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A new site has been added to the DELAVO Family. You can find the Wiki at http://delavo.com/wiki

Version 2.33 introduces you with a new way to deal with affiliate commissions.

You can find a new option inside the Product’s record.

enable Instant Cycled Commissions mode

How it works:

The affiliate gets paid instantly to his/her Paypal account every N sale.

You can specify the number of sales by defining a percentage:

%  of sales will be paid directly to the affiliate (enter a number between 0 and 100)

For example if you define 40% that’s 2/5, hence 2 sales out of 5 will pay the affiliate and the rest 3 sales will go to admin (you.)

You can also define who is paid first:

[]  first X sales go to you, next Y sales go to the affiliate
[]  first Y sales go to the affiliate, next X sales go to you

John Delavera

You’re walking in the middle of a beautiful wide field …

…  with tall grass all around you. The sun is bright and hangs in the clear blue sky, untouched by even the faintest wisp of cloud.

And then, suddenly, the field grows dimmer. You look up and see, high above you, the circling shape of a Bald Eagle. The magnificent bird hangs in the air, and at nearly a thousand feet up, it can see you far better than you could hope to see it.

In fact, it not only sees you in exquisite detail, but it can also see the entire field from where it soars. Once it detects movement, its powerful vision can scope out its prey and with a quick tuck of its wings it turns into a ferocious blur of white and blackish-brown, descending at an impossible 99 miles per hour. In an instant, it is on its prey, a hapless rabbit. All of this happens in just a few short seconds … and then, just as quickly — it’s over.

Delavo v2.19 Give Affiliates The Strength of an Eagle

It’s my great pleasure to announce that Delavo v2.19 is now available, and comes with a new module that will give your affiliates the ability to fly high above their personal field, detect important changes, and take action with lightning speed.

Imagine … an army of affiliates with unprecedented instant access to the information that matters most to them.

It’s now possible, thanks to …

The Affiliate Dashboard Module

The Affiliate Dashboard is a new way for your affiliates to get an at-a-glance understanding of how their campaigns and promotions of your products are doing.  Now your affiliates will be able to survey the playing field and take decisive steps to improve their campaigns.

They can view summaries of:

• Commissions
• Campaigns
• Last sales
• Payment Information
• Down-line Statistics

Nothing is more motivating to an affiliate than knowing how much they are making from promoting your product. And if they see that their campaigns are not running as well as they’d hoped, they’ll be able to detect which campaign is lagging, and take immediate action to improve their results.

It’s like Command Central for your affiliates, and it’s just one more reason your Affiliates will be happy that you are a Delavo Gold member.

Psst! Hey, if you’re not a Delavo Gold member, read this … When you click this link here, and follow the simple steps on the next page, you’ll become part of an exclusive inner circle of members that get access to all of our latest and greatest enhancements as they become available. That means you’re always one step ahead of your competitors … and on the Internet, that single step can mean a massive increase in market share and profit. So don’t hesitate. Click here and become a Delavo Gold member today!

The Affiliate Dashboard Module was requested by many of our members, and we’re very happy to be able to deliver it today. You can find it now in the member area under “Promote / Dashboard”. But why stop there?

Today we’re announcing three new features.

1. DB Memberships

DB memberships protect your directories in a new way by working with direct DB connections. This type of membership is much more reliable than remote membership when your site is under a really heavy load.

So now, when you’re in the middle of a launch, and you have hundreds (even thousands) of new customers signing up all at once, you won’t have to worry about the reliability of your software, which means you won’t lose potential customers.

To get this enhanced reliability to work, you’ll need to change some specific configurations in cPanel (Remote MySQL). More information can be found when you set it up for the first time.

2. Special “Generated Sales” Interface for Affiliates

When you’re an affiliate, it helps to have as much statistical data as possible. Now your affiliates can see a list of all the sales they’ve generated. You can find this list in the member area under “Promote / Sales” and you can control it through a simple privilege setting.

3. A Better, More Informative “Member / Downline” Interface

The “Member / Downline” interface lists all sub-affiliates for a particular affiliate. The interface has been dramatically enhanced, and provides you with more information than ever before.

Now your affiliates can see:

• click statistics
• # of Opt-Ins generated by each sub-affiliate
• # of Sales generated by each sub-affiliate

All records are arranged so that the most active sub-affiliate is at the top. And it always pays to know which of your affiliates (or sub-affiliates) are doing the most for you.

