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The medieval-themed traffic exchange Royal Surf has recently made major changes to the design of its site. The program owners have also added various surfing and referring incentives in order to make membership here a little more interesting. Six weeks ago, the program revamped its jousting game to make it more like a mini-RPG (role playing game), complete with strength bonuses and boss monsters.

The new design changes make the site look a little more “medievalish” than before, but what seems more enticing are the additional rewards. There is now a small cash bonus for surfing 1000 or more sites in a day as well as cash bonuses for direct referrals. There are also many more opportunities for winning awards from random drawings, even for members who do not surf large numbers of pages or win many of the regular quests. The actual details of the recent changes are spelled out below:

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Rod Baker, the owner of Share Ad Space, has been one of the more dynamic program owners in the traffic exchange and website promotion industries. His latest proposed tweak to the SAS program involves the idea of allowing members to replace inactive or “dud” referrals after surfing a certain number of pages. While there is no guarantee that the “fresh” referral would remain active, it does represent a significant step forward in combating the problem of inactive and worthless referrals. Meanwhile, Rod has also managed to officially retire the site debt from the previous version of SAS that was derailed last July by an unfortunate lightning strike and subsequent loss of data by the hosting company. Details of this latest update are posted below:

Hello everyone,

A new poll has been setup at our forum. Here is its contents:

A new idea to present to the masses.

Since the advent of the free referrals this past month, while many are excited with the new features, many are upset that so many referrals are inactive.

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Several notable stories and videos about the Ron Paul campaign have surfaced over the past week, so this is probably a good time to collect some of these into a post and prepare them for consumption by “Ron Paulers” who are eager for positive messages and news coverage.

Probably the most significant event of the campaign so far occurred last Sunday when over $6 million was donated in a single day as part of the Tea Party ‘07 “money bomb” fundraising effort. With sufficient cash on hand, supporters are hoping to increase public awareness and name recognition ahead of the start of the presidential primary season in January. December 16 was the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, a famous act of rebellion against unfair taxation that marked the beginning of the American Revolution and subsequent independence from the British.

Meanwhile, one of the most popular videos recently is this one titled “Ron Paul: A New Hope”. It is an uplifting montage of news coverage, clips from the debates, and notable facts about Ron Paul that significantly separate him from the other candidates. Length is 8 minutes, 44 seconds.

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The December edition of Opinion Matters, the monthly newsletter of MySurvey.com, has been released to the membership and is now available here for your perusal. This month’s issue is relatively short, focusing primarily on the issue of charitable donations.

If you would like to join the panel, you can do so for free by clicking on the banner below. Each completed survey will yield a certain number of points that can be redeemed for cash. Minimum payout threshold is 1000 points = $10. Cash payments are made by check, but it is also possible to redeem for various prizes. As this newsletter indicates, you may also donate your points to a variety of charitable organizations if you are so inclined.

‘Tis the Season For Giving

The holiday season is usually hailed as a time for giving, not just to friends and families, but in support of charities and others less fortunate. For MySurvey.com members, the season for giving is 365 days each year; that’s how often members donate their Reward Points to charity.

The point donations add up. Between the beginning of January and the beginning of December 2007, over $30,000 in Reward Points were donated to our charity partners.

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Our Texas LP is making its last push to recruit prospective candidates before the filing deadline on January 2. Even though the actual election is still more than ten months away, time is running out for getting the necessary paperwork completed in order to get on the ballot. I have reprinted Wes Benedict’s email below just in case any of you who might be eligible to run for office in Texas and wouldn’t mind seeing your name on the ballot will have the information needed to make an official application.

Dear Texas Libertarian:

I need you to fill out an application to be a candidate and send that back to me as soon as possible. Please do it this weekend.

We are behind on candidate recruitment. We have about 79 candidates right now, but there are less than three weeks left to reach our goal of 250 nominees.

