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To assist you in making more money, we prepared this page with suggestions for increasing your referral base. We selected several programs that will help you get more traffic to your referral URL and thus gain many new referrals, including people you don't even know. The programs are grouped according to the traffic generating system used. You can join all the programs for free.

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12. Sart Page Programs
All you have to do in order to earn visits to your referral URL through the "start page" programs is change your browser's start page to a URL you'll receive from the program. Each time you open your browser then, you'll increase the visits to your referral URL (which you have to give upon registration). Our statistics show that one in every ten visits generates a direct referral for you! And that's not all. Many of these programs give you free credits upon registration. You can sign up for all of them, get the free credits, and then continue to participate in only one by setting your start page to the URL they gave you. With an average of 50 free credits per program, you'll get 500 visits to your referral URL, which means 50 new referrals!

Here are the URLs of ten "start page" programs. Join them now and watch your referral base soar.

http://www.traffic9.com

http://www.trafficg.com

http://www.nomorehits.com

http://www.trafficswarm.com

http://www.trafficsoldiers.com

http://www.ecashtraffic.com

http://trafficranker.net

http://www.tedirectory.com

http://www.autosurf-4-profit.com

http://www.surfincash.com

http://www.ts25.com

http://www.autosurfpro.com

http://www.advertyz.com

http://www.clickevolution.com

http://www.2daily.com

http://4daily.com

http://www.studiotraffic.com

http://www.alotofhits.com

http://www.dailydollarmaker.com

http://www.millionsurf.com

http://1millionvisitors.com

http://www.126hits.com

http://www.wildfirehits.com

http://www.aussieearners.com

http://autohits.dk

http://www.autohit.ws

http://e-mailpaysu.com

13. Click-Through Programs
The "click-through" programs work fairly simply. Upon registration, you provide your referral URL and it goes into a member pool. You then visit sites within the member pool and begin to earn credits. The credits are used to send members from the pool to your referral URL, thus generating new traffic. If you refer friends to these programs, you will also get credits for the sites they see. And that's not all. Many of these programs give you free credits upon registration. So, you can sign up for all of them, get the free credits, and continue to participate only in the ones you like best.

Here are the URLs of ten "click-through" programs. Join them now and watch your referral base soar.
 

What Is Spam?

If you have made your e-mail address public by placing a classified ad, or if you have inquired about a specific offer that interested you, or if you have participated in a newsgroup or a chatroom, or even if you simply have a webpage with your e-mail address on it, your name has been harvested, placed on e-mail lists, and sold indiscriminately to internet marketers. Even if you have not in any way expressed an interest in any products or services, you will most certainly find yourself the victim of spam.

What is spam? Technically the term is used to define unsolicited commercial e-mail that is sent in bulk. The key word, however is UNSOLICITED. No matter what the e-mail is trying to sell you - whether it's an illegal pyramid scheme, a solicitation for donations to a children's fund, or a reminder that God loves you, - and no matter if it's addressed only to you or to 100,000 people - if you didn't request the information, it is unsolicited. Does this mean that the surprise e-mail from your cousin Harry is spam? Of course not. Certainly we don't have to solicit correspondence with friends, family and business associates. But if you don't know Harry and he e-mails you asking you to visit his website, you've been spammed.

Why Is Spam So Annoying?

The currently overwhelming amount of spam is an annoyance to everybody. How would you feel if a parade of salesmen came knocking on your door every day, and most of the same ones kept coming back time after time? Or if your phone rang all day and night with sales calls? Would you put up with salespeople jumping in front of you waving sales flyers in your face every time you walked down the street? Isn't unsolicited e-mail just another version of this type of rude intrusion?

For people who work on the internet, spam creates even more of a problem. If you have a physical (non-internet) business, most likely you have put a No Soliciting sign on your door and hired a secretary to screen your visitors and phone calls. If you didn't, salespeople would interrupt you on a regular basis, wasting your time and impeding your ability to run an efficient office. When an internet marketer has to stop work and check mail to find 10, 20, maybe 50 pieces of junk per day, day after day, this marketer's ability to earn a living has been impaired. The spammer's cry of just hit delete doesn't wash when you know you have to take the time to load all your mail into your reader, scan through it to find the messages you DO want to receive, and then delete the junk. And what if you're out of town, dialing in long distance on your laptop? It is a waste of time, a waste of resources, a waste of bandwidth - and, therefore, a waste of money. YOUR money.

Some people feel that the reason the Spamwars has escalated to the highly emotional issue that it now represents is because of the type of commercial e-mail we all receive day after day. Fully 95% (if not more) of this junk consists of nothing more than pyramid schemes, get rich quick scams, offers to click here to see my bazooms (which appear just as often in the e-mail of an 8-year-old as they do an adult), and mailing lists or software tools to recruit more spammers. Not only that, but most of this spam is the SAME offers from countless different people, over and over again. The number of people claiming to be Christopher Erickson, Karen Liddell, or a retired attorney peddling pyramid schemes could populate a small town. Most of this stuff is so repetitive, those of us who spend much time on the internet can recite it by heart. And some spammers seem to believe that if they send the EXACT SAME SPAM to us 5, 20, or 100 times, we will somehow be hypnotized into buying it.

