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Think about many ways how you can market our advertiser’s offer:
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Emergence in collaborative processes and human behaviors. Evolutionary collaboration and social change
26 Jul2010
Emergent collaboration is not an easy concept to grasp by the mind that protests against ubiquity, and instead demands well defined roadmaps and definitions. The mind of a human doesn’t favor unknown, therefore it tries to define everything, something way too quickly, since what is defined can get obsolete before the blossoming occurred.
To explore the subject of emergence in collaboration, “spontaneous” group behaviors and evolutionary social economics; to form an informal alliance that could facilitate social change on a large scale, along with monetary transactions for participants, I have formed a group that I called Collabopreneur (roots: collaboration + entrepreneurs). At the end of this article please see a short video introduction and reflection on what impact such group potentially could make, if emergence happens along with efficiency that shall arise initially from point zero, if commitment is the constant element among unknown elements.
Emergent collaboration relies on virtual groups or teams getting formed and accomplishing a task on the fly.
1. What is emergent collaboration?
2. Why is emergent collaboration relevant to businesses today?
3. What facilitates emergent collaboration?
4. What are the tools for emergent collaboration.What is emergent collaboration?
The best way to learn about emergent collaboration is through an example, one of which could illustrates the emergence of collaboration among individuals after a systems administrator at a university discovered a hacker attack on his university’s server and traced it to rsync, a synchronization tool for Unix/Linux machines. While the goal of collaboration was known from the beginning, there was no prior determination of who the collaborators will be or the collaboration process itself. Nor was there a leader who guided the whole process. The collaboration evolved from a single person’s problem and relevant individuals were engaged when their expertise was needed. The next steps were determined just prior to their execution, taking into account whatever that had happened till then. In a nutshell, emergent collaboration is organic; while the goal of collaboration may be known, there is no prior determination of who the collaborators will be or the collaboration process. Also, in emergent collaboration, the involvement of individuals and the collaboration processes are adaptive in that they evolves in response to the situation at any point of time. There is no one in particular who directs the whole process as it evolves.
Why is emergent collaboration relevant?
Today, businesses are facing greater uncertainty and complexity. Competition is emerging from industries and regions of the world that were not competing before (e.g., cable companies are now competing with telephone companies). Due to the Internet, business stakeholders (e.g., customers) have a louder and a far-reaching voice. Consequently, issues that any businesses need to address are emerging from unexpected quarters and with greater uncertainty. How can businesses respond to such pressures? When faced with a highly complex issue, a business needs to make sure that it enables collaboration among individuals who can cover the many different aspects of the issue. However, due to the uncertainty with which the business issues arise, it is not possible for a business to plan beforehand who should collaborate and how. Nor is it possible for a business to develop a clear idea of how the collaboration should evolve once an issue is right in front of it. Relevant collaboration will have to emerge on its own and at the right time to enable an effective response. The key thing that a business will have to do is to make sure that it puts into place a system that enables emergent collaboration.
What facilitates emergent collaboration?
An important requirement for emergent collaboration is a shared workspace that is accessible to all collaborators. Ideally, this workspace should include all the important transactions that have taken place among business workers. In addition to helping a group of collaborators learn from past transactions and take the best step forward, such a workspace facilitates stigmergy, i.e., it enables a worker’s contribution to stimulate others to build on that contribution without any direct communication between the workers. Stigmergy facilitates emergent collaboration by not requiring a single person or a leader with a top level view to coordinate the actions of others. An example of stigmergy is seen in the Open Source community when a contributor uploads a piece of code to a community site. This posting invites examination from others interested in using that code. If they discover any problems with the software, they either fix the problem themselves or alert the community about the problem, thereby encouraging others to work on the problem. There is no direct communication from one worker to another – the openness or accessibility of all the critical actions by community members enables work to be coordinated among “undesignated” community members who, at a particular moment, happen to have the resources (time and capability) needed to advance the community’s work.
