If you've been wondering why things have been rather quiet on the DAP front, then here's why…
We've been working on a top-secret web site that we're going to be launching later this week.
Can't tell you much about it yet, but just know this…
It's an awesome toolbox, jam-packed with 7 spanking new WordPress plugins, that will literally rock your WordPress world!
How dat for a teaser?
And we're looking for 5 Beta Testers, who can help us with the following…
You will test at least 5 of the 7 plugins within the next 3 days (each plugin should take no more than 10 minutes to setup and test) and give us meaningful feedback (not just "it works fine").
You will provide us with a (hopefully awesome) testimonial that we can use during the launch (only if you think the plugins totally rock, of course!)
You will maintain absolute secrecy, and will not breathe a word about this to anyone, until it's pre-launch time and you get the go-ahead from us
What's In It For You
In return for all of your help, you get a Free Copy of the entire plugin pack (all 7 plugins)
You get a Lifetime License of the entire set of plugins, with 1 Year of FREE, Unlimited Upgrades & Support
You get to cut in line and be a Charter Affiliate. And should you choose to participate in the pre-launch promotions, you get to tell everyone – ahead of even us telling our own users and subscribers – for which you will earn affiliate commissions, of course!
If you don't have the time to help us us out with the testing, then we kindly ask that you skip this offer, as this is not a get-something-for-nothing offer. We do absolutely need your help, and in return, you get a free copy, 1 year of free support & upgrades, and get to be a pre-launch affiliate, and also win some big brownie-points with us
If this is something you can help us with, then please go ahead and let us know in the comments below, and we'll be in touch with the first 5 to respond.
Either way, look out for a rockin' new launch coming your way this week. You certainly wouldn't want to miss the launch, because the launch pricing starts with a whopping discount of 60%, and then will work itself all the way up to regular list pricing, with the price going up every single day for 10 straight days.
Looking forward to working with the "Fab Five" Beta Testers…
Cheers!
- Veena &Ravi
PS: You must be a DAP user – offer not open to the general public.
DAP now integrates with JV Zoo, a new payment processing service, highly buzzed-about on the Warrior Forum, that integrates with Paypal, and lets you pay instant affiliate commissions using Paypal's Adaptive Payments API.
Just wanted to let you know that DAP now works with 2Checkout.com.
The new file is dap-2co.php and it has been rolled into the existing dap_v4.2.1.zip file, and is available for download in the member's area (if you already are on 4.2.1, you will have to download the zip file again, sorry!
It has been live since 09/15/2011 actually – we preferred doing a silent launch to make sure no other issues are reported, before we officially announced it.
So DAP 4.2.1 is stable and production- ("live-site") worthy.
Go ahead and download both DAP v4.2.1 and LiveLinks v1.7 from the member's area and upload to your site.
If you are already on DAP v4.2.1, then no further action is required, unless you want the PWC integration script, in which case you'll need to download dap_v4.2.1.zip again, and inside you'll find dap-pwc.php in the main dap folder.
If you are running 4.2 or earlier version of DAP, we urge you to upgrade your DAP installation to the newest version of DAP (v4.2.1) and LiveLinks (v1.7)
Here's how you can get a free copy of DAP (1-site license) to use for yourself, or to give-away to any of your friends, customers or list members… (one day only)
Or you may instead opt for a free 1-year extension of support & upgrades on your current license (a $120 value). You can get an extension on any license you own – whether it's a 1-site license, Unlimited-site license, or Membership-Site-In-A-Box license.
Mike Filsaime's Butterfly Marketing was a key influencer in our vision for DAP to include an affiliate program right from the very beginning – and that very feature has really helped us distinguish ourselves from other competitors.
And Mike, now a good friend – and one of the good guys in the industry – is on the final day of launching a very cool script that lets you do automated webinars.
This thing is REALLY loaded….
Automated Webinars
Performance metrics
Webinar replay page
SMS notifications for attendees
Delayed events, polls, live chat
No monthly fees
One time purchase, with Lifetime Support & Lifetime Updates (launch bonus)
Free tickets to live event (launch bonus)
Believe it or not, we were seriously thinking, barely a few months ago, about creating a script in the automated webinars niche, but Mike beat us to the punch .
We may still come out with a similar script some day, but for now, gotta recommend Mike's solution, because he's one of the few really techie marketers around, who understands technology, and can also afford the infrastructure to support such techie products, and because the solution is here, n-o-w!
And to show our support for Mike, who so kindly gave us a testimonial for DAP (it is plastered on the front page at digitalaccesspass.com) as soon as we asked, we have decided to give away a free 1-site license of DAP to anyone who buys through our affiliate link below.
