Today, finally got the reports back from the Dr., no cancer but will need from follow up surgery for one thing I have - all in all not bad could be allot worse!!!
I put a note out today through our ShareAsale program to all the affiliates and I want to share that with all of you as well - I hope I made some good points.
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Hi, first thank you for joining the Xfuel affiliate program. We have a diverse group of affiliates now from professional marketers to video gamer teams and players. the professionals know what to do and how to make sales and again thank you for your efforts as I see some are starting to pay off!!!
For the gamer crowd, I visit your sites and see the banners, your doing a good job - thanks! I feel I need to remind some of you that your business is different than most affiliates, you host forum sites, chat areas or social networking sites.
To pick up the pace of your sales you must start telling your readers / followers to "buy the product". There is nothing wrong with that, that is why we did the "support this site" banners. Don't be afraid to tell them, "Hey why buy Monster or Red Bull when Xfuel is better and by buying xfuel we do make some money off of it and that keeps this site open with all the things you enjoy on here"
I watched the other night for the first time the movie "Yes man" with Jim Carrey, I don't know if the movie was a success or not but it made some great points. The main point is "say yes", stop saying "no" and good things will happen which they did. What your doing with us as affiliates in the gaming space is brand new, never done before - you are making history!!!
You have to get out and tell people "Yes, it's ok, buy Xfuel" and they will. Ive gotten too many notes from gamers going, "nothing has sold yet!". I look at their site, tell them what is wrong and what to change and most of all change their attitude and they say "NO" by doing nothing. The people that said "YES" and changed things got hits, plain and simple, the more hits the more sales, the more money - "YES" breads success - don't forget that!!!
Joe Gere
ps - don't forget you can write to me anytime jgere@aboutmelabs.com, I'm here to help and answer any questions you might have about anything!!!!
Monday, November 23, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Xfuel Energy Shot Launches Mini Site
Xfuel the xtreme energy shot for gamers has launched a mini site today as a response to our gamers requesting a place to go to see our sponsorship video and learn more about our lucrative affiliate program.
Howard Panes Director of marketing says "I can't believe the hundreds of sign ups we have had in the past 3 weeks as well as the positive feedback from our customers. Xfuel is just Xploding from all ends as we are signing joint venture deals almost every other day. Get ready everyone there is going to be an explosion in the 2 ounce energy shot market real soon. Choose a side and stick with it!
By the way check out the site now!
Xfuel Mini Site
Howard Panes Director of marketing says "I can't believe the hundreds of sign ups we have had in the past 3 weeks as well as the positive feedback from our customers. Xfuel is just Xploding from all ends as we are signing joint venture deals almost every other day. Get ready everyone there is going to be an explosion in the 2 ounce energy shot market real soon. Choose a side and stick with it!
By the way check out the site now!
Xfuel Mini Site
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Xfuel - Modern Warfare 2 [Midnight Release Party]
The most anticipated game of 2009 is finally here - Modern Warfare 2!! What's better then getting the game on midnight the day it comes out? GETTING IT EARLIER, of course! We took advantage of our situation - since we got the game early we thought, "Hey, why not show up at a GameStop midnight release party and let others play the game early as well on the big screen!?" And that's exactally what we did. It was awesome!!!
Make money selling Xfuel today:
http://shop.drinxfuel.com
Make money selling Xfuel today:
http://shop.drinxfuel.com
Monday, November 16, 2009
Xfuel energy boards the Fenix Down bandwagon
Howie did a really good thing, he went to the expo in Philly which by most accounts wasn't very good at all. We had tons of people telling us to have a booth there and like Howie said to me , "you would have put a gun to your head it was empty!"
He did a great find there with Fenix Down, below is the press release as we worked out the details to our deal now but basically these guys own a 10,000 sq ft studio in NY. they do everything from audio to video to green screen or is that blue screen - who cares it's a friggin screen of some type!
Anyway we very happy to partner with them and we are going to be doing some cool things, look for us on TV soon with this new concept - thanks again, listen to their music, very cool band, great people - you'll love it!
Xfuel energy boards the Fenix Down bandwagon
Xfuel has grabbed hold of video game music sensation Fenix Down to become the official sound of the Energy Shot Company. Howard Panes was introduced to the band at this year’s Games X Convention in Philadelphia. Panes was quick to point out, “I realized right away these were the guys we needed. Xfuel needed a sound, a personality, and Fenix Down is able to give us that, and they’re gamers as well!”
Fenix Down (found at www.fenixdown.com) was founded by Tony Hanson and has been playing together since 2004. The band is noted for creating songs that are powerful, emotional and driving, as well as being influenced by Final Fantasy and other video game music. Fenix Down has brought something innovative to today’s music with their first single, “I’m Ready”- a winner of the Fuse TV Video Contest- their song “Fallen”- used for GameX- as well as their song “Heroes & Villains”- picked up by FOX NFL, all a tribute to the band’s climbing popularity. When asked about the project Tony Hanson replied, “We are excited to be working with Xfuel. It’s so great to see more and more things made for gamers out there. We hope to add a musical impact to everything going on!”
When asked about the collaboration, Alex Gere noted, “This is a good fit for us, we plan on having Fenix Down traveling with us to some of our events in 2010, and it will add another dimension to our Guitar Hero Challenge show. We are going to bring our show to The Next Level, by having the band there LIVE and converting some of their music to play in the game – no one, I mean no one is doing anything close, playing a Guitar Hero type game alongside the live band.” There was off the record mention of collaboration with some Music TV programs as well, and Alex ended the interview with his usual, “At Xfuel, we do it first and better than anyone.”
Xfuel formulated from the ground up to be a performance enhancing drink. Unlike their competitors, it has no sugars, no carbs and no calories. Full of healthy vitamins and an energy formula that is designed for a smoother incline with longer lastly energy with no abrupt crash like most energy drinks. Xfuel’s bottled in a convenient 2oz container without all the extra water that is used to keep the sugars dissolved in their competitors’ drinks – no sugar, no extra water, smaller size! Xfuel has steady energy, increased awareness, focus and stamina without the bad stuff. Xfuel is formulated for gamers who are required to stay calm, cool, and collected, in other words focused. Their non-carbonated formula is perfect for all virtual athletes where carbonation can lead to upset stomach and nausea under moments of extreme mental duress.
Xfuel (found at www.xfuel4gamers.com) for the new generation of savvy energy drink consumers - blended, bottled, printed and packaged in the United States of America.
Contact:
Jennifer Gere c/o
Xfuel
615 S Livingston Ave
Livingston, NJ 07039
973-992-8670
He did a great find there with Fenix Down, below is the press release as we worked out the details to our deal now but basically these guys own a 10,000 sq ft studio in NY. they do everything from audio to video to green screen or is that blue screen - who cares it's a friggin screen of some type!
Anyway we very happy to partner with them and we are going to be doing some cool things, look for us on TV soon with this new concept - thanks again, listen to their music, very cool band, great people - you'll love it!
Xfuel energy boards the Fenix Down bandwagon
Xfuel has grabbed hold of video game music sensation Fenix Down to become the official sound of the Energy Shot Company. Howard Panes was introduced to the band at this year’s Games X Convention in Philadelphia. Panes was quick to point out, “I realized right away these were the guys we needed. Xfuel needed a sound, a personality, and Fenix Down is able to give us that, and they’re gamers as well!”
Fenix Down (found at www.fenixdown.com) was founded by Tony Hanson and has been playing together since 2004. The band is noted for creating songs that are powerful, emotional and driving, as well as being influenced by Final Fantasy and other video game music. Fenix Down has brought something innovative to today’s music with their first single, “I’m Ready”- a winner of the Fuse TV Video Contest- their song “Fallen”- used for GameX- as well as their song “Heroes & Villains”- picked up by FOX NFL, all a tribute to the band’s climbing popularity. When asked about the project Tony Hanson replied, “We are excited to be working with Xfuel. It’s so great to see more and more things made for gamers out there. We hope to add a musical impact to everything going on!”
When asked about the collaboration, Alex Gere noted, “This is a good fit for us, we plan on having Fenix Down traveling with us to some of our events in 2010, and it will add another dimension to our Guitar Hero Challenge show. We are going to bring our show to The Next Level, by having the band there LIVE and converting some of their music to play in the game – no one, I mean no one is doing anything close, playing a Guitar Hero type game alongside the live band.” There was off the record mention of collaboration with some Music TV programs as well, and Alex ended the interview with his usual, “At Xfuel, we do it first and better than anyone.”
Xfuel formulated from the ground up to be a performance enhancing drink. Unlike their competitors, it has no sugars, no carbs and no calories. Full of healthy vitamins and an energy formula that is designed for a smoother incline with longer lastly energy with no abrupt crash like most energy drinks. Xfuel’s bottled in a convenient 2oz container without all the extra water that is used to keep the sugars dissolved in their competitors’ drinks – no sugar, no extra water, smaller size! Xfuel has steady energy, increased awareness, focus and stamina without the bad stuff. Xfuel is formulated for gamers who are required to stay calm, cool, and collected, in other words focused. Their non-carbonated formula is perfect for all virtual athletes where carbonation can lead to upset stomach and nausea under moments of extreme mental duress.
Xfuel (found at www.xfuel4gamers.com) for the new generation of savvy energy drink consumers - blended, bottled, printed and packaged in the United States of America.
