It’s been a long time coming in fact 13 months between releases for Script Smart. The internet marketers toolbox that has lots of scripts and helpful applications to boost your sales / conversions from your website.
To this day, I personally still use this software about once a month. Usually for the email encoding script but sometimes the countdown and last chance scripts as well. And the colour wheel.
Some of the scripts that were cutting edge in 2006 have been knocked off and marketed individually over the years. I always chuckle when I see it, but they provided a solution just as I have, so I don’t begrudge them at all.
To think I initally created this software back in 2006, and it’s now in it’s 4th incarnation. I look at the videos of myself that I have on the download page and the affiliate page and I look so young and fresh. 🙂 How times have changed.
This release brings the software up-to-date with the new Adobe AIR released that have happened over the last 18 months.
Since this is a new version Script Smart 4 will install separately. You can uninstall the old Script Smart 3 version at any stage.
You can’t obviously upgrade while running Script Smart 3 using the inbuilt upgrader. So simply go to the download page (emailed to you) and install the new version.
If you require your license to be reset you can now action this on your own without needing to contact support.
If you are like me and have any blogs that have banners on them, then you will be interested in this review.
By far the easiest plugin that I’ve found to handle banner advertisting on WordPress, has been Max Banner Ads by Max Blog Press.
What I like about it is that it’s all point and click. No need to muck around with the theme code.
I’ve been using it for the last 1 1/2 years on my niche blogs to display advertisting.
A couple of examples.
On one of my sites I have two sidebar widgets setup to handle larger block ads and the smaller 125×125 little blocks and I’m using the Max Banner Ads automation to put a 468×60 at the top of the first blog post. These formulate my Gold, Silver and Bronze advertising packages for private business. Yes direct advertisting pays better than adsense!
On another of my sites I have three 300×300 banner spots embedded around the theme, and I just copied and pasted the code that Max Banner Ads generated into the theme at the spots I needed. Once again direct business advertising is a winner over adsense.
It’s all managed by a simple admin interface.
The banners all rotate evenly within their groupings. So it’s fair time share between the spots.
Plus it has built in statistics so I can see how many views and my click through stats. Which of course then I pass along that info to my business advertisters.
They have two version a free version with a nag line “powered by Max Banner Ads” and a pro version.
They have made it simple to affiliate via Clickbank, so you can of course add in your clickbank ID to the nag line on the free version.
I must admit when I first registered for the free version they were moving servers or something like that and my registration wasn’t accepted for about 2 weeks. But after contacting support they sorted it out and I’ve been happy ever since.
They have a video and screen shots and more explaination on their website – Max Banner Ads.
If you are looking for a way to display multiple banners or even just one on your blog, try it out you’ll be happy you did.
It’s been 2 years since I released Backup Smart. I’ve been itching to release some new software.
I’m letting the market decide on this software, by starting small, getting a quick release out there, and seeing if people are interested in it and getting feedback.
I’ve learned a lot over the last 4 products that I’ve brought to market. This is by far the best way.
This software is for internet marketers that help offline businesses with their online marketing.
It finds the ranking position of a Google Places local business listing in the Google Places search results.
Think of a normal SEO ranking software like Market Samurai’s Rank Tracker, but this just for Google Places.
It’s in Beta stage at the moment, so it’s FREE. It’s called Local Rank Tracker.
1) Fix for including some extra error messages into scheduler email
2) Fixes to French language (thank you Hubert Daul for your great work with helping to translate my terrible French)
3) Tasks now save by task name rather than domain name
Having tasks save to the HDD by task name rather than domain name is important for users with multiple tasks on the same server and also users that use HTTPS (secure connection) to access their cPanel control panel.
Users on shared hosting that wish to use the hosting providers shared SSL certificate can now do so.
For example, your domain name is widgets.com but your hosting provider forces you through https://myhostingprovider.com to access your cPanel
So your task name would be widgets.com and your domain name would be myhostingprovider.com
Now Backup Smart saves by the task name (which can be anything that enter in) rather than the domain name. This may be the same for multiple accounts which is why using the domain name to file the accounts on the HDD had to be changed.
Backup Smart will of course as you to update when you next start it up.
As per usual, any issues and just drop in a support ticket online.
Finally I can formally release the Backup Smart (website backup application) upgrades that have been in the works for a long time.
Those that own the software get all updates for FREE.
Thanks to users who have given feedback and requests. These updates have made Backup Smart a much better application.
I’d like to thank these users specifically for taking the time to check over my translations into languages other than English.
