Thanks to all members who took part in the Whirlwind Traffic/Top Flight Traffic contest. We broke the surfing record on Friday (over 25,000 page views) so it was a good day all round!

First up the 5 winners who each receive 500 credits + 2000 text impressions + $1 cash:

rcoaster
rinsoptc
jerryrjr
lydiaslv
estella

We also have one winner from those who viewed 300 or more pages on Friday. Your prize is 750 credits + 3000 text impressions + $2. And the winner is…

nancyb

Finally, an additional prize of $10 awarded randomly to a member who qualified for either the 150 or 300 view categories. And the winner is…

reach4success

Credits, text impressiona and cash have been added to your account. Thanks to all who participated .

If you’ve logged in today you might have noticed that we have a new look. I’d love to know what you think of the new look so please feel free to comment on it….

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As promised, we now have AlertPay available as a payment method on all of our upgrades. I can’t promise commission payments from AlertPay just yet (they are still through PayPal) but that will most certainly be an option soon as well.

Oh…important … don’t forget to fill in your PayPal address on the ‘My Profile’ page so we can send you commissions automatically.

How’s your lead up to Christmas going? Being a single dad I get to do all the shopping myself. I’d say that just about every year for the past 15 years I’ve done most of my shopping on December 23! I’m a lot more organised this year so I’ll be heading out today to fight my way through the other shoppers. It’s going to be ugly but certainly not as ugly as shopping on December 23! I hope you manage to get your shopping done early as well – that’s the sort of stress that none of us need .

I’m looking to the new year now and some more features I’ll be adding. For upgraded members I’ll be adding a ‘welcome message’. You will be able to write your own welcome message that will be sent to your downline members in the WWT internal message system. So, as soon as they log in they will see the popup saying they have mail and they will be treated to a warm welcome from their referrer… You!

I’m also working on a new referral competition. This will be a bit different to most. Usually with referral comps there are a few ‘heavy hitters’ that win each month. I’m all about level playing fields so this one will run on a 5 day cycle. I think that should give everyone the opportunity to do a 5 day ‘blast’ and get in amongst the winners. More on that soon, but feel free to refer as many people as you like before then.

Over the past few months I’ve had a few members ask why we aren’t ranked at Traffic Hoopla. As you probably know, Traffic Hoopla is a very popular downline/traffic generating system. The short answer is that they don’t use WhirlwindTraffic – so they can’t rank a site that they don’t test . With your help and referrals we may get back on their radar at some time in the future!

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Starting from January 1 I will be doing automatic payments of commissions to PayPal accounts. You will still be able to request your commission payment at any time, but if you haven’t requested payment AND you have filled in your PayPal email address in the member area you will receive your commission payment on the 1st of each month. So please log in and check in the ‘My Profile’ area and make sure you have your address filled in.

For people who don’t have PayPal, I’ve just gone through the process of getting my business account and the WWT website verified and validated with AlertPay, so I’ll be adding that as a commission payment and membership payment option very soon. I’ll let you know when that’s available.

That’s the official stuff covered… what a crazy week it’s been! There have been WWT surfing records broken nearly every day for the past week! Highest daily surf (21,898), highest weekly surf (currently at 128,538) and I can see that the team surfers are out to break that 50,000 point barrier for the extra credit bonus .

I’m beginning to sound a bit like a broken record (or CD or DVD?) but I really do appreciate all of the members who are helping us grow. It’s very cool to see more and more WWT splash pages rotating in the other traffic exchanges. Referrals are one of the key areas that help WWT grow and also helps you to grow your business. Don’t forget that if your referrals upgrade you get 50% (free members) or 75% (upgraded members) commission. And don’t forget to fill in your referral IDs for each of the recommended services in the member area so that your referred members can sign up via your link.

I hope you can tell that a membership at WhirlwindTraffic, whether free or upgraded, is a partnership. I’m doing everything I can to bring in new members and commissions for you and I can tell that many of you are doing everything you can to promote us in other TEs.

That’s what I call a win/win partnership!

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