Okay...I Lied. I Do Have Another Rant Today!

Actually, I have several, but I'll try to restrain myself and only rant about one right now.

OTO OFFERS Annoy Me! Let me ask all of you big, important, money making machines right now...how stupid do you think we are?!

Why would anyone want to spend money to upgrade right after signing up for a program without knowing the quality of the program? Your OTO offers are misplaced, misused and generally perceived to be a desperate attempt to get some gullible sucker to spend $5-$300 on your products. As a rule, I will not take an OTO offer unless the program or traffic exchange can prove that it will work for those of us who put the time and effort into it.

How about offering that OTO after a person has been a member for a week or two? Money Traffic Exchange and Royal Surf do it, why can't you? Don't try to cause us more stress than we already have trying to compete with the "big dogs". If your program works, and you really want that person to upgrade, wouldn't it make more sense to offer that discount a few days after they have time to test your system?

I signed up for three programs today guys and gals. All 3 had OTO offers for me immediately, one before I ever got the activation email. One had not one, not two, but THREE OTO offers, giving me a lower price each time for the same crap on each offer. Cut me a break...I do not have time for this and neither do your prospective members. If we want to upgrade, we will.

And if you were secure in your program, you would offer that OTO a week after a member has registered so that they can find out if your new money making machine will work for them!

As a final note, if I see one more time the phrase "it's who owns the program" that makes it a success, I might just send you a box filled with puke. The Good Ol' Boy Club might have more money, more contacts and more resources than the little guy, but the little guy has more gumption than all of you combined.

After all, it is the little guy that makes you money every day...how bout a thank you?

Best Wishes,
Melanie
A.K.A.
The Ranting Queen

Contributing Authors Needed! Surfers Wanted!

Although I profess to be The Ranting Queen, not even I can rant on a daily basis. Okay well, that may be a small, white lie...

I can rant on a daily basis, but my funny seems to be broken this morning! And so my fellow surfers, marketers, newbies and seasoned ranters, I need your help. If you think you can write a rant that will make people laugh while still speaking to their frustrations and giving voice to them, I need you!

Send The Ranting Queen a message if you want to write with me! I want to hear from you, see a sample of a great rant and get you writing here with us. Beware though...

It is our goal to voice our opinions, share our thoughts in a good, clean, politically and socially acceptable way while still getting our point across that we aren't going to take it anymore!

Up to the challenge? Let me know!

Best Wishes,
Melanie
A.K.A.
The Ranting Queen

Cyclers Are A BUST - And We Are Talking George Washington UGLY

SAVE YOUR MONEY!! I have yet to meet one of those cookie cutter cyclers that are successful for the small business man or woman. In fact, I'm pretty sure the last cycler to bomb got his butt kicked in the local bar for trying to scam that big boy in leather over there...

How many of us have lost money to the never ending stream of cyclers that are now available on the internet? I haven't researched it, but I would have to guess that atleast 75% of us have bought atleast one $20 position (more if you hadn't had the required pot of caffeine yet). Have you made any money from it?

Only one person getting rich here boys and girls. The guy who decided to put that cycler up for a week or two! You see, we enabled that scamming, lazy fool (okay, maybe fool is too strong of a word...only geniuses who don't care about their fellow man can pull this crap off) who still lives in Mama's basement. Did I mention that Mama still cooks his meals, washes his laundry and makes his bed for him too? And I bet she didn't see a dime of that 2 week fast track scam to rich either!

So are you tired of wasting money now? Figured out that the "get rich quick" phrase is just a scheme to make someone else money? Stick a pillow under your sore butt and find some good programs to work with. We have several that we recommend, and you'll find them on the left side of this page!

Get to work...there's money to be made!

Best Wishes,
Melanie
A.K.A.
The Ranting Queen

Site Clean Up? Do The Owners EVER Surf Their Own Site?

