The Poker Affiliate Blog

Just a quick update.

Things are going about a 7/10 I’d say – always seems to be the favoured rating. Don’t want to go for a 9/10 to seem cocky but, don’t want to come accross as a pesimistic twat either. Just right.

Anyways, business wise I’ve been putting in the hours recently and looking forward to the new updated ipokervip (and ads) coming out towards the end of this week. Hopefully, next week the same site will be up in Dutch and German.

I know I’ve already gone on about it but, the site is a total step up from the old one so it will be interesting to see how people respond to all the new stuff.

On top of that we have PokerAvantage.com
This is something I’m going to really have to put the hours in on and am going for a different web designers for just to see how they do. I can only pile so much work on one set of guys. As far as I can tell there is not one comprehensive comparison site for players in France and nowhere needs this kind of service more than France at the moment. All the sites have pretty different rake structures and reward programs and the market is so saturated a lot of the companies are in dire need of affiliates. In my opinion, with 30+ sites all catering to <5% of the online poker population this need for outsourcing recruitment to affiliates is only going to be exacerbated.

StudentPizza.Com / PizzaVoucherCode.Com & PizzaVoucherCodes.Com are all coming out soon. Which are basically voucher code sites specific to Pizza Hut, Dominos and Papa Johns.

Online ordering of pizza is on the rise.
Fast food / takeaways are on the rise.
Popularity of comparison sites and affiliate driven business is at an all time high.

The concept of having special offers for fast food online has been done before but, not specifically for pizza. MyVoucherCodes.Co.Uk is really hard to navigate and isn’t particuarly reliable whereas JustEat.Co.Uk doesn’t focus on value but, rather offerring a an online solution to smaller, local takeaways. So I really believe there is a niche for a value driven, pizza voucher code site. We will just need to wait and see…

Apart from business, its going alrite. My body clock is pretty shit which means I’m only really working, then going out at night and repeating. If I was to get up at 10am fitting the gym into my day and learning some Spanish would be pretty painless.

Always a goal for tommorow I guess…

I hope its just age really, probably.

Anyway, I got tons more crap to write about and lots of work to be getting on with so will try to come back tommorow to share it with you guys.

On a sidenote: all this growth is occuring because of Michael (guy I started employing recently) and I’m really pleased with how its going. I actually barely recruit players anymore. Best £550 a month ever speant so far. Hopefully, it continues.

Tags: codes, discount, iPokerVIP.net, online, pizza, pizza hut, poker, pokeravantage, victor chandler

I’ve got to confess I’ve not been working as hard as I should have been recently. I feel pretty guilty about it, just this feeling I don’t deserve the business to still be running almost. Then again maybe the wheels will fall off in a few months and punish me for it.

I’m (like a lot of people) very good at talking anc coming up with ridiculous concepts but, putting them into action is a different game. I love making deals, getting subs on board and generally setting the direction the business is taking. For example at the moment; Offerring new rooms, extending the 2+2 ad campaign and becoming more localised – we will have a seperate version of the site for a number of territories although it may not be under the same brand name. I guess adding more rooms seems kinda obvious and not really a directional decision but, I felt iPokerVIP originally carried more weight as a company specialising in iPoker. Rather than bombing in like every other affiliate trying to hit the mainstream and saying ‘we are just like the big guys, we offer everything and don’t have a fucking clue what we’re talking about’. IPokerVIP’s lack of choice or maybe wealth of choice on the iPoker network (maybe not) was a USP.

Anyway the site getting redesigned is really exciting and I guess looking at the test version and the current site makes me feel that the current site doesn’t cut it at all. Too much info hitting people, too small and its just not quite in the same league as the other guys.
The new site will (like the original) blow the competitors out of the water in terms of the value and I fully expect another uproar somewhere. This time the people trying to damage iPokerVIP will have even less credibility and hopefully I’m more laid back about it.

New ads willl be appearing on 2+2 and for like £200 a month I regret not freshening them up for the last 3 months. 2p2 is expensive but, if I’ve got someone manning the forum who is personable and good at what they do, along with good offers and a reliable brand name I think iPokerVIP could be going mainstream very soon.

The New banners are going to be pretty unique. They’re going to contain the bonus code for exclusive offers. Obviously I will be starting with VC Poker and one of the slides of the banner will say ‘Highest VIP Level at VCPoker Instantly. Enter: IPOKERVIP at VCPoker.com’ I don’t thnk an affiliate has ever done this before and it will be interesting to see how it does as a part of an iPokerVIP banner. Another frame on the banner will contain my; MSN, Email and Skype. Its differet anyway !

Anyways looking forward to all of this and more !

Tags: Deal, iPoker News, iPokerVIP.net, online, Playtech, poker, vcpoker, victor chandler, vip

Back from Gib now and had a really good time. It was nice to put a face to all the people I talk to day in and day out. It was actually a pretty awesome place; Beautiful weather, everything was pretty cheap and amazingly close to a ton of other places. A pretty good hub to have for sure.

On my last night I went over into Spain into a town/city ? called La Linea. Got a taxi to the border, get out and flash your passport and your in Spain (if its British they’re only interested in the cover – even when you go to airports it seems British passports are pretty much golden and don’t get scrutinized at all. I’m not complaining ofcourse – just saying.)

I went up the rock a few days before I left with a good friend who lives in one of the nicest apartments I’ve ever seen ! Anyway apart from taking a stupid route and not taking any water I really enjoyed the views. From the top you could see Morocco, all of Gib and Spain. It was pretty amazing when thinking of how geographically close these 3 places are but, how culturally different they are. I mean Gib is just sunny Britain (nothing wrong with that!).

