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Anyone who knows anything about me knows how much I nag people about the importance of leverage, about sticking with something long enough for it to reap rewards, about how powerful and valuable multi-level programs are.
It’s just a few days away from my 5 year anniversary with EasyHits4U, a program that exemplifies all the above points of importance, so I thought I’d put pen to paper, figuratively speaking, and share some of my ‘vital statistics’.
My first referral was gained on the 17th March 2007 (that’s the only reason I know my join date must have been round about the next day or so because my first referral was a long term friend and would have joined right after me).
I’d already created VitalViralPro a few months before so naturally EasyHits4U went into the Downline Builder.
I never ever promoted EasyHits4U directly, everything was done through VitalViralPro – as I promoted VitalViralPro, so some of those incoming referrals would join one or more traffic exchanges below me and then in time, others would join below those referrals.
Also, it’s easy to think that I had an advantage because I owned VitalViralPro; not so! I promoted VitalViralPro like all the other members. I had no more advantage than you have when you’re the sponsor and your referral is…well, your referral.
So my EasyHits4U downline grew. It’s interesting that even now, after 5 years, I only have just under 400 direct referrals. That’s less than 7 referrals per month. But here’s where the magic happens…
Those 397 direct referrals have referred 1356 people; they in turn have referred 2087 people!
Those 2087 people have referred 4016, who’ve referred 6531 who’ve referred 6714.
That makes a staggering 21101 people in my downline!
That’s all well and good but what’s in it for me?
Well EasyHits4U is a 6-level program (if you’re upgraded, and I of course would be mad not to be!). I earn credits from my referrals (15%-10%-5%-3%-2%-1%) – so if a first level referral surfs and earns 1000 credits, I get a bonus of 150 credits. If a level 6 referral did that I’d get 10 credits.
I always explain this the same way to people that have yet to grasp the importance of getting referrals in traffic exchanges; most traffic exchanges pay 10% from direct referrals so having 10 referrals that surf the same as you is like having another you working for you for free.
So with my downline, 400 (approx) at 15% is like having 60 free surfers. On level 2, 1350 (approx) at 10% is like another 135.
Without showing all the math, it turns out my downline is like having an army of 617 surfers!!
If that isn’t leverage, I don’t know what is!!
Of course we all know that many, many of the downline will be inactive or surf very little. Even so, it’s enough to bring me in 22k credits a month for free. At EasyHits4U prices ($5.95/1000) , that’s $130 of credits I’m getting every month without needing to lift a finger. I can’t remember what I pay per month for membership but it sure isn’t $130.
My downline grew by 21 members in the last 24 hours too – so the whole this is really starting to compound now.
It’s grown by 18% in the last 9 months and it should keep growing at that kind of rate. And remember, I have promoted this program quite passively. If it was my main business and that was multilevel, I’d be promoting a lot more actively.
And that’s one of the key learning points with anything multilevel. All of the benefit comes later – often quite a lot later. And for a lot of people, that’s unpalatable – they want results now!
Well I didn’t sit on my backside doing nothing while I waited for my EasyHits4U downline to grow – I did lots of things that had a more immediate effect. But I have always planted seeds in multilevel programs where I see them because they’re your passport to an easier life!
I hope this post inspires you to plant your own seeds now – the sooner you do it, the sooner you reap the rewards.
It’s amazing how a different viewpoint can be enough to give you that ‘aha moment’.
I just read Seth Godin’s latest post ‘Naive or Professional’ and realised something profound. Or it least it seemed profound because it felt like something hit me smack between the eyes when I read his last sentence:
Wow!
It’s always amazed me how difficult I find it to ‘sell’ VitalViralPro to people. It’s a tracking service that can track 3rd party pages – no other service can do that (not reliably anyway) so why is it such a hard sell?
I tell people they should be tracking but still they don’t. The industry as a whole tells people they should be list building – yet still they don’t. And we wonder why our words fall on deaf ears…
Seth really made me realise why!
After the pain of the smack between the eyes subsided I realised that actually this had crossed my mind before but not in such a succinct way. Thank you Seth for that sentence because that insight is just what I needed.
