Last weekend Colin & I released version 1.2.5 of our free WordPress plugin… the first publicly released version of this ViralPlugin.

Within less then 2 days there are now already over 100 WordPress blogs using this cool plugin that helps you to monetize your blog easily.

If you haven’t already, you can watch a short video Colin made for you at:

viralurls.com/viralurl-wordpress-plugin/

Or if you like to watch my video for you, that’s at: viralplugin.com/wordpress

Some of our members asked if there is a way to recommend our ViralPlugins for WordPress or FireFox to others with their affiliate links…

… I listened and added that now.

You can find referral links and banners for that now in your ViralURL Promo Tools section.

To your success,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

You might remember, we released a ViralPlugin for FireFox a while ago that makes it as easy as 1,2,3 to cloak and share all your links with ViralURL! Even if you are reading a news article on NYtimes or Sports news on ESPN etc. and you want to share the article, you would use the ViralURL FireFox Plugin to cloak the link and copy it in 3 seconds!

Then you can share your shortened and cloaked URLs on Facebook, Twitter, Digg or your blogs or over chat like GTalk or Skype. That way, instead of simply sharing a boring link that WON’T earn you anything, in 3 seconds (The same time it takes you to copy and paste the link anyway) you now can:

* Earn credits from showing ads and therefore get YOUR ads shown!

* Build a downline with your built in affiliate links from the ViralBar

* Earn an income! You get up to 60% commissions if your personal referrals upgrade, it’s that easy!

So if you are not using the ViralURL, ViralPlugin for FireFox… then download it now for free and start cloaking EVERY link you share and add massive Leverage to what you are doing!

Now for the BIG news for today…

Brand New: ViralPlugin for WordPress

Are you sick & tired of messing with HTML code, manually hyper-linking links to your offers? Would you love a way to instantly link all the instances of a keyword or keyword phrase to an offer without having to do it every time yourself? How about if you write an article and you have a bunch of keywords that when written, and published, will automatically link to your affiliate offers and other sites?

Well now you can… and 100% free!

Watch the video below showing you how to use the ViralURL WordPress Plugin:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Before, it would cost you $97 to buy a WordPress plugin which does the same thing the ViralURL WordPress Plugin does… except the ViralURL WordPress Plugin also Cloaks your links, protecting your affiliate commissions AND builds your credits, downline and income, all on AutoPilot!

Click here to download the ViralURL WordPress Plugin!

To your success,

Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com	&	Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com

‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe… it can achieve.’
Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

To your success,

Frank Bauer

Director of Add2it.com Marketing Pty Ltd
Co-founder of ViralURL.com, ViralHosts.com, TimeToOutsource.com & SouthEastPark.com

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And what would you say if one of the account was already 4 years old and the other one 2 1/2 years?

And what would you say if AWeber would not only not have the decency to warn you… but not even inform you that they closed your accounts after you pre-paid them for a year?

Would you be angry? Would you be confused? Or are you telling yourself right now that AWeber as the Internet Marketing leader in providing autoresponder services would be smart enough not do do that?

It’s sad, but true…

They don’t seem that smart after all. And they don’t seem to care that much about their long term customers either.

Yes… the above scenario is not only possible, but it did in fact happen end of last week.

I was about to send a message to one of my lists and noticed I wasn’t able to login anymore…

Of course I contacted them as soon as I found out and got this short reply…

Closed for spam complaint & batching subscribers? All my lists with AWeber had been double opt-in and either let subscriber subscribe using the Aweber forms or Mike Filsaime’s Butterfly Marketing Open Source script. And all it does it to let my members double opt-in my Aweber list with their real IP address while adding them to the script database. Nothing shady there.

As I couldn’t see anything that I did that breached AWebers terms in their reply, I kept digging and contacted Tom Kulzer straight as his staff didn’t seem willing to provide further details.

Tom then replied and provide a bit more details (after a little back and forth)…

This opened again more questions then it answered…

Is AWeber saying that this was partially caused by other people using our links in spam?

Are they referring to blank lines between email signature and unsubscribe link as a way of hiding the unsubscribe link?

That doesn’t hide it… it just makes it better looking and prevents accidental clicking of unsubscribe links.

And are they saying that Butterfly Marketing has a function build in that is against AWeber terms?

Is AWeber closing accounts for mentioning links that end up on a blacklist during a launch?

And does it mean that if e.g. AOL users use the Spam button to delete your emails, AWeber can delete your user account?

Shouldn’t AWeber simply unsubscribe the AOL subscriber that did that?

