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No Ramsay, you’re SECOND.
*Magic*
π
So tempted to login and change this.
I dare you π
Just commenting to say that I’m so freaking excited about this.
Oh, and FIRST.
Yeah, super duper excited!
Great post Glen, and thanks for the kind words! It was hard work and many long, frustrating days but I really think we created something we can be proud of and that will help a ton of people!
Anytime bud. Nice to have you back in Vancouver π
Hi guys π
-Steve
Missed signing up for this the first time around, looking forward to the public launch!
Thanks Takeshi!
Feller, thank you for the insights, I plan to launch a premium version of a product I current give away for free so this is an amazing insight. If your interested I’ll keep you posted.
You’re welcome David,
Hope you’re enjoying the pool!
Glen, I’m on the email list and have been following the product. Impressive post and lessons learned from the product lunch. Best of luck on the public launch this month.
Cheers,
Jordan
Cheers Jordan!
Proud to be the first batch of customers of Backlinks XXX. You say people buy your product because they know you? Haha. I’m gonna agree with that. When you send the email with XXX.com, I know it’s Glen, and you wouldn’t do stupid stuffs like sending us adult-pages in your email list. I’ve been applying the XXX forumlas, and I’m very happy with my results already. It’s kind of orgasmic to see your rankings jump (so easily) π
Your product support is awesome too, especially Diggy. I can email him at night, and can wake up in the morning, knowing Diggy has already replied me.
Btw, what’s the $5000 prizes about? For new customers only? :O
Thanks for purchasing, Ding!
Nope, not just for new customers. More info coming soon π
Amazing amazing amazing!
Nice to have a ‘peek behind the curtain’ and see how you put your big product launches together.
It’s also refreshing that you’re so honest about seeking help from outside sources on the things you feel you’re not so good at!
Epic as usual, cheers!
Glad you liked it, Patrick!
Hey,
thanks for all these first hand impressions of a big launch: I think this will definetly help with further launches I plan to do myself. It’s always interesting to see how such a catastrophe turns out to be a great success in the end π
Phil
You’re welcome, Phil.
Thanks for leaving a comment!
Great post, looking forward to the launch next week.
Thanks Alex!
I was joining on the first day and its simply amazing. Quality post Glen! As usual!
Glad you like it Jake!
Thanks for being on board π
You guys never seem to live up to your reputation.
The course is great and can’t wait to implement all these new strategies.
Got some smaller sites up and running and some of them have dropped quite a bit, time to get them up again π
Thanks guys!
ps Diggy / Glen would have loved to be in NL when you guys where living there π
Australia is a pretty good replacement you know… Ramsey can agree π
Ramsay hates it π
Just kidding. Nice typo you got there Ralph (I hope).
Thanks for following, as always!
* want to say you DO live up and NEVER fail to disappoint.. kinda came out wrong lol
Hello Glen.
Honestly as far as I’m concern you’re a blessing in disguise, the mannerism in which you take time to have highly valuable info that are profoundly in-dept and so much resourceful published for free (your blog for me as finally become one of my island of go to resources often times) shows that you’ve a rare heart for kindness.
Well just note this that the best thing i can say is that one day your case might just become like A FULL GLASS OF MILK THAT PAID THE BILL story. if we have more of your kind on the internet then the world will become a safe landing ground. thanks so much for the effort and time absolutely invested in this post.
Hi Glen,
Thanks for sharing your experiences with launching your new product, will hopefully help other people in future to try and avoid the little mistakes you made. I can guarantee that if I launched my own product I’d end up overlooking some technical aspect of it that would result in an absolute melt down haha.
Look forward to seeing how you get on with your main public launch of your product.
Appreciate it Jamie,
One of those times when you think you have it all in place but something inevitably goes wrong.
Glen, thank you so much for addressing the question i had sent you (about how to mitigate the odds of our videos showing up on torrents or emule for download).
I am really looking forward to your post about that topic. Do you have an idea by when it will be posted?
thanks!!
Miguel Magalhaes
No problem!
Do you have an idea by when it will be posted?