Contact:
Jennifer Gere c/o
Xfuel
615 S Livingston Ave
Livingston, NJ 07039
973-992-8670
Thursday, November 12, 2009
I'mmmm Backkkkk!
All right, got back Sunday and Monday went to the DR for some biopsies on 3 possible skin cancer spots so I'm waiting for those results now - but we did have a press release this week and it's here below and I'm going to get back to writing so I can piss off some more of you - LOL! Ok really I guess I do but hey if you can't take a joke - screw ya!
This release is world wide now, so hop on it or be left behind!
Xfuel offers sponsorship package to all gamers
Xfuel has joined up with ShareASale to bring gamers the ultimate affiliate based sponsorship package. The program is open to all teams, single players and gaming websites and offers unlimited sponsorship dollars. Xfuel’s new program is based solely on the participants’ level of commitment and there is no limit as to the amount of money one can get from their sponsorship.
When asked about the program Troy Tuttle, VP Southern Region replied, “Gamers are hammering on us everyday to ‘partner’ with Xfuel, we needed a way to really help them. A few tee shirts or some free drinks is not what gamers need, they need a way to pay in real dollars for tournament entry fees, travel, uniforms and new games!” Details of the sponsorships are posted at Xfuel on-line store located at www.gamersonxfuel.com and through ShareASale. There is no upfront cost to join ShareASale and once gamers become familiar with how easily they can make money through Xfuel, the company is hoping the gamers will expand into other programs that ShareASale offers as well.
Founder Alex Gere shared his vision of the Xfuel sponsorship with us, “I was very disheartened by many of my fellow gamers, many are far better at web design, SEO and overall driving of traffic than I am, or probably can ever be. Xfuel wanted an incentive for gamers to start making money on-line and not to work at McDonald’s. To have a real source of income that is dependant on how much effort they put into it. My father wrote on his blog one day about how no matter how many burgers you make at Burger King in 1 hour you still get the same amount of money and depending on how smart you work at our program determines how much money you can make. Our first trial gamers made $72 in less than 2 hours – try to make $36 / hr while you’re in High School or flipping burgers!.”
Xfuel formulated from the ground up to be a performance enhancing drink. Unlike their competitors it has no sugars, no carbs and no calories. Full of healthy vitamins and an energy formula that is designed for a smoother incline with longer lastly energy with no abrupt crash like most energy drinks. Xfuel’s bottled in a convenient 2oz container without all the extra water that is used to keep the sugars dissolved in their competitors’ drinks – no sugar, no extra water, smaller size! Xfuel has steady energy, increased awareness, focus and stamina without the bad stuff. Xfuel’s is formulated for gamers who are required to stay calm, cool, and collected, in other words focused. Their non-carbonated formula is perfect for all virtual athletes where carbonation can lead to upset stomach and nausea under moments of extreme mental duress.
Xfuel for the new generation of savvy energy drink consumers - blended, bottled, printed and packaged in the United States of America.
This release is world wide now, so hop on it or be left behind!
Xfuel offers sponsorship package to all gamers
Xfuel has joined up with ShareASale to bring gamers the ultimate affiliate based sponsorship package. The program is open to all teams, single players and gaming websites and offers unlimited sponsorship dollars. Xfuel’s new program is based solely on the participants’ level of commitment and there is no limit as to the amount of money one can get from their sponsorship.
When asked about the program Troy Tuttle, VP Southern Region replied, “Gamers are hammering on us everyday to ‘partner’ with Xfuel, we needed a way to really help them. A few tee shirts or some free drinks is not what gamers need, they need a way to pay in real dollars for tournament entry fees, travel, uniforms and new games!” Details of the sponsorships are posted at Xfuel on-line store located at www.gamersonxfuel.com and through ShareASale. There is no upfront cost to join ShareASale and once gamers become familiar with how easily they can make money through Xfuel, the company is hoping the gamers will expand into other programs that ShareASale offers as well.
Founder Alex Gere shared his vision of the Xfuel sponsorship with us, “I was very disheartened by many of my fellow gamers, many are far better at web design, SEO and overall driving of traffic than I am, or probably can ever be. Xfuel wanted an incentive for gamers to start making money on-line and not to work at McDonald’s. To have a real source of income that is dependant on how much effort they put into it. My father wrote on his blog one day about how no matter how many burgers you make at Burger King in 1 hour you still get the same amount of money and depending on how smart you work at our program determines how much money you can make. Our first trial gamers made $72 in less than 2 hours – try to make $36 / hr while you’re in High School or flipping burgers!.”
Xfuel formulated from the ground up to be a performance enhancing drink. Unlike their competitors it has no sugars, no carbs and no calories. Full of healthy vitamins and an energy formula that is designed for a smoother incline with longer lastly energy with no abrupt crash like most energy drinks. Xfuel’s bottled in a convenient 2oz container without all the extra water that is used to keep the sugars dissolved in their competitors’ drinks – no sugar, no extra water, smaller size! Xfuel has steady energy, increased awareness, focus and stamina without the bad stuff. Xfuel’s is formulated for gamers who are required to stay calm, cool, and collected, in other words focused. Their non-carbonated formula is perfect for all virtual athletes where carbonation can lead to upset stomach and nausea under moments of extreme mental duress.
Xfuel for the new generation of savvy energy drink consumers - blended, bottled, printed and packaged in the United States of America.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Still on vacation with the wife!
I'll tell this 3rd person so it sounds better!
One very nice day, Joe (me) was riding his Harley on the beach in Nassau.
There came a point when he was startled by a voice from the clouds...it was God talking to him.
God said..."I am impressed with your life style and things you do for the gaming community and I want to grant you one wish"
Joe gave it a bit of thought and said "build a bridge from here to New Jersey so I can ride my bike over here."
God looked at him and said "Joe, be reasonable. That will take far too many natural resources, it will be a problem for shipping...all in all, it is not worth the effort. Make a different wish"
Joe leaned back and thought a bit and said "God, please make it possible for men to understand women. What makes them happy? What makes them sad? What can men to to completely satisfy women and make them content?"
After a bit of silence, God turned to Joe and said "would you like two lanes or four lanes on that bridge?"
One very nice day, Joe (me) was riding his Harley on the beach in Nassau.
There came a point when he was startled by a voice from the clouds...it was God talking to him.
God said..."I am impressed with your life style and things you do for the gaming community and I want to grant you one wish"
Joe gave it a bit of thought and said "build a bridge from here to New Jersey so I can ride my bike over here."
God looked at him and said "Joe, be reasonable. That will take far too many natural resources, it will be a problem for shipping...all in all, it is not worth the effort. Make a different wish"
Joe leaned back and thought a bit and said "God, please make it possible for men to understand women. What makes them happy? What makes them sad? What can men to to completely satisfy women and make them content?"
After a bit of silence, God turned to Joe and said "would you like two lanes or four lanes on that bridge?"
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Rob & Big - Do work son!
One of our favorite TV shows is Rob and Big, we watch it all the time as a family, me and the 3 kids!
Big Black has an expression and it's "Do Work Son", look it up on-line - "To get someone motivated to do something. When one "does work" they are accomplishing a task. No matter how small or large the task is they are still doing work. Do Work."
Well today is my Do Work to you speech because I am so impressed by one of Xfuel drinkers!
I'll only use first names here - one of our fans Nick W believes in the Xfuel product, even more than believe he read what I've been writing and wanted to get out there & sell it - I want to convey his story and the amount of money he's going to make selling it directly to his friends and people in school.
Nick brought 24 bottles, he pre-sells all 24 bottles so he takes in $72 in 48 hours. $36 of those are his to keep, $36 paid for the first 24 bottles.
If Nick takes the $72 and buys more product and sells that in one week, he makes $72 more, he now has $144 and that is in under 2 weeks. Nick thinks he can double that with ease. Nick will buy $144 worth of Xfuel & sell that and make $144 or have $288 in gross sales.
If he just stays right there and sells $288 a week worth of Xfuel (which is under 50 bottles a week) Nick will make $7,600 in cash in one year to put in his pocket.
No bullshit, no lies and I hope he replies to this, but at that simple rate of $144 a week profit he makes $7,600 this year!!!!
So, when you people write and say "I want $50 for travel money" and I tell you to do this and you get all upset and laugh and call me names and say "that's bullshit man!"
I want you to think of Nick W., Rob and Big and the fact that Nick W is 14 years old and is way on his way to learning how to make money.
ps not to insult you but when you have a "job" regardless of what it pays you only "earn money", Nick is learning how to "make money" a huge difference!
It's your life, use it wisely!
Big Black has an expression and it's "Do Work Son", look it up on-line - "To get someone motivated to do something. When one "does work" they are accomplishing a task. No matter how small or large the task is they are still doing work. Do Work."
Well today is my Do Work to you speech because I am so impressed by one of Xfuel drinkers!
I'll only use first names here - one of our fans Nick W believes in the Xfuel product, even more than believe he read what I've been writing and wanted to get out there & sell it - I want to convey his story and the amount of money he's going to make selling it directly to his friends and people in school.
Nick brought 24 bottles, he pre-sells all 24 bottles so he takes in $72 in 48 hours. $36 of those are his to keep, $36 paid for the first 24 bottles.
