Archive for November, 2006

Traffic Geyser - Overpriced… 12

Like most ‘Internet Marketing’ tools coming down the line these days the new Traffic Geyser is no different. Traffic Geyser is simply put… a way to submit your videos and audios to multiple services at once.

Let’s Recap What You Get With Traffic Geyser:

    • Massive Traffic to Build Your List & Sell Your Products
    • Unprecedented Search Rankings to Raise Your Profile
    • Hours, Days & Weeks of Extra Time Minus All The Hassle
    • Your Own Multimedia Video Even if All You Have is Audio
    • Your Own Audio Even if All You Have Is A Product or Idea

Ignore the junk bonuses, see through them as the basically worthless stuff they are… if you really need a tool to create online videos get a tool that works like Camtasia, audio?… get one of a hundred free tools out there, record telephone calls? all teleconference services offer this!… please…
OK so you’re going to pay $247 up front plus $47/month to be able to submit a limited 25 videos per month to only 15 sites!?… ok probably worth it instead of spending the time to do it yourself, if you need to submit 25 videos per month… Oh wait if you need to submit 100+ videos/month to 30 sites that’ll be $297 + $97/month…

But the point is, this is a simple tool and it’s not ‘worth’ that kind of money IMHO. I can reproduce it for a fraction of the cost.

Let’s see what kind of bandwidth costs we have here… Let’s assume high and say the average video is 5mb… Uploading it and sending it to 30 sites, 155mb. Average user: 25 videos/month (probably extremely high) - 155mb x 25 = 3875mb =~ 4gb per user per month.

Storage? 5mb x 25 = 125mb

So If I sell out and have 1000 users all using the service I have a cost of 4,000gb/month bandwidth and 125gb storage.

Lets go with 3 dedicated dual opteron servers from hostforweb (http://hostforweb.com/dedicated_servers.html) that give me 6,000gb/month of bandwidth and 360gb storage.
Total cost: $900/month

Total Profit at Traffic Geyser’s price: $247×1000 + $47×1000/month = $247,000 + $47,000/MONTH

Profit in the first month? $246,100

Not bad for something that can be replicated in 40 or less hours by a good programmer.

Anyone interested in the same service for $27/month, NO startup costs, and no limits? (more then traffic geyser is charging $297 + 97/month for!) … seriously… JetVideo anyone?

Here at Jetpacked we are REALLY going to be shaking up the Internet Marketing world with better tools at a fraction of the price.

- Todd Dickerson

Jetspinner Updates 0

I’ve spent today taking the advice of a few beta testers from StomperNet and implementing some very cool new features into Jetspinner.

- Shared Article Support (makes outsourcing seed articles a breeze)

and

- Public Article Repository (allows other webmasters to easily create unique versions of your article for their site - More backlink’s for you!)

more details are over at the Spontent blog: http://www.spontent.com/blog/

Development update 1

Hey everyone, we’re working on a few new wordpress themes, and we’re looking to  our readers’ for input on what they would like. For all of you coffee lovers, we’re making a coffee styled wordpress theme, and we need your input on whether you would prefer a 2 or 3 column wordpress theme. Also, do you like simple themes, or do you prefer them more gradient filled and web 2.0 looking? We could use your input, so leave your comments please. Thanks, and look forward to some great new stuff soon.

Jetspinner up and running beautifully 0

Jetspinner is up and working wonderful as of today!It can spin 100+ variations of an article in under 10 seconds, save it to a zip file on the server, and organize all your articles for later use.

We’ve opened up beta testing for a few people today, by the end of the week there will be slots for a couple hundred more people. Jump over to http://www.jetspinner.com and get on the notification list to get in line.

A couple spy shots of Jetspinner in action:

add article list articles

Database Issues 0

Hey guys, we had some db issues last night and we had to set up a whole new database for the blog again. The wordpress development page is back up with the essentials and we’ll start backing up the db from now on.