Royal Messenger to the Kingdom

The long awaited announcements for our Great $500 Gas Giveaway are at hand! The purpose of this contest was primarily to grow the Royal Kingdom and to reachout to people who might not normally be a part of this industry. In other words, to bring in fresh new citizens for you to network with and to promote to.

The prizes up for grabs:

Grand Prize: $200 Gas Gift Card
Three 2nd Place Prizes: $50 Gas Gift Cards
Six 3rd Place Prizes: $25 Gas Gift Cards

During the period of the contest, there were 391 qualified entries received.

I’m going to start out announcing our 3 Runners Up in the Contest. These 3 citizens will be in line to win a prize if any of the 10 prize winners who will be announced fail to claim their prize or are otherwise disqualified.

If any winners are eliminated everyone will roll-up in their prize position and the runners up will come in at the bottom. Depending on the winner eliminated, some winners may move up a level in their prize award. For example, if our Grand Prize winner fails to claim their prize then at least 3 people will change their prize level. A $50 prize winner would become the $200 prize winner, a $25 prize winner would become a $50 prize winner, and a runner up would become a $25 prize winner.

Without further ado, our 3 Runners Up are…

1st Runner-Up: manager
2nd Runner-Up: riches4u2
3rd Runner-Up: websiteblaze

Now, onto our winners of Free Gasoline. If your username is announced as a winner, you have 72 hours to respond as follows:

1. Respond within 72 hours via our Contact Us form,
2. Include your first and last name,
3. Include your mailing address,
4. Include your gas company preference,
5. Include your email address, and
6. Include your username.

Our Six 3rd Places winners of $25 Gas Gift Cards are…

1. chevalier
2. masqueradings
3. stacyh73
4. wakery
5. larryl48
6. bluebaron2

Congratulations, you have each won a $25 Gas Gift card. Be sure to follow the instructions provided above and Contact Us within 72 hours or you forfeit your prize.

Tomorrow, Sunday, September 7th, between 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm Eastern time, we will continue with our Three 2nd Place winners of $50 Gas Gift cards. Be sure to watch for that announcement. It will be announced  via PM first then posted here and again, you’ll have 72 hours to respond.

Many citizens have been standing by to see if they are 1 of 5 cash winners of from $5 to $10 cash paid directly to their PayPal account today — no waiting!  If you’re username is below you have exactly *10 minutes* to identify yourself in our chatroom (the Royal Sign Post) to collect your cash prize.

For each citizen who doesn’t identify themselves within *10 minutes* in our chatroom, I will choose another surfer and announce them in our chatroom. Then they will have *5 minutes* to respond before I choose another surfer, and so on until all five (5) cash prizes are awarded!

The following citizens should respond in chatroom *NOW*

engel1969
kazzie
tom4956
madcat
marsha

Good luck to everyone!

Thy King

Surfed 250, Awarded 1000 Text Link Impressions

tough2beat
bamit
peaceloveharmony
ballen
kklemm
morda111
rdholco
bailesclan
mekrusty
kudingking
bluebaron2
theoldman
nubbles124
im999
mudsplat5
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Surfed 250, Awarded 500 Banner Impressions

beetle123
katty
awesomedogtoys
giddo
ginnys1999
marnels
belle
babs1194
leadsjam
saacdc
trenda
network
jbond
everest111
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Surfed 100, Awarded 500 Text Link Impressions

royaltraffic
budman
messyjess
llindasr
jdstoner
argo425
starstruck
swappo
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Surf 100, Awarded 250 Banner Impressions

camobusy
enge1969
jsnook
blaise
dadseidas
vmccrary
vasser
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Surf 50, Qualified for 100 Credit Drawing

saacdc
vmccrary
bluebaron2
theoldman
royaltraffic
vasser
flyforcheaper
gwenaviere
saskbirdgp
jsnook
mermaidmary

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It would be great too for RoyalSurf members to share their favs here so we can all enjoy them together. Use our RoyalSurf Media Player to find your favorite music, videos, radio stations, and games and tell the world right here.

