Well over last weekend we hit 100,000 members at StartXchange. It's a pretty big mark. I made a survey, and one angry response caught my attention..

In short, the question was why only a fraction of those members still use StartXchange. And the answer is pretty simple, not just for StartXchange but for all traffic exchanges. Look at any of the numbers and you'll see!

The answer is simply put, people aren't getting what they want out of traffic exchanges. Most people are sold hype and join exchanges thinking they'll make instant cash overnight. When they don't, they leave.

Other people are frustrated because they have this dream on what they want to do, but don't know how to get there. Most people surfing lack the technical skills to do it on their own.

To be quite honest, that's why we started ClickTrackProfit. We want to keep people around longer. It's our goal to teach everyone using an exchange how to really use them right in a fun but not hyped up way.

Unfortunately there will always be other people who keep the hype going. One that comes to mind is a traffic exchange owner telling their members they can make six figures *a month* when we all know that owner isn't even making that much. I'm just as frustrated as you!

So what do we do from there? Well we continue to improve CTP. We continue to plan more training, and more fun. Because it's been working great so far so we want to keep it going!

So I'm sitting here on Friday afternoon, the time where I'm supposed to be blogging, and I have nothing good to write about. What do you do in that situation? All comments necessary!

You see the title of the page, so I ask you? What's your opinion? Should you see an offer every time you login to a website? Or should it be limited to only once a day? Once a week?

And how do you feel about sites that show you follow up offers? Should there be a limit on that?

I ask because today I joined a website and was shown 4 offers on their upgrade before getting to login. 4 different prices for the same item, just different time increments! It used to be a yearly offer and then a monthly offer was standard, now it seems lifetime and 6 month offers get thrown in too.

So what are your thoughts on this? How many are too much? Or does it not even matter?

OK folks I'm out of the loop on safelists, list builders, paid to clicks, etc. I know I do this periodically because I don't keep up as much on them, but I find it helpful to find out from you guys which ones are still good.

So you want to help  me out? If so please comment with your favorite 3 safelists, list builders, or paid to clicks. You can put your referral link if you'd like. Thanks!

When I did a survey for ClickTrackProfit a while back I didn't realize how much of a response I was going to get. It actually got me very motivated. So motivated I added a motivational section to CTP.

It's right under the LoginLesson, and it shows random quotes from real members like you using CTP. It got me really excited seeing how many different people were using CTP and were excited themselves!

So I encourage you to login every day and check out one or two or three of the quotes until you are motivated to start your day. I figure if I'm motivated by their success, you will be too!

I received a phone call from a friend who pointed out I haven't done anything with RIPhoto in a long time. It's made me re-think about the site and get more motivated to get back into posting new photos. I think my problem was I was trying to do a new photo every day. Burnout.

It was difficult because we did have a baby and we did merge companies so a lot went on all at once. But I think switching to a weekly format would be better for me. Maybe call it "Photo Friday". And maybe I'll turn "Free Mug Friday" into "Mug Monday" lol*

So there you go. I think typing this out has got me motivated, so much so that I decided to post a photo of 30 people surfing at Narraganset Beach RI! It'll be fun to get into photography again..

* If you want me to sport your mug with my favorite brew of coffee, be sure to send one to PO BOX 28, West Kingston RI 02829!

I'm pretty pumped at this, my plugin is now an official plugin on WordPress. You can easily install it by going to Plugins -> Add New and putting in wpFutureCal!

I increased the font size and coloring to make it easier to read. I found out the hard way it was too small when I posted the same day twice! I caught it in time but didn't want to even have to think using this. Go install it now! If you have a WordPress login I'd love it if you went and rated the plugin.

Well, I'm going to try doing this from now on. At 2PM every Friday I'm no longer allowed to do any coding. I take the weekends off so if I break something then chances are I won't realize it till Monday.

So what should I do in the hours after 2PM? Blog posts!

I figure that's the best way to keep the content coming, without breaking anything. It's also a good time for me to brainstorm and write on my whiteboard things I want to do next week, so Monday morning I've got a fresh set of ideas.

This is one of the keys to business. Finding your weaknesses and turning them into strengths! I'm usually focused on work work work so if I didn't force myself to stop I'd not have the time to brainstorm the next big thing.

Of course, as I write this post on a Friday at 2:24PM Larry decides to drop two bugs on me expecting me to fix them without coding...

We've had this secret for a while now, and haven't told anyone. For two reasons really: We wanted to be sure of it before saying anything..  And yes, there's part of me that doesn't want anyone to know because of the competitive advantage it gives us =P

Anyways, I'm talking our hosting provider. As a whole TimTech has used all sorts of hosting providers over the years, some of them include: SoftLayer, ThePlanet, DreamHost, ZootHost, HostGator, MediaTemple, LunarPages, SliceHost, and a few more that I can't remember their names but remember their awful service lol

The point being, I'm a hosting nut and have tried a ton of services out there and found that our current host, LiquidWeb, stands ahead of the rest. Interestingly enough Justin has been using them for AdKreator for a whole long time.

He actually convinced me they were way better and to get TimTech over there. He pointed out that while I'm sitting around waiting for support tickets and having problems with servers, he doesn't have that problem. He just calls up LiquidWeb and bam they have a solution.

Well I'm sold. They have some really cool features with their hosting, but the prime reason we use them is their customer service. These guys know hosting. So when you ask them for help on something they actually know how to help you.

You can even ask William Miller (SurfSkeleton) and Blain Jones (Blain Jones),  we recommended LiquidWeb to them and they both have said great things about the experience.

The part I like best, is they designed a cluster for us that has failover and redundancy. We litterally said we are tired of problems with servers, we want it to not have problems any more, figure it out. And they did.

They have hosting that goes from small guy with a small site all the way up to mega traffic. And they do it all for you. Complete newbies can have rock solid hosting with them. It's taken a huge stress off my life!

I don't get too excited with the traffic exchange industry, because this rarely happens, but it's happening now. I'm talking about SurfSkeleton!

William has been slowly growing SurfSkeleton for a while now, doing everything right. And the exciting thing is it's starting to really pick up. He's gone from ranking #68 to ranking #37 in 3 weeks!

These rankings are based purely on traffic flow, so its the most unbiased ranking of traffic exchagnes. Rankings are updated every Monday and are free to view! You can thumb up/down an exchange or leave a comment to give user feedback (but it doesn't affect the ranking).

So that means the ranking should be updated today! I'm just excited to see his progress. So much so he ran out of bandwidth a little while back and had to upgrade his hosting. I remember back in the day where exchanges left and right had to deal with growing pains, now it seems many are downgrading rather than upgrading!

Congrats William!