Okay, you've done SEO, you've set up a site, you've got your affiliate links and chosen your offers and landing pages. But have you tried the social angle? Social Networks, Chat, and Apps are all over the Internet today. It seems like you can throw a stone and hit 20 social networks before it hits the ground. How do you leverage all of that? Many people use automation when it comes to Adult and social networks. The problem with most automation though is that it's very limited to only specific actions. Let's say that you've got an account on a dating network and you're doing the standard stuff most affiliates with bots do... The Standard Approach get a list of leads in the form of user ID's on a site go through the list and friend everyone on it, send a message/comment if possible possibly spin your message to be more organic, use the user's name in the message multiply this by more accounts using multithreading Now, if you use the standard approach, chances are that if your list is well targeted and your message is great then you can get some pretty nice final conversion ratios after some tinkering. You might even get 7%! Don't get me wrong, 7% is great and you're making money, but is it better than 40%? The main problem with the standard approach is that usually this gets your account deleted very quickly and you have to write your message generally and get all of your thoughts out in one message. Because it is general and because you are probably dropping your link right in it, many people on today's internet will look at your message and trash bin it directly. That is why some affiliates use the advanced approach. Less work, better results. The Advanced Approach Do some action on the site that will get attention (ie: Playing Match games or visiting user profiles) Wait until you've got some messages in your inbox from all that attention whoring. Auto-reply to these messages with one or more on-topic-but-general, spun replies, disregard what your new friend is saying and drop the link Rinse-and-repeat simultaneously with multi-threading over multiple accounts With the advanced approach, the advantage is that you get the benefit of the doubt. All of the people your bot interacts with are people who were for some reason interested enough to send a message, so this is almost like an opt-in lead. Using this extra trust factor you can gain some more points with them by customizing the replies based on the user's profile. Even then you are still running a small chance that the person is online and starts replying to you before you drop the link. Regardless of ignoring their incoming messages, you can still pull off 10% or even 15%, but you have to take extra precautions to make sure your accounts are not deleted. Sometimes you will get reported, sometimes admins will review your communication, but every problem has a solution. The Smart Approach: Eva That was a lot of foreplay just to get to the juicy meat of this post, but if you're still with me at this point then it's totally worth it. What was the one thing you noticed about both of those approaches? They lacked meaningful interaction with the prospect. These approaches are like walking around, (or sitting there,) with a magic baseball bat and hitting people over the head with it as they cross your path. Granted, if your starting list is targeted or your site profile is "off the chain" then you aren't just giving random people concussions... You manage to magically knock more of them right over to your affiliate link... but can you swing a 40% home run average? Sorry for those of you who don't know or care about baseball. I'm American so it seemed like the most stereotypical metaphor (*simile?) I could use. Eva is an intelligent chat agent specifically made for the Adult CPA vertical... yes, an intelligent chat agent. She's not just any back-alley eWhore bot. There are not many chat bots which I know of which focus on this vertical. Here are some of her non-secret features... Automatic Categorization of incoming messages by intention, polarity and sentiment/emotion (I'm going to try not to get geeked out in this list, bare with me!) Live training of the auto-categorizer, no need to compile new training A full Conversational Model template set up which you can add your offer to (like adding a widget to a wordpress site), including but not limited to smalltalk, information exchange, flirting, a pitch and a close. The model flows so that Eva pushes them toward the close (ie: your bad ass offer link) Personas - still is Eva, but using different personal data (ie: the info from your profile on the site you're automating can affect the flow of conversation) Full dynamic variables and entity recognition Data extraction from chat (get e-mails, phone numbers, social URLs, whatever information you want from your leads all nice and tidy in a spreadsheet) Reply based on any data (ie: if the user is younger, mention it.) Link replies to other actions Text spinning on replies Asking questions (takin' names! no really though, get more data out of them) Topic and intention tracking Full Feedback based training An API allowing your server or software like webDOM 4 to use Eva and chat, comment, or send replies intelligently on any site. All of these fancy words are trying to say in short: A system that will chat with your leads and not break their suspension-of-disbelief. A system you can tailor to your needs and quickly generate the same CTR as if you took the time to chat to all these horny bastards yourself. This project is just about ready for beta testing. I will be posting back in a couple of days with a progress update and possibly a date that I start the beta. I will also provide a demo chat for you all to feast your fingers on in my next post. Here's some screens of the unfinished interface... If you'd like to be a beta tester, you can DM me or reply