In addition to a shared and open workspace, emergent collaboration requires meta-level information that highlights the significance of the transactions that are occurring or have occurred within a group of collaborators. Since many workers may be making their contributions at any point in time, which of these many contributions should other members be focusing on and building on at that time? How should they prioritize their effort? Meta-level information that indicates the significance of transactions within a group can help a group determine which issues it should tackle first and which contributions should be given more weight than others.Tools for emergent collaboration
The above discussion provides reasons for why businesses should move away from email as a platform for collaboration. To respond to increasing uncertainty and complexity, businesses will have to put into place systems that facilitate emergent collaboration. Email is not likely to facilitate emergent collaboration. It does not provide a shared and open workspace, nor does it provide the meta-level information I refer to above – at least not without loading it up with additional tools.
On the other hand, blogs and wikis, two prominent Web 2.0 tools, provide the shared and open workspace needed for emergent collaboration. They can also be set up to provide the meta-level information needed to facilitate emergent collaboration. Specifically, blogs and wikis have the linking and tagging features which make them suitable for generating the meta-level information that indicates the significance of transactions among a group of workers. You can see examples of this meta-level information by visiting Wikipedia and clicking on Special pages under toolbox on the left. Under Special pages, you will see a variety of links, many of which provide meta-level information about the Wikipedia community. For instance, New Pages and Recent Changes tell you what the community members are most interested in now; “Pages with the most revisions” indicate what is popular and/or controversial; “Most linked-to pages” show you the ideas or topics that have had the most impact on the community. In a blogging system, a tag cloud indicates the relative popularity of different topics among bloggers. Linking among bloggers indicates who carries weight for a particular topic. With the help of such meta-level information, blogs and wikis can facilitate emergent collaboration among a group of workers by helping them determine if there are topics or events that need their attention and if there is anybody in particular who should be engaged for addressing those topics or events.
As we see, besides the right technology, one needs the right mix of leadership, culture, rewards, and policies for emergent collaboration to occur. It is certainly a challenge for a business to figure of what this right mix is and we hope to cover more on this topic in our future posts. What makes it even more challenging for a business to create conditions that facilitate emergent collaboration is that it also needs to enable structured or planned collaboration along with emergent collaboration. How a business can put into place a system that enables both structured and emergent collaboration is still a wide open question with no simple answer.
This is a very relevant to the topic excerpt from the article “Emergent Collaboration: The Reason Why Email Should Not Be Used for Collaboration”.
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As it comes to different types of mobile inventory, whether it’s apps, web or tablets, it seems that there is not many mobile ad tech companies that would provide 360 degree advertising solutions for publishers and ad networks. Each provider seems to cater to only some types of ads, which makes life of advertisers a bit complex, as advertiser needs to allocated resources for optimizing campaigns on various platforms, instead of haveign all data aggregated in one place.
I have located a company here in Silicon Valley, that actually seems to be doing what I was looking for. So, please meet GoldSpot Media, the only (?) mobile advertising company that provides 360 degree advertising solutions for publishers and ad networks across all mobile inventory. The DoubleClick of Mobile is here. Is it one of the next Google’s acquisitions? Or may be one of their competitors will bite first?
Based in San Francisco (and with offices in India and Japan), GoldSpot Media was founded in 2006 and today employs more than 50 people. The company is privately funded. Among GoldSpot Media’s mobile ad solutions is miSpot, a unified mobile ad-serving technology that serves up the right ad format for the right application at the right time to the right user. The miSpot end-to-end mobile advertising solution manages and delivers non-intrusive, personalized, interactive advertising campaigns across all mobile channels, inventory owners and applications. miSpot drives profitable mobile advertising business models for inventory owners, while providing effectiveness, accurate measurements and ROI justification for advertisers. The technology helps aggregate inventory across all mobile applications including video / TV, mobile web, games, widgets, idle screen state, rich media apps etc. As a result of our B2B affiliate network using miSpot, mobile publishers can receive:
PREMIUM CPM — Higher CPM with targeting and interactivity increasing ad opportunities through new, innovative ad formats.
