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Pictures from Affiliate Summit West and Bevo Media Launch

Here are the pictures from the Bevo Media Launch at Affiliate Summit West this past week. Lots from the summit, meet market, and the crazy nights after the event. You can get an idea of how great the market response was. There was times when I was giving presentations to 15-20 people at a time. We have over 2 hours of video from the event as well. Will be posting some soon! Enjoy

Affiliate Summit West & Bevo Media Launch was a Huge Success!

The Official Bevo Media Launch was a HUGE success this past week in Vegas!  In all honesty, our response from the market was probably as good as it gets. The beta publisher list is now over 1200 publishers long!  The crazy part of it all is that we didn’t even touch our advertising budget yet, or even mention some of our upcoming features. We just started letting people know last week!  Saying that this is just the beginning would be a vast understatement…

To all people who have emailed me or called: I will be sorting through my emails and replying this weekend/Monday. I have over 400 new emails, and my voice-mail is full,  but promise I will respond personally to each.

To pending beta testers: I will have someone get in touch with you sometime this upcoming week.

I will be posting much more information, along with tons of pictures, and stories about the weekend. Tons of info upcoming!

-RB

What is Bevo Media? The Offical Launch Of Bevo Media

What is Bevo Media? The OFFICAL Bevo Media Launch Introduction.

I am pleased to announce, that after 2 full years of development, Bevo Media is launching January 17th, 2010, during Affiliate Summit West at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. Haven’t heard of Bevo Media yet? Good! That means I’ve accomplished my goals! We have been keeping this project on the down low from day 1, with plans to come out with a boom when it’s ready. Well that day has finally arrived, and since November of 2007, I’ve had every aspect of this weekend envisioned. Now, to the good stuff!

So what is Bevo Media?

The video just about says it all:

Bevo Media can be best described as a “Full Scale Affiliate Marketing Platform”, that works to consolidate literally every aspect of affiliate marketing.  This includes:

1.)  Installing your all of your affiliate networks in their entirety on our interface (including individual offer stats, subIDs and Offers)

2.)Installing your Pay Per Click accounts in their entirety. You can drill down your PPC accounts from the campaign to the keyword/ad variation level. Edit your campaigns on the fly, and create entire new campaigns right from our interface with the BevoEditor. The BevoEditor features several time saving features including the Cross Post function allowing users to create a campaign and post it to multiple PPC accounts with just one click.

3.) A complete API Induced KW Tracker. This means that ALL of your affiliate network and PPC Account stats, automatically sync to your account, ensuring all numbers are as EXACT as possible. Not only does this help you improve your ROI, but it also is the easiest keyword tracking system to setup humanly possible.  And don’t worry, we have a full media buy tracker built into the system with its own special section. Pixel and Postback methods also available.

4.) Consolidate ALL of your analytics accounts. Find the traffic details and demographics of your users without leaving the Bevo Interface.

5.) A FULL Marketplace made up of trusted vendors with solid internet marketing experience in their designated field of work. You will never need to scramble to find a landing page designer or content writer. Every vendor on our interface is 100% proven reliable.

6.) A complete publisher classroom. Two years of work put into the classroom. Tons of great reads. I made it a point, to be direct in the content, and only mention the stuff that REALLY matters in affiliate marketing. Definitely valuable content here.

Probably the most asked question I get is about the cost and security. Simply put, this project was made to be free of charge to our userbase. Additionally, I know everyone is concerned about their security using this type of system, which is why I decided to have an entire self hosted version of the project as well.  About a year ago, I had the option to raise funding for this project, and  I ultimately declined for this very reason. I did this so I had the freedom to offer it for free and to make it self hosted.. So why exactly are we free, and how do we make money?

The answer is quite simple – The best way to build a popular, highly regarded online company is to mold a revenue model that is based off of providing your product to the userbase for free (ie: Google). Being said, we have developed a revenue model that can sustain our costs from other areas not at the expense of our userbase.

So what is our revenue model exactly? Well for starters, our self hosted version is the premium version of our product that we eventually plan to charge for. The reason we give it away for free now is because our product is still in beta, and we would never want to charge for a product that we do not know with 100% certainty that it is everything we promise and more. When will we start charging for the self hosted version? Honestly there is no timeline for this, it could be a few weeks to a few months. Basically, whenever we feel our product is ready for it. However one thing is for certain, our regular hosted product, is, and always will be, 100% free of charge to our users.

