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Attention WideCircles Publishers And Group Account Operators,

As you may know WideCircles has recently partnered with another large online advertising
entity and has gone through a phase of major system upgrades including our data facility.

New version of WideCircles has sligthtly been delayed and will be officially launching
sometime in Nov/Dec of 2009. We will be featuring many new advertising groups including our
unique Social Advertising Evolved marketplace.

Until then we have corrected our payment cycle and improved the ad task queue. Due to
the amount of available advertisers we can now officially guarantee that ad task queue
will remain full at all times ( 24/7 ), meaning new posting tasks will continually come in.
The payments will always be sent to everyone on the 15′th and last day of the month ( every
2 weeks ) assuming they have reached their payout thresholds. Payments can be collected
via PayPal, MoneyBookers or Western Union.

Additionally if you have your own website lists of where you would like to be posting,
please submit them to us for review and inclusion into one of our marketing groups. Please
remember that we only can accept text files, with one website per line.

For any other questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us at any time as
we are here to help you.

Thank you.

–
Anthony Davies - Publisher And Group Operator/Owner Support
WideCircles Internet Marketing Solutions Inc.
http://www.widecircles.com
support@widecircles.com

Hello,

Advertisers now have ability to turn on or off their task and campaign status change email notifications, that are automatically generated. They can do this from their main account menu by navigating to Account->Notifications. If you are running a larger campaign, it may be advisable to have these turned off, so you do not recieve constant emails from our system whenever a task or campaign status change occurs.

Dear WideCircles Publishers And Group Account Operators,

Our new fixed payment/payout cycle is every Friday, commencing immidately. Everyone
will be paid once a week, every Friday between 8:00AM - 6:00PM Pacific Standard Time.
Please do not submit requests for payment to us anymore, unless you have not been paid
on Friday and you have reached your threshold. We will automatically pay everyone on
Friday every week, who has reached their payment threshold. Again those thresholds are
$25.00 USD for individual publisher and $50.00 for group operator. You must have a payment
method set in your profile in order for us to complete and process payment transaction.

We would also like to use this opportunity to invite you to register your forum websites
with us through us our Trusted Member Marketing Group, please remember that you need to
have at least 50 postings and you need to be a member of the forum website for at least
3 months in order to participate in this program.

Additionally if you have your own website lists of where you would like to be posting,
please submit them to us for review and inclusion into one of our marketing groups. Please
remember that we only can accept text files, with one website per line.

For any other questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us at any time as
we are here to help you.

Thank you.

–
Anthony Davies - Publisher And Group Operator/Owner Support
WideCircles Internet Marketing Solutions Inc.
https://www.widecircles.com
support@widecircles.com

Hello,

We are proud to say that we have revamped the old guerilla group target build system and launched a new one, which is currently running live. The old system was slow when it recieved a large number of ad tasks it needed to prepare. The new system is now building ad tasks much faster and in parallel fashion. We can now prepare large number of ad tasks in very short amount of time, so you should be seeing big increase in speed when dealing with this task group.

Please note that we have also added a new task status called “Pending - Building Targets”. This task status is set right after the “Created - Pending Analysis” task status. It means that website targets are currently being prepared for the task. You can always watch the progress of this step by logging into your account and navigating to your campaign. The number of targets is available under “Suggested” column. You can then click this link to get more details on which website targets have been assigned to this task.

Happy New Year from the WideCircles Team.

We have just added a new feature to the advertiser portal accessible from the main home page called “Create Bulk Campaigns And Tasks ( CSV File Required )”. This feature allows you upload a CSV file which can be saved from popular software such as Microsoft Excel and which contains bulk campaign and task data. You are allowed to add 250 individual tasks or rows per each CSV file. This can greatly speed up your campaign / task creation time. You could also automate the process if you are a developer. The CSV file specification is explained in detail on the upload page and allows you to control every aspect of the task, such as linking strategy, page rank threshold, auto confirmation, keywords, posting limit and so on.

Please note that at this time we only are supporting two main groups with this facility ( guerilla and direct marketing types ). All the subgroups underneath them such as ( forum, blog, comment, guestbook, classified, press release, social bookmarking and so on ) are supported as well.

For any questions or help, please contact us directly. Our support team is available 24 hours, 7 days a week.

Hi,

We have added another internal option called “Auto Confirm Targets” to the advertiser portal, under the “Delivery And Website Targeting Options” section when creating new ad tasks of any group or type.

Please note that this option is not enabled by default and essentially allows you to skip the manual confirmation process when creating new tasks. When this option is enabled, the newly created task will go immidately into our approval and live publishing queue as soon as the website targets get acquired, so there is no need to wait for website targets to show up and then approve each task manually, unless you need to review your website targets first. This option has been implemented for all task groups ( Guerilla, Direct, Trusted And Other ) and individual task types.

Thank you.

We have added carryover of the payments owed from the old system in the form of bonuses. The bonus amount will appear below the Payable field. This was added for both operators and publishers under widecircles default operator account. Please note that our minimum payout rates are still in effect. They are $25.00 USD for individual publisher and $50.00 for group operator. Once these amounts are reached and if correct payment system method has been set in the profile, your payment will be transfered automatically within 24-48 hours.

Again we thank you for your participation in our program, and if you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us at any time.

New guerilla marketing keyword limit is 2000 target websites per keyword. This gives you significantly more websites ( up to 10,000 ) per single ad task if you use all 5 possible keywords to generate targets in guerilla marketing group as an advertiser. Please note that generation time has increased slightly due to this.

Again for any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us.

Hi,

We have recieved complaints from several operator accounts, that there is a person who is pretending to be official representative from our company and has created a fake authorization letter to show or enable this process. This person is engaged in illegal selling of the operator and publisher accounts to the widecircles community. Again all operator/publisher accounts are 100% free and should never be purchased from any third party, but only created on our website again free of charge. We do not have any official representatives anywhere, other then internal staff in two offices we run.

If you have problem with this, please let us know and we can assist you further. Do not under any circumstances purchase accounts from anyone in any country posing as our representative or you will risk getting banned from our system as well as face legal consequences. You must create a free account on our website. If you are operator you can create free publisher accounts but only for your own company/business and not for re-sale. Please understand that no one has any re-sale rights.

Thank you.

Hi,

We are in the process of restoring all the old payment and campaign data for both advertisers and publishers/operators. For those publishers/operators who did not have their payment completed, you are not to worry as we will carry your earnings into the next pay cycle from the old system. This will be applied to your account as bonus payment. Our restore operation may take several days as we are dealing with large amount of data so we ask that you please be patient and bear with us during this time. We will inform you once the restore process has been fully completed. For any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us directly.

Thank you.