To surf, or not to surf

I recently read an ad in total bemusement. It was titled “The problem with Traffic Exchanges”. The main complaint was that exchanges expected members to log in and surf once every 30 days and that people with lives couldn’t be expected to do this. Interestingly, he was promoting a surf site in which to get the measly little credits they were giving out free, you had a minimum surf!

Then, to get any more credits you had to - guess what? SURF. No surf, no show. Then, guess what? If you did nothing for 90 days - you are deleted! Lol.

Traffic exchanges are interesting and vital in many ways and important to have in your portfolio. As sites rotate they generate hits and hits translate into activity which the search engines and reporting agencies like Alexa pick up on. Plus, members surf and view your sites. Studies show that people need to see an ad (or site) multiple times before taking action. So, TE’s are good for all this.

Having said this, let me also say that when members (like the misguided one above) do nothing - nothing happens in return. Members do not surf - sites are not rotated. Plain and simple. Sites do not rotate - nothing happens. No activity to your sites, no sites being seen, no sign ups, no sales.

Nada happens when YOU decide to do nothing.

When members decide to do nothing, of course the program owner must assume there is no interest or that the person has left the building. When weighed against members who DO surf, of course the priority is to have that persons site shown. Why show a non-active members sites? Those members are actually leeches: expecting lots of blood to feed on but not giving any in return.

Traffic exchanges don’t expect blood or that you give up your life to surf a few sites once in awhile. You get A LOT for being even a free member. Give back something to the exchange in the way of your time surfing to contribute to the overall health of the program. The return is greater than your input. A great big nothing happens when you do nothing. A lot happens when you DO.

Ps…while I checked the site out the member was promoting, I did not join on gp. I figure any so called traffic exchange that merely stored sites without requiring members to surf was a total waste of my time. Kind of like a safe list comprised solely of members not required to accept or read email from the other members. Lol.

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They listened: Introducing Master SafeAdList

If you have ever considered owning your online business or program, today is a great day to start! Impressions Hosting/Safelist Warrior Group - creators of SafeAdLists are releasing their newest innovation: Master SafeAdLists

MSal offer Admin Owners a unique opportunity to run a low cost, high profit marketing venue that guarantees Members will get their ads read. You will be able to sell Banners, solo ads, and page views to BOTH members and non members alike, thus producing multiple streams of income.

After listening to what owners had to say regarding the original SafeAdLists, the group has completely redesigned the program and added many features to enhance and enrich the marketing value of these already unique sites.

You can review the details on the new features and enhancements on the MasterSAL venues at the XtreamNet Forum.

Since the conception of the original SAL, these venues have created an environment where members become part of a community, enjoy once again meaningful and responsive advertising more importantly Get Their Ads Read, which in turn results in sales and hits to their sites.

If you have ever thought about owning a site or your own online business, or want to add to your existing ownership portfolio - these are worth every second of your time investigating and then obtaining. Be part of the future today at Master SafeAdList

Master SafeAdLists Poised to storm the Net

Since the introduction of SafeAdLists in early 2005, these venues have created exciting environments where members, as part of a community, enjoy meaningful and responsive advertising. They are venues where ads are actually read - thus creating sales and hits to the members' sites, products and opportunities.

Impressions-hosting/Safelist Warrior Group has completely redesigned this wonderful program, turning it into a cutting edge venue everyone will be excited to own or join. Continuing the established platform designed to get member ads read, the Group has added features to Master SafeAdLists that improves and enriches the marketing value of these sites. Besides creating the guaranteed way members get their own ads read, they have added additional features allowing you will be able to sell Banners, solo ads, and page views to BOTH members and non members alike, thus producing multiple streams of income. The venues are very affordable, highly profitable and backed by superior customer support.

This is Hot everyone.

If you have ever considered owning a site, or want to add to your ownership portfolio - Master SafeAdLists are worth every second of your time investigating and then obtaining.

They are completely redesigned from the original SafeAdLists with enhanced features for owners and members alike. Here are some of the new/enhanced features:

* There are 3 Levels of MembershipEach Level of Membership is geared to encourage Members to Upgrade,~ Earning Admin Owners more $$$ and giving paying members more flexibility and also the chance to earn more $$$.

* The incentives for upgrade are already included, you wont have to email Members pushing them to Upgrade their membeships they will want to! WHY?Each member irrespective of membership level must visit the member~s area at least once a week. By doing so members will be compelled to read Ads BEFORE gaining access to the members area.

* These Ads are on a short timer, this ensures sufficient time for the mail to be read BEFORE they move on to the next Ad.

