For the first time, with thanks to the Kunaki CD/DVD Fulfillment Add On, Rapid Action Profits can be used to deliver physical product, rather than just digital downloads.

Tightly integrated with RAP, this new add on allows for defining multiple Kunaki accounts/products, and relating those to individual RAP-driven sales campaigns.  It will collect the shipping info (shipping method, shipping address, etc.) from your customer, combine it with the Kunaki product number, and pass the order off to Kunaki for fulfillment.

Don’t have a physical product?

Here are some ideas I’ve been tossing around:

• 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?

Those are just off the top of my head.  Maybe you have some of your own ideas…

*** Happy Birthday ***

We’ve been celebrating all week, but today is  the day.  It’s 2 years ago today that we made the very first sale of RAP!

Last week I told you about our 2nd Anniversary  sale, and I hope you’ve had a chance to benefit from some of the great discounts that were offered this week on RAP and  for so many RAP-related products.

If not, here’s one last chance!

You see, it all comes down at midnight (ET) tonight.

http://RapidActionProfits.com/anniversary

Besides the Rapid Action Profits system, you’ll find 15 different products there, all designed to work with RAP to make your business that much better.   A bunch of  folks all chipped in to offer you a 25% discount on their related products.  RAP Add Ons, matching templates for your RAP-driven products and for a Wordpress blog (to help with SEO and traffic), and even Rapid Action Videos, too. 

Plus, you don’t have to settle for just one – they’ve all offered a discount at one time or another, but this is the first time you’ve been able to pick up as many as you want!

http://RapidActionProfits.com/anniversary

Go ahead.  Fill your goodie bag.  With what you save on one you can probably pick up another – and there are plenty of great add ons to choose from.

Just putting up a promotional discount for Rapid Action Profits would be great for new RAP prospects – but there’s nothing there for existing customers to “celebrate”.   The secret to making this special for everyone, is that all of the RAP Certified Add On developers, PLUS 2 other merchants with “RAP related” products stepped up to the plate, and volunteered to make sure that there were also “party favors” for everyone who already has a copy of Rapid Action Profits.

Besides the $50 Anniversary discount that I’m offering for RAP…

The RAP Certified Add Ons community came up with a 25% discount on all of these add ons:

• 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

In addition, Rapid Action Videos is offering the same 25% off for their excellent RAP video tutorial series, and Templates in a Box is offering a suite of RAP-ready web site templates with matching Wordpress and CMS themes.

Of course, if you don’t already have RAP, you’ll want to start there, but there’s a “whole lot of  partying goin’ on” for existing RAP customers, too!  (and thanks to so many for helping make this possible)

Be sure to have a look.  We’re partying hard, but won’t be able to keep up the pace forever

Talk about feeling STUPID!

I knew WHO had purchased the Add On, but not WHERE/HOW they were using it.

Here are just a few I found after digging around a little (if you have one that should be added… let me know) :

• 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

These next two are a little different, as they really aren’t “memberships” by the normally accepted definition. They use the Membership Plus Add On as a way to further protect their product download (login is required after purchase to access these products).

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

You should take a look at these.  They may have something you need, and there’s free stuff too!

This last one is my PERSONAL FAVORITE!

URL Shortening and Link Cloaking – http://scrnch.me
This is the best service of it’s kind, with more free features than any other I’ve seen (and you won’t believe what you get, if you’re willing to pay a small monthly fee).

Some of these are very straightforward memberships, others show a little more thought.  A lot of how you set yours up depends on the audience you want to attract, and what you provide for your members – but the RAP Membership Plus Add On gets the job done!

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A recent analysis of employment data by USA Today found that those who still have jobs are faring worse than at any time since the Great Depression.

Those who still have jobs, worked 33.1 hours per week (on average) in May.  Fewer hours than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began counting in 1964.

Part-time work is at a record high, while overtime is at a record low.

The national unemployment rate (9.4%) is reported everywhere, but does NOT begin to tell the whole story, because it says nothing of the financial decline of those that ARE STILL WORKING.

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Look at the plight of those still working…

In the first quarter, U.S. Businesses cut total wages by  an annual rate of 6.2 percent.

The use of pay cuts is the LAST choice at most companies.
Hiring freezes, delayed salary increases, and layoffs, are more common – but we now see companies reducing pay rates (and hours worked) of those that escape the other measures.

My purpose here, is not to spread doom and gloom.

After all, you have more control over your own future, than if you were resigned to just accepting what you can from the job market.

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Here are some more facts that should convince you how important it is to pursue more control over your own destiny.

Unemployment rates for those 45 and older are at the highest level since 1948 (when the government started tracking it).

The average time a person has been out of work is at a post-Depression record of 22.5 weeks.  This may be partially voluntary, as Congress has approved higher and longer unemployment benefits.  It is reasonable to expect that those out of work, now have less incentive to change their situation.

A record 9 million people want to work full time, but can only find part-time work.
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In short, whether you are marketing online full-time, or if you have only dipped your toe in the water, I think it pays to step it up a notch.

Put in an extra hour each day.

If you are new to this, maybe that time should be spent on education (forums, newsletters, how-to publications).

If you have been around a while, take more action.

Everything you do is to benefit YOU in the long-run.  Work on that next product, or develop a new relationship that will help you joint venture with someone else down the road.

It’s  a great way for people on a tight budget to get RAP with the Paypal Subscription and Membership Add Ons, without having to save up their pennies.

