Showing posts with label online casino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online casino. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Blackpool Club Casino, Poker and Bingo Joining B4Playing

Another great 3 properties from the house of Playtech has joined B4Playing. These are the first localized (UK) properties joining B4Playing. Keep following the next few months as they are going to be featured with us more and more.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Windows Casino joins B4Playing

As you know, windows casino has changed both its ownership and the software. They were using RTG and now they are using Playtech’s great software.

Windows casino is joining the B4Playing tool and will be uploaded in the next few days.

We are working to bring more casinos and poker rooms for the benefits of the players using B4Playing.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Mansion Joins B4Playing

Mansion poker has joined the B4Playing tool. Mansion poker is a great addition to our tool as it brings another great poker room for our users. We are currently working to upload the Mansion Casino.

Click here to visit Mansion Poker and Casino click here

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

B4Playing Update

We are almost done with all the information for December, we are now crossing the $100,000 in bonuses and 47,500 poker tournaments. One of the important thing for B4Playing is having the information on the client updated. Some properties are sending the information via XML but unfortunately some still send it via email.

Well, nevertheless we do the work to make sure all players have the information updated. We encourage users who find new bonuses who weren’t update to inform us. It feels great when the community supports the product, sends feedback, information, ideas etc’ – it makes everything worth while doing.


B4Playing will not be in CAC Macau this week. We were actually planning but traveling is taking too much our valuable time. I guess saying that lots of people will agree. As one who is on the road a lot flying almost every week spending time in meetings and conferences (which there are hundreds of them) it is very difficult to also find time to work. So this time I stayed around here (even if it would have been probably a great place to visit).
That is it for a short update.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

B4Playing at Ad-Tech

NYC, either you hate it or you love it, I am from the lovers side. The Ad-Tech in NYC was one of the biggest, if not the biggest conference for online media I ever seen. Great lectures, huge exhibition (450 booths) and around 10,000 visitors. This was one the best places to find technologies, sources, media, advertising opportunities, partners and affiliates. The B4Playing Comparison Shopping tool for the online gambling industry attracted a lot of attention from anyone we talked to. Practically, we are going home with huge amount of valuable contacts. I think one of the biggest proof we had a success is that after a day and half I ran out of business cards and I did bring with me over 400 :)

Below are some pictures from At-Tech conference and NYC (and also my first time in my life trick n treat).


Halloween




A taste of midtown Manhattan




The M&M store


And the convention




Sunday, October 14, 2007

B4Playing is flying

Things are flying along at hyper-speed, with 300 new users joining everyday from different locations worldwide with focus on Europe. The word is spreading very quickly, and we’re happy that so many people are taking advantage of all of the opportunities that B4Playing has to offer – after all, there are lots of them.

We’re already working on our second version development. We’ve received great feedback from the many, many members, and it’s full-steam ahead for the development team to put the things we’ve learned into action.

B4Playing is always growing, and with every day, it’s getting better than ever!

Monday, October 1, 2007

What a month- September media results

In my previous blog posted on September 10th, I have shared my general view about running media campaigns. Well, it was harder than I thought. Media companies became a commodity and their service level as well as their professionalism has gone down. There are too many offline companies who are using their services and have no tracking tools and their level of monitoring and analysis is close to zero. Media companies got spoiled!

It was clear from the very beginning (around Sep 10th) that the level of our involvement has to be very high (few times a day at each media company). We started with 5 media companies. One could not get pixel tracking to work. The other one was way above our target per user. One was very slow to increase traffic. The forth one did not allow us to get access to their server and we had to terminate them. One was slowly and continuously growing and now delivers about 150 users a day.

The last day of September we had almost 300 new users. 248 from media and 51 from our affiliates. All together we have generated 4100 users. This is all great and dandy but Itay has set my target (without the affiliates) to 12000 this month. This is averaging at 400 a day. This could have been easy if he would not set the price per user at that low! I do need to grow from 250 a day to 500 a day before month end.
I am off to switch on more media companies and accelerate campaigns with the existing ones. I enjoy seeing the bandwidth consumption steadily growing, the price per users going down and the number of users growing!
Who said working hard is no fun??

