12 Daily Pro - 12 Days Later

My last post about 12 Daily Pro laid out the basics of the program. It's very simple. You join. You purchase upgrade credits. You surf for just a few minutes each day. 12 days later, you cash out your earnings. For each day that you surf a minimum of 12, you earn 12% of your upgrade purchase price. If you surf the required number of sites for 12 days, your total time investment is 48 minutes, and your monetary returns can be great.

How great?

12 days of surfing (48 minutes, but let's call it an hour for the purpose of calculating an hourly rate) at $0.72 per day per upgrade is the earning rate.

1 upgrade credit cost $6 and returns $8.64 for a profit of $2.64
3 upgrade credits (my test level) costs $18 and returns $25.92 for a profit of $7.92
10 upgrade credits costs $60 and returns $80.64 for a profit of $26.40

At 10 upgrade credits, your returns for less than an hour of work is a good hour's pay.

20 upgrade credits costs $120 and profits $52.80
50 upgrade credits costs $300 and profits $132

For my test run, I purchased 3 upgrade credits. For my next upgrade, I'm purchasing 20 credits to increase my returns. For at least a few cycles, I'll re-invest my earnings to raise my income level further. In the near future, I'll keep out the amount of money I initially put into the system, and work entirely from my profits.

The big question is how they afford to pay these returns. It's like this. There are website operators who are willing to invest money to get viewers to their site. They can purchase advertiring and HOPE you'll visit their site, or they can actually pay you a small amount to actually look at the site. 12 Daily Pro allows them to pay you to see their sites, which is a better return on their advertising dollar.

So, if you'd like to earn money for spending a few minutes each day browsing a few websites, check out 12 Daily Pro and purchase a few credits to start. Try it out. Find out for yourself what your comfortable committment level is, and start earning.





Now that you're interested, you'll need to join StormPay to purchase upgrades, and accept your payments after you earn. StormPay is one of the two payment processors used by 12 Daily Pro, and I've been happy with them for a long time.

12 Daily Pro - I had to be convinced

For a little while, now, I've been seeing links to the traffic exchange called 12 Daily Pro. I looked into it, but couldn't bring myself to jump in. The big stopper for me was that they REQUIRE you to upgrade your account within 7 days by spending $6. If I'm going to spend even $6 on a traffic exchange, they're going to have to convince me it's worth it. No thanks.

Then, I talked to my friend Al on the phone. Al's a great guy. Al is also a guy without a job. He's completely escaped the job market, and spends his days working his phone and email, instead. I know some of the things Al does for his money, involving product marketing, so I asked Al a couple questions.

#1 - What is your biggest money-maker right now?
#2 - What is your greatest traffic-generation tool right now?

Al answered both questions with one answer. 12 Daily Pro.

I was aghast. I told him I'd seen the site, but couldn't believe it was actually earning him money. Al informed me that, in addition to driving traffic to his sites, 12 Daily Pro had just deposited $1250 into his account.

So, I joined. I insisted Al send me an affliliate link by email, so he would be credited for the help he'd given me. I went ahead and spent $18 for 3 upgrade credits, and surfed my 30 sites for the day. The result? I received 30 traffic credits and $2.18.

Now, all I have to do is visit 12 Daily Pro each day and surf at least 12 sites. In exchange, I'll receive traffic credits and 12% return on my $18 investment. At the end of 12 days, I should be able to cash our my account for $25.92. That's a clear profit of almost $8. Imagine how much I'd see if I upgraded with the maximum 1000 credits. It would require $6000 investment, but I'd profit $2600 after 12 days. That's the whole reason I thought there had to be a catch, before, but now I'm seeing it happen before my eyes. I shouldn't have been so skeptical, weeks ago. I'm sold on it now.

Interested?

Joining is a one or two step process. In addition to joining, you'll need a payment processor to handle the money you pay in, and the money that they pay out.

12 Daily Pro uses StormPay and eGold for payment processing. If you're already a member of StormPay (and you should be) then you only have one step. In my time as a member of StormPay, I've never heard of any dirty-dealings or scams from them, so I still use and suggest them.

The two steps:
#1 Join StormPay and deposit the amount of money you're comfortable investing. I deposited $25, because I wanted to leave a few extra bucks in the account after investing $18 in 12 Daily Pro.
#2 Join 12 Daily Pro. Purchase upgrade shares at $6 per share. Once your purchase is reflected in your account, start surfing.

It's that simple.

Remember to surf your account EVERY DAY for at least 12 credits. You can surf up to 30 sites each day, but must surf at least 12 to get paid for that day. If you miss a day, you're missing a profit opportunity.