Hi Glen,
Thanks for the detailed note on product launch. I am gunning to race to top of Google with your system for six keywords. I am already on the second page of google.co.in for a highly competitive single word keyword ‘nelamangala’. Luckily the .com website wasn’t taken. Let us see how it goes. Credit for my success goes to you and Diggy for sharing your success experience. Helps a novice like me a lot.
Cheers,
Krish.
Awesome, Krish.
Have loved your enthusiasm since launch and appreciate you letting us use your testimonials.
Great to see positive people rocking it!
Hey Glen,
I think you guys took that horrific launch like champs man and thanks for sharing all the little details, many things I didn’t even have a clue (mostly about dealing with that .xxx extension)
Anyway, I have a not so related question though, since you normally write super long posts, do you dictate them or do you actually write everything word by word?
Whenever I have written a 4K post I feel like I left a little bit of my life on that post (because of all the time it takes me to write it and make it flow) so yeah, do you dictate or not and do you manage to put everything together on the same day or do you actually take a few days?
Thanks in advance!
Sergio
Great product Glenn, and really effective when it comes to it. Already tried some segments of it and it really amazes. Must give kudos once again for the local SEO idea! A real jewel!
Glad to see you addressing the issue of working with a partner- such a chore if done wrong, but on the other hand the best thing it could happen in one’s online career if done right.
Preparing a product lunch in my country now (actually a whole business concept) and this article gave few ideas, thanks π
Cheers buddy and good luck with the launch, I will do my best to spread the word.
Just finished reading the post in its entirety. Wow that was quite a read!
I’ve never really understood why people send hate mail in the first place to be honest. Don’t they have better things to do? I mean if they don’t like something, move on and don’t make an ass of yourself.
Personally I think it’s pretty awesome that you chose a .xxx domain because I certainly remembered since it was so different. Screw the haters. They’re just venting lol.
Thanks for the help on how to launch a product. Always fun to see what you are up to and I am implementing your ideas as quickly as time allows. Glad to hear your new product will continue to be updated as well, rather than stagnant. Looking forward to your next monster post!
Great read Glen … as I’ve so come to expect from you.
I never was able to get time to rank –
I suppose I just have the boogies around my PC I would have loved to actually see what I read about π
HOLY SHIT !!!!!
Glen, thank you so much, I’m getting all teary eyed, really .
I had absolutely no idea that you were going to mention Jen and I in such a prominent way and post our photo up for all to see right up top of this post. I’m just staggered, really I cannot get over it right now as I’m typing this .. I know this sounds cliched but our Wedding was the best day of my entire Life – all paid for thanks in large to many of your tips here on VC – and a not inconsiderable amount of dogged determination on my part over the years.
I know how hard you have to fight to make it happen.
A few minutes ago I was updating the way Bootstrap Cafe looked ( much simplified but struggling with a few bits ) and I decided on the spur of the moment to change to a simple front page – next thing that happens I click publish page, go back and do a bit more fiddling and update the page …
KABOOM ! 40 tweets WTF ???
Now I’ve had a good few tweets of my humble posts in the past, but never anything like this.
This has really encouraged my to put my energy back into Bootstrap Cafe : I nearly killed it off a few months ago and never wrote it for the money, just to help people.
I’ll finish up by saying I’m glad that I made you feel good and I’m humbled by you saying that mine was the best testimonial you’ve ever had. Thank you so much. I’ll stop now because this is getting a bit gushing.
Off for a cuppa.
Adam
(Just wait til I tell Jen)
Hi Glen,
What was really great – and rare – about the backlinksxxx product is how much actionable stuff was in there. Go here, do this. Those parts were incredibly refreshing to someone who has devoured a ton of theoretical info and just wants to know what the hell to DO. (And then get granular LATER, once you’re up and running and getting results.) And for the record, I’m glad you didn’t call it BACKLINX, because I’ve reserved that name for an all-SEO hair metal band I’m forming.
– Aaron
This is crazy stuff. Thanks man. Well written & I have to say I knew I’ve haters but didn’t expected that on your launch as you don’t launch that often or promote any product to your list.
btw, Sent you an email. Please reply when you can π
Hey Glen, thanks so much for the description of your FERAL launch. I laughed so much I nearly fell off my chair …
The tests going wrong just before launch time seemed sooo familiar: Panic! Scrabbling for solutions. Trying to replicate. And snarky emails.