Just for fun too, help me find some theme music for RoyalSurf that will match the “coolness” of our really cool citizens. Just list here suggestions that you think would be a great theme for RoyalSurf.

I’m looking forward to learning more about your favs so please post them with all haste.

This should be great fun!

Our Great $500 Gas Giveaway is one contest that EVERY citizen can qualify to win. This is so easy that every citizen should have several entries by time we reach the end of our contest. Come one now… who can’t use $200 in free gas? Your king wants to help you and your family, but you can’t win if you don’t participate, right?

Oh and please, let’s not have any citizens in this grand kingdom who say “I never win!”  That’s a self-fulfilling prophecy that you actually can make happen because when you believe that nonsense then you simply stop trying. If you don’t try, sure you can’t fail but you can’t win either. Actually, come to think of it, if you don’t try you already have failed. Folks, this applies to anything worth pursuing in life. If you don’t try then you’ve already failed.

At RoyalSurf, if you don’t win prizes every single week then you either aren’t surfing or you aren’t paying attention when you surf. We literally give away hundreds and hundreds of prizes every day! If you ain’t winning you ain’t trying.

I hear some of our citizens saying that they are trying to get referrals but nothing they try is working. I’m sure this doesn’t apply to you because I know you know what they are doing wrong. Don’t you?

Sad thing is, if anyone is having trouble getting referrals for a program that’s free to join, and which is also giving away free gas, they are probably having trouble making money online too.

Rather than getting on my soapbox again to beat the “you must use splash pages” drum again, I’m going to give you a real example of what one of your fellow citizens did right here at RoyalSurf.

In just 5 days, this member went from having ZERO qualified referrals for our contest to having EIGHT and she took over the lead in our gas giveaway contest as far as referral entries go. 

Read that again… she did this is just 5 days!

How you ask? Simple. She created her own unique splash page with the most pertinent details of our contest, to include the incentives offered for them to join. And, it worked like bees drawn to honey. Was it the most beautiful splash page I’ve ever seen? Honestly, not even close, but it worked and that is all that matters!

She also left nothing to chance. She made sure she had her photo and Sponsor’s Greeting filled in at RoyalSurf and once they joined, she contacted each of them and offered them her own incentive to fully activate. She promised to send them X credits when they activated their account by surfing 250 sites.

Now, she’s not only got entries in our contest for herself but she’s already established a relationship with her referrals. Who knows what benefits she may reap down the road from those relationships?

Creating your own custom splash pages really isn’t that difficult to learn how to do. There are also, lots of citizens around readily willing to help you (visit our chatroom). And, finally, there are lots of great services that create quality splash pages at reasonable prices.

To help you get more referrals faster, from now through this Sunday, July 27th, I’m providing these additional incentives for you and your referrals:

On full-activation (upon surfing 250 sites)…

New citizens will instantly receive:

50 credits
25 banner impressions
25 text link impressions

As their sponsor, you will instantly receive DOUBLE your normal credits bonus:

Royal Citizen: 50 credits
Royal Squires: 70 credits
Royal Knights: 100 credits

* May I suggest that an effective use of the doubled amount might be to offer at least half to your referrals, that you reward to them IF they surf 250 sites by the July 27th deadline. You can determine this from the Thy Referrals link in your members area.

Oh, and how about some Free referrals for you too?

For every 2 active referrals you get by the deadline, I’ll give you 1 active referral. You will need to request this via our Contact Us form identifying yourself and the two active referrals who qualify you for this bonus.

If you really want to succeed at this, you’ll want to create your own splash page and get it out there right away.

 The King

We hear daily from citizens who really love RoyalSurf and who truly find our Jousting Tournament game to be both fun and rewarding, though a little addictive.

If you count yourself as one of our citizens who really loves what we are doing, I would sure appreciate a testimonial from you to that effect. I normally don’t ask for testimonials but we are in need of them right now for a promotion that will benefit our entire kingdom.

