Eagle Web Assets Blog

What a great start to the first quarter – it’s exciting to break into a new year with business growing. Historically, our companies have had successful January’s and this year that stands true once again. We are extremely grateful for the growth and stability year after year, and to say the least – our entire team works hard for that. Over the past several months we have done a lot of self-inventory and restructuring and it’s already showing huge results. It’s quite clear to us that continuous self-appraisal is of the utmost importance to continue our safe expansion. Paying close attention to all divisions, employees and workflows allows our company to operate efficiently while getting maximum output.

Our company as a whole has grown to over 150 employees in United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. We just opened a satellite office in Dhaka, Bangladesh this month adding on another twenty around the clock employees, saving us hundreds of thousands of dollars in overhead while increasing the overall output. It’s funny, when Eagle Web Assets started years back we relied entirely on international employees throughout India Bangladesh, then transferred entirely domestic, and now grew to such a size that transferring back became a viable option again! The greatest thing about transferring employee jobs international is that we have not had to layoff a single domestic employee, we just transferred employees into divisions like Accounting, Business Development and various Management sections that require domestic employees.

Over the next two quarters we will be opening offices in France, Germany, Singapore, Russia, Netherlands, and Brazil to accommodate growth in new international regions. Our internet advertising brands, both public and private, feel that putting a face to a name is important. Having a localized presence in emerging countries will give us the competitive advantage that we need to soar above the competition. I’m confident that our existing clients will be astonished to see the new international reach that we will be able to further manage for them. Since the beginning, we’ve made most of our money internationally so having an employee presence there is now necessary.

We hired dozens of employees over the past several months that all deserve their own honorable mention, but today I would like to highlight two new hires that will bemanaging the “front end” of our brands. To start, over at BLAM Ads Content Locking  we hired a new loyal affiliate that has been with us since the beginning to be an account manager and to say the least – I’m already grateful for having him part of our team. Every new person we bring on has an individual opinion that all the executives value seriously, and Goutham Vipparthi has already shown that he deserves to be part of our circle. Goutham will be representing our brands in the upcoming ad:tech New Dehli conference and expanding our presence in India, one of the fastest growing markets we emerged into. If anyone would like to meet him feel free to chat inside of our BLAM Revolution Community, he’s quite active there and posting tips all the time!

Over at EWA Private Network, we also have a new hire that has been putting up some crazy Ryan Eagle hours already working deep into the night to establish strong relationships with our loyal publishers. I’m happy to announce the hiring of Leo Goykhman – a true hustler born to be in the ranks of the EWA affiliate management. I’m truly grateful to have met someone like this and I’m confident that he is the absolute best representative that EWA could have. As he says, “The only way to reach true success in life is through perseverance and a killer work ethic. No two ways about it.” – and it’s already displaying. If you would like to meet him just drop him a  message inside the United Republic of EWA Community, he’s been active there and helping affiliates out. He’s also amazing at adcopy, so if any of our publishers need some help don’t hesitate to contact him – he will make you profitable.

Looking for a great job with great people in a great company? Joining the Eagle Web Assets team is not a job, it’s a lifestyle. If you have something special to offer, fill out a job application. We’re willing to create positions for exceptional people with experience in affiliate marketing.

It has been absolutely astonishing for us to see the massive explosion of interaction throughout our affiliate community.  Several months ago EWA Network decided to step out of the norm and utilize Facebook’s new group technology to create a true sense of community. Unlike the other networks that poorly used social media, we decided it was time to spearhead this form of communication. We were, once again, the first affiliate network to experiment with this model and our publishers latched on to the concept of it. Keeping our publishers informed is something that we pride ourselves on: the first network to use twitter, the first network to send useful newsletters, the first network to send detailed guides, the first network to share our internal data, the first network to provide campaign guides, and the list goes on and on. EWA reached the heights of success by innovating, not duplicating like our competitors have poorly done.

Being a private network, the risk was huge for our company to create a social environment for people to communicate under their real names. At first, we were going to create the group as a closed private community but after hours of contemplation, we decided it was worth the risk to go public. We feel that knowledge should be shared freely to our publishers. The inner workings of what makes EWA Network so successful are very shielded from the public view, and we felt this was a chance to actually show publishers out there what they should receive. Unlike twitter, our team could actually post detailed analytics and data in-between newsletters. Because the affiliate industry moves so fast, the quicker speed of knowledge and data the more success our publishers could have.

Upon launching, I personally put massive efforts into building the community into something real and worthwhile to be part of. My team and I spent time throughout the day to build in exclusive content, detailed guides, metrics, new traffic sources, proposed questions, and from there the community exploded. Within days thousands of publishers asked to join our community, most of which had heard of EWA but known little about it. The group quickly turned into an open, live forum with hundreds of active members posting daily. Instead of just questions, our publishers began posting tips of their own because they gained knowledge the helped them succeed.

Within months our groups membership grew over 7,000 users with hundreds of posts daily. Affiliates now get live access to happenings in the industry; when traffic sources go down, new trends, traffic sources, bidding strategies, and live campaign support. This knowledge and sense of community has allowed publishers to spearhead their campaigns, solve issues immediately, get peer support and get the support of all our affiliate managers real time. Success stories of publishers hitting their first profitable days or new records are posted frequently; this motivates our team more than anything.

