Been A While

Hey Friends:

It has been quite a while I have been able to post here. We have been quite busy with getting our Pay To Click (PTC) site at www.clickzvault.net up and running. There is still much to do with that site...but things ARE progressing.

Most of the correspondences that I have been writing, has been on our forums...specifically for the ClickzVault site at www.clickzvault.net/support. The wonderful thing about forums, is they allow for not only the dissimulation of information to the masses from the Administrators; but it also give a place (forum) where people can ask questions and discuss different topic that are relevant to a particular forum.

In the hopes of making my forum the best it can be, I have come across some videos that should help not only the "newbie" forum user: but all users in general. Though these videos are somewhat comical; the subject matter is actually serious. I hope that you like these as much as I have.

TEEN FORUM USERS



HOW TO BEHAVE ON AN INTERNET FORUM

Strategy VS Tactics

I watched this video, and I think that it presents some good ideas. Let me know what you think.

~John.

You can read more by going to http://www.timberrymd.com/blog/

Announcing Our New PTC Site At ClickzVault.net

We here at Black Cat Enterprises have been on the Internet (as a company) since 2005. In this time, we have been learning all about marketing, and the operation of e-commerce sites. In 2007, after having been a member of several manual traffic exchanges: we decided to opened up our own first manual traffic exchange that was purchased on eBay.

Continuing to be both members of other sites, as well as running our own site; we discovered the wonderful opportunity of Pay To Click (PTC) sites. Our first of such sites, was at Bux.to. I have written much about them, so I will not occupy more space here. In addition to become a member on a few of these PTC sites, I have also become a member on many of the associated forums for these as well.

In one forum for http://www.clickzvault.net/, I had become somewhat active with the site. In fact, one member had asked if I was the the new owner of the site. I had jokingly replied that I was not, but if the owner wanted to sell it to me...maybe I would buy it. (see ClickzVault Site Back Up & Running...)

Subsequently, I had been in contact with the owner of ClickzVault, because I was interested in getting a script created for a brand new (from the ground up) PTC site to be built for us. Well, the other day, I was chatting with Twysted (the former owner of ClickzVault), when the subject had come up about his site, and when it was going to be down for good.

After some banter back and forth, I made a offer to purchase the site. And as of May 6, 2008: I (at BCE) am the proud new owner of http://www.clickzvault.net/. The deal included not only the site, but the forum and 4 months of hosting. We are still working at getting everything transferred over to us here at BCE. It is still going to take several months for everything to be back up and running as a true PTC site.

The two problems that we are facing in the immediate future are as follows: 1) As we have never run a PTC site, there will be a lot of learning on our part. Hopefully the learning curve won't take too long. 2) Before we can open our doors as a full fledged PTC site, the previous owner must finish paying off his commitments to the members that he owes money to. We are still negotiating several methods of getting this done. One of those being where I would contribute cash up to 50% of what is owed, in exchange for some other work that I need done.

Although I would really like to get everything up and running by June 1st, it is more likely that it won't be until at least July (or later) before I can get it all done. I am working on a tight budget as of this time, and I'm still waiting for my disbursements from several other PTC sites...which I will be investing into this as well as the other brand new site as well.

I will keep everyone apprised as to what is happening as things go along. If you have not become a member and would like to: just navigate to http://www.clickzvault.net/. Although at this time, the site is still "ads only", you can get in now and get your place for our grand opening that will be coming soon.

Happy Clicking...

John

InBox Dollars Payment Proof for 4/16/08

Hey Everyone:

Just got home today from out of town, and was happy to find in my awaiting mail this check from Inbox Dollars. I hadn't really done anything with this account for quite a while (probably over a year); but had checked back, and saw that I had been earning (a little bit of) money even in my own activity. So...I decided to request a payout to my name.
I requested the payout on 4/9/08; the check was cut on 4/16/08; and I received it (upon my return) on 4/19/08. Not bad...and I really have not done much with this. I have started back with this PTR (paid to read) site with just reading the e-mails...though there is so much more I probably could be doing...but this will have to wait.