You get :

1. The great Rapid Action Profits software, with One Time Offers, Affiliate Management (including affiliate tools page), support for giveaways, automatic customer opt-ins to ANY autoresponder, secure downloads, etc.
2. The Paypal Subscriptions Add On, and
3. The Membership Plus Add On

But now you can make one small initial payment to get the downloads, and 3 (even smaller) monthly installments to spread out your cost.  Rather than coming up with the full list price in advance – customers can use this offer to make the purchase fit their budget.

If you’re interested, you can see the 4 Payment option at http://RapidActionProfits.com/mbrinstallments

Take a look, and let me know what you think.

Social Proof doesn’t have to be on your sales page, though.  In fact, “offsite” social proof (think buzz) is what helps establish your reputation, and that of your product. 

Offsite social proof is more believable.  Whether it’s a product review on someone else’s site, or a thread in a forum, the uncontrolled comments of others will carry more weight than all the testimonials you can put on your sales page.

I’m not saying that you don’t want those testimonials.  Merely that the offsite references are just as important, and will even bring you traffic you wouldn’t have received otherwise.

I recently found myself checking out the inbound links to Rapid Action Profits.  There are scads of these (all of which help me in the search engines) and I thought I would show you some of these as an illustration of the types of links that are attainable (with little or no work on your part).

Willie Crawford/Blog Talk Radio

Ezine Articles

Affiliate Blogs

HUB Pages

Marketing Blogs

Squidoo lens

more Squidoo

IM News Watch

Warrior Forum

Video Sites 

You can create offsite references to your product(s) simply by setting up your own blog and posting there about what you’re doing.  (This post is a good example.)  

These are just a few examples of literally thousands of backlinks that have appeared over the past year, and only one of these required any effort on my part (Willie interviewed me on his Blog Talk Radio show). 

The rest are the result of other people doing reviews of my product, discussing its merits in various forums, creating social bookmarks, blogging about their own experiences, etc.

By encouraging others to review your products, or stimulating discussions on public forums (answer questions as they come up, or debate the relative merits of your product), and setting up a good affiliate program, this type of social proof almost happens on auto-pilot. 

A little “nudging” from time to time to get something started, will often feed the flames, and have a more dramatic effect than you ever imagined.

Think about Wordpress.  You have a HUGE selection of plug-ins that you can use to add functionality to your blog.  With version 3.0 of RAP, you can do the same.  Want to add  Bonuses to your sales page?  or maybe a Dimesale?  A lot of people do this – right?

But… can they do it with point and click ease?  Can they switch out bonuses to see which ones affect their sales the most?  … or add a Terms of Service?  … or let their affiliates add THEIR OWN bonuses to create even more incentive to buy a product?

I mentioned this when the product was released, but now the Add Ons are beginning to roll out the door, and RAP customers are the winners.

Instead of paying for inflated feature content as with most “scripts”, RAP customers can pick and choose.  Besides getting a very powerful script for driving and tracking their sales, they can select only the Add Ons that they need/want to enhance their sales!

There is a new video up on YouTube that can give you a good overview.  It’s done by Jeff Davis (who’s created video tutorials for Rapid Action Profits), but it’s a good way to get an overview of what RAP is all about – without having to read the whole sales page.

The Add On Architecture means that RAP can continue to be improved with new features, without affecting the price of the core product.
 
After buying RAP, purchase only the features that match your own marketing strategies instead of paying really big dollars for a bunch of bloated functionality (most of which you may never use).

Take a look to see what I mean.

Here’s the full text.

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[This message was auto-generated by Rapid Action Profits Security]

The Rapid Action Profits system has caught an attempt to purchase Rapid Action Profits for $0.01 instead of its actual purchase price.

Be assured that the person was denied access to the download.

Also, it is suggested that you report this person to PayPal’s fraud department. The person’s information is as follows:PayPal Email: domain@yoursouthaustralia.com
First Name: Dom
Last Name: Aines
Business:
Country: AU

PayPal can be contacted at 888-215-5506.

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He/She probably won’t appreciate me posting his email address this way – but then… there are things about this person that I don’t particularly appreciate either.  

 The name is obviously fake, but it looks like the domain was set up just for the purpose of opening a Paypal account.

Notice that the download (a $177 product) was not made available to the purchaser?  That’s just one of a number of fraudulent purchases that RAP protects.  And why you can feel comfortable using it for higher-priced products.  Even more protection is planned for the next release of Rapid Action Profits, along with a lot of new features too.

Unfortunately, I (and darn few others) have had a chance to preview the EXACT materials being offered because it isn’t ready yet.  I expect it to be first-rate, just based on Joel’s track record – but there isn’t enough to look at yet to be able to say, without a doubt, that you’d be getting your money’s worth. 

If the buzz hasn’t reached your inbox yet, what Joel has done is to record a dozen top online wealth building experts as they spilled their guts to a very select group of online entreprenuers (as part of the Next Internet Millionaire Reality Show if I understand correctly).

Without a doubt…
there will be a lot of “heavy-hitters” promoting this the minute the doors open (noon tomorrow), and the “little guy” trying to promote Joel’s course will probably be drowned out by the barrage of emails from other marketers.

That’s where Jon Leger enters the picture.  He’s devised a Secret Classroom Giveaway contest.  Really more of a raffle, actually – where he will give away all of the commissions he earns from promoting the Secret Classroom. 

You don’t even have to purchase Joel’s product!

You have a chance to win a lot more if you do (50% of every month’s commissions will go to someone who buys through Jon’s link), but half of everything Jon makes on this every month will go to 5 people who just registers for the raffle (10% each).

Jon’s a whiz at automating things with scripts, so he’s also set up a way so that you can get up to 10 chances to win every month.  He shows you how to get your extra “raffle tickets” after you register for his giveaway.