Bapu Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Funny... I was just thinking about this site this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Software Deals Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Thanks all, unfortunately there are issues with 8Dio's website so we'll just have to remove it from our pricing as its quite difficult to pull the most up to date prices. I think its probably safe to just say everything is generally 70% off at some point in time there anyway Thanks for letting us know the email alerts aren't working, checking now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) It seems that current Best Service deals for Applied Acoustics Systems are not showing up in Music Software Deals. MSD only shows the AAS deals at Audiodeluxe, JRRshop, & Pluginboutique. But if you set MSD options to "show expired deals", then Best Service listings shows up for AAS. https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/?jsf=jet-engine:main&tax=manufacturers:86 https://musicsoftwaredeals.com/?jsf=jet-engine:main&tax=manufacturers:86&meta=filter-tag:active https://www.bestservice.com/en/aas.html https://www.bestservice.com/en/asymmetric_string_studio_vs-3_soundpack.html Edited February 23, 2023 by abacab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mibby Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 @Music Software Deals I had some "Price Alert" emails this morning - thanks! FR - can you put the name of the plugin in the subject of the email? Right now each email says "Price Alert" in the subject. How about "Price Alert - Softube Tape" instead? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Software Deals Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 On 2/24/2023 at 12:25 PM, mibby said: @Music Software Deals I had some "Price Alert" emails this morning - thanks! FR - can you put the name of the plugin in the subject of the email? Right now each email says "Price Alert" in the subject. How about "Price Alert - Softube Tape" instead? Thanks! Thanks. Yep we'll definitely try to do that 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Software Deals Posted March 5, 2023 Share Posted March 5, 2023 (edited) We've been tracking the most popular products and have now added "Sort by Popularity" to our default sorting options Edited March 14, 2023 by Music Software Deals 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Software Deals Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 (edited) Two quick updates: 1. We've removed JRR from the site 2. We've added easy links to the Popular stores Removing JRR: Unfortunately we've had to remove JRR from our price tracking, not because of a lack of financial incentive (they don't have an affiliate program) but because the way they name products on their website makes it impossible to continue tracking accurately. For example, every other store would name a product something like "Granulate by Company" but JRR renames every product with lots of keywords (probably for SEO) so "Granulate by Company" becomes "Granulate Granular AU/VST Synth Plugin by Company". This creates two versions of the same product on our website and while we do have a process for merging duplicate products (when a deal is merged with another, our site remembers the previous name and will auto merge it in future based on that name) its impossible to do it for the multiple thousands of products they have on their store and as our aim is to be as automated as possible, we had to just give up trying to continually fix their product names 😔 Adding links to Popular stores: See attachment - we added easy access to the popular stores in the quick search section. Clicking a store icon will display the deals from that store Side note, we also removed 8Dio from the site for various reasons... Also, if anyone is curious how much a site like this makes, last month we made $400 in affiliate commissions with a monthly running cost of $55. We may eventually add a banner or two at some point in the future as traffic increases Edited April 12, 2023 by Music Software Deals 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibby Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 Looking good and too bad about JRR. That's a good store. Thanks for the transparency on the commissions info. That's disappointing for all the work that goes into the site, but I've been very curious. Hopefully you're heading in the right direction. Also, the email reminders continue to work, but only with "Price alert" in the subject... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullHorn Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 (edited) Being able to see historic sale prices for plugins like IsThereAnyDeal does for videogames would be an amazing feature, at least for the purpose of giving a general idea if a plugin ever goes on sale and how steep the % is. -EDIT: Nevermind looks like it already does that! Edited April 12, 2023 by BullHorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Software Deals Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 17 minutes ago, BullHorn said: Being able to see historic sale prices for plugins like IsThereAnyDeal does for videogames would be an amazing feature, at least for the purpose of giving a general idea if a plugin ever goes on sale and how steep the % is. -EDIT: Nevermind looks like it already does that! That the whole point of the website haha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Software Deals Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 2 hours ago, mibby said: Looking good and too bad about JRR. That's a good store. Thanks for the transparency on the commissions info. That's disappointing for all the work that goes into the site, but I've been very curious. Hopefully you're heading in the right direction. Also, the email reminders continue to work, but only with "Price alert" in the subject... Thanks for reminding me, will see if we can update the Price Alert subject! