Ryan Eagle Blog | Grind all Day. Party all Night.

Posted Tuesday, February 02, 2010 in Tags: Business,Life

It's a new decade - I have new goals, new money, new problems and not enough patience. I'm still grind nonstop because that's all I know. I'm slangin' berries even with all the instability with free trials. I'm still out-hustling other networks and making competition memories of 09'. I'm gonna' keep doin' BIG numbers in this game until I pull every last dollar out of it.

It's amazing to me how we simply improved every aspect that hated about other networks and made EWA Private Network what it is now. As an affiliate I worked actively with over 30 different networks and advertisers and it was always ran into the same problems. Getting weekly payments was a couple phone calls no guarantee. I had to fight for pay bumps and go between networks to leverage payout's. The account managers I worked with, for the most part, had absolutely no field experience and were just offer peddlers.

We changed everything. EWA paid everyone weekly, with no bullshit thresholds. EWA pledged to beat any competitors payout and actively does competitive analysis to keep our payout's above others. EWA chose a strong team of experienced and motivated individuals to actually help our affiliates with building and scaling campaigns. We delivered.

Often I get asked, "Isn't running a network easier than actually being an affiliate?" I found out quickly that that was quite the contrary! In our first week in business we took a $120,000 loss from a bad advertiser. Instead of working on building campaigns all day, we have to actively monitor over 1000 offers and help affiliates with all their needs. Instead of working with 30 merchants, EWA works with over 375. We just make this look too easy but you have to work to get to this status. Nothing about starting any new business is easy and requires months of planning and determination.

The last post on this blog was about giving up control and it's been a focus this new year. To say the least, the company as grown quite a bit but we're still running it in an optimized and efficient way - I guess that's what years of affiliate marketing does to me. Slowly but surely I'm able to have more free time to focus on other projects that I'm starting - both internet and tangible businesses. It's another year and nothing gets my blood flowing more than investing into new ventures.

The goal is to be the richest of the rich out there and you best bet I'm gonna be covered in VVS karats while doing it. More businesses, more strategic partnerships, more investing, more money, more problems. Like I say in all my newsletters, diversification is key for the long term riches. I've been in this game for years and I've seen it change over and over. It's survival of the fittest out here - are you prepared?

I Will Live My Dreams

Posted Sunday, October 25, 2009 in Tags: Business,Life

When your sleeping - I'm grindin'. When your awake - I'm grindin'. When your partying - I'm grindin'. I have a lot of money, but even more on my mind. Over the past few months I've neglected this blog because I've been focusing on growing EWA Network, our internal affiliate marketing operation and several new business ventures. Eagle Web Assets has seen massive growth, so I needed to adapt accordingly. This is survival of the fittest, and I've been in this game since 04'.

When a company grows, you need to delegate work and focus on administrative operations. Several months ago I was faced with the same situation - too much growth, too quick. I decided to hire a long time friend of mine and fellow affiliate marketer to help the company and it was one of the best choices I've made so far. I'm a control freak, and I wanted to control every aspect of the company myself and it was just too much for me. Having Jared on the team helped ease my work load so I could focus on managing our affiliate operations, business development and provide more dedicated support to my affiliates. Now, we have several new employees managing different tasks that have allowed us to grow in a healthy fashion.

Eagle Web Assets has over 15 employees and every one of them is dedicated to the company, friends of mine, and love what they do. I not only share the wealth with my affiliates, I share it with the staff working with me. Nobody likes working for a company paying them a tenth of what their making for the company - everyone is on a revenue-share basis motivating them to work harder, longer, smarter. Everyday I have the pleasure of working with my family and close friends - and I love every second of it.

My advice to affiliates seeing massive growth: give up some control. Hire an intern to help you manage your campaigns, find new traffic sources, help make creatives and landing pages. As a business owner, you need to stay on the creative side of things and continue innovating - if you get stuck doing grunt work all day you'll never grow as a business and eventually get overwhelmed.

So far 2009 has been a wonderful year for me in both my personal life and business ventures. Every year I set new goals and I work nonstop for them. I will make history, and I will live my dreams. 2010 is quickly approaching and I'm excited for new plans, businesses, goals, and dreams I will achieve. Diversification and investment for the long term riches are my main goals.

In my personal life, I'm grateful for everything and never take it for granted. I have a beautiful girlfriend that I'm in love with. Julie means the world to me and I love growing with her and taking her along for the ride that we both enjoy so much. I'm thankful to say that I have a close group of friends that support me and care about me, something many people don't have. Above all - I'm still sober, 1 day at a time, and I'm eternally grateful for this. Looking back over the past year, my life has made a complete 360 change. Taking the drugs and liquor out of my life has totally changed my perspective and made me more focused than I ever was. My personal connection with God is strong and I pray to Him several times a day, thanking him for every moment I have on this Earth.

I can't forget to holla' at the haters, just waiting for me to slip. I make this look too damn good, but it ain't easy. You may see me ridin' clean, diamonds on fingers and watches, matching fresh from head to toe. I'm tellin' you - this may look easy but you have to hustle to get up to this status. See you at the top.

The Rise to the Top

Posted Friday, July 24, 2009 in Tags: Life

“The megalomaniac pleasure of creation produces a type of elation which cannot be compared to that experienced of other mortals" - Edmund Berger

I get asked this all day long: how did I get started in this industry? Well, it’s a long story that goes way back to 2003. I started creating “hacking” forums for online video games (such as Diablo II). I provided free hacks and exploits and networked with users for these online games. Creation thrilled me. New forums, new connections, new people – I thrived on it. With the connections I made on my forum, I started duplicating items and selling them on eBay. This was my first real viable source of income from the internet. I turned this into a huge operation profiting enough for me to buy my first car – a used red BMW that I was in love with when I was 16.

