News Updates Oct-15-2009

Hi everyone! First of all, I would like to wish all my readers from India a VERY HAPPY DIWALI. Basically, I am also from India and I love this festivel season. We fire crackers, eat sweets and Invite our muslim/Christian neighbours for lunch. We celebrate this festival with our friends, family and relatives. We woke up early in the morning (3 a.m) and take oil bath (using sesame oil). This oil bath has lot of medical values too. Then we pray and go out to fire crackers before 5 a.m. Then we eat sweets and give sweets to our neighbours and friends. For newly married couples, the first Diwali is very special and they receive lot of gifts from elders. Though Diwali is on Saturday, the enjoyment begins a week before itself. Overall, I am in a very happy mood today.

Before coming to our news updates, I introduced a new feature in my blog today. Here after you can read the daily news in my blog header ticker (Just above my blog header). I update the News flash 4 times a day with all latest news for you. This will keep you all updated with the industry news. Now, let's discuss the various news in the programs in my program details page,

AdRebatesPro - Let's start with AdRebatesPro which is our hot topic today. There are lot happened in last 24 hours in this program. Usually Diane, the admin of AdRebatesPro pays very fast. But, yesterday payments were delayed for at least 12 to 16 hours. Getting payed in 16 hours is actually not bad. But, most members consider that as red flag and become cautious. Eventually, Diane sent out an email saying that the compounding is removed. Diane said that most members were abused the system by compounding all the rebates and building accounts.

But, I don't feel like that is abuse. System is designed to do that. So, it is not right to blame the members for this. Ofcourse admin has all rights to take action to make sure the program runs smoothly. Diane now introducted a 50/50 rule for cashout to make the program sustainable. It means if you want to cashout 100$ then you have to upgrade for 50$. This is mandatory and admin may not process the payment if you are not following this rule. I have to really wait and see how this change works. I honestly believe that admin should reduce the daily rebate to make the program sustainable. That's why we have a revenue share model here.

Today, AdrebatesPro website was down for few minutes. I don't know the reason for the down time. But, looks like admin acted immediately and fixed the problem. I usually use various tools to measure the program's performance. According to me, AdrebatesPro performance is good. Though the performance of this program dropped little bit yesterday, the average for last one week is still attractive. But, my performance analysis method is only 70% successful. I am using 7 important metrics to calculate the performance of a program. I don't have any plans to reveal those metrics in near future. Ratiang for this program is down to 4.15 for 5. See the newsletter from the admin below,

Hello everyone,

Hope you are doing well. I want to give you updates on the changes we did on AdRebatesPro. I know some of you do not like changes but you should understand that changes are good when are done in order to improve the business. AdRebatesPro is an online business and is governed by business rules.

The option to buy ad shares using earnings (compounding) was turned off for the moment. A lot of members really abused it. Compounding function was added in order to help you save payment processor fees on cashout and upgrades. Instead some members simply used ALL their rebate earnings to build their ad shares portfolio.
I have to remind you that AdRebatesPro is an advertising revenue sharing program and not an investment fund so purchasing ad shares using real money is absolutely necessary.

Another feature enabled today for stability is the 50/50 rule. Meaning if you want to cashout, let's say $100 you will have to purchase ad rebates worthing at least $50. This is only temporary and will be in place until we make sure all our users understand how the system works.

Today stats are looking great and I'm happy to see that most of the members complied with this rule and start purchasing ad shares using real money.

ShiftMoney - This is another program which was in news today. This program was under DDOS attack today. Website was down for at least 4 hours. Admin contacted the hosting service to fix the problem. I thought the website has High DDOS protection. It turned out to be that the DDOS protection was not enough. So, admin increased the protection now.

You will be amazed if you see the alexa ranking for this program. ShiftMoney has alexa ranking of 23196 for yesterday. This is simply awesome. This program is performing too good as of now. Though it is risky, I have lot of hope in this program. But, remember to diversify your investment. Don't invest more money in one program.

MindPowerSurf - This program reached 400 members count. Admin is also rewarded 10$ free upgrade for the ID number 400. Admin of this program is doing all she can to promote the program. But, the program growth is not so very fast. It is slow. The reason should be the complicated script and absense of alertpay payment option. To boost the program growth admin should add alertpay. Programs like Infinitiva are accepting alertpay and paying for last 4 months without any problem. The performance of MindPowerSurf is good and improving. I don't see anything bad at all except the slow growth.

Alertpay - Yesterday alertpay was down between 5:30 pm and 6:40 p.m EST. It looks like a unplanned downtime and support team managed to fix it soon

I am getting lot of good feedback for my articles. Yesterday, admin of ShiftMoney program appreciated my review. I am also getting feedbacks from some new bie investors. They appreciated my Rules of Online Investment articles. It looks like they are taking calculative risks after reading my article. It really encourages me a lot. Thank you everyone.