This thing’s taking on a life of its own.
I just got an email from a guy who’s been using the free sample of the Affiliate Mashup Store, saying he’s already made three sales in the last week without even doing any promotion.
Which is pretty awesome.
I’m beginning to wonder if having only 20 copies on offer in the pre-launch tomorrow is enough.
I mean, I don’t want too many people getting it all at once - I’ll be overwhelmed trying to support the product (I want to offer as much help starting up as possible, seeing as it’s essentially a beta test).
On the other hand, I’ve had so many people asking to get it early that I know some of you are gonna be disappointed.
It’s a burden, I know. But I had no idea it was gonna get so popular. I just hope I can live up to the expectations.
In fact, I’ve already encountered a potential problem.
The CJ API, which the mashup uses to populate its catalogues, seems very contrary. A couple of the people testing my script have had trouble getting it to work on their webservers.
This is obviously an issue, since if you can’t create a catalogue the mashup store’s pretty useless!
So I’ve come up with a workaround. If the API doesn’t work on your server, you can run a script on my own website which will create a csv datafile of products for your catalogue. You can then upload this datafile to your own site and create your catalogues that way.
It’s a bit cumbersome so it’s not ideal. I still insist that you try the sample script before purchasing the Affiliate Mashup Store. But if it doesn’t work and you still really want your own mashup store then it may still be possible.
If you’re looking for a webhost which will work with your store, then I can confirm that HostGator has no problems - I use them myself for most of my sites.
