Mike Filsaime Butterfly Marketing Script Now Open Source

Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Applications, Marketing, Thought of the day by Tim Brownlaw - Apr 13 2010

A funny thing happened to me on the way to my Inbox…

Well actually it happened when I got to my inbox and read this email regarding Mike Filsaime giving away the source code to his ButterFly Marketing Script.

First of all disbelief struck me. After all Mike’s been selling this script for sometime now and the people who bought it have done quite well with it.

The other reason disbelief flooded through my veins was the fact that our group at Internet Niche Lab have been developing a much smaller version of a membership script over the last few weeks and this drops in my lap!

You Can Modify this script and resell it!

That’s right, you can make it your own, promote it and sell it. Using the script itself to do it of course. Well that falls right up my alley.

I’m looking over this script!

I’ve installed the script and it worked straight out of the box as you would expect and I’m going over it to see what it has. Plus what we can do to improve/ add to it.

It’s Free So you can get your own!

Yep, you can go and grab it right now at ButterFlyOpenSource .

Is there a Catch?

You bet there is! But it is a clever one. Mike has started up a “Developers Network” which costs $200USD one time payment.

The reason behind this is simple, Mike will be building a community of developers and I’m guessing, any improvements will be available to the members.

For me, I’m going to sit back on that offer. First of all I’ve got to take a good look at this code.

But if you have a spare $200USD and want to join in on this community I’d strongly suggest that you do. As you’ll be getting fresh updates, to what was already an effective script, for a lot less than the >$1200 price tag it once had and you are looking for a good solid membership script. Then it’s a bargain.

Being able to be a part of a Community of a Software project that will greatly benefit you is a golden opportunity.

The Downside!

The downside is, if you do choose to resell the Free script that is available, all support etc falls upon your shoulders.

Which is only fair. You get it for Free, it becomes your baby along with everything you need to do to support it.

You’d have to make your own changes or hire a programmer to do them. There are a few gremlins in the Free Version but it’s still quite useable.

This is another clever example of list building by giving away a very neat script with the aim of getting people to join the Developers Network.

So there is a lesson to be learned from all this. It’s a great way to get folk in front of his Developers Network and be inside where all the action is.

What’s Next?

Well I’m going to show this to the gang at Internet Niche Lab and see if we should persure using this script for what we want to do. And if you join us at Internet Niche Lab as a paid member, you’ll get the changes / modes we will be making, plus you’ll have access to all the other useful scripts we develop.

In my PHP Classes, that is what we do. We find a problem and write a script to solve it. The membership script being one of those. Now we have access to use the ButterFlyOpenSource script as a basis to solve this issue.

I’ll have a follow up to this as soon as I delve further into this amazing script!

Till then, happy marketing and website building etc.

Cheers

Tim Brownlaw

[Update - 6 Feb 2011]

I’m now using the Butterfly Marketing Script on a new membership site I am creating.
It’s still in it’s early days but you can see what’s going on over at LookingOverMyShoulder.com