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Two Cool Tools For You

August 8, 2008

Tool #1 - Twitter With Twitter you can follow startxchange and receive notifications that there's a bonus hour going on! Once following you can goto the friends page and even select to receive updates on devices (SMS/Gtalk, etc)! Tool #2 - PhoneTag PhoneTag lets you setup your voicemail to go through them and get transcribed [...]

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Why would you want to surf large exchanges?

August 4, 2008

I found a forum post where a reader was asking for input on her exchange, and she references my blog series on how to spot a bad exchange and the design element. 3 people respond saying that I'm a guru (thanks!) and that I have a hidden agenda. But one of them posted a question [...]

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Exchange Reviews.. Do you want them?

July 31, 2008

Well my goal is eventually to review every traffic exchange on the blog, but I'm not sure how interested you guys are in reading them. So do you want to know about them all, or should I have a reviews section that gets added to but doesn't email you every time? I'd hate to drive [...]

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So Amazon isn't bulletproof

July 21, 2008

Well just a quick note that if you noticed the blog or some of my services (TEtoolbox) go funky it is due to Amazon.com's S3 service going down yesturday for quite some time. You probably noticed other websites and even iPhone services stopped working. But alas all is well. I'll still be using them as [...]

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Who is that Email From

July 19, 2008

The next tip is for everyone who sends out email, not just traffic exchange owners. If you look at the image to the left you probably already know what I'm going to be talking about today! When I look in my inbox and see an email from Cindy, Traffic Splash, or Help Hits, I know [...]

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Baby Photo

June 22, 2008

This is a photo of Big Sister Vanessa with Little Sister Ashley. Ashley was born on Thursday night, she was 7lbs 2oz and 20in long! It's been a long few days in the hospital, but now at home we are all settling in..   Well, sorta! My sister is getting married today so I get to [...]

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What do you need help with?

June 12, 2008

I've finished up the Spotting Bad Traffic Exchanges series, and wanted to know..  What do you need help with? Since I'm here to help you, the readers, it would be helpful to know what areas you need help in! So please tell me! Simply look in the right side of the blog for the "What [...]

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The Winner of 20,000 Hits!

June 2, 2008

Well it's always exciting to give out a crazy prize like this.  I was actually shocked when I picked a person randomly and had to pick again because they unsubscribed! A day before the contest timeline ended, and they unsubscribed and missed out on 20,000 hits. Woops! That's ok though, because I got to pick [...]

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If I Didn't Reply To Your Email

May 27, 2008

I recently had a comment from someone in the blog who was upset that I mentioned "Where is the Owner" in the Bad Exchanges series. They said they sent me 3 emails and I never replied. That being said, it can happen alot with me. So here are some of the reasons why I might [...]

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You could win 20,000 hits just by subscribing

May 21, 2008

Well the title pretty much says it all. On June 1st I'll be picking a random subscriber who has subscribed to my blog for at least a week. That means the deadline to enter your email in the subscribe form is May 25th. If you are already a subscriber, just don't unsubscribe before June 1st [...]

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Do you like this Blog's Look?

May 12, 2008

Hi All. What do you think of the design for this blog? I was thinking about getting a new design but it seems the places I've contacted aren't responding (except for one who wanted a ton of money and referred to RSS feeds as something extra, which has nothing to do with the design). So [...]

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Introducing Traffic Exchange Search

May 12, 2008

I created a traffic exchange search page a few days ago.  This will allow you to easily search our industry's forums, blogs, and news sites all in one place.  So if you want to know who's who in the industry, just enter their name in! If you aren't sure about a specific exchange or site, [...]

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Calling All Traffic Exchange Blogs / Reviews

May 7, 2008

Email Apology: I'm sorry for the massive amount of emails sent out just now. It definately shouldn't have happened and I'll be sure to figure out why it happened and how to prevent it from happening again. A big part in being a success online is all about networking. I like to keep in touch [...]

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What do you think I should write about?

May 4, 2008

Well this is pretty cool.  It's a simple widget that lets you tell me what I should write about, and lets you vote on the other topics. I'm going to try it out. So on the blog sidebar #2 you can see it. Simply click the "What should I write about?" link to submit an [...]

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Requesting Referral Links

May 2, 2008

Please read this entirely before commenting. I've been thinking about getting into other areas of advertising, and trying them out.  So I'm looking to my growing readers for ways they are advertising their websites outside of traffic exchanges.  I've joined a safelist once (and never used it), and paid a bit in Adsense, but that's [...]

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Get Paid to Promote my Blog

April 29, 2008

I reached a milestone..  1000 subscribers! To celebrate, I'll be paying you for bringing in the next 1000! Simply use the splash page below and once I reach the 2000 mark I'll give you 10 cents for every active subscriber. Ok, so you might not get rich over it but it is something. I'm not [...]

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Weird Search Result

April 25, 2008

Weird. I was searching Google for RegistrarAds and came across this result. Check out all those &'s. It appears to me that it's a <br> tag that somehow got way malformed. Click here for the full shot.

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Unique Offer

April 13, 2008

You probably know by now I have a wife, daughter, and another one coming.  This is great, however I tend not to purchase many fun things that I don't really need anymore.  So I thought about doing something fun.  I created an Amazon Wish List and am willing to give you 200 credits for every [...]

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Voice Recognition Software

April 7, 2008

Ok so I haven't posted anything productive in a while. However I have heard about some people using Vista's voice recognition software. A while back I started to use Dragon Natural Speaking and it was pretty good. Anyways I was wondering if you are using Vista's software to surf and type for you, or if [...]

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Check out my new office

February 5, 2008

So I moved and finally have the internet setup. I was expecting it to be much faster, but the wi-fi connection wasn't working so I had to get a wire run in. So here it is, not huge but anything bigger would be a waste of space!

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