As you can see, three powerful new features. And we almost stopped there. But a core part of our culture here at Delavo is to over deliver, so …

We have one last feature we’d like to share …

Payment Periods for the “Pay Commissions” Interface

As an Admin, it helps to be able to keep things organized. We’ve introduced this feature to allow you to organize your payments to affiliates. For the time being, we’ve optimized this for the “Affiliate Dashboard”, so you’ll be able to get access to that feature through that new module.

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And that’s all for Delavo v2.19!

Remember, the features and updates mentioned here are for Delavo Gold members only, so if you haven’t already, go subscribe today!

We’ll see you next week! Delavo’s about to hit 2.2, and with that comes even more new, powerful features designed to optimize your time, increase your sales, and enhance your efficiency. So stay tuned.

John Delavera

Inventor of Delavo

Other Updates in Delavo v2.19:

Change: Delavo is now compatible with “1-Click Affiliate Page” again

Fix: Paypal Adaptive Payment: We’ve fixed the error message display.

Delavo Funnels Can Radically Improve Your Marketing … And Save You Hours of Time.

Time is money. You’re a business owner, so you know that. You also know that the longer you spend fussing with technical details, and working out kinks in software, the less time you have to improve your marketing.

Delavo is always working to improve efficiency. We believe strongly in “Speed to Market”, and so we adjust Delavo’s software to allow us to give us a quantum boost in productive output.

It lowers our stress levels. It frees up our resources. And it generates thousands of dollars, hand over fist, simply because we are able to “Get there first”.

Delavo Funnels are absolutely key to this. Since Delavo has so many features, we decided to dedicate today’s post to giving you a clear understanding of Funnels, and how to use it in ways you may have never considered.

In fact, I’m practically willing to guarantee that there is a usage scenario here that has never occurred to you.

So let’s begin!

“Wow, that headline really grabbed me. Let’s see what this product is about.”

And with that single thought, your customer begins to move through your ad. They eat up your story, comb through your bullets and ask questions in their mind that are quickly answered by your well-crafted copy.

As each moment passes, they become more and more excited by the prospect of owning what you’re selling. Finally they reach the bottom and their hand is itching to yank their wallet out. They click on a button. And one of two things happen:

1. They are shown an upsell
2. They’re taken to an order form that shows the price of the product and requests their credit card information.

When the first one happens before they’ve even entered their order information, the prospect becomes annoyed and sometimes gives up on the product. They think, “I don’t need to see an upsell. And who knows how many more of these pages will I have to deal with? I just want the product.”

When the second one happens, your customer hesitates. Now all they’re seeing is the price of your product, standing alone, naked. They see a bunch of blank boxes asking for their information. In that moment, they may forget what they’re going to receive. So they change their mind.

They “abandon” the page.

But some of them stick it through, and hit submit. And if you’ve done your homework, you’ve created an upsell. Maybe it’s a JV product. Maybe it’s the print version of your digital ebook. Maybe it’s a 30-day membership to a continuity product you sell. Whatever it is, they decide that they like what they see, and decide to buy it. Only to be faced with yet another order form.

“Ugh,” they think. “Another order form? Forget it, I don’t need it that badly.”

And so they abandon the order process.

The Last Thing You Want Is A Leaky Funnel

In our extensive testing, we found that the more steps that we pushed at our customer, the less likely they were to follow through on the sale. Each time you create a new step, it’s like punching a hole through your funnel. So when we created Delavo Funnels, we did our best to prevent leaks like that from ever happening.

Delavo Gold Funnels plugs the leaks!

• Put the entire transaction process on one page.
  Now your customer doesn’t need to be taken away from the page that sold them on your product in the first place. We found that this simple, significant change can result in a substantial increase to your conversion rate.
• Create a One-Click Upsell process
  Once your customer makes the first purchase, they’ll be able to buy any upsells you offer with just one click. They don’t have to type in any extra information. It’s as simple as a click of the mouse for them. And since Funnels integrate perfectly with Paypal, you can also have these single clicks send money to a different payment processor (more on this later).
• Split-test at every step of your funnel
  Often it’s hard to split test your salespage along side your upsells and find the optimal combination of sales elements. But thanks to Delavo’s built-in Split-testing capability, you can test and fine tune the perfect funnel for your product.
• Get Statistically Significant Performance Numbers
  With the click of just one button, you can get the statistics on the entire funnel. Also, Delavo will take the proactive step of letting you know when the split-test is over, and a winner has emerged. In fact, it ends the split test for you once it acquires enough data.

