Do You Backup Your Databases?
Backup Your Databases Before You Lose Them
What would you do if one morning you get up and go to the computer to check on your sales overnight and all of a sudden your site is gone? Cry, Scream, Freak Out, All of the above?
This recently happened to a friend of mine. He woke up and went to login and all of his sites were gone. All he got was a 404 from the service provider.
So I decided to modify my custom backup script so it was easily modifiable so other could use and am giving it away so everyone can make sure the are protected. No catch here either, it is 100% free, no upsell after the signup.
You can read the scary story below. Don't let it hapen to you!
The Story
My Marketing friend Chris Skyped me today with some unbelievable and very shocking news. He lost all of his internet sites, databases, everything. What would you do if you awoke and your web site empire was gone?
I am sure I have no idea of the Panic that set in. I cannot imagine what I would do.
And it all happened because of a few small mistakes, but the result was not a small thing. Chris had his hosting account setup to auto-renew on his credit card. He had this hosting account for years and it has always worked perfectly. Over time his email address changed and he never updated it with the hosting company. This past march his credit card that he had his automatic payment setup on expired. When it came time to renew the hosting company could not charge the card. And to make matters worse they could not email him because his email address was not changed on his account. So the hosting company had no choice but to close down the account and his site.
He lost all of his databases and sites. He now has to rebuild everything. He has alot of the stuff on his local hard drive and can recreate most of the sites but he has lost his databases forever. It is goign to take him a long time to recover
He never ran a backup in cPanel and just assumed that the hosting company was doing regular backups. He found out that they do a "best effort" backup not a guaranteed backup and they did not have a good backup for him.
Scary huh?
My Free Tool For You
I am one that does not think about backups much either. However, I created a script a long while back that did backup of my databases every day and I use an automated FTP backup program to backup all of my sites on some type of schedule. I also have dozens of hosting accounts on different providers and do not put all of my eggs into one hosting basket.
After this happened to Chris I started wondering how many other people out there could be in the same situation and be at risk of losing an entire server full of sites.
Today I modified my script so it is more generic and wrote up some quick instructions on how to implement it. I am offering it to anyone for free. I would hate to see anyone else every have this same thing happen. It can destroy a person, a business even a relationship.
In the mini-documentation I also included the name of the software I sue to automatically back up my sites every day and the schedule I use to back them up. There is a free version of the software available for download
This should remove any excuse you have for not having your sites backed up.
It is 100% free, just fill out the form below
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But what if both partners want to build their list, afterall it is both of their products right? Core RAP does not have the ability to send to more than auto-responder list.
In comes the Auto Opt-in addon. The Auto Opt-in addon can replace or work side by side with the existing built-in RAP auto-responder feature. The Auto Opt-in addon allows you to add as many additional auto-responder lists as you want.
The Auto Opt-in addon also allows you to add an auto-responder list to places where you could not before like the OTO download.
The Auto Opt-in add-on uses groups for flexibility on how you implement it. There are also global options that apply to all products as well as individual products. With the global options you can setup an auto-responder one time and have it applied to all or a group of products.
For more information on our Auto Opt-in add-on you can visit the Auto Opt-in product page for video and more.
You are on your own for the Irresistible Offer but you can create Scarcity, Urgency and Social Proof simply by providing the potential buyer with the number of copies until the price goes up or it is sold out. As that number decreases it provides them the social proof as well as increases the scarcity and urgency.
Up until now, there has not been an easy way to do this in RAP. But now with the Add-To-Cart addon for RAP it is click simple. You can in just a couple of clicks create a graphic button that provides the scarcity, urgency and social proof needed to turn potential buyers into buyers.
The add-on creates a button based around the most popular and most effective button in use today, the Belcher Button. You can select a button style from a list, set your price points and then just copy and paste the code.
But you have not heard the best part yet! Because the button is a dynamically created image you can place the button in forums, emails, blogs, other web sites, just about anywhere. You are no longer limited to just the RAP sales page. You have been free'd from the constraints of your RAP install. When someone clicks on the button they are taken directly to RAP to purchase the product, so RAP still plays a very important role in the process.
The original idea for this addon came from someone who wanted a way to put a dynamic button in the Warrior Forums Warrior Special Offers list. The add-on was created with the concept of placing the order button in the high traffic areas without having to bring the traffic to you. With all of the talk about not requiring a RAP sales page and going outside of RAP, the add-on works great right on a RAP sales page too... For more information on our Add-To-Cart add-on you can visit the Add-To-Cart product page for video and more.
And for a site-wide look and feel you can easily copy the header and footer files to all of your products and they will all look the same.
This creates a common theme and branding. But what if you wanted to make a change across all of the header or footers? You would have to make the change to one then copy the file to all of the products which for some can be hundreds of products.
Or what if you wanted to use a holiday look for your entire site? Again, you would have to make changes to every product.
Not any more! With Themes for rap you can control a site-wide or per product theme. Make one change in the master theme and the entire site changes.
