Automate Your Business

I read a lot of sci-fi/fantasy (although more sci-fi as I get older and bored of so many pointy-eared elf stories), and subscribe to Tor’s newsletter (”Tor-the-publisher” not “Tor-the-proxy-software-creator”).

They recently ran an interview with an author, which I love as I think it contains a lot of insight for people working in this internet marketing/product creation line. One comment stood out:

It’s the production on your worst day that determines your overall production, not your production on your best day.

The 48 hour offer has closed, so now the product is only available at the standard monthly charge. My thanks to everyone who took up the offer.

Here’s a sneaky one to watch for. After just announcing that my “early discount announcement” list was discountinued, and updating the page to remove the subscription form, I had someone immediately join the list.

I did some digging around, found their referrer, and they’d gone to Google’s cache of the site.

Naughty person.

So, if ever you need to make sure no-one can join a list, download something, take advantage of an offer etc, because they were didn’t react quick enough to your emails or blog posts, make sure you check the cache and disable the offer from that as well.

[James - that was clever, so I'll let you off, you naughty boy!]

I’ve just updated the PromotionBot homepage to reflect the new monthly subscription charge, and sent out a subscriber discount to anyone who is already a subscriber. (If you’ve missed it, sorry, but that’s how the subscriber offer works – see the “Announcement List” box at http://www.automateyourbusiness.com/updates/ to receive news on future discounts).

So if the initial one-time fee was too high for you, take a look at http://www.promotionbot.com for the monthly pricing.

I’m pleased to say that PromotionBot is now live. If you have already subscribed at PromotionBot.com, you should have received an email about it a few hours ago.

If you have not yet subscribed, you’ve got a couple of days to do so. I’m about to go away for the weekend with the family, and I’ve not had time to set up a new auto-responder and sales page for the period after this soft launch. I can’t do this via the phone, as I’ve just found out that I can’t access my auto-responder via my phone’s browser. It just doesn’t work. And Xsitepro doesn’t have a mobile option!

But I can update this blog, so here’s the advance notice that I’ll be taking the current sales page and one-off charge offer when I get back, so either Sunday night or Monday. If you subscribe before then, you’ll still be eligible for the discounted rate – I’ll send the special link to you by Monday at the latest.

After that, the software will only be available via a low monthly cost.