Surfing? Don't Blow Your Time
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Posted on: 11th Sep 2014
Those who use Traffic Exchanges are essentially divided into two groups. The first is comprised of the established and sophisticated marketers who use the exchanges as just another means of getting their products out there. It's a legitimate and useful means of getting sales, one of many employed by marketing professionals.
The larger group is trying, in varying degrees of determination, to generate income by working online. Some do it part time. Some full time. Some are mildly interested, others strongly, and by far the most, are desperate.
So what we have here at the Traffic Exchanges is essentially, a lot of desperate people desperately trying to sell a lot of old, hackneyed, reworked, useless and unworkable junk to each other. And a lot of this stuff is provided to them by the first group who are the ones actually making the money here. That is, the producers of these nice shiny objects that don't work.
So they surf for credits. and the credits give them the privilege to communicate with each other about stuff they all know about and which they're all trying to sell themselves. What sense does that make?
It's free!
Oh yeah? What is your time worth? You can blow a buck on a worthless product and you can make the money back. But you can never ever - not ever - get back your time.
And here's another depressing fact. Downliners are worthless. You surf for credits. So do they. You read emails of your upline for credits. So do they. How many emails do you actually read? I mean read? How many of the links that come up do you actually study, even look at? And how much stuff do you actually buy?
If there is one infallible truth that will come out of this discussion, it is that surfing is an utter waste of time Certainly an accidental sale is made at some time during the procedure, but I've yet to meet anyone who makes a living at surfing. I do know one individual who surfs more than 30 TEs, 12 hours a day, and he claims to be making his living at it but I don't see any evidence of affluence settling in around him.
Now I'm not saying that all surfing should be avoided. Surfing is a good way of staying up on what is going on in the IM world. You get to see all the stuff that's being hawked Most of it is worthless. Some of it might be marginally useful. I've yet to run across anything that was worth the money. Or more importantly, the time it's taken away from me.