Monday, May 16, 2005

The Glory of "Free"

Ok, I admit it...I have a thing about "free". I like free. I like free sites, resources and etc. When they are actually free. Don't taunt me with "free" sign up and then tell me that to get any benefit from the site or program I have to pay. That is not free. That is hype, hoyie and nonsense. Give me free. Let me try it out, promote and etc. THEN if I like it, find value, yeah - I will upgrade or buy or purchase something. I have no problem with that at all.

I like free so much I have a number of free sites. My flagship and particular favorite of the free sites is http://www.xtreamsurf.com. Lots of free stuff here. Free to join, free 15k credits to get you going. Hey, I give away free upgrades every week through the surf contests! Free upgrades via the referral contests. Right now, refer a new member, you get a free upgrade to rotation. Free.

I pay for everything: hosting (a whopping $115 per month JUST FOR THE FREE TRAFFIC SITES!!) not to mention my time, my partners' time, advertising, promotions and etc. All free to members in exchange for what?

The rub here. The annoying greivance that some of the "free" members decide to gripe upon: I get to email you. Yep. That is the big exchange here for free. I, as the owner/admin, am able to send you email (which you agreed upon when joining my sites for free.) I do my best to keep it relevant, but the bottomline is pretty simple: I support my "free habit" sites from sign ups to my affiliate sites, my paying endorsement sites, my other actual "paid" resource sites.

Occasionally a member actually pays for an upgrade or banner or text ads or the pay per clicks. For this I am most grateful. But the majority of the income which actually supports the "free" comes from elsewhere. And, "elsewhere" is what I add to each email to the members. I love free, and love my free members as well. Help me keep the "free" exchange sites that way by:

1. purchasing an upgrade, or items now and then
2. reading admin email
3. joining one of our "paid" marketing sites like http://xtreamsubmit.msnethosting.com or
http://xtreamffa.msnethosting.com
4. buy one of our "no bounce" email boxes at http://www.just4uu.com/XtreamNet/index.html
5. become an affiliate and sell our "no bounce" email boxes at
http://www.just4uu.com/XtreamNet/cgi-bin/affiliates/a-6

Oh yeah, and don't write to me complaining that you are annoyed by receiving admin emails. Just delete your FREE account and be done with it....lol

- cherie halliday
http://www.xtreamsurf.com

Friday, May 13, 2005

The First Ever Guaranteed Paid to Surf Program just Launched

XtreamSurf has just launched the first ever GUARANTEED paid to surf site ever, on the internet.We are guaranteeing a profit from joining and paying for a membership. This is a 100% guarantee that is good as long as the member surfs the required 100 sites each day for at least 134 days.
(PRWEB) May 11, 2005 -- Xtream Net has just opened a new site. We offer a way to earn an income and at the same time, advertise any products or services that you wish.
Sites like this have been around for a while, but XtreamNet is the First Company to guarantee your money.
You can place your website(s), (up to 10 of them) in a rotator along with those of the other members of the program.
Your website(s) will be viewed (along with those of the other members) by every member who is surfing.
This is a credit based system. This means that you will earn credits for viewing the sites of other members as they are being rotated.
You will not ever see your own website there because the system is set up to avoid you wasting your own credits by viewing your own site.
This program offers the choice of auto-surfing or manual surfing.
To earn from this program you only have to surf 100 sites a day and will earn the maximum amount possible for that day.
You cannot be paid for surfing more than 100 sites each day but you may surf for additional credits to show your site(s) to other members as they surf.
This program will pay you for surfing each day 0.75% of your membership level.
The cost to join at the basic level is just $10.00 and the membership that you are purchasing will not expire for a full year (365 days).
After you once join at the basic level, you may upgrade your level up to $999.99.
You will be paid the same 0.75% for any level of membership you wish to purchase.
The membership fees are not refundable, however if you surf 100 sites each day for a year, you will find that you have made a tidy profit, especially at the higher levels of membership.
Even the basic membership puts you in profit after 134 days as do all the levels of membership.
The other 231 days of the year that are left are pure profits for you while advertising your own offers at the same time.
You actually earn for advertising your site(s) and the higher your membership level is, the more you will earn.
You may request to be paid as soon as you have earned back the amount of your member level.
You also have the option of increasing your member level with your earnings by requesting to compound them when you have reached the same amount of your membership level. In summary, this seems to be one of the best ways to earn and advertise available anywhere on the net today.
Visit http://www.powerpaysurf.com/ to register.
Complete the payment form to activate your account.
Paypal, Stormpay and E-Gold are accepted at this time as ways to pay for your membership.
This is the only guaranteed paid to surf program on the internet.
We are guaranteeing a profit, whatever level of membership you decide to join at.
This is a 100% guarantee that is good as long as the member surf! s the required 100 sites each day for at least 134 days.