If Nick takes the $72 and buys more product and sells that in one week, he makes $72 more, he now has $144 and that is in under 2 weeks. Nick thinks he can double that with ease. Nick will buy $144 worth of Xfuel & sell that and make $144 or have $288 in gross sales.
If he just stays right there and sells $288 a week worth of Xfuel (which is under 50 bottles a week) Nick will make $7,600 in cash in one year to put in his pocket.
No bullshit, no lies and I hope he replies to this, but at that simple rate of $144 a week profit he makes $7,600 this year!!!!
So, when you people write and say "I want $50 for travel money" and I tell you to do this and you get all upset and laugh and call me names and say "that's bullshit man!"
I want you to think of Nick W., Rob and Big and the fact that Nick W is 14 years old and is way on his way to learning how to make money.
ps not to insult you but when you have a "job" regardless of what it pays you only "earn money", Nick is learning how to "make money" a huge difference!
It's your life, use it wisely!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
vacation
The kids have 3 days off this week so a road trip is order might not be blogging but I'm sure some of you won't miss that!
I want you check something out, we are running a sale at the store on all Xfuel drinks because we broke the 100 sponsor affiliate mark in under 2 weeks!!!
We also paid out over $1,000 in sponsorship / commission moneys in that week and a half. When this gets rocking there should be no problem paying out up to $10,000 a week in sponsorship cash!!!!
If you want your share you'll go here http://www.shop.drinkxfuel.com/ and follow the instructions, if you're not getting money, cold cash money and are happy with people like Bawls giving you a couple free cans of soda - go right ahead and pass us up!!! I know a free tee-shirt or discounts on head sets is important to you, hey everybody needs 4 pairs of headsets - LOL!
Have a nice week, by the time I get back, we'll probably have paid out another $1,000 - $1,500 so that can be yours, be smart, work smart - see ya!
I want you check something out, we are running a sale at the store on all Xfuel drinks because we broke the 100 sponsor affiliate mark in under 2 weeks!!!
We also paid out over $1,000 in sponsorship / commission moneys in that week and a half. When this gets rocking there should be no problem paying out up to $10,000 a week in sponsorship cash!!!!
If you want your share you'll go here http://www.shop.drinkxfuel.com/ and follow the instructions, if you're not getting money, cold cash money and are happy with people like Bawls giving you a couple free cans of soda - go right ahead and pass us up!!! I know a free tee-shirt or discounts on head sets is important to you, hey everybody needs 4 pairs of headsets - LOL!
Have a nice week, by the time I get back, we'll probably have paid out another $1,000 - $1,500 so that can be yours, be smart, work smart - see ya!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Do not give up on your dreams or your sites
Howie emails the blogs out some days so rather than a link (which I hate and won't open 99% of the time) he emails out the whole text version of it. What I find funny about this is since he started this we've gotten a few, "Joe you're too harsh, Joe you're pushing the kids to work for you and that is terrible, Joe you're offensive, yada, yada, yada."
Would you like me to tell you to keep working day and night on your gamer website just the way you've been and you'll be just like MLG, which many of you reference in your notes, "We'll be the next MLG, we'll be bigger than MLG!"
I'm pretty sure about 99.9% you won't be the next MLG and anyone that tells you, you will is just being nice to you. I get comments like, "these kids have dreams and you crush them!"
What's more crushing letting you go down a path that 99.9999% of the gaming websites go which is start out slow, build a few followers and find out it takes money to keep the site going, that people can't volunteer their time forever and the sites die a slow death. How many sites do you come across that have not had activity for weeks or months - plenty!!! That money allows you to get technology into your site and keep viewers interested, offer new things, etc - what friggin part of that is not true? Someone have balls enough to make a comment on that and stop these behind the scenes remarks to me!
So, what's the difference between you and MLG - they have money you don't - how about that?
My father said to me when I wanted to expand the trucking business into a new market, "Joey, if you can't make money with 1 truck you won't be able to make money with 10 trucks." He was right, if you start something as a loser it stays a loser. Wal-Mart makes huge money because it sells lots of things to lots of people - did Sam Walton open his first store by saying, "I'm going to loose money on this one store and until we open 10 stores we won't a dime"?
You know the answer, Sam Walton made money on his first store and that enabled him to get 2 stores and so on. If his first store was a loser he would have not been able to open any more stores and would have closed!
This is one lesson I keep trying to get across to you all, if you start your site on the premise that "I will put all this time into it and then after "enough" members then I can get advertisers to pay me to be on my site", does not really work all that well unless you have the money to carry you until it gets big enough - money to buy technology, money to pay workers, money to get to events and cover them, etc, etc.
What I don't want to happen is for you to give up on your dreams and ambitions. So for those few people that are MF*ing me, go to Hell!
I'm betting I do more when this is over to help more young people get ahead than you will by telling them what they want to hear and when they fail or fold will you be standing there with check to bail them out or will you tell them "You tried, it's OK"????
Why not try and start them out right and on a good footing????
Would you like me to tell you to keep working day and night on your gamer website just the way you've been and you'll be just like MLG, which many of you reference in your notes, "We'll be the next MLG, we'll be bigger than MLG!"
I'm pretty sure about 99.9% you won't be the next MLG and anyone that tells you, you will is just being nice to you. I get comments like, "these kids have dreams and you crush them!"
What's more crushing letting you go down a path that 99.9999% of the gaming websites go which is start out slow, build a few followers and find out it takes money to keep the site going, that people can't volunteer their time forever and the sites die a slow death. How many sites do you come across that have not had activity for weeks or months - plenty!!! That money allows you to get technology into your site and keep viewers interested, offer new things, etc - what friggin part of that is not true? Someone have balls enough to make a comment on that and stop these behind the scenes remarks to me!
So, what's the difference between you and MLG - they have money you don't - how about that?
My father said to me when I wanted to expand the trucking business into a new market, "Joey, if you can't make money with 1 truck you won't be able to make money with 10 trucks." He was right, if you start something as a loser it stays a loser. Wal-Mart makes huge money because it sells lots of things to lots of people - did Sam Walton open his first store by saying, "I'm going to loose money on this one store and until we open 10 stores we won't a dime"?
You know the answer, Sam Walton made money on his first store and that enabled him to get 2 stores and so on. If his first store was a loser he would have not been able to open any more stores and would have closed!
This is one lesson I keep trying to get across to you all, if you start your site on the premise that "I will put all this time into it and then after "enough" members then I can get advertisers to pay me to be on my site", does not really work all that well unless you have the money to carry you until it gets big enough - money to buy technology, money to pay workers, money to get to events and cover them, etc, etc.
What I don't want to happen is for you to give up on your dreams and ambitions. So for those few people that are MF*ing me, go to Hell!
I'm betting I do more when this is over to help more young people get ahead than you will by telling them what they want to hear and when they fail or fold will you be standing there with check to bail them out or will you tell them "You tried, it's OK"????
Why not try and start them out right and on a good footing????
Friday, October 30, 2009
My Hero
Went to lunch with a couple banking types this past week, you know as this grows we need to worry about things like - where is the money coming from to grow this thing - small details!
We need people like this to get us to the next level even though these guys were so typical (I know they will read this), I play lacrosse, I'm into this or that - when I asked if they told other parents how their kid chain sawed somebody in Gears they couldn't relate to that.
The funny part was they could relate to other video games like playing Madden. So, we now had some common ground to make all my arguments about how large the video game market is and why they need to work with us.
One of the guys that was there was at the that New Year's Eve party from last year and remember seeing Alex aka "Frozenghost001" playing Guitar Hero. Although he didn't know that is how Xfuel started he did have some remembrance of the party so here's the story again with some new facts that I hope you gamers can relate to.
New Year's Eve 2008, Frozenghost001's 14th birthday and we're at the house of some good friends who our kids refer to as their "cousins".
The home owners have a couple Guitar Hero stations set-up for the kids to play at and there is a line of kids playing, as usual Alex is standing to the side and not playing. To say of these kids sucked, well that's being nice.
This family is a big "sports" family and all the kids there except ours were on the Football team, Wrestling team, etc - no gamers like my clan. So, I can see Alex is a little out of his element here with all these kids for a couple reasons:
1- he didn't know any of them except the people who's house we were at
2- he has nothing in common with anybody there because he is not a sports kid
3- all the boys are jacked on energy drinks (I know we make a real strong energy drink but these kids were like overdosing on them)
4- the girls are over the sports kids and Alex is standing alone
You can see testosterone in the room is flowing and Alex, he's not getting in the middle of it. I grab his friend the homeowner kid and tell him Alex is one of the Top 10 Guitar Hero players in the world and you need to get him playing.
He gets Alex to play and you know what happens next, 20 kids in row fall to the champ - he's now the Hero, people flock to him!
The rest is as it's been told, driving home, he says Xfuel and the rest is history but that is not important - what was important and I mean no disrespect to anyone was that for that night for those couple hours the gamer was bigger than the football player - the Hero!
Again, what seemed small at the time but stuck with me for days and ultimately made me do the research and go forward with Xfuel for Alex and Austin.
When I think about the whole adventure we've embarked on here over the last 10 months, one song comes to me over and over again, it's David Bowie's Hero's - please listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9kSDXz6nJA and in case you want the lyrics here they are http://www.lyricsdepot.com/david-bowie/heroes.html
I don't even know the point of writing this today other than to say "I was extra proud of my gamer son(s) that night, they were my Hero(s)."
