Matt Koshko
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That's an good way to position credits/points. In what time frame would it be reasonable? Meaning, if you read every mail in 30 days...would you have enough credits at that point just to reach the entire list? Or, is it a week time frame? ...
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Michael, I've adjusted your account after looking at past history. I'll send you a private message with some information. As a side note, we're reaching out to all previous upgraded users, we simply hadn't reached you in the list yet. Unfortunately all past upgraded accounts had to be reset due to changing technology/platforms. The benefits? We offer both Paypal and Credit Card options unlike previous where it was just Credit Card payments. We hope you'll stick around, remain active, and enjoy all the work we did to put together a well-rounded service.
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Previously MarketingCheckpoint didn't require it for Bronze memberships. We're trying to create a balance of activity in the community along side the advertising. The requirement is rather minimal as we anticipate the engagements in the community will continue to grow, members wanting to voice their experiences and questions. The difference is Silver and Gold members do not need to post within every 72 hours in order to send a mailing, but if they DO post, they can earn double the points as normally earned. We've structured it this way to help boost the value of participating...even if your account doesn't require it. ...you can always upgrade (under 'Memberships' to eliminate the need to post
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By being a member you can participate in: Discussion topics around business, marketing, and related subjects (and unrelated) Earn 250 points for participating in discussions (each topic or reply) Advertise through email ads using earned points or upgraded account. Earning points by opening email ads
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Everyone has heard "Content is King". More content is published every day than was published in an entire year not long ago. As a content publisher, it's not just about writing content, but writing quality content that delivers value. Maybe you publish in one or more of the following: Personal blog (own domain & hosting)Hosted blog (such as Wordpress.com)Ezine databasesArticle submission networksGuest writing/bloggingEmail newslettersMembership sitesForumsWhat works for you? Where do you publish? And, how often?
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Thanks for the kind words, all. It took quite a bit longer than we wanted but that's nothing out of the ordinary with programming projections. Absolutely. We'll need your help growing!
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Brands and companies are continually moving towards social engagements. Having a Facebook page for said brands & companies can be very valuable. In many ways you can gain insights in to your customers, members, and audience - an important part of most marketing plans in the 21st century. Some ideas on growing a Facebook page: Offering special deals only found by liking your FB pageRewarding engaged "fans"Strategically placed ads to like your pageAdding a "Have you liked our Facebook page yet?" link in outbound emails What are some ideas you have? What has worked in your marketing efforts?
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Remember the days of Alertpay? Those ended when MH Pillars Ltd acquired the company merging it in to Payza. Many of you may recall the several issues countless individuals encountered with Alertpay such as withdrawal limitations. In May 2012 that seemed to have been resolved. Payza came out as a better, reliable service with a *mostly* positive history. Over the course of 2013, yet again, negative experiences came to light though not quite as often as Alertpay. Most recently, however, Payza eliminated the options for accepting from and sending to US customers through Payza. And even more severe was the complete termination of withdrawing the money in US Payza accounts to bank accounts, including receiving a check for the balance in our accounts. Whether you had/have $10 or $10,000 in your Payza account, tough. Or, at least that seems to be the response from Payza. It's unethical for a company to not release money that was paid to you - it's yours, not theirs. Have you had to experience this mess? What is your opinion on Payza?
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After the feedback we received a few months ago, it simply made sense to change the format. A lot of on-going work to get to this point and some nice improvements in a number of ways. Plus, the integrated banner advertising, 2X points for frequent posts, and the ability to post events...who wouldn't like that?
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Being an entrepreneur is more than just being an entrepreneur. You've got to have it in your blood, living it every day...whether it's online marketing or going door-to-door selling pine tree saplings. If you were to bleed, I'd better see it in your blood. I've noticed over the course of the recent few years every 3rd person I meet is some kind of "entrepreneur". Just because you sold a digital product doesn't inadvertently make you an entrepreneur. There must be risk involved, serious skin in the game, an alignment of gathering and compiling resources, and having pulling together a business. If you were to pull back the curtains and tell me you have a business, could you answer it in 1 sentence? Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone. We are all sales people but we're not all entrepreneurs.