ENHANCED REVENUE MARGINS — Economical ad distribution to mobile devices (off-peak – 3G / WiFi / Broadcast) and reuse of ad campaign across applications.
REDUCED OPERATIONAL COSTS — Single interface for CRM, billing and targeting integration across all mobile content applications
HIGHER VOLUMES — Inventory aggregation and ad-serving across all mobile apps, irrespective of OS, aspect ratios, form factors and resolutions.
INCREASE REACH — Dynamically update existing mobile devices in the field.
SUPERIOR USER EXPERIENCE — Consistent, high-quality advertisement and interactivity rendering across any mobile network, app or device.
Let’s take a closer look at what company’s executive team thinks about their place on the market, and how they are planning to expand their operation to become an attractive target for the acquisition in the near future. Please listen to the podcast where I interview Srini Dharmaji, CEO of GoldSpot Media.
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Cloud computing became a buzz word, and now with availability of many development tools the number of applications grows exponentially. Many software as a service (SaaS) software applications, ones that are deployed over the internet or to run behind a firewall in one’s local area network or personal computer, these days compete with each other, trying to redefine their business models.
As we know, SaaS was initially widely deployed for sales force automation and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). As we crossed 2010, it has become commonplace for many business tasks, including marketing tools, computerized billing, invoicing, human resource management, service desk management etc.
High competitiveness of the industry with relevantly low barriers to entry (IPs that are not easily protectable, open source tools available for rapid development of competitive products) brings up questions of market saturation, scalability and future profit margins for SaaS companies.
Cloud computing applications have number of benefits:
- They help companies to save money by not having to purchase servers or other software to support use
- They help to focus budgets on competitive advantage rather than infrastructure
- They reduce a need to predict scale of demand and infrastructure investment up front as available capacity matches demand
- They offer multi-tenant efficiency
- They guarantee flexibility and scalability for customers
- And the last well known benefits – monthly obligation rather than up front capital cost.
Now, what if the industry goes further and removes the need in monthly obligations as well? Then SaaS players can reduce their own sales force and focus only on the quality of the product and wide distribution of the free software.
The question arises. Yes, but besides a freebie model, there will be the one that requires the upgrade anyways, right? What’s new here? Well, the new is the old. No, it doesn’t have to rely on upgrades at all.
Typically with SaaS, a provider expects to license an application to customers as a service on demand, through a subscription or a “pay-as-you-go” model. So, all players in the same space compete for the same consumer or SMB / corporate dollar. In the current economy, recovery of which is still a highly speculated topic, cloud computing industry players have to go beyond “pay-as-you-go” and look into more profitable and scalable alternatives, which we discuss (please see a link to the podcast below) with Sajeel Qureshi, co-founder and VP of Operations of a pretty cool IT company – Computan, an award-winning Internet consulting and software development firm located in Niagara Falls, Canada.
Computan’s revenue is rock solid, profitability is there, but… I think these guys have tremendous market potentials beyond their organic growth as a traditional SaaS company, they just don’t know about it yet. ?
Increasing productivity of worldwide professional audience is a Computan’s dream. What if we all were 25% more productive during our working days? In a regular 8 hour days that equates to 2 extra hours per day… Now multiply that throughout an entire year and then feel free to include an hourly rate to calculate the real cost-savings from being more productive. Computan aims to make its clients more productive and therefore more profitable. Their dream is to continue to make life easier for businesses throughout the world by appreciating their uniqueness, implementing a solution and then watching clients reap the benefits of focusing on doing the work they love doing, and not the minutiae. So far, so good.
The dream is noble, but can the “What if we all…“ part be executed with the existing business model? How many clients can it serve with the business model that is not designed to scale rapidly enough to make the dream come true fully and completely?