Stephan
Media Manager

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Finally a smart tool and easy to use - A B4Playing user testimonial

Thank you, B4Playing, for making my life easier. I have downloaded your client few days ago and a whole new world, which I was not aware of, is now at the tip of my hands.

I am an online Poker player, for the last 3 years. I enjoy spending weekends, usually late at night, playing at PartyPoker. I consider myself as a professional (I love these new comers) and once in a while I love playing with other professionals.

Your poker tournaments alert system is awesome. It became my scheduler and I really like it. (Can you connect it to Microsoft Outlook?)

I was not aware that there are so many poker rooms over the net. Went and played at Pacific Poker and I really enjoyed the different look and feel. I am now playing on 4 different poker rooms and I love it. I use the bonus optimizer and go to the ones that give me the highest.

The only downside with your tool is the fact that I am spending more time playing now!

Keep doing a great job. I sure am going to refer it to some of my neighbors.

B4Playing user.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Getting Media to produce results

Online advertizing went a long way since the first Citibank banner appeared on the Netscape front page. Direct response ads became very useful with a clear ROI targets. Sophisticated tracking systems, various ad formats, numerous advertizing networks, learning ad servers and more are available now.

The above mentioned sophistication made the selection, and the initial ramp up a lengthy process. It is not developing a banner any more. It is about installing tracking code (what's so called pixel tracking), it is about low scale testing of various banners, landing pages, various sites (and even ad networks).

It is all geared towards maximizing your investment. We set aggressive ROI goals and we keep waiting for the ad system to tune themselves, select the proper publishers, ad format and creative. It is fascinating to see how the cost per user is improving daily.

We are not there yet but we have all the indications that we will hit and exceed our targets. You better hold your eagerness to get users and get the ad systems to be fully tuned.

Stay tuned to some interesting statistics once our media will be fully tuned and operational.

Meanwhile we are very happy with our conversion rate from our client users to real players. It seems that poker players find the poker tournaments and it associated alert system very useful and the conversion rate is really impressive. The online casino bonus tool seems to be effective to.

More to come.

Stephan
Media manager

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Buying Media

Yesterday we have launched our official beta product. Now we officially turn from being a development company to an Internet marketing company. While there are many ways to market over the internet this short blog shares with you our activity as per buying media.

We have searched and interview quite a lot of Internet Media companies and have selected few. A specific budget was allocated to each one and a targeted cost per user (who downloaded the B4Playing client) was set. We are testing various methods:

Textual advertizing
Pay Per Click (keyword search)
Banners campaign

We have selected 2 different countries for each media company and have provided them with translated material.





At our backend we have developed a sophisticated tracking system. Each media company and each campaign is monitored separately and we can analyze and compare the performance of each one of them. Yes, the media companies track the performance themselves (and we even installed some pixel tracking code) but it is always better to own your own tools and do the analysis in-house.

Next week I will write a new blog and share with you some of our statistics.

Stephen
Media Manager

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

5 days after beta launch

We have launched our beta product on Aug 15th as planned. Have recruited 371 users in the first 5 days and it fits our targets. The feedback is very positive. We get bug reports, suggestion for minor changes and additional feature requests. This is exactly what we have looked for during the beta testing and prior to our official release on September 3rd. We are looking into having up to 1000 users prior to going live with the released product just to make sure that the system is reliable enough to handle large traffic.

While we are recruiting affiliates (we have 245 registered by now) we are finalizing the affiliation system so that we will be able to provide with the support expected from us.

On a different front we develop relationship and resolve technical issues with additional properties and we will get them up as we progress.

Looking forward to serving the players', the affiliates' and the properties' communities.

Itay

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Tomorrow

All is frozen. Code was frozen last night and being finally tested the entire day. We do not take additional properties and the ones who did have not complied with our technical and administrative needs will have to wait for the next wave just before we go live with the final version on September 3rd. Now, with more than 50 leading properties we believe that we are having enough value to start with.

