My VWD Lottery Experience.

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Well, I am now ready to tell you about the IG247 conference, 700 tickets sold out in 4 days and I saw why!

There was quite a buzz about the Hilton Metropole hotel before the event, Tom Brodie had his DB9 parked outside with T1 VWD as his number plate, lol!

Registration was at 10am with the event due to start at 11am and what a bottle neck the reception area turned out to be, lots of folk milling around chomping at the bitt to get in. We did get in and were all seated without too much hassle. What a big room it was, the stage was set up nicely with a couple of auto-cue glass stands in front of the dias (how professional!).

Mark Davies was hosting the conference and I must say, it was his best performance yet. Professional, not too “read the autocue robotically” like many that use them! He first gave us a review of the Vegas promotion and showed some previously unseen clips from the actual event.

Tom and Len came on stage to recognise what was called “Brodies 11″ :-), all top recruiters and team leaders, each one got a nice glass framed poster in the style of the Oceans eleven movie and got to give us all a little “how we got here” speech which was good from everyone, especially Maureen Bell who was in 1st place for the Vegas promotion.

Next was our 6 month update to let us know that we received the HitWise top 10 award which is a reasonably prestigious award to get (and difficult to achieve), we were told about the new servers put in to be ready for the explosion in members, apparently they can upgrade the bandwidth and load simply by adding another server so no problems for high traffic then!
We also learned of VWD’s membership to Habeas which will certainly decrease the amount of promotional emails that get stopped by spam bots and ISP filters.

We saw the dramatic conversion rate of grab a grand prospects and heard how the new version of it will be even more effective as a viral tool because now they will offer the player the chance to win another 5000 quid by recommending 3 of their friends to play it.

Ian Orford came up and did a wonderful piece about the grab a grand conversion rate (6%!!) and gave us some very useful ways of finding people to talk to about our opportunity by searching Google for our local town or borough name and lo and behold - thousands of returns all about people or businesses in that area. brill! well done Ian, not an autocue in site!

Tom came back up to explain a little about skill gaming and how it isn’t classed as gambling so it can be advertised anywhere and won’t be stopped by USA banks for payment. Advertise anywhere to anyone (over 16) awesome!

The secretary of The Lotteries Council came up and gave us a humorous piece on how the gaming law has changed and all the books that have been written by the houses of parliament and independent bodies (and the books that were written to explain the first books!)

We also met VWD’s chief information officer, an old friend of Toms (he had a database background), he’s been in charge of the team that writes all the code that runs the site. He said if he had to write it all again from scratch it would have taken him at least a year (and that’s with a strong team working with him). Hundreds of thousands of lines of code, heaven!

Then we had a break where we could buy coffee and sandwiches from Hilton at excruciating prices, luckily I’ve been to a few conferences and knew to bring my own along with some crisps and a drink! We had a whole hour this time which was much better than the 20 minutes they usually do, time for a proper chat and mingle (or mostly boasting about our own efforts to anyone that will listen!)

Second session came around and time to recognise all those that got to their next level, group affiliates, senior affiliates and executive affiliates all got to stand up and get applauded while the latest controllers and group directors got to come up on stage and give a little bit about how they did it. nice

Then the big news, the new game!!….

It’s called the e-lotbidder and you can win some fantastic prizes by using your phone or using your pc on the internet, you can win the prize by being the lowest unique bidder for it by the time the competition ends (August).

The best bit is, the first bid is free and there is an immediate response from the site to tell you if your bid was unique (and how many available unique bids are available below it) and then offers the player to bid again but this time for a fee and we get paid commission on that. awesome because every person that registers to play will go into our prospector ready to receive promotional emails now and again.

Another advantage of it is, you can play the moment you see it advertised because you are able to use SMS to enter, just send “car 69603x 1.34″ to 80039 (change 69603x to your affiliate number and 1.34 to your bid). That results in a message being sent back telling you the uniqueness (or not) of your bid and again, how many uniques are below it. This also pays commission but not as much seeing as how much the actual networks skim off the top for the service (only costs them pennies for normal cross network sms’s so I don’t see why they need so much just because it’s a premium message).

The thing with this is great, you can be handing out flyers and be earning money straight away, passive advertising will be great on trains and public transport - anyone with a mobile can enter their first bid for free so that time between stops will certainly get a few entries!!

We got told about all the new advertising material too which was really really welcome, new things like scratch cards for advertising the new grab a grand and elotbidder games. e-flyers that can be sent by email from the back office to all our prospects. New drinks mats with spaces for someone to put their numbers on before they take them home (being doing this myself for months!) and some very nice rich media banners and buttons that will sure be useful on blogs and other homepages.

Gigi fields came up at the end to give us all one of her patented performances, good work Gigi!

I had to leave a few minutes early but I did manage to chat up a couple people at the (expensive!) parking ticket machine and give them a free entry card! oh and I managed to snag a handful of the new promotional A5 flyers too, already they have been put in restaurant windows and newsagents!.

All in all, B.E.S.T C.O.N.F.E.R.E.N.C.E E.V.E.R
and I met Mark on the way out and he knew this blog so I’m doing something right!