I hope by now most of you understand how important it is to have an army of Libertarian Party candidates on the ballot helping to build our movement. I understand most of you won’t spend any funds or much time on your campaign and that’s okay. I also understand that some of you will be running very active campaigns and that’s wonderful.

Whatever your plans, please just get an application in to me now. If you change your mind later, you can always withdraw.

The absolute deadline for filing an application is 5:00 PM on January 2, but waiting till the last minute makes my work incredibly difficult. If you wait, that means I’ll be asking other people to run for the same position, and if you both file at the last minute, then I won’t have time to offer one of you a different race where we have an opening. Additionally, that means I will have wasted my finite amount of time recruiting a candidate we didn’t need, and leaving an office unchallenged where we wanted a candidate.

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Although I wound up writing a “book” of an email to request it, I finally received my first payout from the Owl Post PTR program yesterday. It was not for my entire balance, but I did manage to get most of it:

In case you’re curious, here is the relevant excerpt from my email where I requested payment. The first (unquoted) part was some discussion about advertising and clicking through on the site support links.

Now that you seem to be caught up on November payouts, I would like to put in a payment request for December. Amazingly, I’ve never requested payment at this program since I first joined back in 2004, so this will be my first time. Part of the reason for this is that I have had problems with trying to request payment from the Owl Post site. Whenever I click on the link from there, it launches some sort of Outlook Express application that I can never get to work. I never use Outlook Express and cannot seem to configure it for sending mail, so I have never been able to get a request to go through from the site. It might be a good idea to set up a regular contact form for the payment requests so that we don’t have to worry about issues with different email clients.

Alternatively, you could just do a rotating random payout system where members who reach a certain minimum threshold are paid out for whatever is in their cash balance as long as funds are available. If there are not enough funds available to pay out all members, then those members who have waited the longest (as determined by the date of their last payout or the date that they joined the program for those who have never received a payment) are paid first, and everyone else is eventually paid according to date order.

This would save members the hassle of having to make actual payment requests and would give you a system that would insure an element of fairness even when funds are limited. Members who do not want to be paid their cash balances because they want to redeem for advertising in the future can indicate this in their interest section or profile (many programs allow members to do this by checking or unchecking a box).

Well, this email is starting to get longer than I had originally planned on, so I guess I had better wrap it up. Hopefully your recent progress with revenues and payouts will stimulate more interest in the program and lead to an overall increase in the active membership. Now that I’m running an active blog and getting more seriously into Internet marketing, I need all of the advertising potential that I can possibly muster!

Later that day Michele Ballard replied (again, this is only the relevant excerpt):

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Today Dan Moses, owner of the online marketing and traffic building program FreeClickThruClub.com, sent out a rather lengthy newsletter that reported on some of the recent happenings with the program. In the last part of the newsletter, he included this feature article that discusses some of the lucrative possibilities of having your own program or membership site.

He has given us permission to republish the article on our blogs as long as we include his author resource box, which I have placed at the end of the main text in between the two lines.

Have you ever asked yourself what it would be like to be a program owner?

Have you ever thought how it might feel to own a program of your own some day?

Have you ever wanted to own a successful Internet business, but just didn’t know how or where to start?

Do you find yourself day dreaming what it would be like to own a program online? For years I wanted to own a program online, but really didn’t have a clue at that time what I wanted to own. Finally, I met someone that could help me get started in owning a program and my life changed forever.

Becoming a program owner is so much more then just establishing an online presence. You can do that by building a list or promoting affiliate programs… no, being a program owner is like creating a masterpiece that you have control over. It’s something that you become a part of… it gets in your blood and if done right… it will become part of who you are.

In order to make the best decision on what type of program to own, several factors need to be considered. You want the most suited program for you… this program needs to enable you to perform at your peak level. Warning: Don’t create a program until you’ve answered the following five questions…

1. Would you like to earn a residual income from the Internet?

2. Would you like to build a list very quickly?

3. Would you like to create traffic on demand?

4. Would you like to build relationships with Top Marketers?

5. Would you like to achieve freedom from employment?

If you answered yes to these 5 questions then this is for you, but are you willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen?

