You Can’t Segment RSS… Sorry

By Andy Beard | Published: September 9, 2009
This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Stomper 999 Stompernet

Well actually you can as you could with the now defunct Feedmagic service that I evangelised 3 years ago as something that would be killed off by Google and the growing popularity of RSS sharing with Google Reader.

Google Reader still:-

  • Doesn’t support simple HTTP authentication so you can use RSS for private stuff
  • Doesn’t provide a mechanism so content producers can restrict sharing stuff

This is important… if you want to provide premium content from a membership site in a form that is most accessible for your subscribers.

It is even important for anyone using stock photos with a contract/license limited to a certain number of views for which you are personally liable. If you allow people to share blog posts that contain stock photos, it is a significant financial risk… but I am not a lawyer.

But segmentation? Not unless every subscriber had a unique feed… Feed Magic had it

In theory you could also segment private feeds provided by membership software such as Your Members, but that is complex customization.
And of course you would want your multi-modal marketing efforts – RSS, Twitter, Email, Video etc to all be somehow within. the same interface so you could segment based upon various content interaction.

If you have 5 different people who shared a segmented RSS feed, which was personalised, you would be in all kinds of problems – the viewing and click data would be useless… plus there are privacy concerns.

I Am About To Hammer My RSS Feed

I am sorry, blame Google
Blame the people who supported and evangelised sharing of RSS rather than exploring ways that it could be used to make it more personal, valuable and ultimately important in people’s lives.
RSS could be more than just reading blogs… there is no such thing as RSS spam – it is opt-in only.

There will be a percentage of my readers that will appreciate what I will be reviewing extensively over the next week or so, Stomper 999, including offering a significant bonus as soon as the site goes live.

Stomper 999 isn’t just about training… there are some nifty new tools as well, plus a few old favorites.

There are also likely to be 1000s of people looking (via search engines) for solid information about what is on offer, and I believe I can give some significant insight whether or not they feel my bonus offer is the one they are going to pounce on.
Syndication of my RSS feed helps people find my content.

You may have already seen something about the Stomper 999 launch – it has been spammed all over twitter, there has been chat on a number of forums, and a few people have already been hammering their mailing lists… at least those who don’t segment their email lists extensively.

If you haven’t.. it is worth checking out, and you will hear a lot more over the next few days, and that will include multiple blog post form me, many of which will contain useful insight.

I am also going to intersperse a few rants and unique tips for variety.

I apologise in advance if you are someone who believes everything should be free – information, tools, consulting time etc, or if you can’t budget to invest a little more in your business (I am a strong believer in only investing profits in your online education). If you can’t really afford something, don’t buy it… or do as I often do and be highly selective in where you invest your money.

If you have seen rumours about the new Stompernet pricing, the rumours are true, and it is a lot more affordable, and in many ways the offer at the new significantly lower price point is better than when you had to invest $800/month.

It will be a Mafia Offer – an offer too good to refuse, and one I can’t think of anyone who can honestly compete with it.

No I am not going to tell you how much just yet… affiliates have been asked not to reveal pricing, though I am not going to be the one leaking it.

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Stompernet 999 Conspiracy Theories & Scam Thread

By Andy Beard | Published: September 9, 2009
This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Stomper 999 Stompernet

Over the last few months there have been a number of changes within Stompernet that have caused lots of heated discussions around the blogosphere, Twitter and a number of forums.
Various documents have been passed around, promoted through contact forms including my own, and there was tons of speculation.

Andy Jenkins Left Stompernet, and explained why.

Various “concerned internet citizens” thought there was more to the story and went digging, and then making as many people aware of the documents as they could.

Note: I am not going to accuse anyone of being “trolls” or trying to fan the flames, and I don’t really want to go into whether anyone really has the right to know or discuss these things on open forums.

Ultimately Andy Jenkins made a response he probably didn’t have to make, but certainly lays a lot of ghosts to rest.

Why this post?

I will be exploring the reasons why I have decided to promote the Stomper 999 launch in some detail, but at the same time I knew that just mentioning Stompernet would encourage caring internet denizens to emerge and make people aware of the preceding couple of months of gossip.

This post is intended to be a way to “segment” dirty laundy, assure my readers I am aware of the situation, and the direct contact I have with both Brad & Andy over the last month or so has never suggested that these statements by Andy were in any way disputed.

If at any time I feel that comments are heading out of control, are disrespectful, incoherent, rambling, scaremongering, slanderous or just shouldn’t be here for any reason at my own discretion, I will moderate heavily, ban, block, or even just eradicate the whole post.