Anyways...here is the payment proof from Inbox Dollars:

Bux.to Video

The following are my stats on Bux.to as of March 25th, 2008

It should be noted that the above stats are the culmination of a few months effort; as well as large investment in purchased referrals. Still, the income generated has been wonderful...and I am at a positive Return Of Investment (ROI) of 53.40%....try getting that from a bank!! LOL

Although I truely believe that this is a wonderful way to earn income...I will not make any promise of your ability to earn money; or that this (or any PTC site) will be around when you want to get your money out. If you want to check it out, go to my referral page HERE. Be sure that you add my name, dongatto63, as your referer; if it is not already filled in.

The above image shows my payment history since I started this program. The "Pending Audit" should clear, and I should get paid by sometime between April 7-14th, 2008.

Bux.to Comes Through Once Again

As of today, I received my second payment from Bux.to. Bux.to is a Pay To View/Pay To Click (PTV/PPC) site: where you get paid for each site that you view; as well as for each site that people that you refer view. Additionally, if you don't have time, or just are not good at getting referrals...you can do as many people do (including myself), and purchase them.

Well, after checking my account this evening, I discovered (by looking at my stats), that I had been paid. Unfortunatly, there were a couple problems with getting my pay: albeit minor ones. The first was the fact that I didn't get paid when promised. According to Bux.to's T.O.S., you have to wait 30 business days (approx 45 calendar days) before you get paid. I requested my payment on December 30, 2007...so it has taken 51 caledar days to get my money. But actually, this is better than my first payment...which took over 60 days to get paid.

So here is my proof of my latest payment:

And while I'm at it, here are my latest stats on Bux.to:


Now if you see from above, my current account balance is already nearing $1,000. I will wait until it breachs this level, or by the end of the month (which ever comes first) before I make my next payment request. As of my last check (last week), I had estimated that I was averaging around $17-$18/day income. Based off of that calculation; it is conceivable that I will hit my target mark within the next few days. I will post a new entry when I get there, to mark the event.

One other thing, before I go. What do you think I did with all the money that I just received? Did I take my wife out for a really nice dinner? How about buying something nice on eBay? Or maybe I just sent the money to my bank for later use. The answer is: None Of The Above!! What I did, was what any good business owner would do: I reinvested my earnings back into my business. In this case, I purchased more referrals, so that I can increase my average daily income, and overall income.

I purchased two 100 referral packs at $98 each; as well as a 35 referral pack for about $35. With these newest referrals, I will have a total of 870 referrals. Hopefully this will help me as I strive to start earning several thousands of dollars every month. I will then be able to use my income to invest in other of my online activities & websites that I currently manage; as well as future web site activities.

John A. Shachter
President & CEO
Black Cat Enterprises

ClickxVault.com No Longer

After one month of trying to get back to ClickxVault.com; after blogging, writting e-mails, doing Google Searches for this elusive site...I finally have resolved myself to the fact that ClickxVault.com is no longer out there. As of last night, I had done some searches (once again) for this site....and I decided that I was going to do some screen shots to document my results.

Figure I.

In the Figure I., you can see the message that I received when I navigated to (by shortcut) the address for ClickxVault.com. As you can see, the saved shortcut included the file Index.php. I have received this same error message for the past week or so...but prior to this, I just received the basic "cannot find..." IE message (Error 404).

You may also note that in this message, there is a contact e-mail listed. I wrote to the owner at this address on 2/16 at 10:42PM; and received an error message the same minute stating the following (Figure II.):


Figure II.

Even when I tried taking the web address (in figure I), and backing off the php file, I still received a very strange result:

Figure III.

I have NO IDEA what the heck that was about...but no matter.

Getting back to looking at Figure I. , I noticed that the e-mail address ended in ".net". So I decided to try using the same web address...only changing it from ".com" to ".net". And what do you know: IT WORKED. I was finally able to regain access to this site. In fact, when I logged in, I noticed that my income had even increased several dollars since my previous login one month prior.

So once again I am left pondering what went wrong here. Obviously, the site was changed from a .com to a .net: but did I recieve any notification of this change? To be honest: I really don't know....so I don't want to say that I had not. I receive over 100 e-mails a day...and with my travels for work: I sometimes miss some of them. Or perhaps I just ignored it...thinking it was just a minor e-mail.

