MyRandomDownline Interview

February 1, 2007

URL: http://www.myrandomdownline.com

Name: Leo (aka DrunkOnLife) and Jason

Interview Date: February 1, 2007

Q. First, congratulations on the launch of your projects. Even though most people already know you, would you please introduce yourselves to our readers.
Jason: My name is Jason, I’ve been in the surf world for about 6 months. I’m a Computer/IT network consultant during the day. I handle all the technical aspects as well as some of the programming of the site.
Leo: My name is Leo but most folks in the surf/HYI world know me as Drunkonlife. I have been involved in this world all the way back to PIPs and when surf sites offered 1% daily. I have been blogging daily for over a year and a half now. I have been doing this stuff for over 2 years.

Q. What is MyRandomDownline? How can users benefit from it?
Leo: Well, this is actually a loaded question and one that is hard to explain. The short answer is MyRandomDownline is an advertising co-op but it goes much deeper than this. Members can log in and post their referral links into the ad database. If they want, members can click on other members link and hopefully everyone reciprocates. Basically, it is made for those of us who have a hard time getting referral commissions. But this is such a small thing in the grand scheme of things. In addition to this, we are building a network of sites that will use MyRandomDownline’s database. This includes our new forum, npgforum.com as well as a monitor site. All the ads/referral links will be displayed randomly across the network. When we originally had this idea and I was trying to explain it to folks, most didn’t understand. Now that the forum is in place and people actually get to see their banner ads displayed, they understand the ad value.. After all, where else can you advertise a site you are in with premium advertising for just six bucks a month? plus the beauty of it is you can change your ads daily if you want. The MRD back office shows how many times your ad was displayed as well as how many clicks you recieved. As the forum grows, your ad impressions will grow as well and as we continue to add sites to the network, once again ad impressions will grow as well. I think that that is it, in a nut shell although people have to EXPERIENCE it firsthand to understand it.

Q. Why did you decide to open MyRandomDownline?
Leo: Well, several months back I posted a poll on my blog to my readers asking them if they were doing well with surfs. This was right around the time that CompactSurf went down. Most of my readers were following my suggestions and I was doing well, so my assumption was that my readers were doing well as well… the poll results told another story though I started to realize that I was able to temper my losses with the referral commissions I recieved. Now most folks don’t have the time to do what I do…they join a site, and hold their breath. Most folks get only 3-4 referrals per program. The original idea behind MRD was to give people a chance to get random referrals by advertising the sites they are in at a cheap enough price where anyone could afford it. Of course, it has evolved since my original idea. If you are a blogger or have a site, the advertising is priceless. If nothing else, you get Name exposure. So, for regular people, you get a chance to maximize your profit potential….

Q. What are the conditions for a site to be added to your database? How do you intend to maintain the quality of the promoted programs?
Jason: there’s a couple ways we do this… one is obviously the due dilligence done by Leo on drunkonlife.com as well as other bloggers. I myself read about 20 blogs a day. Leo does even more as well as research on the various forums out there. We also plan to open a monitoring site in the next couple of days which will allow our subscribed members to vote on Paid to Surf, High Yield Investment and Network Marketing programs. The general public will be allow to view the monitor but not vote on it you must be a Subscribed member of myrandomdownline.com to be able to vote. This helps ensure the quality and honest of votes. Our members obviously will be providing most of the feedback of the programs in the database in the forums as well

Q. As you have already mentioned, you have also opened your own forum, npgforum. How do you evaluate the performance of the already exisitng forums?
Leo: Okay, recently, there has been a recent surge where forums are connected with monitor sites. The biggest problems with these types of forums is that it connects the admins and their referral links with the sites that they list on their monitor. I don’t mean to knock these types of forums but to me, this is a conflict of interests. After all, if you collude with admins of sites, it kinds of takes the objectivity away, you know? What we are trying to do with our forum is give the forum back to the regular folk. A forum should be about information. A forum should be about community. And we are hoping that our forum will embrace this. There are a couple forums that I really like though and I go to these daily.

Q. With so many forums already around, do you think it will be a difficult task to make npgforum grow? How will it be different from other forums?
Leo: Well, for starters the blogging community has embraced us. In three days our forum has 120 members already. Plus, because members can advertise for so cheap using the MRD database, I think that this will ring well with the members. In essence, we are giving members a reason to be here Good Information= Growth. But you are right…there are a ton of forums out there
Jason: and we don’t limit advertising to just paid to surf or hyi programs, we have networking marketing, blog, personal website, advertisers

Q. What new features will your monitor have?
Jason: well first of all only our subscribed members can vote… which ensures honest and quality votes, virtually eliminating proxy voting. We allow members to sign up with multiple accounts… however, it would cost them $6 everytime to be able to vote and i don’t think anyone wants to do that. Our members will be able to vote on paid to surf programs, high yield investment programs, network marketing programs (which is unique)… and, we will allow our members to on blog site as well. We will expand the categories to vote on as necessary. Not only that the banners you see for the programs in the monitor will contain a random referral link from our myrandomdownline.com database so, we don’t take any money or referral comissions. We don’t profit from the monitor, unlike every other monitor out there. There are no premium listings. The monitor pulls all programs directly from the myrandomdownline database. It will truly be the most unbiased monitor out there and most beneficial to our members. You will be able to access alexa rankings and whois tools directly from the monitor

Q. How do you intend to further promote your projects?
Leo: Well, if we can get the forum off the ground, then we will promote through that. Our goal is to be one of the larger forums out there. Plus, as we grow and people realize the ad value, I imagine that we won’t have a problem with promotion at all
Jason: the myrandomdownline database is the core of all our current and future programs. We already have another site in the works
Leo: think of it as the “brain” of our network
Jason: something that has never been done before in MLM/surf/HYI world but we’re not giving out any hints yet but it will utilize the “brain” as well

Q. Recently, many bloggers have opened their own programs. How do you evaluate this step?
Jason: A good blogger doesn’t necessarily make a good admin as with all programs, unless there is a good business plan and outside investments the site will fail no matter how much member support there is. A good site requires investment capital. Anyone can start a site with a $100 but will it succeeed? it won’t, especially if it’s a ponzi, no matter how reputable the admin or blogger is. I am not knocking any blogger who attempts to start a site but they need to be careful, because once your reputation is tarnished it’s over! and you will be grouped with the same scammers you have been rallying against all this time. Both of us combined have invested a significant amount of money into myrandomdownline, the forum and monitor, not to mention countless hours

Q. How much can the fact that you are a blogger be considered an advantage for your program?
Leo: Well, I do have an audience and have been one of the prolific bloggers out there. Most know that I wouldn’t start something that could potentially turn into a scam after all, why take the chance to wreck my name? My rep is all I have, you know?
Jason: wasn’t Leo’s blog voted “Blog of the Year” by noBSHYIP?

Q. What are your future plans?
Leo: Well, obviously to take this original idea and make it grow we have a few other sites that will feed off the ad database. We want to give the regular folks the most bang for their buck
Jason: Leo is correct, there are future sites that are in the works I think that answers that
Leo: new sites never before seen in the hyi world

Q. What do you think of eTalk Network in general, and eTalkMoney.com in specific?
Jason: I read it every day! Very informative! great interviews and information
Leo: Etalk is on my list of news in addition to over 75 blogs for news rather and that is daily

Q. Do you have anything you would like to add?
Leo: Not me. You have great interviewing skills. A regular Geraldo
Jason: I think that’s it

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