Archive for September, 2007

How Do I refer people to the LinkyLoveArmy?

 

Login at http://bloggers.linkylovearmy.com

If you have forgotten your password, use the forgotten password functionality to reset the password.  Then update it to your new password.

Once logged in again, click on the referral link and you will be provided with a tracking referral link url.

referral

Provide that link to your friends, and other great bloggers.  Post it on your blog if you like, however, we would prefer that you do not run it in your sidebar.

Repeat the post in an article if you like, but our advertisers prefer not to see our own advertising on your blog in the sidebar.

:)

Announcement 2 - Richest Referral Program across the Blogosphere!

Here’s the big announcement!  We are kicking off the richest referral program across the blogosphere for Pro Bloggers, Profitable Bloggers, even Amateur bloggers that like to make a little extra money from their blog.

In our industry, most companies that pay bloggers to blog or sponsor bloggers to blog, pay nothing for referrals.  A big $Zer0 Dollars!

A few might offer you a few bucks if you refer a new blogger into their system.

What good does it do a blogger to refer another blogger into these Systems???

In other systems, this just means more competition for the blogger that referred someone.  That means less work, less money!

Now, I like many of you have happily referred lots of bloggers to these systems.  I’m not that greedy that I wouldn’t share, but the truth is, it hurts me, it hurts all of us when we do this.  It hurts us right in the PayPal Card!

A Solution to Help Bloggers Truly Profit from their Referrals

Many of us have been talking about this problem for close to 2 years now.  Well, the LinkyLoveArmy has a solution to this problem and its big!

Other Systems

Lets say one of those other sites offers you $10, if you refer someone.  The new bloggers signs up, they start writing articles and taking jobs and they make $200 the first month.  They get better and they speed up and they make $2000 in the next 5 months.  By the end of the year, they make a total of $6,000.  You got $10, they got $6000 for your referral and the company got a commission of 35-100%.

Stakeholder Earnings
Company 35% commission = $2100
New Blogger you referred $6,000
You $10*

 

That doesn’t seem very fair!

Our System in Action (Simple Version)

We will pay you a commission based on how much that person earns when they blog with us.  We are taking 20% of our topline commission margin and giving it back to our bloggers! 

Here’s how the model above would work for you:

Stakeholder Earnings
LLA Much Lower Commission
New Blogger you referred $6,000 (not counting their referral earnings!)
You About $81

 

Now, I double majored in Accounting and Finance and picked up my Master’s focusing on International Finance.  But it doesn’t take any finance education to understand that $81 is better than $10!

Let’s assume that the $6,000 was earned from writing 600 articles at an average of $10 each.

Our System Cruising at 30 Miles an Hour

  Blogger Earnings Your Earnings in Referral Fees
Tier 1 Referral** $6,000 $81
Tier 2*** $2,000 $27
Tier 3 $10,000 $136
     
Total Paid to You!   $244

 

But that’s just 3 people! 

That assumes that you have only referred 1 person directly yourself and that person only referred 1 person and that person only referred one person!

We Pro Bloggers can do better than that ~ We’ve got a Blogosphere to conquer Here!

Our System Cruising at 55 Miles Per Hour

Let’s work with the law of 5’s just to take a look at this more closely.  Let’s assume that you refer 5 people, and each of those people on average refers 5 people into our system(5×5 = 25).  Those 25 each refer 5 more (5 x 25 = 125).  Total 5 + 25 +125 = 155 

Let’s consider that you are such a good blogger that you show your direct referrals how to blog better and more effectively and that they earn $5,000 each the first year.  Let’s also assume that they pass on some of that knowledge to their referrals, who earn $4,000 the first year.  The last group is just getting into the swing of things and earns $2,500.

  Blogger Earnings Your Earnings in Referral Fees
Tier 1 - 5 bloggers $25,000 $340
Tier 2 - 25 bloggers $100,000 $1,360
Tier 3 - 125 bloggers $312,500 $4,250
     
Total Paid to You!   $5,950

 

For you Big Thinkers Out There . . .

How many bloggers do you think are out there on the internet?

How many do you know?

Is it in your best interest to recruit people with us at the LLA?

Is it in your best interest to help those people you recruit?