respectfully,

Ken Belz
Admin. PowerPaySurf

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

What goes on behind the scenes at your safe list and your mailbox:

You are an on-line marketer promoting various sites and offers. One of your primary advertising venues is most likely via safe lists. Most serious and/or professional on-line marketer will belong to at least one (sometimes more) safe list “submitters”. Submitters are sites and programs which send your email ads to usually hundreds of subscribed lists. So, you belong to a submitter, you send your ads, keep your email boxes clean, and everything works well, right?

Not always. Behind the scenes, behind your control are several processes occurring. Members of safe lists and submitters send email constantly. So, your emailbox must be able to withstand the load of all that email incoming into your box. Most importantly: your EMAIL BOX PROVIDER/SERVER/HOST must be able to withstand ALL THAT MAIL COMING INTO ALL THEIR MEMBERS EMAIL BOXES!

Therein lays a huge problem. What you end up with “behind the scenes” is email that bounces due to server issues: overload, downtime, and etc. This of course, while beyond your control, directly affects you as your email bounces, safe lists then put your account on hold due to vacation/bounce, which prevents you from being able to submit to the lists, which sometimes even results in your account being deleted by the admin/owners. Sometimes, you are not even aware that all this is happening…until it is too late.

Worse, there is little YOU can do about this: until now. Just4uu.com and XtreamNet.org have joined forces to provide the first ever “bounce free” POP3 AND SMTP mail server on the Net. http://www.just4uu.com/XtreamNet/index.html
now provides industrial strength mailboxes at extremely affordable and competive prices in which the server “guarantees” mail will NOT BOUNCE do to server failure, downtime, unavailability and other reasons that plague most commercial mailbox providers.
How can they make such a guarantee? Simple. They had a server especially designed and built to ensure no down time occurs on the server’s end. THEIR host and designer GUARANTEES the service to them.

No one else providing commercial mailboxes at this time has this guarantee. Too make their service really attractive, http://www.just4uu.com/XtreamNet/index.html has some of the most affordable and competitive prices on the Net when it comes to POP3 and SMTP mailboxes. These are the types of the mailboxes you must have these days for your safe list accounts, and especially for the safe list submitters!

Submitter software such as mailbox cleaners and the Validators do not work on anything other than POP3 and SMTP type mail services. This leaves you high and dry with your yahoo and gmail accounts. Also, many safe lists no longer accept the “web based” email services such as aol, msn, hotmail, netscape and etc. Gmail, while an awesome “bottomless pit” when it comes to email, does not work with the onboard submitter software and is therefore not a good choice for your Safe list Submitter accounts.

http://www.just4uu.com/XtreamNet/index.html solves these problems for you affordably and “behind the scenes” so YOU can get on with what you need to get on with: Your online marketing!

(about the company just4uu.com: founded by Debra Challinor of Postads, Fastads, THE VALIDATOR, SafeAdList and “Safelist Warrior Group”. Entered into partnership with Cherie Halliday and Ken Belz of XtreamNet.org and XtreamSurf (flagship of their 5 traffic exchanges, 4 safelists, Marketing Center, XtreamFFA, and other marketing venues) May 2005. All three are professional internet entrepreneurs and business owners. The main contact for Debra is webmaster@just4uu.com. Cherie or Ken can be reached at their main email address: admin@xtreamnet.org or admin@xtreamsurf.com)

Monday, May 09, 2005

Ready for some "Serious Marketing/"

Need marketing? Confused? Don't know where to start? Or....maybe you THOUGHT you did and it did not work out. Sound familiar? Sound like YOU!?

