Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Another Kajabi Update

It's another email from the guys at Kajabi:

Hi, it’s Andy Jenkins, Travis Rosser, and Kenny Rueter from Kajabi with another Development update for you.

Beta Launch #3 Complete

In May, John Reese executed and delivered his product “Outsource Force” using the Kajabi platform. Once again, Kajabi delivered another near-flawless performance, opening the way for the start of the official private Kajabi Beta.

Private Kajabi Beta

During Frank Kern and Trey Smith’s “List Control Launch”, Andy Jenkins offered a bonus for those who purchased via his Affiliate Link.  That bonus was exclusive access to the Kajabi Beta Program.  That program kicked off June 1st, and is currently underway. This week, developers will issue administrative credentials to the beta testers, and allow them full access to all of Kajabi’s current beta feature set.

FINAL Launch Beta Test – Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula 3.0

We are very pleased to announce that Jeff Walker, author of Product Launch Formula, will be launching his latest version of Product Launch Formula on the Kajabi platform.
This is a true honor for us, as many of the features of the Launch Module of Kajabi were based in part on Jeff’s marketing concepts and fundamentals.  In many ways, this is one of the ultimate milestones for Kajabi, and we’re excited to not only host Jeff’s launch and coaching fulfillment, but also proudly support Jeff’s launch as an affiliate.

Coincidentally,the initial pre-launch content for this product launch is themed around  “Product Launch Disasters”, and many of the examples that Jeff gives stem from Technological deficiencies that often occur during a launch process — something that Kajabi was designed to overcome.
Good Luck Jeff!

IMPORTANT NEW FEATURE

With the popularity of mobile devices on the rise, the recent Apple/Adobe controversy over Flash, and HTML 5 on the horizon, we have committed to enabling HTML 5 browser detection for the retail release of Kajabi.
That means that users visiting a Kajabi enabled site from a mobile device such as an iPhone or iPad will be delivered an HTML5 version of that Kajabi page, enabling mobile users to experience media hosted on the Kajabi platform.

Time line:

Progress on the platform has increased dramatically, especially since the introduction of the beta testing group.  We have again added additional Human Capital Resources for our final push to retail readiness. While we are reluctant to issue an official date for retail readiness, our current status has us feeling very confident that we’ll be seeing Kajabi available to the public in 6-8 weeks.  We’re confident that we’ll have an official release date for you by the first week in July.

As final beta milestones are met, we’ll update you on our progress.

All the Best,
Kenny Rueter, Travis Rosser, and Andy Jenkins.

Kajabi Updates

Here's an email from the Kajabi Development Team:

Kajabi Development Update

Hi, it’s Andy Jenkins, Travis Rosser, and Kenny Rueter from Kajabi with another Development update for you.

Beta Launch #2 Complete

In late March, Frank Kern and Trey Smith executed and delivered their product “List Control” using the Kajabi platform. While Kajabi remains in early beta stages, the launch was a stunning success and provided tremendous feedback continuing to develop the platform.

Given Frank and Trey’s immense popularity, and the compressed, short launch time-line, the traffic to the Kajabi Powered Launch Media was extreme – in some cases, double the magnitude of the longer duration Video Boss Launch.

The result was page load times remaining under 2 seconds even while experiencing over 4,400 concurrent visitors. See Screen Shot from the real-time analytics package ChartBeat:

The List Control Launch also allowed us an opportunity to integrate Kajabi with another eCommerce Platform, namely InfusionSoft. The integration was completely successful.

List Control is in the final stages of customer delivery, and to date, Frank and Trey report a high-degree of satisfaction both from their Administrative efforts and their customer’s usability of the platform.


New Features

“Klub”

Last week, we rolled out a new, very powerful social interaction and community feature into both the Video Boss and List Control Portal tentatively called “Klub”. “Klub” features enables users to track all of their interactions with a program from their personalized Dashboard – conveniently gathering their questions, comments, and responses to their activity in one section.

“Klub” also introduces the concept of User Groups, allowing for the creation of specific topical discussions (That exist outside of the tutorial-specific coaching) on a more personalized level. Users are already engaging in Joint Ventures, sub-contracting projects to one another, and discussing new ideas and concepts in the technical and design areas of the “Klub”.

Further development of “Klub” will introduce content consumption tracking, individual “My Notes” creation, as well as Private Messaging between members.

“Kreator”

Kajabi’s drag-and-drop Theme & Template Publishing Engine are currently in heavy development, allowing users simple, intuitive web-page creation for online content distribution. “Kreator” will be robust and deep enough to allow many users to replace their current blogging platform with an all in once content delivery and management solution within Kajabi.

“Krunch”

We are in the initial stages of deploying a Cloud-Based Media Encoding Engine, which enables various flavors of Audio and Video Media Encoding to take place inside the interface of Kajabi.


New Technology

“Kompute”

We have successfully migrated Kajabi’s core database to a new, significantly larger enterprise level of service, in anticipation of the next private beta stage, which is scheduled tentatively for late May.

The Road Ahead

Starting in today, April 29th, we will be deploying Kajabi for another Product Launch from another TOP Internet Marketer, John Reese. Again, we’ll publish the results of that test to you once we’ve done a systems debrief.

You can see Kajabi in action at John’s site: The $2 Per Hour Power Formula (sp) (http://www.outsourceforce.com)


In future revisions of Kajabi, we anticipate the following additional features:

“Kommunicator” – a fully featured Email Marketing Service.
“Kart” – adds ecommerce functionality directly in Kajabi.

Time line:

Progress is steady, if not rapid. Key Metrics and Milestones are getting checked off regularly, and we have added additional human capital resources to the development team.

We have an important milestone schedule for late May – a private beta with Customers of Andy Jenkins who purchased List Control via his affiliate link. We will begin messaging those beta-testers in approximately 3 weeks to prepare them for the Structured Beta-Test.

As new launches are executed and additional milestones are met, we’ll update you on our progress.

All the Best,

Kenny Rueter, Travis Rosser, and Andy Jenkins.

What is Kajabi?

From Kajabi.com

Kajabi was developed for Marketers, BY Marketers. Our first goal is to simplify the deployment of Marketing Campaigns, Sales Funnels, and Product Launches from their current technical complexity down to Drag-and-Drop Ease.
Kajabi's second goal is to streamline, simplify, and reduce the cost of deploying membership portals and controlled access (Paid or Unpaid) community sites so Marketers have an alternative way to publish and deliver content and interact directly with their customers – without sketchy and unreliable integration or technological jury-rigging.