Will you stop at $244 or $5,950 or will you shoot for $100,000?  (That’s about 2650 bloggers total with the assumptions above!)

 

We hope that as you ask yourself those questions, you see some benefit and incentive to work with us.  We are making you our partners.  We are the LinkyLoveArmy and this is how we show you the Love!  With a portion of our profits, we are in this together.  Our success at the LLA is tied to your success as bloggers.  We are striving to make a better blogosphere in many many areas.  With that said, here are some of our rules:

  1. Referral commissions will be paid every 30 days, net 30 after the close of the month in which they were earned.
  2. To be eligible to receive referral fees, you must be an active blogger in our network yourself.  You can’t refer a bunch of people and do nothing!
  3. An active blogger in our network will be defined as a blogger that completes 5 assignments per month or 1 assignment per blog whichever number is more.
  4. If in a future month after a blogger has been active for at least 6 months straight, a blogger becomes inactive and doesn’t meet number 3, their referral earnings will decrease for that month by 50%.
  5. If in the next month the blogger is inactive again, their earnings will decrease to $0.
  6. Bloggers can become active again, by meeting the requirements for number 3.
    1. The first month of activity after being inactive, will set their referral earnings rate at 50%.
    2. The second month of activity after being inactive, will set their referral earnings rate at 75%.
    3. The third month of activity after being inactive, will set their referral earnings back to 100%.
    4. If they become inactive again within 3 months, their earnings will drop to $0 in the first month of inactivity and they will start the process over again.
  7. You will not earn referral commissions off of your referrals referral commissions.  Commissions are only paid from the top line commissions the LLA earns from the work performed by bloggers.
  8. This referral program will run for one year and may renew at the discretion of the LinkyLoveArmy.
  9. We reserve the right to change the terms of this program at any time.
  10. Anyone found to be cheating this program, our violating other LinkyLoveArmy terms of service and policies, may be removed from the LinkyLoveArmy, have their earnings voided, have their referral commissions voided and/or have their LinkyLove links turned into nofollow links.
    1. Cheating can include but may not be limited to
      1. writing articles in less than fluid English
      2. writing articles with programs or software that generate gibberish or generate articles at all
      3. submitting articles that are duplicate content
      4. submitting articles and deleting them after submission
      5. staring cross eyed at one legged dogs
      6. inciting religious wars or wars of any kind
      7. backdating articles after the month ends to meet the minimum requirements
  11. If you earn more than $100,000 in commissions through the LinkyLoveArmy, you may be called upon to perform interviews with the Press.  We will compensate you for your travel expenses if travel is required.
  12. If you earn more than $500,000 in commissions through the LinkyLoveArmy, you may be called upon to endorse the LinkyLoveArmy in a Super Bowl advertisement on television.
  13. If you earn more than $1,000,000 in commission through the LinkyLoveArmy, you may be called upon to perform interviews with the Press, endorse the LinkyLoveArmy in a Superbowl advertisement on television and send the founder of the LinkyLoveArmy 1lb of bear claws from River Street Sweets in Savannah, Ga every year for 5 years on December 1.
  14. All LinkyLoveArmy members that earn money through the referral program will agree to allow the LinkyLoveArmy to promote the program and our company with examples of your earnings and success publicly in any forum or medium we choose. 

* I do not know any company that actually pays this much.  I was just trying to be nice to the other companies.  I like them a lot.  :)

**Bloggers referred directly by you!

***Referred by bloggers that you directly referred ~ Tier 1

Get Paid to Write for this Contest

We are sponsoring a contest.  We ask that you write a sponsored article for the LinkyLoveArmy.  We will pay you for your submission.

The article will be a fictional article about a person that takes a vacation to the a resort to be named in the offer.  The resort is located in Belize.  Your article will include a YouTube video.

The article should be something of a thriller talking about the Belize vacation, rainforest, ecotourism, Mayan ruins, Belize and the name of the resort.  The article should be at least 200 words long.

In addition, you will need to include a thoof rank badge in your article.  The person with the highest thoof rank on their article by October 31st, will win $50 in addition to the fee that they will be paid for writing the article.