What About Targeted Advertising?

However, the real issue is not one of content. Even if all commercial e-mail was truly targeted and all e-mail marketers sold legitimate products, we would still be inundated with countless numbers of unsolicited advertisements. Right now, most ISPs have strong policies prohibiting their customers from spamming, and when they receive the hundreds (or thousands) of abuse reports that result from each incidence, they will either warn the spammer or immediately cancel his account. Imagine what would be happening right now if this were not so and UCE was an acceptable form of internet marketing.

If only 5,000 companies (a miniscule percentage of what's out there) decided to try this form of free advertising and send out only 100,000 pieces a week, there would be 500 MILLION pieces of junk mail being pushed through the system each week. How long would you be prepared to wait to load 500+ pieces of spam into your mail reader every time you logged on? How many pieces of valid e-mail from friends and relatives would you be willing to bounce due to your mailbox being filled to capacity with junk mail? Will the request of just press delete be asking too much when you are doing it 1,000 times a day?

Oh, but if it was targeted e-mail from legitimate companies, you wouldn't get that much of it, right? Well, let's see. Do you use toothpaste, read books, wear clothes, write with pens, get colds, have pets, drive a car, use a telephone, watch TV, use a printer, play games, have children, shave, cook, eat food, go on vacations, listen to music, wash your hair, do laundry... are you starting to get the picture?

Is It Ever OK To Advertise By E-Mail?

The only acceptable form of e-mail advertising is called opt-in. This is when you SPECIFICALLY REQUEST that a company put your name on their mailing list. And this is only acceptable if there is a good confirmation process to determine that YOU - and not somebody trying to get either you or the marketing company in hot water - are the one who actually submitted your e-mail address. Right now it's very common for morons to submit other people's e-mail addresses to opt-in lists either as a joke or an act of revenge.

Another important requirement for an opt-in list is that the confirmation process require a REPLY TO CONFIRM, with a specific code imbedded in the subject line for security purposes - again, to ensure that the reply is from YOU. A no reply should automatically remove your name from the list. Why is this important? Think about it - how many times have you been spammed with the instructions to reply to remove your address? Almost every spam? This is a traditional spammer trick to harvest live, active e-mail addresses to sell to other spammers. Therefore, nobody will ever trust an opt-in list that requires a reply to remove.

Many e-mail marketers are pushing the idea of opt-out. The way this supposedly works is that an advertiser sends you UCE with instructions for removal of your name from their mailing list. Some of them even try to lend legitimacy to this method by requiring that the spam be labeled as Advertisement, assumedly to make it easier for you to determine whether or not you want to read it. This is UNACCEPTABLE for two main reasons:

Many people are already receiving upwards of 50+ pieces of spam per day, all from different advertisers. As noted above, if Unsolicited Commercial E-mail became an approved method of marketing, these numbers would skyrocket. The victimized netizen would be spending ever-increasing amounts of time requesting to be removed from mailing lists that he never wanted to be on in the first place.
It's been attempted before and proven unworkable. If you request to be removed from a mailing list, you are depending on the moral standards of the spammer to honor your request. So far the vast majority of spammers have shown themselves to be completely devoid of any ethics. Anybody who has requested removal from a mailing list can attest to this - a removal request normally INCREASES the amount of spam received because it has historically been used as a validation of the requestor's e-mail address. Not only will the spammer not honor your request, but he will then have yet another "fresh" e-mail address to sell to other spammers.

A Word About "Opt In" Offers

You receive an unsolicited offer by e-mail for 100% Business Opportunity Seeker Addresses. The word opt-in is all over the offer. What do you do?

If you have any sense, you'll report it. If you have been SPAMMED with an offer for opt-in, you can be absolutely sure that the addresses on that list are harvested without the permission of the targets. In other words, if you spend money on that list and send your offers to it, YOU will lose your accounts for spamming.

Right now, some of the most persistent spammers who lie about the origination of their lists are Cashfromhome.com, Consumer Connections, Email King, Pavilion Advertising Services... well, actually, you can pretty much assume just about anything you receive unsolicited in your own e-mail is bogus.

A good rules of thumb is to NEVER e-mail anybody with an offer unless you can PERSONALLY verify that they requested your information.

But Isn't Spam Just Exercising Freedom of Speech?

Spammers cry about freedom of speech and point fingers at anti-spammers, whining that we are a small group of anti-commercial fanatics who wish to impose censorship on the poor small businessman just trying to make a living. What they don't seem to understand is that their right to swing their fists ends before our noses begin. Every American has the right to speak up and express his own views without interference from the government (which is literally what freedom of speech is all about - the right to speak out against the government without the threat of being shipped to Siberia). However, NOBODY has the right to barge into my living room to give a shpiel on a vacuum cleaner without my invitation. One may also be prohibited from making a speech about fertilizer in a business meeting scheduled to discuss the company's new personnel policy. And just try to yell Fire in a crowded movie theatre and see where your whining about freedom of speech gets you.

