Surf Group: Power Surf Central

Here is a great surf group for people new to traffic exchanges. It's called Power Surf Central, and I say it's a great surf group for newcomers because it has a totally manageable number of TEs in the surf grouping.

Additionally, signing up at the Power Surf Central site will give you access to a downline builder, extra surf points and credits (based on activity), and easy to understand tutorials about TEs and getting traffic to your websites. As well, PSC will introduce newcomers to a small collection of responsive viral mailers - enough to provide effective traffic generation without being overwhelming.

The link to join:  Power Surf Central

For beginners, join PSC and then join the recommended sites in the PSC downline builder. The sites you will definitely be rewarded extra for using are the ones to focus on if you feel over committed in any way from joining several sites at once.

Surf the THREE Primary sites, RealHitz4u , HitSafari , and Soaring4Traffic to get good and comfortable with traffic exchange surfing.

Here's a screenshot of a certain dashboard area where you can see how your extra points are adding up while you surf the 3 primary sites PSCentral is designed around:

Above and over to the right... those bars will continue to fill up with blue, indicating you are hitting a surf maximum whereby PSC will award you extra credits and points.

Just be sure to fill out your ref IDs into the proper pages at PowerSurfCentral and the points/extra rewards will add up nicely and provide you with a load of extra advertising power!!!

SPECIAL BONUS OPPORTUNITY

As a nice bonus, once you are comfortable with surfing 3 TEs at once, ad 1 more TE site to your surf routine and specifically add Deep Sea Hits because when this TE is paired with HitSafari, the two create extra rewards! Surfing DeepSeaHits and HitSafari together to 250 pages, will get you 100 extra credits at each site! DAILY. Do the math quickly on this - you can gain a few thousand extra credits very easily in a month just by making sure you surf these two sites together.

Power Surf Central Minimum Surf = 100 pages. This will gain you extra credits, text and banner impressions but no extra points within the Power Surf Central system.

You'll want to surf at least 200 pages while surfing the 3 core/primary sites at once in order to gain Power Surf Central POINTS, which are later redeemable for more credits at a ratio of 500pts:100c.

Extra credits AND extra points get calculated based also on consistency of your surfing, which means there are extra credits and points waiting for you for surfing several days in a row. Daily, weekly, monthly stats are all taken into consideration.

Have a good look around and read all the helpful notes and information in your PSCentral dashboard and GET SURFING - for extra credits!

I you can master surfing with Power Surf Central sites, you'll gain a lot more credits than surfing random sites together, and this will boost your ad power and promotion power quickly and dramatically. Surf consistently and while you are gaining ad power, you can also implement other training available in your Power Surf Central dashboard (*Hint: marketing training - to take your promotions further than just surfing!).

Let me know in comments what your best surfing day has rewarded you with, via use of PSC sites and methods.

Happy Surfing,
teeray~~

What To Do While Waiting on Forced Ad Views

Forced view ads/pages force the end-viewer to actually view what is being advertised and I AM ALL FOR THAT 'cos most pages are NOT being viewed and considered with critical thinking by viewers who are trying to get that tenth of a cent, penny, credit, a set of minimum page views for bonus credits, while viewing pages online. Most pages simply are being passed over when someone has paid hard earned money on advertising.

Fortunately for me, I am also making money surfing on multiple cell phones so viewing a forced advertisement on my computer and being made to slow down in my credit-generating surf activities gives me time to view ads on 1-5 phones or to re-set video line-ups on a phone or two. Fortunately, for paid ad buyers, rather than taking me away from pages online that are supposed to be viewed, this combined phone/net activity actually makes me re-watch a LOT of ads, bookmark a lot of pages to read later, etc.

Maybe my cell phone activities are also causing me to be more conscientious as a viewer. For a phone ad, the screen is too small for opening up multiple ads. Most cell phone ads are forced view ads. Overall, I am viewing WAY MORE forced view ads than I was before implementing cell phone earning programs into my routine. I have noticed that I may not join too many programs, but I am responding much more online to subscriptions, blogs for reading (tutorials, money making blogs) and such now that I have periods of time whereby I have to stop switching between browser tabs to view a forced ad.

Although I am testing 30+ cell phone programs on 6 cell devices, there are two fave programs that have emerged and that I have been paid by - multiple times.

