It’s amazing how a different viewpoint can be enough to give you that ‘aha moment’.
I just read Seth Godin’s latest post ‘Naive or Professional’ and realised something profound. Or it least it seemed profound because it felt like something hit me smack between the eyes when I read his last sentence:
Wow!
It’s always amazed me how difficult I find it to ‘sell’ VitalViralPro to people. It’s a tracking service that can track 3rd party pages – no other service can do that (not reliably anyway) so why is it such a hard sell?
I tell people they should be tracking but still they don’t. The industry as a whole tells people they should be list building – yet still they don’t. And we wonder why our words fall on deaf ears…
Seth really made me realise why!
After the pain of the smack between the eyes subsided I realised that actually this had crossed my mind before but not in such a succinct way. Thank you Seth for that sentence because that insight is just what I needed.
I have some news that may shock some of you, certainly surprise you I’m sure…
But before I completely spill the beans, there are a few things I’d like to say…
It’s been great knowing you all, I’ll miss you all…sob sob sob
Oops, wrong piece of paper – that was from my goodbye speech when I gave up my day job 2 and a half years ago to dedicate my time to VitalViralPro. And I’m happy to say, I never looked back!!
Everyone that knows me well knows that I’m passionate about what I do and passionate about helping people succeed. And I’m deeply passionate about VitalViralPro.
I’ve reared it from birth, it’s had bad times, sad times, it’s gone through big changes and it’s survived it all and is now bigger and better than ever before and thriving!! And apart from my bit, that’s all down to YOU – my loyal members – and I thank you for hugely for helping make VitalViralPro what it’s become today.
So what’s the news?
VitalViralPro is joining forces with another site and I am *SO* excited about it, I just can’t wait to get down to business and start working on all the things we plan to do together…
It opens up a huge window of opportunity and I believe it to be definitely one of those situations where 1 + 1 = 5.
The site I’ve partnered with could be seen as a competitor – we already do some very similar things (we also do some very different things and cater to slightly different markets).
Most importantly, we (the other owner and I) both have the same philosophies: we both care passionately about our members above anything else and about helping those members succeed. It’s what makes both of us tick and it’s what led to this being an easy and natural decision for us to take.
So while we might have been friendly ‘competitors’ before, by joining like this we just become bigger and better, still with the same passions and ideals as we had separately but with a much greater ability to do things that benefit you !!!!
This is not a merging into one situation – both sites will keep their identity and their differences. But we’ll be able to combine in key areas to bring something far more powerful than
either site could alone.
The site I’ve been holding back is Affiliate Funnel. Some of you may have seen that recently Jon Olson and Paul Kinder effectively did a kind of swap between a couple of businesses they owned such that Paul became the exclusive owner of Affiliate Funnel.
Well this latest deal means that Affiliate Funnel gets my programming and tracking skills and VitalViralPro gets Pauls marketing skills and the value of his huge circle of influence
and between us, we make both programs stronger than they ever could be alone and as competitors.
Our plans are not finalized yet – we’re still reeling from even a first ‘meeting of the minds’ to share all the ideas we each had individually before we partnered up – and boy are there some ideas!!
You’ll be hearing a lot more about all of that soon…
In the meantime, it’ll be business as usual at both sites for a few days but login regularly ’cause there’s gonna be stuff happening regularly !!
We have a few things we both want to get in place quickly and then there’ll be a steady succession of smaller jumps as we add in our plans over the next 12 months and beyond.
Watch this space.
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VitalViral now offers a premium account option offering additional features over a free account.
One of these features is designed to do something that you probably know you should do but hate doing and probably rarely bother to do – tracking.
With the new autosplash feature, you can put a single link on any of the traffic exchanges and VitalViral will automatically collect detailed tracking statistics for you. The easiest way to demonstrate this is to show you a screenshot.
To collect this amount of detail would be difficult and tedious using 3rd party tracking services and even then might not give all the information you get with VitalViral. Each time you promote your link on a traffic exchange, a hit is counted against that traffic exchange for that month. A new tracker is created every time a new traffic exchange is encountered in a given month.
Now you can see for yourself which traffic exchanges are sending you visitors, what percentage of those visitors are clicking through to your web page and, in certain circumstances, how many signups you’re getting.
This information is like gold dust to anyone serious about using traffic exchanges.
Get your VitalViral account now.
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VitalViral is currently my biggest online project.
I created it in Dec 2006 as a means to help me build my other businesses but soon realised what a wide appeal it could have and how it could be useful to a lot of people – anyone using traffic exchanges and list builders in fact.
Since then, it’s grown to just short of 8000 people (as of today) and is growing at around 40 people a day, even that figure rises over time. So quite a success in my book and so it’s gone from something I never really intended to develop much further to something I definitely am interested in developing further.
You can keep track of developments in this section of my blog.
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