We need people like this to get us to the next level even though these guys were so typical (I know they will read this), I play lacrosse, I'm into this or that - when I asked if they told other parents how their kid chain sawed somebody in Gears they couldn't relate to that.
The funny part was they could relate to other video games like playing Madden. So, we now had some common ground to make all my arguments about how large the video game market is and why they need to work with us.
One of the guys that was there was at the that New Year's Eve party from last year and remember seeing Alex aka "Frozenghost001" playing Guitar Hero. Although he didn't know that is how Xfuel started he did have some remembrance of the party so here's the story again with some new facts that I hope you gamers can relate to.
New Year's Eve 2008, Frozenghost001's 14th birthday and we're at the house of some good friends who our kids refer to as their "cousins".
The home owners have a couple Guitar Hero stations set-up for the kids to play at and there is a line of kids playing, as usual Alex is standing to the side and not playing. To say of these kids sucked, well that's being nice.
This family is a big "sports" family and all the kids there except ours were on the Football team, Wrestling team, etc - no gamers like my clan. So, I can see Alex is a little out of his element here with all these kids for a couple reasons:
1- he didn't know any of them except the people who's house we were at
2- he has nothing in common with anybody there because he is not a sports kid
3- all the boys are jacked on energy drinks (I know we make a real strong energy drink but these kids were like overdosing on them)
4- the girls are over the sports kids and Alex is standing alone
You can see testosterone in the room is flowing and Alex, he's not getting in the middle of it. I grab his friend the homeowner kid and tell him Alex is one of the Top 10 Guitar Hero players in the world and you need to get him playing.
He gets Alex to play and you know what happens next, 20 kids in row fall to the champ - he's now the Hero, people flock to him!
The rest is as it's been told, driving home, he says Xfuel and the rest is history but that is not important - what was important and I mean no disrespect to anyone was that for that night for those couple hours the gamer was bigger than the football player - the Hero!
Again, what seemed small at the time but stuck with me for days and ultimately made me do the research and go forward with Xfuel for Alex and Austin.
When I think about the whole adventure we've embarked on here over the last 10 months, one song comes to me over and over again, it's David Bowie's Hero's - please listen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9kSDXz6nJA and in case you want the lyrics here they are http://www.lyricsdepot.com/david-bowie/heroes.html
I don't even know the point of writing this today other than to say "I was extra proud of my gamer son(s) that night, they were my Hero(s)."
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Thank God, Josh has a goal!
First, I hope you all realize that my brashness is not to insult you (look at all the charity videos we do with gamers all over NJ and get no money for and very little exposure for - we promote video gamers in a positive light, not take advantage of them) but to get reactions out of you - I want you people to start standing up and thinking and take yourself to the next level! To be sponsored, really sponsored you need to run like a business.
Anyway, I got this note the other day and I'm going to tear into the author Josh a little but it's all in fun don't take it personal. I really do admire your drive and desire not to be a McDonald's fry cook and maybe you'll look at what you wrote a little more carefully and realize what you are actually saying?
lol McDonald's? i am 19 years old and i am in my working on my bachelors degree in database administration which makes 6 digits. so i was just doing this for my team bro. i dont think your an asshole i think your a f**king bum who thinks his big words are worth the time of people who read them. i read your shit and i think you don't know your dick from a hole in the ground. You have fun selling your cool aid bro. 30 years old......id be so embarrassed ....
You have to love these, like I said I at least got an emotion out of him. This is what I want to encourage some good dialogue and but please if what I'm saying is wrong, correct me and point out what parts of it are wrong - his note doesn't say anything I've said was wrong just that he doesn't like me - that's OK.
He did make my argument for many things I've said easy but I'll keep my sarcasms to a minimum here while dissecting his note.
If you have something to say which you think is worth while then PLEASE you can write it on the blog, I'm not offended you have an opinion that I would love to hear.
The point is you read it, you said you read it, therefore it is worth your time!
You say "your doing this just for your team", so begging which is asking for free stuff with nothing of substance in return is a good thing??? So, how is that different than "a f**king bum" how?
You think you'll get the 6 digit job how? By going in somewhere and saying "pay me and I'll show up to the office with your company shirt on"?
I do have to laugh about the BIG words, I try to write very simple and in complete sentences - sorry that is over your head - LOL, that was a joke, no offence!
I don't know how you say 30 years old, I've said it many times I'm 47 years old, I wish I was 30!!!! Is it sad I'm 47, very, I wish I was 19 again - I'm jealous!
I think the saying is "ass from a hole in the ground"? Your d**k sticks out and your ass goes inward - kind of like a hole in the ground - hence the saying!!!!
When you write, why do you only occasionally use capitals and punctuation - I would have thought if you wanted to slam me you would have at least got "Kool-Aid" spelled right???
Seriously, Josh I like your spunk and spirit and the point is to allot of what I'm saying is to get people like you to maybe look at things different and realize that to get your 6 digit job you need to be selling yourself. If you can't sell your website, sell a product or anything like that you'll do a very poor job of selling yourself for that job.
ps when you say your just doing it for your team, that means you know what you did or how you did it wasn't smart and that means your team isn't worth your full efforts - think about how you say things!
Thanks, you gave me something to write about!
Anyway, I got this note the other day and I'm going to tear into the author Josh a little but it's all in fun don't take it personal. I really do admire your drive and desire not to be a McDonald's fry cook and maybe you'll look at what you wrote a little more carefully and realize what you are actually saying?
lol McDonald's? i am 19 years old and i am in my working on my bachelors degree in database administration which makes 6 digits. so i was just doing this for my team bro. i dont think your an asshole i think your a f**king bum who thinks his big words are worth the time of people who read them. i read your shit and i think you don't know your dick from a hole in the ground. You have fun selling your cool aid bro. 30 years old......id be so embarrassed ....
You have to love these, like I said I at least got an emotion out of him. This is what I want to encourage some good dialogue and but please if what I'm saying is wrong, correct me and point out what parts of it are wrong - his note doesn't say anything I've said was wrong just that he doesn't like me - that's OK.
He did make my argument for many things I've said easy but I'll keep my sarcasms to a minimum here while dissecting his note.
If you have something to say which you think is worth while then PLEASE you can write it on the blog, I'm not offended you have an opinion that I would love to hear.
The point is you read it, you said you read it, therefore it is worth your time!
You say "your doing this just for your team", so begging which is asking for free stuff with nothing of substance in return is a good thing??? So, how is that different than "a f**king bum" how?
You think you'll get the 6 digit job how? By going in somewhere and saying "pay me and I'll show up to the office with your company shirt on"?
I do have to laugh about the BIG words, I try to write very simple and in complete sentences - sorry that is over your head - LOL, that was a joke, no offence!
I don't know how you say 30 years old, I've said it many times I'm 47 years old, I wish I was 30!!!! Is it sad I'm 47, very, I wish I was 19 again - I'm jealous!
I think the saying is "ass from a hole in the ground"? Your d**k sticks out and your ass goes inward - kind of like a hole in the ground - hence the saying!!!!
When you write, why do you only occasionally use capitals and punctuation - I would have thought if you wanted to slam me you would have at least got "Kool-Aid" spelled right???
Seriously, Josh I like your spunk and spirit and the point is to allot of what I'm saying is to get people like you to maybe look at things different and realize that to get your 6 digit job you need to be selling yourself. If you can't sell your website, sell a product or anything like that you'll do a very poor job of selling yourself for that job.
ps when you say your just doing it for your team, that means you know what you did or how you did it wasn't smart and that means your team isn't worth your full efforts - think about how you say things!
Thanks, you gave me something to write about!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Play Or Stay On The Bench
Let me start by introducing myself. Joe refers to me as the Events and Southern Regional VP here at XFuel. I am stationed in Texas and have a team of XFuel reps that work for me. I have not accomplished near what Joe has in his life but I have my many great accomplishments as well. I have grown many companies myself. I have had the great opportunity of managing multiple companies. Along with XFuel I currently am a national account manager for the largest third part IT leasing company in the nation, VAResources Inc. I manage small accounts you may of heard of called DELL, CDW, Ingram Micro, Xerox, and the list goes on and on. By the way I am only 24. How have I done this, because I sold myself. I made people believe in me, I performed beyond their expectations, and I didn't do something someone else couldn't do I did what other people didn't do. I am saying all this not to float my own boat but to establish the point I am about to make.
My main job with XFuel is to build the gaming communities and find the teams that will not just say they want to be a part of XFuel but that actually contribute. In case you guys haven't realized by now but being sponsored by a company isn't just what that company can do for you but also what you can do for the sponsor. Are you truly that foolish to think sponsors give money for no return? This is a business not a charity. Take my team of XFuel reps that work for me here in Texas for example, I don't pay these guys a dime, sure they get a free shirt and I give them a couple bottles of XFuel now and then but there is no pay. So why do they work for me? It's simple, the team I have is a group of older gamers (in their 20's) that work every day jobs but want more for themselves in the future. They see the big picture, they see that XFuel is growing and they see where it can lead them in the future. Stop your foolish thinking about what can XFuel give my team, what can XFuel pay for, and start thinking what can I do that will show XFuel my team is different, my team is dedicated to becoming more than just your average "I want free stuff" team. Joe has been trying to teach you guys this through the blog and some of you continually email us with your desperate "give me free stuff" request. If you are 8 years old I understand you can't grasp the concept but you kids 15+ have to wise up and see the opportunity smacking you in the face.
