Ch 12. Make Money From An AutoResponder?

Digest

There’s a saying -  “You can have everything you want in life if you help enough people get what they want”.  Team Atlantis and TrafficWave have built a “second to none” earnings system based on that exact philosophy.  It’s called “Paying It Forward”.

All successful internet marketers have an autoresponder.  All internet marketers need one.  Money can be made providing autoresponders.  TrafficWave is one such autoresponder, and the commission structure relating to it is explained below.

Marketing is done by TW affiliates.  Some work independently.  The more successful work in partnership groups.  One such partnership is Team Atlantis.  Currently 12 of the “Top 25 TW Earners” are also TA members.  This is no accident.  The TW formula is battle hardened, and TA exploit it with a passion.

This report investigates both TW and TA, and their synergistic relationship.

TrafficWave Commission Structure

This is the foundation of the Team Atlantis program.  It all begins here.  It's a tad hard going but it's been tested and proven beyond question, so try to get a handle on it.  I've tried to make it as simple as I can.

A TW affiliate, like the affiliate of any company, earns commissions on product sales.  These sales can be made by the affiliate in person, and on sales made by members of the affiliate’s sales team.  The cost of TrafficWave membership is $17.95/month.  The basic commission is 50% of the sale.  Thus 2 sales per month achieves break-even and every sale after that is profit.  You get the autoresponder you need, for free, and you get an income too.  Nice.

On top of the basic commission there are monthly “Residual Commissions” (at varying levels, detailed below), and there are “Leadership Bonuses” for those who make the effort to build sales teams.  In all there are 4 types of income, detailed below.  In addition there is a “Matrix Buster” option, explained separately.

1. Fast Track Bonus

When someone joins as a TW affiliate he does so on a 30 day trial.  During this period he can make sales, but  will not be paid commissions until he becomes a “paid-up” member.  Even when he becomes “paid-up” his customers also have 30 days free trial, so he will not be earning commission until the actual sale is made.  This means quite a long time lag between becoming “paid-up” and actually earning real money.

To speed things up for everyone, here’s a neat trick.  

When someone joins as a TW affiliate you ask them to upgrade immediately to “paid-up”.  You offer to pay their initial $17.95 subscription.  Now they can start earning commissions immediately instead of having to wait 30 days.  This is “paying it forward”.

As a reward for doing this, TW pay you a 100% “Fast Track Bonus”.  Thus it has actually cost you NOTHING.  You spent $17.95 and you earned $17.95.

Most affiliates, in most marketing enterprises, concentrate on earning commissions on their signups.  They then leave these new members to find their own signups.  It’s shortsighted, and they soon find themselves left behind the pack.

The more enlightened affiliate looks a little deeper.  Henry Ford said “I’d rather earn 1% of 100 peoples’ work than 100% of mine alone”.  There is more money to be made from a small commission on a large team than one large commision on one single sale.  How does this work in practice?  

You signup 3 members.  As explained above, 2 sales achieves break-even, the 3rd puts you in profit.  When you signup the 4th you forgo the direct commission by signing the person under your 1st.  You still make money ($6.00/m - see the commission structure), and your 1st signup is now motivated.  That gives them reason to stay in the game, producing more commissions for you.  You have “jump-started” your downline building.

You continue to do this, encouraging your signups to do likewise, keeping the “3-person limit” in place.  This creates a “forced matrix”.  If you build it right (which does take actual effort and commitment) your monthly income grows as follows:-

Level 1 holds 3 people, paying you $6/m each, thus you get $18/m (more than break-even)

From this point on let’s say you make $1.00/m on each sale made by every member in your entire team.  I’ll lay it out as a table to make it easier to see what’s happening.  Bear in mind that this is the concept.  It’s up to you to make it happen.  Team Atlantis exists to do just that, as we’ll see later..

2. Residual Commissions

Level	Members per Level	$/m per member	$/m per level	Total Monthly Income
1	3	$6.00	$18.00	$18.00
2	9	$1.00	$9.00	$27.00
3	27	$1.00	$27.00	$54.00
4	81	$1.00	$81.00	$135.00
5	243	$1.00	$243.00	$378.00
6	729	$1.00	$729.00	$1,107.00
7	2,187	$1.00	$2,187.00	$3,294.00
8	6,562	$1.00	$6,562.00	$9,855.00
9	19,683	$1.00	$19,683.00	$29,538.00
10	59,409	$1.00	$59,409.00	$88,587.00

In Tw, the Monthly Commission varies according to rank.  There are 3 ranks.  All are based on personal performance.  All ranks get paid $6 at level 1.  The lower ranks get between $0.50/m and $0.75/m where top level gets $1.00/m.  “PRAM” means “Personally Referred Active Members” (aka “paid-up”).

