| 03.04.2007 |
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After one of most silent months in this industry finally I see few quality programs starting or as I would say in one case merging into something new. AdsOnCommand is newest site from CommandCorps group which includes CommandBravo, CommandSurf, CommandCharlie and 4NewbiesMarketing sites. All of them currently are set on expiry mode which means upgrades are disabled but all payout requests on expired units are being paid. This new site is step back to lower risk arena and will be as a replacement for first 3 mentioned autosurf original business model programs. Considering the outstanding fact that admin of these sites has record of paying for almost one year already and considering his experience this new program has great potential in my opinion and will be moved into premium category.
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Another program I do consider as good quality program was launched last Friday is Trademarked-ads which has lowest ROI of 0.3% I have seen yet in autosurfing history and is first project from one of quite mature bloggers known as Trademarked info. This blog was one of those rare quality content type which offered good insights into different aspects of autosurfing and what I liked most was quite wise suggestions to autosurf admins how to make their programs higher advertising quality and less risky. Well now he decided to try his hand in this business and learn the other side of administrating an autosurf program. With such low ROI I think risks are almost close to zero but there is quite high chance in my opinion that not many will be appealed by such low ROI and membership will be very tight especially in beginning as majority of surfers prefer at least 1% daily ROI.
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Updated weekly membership stats today and Coastin88 is still going strong with quite noticable pace and despite general trend in autosurfing has growth of over 600 per week for several months already. With this pace it has almost catched it's sister site (more like mother site) CEPCoast which also isn't too slow compared to most other programs in growth aspect. Also quite nice week experienced new MaximumSurfing network site Planet-Trust which nearly doubled it's membership last week. But 10sitesdaily achieved this goal by getting relative increase of 50%. Both of these sites are leading momentum chart during last few days which isn't big surprise considering their growth pace.
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Quite interesting fact I found today while reading latest news that one of most talked scammer programs WiredSurf has made a comeback and amazing part this time is that admin decided to just do a relaunch of original site. While original round last year was quite high momentum one and lasted for several months in period after 12dp closing but closing of this program was done in one of worst scammer ways by rising daily percentage which dragged more funds into program and then pulling the plug with promise of refunds that never happened. But this wasn't largest scam scandal last year as same admin started a program called ReindeerSurf late in month of August and somehow this program managed to make one of highest growing first few weeks but then sudden death just few days before end of first cycle left everyone in this program hanging with quite high ratio of lost money. I considered enlisting this program and promoting it at that time one of my biggest mistakes during last year considering the scale of that scam move. So I strongly recommend avoiding anything that is launched by anyone who is related to these people. Just avoid it and I am quite sure it won't get much attention anyway just like relaunch of NewDawnArising failed because of lack of interest. Relaunches of programs that pretty much failed during first round or even worse scammed are doomed as we can see in several examples lately.
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| 28.03.2007 |
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Only sites worth mentioning that started recently are Planet-Trust and 10sitesdaily which both are new projects from known admins. Planet-Trust admin is Jack Cobb owner of Maximum Network sites and this one is higher risk site with total of 44% profit margin. Domain of this site was purchased from Jake of ASA monitor who generated idea of this site so his involvement kind of adds extra attention. Second one is newest project from admin of Gettin-Green which received quite good attention and this new site should be sharing large portion of it.
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4NewbiesMarketing first round of payments after reorganized terms went quite smooth with only few glitches that were manually fixed. At this point admin reports that everything is going as planned but upgrades despite some requests to open those will not be enabled until move to new servers and script. Next cashout window will be open this Friday so don't miss it as these happen only twice a month. Another aka CEP site DesertSkyMarketing plans to resume paying also this Friday for requests that were made last week and this will be first round for this site as well. Currently seems CEP network sites with those new additions are becoming backbone of autosurfing and it's future will have quite an affect on whole industry as well.
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I received several e-mails asking about this new FastGoldCard I mentioned last week and any due diligence on this reseller. Thing is I had ordered this card month ago and didn't mention it before I actually received it and used. Card itself is coming from quite known network of Chronocash cards and in my opinion is quite reliable if you use their native loading options but regarding reseller with such low fees I as usual use low risk method of loading lower amounts at first to check if there are any problems with reseller as internet is full with various resellers who sometimes don't load your funds or even send a card that was ordered but in this case so far loading is almost instant at least for e-gold and support has been very responsive. But main part I liked about this card is many loading options it offers including most popular autosurf processors like AlertPay, e-gold and even Tri-star although I haven't tested last one.
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| 21.03.2007 |
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Silence more or less continues without any outstanding launches so far this month and only those sites who have strong admins behind them are either still operating or reorganized and working their way back to the top. As I mentioned earlier I have shifted my focus to something different right now and more about it you can find in my today's post at Paipals blog.
Best performing site last week was Coastin88 that basically survived crisis of this month by keeping it's percentage steady at around 5% during workdays and 2% in weekends which resulted in nice growth and establishing strong top position in overall ranks. Newcomer LoyalSurf also showed good progress and is currently leading relative growth rank. This week first payout wave started for this program and so far only positive feedback about it.
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Some time ago I touched an issue of payment processors licensing and I just want to point out how sophisticated can be approach when adults are discussing an issue at hand as can be seen in this forum topic where my newspage was quoted as well. To those who sent me e-mails asking about CEPTrust money processor and risks using it my answer is that from all those processors out there used by autosurf programs this one I trust to be second best after e-gold. In my opinion it's not that important what kind of license you have and in which states as requirements for obtaining one are quite different in each state and sometimes even not needed. If law will be aiming for shutting down or freezing any operations of a processor it will find a reason anyway besides licensing. Only way to avoid this is going globally and diversifying funds in banks of different countries like e-gold has done which allowed them to resume operations right after FBI raid into their offices in December of 2005 since only portion of funds were tied up in US banks. So it's more important if particular money processor has any customer care problems especially in transmitting delays field which could cause complaints from customers to law enforcements and once enough complaints are raised investigation by them. This was main reason StormPay was put under investigation and brought to court although they managed to slip through this and still operate although in smaller scale. Uniclear had terrible delays in money transfers and we know how it ended. EMO was one of those involved with Stormpay scandal and sites that used funds in programs related to this scandal. So at this time main concern is about Tri-star which is dancing around with new excuses every week and I believe there are quite a lot complaints already about this processor. Then there is AlertPay which also has history of delayed transfers but as far as I know those were only delays instead of denials so risk is lower here. And CEPTrust in comparison to these seems best option as I haven't heard any negative feedback so far about delays of money transfers in this processor or hacking incidents. But my general opinion regarding online payment processors still is to not keep any large funds in any of them for longer periods of time but use only for their main purpose which is money transfers between your pocket or bank account and some programs you have chosen to participate in.
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By the way while on the topic of money processors and options to withdraw from them I have found a debit card
FastGoldCard which is a reseller of quite popular lately ChronoCash card. What appealed me to this reseller is quite low fees and selection of funding options which includes all popular money processors - e-gold (3% fee), PayPal, SafePay, eBullion, AlertPay, WesternUnion, MoneyGram, MoneyBookers, Netteller, ACH, Wire, Qchex and what's most interesting even Tri-Star money changers and most of those have one of lowest fees possible which is 3% per transaction. So if you are looking for replacement of gCard or just some good debit card that would allow quick withdraw of funds from most popular online money processors then this is quite good option for rather cheap price of 29$ for US or 35$ for international buyers. This card could possibly solve some delay problems in withdrawing from Tri-star processor. |
| 15.03.2007 |
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March turned out to be quiet month in autosurf industry which is one of main reasons I have now turned my focus into other ventures outside hyip world and researching less risky options which still would offer quite high ROI. I have setup a Paipals blog where I will report about my findings and progress in those ventures. You can check it out and subscribe to my alternate newsletter from that blog to keep updated on news about other ventures. Within next few days I will be making big announcement about one of options I am currently working on and more I get into it more I like this idea and potential ROI I can get especially considering that it allows building an income stream on almost total autopilot. Any extra work added will just increase cashflow level so for those who are wandering about best alternative options of earning quite nice income online I recommend bookmarking Paipals blog and subscribing to it's newsletter as you might be one of first to find out about latest hot earning venture of year 2007 that has almost no risks but very high earning potential.
As for autosurfing most surfers have pulled out their funds wherever possible and now waiting until this another crisis ends and new batch of promising programs come out or those who plan to start new rounds will resume like DesertSkyMarketing which basically took a pause to reorganize and fix flaws in it's business model had and plans to resume this Friday where it stopped. Main difference now is that there will be quite small range for daily earnings within 1-3% but quite positive part of this change is that no one lost anything and has a chance to earn back invested just it will take longer time now. So starting this Friday surfing is required to earn and first cashout window is planned for next Friday. |
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By silent month I didn't mean there are no new programs launched every day as it usually happens in autosurfing world but more like there is no good quality new programs started. I am still following most of newcomers and their progress but so far haven't seen any program worth mentioning for quite some time. Only one that stood out recently is LoyalSurf which is a new project from BustaBank admin. This guy was quite popular in beginning of 2006 with his hyip program BustaBank and at that time quite many expected his program to follow path of 12dailypro in popularity and size. Well it actually did follow that path as it's ending was caused by StormPay scandal but it still managed to reach top 5000 sites in Alexa during January which is quite high rank for hyip sites. Now after such long pause admin is back and will be trying an autosurf program. It's launch showed quite nice and steady growth which stands out from majority of other recently started sites and we can observe this in rank 11 where it is currently leading for several days already.
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| 12.03.2007 |
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After stats update I decided to give site of the week award to Club4Elite which just started it's second round and made first payments already. Admin currently is doing everything he promised to do including refunds which has returned attention to it from existing members and some new people have joined and this site returned to top 10 in overall rank as well. Coastin88 showed quite high growth pace during last week which also shows that daily percentage stabilizing has some appealing affect for new members. Other than these most sites kept their previous level in ranks and climbed few places in ranks mostly because of closed sites going down the list.
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DesertSkyMarketing also joined CEP family of sites and Dustin will be now focusing more on maintaining customer support and site security while allowing CEP manage financial side of business. This decision also reversed previously announced zeroing of cash balances for those in profits which means site will resume operating just with much lower daily percentage. I think for members this is best option as none will be loosing anything but it will now take more time to get those earnings compared to previous pace of cashflow. This is also good for admins as they now have more time to use that money and generate profits. Only drawback to this is that not everybody wants forced option of having CEP account but admin decided to make a compromise for this as well but it will cost more to receive money to e-gold since it will be transferred through CEPTrust.
