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What’s up with the comment spam?

September 30th, 2009 No comments

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I know that you loyal readers don’t see it much, but you’d be surprised at how much of this kind of junk I have to put up with.

The odd part about the whole thing is that these are random people – PEOPLE – who are actually solving the captcha form at the bottom of these pages in order to post the spam comments.

What’s up with that?

Even odder (I’d say funnier, but the annoying factor is just a bit to high to qualify as funny – at least on my side) is that it seems to be the same person doing it over and over, by the looks of it, and this person has to have realized by now that there’s moderation enabled and I have the advantage of mass deleting all of his or her comments in one click, while that poor spammer has to copy/paste each comment in, with a fictitious name, and a likely not fictitious website, and the comment content, AND solve the captcha…  I mean, I almost feel bad for the spammers.

I don’t even get emailed when they post stuff, so it doesn’t even have an annoyance factor on me.

Dude.  Whomever you are.  I feel bad for you.  Give it up.  Please?

My HitSilo Launch Review (Part 1) – Did Logiscape Do Something Wrong?

September 27th, 2009 1 comment

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Friday, Logiscape released their latest traffic exchange, Hitsilo.

The launch was quiet… Almost too quiet.

Nowhere near as exciting as the TrafficEra launch two years ago, that’s for sure.

The thing is, 2 days after launch, I still haven’t seen more than a handful of Traffic Exchange operators advertising it personally – which is odd. Usually you’ll see the membership shoot up fast at such a launch, due to massive promotion by large and popular exchange owners (these are the folks who usually have both a large & influential list, as well as interest in promoting good exchanges for the overall good of the industry).

That doesn’t mean it’s a bad sign against the exchange (not by itself, at least) – plenty of other exchanges have quietly risen up to the tops of the charts – HitBoosterPro and High Hits are two of my favorite exchanges like that. They’re little gems that never had the huge JV launches, and yet they delivery good quality traffic, and will be around for years to come at their current growth and activity rates.

There’s also a new twist to the Hitsilo game – unlike previous exchanges where you were rewarded in credits for your recruiting activities, so far Hitsilo hasn’t shown to have any such thing (there is a PV bonus, but there’s no FAQ on exactly what PV brings you). There’s no Logibucks anymore either. Instead, Logiscape has rolled out a new commission structure which lets you earn up to 70% cash commissions.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining about exchange owners leaving money on the table. More for the rest of us, as far as I’m concerned. The upgrades are rather affordable this time – Logiscape’s discovered the One Time Offer this time around, and is offering a 1 year Pro upgrade for less than $110. And they’ve prought the VIP add-on from TrafficEra and called it PowerPlus. There’s another monthly fee on this (Logiscape: If you’re reading this, it really costs too much now – it costs almost as much as the Pro membership, and I personally don’t see the value in it, other than commissions. The Silo and Bonus Credits shouldn’t have the same price tag as the Pro membership!)

Free members start out with a 10% commission on upgrades and credit sales, and upgrading can get you up to 50%. In addition, once you get more than 6 upgraded downline members you’ll max out at 70%.

It’s too early to say how well the traffic is going to convert. More on that soon, but it’s definately going to be around for a long time, and it’s going to be popular!

If you haven’t yet, you should definately join (and upgrade for max results) at Hitsilo.

Hitsilo Launch Announced

September 25th, 2009 No comments

Logiscape has just announced that Hitsilo will be launching today at 10:00 AM PDT

Can’t wait for the launch!

The PS – Mythbuster?

September 23rd, 2009 No comments

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I recently put out a pair of emails on the GVO Launch, and found the tracking results fascinating… First of all, the conversion to leads/customers was pretty miserable, which tells me that I didn’t do a proper job pre-selling my prospects (either that or Kiosk did a bad job closing them which is possible, but kinda doubtful). But my lack of doing a decent job here wasn’t the point.

I set up tracking for each link in the email to a unique link, and the results were fascinating.

Of 733 recipients (all of who were on a VERY targeted list in the dedicated server niche), I got 100 opens (tracked), and 40 clicks.

Of the 40 clicks, 37 were in the top, and 3 on the PS link. Interesting…

Here’s the first email.

So then I decided to try a second email, more targeted at IM marketers, and see what would happen. I knew in advance that it wouldn’t convert as well because of the niche, so I branded it as what it was – my last GVO prelaunch email.

Here’s the second mail.

This one had only 23 clicks.

9 clicks on the “join for a buck”

8 clicks on the “here’s the countdown”

(Notice how those 2 were the emotional triggers in the email?)

4 clicks on the top link.

And 2 on the PS link.

Are consumers starting to mentally “filter” the PS of emails as advertising space and ignoring them?

Categories: Informational

It Pays To Be In Issac’s Downline

September 23rd, 2009 2 comments

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Sometimes, it really pays off to be in my downline…

Because I believe that to get, you must give. So I do give. Like just now, I had too many credits to burn at High Hits, so I gave away 16,755 credits. No strings attached. All to active surfers in my downline.

I also gave some of them access to some pretty special offers that I don’t give out to anyone from the general public.

And it wasn’t a one time thing, either. I regularly do this at lots of different traffic exchanges, and other multi-level programs (including many popular TEs) where my downline helps me.

If you’re serious about surfing or making money, and you’re in my downline at ANY program at all, and work hard there, you can trust me to back you up. That means credits and even CASH (Yes, I give that away from time to time too – quite often at SuccessQUIK, for example).

I can’t wait to give you YOUR slice of the pie!