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Hosting is a priority for any web-service, SaaS, or nearly anyone with a website. It's important to get your hosting "right", not just to have hosting. There are many hosting solutions including Dedicated, Shared, Virtual, In-house. Where do you possibly start? It depends what you're looking for, but from personal experience I say customer service is critical. We've used a couple companies in the past for our dedicated server needs. While the experience was great at the beginning, it seemed to dwindle over time. Issues with up-time, updates, and of course timely fixes continued. The most alarming was learning how the "fixes" were really not great solutions, but we didn't really know the impact of the "fix" other than our problem going away. Not too long ago someone approached us about helping with Server Administration...which turned in to a full-service hosting solution. For the same amount of money we were spending every month we were able to get much improved server power, space, speed, and the best part? An administrator who works with us instead of just being reactive. While we appreciated the previous solutions, we simply needed someone who can sit in the same room with us, drink a beer, and say "Hey, guys, let's do this..." Lesson? Don't just choose a hosting solution because they are cheap or seem to have all the bells and whistles. Customer service and administration (especially for future problems) can be invaluable...or cost you a lot of money over time.
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I've said it many times "Experience is the Best Teacher". I don't care what education you've gone through at some expensive university, real life experience can and will teach you in the best way. We learned through this community how individual experience certainly varies. Based on a survey published in October, the desires haven't entirely shifted, still sticking to some of the basic foundational needs. And with that, we recreated the community based on those interests. What are some valuable lessons you've learned outside of formal education, coming directly from personal experience?
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There are a lot of capabilities at MarketingCheckpoint. To better serve the value, you can view a more detailed list below. Each one is labeled as to which membership(s) applies, in Italics. Mailing Total MailingFree members (bronze) must use earned points to send mailings, and can reach up to the total membership using points every 24 hours. Each point allows sending to one member, so 1000 points = a mailing to 1,000 members Upgraded members (silver) can send to 1,200 members every 48 hours without needing any points. Any additional can be used from earned points. [*]Earn Points Reading Mail All memberships will earn randomly between 30 and 60 points per email ad read. Discussion Points For any forum post all memberships earn 250 points. Discussions/Forums Category AccessKey Discussions (All) Extras (All) Premium Members (Silver only) [*]Files in Forums Upload (Silver, Gold) Download (All) [*]Signatures 1 Image (240px height, max), 2 links (Free) 2 Images, (240px height, max) 3 links (Silver) Community Add Friends (All) Notifications for 3 months (All) Change Member Title (Need 200 Posts) (All) Rate Members (All) Publish a Personal Update (All) Give/Receive Reputation Points (All) Send/Receive Private Messages (All, limitations for Bronze) Calendar The calendar is open for all to use, but free members will have their events moderated before they are posted. Request RSVP (Silver) Commissions Earn 30% of Membership Subscription Sales (Silver) Earn 10% of Banner Ad Sales (Silver) Earn 20% of Membership Subscription Sales (Free) Request Credit Payout (All) Use Commission Credits to Pay for Subscriptions/Ads (All)
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At first I thought we are talking about organs as in hearts and lungs!
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Experience in MLM/Network Marketing
Matt Koshko replied to Matt Koshko's topic in Affiliate/MLM/Network Marketing
Rudi, there is quite a bit of opportunity and flexibility with MLM with many relationships to online marketing. I don't think there is any greater opportunity to spend the least amount of money and make the biggest name for yourself without lots of administration, technical and financial management. -
Some good points, Rudi! It's really up to individuals - there are lots of really great opportunities yet always have people saying "it doesn't work" while others in the same opportunity do very well.
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You may be new to MLM/Network Marketing or maybe you haven't even jumped in, and either way it's okay! I've recently been getting serious in to an MLM company to help change lives and protect people from toxic chemicals used in every-day products. Getting in to this industry and market is not new to me. The difference now is having had the experience to know what is most important to me; not chasing money but focusing on value and quality. When it comes to building a business in MLM it's important to realize people typically join you for YOU, not because the opportunity sounds good; People join people. What are your experiences? Have you been in the industry before or have you held off?
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Glad you both agree on the 30-60 day time frame. The problem with charge-backs can be dangerous for large commissions - it allows some buffer. Other companies, such as Shopify, pay affiliate commissions much quicker - as short as 5 days after a customer pays an invoice. But, Shopify is in a more professional market with likely far less fear of charge-backs and similar problems. In addition, glad you both agree on monthly commissions. The ever popular monthly subscription plans across the internet make it a perfect fit.
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The past week it had been raining nearly every day, on and off. I'm not sure why but rain dampens my energy, willingness to work. Maybe it's not the rain but it's the lack of sunlight...I'm not quite sure. Anyone else in that same boat? If so, any suggestions how to get around the problem?