All you have to do is buy through our link (we get compensated, of course!) and then forward us your receipt, and once we confirm your purchase, we will give you a FREE 1-site license in your name, or in the name of anyone you nominate (could be your favorite customer, friend, affiliate, or a list member. Heck, you could even create some kind of a contest and then give us the name of the winner!). Or you could instead get a free 1-year extension of support & upgrades on your own current license.
But the launch is ending in less than a day (sorry about the last minute notification – we just got back from an awesome vacation and just found out about this).
P.S: You already know that we rarely promote third-party products to our users, and even when we do, we have never, ever offered a DAP license for free till date. This only goes to show you how much we believe in Mike's products. So check it out regardless – the worst that can happen is that you may experience a big "Aha!" moment
P.P.S: Obvious disclaimer: If you buy Mike's script, you must stay past the refund period (duh!). If not, your free license (or 1-year extension) will be negated.
<UPDATE on 07/01/2011>
DAP v4.2 Beta has just been released, and is now available for download from the members' area. </UPDATE>
Don't forget to watch in "Full Screen" mode
Ok, so did you see all of the amazing new 4.2 features in the above video? Very cool, eh?
Anyway, here's why things have been kinda quiet in the DAP world…
DAP v4.1 Is Final
DAP v4.1 is now officially "Final". It has been very stable for over a month now, but we were just holding ground in case any bugs get reported. So unless you've downloaded DAP in the last couple of weeks. better to re-download DAP v4.1 and LiveLinks v1.6 again, and upload them to your site. (Upgrading Your DAP Installation)
DAP v4.2 Is Coming Soon Now Here!
In less than 2 weeks, actually.
And here are all the features that are included…
[NEW] Shopping Cart "Check Out Page" can now be placed right inside WordPress pages using new merge code %%DAPCART%% , thus taking on the instant look & feel of your WordPress theme!
[NEW] Custom Fields (Hooray!): Admin can create new custom fields inside DAP
[NEW] Ability to customize shopping cart options: Like "Where did you hear about us", "Additional Comments", "Terms & Conditions", etc – on the DAP Cart's Checkout page
[NEW] Ability to include and customize Product-level Cart header & Cart footer HTML
[NEW] Complete redesign of the Products page. Now has a tab-based – so basically, the long Products page has now been chopped up into multiple, shorter tabs. The form has also been redesigned to make the Product setup a lot more intuitive and simple
[NEW] Improvements to "ContentResponder" section: DAP will now highlight (actually, down-play with a dull gray color) all of the blog posts/pages that have already been added to the product being viewed, so you can clearly see which ones are not protected.
[NEW] Dedicated Buy Button "Generator" Page
[NEW] Fully re-designed Config page – now you change multiple config items in one go, and click "Update" just once. Better description of fields, better organization of logical groups of configs, etc.
[NEW] "Help Tips" and "Tool Tips" added to many pages, making things much easier to understand
[NEW] Cleaner-looking forms and buttons in the DAP Dashboard
[NEW] "First Name" now part of User Search Criteria
[NEW] Improved Pagination on Users > Manage page. Eg., when you're on page 4 of the users list, and you take any action on any user on that page, previously DAP used to reset the user search back to Page 1. Now it's been fixed so that it will stay on same page.
[NEW] Improved "Pop Up" locations: Previously, popups for "Modify Dates" or "Add Affiliate" used to show up all the way on top of the page regardless of how far down you've scrolled on the Users page. Now, the popups will show right next to the clicked link.
[NEW] Personalized RSS Feed Links: Each of your members will now get their own custom RSS feed link, which they can then enter into their favorite feed reader, like Google Reader or iTunes, and the feed will be customized with only the content that they're eligible to view
[NEW] Coupons support for Authorize.net
[NEW] * "Add To Cart" Support for Authorize.net (and possibly Payments Pro too): Which means if you're using the DAP cart & Auth.net, your members will be able to buy multiple products in one purchase
[FIX] Change to DAP Shortcodes to remove empty breaks and paragraphs when hiding protected content
[FIX] "Missing spaces from error and notification browser messages" issue fixed
On top of that, there are so many other little tweaks and improvements, that don't merit a mention in the above list, but will make your DAP experience a much smoother one.
Well, that's about it as far as 4.2 is concerned.
As always, don't forget to add your comments below.
And we've added some very cool new features to this release. So let's get right to the big story…
Self-Service Store (SSS)
This is our big "Magnum Opus" – our "Summer Blockbuster" – released early!!
This is our "Pièce de résistance", our "Coup d'état", our "Tour de force", our "Chef-d'oeu·vre"… (ok, ok, stopping… running out of hyperbole anyway)
But that's how excited we are about this!!! Enough to put 3 exclamation marks in a row!!!