I am a big gamers myself and no I don't just say I play games I actually play competitively. I have coached many teams, play gamebattles, go to tournaments, MLG events, etc. If you question my gaming check me out on Xbox Live, gamertag TwoLoud. I know how the sponsorship programs work for gaming teams work and all that a sponsors will offer you is a discount on their product, and really how many pair of turtle beach headphones can you buy? Oh by the way they are selling their product and you best believe they are making a profit. Sponsors only give money to big time/pro teams like Str8 Rippin and honestly if you team was of that caliber you wouldn’t be emailing us for a sponsorship and free product, you would have sponsors coming to you. XFuel is doing something different, we are offering you a way to make $dollars that you can use for anything, planes tickets, tournament entry fees, hotel stays, etc. Team e2k (teame2k.net) has sold a lot of XFuel product to pay for their needs and if you were to ask Founder and CEO Legendz which of his sponsors over the years has been the most beneficial he would tell you XFuel, because we have provided a way for him to fund his teams. Really how hard is it to put a banner on your website and tell family, friends, and fans to buy?
So take the sponsorship we are offering through the affiliate program. XFuel will continue to fund teams through the affiliate program, it's your choice to be a part or not. This is an opportunity hitting you in the face what will you do, play or sit your ass on the bench and watch other teams become the stars? Will you be someone that says "I remember when XFuel started that affiliate program, I should of taken them up on that", or will you be the team that says "XFuel has helped me fund my team to the top"?
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Xfuel Affiliate program explained - a true partnership
I got a couple emails recently about our affiliate program and some of you need me to explain it a little better to you. I will try my best to make this easy.
Xfuel's Unlimited Sponsorship affiliate program is where people click on a banner or text-link that you pasted on a site and they are taken to the Xfuel store, when they buy any of our products you make a % of that sale in real $dollars$ that are deposited into your PayPal account.
There is no limit to how much $money$ we deposit into your PayPal account, the more people buy the more you make.
Many of you write to me about becoming "partners" as you like to say (you know I hate that term and expressed that on here before). Well, now with this program we are truely marketing partners, the more effort you put into making Xfuel successful puts more $money$ into your PayPal account. The best part of that is, your don't have to write me a BIG check to me our partner!
Here is how you join the Xfuel Unlimited Sponsorship affiliate program:
1- open a PayPal account
2- go here: http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantid=24516 and sign up to the program
if you have a website you can paste a banner or text link on it
if you do NOT have a website you can paste just text-links on any forum or website that allows you to paste a URL / link on there, like in your Bios or signatures. On Facebook you go to your Profile and to your Info and where it says website you can paste it there
----Banners are pictures you paste onto a website just like logos that take someone to the Xfuel store
----Text-links are words that are hyperlinks that take someone to the Xfuel store
Xfuel's Unlimited Sponsorship affiliate program is where people click on a banner or text-link that you pasted on a site and they are taken to the Xfuel store, when they buy any of our products you make a % of that sale in real $dollars$ that are deposited into your PayPal account.
There is no limit to how much $money$ we deposit into your PayPal account, the more people buy the more you make.
Many of you write to me about becoming "partners" as you like to say (you know I hate that term and expressed that on here before). Well, now with this program we are truely marketing partners, the more effort you put into making Xfuel successful puts more $money$ into your PayPal account. The best part of that is, your don't have to write me a BIG check to me our partner!
Here is how you join the Xfuel Unlimited Sponsorship affiliate program:
1- open a PayPal account
2- go here: http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantid=24516 and sign up to the program
if you have a website you can paste a banner or text link on it
if you do NOT have a website you can paste just text-links on any forum or website that allows you to paste a URL / link on there, like in your Bios or signatures. On Facebook you go to your Profile and to your Info and where it says website you can paste it there
----Banners are pictures you paste onto a website just like logos that take someone to the Xfuel store
----Text-links are words that are hyperlinks that take someone to the Xfuel store
3- you will have access to different banners and text-links, you may choose as many as you want to and paste them in as many places as you can. The more places you paste the more $money$ you will make!
4- those banners and text-links are coded specifically for you and are attached to your PayPal account. When someone clicks on them the program senses the computer it came from and stores that for 60 days. Anytime within 60 days that the same computer comes back to our store and buys anything, you will get money deposited into your PayPal account.
5- you can just put the banners and text-links out there and hope someone clicks on them and buys or............... you can help yourself by telling people to click on my links and buy Xfuel, any of the Xfuel shirts or any other team shirts that are for sale on our store.
6- if you buy things for yourself through your own banners and text-links you will receive a discount and that discounted is deposited into your PayPal account.
Whether your buying or selling our Xfuel products through your site, you get $money$ you can spend that on whatever you want to - it's your money!
Tough love toward the younger gneration
You may think I'm an asshole, that I like to burst young peoples dreams, but to me I'm not doing that. I'm trying to get them to stop wasteing time and energy that goes no where.
How many of you parents get upset seeing your kids sitting there on the computer all day and think, "Hell, I'll be supporting this dam kid till he's 45 at this rate!!!"
How many of you kids (kids to me is under 30 years old) look at where you live today and say "I'll never have my own house, a mercedes and so on - so Frig it, I'll just sit here."
When you work at McDonalds for $8.00 / hr, that means for every hour you flip burgers they think you've worth $8, right?
You sit at home build some great community websites and put 3-4 hours a day into it and recieve $0. That means you should stop doing that and go work at McDonalds, because at least they think you worth $8 an hour - on your own site you are worth NOTHING, NOT 1 SINGLE CENT IF YOU DON"T HAVE MONEY COMING IN FOR YOUR EFFORTS.
I sent this note to a gamer community website owner over the weekend. How he responded doesn't matter because if he can't understand this then all the "NO's" he gets from everyone else he just doesn't get and I feel, obligated to explain my position because someone needs to for a change!
Ok XXX, let's do something, you help me and you get to make money, how does that sound?
I need you to do what is below but let's make one thing clear, real clear. You think your site and your community has some worth, right? Or else you wouldn't be looking for free stuff from people like me. You do what I say below and let's see how much Xfuel you sell? Because if you do your job and tell people to buy it, not this lame shit of "Here is a banner to your site see what I did" - that does shit! But tell your people to buy it and if they don't then you'll really see what your site is worth to sponsors - nothing. I'm not being hard or mean, just giving you the facts real straight and honest.
Look you obviously put your heart and soul into this site and looks it, it's very nice but if all you want is a place to spend all your free time and that assumes your time is wroth ZERO dollars, then that's your choice to make. If you think your site is worth something like this site www.offshoreonly.com is then you need to show sponsors / whoever that your site generates money. Please go to www.offshoreonly.com you may not like it, think it's stupid, etc, etc but I know the people that started it and sold it for millions, yes millions of dollars 2 years ago!
You will say, "My site is better, nicer blah, blah, blah" but there site made money for it's advertisers therefore it had value - no sales / no worth.
Like the movie Wall Street "This is your wake up call Bud Fox"
1 - go to my blog www.xfuel.blogspot.com and read all of them for like 2 weeks back
2 - go here http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantid=24516 sign up to be an affiliate of ours and posts our banners on whatever sites you have.
That is how you help me, show me the banners and I'll send you a shirt
Joe Gere
Ps I admire everything you've done so far, very good but you won't get where you want to go with your approach.
How many of you parents get upset seeing your kids sitting there on the computer all day and think, "Hell, I'll be supporting this dam kid till he's 45 at this rate!!!"
How many of you kids (kids to me is under 30 years old) look at where you live today and say "I'll never have my own house, a mercedes and so on - so Frig it, I'll just sit here."
When you work at McDonalds for $8.00 / hr, that means for every hour you flip burgers they think you've worth $8, right?
You sit at home build some great community websites and put 3-4 hours a day into it and recieve $0. That means you should stop doing that and go work at McDonalds, because at least they think you worth $8 an hour - on your own site you are worth NOTHING, NOT 1 SINGLE CENT IF YOU DON"T HAVE MONEY COMING IN FOR YOUR EFFORTS.
I sent this note to a gamer community website owner over the weekend. How he responded doesn't matter because if he can't understand this then all the "NO's" he gets from everyone else he just doesn't get and I feel, obligated to explain my position because someone needs to for a change!
Ok XXX, let's do something, you help me and you get to make money, how does that sound?
I need you to do what is below but let's make one thing clear, real clear. You think your site and your community has some worth, right? Or else you wouldn't be looking for free stuff from people like me. You do what I say below and let's see how much Xfuel you sell? Because if you do your job and tell people to buy it, not this lame shit of "Here is a banner to your site see what I did" - that does shit! But tell your people to buy it and if they don't then you'll really see what your site is worth to sponsors - nothing. I'm not being hard or mean, just giving you the facts real straight and honest.
Look you obviously put your heart and soul into this site and looks it, it's very nice but if all you want is a place to spend all your free time and that assumes your time is wroth ZERO dollars, then that's your choice to make. If you think your site is worth something like this site www.offshoreonly.com is then you need to show sponsors / whoever that your site generates money. Please go to www.offshoreonly.com you may not like it, think it's stupid, etc, etc but I know the people that started it and sold it for millions, yes millions of dollars 2 years ago!
