It’s been an extremely exciting two weeks since we launched our alpha! We had initially planned to market our tool to the 150 people who have signed up to be notified about our launch and mention it periodically on Twitter and Facebook. However, the conversions didn’t result in enough data to help us with testing so we submitted the 123LinkIt Affiliate Plugin to WordPress this past Wednesday.

Things immediately changed. In fact, we had almost 170 downloads and 80 account signups in the first day alone! You can imagine how ecstatic we were…that is until we learned our tool didn’t work :-/

It turned out WordPress renamed our zipped file which caused the plugin to break. Alex and I spent the night testing it and pushing through the updates needed to get it fixed. The days since have been a whirlwind! Our goals for this alpha have been to get data flowing through our system, fix bugs and get feedback on new features – and we’re meeting all of them. Our traffic and downloads are also continuing to grow and we’ve already started tracking commissions.

What’s our goal for the following two weeks? We’ll be focusing on making the plugin even better with more automated features. Stay tuned for more updates!

And last but not least – thanks to everyone who has contributed so far. We’re grateful for all your feedback and ideas and we couldn’t have gotten this far without you!