What do I mean by that…
The mental transaction cost for clients these days is always high, unless it’s zero. With free product the opportunity to cover significant user base is wide open – user base that can be monetized creatively and offer untapped revenue potentials.
Companies like Computan compete with other players on the market that offer similar products (surveys, event calendars, newsletters etc.) similarly priced. So, the only opportunity to scale faster is by reducing the prices (decreasing profit margin per transaction), and improving the product (increasing costs of support and development, which once again, will cause decrease in profit margin per transaction).
Will it let a company to dominate the market? Probably not. Well, definitely not.
But what if the products will be offered for free? It will allow the company to signup millions of new accounts. Can competitors beat the price? No, unless they will offer incentivized downloads (earn per download), which most probably wouldn’t happen any time soon.
Ad supported models are not news. They have been in the core of business models introduced by companies that caused a paradise shift a decade ago. Could it be an opportunity to dominate the market with applications such as Computan’s, and with significant profitability? Yes, for that from IT company it has to move into a different niche and become a media company.
Now, what kind of ads would they need to serve to become a killer?
CPM model would probably not be a winner since the company’s products target SMBs. Even $20 CPM will not bring in desired revenue. CPC is a slightly better option, yet not ideal as now they would compete with other media for advertisers’ dollars. The best option is CPA – purely performance marketing model, 100% transactional.
With this there are a few advertising options for the players in cloud computing space:
- Pay per signup. Not an ideal choice – signups are dirt cheap, can’t be the best way to monetize the distributed software and customer generated content.
- Pay per sale. Since it applies mostly for low ticket product with a typical payout of $5-50 per sale, once again, it might not be lucrative enough, as this model still requires quite wide distribution on top of a targeting mechanism.
- Pay per deal. I dare to say that it is the most lucrative monetization opportunity for any media company or SaaS / cloud computing company that has capacity to serve targeted ads. Yes, IdeaMama Ad Network indeed is the exclusive provider of advertisers’ offers on Pay Per Deal basis, and the reason we invented it (see the demo) is because we consider all other models to be way less profitable in the next decade, and some simply obsolete (CPM. Yes, CPM is dead!).
The Pay Per Deal model has been designed to serve B2B advertisers, and monetize B2B media and product companies in the way that it has never been done before. It required a new process and new technologies. That we covered.
Some of our campaigns pay to our publishers mind-blowing, high payout.
$100,000 commission per single deal is not a joke. With newsletters, surveys and other items that are distributed to 10,000,000 SMBs a few times a month, serving a few types of campaigns to targeted verticals can lead to the revenue jump from a few millions to $100,000,000 in a blink of an eye, even with low conversion rate.
Let’s take our average payout of $10,000 per transaction and multiply it on 1,000 conversions a month (with a rate of conversion equal 0.12 per unique)… $120 millions – here they come.
What campaigns can pay that much in affiliate commission? That’s another story. Read other articles of the blog or simply contact us for details to learn about list of our advertisers.
The world is flat, the future for cloud computing is cloud FREE. 
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The fastest way to make money online blogging
17 Jun2010
For a writer or articles marketer there is no fastest way to make money online blogging than with our Pay Per Deal content monetization model. PPD is just what doctor ordered for bloggers.
Since PPD model pays to publishers from $1,000 to $50,000 per single sale (yes, you have heard me right, per single conversion (a deal)!), you probably understand the untapped opportunities it opens for your content monetization. Now you can see how in comparison to AdSence that pays only $1 per click, if you are lucky, or a traditional consumer CPA programs that pay rarely more than $50 per sale… Well our PPD just make all other options a joke.
As you guess from numbers above, all you need to create your money making blog is to create targeted for selected campaigns content, that will drive targeted traffic that will convert to leads. Advertisers will convert them to a sale, and a blogger can collect large checks from us within 10 days. Isn’t it “WOW”?