You will say, "My site is better, nicer blah, blah, blah" but there site made money for it's advertisers therefore it had value - no sales / no worth.
Like the movie Wall Street "This is your wake up call Bud Fox"
1 - go to my blog www.xfuel.blogspot.com and read all of them for like 2 weeks back
2 - go here http://www.shareasale.com/shareasale.cfm?merchantid=24516 sign up to be an affiliate of ours and posts our banners on whatever sites you have.
That is how you help me, show me the banners and I'll send you a shirt
Joe Gere
Ps I admire everything you've done so far, very good but you won't get where you want to go with your approach.
Monday, October 26, 2009
I bet on you the gamers - read this PLEASE!
You ever watch the movie Trading Places with Eddie Murphy?
In case you haven’t it goes like this, 2 Wall Street type brothers make a bet.
The bet is you take a common criminal and switch him with a successful businessman and the common criminal will become a successful businessman in the right environment and the successful businessman will resort to crime once he's lost his rich environment and friends.
Funny movie!!
Anyway, Howie and I had a similar bet - oh pay the dollar you cheap bastard you lost! Howie said we announce a sale with a limited number of Xfuel cases available (the email you got from him, hush hush the other day) and tell people to buy Xfuel cheap and go sell it in person to friends etc and make money – he said people will do it.
Me being the arrogant ass that I am said, people won’t do that, you can’t make people want to change who they are and do something they are uncomfortable with and most people are not at ease with face to face or telephone selling – just won’t result in any current customers going out and suddenly buying 3 boxes just to sell it.
The results, the sales we got were from the same people for the most part that buy at least 3 boxes and sell it that way anyway. So, why did they order when Howie sent them a note was simple – Howie said “buy it now for a limited time” and they did.
That however was not the bet but did prove again some people want to do something and just need the push to rationalize it and will do it; they wanted to buy it and just couldn’t pull the trigger.
The reason the people that don’t normally buy that much didn’t buy was simple, they don’t want to sell it that way and no pushing, tempting or prodding will change that.
This is why we launched the affiliate program, because many of you like me or our founder Frozenghost001 are not comfortable trying to “sell” something to someone. If given the choice of sell these in person and on the phone and make $100,000 a year or dig a ditch for $40,000 a year – most people dig the ditch that is a FACT!
Our Xfuel affiliate program lets you do both, you get to sell and you don’t have to pick-up a phone or worry about stuttering like I did face to face – you can promote Xfuel on all your sites, You Tube channels etc and tell people to buy it and make money.
Example: I drink and Xfuel and it works for me, I get energized, I encourage you to put down the Monster or 5Hr Energy and buy product from the people who really support, care and are gamers themselves.
Was that so hard? NO, you can do that, can’t you? I bet you can think of a lot of creative ways to express that to people all over the web – that is the kind of selling everyone can do – right? Yes, even you can do that and remember you need to tell people to buy it.
Now, Howie you cheap F*ck pay me my dollar!!!!
In case you haven’t it goes like this, 2 Wall Street type brothers make a bet.
The bet is you take a common criminal and switch him with a successful businessman and the common criminal will become a successful businessman in the right environment and the successful businessman will resort to crime once he's lost his rich environment and friends.
Funny movie!!
Anyway, Howie and I had a similar bet - oh pay the dollar you cheap bastard you lost! Howie said we announce a sale with a limited number of Xfuel cases available (the email you got from him, hush hush the other day) and tell people to buy Xfuel cheap and go sell it in person to friends etc and make money – he said people will do it.
Me being the arrogant ass that I am said, people won’t do that, you can’t make people want to change who they are and do something they are uncomfortable with and most people are not at ease with face to face or telephone selling – just won’t result in any current customers going out and suddenly buying 3 boxes just to sell it.
The results, the sales we got were from the same people for the most part that buy at least 3 boxes and sell it that way anyway. So, why did they order when Howie sent them a note was simple – Howie said “buy it now for a limited time” and they did.
That however was not the bet but did prove again some people want to do something and just need the push to rationalize it and will do it; they wanted to buy it and just couldn’t pull the trigger.
The reason the people that don’t normally buy that much didn’t buy was simple, they don’t want to sell it that way and no pushing, tempting or prodding will change that.
This is why we launched the affiliate program, because many of you like me or our founder Frozenghost001 are not comfortable trying to “sell” something to someone. If given the choice of sell these in person and on the phone and make $100,000 a year or dig a ditch for $40,000 a year – most people dig the ditch that is a FACT!
Our Xfuel affiliate program lets you do both, you get to sell and you don’t have to pick-up a phone or worry about stuttering like I did face to face – you can promote Xfuel on all your sites, You Tube channels etc and tell people to buy it and make money.
Example: I drink and Xfuel and it works for me, I get energized, I encourage you to put down the Monster or 5Hr Energy and buy product from the people who really support, care and are gamers themselves.
Was that so hard? NO, you can do that, can’t you? I bet you can think of a lot of creative ways to express that to people all over the web – that is the kind of selling everyone can do – right? Yes, even you can do that and remember you need to tell people to buy it.
Now, Howie you cheap F*ck pay me my dollar!!!!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
A little lesson on how to sell anything
Do you fall for those stupid little tricks that people use to try to sell you something, do you believe everything people say or everything you read - you know you don't and you like me know 99% of the people talk out their ass!
I seen something on a facebook page the other day about a couple scrawny kids from Frozenghost001's high school who were bragging about how much weight they were benching. Let me tell you, I used to start my squat workouts with 400 lbs!!!! What these kids were writing was for one thing only - impress all the girls on there!!!! You know bull sh*t when you read it like on that Monster / CokeACola can!
Anyway, I sent a video out to some of our team that someone whose shirts are on our site for sale made and this is what they sent back as constructive criticism:
- I'm not being mean because I like you guys, I think you guys can have a future in this but you can't think people are stupid! I looked your site and you have a "donate" button - how many people out of the goodness of their heart click there and donate?????
If you had our affiliate banner there they could say with 100% confidence and conviction, which XXX you worry about "Your buying energy drinks today any way, why not buy them from us here at XXX. By clicking through the Xfuel link banner on here you are buying a quality product that we use ourselves and know that it works 100%! Every time you buy Xfuel or one of those cool shirts the teams have for sale we at XXX make a little money and that helps us to bring you the quality videos that we do. If your enjoy watching us, help support us, buy from us and not the big companies that do nothing for people like us"
My lesson for the day - If you believe in the product don't be afraid, tell people to buy it and be honest why you want them to buy!
I seen something on a facebook page the other day about a couple scrawny kids from Frozenghost001's high school who were bragging about how much weight they were benching. Let me tell you, I used to start my squat workouts with 400 lbs!!!! What these kids were writing was for one thing only - impress all the girls on there!!!! You know bull sh*t when you read it like on that Monster / CokeACola can!
Anyway, I sent a video out to some of our team that someone whose shirts are on our site for sale made and this is what they sent back as constructive criticism:
- I'm not being mean because I like you guys, I think you guys can have a future in this but you can't think people are stupid! I looked your site and you have a "donate" button - how many people out of the goodness of their heart click there and donate?????
If you had our affiliate banner there they could say with 100% confidence and conviction, which XXX you worry about "Your buying energy drinks today any way, why not buy them from us here at XXX. By clicking through the Xfuel link banner on here you are buying a quality product that we use ourselves and know that it works 100%! Every time you buy Xfuel or one of those cool shirts the teams have for sale we at XXX make a little money and that helps us to bring you the quality videos that we do. If your enjoy watching us, help support us, buy from us and not the big companies that do nothing for people like us"
My lesson for the day - If you believe in the product don't be afraid, tell people to buy it and be honest why you want them to buy!
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Sponsorship opportunities from Xfuel
OK, some of you are pretty smart and understand what we're doing here and that is giving you an opportunity to get your sponsorship through our affiliate program.
Some of you others, well not so sure about you?
Our list of people that want to be sponsored is in the thousands!!!! YES THOUSANDS!!!
I briefly touched on the affiliate thing here and let you read the press release and I am shocked, floored and just plain disappointed at something!
In 24 hours we have affiliates from almost every corner of the globe and we have very few of you gamers - in fact some people who absolutely begged for it are not signed up.
As a person who raced boats for a living (yes, sponsors paid our company and this was my job after I retired) you can go to http://www.offshoreonly.com/ and read all about "Habana Joe" Gere, we had sponsors who paid big money, 7 digits per year! Here is one of the boats we brought below, notice the number 1 - when you loose that #1 expect the money to start going as well.
Do you people really know what sponsors expect, like a major wine company or a now billion dollar clothing company???? You don't have a friggin clue what it takes!!!!!
I not trying pee on your parade but what Xfuel is offering you is a no brain-er and takes so little effort on your part that you would have to be brain dead to not take advantage of this!!!!
If you can't paste a link or banner on your site and tell some people to buy it, how the hell do you think you could ever do like my wife did for us (she made all the arrangements for our sponsors and their customers)!!!!!!