Here is what I commented over on Andy Jenkins new blog:-

So glad all the “interested observers” will hopefully stop sending me links to PDFs hoping I would mention something and should it happen in my comments I will have something definitive to point people to read.

The irony is that this is all about a company and team of people that is a huge success because they do so many things right.

To be 100% honest, whilst you could spend hours reading both of the long posts by Andy Jenkins, and all the discussion including comments by Brad and at least half of the Stompernet faculty, you could just take my word for it that this stuff is now water under the bridge, Brad & Andy are still friends, and Andy is partying in San Diego on Brad’s money.

Any discussion in other posts regarding Stompernet & Stomper 999 regarding Stompernet changes will just be deleted without any warning.

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How To Get Stompernet STSE2 100% Free No Credit Card

By Andy Beard | Published: September 12, 2009
This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Stomper 999 Stompernet

So a while back Stompernet had quite a crazy offer of their $497 Value Brand New SEO course as an ethical bribe for you to try out their Net Effect Magazine.

It was an amazingly successful offer, and I have heard (from memory) they shipped 18,000, though to be honest I am not sure whether that figure relates to the first “physical” offer on a DVD, or the more recent “digital” offer.

Either way, it is a product I look on as a solid foundation course in SEO, probably the best one available.

Today they are offering it for FREE

This is real FREE, no strings attached – no credit card required

Here’s what you’ll get immediate access to:

Stomping the Search Engines 2 – 7 Module Series – by Stomper SEO Faculty

7 Part Series:

  1. Google Analytics 100A: Installing Google Analytics – by Andy Edmonds
  2. Google Analytics 100B: Web Design Parameters – by Andy Edmonds
  3. Google Website Optimizer – by Andy Edmonds and David Bullock
  4. How to create Inputs for Your Test that Get Higher Response and Conversion – by David Bullock
  5. What to test to increase conversion rate – by David Bullock
  6. What to test now? Going in the right direction – by David Bullock
  7. Creating a Landslide of Leads – with a few special methods – by Don Crowther

How To Get Stompernet STSE2 100% Free No Credit Card

Free-STSE2-Stompernet

You will have to create a My Stompernet Account but that doesn’t prevent you at a later date from purchasing the full Stompernet through any affiliate link you choose – here is my Stompernet Bonus if you do decide to join.

Enjoy!

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Stomper 999 – Stompernet Bonus

By Andy Beard | Published: September 9, 2009
This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series Stomper 999 Stompernet

Stomper 999 is a strange launch, at least by modern standards in the Internet Marketing Niche.

  • Squeeze page for a couple of weeks
  • A few rumours
  • A few leaks of info after a seminar
  • A few leaks on information after an affiliate conference
  • The shopping cart opened on launch day and THEN they are going to drive home the message with tons more free content

But you can buy now

For me Brad’s new “Mafia Offer” is a nobrainer but lets look at some of what I heard

The new tools package

  • Full version Market Samurai
  • WYSIWYG Taguchi testing (Software as a Service / Hosted – up to 100,000 views free)10/12/2009 I have removed StomperStorm from the list as it seems to have been delayed indefinately.
  • Shopping cart (some additonal fees apply)
  • Twitter Storm – custom version of People Browser
  • SEO Qast – I think this is a desktop video/article syndication tool
  • Full $97/month version of Traffic Geyser (Update: I have been told that whilst this was the information initially given to affiliates, the exact configuration of the accounts won’t be exactly the same as the $97 Traffic Geyser subscription – We will need to wait until it is officially unveiled
  • Article Syndication network of 17000 sites
  • SMS/Text IM Twitter Email system
  • PDX system with 800 number webconferencing etc (some additional fees can apply)
  • Review System – not exactly sure, but a way to get reviews on Google local, with cards being sent to clients to fill out, pop in the mail and the details are added to local

Plus as far as I know all the current Stompernet training is also available which is really worth thousands of dollars.

There are a few upsells and additional fees on some of the items, but it is the promised Mafia offer, that no one in the industry can come close to matching.

Before I mention exactly what I have as a bonus, here is a little testimonial from one of my avid readers

Brad Fallon
You’re better at spotting issues (and proposing solutions) than anyone I know — so please consider yourself to have an open line to me on any issues you see or have. I’m sure we’ll have a ton as we start rolling things out. Just give me a chance to fix it before you blast us on your blog! :-)

I haven’t found any major issues that haven’t been fixed with what I was playing around with, the Taguchi testing “Stomper Storm” package, and this was a more general comment about what I cover on my blog than specific to new Stompernet products. Brad has been reading my blog for years… by email.

