It looks rather like a Safelist: but IT IS NOT in the traditional sense of the word! So, if you see Safelist and immediately think: "bizillions of ads in my mailbox!" you can rest easy. No bizillions of emails, no bouncing email, no over-full mail boxes, none of the bad stuff usually associated with traditional lists. Nor is it a message board, an FFA post, or a traditional safelist script. It does have the ease and advantages of a safelist without some of disadvantages, chief being you do not have to have a huge mailbox to deal with all the usual mail you get with a traditional safelist.
It is credit based. You earn credits by reading mail. You send out your mail using your credits, with a twist: you get points deducted ONLY when someone reads your ad. They do this online in their members area. Readers receive points for READING the ads, which they then use to post THEIR OWN ADS. So, no need for huge mailboxes, no bouncing mail, and etc. because it is all done within the confines of your member's area.
Readers can "opt-in" to receive solo ads from Admin, or point mail. You can also "opt-out"! So, you never have to get an email in your box if you do not want them. Also, as you read the ad, if you want, you can email it to yourself for future reference. Or not!
You can join as a free member here:
http://www.impressions-hosting.com/Safelistads/index.php?referid=xts2005
Once inside the list, you will see a side menu similar to the one's found on most safelists. From there you can edit your account, upgrade, check your stats, send an ad, read ads and etc. It is very easy and user friendly.
It does not stop there! You can become an owner/admin of a script for a very reasonable charge! http://www.impressions-hosting.com/safeadlist/
This new concept has been developed by a very safelist savvy business woman and enteprenuer, Debra Challinor, author of "Safelist Warrior, Inside Safelist Secrets Revealed." http://safelistsinsider.poolofwisdom.com/safelistsinsider.htm?hop=xtreamsurf.peterlim
She also provides superior member support at all her sites which include (but are not limited to: http://www.fastadsubmitter.com/g.php?r=10 , http://www.postadsubmitter.com/g.php?r=70 , http://www.youraff.com/thevalidator/stetje.cgi?45 , http://www.impressions-hosting.com/ffa/p.cgi?xts2004/index.html , and http//www.fas2004@just4uu.com
Monday, March 07, 2005
Traffic Exchanges: Part 3b, editing text and banner ads
In TE Part 3 we discussed entering your text and banner ads into the surf at XtreamSurf. Once loaded you will want to check on them for stats, credits balance, and occasionally to edit or change. To accomplish this, log onto your account. Look at the far left hand side in your member's area. You will see a link to "edit your banner and text ads."
Click on this link. There you will see your banner and text ads, whether they are "live" or not, click through stats, times shown and credit balance. You can also see how your banner looks. If it is showing, great. If there is a big blank space there, you know you have a "problem Mission Control." Usual problem is you entered the banner url in the incorrect place. You can click on "edit" to remedy.
Once your banner runs out of credits you can either purchase more credits, or, contact admin to move some of your member credits over to your banner. Some scripts allow you to do this yourself, this script needs admin to do it for you. Just contact us and we will do so for you asap.
by: Cherie Halliday
http://www.xtreamsurf.com
Click on this link. There you will see your banner and text ads, whether they are "live" or not, click through stats, times shown and credit balance. You can also see how your banner looks. If it is showing, great. If there is a big blank space there, you know you have a "problem Mission Control." Usual problem is you entered the banner url in the incorrect place. You can click on "edit" to remedy.
Once your banner runs out of credits you can either purchase more credits, or, contact admin to move some of your member credits over to your banner. Some scripts allow you to do this yourself, this script needs admin to do it for you. Just contact us and we will do so for you asap.
by: Cherie Halliday
http://www.xtreamsurf.com
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
To be “Free” or “Not to be Free”…ya, that IS the burning question!
Ok. Lots of screaming headlines and sites out there: “FREE!” Join this free, that free, this gives your free stuff, that free this and something else free whatever. Except, when you join (free), hello! You find out that is isn’t. I joined one tonight that just stepped on my last poor frazzled nerve, hence this post.
My pet peeves:
“Free information!”…then they send you a bunch of sales literature. Like, yeah, that is supposed to be free. This goes for so-called e-books which are nothing more than e-book-a-sized sales brochures.
“Free to join!”… then you find out you have to pay something to get any real value from the site! That is NOT free thank you anyway.