I asked Tom Kulzer all these questions in my reply to him… and I will keep you updated on his reply.

I still believe that good customer service would have meant to talk first with a long term customer. What do you think?

It looks to me more like PayPal practice… it seems to me that AWeber is getting too big to care for their customers!

Now, I didn’t give up an kept contacting Tom Kulzer until he replied and provided further info on why my account was suspended without warning.

I did in fact make some mistakes and there where some factors out of my control, and all together that added up to them closing the accounts without warning…

Here is the first thing Tom Kulzer said in his reply…

So, since he didn’t give me permission to publish the content of his email except the links he mentioned, let me pass this vital information on to you in my own words…

Tom Kulzer said: - Spam complaints about mailings done via other systems that pointed to sites with AWeber forms on them.

My question: Is it AWeber policy that accounts can be terminated if people spam advertise a web site that has a AWeber form on it? Is that what you meant with the above reason given?

What Tom Kulzer basically replied: Yes, they can be terminated. See the second paragraph in bold type at www.AWeber.com/service-agreement.htm ...

Conclusion: That means that any Internet Marketer that allows affiliates or JV partners to promote his web site with an AWeber opt-in form on it is risking that AWeber takes that at least partially as a reason to close the AWeber account without warning as those affiliates or JV partners might promote the site in a way that spam complaints are generated. If you have affiliates or JV partners promote your site for you, make sure they are not using any tactics that can generate spam complaints, like e.g. using misleading email subjects etc. To be 100% save, consider using a self hosted autoresponder solution like e.g. Add2it MailResponder Pro for web pages promoted via emails.

Tom Kulzer said: - Attempting to hide the unsubscribe link in messages.

My question: I assume you are referring to blank lines between email signature and unsubscribe link? How many blank lines can cause an account to be terminated?

What Tom Kulzer basically replied: This depends on a number of factors, but anything more than 3 or 4 blank lines usually means it's being done purposefully to hide the unsubscribe link.

Conclusion: My 10+ blank lines where definitely too much and will reduce it from now on to no more then 3 blank lines. Right now many Internet Marketer are using way more then 4 blank lines and are risking that AWeber takes that at least partially as a reason to close the AWeber account without warning. Check all your messages and make sure you don't have more then 3 blank lines in a row in them.

Tom Kulzer said: - Batching of subscribers thru non native forms.

My question: Can the use of the Butterfly Marketing script cause an account to get terminated? Or only the particular way that it is done at our ViralURL.com site?

What Tom Kulzer basically replied: You're not using Butterfly Marketing at ViralURL.com, so it's irrelevant to your account. All that I have in front of me is data from your AWeber account.

Conclusion: Since ViralURL.com is in fact based on the Butterfly Marketing script, we don't get a 100% sure conclusion at this time. It remains unclear what AWeber refers to in regards to "batching of subscribers". But at this time it seems safe to say that Internet Marketers that are using the Butterfly Marketing script are risking that AWeber takes that at least partially as a reason to close the Aweber account without warning.

Tom Kulzer said: - Numerous blacklisted URLs contained in messages.

My question: Does AWeber terminate accounts for mentioning links that end up on a blacklist e.g. during a launch?

What Tom Kulzer basically replied: That depends on a number of factors.

Conclusion: Internet Marketers that mention web pages in emails send via AWeber that got blacklisted during e.g. a launch are risking that AWeber takes that at least partially as a reason to close the AWeber account without warning. Make sure you test if a particular URL is blacklisted before you use it in an AWeber email!

Tom Kulzer said: - Feedback loop complaint rates.

My question: I learned in the meantime that AWeber does unsubscribe people that click the spam button at e.g. AOL, that's great. But AWeber is still counting how often it happens and does terminate accounts that are over a certain ratio?

What Tom Kulzer basically replied: Yes, AWeber counts how often subscribers click on the "Spam" button instead of "Delete" and do terminate accounts that are over the ratio.

Conclusion: There is not much Internet Marketers can do to prevent the risk that AWeber takes that at least partially as a reason to close the AWeber account without warning. As many users click the "Spam" button not to report spam, but to unsubscribe, the only 100% solution would be not to allow any subscribers from ESP's that have a feedback loop with AWeber like e.g. AOL.com, Hotmail.com, MSN.com, Yahoo.com, Outblaze.com, Comcast.net, Road Runner's rr.com, USA.net, Excite.com, Netzero.com, Juno.com, United Online & BlueLight.com. Or you could consider using a self hosted autoresponder solution like e.g. Add2it MailResponder Pro instead of AWeber.

