GPWA Times - Issue 20 - March 2012

a country’s lottery, no one cares how much money I have invested or how much I have lost. But that same country will prevent me from engaging in online gambling as those games are “illegal” in their opinion. What surprised you most about the industry? The number of poker, ca- sino and other gambling sites that have opened since I began with my gambling site. Meanwhile I get e-mail every week requesting that I add such sites to mine. How long do you give yourself for an- swering e-mail?What e-mail tips can you offer? Usually I answer all e-mail ASAP. My e-mail client is checking for new mes- sages every five minutes (so far it’s work- ing the way it should be working). When I sleep, all e-mail has to wait until I wake up. Affiliates everywhere are drowning in spam, and dealing with it consumes time, money and bandwidth. What are you doing currently to combat spam? There is no chance of stopping spammers from doing their stupid e-mailing, so all such e-mail is landing in the trash folder. I started a thread on GPWA to expose some of the gambling spammers. I will continue this just to show what affiliates should not do and to encourage affiliate managers to let webmasters know which of their affiliates are spamming around – as per their T&Cs, spamming is forbidden. How much time does it take to keep your sites updated? Uffff . . . too much time, as there are so many! If you look at my sites right now you’ll see that they are all out of date – this winter killing me . . . kids ill, wife ill and I’m not feeling so hot either! Also, I moved my server quite recently. But the worst thing happened just before the serv- er move: HDD crash without any backup. So, updating the sites will have to wait. Usually I update content two to five hours daily to make it better, but there’s always something that still needs to be improved. How much time do you devote to SEO and social networking in order to drive more traffic to your site? As I mentioned earlier, SEO and social networking are not my priority. I’m trying, but I don’t invest more than 10 minutes a day. If someone were visiting you, what’s the one place you’d definitely take them to see? Schnitzelhaus in Vienna Prater, so we could drink beer until we fell. (I’m joking – I haven’t done that for many, many years.) Anyway, I would show him/her the Vienna nightlife. What’s your favorite vacation spot? Greece, but my fantasy destination is New Zealand. Why? I really don’t know. As a kid I dreamed about it, and the dream is still alive. One day, when I’m really there, I’ll send a postcard to the GPWA. I promise! If you could have one “superpower,” what would it be? The power to help ev- eryone in this world to have a better life. What’s your all-time favorite movie? All Eddie Murphy movies are my favorites. The guy is funny and always makes me laugh, even when I’m tired or sad. If you were casting a movie with your- self in the leading role, who would play your romantic interest? Of course my wife, Ana-Marija. She is the only person who deserves this position – no one else. If you could invite any five people, liv- ing or dead, to dinner, who would they be? Okac, Kinez, Sole, Kuzman and Beli – so that we could do again the same things we did as teenagers 20 to 25 years ago, wreaking havoc like we did before! What are three things that nobody knows about you? 1. I don’t like to gamble online or offline as I hate when I lose. 2. I’m a shy guy. 3. I would like to be a rich man! 59