DealDotCom Update
I was recently asked if DealDotCom was still making me any money. When I last provided an update I was 3 1/2 months into using DealDotCom and had the following stats:
Tier One Affiliates: 62
Tier Two Affiliates: 263
Profit Made: $392.01
After analyzing my stats a little bit I decided I really needed to beef up my down line if I wanted to continue making money. Knowing that John Chow was on my Tier One list (he is no longer there, I’m not sure what happened, and that is a big loss), I pinged him asking him to provide an update post on how well he has done with DealDotCom. While he did reply stating that he was planning to post an update on his blog, it never came.
Since then DealDotCom was slipping, there was a period of time that I didn’t make any sales, so I basically gave up on it. I figured the products were not of the same quality, and the “newness” factor had worn off. After being asked how it was doing for me, I logged back in and analyzed my statistics.
As of October 24, 2008, I am up to 96 Tier One affiliates and 270 Tier 2 affiliates. This is up from the end of December, with very little to no work done to promote DealDotCom.
Here is my earning chart for DealDotCom:
As you can see after 2007 my profits slipped greatly, however remember I had all but given up on DealDotCom. It is however encouraging to see that so far in October I have made $16.00 from three (3) sales, one from a Tier One and two from a Tier Two. The last promotion I did was my blog post in December.
With that being said I am off to try to get some of my Tier One affiliates to promote DealDotCom on their blogs. If they sign new people up my second tier will get larger which means more money for me with no work. Unfortunately my biggest Tier One (John Chow) is no longer listed, however I was able to recognize another large player Jon Waraas.
Jon made a post titled, DealDotCom It Really Works, back in October 2007, so I sent him an email asking him if it is still making him money with it and if he would update his blog readers with his progress. We will see if he makes the post, I’m guessing he won’t, but I figured it was worth the chance.
If you have a website that targets webmasters or marketing visitors I’d encourage you to give DealDotCom a try. Not only do they offer some great products at big discounts, the affiliate program can’t be beat.
3 1/2 Months Later with DealDotCom
In September I had caught a blurb about a new company that was about to open called DealDotCom.com. They were going to take the concept of Woot.com, a one-day discounted sale, and apply it to internet marketting products. The kicker with this particular company was they were going to offer a very nice affiliate program, 35% Tier One, and 15% Tier Two.
I decided to take a risk and spend some money promotting the program. I figured if I could get a decent number of people signed up directly under me, I’d have a good chance of earning quite a bit off of their sign ups. I understand this is a MLM concept, but two-tier affilate programs are widely accepted.
It worked! I was able to recruit a decent network and have made decent money for very little work.
Here is what I’ve earned so far with DealDotCom:
That is $392.01 for a program that I focused on for 15 days. Defiantly worth it if you ask me. Now I know why the serious internet money makers swear by affiliate programs!
I am currnetly sitting at 62 Tier 1 affiliates, which gave me 263 Tier 2 affiliates. I am able to rack up the income on their purchases for life which is truly passive income at this point. Am I totally happy? No! If I can keep building my network, I will keep making more money. I also realize that I need to try and make sure that the people that signed up under me don’t forget about the deals at DealDotCom. This could be harder, but if I keep promoting it on my sites hopefully they will see it and remember to check back in every once in a while. I also need to find a way to get some of my Tier One sign ups to review the program so they remind their audience of the site.
If you want to get in on the action, register at DealDotCom (Its free!) and go your account page to get your affiliate link. If you dig around their blog you will also find banners and additional links you can use to promote their program.
$70 Check from Date.com
As I was going through the mail yesterday I ran across a check from Date.com. I was confused as to why they would be sending me a check but then I remembered I had started building, AlaskaLove.com, a website promoting their affiliate program a few years ago. Since I never finished the website, and hadn’t promoted it, I figured it would be for around $10. Imagine my surprise when I discovered it was for $70.
I logged into the report manager to see how I made the $70 and discovered I had two signups at $35 a piece. With 166 clicks to the Date.com website since the 1st of the year, 23 people created profiles, and 2 people actually paid to join the site. This is in addition to the $34.20 from Google Adsense. That is a total of $104.20 this year from a website that I never even tried to finish, pretty good if you ask me.
Looks like I should go back and work on the Alaska Love site…
Tactical Gaming Systems
I was talking with some fellow military folks today (Imagine that) when I came up with an awesome product idea…
We were talking about how some of the folks driving Gators around the Airbase park in parking spots for tactical vehicles. Since we’ve never seen a Gator with mounted armament we figured it must be tactical because it is painted green. It’s a logical argument.
Using that logic the person I was with stated that he had seen tactical gaming systems out at some of the smaller FOBs in Afghanistan. It seems there is a good reason to make something like that tactical, but we aren’t going to go into that here.
Anyways that is when I was thinking, they make laptops that are able to be beat around and dropped, why not make a gaming system that is just as rugged? It’s obvious that the U.S. military is going to be busy for the next few years if not longer, and it’s a given that soldiers need entertainment. A rugged version of the Playstation or XBox would be awesome in a deployed environment.
Maybe I’ll email Sony and Microsoft.