Finally, get your ads READ!

Email marketing, especially email marketing using safe lists, remains very popular. With the advent of submitters, people are able to reach hundreds of thousands of members with their ads. But with that trend has come something of a backlash: a lot of people not really reading or paying attention to the emails.

Of course, appealing subject lines are useful in grabbing the readers' attention and help coax the reader into opening that email. Setting this aside, there is another very exciting venue that actually ensures your emails are read and that is the SafeAdList. (SAL)

SAL, although similar in look and a vehicle for email-type advertising is NOT a safe list. Members post their ads to an onboard rotator where they are then viewed. This is rather like what happens at a click exchange or surf site. Each time your message is viewed credits are deducted from your account. You gather credits to fuel your ads free by viewing other members' ads or by purchasing or winning (or being rewarded) them.

Since her introduction a couple months ago SAL has grown to 30 + sites and well over 17,000 active members. Find SAL and special offers for memberships at some of the individual sites at the Xtream Forum.

- Cherie Halliday

Cashitz and Surfwiz not paying members

This is a general warning and advisory alert that the following paid-to-surf programs known as http://www.cashitz.net/ and http://www.surfwize.com/ are currently not paying members and in some cases banned members who complained or inquired about payment from their forum. One member in particular is currently owed $700.00 from these two programs. The owner has stopped responding to emails and http://www.cashitz.net/ has been "temporarily" closed. It missed its re open date of Tuesday 7-19-05.

The programs and it's owner are now subject to claims of non-payment and internet fraud and complaints are being filed within the next 48 hours with the payment processor associated with the sites and with reporting agencies which deal with internet fraud. Both exchanges advertise that they "guarantee" members will be paid monthly.

For full details see: http://xtreamsurf.com/XtreamNet/viewtopic.php?p=502#502

All members involved with these programs are advised to document all monies owed them, including screen shots of what is owed, payment receipts to the program owner and any emails relative to this matter and then file their claims with the appropriate payment processor and reporting agencies should the program owner fail to pay you.

These are some of the agencies you should file complaints with:
http://www.ifccfbi.gov/index.asp
http://www.homebasedbusinessreviews.com/reportascam.html

In cases were a program owner is failing to pay the members, it is best to move quickly and establish your claim, especially with the payment processor. Usually members not being paid is a sign the company is in finacial difficulties and maybe planning to disappear off the Net. The fact that Paul has taken http://www.cashitz.net/down and missed the re open date is a red flag the program is in distress.

Establishing your claim early gives the payment processor leverage in securing your money for you. It also establishes a "record" on the program owner which will help prevent that person from simply closing shop on one program only to then open another one and thus perpetuating the cycle of fraud and scam.

- Cherie Halliday
XtreamNet.org

Free 30-day Pro at Marketing Center

XtreamNet Marketing Center is offering free 30-day Pro accounts for new members to give the service a try. Based around a safe list submitter the center features many marketing resources housed on one site.

The auto submitter currently has over 400 active safe lists and 410,000 total members. As the times you can post to each of the safe lists in the auto submitter vary, it is estimated that you will submit at least 820,000 emails over the course of 7 days, or approximately 3,280,000 emails per month.

All accounts receive Pro FFA membership with 500 - 2500 leads daily or approximately 15,000 to 75,000 leads monthly ($5 monthly value), access to Massive FFA blaster submitting to over 50k boards/2 million members, ($5 monthly value), upgraded memberships at the Xtream sites (minimum $30 monthly value), 2 POP3 email accounts ($2 monthly value), plus many more effective resources.

Good commissions paid to members here as well. $3 for the monthly members, $15 commissions for Lifetime memberships. Find the special offer here: http://xtreamsubmitter.safelisthosting.us/