Announcing the Official Marketing Launch Of Bevo Media!
The time is here! Bevo Media has officially opened it’s doors to the public! It’s been a long and epic 3 year journey. All pending accounts have been approved, and new accounts are free to log in immediately. I would like to personally thank each and every individual beta tester. I could not have done it without the help of all of you. For those of you who are not familiar with Bevo Media, you can find more information here.
And in celebration, I have made the following video for all of you describing what an epic journey this truly has been. The video, however, comes with a twist. Truth be told, I actually created this video 2 years ago, the night when I was told I had to recreate the entire project from the ground up due to scalability issues. At that point, I was faced with the decision to either cut my losses and move on, or pretty much invest everything I got into the project. Being the entrepreneur I am, I chose to go for the homerun. That night I swore to myself I would never show another soul this video until the day the interface was open to the public. At times, this video was all I had to carry out the vision of this project, and years later, I am proud to announce that I can finally introduce it to the world!
24 Hours until the Official Bevo Media Launch! One last day of getting everything in place and prepped for an absolutely epic and crazy launch week.
Years of an unbelievable amount of work, including stressful days leading into nights and all nighters. At times of what looked like endless amounts of work, worrying of things outside of a single persons control, we are finally ready to take the next step in the Bevo Media journey. At the end of the day, if nothing else, I feel like after all I have gone through the past 3 years, building this project from the ground up, I have learned an incredible amount of life lessons. Whether it’s learning how to deal with all sorts of people, networking, managing massive workloads, dealing with stress, coping with the lows and capping out the highs, I think I have seen almost every unpredictable issue thrown my way. This project, in particularly, I feel brings the already incredible amount of stress that goes into a startup to a whole new level.
From day 1, the knock on our business plan was that the project was too massive for anyone, let alone a 20 year old to pull off. Well 3 years later, not only did I do it, but I figured it out entirely on my own. I had a vision, no idea how I was going to pull it off, and grinded through the thick and thin. Sure I made some mistakes, but I feel like I have grown as person because of them. Building Bevo Media was, point blank, the hardest thing I ever had to do in my life. The experience I’ve had building has made me a better person today. The best part is, that the real journey, has just began…
Huge Announcement: Bevo Media Official Marketing Launch Set for Tuesday August 10, 2010
After three years of development, hundreds of thousands of dollars and countless hours of work…Bevo Media is set to start it’s marketing launch on Tuesday, August 10th!
Starting Tuesday at 12:01am EST, we will be enabling all publishers accounts. Shortly after, our aggressive marketing campaign will begin with the help of our first Network of the Month EpicDirect/AzoogleAds.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who was involved in our beta. Bug finding is an extremely tedious task and could not have been done with out the help of hundreds of people coming at the interface from all different angles. We took everyone’s feedback extremely seriously, and implemented the most requested features from our beta testers. In the internet marketing industry, it is hard to find tools that aren’t riddled with bugs and problems. Bevo Media has taken every step to ensure that the interface is stable, and that support is available for when things pop up. Bevo Media was created to be flexible as the industry continues to evolve. New features are constantly being added and the Bevo team goes out of its way to have a good relationship with its users to allow for a solid interactive atmosphere.
Click Here to find out more information about the Bevo Media Online Marketing Platform.
Local Lead Gen is a great business to get into, especially for internet marketers. With the skill set of affiliate marketing, and the unsaturated local markets, local lead gen is a great way to build a solid business that can be sustained and consistent (lack of consistency is often the problem with affiliate marketing).
I have been doing local lead gen for a while now, and have some solid clients. It’s a great gig. You bring people leads, they pay you for leads, they convert the leads and everybody wins.
However, it seems that local lead gen has become a sort of trend in the internet marketing industry. This is great, because there are plenty of local markets to go around for everybody. But, there is one common misconception and that is that local lead gen is easy. Local Lead Gen is not easy! There are a few things everybody thinking about getting into local lead gen should know.
1. Find Clients: Finding clients is not as easy as walking into a local business and saying, “hey, I’m an internet marketer and you can use my help.” Finding clients is probably the hardest part of the process. You need to convince them that you can deliver leads, and then, once those leads are delivered, they need to know that the leads are good. This brings me to my next point.
2. Determine what constitutes a lead: In affiliate marketing, you are paid per action. You, and your potential client, will need to decide what constitutes an action. Do you they want a phone call? Do they just want someone to request more information? Do they want to make the sale and then pay you a percentage? This is another tricky aspect of local lead gen.
3. Make sure you deliver good leads: Typically, in order to get a good client to understand your value, you will need to bring them some good leads right off the bat. This can be tricky. It’s hard to prove to a business that the leads they bought from you are leads that convert into sales for them, especially since you will most likely not be in control of completing the sale. They might blame you even though it was them who botched the conversion. Remember, it’s not like affiliate marketing. There is no network to eat the cost if the company isn’t satisfied with there leads.
4. Track your leads: It is of the utmost importance that you track your leads efficiently. There are tons of ways to do this. At this point, most companies have websites. You will have to decide if you want to use their website, which can lead to you needing to rely on whoever manages the website to make changes, put in pixels or anything else you request, or, you can create your own sort of landing page. Additionally, you can set up special phone numbers or email addresses that prove the leads came from you. Essentially, what you need to do is figure out a way to ensure that the leads that came from you are accredited to you. Also, you want to put the leads in the best position possible to convert. As I mentioned before, you usually aren’t in control of the conversion but the better you make the chance of that conversion, the more money you will get out of the company.
Every company wants costumers. All you need to do is convince them that you can deliver. It’s easier said than done, trust me. The internet is still foreign to most local business owners, and they will most likely not understand exactly what it is you are doing. But with Facebooks new ad rules, Adwords love/hate relationship with affiliates, and the end of rebills…local lead gen is a great way to build a good business that is scalable and consistent.
After 2 years of development, BeVo Media's expected open beta date is October 1st. BeVo Media is now accepting beta tester applicants. If you are a webmaster, search marketer, media buyer, or PPC Firm, you may be eligible to be a beta tester. Please contact ryan@bevomedia.com to get on the beta tester list.
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