Swagbucks and Perk. In 2015, since May, I've earned over $350 from the two programs combined. I can't show a full $300 in payment proofs because my strategy is to keep close to $100 in each account in case I need some emergency funds for marketing tools online. (* Note if I cash out now, I should have close to $500 earned and redeemed from these two programs). I have cashed out over $250 cash to Paypal with these programs and redeemed points in other ways - namely Amazon credits/cash value. I am also working up my Amazon cash power with use of the apps I use.  Ah... but this post isn't supposed to be about my cell earning strategy - it's about how I am able to jump-start my phone views while looking at online Forced Ad Views!

While waiting for page timers to count down on necessary forced ads via computer, I make sure my PerkTV ads are running properly, clear cache in my phone apps area, or I'll switch phone apps to interact in the Perk community. I might run a game of Word Search (another Perk app), or do Perk Trivia with other Perk members. It varies on which app I decide to use but all activities help me earn or win more Perk points and tokens (points, redeemable for Paypal or store/gift cards, while tokens are only redeemable on the Perk site).

If my Swagbucks videos are finished on my cell phone, I'll switch Swagbucks apps to start videos on 1 of 6 apps in the Swagbucks group. I try to gain 100 pts per day as a minimum most of the time, which involves about 20 minutes on the Swagbucks site per day and the rest of the points earned via phone apps.

So I've told you what I'm doing while forced view ads are in progress on my home computer. Basically, while those ads count down, I'm bookmarking, subscribing, switching phone apps, and keeping very busy.

How do you deal with forced view ads?

Use Surf Groups - Here is Why

Surf Groups = more ad power, that's why!

I am working my way slowly into upgraded memberships, primarily via membership special sales (yearly or lifetime sales - I only want to fork out money ONCE - or if more than once, only one time per year!). While using TEs, monitoring them for responsivity (e.g. am I getting any signups to the pages I display in this TE?) and deciding which ones are worth upgrading in, I can still rack up advertising power in the form of credits and attempt to compete with many of the paid/upgraded members who have more ad power (credits) at their disposal for much less labour.

As a lowly FREE member at many Traffic Exchanges, I need to boost my earning power and credits. I do this by surfing TEs in groups.

Now this is not just the activity of surfing several traffic sites at one time, with a random choice of sites I need/want to build credits for... What I mean by surf groups is the use of special groupings whereby site owners are offering extra rewards for surfing specific sites together.

I have found a number of new surf sites that I really like a lot over summer 2015 and since starting this blog, however, I just started limiting my time on certain TEs because they're not part of a surf group. I can't gain markedly more credits on certain sites by pairing them with other ones, so I am doing basic surfing (daily minimum) on the non-group sites in favour of surf groups. As I gain credit power elsewhere (in surf group sites) I have been going back to the newer sites to surf more pages with the relief that my pages are rotating in higher amounts elsewhere.

Strangely, this is a pretty damn simple concept - but one which alludes a lot of people while they're busy FREAKING OUT that on such-and-such site, pages have run out of credits. People tend to (and I have been doing this for YEARS) dash to the surf site in question and start surfing madly to regain credits and traffic. When you get 3, 4 or 10 of these sites with your pages running out of display credits, you can end up surfing a non-bonus surf group of your own for HOURS just to get credits assigned to your pages once more.

PRIORITIZE... that's what I have been learning about all year in 2015. I can't advertise EVERYWHERE even tho' I am willing to put in my time, and even put in extra time to surf free accounts. With Marketing/Promoting being a huge numbers game, no matter how many free sites you can join, you can still run out of ad power FAST if you do not prioritize over WHERE your time is best spent, particularly in free accounts where surf and credit ratios are sometimes 10 pages to earn 1 credit! More commonly, free accounts are 4:1 or 3:1 (4 or 3 pages surfed earning 1 credit).

Luckily, there are sites popping up all over that will help you get more ad power even if you do not use specified surf groups - I'll review and do a tutorial on one before the new year. The site is called ZubeeZone, and it turns surfing TEs into a general mass mayhem surf group. I suppose THIS would be my one recommendation if you never do end up surfing in specified groups - USE ZUBEE ZONE to work out getting extra rewards for random site surfing.

My Cell Phone Broke So I Turned It Into a Money Maker

Have you ever had one of those days?

Where nothing goes right and then on top of it you drop your cell phone and crack the glass on it?

You know? Where it's all THAT bad but then you think about it and it's even worse because you just finished paying off the phone, you're not on contract with it anymore to have it replaced and you let your warranty expire? AND....... the cost for replacing the face/glass on your phone is way more than what your service provider is offering to get a new phone on contract?

So you go get a new phone from your provider and are now stuck with this piece of junk that you have to put tape on so you don't cut your fingers on if you slide 'em across the face of the phone..... now you can just toss your broken phone into the junk drawer.