Been there. Oh, yes.
Thanks for a lighthearted moment, Glen.
Mary
Hah, you probably have more experience of this than me.
Great to see you over here, Mary!
Thanks for the article Glen. Much like all your others, very descriptive and informative and there’s always new things to learn from you. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Daniel!
Hey,
I purchased the course on day 2 and 3 and have been implementing things since then. I’m in quite competitive niche and I am targeting only one site, so my results are not that blockbuster but they are quite good.
I have blown lot of money on courses which I never completed(they start talking BS in between). This was first course that I watched fully, applied and then got results from.
You are a fantastic writer. Though I am a reader, I do not read long posts on blogs usually. They get too boring, too soon, even on blogs that are about getting readers interested. Though, I finished this one and many others in a single reading.
Also, Backlinks.xxx was a good choice accoding to me. Forget the haters! While I understand corporate blocking etc., some of the complaints were unnecessary according to me. Anyway, I guess you have to go through that during the launch.
Thanks for the post, this one is going to my library(I’ve a link collection of excellent reads) and my Twitter and Facebook. π
Appreciate you sharing the post, Ishan!
Give it time, they’ll be blockbuster soon enough π
Hi Glenn,
I enjoyed your post. Just a couple of comments.
I know there are people that will think all kinds of things when things don’t work but I just wanted you to know that not everyone is like that. I am the lurking kind who reads every word I get from you. Unlike many other internet marketing newsletters that I have gotten in the past that I just don’t take the time to read and that I eventually unsusbscribe from.
So things not working? No big deal. I’ll wait till you fix things if I am buying something from you. I believe you are good for it. I am certainly not going to assume the worst and stop reading your stuff!
Just so you know.
Still…I do think that some of your headaches could have been avoided with perhaps a little more foresight. I hesitate to say that Glenn since I am a nobody at these things but still…I wouldn’t for example have ever gone with an XXX domain name. The headaches you encountered with that domain were a given.
If you had the best launch ever then maybe that should be taken with a grain of salt.
Anyway I enjoy reading your stuff Glenn. Keep up the great work!
Carlos
I appreciate the honesty, Carlos!
You’re probably right about the .xxx extension. Well, you are right, since I did have a lot of problems. Some times I get a little carried away with my own ideas π
Thanks for the comment and the support
Hey Glen, I noticed that the course is showing up in CB Marketplace but seems it still is available for us (those who’re in your VIP list) only. It still asks for the Password. When are you going to make it available for everybody? I can’t wait to promote it.
Last big heading on the post: June 17th π
Your transparency never ceases to amaze me! Thank you for such a mammoth post full of actionable tips as well as tricks to avoid.
I’ve only been around VC for a few months but truly appreciate the effort you put into your community. I can see why they love you so much π
I always enjoy reading your case studies. They are so well thought out and detailed.
Thank you so much for the shout out. I really enjoyed working with you. You really care about delivering a great product and that’s foundation of every great launch.
I’m getting tired reading your post so I can’t even imagine how much work and time you put into each of them π
Another great case study that I will surly get back to once (and if) I will have a product to launch.
I’ve never thought that a big launch is possible without any affiliate involved until I’ve read this post. Most big JVs I’ve seen so far (I’m pretty new so I’ve never joined one yet) have like an army of affiliate marketers on board. Thanks for this thoroughly detailed case study!
Hey Glen,
amazing post, as always. Don’t care for the haters. As the comments on this blog post show (you know the ratio of readers to commenters much better than I do), there are more lovers of your content (including me).
I’m honored to be a customer of Backlinks.XXX and although I have not applied it completely I surely will in the near future (next days). Just need to finish off that already paid for other task.
And here’s something I would like to give back to you (not knowing if you’re aware of that). If you buy the stick figures on your blog posts from iStockPhoto I personally would tend to say you waste money. I use the same graphics (and additional stuff like animated backgrounds, customized video backgrounds, high end clipart etc.) but from PresenterMedia (google them, as I don’t want to link it here). E. g. a small size picture on iStockPhoto costs around 13 bucks per image whereas the same kind of figures (all of them and much more, see above) would be a yearly subscription fee of around $60 ($40 for renewal after one year).
