WickedFire Extends It’s Brand
I am pleased to announce that the new add-on section for the WickedFire forum is right on schedule. The launch date window is still at Oct 1st-15th. I know it’s a pretty wide window for a launch and all, but this way if it needs to be extended for any delay it will be done easily. Although I cannot elaborate on what the new area will include, I can leak some info and say that without hyping the crap out of it, from what the beta guys have seen and said, it looks amazing, and there is NOTHING out there like this. We are going to pioneer the next step in how media and information is delivered to everyone within the internet marketing industry. This doesn’t include the scammy MLM area or the get rich quick crowd, so if you are one of those, please exit this blog now, and jump off a bridge, thanks!
I’d also like to announce that WickedFire is now a trademark! Yep, I went ahead and got the brand to be a US Trademark. When the forum first launched I had the logo and actual name “wicked fire” and “wickedfire” copyrighted, so that since it was a 100% unique and original idea by me, that no one would squat it with domains or steal the brand. I was also advised by my lawyers to trademark it before the launch of the new resource area, so that nothing bad would happen, and to protect the brand itself just in case some idiot tried to leech off of it’s success. See, not all lawyers are bad, just the ones that sue you, which hopefully I will not be on that side anytime soon, or ever for that matter.
Finally, the area to which WickedFire will be extending it’s brand is…. Affiliate marketing. Yep, we’ve decided to break into the affialite network industry. Don’t be alarmed though, we are not going to be a competitor for Azoogleads or Copeac or any of those guys. Their business models and ours are completely different. Those types of networks act as the middleman between the merchants and the affiliates. They don’t actually own and operate their own sites, and the ones that they say they do, are always linked to some third party merchant. I’m not sure what the program will be called just yet, but we are launching 30 new subscription sites by December 2006. All of the sites will be 100% owned and operated by our parent company (my partner and I). Payouts are going to be huge and quick. We will be offering quick payouts within 15 days of whatever sale was made by the affiliate. No more net 15-30. Our sites will work on a subscription model only, and we’ll be offering recurring payouts to affiliates, so that if you make 100 sales at $10 one month, the billing will recur for the life of that membership, and the affiliate will gain credit for it until the user cancels. That right there means a residual income for sales you may have made 6 months ago, and now affiliates will be able to get more for their marketing dollar spent. We’ll also be including a ton of markting tools that no one else has, or has ever used before. Using our affiliate program will not replace your current network, but more or less act as a complimented service, because you can still go about your day promoting ringtones and mortgages, but if you want to take the revenue earned from there, and market subscription sites on the side, you can quickly build up a steady income without doing more work.
Well, that’s it for now. I would also like to add though, that at WickedFire we are looking for freelance article/content writers/journalists, so if you are interested, or know someone, or would even like to recommend someone for the gig, use the contact form on this site and shoot me a message. The positions don’t pay, but the perks you can get for being on our media team sure make it worth your while.
