Yes the event just over. And this event was really taking a lot out of me. Working almost like 20 hours daily for last 2 weeks! We moved the event forward by 1 week earlier actually. The reason is that initially Eric Rockefeller suppose to have a big launch on 31st. And we did not want to be overshadowed other launches, especially it involves Eric Rockefeller which I personally respect a lot.
So bringing this event forward gives us only 1 week time to pull in JV partners! Yes 1 week! So I had think out of the box and go wayyyy flat out and figure out how we can achieve the amount of JV partners we wanted. Initially we say alright, we will have about 80 JV partners. But in the end I told both of them that we need to ramp up this target because we have come this far and spend so much time into this, we should just go for homerun. So the target changed to 150 JV Partners which we achieved in just 7 days. I cracked my head and found several out of the box method that allow me to recruit a lot more JV partners in shorter time
So after JV recruitment, we were preparing all the accounts and triple check every single aspect of the launch.
On launch day, 3 of us gather at Gobala house along with Edmund Loh and Khai. Had a small party to celebrate the launch but we couldn’t party until 2 hours after launch because the server was swamp with too much traffic!! We had like 300 to 500 visitors at any one time and considering we have over 100 graphics on the sales page, this did not help at all. Immediately we moved all graphics over to Gobala’s server. And I also contacted my server company to upgrade the package immediately which will gives us double the amount of ram and resources. That did not help, the company moved the account into an isolated server but we were still having problems serving the downloads. On second day we ordered another dedicated server and moved all downloads to the new server. So on 3rd day we had 3 different servers to serve SendUsTo.US, 1 server for the sales copy and members area, 1 server for images and 1 server for files download. Lesson learned. Never save up on hosting. Its better to get a powerful dedicated server for that period of time just for the launch and then downgrade the site to normal hosting later
Sales was good. We got about 400 sales in Day 1! WOW! double WOW in fact. Our honest target was about 700 sales. So we were about 60% to our target in 1 day. 6 Days to go. On day 2, we were expecting much lower sale, maybe about 50% of day 1. But instead, we were almost matching day 1’s sale! So 2 days and we almost hit 800 sales. Target achieved. Day 3 to Day 5 is extremely low. Around 100+ sales each day. But we did ran a 24 hours affiliate contest to spice up things a little.
On Day 6, sales shot up by 50% compare to the day before. The last minute buyers start kicking in. We see that our partners and affiliates started to push for the last 48 hours. On Day 7, we manage to do over 200 sales. In total, we made over 1,400 sales and raked in $60,000 in revenue. It was single largest project that 3 of us have done.
Now the bad news is, my PayPal has been “LIMITED”. I did inform PayPal in advance prior to the launch but they still need further verification which I have provided. We are progressing but I hope it won’t take long as I heard some horror stories that it takes up to months!
Overall I’ve learned a lot and new mental barriers have been broken
Thank you everyone for your support!
So next thing is now getting the VISA to travel to US to be approved! 
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