Announcing the Traffic Rush Launch Date & Price
I’ve developed a home study course on the usage of StumbleUpon to drive traffic to your website. This project is the account of my progress in developing and marketing that course. The course is now LIVE, is called Traffic Rush and you can enroll right now at http://www.traffic-rush.net/.
After many months of work, the time has finally come to launch Traffic Rush! I’m getting very excited now :-) I’ve decided on next Thursday 10th July as the launch date. In today’s post I want to answer some of the questions that you may have.
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What Does the Course Involve?
The primary aim of Traffic Rush is to teach you in a step-by-step manner how to use StumbleUpon to drive lots of traffic to your website. One caveat – there’s work involved! There are no tricks, no secrets, no underground programs, no dodgy little hacks, no exclusive membership sites to join – just good, honest use of StumbleUpon to the benefit of your website and the StumbleUpon community at large.
Each lesson is fairly long and most have a video associated with it, a couple have two videos. I would allow around 30-60 minutes for the study of the material itself in each lesson. However, studying alone will not drive a single visitor to your website. For you to get any value out of the course whatsoever you will also want to follow along with the action steps that I provide at the end of each one.
These vary in nature. One thing that I encourage you to do from day one is to spend some time stumbling every day and as the course develops I go into more and more detail about how to do that effectively. Some tasks will be more one-off and take more time but overall I would expect you to allow around 10-30 minutes a day for your stumbling activity plus perhaps a couple of hours per lesson to work on the content for your website.
How Are the Lessons Delivered?
When you first enroll on the course you will join the class for the basic lessons. These will be delivered every 3 days so with 10 free lessons, that part of the course will take 30 days to complete. You will be sent an email containing a link to the lesson so that you can read it online.
For those of you who choose to purchase the advanced lessons, which you can do at any time, you will be sent a link to download the entire 20-part course as one complete download containing all lessons and videos. Then you are free to work through this at your own pace and are not restricted to any schedule that I set.
How Much Will Traffic Rush Cost?
The basic lessons are completely free, and will probably remain free for the foreseable future. The standard price for the whole course including the advanced lessons will be $47. It irks me somewhat to use the now standard number 7 in my pricing but everybody tells me it works and I’m far too lazy to do my own testing so what the heck!
However, as this is my first ever paid product (and I don’t have a clue what I’m doing!) I’m going to run a launch discount. Those that purchase within the first week of the launch date will be able to buy the full course at just $27. After that you can still buy it but at the full price.
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Will This Be Open To Affiliates?
Yes, but not right away. As I have not launched a paid product before I do not want to use affiliates as guinea pigs! Only after I am sure that everything works will I open it up to affiliates. I am hoping that this will be one week after launch but I might delay it slightly if I get any technical problems.
I indend to use eJunkie as my sales and affiliate management system. I have used them both as a consumer and as an affiliate for other people and have been happy from that point of view and they seem to offer everything that I need.
I will be offering a 50% commission rate to affiliates.
Will Traffic Rush Be Put On Clickbank?
No. Clickbank has an inherent problem in that when making a purchase, the link used contains the ID of the clickbank account to credit it with the commission. This ID is not encrypted in any way and as a result many unethical marketers will replace the ID with their own ID when purchasing a product. This is not a problem if you are selling something in many niche markets such as trout fishing because most trout fishermen are not Internet Marketers so they don’t have clickbank accounts.
However, as this is an Internet Marketeing product, it is quite possible that a large chunk of the target market would have Clickbank accounts and thus would be able to abuse it. This makes no difference to the product owner because they always get their cut – but it is the affiliate who suffers. The affiliate puts in the hard work of promoting the product to their own audience and then their commission is stolen by their own customers.
That is why I do not intend to put Traffic Rush on Clickbank. Perhaps I might put it on there at some point way into the future once the initial interest has died down but for the first six month at least I want to protect the interest of my affiliates.
Any Questions?
If there is anything you would like to know about the course, it’s content, technical details, StumbleUpon in general or whatever then please ask in the comments below. I’ll either respond in the comments or perhaps with a follow up post.
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Louis Liem
July 3, 2008
Hi Caroline! It’s great to see Stumble Rush is finally launched.
I’m one of your Easter Egg contest winners to win the SR course.
This 8 July I’m heading to Sydney for 3 weeks and will be without internet access. Am I still able to get the full course for both basic and advanced? Would I still be able to access the basic lessons if I open my mail in late July?
Thank you and great success to the Stumble Rush!