I think now is the right time to announce the public launch of my new site, based on the phpLD directory software. Whilst the core of the site is directory listings, the site goes beyond that, focusing itself as a marketplace for commission free blogging and website sales. OIOpublisher - get listed right now, absolutely free! Also, check out my promotional offer, and read more below: Submissions: Submissions will usually be dealt with within 24 hours (and sometimes much sooner), although please allow up to 48 hours before contacting me about it. Once the free period ends, you will have the option to purchase monthly, or yearly at a discounted rate. Competition Time: To get things going, I am offering an additional 3 months free listing (on top of the 30 days you get to test drive the concept) for anyone who submits via the contact form an honest review of the site and concept so far. On top of that, the best reviews (I'm looking for constructive criticism, not ass licking!) will receive 1 year's free featured listing, and the top prize will be $200 cash. The cash prize will only be awarded to someone who has done an exceptional job in reviewing, and providing there are a minimum of 10 reviews submitted (shouldn't be too hard!). You can read more about it on the promo page. Affiliate Program: Yep, I've added full affiliate capabilities into the site. You can earn a percentage of all purchases and renewals your affiliates make, forever. It's currently set at 10%, but I will be upping it to 20% for all those who signup over the next 30 days. Plus, if you bring in a lot of referrals (who make a purchase), I will contact you to up your percentage further, both for new and existing referral purchases. What you get: Marketplace listings can be either public or private, where only logged in users can view your site profiles. Beyond that, marketplace listing also gets you access to the hosted version of the selling platform, which will help you manage all your sales easily, and payments go directly to you (it's your revenue, not mne!). There is also a wordpress plugin version available, and you can use that for free, even if you don't have a marketplace listing. I'll wager it's the most flexible tool of it's kind out there...by quite a way. If you need more proof, try out the demo. You can purchase anything from a self-written paid review, to contextual links in existing post content. The hosted version looks almost identical, but obviously doesn't provide automatic posting of content / links. Marketing Partner: I need one, and am willing to split the profits (split negotiable) with that person in return for your marketing expertise. You can see more info over at the phpLD forum, and keep in mind I'm only looking for serious applicants! If you have any other questions, please ask! I've also got a development forum set up on site, for feature requests, bug reports, and general chat. I'll be releasing more information there, and on the site blog, on a new feature I have in the works, and I'd say that a lot of bloggers are going to like it.
I should really have waited to start this thread until the first big review came in, but anyway, here it is. Done by John Chow, and I have to admit I was rather surprised he gave it such a good review (no I didn't ask him to). Anyway, give it a read, see what you think, and then why not try it out a listing for free?
I think John liked it: "However, OIOpublisher is far superior to the other plugins and best of all, it’s free." "OIOpublisher Direct is more than just a Wordpress plugin. It’s a total advertising solution." "The free plugin pretty much puts the $127 WP Text Ads out of business."
Not only John liked it, i did liked it too. Actually i liked it enough that i have already installed it on my SEO Optimization blog and have tweaked it around. If you can see on the right sidebar i have Featured Sites which is using 1 testmode link instead of five (and 4 empty <li>'s ) and used the advertise here button in the same <ul> groups instead of using a different UL group. Apologies to OIOpublisher for removing all the 5 testexamples that were directing to OIOpublisher direct site (it seemed a bit excessive and view more offers was misleading users in my opinion, anyway will see what i can do to have the view more offers link but in a way that won't mislead my visitors). I also wrote a review on OIOPublisher. The plugin is lovely and works perfectly, i just hope for Simon the marketplace will grow fast.
Hehe, I hope it grows fast too. I had to change the terms a little (for the better) because of a mistake I made. But anyway, all site submissions made within the 30 day promotional period will be free for life. Any submissions made after that will cost $10 per 6 months (enough for maintenance & development costs). That does mean that the affiliate program will be weaker initially ($20 per year instead of the original $50 I had planned), but the main sources of revenue will come from other sources (focusing on matching advertisers with bloggers to make the marketplace more useful) and affiliates will make commission on all such services their referrals use. Right now, filling up the marketplace is by far the most important thing - anything else is secondary for the moment. You can tweak the plugin however you like. If you do make any changes you think might be useful to others, please post them on the site forum. PS. thanks for the review
added characterplanet to games section...not sure what to put for video ad and price, but thx for the link
The video ad is purely optional (basically ignore it if you haven't got a promotional video to use). The price is meant to be the price range you will accept for the sale of paid reviews or links (or anything else) on your site. But of course you can always just take the link.