I have some news that may shock some of you, certainly surprise you I’m sure…
But before I completely spill the beans, there are a few things I’d like to say…
It’s been great knowing you all, I’ll miss you all…sob sob sob
Oops, wrong piece of paper – that was from my goodbye speech when I gave up my day job 2 and a half years ago to dedicate my time to VitalViralPro. And I’m happy to say, I never looked back!!
Everyone that knows me well knows that I’m passionate about what I do and passionate about helping people succeed. And I’m deeply passionate about VitalViralPro.
I’ve reared it from birth, it’s had bad times, sad times, it’s gone through big changes and it’s survived it all and is now bigger and better than ever before and thriving!! And apart from my bit, that’s all down to YOU – my loyal members – and I thank you for hugely for helping make VitalViralPro what it’s become today.
So what’s the news?
VitalViralPro is joining forces with another site and I am *SO* excited about it, I just can’t wait to get down to business and start working on all the things we plan to do together…
It opens up a huge window of opportunity and I believe it to be definitely one of those situations where 1 + 1 = 5.
The site I’ve partnered with could be seen as a competitor – we already do some very similar things (we also do some very different things and cater to slightly different markets).
Most importantly, we (the other owner and I) both have the same philosophies: we both care passionately about our members above anything else and about helping those members succeed. It’s what makes both of us tick and it’s what led to this being an easy and natural decision for us to take.
So while we might have been friendly ‘competitors’ before, by joining like this we just become bigger and better, still with the same passions and ideals as we had separately but with a much greater ability to do things that benefit you !!!!
This is not a merging into one situation – both sites will keep their identity and their differences. But we’ll be able to combine in key areas to bring something far more powerful than
either site could alone.
The site I’ve been holding back is Affiliate Funnel. Some of you may have seen that recently Jon Olson and Paul Kinder effectively did a kind of swap between a couple of businesses they owned such that Paul became the exclusive owner of Affiliate Funnel.
Well this latest deal means that Affiliate Funnel gets my programming and tracking skills and VitalViralPro gets Pauls marketing skills and the value of his huge circle of influence
and between us, we make both programs stronger than they ever could be alone and as competitors.
Our plans are not finalized yet – we’re still reeling from even a first ‘meeting of the minds’ to share all the ideas we each had individually before we partnered up – and boy are there some ideas!!
You’ll be hearing a lot more about all of that soon…
In the meantime, it’ll be business as usual at both sites for a few days but login regularly ’cause there’s gonna be stuff happening regularly !!
We have a few things we both want to get in place quickly and then there’ll be a steady succession of smaller jumps as we add in our plans over the next 12 months and beyond.
Watch this space.
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VitalViral now offers a premium account option offering additional features over a free account.
One of these features is designed to do something that you probably know you should do but hate doing and probably rarely bother to do – tracking.
With the new autosplash feature, you can put a single link on any of the traffic exchanges and VitalViral will automatically collect detailed tracking statistics for you. The easiest way to demonstrate this is to show you a screenshot.
To collect this amount of detail would be difficult and tedious using 3rd party tracking services and even then might not give all the information you get with VitalViral. Each time you promote your link on a traffic exchange, a hit is counted against that traffic exchange for that month. A new tracker is created every time a new traffic exchange is encountered in a given month.
Now you can see for yourself which traffic exchanges are sending you visitors, what percentage of those visitors are clicking through to your web page and, in certain circumstances, how many signups you’re getting.
This information is like gold dust to anyone serious about using traffic exchanges.
Get your VitalViral account now.
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VitalViral is currently my biggest online project.
I created it in Dec 2006 as a means to help me build my other businesses but soon realised what a wide appeal it could have and how it could be useful to a lot of people – anyone using traffic exchanges and list builders in fact.
Since then, it’s grown to just short of 8000 people (as of today) and is growing at around 40 people a day, even that figure rises over time. So quite a success in my book and so it’s gone from something I never really intended to develop much further to something I definitely am interested in developing further.
You can keep track of developments in this section of my blog.
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