Hubert Daul – French translation checking
Matthias Günter – German translation checking
George Johnston – Spanish translation checking
Pieter de Jong – Dutch translation checking
There have been several minor updates lately with this final update seeing the latest round of changes complete.
Here’s what was added up to version 1.52…
* Multilanguage support. Now supports English, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, Dutch. This was a massive structural change to enable different languages but one that makes Backup Smart so much more accessible.
If you want a language supported and are prepared to check my translations then let me know. Or if you see any text that doesn’t make sense, please contact me.
* Better checking of task list changes, and reminding you to save your task list externally so you don’t lose your changes if something goes wrong
* Wider cPanel support to work in with new cPanel security features.
* Added Host Monster support since they have a highly customised cPanel setup
* Added in ability to handle users with global subdomains setup in cPanel.
* Added in support for SSL HTTPS ability. Some host enforce HTTPS for cPanel logins.
For those that haven’t checked out Backup Smart yet, go and grab yourself a FREE 7 day trial of the software.
For those that own a copy of Backup-Smart just restart the software and it should self update, or use the update option in the help menu.
Let me know your thoughts on the upgrades, or if you want something else added to / changed in the software.
I think this is so important that I’m going to offer a limited time bonus.
LIMITED TIME BONUS UNTIL END of MAY 2010
As a marketing test, anyone that buys Replay Media Catcher via that link, can choose ONE of my software products and have that for FREE. Backup Smart $37, or Script Smart $67, or Affiliate Page Pro $97. Just submit your receipt to the support area, and I’ll hook you up. Strict time limit on the bonuses, at the end of MAY I’ll pull this.
Let me know what you think of being able to easily capture, save and download streaming video or media directly to your hard drive, by just leaving me a comment below.
Another little FREE tool has just jumped onto my radar and made it into my stable of useful software tools.
It’s called Michelle MacPhearson’s Rank Decoding Engine, and it’s actually the most no frills software I’ve used in many many years. I just love these internet marketing launches with all the freebies, some of them are really great.
Look out geek speak ahead! No installer, no update mechanism. Just a super tiny (10kb) executable file which is basically a wrapper around an inbuilt browser to Michelle’s server based scripts. Superb use of software!
Watch my video review of it now.
Super easy eh, let me know how you go with uncovering super targeted link opportunities in your market. Leave me a comment below.
If you are only new to internet marketing then you might not know what the Butterfly Marketing phenom is from Mike Filsaime is all about.
If you’ve been around for a few years then you will know all about it, and probably even own a copy of the Butterfly Marketing Manuscript (like myself) or even the software itself.
The Butterfly Marketing software is basically a content management system (think of WordPress) for setting up a website that can handle one time offers / upsells / downsells / and inbuilt affiliate system.
Runs on most hosts, with PHP and mySQL
Well after years since it’s first release as paid software and it’s now just been released as Open Source (free to use / modify).
This doesn’t really happen in internet marketing circles so kudos to Mike Filsaime for starting what I forsee as becoming more popular technique, giving away the software source and offering developers a paid forum infrastructure.
Since I’m a developer and could create websites, I’ve never used the software, since I only ever purchased the Butterfly Marketing Manuscript and implemented the concepts as needed.
I’ll return back to this post and report my findings real soon as a Butterfly Open Source Code Review.
PS. I’m on a LOT of marketers email lists. As I’m sure you are, and you’ve probably received a pile of all the same emails promoting the launch of Butterfly Open Source Code. What a joke, and jeez I hate it!!! Jeff Johnson was the only one that took the time to write a simple email about it in his own words. The rest just copied the affiliate copy that Mike put together. Why can’t people just put some personalisation into their promotions. I guess looking at the flip side, I’m not the average IM user, and am on far to many lists, just to see what everyones up to.
Let me show you how I use online live chat to increase sales and have better customer support.
Watch this video.
As mentioned in the video leave me a comment on this blog post if you would be interested in an info product that makes this super easy to setup on your own site and / or across multiple niches. Videos on installing and setting up the Livezilla chat software (Windows only I’m affraid people), and the script to get a nice hover popup over your existing pages. Which is the best way to get a chat going. Not some static live help image sitting off to the side of the website that no one sees.
For those brave souls that like a challenge and do it on your own, make sure you get started with LiveZilla.
Forget all the paid chat services, they can’t handle multiple instances of the chat software which is what internet marketers need. Those with multiple personalities anyway 🙂
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It’s been a long time coming in fact 13 months between releases for Script Smart. The internet marketers toolbox that has lots of scripts and helpful applications to boost your sales / conversions from your website. 
Another upgrade to Backup Smart is available.