Archive for July, 2006

Huge New WickedFire Contest

I just posted a new contest on the WickedFire.com forum to increase quality threads and posts from users. I feel like this will definitely increase user activity and also provide the community much needed insight and advice into many topics covering internet marketing.

I’ll be giving away complete consulting to five lucky winners. Well, it’s not really luck because you are going to be rewarded for your participation and quality of content you submit. The contest will run for about 2 months until August 31st. There is plenty of time for people to dig up some quality content and post it with their own spin on it. Non-original posts will not be accepted (ie someone who jacks an article from another site and posts it saying it’s his/her own). Aside for that, there will be one main winner and 4 runner ups. All of the winners will benefit by getting a free 1 month membership to my upcoming premium section when it launches.

Here’s an excerpt from my original thread describing the prizes:

First Place:
A written report AND 1 on 1 phone or voip call with me, personally, discussing how to take your site, or even a new site of yours from a zero to an absolute hero. Any niche applies (as long as it’s legal). I will personally show you how to dominate your site in the search engines. How to continously add good content to it. How to find sub-niches in your sector to get good traffic. How to make money from your site with contextual advertising, CPM ads, and CPA/CPL (may vary depending on your niche). Bottom line, you will make money and get a lot of traffic to your site. You will learn the way I do it, step by step, and no one else will get in your way. You can easily apply all of my techniques to other projects of yours so that you can do it over and over. As the winner of the contest, you will also win a 1 month, invite only FREE membership to the premium section as well.

Runners up prizes:
1 month FREE to the premium section when it launches. You will also get a written up report by me specifically for your website. I’ll list what needs to be changed and how. It will cover revenue generation, traffic generation and keyword research. Plus any new ideas I may get for you to change your site so that it becomes more profitable for you in the long run. 

I’m pretty confident that this will be a good contest and it will also inspire people to hang out in the other sections a bit more too. Well, I’m tired so enough from me for one day. Let me know what you think either here or on the forum itself. The direct link to the thread is here - Wicked Fire Affiliate Marketing Forum

Some New Things To Announce..

Haven’t had much time to blog lately so I finally had some free time, and here I am! Just wanted to give a plug to Lee with his new forum. It’s called EarnersForum.com and it’s for big and small time affiliate marketers to come together and swap ideas. I actually love his layout, and I’m not even just saying that. Beautifully designed and skinned. He’s also running a big contest and giving away something like $20,000 in cash and prizes for being an active member. WickedFire.com and EarnersForum.com have more of a pact because we are not in direct competition with eachother. His forum has a much more serious and professional tone, whereas mine, well, mine is meant for shooting the shit without censorship. Definitely check it out, join up, post around, and win yourself some money. Lee is a good friend of mine and an even better forum owner than anyone I know. I see only good things for EarnersForum.com in the future, and there may be some type of partnership between WickedFire.com and EarnersForum.com in the future. ;)

WickedFire is doing pretty damn well. For a forum less than 2 weeks old, we’ve already surpassed 13,000 posts, over 1,100 threads with over 925 members. Zero dollars were spent on advertising and promotions thus far. I’m also pleased to announce that the first contest has come to an end, for those users who got to 500 posts and 50 threads. Finally, they can get some sleep and take a shower. There will be a TON of new an interesting contests to look forward to this and next week. More details on that at a later date. There will also be a newsletter going out shortly to all of the members to keep everyone updated on industry news, things going on inside the forum, and other affiliate marketing type things you may be interested in.

Last thing to announce, and this one may cause a stir, but as I disucssed it with my partner we both feel as if it’s the right choice. There is a 50% chance that I will auction off some of my sites for a minimum price of $100k. Yes, that’s $100,000 USD. Why so high you ask? Well, the sites make a minimum of $150,000 a year, and quite frankly, I want to get out the industry they are in. Our focus has been shifted towards a very large niche network project of well over 2.5 million niches and sites. Think of about.com, but without all of the ads and crappy outdated “expert advice” content. Being that I’m no longer liquid, it would be pretty ideal to scrape up some cash instead of seeking out private investors. I’ve put a lot of thought into it, and unless our last investor decides to continue with us, we’ll be selling out. If we do sell out, I’ll be posting the site on WickedFire.com and perhaps SPF. The site will come with everything you need, if you are the buyer, to begin making money immediately. I’ll give you the server, the sites, and phone consultation on how to keep it going. All you’d really have to do is switch over the YPN and/or Adsense ads and CPA network ads to your own account. There’s tons of traffic on it already, so there’s no need to start from scratch. All traffic sources will be included as well. As much as I don’t like to sell sites, sometimes you feel you’d rather focus on a very big and longterm project instead of quick cash makers. But that’s just me I guess.

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