In the past I have heard that instant buzz is an effective way to advertise your website. For those of you who haven't heard of this program; you simply download a toolbar and everytime you surf, 1 line ads are displayed on it. You earn credits when you surf so your ad gets displayed on other peoples computers. I have recently signed up to this and as of yet I haven't had great results. I probably have to wait a while but I was wondering if anyone here was having success with it.
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The problem with anything where you "exchange" visits with webmasters is that you are all looking for your own benefit and aren't really about to care about what any of the other sites have to offer. Unless you are marketing to other webmasters, I wouldn't waste time with something like Instant Buzz or other similar traffic exchange programs. Even if you are marketing to webmasters, there are much better ways to do it.
I used instant buzz for a while. Never really got any results with it, clicks came once in a blue moon. Now I have heard of success with it, because people had giant downlines and thus way more impressions and clicks. But it proved worthless to me so I quit and (after some hard work) uninstalled it from my computer. I don't really trust it's programming, what can I say.
Also could I ask, what percentage of your ad impressions are getting clicks? Please state whether you are a free or paying member because I can see how the features given to paying members can help. But I don't really want to invest into a program that won't be much help to me. I've been running the toolbar for a few days now and my ad has only been clicked on once after being shown 771 times. This isn't exactly great and I was wondering whether its due to how I have written my ad or if this is just a bad marketing method all together. Any advise would be very helpful. Thanks Peter
trust me, the money you spend on the premium membership is much better spent possibly SEOing your site and building backlinks.
I have mixed emotions about Instant Buzz. You can get clicks on instant buzz but it typically is less than 1% CTR. You can get 40,000 bar ads which is the only good way to advertise with them for about $50. When it comes down to it, expect to pay on average .75 to $1 per click. I don't yet what conversion rate I am going to get for my efforts. I do click on the bar ads from time to time, but most, probably all ads are directed towards internet marketers. I haven't tried to advertise something outside of that realm. I can not stand their Senior Moderator. It seems that his method to blocking posts follows this idea. If the poster disagrees with me, I block his post. If the poster is argumentative, I block his post. If the poster doesn't agree with what I am saying I block his post. Basically their forum is more or less an advertising platform for their Sr. Moderator. I can't say that I would recommend IB to everyone. I still use it mainly because I want to get my money's worth out of the service. Their software is very, very, very buggy. It will not work with Vista at all. With XP it intermittently works. If you have a good anti virus or anti spyware program it could cause problems with the toolbar. It has a tendency to lock up your browser and/or computer. It is not a good service for someone with no downline. If you want to pay for advertising and you are advertising internet marketing, then I say go for it. Spend the $97 for the pro version. It will allow you to use color for your bar ads. The free version does not. They have terrible customer service so be prepared for that. I may modify this post in the future with more information, but that is the jist of what you are getting with Instant Buzz. One thing to note... their sales copy has some singer on their talking how she was getting about 6% CTR on her ads. Don't believe that BS. One major flaw in their software is if you go to a site like hotmail or any decent site that loads a lot of content, then it will load a bar ad very, very briefly... that ad will disappear... and then the final ad will appear that a user may look at. The ad that disappears could be counted toward the impressions you pay for if you buy ads. I am not certain about that, but I am guessing that is probably what happens. Also if you see advertising for ListDotCom.com don't buy that either. It is basically sending out a Text based email that looks like it is from ListDotCom and not from you. It is another service similar to Instant Buzz but for email and works the same way minus the toolbar. I would have to say in conclusion if you can avoid anything by Mike Filsaime, I would avoid it. I just haven't been pleased with his products. I am not saying they are 100% terrible, but they are way overpriced. If you have any specific questions about his services feel free to PM your questions/concerns to me. Hope this review is able to help people make a better decision about Instant Buzz.
Yes, I am one of those with a giant downline...15,000+...my ads get displayed over 200,000 times every day on the IB toolbar. Thanks to Instant Buzz I get Paypal payments and earn Clickbank commissions almost every day.
Hey Fabian, I entered my email on your site but the next page did not give me a download link for the free report you promised. The page contained some paid reports.... Where is the promised FREE stuff? I am quite upset at this point and if I will not get the promised report but will be receiving emails from you, I will file a spam complaint. Sorry.