Frank Haywood

A Knight in Shining Armour To Help Your Business

If you’ve known me for a while now, then you know I very rarely do promotions for people. (Yes, I know I did one yesterday, but that was really to test my own software.)

If I like something, I’ll tell you about it, but that’s about it really.

That’s also true if I like someone too.

You see money isn’t the Primary Motivating Factor (PMF) for me. Yes it’s nice, but usually secondary. (I can already hear the crack of necks as heads whip round to see who said that.)

So I like Dave Guindon. I like what he does and I like the way he does it.

If you’ve never heard of him, Dave has a list of products that I think are really cool, amongst them are Auction Yen, Hot Item Finder, and Cam Studio Pro. (I think that last one might have got a bit of a beating when Camtasia released v3 for free.)

And he’s also known for Dave’s Online Videos, a monthly membership where he adds new videos on how to do things from, well, everything to everything really. It would take you a long time to go through them all.

So anyway, Dave has released a product that effectively replaces several services that you would normally have to pay what I consider an unreasonable amount of money for.

Thanks to Dave, those services are effectively going to be put out of business.

What’s he done? What service has he replaced?

You know when you’re on a page and you go to leave as you don’t think you want the product? Well, the service would pop up an alert telling you to “press cancel to continue”, and then show you a “live agent” who then tries to save the sale by maybe offering you a special deal or answering a question.

The truth is, there’s no-one at the other end. They’re just bits of software running.

If you were the site owner, and this bit of software saved the sale for you, then you’d have to pay a flat rate for the privilege, something between $5 and $10 per saved sale depending on the product.

Taking into account affiliate payments, plus payment processor fees, plus the “saved sale” fee, then as a site owner, you may only end up with a few dollars left over at the end.

That’s not so good.

Dave has now released something he’s been working on for several months now that allows you to run the same software that the services were providing, but on your own server.

And in my opinion he’s over delivered.

So I have no hesitation whatsoever in promoting Dave’s brand new Virtual Smart Agent.

Dave said to me, and I completely agree with him on this, that the services were tricking people into thinking that there was a real live person on the other end of the chat box.

He didn’t really like the idea of this, but knew it was what some site owners wanted, so he’s built that ability into the software. ie, you can make your site visitors (within reason) believe there’s someone on the other end.

But what Dave really liked the idea of, was to tell his site visitors that the “agent” was really a bit of software, hence the name “Virtual Smart Agent” (VSA).

He tested it and found that his visitors actually liked that (come on, we all like to be told the truth and treated as adults) and when he started using his own software, he found it actually saved more sales than the service he’d been using previously.

Dave’s Virtual Agents say “I am not a real human, I’m a virtual agent” which I believe amuses people and puts them in a better frame of mind as a result.

Anyway, it’s now all out of beta and his site where you can buy VSA is live.

Dave decided to release VSA at a reduced price for the first few days, and because I’ve been busy doing other things, I haven’t had the chance to let you know until now.

The thing is, he’s putting the price up a couple of notches.  He’ll be putting it up on Sunday, and to the final price on Tuesday.

VSA is a way you can turn your regular traffic into additional sales and I’ll be installing it on all my future web sites and I recommend you do the same.

Dave is also offering a LIFETIME money back guarantee. That’s how confident he is that his software will bring you in more money.

I believe a lifetime money back guarantee is something that is pretty much unheard of, so you really have nothing to lose by getting yourself a copy of this, even if you don’t intend to use it right away.

I also believe that just about any niche that you may be selling in is going to benefit from this software.

I just wish I’d thought of doing it myself!

You can find out the full story at Dave’s site, including some videos that show you how it works.

I’ll give you two links, and then you can decide which one it is you want to go for. You can choose to reward Dave totally for what he’s providing you, or you can choose to reward me a little too (for telling you about it) by using my affiliate link.

I’ll leave that decision up to you.

Either way, you’ll be doing your business a great favour by getting this software.

My affiliate link: http://www.virtualsmartagent.com/ida/specialoffer.php?id=1242

Non affiliate link: http://www.virtualsmartagent.com/

-Frank Haywood

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business

List Building Nickel Sale Today At 3.00pm GMT

Apart from a nickel sale for the Nickel Script itself, this may likely be the last nickel sale promotion you’ll see me do for a while.