Secondly, we have developed specific business relationships with affiliate networks to help sustain the costs of operation. As you could imagine, with a super tool like Bevo Media, there is great opportunity for affiliate networks to promote their company to our userbase.

We also have our subsidiary company, Bevo Search, a local marketing and web development firm, in which we can use our publisher base to grow. This along with another paid “super tool” type platform coming in the near feature, will benefit greatly from the success of our initial company.

Lastly, there are several mini revenue streams within the Bevo Media interface that often goes unnoticed by our users. These mini revenue streams include:
1.) Referral Bonuses
2.) Bevo Marketplace Commission
3.) Ad Space
4.) Donations

At the end of the day, the only thing that really matters to us is providing a solid product to the industry with a large userbase. Even if we never make a dime in profit, if our product is widely used throughout the industry, we have achieved our goals, and we are willing to go above and beyond to make sure that happens.

Now that project development is completed, the most important thing to me is making sure the interface is absolutely perfect. No bugs left behind! The initial 1-2 weeks directly after Affiliate Summit West, we are going to keep our product in beta.  The main reason I am doing this is not just to ensure we ironed out as many issues as possible,  but also due to the fact that I will be busy that entire week in Vegas at the show, and I want to make sure that when we do have the interface open to the public, I can be there for the satisfaction of our customers. I will do everything it takes to make sure as many people are satisfied as possible. I put everything I got into this project, and I can guarantee that if we all work together, we can accomplish my goal of creating the most efficient, and beneficial marketing platform ever created.

-RB

Affiliate Summit West Sold Out! Bevo Media Launch!

Affiliate Summit West 2010 is officially SOLD OUT! Tickets are now being sold on eBay. This is expected to be the biggest Affiliate Summit ever! Should be an exciting time.

To add to the excitement, Bevo Media officially launches at the event. You can find us at Booth 433 and at Meet Market table 85. This upcoming week, I will be “letting the cat of the bag”… Finally introducing this huge 2 year project that I feel will change the industry landscape quite a bit. I will break down exactly what it is Bevo Media does, and how this massive project works. Interested Beta testers, shoot me an e-mail and ill get you on the list. Stay Tuned!

Looking for a solid domain name?

I chat with the owner of DomainingTips.com on a regular basis and he recently told me that together with SnapNames and Moniker, he’s organizing an event entitled The DomainingTips and SnapNames “New Year’s Showcase Auction”. I knew he owned some top dollar domains but I never knew he owned THAT many. The auction starts today and ends on Monday. Check it out, thank me later.

He is auctioning one-word domains like Offended.com, Dullard.com, Armchair.net, Casserole.net, Epilator.net and Necklace.net and none of them is priced above $10,000! I would have priced them well into the 5 figures if I were him but it’s his auction, so his risk of letting them get snagged at insanely low prices.

Aside from one-word domains, he also owns some of the best product name domains I’ve ever seen: HydronicHeating.com (it’s considered the most “green” type of heating, and we all know what this means – its value can only go up), FleetInsurance.com (the category killer domain for a very expensive type of insurance, big bucks right there), RockDrums.com, ComputerChair.com and a lot of others.

Category killer domains registered in 1998 or 1999 such as the ones I’ve picked as my favorites are not easy to come by, he’s taking a big risk with these low reserves. I would have tried to sell them one by one with a far bigger price tag but he told me that he needs 6 figs for his upcoming project, so in a way I guess waiting would have not been an option either.

He’s also selling his portfolio of Mexican domains (the #10 economy worldwide). On the one hand, he has international words like Management.mx, Tuning.mx, Spyware and AntiSpyware.mx, PingPong.mx or MiniGolf.mx (mini golf is called “mini golf” no matter where you live and the same thing goes for the other words) and on the other hand he has domains like apartments, beds, tables etc. in Spanish (the official language in Mexico in case you didn’t know lol).

Here’s a link to the auction (a total of 110 domains), act fast if you want a piece of the action (the auction started today and will end on Monday):

http://www.snapnames.com/store/event.action?ig=384