My other problem is I have tendency to overdeliver, not that is a bad thing in itself but if it is all in the one product, the customer does not know what is extra, if that makes sense?
With your "salespage first" idea, I develop to spec and if I have any other good ideas along the way I package them as bonuses and add-ons.

I just like to say thank you again for the "WordPress Affiliate Pages"method I bought from you. I used my name link on this post to show one of the websites I have used this method on . It is apparently just a four page html brochure website, but behind it is a fully seo wordpress blog with articles and videos going on automatically courtesy of wp-robot. (You can of course just preload dozens of articles from somewhere or use good quality plr and let wordpress plublish them every other day).

A couple of backlinks and it was on page two of Google for the chosen keywords within 3 days and is still climbing. I offer them to local trades for free for a month while they float like balloons up google and then rent them on a no contract monthly basis. Strangely, my best customers already have their own websites but are usually not doing so well.

Best wishes
Gareth

Yes, I've written about that very issue, and how important it is to write the sales copy first.

For me, when I near the end of a project and I'm tired of it all and I've spent too much time working with it, I can't stand the thought of writing the sales letter because by that time I've lost my enthusiasm.

I find that if I write the sales letter first, I'm much more enthusiastic and it clarifies and solidifies the whole project and what I want to see as the outcome of it.

-Frank

I'm glad you're happy about those 5 sales – that's 5 more than most people.

Yes the 7DS is still a good little script. I think it's in dire need of a rewrite or replacement now though, and RAPs isn't really a contender as I see it as having a few key shortcomings. I'm having a good think about what would be a kickass sales script and making some notes, so we'll see.

-Frank

Frank are you planning to make/develop any other plugins for WP? Why I ask is, if you are can you maybe set up like a demo blog with all the plugins (past and future) installed on it, so we can see the plugins in action. Seeing the plugins live could help decide if any of our blogs could utilise a certain plugin as some niches may not call for all plugins to be used etc.
Just a wee little thought.

Thanks for another great plugin!

Take care
Valda

In fact, I also support that the tips you provided above are proven and effective. I started my 100% instant commission program last week and got 5 sales.

By the way, does the 7 dollar script is still effective to use? I'm using another script to operate my affiliate program.

First there's the actual PSD design itself (2-3 days), then there's the conversion to a WP theme (4-5 days), and finally the coding tweaks such as extra sidebars and page templates (2-3 days).

It's a big job. If you were able to do it for someone else, ask yourself how much would be a fair price for you to charge for it. If you could find someone to do it, the the designer would probably charge you a couple of thousand dollars at least, apply restrictions on what you can do with the finished product, and likely not supply the PSDs for you to edit.

My designers are brilliant graphically and their level of PHP coding ability is high (you've probably already seen their work), but charge a lot less than you might expect.

With a fair bit of legwork (it's not easy finding good people), I have an opportunity to take on a couple more designers, but I need to make sure I have work for them. As long as I can pay their fees and get your job done as well as my own, then I consider myself to have made a profit from it.

From your perspective, as long as you have a game plan and can immediately make your money back on the work, "you're quids in" as we say in the UK.

Think about the opportunities this presents you. Here's two that I know work well.

#1 – Get a theme made. Sell it to your mailing list. Immediately make 3 or 4 times your investment followed by ongoing sales through your affiliate scheme.
#2 – Get a theme made for a client. Charge your client 3 or 4 times your investment.

And if you don't have a mailing list or a client, then here's your chance to get a product made for you and get your business off the ground:-

#3 – Get a theme made that will appeal to pro-bloggers and the IM niche. Sell it for $10 with 100% commission using the 7 dollar script, find a few JV partners to kick start it and build a mailing list of buyers. Promote something else related to them and make your money that way.

And that's how business is done.

You make an investment, you follow your game plan and you make back your money and then some.

Rinse and repeat.

-Frank

No, but you've raised a good point here. My philosophy for WordPress is to stick with the WordPress core. So you might see there are many themes and plugins out there that change the way WordPress works and then locks you into doing it their way rather than the WP way.

For example, the many "framework" themes that have been released that are designed to run child themes or skins inside their framework.

My gut says this is a bad way to do things, as any new version of WP can completely break any framework, and you either end up in the position of having a broken site if you upgrade WP, or not being able to upgrade WP at all until the framework is bought up to date. I don't know which is worse.

So in your example, we could spend a huge amount of time making the plugin work with that other editor, only to find that either:-

a) Only 1% of people use it.
b) It breaks in some WP upgrade and is never fixed.
c) It breaks and is fixed, but we then have to do another slug of work with our plugin for a limited number of users.

Whichever way you look at it, it's just not worth it. The WordPress dev team have said TinyMCE is what they're going to use for a rich editor, and that's that. I agree with you that TinyMCE isn't the best way to do it, and I've even tried other editors such as WYSIWYG Pro, but in the end I found it made more sense to go with the flow rather than against it.

Sorry.

-Frank

I supply the Ads Manager plugin for free with the Multiple Streams Themes I release, and I also supply it bundled with the "Widgets In It" plugin which alows you to actually insert widgets into posts and pages, not just sidebars.

You can get the plugin bundle using this link.

http://www.frankhaywood.com/go/pgamwii/

There's a slug of work to officially open both the Multiple Streams Themes and Plugin Great sites. Maybe I can get that done before September starts.

-Frank

I think it might be a local issue to you. I've tried the site in FF, Opera, IE8 and Safari and it loaded fine in all of them.

I'd not heard of Orbit, thanks for that. While we're sharing, here's some useful tools:-

Get iPlayer for the BBC iPlayer – I believe it will allow you to download from any country, not just the UK, and interestingly all BBC streams are provided unencoded. It's only the BBCs own iPlayer that applies DRM!

http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html

And the two tools I use for watching video are Media Player Classic (nothing to do with Windows Media Player).

http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/

And VLC.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Between them they play just about every format, and where they overlap, usually one does it better than the other. You might also find useful the Combnined Community Codec Pack (CCCP) which includes Media Player Classic.

http://www.cccp-project.net/

-Frank