“Free Advertising”…only to discover you have to invest a jillion hours or your entire lifetime performing tasks at their site to get any of that free advertising. Time is money you know. (Most of them then offer paid packages…lol, now, this is NOT free.) This is what I joined tonight. Loads of promises that looked really good only to find I will have to devote my entire waking existence to working this site to actually benefit from it! (Unless someone figures out how to do this while sleeping…really and truly.)
“Free Trial Offer”…only to discover that the time period is ridiculously short like 3 days, 7 days and etc. IT TAKES A MINIMUM OF 30 DAYS TO SEE RESULTS in any kind of promotional campaign. Trust me in this one. I have had my first site http://www.xtreamsurf.com/ online and aggressively marketing it since 7/04. I am really just now seeing the fruits of all that campaigning. People are just know saying “XtreamSurf? Yeah, I heard of that.” (or me, Cherie Halliday…lol.) One of my favorite sites that truly offers a free 30-day trial is at FastAds Submitter:
http://www.fastadsubmitter.com/g.php?r=10 . You get 30 days to try it out. You like, you keep. Not, leave. Doesn’t get any simpler than that.
You get my drift. There is “free” and then there is really free. If something toted as being free ends up requiring you either spend loads of your time to achieve or pay money to get, it is not free.
Why do sites even bother offering free anyway? Simple: to get you to join and try the product. You try, you like, it works, you then want more, you buy. Cool. I am with that all the way. I do exactly the same thing on my free traffic sites! People join free, get lots of credits to run their sites to try it out. They like they stay, maybe purchase something (this helps pay all the “stay-in-business” bills for sure), everyone gets something from the initial “free” offer.
So, there is “free” and then there is actually free. How do you tell the difference? This is fairly common sense thinking. A site which makes you spend an inordinate amount of time performing tasks to build up credits is not free. A site which gives you upfront credits to advertise is free. A site which once you join “free” then requires a payment to benefit from the program: not free. A site that is “free” and delivers the initial goods free, is.
Bottom line: look, read, analyze. Ask yourself: “Does this site deliver?” Depending on the answer you stay or flee. (also called “voting with your feet.”)
By: Cherie Halliday
http://www.xtreamsurf.com/
My pet peeves:
“Free information!”…then they send you a bunch of sales literature. Like, yeah, that is supposed to be free. This goes for so-called e-books which are nothing more than e-book-a-sized sales brochures.
“Free to join!”… then you find out you have to pay something to get any real value from the site! That is NOT free thank you anyway.
“Free Advertising”…only to discover you have to invest a jillion hours or your entire lifetime performing tasks at their site to get any of that free advertising. Time is money you know. (Most of them then offer paid packages…lol, now, this is NOT free.) This is what I joined tonight. Loads of promises that looked really good only to find I will have to devote my entire waking existence to working this site to actually benefit from it! (Unless someone figures out how to do this while sleeping…really and truly.)
“Free Trial Offer”…only to discover that the time period is ridiculously short like 3 days, 7 days and etc. IT TAKES A MINIMUM OF 30 DAYS TO SEE RESULTS in any kind of promotional campaign. Trust me in this one. I have had my first site http://www.xtreamsurf.com/ online and aggressively marketing it since 7/04. I am really just now seeing the fruits of all that campaigning. People are just know saying “XtreamSurf? Yeah, I heard of that.” (or me, Cherie Halliday…lol.) One of my favorite sites that truly offers a free 30-day trial is at FastAds Submitter:
http://www.fastadsubmitter.com/g.php?r=10 . You get 30 days to try it out. You like, you keep. Not, leave. Doesn’t get any simpler than that.
You get my drift. There is “free” and then there is really free. If something toted as being free ends up requiring you either spend loads of your time to achieve or pay money to get, it is not free.
Why do sites even bother offering free anyway? Simple: to get you to join and try the product. You try, you like, it works, you then want more, you buy. Cool. I am with that all the way. I do exactly the same thing on my free traffic sites! People join free, get lots of credits to run their sites to try it out. They like they stay, maybe purchase something (this helps pay all the “stay-in-business” bills for sure), everyone gets something from the initial “free” offer.
So, there is “free” and then there is actually free. How do you tell the difference? This is fairly common sense thinking. A site which makes you spend an inordinate amount of time performing tasks to build up credits is not free. A site which gives you upfront credits to advertise is free. A site which once you join “free” then requires a payment to benefit from the program: not free. A site that is “free” and delivers the initial goods free, is.
Bottom line: look, read, analyze. Ask yourself: “Does this site deliver?” Depending on the answer you stay or flee. (also called “voting with your feet.”)
By: Cherie Halliday
http://www.xtreamsurf.com/
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