With 30000 individuals who have pre- registered we believe that we will have quite a large community participating in our beta group. We have limited it to 1000 users and may consider broadening it based on feedback we will get from the market.

So far we have defined schedule. No more! Now, our users will be the king! They will define if we are giving the expected support and service and they will define the additional features they would like to see from us.

We are ready for the challenge.

Itay

Monday, August 6, 2007

Internet- A marketing or technical play?

Back in the late 90’s Internet was a clear pure technical play. We, the ones who were there at that time, had to struggle with a lot of new technologies and a setting up a new site ( which expects to get high traffic) had a lot of technical implications.

During the last 2 years, it was clear to me as a large casino affiliate and poker affiliate that the name of the game is marketing. How do I get to more people? SEO, PPC, textual advertizing, content, content, content.

Well, we are about to go live in 9 days and I watch our R&D team. Stress testing (as we would like to be ready for about 500 downloads a day), bandwidth calculations, backup and redundancy systems, security and much more. I see the 15 PCs simulating various working environment, the new client being built every night and more.

Yes, building a website is very simple these days. However, developing an application is still as complicated as it was when I was dealing with it. And I thought that all is simple these days!

I wrote it in one of my previous posts. I deal with 100s of inputs and have to take 10s of decisions. It is time consuming but I didn't have so much fun for long time.

Yes I know it will be harder on August 15th when we lunch our beta program. As long it will be fun I am ready for these sleepless nights.

Itay

Thursday, August 2, 2007

The fun of dealing with translation

Our decision to go live with 7 different languages had clear business logic. We would like to service the international community and talk their language. We all understand that these automatic translators would not do a good job for us.

So, we went and subcontracted professional translators from any possible corner of the world. Now, we are sitting in front of web pages in Japanese and Chinese that we can even not read (not to mention that we cannot understand).

Well, we send it to some of our international colleagues to scan and hope that we will not be offended when we go live. We clearly feel that supporting local languages if a major advantage and we will do anything possible to be accurate and precise with our messages.


Arividerchi on August 15th when we launch the product.

Itay

Sunday, July 29, 2007

18 days before Beta launch

We are going live in 18 days! We can cut the air in our office with a knife. All are working 18 hours a day: Developers, QA, SEO, Media buyers, Finance and management. Tons of third party vendors are knocking on the door. Investors are calling in to get status reports. Fun. I love the Hi Tech world. It is so different than being an independent affiliate when you and only you define the pace and the work load.

A new software version is being published internally every few days (sometimes, every day), new properties are calling to join the program, 186 affiliates have already joined our newly introduced Affiliate program. SEO effort pays off.

Friends from the industry are calling to congratulate, my IM is being bombarded, getting 400 emails a day. 100s of CVs are being faxed here.

The good news is the fact that once we will go live life will be harder.

Fun, fun, fun.

Itay

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Just one of these busy days…

If your life is anything like B4Playing, we can sympathize with your hectic schedule! Today has been one of the busiest days B4Playig has experienced. We have been bogged down with publishing, testing and preparing information for the official launch of our closed beta. It’s less than twenty days away, and we still have so much to do.

Understand, although it may sound like we’re whining, this is far from the truth. We are pleased to be so busy, because we know our hard work will pay off with our success!

Furthermore, just because we’re busy doesn’t mean we don’t have time for our B4Playig users. We are still so impressed with how many users we’ve accumulated over the past few months, and we can not express our gratitude to those of you who have spread the word about our fantastic tool and have helped grow our community.

Remember, should your ever have any comments, questions, or concerns, we are never to busy to respond to our users. Don’t ever hesitate to contact us, as we always look forward to hearing from you.

Ever busy, yet pleased with our success,

Itay

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Free ebook: “33 Professional Players' Secrets You Must Know If You Want To Become A Winner At Online Casino Games.”

We greatly appreciate both the interest and time our users take to register with us, and we would like to extend our gratitude to you by offering you our 33 Professional Player`s Secrets You Must Know if you Want to Become a Winner at Online Casino Games e-book, as a complimentary bonus for registering with us.