My question: What's the measure taken by AWeber to decide to terminate an account for a too high number of complaints? How many times at what %age will cause a termination?

What Tom Kulzer basically replied: AWeber describes what a Feedback Loop is at www.Aweber.com/faq/questions/393/What+Is+a+Feedback+Loop%3F and explains what an acceptable complaint rate is at www.Aweber.com/faq/questions/568/What+Is+An+Acceptable+Complaint+Rate%3F ... It depends on a number of items to decide when AWeber terminates an account, if a customer is consistently going over the acceptable complaint rate, that's a big problem.

What Tom Kulzer basically replied: Any single one of the issues mentioned above may not get an account terminated, even sometimes more than one may not. However, when we see an extensive trend of abusive traits about a campaign or an account, then they add up.

Conclusion: As you can see... AWeber doesn't have specific metrics for "how abusive" they'll let a client be before that client gets terminated (possibly without warning as in my case), hence the lack of specific limits. Each case is different as every of their client's business is different. Different levels set off different warning bells for different clients of AWeber. So to stay save... follow the recommendations above to avoid a nasty surprise like I had it with AWeber.

‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe… it can achieve.’
Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

To your success,

Frank Bauer

Director of Add2it.com Marketing Pty Ltd
Co-founder of ViralURL.com, ViralHosts.com & TimeToOutsource.com

P.S. – I did receive a backup copy of my lists from Aweber and I am now looking into a better solution. I contacted several autoresponder service providers, but so far the best solution seems to be using my own Add2it MailResponder Pro system on our own dedicated servers.

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And yes… you can save Sweden too!

Big “thank you” to Norman Freeman for sharing this.

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I found this awesome video on Frank Kern’s Blog… it’s contains so much truth, you have to watch it.

Some of Will Smith’s fantastic quotes that are in this video are…

“I want to do good. I want the world to be better because I was here.”

“In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.”

“I don’t know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.”

“Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.”

“If you are not making somebody elses life better… you are wasting your time!”

Click here to view the embedded video.

Please share this message with anybody you care for. Click here to re-tweet this video and spread the love! Thank you.

‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe… it can achieve.’
Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

To your success,

Frank Bauer

Director of Add2it.com Marketing Pty Ltd
Co-founder of ViralURL.com, ViralHosts.com & TimeToOutsource.com

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My eyes got teary just watching this…

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It makes me very, very thankful for what I have and shows that there is NO excuse to ever, ever give up!

Don’t give up with whatever you do… you can make it!

Please share this message with anybody you care for. Thank you

‘Whatever the mind can conceive and believe… it can achieve.’
Napoleon Hill, Think & Grow Rich

To your success,

Frank Bauer

Director of Add2it.com Marketing Pty Ltd
Co-founder of ViralURL.com, ViralHosts.com & TimeToOutsource.com

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I was back then on a family vacation, but wanted to share with you why I believe that Butterfly Open Source Code makes so much sense.

BTW… watch out for the funny fish that pops in from the right at 3:55!

Click here to view the embedded video.

To claim the bonuses mentioned in the video, please send me a personal message through the Butterfly Open Source Code Development Community to my username: add2it

Thank for watching the video and I am looking forward to not only hear from you through the Butterfly Open Source Code Development Community, but also to possibly do a Joint Venture with you once your own the Butterfly Open Source Code based membership site becomes a huge success.

To your success,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

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Want to know much we’ve made thanks to Butterfly Marketing?
Watch the video now!

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This is great news for every internet business owner because this piece of software is worth a fair bit of money… Butterfly Marketing had and still has a great impact on our business. We currently use it for two of our sites (ViralUrl and ViralHosts), and will use it for two more sites that will be launched later this year.

By signing up, you not only get the open source license for the software code but also have the opportunity to join the developer community (you don’t need to be a developer though), and this comes with a range of great related products that are worth over $4,000! You can get all of this for a ridiculously low price. Watch the video for more info!

Butterfly Marketing is responsible for millions of dollars made on the internet, but there are still millions more to be made… So don’t miss out, and register your open source license to Butterfly Marketing today! After you signed up, make sure you watch Mike’s video and read the offer page because what you get by joining the developer community is HUGE!

To your success,

Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com	&	Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com

Click here to view the embedded video.

Hope it sounds as exciting to you as it does to me. Today you can get Private Label Rights to the membership site system that is not only responsible for our US $2.3 Million in sales and many, many times more then that over the whole Internet Marketing scene. I highly recommend that you get the Butterfly Open Source Code right now!

Warm regards,

Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com	&	Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com