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Buying Contacts from a list broker
Matt Koshko replied to Jim Hipschmidt's topic in Safelists, Mailers, Autoresponders
Years ago I was in to buying leads, and bought thousands of them. At the time it was the cost effective way to gain leads/contacts, though that does NOT mean it was necessarily worth while. And there were countless brokers selling leads, the same leads to multiple buyers. In 9 out of 10 cases I would not buy leads like I used to unless carefully thought out. Leads were put in to an autoresponder at one point, but they were initially leads I called on the phone directly. Without going in to the details...it was a lot of hours on the phone without much progress. These days lead generation is of a different caliber. There are simple tools you can use on your own to generate leads, and in that case would be exclusive to you (or at least not sold to other parties). In addition, there are lead brokers who generate leads exclusively for you, not reselling the leads to other parties, which is the only way I'd recommend if you wanted to buy leads. -
Nobody likes to pay more for a service than they need to, Autoresponders being a great example. I recently began looking in to the cost of autoresponders out of curiosity and recent billing frustration. The popular autoresponder/email marketing services offer pricing based on the same, or very close to the same, model; pay per subscriber. Now, I don't mean you pay $.10/subscriber and that's the entire structure, but generally speaking that IS how it works. Most offer packages for groups of subscribers such as $xx.xx for up to 2,500 subscribers. However, what they don't clearly disclose is how those subscribers are calculated. We are literally talking about each and every subscriber within your account, no matter if they are added 1 or 10 times. And how can an individual subscriber count as 10 subscribers? Well, when you have multiple campaigns or lists and the same person is a subscriber to each one, they are adding to your bottom line, to the total subscriber count. Do you use multiple campaigns with duplicate contacts, as mentioned above? Or, do you stick with one list? When you run multiple websites and/or services, it's a bit challenging to have everyone subscribe under one campaign/list if you need to cater your messages specifically to subscribers to one service verse another. But, it could cut your costs significantly with one campaign/list.
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Based on my own experiences I firmly believe in the team concept. With web technology and services it is relatively easy to develop nearly anything you want. When it comes to testing, marketing, operating, and everything in between, having a team to work with is undervalued. Maybe you are like me who feel they need to have their hands in every part of the business sphere, from idea development to finance, and if so...I know your pain. But, as Tony Robbins says, you need to focus on your strengths. Having a team who individually can support your weaknesses, and vice-versa, is really powerful. Not only can you get things done faster and be more efficient, but your team members can add a whole different perspective that you might otherwise not think about. In your business, do you work with others directly? Do you have a team, large or small, who you can rely on to fill the gaps? Or, are you a one-man/one-woman show? On top of that, how do you go about building and/or finding a team?
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There is constant talk about affiliates being paid their commissions. When you put forth the time, energy, and even money towards referring customers, your reward of a sale commission is justifiably earned. Nobody likes to be forced requesting payment nor have to wait 12-months. Questions: What is a reasonable time to wait after a sale is made to be paid your earned commission? How often would you prefer to be paid earned commissions? (weekly, every other week, monthly...) What methods are acceptable to receive such commissions? (Paypal (and similar), direct deposit, check...)
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Downline Builders a Waste Of Time?
Matt Koshko replied to Ernie Geeting's topic in Affiliate/MLM/Network Marketing
FYI, I moved this to the "Afilliate Marketing" group since it's not particular to Traffic Exchanges. In regards to the topic, Downline Builders are nothing new. Very few are revolutionary or innovative outside the affiliate marketing industry. Straight Downline Builders, without additional services, are mostly useless unless you're a serious marketer who can attract a lot of direct signups. Services such as Darren Olander's Build My Downlines is pretty solid and I know he has some serious enhancements in progress. Personally I find that the Downline Builder is an added bonus to primary services. There has to be a unique, innovative spin to a service which is strictly a Downline Builder, in order for me to give it any kind of support. -
That's a pretty tall order. Unless you have hundreds and hundreds of referrals I would tend to believe 99% of people aren't making a liveable income from such subscription commissions alone. There may be a few people but I doubt it's more than a handful. If you think about Mailers, the subscription price weighed with the commission (let's say 75% max) might make you at most $25/month per subscription, and that's on the high end. To most people, $2k/month is not a liveable income and that right there would require 80 paid referrals spending $35/month with a 75% commission level. This is just an example of course. The bigger number you need to consider is in order to get 80 paid referrals it'll take hundreds and hundreds of referrals. Let's say there is a 20% conversion rate (which is unheard of (high)), you would need 400 referrals. Hope that puts it in to perspective a bit.