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| 09.03.2007 |
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As I expected all DSM type profit share programs "blew the whistle" after their stats started to drop faster and faster with every day. TurnStyle didn't even finish first cycle let alone plans to run this until mid summer. After DesertSkyMarketing on which model these programs were based ended second round cashflow for all these programs started to look down. Admins at first tried small changes like applying commission to compounding but as I mentioned earlier this won't be enough and next followed more drastic changes with various plans to refund in most cases which basically means closing of this round with possible option to start a new one. 4NewbiesMarketing seems is in best position considering those few days at 90k+ adpack purchases which gave quite a boost to reserves and Israel decided to not just reduce ROI to min possible and change payouts from daily to biweekly but also made a business decision to merge with currently still successful CEP. LucreShares which also was in quite good shape when withdrawals were stopped and daily trend in general was still upwards going before letting it go in different direction decided to take a 2 week vacation to have time using gathered funds and make more out of it after which they plan to issue payments those not in profit up to 117% ROI according to their terms. TwilightADZ unlike others seems has plans to continue as admin decided to change business model right away by introducing 30% cashout rule for upgrade levels above 100$ and remove compounding variable from daily adpack purchase totals which should make these numbers according to real income of cash into system although their level of cashflow is quite low. TurnStyle as I mentioned is in worst position and probably there is no option besides closing and refunding here.
So what caused all this downward trend? I think some influence was caused gold price dropping by 7% which actually affected not just profit share programs but other sites using e-gold as well although this isn't major factor. But main reason for problems in profit share programs in my opinion was full statistics provided and daily compounding variable addition to total adpack purchases. For example CEPCoast and Coastin88 programs don't show actual total adpack purchases and don't use direct compounding while it's still possible to cash out and on same day after receiving money upgrade which is pretty much the same thing but what matters here is that daily earnings percentage is calculated only using amount of upgrades that were made from money processor as this is the only option and actual financial situation is not that clear as only daily percentage is shown. So even if it drops it causes less panic and situation quickly stabilizes around percentage this program is averaging at. If we compare this to other industries it's like stocks market. When some new reports about some financial problems are released price of stocks goes down. DSM programs offered daily detailed reports and of course once those stopped to show positive trend people started to sell their stocks in DesertSky which just was reported each next day and caused more people selling hypothetically speaking. And since these programs were using same business model then those got into same situation unless something changed. Lowering ROI will slow down changes in those daily statistics and if enough outside income streams attached then admins will have more resources to survive crisis periods and show that those don't affect overall trend which later stabilizes and makes people buy those stocks again just like it happened with CEP programs. |
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Lately getting some hot steam around it LightHalzen is a profit share program that doesn't require surfing and is not showing full stats that could compromise it's growth every day but only shows last day performance and top depositors with latest spend/withdraw amounts. This one is very high risk with 150% ROI but has some hit and runner prevention included where if you reinvest less that 50% of cashout your earnings will drop which is pretty similar to what Club4Elite has. Possibly this could help running it longer than few cycles but keep in mind that this program is already around for over 2 weeks and by popular demand added it to high risk category.
AdsByVision on the other hand is an old school type of program with 1% daily which started around xmas and has nicely grown unlike many other low risk programs although membership still is quite small.
This program is run by Ads By Vision Management Inc. which is legally registered in the jurisdiction of the Filipines, the address is West Tower 710 at South Super Highway Bangkal Makati. Not too impressive but I like the slow but steady growth it has shown over first two months and lately is getting nice recognition as well.
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| 07.03.2007 |
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John from 9PlanetNoSurf "blew a whistle" as he calls it and put this program on hold by disabling any upgrading, compounding and withdrawing options. This is what he planned from the very beginning when this program was started that if he sees a trend of more money going out than in which could lead to end of this program he will "blow the whistle" and stop it. Poll was created to get feedback from members with 3 options - to refund everything, refund only high risk funds but continue with low risk one or to just continue as is until funds dry up completely. In my opinion John did the right thing as and just in time while there are still funds to refund those who joined too late and as pool results show majority is for refunding right now but can't really decide if everything or just high risk plans. Anyway I voted for option 2 and plan to continue with this program if this option wins and only long term plan is staying as I initially put half of investment in this plan. |
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My recent concerns about too high pace growth in some programs like 4NewbiesMarketing and TurnStyleProfitShare are becoming bigger with each day as I see from profit share page explosive growth is causing more damage than helping. Last few days both of these programs still had max possible 10% earnings but total adpack purchases are on downward trend and daily earnings move from max possible is just matter of days although Israel is not sitting without doing anything and just today announced about first corporate sponsor involved which should add some external revenue to this program. End of round 2 for DesertSkyMarketing has caused some financial echo in programs like SurfWarrior which appears was just using members funds in DSM to make profits and is now left in the air hanging and also reduced trust in this type of profit share model programs. Fortunately admins are analyzing mistakes that lead DSM to situation it is in right now and one of first changes most are implementing is fees for compounding although I don't think this will help much as more drastic changes are required and Dustin already has some in plans for his new 3rd round of DSM that is planned for this Friday - earning limits will be between 1% to 3%, without compounding during workdays and some complex changes to referral commission to avoid people having min possible upgrade level and without even surfing withdrawing only commissions. Also I would add that growth should be under more control with tight upgrade limits instead of 1000$ per day setting it as per week or per cycle because too fast growth just raises risks and outside revenue streams have less impact to sustaining promised returns in such short timeframe but with those changes program will be closer to old school 1% daily low risk programs which will by default mean much slower growth. Currently I favor more programs that indicate slower growth like TwilightADZ
and LucreShares and of course recently started AlwaysInnovativeFirst is looking less risky at this time compared to others because it initially had lower limits and commission. But as you will notice they have lower referral commissions which means less hitrunners are appealed to these programs which result in lower daily cashflow but as I said slow and steady growth is much better because it will allow adding some outside revenues to help sustain promised returns. |
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As you remember some time ago there was quite big discussion about Tri-Star Media money processor licensing and it hasn't ended yet as Bob is still jumping around with different versions and latest one is that it is licensed now with IRS although as far as I know this institution doesn't issue money transmitter licenses so question is what kind of license did they get from them and I don't think it is making this processor more legal anyway. But recently also CEPTrust was put under spotlight of licensing issue and this time story is quite clear as admin Trevor claims they need to reach some financial level to apply for license otherwise they will be denied but some people like Curtis Crowley from Ponziscams.com have called officials in Kentucky state to verify if this is true and appears Trevor either misunderstood licensing requirements or is not aware of fact that he can't run money processor without license. So basically both Tri-Star and CEPTrust currently are quite high risk money processors to keep your money in as they could be closed any day if someone makes official claim to authorities about their illegal business and as I heard Tri-Star has been already reported so considering their current delays in transferring money and some "audits" they are planning to make because of attempted fraud for total of 300000$ in their processor which in my opinion is just another excuse for delays it would be wise to get any funds in Tri-Star out as soon as possible even if it will cost higher fees. As for CEPTrust situation is quite clear with their licensing that admin just doesn't have the money to apply for it but I don't think anyone will run to report them unless they start delaying money transfers and so far any transactions I had with them were smooth and very quick but still remember that unlicensed money transmitters can be closed any day just like it happened with EMO last year and few others so don't keep large sums in any of these and just use them for transferring if no other options like e-gold or AlertPay.
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| 05.03.2007 |
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Another project based on DSM script modification with quite an interesting name was launched today AlwaysInnovativeFirst. This one possibly is first step into lowering risks of profit share model programs as we have learned even such limited daily percentage can go down in matter of few days if growing too fast and even slight drop in percentage with complete transparency of statistics can cause panic in membership and mass exodus as Dustin called it because most were not looking at percentage values but at total adpack purchase value which of course was decreasing at much faster pace than percentage with each next day. This is one of main differences between DSM type profit share and CEP type programs as last ones don't show anything except daily percentage and members are less worried when it drops and as we learned last week it can go up also.
Well this new program AlwaysInnovativeFirst is offering lowered daily limit of 7% which is even lower than what Coastin88 has and minimum possible referral commissions of 1% which makes it basically one of first low risk profit share models with limited daily percentage. With such approach it can outlive many other current profit share programs as it's growth for sure will be happening slower and in more controlled manner. This fast growth factor is one of my main concerns currently about programs that have reached top positions like 4Newbies and TurnStyle as their explosive growth currently can not be sustained for long time and is already leveling during last days although they are still too young to be affected much by this slowdown after such high jump and slight stabilization of average purchases is expected during this week.
AlwaysInnovativeFirst will be offering periodical cash prizes as an incentive of participation and plans to use only CEPTrust as only money processor so we almost could say this is CEP family profit share program except the fact that it is running on DSM modification of PatsPro script. I put into it only 20$ today because I just didn't have more in that money processor right now but I plan to increase this once I receive requested transfer. |
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Site of the week award second time in a row goes to 4NewbiesMarketing mostly for passing previous leader and taking the top position in overall ranks but as it can be observed in new profit share comparison page it also made quite a jump over last week and has quite huge gap from other programs currently in daily cashflow levels. Also it passed in growth pace previous leader 9PlanetNoSurf although just by 29 signups. Quite positive is fact that Coastin88 is still hanging in there as one of top growing programs despite recent drop in daily percentage but as it was observed last week during workdays daily percentage went back up to average 5% per day which shows that this program is stabilizing and still has potential to grow.
TurnStyleProfitShare was quite close to taking award of the week as it stormed into top rankings in quite similar way as current and previous leaders did. Slow but steady growth is shown by another profit share program TwilightADZ and if we look at comparison chart this one is the only one I see looking for longterm potential in a controlled growth manner. |
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AdsMania experienced drop in e-gold reserves last week and admin decided to change all fixed plans into low risk 1% per 365 days which is something similar to dropping of profit share daily percentage. As explained this was caused by mass transfers of e-gold through AdsMania to money processors like Tri-Star or CEPTrust. Well possibly it could affect partially total reserves but I think also downtime because of host change and recent popularity of DSM type programs many have shifted their funds out of this program into other alternatives which also caused cashflow decrease.