Now, natural question that arises: If the fastest way to make money online blogging is by monetizing content with IdeaMama’s PPD campaigns, what kind of advertisers’ offers does IdeaMama Ad Network runs to guarantee such high payouts to its affiliates?
To answer your question, we run very high ticket B2C and B2B affiliate marketing programs.
There are many different verticals which you can choose from.
Let me tell you about one of our latest campaigns, that you can promote.
You love resorts, don’t you? Golden sand, ocean breeze, magnificent beaches, luxury villas, palms, sexy, tanned women in bikinis. Don’t you have a material for a new blog and plenty of exciting articles right there?
This client of ours builds luxury investment properties in South America and Europe, where real estate market is hotter than those bikinis.
The campaign’s payout: $10,000 per each sale (per deal).
… and the property cost is less than $200K.
All you need to do to make $500K / year is to generate 5 quality leads a day (assuming that only 50 leads / year will convert).
What kind of traffic do you need to generate for this kind of lead flow?
Depending on how targeted your audience is… you can make it happen with only 100 uniques a day.
And how long can it take you to get this traffic on your new blog or separately standing articles?
Well, some accomplish it in less than a month, for some it can take 3 months.
Utilize all you can – juicy articles, videos, beautiful images…
Learn more about SEO best practices. With right search engine optimizes content and wise domain selection, $500K / year is just a beginning.
Know any faster way to make money online blogging than PPD? Let us know. We are pretty positive, we have just nailed down the fastest one.
To those who know nothing about Pay Per Deal advertising model, I suggest watching this demo to learn how it works for advertisers.
Now, what are you waiting for? Signup and start building your affiliate traffic now!
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Yes, Pay Per Deal advertising model is not only suitable for running your affiliate offer via online publishers, but also to boost your PR (on, in this case not page ranking, but you public relations initiatives. With PPD you can benefit from getting your informercials aired on major television channels. Your TV / print / social media coverage worth over a million dollar in total can be accomplished easy with IdeaMama Ad Network and our pay per deal model.
While other affiliate networks place your program in their system and let you “hope for the best” with no guarantees, we not only actively recruit and manage you affiliates, we also proactively work with traditional mass media to give your brand and affiliate offer a strong push on television, in radio and in print. Can any other network do it for you? Of course, after all the research you have done you know that the answer is “absolutely not”.
We innovate being always ahead of other industry players in many aspects in our business. We innovate for our client, for you. So you get what you really want out of this partnership.
PAY PER DEAL MODEL FOR PR? NO KIDDING!
IDEAMAMA’S PR & DIRECT RESPONSE MARATHON: PRODUCTION, PLACEMENT & PROMOTION PACKAGE
This is an ideal program for companies who have a limited budget, but want the benefits of a national TV campaign.
Run of Campaign: Three months (including production time) for package 1 and six month for package 2.
Guaranteed Airings: 3,000 for package 1 and 5,000 for package 2.
Estimated Campaign Media Value: $534,781.25 for package 1 and $1,500,000 for package 2.
PRODUCTION
Includes script-to-screen production of:
- TV News Spotlight
- NewsBreak or TV spot (client’s choice)
- DVD Encoding
- 25 DVD copies
- Tradeshow Loop Presentation
- Digital versions for podcasting, webcasting and VOD
- Complete scripting
- Shooting on locations approved by client or on a state-of-the-art HD sound stage / news set in Hollywood, CA
- Production Insurance, Travel expenses and Per Diem
- Director and Producer Fees
- Emmy-winning news anchor and accredited field reporter
- Voice-over narration
- Unlimited stock footage from in-house library (21 years of archived production footage)
- Complete Post Production / Editing with Graphics, Digital Editing, Music, Broadcast Mastering…
SPOTLIGHT DISTRIBUTION / Placement / monitoring (PDM)
Includes:
- Creation of a media web page for broadcast stations to view the production online, request a hard copy tape and access the script and media alert
- Distribution via cassette to approximately 270 broadcast stations and cable system subscribers
- Inclusion of Client’s Spotlight in the Transmission Bulletin which is sent to Program Directors with the tape
- Hosted lead-in, with graphics introducing Spotlight
- Optional viewer response mechanism (i.e. toll free number or web address/URL) at the end of your Spotlight
- A visual credit of Client’s name at the end of the program
- Copies of the full programs for your files
- Final distribution report including listings of all stations using the Spotlight for the specific month, displayed by market rank
Pick any package and let’s make you famous.