I stayed a little longer in Gib hoping to meet Korn from PokerStrategy. I met a community manager in a bar one night and Korn seemed to have a big problem with me talking to him. I was accused of  soliciting him on 2+2 which is so LOL and I’d welcome any legal action. Its just complete unsubstantiated shit. I thought he was a great guy when talking to him and will admit to being on the hustle and trying to get him a VIP deal through iPokerVIP even although he was wearing a PS hoody but, unfortnatley the main thing that came accross in the conversation was how keen I was to meet Korn and learn in depth about him as a person and their business model.

Ofcourse it never happend and anyone wanting to discuss Korn’s warped view of the industry has to get their hands dirty in the threads which ultimatley resolves very little. People end up getting flamed and more entrenched in their original views. A face to face meeting would have been far more constructive.

Anyway it was the fact I was accused on 2+2 of doing a ton of illegal things and being dodgy which is just rubbish. I wire thousands to players every week and I’ve never heard anyone complain concerning the service I offer them.

Overall Gib was awesome and I was really pleased to meet people from Victor Chandler who are top guys. An affiliate or a player couldn’t ask for anymore.  I urge everyone to try and qualify for the beat victor challenge – you’ll have a great time.

As for iPoker – the network is still recovering and the software is being fixed. I really hope things turn around – I’d hate for the market to become even more top heavy. Although if it did and Stars and FTP got a slap on the wrist things would change so fast I could maybe establish myself as one of the big dogs. Playtech are a big company and I doubt they’ll let a market like this slip away.

Anyway that’s me for now

Tags: Gibraltar, iPoker News, online, Playtech, poker, Pokerstrategy, VC, vcpoker, victor chandler

In Gib now and the weather is pretty nice and that’s about it.

VC put me up in a really nice appartment which I obviously really appreciate and its nice to meet the people I deal with on a day to day basis.

Anyways that’s that I guess.

Tags: Gibraltar, VC, vcpoker, victor chandler

The wait has been worthwhile. VC is running the first Poker Olympics which kicks off on April 4th. For an itinary click here.

This full promotion is exclusive to VCPoker and is honestly amazing value. If you keep in mind grinders from huge skins like Will Hill, Expekt, Titan, Mansion and PaddyPower will not be able to take part the value begins to look a lot better than your average race or chase.

Either click here or contact me to take full advantage of the promotion, enjoy an amazing VIP deal and a first deposit bonus !

Tags: iPoker VCPoker, Poker Olympics, victor chandler

iPokerVIP.Net is finally live and kicking. After countless updates and redrafts its now in a state I’m happy with although I’ll always find a little something wrong with it. Probably because in a perverse way I don’t want it to go live and fail – I’d much rather keep building and perfecting.

Anyway – its just a question of putting the ads on 2+2 (should be next week) and keeping my fingers crossed. I’m completley convinced the gap in the market is there and I’m equally certain nobody has filled it. The size of the niche and whether I’m the one to fill it remains to be seen. Besides I’m sure there are lots of failed businesses that were in the right niche but, just couldn’t capitlize. Although being in a growth area makes failing a shitload harder I’m sure.

As for my current player base things should turn around from Febuary (and it looks like March’s) horrible low. I’ve been busy with iPokerVIP and a ton of other things and its just harder to get players on these deals nowadays.
VC is running a $375k promotion called Poker Olympics which is going to kill. Its by far the best place to go on iPoker now and the dormant player’s under me (who all have a legitimate chance of doing very well with the promo) would be stupid to not come flooding back.
So I hope they’re not stupid !

April is going to be really busy – which is a good thing. No uni and I’m not really intending to revise for exams then either. 1st one is May 7th so 7 days (if I put my head down is defo all that is needed to pass which is 40%).

April is going to be interesting. I’ve kinda written off March though.

If iPokerVIP goes well I’ve got another affiliate concept ready to go which I’ll write more about later. Hopefully, it doesn’t take me as long to get my head around.

Tags: iPoker News, iPokerVIP.net, poker promotion, race, rake, vcpoker, victor chandler, vip

Test page for ipokervip is up although the text for the offers is going to change that is pretty much what your going to see when it goes live: www.ipokervip.co.uk/test

It will most likely go live under the domain name: ipokervip.net although I own most of the major domains aside from .com which I just couldn’t get.

I’ve pretty much not been updating the blog because when ipokervip comes out I want to be updating it daily because of the increased traffic. Also if I decide to feed my latest posts into the site I’d like them to be updating as much as possible and keyword rich for SEO.

The site should go live this coming Wed which is the 24th of March with the ads on 2+2 and support thread following soon after. Really just hope I’ve not made a bad call lol.

The blog is going to get a complete revamp to skin it up as part of ipokervip or make it look similar. Allowing randoms to get at the offers from the blog.

So its all very exciting !

Tags: iPoker News, iPokerVIP.net, poker promotion, race, rake, vcpoker, victor chandler, vip

Just a short post but, basically stats have dropped by like $50k before super affiliates stats. Its pretty inexplicable becuase I think stuff went better in Feb at grass roots level than it did in Jan and I don’t know why.

I’m so tired at the moment but, am going to look over the stats and come up with a short term plan of action – basically personally emailing select players that have obviously left for another skin or site completley and trying to get these promotions into action.

Peace

Tags: iPoker News, ipoker vip, iPokerVIP.net, poker affiliate, vcpoker, victor chandler