Sustainability

Tame Bear on January 27th, 2017

The year 2016 was a rough one for the Traffic Exchanges, with a big slap down delivered by PayPal. When PayPal banned the TEs from using their payment processing service, everyone — owners, advertisers, publishers, and affiliate marketers — felt the impact. A whole lot of ongoing subscriptions and cashflow instantly vaporized. How to handle a downturn? When earnings drop […]

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Tame Bear on January 2nd, 2017

How did you find your way into affiliate marketing? Like many people, I stumbled upon it by accident. In the summer of 2010 I was looking for some insights about how to market my first ebook which I had just published at Smashwords.com. Smashwords was responsible for distributing the new book to online stores, in all the popular formats […]

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Tame Bear on November 13th, 2016

I keep hearing the same simple narrative about why a Trump president is good for the economy. It goes like this. Trump will open up oil exploration by cutting regulations. He will let us to drill, frack, and dig where we please to get the economy going again. He will approve the Keystone pipeline, yada yada. Wrong answer. […]

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Tame Bear on October 26th, 2016

My take, more often than not, is a philosophical one that takes the long view. I’m thinking decades, maybe several generations. This year we have an unusual opportunity to vote our conscience up and down the ticket and see it make a dramatic change for the common good. FAILURE OF THE NORMAL FUNCTIONING OF GOVERNMENT This […]

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Tame Bear on September 4th, 2016

Many of you reading this post are likely already familiar with Click-Track-Profit (CTP) and the “CTP Teams” tournaments happening there. Have the CTP games been helpful to you in building your business? [insert_php] include(‘ptc-blurb-inc.html’); [/insert_php] I have used the CTP games to promote two services that have been essential to the success of my Paid-To-Click project. They are: […]

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Tame Bear on January 12th, 2016

I’ve been traveling a lot more this past year, and the Amtrak is my preferred mode of travel. Especially now with WiFi on the train! Treesh and I are in the process of moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico and we’ve been going back and forth between our home in Goshen, Indiana and our new condo […]

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Tame Bear on January 6th, 2016

Boom! Gone. That’s the fastest, loudest, most unfortunate PTC death I’ve seen since I started in this business over two years ago. CashNHits was here yesterday and today it’s gone. And with the biggest boldest “Account Suspended” sign I’ve seen in web hosting. ACCOUNT SUSPENDED An “Account Suspended” page can have several meanings. Sometimes it means […]

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Tame Bear on November 28th, 2015

I’m writing to my PTC team today to let everyone know what’s working well for me, and I won’t just talk in generalities. I’m giving you the real numbers, and I will also fill you in on my 3 Top Advertising Resources. I have learned that the best way to build a business is to build a list — an […]

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Tame Bear on November 26th, 2015

If you watch the news these days you’d wonder if there is anything good happening in the world. All the news channels care about is the tragic, the horrific, the sensational, the controversial, shock, chaos, sadness, darkness. Yes, these are a part of our world, but we have so much more to be thankful for […]

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Tame Bear on November 7th, 2015

Sharpen your spreadsheets everybody because today we are going to take an in-depth look at TrafficMonsoon, a hybrid advertising and revenue sharing company that combines a Traffic Exchange (TE) and a Paid-To-Click (PTC) with wholesale purchases of advertising at other TEs and PTCs across the web. TrafficMonsoon has been on a steady growth path for about a year now […]

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