Darren Olander

I wish we could still use Payza as it was a good alternative processor, but now, I just hope we can recover the funds that are trapped there.

We are happy to announce this new forum style platform for MC... what do you think? I feel this will allow everyone to follow conversations much easier, and now we are able to offer you some other cool stuff - like banner ads YES, you still earn points for posting, and those points can be used for mailing!

Nice Courtenay, I'm glad you like buildmydownlines - I've got big improvements being released to it very soon!

I did buy leads many years ago 2 or 3 times and wasn't impressed.. well, personally it did not work for me... seems much better to advertise on your own to generate your own leads.

Interesting discussion, because unlike most services, the prices of the most popular autoresponders have actually increased quite a bit over the years instead of declining. I was lucky to join and use a couple different autoresponders years ago and keep their lower pricing... BUT I also believe autoresponders are justified in a way for their prices... it's big money. Email marketing is absolutely huge... I can write a broadcast in like 5-10 minutes, send that one mail to my list and make hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars just from that. That's not even taking in account the automated follow-ups that can be set-up. I know for the size of my list I don't even make as much as others can/do from that because I just don't send broadcasts out that often... so in the grand scheme of things autoresponders are just taking a small percentage of the potential money on the table.. it's not their fault if you sign up for their service and never use it (send mails to your list). Without an autoresponder I'd make a lot less money, so why shouldn't they charge to make that possible? I have many duplicate contacts, but seems like a necessary evil to me, just wish I wasn't paying for the same address more than once. Even the most expensive autoresponders I believe you should be able to easily recover the cost and make great profits if you consistently build your list and send broadcasts/follow-ups regularly.. that's why people join your list anyway - they want to hear from you!

I can say I've earned a great deal promoting mailers (that I don't own)... being an affiliate you want to recommend many different things to your list, which in this case would be many of your favorite mailers, this way you get the same people joining you and upgrading in many different sites and it drastically increases your earnings. So yes, if you treat your business as a store with a variety of products instead of having just one and only one offer you have a far better chance to earn more :-) To get the most out of this type of advertising one would want to use many different mailers anyway...

Khaidir, if you refer people to Marketing Checkpoint using your affiliate link (found under Affiliate Center) and they upgrade you will earn commissions.

You can find it by going to your profile, clicking on friends (the one with the counter next to it) and then under there you will see a link for Requests. Or just go directly there - http://www.marketingcheckpoint.com/members/paulafrye/friends/requests/ - for anyone else just replace "paulafrye" with your own username

Great question! I do like login ads if those are offered along with the upgrade, otherwise they can still be one of the best type of ads to purchase as well. Personally it's all about the mailing for me, but I won't turn down extras

Agreed Sean, but at least they give you back any unused credits so there isn't a credit black hole

I've seen people get really good results from even mailers with very small memberships. I think the important factor is freshness. How many fresh members are on that list? Or active members on that list... but judging by new members is easier. If a list only has a few hundred but they all recently joined because it's brand new, the click rates and results will still be very high... then in the future it will be up to the owner to keep them active and continue to bring in new users.

I think there is room for a lot of mailers in our industry.. the thing is.. it's not wise for someone to use just one, it's best if you're using a lot of them because then you have more and more ads and reach out there.

Hi Ben, unfortunately no that is not available at release. We hope to be able to provide that in the future. Right now you will see just commissions.