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Quick Thank You

Amin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:23:29 +0000

This post is just to say thank you to everyone who commented on my previous blog post.

Your comments were very welcome and I’m sending everyone who did comment their free copy of my shopping cart script. I’ve just finished tidying up a couple of little things on it and I’m waiting for the source code to be encoded (should be done today/tomorrow) then I’ll send it out to everyone.

I’ve got something pretty special planned for my next ‘real’ blog post. Well, I think it’s special and I hope you will too, so keep an eye out for that announcement on Tuesday 9th March. Genuine value of the freebie is well over $444 in the next 12 months – but I don’t want to give too much away today.

What I will say is that the freebies will go to the first action takers and I’m limiting it to the first 5 who follow the directions I’ll give next week – I can’t afford to let anymore than that have it for free!

No, it’s not a bonus to something else, it’s completely free.

To make it fair for people in different timezones (I hate it when a webinar starts at 3 a.m my time – don’t you?) I will also keep back another 2 freebies. Best 2 comments will also get the freebie. My decision as to which are best will be final!

So you have 2 ways to get your gift: comment fast, or make a great comment.

Shameless bribe? Yes, it is!

Back up your email

Amin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:33:00 +0000

I don’t know about you, but I get a lot of emails that I want to keep.

Of course I get a lot of spam, as we all do, but I filter better than 90% of it before it hits my email client. I still end up with thousands of emails building up (sales records, receipts, passwords, that kind of thing).

I use Mozilla Thunderbird, which is free and it’s great, but if you have a lot of accounts in it and lots of incoming email, it does slow down. Plus, who wants to keep thousands of emails in front of them all day long? You only need the ones you need and the rest should be filed somewhere neat and orderly.

It occurred to me that many of you might be in the same boat and looking for a nice, simple solution.

There’s a free program called MailStore Home, which addresses the issue of email bloat perfectly. I don’t really know why the creators of the application give the personal use version away for free, because I can’t imagine that many people would upgrade to the Server version for organizations. But I’m glad they do give it away and I find it a tremendously useful resource.

You can archive all your emails, even from several different sources, into MailStore Home, where it’s kept safe in a database for as long as you want. You can also burn archives to disc if they get too big. Best of all is the facility to search through the entire database (reasonably) quickly, searching for any keyword. You might remember that you got an email with Snagit licence codes, as I did when installing Snagit to capture some images for this post – but what if you can’t remember when you got it, or from whom? No problem.

One quick search later, using the keyword ’snagit’ and MailStore Home had found the relevant emails for me. Previously I’ve made notes of licence numbers, printing off the original purchase email, but MailStore Home is much neater and easier.

You can see the application in the images here.

Main application panel

Search page

Results appear in the left column

Displaying the licence code

You can download a free copy over at Mailstore.com and you’ll find it works with most popular email clients, including Gmail, which is very handy. If you receive a lot of email and want to keep it safe, MailStore Home is a good utitility for doing just that.

Quick tip: create a couple of folders for emails from your favorite marketers. As you archive the emails you’ll have a great library of their campaigns. If you go back from time to time and study what they do and how they do it, you’ll see some regular patterns emerging. If you then study those patterns you’ll see what the marketers do that they don’t tell you about. A lot of marketers keep a few tricks up their sleeves, but in using them they leave a trail that you can follow. That trail is easier to see when you can look back through a particular folder of messages and see how each one leads to the next.

Archiving those folders means you can look back for inspiration at any time. You can even, if you want to, analyze marketing techniques used at different times of year. If big marketers are using a particular technique every summer for example, or at the start of the winter, there’s likely to be a very good reason for it.

All in all, MailStore Home is a handly little tool and available for free.

Butterfly Marketing Meltdown

Amin — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:51:20 +0000

To understand this post, you might need to read this first.

So, I did what I’d advised my subscribers to do and I went to the site when I got the early notification. Credit card in hand, I was ready to push whatever purchase button was on there.

Except I couldn’t.

The site broke down within a couple of minutes of opening. In fact it was so bad at one point that Mike Filsaime had to publicly ask his visitors to stop trying to place orders because his technicians couldn’t even login into the server to fix it.

Bit of a public mess. And as you might imagine a lot of people got angry that they had to wait, or that they might not get a copy.

About 6 hours later I got my copy so I’m now good to go. Great. But a lot of people are still feeling annoyed. Personally, I think they should be learning from the whole experience, both the good points and the bad points.

Let me break down what I saw as good and bad:

Good:

Very effective use of affiliates to generate lots of interest
Extremely high value offer
Regular updates as to how it was going
Prizes for the affiliates that meant even newbies had a shot at a prize
Very clear disclosure that there would be a continuity element
Honest admissions that their newsletter wasn’t so good before
Highly persuasive case study testimonials

Bad:

Not expecting a lot of people to be ordering at once. Come on! Over 45,000 people pre-registered for early access! Isn’t that a bit of a clue?
Not adequately testing that their site would cope with high numbers of people ordering at once, as opposed to viewing at once.
Using what appeared to be poor code, not optimized for transaction speed (at least according to someone even more techie than I am)
Having no backup server/site/order button ready to go ‘just in case’

Not such a big list of things that went wrong, is it?

I suspect most of us are not going to have 45,000 people chomping at the bit for one of our product launches, but it shows what can go wrong. Now of the items I’ve listed as going wrong, all but the first one should have been solved by the technical guys on Mike’s team. The first one, though, is something any of us could contemplate.

It doesn’t require technical knowledge, just a bit of forethought. The second item on the list should have been done – testing of a web site is extremely important. In Mike’s case he’s got a full team of people who could have helped with that and he’s got programmers who could have created ’stress’ tests to simulate a worst-case scenario.

At least they kept people informed as best they could on their Ustream video, although it was a little galling to see them sitting there at times, looking like they weren’t even breaking a sweat to get the thing fixed.

I suppose what it translates into for the average marketer is that anyone can get it wrong, but not everyone has the resources to put it right the way Mike has done. Offering to have extra copies of the product made for anyone who missed out costs hard cash.

And don’t expect too much sympathy from a large crowd if you’ve got it wrong. There were people on the Ustream chatrooms who were very aggressive.

For my own part I apologize profusely if you had wasted time waiting for this to work as a result of my recommendation. Sorry.

I hope you managed to get your copy. If not, there’s still a bit of time left since he’s effectively reset the clock and if you order today you should be able to get your copy at Butterfly Marketing.

Free Training Video

Amin — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:15:03 +0000

I couldn’t let this offer pass my clients and customers by.

There’s a free training video to help you make the most your marketing efforts. It’s by renowned marketer Jonathan Mizel and you can get it from the link below.

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Free Adsense Sites

Amin — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:21:11 +0000

I’m giving away a free Adsense site every month.

It’s available around the 25th of the month, every month, and it’s my way of giving something back to the internet marketing community.

If you already have some Adsense Virtual Real Estate, you’ll probably know that it’s very much a numbers game. A single Adsense site probably isn’t going to make you a ton of money these days. It might, but let’s be realistic: for the vast majority of people you need multiple sites.

Now a single site every month is not going to increase your portfolio massively. But it will show you the quality of my ready made, well researched sites. And since you can configure and upload the sites in about 10 minutes, there’s no reason you can’t put up 10 or 12 new niche Adsense sites – every single month.

Start by trying out the free Adsense site. When you’ve seen how easy it is to add another revenue stream you’ll be back for more -I promise.

Get your free Adsense sites here.