Million Dollar Web TV News

Jorge is starting to promote Million Dollar Web TV on his ABW forum. Here is his latest posting. No need for me to add anything to it. Thanks Jorge!

After countless hours wracking our brains, we discovered the obvious:

1. We need to move very quickly to sell our ad space once the site becomes operational

2. To make this happen, we have to find and deploy a qualified online sales force

3. To achieve that, we must find and utilize the best affiliate program(s)

4. We should have the program managed by a true professional

Having done our due diligence, we have chosen Jorge Ramirez, and his company,

JRami.com, to design and execute a full marketing program for us. A major component of this being an affiliate program, of course. According to Jorge:

“An affiliate program is really your outside sales team driving targeted traffic to your web site. Having an affiliate program will expand your web reach exponentially. With thousands of other web sites talking about your products and services and branding you, you’ll reach more people with the right message than you ever dreamed possible. And you don’t have to pay affiliates until they make sales.

And starting an affiliate program is not as difficult as you may think. But choosing the correct strategy and affiliate network requires experience and the time to get it done right. Finding the right affiliate partners is also critical. The right affiliate team makes all the difference in the world. You’ll find that 20% of your affiliates will drive 80% of your affiliate business.

Managing your affiliate partners is also important. It helps to know their key issues and favorite tools and where they can be reached. It helps to also have the experience of being an affiliate yourself. As in any relationship, trust and respect only come from shared experiences and common goals and the willingness to work together.

A key ingredient for any successful merchant is having a site that offers a great shopping experience. Online customers want the tools they need to find what they want. They want to know that their purchases will be secure and will arrive when expected.”

In this vein, at Jorge’s suggestion, we already redesigned the Place Initial Ad / Video page,

to make it really easy to order. He also started to include a link in his signature block on the affiliate forums for Million Dollar Web TV. Way to go!

Thank you Jorge – we do look forward to a very successful partnership!

Me, of course. I used a webmail program, called “Horde,” on our server. It allows you to build a blacklist of all the spamming emails, match them against incoming ones, and drop the ones it recognizes straight into the shredder. The list grew to thousands of emails in no time, as I average 100-200 of spams a day. Not excessive by today’s standards, as we all know….

Funny part is that Tech Support was actually right in asserting the system was overloaded by either one or more scripts running at the time. Except it was one of the applications they provide gratis that locked the site up.

They and I obviously thought it was one or more of our newly minted scripts that had caused the problem. Thanks to detective Shreekant, our lead developer, that was not the case. Now we can concentrate on finishing the site ASAP. That’s what we are doing.

My postings from now on will be mostly about marketing activities, alliances, and business in general. (So I hope.) We’ll have a lot ot report!