They have told me that they can’t guarantee the system won’t shut me down if the quantity of transactions exceeds the critical limit or gets too frequent in a short space of time.

They also said that Split Payments are something that will increase the chances of being shut down since they effectively double the amount of transactions. They told me that ringing them was a good thing and tried to reassure me by saying that it took exceedlingly high levels of transactions suddenly to shut an account down.

I have been listening to the experience of others recently. James Grandstaff was famously shut down by Paypal and was lucky to have Clickbank up his sleeve to turn to. (Thankfully I don’t have the word ‘downline’ in my site name). I looked at Clickbank, but with 4 different membership prices and 5 different commission levels, The Freedom List isn’t really compatible. Clickbank can only handle one commission per product.

Aurelius Tjin had more luck with the Underground Giveaway. He had sensibly set himself up with 2 Paypal accounts so he could flick from one to the other if the first one failed – (which it did).

I only have one Paypal account and its linked to my last available bank account – so I can’t set up another. (I had my other Paypal account shut down last year and I’m still not sure why).

So… without Clickbank to back me up, here’s what I’ve decided to do:

For Launch Day, and tomorrow, I am going to keep your payments on masspay. This will reduce the strain on Paypal.

At the weekend, I will take a view. I will read your comments, see how many transactions there have been and then make a judgement.

Depending on traffic and payments, I will either:

Make mass payments to all JVs and then revert immediately to Split-Pay for all your subsequent sales (in time for your follow-up mails next week.)

Or

Make mass payments to all JVs and keep you all on Mass Pay ready for another payment next weekend. (Payments weekly is so much better than monthly after all…)

I hope this is satisfactory for everyone. Please post your comments if you have any, and let me know urgently if you disagree in any way with this policy. Thank you.
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Now to your promotions.

I have tightened up the OTO’s and given them a spring clean so they’re bright and squeaky clean for launch day. You can have a look at them here: OTO1, OTO2.

If you’re running late with your mailings, don’t worry. I’ve got some suggested words in case you need to do a promotion in a hurry – its all on the VIP JV page, just login here to find it. Oh, and please don’t forget the follow up mails. As you know, 50% more sales are made with follow ups. (I’ve got some follow-up suggestions on VIP JV aswell…)

I hope you enjoy promoting The Freedom List – thanks for your help – now Go To it!

New Launch Day Set…

Phew! The beginning is nigh!

Right. Well. Here goes. The Freedom List will launch on the 26th April at 10.00am (EST).

I will welcome any help and advice as we approach launch day. Please, if you have MSN, add your ID on the profile page so I can keep you informed immediately of events as they occur.

A secret (no-obligation) preview chapter will be available to download for your prospects. The page they download it from will issue your affiliate cookie onto their browser so even if they’re guided back to the site by another affiliate up to 3 month’s later, you’ll still benefit. Please be sure to login and view the VIP JV’s page where you’ll find the full schedule and info on the launch.

As I write, GetResponse is NoResponse so I can’t login or email my existing JV’s. Recent JV’s have logged themselves at thefreedomlist.biz – any others should please go here…
http://www.thefreedomlist.biz/signup_jv.php

…and do the same. Once inside you’ll find full up-to-date information.
You’ll also find a full suite of emails ready to go to your prospects. Its time to begin your promotions now. You can do it all in a short time and forget about it simply by preloading your autoresponder if you like…

Nearly ready to launch!

I’ve been doing some arduous testing over the past couple of days to get The Freedom List ready for launch. We have progress on the split-pay mechanism. But only in as much as sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t but I don’t want to launch until I know its going to pay you every time (and me!).

The procedure that deals with Paypal over the split payments is quite intricate and although the logic works, its reliant on Paypal not taking too long to verify receipts. Hence sometimes it works sometimes not. We think we’ve found a solution using a second verification step that will pause the process until Paypal’s ready. With that in place we’re set to go.

I nearly called off split-pay and went with masspay monthly instead, but instant split-pay is such a key salespoint in my text that I really wanted to get it working before launch. The good news is, for those of you using the Butterfly Marketing script, as long as the tech’s get this second verification step in where its needed, then the next update of BM will be good for split-payments at last… which will be a huge relief to everyone.

Plus, in the meantime, while all this has been going on, I’ve revised my bonuses (thanks Matthew) and even set up an OTO2 page. (I think it looks great!) We should therefore be heading for more revenue than was possible before. The OTO1 for Pro Membership is now $67 (from $97) and the OTO2 for Gold Membership is $39 (from $67).

Pro members get 50% commissions, Gold get 60%.  You, as a VIP JV, of course get 80%
So – please get yourself ready for The Freedom List launch. It won’t be long… look out for my mails.
Best wishes to all.

Tim

Small but important tech difficulties, then we’re off!

I’m making minor site alterations prior to the launch, but the main factor holding it up is the Split Payment method. So far, I’ve not been able to get past a holding screen after the first payment that autorefreshes every 30 secs and says its waiting to confirm receipt of payment. Therefore, the only person who gets paid currently is the affiliate. I guess this won’t matter to you, but charitable as I am, I can’t launch in these conditions!

Thanks to all my JVs for their patience while we get this sorted out. If any of you have come across this problem before and know a solution, please let me know.

Thanks