Been there, done that, been confused. So, I started my own company and sites. Got knocked down a lot. Had lots of help getting back up, dusting myself off, and forging ahead. The basic concerns and priorities I have found are:
1. Price
2. Dependability
3. Support

1. I don't care, nor does anyone else HOW great your product or service is....if I cannot afford it, it does me (or the provider) any good. So, price is a real consideration. This is one of the things I took a "hard look see" at Xtream Marketing Center. The point is and will always be to make the most basic (Pro) membership very affordable while making the upgraded accounts: Executive and Premium reasonable and competive. Lots of great value on the site, and worthy of you at least looking at. Among the "values" you receive are 2 POP3 mailboxes (valued at a minimum of $15.00 monthly.) The UNLIMITED validations at both contact and list emails are actually priceless. How many times will you actually USE this feature? Answer: a lot.

2. No matter what the price, if the site does not deliver, it is not worth the price! This includes "free" sites. We have Xtream Marketing Center up on one of the best, most dependable script and host on the market today. We are in partnership with http://www.just4uu.com and Debra Challinor who supplies the mailboxes. Our host, John Harvey, provides the Massive FFA submitter; our main FFA page which supplies an average of 2,000 daily leads comes from Massive and John as well. We have genuine, real people helping us deliver genuine, real products to you!

3. Then, no matter price or dependability, all depends on one thing: CUSTOMER SERVICE. You can have the BEST product in the entire universe; it is useless without support and service. You can have the BEST price in the entire universe; it is useless without support and service. This is what we strive for at Xtream Marketing Center: superior customer service.

Give us a try. Less than $8.00 through May 2005 gives you:
2 POP3 email accounts
Add 2 Banners to Rotator
2000 FREE Banner Impressions
5 Mailbox Cleaner
Track 10 URLs
Save 5 Messages
Auto-resend message selected 10 times
You will receive a Submission Report every 24 hours
Forum resources
Daily Leads
Earn $1.00 - $3.00 recurring monthly commissions and $15.00 per Premium recruit.

We have been there, done that, learned and now want to serve YOU. Join us now! No, this is not a lot of hype and hooyie. I started my first traffic site http://www.xtreamsurf.com 7-4-04. Three more quickly followed. Then came the safelists. Lots up ups and downs ensused. Then the submitter, FFA sites and etc. Joined lots of stuff trying to promote my business and sites. Been there for a LOT OF CRASHES! Sites disappearing as suddenly as they appear.

Not us. Not Xtream Marketing or any of the XtreamSurf sites: especially now that we have launched PowerPaySurf and are in partnership with http://www.just4uu.com. We have way too much going on and at stake to risk "disappearing" on you. Each site interlocks with the other. This means OUR word matters, as does each of you joining and participating in our Xtream Sites.

Still Need marketing? Confused? Don't know where to start? Start with us at Xtream Marketing

- Cherie Halliday
admin@xtreamsurf.com

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Email Marketing, Part 3:

FFA posts and daily leads. FFA boards have been around since the late -90s and, although perhaps not as much in favor as they once were, remain good, viable marketing options for a number of reasons.

First of all, they are rather like your classified ad section in your local newspaper. While very few people actually read every single word or ad, a whole lot of people at least scan them. (If nothing else they scan their own ad/s to make sure they are in there and correct.) So, if someone is looking for something very specific, they are going to at least read a particular section of the classified ad pages.

FFAs are no different in that respect. People post their own sites and ads and then at least scan the site to make sure their own particular ad is running. FFAs are also great places to ‘link” your site to as well! They provide a means for “getting the word” out on your site and provide “name recognition” in this respect. Now, lots of people will tell you otherwise and try to convince you that FFA boards are dead: these are also the same people trying to SELL YOU SOMETHING ELSE.

