Surfaholic

A funny thing, I haven't done any serious surfing at all on a traffic exchange for almost a year.

Anywhere.

I stopped clicking last fall when... Yes, I was basically surfing 16 to 18 hours per day, mostly over at TrafficEra. The team-chat was addictive and our team was more often in the top three of teams than not. Finally It went to the point where I had to decide between my wife and my mouse. Wasn't really that difficult, I say now many months later, but I remember the nights when I woke soaking in sweat and thinking about all the clocks I'd been missing. Yeah, well, you have had to be there to understand.

But basically, with a little help from my friends and family, I got free. And stayed clean for many months.

Then I suddenly had a mail from Easy Hits 4 You. And for some reason I opened it.

Now I'm doing 1000+ clicks per day at Easy Hits 4 You, just to get the $0.30 that every member get for surfing 1000.

I most definitely am a surfaholic.

But I know I can quit when ever I want to. I promise, honey!

Working from home - For REAL

Oh, yes. There is a thing or two to say about the "Work at home" business. After all, that is what many of us do for a living. But NO, I am NOT, as you for certainty now are thinking, going to promote any obscure scam or go nuts about how to promote your business using some social media here. Not this time.

No, I am going to tell you how I feel sick when I see all those happy people - you know the pictures, you see them everywhere - sitti

ng there smiling behind a clean desk, perhaps waving at the camera, telling you some lies about how they only work four hours per week and make a fortune doing absolutely nothing.

UGH! My blood pressure rises to never seen heights when I just think of it.

Now. I am not saying that every single one of those pictures, and/or the people on them are fake, and some of them might just be tidy, but really; You d

on't have to be a mathematician to figure out the odds of all of those millions of people becoming not working millionaires simply on a PTC-program...

To show you all how it really may look like in the facilities of a serious online marketer I hereby, completely without shame, show you my working space. At home:

Robert Louis Stevenson

Today we, all lovers of Treasure Island, celebrate the Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer R. L. Stevenson and the fact he was born 160 years ago today. Birthday party! His best-known books include Treasure Island - One we all know -, Kidnapped, and another classic; the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

I tried to find some TE, traffic exchange, that in any way possible remind me of either Stevenson or Treasure Island, but the few there was looked so puny so I decided to skip that tought. Instead I choosed to do something I haven´t done in a long while; Try a new Safelist!

I found one suitable for today called AdPirate Safelist that I will try to setup. Let's see what happens...

Hmmm.... Total members 1372. + 1 now. Fill in the usual details... List e-mail, contact e-mail, name password... Affiliate payout AlertPay... Membership free Ready to go!

Oh! The validation link went to my trash bin... Validate... God! I really do hate these "This is the last time you'll see this offer..." Unusual amount of these here. WAY too many.

The left bar with option seem to contain lots of things. And I am really saying LOTS here. I count to 53 (!) buttons, but I settle for the credit mailer - 10 000 credits, free member allowed to send to 370. New tracking-link from Linktrack, the famous copy-paste, and off we go!

Smart Subscriber

So how many times have you seen someone offer you a free trial of something or other, but to get started you need to provide a credit card number, or use your AlertPay account to sign up?

Yes, yes. So here is another one. Perhaps worth a shot... At least it's free for 90 days. I will try it, it is called Smart Subscriber, and here is the story:

What these scammer guys are really doing is getting your credit card number or AlertPay account locked into their auto re-billing feature and hiding behind their real motive simply by telling you that it is for your convenience.

It is a well known fact that many people who offer products or services are making more money due simply to people forgetting to cancel these auto re-bills.

Now I'm not in any way speaking for all marketers. Many do in fact provide great value and are trying to make things easier, but it is also an overly abused marketing tactic to make the product or service owner a lot of extra recurring income.

You see a lot of unethical marketers know that most of the time you will forget about the trial and a few months later you will finally notice that you have been charged XX dollars every month. Guess who makes a pile of money that way. That's not the ethical way to do things in my opinion.

On a total flip side, here's an example of a guy who has an insanely good free trial offer, but you don't have to give your credit card or AlertPay account up front. It's just a free trial, because he believe it works and is not hiding behind anything!

Smart Subscriber

It's a no obligations 90 Day Free Trial of what's called the Smart Subscriber marketing system. His name is Ian Herculson and he's been an online marketer for over a decade and claims he will make you money through affiliate commissions just to prove his service is worth paying for!

With no credit cards or AlertPay account stuff upfront, I'd say that's a pretty rock solid and safe free trial.

Risk free, so to speak.

AdKreator

Sleepless, bored, and having nothing else to do besides finding new ways of doing things, I once again stumbled over a pretty good and fun site; AdKreator.

As most of us know, a splashpage or squeezepage is of great importance these days if you use those TE's for your advertising. And a good looking page is not always easy to do. Well, that used to be true, now that AdKreator is around it's all suddenly a game. And a fun game, that is.

Took me five minutes to do this one: Example , and I actually had fun doing it! Oh, and it is totally free. Imagine that!

Weekend off

One of the benefits with the "work at home"-concept is the ability of taking a day off whenever you want. Or a weekend.

After all, that is one of the main reasons why we become online marketers in the first place. Now, when I have done this for five years more or less, I finally have the financial freedom to do so.

It took time and errors, and most of the errors could have been avoided. Naturally, but I have always had a "mind of my own", as they say - my wife hates it, but we are still married ;) - and tried to find new and easier solutions for the things thousands and thousands before me already tried and found to be good.

Those two pictures I've placed here I took yesterday, when out sailing with my old dad, and I think they illustrate the true meaning of "freedom". Oh man, I am so lucky!

By the way, this free weekend was paid for with the bonuses I got from AlertPay. Did you know you get paid for signing up new members there?

ZOUNDS of free visitors

I accidentally, when wasting time doing absolutely nothing, stumbled over this:

"250.000.000 visitors to your site!

When you signup, you are presented 10 websites for a period of 30 seconds each.

Some might say: "is too long..."

Wrong ! We want to send you real interested traffic, traffic that converts to sales, so, what you do is what you get! Be honest to the people who owns these 10 websites and your visitors will be honest with you. That means, take your time to sneak around each site. Serioulsly read what the site is all about, buy a product...

Once you will be completed with this step, we will give you a unique URL. A real .html page that we will index in 1,000s of search engines and directories.

Send people to your page (without spam of course). They will help you build your traffic. You can login to check your stats or change your URL as necessary. The results are guaranteed! Just try now, it's free!"

Well, it did not take long to sign up, and now I'm only waiting for some results! And I have to say, that if I get even 1 % of that traffic for my 300 sec. use of time it will be worth it.

If anyone of you are interested, here is the link: Free Cool Traffic!

If you happen to get results, of ANY kind, please leave a comment!