This NetAudioAds (Voice2Page) thing is such a disappointment because I have not received any audio ads at all. I thought 1 February 2008 was supposed to be the official launch but it turns out that it was only a partial launch. I believe that should have been specified clearly beforehand.

NetAudioAds (Voice2Page) have hired Charles Heflin to market their business. I know Charles Heflin from his site SEO 20/20. I have his “Masterplan” ebook and I like most parts of it. However, I am very sceptical about anything Mr Heflin promotes because he has not paid some of his affiliates commissions and some of his work was allegedly copied from Caroline Bogart.

I know this because I am a member of his private forum and one of his affiliates by the name of Lawrence has been trying to contact Mr Heflin to get his commissions for promoting his products. No response whatsoever was made to Lawrence despite his various attempts to contact Mr Heflin, including posting a forum topic at the SEO2020 private forums.

Caroline Bogart issued a warning to Mr Heflin for using her work in his own work and passing it off as his own.

I am also put off by the way Mr Heflin treats his own customers in his forums by totally ignoring us. I tried to contact him to get a PDF copy of the Masterplan ebook because I lost my copy when my hard drive crashed. I also received no answer from him regarding my queries. However, if you email Mr Heflin about his latest promotions, he is quick to reply to your questions. Try asking him questions about “Pay Per Play” right now and you will get a prompt answer.

The integrity of Mr Heflin is very shady. I have waited months for this and now it is still in “testing mode”. If you say you’re going to launch something on a certain date, then do so. Don’t launch something and say we are not 100% ready as we are still testing things out. Luckily, Mr Heflin is only responsible for the marketing side of NetAudioAds (Voice2Page). If he’s in charge of the payments, we might not get anything like Lawrence.

Tagged As: Caroline Bogart, Charles Heflin, NetAudioAds, pay per play, SEO2020, Voice2Page

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I emailed Larry Host, the CTO of Voice2Page with the following questions and here is his reply.

1. How much can I earn every time an audio message is played?

Our pricing is based on a cost per thousand impressions (CPM) and one ad play at a CPM of $20 is about $0.002.

2. How often do the audio messages get played per visitor?

Each visitor receives and ad when they first hit your domain. If a visitor stays longer that 3 minutes, they are then qualified to hear a second ad and another every three minutes until they leave your base domain, regardless of which of your pages they are on.

3. What payment options do you offer?

You may choose one of four methods: Paypal, direct deposit to either Bank of America or Wells Fargo Bank, or by snail mail check to your address.

4. What is your payout percentage?

The website that publishes the ad is paid 25% of the net received CPM. We pay out 25% to the actual publisher out of the net COLLECTED proceeds for ads. Just so you know the split, 25% for the publisher, approximately 20% for the ad agency and 10% for the referrer chain. We keep 45% of working gross to fund the company, the server farm, etc.

5. How often do you pay your publishers?

Weekly, on Friday, for ads played and paid for through midnight the preceding Saturday.

6. Do you only pay publishers for ads played to visitors from certain countries (like USA, Canada etc) only?

We currently only accept ads in English. If we play an ad, you get paid for it.

7. Do you have an audit period before you pay your publishers?

The audit process and the publisher payment are not interrelated except for the occasional advertiser who waits for audit results before paying their invoice.

8. Do you have any competitors in this “pay per play” industry?

Our process is patent pending and our research shows that we appear to be the only team in the league.

9. Is Voice2Page.com’s publisher referral model an MLM model?

NO, it is simply a definition of the inevitable question of ‘What do I get for sending a friend to you?”. In an MLM, layers descend infinitely whereas with PPP there are only three levels and there is no further descent where the top guy falls off.

Tagged As: NetAudioAds, pay per play, Voice2Page

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NetAudioAds (Voice2Page) is launching a new advertising model for webmasters. Simply embed some code to the end of your HTML body tag and it will launch a 5-second audio message to your visitors when they visit your web site.

NetAudioAds (Voice2Page) will only start paying advertisers from February 2008 after they test the market a little bit. They pay weekly, based on ads played and advertiser payments. This begins the friday after your first ad is played in February. It would be interesting to see how this “pay per play” model works out. It seems like you will make money from each visitor to your web site regardless if they click or buy anything. It works a little like the “cost per impression” model.

However, I doubt they will pay for every visitor to your web site. Most likely, they will filter the source of your visitor and pay for USA traffic or English speaking countries only. They play 1 audio message every 3 minutes during a visitor’s stay on your web site.

I received an email from NetAudioAds’ CTO, Larry Host saying:

We ask that you embed this code fragment in all your pages as soon as possible as our third party audit begins on December 22, 2007 and the prices we charge advertisers is based on the results from that audit.

I plan to embed the HTML code today or tomorrow on some of my sites to start the process.

NetAudioAds (Voice2Page) Affiliate Program

The good thing about signing up early before they start paying is you get to introduce this to as many people as possible to build your list of sub affiliates.

Here’s how the affiliate program will work:

• 5% of what the advertiser spends on PPP ads played on the website(s) of those you refer.
• 5% of what the advertiser spends on PPP ads played on the website(s) that your direct referrals bring on board.

Looks like an MLM model doesn’t it? I am not sure if it is but it seems promising. The verdict on NetAudioAds (Voice2Page) is still unknown. We shall find out in the coming months if this model is going to work out profitably for our web sites.

Tagged As: NetAudioAds, pay per play, PPP, Voice2Page

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