Newsletter | Volume VI, Issue Only : Free Traffic Tips

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WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE

FAREWELL Message
FAREWELL Parting-Gifts
FAREWELL Contests
FEATURED Blog Posts
FIND TINU ONLINE

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Tinu’s FAREWELL Message
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Hi there ,

Yes, the rumors are true. This is the very last Zero Traffic Ezine.

It’s been great having you with us, but I’m retiring from internet
marketing and website promotion consulting.

What the heck does that mean? Tune into the blog tomorrow and
you’ll get all the dirty details. You can also get a sneak peek now
by checking out the link to current blog posts marked
“RCD” below and in the site tomorrow.

You know me, I turn *everything* into an event, so there’s freebies
throughout the newsletter and the site, culminating in one SUPER
FREEBIE in the next section below. To stay with us, do nothing.

To leave us or change email addresses, use the link at the end of
the email version of this newsletter.

So what happens with the Zero Cost Ezine? It’s dead forever. BUT …

September 1st marks the very first issue of the Zero Gridlock daily,
a private email list with a daily traffic tip and links to what’s
new around the web. I will be a periodic editor.

So let’s get on with the zero cost part of the ezine, shall we?

Enjoy!

Tinu

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FAREWELL Parting-Gifts
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Zero Cost Gift #1- This is the SUPER one.

Get never-pay-a-penny lifetime access to our first invite-only
web site promotion membership group. There are four steps.

1- Join Facebook – it’s free.
http://facebook.com

2- Joining my Open for Web Business facebook group – also no charge
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6642181245

3- Send an email to iwantin@leveragingsolutions.com .

The message can simply say “OWB” or it should mention Open for Web Business in some way. And yes, we *are* going to check if you’ve joined the group.

In that message also leave the email address where you want your membership invitation sent. This is VERY important, if you leave it out, my assistant can’t add you, as Ning will only let us send invites one at a time. It’s *really* important for speed’s sake that you put your email address in the BODY of the email.

The address to the site is going to be http://members.leveragedpromotion.com – as you can see the site is already up and waiting for you.

4- Wait for your invitation email. It may be a day, it may be a week, depending on how many people respond. Please be patient.

*** I will NEVER see these messages ***

Someone will, but it won’t be me, and she is instructed to disregard ANY message in those emails. Please be nice to this lady. She’s a volunteer and she is going to do every single email invite manually, a process that could take DAYS if even half of the 20k+ people to see this decide to sign up.

So if you have something to say directly to me, PLEASE use the methods at the end of the ezine.

*** I will NEVER see these messages. ***

Please don’t send them to that address, I’ll never see them. I’m open to talk to anyone, even if you’re mad at me. Just be courteous and use the proper channels.

Zero Cost Gift #2 - Secret Feed-Only Bonus

Free Traffic Tips is NOT going away. In fact, retiring will give me the opportunity to blog more, not less. Morgan and Cindy will be around more too – and if you pay attention, so can you. Follow the blog next week to get your chance to be a guest star on the site.

FTT is evolving, not disappearing. But the emphasis will be a lot less on me and a lot more on you. You have to read the blog for details, as this will NOT be in the new ezine.

For a bonus gift subscribe to Free Traffic Tips via RSS. To do so, go to this address in your browser:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeTrafficTips

This will take you to our feed page (or, if you have a Google account, a page inviting you to add us to your Google home page or Google reader.)

If you use Yahoo, AOL, Google or MSN, there are free, easy buttons that will help you subscribe. I personally suggest using Google Reader. When you click “Add to Google” button, you’ll see an option for adding us.

Sometime in the next week, you’ll see a note that comes up in your reader but not on the site that says “Members-Only Bonus”. You’ll need the password “heavyduty” to download the bonus.

Zero Cost Gift #3 – Free Chance to Speak to Me Live

Read about My Last Public Live Interview | RCD #6
http://freetraffictip.com/my-last-public-live-interview-rcd-6.php

You’ll get all the details here.

That brings us to the blog update. If for some reason, these links aren’t live in your email, please click through to the online version. Sorry, I’m pressed for time and couldn’t manage to hook it up here tonight.

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FAREWELL Contests
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To enter ANY of these contests, you’ll need to be a frequent reader of
the blog, today or next week. You can visit us online at
http://www.freetraffictip.com .

Farewell Contest One

One of the things we’re going to do with Free Traffic Tips is make it into a resource where anyone can contribute traffic-related information in a special section that can link back to your site.

To promote the site, we’re having a contest to see who can contribute the most visited entry, and our favorite review of the new Free Traffic Tips site. Prizes for BOTH are $100 CASH and 100 StumbleUpon visitors.

Look for the update to the blog next week.

Farewell Contest Two

We’re also going to start tacking guest bloggers. To become a guest
blogger for the site, look for the notice about it on Free Traffic
Tips before 11:08 pm blog time today (that’s Pacific), and follow the rules.

The best entry will win a PERMANENT guest blogger spot on Free Traffic
Tips. Read the blog today to find out more.

Farewell Contest Three

This one you can enter by replying to this post online here:
http://freetraffictip.com/the-real-final-issue-of-the-zero-cost-ezine-is-not-online-because.php .

Tell us using the form at the bottom of the page, what you loved the most about the Zero Cost Traffic Ezine, how http://freetraffictip.com has helped you, or the expert you’d most like to see us interview.

EVERY approved entry will get a permanent link from us, posted along with your
comment on the long-promised testimonials page that will go up the same
day as the new version of the site.

The best, 8th, and 88th comment will also win $100 in cash. Comments are
moderated, so you won’t know what number you are if you don’t respond.