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 4 hours ago, Music Software Deals said: Removing JRR: Unfortunately we've had to remove JRR from our price tracking, not because of a lack of financial incentive (they don't have an affiliate program) but because the way they name products on their website makes it impossible to continue tracking accurately. For example, every other store would name a product something like "Granulate by Company" but JRR renames every product with lots of keywords (probably for SEO) so "Granulate by Company" becomes "Granulate Granular AU/VST Synth Plugin by Company". This creates two versions of the same product on our website and while we do have a process for merging duplicate products (when a deal is merged with another, our site remembers the previous name and will auto merge it in future based on that name) its impossible to do it for the multiple thousands of products they have on their store and as our aim is to be as automated as possible, we had to just give up trying to continually fix their product names 😔 Did you try sending a note to "Uncle E" to see if there is any way JRR could standardize their product naming? I'm sure that they would likely prefer to remain on a tool that drives traffic to their website, if it's not too major of a hoop for them to jump thru... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Software Deals Posted April 12, 2023 Share Posted April 12, 2023 12 minutes ago, abacab said: Did you try sending a note to "Uncle E" to see if there is any way JRR could standardize their product naming? I'm sure that they would likely prefer to remain on a tool that drives traffic to their website, if it's not too major of a hoop for them to jump thru... No never tried contacting him but I'm assuming its unlikely they would consider changing their entire website naming schemes just because of our website. I'm guessing they continue to rename their products with SEO type product names because it has always worked well for them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Software Deals Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 (edited) We've updated the site with a new "Featured Deals" section at the top. These aren't sponsored or paid for, just deals we want to feature that we think are (subjectively) good. We'll update them every few days. The idea is simply to have something to draw your eyes to immediately without having to start searching for ideas. The section disappears when you start a cstom search. Also, we're currently working on creating an automated newsletter that will go out each week with all of the latest deals in it. It will have a link to all of the deals of that particular time period in a table format then too. Question for everyone - if you were interested in this, would you find it useful to be able to select to signup to only deals from specific manufacturers (eg. only send me deals from uJam + Baby Audio each week), or specific categories (eg. only send me deals on compressors) or is that overkill? Edited July 7, 2023 by Music Software Deals 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibby Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 1 hour ago, Music Software Deals said: if you were interested in this, would you find it useful to be able to select to signup to only deals from specific manufacturers (eg. only send me deals from uJam + Baby Audio each week), or specific categories (eg. only send me deals on compressors) or is that overkill? Another great idea! But definitely give users the CLEAR option to opt out of getting the emails. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Software Deals Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 2 minutes ago, mibby said: Another great idea! But definitely give users the CLEAR option to opt out of getting the emails. Thanks. Yes of course all email signups will be double optin (you have to confirm you want the emails before signup completes) and has an easy unsubscribe option at the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibby Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 It would still be nice to see the name of the plugin on sale in the emails. -- OR -- Maybe better, a summarized email with ALL of your plugins you're watching that are on sale at the moment. This is what my email client looks like currently... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music Software Deals Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 50 minutes ago, mibby said: It would still be nice to see the name of the plugin on sale in the emails. -- OR -- Maybe better, a summarized email with ALL of your plugins you're watching that are on sale at the moment. This is what my email client looks like currently... Apologies, we had it on the list but it was forgotten because we were working on other email stuff too. I've just re-added it now thanks so hopefully we can update it soon, shouldn't be too much work! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibby Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 I just got some emails. Looks great! Thanks @Music Software Deals guy! 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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