My first post to say hello!
Ok, now, where do I start?
I want to make a million!
Preferable this week but if not, certainly this year.
But, and its a big but!
I have absolutely no experience!!
I have just made up my own site (I can't get it reviewed here can I?) which is mainly UK free bets but I'm adding a Poker & Casino part to it.
So any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
How do I get it promoted?
How do I choose which companies to take on board?
How do I spend my first million?
How much do you guys really earn?
Any answers to these and I might just take you with me, lol
Thanks guys
Buy a boatload of lottery tickets, no guarantees, but one way to make millions with zero experience.
Now to the more serious idea. If you have a DECENT website, become an affiliate for the more reputable casino groups. Millions in months? Not a chance mate
BUT, if your site is good, and has some unique "bells & whistles" such as UK Free bets, it has something more than most affiliate sites have to offer.
Launching your OWN casino or poker games for real money will REQUIRE you to hold a gaming license, unless you want to move house to Costa Rica
The closest you can get is to use a "white label" casino, which is managed for you by the underlying casino group, and THEY use THEIR gaming license. Because you want to target the UK, ensure that any casino or poker room you promote has a UK or EU gaming license, OR is licensed in a jurisdiction on the UK Gambling Authority "whitelist" - this makes it legal for you to promote not just within the UK, but the whole of the EU.
In order to make "millions", you will have to INVEST "millions", either in money or your own efforts.
Some affiliates are able to strike special deals with casino groups, and this would be worth looking into with your free games idea. Players on your site could play these games, and casinos you promote could agree to sponsor some prizes on your site, crediting players who join through your site with extra bonuses. This has already been done on the internet, each site having a slightly different model and contest structure. The biggest problem is the start-up, without your site being popular in the first place, you will find it very hard to attract sponsors, yet in order to gain popularity, you will need to already be offering something.
Intercasino could be a good start, as there is a little used facility for affiliates of intercasino to run their OWN tournaments in the Intercasino software (I have not seen it used though). YOU would have to put up the prize money, and hope the entrance fees cover it. I expect Intercasino will charge a fee for running the event. You could then offer the tournament through your website, and players would then have to open an account at Intercasino to participate, hopefully through your own affiliate links.
Once you manage to attract players through your links, you will receive commission of around 20% to 30% of net player loss at the end of each month. Further, there is normally no "carry over" if one of your players hits big and wipes out one of your monthly payments.
Less reputable casinos will offer even higher rates of commission, but this is because they make more themselves by screwing players over. You might then be branded a "rogue affiliate", and this will act against the popularity of your site.
DO NOT SPAM in order to promote your site, this includes starting threads here in Casinomeister for the purpose of promoting your own site. The ONLY place in this forum where anything like this might be allowed is "strictly commercial", but even this section has had the rules tightened recently, so best read them, and get permission if in doubt. The previous rules simply allowed promotion of anything that did not get promoted by Casinomeister, a privilige that was abused by forum spammers.
If you want help in the professional sense, in that you will be paying for pieces of work for your site (not necessarily in money), then "strictly commercial" has a "help wanted" section for this.