There are more contests upcoming. Stay tuned into the blog *every day* for
the rest of August. The best way is to be subscribed via RSS so you know
right away when we publish. You can subscribe at –

http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreeTrafficTips

- there’s even an email option if you prefer.

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FEATURED BLOG POSTS
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You can read more about what’s been going since I last sent a newsletter, eons ago, below.

My New Pal Mark Joyner is either Just Crazy or…
http://freetraffictip.com/mark-joyner-integrated-marketing.php

Is Blogging Dead? | RCD #7
http://freetraffictip.com/is-blogging-dead-rcd-7.php

Me, Marlon Sanders, and the First of My Last 3 Products – The Evergreen Traffic Guide
http://freetraffictip.com/today-its-my-thanks-that-are-evergreen.php

Five and a Half Ways to Lose Followers and Irritate Your Tweeps (Contains Naughty Language)
http://freetraffictip.com/five-and-a-half-ways-to-lose-followers-and-irritate-your-tweeps-contains-naughty-language.php

ToolTime Fridays 080808
http://freetraffictip.com/2008/08/08

ToolTime Fridays 080108
http://freetraffictip.com/2008/08/01

I Hope You Learned These Two Things From Me | Retirement Count Down #8
http://freetraffictip.com/these-two-thing-from-me-retirement-count-down.php

Yahoo Directory News : How to Get Fast Answers on Pending Submissions
http://freetraffictip.com/yahoo-directory-news-how-to-get-fast-answers-on-pending-submissions.php

I Wasn’t Going to Write About It But … — Protected – password is “johnreese”.
http://freetraffictip.com/i-wasnt-going-to-write-about-it-but.php

Why Twitter Spammers Are Stupid
http://freetraffictip.com/why-twitter-spammers-are-stupid.php

Traffic Method #5 – Make Your Messages Virally Memorable
http://freetraffictip.com/traffic-method-5-make-your-messages-virally-memorable.php

I’m in A Book!
http://freetraffictip.com/237-folks-show-you-how-to-navigate-the-conversational-age-all-for-a-good-cause.php

Social Media, Ego Boundaries and (a little) Revolver
http://freetraffictip.com/social-media-ego-boundries.php

How to Get Traffic (and Wealth) by Creating Need
http://freetraffictip.com/how-to-get-wealthy-by-creating-need.php

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Tinu’s FAREWELL Message
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Hey Everyone,

I’m really retiring, and yes, I’m really serious. I have had these
health problems for some time and they’re catching up with me. The only
way I can continue to give free tips is if I make my daily bread doing
something a lot less stressful.

Some friends of mine are helping me raise some buffer funds to keep me
going when I’m sick – the first one you’ve seen if you saw the “Evergreen
Traffic” promotion Marlon Sanders did with me. There are two more upcoming and they’re the last full products I’ll ever do online.

I’ll still share mini-products, maybe even resale/plr rights, but only in the member sites, not in public anymore. I can’t keep up with promoting, and the staff I’m about to have will be focused on other things. Which brings me to the next point.

Never will you see an offer for me to do consulting again.

I may start a consulting firm, and train people you can work with, but personally,
it just takes too much out of me. I’m referring all my clients to other
people except for two folks. One of them offered me an absolute dream
opportunity that is changing my life.

I can’t talk about it (NDA), but if it keeps working out the way it is, I just
might have the chance to change the world for the better in a big way.

I’m leaving the services page up for now because I promised a couple of people I’d help them out, but once those pages are down, they are gone forever.

Some friends of mine are helping me raise some buffer funds to keep me
going when I’m sick – the first one you’ve seen if you saw the “Evergreen
Traffic” promotion Marlon Sanders did with me. There are 3 more upcoming over the next few months, and they’re the last full products I’ll ever do online.

That’s it. Then I’m done.

So there’s no Jordan-like come back in my future, nothing like that. BUT -

You don’t have to say goodbye to my tips forever. They’re just going
behind private, closed doors. I will post in the blog from time to time,
and I’m opening or restarting several others on various topics.

Plus, I’m starting 3 membership sites.

One is the free invite-only site I told you about above, that you can gain access to now. Another is going to be a $7 a month traffic organizer – if you’re following my tips, I see that you probably know WHAT to do. The question I hear most is “but WHEN do I do it?” If you want to know in what order to do things, and what to do to get continuous free and low cost traffic in a short tips email, send a blank email message to zerogridlock@aweber.com and I’ll let you know when we open.

The third site is a dream I’ve had for a while, and I’m not even sure if I can pull it off right away. I have about 400 marketing, search and traffic contacts I’ve made over the last few years that are at the top of their game. I’ve alway wanted to sit down and interview them all and then give a certain group access to that information.

I’m hoping being “retired” will help me make that happen. This is the BIG
members-only site I have been talking about for a year and some change. If you want to know when it opens send a blank email to interviews@aweber.com to be put on the notification list.

It’s truly been a joy these past six years, working with you and getting to know you better. I hope we’ll have more time to socialize. And if we have unfinished business of any kind, feel free to **privately* and *politely* remind me of it using any of the channels below.

We did our best to make sure everything is wrapped up, but we’re not perfect, I’m sure there’s a few things we forgot. If our business together is currently pending, please realize we have a long line of people and we’re doing what we can with our currently limited resources, once you get a response, please just be patient. We will have everyone’s projects, etc squared away by the end of the month, and everything else by the end of the year.

I’m particularly open to those of you who just want to continue our friendship or are curious about all the non-website-promotion stuff I’ll be doing. I have tons of blogs and I’m about to have tons of time too. I’ll always love having new friends, readers, people to link to, or to otherwise promote.

Thank you so much for this time we’ve had together. I’ll miss you and hopefully, this isn’t goodbye, it’s see you around the web.

Thanks again,

Tinu

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