We are searching high and low to find each success story of famous affiliates who can inspire you to venture into this great industry or share your own experiences. Here is our interview with Christophe, founder of the Slots4Play network.
- Name: Sikita N Christophe
- Age: 31
- Hometown: Iasi, Romania
- Living in: London, UK
- Favorite Food: chicken livers with plenty of chips 🙂
- Must Read Book: The Art of Happiness , Dalai Lama
EEG: Tell us a bit about yourself, we want to know who Christophe really is and what was the key idea of developing this large network of websites called Slots4play Network?
Christophe: I’m the founder of Slots4play.com one of our biggest websites with over 5k pages (2000+ slots) with unique content, a Mobile Slots App which is available on IOS Store, as well a PC App which is available on Windows Store. Bellow you will find our video commercial from Youtube.
EEG: Where do you think Slots4play Network stands now in the industry and are there any future plans?
Christophe: I think we are very well placed in terms of branding. Branding is a Must and we’ve been trying this since the beginning and managed to achieve this Via Social Networks and other big portals. Our next goal is to improve and increase marketing activity via Youtube and Facebook as well as on other Blog Sites with our well made video teasers, new landing pages which are about to come our popular Mobile app and new sites such as Slots4play.mobi.
EEG: What are its strong points of Slots4play Network and how many people work on delivering all the content?
Christophe: Our Unique Casino Apps – Slots4play Apps. We have 10.000+ free players playing on our network all the time , especially on our PC app from Windows store with over 100K in downloads overall and it’s increasing faster since the launch of the new Windows 10 platform. I have my partner who is a programmer and works with me from the beginning, 1 guy on social media, 1 for design and as well 3-4 other people working on content.
EEG: What can you advise new affiliates that are looking to venture in this great industry?
Christophe: Start with New Brands, but they must be carefully chosen!! New doesn’t necessarily means good. Do not join big networks or 3rd party affiliate networks. You will never grow or grow very slowly and as well prepare yourself for a long and tough journey, things are not as easy as it seems and real money is not easy to earn.
EEG: What were the bumps in your road when you got started and how did you overcome them in you professional life?
Christophe: I remember at first I used to run the Slots4play.com website in Joomla ( I had around 1000 pages not all with unique content … ) , I was a newbie and I had all my deals on CPA … I think I had 3-4 revshare deals in total … then google came up with the first panda or penguin update .. can’t recall exactly anyway… the site went down from serps, earnings went down and that was the first time when I really didn’t knew what to do. I took a week off, analyzed and searched on the web possible problems of this issue. Since then many of the deals are on hybrid or revshare only and I’m fine and happy that I’ve switched to Html.
EEG: We are sure that your receive daily messages from Affiliate Managers showcasing their products. You of course select them by brands they work with, but what are your thoughts on how Affiliate Manager-Affiliate relationships be built?
Christophe: Yes I get loads of new mails every day, I usually get some heads up about that specific affiliate program on forum portals such as Yours and if I’m satisfied I start communicating with them. I hate aggressive affiliate managers and unfortunately there are loads of them and as well those which have long response time.
EEG: Who is your favourite celebrity?
Christophe: Kiefer Sutherland
EEG: Do you attend any igaming conferences? If so, which one and what is your most fun experience?
Christophe: Yes I do, LAC is where I go most of my times, and now again at Sigma in Malta from November the 2nd . Fun you say? That’s easy to say … Fun is when you get into tournaments at conferences or cash tables and take money from your affiliate managers 🙂 .
EEG: If you would just open your Youtube search bar, what would you search for?
Christophe: Slots4play
EEG: Alright, here comes the fun part….favourite food, where would you like to travel in Eastern Europe, some part of the region maybe that you haven’t visited yet and favourite destination around the world.
Christophe: As stated above chicken livers are my favourite, besides that on trips I fancy with unknown traditional meals and of course Caesar Salads.
EEG: Where you wouldn’t want to travel in Eastern Europe?
Christophe: Turkey
EEG: What is your opinion about EEG(Eastern European Gaming – eegaming.org)?
Christophe: I like the idea that EEG is focusing on Eastern European side and not many do this, it’s a plus and give us affiliates an idea of how things run on this side too!
