WOW! Great Feedback!
Thank you all for participating in the survey. Got some really great feedback. Jon Olson and I gave away one year upgrades on both exchanges to 3 people today, and we had a chat in the conference room with them. It was neat hearing feedback from different members and being able to chat back and forth with them.
If you participated in the survey, please remember to check the email account you entered in! We have 3 more people elligable for the year upgrades but if we don’t hear back then.. =P
Anyways I bet you are curious as to what the results are. Well, I’ll do what they do on TV shows and change the subject right before the credits roll so you have to wait till next time to find out!
Introducing the 100 Credit Question.. LOL If you are following me on Twitter or Facebook you already know about this, but I have a question on my facebook page. A really easy question, and I’m going to pick a bunch of people who answer it right, and randomly give them 100 credits.
So if you haven’t yet already, follow me on Twitter and Fan me on Facebook. I’m taking the whole social networking stuff by storm!
Want a free upgrade?
Every now and then I like to get feedback from the users of traffic exchanges to see what they like or dislike. Today you have a chance to win an upgrade, simply for taking the time to fill out a survey!
Here’s how it works: Goto the survey below, answer *all* the questions, and enter your email at the end. Then in a few days I’ll randomly pick a couple of the respondants to win an upgrade at either StartXchange or ILoveHits. That simple. No purchase necessary and the odds of winning depend on how many reply =P
Where Did You All Go?
I just noticed the Feedburner count lost like 7000 subscribers or something crazy like that. I’m sure you’ll all come back soon! Anyways, just wanted to remind you all about following me on Twitter:
Just like my blog, I don’t use it to spam you. And even cooler is I’m going to try to tweet alot during the Air Show this weekend. My photography partner and I scored press passes, so we are going today for a press only showing. They mentioned getting on flights is unlikely if your following is small, BUT they didn’t say it wasn’t possible!
I do suppose though that the feedburner count being off by a LOT isn’t going to help my credability right? LOL Oh well. Anyways follow me and I’m going to try to remember to post some photos during the day from my phone. Will be fun!
PS. If you follow me, I’ll follow you automatically. If I’m not following you and you are following me, try unfollowing and then following again. Hey it might work right?
Interview with Dan Vaughan TBA
Today Dan Vaughan is launching Barbarian Hits, and I thought it would be cool to do an interview with him during launch. But unfortunately launching an exchange has him busy. SO, we are postponing the inteview.
I decided to do this because most of my interviews in the past were from long term owners, so the insight you get is much different. Having someone fresh in the process of a launch brings in so much more.
This is actually a good thing though, because I didn’t really think about the questions. SO I’m opening them up for you! Post your questions for Dan below, and I’ll pick and choose the ones I want to use for my interview. Just keep them focused on the theme of launching Barbarian Hits. OH and make sure you join under me if you want me to use your question LOL =P
Video Update
So there you go, Tim Linden in bright green. For those of you counting, it took a while to post it afterwards because I edited my Wordpress plugin to make inserting Youtube videos quick and easy. I just put the URL inbetween YOUTUBE tags and Wordpress does the rest.. Yeah!
I Lied To You Yesturday..
It’s time for me to come clean. I did not move to , . I lied. But for a good reason, to prove a point that is! People lie all the time online, and they can do it in ways that are very clever to gain your trust. Take this page for example:
Notice the about section. This guy says he’s in East Greenwich, RI. Wow! I know where that is, he lives pretty close to me so I can trust him right?
No! You see that’s a simple javascript and he’s trying to gain my trust. He probably realizes that I don’t live in East Greenwich RI, but he doesn’t care right? All he cares is that the location is close enough to me that I’ll recognize the name. And I did!
I almost fell for it too, I was about to email the guy and say hey neighbor, spam isn’t the way to go! But then I came to my senses and thought, hmm.. If he is mass spamming my blog, he’s probably not from that location. I viewed the source, and sure enough he faked it with a javascript.
So if he lied about where he lives, what about his name? Could that be a lie too? If that’s a lie, then that check from Google would be a lie too because it’s to Mike Smithson. But if he faked that, could he have faked the dollar amount on that check? You bet - it’s super easy to do..
The moral of the story is to use common sense, and if you don’t have it, ask someone who does. I know we all want to trust others, we want to believe that it’s our neighbor and we’re helping him provide for his wife and daughter. But it’s all made up, to get you to join and pay him money.
So if you keep falling for scams, or joining programs that seem to mysteriously fail all the time, maybe it’s time to ask someone else you know & trust to screen the programs before you join. It can sound silly, but some people are really good at spotting lies, and others aren’t.
Oh, by the way.. That wasn’t my house either.. It was a $500,000 house I found a listing for online. You can find photos of ANYTHING online. Someone posts photos of their family? Oh wait, you can goto Flickr and find countless photos of families. Take your pick!
If they do post photos, tell them it’s great and you’re happy for them. But don’t think for one second that boosts their credability. It should have no bearing on your decision whether they live close to you, or have a family, or look friendly. Look at their track record, look at what they are selling you, look at what matters!