Let’s design an affiliate program for you, integrate PR and direct response elements and get your revenue skyrocketed.
We work on revenue sharing model, so our success depends on yours. Literally!
Let’s make it happen!
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Below you will find a podcast “Performance Marketing Partnerships and New Sales Channels. Guerrilla Marketing, Biological Marketing & New Product Launch”. Its author and I discuss a new book “Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to improve Your Profits and Your Planet” (might take 15 mins to read and listen).
Remember a little software startup, you might have heard of it, called Microsoft? They had the chutzpah around 1979 to offer big bad IBM an operating system that they weren’t even selling, just licensing. This is how Gates, Allen, and Ballmer became among the world’s richest men.
Remember Ben & Jerry’s following through on its social commitment by buying brownies from a company (Greyston) that hires urban unemployables?
Remember FedEx and the USPS partnering to make Express Mail possible (and provide revenue and full planes for FedEx)?
They all have something in common. They all realized that the easiest way to get in front of a new audience is to partner with someone who’s already there. It could be a competitor, a complementary business, a non-profit… any organization that’s already welcomed and trusted by the very people you’d most like to reach.
Here’s a great example of competitors marketing together, cooperatively: a newspaper co-op ad from 11 local florists, who teamed up just before Mother’s Day. The headline: “You wouldn’t buy your groceries from a florist! So, why buy your plants from a grocer?” The ad copy emphasized higher plant quality, expert knowledge, and various other benefits, and then gave full contact info.
By joining forces, the consortium could afford a big ad that demanded to be noticed. You can see this ad on page 67 of a book “Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Planet”, eighth book written by Shel Horowitz (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) whom I interviewed for my podcast.
The easiest way to launch a new product is to get in front of multiple new audiences as a trusted partner of someone the audience already knows and trusts. It could be a competitor, a complementary business, a non-profit – any organization that’s already welcomed and trusted by the very people you’d most like to reach.
We discuss this at length in our podcast.
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You lead, you follow. Reflections on leadership & corporate relationships – with Robin Silas
13 Jun2010
You lead, you follow. Making all the right move in the corporate world! No, it’s not me rephrasing one of my favorite lines from Friedrich Nietzsche “Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way”. That’s the name of Robin’s first book. Watch videos below to witness my conversation with Robin Silas as we reflect on leadership, organizational structures and corporate relationships. Robin’s book was based on his beliefs that accountability is the founding tool for a successful corporate entity.
A few words about Robin E, Silas. Robin has been in the medical service sector since 1993. In 2004, he launched his first corporation, Silas Home Care, Inc., a home care provider for Medicare recipients, and expanded it to Silas Home Care Services, Inc., in 2006, which provides services to private pay clients, auto accident and personal injury clients. He is referencing the private duty corporation for today’s podcast. Currently Robin serves as President and CEO of both corporations. He holds a Master of Science degree in Administration, with concentrations in organizational administration and leadership, all from Central Michigan University, where he graduated with honors.
Silas Home Care Services, Inc. provides skilled care such as nursing or therapy services along with personal care provided by qualified home health aide staff that may be assigned up to 24 hours a day. The company was founded on the core value of relationship building. Robin believes that no one person possess any true power; it is the relationships with each other that holds true power. Upon this principal he has create a service provider that is focused on the value of each relationship whether with a referral source or client.
