You may recall I bought XSP2 via your WF post back in early 2009 and have been tracking your action ever since. Was pleasantly surprised to learn here that Josh is co-founder of Nanacast. I have a couple of Josh’s Audio / Video products too.

We will be launching a new Biometric ID Mgmt. product in Q2 2010 and we’ll want to have a best-of-class Affiliate Mgmt. solution and a Membership processing platform to handle what will likely be a global audience, so the link to the Nanacast feature/function set was a timely and useful find.

I have pushed a lot of products and memberships into the system and generated quite a revenue utilizing upsells and viral affiliate memberships.

Predicting it will become more popular in 2010.

I bit the bullet and migrated my business over to Nanacast. I exported all my customers from DLGuard and imported into Nanacast. Whole process took minutes to complete. I also recorded a 22 minute video comparing Nanacast to InfusionSoft from my perspective as a web developer/marketer. I’ve had tons of hands-on work with both and tried to capture the “real” InfusionSoft.

You can setup your product in Nanacast and even use their market place to sell it if you have no website.

You might also want an autoresponder to email clients updates and make affiliate promotions.

Optional – domain name and website (like wordpress).

If I use Nanacast what other tools do I need to set up my business? I want to sell my own digital product on line and do some affiliate marketing.

Nanacast just integrated with infusionsoft crm

That means you can now add and remove your nanacast customers to your infusionsoft crm follow up campaigns automatically.

So now you can have Nanacast’s superior ecommerce automation, content management, and affiliate management solution and even use it with infusionsoft’s crm which we now fully automate.

A lot of people have been leaving infusion and coming to us… but there are some who like the infusion crm so now you can have the best of both worlds…

But for those who like other options Nanacast also is fully integrated with the following email and email/postcard crm:

Send Pepper, Office Auto Pilot, Aweber, Getresponse, Mail Chimp, iContact, Constant Contact, and Analytic approach.

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I will briefly elaborate…..
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No 1-Click Upsell:
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Unless things have changed recently, apparently InfusionSoft does not do true 1-Click Upsell. You have to purchase a third-party software product that integrates with InfusionSoft’s API. (such as the one by MarketGenius, $700 here: http://oneclickupsell.marketgeni.us/ )

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Coupon Codes:
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InfusionSoft’s knowledgebase contains a question where someone asks if a coupon code can expire (become disabled) after it is used. The answer by InfusionSoft is No. (hard to believe!) In Josh Anderson’s demo videos, he goes over Nanacast’s coupon abilities, and man they rock. He states Nanacast has the most advanced and flexible coupon system available.
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Also the Nanacast demo videos show how you can daisy-chain upsells/OTOs, to infinity. I haven’t checked whether InfusionSoft can do the same, but many other systems I’ve seen only allow one OTO.

But I had to do my due diligence so I checked out InfusionSoft. Immediately I was impressed and dazzled by their nice clean interface, their countless video tutorials on how to use their system, and their big features list. BUT… after taking a closer look I realized that many of those features (e.g. the “sales pipeline”, and the ability to rotate new leads to sales staff) were suited for companies with a sales force. (like InfusionSoft themselves! Obviously they built their system with the assumption that most IM’ers had companies structured like them) Also I noticed that some features that are critical to us IM’ers are either not there (e.g. 1-Click Upsell technology), or, are barely implemented. (e.g. Coupon Codes)

InfusionSoft’s monthly account plans are structured (apparently intentionally) such that I was being forced to signup for their most expensive account ($499/month). Their 299 account limits you to send only 75,000 outgoing emails per month. That means I could only email to my 72k house list about 1x per month. (for those with say a 25k list, they can only email 3x per month) Now bear in mind that any IM’er who hits their list only 1x or 3x monthly is bound to have their IM’er status stripped from them, and is subject to a good stoning or Tar & Feathering by their peers. So then, with my 72k house list I’m forced into their more expensive 499/month account, which allows me up to 200,000 outgoing emails per month. Unfortunately with that account I can only hit my list 2x per month, or maybe 3x if I reduce my list size on the third mailing. To mail more often, I’d have to PAY Infusionsoft’s additional fees per 1,000 emails sent. For most IM’ers I hang with, mailing thru InfusionSoft would cost them over $1,000 per month. Yikes. (so if you plan to grow your list, and we all do, then prepare to pay thru the nose if you mail regularly)

So I’m leaning towards using Nanacast (much lower priced btw), combined with using Aweber for emailings. Aweber has zero limitation on how many outgoing emails I can send per month.

trish : – )

Chris, I just wanted to chime in and answer this question for you:

“Are you able to set up sub affiliate id tracking for affiliates?”

Yes Nanacast can do that on the fly. Create a link campaign (same place you find the pixel and third party tracking code option) add your subaffiliate’s id on the end of the url and our system will track it and show you stats on it.

You can create unlimited subaffiliate id tracking campaigns on the fly this way using one single link tracking campaign.

The reason we have this feature is because we developed it for our CPA network with runs on the same platform/technology as Nanacast.

Josh Anderson
Co-Founder – Nanacast

Affiliates can insert pixels to fire on the thank you page. Infusionsoft deliverability may be pretty good however because many large list holders use them there are occasionally delays on launch days while the emails sit in a cue.

I prefer the features of nanacast over 1sc and I like aweber.