Please use our Contact Us form and send in your testimonials today, OR, you can just post them here.

I always welcome your suggestions and comments too. If our members take the time to let us know what they wish worked differently, what they don’t like, or features they wish we had, it really helps us determine ways that we can make things better.

This kingdom is yours and your satisfaction is very important! Without our great citizens this would be no kingdom at all. Please don’t hesitate to let us know what we can do better. There’s always room for improvement and I ask that you help us identify ways to do it.

The King

You’ll want to take advantage of this before I come back to my senses. ;-) 

We offer advertising on our Joust Tournament game pages where each citizen completes their Quests. This is prime realestate that has incredible repeat visibility 24×7 where it simply cannot be missed or ignored.

These game pages display after every 15 page views surfed and because people are actively making a movement on the page, you know without a doubt that your ad will be seen.

We normally charge a very reasonable small $35 for a week of these high visibility spots, but for a very limited time I’m offering 2 full weeks for the price of just one week! That’s right! Buy one get one free!

Details for the ad is on the game page itself. Availability is on a first come first served basis. If you want a specific time period please ask us first if the 2 week time period you want is available. If you don’t care what time period you get, just send $35 to royalsurf (at) yahoo (dot) com and then send your ad information to us using the Contact Us form.

This offer is for a very limited time and will be rescinded soon so please do hurry!

 The King

Wow! There’s so much to cover in so little a time. Our BIG promotion is off to a wonderful start and the great citizens of the RoyalSurf kingdom are owned many thanks for this! You’re all doing an awesome job getting the word out but now’s definitely not the time to let up! If you’ve read the post Throwing GASOLINE on the FIRE then you already know many reasons why this is the perfect time to get a running start.

And there are still more…

Lots of citizens are winning prize after prize after prize, including some nice tidy sums of cash!

And, I’ve also set the timer to a very speedy 6 seconds, but who knows how long it will last? Get some extra surfing in right away before I come to my senses.

While you’re at it, you will want to assign more credits to your sites, banners, and text links. We have been averaging 10,000 to 20,000 more visitors to your sites every day this week. If you want to further increase the flow of traffic to your sites you can enter the same site URL multiple times; it works wonders for getting tons of traffic flowing to your sites.

Today, I loaded yet another splash page for the Great Gas Giveaway contest. You’ll find them under Promote Us in your members area but here’s a peek of the latest new splash pages and banner.  You’ll want to grab the URL for this from your own members area so that you have the correct referral id number for you. And please do enter your photo under “Thy Settings” so that your splash pages will be more effective! If you leave it the default image you are missing a great opportunity to brand yourself.

• http://royalsurf.com/splashgas.php?rid=0
• http://royalsurf.com/splashgas2.php?rid=0
• http://royalsurf.com/splashbounty.php?rid=0

Don’t forget that absolutely everyone can qualify to win in this contest because we’ve made it super easy!  The qualification details are here.  Our Royal Knights and Royal JV Partners should rejoice because their random referrals count too (as long as they fully activate), and we are adding quite a few random referrals for our members. Each of these Royal Knights or Royal JV Partners has received one or more randomly assigned referral in just the past 2 days:
43, 51, 107, 537, 994, 1153, 1327, 1586, 2576, 2760, 2780, 3965, 7857, 8794(x2), 11157(x2), 12353, 13161

I certainly hope each of them has entered their photo and Sponsor’s Greeting and Sponsor’s Note under “Thy Settings” so that they can fully capitalize on this wonderful opportunity. See more in on this subject in my previous post located here.

A recent mention in Jon Olson’s HitExchange News, has made me realize that perhaps a lot of people think it’s strange that an advertising service, especially one based on medieval times such as RoyalSurf manual traffic exchange is, would give away free gas.  It certainly is true that it’s quite an impossible stretch to keep such a promotion within the theme of RoyalSurf.  The reason for this particular promotion is simply timing and interest level.  I mean, right now, who isn’t talking about the quickly rising price of gasoline and the huge bite it’s taking out of our budgets.  It’s a hot topic of discussion and pretty much has captured the attention of the whole world.

