My VWD Lottery Experience.

Because I also do hosting I have been able to offer discounted hosting to my team for a while now that has everything needed for an affiliates web needs. Now I’ve decided to open it up to more than the team and still keep the good prices. What do you think of these specs?

There are 3 packages and all come with a .co.uk domain which is registered for 2 years (in your name and details), perfect for having a www.join-name.co,uk (I got www.join-andy.co.uk the other day! can’t believe it handn’t gone)

Basic Package - For someone who just wants a simple bit of hosting with no frills.
100 MB webspace - enough for a good few landing and capture pages
1 GB transfer per month
POP3 email box with email forwarding and autoresponder and catchall
Webmail
FTP access
online FTP access with file manager
form to email script included
CGI and PHP scripting compatible
UNIX host with full c-panel access

= £30 for a whole year + £5 setup (comes with free .co.uk)

Affiliate Blog Package - with MySQL and easy install wordpress blog
500 MB webspace
5GB monthly transfer limit (no one has exceeded this yet!)
1 Subdomain
1 Mysql database
1 email distribution list - make your list online and send them all an email in seconds
5 mail boxes
2 autoresponders
2 forwarding

FTP File Manager
FTP access
Catchall email forwarding
Webmail
CRON jobs (scheduled tasks)
AWstats graphical stats engine - see referrers, keyword usage, visitor frequency
Form to email script
web survery script
tell a friend script
wordpress blog easy install.
CGI and PHP scripting compatible
UNIX host with full c-panel access

= £40 for a whole year + £5 setup (comes with free .co.uk)

Executive Affiliate Package - for the bigboys!
1GB webspace
Unlimited transfer
10 subdomains
10 ftp accounts
10 MySQL databases
10 Email boxes + forwarding + autoresponders
10 email distribution lists

File Manager
Catchall
Webmail
CRON Jobs
Website protection and IP blocking
Site Submission
CGI script tools
AWstats graphical stats

Locked area lite script
Form to email
Free for all links page
custom 404/500 pages
web calendar
web survey
tell-a-friend
wordpress blog
phpbb forums
CGI and PHP scripting compatible
UNIX host with full c-panel access

= £75 for a whole year (includes .co.uk)

What do you think? I feel the prices are very reasonable compared to a lot of other hosting companies who charge monthly and have limited the amount of features on their low end packages.

Click here for Empire Group Hosting

I have only just made it go live so there are some more pages and information to be added later as well as hosting only packages for people with domains already (you can use the free .co.uk AND point your current domain to your hosting space - contact me if you want this)

There were big storms across the pond yesterday and it knocked out the server that hosts our unofficial chatroom, it’s just got back up and working again so all is ready for tonights calls. Thanks to DarrenUK from the forum for continually checking the room to let us know it was up and working again.

Tonights will be quite busy, I have new members to welcome, new prospects to call, follow ups to prospects from last week and even a member who is cancelling who I’d like to talk around to staying. At 7pm there will also be my back office training with a new affiliate, everyone is welcome to come along and listen in. Click the banner below to download the software you will need, conference starts at 6.15pm

Personal

Welcome Christine from the UK as a new affiliate.
Welcome Haseeb from the UK as a new player
Thanks Stephen from the UK for upgrading
Thanks Paul from the UK for upgrading
Welcome Steven from Germany as a new player
Welcome Alan from the UK as a new player
Welcome Gary from the UK as a new affiliate

Group

Well done Marie for introducing a new player from the UK. Welcome Ashley
Well done Tristan for introducing a new player from Portugal. Welcome Vasco
Well done Craig for introducing a new player from the UK. Welcome Simone
Well done Craig for introducing a new player from the UK. Welcome Charmaine
Well done Craig for introducing a new player from the UK. Welcome Grace
Well done Craig for introducing a new player from the UK. Welcome Christine
Well done Trevor for introducing a new player from the Uk. Welcome Jatinder
Well done Millionaire_Group for introducing a new player from New Zealand. Welcome Hau
Well done Robby for introducing a new player from the UK. Welcome Paul
Well done Robby for introducing a new player from the UK. Welcome Hitesh
Well done Raymond for introducing a new player from USA. Welcome Von Esquero
Well done Millionaire_Group for introducing a new affiliate from Portugal. Welcome Fernando
Well done Tristan for introducing a new player from the UK. Welcome Anthony
Well done Millionaire_Group for introducing a new player from Portugal. Welcome Alexandre
Well done Millionaire_Group for upgrading a player to affiliate. Thanks Jason from the UK

** Paid Review **

I came across an article while I was doing my “how to make some pennies” research and it explained about a new site called ReviewMe. They have earmarked 25,000 dollars to pay for bloggers to review their service. For this article I will get 30 of those 25,000!

It’s a nice concept and one I’m sure bloggers with a high PR will like, the bigger your PR - the bigger the offer for payment (among other things like Alexa ranking and feed subscribers). Why are they doing this? well, it’s all to do with the amount of advertising and advertising opportunities on the net. Too much is out there and people either skim past known ad content or web owners will put too much generic advertising on their site, it may not have anything to do with their content so it hurts the advertiser AND the web owner too.

By offering people the chance to write reviews on their blog, they are getting people that are genuinely interested in writing about that product and do it in a non-addy way such as a blog post or personal review.

I had a check through to see if I could buy some advertising and there are some opportunities for good exposure with decent sites, it might even be worth 40 dollars to have a decent review of my business with links to it’s associated pages like the videos page or affiliate ecourse, of course, the review doesn’t have to be favourable so you’d have to be sure you have a good thing to advertise and hope you get a decent open minded reviewer!

It’s still in it’s early stages but as long as they get their ranking structure sorted and advertisers get a good response then I’m sure it will be a site to watch out for and go back to again and again. If I can get some decent reviews on here or my other high PR sites then I might be able to make an extra few hundred dollars a month.

It can’t be bad earning between 20 and 200 dollars per review submitted, even if it’s one a month. It all goes into the pot!

** end paid review **

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Prize breakdown...

Most Winners In Britain

Seven Britons have won an estimated £6.5m each in the EuroMillions draw, Camelot said.

They are believed to be among a total of 20 winners across Europe.

They are due to collect the money after unconfirmed results for the draw indicated no ticket matched the five winning numbers and two Lucky Stars to take the entire estimated jackpot.

The top prize was thought to be more than £120m.

With no outright winner, the jackpot will be distributed among the next tier of winners, who matched five numbers and one Lucky Star.

The numbers drawn were 12, 22, 32, 33 and 36. The Lucky Star numbers were 2 and 6.

The UK had the largest number of winners tonight, followed by France with four, Portugal and Spain with three each, Ireland with two and Belgium with one, a Camelot spokesman said.

The prize would have been the world’s biggest lottery prize yet, if a single winner had claimed it.

The prize fund dwarfed the £77m won by Limerick woman Dolores McNamara in July 2005.

Punters were also given a few handy hints for picking winning lines ahead of the draw, with the most often drawn numbers 50, 1, 3, 12, 11 and 8, and the least drawn numbers 28, 46, 17, 20, 22 and 27.

There’s a new feature online that shows more than the top 10 for recruiters, I checked through it and there’s 3 affiliates from The Empire Group on there. I’m just a pip behind top earner Neil!

I also notice that the obnoxious affiliate who sent me an email last week telling me (among other childish jabs) that his methods have put him in the top 25 for 3 months in a row is nowhere to be seen. hehe, guess he didn’t figure they’d show more than the top 10! rumbled!