Wes Mahler was cool enough to interview me at ASW 2009 Las Vegas. I happy obliged. Here it is if you weren’t able to catch it over on Prosper 202′s Blog.
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- Mar
- 2009
Convert2Media To Release 2 Stages Of Coaching Programs
Posted by: Ruck under Convert2Media News
On April 1st 2009 Convert2Media will be releasing a much more stable and informative coaching platform. I really hate to call it coaching but more of a hands on type experience for starting and experienced publishers. At the request of many publishers I was asked to create a more of a “elite” type of environment for heavy volume experienced publishers. Since I have been online thru forum, blog and my own community participation I have always leaned towards helping starting publishers more than experienced affiliates.
Now we will be able to satisfy both.
If you are making 10K a month, we are going to show you how to make 100K. If you are making 100K a month, we are going to show how to make 1 million.
If you are a starting publisher no matter the experience level, we are going to create an environment suitable to ask anything you need the answers too. Often times, starting publishers dont want to ask questions for fear of embarrassment or even intimidation. It’s my goal to make you feel completely comfortable and help you get the ball rolling as quickly as possible as an affiliate marketer online. If you just came online, or have been online and dont know where to begin, we will have you covered.
This will require an incredible amount of focus, participation and dedication from myself as well as the rest of the Convert2Media team. There is a requirement for both sides of the coaching program. You have to be dead set on making money online or making more money online. For us to dedicate such a service will require you to dedicate yourself to follow along and apply what you learn.
Experience publishers will actually have to meet a certain criteria. As stupid as this may sound, if a criteria is set then this will ensure that we are not wasting your time and you are not wasting ours. It is our job to help your business succeed and expand but it is your job to want and need that to happen. More details will follow thru the month as we prepare to launch this monster.
Along with a forum, there will be skype conferences and online webinars. I will release more details in the coming days as we move towards the April 1 launch date.
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I guess I will add more to this an address it publicly. Everyone in the CPA Industry seems to have an opinion and with having an opinion comes voicing your say whenever you feel like. First off, let me explain a little bit of my background so that we are clear.
I started out as a publisher and I was referred to many networks. For the sake of this conversation pointed at my network, I wont name or out any other networks. I was referred to many networks whom I worked with as a publisher and I’ve also been in the situation of being asked to move off my referrer because of the volume I was producing and the missing percentages I could be getting extra.
Moving along, I was a blogger for sometime with my own forum as well and drove a lot of referrals to many networks as well. I’ve seen my referrals taken out from under me with no messages and I have also been told by publishers who I referred that they were moving to a clean account to get a better percentage.
I for one have been on both ends of it, and I never once had a problem with it. If someone was going to make more money at the cost of me not making a referral commission, so be it. I never looked at it as “oh I helped this person to start making money in the first place, they owe me” type of deal. If someone took action on what I told them and DIDNT get as much money as possible, then I would be the first to tell them that.
Upon becoming a network owner, I’m one that is looked at and expected to deliver everything that is deserving to publishers and going above that (when possible) because as being a former publisher I know that a solid publisher base is good fuel for network growth. Sometimes a decision is made that is not going to sit well with some people and other times it is going to make others ecstatic.
In the specific case of Convert2Media while it may not sit well with you now, after the changes that are made in the near future we know it will make 99% of the publisher base happy. Knowing you cannot satisfy everyone in this business calls for a set of balls some dont seem to have when making decisions. The ramifications of bad press from people who do not work with Convert2Media is meaningless. I’ve never been one to give a shit what others thought. If I did, I probably would have never came online in the first place.
So while some view it as dirty, hell maybe even ethical, at least I told it how it is. You go to your favorite network and inquire about it. Better yet, wait for your favorite network owner to come out of the woodworks and have the balls to lay it out the way it is.
It’s business. Networks are here to make money. Publishers and advertisers are here to make money. Every network has a different set of management. This shit has been going on forever and it wasnt until the day one of the network owners made a change and said it the way it is that some decided it was wrong.
A cut to 2% was better than nothing at all which was the idea in the first place. Maybe it’s the same ole persona that Convert2Media is just another network. I’ll enlighten you to say that Convert2Media is not dependent on referrals. While those are great, the referral percentage is SO low at C2M that I’m truly surprised to see so much chatter about it. However, I would like to personally thank all who have chatted about it today. We are having one of our largest days of applications since this. One must have forgot that bad press is still….press. Another reason why is that most people dont give a shit about referrals anyway. Referrals are a tactic networks use for publisher growth. If your business is not reliant on referrals you will continue to grow anyway. I’ve seen so many networks bashed in the past for all sorts of reasons and decisions. The fact of the matter is this.
We help publishers make money. Plain and simple. No matter what anyone says, the guys making money are going to indirectly drive their buddies to you no matter what. We will continue to grow and sometimes people are going to disagree with decisions made.
- You cant satisfy everyone
- Networks will ALWAYS try to get you off a referrer
- At least I told you the way it is
Take from it what you will. I might seem like the meanest SOB ever but the publishers who DO work with Convert2Media know that I am going to continue helping them make money. There will be bumps in the road, no person and no business is perfect. At least I am honest about it.
