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AAN – Update e-mail from David Cheyne VP, AAN.

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

We hope you can get a general understanding from the below as to progress being made by AAN.

The good news for the ‘Power Investors’ is that their money is working for them, it would appear.

STILL NOT TIME TO INVEST YET!!

Hi Terry,


The past couple of weeks, I have sent you links to a few podcasts showing you how we do things here, and actual shots of our inventory.

The reason we did this, is to show you while you were waiting that we are indeed an actual company dealing with actual physical products.

We now have accumulated over 100,000 inventory items…

Some updates regarding inventory allocation.

I have been in touch with some of our top leaders on our leader boards, as they have direct connection with us, and I want to share with you what I shared with them.

 
Question:

[5/20/2009 1:20:05 PM] Tommy Styles (Neno): Ok david that sounds Good. It also indicates that assignment of mechandise has started yet, is that correct? I know in someones email that it was stated that the first 1000 had begun and, when visiting the forum a member #295 said they haven’t been yet in their back office. I do understand tho that all Monies are working Now, is that correct and that some may show profits from the get go? Appreciate your communication…Thanks Tommy/Neno

Answer:

[5/20/2009 1:50:47 PM] David Cheyne: inventory has been allocated to some members yes.  all moneys are working and are proper amounts aside from a few refunds that come in , but we update that prior to uploading inventory.

[5/20/2009 1:51:25 PM] David Cheyne: so everything is done….cept the inventory, which is primary task starting on Monday where we can finally free up all staff to work together from a file server with all the hosted images…

[5/20/2009 1:52:00 PM] David Cheyne: lots of things had to come together for this inventory module to work, and we have started some allocation but not full bore, because we are testing some things as we are allocating some…

[5/20/2009 1:52:56 PM] David Cheyne: yes, many members will see immediate profit, because much stuff has been turned over.  How it will work is that we will do an original entry for the inventory allocation right through as far as we can with our inventory.

[5/20/2009 1:53:05 PM] David Cheyne: then we will start entering sales.

[5/20/2009 1:53:37 PM] David Cheyne: so it will come within a day to a week after the inventory has been allocated even though the sales have already happened.

[5/20/2009 1:54:17 PM] David Cheyne: when a product is allocated, then a sale occurs, our system has to put that person in queue for more inventory items to be allocated, and that is why we cant hit the account with sold products, and it has to be a 2 step process.

[5/20/2009 1:55:06 PM] David Cheyne: Members are making the same amount of money right now as they will be when the inventory module displays everthing….so really nothing is different except visiblity of what assets are allocated, and the profits.

[5/20/2009 1:55:10 PM] David Cheyne: hope that explains a lot.

[5/20/2009 1:55:29 PM] David Cheyne: will be sending an email out to all tommorrow explaining pretty much what I just explained to you.

[5/20/2009 1:55:31 PM] David Cheyne: thanks Tommy.

I thought it would be easiest to just use the exact transcript to let you know what conversations we have with some of our top leaders.

With 100,000 inventory items to allocate into members accounts, everytime we have started moving forward with the allocation part, we have run into a snag delaying us.

We could easily just import each item one at a time, and we could have everybody caught up within 4 weeks, but this solution does not solve the underlying problem of automation.  We would face the same problem we did, even larger when we relaunch this full scale. 

So the solutions we are putting into place can catch up in days what would take weeks with the manual processes…

In other words, we could put inventory items into your accounts to appease you right now, but it would not best serve your longterm interests as we would keep on stumbling through the problems we had on our soft launch.

We are finalizing 2 last processes this week, that should allow full bore loading of accounts for next week, but even more importantly than the accounts being loaded, they will be loaded into a queue system, and this allows our automation processes to be complete.

Catching up on 100,000 inventory items is the hard part, maintaining this even after a full scale launch is the easy part, when these final 2 processes are complete.  

The really good news…

Your money has been working for you from day 1. 

There is profit already.

There have been so many other things that were built up in the past 6 weeks, to allow faster sales to occur, inventory buying sources to be found, so that we could keep up with 1,000,000 dollars coming in, and actually being able to accomodate acquistions at this pace.

All is virtually done, except the web inventory module to show you what has happened.