I guess I should retract my previous beliefs in my last blog post on February 14, 2008 (Latest Bad News About ClickzVault). However, I do not appologize for my feelings. As I have said in that post, I belong to several sites, and I have never had any problems; especially to the extent that I have here...on any of these other sites. But still, as long as this site is making money for me, I will stay with them.

I should also say that due to the increase in my reported income from the ClickzVault site, I am now only "down" -$2.77". I am planning on making my first request ($10.48 or whatever the balance is at the time) soon. I will write a seperate post to let you all know how this turns out.

So once again, let me restate that, at this time, I don't think that ClickzVault is a scam. And unless I find irrefruitable proof to the contrary; that will remain my official position.

John A. Shachter

President & CEO

Black Cat Enterprises

Latest Bad News About ClickzVault

For the past few months, I have been a member on ClickzVault.com. My experience with this site has been less than stellar...constantly being plagued with site problems and attitude problems of the owner. Through long (and sometimes painful) communications, I had finally put aside my bad feelings of the site owner: and had even purchased referrals from the site. Although I only purchased 15 referrals...within a very short time, those referrals where whittled down to only about 6 (by the site owner). This kind of pissed me off (even though I know why he did it).

Still, I kept up with the site. But with the likelihood of the site owner going on a tirade (due to his "disability"); coupled with with the fact that I lost over half of referrals to the whim of the owner...I had once again began to "loose my faith". Yet I persevere. And once again, I am facing problems with this site: and I don't feel I can (or should) hold my tongue anymore.

Now because this site is not one of my "preferred" sites (of the many sites I frequent); I don't get on it as much as I should. The biggest reason for this is due to all of my other activities: including traveling around the country as part of my "other" job. The last time (according to my records) that I accessed his site, was on January 18 of this year. Since that time, I have checked back several times: but the site has mysteriously dissapeared. I have even gone to the address that I had for their forum: and it too is gone.

So once again, I am left wondering what the heck is going on. Did the owner of this site go out of business? Did he close up shop, and take peoples money (as in my case)? Did his server blow up, and he lost everything? I guess we may never know. Although I want to be careful of accusing this as a scam; it does linger in the back of my mind: even though I published a blog to the contrary (See Not A Scam). Why would an owner of a site, who owe people money (I'm sure I am not the only one); just close up shop, and not contact his members (he has our e-mail addresses from our sign-up) to let them know what is going on (such as a temporary shut down to upgrade)?

And there is a bunch of money either floating around in cyber-space; or in his bank account as well. Although I was at a negative cash flow when the site disappeared; it was only (on paper)-4.528. However, that would have been true if I would have earned enough money to have received my money back; which I didn't. I spent a total of $13.25 on this site; and earned a total of $8.722 (including bonuses). So I actually lost a total of -$21.972 (when you ad the two together).

So once again, I am hurt by the fact that for a moment; I actually felt sorry for him, and his sad story of how his "disability" was the reason for his "outbursts". So my suggestion is this: when you try out a new PPC/PTV site, proceed cautiously. If the site offers a forum: read it. It is a good gage on how the owner(s) attends to the needs of their members/customers. If they provide poor customer service (especially in how they respond to inquires); steer clear from the site altogether. As the owner of ClickzVault has a history of flaming people; and having an over all nasty attitude when it comes to the needs of his members: it is unlikely that he will change. Remember the old saying that "a leopard cannot change his spots"...and I am pretty sure, neither will the owner of ClickzVault.com...even if he starts a new site from scratch.

John A. Shachter
President & CEO
Black Cat Enterprises

PS: If this is YOU, whom I am referring to (and you will know if it is), then I welcome your reply to this post. If you reply as you have in the past...it will just prove my point. If I am wrong, then I would appreciate your rebuttal. I have purposely left out your name in the case of a mistake on my part. If you have a good explanation for your actions (or lack of): then I will also publish a retraction.

Update To My Bux.to Stats 080214

Before I get started with this, let me first wish everyone a very Happy Valentines Day. I hope that you love the person that you have; and if you don't have anyone to love...that love will find you....and you will embrace love.

It has been a while now since I have given an update to our Bux.to activities. Nothing much has really happened up to this time. I have just been clicking away when I can. I have made an additional purchase of 300 referrals on 1/31 (applied on 2/2): bringing our total referral base up to 635.

