This must be the biggest project I’ve done to date, and it really paid off. $15,000 in sales for the first 24 hours, with 6 days to go.

Our target is about 1,500 sales, which should be enough to get us to San Francisco for WIME come September 2007.

If you haven’t purchase the “Musketeer Package” yet, as I’m writing this you have about 4 days left. You’ll get 100 high-quality products, all with resell rights, that you can also resell to others and keep 100% of any price your charge.

Get it here: www.sendusto.us

But the results could have been better if not for some server problems we had in the first hour. Although we were prepared, the amount of traffic exceeded our expectations and in the end our TWO dedicated servers chocked, suffocated and died.

I met up with Vince and Melvin at my home to celebrate, joined by Khai and Edmund. Only Vince and me were on the PC at launch time, and a couple of affiliates had already accidentally promoted earlier.

Our celebrations turned to panic when the servers went down barely minutes after the first sale came in, and let me tell you when that happens all you can do is contact your hosting support guys, and pray that the nightmare ends soon.

Hopefully for us it did end pretty soon, and even with the slow moving servers we managed about 30-40 sales in the first 2 hours. Vince had programmed his MS Outlook to play a “ka-ching” sound when each sales notification came in.

So when we finally relaxed and got to dinner at about 10.30pm, we continued to hear ‘Ka-Ching” every 3 minutes.

The next day I managed to edit the salescopy and increase the conversion rate from 2.35% to 5.6%, which meant that although we were getting less traffic on that day, we still managed to equal the amount of sales on the first day.

Then yesterday, I managed to increase the conversion to 7.89% and to tell you the truth I was shocked to be able to bump it up that high. Some JV partners like Ian Del Carmen and John Delavera started offering some crazy bonuses too, so that bumped up our sales again.

We’re hoping to go the distance and achieve 1,500 sales by the time the firesale is over. On day 1 we were quite skeptical of this target, but now it looks like within reach.

As I’m writing this we’re closer to 900 sales, which is about $33,300 or more.

Get it here till August 1: www.sendusto.us

This is a feature a LOT of people have been waiting for. But now that Clickbank has recurring payments, should you use it?

I was looking at the FAQ page today, and since I am already selling the WordPress Adsense System product on Clickbank, I was interested to set-up a new monthly recurring option as an advanced package.

This means that I can now use the advanced membership features of Amember Pro, and yet accept payments via Clickbank. All charges are processed automatically, and affiliates are paid off automatically too.

Here’s how the set-up page for recurring products looks like:

Similar to recurring payment options offered by Paypal or 2Checkout, the Clickbank version also has options to set the initial price, rebill price, frequency and duration.

But their definition of each is slightly different:

• Initial Price – The price the customer pays for the initial purchase of a recurring billing product. The initial price is equal to or greater than the rebill price.
• Rebill Price – The price the customer pays for each subsequent payment for the duration of a rebill product. The rebill price must be equal to or less than the initial price.
• Frequency – The timeframe for which rebilling will occur (ex. monthly, quarterly). The initial frequency allowed for recurring billing is monthly.
• Duration – The number of times a customer is billed (ex. 2-99).

However, Clickbank says that the Initial Price and Rebill Price must be the same value, which means that you cannot offer a cheaper “trial” membership, or even give the first month free.

A few other key points:

• Recurring products are also subject to the same 8-weeks money-back guarantee
• Clickbank fees are 7.5% for the Initial Payment and a whopping 9.9% on the rebill price, all of which are deducted from the sales price so it effects both publishers and affiliates
• Currently, recurring billing products can be purchased using credit/debit cards only – this is sad because I’m sure most people would prefer to use Paypal too

So for me, I’m still thinking whether I should use the Clickbank option. After all, I already have access to more powerful software like JV Manager Fantasos, in which you can use multiple payment options, and still credit the affiliate.

Please also not, that Clickbank only provides recurring payments which you can use to start your own membership site, but they do not offer you any membership site software to create members-only access.

If you’re from Malaysia, do also check out Malaysia ClickBank Secrets for the best system to make money from ClickBank.

How can you avoid paying someone $40 – $200 to design a professional web graphic set?

Well if you look hard enough, the answer won’t be too far away. My friend Aurelius Tjin mentioned his Copy & Paste Web Graphics a couple of days ago, and I just purchased it. For under $10, it’s a no brainer really.

If you have a direct response type of website (salesletter pages selling e-books or software), this will be the perfect solution that helps you save time and money. You can mix and match the header sets, icon sets, order button sets, background sets, e-book cover sets and other professional web graphics to create an unlimited amount of web pages. In fact I think the web graphic set is meant for these type of sites, but you can also use the header graphic sets for your blog or other type of sites.

Check out all the Internet marketing forums. There’s bound to be at least one post each day about the topic of “web graphics”. There’s quite a few designers out there but what’s lacking is a professional web graphic set that comes ready-made with styled buttons, seals, bullets, minisites and more like the CopyAndPasteGraphics set.

You can also try one of the advanced packages or even join the site as a member and continue to received full web page designs every month.

I think this is good value for money, and even if you don’t need to use it right away you can still get it while it’s so cheap and add it to your design library. It will definitely be useful someday. Sign-up here.