My thoughts are that pretty much these are about what I expected and I’m fairly happy with them. I think they will flow from the banner through the landing page fairly well even if the green colors are a little off. I think they should stand out being something a little different, they are not ‘too annoying’ but should get noticed. I think I need to change the roulette background image to something more poker dealing related…

What do you think be brutal, I have 5 free revisions I can work with so I would love feedback.

After awesome advice and critique from the members over at the PAL Forums, I revised them and they turned out like this: Poker Dealer Affiliate Banners

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I am always looking for innovative ways to use content to not only drive traffic to websites but to also work off of one another and create synergy across the network of websites, products, services and offerings that in turn earn income for the business. If you are struggling to send traffic to online poker sites, or if you are having a hard time finding alternative offers to put in front of your traffic (how many pokerstars banners can they see anyway, right), consider promoting Dealer-Training.com for a 50% CPA deal all paid through clickbank.

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Anyway, the following here is pure gossip / speculation but I’m just going to say it.

Skins come and go but the true value is the affiliate relationships.

You seemed to handle it pretty good from Stinky to Chan to Aced but this one stuck you pretty good. Hell I feel for you because I know you were in a bad spot, I can understand. You want to keep that traffic coming to show that new investor the ROI he demands and if you get that new investor you may be able to pull it off and get everyone paid and back on track but when you are paying the bills with credit cards then your in trouble. It was a gamble… a desperation gamble even at that and you lost. I know I expected big things from Aced.com when they launched and it seemed like once the Jamie Gold fiasco happened that there were no additional ideas or efforts to recruit a base of poker players. Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think so.

Shitty situation and I expect more and more skins to fail, especially those skins that do not actively market to bring in RECREATIONAL players. This is the way the wind is blowing. Plan accordingly fellow affiliates.

Related Posts

• Aced.com 120k Debt to two affiliates
• Calling out Brandon Berndt – Aced.com Poker Manager
• Aced transitions to PDC Affiliates

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Sportsbook.com Affiliate Program – Refer Your Players to Sportsbook

In 2006, when the UIGEA first went down (and ironically today is the day it is supposed to be enforced) I was invited to be one of the first affiliates of the new Sportsbook.com site and I jumped at the chance. You can sign up at commissionaccount.com or Sportsbook.com affiliate signup here. I’ve been working with the account manager back from the Paradise Poker days, one of the very first online poker rooms to offer real money poker and I recommend them to most affiliates I network with.

The Sportsbook.com brand has consistently converted as well as any of the major online poker rooms listed on the site, and better than most.

This is due in no short part to their credit card processing, which is second to none and super important or the conversion rate if you are sending recreational players (which is what the rooms want!).

I’ve sent a bunch of affiliates who are quite happy that they began promoting them and many have them as their number one room. Join the healthy group of high quality sub affiliates and together we can accomplish more. Plus you’ll get Stephen for your affiliate manager and he is one of the best in the biz.

In the 5+ years I’ve been doing business with them, he has always been professional and spot on. We have not in that time seen any player issues from poker and sportsbook traffic. However I know some respectable old school affiliates have major negative issues with the long time ago parent company and I respect that. In my own personal experience, the affiliate program at Sportsbook has been a quality, reputable organization for both affiliates and players. I would deposit my own money there.

Sportsbook Affiliate Program Benefits

• Regular on time payments every month
• Multiple payment options (wire, check, ewallets etc)
• Convert like gangbusters – seriously these guys are always ahead of the credit card processing game – vital for the recreational player
• Healthy CPA’s – however the attached sportsbook and casino + ease of deposits mean MGR should be a serious consideration
• Read More about the Sportsbook.com Affiliate Program

If you do not have US or Canadian traffic, you can pretty much not bother promoting them as the players they accept is restricted to those two North American countries at the moment. As far as choosing between MGR and CPA, you have to decide what makes the most sense to your business whether you take MGR or CPA but you can negotiate both but be prepared to begin with MGR if you are an unknown / new / unproven affiliate. You will get a fair deal and once you prove your player value you can then consider negotiating for a CPA deal if you wish. CommissionAccount.com is the direct link to sign up.