Let's face it. As a rule, none of you are surfing one site at a time. You are surfing 2-20 at once. One bad site will screw up your entire rythym in 1 second flat and you are left with rebooting, reopening, and reporting that bad site.

As a TE owner, I understand that it is almost impossible to surf every site on your exchange every day. But how bout looking at those reports from your members? How about trying to find the bad sites and GET RID of them FOREVER by banning the URL? Let's face the facts here - if that URL is a framebreaker, than the next one from that same domain will be as well. They already broke the unspoken and spoken rule of TE's. They WILL break it again.

Now all of you owners out there who are charging your members anywhere from $1 a month to $50 a month for your "quality, fast traffic", should take responsibility for your actions. It IS your site, it IS your business, and if you don't take care of it, you ARE going to LOSE it. Your competition is going to break your nose time and again, because your customers do not want to take the time to reload, reopen, report or reboot everything every 2 pages!

Scripters - Take note. We WANT you to find out how Start Xchange is allowing us to block a site from ever having to see it again. We WANT you to include it in every script you sell, and update the ones you have already sold. It is a ridiculous waste of time for us, as customers, to have to do the TE owners job, but since we do, FIX IT.

Owners - Take note. REWARD your surfers for reporting a bad page. Give them free credits, free impressions, free text links, a penny or just a HELL YA, Good Job Member 999 for letting us know about this crap on our exchanges. Surfers wouldn't mind reporting bad sites if they were getting a small thank you for it. To those owners who already do this, you are doing a great job!

Surfers - Start speaking your mind. Are you going to continue paying for that site when it does nothing but frustrate you day in and day out? There are 4 million other quality exchanges out there to try. Let's get on it!

In summation, TE Owners, get off your lazy butts and do some surfing on your own exchange. I guarantee 100% that you will find a site that needs to be removed, banned or just plain boycotted for the rest of time. Your surfers will thank you!

Best Wishes,
Melanie
A.K.A. The Ranting Queen

Online Best Surveys

There is only one great way to describe this site.

$39.00 SCAM!

FACT #1 - 100% of the sites listed on this website are easily found FREE by a general search through the internet.

And to top that off, most of them are not survey sites, but sites that will give you "rewards" to buy things, try things and order free trials. Granted, there are several genuine survey sites listed here. I will be adding them to this blog at the bottom later today. So remember to bookmark it for future reference.

If you decide to purchase this membership, be sure to make yourself some type of list in
Excel that reminds you when to cancel all those free trials. Or you'll be spending a lot more than $39.00.

FACT #2 - Make Money By Reselling This - SCAM!

Try to join their affiliate program. HTTP 404 Error! Page cannot be found. Don't waste your money friends. I will continue to sign up for the hundreds of links here, because I paid for it. And I'll post the legitimate sites for the honest Joes and Josies out there.

Once again, the honest people of the internet community are getting taken for a ride that does not end until you are broke and ready to give up.

FACT #3 - Bonus Links? Where?

Every one of these sites are also easily found in a search on Winzy or Moola or Google. Save your hard earned money guys and gals. Show these people who are scamming us left and right that we aren't going to take their crap anymore. There are plenty of honest programs out there that will make you money on a daily basis. You will continue to find these programs listed here.

And I promise, you will continue to find the scams here on a regular basis. I definitely qualify as one of those gullible, want to make my own million dollars people that should have stayed in the normal working world!

Best Wishes,
Melanie
A.K.A. The Ranting Queen

Traffic Era & Other Logiscape Exchanges

Let's discuss Logiscape. They have just announced yet another traffic exchange that they won't be able to handle, Traffic Era. As with TS25 and Traffic Pods, they are experiencing framebreakers, site freezes, not founds (already? it just launched a month ago), viruses, password protected pages, enable your cookies, dumbass! warnings and more. And yet, they plod along, taking your hard earned $19.99, $29.99, or worse yet, their by invitation only god only knows how much money it's going to cost you, club level.

