It’s been an interesting month for us here at Empower Network – we haven’t been as good about keeping everyone in the loop, (you’ll see why in a second) – but I wanted to reach out, connect with all of you – give you some updates – tell you about some cool them updates, and some other things that we’re working on. First, the site has been slow as hell in the last five or ten days – we know. I wanted to show you why that is. This is our actual traffic numbers from Google Analytics for the last 30 days (click to view a larger picture – and then come back to this page): Yes, in the last 30 days, our traffic grew by more than 300% – from around 250,000 pageviews on January 1st, to averaging over 800,000 pageviews by January 29th, with a peak of around 906,590 pages loaded in one day. In fact, here’s our actual numbers – these are as accurate as it gets, from Google Analytics for the last 30 days:
Just to give you an idea, Mashable.com is one of the world’s most trafficked blogs, has been around since 2007, and only gets 20,000,000 unique visitors a month. We already have a fourth of their traffic… …and we haven’t even started, yet
I actually believe we can have one of the top 200 most trafficked websites in the world in less than 60 days. However, we need to expand our server resources, again – so we have scheduled maintenance tonight where we’re going to do some really ‘badass’ stuff to our server system, starting at 2am EST. It should solve ‘most’ of the load time issues that we have going on, all over the world. The good thing, this time we won’t have any more than a couple of minutes of downtime
You probably won’t even notice. Second, we haven’t let many people know about this, but you can now upload your own photo into the header – it’s really easy to do, just login to your blog, and click on ‘Home Photo’ in the Appearance tab, and upload a snap shot – depending on whether you’re using the ‘Easy’ or ‘Advanced’ blogging view where determine where it is – it should look something like this: Just click that button – and upload your photo – check out some of these sexy headers from the members… This is my brother Aki: Lol. That was actually Aki and I at a Halloween party in San Fransisco about five years ago. Don’t worry, though – you don’t ‘have‘ to be shirtless in order to make this work… Here’s a more professional look from… The ‘legend‘ Tracey Walker: See, you don’t have to be weird to make a lot of money online – of course, you can be, if you want. That’s the cool thing here with Empower Network, you don’t have to pretend you’re someone else to be successful. You don’t have to be ‘branded‘ or a sales guru to make $4.50, either – we’ll take care of the ‘complex’ sales maze – you can just be yourself. That’s why people are attracted to us – because they can make ALL the money that the Guru’s do, but… …they don’t have to hire Graphic Designers, setup ‘Server Farms’ or even know how the internet works. They can just… …blog
So Simple – Grandma can do it. Which brings us to the next subject – Merchants… …uggghhhh. Now, don’t get me wrong – getting everyone merchant accounts to process their own transactions was a brilliant idea… …not all brilliant ideas work very well, unfortunately. We’ve learned the hard way here that trying to get 16,000 people merchant accounts isn’t going to work very well. (Actually, we’re up to about 16,758 active members here, still – even through these issues.) There are actually quite a lot of reasons for that. First, there’s basically not any kind of bank that can do it around the world. So we’d be stuck, expanding from country to country – and most of the world will be ‘out’ of our reach – that’s not good for a virtual company like us. We already have customers in 150 countries. Second, getting a merchant account is complicated as hell, and has always been our ‘achilles heel‘ for the average person. So, after this happened the last time – we realized that it probably wasn’t a good idea to be replacing 60,000 merchants every six months, and decided that we are going to do it a bit differently. Although we’re still going to allow people to use their own merchant accounts who have them now, we’re setting up our own ‘miniature paypal’ – and as soon as it’s done, neither you, or your team will ever have to use merchant accounts to work with us, again, if you don’t want. We’ll handle that on our end – and you can just get paid. No merchant approvals, no underwriting department, no hassles – no setup. The way Empower Network is meant to be. Simple. Our 100% commissions model is now proven to pay more money, faster, than any affiliate company in history. In fact, as of writing this, people have earned more than $3.2 million in just 90 days – over a million dollars a month in Affiliate commissions. It’s just the start. When we get our new payment model in place – we’re going to be able to pay people in over 150 countries – literally from the ‘moment’ it’s setup. People will also be able to pay in a lot of different ways – depositing cash, ACH, bank wires, Credit Cards, and more. This is going to open up a whole new world of growth that isn’t available to us, because a whole bunch of the world simply doesn’t have credit cards. Japan doesn’t even like them. How long will that take? I’ll know approximately tonight, but it shouldn’t take longer than 10-15 days. It’s already approved, setup, and just needs to be integrated and programmed to work with our commission and customer model. So there’s a question of ‘what to do‘ between now and then, and that’s the purpose, really, of this blog post. I know that a lot of you guys are frustrated – frustrated that you haven’t been able to ‘play’ because you’ve been waiting on a merchant account. Frustrated by growing pains, and I know… …that you want this, badly. What we’re doing now is about to open up a whole new world for us – for expansion, for success, for development. Our traffic number are now so colossal, that literally nobody can question the value of being involved in what we’re doing. Just the ‘community exposure’ is reason enough to buy our products, and get involved – even if you don’t want to sell them. And it’s just the start. Imagine when we are getting 100 million pageviews a day. It WILL happen my friend. You WILL be a part of it. Is it possible for you, for us – to help people earn $100,000,000 a year in commissions? Yup. And to do it, we’ve got to pull out of this, strong. We’re planning a promotion here, in ‘the meantime’ to get things cranking, and grow our traffic by ten times in a month. To do it, though, we need to do this server update tonight, and have a solid timeline on the integration of our new system – a system that’s not reliant on anything but YOU. So here’s the deal… …if you think that 16,700 something people in 3 months is a lot… …it’s not. If you think that 900,00 something pageviews a day is a lot… …it has just begun. …if you’re ready to do something great – here’s what to do today: 1. Write a blog post, about why you’re pumped, what you see – and you’re vision. 2. Post it on a Facebook note, and link back to your post. 3. Email your list, and tell them ‘Something is Coming…‘ 4. If you’ve got another site, write about this, and link back to this post – all you need to do is add ?id=username (username=your affiliate id) to the end, and the lead will track to you. What should we do? Simple. Blog Daily. Tell Others. …and get ready – to Get Money.
The Empower Network has just began – we’ve gone through Beta, now we’re in Pre-Launch – get ready… …to take over the internet. -David Wood