Who Is Andy Beard?

andysquare80x80 I am a real guy (not a fake pseudonym) living in rural Poland – so rural in fact that when we moved into my new house we didn’t have a telephone connected for internet access for 4 months, even though the local exchange box was at the bottom of our 7200m2 garden.

House and Plumbing

That was taken just over 2 years ago, the house is pretty much finished now, other than landscaping, the pool and the 3rd bathroom.


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Marketing Credentials

Somehow I can count many of the top online gurus as direct contacts… even though I have never created floods of sales for them during product launches, and I have never released my own product in the internet marketing niche.

Somehow I have also gained the respect of a large number of people in the SEO community (there is rarely a cross-over), and here are some of the accollades I have picked up for my SEO articles (often based on topics Stompernet teaches)

2009 SEMMY Nominee
PageRank Is The Primary Google Search Ranking Factor
Site Structure – SEOs Going Fishing Without Any Bait

2008 SEMMY Runner-UpSEO Linking Gotchas Even The Pros Make

2008 SEMMY Nominee
Dancing With The Gevil – Defamed By Google?
Digg Favorites Slapped By Google
Optimizing HTML Links In The Aftermath Of A Blog Storm

Whilst these rankings tend to fluctuate a fair amount, I am almost always highly placed on almost every “Top Blog” listing related to online marketing.

I could also write about how I helped grow a games company in Poland from 5 employees to 100+, publishing one of the first CD-ROMs on the Polish market, or the family offline apparel business that has been trading for over 20 years.

My biggest achievement has to be every day I spend with my 2 year old adopted son, and my biggest failing is probably knowing that in a year he will probably speak Polish better than me, and English better than his mother.

Show Us The Deal Andy!

For a while I have been thinking of the perfect way to monetize this blog, and the credibility and relationships I have built up.

The obvious solution for me was:-

  • Create a value trojan – an insanely cheap $7/month membership for a few thousand people
  • Have a single upsell – $1000/month for 20 people as a limited form of consultation/mastermind – maybe 4hrs maximum per month, prepaid, use it or lose it.

The specialization? Ripping things apart, fixing things, proposing solutions

I haven’t ruled this out as a long-term monetization plan, it is a huge long-term time investment, though it would give me the funding I need for my startup if I was bootstrapping (it is a big project to bootstrap)

The Better Plan

Whilst the value trojan would help lots of people, I wouldn’t be able to give enough help to the people who need it, and a consultant to the “gurus” would be solving problems of “gurus”, helping the rich get richer.

My long-term projects could certainly benefit from lots of “normal” testimonials

So here is what I am going to do even though it will be as close to a J.O.B. I have been in the last 7 years

This Offer Is Limited To 100 People

That is actually the hard line – it is not workable beyond that – whilst there are some digital components to this offer, it can’t scale beyond 100 people, and the financial reward is pretty much what I could easily earn just working as an SEO consultant.

Stompernet includes so much existing training, the chances of you having time to consume any additional standard “bonus fare” is remote, so I hope you don’t go looking for the biggest $$$ sign bonuses of things you will never read.

My bonus is specific to the product

  • 1hr/month for 3 months of adhoc “Emergency Issue Consultation” & “Problem Solving” orchestrated through Huddle or Basecamp – I will actually set up a new project for each bonus purchaser and you will be able to call on me to help solve problems, test products etc. – it will be limited to what I can confidently advise you on, and if I don’t know, I don’t know and will tell you.
  • Some additional adhoc web conferences for smaller groups when there is some additional insight to share
  • Whilst I don’t want to make a huge bullet point about it, I also have a few private WordPress plugins that you will gain access to on an ongoing basis from a private area on this blog, that will include StomperStorm Taguchi integration just to speed things up even more, and some new SEO plugins (I have a nofollow evaporating PageRank solution for WordPress already to go)

I honestly don’t know how to put a value on this bonus, as it will really depend on the individual.

I don’t do consulting – if I did my hourly rate would have to be in the region of $100 – $200, but then I would also have significant expenses, travel time to meet clients etc.

Even a few years ago I could charge $250 just for a blog post about a company, and many willingly paid that sum, not for links but for the value of the feedback. I always looked on it as undervaluing my own time, a token gesture for the 5+ hours I often spent on writing an article.

But writing articles isn’t efficient use of my time – raw evaluations can be provided in private, and in some way provided more efficiently, with screen capture tools etc.