TrafficSwarm

One of the most important aspects of running a website is that you have to get traffic to your site in order to do anything. If nobody is looking at your site, then you'll never be able to interact with anyone, much less make any money in the process.






Enter TrafficSwarm. TrafficSwarm allows you to visit other websites, most of which are business related websites. In the process, you earn 1-5 credits for each visit. Each credit results in one visitor to your website. These are real visits, as each user is manually visiting your site. Some traffic exchanges allow you to surf websites without actually watching your computer. For generating traffic to your site, these are worthless. TrafficSwarm brings real users to your site. What's more, as a Gold Member you have the ability to earn commissions when people in your downline upgrade their accounts. My downline in TrafficSwarm is now 19 people strong, and I've hardly tried to generate leads at all. I earn traffic from each of these, and have the opportunity to earn commissions if they purchase upgrades or traffic. Sweet! Even though I don't actually surf sites as often anymore, I have new credits in my account every single day, because of my referrals. I never run out of credits, so I NEVER RUN OUT OF TRAFFIC.

Give TrafficSwarm a try right now!

Have you seen StormPay?

Have you seen StormPay yet? It's a payment processor that allows you to make payments or accept credit cards, much like PayPal, but with some other differences that set it apart. For one, they have an auction system with free listings. There's also an affliliate program that allows you to earn money by gaining referrals. I'm seeing them more and more around the net as an accepted form of payment. If you're looking for an alternative to PayPal, give StormPay a try. At the very least, it's worth having an account so you can receive payment through their system.

PurJava - The Perfect Cup of Coffee

This stuff is fantastic. PurJava is a bottled concentrate of a high-quality coffee that you can make whenever you want. What's great is that you don't need to make a full pot of coffee to have a cup. What's even better is that it is GOOD coffee. I don't know about you, but I'm a serious coffee snob. At work, I can always get a sub-standard cup of coffee (and I do mean sub-standard. Usually, it's just plain bad). With PurJava, I can put a little in my cup, add hot water (available on tap at the coffee pot) and I'm drinking good coffee, instead of the dreck that my company springs for.

PurJava - Honduran Dark Roast
PurJava - Sumatran Decaf

Good stuff.

Get Rich Blogging?

What's the best way to make a small fortune in blogging? Start with a large fortune. It's an old joke, but it's still appropriate. If you're looking for a way to make a lot of money with a blog, you should probably consider another line of work.

That said, it is possible to make money with your blog. That's what this is all about, right? There are advertising programs, referral programs, and all kinds of things available.

What have YOU found that has been beneficial for you? It's your turn to take part. Tell us about the best programs you've used to generate some extra income from your blog. Share what you know, and help others in the community.

Have You Heard About GreenZap?

GreenZap is a new electronic payment service that is currently in pre-launch, similar to PayPal. They are promising a Summer 2005 launch, and they're currently accepting signups ahead of that launch. I point this out, because they're offering an interesting incentive to get new customers. GreenZap will put $25 into your account just for signing up.

When I first heard about GreenZap, I thought it was kind of odd for them to offer $25 for a signup. When I looked at it further, though, I didn't see it as all that strange. When PayPal started up, they were offering $5 to people when they signed up. What's more, they offerred another $5 to anyone who referred new clients to them. Now that PayPal is on top of the heap, when it comes to online payments, a new comer to the market has to fight for customers. GreenZap has figured this out. They could run banner ads across the net, or buy ads in magazines and on TV. That costs a LOT of money, and the return on the investment isn't always worth it. What's more, once you've spent the money on ads, there's no guarantee you'll get any new customers out of it.

They've just gone about things differently. The standard methods of advertising could cost them $100 or more per new customer. They simply reduced the cost per customer by giving money directly to the customer to join up. Since they also offer bonuses to customers who sign up new customers, they have others advertising for them.

As I say, right now they're in pre-launch mode. They won't be fully active until Summer. When that time comes, I'll be adding them to my list of accepted payment methods, alongside PayPal and StormPay. I'll also have my first $25 sitting in my account, ready to go. If you think this sounds like something you'd be interested in, check out GreenZap now.

Where To Blog?

Sorry for the lack of posts through the weekend and yesterday. Real life intrudes. I've had a busy weekend, and yesterday brought me an emergency job that took up a large chunk of my day. I'm back, though, with a good question that needs answering. If you want to start a blog, where's the best place to go?

Blogging services are popping up all over the place. Blogger/Blogspot is the host for this site, offering free blog hosting that is quite capable. There are others, such as Xanga and TypePad to choose from, as well. You may be interested in hosting your blog on your own server, which means choosing a blogging software. How do you make a decision between all these services? Which one is best for you?

