Tell me why you don't use StatsRemote

50 StatsRemote users...

No need to be sorry... their system is pretty good as well

Personally I think it's cheap since the updates are regural and fast. How much does it cost? $30/month? I can tell you all of us pay a shitload of money to things that have much less value for the # they cost. Another thing, e-mail JB and ask for a program to add that happens to be the only one using it. I can tell you on the next update it will be there.

Not only that, but I'm a cheap fuck and I love to check my sponsors manually!

I haven't used it. It seems like a nice program and I would rather pay $20 or 21.95 a month for the service. The main reason I don't use it is because I use roboform to log into stats. Takes a few min a day only.

Stats Remote is easily the best $30 a month I spend. It's paid for itself many times over.

I can easily open it up and see how sales are going today, how sales went yesterday, forecasts for this month. I can easily see who is converting and who isn't so I know where to put more effort. I can easily see big jumps or drops in traffic, which helps me see where I may have got new listings, etc.

I love Stats Remote.

Because there is no Linux version and it does not execute properly under wine.
Build a Linux, Solaris or HP-UX version and I will buy it

what he said

I use it, but would love to have the ability to use tabs. This way I can organize sponsors more easily.

For instance, I promote to 3 seperate companies. Having them on their own tab with their own totals would be awesome! Instead of all mixed in to one, or spread out over 3 computers and only running one copy at a time.

Just my !

But it's an awesome program that's well worth the money!
Kenny

I love Stats Remote!

DH

Why statsremote requires Microsoft JVM?

Very true.. its very handy.

When you put it like one of the posters did it really is $365/year.. which isnt pocket change. . .

10 min every day = 300 min a month....
if 5 hours of your time doesn't worth 30 bucks, well....sucks to be you.

Oracle's brain transplant was successful.

Before Stats Remote I would spend at least an hour a day checking and analyzing stats. Thats well over 300 hours a year. By spending $365 a year I save 300 hours, thats $1 an hour. Now I don't know about you folks, but my time is MUCH more valuable to me than $1 an hour.

$365 a year IS pocket change.

Yep I did, thanks

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I like the *kaching* it makes for every sale. It's kinda inspiring

I was going to check it out but the trial required a pre-payment and I doubt I could find time in just 3 days to really look at it. You need a longer trial or a demo membership for a month.

As well in these times when so many things seem to be going wrong (Ibill) I think I have become very conscious of all the little costs. And like someone said for $29.95 / mo I could get a new TM3 install etc. I seem to be becoming very cheap.

Those points aside I would love to try it, as I think it may be a valuable tool for spotting trends quickly.

i want to sell stats remote to other webmasters as an affiliate.

can you set me up on your affiliate program?

i am an avid SR user, and i can send you a lot of business.

thanks,
vi

Firstly, thanks for all the good words guys


Of course, people would rather pay $20 than $30 but most people are either willing to pay money for such a software or not. BTW if you get a yearly subscription you only pay $24.92 per month

And you can't really compate using roboform to using StatsRemote. Roboform just helps you to login to the stats in your browser while StatsRemote does a lot more.

If you want to check it out please send the following info to jb AT statsremote DOT com

- First and Last Name
- Email Address
- Desired Username
- Desired Password

I will then setup a temp pass for you.


Maybe you shouldn't drink wine when you execute it

Seriously, what's the problem with executing it under windows?


Because it's a Java software.


If you get a yearly subscription you only pay $299 per year

Also, IMHO if $30 per month is too much for a tool that can save you many hours every month you don't value your time enough.


Three days should be more than enough to know whether StatsRemote is for you or not. Most of our members can't live without it anymore after the first day You download the software, enter all your accounts and you're done. StatsRemote will check all your stats including historical stats and then check your stats every 15 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours... however you set it.

If you want to check it out please send the following info to jb AT statsremote DOT com

- First and Last Name
- Email Address
- Desired Username
- Desired Password

I will then setup a temp pass for you.

One of the smartest things Oracle ever said.

We don't have a referral program anymore and don't plan to launch a new one. We had hundreds of affiliates but less than 5% of our sales came through affiliates and many of them were members that only referred themselves to get the software cheaper.

If we opened a new referral program many people would again just signup to get the software cheaper. And if we opened an invite only program many of our members wouldn't be too happy if we didn't let them sign up.

Sorry...

Even before working for the creators of StatsRemote, I've always liked the product from what I've seen. The reason I don't use it is because I'm strictly a programmer and don't promote affiliates.

We went a head and got it for the year.

Yep, more and more people are switching from monthly to yearly as they are certain that they will use StatsRemote for a long time

cant afford it right now, have to pay off dr bills from 2 broken wrists and right now I have no income....

Sorry to hear that

me 2...

Love it! More addictive than crack.
Great for watching ppc numbers and knowing if something is going wrong like last week on google one of my "keywords" was "slowed" so they slowed my entire ad. Could have cost me a bunch of money if I hadn't noticed for a day or so.
Very good for comparing sponsor to sponsor all the way down to the cost per click level.

while I do love statsremote, i BARELY check my stats as it is....I am one of the few that only checks stats one day every two weeks or month....i take a while day and make it stats day...

I am on my first month and I'm undecided whether to go for a second: probably not.

I got it because since I started using hosted galleries for my TGP's it is obvious that some are good and others are just taking up space I could put to better use. And when you start needing to check dozens of sponsors, then the cost of SR doesn't seem as bad.

The problem is that a high %age of such sponsors use ccBill and only by de-centralizing your ccBill stats can SR identify individual sponsor numbers. Not a big deal until you discover that ccBill also have a limit on how many times an IP can hit their stats server before it gets blocked.