After Diablo II got locked down, I moved onto my other love – design. I ran a hugely successful Photoshop tutorial forum getting traffic from all the tutorial submission sites. I learned about SEO to gain rankings and created a custom plug-in to optimize my forum. With the optimizations, I started driving major traffic (or what I thought was major traffic) to my site and started to get passive Google AdSense income. The profit increased with the traffic, so my next move was to make more sites. I created about 20 sites, part of the “void” network – everything from rap to MySpace to classic video gaming.

I woke up one day and hit gold – I guess people were really looking for MySpace Codes! My site had already profited several hundred dollars from AdSense when I had woken up and it took the #1 rank for MySpace Codes. The story of Eagle Web Assets begins here (formerly known as xCell Technologies). I worked day in and day out to create more sites, and at the peak of my SEO career I had 15 sites ranked #1 and several ranked in the top 3. I was handling about 250,000-450,000 unqiues a day profiting from Yahoo Publisher Network ($3~ clicks), ZangoCash ($1~ installs), and ValueClick popups. Lets say I had a fat bankroll that was only getting bigger

MySpace webmasters began monetizing their sites with this thing called Zwinky, so I applied to the advertising network and was opened up until a whole new world of advertising – CPA. I started off simply by adding a web creative to my sites and making an additional stream of passive income. Some MySpace webmasters got into the new hottest thing.

But, there comes a point in every blackhat’s career where you cannot progress further as a businessman. I decided it was time to quit – especially considering the business was getting riskier and harder to do. I went straight to media buying on MySpace for mobile campaigns and never went back to the dark side in early 2007. As an affiliate, I still promote via social, media buying and popup traffic. Earlier this year, with all the capital I saved up I decided to start a private network and that’s where I’m at now. Splitting my time between my internal campaigns and network management. The one thing that I have learned in this industry is that you need to adapt to survive. I’ve been independent since 2004 – now I employ my father, brother, several internal marketers and network staff. I’m not done writing chapters to my book, so for now – you better get your money while the gettin’ is good. I make this look too easy – but I still work 20 hours a day to maintain my position. Once you get it, you never want to give it back.

My Life

Posted Sunday, May 24, 2009 in Tags: Life,Business,Make money

What have I been up to? Well, this month Eagle Web Assets Inc. turned 5 years old and I've been working harder than ever - I'm addicted to that fast money. Several months ago I moved from just being an affiliate to owning a small, private network called EWA Private Network - and we've seen huge growth. It feels good to be involved with different aspect of affiliate marketing - it makes me want to work harder, longer and smarter. We don't accept random people, so if you don't know me or my partner Harrison Gevirtz, don't bother applying. We are here to simply help out our friends grow their business with the best offers, highest payout's, and weekly payments - not take on a huge workload. It feels good to have other networks scrambling - we did not come in this industry trying to make friends with people - we came to be fairer to our affiliates.

The majority of EWA's profits still come from internal advertising - I work in several niches ranging from mobile to good ole' Acai. I'll be an affiliate till I suck the last dime out of it. If anyone wants to chat with me, I love meeting new people! Reach out to me whenever, I'm available all the time.

I've been spending most my extra time with my girlfriend Julie, a women that I respect and treat right. I learned early that love is not something to mess with loosely, and a word not to use unless you really feel it. I decided to open up my heart to Julie and I've loved every minute of it. We have been living together for several months and love each others company. She is not only my girl, but she is my companion. Other than spending time with Julie, I've developed a love for blackjack and roulette. I'm a grown man, I don't play video games - I play with real money.

Being an addict, I need to watch myself with the whole gambling thing - it can be as ruinous as any other addiction. Thankfully, I'm still sober, coming up on 11 months in a couple days. I'm grateful to God for every day that I'm alive, sober, and surrounded with people that care about me and love me. I may be all about "Money, Hoes, Cars and Clothes", but my first priority is to remain sober one day at a time and improve my spiritual connection with God. Life is good, and I want to keep it that way!

AdTech San Francisco 2009

Posted Saturday, April 18, 2009 in Tags: Business

I love going to industry conferences - for me its more a reprieve from the daily grind than anything else. It's a wonderful feeling for me to finally meet the people that I work with on a daily basis. This is the first conference that I'm bringing my girlfriend along with, so I plan to spend as much time with her as possible; I figure - mix business with pleasure. This is going to be the first time I've ever taken someone I care about with me on "vacation" - something I'll remember forever. If you'd like to meet up with me, contact me and you can meet this asshole in person.

I've been slacking on updating this blog as I've centered all my time on expansion of Eagle Web Assets (I've also been on twitter too much!), including expansion of a private network for high end affiliates. It's been wonderful to see growth of the network - I work my hardest to keep my friends and affiliates happy. This growing division is really a new passion of everyone at Eagle Web Assets!

During AdTech I will be seeking out new potential high end affiliates to let into our network. I'm trying to keep my network a private tight group of friends - I figure keep the inner circle ballin'. I'm excited to shake the right hands and meet new faces at AdTech! See you guys there!

Ryan is cutthroat with my money, fuck with it and I'll get your head banged for less than a brick of soft.