You can even change the whole theme to a new theme across the entire site with a single click in the admin panel. And even better, Themes for RAP has a built in scheduler that can change the themes for you automatically at either a regular interval (same time every day) or on a specific date and time.
So you may want to switch from a thanksgiving theme to a holiday theme on Black Friday, but you are going to be visiting family and do not want to touch a computer while on vacation. You can setup Themes days, months even years ahead of time to make the change for you all 100% automated.
There are so many options in Themes there is no way to cover them all here. Just the central management of you site theme and the ability to make only one change and effect the entire site is worth it alone.
For more information on our Themes add-on you can visit the Themes product page for video and more.
We know the best form of advertising is Word Of Mouth. The tell a friend feature of RAP helps your customers spread the word to their friends and work the word of mouth advertising. What is nice about the RAP tell a friend feature, the person sending to their friends is they get credit for the sale. With a 50% commission setup, just 2 friends can pay for the product. That is real incentive to tell some friends about the product that you just purchased.
But, what if you could have that same viral effect that is on your download page on other pages, maybe even all the pages? You get a visitor to your site looking at a product that does not fit them so they are not going to buy but they know someone that the product fits perfectly for. Now they can tell a friend right from the sales page. And, as extra incentive, they can get commission on any sales from their friends.
The addon is non-intrusive and puts a small bar on the left side of the browser that says Tell-A-Friend. When that bar is clicked on it opens up RAP tell a friend form. So you get the power of the RAP tell a friend feature on any page in your sales funnel. When the addon is done it goes back to hiding with just a little bar on the left side.
You can see this addon in action right on the product sales page for this product. Go to the Tell-A-Friend product page and check it out. For more information on our Tell-A-Friend add-on you can visit the Tell-A-Friend Product Page.
It is simple to do if you affiliate link is out there in the open. Many times they will replace your affiliate ID in the link with their own so they get credit for the sale.
So you have put all of the effort to get the link out there either via email or on a web site somewhere with the goal of making a commission when someone clicks on the link. But someone replaces your affiliate ID or just simply removes and they have stolen your commission.
The simple way to fix the problem is to cloak your affiliate link. There are many services out there that can do this for you. Services like bit.ly will take your affiliate link, shrink it down to an address like bit.ly/g74jf74 that makes no sense to anyone and it does hide your affiliate link. But if you are out there building web 2.0 sites and doing an article campaign, you do not want to have the links go to bit.ly or any other link shrinking site. You want them to point to your domain so you get the link juice that comes with the link as well as brand your web site.
Up until now you have to purchase an expensive piece of software that would allow you to create links on your domain. It is another admin interface to worry about and learn. Most of them have very little tracking and reporting capability.
That was until now. With Cloaker for RAP, you can create those cloaked links right from within the RAP admin interface. No new admin interface to worry about. Plus, Cloaker can do link forwarding like the services like bit.ly do or it can really cloak the link so the site looks like it is part of yours.
We also do a boatload of tracking that is all available from easy to use and read graphs that are right there in the RAP admin interface. For more information on our Cloaker add-on you can visit the Cloaker product page for video and more.
We all know how important testimonials are on our product pages. A testimonial from a satisfied customer can many times make the difference between a sale and getting nothing. Testimonials give validity to a product and a comfortable feeling for the buyer.
As important as they are, testimonials can most times be a pain to keep track of and manage, not to mention having to create the graphics, etc.
And if you are like most marketers, HTML coding is not your strongest talent either. And the most effective testimonials are current and regularly updated.
All that can be frustrating, but not anymore. The Testimonials addon for RAP takes all that away. You access the addon right from within the RAP admin interface, an interface you are already familiar with.
The addon keeps track of the testimonials for each product. You can group the testimonials and have them displayed at different locations on your site by group.
The Testimonials addon is template based and you can change the template with a simple mouse click. Each product has separate settings that can be changed on the fly right from the admin interface.
For more information on our Testimonials add-on you can visit the Testimonials product page for video and more.
If any of the above are true then we have your solution. We have created an add-on for RAP that put the power of an easy to use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor right into the RAP administrative interface. You can make those quick changes to your templates simply by logging into your RAP admin page. You can copy that sales page file, make the quick change and add it to your sales page list and run that split test all without an HTML editor or FTP client.
The Editor add-on has a simple file manager built in for copying and deleting files. And to make it easier with all of the different template files, when you select one, we tell you what it does so that you can make sure you are changing the right one.
And we have removed some of the mystery around tokens in the templates. We provide you a list of tokens and when you select one, we tell you what it does. And if it does what you are looking for, click the add button and it will be inserted into the editor right where your cursor is located. It cannot get much easier than that.
For more information on our Editor add-on you can visit the editor product page for video and more.
We have taken it one step further than just installing Google Analytics on your site. We have also provided the option to setup a different Google Analytics ID for each product so that you can provide separate Analytics Reports for each product.
If you do not currently have Google Analytics setup and running you should do so today. Google Analytics is free and it is one of the best analytics tools available.
Click Here to visit the product page for more Information about our Google Analytics Add-on.