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Interview with Laurent

DFN: This week's interview is with Laurent Bibas, sales and marketing VP of Carpe Diem, european #1 sponsor.

Lets get the real basic stuff first...
Laurent My name is Laurent, I'm 28 and I live in Paris, France.

DFN: How often do you try new building ideas, or using new sponsors?
Laurent We are a european sponsor dedicated to dialers billing solutions. We have the largest affiliated webmasters community in Europe (more than 10,000 webmasters). We provide also websites and content in 5 different languages. We make more than 20,000,000 dollars turnover a year.

DFN: Do you do everything by hand? or do you use some scripts to automate your work?
Laurent We have a staff of programmers and we host thousands of websites.

DFN: Can you touch on how and why you got involved into this industry, and how long you have been doing it?
Laurent The company was founded in 1998. The parent company is "Carpe Diem" and we have several business units for each main non french country : Germany, Spain, Italy, US/Canada (eurodialer.com)

DFN: Can you give a brief background on your history in this business, and where do you see yourself in one year and several years from now?
Laurent We were pionners in 1998 by developping the first affiliation program in France. We started to developp services to non french webmasters in 2000.

DFN: What area in terms of site building do you specialize in, if any?
Laurent We are specialized in dialers billing solutions ( 85 % percent of our turnover). But we provide CC billing solutions too. Dialers are, by far, the most popular billing solution in Europe.

DFN: What do you consider to be your strengths in this business?
Laurent We are leaders in Europe so we can provide to american webmasters the best websites and billing solutions to make money with their non american traffic. We have our own live show with european performers. We are not direct competitors of american and canadian top sponsors, we are a complementary option.

DFN: What do you consider your 3 best niches?
Laurent Teens, matures, live show.

DFN: What do you think the worst thing going on with future of our industry right now? ...and what is the best?
Laurent I think that it is obvious that american market starts being saturated. Let's think about internet as a global market and let's get interested in non american consumers. But lets use adequate billing solutions and websites to develop these markets.

DFN: And finally... do you have a URL you want to plug?
Laurent Eurodialer