Comments on: Top Affiliate Challenge – Epic Failure?

By: Why I Think The Top Affiliate Challenge Sucks Balls : All the shit that’s fit to rake

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:47:17 +0000

[...] like a lot of others have similar feelings about [...]

By: Black Jack

Black Jack — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:51:53 +0000

The show is more linkbait for the people involved.
I read blogs like this one and have learned a lot.

Once I saw some of the people involved, I knew it was the same ole
carrot in front of the newbie type tactics.

By: big jason

big jason — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:56:59 +0000

i hope so too and believe he will.

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:43:22 +0000

Yeah, I remember them showing Shoe talking about incentive offers for a minute but they didn’t even say that he was talking about incentive offers…

He was just like we can offer gift cards if people complete offers… Hopefully no buddy goes out and offers gift cards now on regular offers!

It would of been nice for them to show more information on what incentive offers are and how their used, etc. I believe that would of helped a lot of new people…

Well, I’m still hopeful that Thor takes all the reviews out there and changes things in some of the upcoming episodes and provides more education…

By: big jason

big jason — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:46:42 +0000

just fyi. shoe took us through a complete run down on the whiteboard at his office on how we were going to kick ass, and all of it was on camera. several times insisted the camera come over and film actual strategies as well.

By: The First Days of the Top Affiliate Challenge | Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:58:35 +0000

[...] Epic Failure with the Web Stream. We are streaming 200-300MB files for the show and delivering pretty good quality for the compression. At least we are now. When the first episode launched I dramatically underestimated the number of people who would tune in out of curiosity. [...]

By: Jonathan van Clute

Jonathan van Clute — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:24:16 +0000

Wow, harsh review… but I really can’t argue with it either, though I wish I could. I’m still personally optimistic that the educational component is coming. That is after all the biggest reason why I signed onto this insanity!

Seriously, give it a chance and let’s see what happens. I’ve never been involved in a “reality” show before, and have never even watched one… so to me this entire experience is REALLY bizarre and surreal. But I came to play and I play to win so… we’ll see what happens from here!

Jonathan van Clute

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http://www.LPGen.com

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:21:48 +0000

Hey Thor, I’ll definitely give my review a follow up after a few more episodes have been released and I truly hope you guys turn it around as I feel it will be good in helping new affiliates if it does truly start to information on exactly how to do affiliate marketing.

Also, just to note, my review wasn’t only on the first episode but also the second as I watched them both before posting my review.

By: Thor Schrock

Thor Schrock — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:42:52 +0000

Thank you for the post and the review. There is absolutely no doubt that we completely underestimated the demand levels on the first episode. We have added two more dual core xeon servers and a frontier load balancer and the show is streaming smoothly now. It really sucked to send the show to Google video, but we had a choice between delivering a less than ideal product or just not delivering.

I shoulder the blame for that miscalculation. As for the production quality, we really should have slotted two days for the first episode production. After that we could go 24 hour delayed. We had to interview all 17 cast members twice the first day, explain the rules and all of the other stuff… A LOT of tape to process in 24 hours.

Although you were clearly disappointed with the first episode, I encourage you to watch a couple more before you make a complete judgment. There is no doubt we are getting better at what we are doing.

NIM had months to produce and we have hours. With that said there is definitely room for improvement and we are doing so every hour.

By: Jarret

Jarret — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:33:16 +0000

Yeah, I have to totally agree with you. I’ve only watched the first video and was extremely disappointed. Just like you said, everything about the video is LAME!

I am quite new to affiliate marketing and was hoping that the show would actually be able to teach me something, however I highly doubt that I will be able to learn anything of any value whatsoever from the TAC.

It isn’t a question of whether or not it is an epic failure, because IT IS an epic failure.