Also SurfWarrior admin released information that this program has experienced financial problems because of recent DesertSky closure and as admitted by admin large portion of their funds was put into this program which might put this program into spiral of problems out of which will be quite hard to get. At least he was upfront about this fact right away and offered a plan to solve this problem instead of holding this information back and continuing to operate like nothing happened. |
| 03.03.2007 |
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Well you have probably heard about hit and run strategy many surfers are using and lately this approach is used more than before which only allows most programs getting a life span of barely few cycles. Now it's apparent that also admins are starting to learn how to use this approach by closing programs on slightest signs of trouble. Dustin decided to close DesertSkyMarketing one of most successful programs this year after just few days of cash flow issues that caused daily percentage to drop down to minimal possible 2%. In my opinion this was too soon yet as chances of situation stabilizing considering reserve fund and income streams were not too bad and as we can see in example of Coastin88 that recently experienced slight server problems and daily percentage dropped from max possible for about a week and wandered around 2-3% but by now already returned to 5% although I am not too surprised about this decision considering how quickly was closed first round on first signs of problems when it didn't go as planned and possibly this is for better. Dustin puts more value into having legit and transparent program which DesertSkyMarketing actually was and of course members not loosing anything is main priority for him so this decision was made before getting into unknown path of several ifs like if percentage will go up again or if reserve fund will allow it continue long enough to become self sustainable with outside income sources and etc. So what happens now. Considering that nobody lost in round one seems that Dustin a plan in mind how to achieve something similar now as well although this task could become harder this time as total membership tripled over these almost 2 months of second round and of course total cash amounts involved are now higher but as I said before I consider Dustin as great admin and I am sure he will find a way to make this work. Main part I like about DesertSkyMarketing program and it's admin is that unlike majority of other programs it is searching for right business model that could actually work in this high yield and advertising mix of online business called autosurfing. |
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While recent problems with DesertSky forced largest profit share program of this year to close down as we can see other similar programs are prospering right now and gaining steam. 4NewbiesMarketing just today passed 9PlanetNoSurf in overall ranks and is now newest leader of top rankings mostly because of increased momentum during recent days that also resulted in doubled total daily ad pack purchases.
Now there is another addition to my site I hope you will be enjoying as great tool for evaluating which programs are performing at best. To have better overall picture and have ability to compare with progress of other similar profit share model programs I have added a new page to my site called Profit Share Programs. In this page you will have access to 2 types of dynamic charts - one that represents comparison of all profit share model programs in one chart by showing their progress from launch day and then second type of individual charts for complete history of ad pack purchases. Program that launched just yesterday TurnStyleProfitShare experienced one of most successful launches by attracting 330 members within first day and over 40000$ of total adpack purchases within first day which almost reached launch date figures of DesertSky back in January but was way higher than other profit share models that were started in February which can clearly be seen in this new chart where yellow line representing TurnStyle is almost hiding behind purple one of DesertSky. Also 4Newbies are obviously standing out with their jump after just 3rd day and has set new record at highest point any profit share program has achieved within first month showing how far ahead of other programs it currently is. |
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Club4Elite is slowly starting to spin it's wheels in second round and today is last day when those who were not in profit during first round can apply for refund. Just go to main page and click on "Round 1 refund list". Locate your member id and click on apply. As I checked currently only half of first round members have applied for refunds which means that chances for those who apply will be higher to get these quickly possibly during first round already as less funds will be required to refund those who applied. |
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AdsMania experienced hosting sabotage few days ago when server configuration changes made this program customized script not to work properly because of PHP version mismatch. Site is now moved to different host with dedicated server and such issue shouldn't arise anymore.
13AdsDaily also experienced some server issues but these were quite unusual since problems were cause by registrar hijacking of domains. One of cofounders of Registryfly decided to part his ways with company and take 75000 of domains hostage to resolve his personal issues with his former company. And this program had to change from .com domain to .net to avoid waiting of this situation resolution. Transfer was organized quite smoothly and most members lost only 2 surfing days during this time.
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Added new program Generation12 to high risk category that is standard autosurf business model but with instant payouts. And by instant I mean automatically instant as you don't even need to request that instant payout. Once surfing of 12 sites is over transaction with daily earnings is processed automatically to e-gold account. This masterpiece of coding is done by phpmike from AdsMania and because of involvement in creating this program Mike is endorsing this program. Admin of this quite nicely designed program is Susan Martin with technical help from Rayford Martin. Terms are 10% for 12 days which could be medium risk setup if payouts were expiry based but considering instant payout approach I consider this high risk program but it is receiving nice attention already and if joined early chances are quite good to get into profits and play with those. |
| 01.03.2007 |
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After quite intensive week of several quality program launches there was a period when nothing much of interest was started but today there is another quite an interesting program launched TurnStyleProfitShare
which is based on modification of PatsPro script but this time it is leased from Israel admin of 4NewbiesMarketing and is offering somewhat different terms compared to other DSM style programs. Similar part is profit share model with limit on daily percentage at max 10% and min 2% but total ROI will be 125% for first month and this will be increased by 3% monthly up to 150% that is something quite new in profit sharing models. There is no VIP membership but for first month referral commission will be as high as 10% and later reduced to 5% and payouts will be done within 48 hours. Site admin name is Jessica Jensen and she plans to incorporate this program with retail clothing store by this summer in Ontario, Canada. This program is launched under legit registered company under name "TurnStyle StreetWear". Well not sure if this plan with clothing business will work out as high percentage expectancy for these programs barely exceeds 2-3 months nowdays and most probably store opening will happen when daily percentage will be already at lowest point but it's launch mostly because of high referral fees for initial month and familiar profit share model today was quite promising as there already are 130 members at this moment and total ad pack shares 3 hours after launch passed 12,000$ mark which is quite good for any program launching and shows good potential. Strategy used here to get into profits within first cycle is pretty similar to what I described for 4NewbiesMarketing but since it has different total ROI and if you need exact information then let me know by e-mail what amount you plan to upgrade with and I will send you updated guide. |
| 28.02.2007 |
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DesertSkyMarketing slowed down as last 2 days earning percentage dropped and possibly it will continue to drop further because recent changes in terms over last few weeks have raised concerns in members if this program is financially stable. Admin first made it mandatory to have higher upgrade level in order to receive referral commissions then halved commission percentage and ended this with complete removal of commissions with promise to change script into one time commissions from new referrals which was translated by many as sign for possible financial problems. Well my view on this is that these changes did 2 things at once - reduced growth and made people reduce their compounding and shift into other similar term programs that are newer like 4NewbiesMarketing or LucreShares although last one followed same path and halved their commissions starting from this Monday which also slowed it's growth and increase in total daily ad pack purchases. But 4NewbiesMarketing currently is experiencing very high momentum and seems changes in other 2 programs have some influence in this as many are shifting their funds out of there into this program. DesertSkyMarketing most probably will now have decrease in daily percentage until some 2-3% per day and become something like CEPCoast for some time as reserve fund should be quite large by now and leasing out script gives additional income streams that should help as well in keeping it stable after members calm down and adjust to new ROI after which it could return to some higher values like 5-6% per day. So I still consider this program and it's admin as one of best in industry and after people will learn that max daily earnings is not something that lasts forever and when temporary panic will be over then it should return some trust in existing members and program should manage that increase into some average daily earning values but of course this is just speculation of what could happen. Admin also plans to lease script to few more programs and involve some forex trading which should make this program close to self sustainable without much need in new membership money to keep it flowing.
Reasons why I think growth will reduce are simple as people who were actively promoting a program via adwords, payperclick, banners and other means of advertising are spending money on these promotional campaigns but now since a program decided to stop paying for such efforts these campaigns will be removed so a program basically stops advertising via members leaving only admin set up promotional campaigns and free advertising in form of blogs and forum posts. But as I have observed this in many cases it is just not enough because only audience of those blogs and forums will follow into such program but such auditory has become quite small lately and consists of just few thousand surfers. But in case of DesertSkyMarketing such reduction could be not as critical as in other cases because admin seems prepared for such turn of events in advance by adding extra income streams. |
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Tri-Star media group sites lately are put under big question mark as more and more people are reporting delays in payments from their own payment processor and lately almost no communication from admins about their situation. Their traffic levels are slowly but very consistently dropping which could mean only one thing that people are getting frustrated and leaving. Just few facts to mention why people are getting worried - Tri-Star group money processor license issue still not solved. Also purchases XLO but doesn't do anything with it except try to blame former admin for receiving incomplete package several weeks after purchase which means they didn't even bother to look at what they received and all this sale was more like class act to bring in more attention. Mastercard is still not received by those who purchased it and more excuses come why it is delayed. Delays in receiving money from their money processor are increasing and almost no communication from admin on whole situation. There are even more concerning factors but these alone are enough to say sites like 15HitsDaily, Treo-Surf and 24SurfPro could soon be in trouble despite the fact that e-gold payments are still made on time so I moved them to winding down category. Also sites that are accepting Tri-Star money changer as payment option could experience some problems depending on how large is proportion of members using this option in particular site. |
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NewDawnArising closed it's first round by disabling deposits yesterday after admin estimated decrease in reserve funds and reduction of incoming deposits which could lead into situation where there are no funds to pay out anymore. Some were refunded but general perception on this quick end was that people were quite disappointed as most were expecting this to last for at least few cycles. Well even if he starts new round I don't think it will be any good as first round failure will make many avoid this or any new program started by this admin.
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DenaliSurf that had record of over 6 months paying and recently moved to a new quite confusing script experienced financial problems this month as described by admin and instead of closing down and refunding with what's left he decided to skip issuing payments this month and try to recover what's lost. Well so far only case I've seen this happen was CommandCorps group programs that didn't make payments during december but after that resumed as promised but many other programs just disappeared without any signs of resuming payments or refunding. This by the way was one of main reasons why 4NewbiesMarketing newest project from Israel only admin to manage such resuming payouts is such a success right after launch and last few days showing even faster growth. So chances in my opinion are higher that DenaliSurf will not resume in April than seeing another admin pull it out. Despite fact that this program is being run by legit LLC company based in Georgia recent changes made it less user friendly and quite confusing as even such simple thing as earnings could not be found in members area let alone any other monetary transaction information so possibly many decided to pull out and get into other more familiar programs that show at least basic but critical information such as earned amount.
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| 26.02.2007 |
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Site of the week award after today's update of stats goes to 4NewbiesMarketing which stormed into overall ranks and quickly established as solid top 3 program by offering higher returns compared to other similar setup programs that were launched recently and of course good reputation of admin. Also it is quite quickly climbing in weekly traffic ranks and almost beat 9PlanetNoSurf in absolute growth rank but still John's program is showing outstanding growth record and this year is clearly fastest growing program for 2 weeks in a row already.
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Club4Elite is back from 2 week absence after closing their first round and starting an audit and preparing list of those who were not in profits and can request refunds. Site also moved to new dedicated server to prevent any issues it had just before closing first round. Refund list is now available for viewing and as it seems you need to locate your member id and apply for refund in order to receive it either right now as part of first round refunds or bit later when refunds will be issued using some part of second round upgrade funds. As I said when first round closed if this will go as planned and everyone not in profits receives their refunds then admin might start new generation of restarting programs. This is not first case when program restarts with refunding but usually it was either as not planned or just way to bring back trust of members but more it was used less people trusted such approach. In case of Club4Elite Paul planned this from very beginning and so far has done everything as planned and promised although I think success of second round will depend quite a lot of how large was reserve fund when first round closed (it was said that program will restart at 75% mark) and if it will be large enough to do most of refunds in first round which would ensure more loyalty from members who were part of this program in first round.
