Automate Your Business

Archive for February, 2009

The discount period (sent to email subscribers and existing customers) is now over, and I’d like to say many thanks to those customers who purchased the scheduler.

If you didn’t know about the discount, and would like to know about discounts I offer to subscribers on my other products, subscribe VIA EMAIL using the form on the right-hand side of each page of the blog.

Each of the AYB Toolkit products I’ll be creating this year will be offered to existing customers with a discount, so you’ll see some great offers on what I think will be some great products.

I mailed this to the customers who have purchase the Caffeinated Content Scheduler a few days ago (and added it to the follow-up mails to new customers), but I thought I’d share it here as well.

I use Google Alerts to send me updates on new results for a few search terms, one of which is the phrase “caffeinated content”.

Here’s what I get most days (click the image for a larger view):

As you can see, not one of those finds is about Caffeinated Content.

The reason they are flagged for Caffeinated Content (CC) is because there is an option in the plugin to add a link to the CC homepage.

Remove it.

By including it, you’re basically letting the search engine know your site is auto-generated (look up the word “footprint” in your local internet marketing site).

I was reading a post by Robert Plank recently about your product funnel, and it’s been playing at the back of my mind a bit.

And today, I had a brainstorm!

I had a list of my forthcoming products/projects in front of me, and I realised that many of them (I think it’s 15) could all share one common database – a list of your domains.

Each product then hangs off that list of domains (plus associated data such as expiry date, host, registrar, and so on), so that you have ONE list of domains that is shared across Caffeinated Content Scheduler, the Cpanel Backup script, and the other 13 yet-to-be-named products.

And I’m quite excited by this. For my own use as well as for a product range to market.

So that’s my plan for this year, if I can get it to all hang together! One central application (which will be free), and 15 others which are effectively very powerful plugins to that script.

Watch this space for more info!

I’ve just created an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page on the Scheduler. Have a read to see if it answers any questions you might have, and if you can think of other questions, please just let me know.

If you are using the Caffeinated Content plugin for WordPress, you’ll know what a pain it can be having to A) remember to login to grab new content, and B) actually doing it.

And compound this with the strategy that most people are using it with, where they have multiple blogs.

I faced the same pain, so I’ve written a scheduling application which runs quietly on my server updating my blogs for me automatically with new content. Without me having to ever log into them again.

And I’m making that available for sale as well. Find out more here.