Censorship? Hardly. Let's look at a highly controversial example - pornography. Granted, there are groups who would like to see porn banned from the internet. This certainly would be censorship, and is not in the least a part of any agenda item in the anti-spam movement. There are plenty of anti-spammers who enjoy pornography, as well as those of us who wouldn't touch the stuff with a ten-foot pole. But as long as the advertisements are not sent UNSOLICITED into our e-mail, we could care less. This is not about censorship - it's about protection of our private property, and OUR FREEDOM of choosing what we want to receive. As noted before, it doesn't matter if it's an invitation to a porn site or a Bible study class - if it's unsolicited, THAT MEANS WE DON'T
WANT IT.

As for being a small group of fanatics, there is plenty of proof to the contrary. Ask any ISP with a past record of even one spamming incident how many abuse reports they received. Surveys have shown that over 70% of all internet users do NOT want to receive spam. In my opinion, most of the other 30% are people who haven't been online long enough to get any, and the rest are spammers themselves. But that's just my opinion. See the Surveys Concerning Spam section for insight into the opinions of the vast majority of internet users.

Isn't Spam Good For Small Businesses?

Spam is not a freedom of speech issue - it's a theft issue.

Some people try to compare postal junk mail to UCE. Postal mail is paid for by advertisers and helps support the U.S. Post Office. It is illegal to place postal mail in a mailbox without postage. Spam is paid for in part by the unwilling recipient. In addition, it does not in any way help support the system, but instead seriously abuses it by overloading servers and causing the necessity of additional non-profit producing staff to deal with the problems caused. Ask the sysadmins of small ISPs who have to deal with spam-crashed servers how wonderful it is for small business.

TV and radio ads are also paid for by advertisers and support the service so that users may enjoy it for free. If we don't want to see TV commercials, we can pay for cable. In the case of spam, the opposite situation exists. Because of the cost-shifting aspects of this practice, the more spam there is the more the end users will have to pay for their connection costs. Many ISPs right now (especially the small businesses who can't absorb the added expense) are barely making it because of the added burden of spam. Do you wish to pay more for your service just so you can get more junk mail?

Magazines are also supported by advertisements. How much do you suppose a $3.00 magazine would cost you if ads were placed for free? How many fledgling entrepreneurs would be able to start a new magazine - that's small business, folks - by footing all the start-up costs with no income from advertisers?

Spam also costs the unwilling recipient in lost time loading the gobs of it into their mail readers and wading through it to determine if any of it is solicited information or correspondence from friends and customers. And small business people working on a shoe- string budget normally are the chief cooks and bottle washers, without a staff to assist them. This lost time spent on dealing with spam can greatly impact the building of a small business. If you make your e-mail address public by placing ads and registering with search engines, you know I'm not talking about a couple of pieces of UCE a day - more like 50-100!

How Can A Small Business Advertise If It Is Not Allowed To Spam?

The internet IS a great opportunity for small businesses without seed money. There are free or very inexpensive websites, free and low-cost ad sites, free banner exchange programs, free webring programs, free newsgroups (the appropriate ones) to post in and make contacts, free search engines and link directories to be listed in. But you know what? There is no get rich quick scheme that will work. Anybody can start a business on the internet today without money, but not without work, effort, time, dedication, persistence and patience. Anybody who believes that spamming (whether in bulk or one at a time, theft is theft) is the only way they can start a business is probably not business- owner material in the first place. Spammers are not only looking for a free ride, they are hijacking other people's vehicles to get it.

If you want to advertise by bulk e-mail, compile an opt-in list. Again, this would take time and effort. Place ads, put a sign-up sheet on your website, speak to people in (appropriate) newsgroups, and have a solid confirmation process to ensure that the e-mail addresses you have received were submitted by the owners. Sorry, no free rides in this world. You want a business? WORK for it.

If you can't put in the time and the effort to start an honest, ethical, legitimate business, then learn how to say, Do you want fries with that? By the way, anybody who believes that annoying the majority of their prospective customers is good business practice SHOULD be asking people if they want fries.

What Can I Do About Spam?

If YOU have ever felt angry about these annoying pests and wanted to do something about it but didn't know how, read on!

The following is a list of what NOT to do when you receive spam.

Do NOT try to follow remove instructions! In most cases, one of two things will happen. (1) You will have affirmed that your e-mail address is valid, and therefore will receive even MORE spam, or (2) You will receive a follow-up e-mail from the appropriate Postmaster that the e-mail address you replied to is invalid. Do NOT flame, mail-bomb, or otherwise use terrorist tactics to get back at the spammer. In a rock fight, both parties end up with bloody heads. Not only will you leave yourself open for retribution (in some cases this means legal recourse), but you will have discredited the efforts of other anti-spammers by bringing the Anti-Spam Campaign down to the same level as the irresponsible spammers themselves. Besides, most of the e-mail addresses that spammers use are not valid and your efforts will be wasted