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Last Monday, we publicly launched the Rainmaker Platform. It’s a complete website solution for content marketers and Internet entrepreneurs.

With Rainmaker, you can:

Create powerful content-driven websites on your own domains.

Build membership sites and online training courses.

Sell digital products like software, ebooks, and more.

Perform sophisticated online lead generation.

Optimize your content for search engines and social networks.

Absorb cutting-edge tactics and strategy with included training.

Avoid a patchwork of plugins, themes, and complicated code.

Forget about upgrades, maintenance, security, and hosting headaches.

Take your content to WordPress at any time you choose.

A whole lot more …

We’ve had a large group of paid customers putting it to the test and giving us feedback since April. They got a special deal to do so, and now that we’ve evolved the Platform to version 2.0 thanks to them (their rave reviews are here), we’re giving you just a few more days to get the very same deal.

In a nutshell: Until this Friday, October 3, 2014 at 5:00 pm Pacific, you get our very best price on what Rainmaker is today, with everything it will become included at no extra charge.

Let me outline for you what those coming features are in 7 easy steps.

1. Advanced Reporting and Analytics

The way you see your business growing and changing each day will become even more useful in the near future. The Rainmaker Platform’s analytics and reporting functions will evolve with more advanced reporting options for those who want them.

You’ll be able to drill down into the stats that you really want to see, and slice and dice your preferences from within the dashboard itself. That means creating simple, at-a-glance views of the specific metrics you want (such as demographics, or specific segments of your customers and prospects).

This is exciting stuff, because you’d normally need a third-party tool to accomplish what we’re planning for analytics. For those who sign up this week, however, it comes standard with Rainmaker.

And yes, podcasting stats are on the way. Soon, you’ll be able to see how your podcast is performing, without the hassle of separate hosting and stats packages. We’ve got a few more ideas on the near horizon for Rainmaker Podcasting that we’re not quite ready to talk about (but you’ll get upgraded to). Just remember, we’re podcasters too, so you can bet we’re motivated to make this the best and easiest podcasting solution on the planet for entrepreneurs.

2. More Designs and Landing Page Templates

You may have noticed that there’s been a slight change in how we’re developing design themes lately. We call it the “Rainmaker First” philosophy.

Brian Gardner, Rafal Tomal, and Lauren Mancke are always hard at work designing and developing new themes and landing page templates, but now our (and their) focus has shifted to supplying our Rainmaker Platform customers with the best one-click web design in the world.

There are currently 27 design themes and 15 landing page templates (not including the new custom landing page builder) available to Rainmaker customers, and there are many more on the way.

And no, this does not mean we are neglecting our beloved StudioPress customers. In fact, this philosophy will end up benefitting everyone in the end. As these Rainmaker designs are tested and used in real-world online business situations, they’ll only get better.

3. Social Media Posting and Scheduling

This is a big one, and a no-brainer. Very soon, Rainmaker customers will be able to — from within the Rainmaker dashboard — post and schedule updates, links, photos, and other content to their social networks.

Your Rainmaker site is the home base of your business, and the importance of using social networks to attract an audience and send them back to your home base is undeniable. We think social media posting and scheduling tools have become a necessity for the savvy online publisher, but they should be integrated into your website platform with your daily workflow.

4. Integrated RSS Reader

So, the ability to post and schedule social media updates from your Rainmaker dashboard will be cool, but how do you find intriguing content from other sources to share with your audience? And how do you manage the very real potential for information overload?

That tool used to be Google Reader (RIP), but now, for our customers, it will be the Rainmaker Reader. This coming integrated RSS reader will be the place you’ll be able to strategically track your industry feeds, find great content to share, and glean inspiration for producing your own content.

5. Curation-to-Content Tools

Want to easily manage and publish a curated topical newsletter? Want that link from your RSS reader dropped into an existing post? How about effortlessly sending it out to your social media accounts?

The Rainmaker Curator will — with the click of a button — allow you to easily port the great content you find via RSS directly into a new or existing article you’re writing for your own audience. This will become an invaluable tool in your broader editorial role as a content marketer.

6. Serious Learning Management System

The first product ever launched off of Copyblogger, Teaching Sells, shows people step-by-step how to create sophisticated online training courses, along with the business models that power them. And since 2007, people have begged us to give them the turn-key platform that allowed for content creation, membership management, marketing, and all the other technological tasks that go with running a legitimate online business.

We’ve built that platform with Rainmaker. But we’re creating course creation tools that constitute a true learning management system — one that will help you with the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of e-learning education courses or training programs.

What does that mean? Effortlessly create a training course without a developer, optimize your course content based on student behavior and feedback, run quizzes and surveys, and drip out your content (either paid or free) exactly as you want to, and more.

7. And Yes, Marketing Automation

This is one of the most important technology applications that you’ll ever put in place for online marketing. And finally, it won’t cost you a ridiculous amount of money like the current solutions.

Marketing automation is not just about saving yourself from repeated tasks, or the drudgery of unscalable growth. Beyond those obvious benefits, its primary functions are:

To vastly improve the experience of your prospects and customers

To intelligently, and eventually effortlessly, grow revenue and profit

To make more of the traffic you already have without chasing more

Rainmaker Marketing Automation will allow you to tag, add, delete, and manage customers or prospects from your various email lists, build specific interest lists based on real-world actions on your site, nurture leads in a way that’s sensitive to their inbox, give you powerful suppression functionality, and much more.

You can use Mailchimp, Infusionsoft, Aweber, or the other popular email services we’re in the process of adding. Or you can choose the integrated add-on Rainmaker email service we’re working on right now. Either way, Rainmaker Marketing Automation will go to work for you in previously unimagined ways.

What’s the Catch?

Only one catch – you’ve got to start your free trial before 5:00 pm Pacific time this Friday, October 3rd, to get this deal. But if you do, you’ve got this deal for the life of your account once you decide Rainmaker is for you.

That means your price never increases even as we continue to improve, update, and manage the technology that powers your marketing platform. Which is nice.

After this Friday, Rainmaker as it is today becomes the Standard plan. The version of the platform that contains the features discussed above will become a more expensive Professional plan.

Also after Friday, the free trial will be reduced from 30 days to 14. And finally, right now we’re providing a monthly billing option, which we’re considering eliminating in favor of only quarterly and annual billing.

Got it? Cool …

Take the Rainmaker tour and start your free trial to lock in the deal.

About the author

Brian Clark

Brian Clark is founder and CEO of Copyblogger, and uncompromising evangelist for the Rainmaker Platform. Get more from Brian on Google+.

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