That in turn might not be an impossible barrier, except they won't tell you what the limit is. So the only way to know if you could hit 100 sets of stats daily, would be to set the whole thing up and find out... and then have to put everything back to where you started if it didn't work out.

All of which is ccBill's fault rather than SR's, but it still means that SR only saves me a fraction of the work I was hoping it could achieve...

Yep, it's especially useful if you advertise on ppc search engines. There's one ppc se where we don't want to be in the top 10 for certain keywords. We get a lot of traffic if we're in the top 10 but the traffic quality is much worse than for listings on the second page (results 11-20). With StatsRemote we always notice it immediately if we're in the top 10 as then the difference column shows a much higher amount than usual every 15 minutes.

BTW here's an article I wrote about two years ago if anybody is interested...

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Know all your numbers!

If you promote many different programs it can get very difficult and time consuming to keep track of all your numbers. Which program works best with your traffic? Which program makes you the most money?

You usually have to login to each stats area in order to check your current numbers. Furthermore some programs provide statistics monthly, others weekly or bi-weekly. As a result the statistics are not directly comparable. You have to use, for example, a spreadsheet program to track and compare your numbers.

It gets even more difficult, if you advertise your sites in pay per click search engines such as Overture. If you play this game you know how dangerous it can be if you don't monitor your traffic closely.

IMHO many people lose a lot of money because they don't keep an eye on their stats. Others spend a lot of time analyzing their stats and can't do any 'real' work during that time. We belonged to the second group. Over the last years we have developed several tools to make our life easier and our work more productive.

We thought there must be a way to automate the whole process and started to develop a software to check all our stats automatically. Stats Remote was born. It keeps track of all stats and provides a common monthly based view of your numbers. The software can check your stats as often as every 15 minutes and displays all your current numbers and a forecast for the month for each program and in total.

By using such a tool you will make more money in the long run. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, you will save time ? if you're an obsessive stats checker, a lot of time. Now you can use this time to build more sites, galleries, etc. Secondly, you will be able to compare your sponsors better and change your marketing and/or links accordingly.

Just ask yourself the following questions: How much time do I spend checking and analyzing my stats every day? How much more traffic could I get if I used that time to build more sites, galleries, etc.? How much money do I sometimes lose because I don't keep an eye on my stats and send thousands of hits to a sponsor that doesn't convert my traffic?

Whether you use a software or check your stats manually there is one thing you should always remember: Sponsors count hits differently. Some sponsors count first page raw's, some count second page unique's, and others seem to count eighth page unique's even though there is no eighth page. It always amazes me when people compare the ratios of two sponsors that count hits totally differently and base their decisions only on these ratios.

Therefore a software like Stats Remote can only help you to a certain extend. You will have all your numbers right in front of you but you still have to make the right decisions by yourself. Always remember: A fool with a tool is still a fool ;-)

If you have any questions or need further information please feel free to contact us by ICQ (5210719) or Email (support AT statsremote.com).

Article written by JB.

http://www.statsremote.com

Yep, I know the situation with CCBill is not perfect but unfortunately there's nothing we can do from our end. I totally understand CCBill's position on this though. If hundreds of StatsRemote members checked dozens of CCBill accounts all the time, it would slow down the whole system.

I forget how long it's been but I'm happy and so is Turboface.

I don't dispute that for a moment, but they won't even tell you what you can check whether it be 100 accounts once a day, once a week or what. So you are totally screwed instead of just needing to dial back to something reasonable.

It's very depressing that ccBill are becoming more popular with sponsors, because their attitude towards affiliates has always been that's the way it is, you don't like it, tough.

i have it on my pc, but i use my apple laptop 99% of the time... so i really do miss it

I've been using Stats Remote for nearly a year, my membership renews on the 29th but I don't think I'll be renewing. I'd probably renew if I could use it on my laptop and PC but the single computer license is limiting. Don't get me wrong, it's a great program, just gets some stats really wrong a lot of the time.

so you dont like to see what sites are doing good and what sites arent? i like to keep an eye on my ratios and drop poor sponsors and send more traffic to good sponsors.

Which stats does it get wrong a lot of the time? When we get an error report we usually fix it for the next update and in 95% of the cases wrong or no stats in StatsRemote are due to programs changing their stats.

As for the single-user license... you can use it on your laptop and your PC, just not at the same time. Why is it limiting if it's only you using the software? IMHO it's no problem to close or pause it on the computer you're not working on. And if you forget it once in a while it's no big deal either

It is a good software. Crack floating around so you do not have to waste $ on it.

So, first you break a deal we had with you and now you're using a cracked version of StatsRemote? Way to go...

BTW how do you get any updates with a cracked version?

i do

No reply to this, Brad? Oh well, why doesn't this surprise me...

JB if I used more than 6 sponsors I would use statsremote. One only has so much traffic to go around you know

Even if we had affiliates, I still wouldn't allow it. I'd rather not have dozens of affiliates pounding our stats system with an automated script.

The problem is that I DON'T HAVE windows, so unless you make a Linux, Solaris or HP-UX version I cannot use your product... And I don't drink wine Wine is a windows emulator that runs windows progs under Linux. As it's not a complete emulation some stuff fails... and SR is one of the apps that fails to run properly under wine.

I realize that you will not code a custom version for me, but you asked why I don't use it and you got my answer.

Well, quite a few affiliate program owners didn't want to be included in StatsRemote first. Most of them contacted us some time later and asked us if we could include them as some of their affiliates told them that they wouldn't promote them if they can't use StatsRemote to check their stats


I'm not a programmer but I guess the reason why it doesn't work is because there's not Microsoft JVM for Wine.

Yep, thats the truth. Especially for webmasters promoting dozens of programs, Statsremote is essential. Excellent software and excellent technical support make for a fantastic product!

Thanks