Monday, May 4, 2009

The Evolution of DominateIM

When DominateIM first started, it was supposed to teach a mixture of blackhat and whitehat techniques. Over the past few months though, the site has evolved from its blackhat origins. This, I think is for the better. Rob (Nevarc) is now the one obviously running the show as he is the man behind all of the recent trainings and videos. Instead of focusing on tactics Myspace, Craigslist and other blackhat exploits, Rob is really showing us how build a real business using a mixture of online and offline strategies. This is what really differentiates DominateIM from all the other internet marketing courses out there. Let me demonstrate this by discussing some of the new aspects of the site.

Direct Mail


This is the most current video training that Rob is doing. Most affiliate marketers know about online advertising methods, like PPC, PPV, Media Buys, etc, but the offline market is almost completely untapped. It really is unbelievable how much money making potential there is with direct mail. Rob is using a live site to demonstrate his methods, and so far we have seen how to setup our own site, and where to go to find our direct mail lists. This training was just started recently, but I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series.

Product Creation


Sure, we can make lots of money promoting other people's products or CPA offers, but where real big money can be made is by creating our own product. So for example, instead of promoting Acai Berry products with your flog, the product creation training series is showing us how to create our own branded product (Acai, Resveratrol, whatever). Rob is going over everything, from finding a lab to create a product and getting custom labels designed to getting the product on a CPA network and setting up the backend.

EliteROI


EliteROI is the new CPA affiliate network created by Rob and a few others, and it is only open to super affiliates that he personally knows, and DominateIM members. It just recently opened for business and there are a couple of things that make it unique from all the countless other CPA networks out there. First, the level of fraud is minimal since membership is so selective - for both advertisers and publishers. To put his money where his mouth is, Rob is putting all affiliates on net-15 payments right out of the gates. Then after a month, if you show you are on the up and up, you will be put on weekly payments. There's even the possibility of being put on daily payments, which is unheard of unless you are a super affiliate. In addition, most of future training videos will be using offers from EliteROI so you'll want to sign up as soon as possible when you become a DominateIM member.



CPA Engine


CPA Engine is billed as the "Ultimate Affiliate Tool". It is not quite there yet, but it shows some real potential. Currently it contains a PPC tracking system (kind of like Prosper202), but with some neat upcoming features like multiple tracking pixels, referrer blanking, spoofing user agents, offer rotation and more. CPA Engine also includes an excellent web scraper which grabs urls from a variety of sources. What makes CPA Engine exciting though, is that the DominateIM programmers are open to feature suggestions from all members, and we should see be seeing some unique and cool capabilities in future versions.

As you can tell, I am really liking this new direction that DominateIM is heading in. The site is now more intended for intermediate level internet marketers who want to take their game to the next level. Just keep in mind that Dominate IM is not for people who are afraid taking risks and of losing money. Both the Direct Mail and Product Creation methods will cost you several grand just to get started. But that is also what makes the potential so great, since not too many people are willing to enter these types of markets. Plus we get to leverage Rob's experience and hands-on training to minimize our risk. Some members have already started joint-ventures with others on the site to help further spread the risk and learn together. The sky really is the limit here. Rob mentioned on the last conference call that the DominateIM membership monthly fee will soon be raised from $97 to $197, so now would be a good time to join and see what the site is all about. There is a 7 day, no questions asked refund policy, so there's not much risk to trying it out.

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