EWA reached it’s success by creating a superior network: faster terms, better support, more offers, higher payouts. The law of efficient markets proves true with us, and publishers have all the choice they want out there to run traffic. Even with the public sharing of information, our publishers have not left our network. They have been repeatedly solicited, with no success – that further proves that we truly created the best solution.

I am truly grateful for our loyal publishers, and for all the help and knowledge that you have shared to make our community what it is today. Nobody in our team could have ever expected what we created with The United Republic of EWA Community, but our publishers made something unimaginable even to me. Thank you for keeping me motivated deep into the night, you have the full commitment of the entire Eagle Web Assets team that we will continue innovating to bring you the best solution for your traffic.

I was told a long time ago that it’s better to have a hotel on nice property, rather than a lot of low end property – something that I took to heart. Building up the companies that we own rather than expanding into new properties was one of the wisest choices we’ve made all year. Since we transferred focus onto the core companies and the new assets, we’ve been able to see measurable growth across the board. It’s allowed the upper executives to focus on what they do best: bring their creative administration skills into full throttle that allows our companies to make the most out of what we’ve already built up.

At EWA Private Network, we’ve finally allowed Jared Levine to focus the majority of his time bringing new strategies into the business model that increased business in the company extensively within the last month. He’s been able to work closely with account managers one on one, introducing new ways for them to help their affiliates, co-managing accounts, and sharing valuable information with them to better the all around service. After many requests, we compiled massive databases of niche related creatives for media buyers and website publishers available upon request. In the coming months, these creatives will be integrated into our system for ease of use. We’ve also optimized our capping, optimization and offer request models to allow more fluid transfer of information allowing both our publishers and account managers to be informed without being left in the dark. I’ve also surveyed several affiliates and got some valuable suggestions that will be implemented in the coming months – we believe that we need to take regular inventory in order to stay in business, and we appreciate the affiliates for their feedback. In addition, the process of complete renovation and expansion of our business development department began this week, which I will expound upon in next months blog once everything is set in stone.

EWA also introduced the new Facebook Group to our affiliates that finally brought a sense of community to our members, allowing us to share valuable information and our affiliates to share ideas, ask questions and network with each other. The synergy between newsletters, twitter and Facebook is amazing – the amount of valuable metrics, data, guides, and information is amazing. It truly shows that EWA does stand ahead of the competition. We plan on further integration and development of the connectivity that will keep our publishers plugged in and informed of the latest trends within seconds. EWA was the first network to truly understand how important it is to inform affiliates and keep the flow of information quick, and it shows in the growth of our affiliate network month after month.

The transition in focus has allowed administration to focus on advising and optimizing our private angel investments into a well-oiled machine. I always believe that in order to be successful, I need to step out of my comfort zone; and there is nothing more uncomfortable than dealing with the problems new businesses have. Now that our flagship companies are setup with strong management and models, our company can now put full effort into growing these properties into a streamlined model that makes everyone more money. We’ve invested in everything from factoring companies, to mobile applications, to ad networks – all presenting new roadblocks we’ve never imagined. The combined strategy from Eagle Web Assets and our partners have allowed is to break through them, with several of our private companies finally breaking through and earning profit.

Making it through the periods of losses and endless problems can be tiresome, but the day that you can see light and the end of the tunnel is why we are so passionate about business. It’s our full commitment as a company to make sure that  our investments are well taken care of and profitable. Eagle Web Assets has a near flawless track record so far, and we plan on keeping it. As we continue focusing on the properties that we already own it will further solidify the companies with a firm foundation for growth. We are grateful for our partners, and the employees in them as well – without everyone involved we could have not gotten to where we are now.

BLAM Ads continues to grow more and more, seeing immense amounts of traffic flow in from our webmasters and incentivized affiliates. We can honestly say that our solution makes more money than any competitor out there, and upwards of 200% more money than traditional adserving platforms webmasters are used to. The word continues to spread like wildfire and we’ve seen thousands of new applications flow in the last month. When we formed EWA, it’s sister company, we felt that we didn’t need to produce a referral program to get publishers – we just needed to provide a solution that is all around better in every way, then the publishers will come. We feel the same way with BLAM Ads – and now we’re getting hundreds of applications a day for new publishers using our incentivized affiliate network or content locking gateway.

Earlier this month, Andre Ramsey, Jessel Badal and I were able to produce a 25 point priority list of features to be built into BLAM Ads that will not only encompass every feature we could imagine, but introduce new ways to utilize incentivized affiliate campaigns to make developers, webmasters and arbitrage affiliates more money. We’ve scaled our development team with two new employees to work on creating these features meanwhile as we continue to develop more advanced optimization and tracking algorithms to set us ahead. We have huge plans for BLAM Ads in the future, and I’m confident that you’ll be stunned with what we’re going to introduce to the market in the coming months.

In the next two weeks, BLAM Ads is going to finally release our new technology that’s been months in the works to our loyal publishers. With the new technology, comes hundreds of new direct international and domestic offers tailored specifically for the content gateway, new features that could not have been built into the previous platform, and new ways for our clients to make money that will bring BLAM to new heights. We surveyed our new publishers to learn about what they wanted implemented into our system to make BLAM their only network, and we got so much valuable information and ideas; all of which will be implemented in the coming months. We’re grateful for all the feedback and for the loyality of our BLAM Ads publishers, we’ve been through a lot together and you have our full commitment that we will advance the bleak scape that we left before we came into the game. As a company, we plan to continue the model of building up the properties we own into streamlined, efficient businesses.