Being a program owner is more then getting up in the morning and checking stats and sales. You have to invest your heart into your program and the time needed to make that program a huge success. At least that’s the way I’ve always done it.

People know the difference from an owner who cares for them and a owner who’s only in it for themselves and the money.

So what kinds of programs are there to own online?

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Online business network Take the Internet Back, a division of WLPP, has announced the launch of its latest website venture, Bidsnarf.com. It is being billed as a “reverse auction” site, but after studying the program’s rules and FAQ, I have determined that it is effectively more of a raffle ticket and sweepstakes system. The way that the auction works is that the lowest unique bidder on each item wins. In other words, if two people both bid 1 cent on an item, neither would win because the bid is not unique; however, if only one person bids 3 cents on the same item, then that person would win.

The catch here (yes there has to be a catch, considering the value of some of the prizes!) is that in order for people to place bids, they have to register at the site and purchase “bid credits” for $10 each. Each bid credit entitles the member to place one bid. Therefore, in effect bidding on an item is much like buying a raffle ticket for $10 plus a small amount for whatever your guess is for the lowest unique bid price. There are also odds of winning listed for the prizes, which makes it seem more like a sweepstakes or drawing type of system than a regular auction.

Membership in the TIB program is free. Members are awarded profit shares for reading email advertisements and receive cash earnings based on the number of shares owned approximately once per month. Earnings are derived from the sale of advertising at TIB and other businesses that are part of its network. Here is the full update about their latest project:

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CPU-Z is a handy little detection and testing program that will display detailed information about the hardware specifications of your PC. The application is approximately half of a megabyte in size and is very easy to use. All you need to do is download it, unzip it, and click on the file named “cpuz.exe”. After a few seconds of loading time, you should see it open in a new window that looks something like this:

The display consists of six tabs that will provide the following information:

1. name, vendor, package, technology, and core voltage of your processor
2. processor specs including core speed, multiplier, bus speed, and level 1-3 cache data
3. manufacturer, model and chipset of your motherboard
4. BIOS brand, version, and date
5. graphic interface version and link width
6. memory (RAM) information: type, size, number of channels, frequency, latency, cycle time, and other specifications
7. on the About tab: author, version number, operating system specs, validation tools, and link to CPUID developers website

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This morning I discovered a nice little three minute video that explains the concept of blogging in a way that most non-bloggers (yes, amazingly such people still exist!) will probably understand. It also saves me the trouble of typing out one of my 1,000+ word essays saying essentially the same thing.

Video credit goes to Lee LeFever at www.commoncraft.com/show.

Today I had the chance to review a new site that may be able to provide some help to those of you who are struggling with bad credit problems. Appropriately enough, it’s called BadCreditOffers.com, and it provides information about an array of financial services ranging from bad credit loans to credit repair. Each section of the site has links to several reputable finance companies that are willing to accept applications from customers with “less than perfect” credit histories. A convienient summary of each company’s most relevant features and rules is also included alongside each link.

Overall, this site seems to provide a useful service for people who need to make important purchases but have run into difficulties because they cannot get the financing approved. By putting a sufficient amount of relevant information from several different companies under one virtual “roof”, BadCreditOffers.com saves people the hassle of applying to many credit card companies or financial institutions only to be turned down, or (perhaps worse) being accepted for financing but under very unfavorable terms. Meanwhile, for people who do not necessarily need to buy anything but instead want to improve their credit, they also have a credit repair section which contains information about companies that provide assistance with bill consolidation, debt relief, and consumer credit counseling.

Of course, the best way to avoid the difficulties of bad credit is to abstain from deficit spending to begin with, but if you do find yourself in debt and need assistance with financing or credit repair, BadCreditOffers.com may be able to point you in the right direction.