE Live a few months ago, I was always waiting for the “presentation” to start… it never did and what has evolved is something far more valuable to the participants… the people who tune in every day. It is a community of people who are getting to know each other, who can safely share their rants, best ideas, tips, promotions, and a good laugh everyday!

Be sure to check out TE Live and my friends blogs – be sure to say hello when you stop by!

TE Live: http://www.TELive.com

Jon Olson: http://www.HitExchangeNews.com

Tim Linden: http://www.TimLinden.com

Lynn McCutcheon: http://www.LynnM.net

Hats off to Jon and Tim for allowing TE Live to take on a life all it’s own and not trying to micro manage and mold this into just another training platform. We need the training broadcast too, but I love having a virtual water cooler to hangout at in the middle of my work day.

I am here to help you succeed online and achieve your ideal Internet lifestyle!

Be Sure to Visit My Virtual Office: http://www.ViralWebcast.com

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SWEEVA is a free social marketing site that allows you to bid for page views and browse the websites of other members of the community to earn credits for additional exposure of your websites by the larger community of members.

Check it out here: SWEEVA

Sweeva has been developed by Jon Olson and Tim Linden – yes the gurus of free and low cost marketing methods that work!

There is an advantage to joining today, which will be explained when you go and check out their site. This is going to launch big and be around for years to come, just like their other marketing websites.

This is a TOTALLY NEW MARKETING concept that integrates SOCIAL MEDIA into a community of members who cooperate to browse member websites and engage with the members of our community.

If a visitor likes your website or is interested in your offer, they can connect with you directly and ask questions or have YOU walk them through your sign-up process.

Grab Your Free Account here: SWEEVA

After you sign up send me an email (james@AskJamesHolmes.com) and I have a couple of gifts to help you brand yourself and build your list on Sweeva. I will send those to you right away!

Feel free to connect with me if I can help you in any way and be sure to say hello within the Sweeva Community!

This is a bit of a game changer in the advertising and marketing exchange niche and you can use this site in a very powerful way.

I am here to help you succeed. Have a blessed day!

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I have spent a considerable amount of teaching you about list building over the past few months – this will not change as it is a key to your success online. Today, I wanted to share a strategy that has worked extremely well for me and that will work just as well for you provided you take action.

Here is the bottom line, people love getting quality information for free! One great way to build your list and add value for the member of your list is to provide quality e-books and special reports that help your subscribers build their businesses and improve their lives. I have a VERY EASY way for you to do this starting right now.

My friend John Guanzon has partnered with Brett Phillips to introduce “TE Reports” is a membership website that contains twelve e-book titles that you can re-brand with your links and give away as part of your list building campaigns or as a free bonus on your blogs and websites. These are quality high in demand e-books that will add tremendous value for you and your subscriber list.

Here is a list of the authors and titles you will gain immediate access to and full rights to give them away:

So how do you use these free reports to build your list? I have a step by step plan for you here:

Step 1: Go here and claim your free account TE Reports Special

Step 2: Organize your reports by entering the referral IDs that will be provide by each author

Step 3: Add your profile photo and integrate your auto-responder in the back office

Step 4: Promote your website referral link and invite others to claim a free account

Step 5: Contact your new subscribers and build relationships

In addition to building a list with this website you will also be paid up to 50% commissions for anyone you refer that decides to upgrade to a paid membership in order to access customized squeeze pages and other bonuses. It has been my experience that a percentage of your new subscribers will see the value of the upgrade offer and will decide to take action by doing so.

The set up for this free site is super simple and marketing free reports is comparatively easy as people are very receptive to these offers. So, give this site a try and be sure to read each of the twelve books yourself in order to benefit from the content contained in each book.

Be sure to return to this post and share your comments and success stories – if you need assistance in setting up your account let me know. I know one of the owners and many of the authors personally and I know this program will benefit you in a variety of ways.

I am here to help you build your list and succeed!

P.S. Here is the link again to grab your free account:

http://askjamesholmes.com/tereports

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Note: I am a Affiliate Marketer and it should be assumed that links provided within the content of this blog and individual blog post are affiliate links from which I may be compensated for sales made at the recommended sites. All products and service recommendations are made as a result of my personal experience with the product or service provider.

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On Thursday January 21, 2010 Traffic Exchange expert and author Jon Olson owner of ‘I Love Hits‘ and “SWAT Traffic‘ will join us to discuss traffic exchanges and how to utilize them to build a thriving Internet business. Jon’s sites are ranked among the leading manual traffic exchanges. Perhaps Jon is best known for his authorship of “The Pizza Plan,” a book that details how a former pizza store manager created a thriving internet business resulting in a full-time income and complete time and lifestyle freedom starting with a budget of $70 per month.

Join us for a discussion of the traffic exchange industry and a lively discussion with topics including:

1. The five biggest mis-conceptions about traffic exchanges

2. Discover what may be the best kept secret for creating meaningful web traffic

3. Learn the two biggest mistakes that most people make when utilizing traffic exchanges

4. Discover the two things you must do to profit using traffic exchanges

5. What is new for 2010 in the traffic exchange niche

I will be taking your call and Jon will answer your questions live and everyone who calls in or ask a question will receive a special set of tools to help you grow your business. It promises to be a fun and informative show, so feel free to join in.

Grab a Free Copy of Jon Olson’s Book Here:  ”The Pizza Plan”

I have several great guest coming on the show in the coming weeks so stay tuned. Here is the show page:

The Internet Business Blueprint Podcast

The Internet Business Blueprint Podcast broadcast Monday, Wednesday and Friday check the show page for the time upcoming programs will be presented. Past episodes can be accessed by visiting the show page at http://www.JamesHolmesRadio.com

I am here to help you succeed!