Wow, what a moment!
Earlier today I had finally accomplished a goal I had been trying to achieve all month. I won my first surf tournament on the Traffic Swirl traffic exchange!
Here's a pic of that win:
I have been spending a lot of time at Traffic Swirl over the past few months. That was one of my most favourite sites when I first started on my traffic exchange adventure back in 2012. Before then, I was mostly involved in social media and community networking sites.
Traffic Swirl may well be dying.
John Bell is the director of Insidmal Design LLC, a division of Conquest Marketing. He is not responding to messages. Some members are being paid the commissions owed to them, while others are not. Everything points to something wrong in the back office. There is no indication of what that could be.
You may recall an earlier article I posted about the passing of Graham McCallum, and Rob Lawson leaving a message in the chatroom sidebar of that event? Well, Rob's left another message there today:
"Hi Swirlers, I need your help. If any of you have contact with John of TS please ask him to answer support tickets - would appreciate it."
I spent about an hour with Dr Google and sent Rob some personal messages, yet I was unable to locate a definitive way to contact John. I know from other messages in that chatroom, as well as ones left on John's various social media sites, that there is an increasing number of disgruntled members trying to contact John.
I'm hoping that someone here on the Steem platform personally knows John Bell. His last known location was Eugene in the state of Oregon, in the United States of America.
Rob did not say what the contents of the support tickets were. I suspect that he's wanting John to remove the late Graham McCallum as the team leader for the Swirl With Attitude team on that traffic exchange. Rob is a member of that site's Millionaires Club, meaning that he has surfed over a million sites in his time at Traffic Swirl; that's an awesome achievement that deserves respect, hence my willingness to assist.
I know, we should not get involved, we should let nature takes its course.
Here's the thing: there's still a lot of experienced internet marketers on Traffic Swirl every day, sometimes for more than six hours. I know this as that is what I had to do today to win. Where are these members heading off to, when Traffic Swirl and the other suite of sites finally do die?
I'm hoping that site will remain active for at least another month or two, so that the CTP token can be launched and utilised. I suspect there will be fewer traffic exchanges left that can pay their members in cash, so site owners will need that CTP token.
This means that soon, perhaps early next year, we will see an increasing number of experienced internet marketers relocating to other sites.
We have a window of opportunity to promote to these potential steemians the benefits of the Steem platform. Once they get a taste of crypto action, all steemians should benefit; demand should uplift our market expectations too.
As to Traffic Swirl and the associated sites? Well, sadly there has been too much carnage. Once a site develops a bad reputation, the scam reviewers come out with their knives. Too late to phoenix these ones? Probably, sounds like they are all heading off to the same place...
The great gig in the sky.
Ian Ballantine
Wellington, New Zealand
November 22, 2019.
Lyrics: https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/109740/
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Sunset through impending thunderstorm over Wellington 20 November 2019.
Great achievement winning the Traffic Swirl tournament @ianballantine, 6 hours surfing is a long time, and let's hope John Bell turns up alive and ready to rock, it's awesome.
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Thanks Erik, yes a lot of people miss John. His Facebook account has a darker feel than one would normally expect. I hope he snaps out of whatever is affecting him. We can then work with him to get his sites cryptonited, and introduce him to a different e-world.
Thanks @ianballantine, yeah the TE's need crypto for sure, keep up your awesome work.
G'day Ian, Mr Bell has been pulling these disappearing capers for years now it use to be I think he was having a punt in Vegas but last I heard he was pretty crook, he was always a man of mystery but interesting for a chat. Move on there are better things to not worry about in life.
Thanks Rob, you are right of course, time to move on. I'm just hoping to stimulate some steemian interest with the senior swirlers before I limit my time on TS. If we can help out Rob Lawson, who knows what that may lead to. Worth a punt, methinks.