Unfortunately, this isn't a question that I can answer for you. The choices are simply too wide. A lot of the decision relies on what kind of blog you want to run.

If you're interested in blogging as a personal journal, you might be interested in LiveJournal. If lighthearted blogging with a sense of community among bloggers is your interest, Xanga is a good choice. Unfortunately, these services are going to provide limited configurability if you want to host ads on your blog, or use some external services that utilize scripts to do their work. Blogger is a good choice for many bloggers, but often has complaints of slowness or disfunction (something I've never had any trouble with, by the way).

If you want to have absolute control over your blog, its content, and everything involving the look and feel, you might want to spend a few bucks and get your own webspace and software. I run my main blog on my own webserver, which gives me access to plenty of disk space, databases, and other services. My email address reflects my domain name, and my blog looks exactly like I want it to, within the limitations of my own ability.

To run a blog on your own server, you'll need some sort of blogging software. As with hosted services, there are many choices. I've run simple software, and complex publishing applications, trying to find the exact level of service I require. In the end, I've settled down to a site running on Moveable Type. It has a nice set of features and ease of use for both the blogger and the reader. It may not be the right choice for you, though.

I'm not trying to provide answers with this post. I'm trying to prompt questions. You have to ask yourself what YOU want out of your blog. Look around, and see what other blogs look like, and what features they have. Trackbacks, for instance, became very important for me. If you link to other blogs, they'll probably be important to you. Take your time, and examine blogs and blog services. Find the best choice for you.

Even if you're already running a blog, if you do extensive research and discover that your blog would be better if it ran in some other way, go for it. Take it slow and make sure you do it right, but don't NOT make a change that needs to be made. My switch to Moveable Type required a lot of work, but since the move I've had more comments on my blog per week than I had in a month, before the switch. Another year on the old software, and the only thing I would have been missing was readers. My old, super-powerful software just wasn't the BEST tool for the job.

Any thoughts?

Another 10,000 Visits Traffic Exchange Plan

Just a quick post here. If you thought that the HonestyHits 10,000 free credits for joining plan was good, then you might want to try RaginHits. It's virtually the same plan. Heck, it runs the same software. Sign up, assign all those 10,000 credits, make sure you set it to only allow manual surfers to see your site, and step back. Same caveats apply as before. All RaginHits or HonestyHits can do is bring eyes to your site. It's up to YOU to make them want to come back again and again.

What's In a Post?

After writing a post about how you should blog every day, I proceeded to miss a day. It didn't go unnoticed. I don't know how I could have proven my point any better than by missing yesterday, but I assure you it wasn't a test of my theory.

After not following my own advice, I'm here to revisit the same advice. Another great reason to blog regularly is that blogging is all about content. It's not just the content for the regular reader that matters. Equally important is the content that's been around a while. Once your site gets discovered by Google, you're going to see some activity coming in to stories you've forgotten you ever wrote.

For instance, I once wrote a blog post about how the oil business works. I went into some great detail about how oil is a market commodity, how prices get set on market commodities, how refinery availability affects the supply and demand curve, and alternatives to oil in the real world. A couple weeks after writing this long and drawn out, informative post, I forgot I had written it. Months later, though, I noticed visitors hitting my blog from Google after searching for information on oil prices.

This long forgotten post on my blog was still bringing readers to my blog. Why was that? For one, the post had been recognized by other bloggers, who had then linked to it. Links inflate Google rankings, so my entry made it higher in the search returns. Secondly, the post had a title that worked well with Google, and was in the title bar on its page.

After a while, your blog should be full of these gems. The more entries you have on subjects that interest people, the more visitors you should have on specific entries, instead of your main page. If these specific entries are readable, informative, and interesting, you're in like gold.

How do you get these entries on your blog? You write them.

If you write one blog entry every single day, you should have 365 entries in one year. Your goal should be to have AT LEAST 300 entries in one year. Five entries each day is a good thought, if you and your blog can handle it. One good entry is better, though, than five throwaway entries.

Try writing your entries offline. Use a word processor, or even Notepad to write. If you have five entries in one day, and only one is good, then only post the one. If you write five entries and they're ALL good, post one or two of the best or most timely ones, and hold the rest. You may need one on a day when you have writer's block, or you may rewrite them to make them better.

When you post that entry, remember to give it a good title. The title of THIS post is a horrible one. Why is it so horrible? It isn't search-engine-friendly. There is NOTHING in the title of this post that would make it appear in a Google search done by someone who wanted to run a better blog. I did this on purpose. I want this to be an exercise.

Leave a comment. Tell me. What would have been a better title for this post that would help someone find it on a search engine, who was looking for the information that is IN this post?