GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 33 - October 2015

really care how you are going to benefit from that or why they have to be listed over other good brokers. A program can’t be fixed. I mean you can’t give 30% rev share to all of your partners who promote you. There are some programs like that in the industry. What’s your preferred method of com- munication with affiliate managers? E-mail is the best when agreeing on the deal. After that, Skype, as I like to get quick answers from managers. What prompted you to join the GPWA? How has it helped you? I wanted to share my ideas, get new friends, chat and get some traffic for my “green” website. The people and administration are really friendly and helpful — I got some tips from visitors and found myself a pretty good content provider. What do you like about the industry? Flexibility of work hours and almost un- limited possibilities in earnings. You can smartly invest $2,000 to get $4,000 the next month. Good ROI, to be precise. If you could change one thing about the industry, what would it be and why? Fine companies who live on the market for about a year, who don’t care about their customers. I believe there are some people who open and close binary op- tions brokers every month because they earn money like that. They take money, but don’t give it back. They are ruining the industry. What do your family and friends think of your work as an affiliate? They just know that I work in Internet marketing, so they don’t hate it. If I were to say that I am looking for new casino players, they wouldn’t like it. Do you gamble online? If so, what do you play? I do sometimes. Some betting to en- joy watching boring football games, and sometimes I play poker to relax. How long do you give yourself to answer e-mail? What e-mail tips can you offer? Before I tried to be quick in responding, but now I tend to get more personal and thankful. After reading some books I un- derstood how important the approach to every single person you write to is. Even when people write hateful e-mail to me because a broker is not paying them (they have failed to follow company rules), I try to calm the person down and explain the whole situation. Maybe I waste time on that in some cases . . . but guys, just try to be respectful, polite and truthful in your e-mail. How do you manage your to-do lists? Do you use any special software to help you out? I use the Any.do application on my phone and extension in Google Chrome. This really helps me not to forget to ful- fill some tasks. Sometimes I create to-do lists in my notebook for a specific day — it increases the efficiency by several times. I could write four articles in a day without a to-do list, but if I tell myself to write 10 articles and then do some other tasks on the side, I will complete them all! Howmuch time do you devote to SEO and social networking to drive more traffic to your sites? SEO and content take the most time for me, like 80%. I can’t say in hours as it changes from time to time and I have several projects. What’s the most difficult thing about running your sites? Hackers. I didn’t know about them before, but one day my website went down and I spent ages restoring it. Always back up your data and website. What’s the best thing about running your sites? The feeling of being independent. What do you do to stay in shape, both physically andmentally? I played football in the past, went to the gym. Nowadays it is morning exercises and some running in the evening. If someone were visiting you, what’s the one place you’d definitely take them to see? If they came to Leeds I would take them to York (laughing). In one day you can see beautiful architecture, feel the British culture and try some good ales! When you need to get as far away from work as possible, where do you go? I work almost always; even when I am on so-called holiday I have to take care of my websites and answer e-mail. It does take around one hour a day, so it is not that bad a problem for me. We know you just got back from a trip to Croatia and Serbia. How was the trip? It was 35 degrees (Celsius) most of the time, so I really relaxed and gained some en- ergy to work hard! What’s your all-time favorite movie? Peaceful Warrior — a good motivational movie that I recommend everyone watch. If you could invite any five people, living or dead, to dinner, who would they be? Hard question . . . Richard Branson, Henry Ford, Jose Mourinho, Adrian Newey and probably Elon Musk. What are three things that nobody knows about you? Wait . . . if I tell them to you now, someone is going to know about those things. I prefer to keep them to myself. GPWA AFFILIATE INTERVIEW SERIES GPWA Affiliate Interview Series