Friday Q&A Webinar - 01/10/14
Ron Anderson speaking:
Welcome everyone. I wanted to talk for a moment about BannersMobile. The opt-in period has been extended. At the end of the promo we will be giving away an Apple iPad and 5 unlocked cell phones. We are also giving away lots of impressions. For every 5 people who purchase a package in Mobile, one of those people will receive 30,000. For every 100 people, one person will be awarded 300,000 impressions. Promo extended for a while, so encourage your team to sign up.
I see some support questions. Please contact support thru your back office. We have a great team ready to help with those issues.
We are going to be talking about the new Version 3 aspects.
Chris Smith speaking:
Thank you, Ron. I want to apologize for my voice. I have a cold. I am super excited about what we have in store for you. We have a lot to do on our side with the programming and all of you out there in the field. We are in the process of BBv3. We call it new because we are getting much deeper into the advertising revolution, and there is so much ad revenue out there. We are proud to be a part of it. The Mobile side opens up another avenue for all of us.
A few things to talk about today. We have a list completed in terms of the migration. However, a few things have been decided that we have not yet pass through the leaders in the field. The way it works when we make decisions. We internally come up with the ideas, along with feedback. We put it all together, look at what's best for the affiliate and for BB and combine everything to come up with a move forward plan. The items we have settled on today we are ready to share with the advisory board. There are a few things that have NOT been shared, so before we announce to the general public, we will do that. We do have a few things to share today. Everything is for the longevity of BB. You may not like it all, but I hope you understand why these changes are in place.
(PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO REPLAY, AS CHRIS IS SHARING SLIDES ON HIS SCREEN, NOTES ARE ONLY SUMMARY)
To begin... a new panel type. The Rapid Winner Panel - $5.00. The reason it caps at $5 is because there will be a winner every week for $500. You will either receive your $5 or win the $500. This is half the price of the yellow, so it will take half the time to cap. Every week there will be a winner, that's why it's called Rapid Winner Panel.
Panel Values - Will increase by 2, will cap with twice the revenue, traffic requirements are x2, take twice as long to cap. This is so there will be less panels in the system, but the value will be the same as buying 2 in BB2.
New Packages will include:
Impression packs (we want to make sure we are focusing heavily on our product) so you can receive an additional 25,000 impressions when you purchase a package
3 Rapid Winner Panels
3 Months Admin Fee (to make sure you have this covered while panels are moving)
(please see the replay for this screenshot/slide)
Review Incentive (new)
Banner Approval: You can now earn incentive traffic by reviewing the banners that people are uploading to approve or not allow. These are submitted by other affiliates. Multiple votes will determine whether the banner is approved or not.
World eWallet
New Payment gateway. Can pay out to most countries in the world. Not available for USA citizens, but there is a plan in motion to take on the US coming shortly. I know the USA is a large part of our operation, so we are hoping that will be very soon. WeW is the front end of a bank. We have had many negotiations with WeW to prepare for this. We needed to choose a partner that understands our business and will grow with us in the future. We will not make the same mistake twice, as happened with the BB debit card. We have carefully chosen WeW for our partner.
BB 3.0 blackout:
We will have a blackout soon. This will happen in January. This will be roughly a week or so. However, BannersMobile will be up and operating and available. So please participate with BM. This is a chance to double-dip by having BB and BM, so that when you are promoting BB you can bring people into both.
Payouts:
We are doing both Payza and STP. We want to do STP over the weekend. I do apologize that we are behind. A lot of this happens because of the manual process. This will be a large payout, as well as Payza will be also.
Payza is only gone for the USA. We did reverse all those withdrawals. STP is still available for the USA
Version 3 payouts - the queue will be automatic. The queue has to be done manually because of many factors. (I was not sure what he was saying about the queue in BB3.0, sorry)
The refresh your screen page people are getting is because of the 2.9 platform and the reason we have created Version 3.0.
Migration questions:
We have all of the aspects on paper, but there are a few items to clear up with the advisory board. We have a special meeting scheduled, then we will have a special webinar about the migration with the general membership. We do have some things decided. We do not want to make changes that will not fly with the affiliates or with the new program. We are working hard with what we have to deliver and with BB 3.0 to get it ready for you.
We will talk very soon about the migration into BB 3.0. Welcome to 2014. We will talk soon.
(end of webinar)
(summary notes prepared by Linda Lane and are not official BB transcripts)
(please see the video replay for details)
