Vince Reed joined an affiliate marketing competition organized by his mentor, assembling a team called The Underdogs. They ran webinars and ads to climb the leaderboard, finishing second and winning a mansion party at a 20,000 sq ft San Diego home plus cash and VIP access to the mentor's next event.
So I get back from this event and things are rolling. I have this newfound confidence, you know, I feel like I have a path and a vision of how to make money. I know what I need to do. And then I get the message from the goat, my mentor. And he proceeds to tell me that he is setting up the biggest affiliate launch in the history of digital marketing. And he was not lying. He went out and he recruited the very best affiliates, the very best business owners. He was recruiting people that were selling system similar to his. And he was like, listen, we are going to try to break records and I want you to be a part of it. I want you to be in this affiliate competition and I want you to place. I think you could potentially be in the top five or 10. And I remember when he said that I'm like, top five or 10, I want to win this thing, right? I was extremely motivated and excited. And then he started to tell me about the prizes. He started to tell me about all of the things that he was going to give away to individuals that placed in the top 10 of this affiliate competition. And it started with the mansion party. And I couldn't help but go back to my vision of opening up that email and seeing the yacht party. But this time it was gonna be a mansion party. He had just got this like 20,000 square foot home in San Diego. It had this amazing pool where people could like swing from these things and dive into the water. It was awesome. And he said, everybody that finishes is gonna be here at my house and we're gonna party and we're gonna have fun. And there was no way that I was gonna miss this. And. And then on top of that, there was all types of money and cash prizes. And then you got VIP access to his next event. So the event that I was at, where I went VIP style, where I met the guru on the wall, he was having part two, the second annual event. And he said, the people that finish in the top get to go VIP style to that event. And I said, I have to be there. And I was focused and I was ready to go. People are going crazy. Everybody wants to be at this mansion party. Everybody wants the cash prizes. Everybody wants vi access to my mentor's next event. And people start recruiting people. People start forming teams, literally affiliate teams, or they were gonna like basically band together and sell this one info product to try to win. I felt like I was back in high school getting recruited by like all of these colleges all over again. And it came down to a few different people that I was gonna join, and at this point, I knew that there was no way that anyone was gonna win by themselves. You're gonna have to be part of a team. And I ended up going with that. Called me the guy I saw at the VIP party, the guy that was making it happen. And the name of our team was called the Underdogs. Everybody loves a good underdog story. And the reason I wanted to be part of this team was one I had so much respect for. You know, the guy that I met at that VIP party, you know, I just had watched his business. He did exactly what he said he was gonna do when I first met him, and he had an idea and a strategy to essentially win this thing. And I felt like, hey, if we beat some of the other people that were in this, I mean, I'm telling you, we were going up against the who's who of marketing, and if we were able to pull this off, we would make a name for ourselves, and it would be pretty awesome, right? So what he said to me is, like, listen, this is what we're going to do, okay? We're not going to have as many people as the other, other systems. We're going to go after essentially 10 to 15, you know, really strong marketers, and everybody is going to pull their products together. We're going to make it where if they buy the product from us, then they'll get additional bonuses from everybody on our team. And that's exactly what we did. So we started doing massive webinars. I remember we did a webinar, and it was like five hours long, and it hung at about five to 600 people, the entire webinar. Now, this is, you know, years and years ago, so the amount of, like, people on was not a normal thing. Today, it happens a lot. But back then, have that many people and hold for five or six hours was crazy. And the entire time, you're just seeing sale after sale after sale after sale. And then what happened was email came out to share, like, what place we were in. And I remember our name was, like, at the bottom. We were like, number eight or nine. We were like, man, we're only number eight or nine. And we pushed all of this type of traffic, and it just kept going and going. And I remember we were spending money running ads, doing webinars, and slowly but surely we started to creep up and up and up the leaderboard where when, you know, my mentor would start to make these videos and make the announcements. It was almost like this new team, the Underdog. No one even knew who we were are beating like all of these heavy hitters and all these major systems and all these marketers at the time who had the biggest list. We're up there. And finally it came down to the end. There was three of us left and we were number three. And it was time to announce the final winner. And it came out. We were so excited. And at this point I was pretty cool with it because I knew we were going to get all of the major prizes. We probably to finish anywhere in the top three. The only thing you got left was maybe a little bit of cash, but you still got the mansion party. You still got, you know, the VIP access to the event. So I was happy I had reached my goal. But at this point, I really want to win this thing. So it comes out and there's this big, like, countdown of when the email is going to come out. The email comes out and we finished second.