In the event that there is a thoof rank tie, the tie breaker will be decided by the highest word count.  If that ties also, then keyword density for the word Belize vacation will be used.  If that doesn’t break the tie, then we will choose it based on creativity.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please email me at colonel.love@linkylovearmy.com

If you do not have an account already with the LinkyLoveArmy, you may sign up at http://bloggers.linkylovearmy.com

Announcement 1 - Rebooting the LinkyLoveArmy

We are rebooting the LinkyLoveArmy in October.  All summer we have been finding, testing, and building a strong network of bloggers.  We’ve tried a number of new products to help bloggers make money, while providing better solutions to advertisers.

We are kicking off some brand new products, fresh out of beta in October.  I want to thank everyone that helped us test these, and especially those of you that helped test the products that didn’t make it out of beta!

We have an even more important announcement coming soon as well. 

  1. This is the start. 
  2. This will make you money. 
  3. Our next announcement might make you wealthy!

Here is a break down of the new products and the new ways you will be able to make money through the LinkyLoveArmy.

Blog Marketing Category

Blog Marketing Articles 100-200 Words flat fee* paid in 7 days
1 Text Link
blogger chooses topic**
75 words $4 - $5 paid in 7 days
2 Text Links**
blogger chooses topic***
75 words $5 - $6 paid in 7 days
Articles written by ghost writer for your blog 100 - 500 words
Unique content only
Article must remain for life of blog
$20 - $100 paid in 7 days
Wedge Articles 200 - 500 words
3-7% keyword density
$10 + at least 10 Incoming links to your article!

 

Pro Blogger Offers

Linkbait Article 500 - 1500 words
5% keyword density
strong titles h1, h2, h3
1 image for every 250 words
Exceptional Bloggers will be chosen
$100 - $500
Ghost Writing Work 100 - 500 word projects $4 - $100 per article

 

Hybrid Affiliate Offers

Include links + linkylove links 50+ words
-The better the write up,the better your performance and earnings will be
Upfront payment
$1 - $50 (7 days)

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Commissions depending on conversions from your own links (paid net 30 when balance reaches $50 or more)

Affiliate Offers (Old LLA B2C offers)

 

Affiliate Links 50 + Words

If you write effectively, have a good audience, you can do very well with these.

You can also write these as often as you like!

Commission paid on conversions from your links.

These are leads (CPL) typically and no purchases are normally necessary

If your campaign is successful, we will even launch a LinkyLove Campaign around it and boost up your PR for free!

 

 

*Sponsored Article payment rates will depend on PageRank at time of review of article.

**One text link is for advertiser, and one text link is for previous bloggers article

***Blogger chooses topic with text links.  This means that the blog article does not have to be about the linked website, but the link should not be randomly thrown in without making logical sense in the article.

Big Announcements Coming Next week, Couple little but important items today

We’ve got some big announcements coming next week, so do please stay posted.

Today, I wanted to mention a couple house keeping items.  They are small but important.

  1. We have turned on forgotten password functionality in the Bloggers section. 
  2. Plus, we’ve added a change password option once you are logged into the Bloggers section.

Example of How to Get More Conversions on B2C Missions

We’ve got a lot of very exciting things getting ready to happen around the LinkyLoveArmy.

For those of you patiently (and impatiently) waiting for some action, I wanted to share a quick example of something that will help you convert more when ever you cover our B2C missions.

If you visit

http://www.softduit.com/brt_paid-to-read-emails.htm

You will see a flash video example of the Inbox Dollar program.

The important thing about this video, is how it shows the reader visitor what to expect and how to fill out the form when they sign up for Inbox dollars.

We never want to surprise our readers.  As bloggers, we are essentially a guide for our readers, cutting through the internet to help them find a path to what ever it is they are looking for.  We always want to help show them how to get somewhere and help them avoid any surprises along the way.

This video does a pretty good job of showing readers how to sign up for this program and what to expect.  As you write articles that show readers a great service or tool, you might consider when it is appropriate to help guide your readers through any red tape or surprises.  This will help your readers and increase the potential that they will follow through.

If you have not received an offer in the bloggers section to cover the Inbox Dollars program, send me an email and I’ll add you to the list.

In the meantime, stay posted, some great new things are coming soon.

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