That's what I did a while back...and my cracked-glass phone sat in the junk box for quite some time, pretty much forgotten.

UNTIL I got some tips from some teens who are using cell phones legitimately to make decent amounts of cash/rewards from their phones - mostly cheap, crappy, old and broken phones. Not non-functional phones, but phones that are broken in the way described above.

In early June 2015, I replaced a phone because it has given me 3+ years of service, is paid off, and started functioning like absolute YUK with what I need for it to do nowadays - which is more than I needed it to do when I first bought it. After service was taken away from this particular phone, I went to put it in my "gadget junk box" and realized I have a couple of devices that are past prime. They are still functional but they aren't up to par for what people now do via cell phone. All of this coincided with me also finding some cool forums about making Perk and Swagbucks money and earnings via phone apps, so I grabbed my cracked-glass phone, put tape on it so I don't cut my fingers on it, loaded this one and my recently retired Samsung up with apps and started letting 'em make me some credits/money.

There are a few r/l friends who I know are laughin' their arses off at me 'cos I explained what I am doing and to them, the number of apps I use and my explanation of how they work, along with with details of the earning programs just seems ludicrous, complicated for the amount of earnings.

Here's the rebuttal on that issue: the explanations are necessary but it's like learning computer stuff for the first time. At first computers are confusing and it seems like there's too much to learn and that the early steps aren't worth the effort. However, once the basics are set, things are easy, and computers save us a lot of time - once we've learned the basics and are no longer overwhelmed by explanations of functions, etc.

Same thing here. If I take out the explanations and simplify everything, it works out like this:

Broken phone but still functional/online-capable + load apps + run apps = credits.
Credits = convert to Paypal cash or to gift cards so my money stays in my pocket

That's it!

And I've turned my NEW Phone into a money-maker, too... with Shopping apps and by getting any apps onto my phone that are associated with stores I shop at/use. Sometimes money saved is the same as money earned, isn't it? If it all comes down to me having to spend less of my pocket money - so that I can bank that elsewhere, it's all beneficial to me. I didn't know, until I did a dedicated search, just how many store apps are available and how their rewards work.

In Canada SUPERSTORE/No Frills has an outstanding savings program, store card, cell phone apps.

There's a shopping app I use aside from the Superstore/No Frills app and card that is allowed to be used in conjunction with any Superstore/No Frills sales and offers, and this new app actually pays for you to buy certain items. When your balance reaches $20, this app/business sends you out $20! And that is aside from any deals you get from Superstore/No Frills offers. No Frills happens to be the nearest major grocery store near my house, so this is great for me!

I haven't done any major extra work here to earn money - I just made some major changes in how I go about doing daily things!

I took a broken but still functional phone out of a drawer, paired it with another out of service, still functional cell phone and run two different site app programs on them, and I check phone apps before doing my necessary shopping... ch-ching. Money!

Making More With Old Cell Phones Than With Marketing

I stopped surfing for a few weeks to get some offline work done and to test out some other money making methods via cell phones.

A pleasant surprise - I actually have had several payments/redemptions via CELL PHONE activities, and the turnaround is around 1-2 payments per week!

I'll return to surfing and regular marketing activities gradually by fitting the marketing (which generally costs me money if I'm making mistakes in presentation, timing, technical stuff, etc) back in to my schedule of monitoring cell phone videos.

Basically, when I surf via cell phone at my selected sites, I earn credits, then redeem them and that's the simplified version of how the phone activities work.

When I surf online, doing marketing, I have to earn credits, and there's no redemption reward after surfing... I must then promote something I hope will get sign ups, clicks, subscribers, joiners, sales, etc...

Wait a minute...

Yeah - I'm preferring the cell phone activities MUCH, much more right now.

There's a whole stage of hassle removed - maybe several stages - in doing the cell phone activities then submitting my reward requests - versus traffic exchanges and marketing, however, now that I have found a way to make my cell phones make money for me, I do need to get back on track with marketing activities, because those are important, as well.

One of my favourite sites to use is Swagbucks, which has been online since 2008, is rated A+ with the BBB, and has a solid payout record.

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Keep in touch as I'm developing a comprehensive Swagbucks guide. The reason it's not out yet is that I've got the basics done and am running the ideas through a special group of people who seem to use 90% or more CELL PHONE income generating methods than online common money earning activities.