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Note: reading this article and listening to our podcast on mobile applications development and apps monetization can take 30 mins. So, go grab some coffee, and hang a “don’t disturb” tag on the door handle.
While multinationals are known for evolutionary innovations, it is the tech startups which drive revolutionary innovation. Despites of, or maybe even because of, the current economic and environmental cataclysms, entrepreneurs have untapped opportunities to create the next big models using upcoming megatrends.
While inventing a plug for that spilling oil, or some breakthrough technology to neutralize its negative effect on the ecosystems that already got a hit, might take longer than the planet can afford, innovating in the mobile space seems to be easier and more financially rewarding task then ever.
Years ago, when AppMakr’s founders (see image above with a typical Silicon Valley-like office environment) came up with the vision to create a Subway/McDonalds kind of approach to mobile apps development – simplify and streamline the designs and development process so the applications can be created by non-programmers within a few minutes, the world laughed at the.. Well, see who is laughing now. Or rather, listen to it, as Sean Shadmand, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of AppMkr, and myself are reflecting on the newest technologies, opportunities within mobile app development and monetization space and rumbling randomly about all sort of good stuff. And to find the science behind our madness please read my next article “Math behind profiting from the Pay Per Deal® mobile advertising”. I’ve promised to show you how to create a well monetized app in 10 minutes and make your first million in a year. I will deliver.
You will enjoy this podcast and find it insightful. Sean also was instrumental in growing Tagged.com from a 2 million member startup to a 40 million member profitable company. Sean focused on viral tuning, user acquisition and email deliverability. He also co-founded FamilyOven.com which gained 380K members and became operationally profitable within the first six months of operation. So, let’s pick his brain.
Podcast: Mobile applications development & apps monetization. Part 1.
Podcast: Mobile applications development & apps monetization. Part 2.
And now read one of my next articles where I crunch some numbers for you, kido. Stay tuned!
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For those who deal with the buying, selling and merging businesses this article will be a great read, as I will show you new ways how you can accelerate efficiency of you M&A and corporate development initiatives. When I say that mergers and acquisitions are easier with Pay Per Deal advertising, I mean that it is finally possible for VPs of corporate development, as well as SVPs of business development to utilize CPA affiliate marketing to increase the deal flow for further growth of their organization.
Whether you are a corporate buyer or a private equity fund that is looking for acquisition candidates, or if you have a have a business for sale, here is an example of how we currently help one of our M&A clients to skyrocket their deal flow.
- A client has signed up as a Pay Per Deal advertiser and purchased our Elite account for only $1,995, plus paid $900 for a new landing page that will capture buying/selling leads and advertising banners.
- We have provided the client with a lead management solution integrated with our Predictive Reporting System®.
- We pushed the campaign through our network of B2B affiliates who placed articles on their blogs, in their magazines and newsletters, pre-selling the opportunity and enhancing it with attractive visuals in form of banners that we have provided them with.
- Readers click on contextual links and banners and visited the advertiser’s site. Those who had a suitable company that is willing to sell would fill in the form and will be contacted but an advertiser’s team.
- Now you have an army of publishers that widely advertise your opportunity and you get all that advertising for free. They attract leads for your minimizing your leg work, and you pay only small finders’ fee as a result of completed transaction.
Our technology is designed in such manner that relationships between advertisers and publishers are automated and facilitation of the deals is managed, so you just lay back and watch deals flowing to your inbox.
Can there be a more efficient and pleasant way to approach your merger and acquisition activities? If so, please tell me about your M&A process innovation. I know none, so I’ve invented one
And if one wants to participate as an affiliate in the program, $50,000 in affiliate commission is available (for each deal closed by an advertiser). So, get us 100 leads, let advertiser to close 10% of them, and you can get half a million in your pocket you can retire for a few years. All is needed is seller leads – it’s peanuts! No even purchase needed, what can be easier?
So, don’t be shy!
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