* Each membership level will have a minimum amount of Ads to read. (Admin Owners will set these in their control panel)

* The performance of any function will be POINTS driven for example: - Points added for Ads read - Points removed for Ads Posted - Penalty points removed for infringements such as not logging in on a regular basis and reading other members ads. (The points control will be selected by Admin in their control panel)

* PAGE VIEWS: You will be able to offer page views to your members who will be paid cash for each view. All, again, under your control from your Admin panel, you set the prices, you set the timer. You get the profit!

* SOLO ADS: Each ad comes with a clickable link to give the member points for viewing Solo Ads.

* Scratch Cards: Scratchcards appear at random (set by admin) gaining prizes of points for members. These were extremely popular in SafeAdlists and are included in Master SafeAdlists. Admin can disable these if they prefer.

* Membership Levels: Membership Levels at Master SafeAdlists they are:
-Free: this is the basic membership offering Posting of Ads, Reading of Ads and access to all Paid Options for example Banner impressions.

- Pro: Pro members, who recruit new members, will be allowed to mail affiliates they have recruited, ONE TIME. You will earn more points than Free Members for reading Ads and less points are deducted when Your Ads are read.

- Marketers: This is the Top Membership at our Master SafeAdlists and we expect this to be the most popular with members. Marketers who recruit new members will be allowed to build a down line whom they will be allowed to mail once every month! You will be amazed how quickly your members will grow as Master SafeAdlists helps build your own private mailing list! You will earn more points than Pro Members for reading Ads and less points are deducted when Your Ads are read.

Note: Admin owners have full control of Points, Posting times and Prices. Different owners will offer different incentives for their members. A full list of Privately Owned Master SafeAdlists will be included in sales pages links.

These lists have been created to give members the chance to actually get ads read, make sales and receive hits to their sites.

At one time safelists did provide this but being marketers ourselves we know the influx of Safelist Submitters and Mailbox Cleaners have changed the nature of traditional safe list marketing drastically

Master SafeAdLists offers a refreshing, new way to market and is the perfect way for ALL Internet marketers, advertisers and users to achieve real results with their email marketing and to once again enjoy advertising on the Internet.

Don't wait on this one my friends! Be part of the future today at Master SafeAdLists.

4Daily Scam

From XtreamNet Forum: http://xtreamsurf.com/XtreamNet/viewtopic.php?p=1057#1057
Jim Hunt, owner of 4daily http://4daily.com/, has the dubious distinction of reaching new lows in relation to online scams and the paid to surf industry.

Following a series of mismanagement at his venue 4daily, Jim Hunt urged members to upgrade and COMPOUND their earnings in lieu of being paid. After securing as many upgrades and compounds as possible, he then took his site offline. When he reopened it was to an entirely new day for everyone - including all the members who had purchased upgrades and compounded! He had reset EVERY SINGLE MEMBER back to basic and wiped out all upgrades and compound history. He now tells those defrauded members that he considers all members PAID when they compounded their earnings and that everything else is part of the 'acceptable loss' provision on his site.

He now advertises his site as the Revitalised 4Daily.com Now back to FULL PAYOUTS! claiming that members Are in the unique position of being able to get in on the ground floor of a well established and much loved program....having an opportunity... that cannot be found anywhere else on the Net.

Nothing could be further or farther from the truth. In fact the only opportunity presented here is to loose your money and get raped in the process. Research by concerned members then uncovered the fact that Jim Hunt operated another failed/scam cashits.com as Kevin Hewitt!

This information posted to Xtream forum recently: Jim Hunt is apparently Kevin Hewitt (if the info is authentic). *************************************************** kevin@bigpond.com.au Kevin Hewitt Eagleway Pty Ltd 16 Carbon Court Bethania Qld 4205 Australia +614 1971 4799 ***************************************************
Source: http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=4179 ***************************************************
Then again, this should confirm it... http://www.getpaidforum.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t370842.html ***************************************************
Info provided by "DaveGrier" & "Fun4TheMoney" on the MissionHits forum Thread: http://www.missionhits.com/support/viewtopic.php?t=283

Members who have been defrauded by this individual and the 4Daily.com scam are urged to file complaints. Please see this link for some places you can start with: http://xtreamsurf.com/XtreamNet/viewtopic.php?t=386

These are sites members are welcome to use to spread the word:
http://myweb.ecomplanet.com/SCBU2028
http://www.freespaces.com/rushproj/4daily.html

To be Free or Not to be Free

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 by in March when I first wrote this article. 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 - year later! A 7 day trial offer is ridiculous.

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 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 actually delivers the initial goods free, really is - well - free.

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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