The value one company has received from my help could easily be looked on as $50,000+ for every hour I spent.

Stompernet is available at various levels and price points – in my own mind it would be a little insulting to offer some kind of scaled table here stating how much you have to spend to receive a specific bonus.

The aim of my bonus is to give you someone you can call on when you need help who can brainstorm with you to achieve a solution quickly. I can make almost any topic less confusing whether you are a programmer trying to understand marketing or SEO, or a business guy trying to establish an online business and can’t speak any geek.

It is in my best interests for you to remain a successful Stompernet memebr, to ensure you never leave, and to in someway magnify the Stompernet “You Are Not Alone”.

Magpies – All That Glitters Does Not Shine

There will be some huge $$$ figure bonuses for Stompernet by “all the regular gurus” – if they interest you, great – I wish you every success trying to debug their software, consume their content and battling their support systems.

I Am Not Doing This To Get Rich

In fact in many ways I am heavily discounting my own time to get valuable feedback from people who are serious about their online business.
Think of it as one step above an “Ask Campaign” or polling my readers.

I am going to leverage the feedback, testimonials and maybe even some of the content into other projects that will be more financially rewarding.

I am allocating the majority of any affiliate commissions to development of tools to help you with your marketing, and you will gain access for free or as near to cost as is possible.
Even if only 20 people take up my offer, I expect to spend at least 40 hrs per month working with people who take up this offer and on things inside Stompernet (forums etc)

This is the link to use:-

I’m Buying Stompernet From Andy Beard

If you have any questions about this offer, here is my contact page
My Skype details are there as always, I am very accessible if you have any questions
Oh, and via this Stompernet offer I will even have a US #800 phone number soon.

Ask Andy About Stompernet Bonus

For a limited time I have also set up a number of chat widgets so you can ask me a question directly here on my bonus page



My status

100% Conversion Rate

Everyone who has contacted me regarding purchasing Stompernet has either purchased through my link, or decided not to purchase Stompernet at all, but wants to somehow hire me or join any membership site I create in the future.

If you have any reservations, I urge you to contact me – I can answer all your questions honestly, and give you a taste of some of the support you will be receiving.

Claiming Your Bonus

After you sign up, drop me a note via my contact form just in case I can’t get your details from the affiliate interface. It is not unknown for Infusionsoft to have problems with order notifications, and I can’t automate bonus delivery.

I won’t be counting time until things settle down for the launch, so the bonus support will last all the way through to the end of the Christmas holidays.

There won’t be a huge delay in getting things set up, though I am human and I occasionally go to sleep.

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Stomper 999 – Why Now Andy?

By Andy Beard | Published: September 9, 2009
This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Stomper 999 Stompernet

The reasons I am promoting Stompernet 999 cover a multitude of deep themes within my own blogging, not just SEO and other forms of optimization, but also my future startup, any product I produce in the future, and my desire to help people the best way I can.

Somewhere down the list I am also going to mention money but when you do the math, and then look at the way my bonus is structured, I will effectively be creating the closest thing to a J.O.B. I have experienced for the last 8 years.

I Have Loved The Concept Of Stompernet for 3 Years

I ate up every moment of their initial launch almost 3 years ago, it was a big deal for me, and I even toyed with the idea that I would one day be on the faculty.

If you gather together enough people who have exceptional online marketing skills, who can also teach, the chances of making a significant impact on the lives of 100s of people, potentially thousands is magnified.

At the time it was a little out of my reach and would have wiped out a large chunk of my cashflow on which I depended to keep profitable Adwords campaigns running.

However I also knew that my primary reason for joining wasn’t necessarily the training – I already had my startup germinating in my brain, and it was something that could benefit Stompernet customers.

I Am A Marketing Geek

I might not be a rocket scientist like Leslie Rohde, a scientist like Andy Ed, or even my good friend Tim Nash, and I can’t dig into patents like David Harry and Bill Slawski – but I am still a geek.

If a large chunk of the people you admire are members of a certain club, it is certainly a place you would consider joining.

Whilst Stompernet isn’t a club per se, it has become an “institution of Internet Marketing” in a remarkably short time and the people there translate geeky stuff into words and video normal people can understand.

I Am Joining Stompernet… Finally

The last time I promoted the main Stompernet course I built up a significant amount of interest, and totally threw away any chance I had of signing up a few referrals by posting just as I launched a list of the reasons why I wasn’t joining.

I still have a copy of it – I believe a few people might have mistakenly read it and though that it was in some way a negative review of Stompernet. Far from it, I hold them in great esteem.