Rank	PRAM	Paid on Levels	Commission
Surfer	more than 1	1-3	$0.75 on levels 2 & 3
TidalWave	more than 5	1-5	$1.00 on levels 2 & 3 $0.50 on levels 4 & 5
Tsunami	more than 10	1-10	$1.00 on all levels

3. Leadership Bonuses

These kick in when you have PRAM’s in both current and previous months, and you have reached TidalWave rank.  If you then have TidalWave or Tsunami members in your downline then, whatever commissions they earn, you get a bonus.  The bonus is 25% of the downline TidalWave earnings and 50% of the downline Tsunami earnings.

4. Traffic Commissions

As an affiliate you can use TW’s own coop to buy “Guaranteed Traffic” to the affiliates own website.  You get 10% commission on each sale generated this way.

TW Coop

From time to time TW allow affiliates to buy shares in the main TW coop.  This is different from the “Guaranteed Traffic” in that you do not need your own website.  Currently the cost is $39.95 per share, and you can buy as many shares as you want or are available.

Matrix Builder

Many affiliates, in most marketing enterprises, concentrate on collecting commissions on their signups.  They then leave these new members to find their own signups.

A more enlightened affiliate looks a little deeper.  Henry Ford said “I’d rather earn 1% of 100 peoples’ work than 100% of mine alone”.  There is more money to be made from a small commission on a large team than one large commision on one single sale.  How does this work in practice?  

You signup 3 members.  As explained above, 2 sales achieves break-even, the 3rd puts you in profit.  When you signup the 4th you forgo the direct commission by signing the person under your 1st.  You still make money ($6.00/m - see the commission structure), and your 1st signup is now motivated.  That gives them reason to stay in the game, producing more commissions for you.  

You continue to do this, encouraging your signups to do likewise, keeping the “3-person limit” in place.  This creates a “forced matrix”.  If you build it right (which does take actual effort and commitment) your monthly income grows as demonstrated above.  That was the concept.  It’s up to you to make it happen.  

Team Atlantis exists to do just that.  So, we’ve seen what the TW structure is.  Let’s look at how TA implement it.

Team Atlantis

Team Atlantis is a marketing cooperative  Each member of the team is an independent TrafficWave marketing affiliate.  They have come together to work as a team.  Team Atlantis costs nothing to join, and there are no ongoing costs.  All earnings arise from TW sales as explained above. You join the team by becoming a TrafficWave affiliate under an existing member of Team Atlantis.

Team Atlantis exploits the power of the TW Forced Matrix, and sets out to push affiliates to the highest rank in the shortest time.  It uses a Traffic Exchange tool called a “Rotator”.

On joining you are an unranked affiliate.  You join the back of the queue for a place on the “First Straight-Line Rotator” where you will stay until you have your 3-man PRAM at level 1.  You have two ways to achieve this.  Either by your own advertising, or by advertising the team.  You can do both if you want to.  Most do.  Your commitment to TA advertising is just 1,000 hits per week.  This costs $5/m in most Traffic Exchanges.

Once you hit “3 at level 1” you have achieved the rank of “Surfer” and are moved to the “Second Straight-Line Rotator” where you acquire 2 more PRAM’s, making 5 in total thus propelling you to TidalWave rank (as well as paying you 5 “Fast Track” bonuses of $17.95 each, a total of $53.85) where you will earn 25% “Leadership Bonus” Commissions.  

Your place in the First Rotator is taken by the next waiting TA joiner (there’s always a queue).

Conclusion

TW has a battle tested earnings model.  TA exploits it to the full, and provides all the promo materials you need at no charge.  Promoting TA will maximise your ability to climb rapidly to the top of the TW ladder.  You can turbocharge this with your own promotion via the TW coop (whenever available) and also promote your own site (using “Guaranteed Traffic”).  Any other promotion is entirely optional.

For anyone new to internet marketing the TA route is really is a grand place to begin a superbly rewarding career.  To find out more, or to join TA and start earning as soon as possible, just click on the banner