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The term “HYIP”, in case you haven’t heard of it before, stands for:
“High Yield Investment Program”
Not so long ago, these “investment” programs seemed to be very popular and with them came the promise of high yield returns on the money invested by the HYIP members.

Wikipedia defines a HYIP as the following:
“A High-Yield Investment Program (HYIP) is a type of scam. At one time, it was used to refer to an investment program which may have offered a high return on investment.
The term “HYIP” was abused by the operators of scams to camouflage their scams as legitimate investments. Due to this overuse by the operators, HYIP has become synonymous with scam or Ponzi scheme. The usage of the term has evolved to refer to a kind of Ponzi scheme that recruits “investors” through the Internet.”

So what happened? Why should these types of programs be avoided?
Many HYIP programs have flat out scammed their members out of their money by not delivering
any form of return and in some cases, closing shop never to be heard from again after collecting a certain amount of money from the members. LOTS of money, I might add.
See the lawsuit about the HYIP “12DailyPro” here: http://www.tlennonfor12dailypro.com/
Many HYIP programs are also referred to as “Investment autosurfs” as well, so be mindful of these should you happen to come across one being advertised in a legitimate, manual traffic exchange.

Why the Worry?
Besides the reasons given above, these programs unfortunately, seem to be making a resurgence lately.
In the past, most of them closed, took the money and ran, got shut down by the government and then it seemed relatively quiet for a short period as the popularity died and many of their former members reeled from the losses.
BUT again, I’m seeing a fresh crop of new ones pop up, some of them are even claiming that it will be “Just like the good old days” LOL.
In one respect, they’re probably right if you get my meaning.

The purpose of this post isn’t necessarily to tell anyone what to do..
My hope is that the info might help steer any potential future victim away from one of these types of programs.
It just pisses me off that these HYIP scams are still taking advantage of people and are still
reaching an audience over the net.

As you might already know.. ALL HYIP programs are banned from TrafficPunk.
That has always been and always will be the policy there.
I think my reasons are pretty clear for that

I hope you have found this information helpful enough to make an informed decision to avoid HYIP’s like the plague. If you see a HYIP program in a manual traffic exchange, report it immediately.
Most owners of quality programs will gladly remove it and ban it from ever being shown again.

That’s all for now,

Have a great day!
Ryan

At first glance, you might be thinking, well it’s very important to me!
But.. Let’s be honest with ourselves for a second.. Can you really ask the question and honestly say that you make the most effective use of your time day in and day out?
If you can, then great!
I’d like to get some of your thoughts on this as I think it would be worth discussing the way it affects us as Marketers.

1. Do you get easily distracted?

2. What motivates you to stay on task?

3. Does it frustrate you when someone else you work with or hire has time-management problems?

4. Do you often make excuses keeping you from accomplishing what you originally set out to do?

5. Do you work based on a schedule or work just when you feel its necessary?

I realize some of the questions seem fairly obvious but lately, I’ve seen time management issues affecting many things and with many people which prompted me to blog about this topic.

For me personally, I get easily distracted so it’s really important for me to try and stay as focused as possible.
Over the last few months, I have tried to improve my time management by completely changing the way I look at my business. So many different things can often pull us in many different directions.
Some of the questions I’ve been asking myself lately when it comes to products and services are, do I really need this right now? Will buying this delay and take time away from what I’m currently working on?
How does this fit into my current business model?
The key for me of course, has been FOCUS.

So again, how important is your time management?

-Ryan