You see I have always believed that the natural extension to Stompernet was providing state-of-the-art tools – in fact when they first launched there was some kind of syndication network available. I am not sure if that is still in there, or has morphed into something bigger and greater.

Also the FreeIQ video marketing platform in some ways encroaches into areas I want to persue.

I have always placed my startup in a “protected zone” – anything that in some way could harm it, I have avoided, and that at least in my own mind has included what could be looked on as “Foreign Intellectual Property Contamination” – I really wanted to be able to claim as much as possible that what I was creating was proprietary and 100% the fruit of my own labour.

Likewise I like to blog about things other blogs don’t – if I wrote a blog post about how to optimize the title of a blog post, people would be shocked and possibly think I out-sourced it. It is not my kind of content.

If I don’t have something original to write about, I generally don’t write anything, and it is restrictive enough having access to data from the few clients I have worked with over the last few years that could surprise people.

This time around it seems like 90% of SEOs who blog about anything the least bit interesting are now members of multiple private SEO sites. You also have people releasing SEO tools after having access to other people’s proprietary SEO tools.
To be quite honest, I think a lot of that really sucks, but I doubt the new copycats are anywhere close to the competition.
Also if tools are combined with training, and you need the tools to maintain a competitive edge, it is hard to resist.

If I had access to the Stompernet archives, I would always been concerned about whether what I blog about is in some way something I learned from them that might be considered proprietary.

Synergies

I first conceived my startup plans 4 years ago, and whilst they have mutated a fair chunk and there has been massive feature creep, the synergies with what Stompernet do are so strong, you can almost taste them.

To be honest when I first heard about the new launch, and that there would be a number of new tools introduced, whilst on one hand I thought my startup had finally been killed, on the other I was straining at the bit to see what they had come up with.
You see the SAAS I want to create are because they are what I would personally want to use. Some of the features encompass things I have blogged about, and some of the things I blog about are because I would be over the moon if someone implemented them. It would remove some of the feature creep that is weighing down any chance I have of self-funding or even Angel/VC funding, as they are looking for single solutions to problems.

e.g. I am not going to go out to create a new RSS reader and I would love an email service provider to finally provide all the features I am looking for, even if it partially limits the footprint of what I want to achieve.

In many ways the synergies are stronger than ever.

So I Asked Brad… Directly

I spelled all this out in an email to Brad, and have confirmation that there wouldn’t be a problem joining

Being a member is important, as without being a member, it is hard to compete in the pending Stomper 999 bonus battle.

Hang around… there will be something about bonuses coming up, as well as some reviews rants and unique tips

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Stompernet + Infusionsoft Free – (Features Confirmed)

By Andy Beard | Published: October 4, 2009
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Stomper 999 Stompernet

I just received quite a shocking email that Stompernet have added Infusionsoft as the 11th tool to their arsenal of internet marketing tools.

For me it is a bit of a dilemma, as I have quite a love <> hate opinion about Infusionsoft

On the plus side

I love marketing tools that help magnify your ability to make money from existing leads and Infusionsoft is one of the best tools for tracking and segmenting email marketing campaigns (within affordable limits for most online marketers)

On the negative

  • The affiliate module sucks, although a lot of the blame can be squarely placed on custom integrations that break the affiliate tracking. One of these days I will write a much more detailed post.
  • The people who provide the custom integrations you often seen used by big marketers for one-click upsells etc charge a fortune
  • $2 to send each 1000 emails over your limit
  • Infusionsoft have had tons of my feedback for over 6 months, and I can’t see any evidence of it being implemented

So lets look at what you are likely to receive in this special Stompernet module valued at $49/month

What Is In The Stompernet Infusionsoft Special Edition?

The following is speculation, as I don’t know all the details

Here is what the basic Infusionsoft plan currently looks like, which costs $199/month

stompernet-infusionsoft-bonus

Lets divide those numbers by 5

2 Users 1 user
10,000 Contacts /5 = 2000 contacts
25,000 Emails/month /5 = 5000 emails

I think divided by 5 is a safe bet, but they could be more generous.

Lets look at other features

stompernet-infusionsoft-compare-features

Here is the full feature list (click to view)

Edition Comparison - CRM, Email Marketing, eCommerce, Automatic Follow-up_1254609631204

I doubt you will get any of the shopping cart and affiliate modules, it will just be basic features.
With a bit of luck they will leave the API in

Many internet marketers are going to be turning their noses up at this, after all they would want all the bells & whistles, and will likely experience a heart attack when someone wants to bill them $15K-$20K to do what the gurus do, and then it doesn’t work. They will also be pummelling their lists every few days, maybe multiple times per day – those $2 per 1000 emails add up when only 10-15% open your email, even less click through.

