(*) BB Friday Q&A Webinar 8/30/13
Chris Smith speaking:
Good day! I apologize for the late start. Things are rocking and rolling over here.
A couple of announcements. We are aware of the panel movements. There has been a minor problem on our end. The way the engine works, an engine run, sort of a time. when it runs it is supposed to move the bar across and cap if it's time for that. At the end of the panel run sometimes it just doesn't move or "cap". There could be several reason why this has happened. We have over 70,000 people logged in every day and so every time the engine runs it's competing with those logins. There was a glitch this week, which prevented the engine from completing it's run. When we figure out why and fix this, you will see those panels move to where they should be.
Current payouts - I did promise last couple of weeks that we would try to do a payout. Then Mark was on last weeks call. We have been so busy that we are behind. But this weekend we will do a run. Those who have not gotten paid will be paid first, then we go back to date order.
Officially, we are looking at an October launch for BB 3.0. No specific date, but we believe and are confident that we will be ready to go within the month of October. This includes the new payout solution for BB.
I have mentioned that there are more changes coming. We will not be doing any type of business where you sit back and have money fall from the sky. This is not an investment. This is a business opportunity. If you want to work hard at it, you will be rewarded with your income, as such. You will be shown what you can do to make your business better. In the coming weeks we will have more official announcements. I do not want there to be any surprises. BB cannot be deemed as a passive income program, and most of you know why. We have to remain compliant in all countries.
This is a system that we have modeled after the Google program, adsense and adwords. Publisher/advertiser. Combine the two, with referrals, and you have the new BB. We combine all that together and we will have a very good affiliate program.
Because of the way we put the package together, we have come under some scrutiny. So one thing we need to make sure is that we are not feeding into the negativity out there. BB is not an investment.
On the screen Chris showed something new - Banner Click Incentive.
(he explained this in some detail - please listen to the replay for details) Basically, by clicking on the glowing banner you can earn additional traffic. This is just one aspect of adding more ways.. you will see more things like this in BB 3.0.
Q&A
How many times can we click on the same banner? Only once as far as getting the bonus incentive traffic.
Pending payments will be honored? YEs. We have talked about the order in which we will do that.
I am getting a lot of positive emails. This is comforting to hear.
Version 3 - a change: Geneology compression. We have meant to do this over the years, however it is built into version 3. Person A brings in Person B, who brings in Person C. Person A pays and Person C pays, but Person B never does anything. Sales credits in the past have just sat in the account of Person B. So the way it will work is, Person B has 30 days from the time that Person C registers to upgrade. If Person B does not upgrade within 30 days, then Person C will then be linked to Person A. After 30 days, this change will be permanent, even if Person B later upgrades.
(he explained this in detail - please watch/listen to the replay video)
Engine Run question - someone suggested closing BB for one hour a day to run the engine. Chris said this only happens very rarely, so we do not want to do that. We are very close to BB 3.0 which will solve that problem.
Why do you have to put a PIN to use click incentive? To prevent multiple clicks (using bots) so we are trying to make sure it's really humans doing the click incentive. Many companies do this often, even Gmail, to make sure you are human.
Traffic Packs in Version 3.0? I will be honest, we will make an announcement. They may go and they may stay. There is a possibility they will not be there. Please keep in mind that one of the passive income indicators pointed to traffic packs. We will make an announcement on that shortly.
A lot of great comments in the question box.
How is BB support going in Belize? Support is going great. They are on the ball and thanks to our trainer in Belize making sure it's up to par. Tickets are being responded to, and are working great during the transition. Thanks to the support team in Belize. We have a North American number, a UK number, European number, all ringing in Belize. There is still a fee for standard and premium members for calling in. This has not been changed yet. Executive line is still available for those members in your back office.
There's a few questions I don't want to touch yet. We are formalizing in the final moments what will be in BB 3.0. We are getting this all completed now. Some components don't have a firm decision yet. We are making these decision together with the other BB leaders. We do not want to announce something that is not ready to be received. You may not be happy with everything, but I can assure you I am an open minded person and do have discussions with the key leaders of BB and we will be doign something that ensures we are here for a long time.
I am not going anywhere guys. It took a while to get here. Good Programmers are hard to find, but we did find very good ones. We have brought people together from other companies, and now we have a solid team. We are happy and proud with what we have. Version 3 is a result of all that hard work. A lot of the ideas weren't even my ideas, but were the ideas of the programmers. We have a great team. Not only the programming team, but the management team as well, all the leaders out there.
One final announcement. I am truly going to try to address the BB communication (or lack thereof). We are going to step it up one notch higher to get a dedicated person who is only on communication. I hear this all the time that we do not communicate.. not enough tweets, not enough Facebook, not enough dashboard commmunication. this is one thing we have been behind on. I want to announce that we want to in the next couple of weeks take on someone who is dedicated to this one task. I am aware that this needs to be stepped up to the plate and communicate better. I would like to address this and do much better in the future.
Thank you for coming to the call. The future is bright. Thank you for staying with BB. We have had some challenges, but it means alot to me that you are on the call and sticking with BB. I look forward to the next phase of BB.
