Comments on: Theo Paphitis is robbed of £200k for 30% of affiliate site Gaming Alerts in Dragons Den TV show

By: Feli

Feli — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:56:53 +0000

Hi there,
A year ago I was watching the show as well and I agree with you, I thought “Theo are you mad??”. Might as well just throw your 200k in the bin.
You may like to see that I came across this press release and it looks like they diverted their efforts a little bit now.. http://www.prleap.com/pr/127501/ Haha, not sure whether they’re in Theo’s best books anymore.

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By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:54:40 +0000

Hiya,

That’s right, you could build a new gaming site within 6 months with £30 and get more traffic than Gaming Alerts. The sites linked to a affiliate program which pays a commission, nothing new in the internet marketing game.

I wish Theo would invest £100 on me, I would be making that back in no time. By the way I’ve already done it.

By: The count

The count — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:43:10 +0000

Dont believe all this, calm down you lot. These dragons know the script, that theo is a clever cookie and so is jimmy c aka james charlton caan. I think the guy that lives in the den has the pedigree to be on the panel, fairdos he is no brad pitt but neither is deborah meaden and shes had a shot. I think the best two dragons are peter and duncan. They are sharp and don’t mess about unless it’s a good looking bird and that old casanova bannatyne might have a pop obviously at the buisness idea. Me and my two friends watch it on a weekly basis and have all the latest posters, dvds, books, scarfs, bedcovers, phonecovers, the lot. We are DD thats dragons dens biggest fans. One of my friends scarf say ‘Go on james blow your cash again’.

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By: Robert MacEwan

Robert MacEwan — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:50:47 +0000

That’s crazy. My freaking blog gets more traffic than that site.

By: rav

rav — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:46:05 +0000

on DD right now - he signed the cheque so hasnt backed out now - ok not the wisest move hes ever made to be fair but he has acquired a couple of people who should understand the affiliate / gambling space very well and could be applied to other ventures - just checked out the site now - really does look like an affiliate-one-man knock up job!

By: Tino

Tino — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:09:56 +0000

When I saw the program I thought exactly the same. No way this site is worth over 600K. Ha Ha Ha.
They would be lucky to turnover that in the next 5 years.

By: Money Outlet

Money Outlet — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:25:15 +0000

Not saying I disagree with this topic but a few weeks ago (early November/late October) I saw Bingo Alerts ranking on page 1 of SERPs in Google for a number of major bingo keywords, at least the names of bingo sites like Gala, etc.

Like someone said earlier, many links are from their own site. Not sure how well the “alerts” will be but beyond bingo, adding all their sites together (gamingalterts et al) and £200k then couldn’t this business model work over the next few years?

Would be interesting to get some feedback from those who have done well in bingo/gaming. How’s your bingo site done Kieron?

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By: Pluckypi

Pluckypi — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:26:47 +0000

I disagree with the topic.

Theo knows what he is doing, within a few weeks I am sure the will get more hits with bigger bandwith. He is a marketing guru.

……… also look at the traffic it is going to get from this site.