I almost have all the results I want, and the release version of the Nickel Script is coming to fruition.

So today at 3.00pm GMT (10.00am EST), Jonathan Paston of Monday Madness is doing a nickel sale for a really cool list building product – a set of videos, an ebook and a bonus audio.

The sale starts at just $2.02, so it’s easily within everyones reach.

Just to say it again, Jonathan has been selling this for $77 without the bonus audio – this is a special that he’s done only because he wanted first go with my new Nickel Script, and the agreement was he’d give you a special deal which also helps me in return.

Why does it help me?

Because if you know how to build a list, then you may be interested in promoting my products for me as an affiliate. I have a lot of new tools coming out this year, and I need you to promote them for me.

So by me giving to you in this way, I actually benefit myself. It’s always up to you of course if you choose to promote for me or not, I won’t pressure you.

Please don’t miss the sale today – 3.00pm GMT (10.00am EST) – a post will appear on this blog with the link to the site. If you’re quick, you’ll get it for under $5.

-Frank Haywood.

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business

Survey Results Part 1 – Do You Have A Mailing List?

Way back in November (which doesn’t seem that long ago), I told you a little bit about my background and also asked you if you’d complete a survey.

http://www.frankhaywood.com/mailing-list-survey/

My intention was to:-

#1 – Share those results.
#2 – Help you do something about what came out of the survey.

I wanted to do both together, but I thought the only way I could do so was if I spent a lot of time showing you how to build your own mailing list.

As I’ve been sort of busy since then (yes I know this is just an excuse), I’ve completely failed to come up with the goods and so I’ve hurt myself in the process.

See, my logic is, if I help you build a mailing list, then you’ll be in a position to promote all the lovely things I’ve got coming out this year. Or not.

It’s always up to you of course what you promote to your list, and you should never bow to pressure to promote things you don’t truly believe are worth it. I don’t, and that’s why you don’t see me jumping on every big launch.

(Okay there’s an exception, there was a big launch yesterday, and I am VERY impressed with the product and the guy behind it, but let’s save that for another time.)

So what am I on about then?

Well, there were a few questions in the survey about building a mailing list, and one of them was to rank topics in order of importance. I was a little surprised with some of the results, and over the next few days I’m going to share them with you.

First of all though, let’s take a look at the result for how important list building is to you.

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I think you’ll agree that most people “get it” and you can see that list building is vital to your internet business.

In fact I’ll go a step further and say that your mailing list is your business. I believe that without one, you’re dead in the water.

Now by a nice bit of good fortune, Jonathan Paston wrote to me and asked if he could try my nickel script out. I said okay, but was there something he could do to help you and me out in return.

After a bit of chat backwards and forwards, it turns out that he has a really nice list building product (a set of videos) that he sells for $77.

After a bit more chat I got him to agree to do a nickel sale for it, starting at…

Wait for it…

Two dollars…

Yee-haa! Now that’s what I call a result. 🙂

I’ve just taken a look at the new page he’s set up for it, and he’s thrown in a couple of REALLY nice bonuses to go with it – an ebook and an MP3.

He must have really REALLY wanted to get his hands on my nickel script!

So, we’ve agreed that tomorrow he’ll launch his nickel sale at the usual time of 3.00pm GMT (10.00am EST) as that seems to suit most people.

Sidenote: If it feels like I’ve been involved in a lot of nickel sales recently (it’s only actually 3), it’s because I want to “battle test” the nickel script before letting it out into the wild. There’s one outstanding problem with it over single quotes, and one extra little tweak I’ve asked the nickel script developer (David) to make and I think it will just about be ready for public consumption. So watch out for that one coming soon.

I’ll make sure to set up the blog post with the link to the nickel sale here in advance, and set it to appear automatically at 3.00pm, so even if I get called away (like I did yesterday), you’ll still get the link at that time.

Excited? I am! I just hope there aren’t any problems with the nickel script for Jonathan tomorrow…

-Frank Haywood.

Posted by Frank Haywood in internet business