A clarification on the existing product vs the upcoming product in relation to the price change
I sent out an email earlier today letting people know that they could pick up a copy of Traffic Android at a new price of $67.
I also said that people who had bought the product BEFORE today would be getting access to the upcoming web-based product without having to pay the associated monthly charge. This was because those copies had been sold on the promise that future upgrades and features were coming, including video uploads and whatnot. I don’t want to break that promise to my previous customers, therefore I’ll give them access to the web-based product without the monthly fee.
I have completely overhauled the existing sales page to reflect that the desktop product is a social bookmarking product and is not promising the world before it is available though, and the price is now $67 to access the current feature set.
The distinction between the desktop product and the web-based product will basically be twofold:
- Not everyone likes web-based products with monthly charges and not everyone wants to use a desktop product. Also some people can’t run the desktop product for whatever reason, such as using a Mac or hating Windows.
- The desktop product will be considered an introductory product, and if found useful, the logical next step will be to subscribe to the web-based product to really step up your traffic-getting efforts. It’s an optional step though and neither product will be a prerequisite to use the other one.
So to clarify, for any who were confused about what you get:
- $67 gets you the existing Windows desktop product in all its current glory along with maintenance updates and any improvements that may or may not be added over time. This will always be the basic introductory product and will be perfect for many people’s needs.
- If you bought it before today at a higher price, you’ll be covered for the lack of new sites you thought were going into the desktop product by getting access to the membership product which ultimately amounts to the same thing; you’ll simply be accessing the product from the web instead. You’ll be free to keep using the desktop product if you like though. But this is only if you bought it before today at a higher price. Free access to the web-based product is not something that is available via the $67 product.
- If you want to wait until the web-based product is released, you are free to do that also. That will come with a monthly charge though, unlike the desktop product. Check out some of my earlier posts to check out what the monthly charge will cover and why it is necessary.
I hope that clears things up!