We had to split up this video of Shoemoney reviewing the top 10 Top Affiliate Challenge contestants because it became a bit too long. Overall good stuff. Watch it for yourself and feel free to comment below!
I am telling everyone this now so you can also be a part of the show by calling in if you want by calling while we are on the air at (718) 664-9522 when the show airs 6/16/08 at 7 PM EST.
We knew going into this that some people would be hurt that they did not make the show. We have tried give contestants as much control over their destiny as we possibly could. The only thing we control is the base score, and while that is a powerful tool, anyone with any base score can make it on the show at this point if they can market themselves effectively enough online.
Jonathan Van Clute emailed me and asked if there was a way to disable the Revver autoplay feature that automatically starts the audition videos when the web page is opened. It appears that some PPC companies will not allow you to send traffic to pages that push audio automatically to the visitor.
If you are in the top 10, the top 25% or on the verge of breaking through, please send an email to service@topaffiliatechallenge.com that contains the following information. This is IMPORTANT becauyse this is the information we will use to contact you if you make it on the show. If we can’t contact you within 48 hours of our first attempt, we will move on to the next person!!!
Somewhere along the line Molly slipped a second account in on us and threw up a new audition. Some astute contestants realized that Molly’s low “2″ base score would relegate her to the bottom of the pack barring a K9 miracle. So Molly’s accounts suddenly started acquiring super votes - and a lot of them.
We have a lot to execute on our end over the next 7 days, so if we are a bit slower than normal to get to your emails, please be patient with us. If you have an emergency and I mean an EMERGENCY) in the final minutes of voting you can email me directly at thor@topaffiliatechallenge.com or call me directly at 402-212-5393. For clarification, an emergency is “THOR THE TAC SITE HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY THE TURKISH HACKER.”
We have completed the introduction of a new scoring system that calculates scores more quickly than the old one did. On each page load of the website, 10 more scores are calculated. With about 150 videos in the system, that means a complete scoring recalculation every 15 page loads, or about 8 times an hour.
There are mere hours left to audition for Season 1 of the Top Affiliate Challenge! The deadline for submitting new videos to the website is 12 AM Central Standard Time (CST). Any videos submitted that are timestamped by our system after the deadline will not be added to the system.
Note that VOTING will continue until […]
With all of that said, do not underestimate the ability for people not in the top 25% to rocket into the top 10 on the last day. Scores are based on an average of overall voting. People at the bottom tend to have fewer votes, so it only takes a few super votes to transform their scores and push them into the top 25% or even the top 10 contestants. Nothing is secure for anyone going forward! Voting will end on July 14th at midnight!