Is TrafficWave a SCAM?

Of course, it isn't. But looking around on Google, I've seen some blog entries, 'reviews' and such claiming that TrafficWave is a scam operation. Well if it was, I certainly wouldn't be involved with it and neither would thousands of others, including many well-known industry pros!

But when it comes to affiliate marketing products and companies, it's my opinion that people will too often label this, that or the other thing as a 'scam' simply because they didn't succeed with it. In fact, I think most who complain about scams are really 'scamming' themselves. Why? Because they didn't take the time to learn this business and spend the time that it takes to establish yourself. For example, my husband and I first got started with Internet Marketing in the Fall of 2008. We didn't have a clue about what we were doing, but we were very excited, curious and driven to make it work. And you know what? We're STILL learning and (gradually) getting better and better at this.

But before you start calling programs like TrafficWave (or ideas like Team OceanSwell) a 'scam', here are a few pieces of advice that I hope you will take to heart:

1) You aren't going to earn any money online unless you have something to offer in addition to whatever it is that you are promoting. It's not enough to simply promote a product or service like TrafficWave and expect to be rewarded from that activity alone. I mean to say that people like to buy, but nobody likes being 'sold'. I have found that being a teacher, a giver, a helper (and even a friend!) pays more then simply throwing up affiliate links and hoping for sales, downline growth, etc.

2) It's vitally important to make a real commitment to your business and treat it like one. I think that, deep down, a lot of people don't think that Internet Marketing is 'real'. That's why they might be so quick to label everything a scam, when it really isn't. So the very first thing that you have to do (and keep doing forever!) is believe in yourself and believe that what you're doing is real... because it is.

3) Please accept and understand that there isn't any 'fast, easy' money online. It simply doesn't exist. Online business is like any other and requires investments of time and money. Successful businesses are the result of hard work, sacrifice, sweat and tears. Just because they're online doesn't make them any different. I think that one reason people lash out is because they've been lead to believe that there's a 'magic secret' out there that will unleash the floodgates of Internet money if they just join enough Free programs. But, of course, it never happens because that's not reality.

4) Last, but not least, stop blaming your failures on everyone else. Successful people don't make excuses. They get educated, they find out what needs to be done (now matter how much work it is!) and then they get it done - no matter what it takes. If you're the type that's always pointing fingers and making up excuses, then you'll never get anywhere with anything. I can promise you that.


So if you're interesting in online business and email marketing (as you should be!), then join TrafficWave today, contact your sponsor and then contact me, Juli Lopez. With the right attitude, there's no limit to what you can achieve.

TrafficWave - OceanSwell TEAM Update (#11)

Do people really make a good income with TrafficWave and Team Oceanswell? That's a question I get asked occasionally. What happens quite often with our Team Ads is that the results they produce aren't always new affiliates and Team Members joining TrafficWave (or Global NPN). Instead, they frequently generate inquiries such as 'how much will I earn?', 'how long will it take?', 'can I join with an existing account?', or 'I was in TrafficWave before and it didn't work for me, so why is this any different?'

New subscribers and, of course, new Team Members receive a letter series that I feel answers the important questions - honestly and directly. But what some people demand to know is, 'how much and how soon?'. If I could answer that, I would be a psychic and not an Internet Marketer. All I can tell you for certain is that collective-recruiting through team-builds like ours is the best chance you've got at establishing and growing an online affiliate business. Will it happen quickly? Probably not. But it won't happen at all if you never even try! And remember that TrafficWave is first and foremost an autoresponder service. That's a product that any serious online businessperson needs - and 'how much you can earn' is largely influenced by the energy and creativity that you put into building your email contact list over time.

But to answer the very first question in this blog post is that yes, you can earn a nice monthly income with TrafficWave and Team OceanSwell. Six(6) OceanSwell Team Members are now consistently among TrafficWave's top-earning affiliates on a monthly basis, and I'm not even one of them. But guess what my goal is... and guess why I will never quit? By the way, did I mention that Team OceanSwell is only one year old? Where will it be this time next year, or five years from now? It's going to be a whole lot bigger, that much is for certain! And as far as autoresponders and list-building are concerned, very few people understand just how valuable their email contact list really and truly is. I mean that everybody 'hears' that it's important, but I don't think that very many people actually get it. Ask anyone who's been doing this business for years and they will tell you that their list is their most valuable asset. It's like virtual real estate! And to build it, you need an autoresponder like TrafficWave.