Now, I've been a member at Swagbucks for a few years but only RECENTLY learned how to manage my activities on site and with the Swagbucks phone apps to create some pretty cool income. (There are a ton of TEENAGERS in this group I mentioned above... it was teens who showed me how to get my old phone set up to make me money, use Swagbucks and a couple of other sites just right, so that I can have 2-8 payouts/redemptions per month, mostly through a few online activities combined with cell phone cash generating vids and activities).

Above is a screenshot of my June participation at Swagbucks. Daily login and participation in all the "minimum" activities to earn has made an absolutely HUGE difference in whether or not I earn at Swagbucks. I have had 2 redemptions/cashouts in June - and I have been at a level to cashout a third time already this month but I am stacking my sb-currency to be able to cashout larger sums (to paypal) and bigger rewards (in gift cards, mostly I select Amazon rewards).

The absolute minimum activity requirements/goals I set for myself take up 30-45 min per day while I run the apps on my phone consistently. If I want to make more (and I do, I have been), I participate more, watching more videos on-site, doing some easy surveys (**Big Tip: Swagbucks credits you even when you start a survey and disqualify - unlike most other sites I know that have surveys... you'll get at least a credit for attempting the survey), and basically doing nothing at all difficult!

I'm also using another, similar site, Perk (I'll post about it soon - it has more apps and is a little more complicated than Swagbucks, however, I've redeemed/cashed out twice from Perk this month, too, and am also banking/stacking current credits for higher redemptions/cashout value).

I use other apps - a few I can't mention in detail here because they're "games of chance" and "Big G/blogspot" doesn't allow advertising them in detail on this kind of blog. I'll get around to posting about the other apps soon.

For now, Perk and Swagbucks are my go-to sites! Especially Swagbucks because I actually am ENJOYING many of the videos I'm viewing. (For Perk, I enjoy the GAMES more than the videos, but as already mentioned, I'll write about Perk soon).

If you've got a cell phone - and it's a SMARTPHONE with web access - that you keep around for a backup, why not get it running videos to earn you credits and money/gift card redemptions?

Start with Swagbucks (link is above) - it's the most accessible, easiest site/with apps that is out there.

Moving Forward (painfully) After TTP Team

Well, I'm moving forward after the TTP Case study. I've been hanging around the main "core" of TTP challenge/Case Study people ever since December; a bunch that are solidly becoming a tribe, TAOLIFETRIBE.

Mostly, I'm a blogger (who needs to improve consistency), then a PTR/PTC-er, then a SL-er (Safelists, mailers), and finally - a marketer.

Truthfully, I've always HATED most marketing because so much manipulation can come into play in advertising, promoting, etc. Even when attempting to be an honest marketer, one is inundated with covert hype, product and service pitches, all day long. It's EVERYWHERE and unavoidable in this money making arena.

Offline, I study in the Radical Humanities as a lifelong learner. This means philosophy and a 5 core discipline approach to learning. My expertise, offline, is in poverty/oppression studies.


I'm providing this background in this post in an attempt to explain the HORROR I feel when I turn to what is supposed to be the great modern equalizer - the internet, for money making...

Essentially, the beginner or little guy (again, the marginalized and impoverished) is pushed far to the margins, then bombarded with covert marketing jargon when he (or she) looks to make money online. Immediately, a person is told/asked, "it takes money to make money," "you're paying for your future - how much is your future worth to you?" and made to feel like something is wrong with a person for not upgrading, buying, forking funds into an as yet abstract and undefined future.

In absolute truth, the only activity I've made money at online for absolutely FREE has been blogging/writing - and I've made THE MOST money out of all my online money making activities over a decade, via writing. The only thing about blogging/writing for cash is that it is a lot of work and I have lost the routine of if over the past 2 years.

I learn while I'm writing, so what I've just learned in writing this post is that I need to put back in place some online financial backup plans - writing - regularly and do marketing, list-building in short bursts daily, having my writing funds carry me forward.

Strangely enough, I'm branded quite well elsewhere with my writing persona. Most who follow my articles/blogs believe am a GUY writer and I can't shake that perception so I go with it. The branding is already firmly set, so actually I DO KNOW quite a bit about branding. My failure to brand in marketing circles is sort of on purpose. I like my writer more than my IM-er, I guess.

Well, this post is certainly not what most would expect, I suppose... it went a direction I didn't expect, either, so with that in mind, I'm going to post and then head over to see what my male writing persona has sitting in draft... (I'll swirl some URLs around and "Market" later with TAOLIFETRIBE people).

I guess that moving painfully forward also means going back at least a bit to something THAT WORKS for me, so I won't be sad or upset that I'll spend just a little less time marketing.

teeray~~