When I started out, I started promotion CASINOS. Got nothing! I figured since I knew nothing about casinos or blackjack was the reason.
Then came POKER!
Seeing that I knew alittle bit about poker and I loved playing it, then I could do something with it.
Sooo I scraped all of my casinos site, converted them over to POKER.
I have always been taught to GIVE SOMETHING AWAY and this will this attract traffic. So when I first started out I was giving away apart of my commissions when they signed up and was verified by the poker site. Usually something like $25, sometimes $50.
Came across Empire Poker! Loved Empire Poker. So I built an entire website around them. I only promoted Empire. With my $25 “gift” I have modest results. And when I say modest, I mean that I would for an example, put $25 in for PPC run..and from that I would be able to convert maybe 1 or 2. Ok, a little profit. Put in another $25..same thing.
I was and still am always on the CPA model. I guess I like instant results. I got a signup, bam! $125 paycheck. (back then it was $125, now it’s only $65)
So then I started to think outside the box…but not to far out.
I came up with the idea, if you sign up, I will transfer $50 into your account. Talked about with the manager. HAD TO: I need 100% assurance that A) The signup was a legit one – a new player under my account. And B) that Empire was going to pay me, even thou I was the one who transferred the money in.
This was working GREAT! Empire had an affiliate promotion going. Signup 50 more than last month and get an extra $5000 bonus.
Once I got close to the 50 – They pulled the plug on me. Fraud traffic they said!
I had already paid out somewhere around $1000+. I was getting no commission on those signups! I WAS PISSED!!!!
But I have never come close to that one month with Empire. I was on cloud nine, I was about to make like over $8,000+ that month.
Then they said, well we will pay $500 and convert you over to the higher MGR of 25% on all current players and future ones.
I THEN QUIT! For about 6 months.
I came back with Pacific Poker – giving away $25 after they signup and made a deposit. The safer way, you know.
But haven’t been do much. Been reading this forum, spent the last 6 weeks re-designing my site for the 100TH time. So hopefully this month will produce at least 5 to 8 RMP’s.
I now promote more than one site: Pacific Poker, Pokerroom, Party, Titan, Paradise.
I do not promote Empire, although every 2 or 3 months I get a $50 check from them.
Well, that’s my story – Sorry it’s sooo long.
NEW GUYS and OLD GUYS – Hang in there. I’m still hanging and I’m still waiting for that big big paycheck!!
Joe Black
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