Voice2Page and Pay Per Play and Conflicting Opinions

In a recent email that was sent to all of the former affiliates at voice2page they deemed the program a failure because the program was used primarily as a referral source to generate income for the affiliates. This is not how the program was sold to the original affiliates of voice2page.

It was sold as earning from referring other affiliates in a MLM style 5 tier compensation plan and earning from the NetAudioAd plays. While Larry Host may of forgotten this fact. The original affiliates were told that when the ad plays go live that they would be the backbone for promoting the program and recruiting others to deliver the ads.

While this may not of been the intention of voice2play to give those affiliates an exclusive to the ad play compensation plan it was perceived that way. In the recent email sent by Larry Host of voice2page to the old affiliates he forgets to address this.

> The old news:
>
> In mid 2006 Voice2Page.com started an Affiliates program to
> help us increase our sales of V2P services.
>
> We brought in seasoned marketers to launch the program and train the
> membership.
>
> The results?
>
> Many of the top level people signed themselves up to all
> five levels in order to capture the bulk of any commissions earned.
>
> Only 167 affiliates signed up in 18 months of operation.
>
> Only THREE affiliates ever marketed to their list through
> the mailing system we provided.
>
> Most of the top level people were apparently in it solely for the
> affiliate commission, regardless of any profitability of V2P or
> to the lower level affiliate members.

(I will address some of the false claims in this email in later post. Not to mention the huge privacy breech that was made when this email was sent.)

He claims that the only reason people joined it for the affiliate payment structure and forgets to mention that the NetAudioAds compensation was also assured to these affiliates and it never came to fruition or the original affiliates were ignored when they were ready to launch it. Only Larry Host can answer these questions.

What is strange though is while voice2page has decried earning from referring others it is what Pay Per Play is actually advocating. Refer as many people as possible to the affiliate program and earn from their efforts instead of setting up yourself as a earner from the voice plays.

Here is a comment made by Charles Heflin at another blog defending the Pay Per Play launch.

You will notice he says that the income opportunity is really from referring other and not from playing the ads yourself.

I wonder if voice2page and Pay Per Play are on the same page on the launch of NetAudioAds?