The list building nickel sale is now live. If you’re quick, you’ll get it for under $5.
If you’re very quick, you’ll get it for under $3.
Here’s the link:-
http://www.monday-madness.com/LBMNS/
-Frank Haywood
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.
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.
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.
On Tuesday 18th March, it’s my intention to pre-launch my help desk software Ticket Desk Pro.
There have been various changes to it made along the way. I’ve been using it to handle support this last three weeks, and it’s now at a point where it can be released.
David (the developer) has been working on it for 2+ years on and off, and has recently added all the new features I’ve requested – he’s been working on the new bits since November 2007. After the first release, there will be other releases every so often as we add requested features.
But right now, it’s really nice.
In fact it’s better than nice, it’s excellent.
The features are:-
I’ll be launching it as a nickel sale because I want as many people to start using it as possible in as short a time as possible. And most importantly, I’ll be looking for affiliates.
The nickel sale will start at $5, increase by 5 cents with each sale, run for a week or two and then be removed and the real site will go live.
After the nickel sale is over, the initial price will be $47 and it will be promoted via ClickBank with a restricted free version on the front end, and the purchase of the full script offered to those that take the free version. After a month the price will go up to $97, which reflects its true worth.
When we set it up through ClickBank, the affiliate commission will be 50%.
Like all scripts you can expect to be released by me, this is premium quality software.
So you’ll be getting 5 star software for under ten dollars if you’re quick.
THIS IS A PRE-LAUNCH. Maybe not everything in the sales process will be perfect, but it will be good enough. The software is complete and fully functioning.
When the nickel sale starts, the first people to be notified will be those that bought resale rights to SmartDD LITE. They’ll get an hours start.
The next group that will be notified will be subscribers to this blog. You can subscribe on the home page at the top right by entering your name and email address. Blog subscribers will get 3 hours start on everyone else.
Finally, 4 hours from launch I’ll send out an email to my remaining lists.
So I’m rewarding buyers first, then subscribers to this blog, then everyone else gets told afterwards.
The start time will be at some point on Tuesday 18th March. I can’t give you an exact time yet due to circumstances beyond my control, but Tuesday will definitely be the pre-launch day.
I’ll be doing the pre-launch using the newly updated nickel script, which is also developed by David.
In fact, he’s just making some changes now as I type this, to finish an admin panel to search orders, re-send links and ban customers who you don’t want to deal with, such as serial refunders.
More on that software when we’ve battle tested it next week, but you can be sure we’ll be releasing that too, likely in a nickel sale, and likely within a month.
Again, it’s premium quality 5 star software.
-Frank Haywood
It’s been a week now since I pre-launched SmartDD LITE with resale rights, and it’s been a bit of a nightmare.
Don’t get me wrong, the nickel script was fine and actually did more than I expected it to considering it was a first prototype. There were a couple of tiddly bugs in it, but they were fixed almost immediately by David.
The nightmare was because of all the support issues.
(BTW – if you have a problem, raise a ticket at:-
http://www.Vendiva.com/support/)
The support tickets pretty much broke down into two groups.
#1 – I haven’t had my download email.
#2 – The zip file I’ve downloaded is password protected.
NEITHER of these were caused by the nickel script.
#1 Was because of email providers routinely blocking business email, I’ve mentioned this before.
http://www.frankhaywood.com/internet-business-taken-seriously/
http://www.frankhaywood.com/does-your-email-work/
#2 Was a doozy.
To make things easier (hah!) my SmartDD developer, Paul, wrote a bit of code to zip up the SmartDD Lite package on the server and automatically insert your affiliate ID into it.
He used standard code to do this, nothing out of the ordinary. We tested and tested it with and without an affiliate ID, and it worked perfectly for us.
But for some people, they couldn’t read the file because according to Windows it was password protected. This completely puzzled us, as it most definitely isn’t.
In the end one of our customers said they’d been trying the built in Windows utility, and when he installed an unzip program instead, it all started working as it should.
Aha!
It turns out Windows was the culprit. It can’t read all zip types.
So we had a fix. Except…
Some people still had the same problem but finally got it to work by reading all the files out of the zip and then re-creating it themselves again. Even so, one person just couldn’t get it to read and opted for a refund.
This has been really frustrating for both sides, and I’m now looking at an alternative (but messy) method of allowing you to embed your affiliate ID.
Anyway…
Back to the nickel script.
I gave David some feedback and said it could do with this, and a bit of that, and some method of doing this other thing.
So I got an email this morning saying he’d not only implemented my suggestions, but also added in some other stuff too.
I already know how good this script is, it’s amazingly easy to use.
It uses flat text files to gather all the order data, has a web page templating system with placeholders, and is a complete doddle to set up. Just create your web page, add your placeholders, stick it in a secret templates directory, edit the config file, and you’re done.
It really is that easy.
What David has now done is add a whole pile of functionality into the back end for handling orders and customers.
Incredible. I can’t wait to see it, because yes, he hasn’t sent me a copy yet because he’s still working on it.
I’m just really excited at the prospect of seeing it all in action.
See, I know how good the admin panel on our new Ticket Desk Pro (TDP) software is, and if David has applied the same attention to detail to the Nickel Script, I’m talking about a VERY high quality piece of software, a really useful tool in anyone’s arsenal.
Speaking of TDP, I’ll have an announcement to make in the next couple of days, so watch this space.
One last thing. The sales page for SmartDD Lite has come back from the designer, so I’ll be putting the sales copy in there ASAP, and updating everyone who bought a copy.
Watch out for that too.
-Frank Haywood