Their prices are uniform between the three sites. I fully admit, I surf Traffic Era as a free member. Why? Because everyone and their brother is there right now, and I hope, just as much as you, that one or two of my programs will get a ton of referrals as a result. But lord almighty, I am tired of reporting the same site over and over and over again, just to see it 2 days later again, still breaking frames or causing issues in general. How many of you are paying $19.99 a month per site, equalling about $60 a month for crap from 3 sites that will never be fixed?

Here's the question. Why do you pay $19.99 a month for more frustration than results? There are great sites out there, for much less than 20 bucks a month that will read your reports, test those urls, get rid of the issues and keep your surfing clean. And did I mention they actually answer you when you ask a question with a real response instead of a canned response that got sent to every single person who asked the same question?

One great example of this is Start Xchange - not only can you report a site and the issues with it, but you can block that site from ever showing in your rotation again. And you can do this for free or for as little as $6 per month with some great benefits. And the Administration manages to do this all for you, despite the fact that they have 33000 plus members, with anywhere between 60-160 people surfing at one time. Free or pay for it, it's up to you. But give them a shot...what else have you got to do except keep $13.99 in your own pocket every month?

Best Wishes,
Melanie
A.K.A The Ranting Queen

The Rich Keep Getting Richer...The Poor Keep Getting Poorer

Have you accepted this as a fact yet? While you endlessly surf exchange after exchange, sign up for program after program and spend dollar after dollar attempting to build a home business that will make you money, those people who’s programs you are promoting are running to the bank 3-4 times a day to deposit their earnings. Well, in reality, they are probably clicking the bank transfer button on PayPal, but you get the point.

Isn’t it time people took a stand? Stop putting your money into those fly by night cyclers, which almost always turn out to be a scam. Take a look at Letmepay4you.com. How many of you lost hundreds of dollars in that program? Or Super Speed Cycler? Did you enjoy those nasty emails and disgusting pictures on their website when they finally scammed enough money out of innocent, hopeful, honest people?

Granted, soon they shall be greeters in the newest scam to hit the market. “Welcome to Hell, can I help you?”. Reserved seats in the smoking section I’m sure, with their money just out of reach and their kids wondering how to scam the next poor sucker to come along. But until then, when will we, as internet entrepreneurs, band together to say “NO MORE.” I am not promoting your crap unless you can show me that it works.

While I am putting programs down, let’s talk about the Dollar Blasters out there. The best one that sits at the top of my mind is Dollar Blasterz. How many of you have seen a profit from them? Pay your $25, promote your link and wait for the money to roll in. Don’t piss them off by sending them an e-mail, because you’ll be deleted and not stand a snowballs chance in hell of getting the money back that you put into the program, not to mention the hours of surfing every exchange you can find to promote a program where you make absolutely NO money.

Get ready for the ride, readers and friends. I am about to show the internet and the predators that come along with it, that we are tired of their crap. Read on to the next post to find out what programs are on the up and up, and what programs are making money for one person only, and that’s the owner/developer of the program themselves.

Do you have a program that you know, for a fact and can prove, that pays out on a regular basis and works? Send it to me. I would love to join it and find out the truth. If it works, I'll promote your affiliate link and my own here and on every other site that I do spend hours getting traffic to.

Got a program that you would totally love to bash and thrash? Send it to me. I'll help with the bashing and the thrashing, because at this point, I am tired of watching my friends, fellow internet junkies, fellow mothers/fathers who are trying to work at home and anyone else I forgot to mention, get taken advantage of.

I promise, if you stop promoting these idiots programs that aren't making you any money at all, and start promoting the honest ones, you'll not only make money, but you will be a helluva lot happier in the end. Otherwise, keep promoting them. Maybe you'll find yourself on that same bench in hell with Mr. You Made Me A Million Dollars This Year & Got Nothing!

Best Wishes,
Melanie
A.K.A. The Ranting Queen