Frank Haywood – Page 12 – Product Creation, Traffic, List Building, Automation = Internet Business

Nov

2013

Magic Locker Plugin

Update: The sale for the very cool Magic Locker plugin is now live at just $12.50 for the first 25 copies.

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Today, Thursday 14th November at 6.00pm GMT (1.00pm EDT) I’m releasing a plugin called Magic Locker.

The idea with this plugin is you let readers view MOST of your content on a page or post but withhold some of it until they share or like the page on a social network.

This will generate MORE traffic, MORE subscribers and MORE customers.

That’s the basis of it, but let’s look at this in more detail.

Some people won’t like what you’ve done and won’t share your page if they don’t know part of what it is that they’re sharing.

So why not give them some alternatives?

There are some built into Magic Locker that should satisfy everybody.

You can optionally make them wait a number of seconds you define and the content will reveal itself.

Or you can tell them that if they become a WP subscriber then all content on your site will be unlocked. If you have a membership plugin then you could get them to join the membership and with most membership plugins it also makes them WP subscribers too.

And here’s something I’m going to be doing myself. Wait for it…

If you have something to sell, then give people a choice to get it for less IF they’ll share the page.

So put your product up with a buy button for say ~~$27~~, and tell your visitors they can get ~~$10~~ off just for sharing the page. Then either put a second buy button or a discount code if your script supports it.

Cool idea eh? Watch me start using it on all my sites.

Giving people a simple either/or choice always works.

Those that don’t want to share it will pay the higher price – them’s your rules – and those that don’t mind will go ahead and share it and get the very nice discount thank you very much!

It’s a win-win either way, and we all like that don’t we? 😉

You can also lock all sorts of content, not just text. Images and videos can be locked too, as well as payment buttons and coupons. I have another idea that I need to test out first, and I’ll share it with you when I’m ready.

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The sale starts today 14th November at 6.00pm GMT, and you can do one of two things.

#1 – Be one of the first 25 people to get the plugin at the starting price of $12.50.

#2 – Join the Plugin Great Membership and get AT LEAST two new plugins, themes or scripts every month for one fixed price that won’t hurt your pocket. Many happy customers have already taken and are enjoying this option.

In reality, as I release so many products and also run weekend sales the chances are high that you’ll get 3 new products per month in the membership. As I write this I have five other plugins almost ready for release with several more in various stages of development all of which I’d like to release before the end of the year.

Becoming a member is the perfect way to never miss out on a product release of mine again.

And it’s cheaper too. 😉

-Frank Haywood

Nov

2013

Magic Fonts Plugin for WordPress

Update: The sale for the super-duper Magic Fonts plugin is live at just $10.00.

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Included as part of this sale is full developer licence, and even BETTER a LIMITED RESALE RIGHTS licence too! That means YOU can sell the plugin and documentation, but your buyers can’t.

Including resale rights is an experiment because I like to try these things. 😉

Anyway…

This plugin hooks into the Google Web Fonts API and allows you to…

Display any of the 600+ Google Web Fonts
in your posts and pages.

AND it also gives you some pre-defined CSS styles to spruce your text up even further.

AND you can also still use the built in TinyMCE editor effects to add bold, italic, underline, change the font colours and so on.

The combination of the three means you can create some eye-popping text effects on your blogs to call attention to your special offers or other important content.

Okay I could explain this here all day, but the best thing to do is go look at the example page and the video that shows you how the plugin works.

You’re going to love it! 🙂

The sale starts today 7th November at 6.00pm GMT, and you can do one of two things.

#1 – Be one of the first 25 people to get the plugin at the starting price of $12.50.

#2 – Join the Plugin Great Membership and get AT LEAST two new plugins, themes or scripts every month for one fixed price that won’t hurt your pocket.

In reality, as I release so many products and also run weekend sales the chances are high that you’ll get 3 new products per month in the membership.

As I write this I have four other plugins almost ready for release with several more in various stages of development all of which I’d like to release before the end of the year.

Becoming a member is the perfect way to never miss out on a product release of mine again.

And it’s cheaper too. 😉

-Frank Haywood

Oct

2013

Creative Gizmos Replacement

Saturday 19th October.

For all the people who were in the Creative Gizmos membership, tomorrow I’m re-creating the principles behind it and opening a new membership. If you haven’t already been cancelled or done it yourself, then do so today.

If you missed it first time round, then the idea is you pay one small monthly fee and get everything I release.

This means at least two products per month but probably more than that as I release quite a lot of new stuff as well as running 48 hour sales on products I’ve already released.

These will be WordPress plugins, themes, scripts and training.

