Very Difficult These Days...

That is to say, it is getting more and more difficult to make any
cash on the WWW unless one is a major corporation, or has buku bucks
to spend. Many affiliate programs are "free to join", but there is
usually the catch: unless one does a paid upgrade, one is not
allowed to make money. iProfit has now called me twice to ask if
I was ready to invest; I did not even let them get to the question,
but headed them off at the pass saying that if I upgraded in every
program I joined, I would then have no cash to live on!

Then there are such sites as Google, who now own Blogger.
If one reads the TOS carefully, commercial entities are
forbidden to use or join such communities. So where does
one go if one IS a business, even a sole proprietor startup?

If you find the answer before I do please let me know...lol!

When "Free" isn't Free At All

I'm sure you've all gotten these in your email boxes...

"Congtratulations! You've just won a FREE* Laptop Computer"!
The first time you saw one, you probably got all excited and
rushed to click the link without noting the asterick after
the word "FREE". Other "offers" I've noted included anything
from "free" Gift Cards to a "free" Hi-Definition TV.

That little asterick is there to tell you that the so-called
"freebie" is actually a "fee-bie"; in other words, to qualify
for the "free" gift, you must participate in "sponsor offers".

This semi-scam has been running for at least 6 years if not
longer. Once confined solely to the United States, the UK
now has several outlets for these programs. BEWARE: you may
actually end up spending more than the worth of the 'gift',
plus have your email address added to numerous email lists
due to the "surveys" included in such offers. You may be
forced onto several email marketing lists BEFORE you are even
able to see the monetary "sponsor offers" and be told just
how many you must complete to qualify. Some of the lists
you end up on can and will have telemarketers ringing you
in search of new customers for products you never really
wanted, just said yes to to get through the boring questions.

WHY CAN'T PEOPLE JUST TELL THE TRUTH ONLINE?? WHY DO THEY
HAVE TO TELL SUCH SUBTLE LIES? HOW DID A SIMPLE PUNCTUATION
MARK BECOME A "PROCEED WITH CAUTION" ITEM INSTEAD?

What is it With all the Bots??

I don't only blog from Blogger.
I have several blogs on other
systems, plus I blog from my
own domains.

The domain-based blogs have
been flooded by spammers
advertising anything from
affiliate programs, to
drug pharmacies, to online
casinos; yet let me advert
ONE affil prog on here and
I get reduced to TURING
NUMBERS to prove I am NOT
a BOT??

GO FIGURE...

Happy New Year all!

Totally Angry and Also Confused!

My Stormpay account has mysteriously "re-opened".
I do not take back what
I said earlier about SP being no good. It is just a matter
of time to see what new BS will pop up.

Wondering...

It would seem that someone may have tagged this blog
as a "spam blog". I am now required to do word
verification on each post.

I am very sorry, Blogger admin and staff,
but there is no way that I am in
agreement with this!

I see tons of blogs every day built specifically for
marketing purposes. I now feel I have been singled
out. All I have ever tried to do with this blog is
attempt to give information on various affiliate
programs on the WWW, and their usability and/or
trustworthiness for folks who may wish to use the
many moneymaking options the Web provides.

It will be obvious on first reading that this blog
is hand-written, not auto-posted. Yes, there will
be the occasional affiliate link, but who among Web
marketers does not try to obtain more referrals?

I have never been a fan of and have never used
autoresponders...THERE is your true spam! Nor
do I believe in the use of "bots".

Hmmm...perhaps it is time to change that stance??
(at least as far as email goes...lol!)

Stormpay Throws out Even More BS!

I tried to log in to my Stormpay account on Friday.
I got the message that "Your Stormpay account has been
closed".

Now as I had never violated SP's TOS, I was mightily
puzzled over this and wrote to the SP admin to find
out why. IF I ever get an answer, I will post it here
(with relevant identifying info removed, of course).

My suspicions are threefold:

A) I had only listed one auction on SP since it became
an aution site only

B) My mailbox was full (but note the support ticket email
came through all right)

C) At this point in time, I was merely a member in order
to earn money via the StormClix program; I was therefore
only taking money, not bringing SP any.

And why indeed should I bring money
to a program that has scammed most of its members, closed accounts and
seized funds left and right?

Whether or not I get a reply is irrelevant at this point in time.
This is hereby my warning to the Net at large:Stormpay is no good!

Activity Requirements

Some PT sites have a minimum activity requirement. Basically this
means one must log into the site and view/click ads and emails within
a certain time from one's last login.

Yesterday I got extremely angry with My husband. Due to the fact that
he decided to get lazy about his own memberships, I had had to neglect
My own in order to keep HIS memberships alive.

Here are the sites I have lost due to this so far:

TigersAds
Beaus-Bucks
Electric-blue Clicks
Bluecollar Mails

NOW, I must waste even more time going up to traffic engines I am a
member of and taking out PTP (paid to promote) pages I was rotating
on same. What is worse, is at least two of the lost memberships were
UPGRADED ones...sigh.

So I think I will simply make him transfer all monies from his next
PTR payouts to Me through our online processors; I did the work and
HE lost Me income!

As Promised...

I did say I would give a few weeks to see if the problem with Rotatorqueen was a
server glitch...yes?

Well that is exactly what it has turned out to be; I logged in two weeks ago with
no problems. I will only be using this engine for traffic from now on however;
it is useless as a payment surf!