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| 21.02.2007 |
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Bit delayed but here goes overview of stats update I did on Monday. Site of the week award this time goes to 9PlanetNoSurf which stormed into overall ranks within first days and ended up pushing down previous leader from top position. Although considering it's nosurf feature I think traffic values will go down after launch hype settles down a bit so it will be interesting if it can hold top position for long. Such rapid progress was achieved because of highest absolute growth during last week, one of top relative growth ranks, as most popular site during last week, prompt same day payments and of course top position in momentum rank top 11 for several days already and quite high positions in both weekly alexa ranks.
But DesertSkyMarketing didn't fall far behind and will be main competition for top position. Great news are that Dustin is now leasing his modification of script to already 4 other programs that were launched over last week 3 of which are endorsed by him and getting additional income from such deal which of course is helping his program to grow as well. First to launch on this script was LucreShares and mostly because of timing received good attention but then within matter of days launch of 4NewbiesMarketing followed and despite slightly slower start has right now passed in membership size previous program and is getting average ad pack purchases increasing as well and of course it got few less points in overall score which placed this program currently on 6th place just ahead of LucreShare. Third program was EZSurfNEarn but I think admins blew it with their problems in previous relaunch and old site refund promises so despite this program being on similar terms as previous ones I don't think it will get much attention besides loyal members who were in profits in previous campaigns of these admins. And just today another customer for Dustin launched a program called TwilightADZ and this one is new project from Jack owner of quite known and reputable program MaximumSurfing. So we now have several similar programs aka successful DesertSky business model with nearly matched terms within range of 17-30% zone on each adpack and same daily limits and I expect even more to come although these early birds will be ones who get most attention until something more appealing is offered like higher returns on each adpack.
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Coastin88 slowed down last week as daily percentage moved down from max possible 8%. Admins also decided to make weekends as nosurf days but after discussing this with members reversed this decision but decided not to use reserve funds for keeping those days at max because weekends were usually quite slow income days and were depleting reserve fund. Possibly such decision came after seeing that weekdays didn't increase it enough to cover weekend loss and coupled with server downtime last Tuesday which caused additional drop in daily purchases we had end of week at average 5% but weekend at lowest possible 2%. New week started and it got back to 5% again but despite all this traffic levels and new signups were still quite high last week although daily ranks have dropped almost twice so as I said in monthly reviews once daily percentage moves away from max values things could slow down in this program so I recommend withdrawing without compounding at least to break even point before they get as slow as in CEPCoast at 2% per day.
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| 19.02.2007 |
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Usually there can go several weeks by when not a single good program is launched but sometimes several are started in matter of one week and seems this is such rare case as there is another good quality program 4NewbiesMarketing started just today where I feel safe dumping in larger sum right from the first day. This is new project from reputable admin Israel from CommandCorps group which includes several paying sites with oldest one being almost 11 months old already. This one is using similar script as DesertSkyMarketing although terms are somewhat higher risk with total profit of 30% on each ad pack purchased but rest is tailored after quite successful limited daily earnings profit share model that Dustin set as success standard so far in this new year. Daily limit is at max 10% and there is an option to purchase pro membership for 5$ per month to use daily cashout option and no fees for any transactions. This one comes highly recommended so don't hesitate to join up early and get into profits to play with within matter of first cycle. If you want to know step by step guide on how to manage this within one cycle or just 13 days then sign up and send me an e-mail with details how much you plan to invest and I will personally explain it in simple steps to you.
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| 16.02.2007 |
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Well this month is getting better and better with each day and especially this week which had Valentines day in it and full of new beginnings as there is another potentially very good quality program LucreShares being launched this weekend which is highly recommended by admin of DesertSkyMarketing Dustin who also has been spending some time in evaluating good programs before he started his own projects and he only recommended high quality programs. This time Dustin is promoting this program because he helped establish it's launch and is leasing his customized script and technical support and as we know Dustin is quite experienced in this service especially security part. As for admins Bill and Jason they have legally registered a company LucreShares and Dustin also verified their identities via provided documents and phone.
Basically we have DSM2 launching under supervision of Dustin but as separate entity with different verified admins managing it. Terms are very similar which isn't a surprise since same script is used but total profit share is 3% lower with cap at 117% for each upgrade. Daily limit will be at max 9% and min 2% so if you are looking for diversifying into something potentially getting as good as DesertSky then this new program LucreShares is just what you are looking for so signup right now and you will be able to upgrade starting from tomorrow. I am going to put it into premium category right away as I fully trust Dustin's judgment here. |
| 14.02.2007 |
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As I mentioned few days ago there will be another so called NoSurf program launching shortly and it is 9PlanetNoSurf which is creation of John Stankiewicz mostly known as 9planetreviews blogger. This guy generates enormous amount of information daily full of news, due diligence and other related updates and is one of sites I visit daily for latest information in surfing industry and around it. I have also been involved in some money exchanges with him between different money processors so I have personal experience because of which I trust this guy as well besides his quite down to earth reviews where he always checks everything in new projects before jumping in. John planned to launch his own site for quite some time and discussed possible terms and naming with his readers quite long time so this is something he prepared well in advance and thought about many influencing aspects where timing might be one of important ones. Now after large fallout in december surfing industry is starting to raise again and launching this program might be best time as wave is indeed going up right now. So now that we established potentially main driving reason that he is known and reputable person in this business because of which this site can become a success let's review what it offers. There are 4 plans and last 2 are available only after investing into long term plan which offers 0.5% for 180 days so this will give 90% return in 6 month time. Second one might be more appealing to short term investors as it offers 12% for 12 days which brings 44% profit within 12 days but there is a limit of 2 spends at same time so if plan to use last 2 that allow higher spends then only one of these will be available since long term plan is required. Site is in prelaunch just today and from tomorrow full promotional campaign will be started so it's your chance to join up before it's launched. This site is highly recommended join up and try it although be aware that there is no surfing involved and because of this no advertising value added. |
| 12.02.2007 |
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New program that I added NewDawnArising is not really an autosurf but isn't a hyip either. It's something in the middle of these and as owner of it said it's a NoSurf program (There will be another NoSurf program launched shortly so this word might become a common term). I still consider it an advertising program because it includes paid to click feature and quite active I must say because right after joining it I found 4 ads which earned me 0.07$ extra so those with low risk investment strategies will find this extra earning option quite useful and paid to click is one of most converting options for advertisement business especially if those ads are well focused.
This program is creation of quite known admin NVUS who is owner of eMarketCafe forum and after launching this weekend it received quite nice attention as it shows today 358% increase in alexa traffic ranks and just today reached top 50000 sites in daily ranks which is quite high position for new site. Daily earnings here are variable fixed which means every day earns you different amount but this pattern is fixed through whole cycle and totals in 130% after 16 days which makes it medium risk 1.9% ROI. |
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Updated stats today as usual and this time we have a different site of the week - AdsMania which made huge jump into overall second position and closed in on leader after becoming almost fastest growing program, most popular one and reaching very high positions in traffic level ranks.
After I removed XLO which currently is in unknown state (more about this later) largest program by most members now is 15HitsDaily and currently is quite far from others.
Fastest growing one is Coastin88 which generally has been high in this rank but last week got above competition. Fastest growing against total size was TopGunTraffic which had nice balance of traffic increase and of course membership change compared to it's total size.
In traffic ranks DesertSkyMarketing is currently dominating as it is either at top position or close to it.
In general looking at stats I notice that signup rate last few weeks has been increasing which shows that trust into surfing programs is slowly returning and also average traffic levels are getting higher so even inactive members seems are returning back to surfing so general trend is currently quite positive for autosurfing industry. |
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DesertSkyMarketing made a historical event today as they finished all pending refunds from round 1 just as promised and some even received profit with those payments. This indeed is quite notable event because up until now most programs that promised any refunds did them partially from funds left or none at all but Dustin has kept his promise.
One the other news we have some movement in story about XLO as new owners from Tri-Star media group decided to contact previous owner Andy and request complete data base once more with missing tables which Andy sent them. So now Bob is going to look for ways to use that data and possibly convert it into something usable for scripts he has and possibly make a relaunch although I don't think it will be like resuming like nothing happened without changes. More likely it will be just clean relaunch based on fact that funds were not transferred into new owner possession or relaunch with some partial refunds if Tri-Star finances are in good enough shape to allow that. |
| 09.02.2007 |
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Well as expected Day Job Killer broke all sales records at clickbank. Previous book last year made around 6000 sales during first week but this one made 5000 within first 24 hours alone. No book or online product ever had such demand until now and this fact alone shows how valuable this book is considered. I bought it and I am just loving it as this comes as natural extension to previous Project X book which showed the initial ways with just clickbank but now is showing the way in this new competitive era how to earn even if there is tough competition and other quite popular affiliate networks like Amazon, eBay and etc. All information is up to date even reference to online tools that are getting discontinued lately and alternatives to them provided. All methods are presented with real practical examples and step by step guide how to use them. Some might not like this approach Chris is pushing that you should mostly copy from others and use it for your own good but I have to agree that there is no reason to invent a wheel once more if it's already invented just learn how to use it for your own good and possibly add something extra that will make your wheel better. Price is going up today and I even don't understand why this book was set so cheap initially as it let's earn back the money spent on it within few hours without having a website or a list to begin with just faith in what these methods can do and some effort to try them out but value of information provided is by far more than it is sold for.
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Appears that someone didn't like new project by quite known blogger DrunkOnLife as his sites were attacked recently by hacker and brought down for few days. MyRandomDownline is downline coop where for small fee of 6$ per month anyone can advertise their own banner and links in related forum and monitor that will only allow registered votes. As Leo says seems this idea where vote abusers can't influence votes in such monitor made someone angry enough to attack barely launched forum/monitor sites and bring them down. Although I think someone didn't like more idea of banning known scam program promotions and informing about such over forum. There have been already such attacks in past when some expert was informing surfers about potential scams and owners of those didn't like such service and did all they could to stop it. But this incident is not going to stop Leo and his sites will be back up shortly and resume their service.
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Zen's Den has done another interview and this time with current leading program DesertSkyMarketing owner Dustin Fennell where you can find more about this great admin and his experience in surfing business. Dustin has showed so far great example how an autosurf admin should close a program which starts to show potential cashflow problems during first launch of DesertSkyMarketing and later make an adjustments and launch second round with even greater success. I wish other admins would learn from him and follow same scenario. Seems that Paul from Club4Elite is trying to do the same thing as this program's relaunch is planned within next few days although what I don't understand here is why refunds are planned only after launch if what he claims is that program was stopped at 75% mark of reserve pool and funds should be available for refunding so possibly this wasn't as claimed and after audit he has less funds than needed for refunding everyone.