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Plus, the course justified it’s higher price, it does kick ass and we really do have a Bellagio dealer as the instructor and in the videos.  GoodKarmaKid has probably sat at her table many times!

Yesterday, I lowered the price down to $77 from $197.

After clickbanks fee’s, I have to sell 2.5 for every 1 sold previously at $197 to earn the same amount of money on the traffic. It will be interesting to see if the lower price point generates a high enough conversion rate to justify the lowered price.  We also run a few times per year a 4 day email campaign to anyone who signs up to our email list who has not purchased the course yet with a big discount so at this price point if we ran that email campaign again the discount is not as large so that will need testing as well.  Another thing to watch is email sign-ups and if they go up or down noticeably.

If anyone has any links to info or if they sell products like this and want to share some insight into how to properly price your ebook I would love to hear what kind of results and insight you might have.

Finally, if any PAL regular is interested in promoting the course to your traffic, just send me a PM with what you will do and how you plan to promote it and I will send you a free review copy no problem.  You can read the Dealer Training affiliate program details here and get a few banners if you wish.

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This sale is for $49 or as I like to say, about two and a half ounces of silver.

Anyway, on to the 4 day cash machine emails…

If you are not familiar with the 4 day cash machine its essentially an email series that is set to go out for four consecutive days. I’ve created 4 emails that go out over the course of the next four days… starting today on 4/20 (smoke em if you got em) and ending this Friday. Pretty simple.

I wanted to split test a series of emails against one another and see which one out performed the other. My actual idea was to offer up a challenge to some of our marketing interns (or some PAL members) to write their own series of 4 emails and put their results head to head against mine to see who’s sold the most and award the winner a $$ prize but I found a limitation with Aweber that I really hope they will fix.

You can not split test an email series, only individual emails. I

If you got the 1st email from “Series A” you would get all “Series A” emails and no “Series B” emails, and vice versa. Unfortunately you can’t do this in aweber, you can only split test individual emails. I could try two different emails for each one in the series but there is no way (that I could figure out) to make sure that someone who got email a1 would also get a2 and a3 and a4. You can segment your list, but I could not find a way to randomly segment the list into equal parts, only ways to segment your list based on time frame of signing up or some other factor that will not randomly split the group in order to do a proper test.

The first email starts going out today (4/20) after lunch. The actual emails are a bit on the ‘hard sale side’ if you ask me but the emails we sent out in our previous 4 day cash machine email campaigns that were more hard sale / direct to the point converted better than our softer sale approach. We will see what kind of results we have this time and report back.

We are sending out the blast to a lower 4 figure email list. Show me the $$$.

I’ll update how it went.

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Mark & Jeremy - Well Played

Party Poker USA April Fools Bitches

PokerProp’s post on that page wins my favorite post so far this year!

What else is going on. Oh yeah and idiot copies content, spams and gets rankings, gets called out and doesn’t realize that copying content is theft. Idiot of the month award goes to cyberfox.

I learned google claims that .com = .info as far as they are concerned. Bullllllshit. And it looks like there is going to be another Vegas meet up for Jeremy to puss out on, – ah just kidding. It will probably be me pussing out this year. Fuck those full body scanners, fuck em and Las Vegas has them. They won’t attack Vegas cause Vegas will come get that ass Mobster style still.

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I line break / hard return above.

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A couple of things, newer wordpress installations come with the privacy setting set to block search engines but allow normal people. While I thought I checked this, about a week ago I realized that it was still clicked on and I fixed that setting. If you’re launching a new wordpress site you need to double check this variable for sure and make sure you set it to allow search engines.

At one point while checking to see if google had indexed it, the results showed the home page only but just the domain address and no desc or details of what was on the site. This was during the time that the block search engines was checked as on I believe. I had also installed a different sitemap plugin that pinged google to visit the site while they were blocked so that probably had something to do with it as well… google came, saw that we said ‘fuck you google, go away’ and did so. I’ve also checked my robots.txt file to make sure se’s are not blocked and they are not.

Frustrating.

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