I just joined Empowerism through another program, which I will mention later. The run down from what I have found is this. The program itself is one of the true main stays of the Internet. It has been around for 7 years now and is successful for one reason. No matter when you join you have the same chance of success as those who joined when it started. The program itself is quite simple.

To get the full benefit you need to get 3 referalls. This can be done in a month if you look at getting only one a week. There are two ways to try and get someone involved. The first, and probably at this point harder of the two, is to just promote the program web site itself. The reason this is the harder of the two is because of how common a sight the page is. This option has two methods of sign up. The referal can either pay their own way in or you can benefactor them in. the second is probably the easiest way to promote as you are giving them a month to see if they want to continue with it or not.

The second is to promote sites that work with Empowerism. The one I joined under, Our Forced Power Matrix, is good if you are a established networker who have a few people already who will follow you to other programs. The reason being is Our Forced Power Matrix is going to branch out into other matrices and new people to this idea may get overwhelmed. This site is benefactor only.

The other is benefactor only as well but a lot more newbie friendly and is called Empowerism club. This only focuses on Empowerism and gives you some more tools to use to get people into the program. While it is pretty much brand new it is run by someone who is very active in Empowerism and has been a member for two years now.

I know some people are cringing at the term benefactor. Why would you want to take a chance on someone like that? Well how about because it only costs $4.95 per person? I know what you're thinking.."But the web sites say they will pay my fee of $24.95!". They will, but the $24.95 is the "Fast start" membership and by paying you in at that level they get a $20 bonus back so in reality it is only costing them around $5 per person. Not a bad deal is it? Especially when you make $7 on your first level and $1 on levels 2-9! Is that income possibility worth $15?

Now given that would you like to join a program that is on the Internet to stay or do you still want to look for "the perfect program?". It's up to you but to me the perfect program has been found and it is Empowerism.

Well the day has arrived. Thanks to my idiot son wishing the snow would go away we have green slush looking at us outside instead of the long missed white Christmas that we haven't had in five years. It would figure that even getting snow on the day after Thanksgiving that it wouldn't be a white Christmas, to many people hate snow I guess.

It is taking a lot for me not to get depressed today. I will admit part of it is holiday gift letdown already. My wife and our room mate said they were going to set up a present for me when I went to bed. For my part I thought they had got me a VCR like I have been fawning over since we moved as now I cannot work on video on my computer.

Well I came out this morning to find I had a new chair. Good gift idea I will admit. The problem is it has NO other position but ninety degrees. I can't move at all in it. I know this is going to murder my back, especially since for the past week I have been fighting pain in my left knee from running into a landscape stone. Ah well, can't have it all, and I wouldn't know what to do with it anyway.

Right now I'm waiting for my wife, room mate and her daughter to wake up. It is just me and said idiot child (who is doing the only thing he knows how playing Warcraft 2, cheating of course since god forbid he actually play a game he might have a chance of loosing.) right now which is bad enough, the main problem is wondering how long I will have to wait for everyone else to wake up.

I would actually love to be asleep right now but with Angela(wife) and Don(room mate) asleep no one is awake to watch Matthew (said idiot child). So I get to deal with him. I hope Christmas gets over with soon as he is already arguing with me and so I know this day won't be any different from any other, despite attempts being made to make it so. Time for me to re-read this story I guess.

Play list while writing this post

Demolition-WWF

If I could Change the world-Eric clapton

In the hall of the mountain king-Edvard Grieg

Play-Kickshaw

Doom-Tracy W. Bush

In the Belly of the whale-Michael Kamen

Medal-WWE

OK for those of you who are new to the world of online promoting Let me clue you in on a valuable advertising resource.

The program is called 10kHits4uNow and it is a wonderful way to get Free advertising and free training. The free advertising comes in two forms, a manual traffic exchange which you can promote up to 5 websites on as a free gold member, and also with a free lead capture page that has a link to your online business opportunity.

10kHits4uNow also has a downline builder that lists a lot of good online programs including some of the top traffic exchanges such as Ts25, TrafficG and Click Voyager. This along with programs allowing you to earn income online such as Blackholeseries and Cognigen as well as the Hit Exchange Secrets E-book.

You get all this for FREE. All you need to do is sign up now for a free gold account and all of these online marketing tools will be at your disposal. So now the ball is in your court, do you want to seriously make money online or just barely scrape by? The answer is up to you.

