Totally agreed.

I come from a computing background and looking from an “IT student’s” standpoint, it is quite disgusting to see how some very ugly coded products get sold for hundreds of times it cost to develop it.

Internet Marketers are marketers, their primary interest is profits – and they do this job very well, but I think marketers should also watch who they outsource their software development to. There is so much more to software development than writing a software project proposal on Elance.

The BFM script vs Amember you brought up is a good example, and another case is this one on Joel Comm’s contact station. Even though Joel has taken steps to mend the bugs, I think it does serve as a reminder for users who they buy software from.

Apart from the few you brought up, I have found Derek Ghel’s team at the Internet Marketing Center does their software very well too.

I would venture a guess that Butterfly Marketing wasn’t coded by Mike Filsaime himself. He more than likely outsourced the coding, either to a third party entirely or through his own in-house development team. Once the product is done, or at least “good enough”, those coders were either finished the project and moved on, or were reassigned to new tasks.

Amember, on the other hand, is sold by the actual developers. So they have more of an interest in continuing its development, support, etc.

There are exceptions like you pointed out with Brad Callen, Jon Leger and a few others, but for the most part software sold by internet marketers tends to be made to be “good enough” instead of being more polished.

Good stuff to know about Amember and Mike Filsaime’s Butterfly marketing product. There seems to be a gap in this field.

It sounds like software developers and Internet Marketers need to mastermind and create some really good stuff.

I am looking at Amember to get my membership site up and running, and I’ve found this blog post to be very helpful!

I appreciate you.

Dali Burgado

Cheers.

If can non-US citizen can open a US merchant account. Then everything will be much easier to solve.

Now majority of us are tack to 2CO, clickbank or the risky Paypal

Jason Postash is more Internet Marketer oriented software vendor, he and his team of developers create SEO related product and services, just like Brad Calen…

Recently, another great product – SENuke are created by Internet Marketer + Software Developer team up! Just perfect!

What I found was, when software developers turned themselves into internet marketers, they tend to carry that “perfection” from their day as software developers into their new world.

So, they give the best stuff (with all those whiz bang stuff included) as well as ease of use (think of Jason Potash software, though I don’t think he’s a software developer before).