The Self-Service Store (SSS) plugin is a very cool new plugin, that allows you to give "Credits" to your buyers (of a "Master" product), which they can then "Redeem" towards various "Child" Products. It's practically "Content On Demand".
Instead of you dripping content on them in a pre-determined fashion, they choose the modules they want, and the order in which they want them. You just give them the credits, put the power of choice at their fingertips, and get out of the way . Awesome stuff (video further below).
Please note that SSS will only work with 4.1 and above.
DAP now integrates with MailChimp. At a Product level, you can choose if buyers of that Product get added to your MailChimp list. DAP will also "remove" them from your MailChimp list if their access to the Product is removed within DAP.
Internationalization
Hola! Ce qui est très cool ("this is very cool" – in French, no less!).
DAP goes global!
No, we don't mean people from around the world buying DAP – that they already do. We're talking about the new ability to customize the few "Member-Facing" pages in DAP – like "My Content", "My Profile" and "My Affiliate Info" pages – in any non-English language of your choice. We tested with many languages – like Spanish, Dutch, French, and even Chinese! Others will/should work too – as long the language characters are UTF-8 based.
WordPress is already "international" friendly, so we're excited to be able to help membership site creation in multiple languages. And what's really cool, is that you can now also send Autoresponder & Broadcast emails in all of these languages (the last time we checked, even the big-boys like Aweber don't let you do that!).
Admin & Affiliate Reports
There are a few new useful Admin & Affiliate reports.
Admin: On the DAP Admin home page, you will see a few new reports, and enhancements to existing reports. The new "Member Summary" report will show you how many paid users, free users, admin-added and expired users there are. It also gives you a per-Product break-down of these same numbers. And on top of that, you can use the date range to further filter results.
There's also a new "View Performance Summary" report (default report that runs when you visit the "Affiliates > Run Reports" page) that gives you more information for each affiliate – like Clicks generated, Leads, Sales and even Earnings-Per-Click (EPC).
Affiliate: The same affiliate report above is now available to each of your affiliates too. On their affiliate page, they can now see a new table that lists their Clicks, Leads, Sales and EPC.
IPN Script Generator For Developers
DAP now supports the ability to quickly develop support for any 3rd party shopping cart providers that support IPN notification (via HTTP POST) to 3rd party scripts. The DAP admin will have the ability to generate an IPN Script for any 3rd-party shopping cart that support IPN.
And once the script is generated, you simply upload it to the "dap" folder on your site and update the shopping cart IPN URL settings with the URL of this new script.
New DAP ShortCode Feature
You can now use the DAP ShortCode framework to NOT SHOW a part of your post or page, to anyone WHO IS LOGGED IN.
So, say you wanted your "Sales Copy" and your "Buy Button" to be shown only to visitors, but NOT BE SHOWN to those who are already members, then you can do this.
DAP Plugin Framework
We've created a new "Plugin Framework" for DAP, that developers (and we ourselves) can use to quickly add plugins (even a few-line scripts) to DAP, in order to integrate with other 3rd-party scripts. For example, on a new user-add, you want DAP to pass the member info to a 3rd-party script or application that you are using in addition to DAP. It's not yet as slick as the WordPress plugin framework, but we'll certainly get there sooner than later. In fact, the MailChimp integration is our very first plugin to use this framework.
Miscellaneous Additions
We have a couple of features planned – like one password-generation related feature – which we're going to add to this release before it goes final (a 4.1.1, if you will).
Dog Food v4.1
Yup, we always eat our own dog-food. So we've actually gone ahead and installed v4.1 Beta on this very site – DigitalAccessPass.com . So when you log in to the member's area, you will now see the new "Affiliate Performance Report" that we mentioned above.
The SSS plugin (in its primitive original version from years ago) has always been sold separately. And it will continue to be sold separately.
And once we add the avatar-the-mind-bender-type features to this plugin over the next couple of releases, the price is going to go up – way up.
DAP Affiliates: Get Busy!
If you're already a DAP user, then this is THE perfect time to promote DAP.
The last time we offered SSS for free, many of our affiliates made a killing. There's no better bonus for DAP than a real, usable, useful, powerful plugin like SSS.
DAP v4.0 is out of beta and is now in "Final" (production) release.
We haven't updated the files in a couple of weeks. But if you have previously installed v4.0 beta, then for what it's worth, it's better that you simply re-upload all of the files once again, just to be sure you have the very latest files.
Or you could simply wait for v4.1 beta that's going to be coming out soon
4.1 is going to be HUGE, as always (has any release DAP release ever been, like, "SMALL"? Of course not!
But kidding aside, it is going to be a very big and important milestone for DAP. You'll see why when we share more details here shortly.
