Dedicated to the "Instant Commissions" business model, the iDavi Marketplace has one of the most sophisticated affiliate management systems to be found anywhere on the internet.

To benefit both the product merchants and the affiliate network, required aggregating the products from many merchants that were using the instant commission model into one, centralized marketplace.

Affiliates need to know more than just "how many clicks did I send, and how many of those visitors actually purchased the product?"

To be really effective, they need to know about new products that come on the market, price changes and special promotions being offered on existing products, what is selling well at the moment, and what products have the best potential for longer term revenue.

Rather than just tracking what happened in their own promotions (after the fact), information like this allows affiliates to determine what they should promote in the first place, whether they should just "test" the market with a single mailing, or if there is enough long-term potential to justify placing a more permanent promotion on their blog, or creating a promotional video for publishing to their YouTube account, or whether they might want to do some PPC advertising.

By aggregating merchants' product data for trending purposes, and giving affiliates multiple ways to analyze that information, the iDavi system provides the tools an affiliate needs to make his/her business decisions, while providing merchants with access to a sales force that is better equipped than any other affiliate network in the industry.

Only the iDavi Marketplace provides this kind of information in the affiliate back office, to allow affiliates to make good, informed decisions on what products to promote, while still providing all the statistical data on their promotions, in the form of raw numerical data, as well as line graphs to see performance overall or by individual product.

While initially, the iDavi Marketplace only contains products from merchants using the Rapid Action Profits (RAP) sales/affiliate system, there are currently over 2,000 registered RAP merchants, and already over 3,000 products listed in the iDavi Marketplace.  Plans are well under way to bring in even more instant commission products in the near future.

This coming Saturday (the 17th of September), the Rapid Action Profits system (RAP) will turn 4 years old, and I'd love to have you celebrate with us.

While we weren't the first system on the market that allowed merchants to  offer instant commissions to their affiliates, I do think that we were responsible for popularizing the business model and making it a more "mainstream" marketing concept.

Of course, as the concept became more popular with merchants, others began to offer their own solutions to compete with us.  I think they are learning that a successful business model requires more than just a single, good product ;)

For instance, very early after the initial release of RAP, we (I had a lot of good input from a select group of customers) decided that extending the functionality of the RAP system by adopting the popular "plugin" concept from the Wordpress community, would help keep down the price of the core RAP system, and let the functionality grow in directions that the user community was most interested in.

More recently, I teamed up with a couple of RAP customers to release the largest (and most well thought out) marketplace for Rapid Action Profits merchants to 1) advertise/sell their products, and 2) make those products available to our affiliate network in one central place, where they could be found and evaluated for promotions.

We weren't the first to do that, either.  As with RAP, our goal was just to do it better than anyone before us!

I'm sure you've read about it from my earlier posts.  It was a full year in the making (most of that time in development and testing), but last month... the iDavi Marketplace for Digital Products was born (so we really have multiple things to celebrate), and it already boasts many more product listings than its closest competitor.

As you can imagine, after all the excitement of the iDavi launch last month, I almost forgot about RAP's birthday coming up.   I felt like this one should be really special!

I made a couple of quick contacts, and here's what we came up with...

1. A $50 discount coupon for the core RAP system,
2. the iDavi Marketplace Add On (for automatically posting your products into the marketplace),
3. Some extra bonus Add Ons (very targeted bonus for anyone who uses RAP), and...
4. all the rest of the bonuses that were already available before the celebration!
5. (not to mention a couple of bonuses that aren't even listed on the sales page)

That's a lot to take in, so maybe it'll be easier to visualize if you just go to the site.

Rapid Action Profits Birthday Celebration

Besides a "cutting-edge" sales/affiliate management system with instant commissions, RAP now integrates with the largest Instant Commission Marketplace on the Internet, so you can easily market your own instant commission products.

On Saturday, 20 August, the new iDavi Marketplace was presented live, to the attendees of the 6th NAMS conference in Atlanta.

Only 2 weeks after the launch of the new instant commission marketplace, affiliate marketers were given their first live presentation of the new system, to show them the powerful features available, and explain the benefits of promoting instant commission products via the marketplace.

All of the partners in iDavi (Richard Wing, Mike Myers, and Sid Hale) were present, and were available for one-on-one consultation with the participants throughout the remainder of the conference.

This live presentation of the iDavi features marked the beginning of iDavi's efforts to recruit affiliate marketers on behalf of the instant commission merchants who have listed their products on the iDavi Marketplace, and is just one of many promotions of the site that are planned for the coming months.

View the iDavi Marketplace Presentation Here

I'm pretty stoked!  After only 3 days, iDavi has grown to be the largest Marketplace for products that pay commissions instantly... and the only products listed are using the Rapid Action Profits sales system.