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| 07.02.2007 |
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Do you know what was most successful e-book of year 2006? I am quite sure most of you answered correctly as it was "Project X" the ultimate guide to affiliate marketing secrets by one of most successful authors in internet marketing who made $1,163,396 with just Clickbank during year of 2006. It was sold in record breaking 6000 copies over just first week. Chris also released another bestseller earlier last year that was basically bible for those who were into adwords marketing so success of second book was somewhat based on earned reputation already. But why am I mentioning these facts you may ask. Well I bought both of those books and found them as best quality information about internet marketing and earning online I could find and made quite nice amounts using those techniques and fact that those methods were used by many didn't bother much as market of online products you can promote and earn commissions from is enormous which means you just need to pick a niche and work on it but without right guidance profits won't be large and this guy showed some of his secrets how to make profits.
And there are great news because Chris author of those bestsellers has released another e-book just today called Day Job Killer which has a potential to become another bestseller and possibly most successful book of this year. Name itself says what can be achieved after learning these little known methods. Appears that author didn't reveal all secrets in his initial book "Project X" but only showed some of them and now is giving it all out. He tested these methods on 12 students who learned to earn 1000$ per day using those techniques described. And it now doesn't only cover online products like e-books, software and etc that are mainly sold at clickbank but also physical products from such popular marketplaces as amazon.com. Best part about this is that you don't need to handle any shipping or billing issues just need to promote their products in various ways described in this book and earn commissions from sales. And main focus in this book is on choosing right products to sell which can be done by observing other marketers and their advertising campaigns and only choose best selling products which will give largest profits of course. So if you are ready to put in some effort and learn one of best ways how to earn money online this book is mandatory guide for you and for first 3 days it will be at cheaper price of 77$. I highly recommend this e-book for those who are interested in less risky ways of earning online and I am for sure buying it myself. Don't wait for price to go up and go get it right now! |
| 06.02.2007 |
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Site of week award is still going to DesertSkyMarketing which has increased it's gap from followers now by 40 points mostly because it now also moved into top position of alexa ranks. Also noticeable was jump into top 4 position of overall ranks by AdsMania which only just started last weekend but progress was quite obvious in most ranks which resulted in high overall position as well.
Recent campaign called we are "number one in monitors" by DailyROI:PS has shown some results as it received quite a boost in membership size last week. Campaign was mainly based on incorporating voting script into member area which allowed receiving more votes over several popular monitors and considering that this is one of main attributes in those getting into highest spot was achieved quite quickly. |
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Planned time for holidays of XLO are over and apparently nothing changed as it still hasn't resumed. At this point it seems chances of this happening are very slim because as I expected new owners Tri-Star media are trying to put blame on this to former owner supposedly because data base they received is supposedly corrupt and this they found out only now 3 weeks after actual purchase. From the bits of information new owner is releasing about his discoveries on the purchased data base there are many contradictions so seems more like attempts to write this one off and putting all blames on former owner. Possible reasons from what I understand are that Andy sold only domain and data base without script for which he wanted higher price since it was customized over long period of time but Bob decided not to spend extra on it. So now Bob realizes this data base can't be used with his scripts directly without large changes and possibly debt is larger than he initially thought and he can't handle it anymore. Andy didn't keep silence after seeing such lies released about his part of deal and is confronting this everywhere it's discussed and currently plans to send same files to independent source for reviewing if it is corrupt or tables missing as claimed by Bob. Well this soap opera around tri-star group continues although it's starting to take less appealing directions as even those who blindly followed Bob in his crusade against "corrupt" industry are starting to question things because lately some events are getting out of hand and are poorly covered with excuses that don't work good enough anymore.
Few other things that don't look too good about this company are that Tri-star money changer is still not legal or at least nobody has seen incorporation papers only claims that it is. MasterCards that many have ordered still haven't arrived and excuse about this delay was related to artwork not finished. Their official forum is censored even heavier than any other previous discussion boards where tri-star had some influence and this is so obvious that people barely bother to go and post there anymore. |
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Added new program SurfWarrior from admin Michael known previously as owner of GladiatorSurf projects which were considered quite successful last year. He was one of first to introduce 50/50 rule which later became quite popular to use against hit and runners but in this new project it won't be used. After launch of this program he had to face e-gold account blocking problem but quickly solved this issue.
And also added TopGunTraffic which uses quite an interesting concept of scaled earnings based on amount of cycles. More cycles you go through in this program more you will earn from initial 13% for 10 days it goes up to 15% for same period when 10 cycles have passed. This name by the way was used by quite popular program back in year 2005 which closed down early but as I checked I couldn't find any relation to that previous project besides name used.
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After facing some problems with e-gold and hosting company which resulted in cashflow slowing down Club4Elite closed first round after their reserve fund hit 75% mark and this was initially planned to be the point when program will be stopped and refunds issued so that nobody looses. Admin is doing an audit and after completing it will issue those refunds to people who were not in profits and start a new round in about 2 weeks time. If this goes as planned and supposedly no surprises found in audit I think we will have one of first planned relaunch model based programs. There are of course other cases when similar approach was used like DesertSkyMarketing for eg. but it wasn't planned event at the time and it took much longer before refunds were issued and relaunch took place so it was more like case of showing the way but Paul from Club4Elite picked up this idea and used it in his project from the very launch. But let's see if this actually happens first before drawing any conclusions.
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| 03.02.2007 |
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This is one of those very rare cases when I put a new program AdsMania directly into premium section. This is new project from Mike aka phpmike who was behind ManicAds which recently was closed because of problems it faced and quick round of refunds issued where most of members received their requested money pretty quick as reported. This program was getting quite good attention and was one of most popular so this closing thing was quite a shock for many mostly because it seemed like admin gave up too easy at first sight of problems and many tried to convince him to start it over after refunding with some new improved terms and etc. Well what so many wanted has happened and quicker than expected so here we have it. Now there are several earning plans to choose from again with improved script and some new features like 3 account types which basically allows purchasing insurance from risks involved where basic one gives low fees but no insurance, premium - that would get 50% refunds and secure with 100% refunds in case of problems. This is something new and interesting in autosurf industry which could give it push into new less risky direction.
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| 30.01.2007 |
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Probably biggest news today are that ManicAds somewhat unexpectedly closed down. Admin Mike experienced some problems with blocked e-gold account just before weekend and disabled signups/cashouts while this is sorted out. Block was set because of claim from some little known monitor site over an upgrade of 4$. Coupled with recent drop in average earnings which didn't yet go below 7% anyway Mike decided that spiral of problems is going off already and there is too much stress in being admin and programmer at same time as well. Very positive part of this closing event is that he is ending it in similar way how Dustin with DesertSkyMarketing did when he closed first round or in other words not too late before he can manage to do refunds. Mike will be making them up to break even point for those who were not in profit and as I read already there are reports from people who requested a refund and received it within an hour of request. So if you joined recently and didn't manage to even return your principle then login and request a refund. Also seems that general attitude is very positive about this closing and admin doesn't deny possibility of starting a new site or just new round for existing one once he finds some help in administrating which could be wise decision since people will be ready to jump in after quite great run of this program for 2 months it lasted and ended on high peak especially since quite many of members contributed to generating ideas which made this project successful. |
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Site of the week again is going to DesertSkyMarketing which is growing stronger with each day and made it's position in overall ranks against competition even stronger compared to last week. Now that ManicAds has closed there are only 2 strong trailing programs both are profit share model and coming from CEP family.
CEPCoast is still fastest growing program membership wise and currently is trailed by very high risk program 24dailypro which despite bad reputation people still find appealing and is getting this good attention because is endorsed by ASA. Relative growth ranks last week was filled with many high pace growing programs with 6 of them being over 50% mark which means that with such pace they could double their membership biweekly.
Computer-Traffic is currently fastest relatively growing program and also made quite explosive increase in traffic levels during last week. 13AdsDaily is also showing quite decent progress in same listings and considering that this program is coming from an established admin I moved it out of high risk category to regular one and we possibly will see it climbing ranks pretty soon as well.
AdSurfDaily is still hanging in there by being most visited site according to traffic ranks and is still growing quite nicely in membership which shows that efforts of managment to bring some life into it are making some results. Lately daily percentage increased somewhat from 0.01% to some 0.1% and some even experienced larger increases in cash balance since they update this sometimes not daily but after several days. Currently plans are for changing it's name from Ad$urfDaily to Ad$alesDaily with logo and brand change and get away from paid to surf world this way. Well this is an interesting direction but I don't think it can do much to help it's current situation of very low earnings.
CommandCharlie which still is in prelaunch mode currently is only inreasing in membership and quite nicely I must say. Admin sent reminder today that there are only few days left for prelaunch and low 1$ membership fee so if you want to join this site from CommandCorps group with record of 10 months paying while cheap entry fee is available this is the time to do it.
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During weekend noticed quite explosive growth showed by Autosurf Foundation which is basically using same model as XLO did with low daily percentage of 2% for 75 days but allowing daily withdraw option. So this could be good alternative to those who liked such setup and were fans of XLO. Admin Francis is very responsive over forums and solves any problems reported quickly. Surfing here is fun with option to receive a cash bonus in range of 0.01-0.1$ and some have reported receiving it several times per session even so it's worth watching surfbar in this program. |
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As for XLO itself there is almost no information about it resuming on Feb 1st as it was announced before going into holiday mode and new owners are barely mentioning this site in their updates. Only piece of info that was given regarding future of this site with currently largest membership base mentioned that audit is taking place of financial situation which would allow making a decision if it's worth continuing. Treat this statement as you wish but I think this is attempt to prepare grounds for next announcement in which XLO will be closed for good because of bad debt situation that was found during this audit. Currently only official source of info is SurfSiteMonitor which is receiving very bad press lately because of several thread hijackings and censorship that is going on in this forum. Even moderators of tri-star programs have hard time in this forum so it seems the mind twisting drama or soap opera continues in this group. Well it's just few days left and we will see the outcome. Meanwhile many are waiting how promised final payouts from The Finer Things will come in beginning of February so both of these events are awaited impatiently. |
| 27.01.2007 |
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Made an adjustment to new rank 11 which represents progress in Alexa ranks or otherwise known as momentum rank. Initially I used absolute values and in case of lower ranked sites progressing through ranks they had quite large figures and of course ranked much higher than those who already climbed quite high and their progress was relatively less noticeable because of high rank. So instead of absolute figures I transformed data received from Alexa into relative figures percentage wise. For eg. if site ranked 500000 climbs up to 400000 place it had delta of -100000 but site which was ranked 20000 and climbed up to rank 15000 then it had much lower delta -5000 which seems 20 times slower growth. But in reality for high ranked site made much bigger progress because relative figure shows progress of -25% for first one and -75% for higher ranked one which obviously represents better progress proportions. Currently both CommandCorps sites are showing nice momentum after dropping below millionth mark have climbed back into 200k over last few days. |
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Recent limitations of max upgrades ManicAds resulted in slight drop in daily earnings from average 9% to average 7% per day and admin made some adjustments to compounding procedures which now involved fees like for cashing out and reupgrading but much faster which also will go into profit pool. But yesterday e-gold account Mike uses was blocked possibly by some claim from a member. All pending cashouts were reissued back into accounts so that these funds are available for compounding while this problem with e-gold account is solved. Mike has handled situation professionally by communicating with members and even discussing how to proceed with this situation so I am quite sure it will be resolved shortly and cashout process will resume meanwhile you can use compounding option to increase your upgrade levels in any of 7 surfing plans.