If this was all that Delavo Funnels did, it would be powerful enough. But Delavo keeps growing, and that’s because our experience reveals new lessons. And we take those lessons seriously.

For example, we discovered that if users were shown an upsell they’d already received from you in the past, they may think that the product itself is something they already own. You may miss an opportunity to show them something new.

That’s why we created Conditional Upsells.

With this powerful feature, you’ll prevent cart abandonment and increase the likelihood of your customer buying a new upsell. Also, it will prevent your customers from accidentally buying something they already own, and requesting a refund. A fantastic resource and time-saver for both you, and your customer.

We also found when working with JV partners, it was tedious to transfer money from our account to theirs. We wanted to be able to control where the money went instantly. So we incorporated a fantastic feature that allows you to have different payment processors for each step of the funnel. That means that we could collect 100% of the initial sale in one PayPal account, and have the profit from the upsell go to a joint PayPal account. Total transparency between you and your JV partner, and it’s automated so you don’t have to worry about it.

Lastly, you can also set up a Backup Payment Processor. We came up with this idea because sometimes your customer can enter erroneous information. A common issue we ran into was someone entering a phone number that didn’t correspond to the credit card they entered. When you have a merchant account with strict fraud prevention set up as your primary Payment Processor, this can be particularly problematic. But if you setup a Backup Payment Processor that is not as strict in their fraud prevention requirements, you can have Delavo try the backup processor without the customer ever knowing that anything has changed.  To the customer, it’s business as usual, and they’re able to complete the sale. To you, it’s a rescued lead and avoiding a time-consuming Customer Service issue.

As you can see, Delavo Funnels is very powerful. It integrates with third party scripts, integrates with all the other Delavo features, and even allows you to notify a third party site of a purchase. Then you can integrate your current membership sites developed outside of Delavo.

But what we are particularly proud of is that Setup Takes Less Than 60 Minutes!

With other solutions, it can take days to setup something like this. We know, because our customers have told us how frustrating it use to be. We also know because we’ve tried those other solutions. We’re marketers and business owners just like you. And we’re always looking for ways to cut down on time spent, without sacrificing productive output.

That’s why we’re so excited about Delavo v2.19! (Here’s the teaser you were waiting for … )

One of the features we’ll be introducing in Delavo v2.19 update involves a powerful improvement to Delavo Funnels that will cut down your funnel setup time to an unheard of 30 Minutes!

How do we know how long it will take? Simple. We actually time it. We use www.online-stopwatch.com to test how long it takes for us to setup a Delavo Funnel, and we compete with our old time to increase our efficiency.

And then we give you the features that allow us to do that.

I’m looking very forward to sharing Delavo v2.19 with you, and getting your response. But remember … you need to be a Delavo Gold member to take advantage of these time-saving, profit-boosting features. So if you haven’t already, sign up here today: Click Here <–

Keep an eye on your inbox … Delavo v2.19 update is right around the corner. And if you have any suggestions, let us know! You help make our product better.

Today, we’re pleased to bring you …

… a major Module release alongside three powerful new Features, all of which are explicitly designed to provide:

• better control over your Campaigns
• a higher degree of flexibility and …
• a dramatic improvement in your potential profitability

Before I go into the details of these exciting changes, I’d like to first thank you. It is because of your suggestions, requests, and constant communication with our staff that we are able to continue to develop Delavo into a world-leading eCommerce-platform. We pride ourselves on creating a product that is developed around the real-world needs of marketers like you, and we look forward to your continued participation.

With that said … Delavo Gold members, get ready …

Introducing The Master Campaigns Module!

We all opt for efficiency. Given the choice between two routes that lead to the same destination, we tend to lean toward the shortest and clearest path. After all, why create an unnecessary hassle for ourselves?

The Master Campaigns Module was created with this in mind. We’ve given Admins the power to pre-create Master Campaigns to go along with a new promotion. Before, the creation of such a Campaign was the responsibility of the Affiliate, and the learning curve inherent in that process, though not necessarily steep, could be enough to stop an affiliate from promoting your product.

After all, a good affiliate often has a massive list of prospects along with a nearly endless supply of potential products to sell to that list. Now that Delavo allows Affiliates to start a promotion with the instantly generated promo link … the path to profit for your product becomes “shorter”.