In an effort to express to you how valuable we feel our users are to B4Playing, we`ve provided you with this mini guide to assist you in your online gambling gaming experiences to help improve your odds of walking away a winner.

We know how important and fun it is to play and win at the online casino and poker room, and we also know how valuable tips from expert players can be.

Our book contains a number of excellent strategies that were compiled from various experts and has been explained in an easy-to-follow format to help even the novice player become a master at winning some of the best online casino games including Baccarat, Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Video Poker and Slots. Within its pages you`ll discover:

• Which machines are best to play at for reaping the most profit
• What bets improve your chances of success
• Which bets are the best to avoid
• Which cards to keep or eliminate in your hand
• And more!

Remember, in order to obtain this outstanding e-book, all you need to do is register with B4Playing. What could be better than using a tool that provides you with the best personalized gambling experience and is complimented by a strategy guide that helps you walk away a winner?

To register for our beta and receive our e-book follow this link: www.b4playing.com

All the best, and all the e-luck,

Itay

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

We are still growing fast…

This just in – B4Playing has 15,000 registered users and counting! More than 300 people are registering for the B4Playing tool and joining the B4Playing community daily.

It’s nice to see that so many online casino and poker tournaments players are ready to test B4Playing to find out if our tool can provide them with the link to the best, personal online gambling experience. We know our users won’t be disappointed in what our tool can do.

Each person that signs up to become a B4Playing user will enjoy excellent benefits such as no longer having to search for relevant gambling information. There are so many properties out there that it can feel next to impossible finding the right online casino or poker tournaments that suit your needs. The B4Playing tool not only finds the best sites based on the personal data you provide, but also classifies and filters the pertinent data and arranges it in the order you requested before delivering it directly to your desktop.

Once the information collected is placed on your desktop, all the user is required to do is click on the sites they are most interested in and they will be connected to the desired online casino and/or poker tournaments.

Being able to manage your online gambling experience puts you ahead of the average casino and poker player. For our users who favor the casino, B4Playig will provide you with a list of all the major online casino operators and select the best bonuses that suit your personal preference such as Progressive Slot Alerts, Exclusive Bonus Offers and Bonuses Optimization.

For our users who enjoy poker playing, B4Plaing will provide detailed data for all scheduled poker tournaments so you know about every event, and can choose the ones that interest you most. You will also be alerted of tournaments before they start so you don`t miss them.

B4Playing is all about having online gambling your way. It has been designed to personally accommodate every user regardless of their online casino or poker tournaments preference.

Once again, thank you to all of our users who have spread the word and helped us reach over 14,000 users in such a short period of time.

Please continue helping us grow the B4Playing community.

Itay

Sunday, June 17, 2007

45 Days, over 11,000 users - Woohoo!

We have exciting news! B4Playing launched on May 1st and we are pleased to report that not only was our launch successful, but we have reached over 11,000 users in the first 45 days!

11,000 users greatly surpassed our original estimation of 5,000 users and we couldn’t be happier. It’s clear to us that many of our users have spread the word to their friends, relatives, colleagues and anyone who enjoys online gambling as much as they do.

Although we didn’t doubt the success of B4Playing, We’re pleased to see that so many online casino and poker players have taken an active interest in our tool in such a short time. With such an awesome turnout, we see a great future for B4Playing, as well as for our users.

The online gambling community is a huge industry filled with many online casinos and poker rooms for players to choose from. We’re delighted to help players find the properties that feature the best bonuses, games and tournaments that are most suited to their individual playing desires.

After all, your online gambling experience should be designed just the way you want it. There’s no reason why you should be frustrated searching thorough the multitude of online casinos and poker sites when you should be enjoying your free time by having fun gaming.

We thank you for your support and for becoming a valuable B4Playing user. Please feel free to keep spreading the word and inviting more people to join our community.

With so many users in 45 days, who knows how many users well be part of the B4Playing community in 6 months!

Itay