So, my opinion on FFA boards in general is: use them. Also, understand that you get return email in exchange for posting your free ad. Do not post to an FFA board and then get bent out of shape because you receive email. This is the point of the boards: you pay nothing but receive email in exchange for the free post.

Who is sending you these emails? The owners and Pro members of the specific boards. All boards are hooked up to a larger “FFA Board Network”. When you post an ad, you must leave an email address. The owners and paid members of the specific boards are then allowed to email you one time with their own email ad. The ads must comply within certain guidelines and will all come with a “non spam statement.” Your email address is considered a “daily lead” and is valuable as such.

Are ‘daily leads” worthwhile? In my opinion, absolutely yes. I cannot begin to tell you the things I have picked up, sites I have joined and resources I have gathered via emails from FFA posts! I have found some incredibly awesome items through this type of email marketing. Like anything else, you have to wade through a lot of “garbage”, but, what is garbage to me is an incredible find for someone else. As in my regular safe list email, I scan subject lines. Something interests me enough to open an email, I quickly scan the first line or two. The entire process may take a couple seconds of my time. I make a decision, delete, keep and move on.

There are many good FFA boards and resources on the net. One of my favorites remains Massive FFA for a number of reasons, but chief is the outstanding member support the network receives from the chief architect, John Harvey. That is the link to the individual board. He also provides the Massive FFA network which is provided though Xteamnet Marketing Center .

John runs a great service that focuses on superior member support. When you get down to it, that is all that really separates the ok boards from the outstanding ones. So when you are looking for a good FFA submitter, you will find it at http://xtreamsubmitter.safelisthosting.us/ .
- Cherie Halliday
http://xtreamsubmitter.safelisthosting.us/

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Email Marketing, Part 2

Email Marketing Centers:

One of the most effective and proven methods for online marketing remain Email marketing, and that usually means a “submitter” of some type. Submitters basically “submit” your ads to lists. Some are the kind you “download” onto your computer, then load your lists and “submit” your ads to. There are some good ones out there, but these, for the most part are not accepted by a lot of safelists.

The other type of submitter are commercial “submitters” in which the owner rents or leases hundreds of lists (or many will allow the submitter for free in order to build membership.) for members to “submit” their email ads to. These type usually require a “pop3” mailbox or two, validations of emails, and are rather complicated programs.

Like anything else, there are “good ones” and then there are the “bad ones.” The good ones have features like auto join, auto validate, auto send, mailbox cleaners, banner features and etc. Other options submitters are now offering are what is usually called “value add-ons” and can range from free use of adblasters to daily leads from FFA boards.

There are many arguments raging on the effectiveness of automated submitters, but the truth remains that email marketing is and will remain a booming big business. The best “submitters” embrace this fact and then do their best to meet an ever changing playing field. Xtream Submitter is one that is molding itself to the market and the demands of individual members.

Rather than just relying on being a “submitter”, Xtream Email Center is transforming itself into a virtual “email” marketing center. If it involves email marketing in anyway, Xtream is adding it to the center. So, you have the traditional submitter with hundreds of lists but with THE VALIDATOR that validates both contact and list emails. It also has the “blast-o-matic v5.15” which blasts to over 2600 double “opt-in” lists without the need for validations. It has over 40 “adblasters” now, the Massive FFA submitter and sources from two daily lead providers.

It also features a SafeAdList center listing a number of these newest innovations in email marketing. Links are provided in the member’s area so you can join and then log onto these sites. SAL is unique in that you do not need the large email boxes for the sites. Emails are posted and read from each individual site, making SAL very intimate email marketing and is the creation of Debra Challinor (see previous posts regarding SAL.) The main site for SAL is: http://www.impressions-hosting.com/safeadlist/ She also is the provider for Mr V, http://www.youraff.com/thevalidator/stetje.cgi?45 the validator that validates both contact and list addresses. (She saw that coming a long time ago for sure.)

Bottom line: when choosing a “submitter” get the maximum value for your dollar.
- Cherie Halliday
http://xtreamsubmitter.safelisthosting.us/