My wife booked hotel rooms in the US and Europe for 40 people, 22 times a year, had to arrange dinner reservations for parties of 30-50 people in restaurants all over the globe months in advance and hope the food was good or your sponsors and their customers are friggin pissed at you and want to fire you!!!
Rental cars, sightseeing trips for wives and girlfriends that traveled with us, call TV people, magazine people and send them gifts fruit baskets etc to get coverage for our boats, look for charities in towns we went to and go to events for sick kids, cancer awareness, etc - this was what you do for your sponsorship dollars!!! Push, push, push and then push more to get the name out there again and again and again - and you have to win and be on that podium!
You guys say "Sponsor me and I'll wear your tee shirt to a LAN Tournament", unless your wearing that shirt and directing people to your affiliate site and telling them BUY IT - you have no idea if what your doing is worth 5 cents to anyone.
You know what, I NEVER SAW A DIME off how many pairs of jeans a boat was responsible for selling nor anything else!!!!
Xfuel is telling you, NO I am, I'm telling you if you have a half brain in your head you'd sign up for the program push Xfuel, make money and learn that if you can make money with Xfuel - then there are 100 more companies that you can do the same things with and make a living doing it.
This is not about you just selling Xfuel it is you getting off your lazy friggin ass, doing something other than sweating over a go nowhere website and learning to start an REAL on-line business and then learn how to expand that into a career so you don't have to drive a truck like I did.
I asked and I asked the Diesel jeans people (Renzo) to be exact to let me bring the brand to the US - I got a big fat F**KING NO!!!!
If they would have allowed me to, I'd be flying my own G-3 private jet by now!!!
OK, I'm done for now, but gamers don't pass this up, this is the real deal and these things don't happen too often to young people and to have a mentor to start you like I want to for free - priceless!
Thanks,
Joe Gere
Some of you others, well not so sure about you?
Our list of people that want to be sponsored is in the thousands!!!! YES THOUSANDS!!!
I briefly touched on the affiliate thing here and let you read the press release and I am shocked, floored and just plain disappointed at something!
In 24 hours we have affiliates from almost every corner of the globe and we have very few of you gamers - in fact some people who absolutely begged for it are not signed up.
As a person who raced boats for a living (yes, sponsors paid our company and this was my job after I retired) you can go to http://www.offshoreonly.com/ and read all about "Habana Joe" Gere, we had sponsors who paid big money, 7 digits per year! Here is one of the boats we brought below, notice the number 1 - when you loose that #1 expect the money to start going as well.
Do you people really know what sponsors expect, like a major wine company or a now billion dollar clothing company???? You don't have a friggin clue what it takes!!!!!
I not trying pee on your parade but what Xfuel is offering you is a no brain-er and takes so little effort on your part that you would have to be brain dead to not take advantage of this!!!!
If you can't paste a link or banner on your site and tell some people to buy it, how the hell do you think you could ever do like my wife did for us (she made all the arrangements for our sponsors and their customers)!!!!!!
My wife booked hotel rooms in the US and Europe for 40 people, 22 times a year, had to arrange dinner reservations for parties of 30-50 people in restaurants all over the globe months in advance and hope the food was good or your sponsors and their customers are friggin pissed at you and want to fire you!!!
Rental cars, sightseeing trips for wives and girlfriends that traveled with us, call TV people, magazine people and send them gifts fruit baskets etc to get coverage for our boats, look for charities in towns we went to and go to events for sick kids, cancer awareness, etc - this was what you do for your sponsorship dollars!!! Push, push, push and then push more to get the name out there again and again and again - and you have to win and be on that podium!
You guys say "Sponsor me and I'll wear your tee shirt to a LAN Tournament", unless your wearing that shirt and directing people to your affiliate site and telling them BUY IT - you have no idea if what your doing is worth 5 cents to anyone.
You know what, I NEVER SAW A DIME off how many pairs of jeans a boat was responsible for selling nor anything else!!!!
Xfuel is telling you, NO I am, I'm telling you if you have a half brain in your head you'd sign up for the program push Xfuel, make money and learn that if you can make money with Xfuel - then there are 100 more companies that you can do the same things with and make a living doing it.
This is not about you just selling Xfuel it is you getting off your lazy friggin ass, doing something other than sweating over a go nowhere website and learning to start an REAL on-line business and then learn how to expand that into a career so you don't have to drive a truck like I did.
I asked and I asked the Diesel jeans people (Renzo) to be exact to let me bring the brand to the US - I got a big fat F**KING NO!!!!
If they would have allowed me to, I'd be flying my own G-3 private jet by now!!!
OK, I'm done for now, but gamers don't pass this up, this is the real deal and these things don't happen too often to young people and to have a mentor to start you like I want to for free - priceless!
Thanks,
Joe Gere
Friday, October 23, 2009
What the Frig is an affilate program?
I said I would start educating today and I am.
I talked about we are getting an affiliate program together for Xfuel and what does that mean to you? It is a very easy way for you to make money. How much money depends on you and how clever you are.
An affiliate program works like this - you go to our store website http://www.shop.drinkxfuel.com/ and click on the affiliate sign up link. You then have to sign up with our affiliate so you can accept payments (this is free) and they will guide you to where the banners are. You copy the banner codes and paste them on your websites, Facebook and anywhere else you can. Every time someone clicks on those banners and goes through and makes a purchase at our store - you get money up to 30% of the total sale.
Our old test program was based on codes that had to be entered and many of you were not good at telling people go here and use the code "xxx" when checking out.
This is a much simpler system and all you have to do is tell people click here buy stuff and help support this site - believe me people know your making some money on it. Also, if you buy stuff through the site yourself you'll get all that money right back so you save 30% on your purchases - pretty slick right?
Stay tuned for more tips, tricks and hints.
I talked about we are getting an affiliate program together for Xfuel and what does that mean to you? It is a very easy way for you to make money. How much money depends on you and how clever you are.
An affiliate program works like this - you go to our store website http://www.shop.drinkxfuel.com/ and click on the affiliate sign up link. You then have to sign up with our affiliate so you can accept payments (this is free) and they will guide you to where the banners are. You copy the banner codes and paste them on your websites, Facebook and anywhere else you can. Every time someone clicks on those banners and goes through and makes a purchase at our store - you get money up to 30% of the total sale.
Our old test program was based on codes that had to be entered and many of you were not good at telling people go here and use the code "xxx" when checking out.
This is a much simpler system and all you have to do is tell people click here buy stuff and help support this site - believe me people know your making some money on it. Also, if you buy stuff through the site yourself you'll get all that money right back so you save 30% on your purchases - pretty slick right?
Stay tuned for more tips, tricks and hints.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
A Unique Opportunity For You To Make Money Today
This has hit the wires and the details are coming out, we will bring them to you as they are available - be patient the best is yet to come!!!
Xfuel taking on the job crisis Shot By Shot
Xfuel is taking it to the next level with an affiliate program that is unprecedented in the gaming space. The little gaming drink company that could, is saying no to youthful joblessness, and scarring of the young gaming generation due to the decline in unemployment and saying yes to teaching young people how to be bring an entrepreneurial freshness and vitality to the world of affiliate marketing. The formula is simple young people have the ability to sell a best in class energy product, Xfuel and their own apparel to friends, family and anyone else wanting a quality product, and earn a nice profit.
The new affiliate program is rumored to be paying higher than industry standards for products like their Xfuel Xtreme Energy shots. When asked why Xfuel is doing an affiliate program, Joe Gere replied “Do you have any idea the amount of emails we get daily asking for sponsorships due to the lack of funds these kids have? Like most companies we have a surplus of deserving candidates but a limited number of sponsorships, we decided to help teams be able to fund themselves and control their destiny by selling Xfuel and their own co-branded apparel. With the money they earn they don’t need a sponsorship and the restrictions that come with one. We make them entrepreneurs!”
Marketing Director Howard Panes Says "What better way than to teach young people how to make money than by using the internet which they are comfortable with and have grown up on. They use the web daily for both school and to socialize with friends on and Xfuel is going to offer a weekly coaching program to teach the affiliate marketing skills needed to maximize what they already do everyday on facebook, myspace, gaming forums, blogs and more and convert those experiences into cash dollars".
Their Xfuel blog which is full of ideas, lessons and some humorous stories (defiantly not for the faint of heart and does tell it like it is) has eluded for awhile now that something like this is brewing. You can see by the tone of the daily posts that Xfuel is about trying to give something back but not in the way of handouts. Its makes reference to the fact that its readers are spending money on these types of products regardless and they might as well be able to support themselves in the process. Why spend money with people that do nothing for you in return?
The addition of Team, Clan or Website clothing started a couple months ago with a beta test involving Respawn Radio a gamer podcast stable. Xfuel’s Director of Graphic Design, Greg Perri expanded on this with, “We’ve seen that many of our customers have great websites, designs, logos etc and the desire to sell these designs on shirts but lack the capital, printing facilities and credit card processing to be able to really sell them on a national level. We are partnering with these groups and allowing them to get into the apparel business with zero dollars, no money what so ever by using our in-house printing facilities. The goods are sold through our affiliate program they make around 30% on them and life is good for everyone involved!”