That would be cheaper for you and you would have the advantage to get other interesting graphical stuff as well. Hope that helps π
All the best to you, man!
Hi Phil,
Awesome to hear you like the site and you picked up the product. Thanks for that!
On iStock I actually only pay $1-3 for those images. It may actually just be $1, I can’t remember, but those small guys are only 1 credit.
Hi Guys,
Just want to say that The day before the private launch I paid a company to do what you guys taught. As a one off it wasn’t too bad, but when I have 10 sites it would have been crazy money. Now I can do what I’d been paying for for free.
I also started to work on one of your bonuses as a side project and the one page website is racing up the charts. Beating big companies which have spent a fortune on web design. Love it.
Thanks
AL
Just purchased my first product from you (OptinSkin) after reading your blog for 14 months.
Very confident I will be buying Backlinks XXX too. However, will any future Google updates affect our websites backlinks if continue using blackhat, albeit allowed, SEO techniques?
Hey Adrian,
We survived (actually thrived) through Penguin 2.0 so I have no doubts we’ll be fine with future updates either.
We can of course not make any promises, but if things do change, you can be sure we’re on the frontline of what is working π
Publicly, I am thanking you and Diggy for your Backlinks course – it has been the ‘lifting of the veil’ for me on SEO and has given me the drive to teach myself new skills. You have both been wonderful for the replies to my emails (yes there have been a few…) and I will continue to push ahead with what I’ve learned. When I launch my courses you’ll get free passes to see what I’ve done.
To anyone else who has been following along with Glen and Diggy, I say when they offer something that could help you, don’t hesitate to jump in with both feet – like the time I conquered my fear of heights by jumping out of an airplane at 10,000 feet – its the best thing that has ever happened to me. Sitting on the fence will cost you more than you will ever know. Like the Nike ad says, “Just do it!”
Cheers from Canada,
Eros
Glen,
This is one of the more insightful posts you’ve ever written. Thanks for having the candor to give us an honest look into the launch that didn’t go quite the way you expected… to say the least π
“Failure” is an imaginary concept. It’s created in our minds, nothing more. When you want to be successful, you have to treat those moments as essential lessons. Learn from them, like you did here, and they’ll get you to the next level.
Thanks,
Corey
Really glad you got something out of the post Corey
Nice to know I can still write some valuable articles π
– G
Man that sounds like some nightmare. But I bet the fact that you were able to grind it out through all those setbacks and still wind up with your most successful launch makes it even better than it would have been had it gone smoothly. On a side note, I’m glad it’s finally out there. I’m sure I speak for many when I say I’m sick of all the crap that gets released everyday, and get just a little bit excited when I know something new and legitimate finally hits the market. So thank you for that, and all your hard work and persistence Glen and Diggy.
Hey Glen,
I’ve been reading your posts with great interest, and this one offers a great perspective on launching your own product. This time, I do need to give some constructive criticism though π
Any license on istockphoto (that is: standard or extended) prohibits the use of any image as part of a trade-mark, design-mark, trade-name, business name, service mark, or logo (check out their License Agreement, section 4.4).
It’s probably a matter of time before they smell the money π so I would most definitely pay a freelancer to design something from scratch…
Regards,
Boris
Doh. Thanks for the heads up, will have to get that fixed.
Hey Glen,
I wasn’t sure what this article amounted to. I’ve been following your blog for a while and the information you share is incredible. Still, I was somewhat doubtful, whether I would actually apply the information to my current situation.
I only managed to follow one of the things you mentioned. I decided to try GraphicRiver for graphics that I could use on my websites. And I must say, I’m really impressed with it. You can quickly get a professional looking website within seconds.
Very many thanks!
Julius
Hi Glen,
Great read definitily.
I have a question… how large was your suscribing list??
I want to know this in order to get an idea of how many readers do I need to start promoting a new product.
Thanks
It’s 5 figures, but only 4 figures we’re promoted to π
Wow that testimonial about being able to pay their entire wedding with your tips is super inspiring! Hope to pay my monthly rent soon with these actionable tips. Glen keep at it!