In other words, your product becomes more attractive to promote.

And that means more affiliates, more promotions, and ultimately … more profit.

But we didn’t stop there. We’ve  also enhanced tracking capabilities within Campaigns so that it’s possible to generate consolidated numbers of clicks/sales through all affiliate links. Now, getting a birds-eye-view of the successes of their promotions is easier than ever for your Affiliates.

A happy affiliate sends more traffic to your product and that ultimately leads to  – you got it – more profit!

We considered leaving this module as the only change in this update. But by now, Delavo Gold members are accustomed to more. And the truth is … so are we!

Three Powerful New Features.

#1: Campaign Statistics Customization – Smarter campaign statistics for smarter marketing decisions.

This new feature adds greater flexibility to your Campaigns’ statistical calculations.

Now, all types of campaigns can:

1. Measure your customers’ multiple clicks for different packages as a single click.

This is particularly useful when a customer going through more than one package or funnel during a single visit winds up clicking more than one package. Now, rather than viewing each click independently, you can measure it as a single click reflecting a single instance of customer interaction. This prevents your statistics from appearing to be inflated, and therefore gives you more precise data. Precision in data is the key to making well-informed marketing decisions.

2. Measure multiple sales within one order as a single sale.

An upsell shouldn’t be considered a separate sale. After all, it takes place at a completely different point in the funnel as your initial sale. By calculating all sales within one order as a single sale, you are better able to acquire an at-a-glance understanding of where your conversion rates stand.

Also, our new Master Campaigns Module is capable of:

3. Explicitly defining which Packages/Funnels a Campaign will count toward clicks and sales.

Not all packages and funnels are equal in value or purpose. The Master Campaigns Module takes this into account, and allows you to predetermine which Packages/Funnels a Campaign should include in its calculation of clicks and sales.

4. We’ve also made it possible to explicitly define which Products count as sales in the Campaign.

This is particularly useful in the event that your Affiliates are promoting a free product that does not contribute to their overall commission.

#2 FUNNELS – Short URL’s

No more long names in your Funnel URL! We’ve created a feature that automatically assigns a short URL to a funnel. You can find this alias on the Edit Funnel page, and also in the “Tools – Short URL’s” section.

#3 Select which Funnels/Packages Are Available For Promotion (via the New Master Campaign Module)

With Master Campaigns, Admins have the ability to determine which Funnels/Packages are available for promotion. That means that Delavo Gold members like you have the ability to not only create a Campaign that’s ready for promotion … but also provide the order link pre-associated with that campaign.

Additionally, if your promotion is being rolled out in stages, you can exercise better control over when your affiliates promote certain products. This means you can set up the product in Delavo in advance, and change the setting automatically, rolling it out uniformly to all your affiliates in one efficient act.

Delavo v2.18 also includes:

* CHANGE/FIX: Funnels are now forcing new sessions when a user with a new email signs up (Login / Options-Payment forms)

This fix helps to prevent situations where affiliates test a Funnel link given to them and then provide this link with a session code in it to their customers.

A final note: Once again, I’d like to remind you that the features and modules above are for our Delavo Gold members only. You can gain access to these frequent updates by signing up here: Delavo Gold

Our staff at Delavo thanks you for your continuing participation, and we look forward to introducing even more fantastic features in the future.

Online marketing tools often suffer from being too rigid. They force the marketer to adjust to the tools, rather than have the tools adjust to them. The result can often mean slow reaction to what the customer does on their site …  and that can mean the loss of a sale.

Martial Arts master Bruce Lee had the right idea when he said:

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

- Bruce Lee

In marketing, being like water means being able to adjust and adapt quickly to a new environment or circumstance your customer creates. Online, since you are not there in person to react to the customer’s wants and needs, it is crucial to have software that can do that for you. Flexibility is key.

That’s why Delavo is so very proud to announce Delavo 2.16

In the Delavo 2.16 update, we paid special attention to Questionnaires, a Delavo Gold feature that gives you the power to collect information from a user during and after the sale, and react to the information they provide.

Today, we’ve enhanced the power of the Delavo Gold Questionnaires feature.