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Club4Elite might be unavailable today in some parts of globe because they moved to new dedicated server with DDoS protection which was forced event after repeated attack they experienced few days back which caused site being inaccessible again for half a day. If your DNS hasn't updated yet with new address try using their ip http://208.116.12.21/ but don't try to upgrade until you can access it normally by using domain name since it will throw you back to old ip and won't update properly members account because of this.
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Online Capital is still fighting DDoS attacks as well and as one of solutions for those who can't access their site provides mirror sites under following addresses:
Online-capital.com
online-capital.org
online-capital.net
online-capital.cc
online-capital.eu.com
online-capital.info
online-capital.biz
Even these mirrors are quite slow but at least you can access and request some withdrawal or upgrade if needed. Sine it doesn't require any surfing this isn't too big of an issue. Updated payment information and screenshot for todays requests which were paid instantly to my e-gold account as usual.
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| 25.01.2007 |
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Since recent changes I have added several new programs but most of those were high risk ones added mostly from requests of readers to compare and analyze their progress so not going to announce such additions. But there are few programs that are worth mentioning like Virtual-Surf that is relaunch of quite known program under new management and completely customized script. Admin Karina better known as Mordk who was moderator at 13dailypro joined Kris in this one for a new launch. According to reports first round members were refunded and I can find only positive feedback about Kris as admin of this program. This customized script is quite impressive if I run it in Internet explorer it runs quite smoothly but with Firefox which I mainly use most of site functions are not working. According to Mordk this script was built for Firefox and possibly it doesn't work only for me as I have highest security settings set and for others it will work just fine. This program currently is offering 2% for 75 with daily payouts which is same as XLO terms and is quite recommended by most experts and it's initial growth shows quite good response from surfers.
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CommandCharlie which currently is in prelaunch is newest project from CommandCorps group that has record of paying for 10 months already but their growth hasn't been too high lately mostly because December payouts were skipped. Although recent days show that traffic levels increased after latest completed payouts that included all profits during december and according to top 11 or momentum rank both are in top 5 currently which is quite good result. As I mentioned earlier fact that their sites are paying promptly for such long period even without much need for new members shows that large portion of profits is made from outside revenue sources. But joining this new project isn't as simple because it requires active membership in other programs and monthly fee that is currently set at 1$ for this prelaunch week but will be increased to 10$ after launch. This is a way to reward those members who still support their sites.
CommandCharlie offers 10% for 13 days which is higher risk ROI than both of other sites have.
Also worth mentioning is Computer-Traffic
which is new project from Mark Wohlers owner of MyCowboySurf. ZenDen has posted an interview with Mark where he reveals his intentions of launching this new program and some general info about himself. Membership is limited to 400 as admin plans to control growth of this site which is quite good decision. |
| 23.01.2007 |
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Well response to recent changes in alexa ranks has been huge as I am receiving numerous e-mails daily with suggestions and ideas how to use or represent that data. Most of these ideas are doable so I will be looking into implementing some additions once I find some time. Also received quite many requests to show these stats about various programs not enlisted but some of those were on my offline testlist already so I decided to move it to public observation but make a separate category called "High risk" which will be a place for those sites I usually skip but considering valuable information this new data provides and quite high demand for statistics on such sites those who prefer higher risk sites will now find this page useful. I still will be reviewing each program and skip obvious scam attempts but even those that are added could potentially be well hidden planned scams so be aware that high risk means really high risk and never risk amounts you can't afford to loose as these mainly are just games hidden under autosurf model. While adding new category I also added "Winding down" page which will be place for those programs that are still paying but based on stats and members activity seems like slowing down in growth and possibly delays in payouts could come shortly. This one will be especially useful for these new high risk sites since their life cycle usually is much shorter and once I see signs of this program stalling I will be moving it to this category. Those who prefer lower risk programs with more reliable admins can still watch premium and regular category lists for their favorite new sites as I don't plan to mix any high risk sites into these lists. Top rankings will now include all sites for comparison and of course each program I enlist will have dedicated details page which will show all alexa stats and other details about particular program. |
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Site of the week award goes to DesertSkyMarketing second week in a row and during this time DesertSkyMarketing made it's leading position stronger by making gap from second place as large as 22 points. It is currently most popular and one of fastest growing sites by being in top 3 in both absolute and relative growth ranks although isn't even in top 10 of largest membership rank but with such pace it will be storming through it soon enough and what's best part about this program is that it is just 11 days old and has very good potential for longterm program seeing how good feedback and support it is receiving.
If we get into single ranks XLO is still a program with largest membership at this time but it's future currently is quite unclear as it changed owners recently and is still in holiday mode until end of month and new owner hasn't made any updates regarding his plans about it. Fastest growing site last week was ManicAds which is followed by currently oldest still running profit share model program CEPCoast which shows that it is still in good shape. SurfMargin is again fastest growing relative to it's small membership size.
Now let's review our new ranks which are based on alexa stats. Most active membership currently is in 15HitsDaily which is also one of largest membership sites currently and it's sister site Treo-surf is very close to it by activity despite the fact that it has half as much members. As for momentum rank last week was quite a jump for DenaliSurf which received greater exposure in some forums lately and more activity resulted in one of largest jumps in alexa ranks during it's 6 month lifetime after going low under radar for several months so we can expect bigger monthly conversion for earned points. Both CommandCorps programs also show nice increase in activity after dropping down during December so seems recent rounds of payments have returned trust in their members. From newcomers quite noticeable is progress from Cashino which had quite explosive climb in ranks and has reached quite high levels of traffic but this one is very high risk program that has lasted for month already with daily payouts and could be slowing down quite soon. Also want to mention that today relaunched 24DailyPro had quite explosive start as there were over 500 signups within first day of launch which is quite impressive despite it's quite bad reputation. Seems many don't care about admin who runs this program failing for several times already and just follow into his new projects for new chance of profits. Possibly fact that this admin is known and endorsed by ASA can make many forget his past failures but I would like to recommend using extreme caution with this program if you plan to join it.
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| 21.01.2007 |
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Spent some time improving my site by adding more useful features this week and I am glad to announce much better and improved advanced alexa statistics that replace old standard 3 month stats which were mostly outdated since it only showed average changes in ranks for period of 3 months and this was not dynamic enough to use for evaluating autosurf site activity changes. From now on one week traffic stats will be used which will show more accurate data for members activity and it will not matter anymore how old a site is in comparing these data because it will just show current levels of traffic for each site based on activity during last 7 days. This will also be updated on daily basis so more dynamic affects to overall rankings can be expected from this addition. Also there are now 2 new rankings - top 11 based on change in ranks since last week and top 12 which is ranking of average daily reach for last 7 days. Top 11 is the one I like most because this one will clearly show momentum of growth in members activity. Until now I used historical graphs to see this aspect of sites growth which was more or less based on how rapidly stats were climbing. Now we have exact figures which we can compare against other new or old sites and see where particular site fits. Negative number here means that over last 7 days this site has climbed in ranks but positive one means it dropped down. This rank will be great tool to compare new sites in growth and activity levels.
Also each details page now includes full statistics for each site including 3 month, 1 month, 1 week and even 1 day data of rank, reach, pageviews, relative reach, relative pageviews and of course change in this data which is called delta. For convenience I added green upward and red downward arrows that will allow easier reading of these stats. Basically if you see mostly green arrows site is doing quite well and growing consistently. If there are lots of red arrows then activity is dropping and this could be warning sign. If there is a mix of those then it means site has reached peak and is now going up and down. But remember that best group for evaluation is average of 7 days stats so pay attention to these.
Of course I now have lots of ideas for more improvements based on this data that is now available so expect more interesting things to come during next week but I am open to ideas as well and if you have some great idea how to use those data let me know via e-mail and I will see if that is possible to add.
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| 19.01.2007 |
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Seems that Bob Krimm has invented new meaning for term "going private" in autosurf world. Previously going private term usually was used for disabling signups and forbidding any promotional campaigns and/or discussions about particular program. According to Bob going private just means giving exclusive publicity and advertising rights to one most loyal monitor owner who is former ASA admin Todd Heaps (if you ever watched ASA videocasts you might remember him as usually dressing up like clown, mexican or even some mean russian to make those casts bit more entertaining). Well this sounds more like another attempt of censorship and to silence any negative publicity Bob's sites might have. This reminds me somewhat how current president of Russia when he was elected decided to remove any independent media in his country by putting those who didn't follow his lead in jail or making them run out of country and monopolizing all TV channels, press and other information sources he can get his hands on so they only report what he allows. Sounds similar doesn't it?
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Great news from ManicAds as admin is looking carefully after their growth and wants it to be controlled steady instead of rapid jump which could bring it to saturation point much faster and cause more problems than good. I've always considered such decisions as lowering max upgrade amounts as very positive changes and ManicAds now reduced maximum buy amount and also maximum total by average 7 times. This will still allow it growing in membership size as fast as it did but will ensure that cashflow is growing slower than before which will result in much longer positive growth momentum. In other words this is the case when things financially are too good to handle and need some changes that allow better control over them. Also this site is now run by registered LLC (Limited Liabilities Company) and this company has hired lawyer, accountant and two employees to keep up with increasing workload and ensure legality of any actions or terms used in this site. |
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AdSurfDaily introduced cashout fee of 5$ for any request to any of processors they offer. This is not a good idea in my opinion and considering their low daily percentage lately this will just make more people leave because of such high fees and clearly shows this program is not just winding down but struggling for options to get that cash flowing again. With current daily percentage it could take not just months but years to even break even so this site definitely is not doing good and I don't think it will anymore despite best efforts of those corporate marketers by doing conferences and training.
