Few things here.
The Bad.
- Very few WEB2.0 sites (12)
- Poor creation submission rates (under 50%) for WEB2
- $147 every 2 years for major updates (even with lifetime licence)
- Captcha affiliation (you will pay double for captchas through the inbuilt api)
The Good
- Bookmarking Demon and Article Marketing Demon included
- Add your own sites
- Easy to use
- WILL IMPROVE
WHY?
Well, you see the last two points in the "bad" section. That means that effectively everyone is paying a sub of some kind on this. The financial model Edwinsoft use relies on continued revenue from captcha afilliation and updates..not just new adopters.
BMD is 6 years old now, and still has regular updates (last one was just a couple of weeks ago)
For this to continue they need to do a couple of things;
- Add several more WEB2 sites (make it at least 20...12 is not enough)
- Fix these sites on a weekly/bi weekly basis so that at least 80% of them always run the correct sign up or submission scripts
- Maybe tidy the interface a little.
Personally, having dealt with these guys for a few years now, I think this will happen - though why the feck they didn't choose me for the Beta - or give me a few free months is beyond me.
I don't live or die by any one product, but I know for darn sure that Brian visits BHW - and the amount of free training and advice I've given on BMD esspecially you'd have thought he'd have
[I'm joking BTW]
So not for everyone - not as good as the nukex yet (which I'll come out and say is a darn site better than Nuke was by the end of it's gibblet trailing life) - but potentially a very good investment in a month or two when the release bugs have been ironed out, something I'm confident will happen.
For many solo IMers (to whom the triple licenese that NukeX offers means little or nothing) then this software will come in at a decent price point for what it offers - once fixed up. It's a third of the price of NukeX - and remember NukeX lasted about 2 and a half years - then you had to buy the major upgrade. At leat UD guys are telling us about this BEFORE it happens - as it surely will with every piece of quality IM software out there. (except maybe scrapebox). Even allowing for the captcha affiliation - (say and extra $30 a month) this will still roll in at half the cost of Nuke - and if it does what your IM strategy calls for...then that's just fine.
I will add this though...
For the money it costs, the ongoing captcha affiliate and the bi-annual update fee, it NEEDS to be good, otherwise it'll sink without a trace.
Scritty