DAY #187 -- Launch: T-22 Days!

UPDATE: Saturday December 10, 2005 8:29 PM, for Sunday.

Back again. It's the end of a Saturday, and I wanted to take some time to reflect on what has been done and what's yet to be done.

NETWORK GROWTH:
The network marketing organization is growing, not incredibly rapidly, but "well" at a slower than normal time. The best time for online marketing of this type is between January and June. Then there is a slight slowdown in the summer and the back to school time.

However, before Thanksgiving and the start of the year is the slowest as people are taking a lot of time off to travel and plan for the holidays.

In my case, I thought this was the best time to get started and iron out the problems. That is getting done. On two occasions the server has had problems --once last week with an 8 hour outage and today with a 3 hour outage. These are problems that I will address to the developer of the program immediately. I think it's their duty to make sure the customer can rest easy that the problems are addressed.

Having said that I want to make sure our customers --network Members are also happy. Here are some of the ideas that I have and want to make sure come true in the coming week.

ONE STEP BACK, TWO FORWARD:
AD Watcher program went bust! I had installed their program a while back and it worked fine. Then I had them install an enterprise version that I could use to work with all the Members. It was an expensive, but a good product costs a bit and I was going to make it in volume, what I could not immediately.

However, when I had the program installed, it did not work. Furthermore, it appeared that they were using a flat file database record keeping system in the enterprise version and that did not encourage me. I believe a few days back I outlined why I was not comfortable overall with it. Well, the programmer refunded the monies paid.

I immediately switched to another program that I researched and I hope starting Monday, and at the latest Tuesday, I can make available the program from the GOLD and higher Member area.

Now on to the other application -AffiliateMINT.com: I am pretty sure that this week it will be ready. My original goal was to have it ready by mid-December, and I think that will be correct.

The Affiliate MINT will allow our Members to promote up to 33 income, affiliate, network, etc. --revenue generating products and programs. The IR's signing up for FREE get to promote and earn from 3 programs. However, the Paragon Members can promote up to 33 programs.

One such program is Clickbank(R). At this time I have searched for Clickbank(R) Mall that cost up to $99.00 to get. There are free ones -usually PHP scripts that anyone can install. However, these programs are tied to advertising or some format that generated an income for the programmer. Not in our case. The AffiliateMINT is all about the Member or the IR.

It will turbo charge the success of the IR by generating referrals --one after the other 24/7! I can't wait to see it operational.

COLLECTIVE INDIVIDUAL EFFORT:
Now I want to discuss another subject for a few minutes and that is the performance of the IR's. Lastly (last week) they have not done much. But that is the way network marketing organizations grow.

In fact, in my setup of such programs now for 16 years, I have found a lot of similarity between network marketing organizations and a corporate stock growth.

Let's say that you look at the stock chart of Google for that past 18 months or so. Note how it has grown. It's around $400 per share as I write this. But look at how it got there. It didn't go from around $80 from the summer of 2004 to where it is today in a perfect growth curve. What it did was grew, consolidated, grew, consolidated and sometime took a pause, even a small downturn, and then kept growing.

That is how network marketing operations should grow. IF they shoot up like a rocket, as some stocks do, it's usually hype based and not based on fundamentals. As a result they tend to turn 'south' just as fast as the Independent Representative run for cover.

At this time I am very comfortable with our growth. In fact, I'd like to see some nice movement during the first half of 2006 and then set a good trend for the next few years. My focus is on the product. Make it the best and we'll have plenty of customers worldwide.

ONLY ONE THOUGHT for the FUTURE:
Ok, to the week ahead. Keep making things better. I cannot say it more clearly. My objective is to keep making the network better. Intro the products, products and more products.

GOING BACK to ONE PROBLEM THAT I HAD:
The problem is still there but I have taken measures to minimize it and soon I'll eliminate it.

What I'd like to point out is not the fact that I have a bunch of errors, but how I am taking care of them. The way that I am resolving the matter is making the site better and better one day or week or month at a time. Rome was not built overnight, and neither was this site. I spotted several problems and one by one I have resolved and eliminated them.

So, here are the results of "Removing Errors":

AUG 05: 1698 --broken links.

SEP 05: 0483 --corrected a lot of them.

OCT 05: 0698 --added content.

NOV 05: 1717 --added the Clickbank(R) area, and there are a bunch of errors that I need to correct there.

DEC 05: 0220(?) after 10 days. It's gaining about a few pages daily. I don't see it going over 300. My goal now is to keep eliminating broken links by looking at what is causing the problems.

There were many broken links that were caused by linking to press organizations that kept moving content. So, I decided to give credit to those organizations, but hold the content on P31.COM and manage it that way.

Now I need to re-visit the Clickbank(R) site here and check all the links. When robots from various search engines visit the site and find broken links, that does not bode well for the professionalism of the site. So, far my spelling mistakes don't either, but adding to the mess is not a good way to build for the future.

As part of my continuous improvement strategy, I need to go over the entire site and check the links. I have decided to leave the text alone because at this time this is *not* a priority. The priority is to make sure that the network is better and better, each day and that the IR and Members are happy.

Now off. Carpe Diem. Sam.

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