If you just want to try the product, without committing to a whole year’s subscription, now you can simply get the product for up to 70% off!

Sounds good, right?

How were we able to get the prices down so low?

The main issue with selling products for a low price is support and development. They’re not cheap. Our team of developers are all full-time professionals who do this for a living. The expense is significant. Take away support and upgrades for people who don’t need them though, and the price can go right down.

So we came up with three easy plans:

1. “Try it out!” Plan

This is a great plan for those who want to simply try the product without a big initial investment. This plan is highly discounted (up to 70% off original price but comes with no VIP support). You can download the product once and the subscription expires. You won’t get upgrades after that first download, but you can always renew your subscription later to get more updates and VIP support.

2. “Standard” Plan

This plan gives you two downloads: the original download and one extra upgrade. Before you upgrade you can look at the change log to see what’s new and decide if you wish to upgrade now or wait for a later version.

3. “Pro” Plan

This is the best value plan. You get access to our VIP support, plus a full six months of unlimited downloads or upgrades. If you’d like access to our developers for support—or if you like to keep your extensions always up to date—this is the right plan for you.

Note: our one-year plan is also available on the shopping cart when checking out, for those who want it.

Pay Only for the Support You Need

With this new pricing model, you can pay less if you don’t need access to higher level of support. So what is the difference between VIP Support and Forum Support?

VIP Support (Ticketing System):

VIP Support gives you access to the product developers who can:

• Login to your website to identify issues and fix them;
• Correct minor design and compatibility issues;
• Address any other issues.

Forum Support:

Forum Support lets you:

• Ask “How to…” questions;
• Get advice about the best way to use the product;
• Ask any other questions that don’t require logging in to your website.

Note: Developers do not access the forum to answer questions. They only give support via our VIP Support ticketing system.

Sounds interesting?

Check out these discounted rates:

• Guru – Starting at $97 for the “Try it Out” plan
• Publisher – Starting at $77 for the “Try it Out” plan
• iJoomla SEO – Starting at $47 for the “Try it Out” plan
• iJoomla DigiStore – Starting at $47 for the “Try it Out” plan
• iJoomla Ad Agency – Starting at $47 for the “Try it Out” plan
• iJoomla Surveys – Starting at $37 for the “Try it Out” plan
• iJoomla SideBars – Starting at $37 for the “Try it Out” plan

Let’s try it out!

This is definitely a big change for us and we are giving it a try for a few months. If it works well and customers like it, we’ll keep it. If not, we’ll revert back to the old model so grab your product while the prices last.

What about Joomla 3.x?

We are currently working on converting two products to Joomla 3.x, including full bootstrap and responsive design:

• Ad Agency – Read about it here.
• Guru – Read about it here.

Once these two are released, we’ll move on to:

• Publisher
• iJoomla SEO
• DigiStore

then

• iJoomla Surveys
• iJoomla SideBars

Converting to Joomla 3.x is not easy or fast! It will take us some time but we will get it done, just like we did the migration from 1.x to 1.5 and then from 1.5 to 2.5. Hopefully, this will be the last big migration we’ll ever have to do.

Here are some screen captures from Guru:

Integrations with JomSocial

You probably already know that we took over the JomSocial project at the beginning of the year. This has been quite an undertaking and lots of fun. You can read what we’ve been doing on the JomSocial blog.

Since JomSocial is now one of our products, you will be seeing much tighter integrations with our other products, specifically Guru and possibly Publisher. Ad Agency is already fully integrated. What other integration ideas do you have? Post them on our blog. We’d love to hear them.

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Joomla Social Ad Targeting with JomSocial & Ad Agency

We get lots of suggestions from our customers for features and Joomla enhancements that they’d like to see. We try to act on those suggestions whenever possible.

We’ve now acted on the request that we see most often.

We’ve integrated  JomSocial with Ad Agency!

This revolutionary version of Ad Agency will help you take your advertising program to the next level — guaranteed!

Why JomSocial?

Let’s face it, since JomSocial came out, other community components for Joomla have been put to shame! JomSocial is comprehensive, powerful and its developers keep adding cool new features all the time. When it comes to Joomla and Social, JomSocial is the best solution around.

Target Any Ad Based on JomSocial Profile Info

• Want to show your ads only to women?
• Want to show your ads only to people with a college degree?
• Want to show your ads only to women over 30 with a college degree?

Easy! Simple! Done.

It’s called “Social Media Targeting.”

What is Social Media Targeting ?

Social Media Targeting lets you use all of the demographic data available on social media sites to shoot your ads directly to the people most likely to buy.

From Wikipedia:

Video: Social Targeting With Jom Social and Ad Agency

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/34346192[/vimeo]

If Facebook Does it, So Should You

Ever notice how well the ads on Facebook match your interests? It’s creepy… like Facebook can read your mind.

Actually, it can read your profile.

Everyone on Facebook has a profile, and that profile is packed with valuable information. It let advertisers be very specific about who sees their ads. Google has nothing that comes close. AdWords? That’s so five years ago. Social ads are what it’s all about now. It’s the secret to successful advertising and it’s what’s made Mark Zuckerberg a very rich man.

It’s Great for You Because:

When you can convince your advertisers that they can target the very best leads, you’ll find it easier to sell your space and for a lot more money!

After all, would you rather pay $100 for 5,000 useless clicks or $200 for 200 clicks that might actually convert?

Advertisers don’t have to throw their hard earned cash on people who aren’t likely to buy their products

It’s Great for Advertisers Because:

They don’t have to throw their hard earned cash on people who aren’t likely to buy their products. They can be as specific as they want with their ad and target ONLY the people who are the most likely to turn into paying customers.

For example, when I advertise iJoomla.com on Facebook, I only show my ads to people who mention “Joomla.” I don’t want to pay for people to click on my ad unless they are using Joomla and may become customers.

Ad Targeting – The Secret of Your Advertising Program Success

If you want to sell advertising packages on your website, you need to offer content-targeted advertising. It’s the only way to be sure you’re monetizing your website in the most effective way possible.

Help Advertisers Choose You, Not Your Competition

To persuade prospective advertisers to advertise on YOUR site and not on your competitors’ sites, you have to convince them that their money will be well-spent.

You have to make them believe that they will get back the maximum amount of revenue from their investment.

Here’s the advice your advertisers are likely reading online:

As you can see, advertisers are being advised NOT to advertise on any site unless it allows them to target their ads — smart advice!

You have to convince advertisers that their money will be well-spent.

You Can Charge More for Targeted Ads!

Targeted ads get more response than generic ads. We’ve seen it again and again, and that value translates into higher prices.

You can charge 2-10 times more for targeted ads! Give your advertisers the ability to target their ads and your site will be much further down the road to serious financial success.

Seamless and Effective Integration

I know. You think integrating targeted ads is going to be a lot of work and the last thing you want is more work.

I get it. As an entrepreneur myself, I know you don’t want a bigger workload. So let me assure you that adding targeted ads is the easiest and most seamless integration you could ever hope for!

How Does It work?

Select the profile questions to include in ad targeting.

Select which fields you'd like to include in the social media targeting

On the back-end, the admin can choose the ad’s targeting.

Adding Social Targeting to an ad on the backend

And on the front-end, advertisers can now choose the ad targeting, too.

Advertisers can choose how to target the ad

Do you have an online community? Will you be using this feature?