Surfing Bonus Increased

When 125 or more are surfing, a 5% surfing bonus will be applied. This is on top of the current 5% bonus for reaching 150 and 175 surfing! Enjoy

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Improve Your Splash Page Results

You’ve probably seen a few of my new splash pages with some really cool graphics. Well I’ve been using a tool to create them, and I’ve scored a special discount for StartXchange members. Upgraded members get $10 off, and if you login now all members will get a special offer with even better discount, but I’m only allowed to show it to you once!

I’ll soon be making a video explaining how I made my pages with it on Tim Linden’s Blog (aka my blog). It’s way simple, and the images are great. So make sure you check it out and don’t just speed dismiss it!

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Survey Survey Survey - You could get 100 Credits!

Another survey has been posted. This survey lets me know a little more about you, but it also has a place for you to ask a question for me! Later I’ll be posting the answers to these questions on my blog. Please note that I reserve the right to not answer questions that I do not think the answers will benefit the readers. So keep it on topic: Traffic Exchanges / Website Development / Advertising related!

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Forum Sponsor Reduced: Now $5

You can now sponsor the forum (and the random prize page) for only $5. Or you can continue bidding credits. Either way, it’s a great way to brand yourself!

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StartXchange Code: 080F42E6

We now have Live Help!

If you are in need of help, or want to say a quick “Hi!”, click the live help button! We will be testing this out for a few weeks, and keeping it if it improves StartXchange as a whole. You’ll find the buttons in the members area and outside the members area!

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Jon Olson Speaks Out!

So Jon Olson, owner of I Love Hits, has spoken out on my blog! If you aren’t yet a subscriber you really need to be. Not only are there great interviews from legendary owners like Jon Olson, but there are some really great series coming up that you don’t want to miss!

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10% Surfing Bonus - Next 24 hours!

Just for fun, I’ve increased the surfing bonus by 10% for the next 24 hours! Delivery has been picking up, so thanks for surfing!

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StartXchange Code: 6FF4CE4A

New Daily Prizes

Every 100 pages viewed you’ll now receive a random prize. The first 10 times a day you receive a random prize, you’ll automatically be entered to win one of the daily prizes. The current prizes are 1000, 750, and 500 credits. This will be replacing the “wordgame”. All wordgame entries will be included in tonights drawing for the much larger prizes in the new daily prize system.

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The Surf 100 Winners Are..

beatdetective, tfranklin, lenakhalid, rickcarla and dcubed

Thanks for surfing 100 pages at each of our exchanges! You each won 1,000 StartXchange hits!

First Page Spots are Going Fast!

Just a reminder that you can purchase or bid on the first page shown on StartXchange each day! Bid as many credits as you’d like, or buy it for $10! They are selling and bidding fast!

You can also be the forum sponsor for a day! You’ll get to put up a large 728×90 banner displayed on every thread in the forum! I can’t even beleive I’m saying this, but someone has bid 10 credits and won tomorrow’s sponsor spot! 10 credits for unbeleivable branding! Even Free Upgrade Friday, which attracts many members who can only surf weekends has no bid!

Your Welcome

If you were surfing while 150 or 175 members were surfing (there are at least 150 of you out there who got this =P). I’m officially saying your welcome for giving you a 50% or 100% surfing bonus by accident! It was supposed to be 5/10%. Don’t worry, I won’t take them back =P My mistake, so enjoy them!

StartXchange Code: FB5C6E93

First Page On StartXchange

A loong time ago StartXchange sold spots in a rotator that displayed first when starting to surf. Well now it’s back, but in a different flavor!

You can now bid or buy a day! Bid as many credits as you want, or buy the day for $10. Buying a day cancels the bidding for that day and secures it for you, but bidding you can be out-bid at any time!

Hovering over the calandar days in the past will give you the stats for the number of page views the day showed, and future days will show you the current bid price! It is *brand* new so there are only full day stats for the 29th and 30th (2100 hits each!)

Go check it out!

Yikes! My Bad!

When the new design was added to StartXchange our rankings went off the charts on the Top Manual Exchanges ranking. However I found out this was an error! You see the new design I accidentally had the tracking button on *all* pages, not just the members are. So I did my best to reset the stats according to what the average was before I made this mistake. I apologize for this error!

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New Team Challenges

For the month of April the team challenges will be “Top Average Surfing”, “Top Average Loyalty”, and “Top Total Referring”. This change will give a more average approach of competing. Your team style can be surfing larger quantities or getting everyone to surf each day..  It’s up to your team leader! If you don’t know what your team’s goal is, check the team’s page description. If it doesn’t say clearly there, ask your team leader to put it in so you know

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Casting Call: Team Leaders Wanted

If you want to be a team leader and you are experienced with StartXchange (been a member for some time, know the in’s and out’s), and are upgraded (any level), and are active (both in the forum and surfing), you can be a team leader! TODAY is the best day to start a team, as tomorrow the new challenges will begin!

It should be noted that by starting a team, you’ll be switching teams in the process and won’t qualify for any prizes if your current team wins for March.

Simply send a PM to “xxclixxx” on the forum, and include a few reasons why you think you’ll be a great team leader

Chris Houg Spills the Beans!

Tomorrow he’ll be participating in the interviews on my blog. If you aren’t subscribed, do so now so you don’t forget!

StartXchange Code: 1CD7DCA8

New Help Videos!

Need help with StartXchange? Well look for the new TV icon in the members area! Clicking this icon will load a video that explains how to use the features on that page.

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Slower Delivery Changes

StartXchange has been known for fast delivery of traffic for quite some time, but things have been slowing down lately. This is entirely my fault, as I’ve been giving away more bonuses then ever before. While the bonuses might look small, a 10% surfing bonus can be the difference between fast and slow delivery when you’ve got hundreds of thousands of pages being viewed a day!

I’d like to apologize for not being on my game in this area! It was overlooked while I’ve been working on other areas of the site (new design, videos, backend security, etc). Really I should have been paying attention even while doing all that, and I want to publicly thank the members that pointed it out.

So changes that have been made: 1) Surfing Bonuses have been reduced. Team Bonuses you’ll receive 1% bonus for every 10% surfing, # surfing bonus you’ll receive 5% for 150 and 175 surfing. 2) Banner Exchange Ratios have been reduced to 10:5 free and 10:7/8 upgraded.

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Team Competitions

There is also rumors going around that the teams don’t feel as competitive as before. So I’ve got a poll for you! Please let me know if you preferred the “Top Average Surfing” category, or if you prefer the now “Loyalty Points” category, or if you have no preference.

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Team Leaders: Mass Give Out Credits

So this is something you’ve been asking for quite some time, and you now have it! You can send credits to your team with the team messenger. So have fun with your contests! Not part of a team? Well join one! Many have their own “in team” competitions

StartXchange Code: 059938BA