• We’ve revised the Trigger Post functionality so that each Questionnaire can send an API POST to a number of different URL’s depending on the event selected. That means that you can choose how to react to a user’s submission, deletion, expiration and reinitialization of the Questionnaire …  giving you power of fluid reaction to your customers’ actions.
• We’ve enhanced interactive integration with 3rd Party Systems, allowing you to; having sent information to 3rd party systems, actually send back that system’s response to your user. That means that you can, for example, use the Questionnaire feature to send information to a hosting provider and send back an error code should the domain name that the user selected be unavailable. And that’s only one way this improvement can be used.
• We also added support for integration with 3rd party systems in a way that is transparent for Delavo admins and added an integration extension module for Fusemail.com

Remember, this is a Delavo Gold feature. To upgrade, sign up today!

In addition, Delavo 2.16 adds these fixes!

FIX: a number of fixes in the “Duplicate” functionality in Funnels

The fix deals with extra “Copy of  …” prefixes being added to the copies of Funnel Steps and Split pages; and with extra records appearing. The fix also changes the way a single Split Page is duplicated – the copy now has zero weight and is not set as default.

FIX: fixed issue with Paypal return and IPN URL’s

FIX: fixed session time logging for new users

Each week, we work to bring you the best features in our ongoing effort to make Delavo the software of choice for Internet Marketers the world over.

To get access to the latest features and upgrades, we strongly recommend you sign up for Delavo Gold. Start using it today!

Delavo likes to push the boundaries. It likes to surprise people with its flexibility, power, and constantly improving features and modules.

Delavo v2.15 continues this tradition, bringing you not only the features we’ve been planning, but also the features you’ve specifically requested.

Make no mistake: Delavo is a product by marketers, for marketers. That’s right: for you.

And that’s why we’re so proud that we’re introducing …

Multicurrency support on the Package / Shopping Cart level. (YES! PayPal, Authorize.net and eWay are supported.)

What this means for you:

Not all your customers are in the USA. And not all Delavo users are based in the USA. If you’ve noticed shopping cart abandonment for customers coming from outside the US, or if you’re selling primarily to customers in an area outside the U.S., it’s a major advantage to be able to show them the currency of their local area.

It creates trust, and gives the customer a feeling of familiarity because they get to see prices in their own currency. That leads to improved relationships between your customers and you, and dare we say it?

A potentially major boost in profit!

If you’re worried about how messy all those currencies might look on the Admin interface, don’t worry. All purchases made; even in an alternative currency, will be displayed to you in the default currency which is determined by you. All commissions are also paid in that default currency.

To start profiting from this brand new feature, Upgrade to Gold!

Delavo Gold

We’re also very excited to announce a brand new module.

Introducing the Paypal ”Adaptive Payments” Module!

What it is -

A Delavo-managed support system for flat payments and subscriptions.

What it means for you:

First, it means saved time. No more having to go through PayPal to manage your subscription information for customers! Delavo now manages everything, from new installments, schedule modifications, and even automatically charges the customer through PayPal.

Time is money, and there’s no sense in wasting it to do something Delavo can do for you. But there’s a hidden benefit to this Module that we haven’t revealed yet.

For the first time Delavo will give you the ability to have affiliate commissions paid out instantly when a purchase is made. It’s as simple as changing a single setting on the Payment Option Settings page.

That’s right, with a flick of the switch, you can dramatically improve the satisfaction of your affiliates. Making those affiliates happy can give you a competitive advantage. A Delavo Gold advantage.

Not part of Delavo Gold? Then upgrade here to gain access to the best new features.

If this was all we packed into this v2.15 update, we could call it a wrap. But that’s just not our style. Even with these two major upgrades, we’ve managed to include a few key feature updates.

Check out how else Delavo is challenging its competitors:

FEATURE: Funnels: “Duplicate Funnel Step” feature

FEATURE: Funnels: “Duplicate Split page” feature

Enables you to quickly set up new split-tests by providing a 1-click setup for new split-test pages. Now, instead of having to create and set up a new split-test page for each split-test, you’ll be able to simply click the duplicate split-test function and an exact copy of the current split-test page will be instantly set up. In other words, make your changes quickly, launch it, and get out of its way. Time efficient, and profit maximizing.

CHANGE: Funnels: Sales Report: per-step sales report now have sales numbers linked to the list of the sales

A small change related to the set of information displayed for the per-step Sales Reports available on the Funnels Step pages (Store > Funnels). The sale numbers are now linked to the (Customers > Sales) interface with a search criteria to display the selected set of Sales.

The Delavo Gold advantage won’t just put you ahead. It’ll leave your competitors in the dust.

Click here to upgrade to Delavo Gold today.