Last night (10 Aug), at about 9:30 PM EST iDavi surpassed it's closest competitor, with 1282 products listed in it's marketplace.  Of course, that's HUGE and the growth is bound to slow down to a more reasonable pace, but I still expect that we'll double the number of products found in the iDavi Marketplace within the next two weeks.

On August 19, I'll be meeting my 2 partners in iDavi,  in Atlanta, to present the iDavi Marketplace to it's first "live" audience at the NAMS6 conference.  This is the beginning of a huge drive, and the first of many recruiting efforts to bring a large number of affiliates on board to promote the Rapid Action Profits (RAP) merchants' products.

1. create an advertising space for merchants using the Rapid Action Profits (RAP) system to sell their products,
2. create an affiliate network with a centralized repository of instant commission products that they can sell, and
3. create a free membership for buyers of those products to assist both merchants and affiliates in the cross-selling/backend marketing of other products

Maybe that's because they aren't really marketplaces.

What we found is that they rarely even had a customer focus.  Because their real agenda was to bring together merchants and affiliates, they had no customer component, at all.  It seems to me that a marketplace should be customer-focused, and make the customer experience as positive an experience as possible.

Instead, most of the other services we found weren't marketplaces, at all.  They were only interested in "hooking up" affiliates with merchants, for the sake of an individual sale, and did nothing with regard to the customer but send them to the payment processor, and then collect the payment info after the sale.

In short, they were affiliate networks - not a Marketplace, at all.

Is there a reason they've totally left the customer out of the equation?  Sure.  The customer is the merchant's customer, and brings nothing to their bottom line.  Their service involved the customer - only as far as it had to.

At iDavi, we feel that we can help both merchants and affiliates much more, simply by shifting focus slightly, and trying to retain the customers attention with targeted cross-selling, and backend marketing (marketing tasks where many marketers fall short).  The extra effort that we put into marketing on behalf of the affiliate, as well as the merchant, should result in higher sales and a better bottom line for all concerned.

1. The Site Administrator now receives an email to alert them of a possible "hack" EVERY time System Settings are changed, either from the Admin Panel, or by running the install script, or if Equity Partners are added or changed on a product.
2. Instant Payment Notification (IPN) processing was modified to catch additional fraud attempts.

1. An RSS feed is now created automatically for all of your RAP products that are NOT in test mode.
2. You can now implement a Pre-Launch strategy with a series of multiple pre-launch sales letters, that expire according to your schedule.  Each of a series of pre-launch pages will be shown in sequence, until they are all expired, at which time the system will begin showing the normal sales page(s).
3. A separate Auto Opt-in for your back-end offer (Special Offer or OTO) has been provided, in order to segregate buyers of your special offer onto a separate list.
4. RAP now provides for an Unlimited number of Equity Partners for each product, allowing you to collaborate on projects and automatically distribute revenues from those projects.
5. New option in Product set up allows the ability to require that Affiliates/JV Partners be registered in the system, disallowing non-registered promoters from profiting on sales of your products.
6. The Affiliate Center now allows affiliates to see a list of customers they have referred, as well as a list of their downline affiliates.
7. New Mailer options allow you to use either normal PHP Mail, or the new SMTP mail feature, and for selection of plain text or HTML emails.
8. Default Sender Name & email address can now be set separately for each type of System Email (by product), and for each Broadcast Mail source.

• How easy would it be to turn my digital download into a CD or DVD (especially when Kunaki does all the production work), and offer it as an OTO for an extra $20-$30 (or more)?
• Maybe I could set up an Equity Partnership with someone who has a great set of  download videos.  Rather than just being another "affiliate" I could set his/her product up for physical delivery, and the equity partner feature of RAP will automatically split the profits between us.
• or what about setting up a Micro Continuity program, with incremental delivery and HUGE backend sales potential?

*** Happy Birthday ***

• Affiliate Notifier
• Bonus Item Manager
• Dimes Sales Management
• OTO Downsell Management
• Mass Pay
• Membership Plus
• Paypal Subscription Management
• Price Spinner
• RAP Gone Viral
• Reseller Bonus Managment
• Token Plus

• MasterMind Camp http://mastermindcamp.com
• Easy Video Reviews http://easyvideoreviews.com (free affiliate marketing guide)
• Home Business Internet Explosion http://homebusinessinternetexplosion.com (in pre-launch)
• 90 Percent Attitude http://90percentattitude.com (motivation)
• The Video Membership http://TheVideoMembership.com (free trial available)
• 10 Minute Squeeze Pages http://www.10minutesqueezepages.com (free trial available)
• Templates Giveaway http://templatesgiveaway.com (free web2.0 templates each month)
• Instant Blogging Content http://instantbloggingcontent.com

• Advanced Marketing with RAP http://rapwiz.com/advrap/
• Web Project Organizer/Toolkit http://rapwiz.com/webbizpot/