I am having major issues with AMR

First, are you using the full version or trial version? 450 is really low.

Second, are you using your own email or a free provider like Gmail, Yahoo, etc? Gmail and such will get you a lower success rate.

Lastly, are you using proxies? If you are, try it without the proxies. I've never needed them for AMR. If you have a couple dead ones, that will kill your signup rate too.

I am using the paid version of AMR.

I am not using proxies at this time. I wasn't aware that I needed them.

I have created an email address within my hosting for the site I am trying to promote. It is not a freebie.

Boy, that sucks. Wonder why I am having such poor results. Maybe I am jinks. I seem to have more problems with this IM than others do. Oh well, guess I just have to work much harder to over come it.

That is pretty strange cableguy. I wonder what makes the difference?

Most directories don't "sign up" for AMR, or most any other mass submission tools. Sites are identified by their CMS and the submission variables for each are programmed in.

These submissions are often made without the directory owner even being aware that a "bot" is submitting content - and not a live person.

Directories, at least the mature ones, have become wise to this and have implemented many things to reject these submissions, like extra captchas, and submission lockdown thru php and other means.

This happened because of rampant abuse, and submission of general crap.

The promoters of AMR or any other service will never tell you this though, and you can bet that more then half the directories they advertise will not get the submission.

You don't need proxies, but having continuous postings from a certain
IP address will certainly raise some flags. AMR is the only tool that I use
which is related to automation and I can tell you that it works, but only if
you acknowledge you need to grab a few new IP addresses. I don't run
AMR on my own machine, it is currently on a VPS of mine. If I am seeing
a low success rate, I simply ask my provider to change my IP and it should
pick up again.

If you are having trouble with signups make sure you are doing the following:

1. first name / last name is very unique. Username has no special characters or in fact, any characters that are not letters.

2. password ie between 6-8 characters, all lower case, only characters and numbers. No special characters.

A big problem is the automated registration on these directories are bouncing people for invalid user names or passwords. I recently re-ran my signups because my initial password was very strong with special characters and my name/user name had periods in it. Re-running my signups, the acceptance rate is waay better.

All good advice, but apart from anything Tim you first need to get rid of that negative attitude of feeling like there is a conspiracy against you succeeding in IM! We've all felt the uphill struggle and still do on a frequent basis - there are highs and lows. One day the sales and clicks are rolling in, rankings are up, traffic is great, tools working a treat, next day everything is down, nothing is working. Got to take a positive, long-term view - it's not easy, the struggle is a learning process.

Having said that, there is something strange about getting that small a number of signups, but it does seem that you need to get to grips with the AMR user interface a bit better, since you shouldn't have "lost" your first batch of signups! They should be there when you select Status -> OK, and uncheck Status -> None (i.e. to only list the successful signups) - having selected the correct user profile from the dropdown of course, if you have more than one.

Also, you need to press Confirm every few days - I forgot for a while after an initial signup run and just did it again and found another 20 directories newly-approved, including eZine Articles and Articles Base

But I currently have 1900 directories signed up for the main author account I am using right now, and I don't remember doing any real voodoo, I just only selected those directories with health > 60%, something like that. Used my own domain email address, filled in all the fields properly, all the stuff people have mentioned.

Now, as for getting ARTICLES approved, that's another matter, there's quite an art to getting more than a few hundred approved and may take some experimentation.

But signups, trust me, there is no evil jinx, go through the advice above, and in the author's instructions (even though I know you said you did all that) and you SHOULD get a good number of signups.