Basically most anti-virus and spyware consider Instant Buzz to be possible malicious software.

Why?

Because Instant Buzz is an advertising tool. A hacker could for example figure out a way to force people to install instant buzz and then they’d earn tons of free advertising. Hackers have done that kind of thing in the past.

So Instant Buzz isn’t a virus but bad people could use it like a virus. They could force it to install on your PC so that is what AVG or Norton or Mcafee consider to be “malicious”. It’s not the software itself but it’s how people could use the software.

So the way around this is simply to tell your anti-virus to ignore Instant Buzz.

I’m not sure how to do this with AVG. Normally you click on the anti-virus icon so it brings up the control panel and somewhere in there is a way to go in and tell your anti-virus to ignore specific folders.

Or the other thing you can do a lot of times… is when the anti-virus runs and tells you Instant Buzz is a virus you can usually right click on it and say “ignore this program” or something like that.

When McAfee finds it pops up a box that looks like this and you can select “trust this program”.

I hope this helps!
Ben

It has been a long time since I’ve written.

I’ve been working on some new updates to Instant Buzz Mastery and have arranged some new partnerships. Some of these partnerships come with new bonuses for our members!

Today I’m happy to announce we have added a new partnership with Free Traffic Bar. This partnership allows us to offer 10,000 bonus credits to ALL members. You just login at Instant Buzz Mastery.

http://www.instant-buzz-mastery.com/downloads/login.php

Remember your login is the email address you used when you signed up.

Once you login click on “downloads” and you’ll be taken to your downloads page.

Scroll down to the bottom of the downloads page and you’ll see the special offer for 10,000 bonus ad credits at Free Traffic Bar. This is a $12.99 value and is FREE for all of our members.

You can redeem this bonus even if you are an existing Free Traffic Bar member!

Gold Members SPECIAL Bonus!

Hey Instant Buzz Mastery Gold members, we have another special for you! How about 25,000 ad credits IN ADDITION to the original 10,000? That means you can get 35,000 bonus ad credits from Free Traffic Bar! 25,000 ad credits is a $24.99 value so you’re getting that as a bonus without having to pay anything! We just want to reward our most loyal members!

Remember to get the instructions and bonus codes you have to login to your account at Instant Buzz Mastery.

Got questions or comments? Leave them here and I’ll get back to you asap!

Thanks!
Ben Fitts

It’s tax time in the United States. Lot’s of marketers will be launching “tax day specials” today and tomorrow. What do I mean?

Imagine someone launches a new ebook and uses a nickelmania type script where the price goes up by a nickle every time someone buys, or buy a set amount per hour.

In they “why” part of their sales letter they say it’s because they are offering the price so low because they are trying to pay their tax bill. They appeal to the fact that all of us have to pay taxes and we all know what it feels like to have a big tax bill, so perhaps you’d be willing to pay a few dollars for their new ebook or software.

Well I’m going to avoid that kind of promotion. Instead I’m going to do something simple.

I’m going to offer you 100% commissions at Instant Buzz Mastery! 100% on silver memberships and 75% commissions on Gold Memberships! This is good until April 30th.

That’s a great way to help you make some money, right?

Instant Buzz Mastery is my ebook where I interviewed some experts in getting traffic using Instant Buzz. It’s been a really good seller for me, and even though I launched the ebook in October I still make sales almost every day.

You can signup for free, or you can buy a silver/gold membership yourself. Once you’re a member you’ll get an affiliate code you can use, plus I’ve got a ton of promotional tools to help you with banners, buttons, emails, etc.

PLUS in the next few days I’m going to be making a ton of updates to Instant Buzz Mastery to help you with your sales.

So instead of trying to line my pockets, I’m going to line YOUR pockets and help YOU make some money this tax day!

- Ben Fitts

I’m partnering with a couple of friends who are also experts at internet marketing. We each share different knowledge and wanted a way to share our expertise with one another. We loved the idea so much that we thought we could share it with you!

You can check out our SEO Training Course now and get on our “prelaunch” mailing list. I’m sure we’ll be offering some special giveaways and I think we’re going to offer a special price to the first 100 people who join the site.

Right now I’m working on an entire series of exactly HOW TO blog with wordpress. Not just what to do, but exactly how to do it, what buttons to click on, etc. It should be pretty fun!

- Ben Fitts
SEO Training Course coming soon!

The big winner is Kevin Anderson! Congratulations Kevin!

742 Kevin Anderson wins $500
345 Richard Madison wins $200
104 Mohd Sufian wins $100
41 Joe Golson wins $50
37 Janet Legere wins $25

Richard Madison made a strong effort at the end to catch Kevin, but Kevin built a huge lead….

We also have a winner of the Hit Gusher Enterprise Pro annual membership! That’s a $299.88 value. Hit Gusher is an awesome traffic exchange that helped promote our contest for us. If you are looking for more web traffic I highly recommend them.

The winner of the Hit Gusher membership is… Clara Brown!

Congratulations Cara! You should be receiving an email shortly with instructions on how to claim your membership!

Congratulations everyone! It was a great contest!

- Ben Fitts

There is a close race going on for 3-5th place at the moment and Richard Madison is also pushing hard to try and catch Kevin for first.

Who will win the $500 first prize?

# Referrers
742 Kevin Anderson
345 Richard Madison
104 Mohd Sufian
41 Joe Golson
37 Janet Legere
36 Andrew Stark (would miss out on $25 by 1 referral!)
21 Shelby Carr
17 Rafael Diaz
11 Greg Aldrich
10 Mike Filsaime

- Ben Fitts

The last couple of weeks have been very interesting as the leadership in the contest has changed 4 times. We also have a new contestant who has shot past several affiliates into 4th place and is working hard to make it to 3rd.

Who will win?

$500 for first
$200 for second
$100 for third
$50 for fourth
$25 for fifth

Currently Kevin Anderson has a big lead on Richard Madison in second. Then comes Mohd Sufian who has been on the leaderboard since the very beginning (and once led the contest.)

Newcomer Joe Golson has shot past Andrew Stark, Janet Legere, and Shelby Carr.

Will Joe be able to catch Mohd Sufian for the $100 third place prize?

Can Richard mount a comeback against Kevin Anderson?

Here are the current standings:
695 – Kevin Anderson
200 – Richard Madison
103 – Mohd Sufian
39 – Joe Golson (NEW to the contest and already in 4th!)
35 – Andrew Stark
25 – Janet Legere
20 – Shelby Carr
14 – Rafael Diaz
11 – Greg Aldrich (another new comer and already on the leaderboard.)
9 – Bob Jenkins (tie)
9 – Mike Filsaime (tie)

Who will win the contest? Will we see any more changes in the leaderboard with only 3 days left?

Remember only the top 5 are guaranteed to win cash.

All other referrals have a chance to win a $299.88 Hit Gusher annual membership.

Do you want to get in on the contest? Go to Instant Buzz Mastery today and login. Then click on “promotional tools” to see the list of promotional tools such as banners, buttons, and emails to help you promote our site.

- Ben Fitts

# Refererrals
622 Kevin Anderson
195 Richard Madison
102 Mohd Sufian

Kevin would take home $500
Richard would collect $200
Mohd would cash in with $100

The contest ends December 31 at midnight so there is plenty of time to get in on the contest!

I don’t think Kevin liked being in second place!

So today I loaded my email to see a ton of new referrals!

Kevin now has 453 referrals!
Richard has fallen back quite a bit, as he only has 184.

One week left to go in the contest… Who will be the winner?

Will a new affiliate take over?

- Ben