For channels
You cannot message them.
We can.
Your post reaches whoever opens the channel that afternoon. An alert reaches the people who asked for it, the day it happens — because each of them said yes to that exact sentence.
Submit
Send your link and your sentence
Your link, the exact message, and where you publish it.
Write /submit and the bot asks you four things: your link — with your affiliate tag, from your site, however you have it — the exact message your people will get, which of our languages your page should be in, and the address of the channel you are publishing this one from.
The sentence goes out in whatever language you wrote it, so the page is asked for separately: you know what your people read, and nothing else here does — at that point your link has not even been opened yet. The last one goes at the foot of the alert, so whoever gets it knows where it came from. It is asked every time and not once, because the same person can run several channels. Answer «nothing» and the alert goes out naming nobody, which is more honest than crediting the channel next door.
Then a person opens your link — a person, not a crawler: we never read anybody’s site automatically — and checks two things:
- That it is affiliate marketing. Something someone can buy.
- That it goes where your sentence promises. A category counts if the sentence promised a category.
Where the link lives is not one of them. There is no list of approved shops — Amazon, your own site, a shop nobody has heard of: if it passes those two, it goes in.
You hear back on Telegram as soon as somebody has looked at it. What comes back is your Holdout link, and you publish it wherever you like. Whoever wants the alert asks for it there, and reads your sentence and sees your link before accepting.
Thursday
Which language should that page be in?
Meanwhile you already have your Holdout link:
holdoutdeals.com/l/7f3c9a21b4e05d68
Fire
You say when
One word from you, one message, and it closes.
Write /fire and the bot lists what you have waiting, with how many people are on each one — listed by what is on the other side of your link, not by your own sentence, because a sentence in the future makes a poor label. Answer with a number and it goes out to all of them, privately, once.
And then it closes. One sign-up gives one alert — the one they read before saying yes — and we never write to them about it again. That is what makes this a promise and not a mailing list.
The number beside each one is how many people asked for it, and it is the only figure we can hand you: your link goes out as yours, unwrapped, so whether anybody clicks it is between them and you.
Today
4 · Anker 737 Power Bank — 212 waiting · 640 views
Tell me the number of the one you want to send now.
The three conversations are made up: the channel, the link, the sentence and the numbers are invented. What is real is the order, what the bot asks for, and that the sentence is written by you and by nobody else.
How it works for you
- What does it cost?
- Nothing. Not now and not later: sending your alerts to your own people is free and stays free. What we will charge for one day is something else entirely — a paid ranking of channels, so people looking for deals find you. Neither you nor your audience is the product.
- How many alerts can I have?
- As many as you like; there is no quota. Each link is one alert and it closes the moment it goes out. Sending the same link twice does not make a second one — it is the same alert, at the same address.
- What language will my alert go out in?
- Your sentence goes out exactly as you wrote it: we never translate it. What is translated is everything around it — the footer that says who it comes from and how to stop, and anything the bot says — and that goes in the reader’s language: what they have told us, else what Telegram says their phone is set to, else yours, else English. Today we speak English and Spanish.
- Can I correct one, or take it back?
- If we did not pass it, yes: send the same link again with a better sentence and it goes back in the queue. Once it is approved the sentence is frozen — to say something else, send another link. There is no delete button: write to us and we will void it, and its page will say so. After /fire there is nothing to undo, because it is already on their phones.
- Do I have to publish on Telegram?
- No. Your Holdout link goes wherever you like: a channel, a post, your own site, the description of a video. Telegram is only where the alert lands, because that is where somebody can say yes and be written to once.
What we will never do
- Will you sell the people who sign up?
- No, and there will never be an auction. Whoever signs up through your link is yours, free, always. The ranking we will charge for one day sells a position on a board — never a person.
- Will you write to them yourselves?
- Never on our own account. One sign-up produces one message, the one they read before accepting, and nothing else ever. Once it has been delivered, if they are not waiting for anything else, we delete them: what is left behind leads to nobody.
- Will anyone see who signed up?
- Only how many. The page shows a count and nothing else — no names, no list, not for you and not for anyone. We could not show more if we wanted to: what we hold is a Telegram id, and it goes when the alert has been delivered.
- Will you wrap my link to count clicks?
- Not the one that reaches them: it goes out untouched, with your tag, never wrapped in anything of ours, so we do not know whether anybody clicked it. On your Holdout page we do count opens and clicks — plain numbers, no cookie, no address, nobody attached to them — because that is what tells you whether the page is working.
- Will you rewrite what I wrote?
- What we approved is what goes out, word for word — and not even you can change it afterwards, which is the whole point of somebody having checked it. We open your link once, at review, and we never read anybody’s site automatically after that.
Two minutes on Telegram and your first alert is in review.
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