Friday at Traffic Exchange Live was full of fun, frolic… and frozen webcams. No, seriously, it was like an epidemic with this one or that one freezing their cam. And a lot of other stuff that I misguidedly thought, “Oh, well, I’ll remember this”, and since I didn’t write a post Friday night and it’s now Monday… I’ve subsequently forgotten whatever all it was I was so sure I’d remember. Oops.

But here are the highlights anyway (I did at least get SOME of it written down, heh heh)…

Frozen Cam Friday on Traffic Exchange Live:

• Jon Olson, Tim Linden, and John Guanzon were all three on board Traffic Exchange Live on Friday, as was master programmer Austin Hallock who joined us later on when John had to leave.
• There was a long discussion in the room about IKEA, where Jon spent quite a bit of his Edmonton trip last week. I’ve never been in one and it turns out (after a little research) the closest one to me is in Atlanta, which is not very close. Jon filled the several in who had never been to IKEA on what they have and why we don’t want to go there (because we’ll buy too much/spend too much money). Apparently IKEA also has food and Jon said the Swedish meatballs are awesome. Ian Bakewell said you can get a full meal there for about a dollar.
• I have “Tim’s VIP mail” written down in my notes, and I wish I could tell you what that’s about but I have absolutely no clue what it was about.
• Jon bothered EasyHits4U again, as he does daily, and we had a whole lot of UStream users come in and participate for a pretty good while after that.
• One of the UStreamers was apparently a fairly active TE user and had a lot of questions about rotators and TEToolbox, which Tim and others addressed (and actually that took up a fair amount of the day’s chat that day).
• Austin hopped on after John had to leave for the day, and shortly thereafter proceeded to freeze his cam (though it was a very nice freeze frame):

• More discussion (as from Thursday’s TE Live as well) about Austin’s suspicious vacuum, but I still didn’t find out what was so suspicious about it.
• Tim had to answer another question and explain something to someone again, and warned Jon not to listen for the next couple of minutes because things were going to get really techy. Brenda Broyles‘ response to that was “Zzzzzzz…..”.
• Loooooong lengthy discussion about various autoresponders, performance, and opinions.
• Tim also managed to freeze/slash/almost break his cam as well (see below).
• Jon discovered something and went on a VERY.LONG.RANT. (We like it when Jon rants, though.)
• Jon said we (meaning the TE industry) reward stupidity and reward people who do not do anything new and copy everyone else.
• Tim disappeared right at about 4pm EST on the dot as usual.
• At which point soon after, Mike “UA” Gartner joined us (now Mike, Jon, and Austin) on cam.
• More discussion went on revolving around the earlier rant for a while, then we just all kinda chit- chatted, and TE Live actually lasted until nearly 5pm EST since we were all having fun chatting and goofing off, until Jon had to leave and thus ended TE Live for the week.
• GIVEAWAYS: No giveaways on Friday.
• I CALL YOU OUT ABOVE, YOU GET LINKAGE: Austin Hallock, Easy Surf Exchange (Ian Bakewell), Brenda Broyles, Mike Gartner
• ALSO ON THE SCENE: Diane Merriam, Stephen Whittle, Wanda Robinson, James Vest, Paul Brown, Frank Genny, Don Stratton, Martin, Bruce Formhals, Connie Mottala – and of course, Jerry Iannucci, Winter Perkins, and Randy Ritter.
• QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I’m Tim Linden, and I approve of this message.” – Tim Linden

*** Traffic Exchange Live is on UStream every weekday afternoon 3-4 pm EST ***

So, Lynn M. Is Waiting For Thursday Again: Why? Because after a few years now of NOT watching Survivor, I’ve gotten addicted again thanks to my boyfriend, who watched the premiere when it came on and told me about it. Otherwise I’d have been blissfully unaware and would not have known it was another all-star season… which I just can’t help myself watching when it’s an all-star season. And to make it even more impossible for me to not watch, they have the whole Heroes vs. Villains thing. Normally I would usually be rooting for the Heroes side, but Boston Rob is one of my favorite Survivors of all-time, bless his conniving little heart, so of everyone, that would be my pick, though I really don’t think he’ll make it that far. It’s still early yet, but I predict that if a Hero goes home this week, it’ll be either Candice or Amanda – should it be a Villain, probably Courtney. Wish I didn’t have to wait until Thursday to find out, sigh…

Lynn M.’s Traffic Tidbit of the Day: There’s a hefty multi-TE promo going on today! Fast Easy Traffic, Tezak Traffic Power, and Traffic Taxis have gone in together today for a huge one, giving away $45 total in cash (three $5 prizes at each) and 18,000 total credits, banners, & text impressions between the three – just surf 250 pages or more to be in the draw!

Also, the brackets have reordered for the week in Bracket Surfing at I Love Hits (I came in 3rd in lowly Division 10 last week, heh). Most everyone I know is in Division 1, where I’ll never hope to be because I can barely stand to surf more than 100 pages a day most days. But this week, I moved up to Division 4… which is also Tim Linden and Austin Hallock‘s division this week. This is gonna get ugly and there’ll be trash talking galore in TE Live and I Love Hits chat, I guarantee it. :-)

Surf’s Up Site of the Day: Traffic-Splash

Why: Read my lips – TRIPLE.BONUS. CREDITS… all day long!

Hey, Check This Out: I guess this is “give props where props are due” week this week. I’ve had some really good results recently with several safelists and list builders that I haven’t really spotlighted on their own here (and as well good results with some I have highlighted before) so I’ll probably do that most of this week or so.

Global Safelist is one that kind of fell off my radar for a month or two but all of a sudden got very – VERY – responsive again… like within minutes of me sending out a mail responsive last week. So kudos for that – they all kind of ebb and flow and will do better some weeks than others, and do better with some campaigns than others – but this one’s been very hot for me the last few weeks anyway, so if you are into (or want to get into) safelist marketing, you might wanna give Global Safelist a shot right now…

’til next time, I’m your faithful, but very very sleepy, TE Live reporter from the scene… I hope I can stay awake long enough for Affiliate Funnel tonight, ack…

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