But what about ecommerce?

  • Most people starting out with an ecommerce store or doing consulting would be over the moon to get 2000 people on their mailing list, especially if they are all customers.
  • You might well be processing credit cards in a different way, or using your existing shopping cart, or even looking to replace your existing shopping cart with Stomper Commerce.
  • If the API is in, all kinds of integration is possible, provided it is achieved at a low enough cost – who knows maybe Stomper Commerce can add it as standard.

For anyone who has considered looking at Infusionsoft as an alternative, one of the major problems is their very short trial period (though I have heard their partners can get it extended a little), plus to be honest I bet a large chunk of Infusionsfot customers don’t need more than 1/5 of the capacity anyway.

It makes a lot more sense for someone interested in Infusionsoft who isn’t interested in their shopping cart and broken affiliate module to consider the route now open for them via Stompernet as part of their deal for just under $200/month – you get lots more training and useful tools.

I am offering a bonus for those who purchase through my affiliate link (don’t forget to clear cookies) and forwarding the receipt.

Many might mistakenly look at pure $$$ values offered as affiliate bonuses which is easy to magnify with digital products which you will never have time to use, especially in the run up to Christmas. All I can say is good luck to you.

At the same time I am quietly confident that I have already managed to help one article directory owner save Christmas.
If you don’t have immediate problems, there is value in insurance.

p.s. for those who have been wondering why they haven’t seen me inside Stompernet yet, active on the forum, blame Stompernet – some of the admin around this launch is leaving a lot to be desired, but I am sure things will settle down eventually.

Update From Infusionsoft

We now have 2 comments from trusted sources at Infusionsoft with details of the package on offer.

Tyler Garns (October 6, 2009 at 4:07 pm)

Andy and readers,

The edition of Infusionsoft being offered through Stompernet is not available on our website. We’ve actually created a specific “Infusionsoft Stomper Edition”. This edition is similar in functionality to our “Basic Edition” but, since its free, the limits are smaller. It has full CRM functionality, email marketing, autoresponder, follow-up sequences, direct mail, fax, & voice broadcast integration, web forms, automatic actions on web forms and email links, world-class list segmentation and targeted marketing. You can compare the editions here. The only difference between the Basic edition and the Stomper edition is that the Stomper edition is limited to 750 emails/month and 5,000 contacts. Any edition can be upgraded at any time. There are no long-term contracts required, but we do offer a 12 month “Double Your Sales Guarantee”. For more details, tune into the Stompernet webinar happening today. I’ll be on there to show Infusionsoft and possibly answer some questions.

Obviously you will need to purchase email credits, but at $2/1000 it works out very reasonable compared to many competitors pricing for “pay as you go” credits, for instance Mailchimp the cheapest you can pay for credits is $5/1000

Email costs for high volume low margin email marketers might be a little painful, but they tend to use brute force/mass bombardment anyway.

Damn, I have seen the sales page twice… you don’t need to mail the same email 5 more times, from 2 different autoresponders.

I think Stompernet with Infusionsoft is a truely complementary offer.

Update

The Stompernet Infusionsoft offer has a hard limit of 750 emails per month, and whilst I have discussed the possibility of added email packages extensively with Infusionsoft, I haven’t had any form of indication that these have been made available.
The offer has value as an extended trial period for complex setups, and possibly for consultants with very few clients.
There is also the possibility that you could use the email features of another service such as Getresponse along side Infusionsoft, but use Infusionsoft for tagging – that would however limit your ability to email a specific segment of prospects based upon tagging.

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  • RAP Bank

    I have just signed up for RAP Bank myself - call this a mini-review.
    It seems to be one of the smartest ideas for a long time as a great way to consolidate 100s of affiliate programs under a single entity for promotion.

    It is also one of the best implementations of WordPress I have ever seen.
    It is not without its bugs, as this is effectively pre-launch. For example I just found a bug in the keyword based search RSS feeds (yes RSS feeds for any term will be hot), but it looks like they might be onto a winner.
    Check it out - signup for the basic service is free.

    >Affiliate Program

    P.S. It is not immediately obvious who is running the site, but looking at my Paypal receipt (yes I signed up for Vendor Plus) I believe the site is run by Bill Ortell From Rap-Extras.com who is RAP certified and does the membership add-on that is highly popular.