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| 17.01.2007 |
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Had this article in mind for some time already and recent events helped me get to it and finish. Recently few programs like DailyROI and CommandCorps programs incorporated direct voting option from their members section to allow their members easier access to this promotional channel. This isn't new but somehow I feel soon many will follow and add this to help their promotional campaigns. Some may ask what is voting and how does it affect any of programs? Well in most of autosurf or hyip monitors voting is used as main currency for identifying most popular programs. Most of these sites don't care about risk level, membership size, traffic levels or other aspects that can affect evaluation of particular sites. Only few monitors have involved these attributes besides voting. So considering that voting attribute is most popular one and has most value it is also abused more than other aspects. As you remember I have several times mentioned sites that offer such abuse as service for eg. generating fake votes in monitors, automated posts with no value except increasing amount of posts for particular topic and bringing it up to top near sticky as most forums sort topics by most recent posts by default. So you might ask why should I bother even voting if those are abused. Well idea is quite simple since more and more people realize that votes don't mean much since they can be abused less they vote and more affect those fake votes make because overall percentage of fake votes increases because total real votes decrease and even small membership site with 5-10 members in it that uses such service can generate quick boost in most monitors and forums by getting into top positions and this way passing most of not large but already established and paying sites. This leads to many joining this new freshly created site as they think it is hot and once abuser collects enough funds he just pulls the plug. Of course such small sites won't be able to get ahead of largest programs with several thousands of members but some already long running with just few hundred members are being pushed down by them with little effort.
Voting is still most valued promotional currency in autosurfing so admins are trying to encourage their members in various ways to vote in forums or monitors by offering cash for most votes, faster payouts, adding instant vote scripts into members areas and etc. And this in most cases is just attempt to fight those abusers who earn their votes by simply buying such abusive services. Unfortunately influence of abusers has caused even less activity for actual members to go and vote lately which makes them more efficient but this is not good. If you are a member of some program I also recommend you to go out and vote for your favorite program. You can do it after receiving payment by posting in most popular forum or monitor or if you want to help it even more just vote daily on monitors as usually limit is one vote per ip every 24 hours. This actually is way of looking after your investment into any of programs since it makes that program more promotional currency and exposure which in general leads to more traffic, growth and of course cashflow increase. And while all of these are increasing any program with decent admin is going to last to make you more profits. So don't underestimate value of votes and help those admins make profits for you. Just casting a vote with short comment "great program" or "got paid on time" will be enough to push those fake votes into less value and promote your program because not the comment you write matters but that record of vote is what makes the difference. |
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Received another payment from SurfMargin which was generated by expired unit on 6th day after I upgraded. As per admin recent update all payout requests that are made outside Friday which is main cashout day are applied with 5% fee and a confirmation e-mail should be sent to admin with amount that is requested for cashout. During recent days payouts were not done mostly because not many sent that e-mail but appears also those who sent didn't receive any payout either. Main reason for this was some bug in modified script that caused some upgrades go beyond 140% limit and allow members making larger payout requests than possible. So admin was quite busy fixing those errors and plans to send an update shortly. Also stats page shows payouts have resumed for most requests and I think pending list will be cleared by Friday when most will be using no fee cashout window again.
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| 15.01.2007 |
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First time since I changed hosts my site experienced some downtime but I was immediately notified about it and reasons of this problem. Appears server was having power outage and all sites on this server were down for few hours. Now it is back online and site is accessible again.
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Site of the week award for last week goes to DesertSkyMarketing which right after launch climbed into top position of overall ranks. This alone shows how established it's reputation was during first round and how eager were existing and some new members to upgrade right away from the very first day. Second and third spots are shared by ManicAds which continues to grow strong and make improvements based on member's feedback and Coastin88 which still runs on max possible daily limit of 8%.
Fastest growing site currently is Treo-surf
but is very closely trailed by ManicAds. Quite nice jump in growth showed DenaliSurf which now leads relative growth rank and I think fact that it was discussed with some positive promotion over ManicAds blog last week gave it nice exposure to members of this site who decided to diversify into DenaliSurf.
Overall situation seems to be stabilising after holiday season and most sites are starting to gain growth pace although slowly but at least towards increasing of pace. I am currently also working on some improvements in ranking setup which should give even more precise comparison of sites and more dynamic changes after each update of not just existing stats but also those that will be added shortly. So watch the tops page change over next few weeks with some interesting improvements and statistics. |
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DesertSkyMarketing made some adjustments during weekend by lowering ad package price to 1$ which allows more flexible upgrading options from cash balance when earnings are less than 10$ which was old package price. Also during first day accounts with new membership category VIP members were switching back to regular upgraded category when purchases made which was quickly identified and solved. Any problems in data related to this bug were fixed over weekend manually.
All information about daily totals and other statistics is now available within members section and first 3 days went very well as daily earnings were at max possible 10% and you can even monitor daily cashflow from that page which makes this program very transparent about it's financial situation just like ManicAds with their various stats.
For those who are intrested about admin's background and experience you will find ComputersPlus site as quite interesting read. Dustin currently is earning Ph. D. in Computer Information Systems and focusing on Information security which is also quite essential and useful knowledge nowdays to ensure good protection about hackers who made quite a damage in last few months to several large autosurf programs.
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| 12.01.2007 |
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DesertSkyMarketing is now officially relaunched and upgrades enabled. This is a program that I highly recommend and I am quite sure it will have explosive growth but will be controlled by limit of max 10% daily earnings limit similar to Coastin88 which means fastest cycle can be 12 days and also max possible upgrade of 1000$ per day to ensure steady and controlled growth. This program is owned by legit company from Arizona and admin is quite known and has good reputation in autosurf business. |
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There is one concern I have about SurfMargin today as there is no info on the site and also admin hasn't responded since yesterday unlike before when all my questions were answered quite promptly - site has no info about payout terms and only fees are mentioned which explain that Friday is 2% fee day but other days up to 5% fee.
Update Admin responded and with some good news as terms were just changed by removing cashout fee on Fridays. Also I received my first cashout in this program within 24 hours after request. |
| 11.01.2007 |
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Now there is one great opportunity for those who don't have their own sites to advertise their referral/affiliate links or products/services to promote and it also isn't bad for those who have blogs or own sites to promote. One of my favorite blog owners Leo Dimilo known better under blogger nick DrunkOnLife is launching a combination of downline builder/forum/monitor this weekend called MyRandomDownline. You might be asking what's in it for me if someone starts a monitor coupled with forum and downline building club. Well main part of it is the last mentioned which is private club and both forum and monitor will be filled with banners and advertisements but unlike other monitors it will put links of club members in these banners. You just join downline club and add up to 5 links which will then be randomly placed in monitor and forum sites and people who click on them and join sites behind those or purchase products advertised will be placed either in your downline or commission paid to your affiliate account. But this is not all as posting in forum and voting in monitor will be available only to registered members which will make fake votes made via bots/proxy or other cheating methods not available or at least quite expensive and more complicated. Monthly membership fee will be mere 6$ to be part of this great downline building club with many options. Considering that Leo estimates his audience around 4000 readers large I think this one will be very popular place to hang around for surfers. I am also considering to become a moderator for this forum and contribute some of my time to participate and build up membership for this club. You can check it out and join the club now in prelaunch stage. I probably don't have to mention fact that those who join earlier will have better chances to have their links advertised on best spots as there will be less competition to those but I think I just did. |
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Last night hottest and most discussed topic in autosurf business was the fight between PTSPayPro admin Terry Kurtis and Jake Amesee from ASA monitor where also some involvement had Bob Krimm from Tri-Star media. There already are and will be lots of speculations about this and possibly some will hit the nail but here is my version which is just an assumption based on facts I read about and will be quite short as I have little interest in this topic but since I received few e-mails regarding this here is my answer. I think that Terry is not new in this business and has scammed before although I won't get into who and how but my point is this program PTSPayPro was initially planned as scam. Nobody expected it to last long with returns of 25% for 10 days which basically is record high ROI and it managed to do 2 rounds in just matter of few weeks with some refunding in between and when admin tried to pull the plug by withdrawing funds Jake found out about it and since he had large pending amount of referral commissions in it because this program was aggressively promoted over ASA Jake decided to prevent this runaway or at least make a deal to share profits but this whole situation got out of hand and was turned into revealing info war. Here is Terry's version of this situation which Jake denies completely by claiming that this is fabricated conversation but few questions which were directly asked to Jake were unanswered like how did he find out so quickly about this transaction and now after quite a lot of criticism he announced about taking rest from autosurfing and leaving ASA monitor. During all of this Bob announced that he is terminating any relations with Jake from ASA. Quite a soap opera happening around these guys and this all started actually few weeks ago when identity of Terry was challenged and he was considered as admin of various scams in quite similar hot discussion and opinion wars. |
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Thanks to a reader of my site I just found out that after my yesterday's introduction to SurfMargin some info4autosurf monitor admin decided to plagiarize my efforts and post that introduction report as his own over MoneyMakerGroup forum and never mentioned where he got this article from. I actually wouldn't mind if my articles are used or quoted but at least have a decency to not represent them as your own and mention where they are coming from otherwise this is quite lame way of stealing and breaking copyright laws. |
| 10.01.2007 |
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Quite an interesting autosurf site SurfMargin was just launched today. It is profit sharing model with min 5% and max 15% daily percentage with a unique new feature of bonus cash if you surf more than required by daily quota or 10 sites. And when I say bonus cash it's not just few cents but several times more and seems that amount is based on your upgrade level. I just upgraded with 20$ and after surfing 10 pages received 5% or 1$ but 6 pages later there was a bonus click which allowed me to earn 10$ which actually is half of my initial upgrade. This feature seems is implemented to motivate surfers actually watching those ads and catching that bonus click which allows earning back 140% of your upgrade faster than others do. Fact that I received this bonus on a very first day could mean that less members site has more chances of getting that bonus click but now it definitely is worth paying attention to surfbar which doesn't last forever as well because only 30 ads per day will be shown.
Besides this new interesting feature site design is just outstanding with simple and fast loading flash section on top. Script used is one of base scripts for autosurf but with help of professional programmer stripped down and re-assembled to what admin wanted to. Also one of unique new features for profit sharing model site is that you see your earnings right after surfing just like in normal business model program because it is calculated on yesterday's roi. So no need to wait until next day to see how much you earned.
Admin's name is Charles Goldenstein and he owned two industrial chemical businesses in the UK and after he sold them Charles went into telecoms and built up a dealership that became one of the top and most successful dealerships in the UK. He is now retired and living in St Louis, Missouri after meeting his wonderful wife Patti. He also has business partner, Ray, who lives in CA. They intend to launch a few more sites this year in the same arena and actually this one isn't the first autosurf program released by them. First one is MultiStreamOnline that offers fixed 5% for 30 days and was launched in October last year and is running for 3 months already. Admin is not looking for explosive growth so it isn't advertising in aggressive manner which will allow slower but steady growth. Charles approached me to review his program and currently I see quite good potential program which most probably won't be fastest growing one but in my opinion quite good choice for an average surfer looking for a new program standing out of the crowd of cloned high risk games. Bonus click feature could ensure higher value to ads in rotation of this autosurf. So check it out and see if you like it. |
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Received payments from both CommandCorps programs which had their payouts disabled during December and reopened cashout button only on January 1st. As reported also by others payments indeed have resumed so let's see how new changes will affect growth of these programs which lately is almost none.