But as we all know, TrafficWave also happens to have a potentially lucrative affiliate sales plan. And to build an income with that aspect of the product, the help of a team-build like ours is a good thing to have. Speaking of help, the recipient of November's $40.00 cash bonus is David Glassey. David can consider it two free months of TrafficWave, use it purchase a large safe-list mailing or buy a share of Brian Rooney's January co-op. That's up to him. But the point is that he's receiving another benefit of being part of the now-famous Team OceanSwell.

So that's all I can tell you. If you want to build a large and productive email contact list, then TrafficWave is your autoresponder. If you want help with building your affiliate downline, then you should join TrafficWave through Team OceanSwell. Those are facts. But if all you want to know is who will make you the richest in the least amount of time, the 'answers' that you will find online will likely be something other than factual.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Enjoy the time with your families and friends and be SAFE on the roads!

TrafficWave - OceanSwell TEAM Update (#10)

Fast, easy, money online doesn't exist.

I wish I could say otherwise, but I'd be lying. And while I'm no 'expert' on Internet Marketing, everything that I've ever read and everything that I've ever done (i.e. anything that works) always leads to the same conclusions. First of all, it takes years to become an online business success. Secondly, it takes a little money and a whole LOT of effort and sacrifice before you will see any results at all. But, of course, nobody wants to hear that. What they want is a full-time income 'online', with little to no effort, for no cost and they want it NOW - oh, and they want somebody else to do all the thinking for them. That's like walking up to a university and expecting a degree within 30 days, with someone else attending classes, doing all your homework and taking the tests for you... for Free. I'm sorry, life just doesn't work that way - online or 'offline'. There's no 'fast, easy' way and there's no free rides. In my experience so far, I have found two (and only two) things that work - email list building with my TrafficWave autoresponder and the OceanSwell Team-Build for the TrafficWave affiliate plan (which also builds downlines in Global NPN). Additionally, I promote My Money Fish, Peoplestring, 3x6surf and GDI, but I only do it with advertising that links to my autoresponder.

That's because growing your opt-in mailing list accomplishes two things at once: It automates your marketing and allows you to communicate to a large group all at once. Everyone who markets online with the fundamental goal of list-building uses the same basic system. That's because there aren't any new fundamentals. And, in my opinion, list-building should be the #1 thing every online marketer focuses upon - day in and day out. Because upon that single activity rests everything else. There is NO other thing that you can do that will benefit your business more. Everything you do online should involve your goal of list-building. Online, everybody wants 'traffic' (naturally). But once that traffic comes to your ad or website, it should be directed toward your opt-in form. That way, you will have continued access to that traffic forever, rather than just one time! Understand? If you don't understand it, then you NEED to understand it.

Of course, getting traffic to your page and then getting opt-ins are two different things. Basically, you must give your visitors a compelling reason to join your email contact list right now.... and without 'selling' anything. Remember this: Everybody wants to buy, but nobody wants to be sold. In my OceanSwell series of Marketing Tips, I offer suggestions about where to go for webinars and other material related to the subject of list-building. It's an art-form unto itself and mastering it is a learning process that takes time. But learn it you must, if you wish to be a success in this business.

Anyway, working full-time and trying to do so many things online can sometimes make it hard to stay in touch with my OceanSwell Team Members, thus this update has been a little late in coming. But the winner of the $40.00 cash bonus in October was Team Member, Frank Novak. Speaking of Frank, he is one of those who is opting to promote a personal ad page in addition to my regular Team Ads. You can have a look at his unique ad here. If you would like a custom ad yourself, please contact me and I will see that you receive one asap!

TrafficWave - OceanSwell TEAM Update (#9)

A lot of good things have been happening lately with TrafficWave, including improvements to the product itself and (of course) the continued growth of our OceanSwell Team. And I am seeing more and more of our Team members actually learning how to use the AR with squeeze pages in order to build their email contact lists and market other products and services. That is excellent! Our side promotion with Global NPN is apparently going quite well too, as I'm told that we're enrolling 3-4 new Team Members a week into it.

