Well here it is finally, after most of the night and day rendering, re-rendering, converting, and re-re-rendering.

Unfortunately, there are more quirks to GoToWebinar’s recording abilities than I realized, and the end result is that this webinar pretty much looks like hell on a bad day.  Fortunately we mostly talked rather than showed the application doing a whole lot, but I still am pretty annoyed at just how bad the image quality is.

So, apologies for this.  In the future I’ll make certain that my resolution AND the guest presenter’s resolution, are one and the same so the recording will hopefully turn out a lot better.

Enjoy the webinar, it’s over 2 hours long and I still can’t believe Billy hung in there so long answering questions!  This is a great deal so if you even think SJ will be beneficial to your business AT ALL in the next year, you’d be crazy not to take advantage of this.

(Give the video a minute to load up if you don’t already see it below)

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Offer ends Midnight Central Time, July 31st (TOMORROW!)

Jonathan

We did the StatsJunky webinar last night and it was fantastic… it went over 2 hours just so everyone could get their questions answered.  Billy was a TROOPER!!!

Now here’s the obnoxious part.  Camtasia is flatly refusing to render the ginormous resulting movie file.  Apparently this is a known bug that’s been around forever and the only known workaround is to convert the movie to an AVI and use THAT in camtasia instead of the GoToWebinar-generated .WMV file.

Can you say, TIME CONSUMING?!?!?!?

So now I’m converting the movie to an AVI file, which I will then import back into Camtasia again and hopefully render out to something I can post to the blog.  It’s going to take around 3 more hours JUST to convert to an AVI, then probably another 3 hours to render out to a finished postable movie.

UGH!!!

Sorry for the delay on the replay everyone, especially since this deal only lasts another day.  I hoped you’d all have plenty of time to listen to all the Q&A and have them help you decide if SJ is right for you.

Oh on that note, one thing that came up a few times during the webinar and again in a blog comment here, was about people who already bought SJ previously.  Here’s the answer as I understand it:

If your previous SJ subscription (monthly, annual, whatever) has met or exceeded $297 then you’ve ALREADY been upgraded to lifetime and that’s that.  You’re set!  If you purchase a license now at the $297 price you’ll actually have TWO licenses and the ability to run two totally independent copies of SJ in two places.  If you don’t want this, you can get a refund for one of the licenses if you’d like.

If you just bought a month or two ago for example, and haven’t yet spent $297 on your copy, then my understanding is you were NOT upgraded to lifetime, which is pretty easy to understand.  Bottom line though is get in touch with the SJ folks and I think they’ll do right by you.  Get on one of their daily webinars if you’re having any trouble reaching them by email.

OK back to rendering for me!  Well, for my computer anyway… 

Jonathan

OK, I mentioned it on my previous brief interview with him, so the time has come.  I’m going to have a live webinar with Billy from StatsJunky, in order to give you all a chance to see SJ live in person as well as ask questions or see any aspect of the program first hand.

You must register here to attend:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/848250938

A replay link will be sent out to all registered attendees.

Whether you already use StatsJunky or not, this is your chance to grab the ear of the guy at the top, so don’t miss it.

I look forward to having you on the call!

Jonathan

I didn’t plan on making two posts today but I just found out about this and I think it’s a REALLY big deal for almost every affiliate or website owner.

Shortcut:  www.tooltrainer.com/sjdeal

Probably the most common question I get is about tracking.  What do I use, what’s the best system, how do I like XYZ tracking solution, etc. etc. etc.  Tracking (or lack of) is clearly a real problem for most affiliates, especially new ones.

Personally, I gave up on all the publicly available solutions a while back because none of them met my needs.  The closest was StatsJunky but it had no way to compare costs & revenues and give me a detailed view of what I was earning (or losing) at the keyword level for every campaign.

But guess what?  StatsJunky did finally add this capability.  Unfortunately again for me, it didn’t support the particular traffic networks I use the most and was PPC-specific, not handling any other forms of paid traffic.

But, I’ve kept it on my radar as the closest commercial solution to what I would want for myself.  All the while pouring money into the development of my own solution (which frankly still has some major problems and I’ve spent many thousands of dollars on it so far).

One big obstacle for many people regarding StatsJunky (or SJ as many call it) is that it’s a monthly fee.  We marketers seem to LOVE monthly fees when we’re collecting them, but HATE paying them to anyone else.  Seems like a double standard but hey, I understand people prefer to pay once for something instead of every single bloody month.

Well that’s what I’m so excited about… not only has SJ continued to develop and they are closer than ever to supporting everything I personally want & need in a trcking solution, but they’re also giving everyone the chance to pay ONE TIME FOR LIFE.

This is HUGE if you’re in any way serious about this business.  If you are, you’ll have a tracking solution for years to come.  Normally SJ is $79 PER MONTH but it’s there birthday so they’re making 1500 people this special offer:

Pay JUST ONCE and it’s $297.

PERIOD.

NO monthly fees, EVER.

That means that you pay for less than 4 month’s of subscription and use it forever.

Unless you already have the ultimate tracking solution in place - DO NOT MISS THIS DEAL!!!

I truly believe that based on what I’ve seen being developed, SJ is the closest to what I would build myself.  I’ve chatted with the founder at length and basically they aim to be THE preeminate tracking tool for ALL your business… we’re not just talking PPC here, but banners, organic, email, you name it they want to track it for you.  And they’re the only solution that I’ve seen that seems to “get it” when I bitch about having to download & upload reports.

I’ve been saying for a long time… the data is already on two servers (one for cost, one for revenue).  Do NOT make me download it from both sources only to upload it again somewhere else.  DO IT FOR ME!  I want to push a button, have everything downloaded (or better yet have it run automatically at a set time every day… which SJ does) and ready for review.

So anyway, check out SJ seriously.  You’ve got until midnight on the 23rd, but I don’t know WHOSE midnight they mean… and they’re only doing it for 1500 people… so I just plain advise you not to wait.  Definitely check out StatsJunky.  The moment they support my traffic sources, I’m switching over to them.  I haven’t had any development done on my own system in months because I just can’t bear to spend more money on it when SJ has already done a better job.

Enjoy!

Jonathan