Don’t be surprised if one product per week gets added. 🙂

It’s a pretty good deal.

If you’re one of the people that buy everything I release (happily, quite a few!) then this will be a substantial saving for you.

If you’ve just purchased the Magic Social Blocks plugin at $10, then don’t despair as I’ll either add a discount coupon to your download page, or place a trial membership button on there that will reduce your payment for the first month to just $7.

I’ll also be adding some very nice goodies there for you to get right away so it’s not empty. You may have some of them already and I’ll have some new stuff too in the next few days.

As I have over 100 products in my “stable” already and as I’m quite good at product creation (!) this will be a great place to be a member.

I’m currently mulling over resale rights for some products too as I’ve been asked about this a few times and always been a little reticent about it, but I’ve seen the light. 😉

PLR products can be had of course at PLAhh.com.

Discounted down to just $17 / month for this weekend it’s one of the best deals I’ve ever done.

It’s such a good deal I would expect most people to join, but of course it’s up to you.

Watch out for an email tomorrow.

-Frank Haywood

Oct

2013

The IMPACT Of The Challenge…

I have a short 4 minute video I think is well worth watching, and will give you a chuckle too. 🙂

What’s it all about?

Last Saturday I was invited by my eldest son Jack to go to a graduation ceremony.

The Challenge Network

Over the summer he’s been taking part in something called The Challenge which (taken from their web site) is:-

“…an intense four part programme for 16 and 17 year olds delivered as part of the government’s National Citizen Service (NCS). The programme is comprised of physical and team challenges and social action projects.”

Hard work, weekends given up, and he loved it. (Met his new girlfriend too.)

The ceremony was to hand out certificates signed by David Cameron our current Prime Minister (he wasn’t there) so it’s something that was well worth doing. It will look good on his CV (resume) as while most people his age were hanging around street corners, he was getting some life experience and helping as part of a community project driven by his team.

Good stuff, and I’m pleased and yes a little bit proud of what he’s done.

At the end of the graduation ceremony, a local entrepreneur called Bob Battye (the kids love him) gave a short and very entertaining speech, and I filmed it. Bob has been part of The Challenge this year and has met all of them before and so had built up a good rapport with them.

Bob’s speech used the acronym IMPACT to map out some very good advice that works for all of us, not just the young men and women involved.

When he got to A, I’d already guessed it would stand for Action. (Yeah I’m a smarty pants.)

He illustrated the rewards that taking action gives you beautifully and I don’t mind saying I’m going to use this myself at some point. 🙂

If I hadn’t been filming the moment, I’d have been the first one on the stage. As it was I was left to sit urging Jack to get up and go, across the room where he sat with his group.

Wondering what I’m on about?

Watch the 4 minute video. 😉

If you have teenagers of 15 or 16 in the UK then maybe suggest it to them for next summer?

And… Listen to what Bob says about T – Trust. He’s spot on.

-Frank Haywood

Oct

2013

Magic Social Blocks

Update: The very nice Magic Social Blocks plugin is now live at just $10.00 .

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This plugin – Magic Social Blocks – makes it easy for you to add SEVEN different kinds of blocks to your blogs that are all able to display social network buttons plus a little bit more. 😉

Now when you think “social networking plugin”, then you’d have a certain image in your mind of what to expect – I think I’m right in saying that.

Well. This isn’t that.

Yes it’s centered around social networks, but you need to see it in action to understand it.

The seven different blocks you can now add with this plugin are:-

Image Block
Image Block With Link
Author Block
Email Block
Sales Block
Contact Details Block
Social Links List

For each block there are three different styles to choose from, and you can edit fonts and text colour. You can create as many of each block as you need, all with different content inside.

For every block you create, there are three layouts generated. One for insertion into posts and pages, one for widgetised areas (sidebars), and one that’s a slide-in popup that gets triggered when your visitor scrolls down the page.

You can select which slide-in you want to use from the ones you create.

It’s very cool and addresses something that I’m going to be doing her at my personal blog, and ties in very nicely with my plans.

(I’ve decided it’s time for a redesign and a change of tactic with my current blog layout and at some point I’ll show you what I’m doing on that front.)

As I’ve often said before, I get plugins built that address my own needs first and then let you have them too, and this pays for my developments costs. Sharing is cool isn’t it? 😉

So in the examples above, I can see for my own uses that it would be good to add an author block to my new posts when I redesign my blog so that people can see who I am and learn a little bit about me.

(This is important in order to gain people’s trust. If they trust you they will be far happier buying from you.)

Anyway…

As well as the video above, here’s a link to the demo page I created in that video.

http://demow.broadexample.com/

-Frank Haywood