Why am I not happy with CTPX Traffic Exchange and what can save it?

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This screenshot of my campaign in #CTPX explains everything:

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Almost 120 Hits and only 24 of them are Unique! This is not an effective marketing channel for me and I have no desire to recommend this to others.

What is the reason for this failure?

  1. the 3 to 1 credits exchange ratio for free members - this is the first thing that pushes away - at least me. The only reason I'm still there is because I wanna earn some #CTP, but this will not last long.
  2. the reward system is targeted only at those who wanna earn #CTP coins. But not all users (I think most) are interested in cryptos. There should be a way to exchange those CTPs for credits or an option to choose between classical credit-based rewards or CTPs.
  3. there is no transparency - How many members? How many active users? How many are active right now?
  4. it is not clear, what I will get if I complete daily, weekly, and monthly tasks
  5. what's with XP? I'm reaching levels, so what? I think the climbing in Levels should be rewarded to be more attractive for users.
  6. the reviews - ok, my content gets reviews, but only I can see them. This will not affect anything until other users see them. If those reviews were visible for surfers somehow - it would be cool if I would see them in the header changing like a slider every 2-5 seconds and if I had the option to see all reviews. This will help the marketing efforts of any user because a review is a value (E.A.T. -thing) and will make sense to write them.
  7. No tutorials, FAQs, no information about how to and what means what.
  8. No campaign settings that are really important for every serious marketer:
  • no language and geo-targeting - I would like to target some of my campaigns in different countries or languages. It really makes a difference in some Traffic Exchanges that I am using for over 10 Years, like EasyHits4You, TrafficG.
  • no 24 h unique traffic option - so far I know that EasyHits4U gives this option, but the best solution would be the ability to choose how many times to show the page to the same user in 24 H. This would be a really unique option. I'd like to show no more than 2 or 3 times. This should be available also for banners.

9 . The affiliate marketing materials are misleading in some cases:
Just check out the first sentence from a given email from the affiliate tools section:

Isn't it time you changed your approach to generating targeted and quality website traffic?

... really? If all the above-described needs was about CTPX, then Yes, it would be true. But right now every user, that has read the letter and decides to try will be disappointed.

Can we change that?

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Some extra thoughts:

  1. The reviews should have up- and down-votes to filter out quality reviews and manage the "Reputation" of users and promoted websites. Something like in List Nerds.
  2. And promoter and the reviewer should get CTP rewards like here in #CTPTALK. This makes it really more fun.
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Hello my friend,

I actually agree with you but when it comes to any TE. But CTPX has something I like no TE has. It does reward with CTP coins/tokens, but to win more you need to be upgradede I think?

But I am different than you. I have nothing to advertise. So earning credits is not at all the big thing for me. I already know what is my business and I do it myself. I do not look for referrals as others in the online world heard some kind of rumor that I am not a nice person. I agree to that too. Only because I have a very hard time being nice to people who are not nice to me. And the way I look at it is I make a monthly income from my online work. Its enough for me to fund my investing accounts, and my HBD growth.

SO for me its all about the CTP coin/token. I do win these coins/tokens but not like the regulars who win like 3-4 times in a row. I assume they are upgraded and I am free so they deserve more than me. I have 3 ads in CTPX. And after I surf everyday at CTPX my ads are stil at zero well they look more like 0.35, 0.68, and 0.77. So really I have learned when it comes to any TE I really don't care what they have as long as there is some kind of monetery value I can collect thats what I want. CTPX has something I want CTP tokens/coins. Credits I really don't need. I even started using list nerds just to collect these CTP and LN coins/tokens. The credits lol. I'd rather CTPX and LN reward me with tokens/coins over credits. I wished they allowed us to sell off the credits. I would sell them all for cheap too.

I actually stopped doing a few things here. I used to be very active with this looking for harry. I think I did about 2 weeks straight and I stopped. It's not that I didn't like looking for larry, I hated the surfing in these garbage TE. I did like list nerd and CTPX the rest I could care less for.

Soon I will not be having any of these otherv currencies. I will seel it all and just earn hive and collect those dividends of 20% apr with HBD. Unless I can find another token that pays the same. Right now I am in building stages of my coins, once I get enough that earns me a good divie of HBD. I will stop everything and just work on HBD. If it remains at that 20%.

Keep up the good work, even though our work is different.

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@cptsilva Yeah, earning CTPs is also the only thing that is holding me here, but the question is, how to get more people into the HIVE world, even those who today don't want to have anything to do with the crypto world? I first joined the traffic exchange and almost left it to forget about it, but because I am learning the crypto thing for a few months now I became interested in the HIVE network and the idea behind it.

I think if the TE part would be acceptable for those others they will learn about the possibilities in CTPX and blogging platforms like #CTPTALK and others that are connected with HIVE.

I also use CTPX for promoting my blog posts, which works a bit to get some activity on them and it should be like this. I understand, that if there are more active users even not connected to HIVE more people will join and start doing things more personal way using the CTPTALK blog for example.

It's just the experience I have as a professional SEM specialist. I wanna make things better :)

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Earning CTP tokens as you already stated and also another one in the comments does come to mind, the other side is of course to promote your posts from Hive in CTPX, it is how I found your post, and that does have value with more comments and upvotes on the posts you are promoting, as to promoting regular affiliate offers then it would be less effective, apart from if you promote a lead magnet targeted towards Hivers for example.

Then you also have #larryisalive too of course, the prizes can really boost your curation rewards in CTP and ALIVE.

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