Xfuel is the creation of Alex Gere, Austin Gere and friend Nick Panes. Xfuel is a 2oz. Xtreme Energy Shot that tastes great and promises to take your game to the Next Level by increasing your energy, awareness, focus and stamina, all the things Gamers need to defeat their competition. Xfuel is packed with energy and Vitamins B3, B6, B12 and Vitamin C with zero calories, zero sugars and zero cholesterol. Xfuel is blended, bottled, printed and packaged in the United States of America.
Contact:
Jennifer Gere c/o
Xfuel
615 S Livingston Ave
Livingston, NJ 07039
973-992-8670
Xfuel taking on the job crisis Shot By Shot
Xfuel is taking it to the next level with an affiliate program that is unprecedented in the gaming space. The little gaming drink company that could, is saying no to youthful joblessness, and scarring of the young gaming generation due to the decline in unemployment and saying yes to teaching young people how to be bring an entrepreneurial freshness and vitality to the world of affiliate marketing. The formula is simple young people have the ability to sell a best in class energy product, Xfuel and their own apparel to friends, family and anyone else wanting a quality product, and earn a nice profit.
The new affiliate program is rumored to be paying higher than industry standards for products like their Xfuel Xtreme Energy shots. When asked why Xfuel is doing an affiliate program, Joe Gere replied “Do you have any idea the amount of emails we get daily asking for sponsorships due to the lack of funds these kids have? Like most companies we have a surplus of deserving candidates but a limited number of sponsorships, we decided to help teams be able to fund themselves and control their destiny by selling Xfuel and their own co-branded apparel. With the money they earn they don’t need a sponsorship and the restrictions that come with one. We make them entrepreneurs!”
Marketing Director Howard Panes Says "What better way than to teach young people how to make money than by using the internet which they are comfortable with and have grown up on. They use the web daily for both school and to socialize with friends on and Xfuel is going to offer a weekly coaching program to teach the affiliate marketing skills needed to maximize what they already do everyday on facebook, myspace, gaming forums, blogs and more and convert those experiences into cash dollars".
Their Xfuel blog which is full of ideas, lessons and some humorous stories (defiantly not for the faint of heart and does tell it like it is) has eluded for awhile now that something like this is brewing. You can see by the tone of the daily posts that Xfuel is about trying to give something back but not in the way of handouts. Its makes reference to the fact that its readers are spending money on these types of products regardless and they might as well be able to support themselves in the process. Why spend money with people that do nothing for you in return?
The addition of Team, Clan or Website clothing started a couple months ago with a beta test involving Respawn Radio a gamer podcast stable. Xfuel’s Director of Graphic Design, Greg Perri expanded on this with, “We’ve seen that many of our customers have great websites, designs, logos etc and the desire to sell these designs on shirts but lack the capital, printing facilities and credit card processing to be able to really sell them on a national level. We are partnering with these groups and allowing them to get into the apparel business with zero dollars, no money what so ever by using our in-house printing facilities. The goods are sold through our affiliate program they make around 30% on them and life is good for everyone involved!”
Xfuel is the creation of Alex Gere, Austin Gere and friend Nick Panes. Xfuel is a 2oz. Xtreme Energy Shot that tastes great and promises to take your game to the Next Level by increasing your energy, awareness, focus and stamina, all the things Gamers need to defeat their competition. Xfuel is packed with energy and Vitamins B3, B6, B12 and Vitamin C with zero calories, zero sugars and zero cholesterol. Xfuel is blended, bottled, printed and packaged in the United States of America.
Contact:
Jennifer Gere c/o
Xfuel
615 S Livingston Ave
Livingston, NJ 07039
973-992-8670
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
My failed entrepreneur experiment
This is rather sad and look it up on Google - "joe gere monmouth university". I was asked to help teach a class at Monmouth University, the Entrepreneur class which was mostly Seniors.
I write this because I received a note about the blog from someone that thinks my writings are brilliant and he made me laugh with that remark!
Anyway, I do what I'm doing here to make money, yes, but more so to give you young people some good lessons and hopefully make some money as well - like I said see above I taught this in a University!
First day of summer class I start with the regular professor and he asks me to teach the kids about business, the web, fashion, yada, yada, yada. Second day of class he announces he's going to Italy for the rest of the summer and I'm taking over and if I can help him grade finals as well.
Think about this, as parents your paying real big money to send your kids to this school and the professor walks out and goes to Italy and leaves me there with no agenda nothing and I have wing the whole thing - WOW, these kids got a lesson and a few cruses and yelled at's that they never got in school before!
I survived and we plan to do this again in the fall and we're going to launch a clothing line that can continue to generate money for the school - sound like a good lesson, right?
The kids were lost, we wasted too much time on a name and logo, that was important to them not the clothing. It was really reveling how unprepared these students were that when they did not get their way for a name they pouted - like babies and didn't perform - GOD help them in the job market!
This pattern continued and continued until I was at the breaking point but kept pushing on. When the 2 students that had to work with the graphic arts people on small project for the fashion show kept failing (like designs for shirt graphics!!), I stormed into the graphic arts dept and told the professor my problem and we got two young women or girls as they turned out be to help with designs.
They had a few nice concepts and then they hit me with a contract for their services that would have come from Gucci not two young students with no experience, no designs sold, not a thing on the street!!!! I respond with a "Are you friggin out of your mind?" and after a couple emails I find out the art professor gave them a fashion contracts handbook and told them or helped them draft this "industry standard" contact that grants them residuals for life!!!!
Needless to say I blasted her and then got a letter from the Dean that I went into her class drunk because my speech was slurred! Everyone knew I stuttered and everyone else knows I can't drink with all my medications. I was thinking about suing under Amercian's with Disabilities Act and so on and just decided - SCREW it and the kids who just don't want to work and called the project over because two weeks before the show we still had no designs, no name and the kids still fought and 25% don't show up for class because they took it for credits only and nothing else and the early morning classes were full of hang-over leftovers!
I brought in guy who owns a young mans clothing company that sells well in the US and Europe with bag full of designs that sold only in Europe and we could have them FREE as a present to the school and he would ship us the small quantities we needed to start this line after the show. Even when we voted on designs to use for our show, people refused to vote - I told them "You have to choose, you have to rank them". Amazing, in an open environment they couldn't say a word, after class I get emails about what was good and what was not - nuts right?
I still talk to a few of them, those that wanted to learn learned, the others, well it will take them along time to figure why they don't have good jobs yet or never will!
So, to that person from FL, this is why I'm doing what I'm doing now. The work world sucks, schools prepare only the chosen few for the real world and most of you get pushed by and out the door and left to wonder aimlessly.
Maybe a small drink company can help change that, I have to try?
I write this because I received a note about the blog from someone that thinks my writings are brilliant and he made me laugh with that remark!
Anyway, I do what I'm doing here to make money, yes, but more so to give you young people some good lessons and hopefully make some money as well - like I said see above I taught this in a University!
First day of summer class I start with the regular professor and he asks me to teach the kids about business, the web, fashion, yada, yada, yada. Second day of class he announces he's going to Italy for the rest of the summer and I'm taking over and if I can help him grade finals as well.
Think about this, as parents your paying real big money to send your kids to this school and the professor walks out and goes to Italy and leaves me there with no agenda nothing and I have wing the whole thing - WOW, these kids got a lesson and a few cruses and yelled at's that they never got in school before!
I survived and we plan to do this again in the fall and we're going to launch a clothing line that can continue to generate money for the school - sound like a good lesson, right?
The kids were lost, we wasted too much time on a name and logo, that was important to them not the clothing. It was really reveling how unprepared these students were that when they did not get their way for a name they pouted - like babies and didn't perform - GOD help them in the job market!
This pattern continued and continued until I was at the breaking point but kept pushing on. When the 2 students that had to work with the graphic arts people on small project for the fashion show kept failing (like designs for shirt graphics!!), I stormed into the graphic arts dept and told the professor my problem and we got two young women or girls as they turned out be to help with designs.
They had a few nice concepts and then they hit me with a contract for their services that would have come from Gucci not two young students with no experience, no designs sold, not a thing on the street!!!! I respond with a "Are you friggin out of your mind?" and after a couple emails I find out the art professor gave them a fashion contracts handbook and told them or helped them draft this "industry standard" contact that grants them residuals for life!!!!
Needless to say I blasted her and then got a letter from the Dean that I went into her class drunk because my speech was slurred! Everyone knew I stuttered and everyone else knows I can't drink with all my medications. I was thinking about suing under Amercian's with Disabilities Act and so on and just decided - SCREW it and the kids who just don't want to work and called the project over because two weeks before the show we still had no designs, no name and the kids still fought and 25% don't show up for class because they took it for credits only and nothing else and the early morning classes were full of hang-over leftovers!
I brought in guy who owns a young mans clothing company that sells well in the US and Europe with bag full of designs that sold only in Europe and we could have them FREE as a present to the school and he would ship us the small quantities we needed to start this line after the show. Even when we voted on designs to use for our show, people refused to vote - I told them "You have to choose, you have to rank them". Amazing, in an open environment they couldn't say a word, after class I get emails about what was good and what was not - nuts right?
I still talk to a few of them, those that wanted to learn learned, the others, well it will take them along time to figure why they don't have good jobs yet or never will!
So, to that person from FL, this is why I'm doing what I'm doing now. The work world sucks, schools prepare only the chosen few for the real world and most of you get pushed by and out the door and left to wonder aimlessly.
Maybe a small drink company can help change that, I have to try?
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