This additional purchase has definately helped us...as we are currently earning an average of about $18/day. I calculate this by taking the current income, subract the income that I had already requested but have not been paid. From that, I divide the total days since my last request. This give me my average daily income since my last request. Of course, with averages, there are some days that are higher, and some days that are lower. I have seen some days where I hadn't made any income; and others where I made $120 in a day.

Below is my current stats, as taken from the Bux.to site.

Some additional stats that I find interesting are as follows (from my record keeping):

Gross Income (All Time):	$1,173.36750
Current Click Income (Since 12/30/07):	$844.405
Total Investments:	$739.33
Net Income (All Time):	$434.03750
Return On Investment (ROI):	36.99%

I don't know about you, but it seems to me that a ROI of over 36% seems to be pretty good. And the best thing is that if I don't make any more investments/purchases on this site...the ROI will just go up and up.

The only negitive news that I have at this time, is that there still seems to be a lag in getting the payments out on time. My last payment request ($247.00) was made on 12/30/07. By my calculation, I should have received my payment on or about 2/11/08 (+/- 1 day). Here it is now the 14th, and as of yet: no payment. It has been 46 days since I made my payment request. However my last payment request took 57 days to be processed: but I hope it doesn't take that long. Here's to hoping!!

Successfully Yours,

John A. Shachter
President & CEO
Black Cat Enterprises

I'm Outta Here....!!!

Hey guys. Just wanted to let everyone know that I will be out of town from 1/18 until about 1/27 or 1/28. I am leaving in the moring to pick up a vehicle in Janesville, WI...and drive it to Missoula, MT: about 1,500 mile away. Then after about 40 hours on three different busses...I will arrive back in Chicago just in time to leave once again with my family to Mississippi: where we will be visiting my wife's family.

I will be putting almost 5,000 miles on this old body...so when I get back...I think that I may be due for a major over-haul; and an oil change too!! LOL In the mean time...I may not get the chance to get on here much...but I will try when & where I can. Usually, most of the hotels have wireless....so I hope to get on...at least to see if anyone care or misses me.

Until then...please take good care, and may you be blessed in all you do. Stay safe, and I will return to you shortly.

~John

Music Not On Auto-Play

Hey Friends:

Per a suggestion of one of my readers, I have disabled the autoplay feature of my musical playlist. If you still wish to listen to my musical selection, just click on the play button on the player, and you can listen to it to your hearts content. Additionally, if you want to listen to the playlist even after you have left the site, just click on the Launch Standalone Player, and the music will continue to play, no matter where you navigate to.

Thank you again for being a part of my loyal readers.

~John

Update To My Bux.to Stats 080114

Hey Friends:

Well, it has been 15 days since I requested my second payment from Bux.to, and I have continued to do my little part in generating my income with this fine site. Although I was out of town for 4 days of the last 15, my income has grown by over $74. Now, that might not seem like alot..but when you consider the fact that I am actually not doing the greatest part in the generation of this income...it come into perspective.

During this time frame, I have earned an average of $4.9671/day. My current net income is $93.1750: with my gross current income (what I have not been paid on) of $321.5075. In another day or so, I will have enough (in my net income) to purchase another 100 referrals, without creating a negitive Return On Investment (ROI). My current ROI is set at 25%...not bad for a few months worth: as it would be very difficult to get that return...even for a full year's interest (unless you are a payday loan company).

It is my next goal to obtain 500 referrals (265 more to go) by March....and then to get another 500 referrals (1000 referrals total) by September of this year. Eventually, I want to get several thousand referrals...until I can generate an average of between $5-8,000 per month income. Though it would be great to make that income from just one site: logically I recognize that I should diversify myself across several sites: especially with my investments. This way if one site goes "belly up", I won't have all of my eggs in one basket. This just seems to make good business sense, as well as good financial sense as well.

I'll write back here again to keep the stats up, as well as to anounce any changes (good or bad) with this, as well as the other sites I am with.

Successfully Yours,

John A. Shachter

Happy New Year 2008

We here at Black Cat Enterprises would like to wish each and everyone of our friends, members and customers a very Happy New Year here in 2008. May you find health and happiness every day, and that you are successful in all of your dealings.