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OK, back now and that went quite well! I’m pleased with how the room performs and also with how many good questions Robby came up with, the answers were applicable to everyone in the room. What would I do without him?!

wow, I’ve spent a long time putting together a presentation about the elottery and I’ll be broadcasting it over the internet to all that want to listen! I’ve sent out a mass mail to all team members telling them about it and included a cut and paste email that they can send to their own prospects.

It’s something I know can do wonders for recruitment on a personal scale but what I’m doing is a generic presentation with no direct links to my site or other products so anyone in my team can take advantage of it as a way to show someone the type of business we’re in and how it can make a huge difference to their lives.

The software used for the conference is just amazing, an unlimited amount of people can join the room and every single person will be able to hear the live chat and even interact with anyone in the there while the presentation goes on. What an amazing piece of kit! No huge server costs, no pay per person per minute charges and thanks to the unique patent pending P2P algorithms used by the software, no matter what speed someone has on their internet - they’ll be able to hear and see everything in real time.

If all goes well, I’ll do one every week and finish each night off with questions and answers.

Tuesday 4th April 2006 at 9pm UK GMT (3pm American EST)

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Welcome Jacquie from GBR who has joined as an affiliate. Welcome in to The Empire Group!
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Well done Robby for introducing a new double game player from GBR. Welcome Gillian
Well done again Robby for introducing a new UK Lotto player from GBR. Welcome Linda
Go on Robby! another new double game player from GBR. Welcome Christopher.
Well done Tamim for introducing a new Euromillions affiliate from GBR. Welcome Shakeel.

I’ve been using an online conferencing software [link] to do training sessions and the response has been great! This week on Tuesday 4th April at 9pm I will be doing an online presentation about the business. I’m advertising it to as much people as possible and will be sending out a group email to everyone that is out there with instructions on how to download and install the small application that will allow an unlimited amount of people (well, we’ve tested it at 425 so far) to listen in and watch a ‘push’ html presentation.

My html slides are nearly all done and now it’s just a case of getting people there. I’ll set it up so there’s no password and I’ll have to make a step-by-step instructions page with screen shots to make sure everyone can get in. I might even have time to do some live prospect calls too.

A big UP to Jon Roberts who has been in a frenzy of activity! he’s been ordering flyers, doing calls, talking to people and now he’s started his own blog “Jon Roberts - how e-lottery changed my life” do give him a visit and say hello if you get the chance. (even though he takes the ‘mickey’ out of me there!)

Also, Richard from LottoClever has been getting more signups than anyone else! Not bad seeing as he’s only in the second period, we all must be doing something right for this to go so well (especially Richard!)

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Welcome Dave who has joined The Empire Group as a double game affiliate from GBR

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Well done Richard (AGAIN!) for introducing a new Euromillions player from GBR. Welcome Kelvin
And once more well done Richard for introducing a double game Player from GBR. Welcome Nihal

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I’ve been training a new affiliate with VOIP and a limited screen sharing app and he let me know about a super training room with audio, video, push html, desktop sharing, remote control system and it can take up to 500 users at the same time. woo hoo!!

I ordered the package straight away and set it up with my own branding and password access so tonight’s team training will be held over that. It does require a user to download a small application but it only has to be downloaded once and the clarity of the audio combined with 5 fps desktop sharing is going to make training a pleasure to do. (ahaaa, my mobile just chimed the vwd jingle, a new member has arrived!)

My team should contact me to get the link to download the conference software (<500kb) and request the access password.

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Welcome Michael from GBR who has joined as a new double game player.

Here’s couple of pictures from the Leeds event. I’ve had mails from nearly all people saying they enjoyed the day and learned a lot which has made it all worth it! Everyone has their Skype headset now and the quality of our multi-way prospect calling is really good and much better than I had expected over a VOIP software.

Here’s a picture of Robby receiving his outstanding achievement and teamwork excellence award.

And here’s Dave receiving his offline promotion award. Go on Dave!!

I’ll be putting the rest up at The Empire Group site when that’s ready with it’s password access directory and forum. I’m ready to start offering the full “landing page/ hosting/ domain name” package now for 20 quid a year which I think is a bargain. My super hosting account has all that is needed and more for a reseller. I could probably charge more but seeing as I will make money from anyone in my downline it was only fair to offer it at such a low price, people need to be able to start off in this business as cheap as possible. Once they see it working, they can upgrade to something that can handle a blog and it’s own mailing list and autoresponder and it will be worth it.

Now just the small matter of installing every domain name I have on separate accounts so I can take care of everything from one c-panel. awesome!

I did some more training calls today with a downline member listening in to a couple, one to Greece, one to the UK and one that was a follow up to a request a dvd. It’s so much easier talking to someone when there’s no pressure to sell. Just asking them to look at the site or watch a dvd I send them and arranging a follow up call is the easiest thing to do and is most definitely duplicable.

Robby’s negotiation with a fantastic new leads supplier is proving to be very successful, it’s something we’ll all be able to do in the team and use it as a very valuable training aid when we call them up. Hot leads that you call on the same day as they requested information, it certainly helps the conversation start. Something that I learned on the mentoring for free site - people really are surprised that someone from the internet called them up and are almost always ready to talk for a few minutes. Our script and approach has been fine tuned and we have an almost 99% rate of people requesting more information… brilliant!

This is going to go places like never before, watch out world - here we come!