Speaking of Team Members, I would like to give a warm welcome to our newest TrafficWave user and affiliate, Mr. Roberto Galvez. And in addition to that, the monthly $40.00 cash bonus award goes to Ms. Pat Rogers. She has been a loyal Team Member since the beginning and probably works harder than anybody else ever could when it comes to promoting our Team Ads. And that helps ALL of us! She deserves it this month and (as always) I suggest that the money is used to buy a share in TrafficWave's October ad co-op, but it's up to Pat how she uses it to help her business grow.

Oh, I’m sure this will really hack some people off… but what the heck! I’m writing my opinion, so here it goes. This weekend, I was surfing, reading safelist emails and even working a couple of forums. One thing that irks me are the ads claiming that their system 'is not MLM' or 'isn't a Rotator'. I decided that I had had enough with the trash-talking about how all MLMs or Rotator-based Team-Builds are scams. There's absolutely nothing wrong with MLM and 'Rotator' isn't a bad word. And 99% of the time, when someone claims that 'this isn't MLM'... it IS. And when they say 'no Rotator'... it HAS one. Let's face it, everything is 'multi-level' - the government, the church, the army and every major business. As for all the attempts to make 'Rotator' a dirty word, trust me: if someone is deciding who goes where and when, it's a Rotator.

The other thing that really gripes me are the ads that say 'do nothing and get paid!' Now THAT'S a scam, in my opinion. If nobody has to do anything, then who buys what and from who? Nothing happens until something is sold and every online business will require both your time and your money. Period. One of the reasons that I feel Team OceanSwell has been (and continues to be!) such a huge success with both TrafficWave and Global NPN is because those two programs are basic, meat-and potatoes MLM's that have a solid track-record. Their affiliate pages don't show people driving around in Ferraris, standing in front of their mansion, sailing in their yacht or boarding their jet either.

One of the reasons that so many people try online business and then give up and quit is misleading advertising. Let’s be honest here…the vast majority of people won’t achieve those kinds of results. In fact, I believe that the marketing style above is one of the very reasons why there’s a high attrition rate in network marketing. Another reason is that so many people out there are truly desperate and are turning to the Internet to somehow bail them out of their financial condition. Ads making claims of earning 'quick bucks' have a very strong appeal to those people.

Network Marketing is a business and not a lottery. Businesses take money and time to grow. I don’t care what anyone else says, to grow a business you need to invest time and money. I believe that you need some money to make money. Note that I didn’t say you need a ton of money, I just said some. That's why I recently suggested 3x6surf as beginner program for those who truly cannot afford anything more than $3 a month in subscription fees. The only other thing you can do is get a job - any job - because if you don’t have ANY money, you won’t be in business for long.

This is why I firmly believe it’s my duty to tell people who are interested in joining our business, what I believe it really takes to make it in the business. It's called HONESTY. I don't want a single person to join TrafficWave and/or Global NPN through Team OceanSwell without knowing my views on what it takes to succeed based on their particular financial goals. Look, I'm not trying scare people off from the industry that I love, but the emails I get from some Team Members lead me to believe that a good dose of reality is in order for quite a few people are are new to the online business world.

The good news, however, is that those who get set up online now - in this first decade of the new century - will be well-rewarded down the road when they are experts in this business and are enjoying growing, positive cash-flows. And you can get started online with very little money or know-how. But if you want to market a product or service on the Internet with little to no money, you must accept the fact that for the vast majority of people, it takes several months (or more!!!) of consistent hard work, learning and implementing to lay a foundation before you even start seeing consistent results. It takes TIME to get your presence out on the Internet. Although with Blogs, TE's, safelists, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, and some other online tools. You also must be willing to invest time and some money in educational materials, if you’re new to this industry and/or this style of marketing... ... and USE them!

I don’t want to waste my time personally mentoring people who are unwilling to do what it takes to succeed. I’m not afraid to tell someone “NO” if I don’t think they are right for our business. That’s because we want a team of entrepreneurs who are serious about building their own business, learning about AR's and email marketing and will acknowledge that it takes time, effort, and money to grow a business; and are willing to do what it takes to reach their goals. If I haven’t scared you off yet, then you’re the kind of person we want in Team OceanSwell! Because we’re so straight forward about what we believe it takes to succeed in this business, we know that the people who join our Team are true entrepreneurs, and that’s why we’re happy to dedicate our time and resources to help others achieve their goals - and that's why Pat gets the $40.00 this month!