(end of webinar)
(summary notes prepared by Linda Lane and are not official BB transcripts)
Chris Smith speaking:
Good day! I apologize for the late start. Things are rocking and rolling over here.
A couple of announcements. We are aware of the panel movements. There has been a minor problem on our end. The way the engine works, an engine run, sort of a time. when it runs it is supposed to move the bar across and cap if it's time for that. At the end of the panel run sometimes it just doesn't move or "cap". There could be several reason why this has happened. We have over 70,000 people logged in every day and so every time the engine runs it's competing with those logins. There was a glitch this week, which prevented the engine from completing it's run. When we figure out why and fix this, you will see those panels move to where they should be.
Current payouts - I did promise last couple of weeks that we would try to do a payout. Then Mark was on last weeks call. We have been so busy that we are behind. But this weekend we will do a run. Those who have not gotten paid will be paid first, then we go back to date order.
Officially, we are looking at an October launch for BB 3.0. No specific date, but we believe and are confident that we will be ready to go within the month of October. This includes the new payout solution for BB.
I have mentioned that there are more changes coming. We will not be doing any type of business where you sit back and have money fall from the sky. This is not an investment. This is a business opportunity. If you want to work hard at it, you will be rewarded with your income, as such. You will be shown what you can do to make your business better. In the coming weeks we will have more official announcements. I do not want there to be any surprises. BB cannot be deemed as a passive income program, and most of you know why. We have to remain compliant in all countries.
This is a system that we have modeled after the Google program, adsense and adwords. Publisher/advertiser. Combine the two, with referrals, and you have the new BB. We combine all that together and we will have a very good affiliate program.
Because of the way we put the package together, we have come under some scrutiny. So one thing we need to make sure is that we are not feeding into the negativity out there. BB is not an investment.
On the screen Chris showed something new - Banner Click Incentive.
(he explained this in some detail - please listen to the replay for details) Basically, by clicking on the glowing banner you can earn additional traffic. This is just one aspect of adding more ways.. you will see more things like this in BB 3.0.
Q&A
How many times can we click on the same banner? Only once as far as getting the bonus incentive traffic.
Pending payments will be honored? YEs. We have talked about the order in which we will do that.
I am getting a lot of positive emails. This is comforting to hear.
Version 3 - a change: Geneology compression. We have meant to do this over the years, however it is built into version 3. Person A brings in Person B, who brings in Person C. Person A pays and Person C pays, but Person B never does anything. Sales credits in the past have just sat in the account of Person B. So the way it will work is, Person B has 30 days from the time that Person C registers to upgrade. If Person B does not upgrade within 30 days, then Person C will then be linked to Person A. After 30 days, this change will be permanent, even if Person B later upgrades.
(he explained this in detail - please watch/listen to the replay video)
Engine Run question - someone suggested closing BB for one hour a day to run the engine. Chris said this only happens very rarely, so we do not want to do that. We are very close to BB 3.0 which will solve that problem.
Why do you have to put a PIN to use click incentive? To prevent multiple clicks (using bots) so we are trying to make sure it's really humans doing the click incentive. Many companies do this often, even Gmail, to make sure you are human.
Traffic Packs in Version 3.0? I will be honest, we will make an announcement. They may go and they may stay. There is a possibility they will not be there. Please keep in mind that one of the passive income indicators pointed to traffic packs. We will make an announcement on that shortly.
A lot of great comments in the question box.
How is BB support going in Belize? Support is going great. They are on the ball and thanks to our trainer in Belize making sure it's up to par. Tickets are being responded to, and are working great during the transition. Thanks to the support team in Belize. We have a North American number, a UK number, European number, all ringing in Belize. There is still a fee for standard and premium members for calling in. This has not been changed yet. Executive line is still available for those members in your back office.
There's a few questions I don't want to touch yet. We are formalizing in the final moments what will be in BB 3.0. We are getting this all completed now. Some components don't have a firm decision yet. We are making these decision together with the other BB leaders. We do not want to announce something that is not ready to be received. You may not be happy with everything, but I can assure you I am an open minded person and do have discussions with the key leaders of BB and we will be doign something that ensures we are here for a long time.
I am not going anywhere guys. It took a while to get here. Good Programmers are hard to find, but we did find very good ones. We have brought people together from other companies, and now we have a solid team. We are happy and proud with what we have. Version 3 is a result of all that hard work. A lot of the ideas weren't even my ideas, but were the ideas of the programmers. We have a great team. Not only the programming team, but the management team as well, all the leaders out there.
One final announcement. I am truly going to try to address the BB communication (or lack thereof). We are going to step it up one notch higher to get a dedicated person who is only on communication. I hear this all the time that we do not communicate.. not enough tweets, not enough Facebook, not enough dashboard commmunication. this is one thing we have been behind on. I want to announce that we want to in the next couple of weeks take on someone who is dedicated to this one task. I am aware that this needs to be stepped up to the plate and communicate better. I would like to address this and do much better in the future.
Thank you for coming to the call. The future is bright. Thank you for staying with BB. We have had some challenges, but it means alot to me that you are on the call and sticking with BB. I look forward to the next phase of BB.
(end of webinar)
(summary notes prepared by Linda Lane and are not official BB transcripts)
