Do you have what it takes to be crowned the 2014 Warrior Internet Marketer of the Year?

I don't think it will drive more sales but not a bad thing to possibly getting an extra 10k for doing business as usual.

You never know until you test this stuff.

The title, 2014 Warrior Internet Marketer of the Year, is certainly misleading.

Since all Warrior Internet Marketers don't use Warrior payments, and the title and prize money can only be gained by those that do, the potential field from which the winner will be chosen is very limited compared to the 700-800K Warrior members total, whatever that is now.

Marketers in tiny niches, those with inexpensive products, those that serve larger corporations (where the account is not in their name), those whose funnels are already locked in to other payment transaction companies, and many others have no chance of winning regardless of the fact that they may be the very best marketers on the planet.

The real name of the contest should be

I can tell you with 100% certainty that neither JVZoo or Warrior Plus would want to send their buyers list over to purchase a product using Warrior Payments for a possibility of making $10,000. That's chump change to those guys. They can make that in a decent daily promo on their own platform. So it's definitely not going to entice that to happen.

I can also tell you with 99% certainty that the 'whales' they are trying to attract with a competition like this will not bite. I have a buyers list of over 28,000 people and would never send them over to a forum offer where they end up on the Warrior Payment list getting sent daily emails about new products. Not even $10,000 would entice me to do that because the damage that would do to my list of buyers would be worth wayyyy more to me than $10,000. Besides, I can make that money in a decent weekly promo to my list so it serves no purpose for me to do that.

I remember reading somewhere from Frank Kern where he said the exact same thing. We all know he has lists of hundreds of thousands of people and he always said that he never ever promoted ANY forum offers, no matter how good the product was. He said the damage done to his list by promoting such an offer makes any money earnt from the promotion totally insignificant.

Sure, they might attract some new sellers to start taking a bit more action but this type of thing won't really attract the big sellers back into promoting forum offers like this. It just makes no financial sense to those guys.

Yeh it will be interesting to see everyone's tactics.

Alaister has said that the competition includes all sales of all products not just one so the biggest marketers who are able to get in early and start pumping out awesome products will have the best chances.

Here's the biggest reason why I don't at this point. I've worked very hard for my reputation as a seller here. Never mind that I'm sometimes too opinionated yada yada yada. My reputation as a seller is sterling. I take care of my customers and I don't ever launch half baked shoddy products and I always overdeliver.

Every now and then a troll will hit my threads, as they do everyone else's. These are obvious trolls and mods remove them fairly quickly.

Your rating system gives the trolls the tools to damage a reputation that I've worked very hard on. I've been monitoring the rating system carefully and it is as I expected it to be. I'm not a newcomer to rating systems. One jerk in Flippa gave me a bad rating because he asked me to do something for him and I tried to explain that I need his password to his cpanel to do that. He refused to give it to me and gave me a bad rating. So I've had to tolerate a 99% rating on Flippa for years now because of one assmonkey. Same with Elance. My rating was at least 98% and it was one or two customers who wanted to hold me hostage to give them extra service without paying for it. I know they are still great ratings, but I'm anal like that. It irks me to this day.

Here's an example I see today:

Seller now has a 0 rating because of:
"so how do you implement this plug, how do you use this software. I need help configuring."

Obviously, they should have asked the seller this question rather than rate 0 and type that in the rating system.

Here's another one
"product link does not work"

This again is a technical thing that is easily fixed and should be addressed in the thread, not the rating system. This is a well known seller that now has a 0 rating.

Another one who brought overall score down by a technical question
"I cant install this program i dont know why , it just shows message like "The parameter is incorrect".. ;/"

Another jerk who gave a 0 rating
"to good to be true, I rather wait to see the reviews!"

Obviously the above rater hasn't even reviewed the product himself.

Two more technical glitches that weren't discussed in the thread, resulting in a 0 and 1.0 rating

"Hi I have not received the download ;link?"
"Erros is what I am getting"

If you'd asked me if I would want Frank Kern's or W+/JVzoo list, I'd take the W+/JVzoo list every time, full of proven shiny object seekers and no tire kickers. Pure buyers list

If you never promote products, you are still building them a buyers list just by using them. Most of the big vendors drive their own traffic, so JVzoo/W+ conveniently checks the subscribe box for them. We know how well automatically checking boxes for people, works.

I think his point is...

1. The big guys won't bother because it's chump change to them. It's not worth the damage to their list sending them to a forum offer.

and

2. The little guys won't bother because they will assume one of the big guys will take it out... as usual.

If they want to get action in the WSO forum, they should instead do a contest based on sales. Any seller who makes 1,000+ sales before the end of the years gets a $1,000 bonus. Any seller who makes 2,000+ sales gets a $2,000 bonus, etc. This way each individual seller has a reason to ramp up sales... rather than just having the one prize that most people will assume is well out of their reach.