As always, before writing a rant or my opinion about something, I want to clarify things... :) I'm relatively new in the affiliate marketing business and I have no much experience in most common things that are used on #CTP platform, but I'm learning every day little by little...
I wasn't a member of the "old CTP website", I was just a Steemian "lured" into aff. marketing world and signed up to the current version... So, I don't know the history, relations, etc... I heard about traffic exchanges back in the days (+10-15 years) and tried some of them (to get traffic for my Adsense websites, when it was almost legal :) )... But that was it... I didn't promote them, or try to get referrals, etc...
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For the badge hunt concept I heard the first time when @jongolson started "Summer Badge Hunt" (if I remember it right) and I know that, at that moment, I was surprised about the fact that it is such a big thing! As Jon always repeat that building a list is the most important thing, I have decided to buy a few badges and start with building my first list!
So, the CTP Christmas Badge Hunt has started yesterday, and I was excited to be the participant in the hunt, but also the guy who gives badges to others! And, as @gadrian used to say, I'm hooked and I get the bug... :)
As a newbie in this world, I had an advantage in creating my badge tasks as I'm not familiar with common tactics and usual stuff... On the other side, maybe that is a disadvantage, but I like to look at it in a positive way... :)
I have bought 5 badges and created 4 tasks until now, and left the last one for the second week of the badge hunt. The first badge is a simple one... You just have to sign up to my mail list and you will get the badge in the first email... If you decide to stay on the list, I promise you some good stuff for your brain inside the future mails.
The second badge requires more action from members, but still, it's very easy... You just have to make a comment to any of my blog posts here, but with a special message (find out which one inside the badge hunt at ClickTrackProfit)
The third and the forth badges require a bit more action than the first and second... Actually, the third one is easy, you just have to register to a free program... In the last (active) badge I have asked the community to give me some idea about the fifth badge (for the second week of the hunt)... And, as I expected, it gets very little traction... until now... we will see in the next few days how it goes...
So, what was my conclusion from all this? Nothing spectacular, just usual stuff... People tend to work on the badges where they can turn off while doing it (for example, clicking on the little pictures on T-E websites, counting clicks)...
Don't get me wrong, I have done that also, and picked some of those badges... But, I have done it now for the badges, and I do a little every day, while I do other stuff... As I can see, there are people that are doing this every day, and not for half an hour, but for a half a day... That is a lot of time...
I don't want to sound as an egoistic, prepotent jerk, but is it really so profitable to surf every day 1000+ pages at 10-20 traffic exchanges? I mean, is that INVESTED time worth it? Can you maybe do something other instead, and earn more? And, not just EARN, but LEARN something new, grow as a person...
I'm beginning to be famous for my CALLS FOR ACTION in my blog posts... It looks that I like to bother my readers to START CREATING content here on CTPTalk, and STEEM in general... To connect with their readers, to engage with them, to reward them with crypto tokens...
I bet you CAN do it! I bet you can TRY the content creation, and you can grow every day, doing it better and better! It will help a lot in your aff. business as your members/clients/partners will know you better.
It's a time for changes and YOU can lead those changes... Don't be just an observer, be a player!
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