Also next payment from Autosurf.bz which slowly but consistently is growing and paying promptly on expiry. Sites that have worked through December without any major problems are not so many but this is one of them.
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| 08.01.2007 |
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Updated membership stats and this time award site of the week goes to Coastin88 which still continues with max possible 8% daily earnings and is growing in quite nice and steady manner. Also it has now passed it's older brother CEPCoast in total ranks so this alone makes it worth this award.
Seems that DesertSkyMarketing is quite popular right now even though it is in prelaunch mode and it's membership increased by 23% during these few days so will be interesting to see how it will grow when fully functional. ManicAds is currently second fastest growing site also showing high overall performance in most ranks so has good potential to grab next week's award if continues like this. AdSurfDaily growth has dropped compared to previous pace which also resulted in drop of daily earnings percentage lately. XLO has dropped out of top 3 which isn't too surprising since it is now in vacation mode. |
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Tri-star media is expanding and this time it's addition of existing autosurf program XLO which is currently in vacation mode. Sale is not yet completed but seems both sides are working on this so it's just matter of time. Not much details announced yet as to what changes will be made but so far only things mentioned are that it will continue operate with e-gold and tri-star processor will be added and possibly 50/50 rule introduced. |
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Brian Sam finally showed up from his vacation and confirmed that AdSharesurf is now officially closed because of a mess this site was turned into by hacker and no relaunch will be happening here. HighSpeedHits is also experiencing problems so possibly will be closed soon. For those who are interested in getting a refund from AdShareSurf here is some info how to request it:
" Again and for those who donīt know yet, the email address where to send your payment info, Member # and email address registered with AdSS is adsharesurf-refunds@excite.com
Those of you that wish to help expediate some of the research you can send me your Egold or Alertpay transaction details and I can add it to your member # in my new DB I am making. Please include, amount, Batch or reference #, member # if you remember it, email address for contact.
Thanks,
Brian"
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| 07.01.2007 |
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Tri-star money processor is still in the spotlight of concerns about their legality and licensing issues. Flame wars from those who question it's legality and admin Bob Krimm have gone as low as possible where both sides use rude language and calling names like kids in preschool that in the end just shows lack of professionalism. All this of course is creating quite negative image and publicity about this processor as many choose not to trust potential risk of their funds being frozen like it happened in EMO one year ago (for those who don't know this money processor was closed because it didn't have proper license for money transmitting). And now even programs that recently added this money processor are being affected by this negativity as some raised concerns about ManicAds which recently introduced this money processor.
Well licensing of course is important and to reduce risks of freezing funds for those who keep them for longer periods of time but main concern in my opinion is fees involved to move the funds around and less iterations this requires less money it costs. So in my opinion admin's decision to add another option shouldn't affect cashflow in negative way as it only makes audience of surfers who can join bigger by allowing those who trust only tri-star money changers to participate. Only problem with allowing multiple money processors is if a program allows withdrawing to a different money processor which isn't the case with ManicAds as it only allows requesting payout to processor you used to upgrade with.
But what doesn't look too good is that Tri-Star surf programs use this money processor exclusively and even recent readdition of e-gold doesn't allow returning to e-gold payouts.
Here is my personal experience with attempts to withdraw to e-gold.
I always used e-gold with Treo-Surf and never requested any changes to payout details but since Tri-Star processor for some time was exclusive option everyone had their payout details changed to this processor without asking. I even wandered how did they know which account to change to but since it was correctly changed never bothered. After e-gold was reenabled I decided to change it back. Changing of payout processor at Treo-surf requires ticket submission which I did twice. After first one payout details were changed but in a weird way as name of payout processor was still Money changers but account id was changed to my e-gold account number. Week later when I realized that no payment has hit my e-gold I checked once more to find out it is back to Money changers account id and all payouts done to that money processor. Second ticket was just ignored as nothing has changed for some time already. So either customer service is overloaded or there is something fishy about not changing payout details since it allows to continue flooding e-gold funds into Tri-star money processor. And as coincidence recent mass e-mail with explanation about support tickets not being answered because of member's spam e-mail filter settings sound more like an excuse since mass e-mails are being received just fine.
Update: After submitting 3rd ticket on 9th of January I finally received prompt response and details were changed as I requested.
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The Zen's Den blog has released another interesting interview this time with Mike Gallagher admin of ManicAds where he reveals history of creating this program and it's development as well as his own experience in this industry before becoming and admin of an autosurf. If you are interested in finding out more about this program this interview will be a good read.
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BlueHeavenMails showed some life signs recently as daily e-mails resumed and admin even promised to do refunds and relaunch this thing. Well seems more like an attempt to leech in some additional funds so don't spend a single cent until you see that refund. Reputation of this admin after all those posts in forums has become quite questionable and I tend to believe this is just one of those returns for more without any good intentions. |
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Finally first payment came from DailyROI:PS which I joined during it's profit share time just before it changed back to standard business model so all earnings were cancelled and upgrade restarted in new model. After it's expiry on same day prompt payment was issued and reports show it's first wave has gone quite smooth so this program is showing some positive progress but still has to prove it's worth as those changes during december reduced it's traffic levels a lot.
Also quite prompt payment from Coastin88 to CEPTrust which showed their new automatic payout process in action. Although had some trouble with verification process at money processor since they fixed those limit checks just before holidays although once documents were sent few hours later level was changed.
And ontime payment from Club4Elite which recently introduced new change to terms where those who reduce upgrade level with next cycle will earn less. This change was not received too well since some consider it as potential trouble sign. Well it could be just that or it could be false assumption but general reaction of course will have impact on cashflow now so use caution with this high risk program.
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| 05.01.2007 |
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Quite disappointing news came from MyGcard service who announced that existing gCard debit cards will be discontinued and replaced because of their current issuing bank North York Community winding down. This card so far was one of best options for withdrawing your funds from e-gold, paypal, moneybookers and etc via atm anywhere in the world. Their service record and feedback from card users was top level and never had any problems with this card as funding was done within few hours after request submission. MyGcard informs that they will be replacing existing gCards with new one by end of January so hopefully this great service will continue with new and better bank but demand for these cards could be enormous so it will be important to not miss replacement request submission if such will be required. |
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For those interested in what Agloco will be like you can watch the video presentation about it's older quite similar version AllAdvantage toolbar and find out it's advantages like privacy, security, friendly interface and in my opinion main advantage that it is free to use unlike current autosurfs which require investing first to earn so there are no risks involved just an opportunity to join into large project that will be launching within few weeks. Also there are some speculations that this could become descent competition to Google as it's aiming for same market and Harold blog has an interesting calculations how it could affect Google revenue. Although numbers used are just too high main idea behind this article makes some sense as membership recently passed 100000 members and with such pace could reach first million probably by next summer if not sooner. If you haven't yet decided watch the video and find out yourself about the idea as viewable presentation usually is easier to understand than written explanation and join now as toolbar will be available based on joining date so earlier you join sooner you can start earning money with it. |
| 04.01.2007 |
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Relaunch of DesertSkyMarketing has been delayed until 12th of January but site is now available and signups enabled. For those who are not familiar with this site I just want to mention that this is one of most trusted admins who closed down program not after he run out of funds but when situation was becoming worrying and afterwards refunded most of members with only small portion left who will be receiving their refunds by February. Unique thing to first launch was that it was aimed to involve some coprorate companies in sponsoring surfing but this approach didn't go as planned because of low conversion manual surfing was showing and contracts were not renewed. Site has legit company DESERT SKY NETWORK, LLC (file in state of Arizona corporate filings, Federal TAX id number) behind it with admin Dustin Fennell who is quite known person in autosurfing world. Site is on dedicated server with DDoS protection. Admin is very experienced in server configuration, scripting and etc so site will be run on customized script with one of best protections against 3rd party interference like hacking, traffic flooding and etc. Business model used in this will be profit sharing with limited daily earnings which prevents from drastic jumps and general slowdown when it is constantly dropping as can be observed at Coastin88 which still keeps max possible 8% daily and presents this great improvement of profit sharing model in action. Also will allow all earnings shared not just from upgrade purchases but also from other advertising like banners, clicks and etc that site will be allowing which also is good improvement to profit sharing model as can be observed at ManicAds which keeps consistent daily percentage around 10% average since the very beginning even without any limits involved. So both features combined here will be part of very interesting program to be launched in few days by trusted admin with good security skills. It will be accepting E-gold, Alertpay and CEPTrust as payment processors.
Site is still in prelaunch mode but available for signups so you can join it already and get familiar with surfing and prepare for it's launch on 12th of January. I highly recommend this site as I think it will potentially grow very big and at fast pace so don't miss it's launch.
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| 03.01.2007 |
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Quite interesting but in my opinion wise decision was made by Andy from XLO Auto surf who announced month of January as holidays. Basically this means just like few weeks ago when 3 days of DDoS attacks were made as holidays that all upgrades will be extended for amount of days which program will be in holiday mode and program will resume from beginning of February. Main reason for this decision is that his other program The Finer Things which was closed today with plans to issue all payments by end of month requires his full attention to fullfill all obligations so Andy doesn't want to risk XLO doing any damage by paying less attention to it. A lot of speculations are made why this was done and some even scream scam already but this really isn't the case of closing a program. I think that this was good decision as it will allow avoiding slowdown because of concerns regarding closing of hyip program as this timeout will allow admin showing if he can keep his promise to make payouts and once the XLO resumes people will already know how payouts in TFT were made. Admin basically froze state in which this program is at this moment before any speculations about it's future because of TFT are doing any damage to XLO. |
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New year started with mass launches of instapay programs followed by noticable popularity of 12by12instant which offered deadly feature of daily instant payouts. Timing for this program was somewhat good as large masses from closed programs during December were searching for replacement and this one seemed as very good choise which doesn't require waiting so this ensured that growth will be exploding and helping to sustain such high ROI with daily compounding for over 4 weeks already. This was quickly picked up by more admins mostly with unknown reputation or well hidden scammers and several similar programs were launched by end of December to get their piece of the pie. Few days ago 12by12instant started to show
signs of trouble and this will of course affect othere instant pay programs so use highest caution with these programs even if they were launched just few days ago. Such programs are pure games and if you pull out or join too late in the game then this means loosing. |