To my thinking, this makes giving away free gasoline the perfect way to reach out beyond the bounds of typical traffic exchange promotions to bring in fresh new members.  It’s a way to help our current members reach people who might not typically be able to reach, rather than just gathering new members from all the other traffic exchanges that exist. 

This is also a HUGE opportunity for our members who are wise enough to take advantage of the great features we have provided them.  Most specifically, the ability to add your photo and personalized greetings that each of your own referrals will see whenever they login.

 With this promotional contest people are motivated to login and to surf, to qualify for our free gas giveaway and to win the tons of daily prizes we are giving away, including cash and other cool merchandise from the Royal Shoppe. That means your referrals will be logging in more frequently. Please, please use the personalized Sponsor’s Greeting and Sponsor’s Note to your advantage.

The Sponsor’s Greeting is a great place to introduce yourself and encourage your referral to fully activate their account, and to offer your friendship and help. Invite them to join you in the Royal Sign Post (our chat area) when they surf… but then of course you need to be there sometimes so they can find you.

The Sponsor’s Note is the perfect place to continually communicate with the people you sponsor and encourage them to contact you via email, phone, or our Private Message (PM) system, based on your own comfort level. This is the perfect place to establish profitable relationships and friendships. It’s also a great place to offer a free giveaway item so that you can get your referrals on your own list. Afterall, you put in effort to get them to join so why not present them opportunities to join your list? 

And don’t forget, changing your Sponsor’s Note frequently will make it more effective. Otherwise the people you sponsor will get use to seeing the same thing all the time and they’ll tune it out.

This is an awesome feature that is lost opportunity if you don’t use it.

I want to quickly mention some other great resources too that fall along the lines of building your lists and establishing relationships that can be profitable and work for you too.  If you aren’t already using these resources you should be. Jon Olson’s ILoveHits Profile Pages are an excellent way to further expand your reach on the Internet and I highly encourage you to put them to good use. I think you’ll find what he’s implemented goes well beyond mere Profile Pages.

Another great addition is Cindy Battye’s introduction of social networking to TrafficBunnies, with great features that I can’t even beging to do justice to by describing here. She calls this great service TB Connect and I’m sure it’s only going to get better… and it’s pretty awesome now!

Finally, a resource that a lot of people rave about, is Robert Puddy’s Advertising Know How List Builder. Unfortunately, like all of the features I’ve mentioned here, it is under-utilized by the very people it can help most.

Sorry folks, but regardless of all the hype you continue to hear, the things that will really help you achieve success require effort on your part to learn, setup, and maintain.

People do make money, lots of it, on the Internet, but don’t be fooled into believing that they didn’t put in work to get it started.

People do get results from the traffic exchanges but they use them the right way in a manner that serves them.

So where are you in all of this? Are you using the resources being provided to you to their fullest potential? Do you take the time to learn how to use traffic exchanges in an effective manner. Or, do you do like so many do and just surf till you drop and then walk away saying that traffic exchanges don’t work?

WOW! Our Great $500 Gas Giveaway is off to a roaring start!

Now it’s time to turn up the heat and throw a little GAS on the FIRE!

For the next 5 days, from now through Sunday, July 13th…

1. Each referral who actives their account by surfing a minimum of 250 sites, will receive $1 in their RoyalSurf Cash Account.

2. The sponsor (person making the referral) will receive:

Royal Citizens will receive $1 in their RoyalSurf Cash Account
Royal Squires will receive $1.50 in their RoyalSurf Cash Acount
Royal Knights will receive $2.00 in their RoyalSurf Cash Account
Royal JV Partners will receive $2.00 in their RoyalSurf Cash Account

This is just through Sunday, July 13th to help get things fired up more.

Additionally, the daily prize pages somehow have MORE and BIG prizes, including cash amounts as high as $10… but you can’t win them if you aren’t surfing at RoyalSurf and paying attention to the prize pages that come up quite frequently.