TrafficWave - OceanSwell TEAM Update (#8)

Are you building your list? Building your own email contact list is the single most important activity in online marketing. That's why TrafficWave was chosen for our OceanSwell Team co-op. Why not build downlines with a product that you actually NEED? Anyway, you will always get more click-bank sales (or sales of whatever you are offering) from your own personal contact list.

If you aren't using squeeze pages and optin forms to build your list, you will never get anywhere over the long term in this business. That's my personal belief, because it comes from experience. When starting an online business from scratch, it takes a long time. But times passes, whether you are doing something productive or not. Brian Rooney, owner of TrafficWave, is putting together new tutorial videos on creating lead-capture pages, setting up an autoresponder letter series, what to offer potential subscribers and what to say in follow up letters to generate sales. I know that a lot of people need this kind of help because autoresponders are complicated and some people are afraid to use them.

The way to conquer fear is with knowledge. Once you know exactly what to do, and how to do it, getting the most out of the TrafficWave product becomes easy and you can start building your list, your personal 'brand' and your business - immediately. Don't be intimidated by setting up your autoresponder. Make a committment to learning what you need to learn and put it to work! Once you get good at it and experience the power (and ease of use) of an autoresponder to follow up and create sales on autopilot, you will never go back. As for our TrafficWave Team-Build promotion, the transition has finally been made to revolving URL's, rather than the traditional 'straight-line' Rotator list that we had been using. The Rotators are still there, but they have been folded into this new system. It's a lot better because we can add and subtract affiliate links from it, but the URL will always be the same. It also gives a chance for newer members to get direct referrals sooner, rather then later. We are doing this for both TrafficWave, and the optional NPN Team-Build.

Lastly, I will be paying out the monthly $40.00 cash bonus to a random Team member around the weekend of the 18th/19th of this month. As I said before, this will happen every single month from now on... forever! I hope everyone had a good Labor Day weekend and enjoyed time with family and friends. Rusty and I did and it was a nice break. But it's time to get back to work, so let's have a good week with list-building and Team promotion.

All the best,

Juli Lopez Shelton

TrafficWave - OceanSwell TEAM Update (#7)

Network marketing online takes a real commitment and it can also take a lot out of you! I think that's why so few people have any luck with it. It just takes so long to get anywhere in this business and there's so MUCH to do. I understand the frustrations of some people. In fact, I am well aware that a number of people in my TrafficWave downline are jobless, broke, retired or just desperate to find some way (any way) to earn money online. The truth is that it's much easier to approach Internet Marketing if you already have a job, can easily afford subscription fees and make it a spare-time business. It's much less stressful that way.

But if that's not your situation, then what you need most is help. That's why I have begun a new policy for my OceanSwell Team, starting this month and continuing indefinitely. Roughly ten days before the end of every month, I will choose one of our active promoters to receive a $40.00 cash bonus, paid through AlertPay. Since my Team is smaller than some of the other Teams in the OceanSwell family, you have a good chance now and in the future of receiving this monthly bonus. You can stick the money in your pocket and spend it if you want, but that's not what it's for. The purpose is to purchase one(1) share of Brian Rooney's in-house co-op on the first day of the next month - in this case, on September 1st. A share in the TrafficWave co-op will produce affiliate referrals for you within 30 days. How you contact them and interact with them is up to you. Do it well and you will have productive referrals who can join our promotion Team if they wish! Anyway, this month's recipient of the $40.00 bonus is top promoter, Eliezer Ayal. Congratulations Eliezer!

Like everyone on this Team, I want to see Eliezer use TrafficWave to build & manage his email contact lists and have lasting success with the TrafficWave affiliate program! That's why I'm helping him this way and will be helping someone else in the very same way - every single month, from now on. That's what Team OceanSwell is all about!


Now if you're finding yourself getting stressed-out over your Internet Marketing dreams, here are a few pieces of advice from my own experience:

1) Make it a goal to study one new 'thing' a week for at least two hours, no matter what that thing is - just so long as it has something to do with online promotions. Most online-business stress comes from not knowing what to do. It's that feeling that everybody else knows what to do, but you don't. While not true, you can erase that feeling by increasing your own knowledge. You need fresh ideas, or you will get stuck in a dreary, mental rut.