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I have been around long enough I can honestly say I have a mixed opinion of the free downline Builder concept. There are two sides to this coin for people, they either work or they don't. I will be honest, aside from the 10KHits4uNow free downline builder I haven't had to much success. I believe I am getting some hits from Traffic Rodeo's manual traffic exchange downline builder but I don't have anyway at the moment to track it, though I know there are some places I get sign-ups from that are only on that list so that helps narrow some of them down.

The benefits of having a free downline builder in your program are fairly obvious. People are always looking for cheap or free ways to promote their programs online. If their program is in your free downline builder then they will join up, if for no other reason to get in on that part of your program. They are also good for introducing people to new programs that they might not have found otherwise. A free downline builder really grows when the people using it have input over the content of the downline builder itself. Totally Free Traffic is a good example of a member input free downline builder as you can see by their downline builder program list. They let you add 3 programs of your own to the list, the first two of mine are True View Traffic and Finally Easy. Whatever three you post is up to you but the cheaper it is the easier it will sell.

Now while the benefits are obvious there is a downside that might now be.This comes from what I like to call downline moochers. These are people who join programs, look at the downline builder and then put pages out in the exchange that end up directly competing with the downline builder itself. An example of this can be found with the newest edition to 10KHits4uNow's free downline builder called The Excellent 20. Last Month a program called Quikhits was on the Excellent 20 and within a day of it appearing it was in the exchange itself. I wouldn't have minded if it had always been there, and maybe it had, but it certainly became more prominent after the addition. The Doug Williams traffic exchange Viral Visitors is on there now and I suspect will soon be in the exchange itself. The bad thing about downline moochers is they don't care how they get their downline as long as they get it,

Well that's my take on the free downline builder craze that is sweeping the net for the moment. I have a feeling downline builders are here to stay though I suspect that we will have to take the good with the bad and accept the fact that downline moochers are as well.

Author Steven M. Ulmen and Lulu, the fastest growing provider of print-on-demand books, announces the publication of Toby Ryker, a western novel of historical fiction set in Wyoming in 1885. The publication is endorsed by several authors of the Western Writers of America as referred to here. Like J.B. Books in Glendon Swarthout’s classic western novel, The Shootist, Toby Ryker is an old man forced to deal with his mortality.

“TOBY RYKER is the kind of premier novel that wins its author a hearty welcome to the family of western writers,” says Ralph Cotton, creator of several western novels and best selling USA Today author. “Steven Ulmen creates believable, real-to-life characters we feel we have met along the trail and incorporates them into a seamless story that leaves the reader looking forward to his next work. Congratulations, Steven Ulmen, wonderful job!”

Toby Ryker is written as a tribute to the character-driven westerns introduced on such TV shows as Gunsmoke. These characters are strong enough to carry the story line for entire chapters in the absence of Toby Ryker . Johnny Western, who composed and sang the “Paladin” title theme from CBS TV’s Have Gun, Will Travel series, says of Toby Ryker , “A very interesting concept for both a book and a screenplay.”

Similarly, Elmer Kelton, award-winning western author, says after reading the novel: “TOBY RYKER'S hero harks back to the like of Wallace Beery, old and fat, yet raunchy and ready to fight, a man who strangles a buzzard just for the fun of it. Ulmen’s novel has humor and movement, and a fine story-telling technique, which weigh much in its favor.”

Toby Ryker is an easy, laid-back read, loaded with humor and affection for the western genre, which makes for an enjoyable weekend of entertainment. Suzanne Schrems, Ph.D., author of the non-fiction titles Uncommon Women, Unmarked Trails and Who’s Rocking the Cradle, reports: “Its 1885. East and West are linked by steel rails and the buffalo are almost gone. Nevertheless, old Toby Ryker still has a lot of fight left in him. It’s a good thing he does, because he has a past about to return to haunt him. You’ll be captivated by the story, enjoy the humor and the western caricatures, and come to love tough, gentle, irascible old Toby Ryker.”

Loren D. Estleman, author in both the western and mystery genres, author of Writing the Popular Novel for Writer’s Digest Books, and author of The Undertaker’s Wife, says the following in his endorsement: “TOBY RYKER is a lightening-paced, granite-touch western told in the classic mode. Steve Ulmen’s style cracks like a whip, and his characters remain with you a long time after you come to the end, which you won’t want to. As a reader, I anticipate many more hours of pleasure from this author; as a writer, I need to get cracking before he runs me over.”

Toby Ryker may be ordered at any of the online bookstores, through the author’s website at Eagle Entertainment USA, or directly through Lulu.com. at the western link for fiction and literature. Buy it today, either for yourself or as a thoughtful holiday gift for that lover of western novels in your life.