2) Don't overdo it, because it's so easy to get overwhelmed. There's only so much that any of us can do. If it helps, set an egg-timer or some other alarm to remind you that you've studied enough for one Saturday (or whatever). Avoiding burn-out is one of the keys to success, so take breaks and don't let this take over your life and cause stress with your family. I've seen it happen... personally.

3) Get organized! If your work space feels like an office (i.e. a place of business), you'll feel better about what you're doing and you'll be more focused. If you're surrounded by clutter and noise while trying to do online business, the distractions can be a big problem.

4) Don't procrastinate. Set a schedule and stick to it. Maintaining a routine really helps a lot and one way to do that is to figure out what really motivates you. Then find a picture of it, frame it and hang it on the wall - right over your computer screen, where you can SEE it every time you sit down to work at your online business. With a scheduled routine, you can get more done and still have time for yourself and your family.

5) Automate as much of your online business as possible. That's why the TrafficWave autoresponder is such an indispensable tool. And it goes back to item #1. Continued learning and study (over time) will uncover new ways to market in 'set and forget' patterns that will pay off well into the future.

6) Set realistic goals. This is probably the most important one of all. 'Getting rich in 30 days', is not a realistic goal. Neither is getting rich in a year. If there is one over-arching FACT about Internet Marketing, it's that it takes a long time to establish a significant monthly income. If anyone tells you differently, they are lying. You will lose more sleep (and more hair!) if you believe these people. Be realistic and accept the realities of online business and it will take your stress level way down.


Until next time,

Juli

TrafficWave - OceanSwell TEAM Update (#6)

It's been a long time since I provided an Update here for my TrafficWave Team, but sometimes 'life' gets in the way of our Internet Marketing businesses and July was a very, VERY busy month for me! In fact, because of an ongoing issue with my right foot, I had to take six(6) weeks off from work on the advice from my doctor. It's hard to take care of all the things that you normally do (and have to do!) when you are told not to walk for a month and a half. In my case, it put me a little behind on just about everything. Anyway, though this is the first Team Update in awhile, that doesn't mean things aren't happening!

First, and as always, I want to thank the Team Members for the group advertising effort because it does produce results. The Rotator list continues to advance and if you are on this Team and are promoting Team Ads, then you are moving up the list and you will have your turn in the Rotator 'hot seat'. And starting this month, I am going to do something entirely new to help members of this Team build their matrix-downlines faster. On the last week of every month, I will send $40.00 through AlertPay or PayPal to a random Team Member who is promoting the Team Ad link as required by the rules that we have all agreed on. That $40.00 is for the expressed purpose of buying one(1) share of Brian Rooney's in-house, TrafficWave Ad co-op. They sell 150 a month and they usually sell out the first day, so when you receive this cash from me, you should set it aside and USE it on the first day of the next month to buy your share. A share in the co-op usually results in 3-4 new referrals. Typically, they are people who saw one of Rooney's ads somewhere, were curious and enrolled through the 30-Day Free Trial offer. It will be up to you to contact them and explain how to use the TrafficWave autoresponder in their business and to mention our OceanSwell Team-Build idea.

I don't know of any other Team Leader out there who is doing anything like this - i.e. giving away money to help their Team Members succeed. So that is a NEW, defined benefit for being part of my OceanSwell Team! If you keep learning about email marketing, keep working and keep the faith, I will help you grow your online business and I won't let you fail.

On a final note, the subject of 'personal branding' has recently come up as it relates to my Team Ad link. Some say that the Team Ads that I have designed 'brand' me and not the Team Members who are promoting them. I have said it before and I will say it again. There is a minimum weekly requirement for promoting the ad link that I supply. But there is NOTHING that prevents anyone from designing their own splash pages with their own picture, their own message and their own personal affiliate link for TrafficWave - or even their own AR series, via a squeeze page. In fact, you should think of this Team-Build as a supplement to your own marketing efforts and not the other way around. Yes, promote the Team... but promote yourself as well!

Expect another Update in a week or so when I will announce the recipient of this month's $40.00 promotion bonus!