Stay tuned from an audio or video from Chris Bell President of The Affordable Affiliates Network and David Cheyne Vice President for next week, outlying everything we have done, and where everything stands.

Until then,

To Your Success!

David Cheyne
Vice President
The Affordable Affiliates Network

PS.  If you have not seen our podcasts or inventory yet, please visit our podcast
http://aanetwork.podomatic.com

  

 

AAN – The wheels start to turn

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Please see this encouraging e-mail from Chris Bell and David Cheyne of AAN and view the podcast. We loved the accompanying background music, worth watching just to listen to that.

 

The Affordable Affiliates Network

 

Hi Themco,

We are starting the processing of inventory this week, so members should start seeing inventory starting to hit their accounts.  We have over 100,000 inventory items, and what you see on the site does not even scratch the surface.

This is one of the delays in switching from an offline business model, to a complete online profit sharing business model.

Once we have caught up our existing inventory, maintaining incoming purchases will
be easy, but with a limited staff, catching up with 100’s of thousand of items is not an easy task.

We have been working very hard, and the time has come, where the inventory will start to hit the members accounts.

You are in a queu process, so if you recently joined, you may have some waiting to do, as your items may have not even been purchased yet.  If you are one of first 1000 members, you will see stuff hitting your accounts very soon.

We thank you for all of your support and patience, and as this venture turns this very difficult corner of inventory management, in the future, this will be a much easier, more fluent process, and part of this process is dependent on our facility.

Thats why this week we are looking at finding the “perfect” distribution center in space, offices, and processing features.  

The most recent podcast will explain more.

This podcast is all just images, and some pleasant background music, just to show you some of the inventory that has been acquired with members money.

This inventory is the bread and butter of our industry, and this is the kind of inventory we have mastered at turning over.

You can visit our podcast here:
http://aanetwork.podomatic.com

You can subscribe to our podcast here:
http://aanetwork.podomatic.com/rss2.xml

You can login to your account here:
http://affordableaffiliates.com/login.php

You can learn more at our forums:
http://forums.affordableaffiliates.com

In the very near future, we will be extending you an invitation to come down and visit us onsite.  The warehouse here has almost been completely setup to invite you.

We are looking forward to meeting you in person.

Warmest Regards,

Chris Bell 
President 

David Cheyne
Vice President

AAN – Getting there Slowly – Yawn! Yawn!

Friday, May 1st, 2009

Whilst we are waiting for ANN to get their Inventory and Sales software script functioning properly there are a number of you who are not confirmed yet. Follow this simple procedure and get your affairs in order before AAN blasts off.

This was posted by Cody.

” The confirmation link sent after registration is now functioning correctly.

If you, or your referrals are still unconfirmed, you can easily have one resent to you by entering your email address on the following page:
http://www.affordableaffiliates.com/forgotpassword.php

Please do not try your old activation emails, have a new one sent to you instead.

Thanks! “

AAN – Latest Podcast with Pictues of the new Premises

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Have you ever moved offices? Have you ever moved houses or apartments? Remember the chaos?

If you have, then spare a thought for the AAN Team, because they are moving the equivalent amount of furniture, goods and chattels for a whole street of houses or an apartment block.

Viewing the AAN Podcast No.3 will show you what this entails and tells us a little more about what their core business comprises and how it operates.

Readers who have already registered and are sitting patiently, the podcast awaits you on your AAN website. If you are not a member yet then you can find all three of the podcasts that AAN have produced so far, by clicking on the below link.

You can visit their podcast here:

http://aanetwork.podomatic.com

AAN – Update and link for the latest Webinar.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

We post the content of an e-mail that we received from our sponsor ‘Chris S’.

Chris gave up her beauty sleep on our behalf and we thank her in this regard.

Here’s the latest news from the AAN Webinar held on March 30th 2009.
 
Now that the UK has moved into BST (British Summer Time), it is doubtful that I will be attending future webinars, due to the starting time of 2am (previously 1am). Unfortunately; by 3-50am I had to leave the webinar as I could not keep awake any longer, but I don’t think I will have missed very much as it was mainly Q & A’s by that time.
 
Goto http://www.affordableaffiliates.com/webinar/mp3 to listen to the 2 hour recording which will shortly be available.
  • STAFF: 1. David Cheyne, former Director of Marketing, now the new VP of AAN. His knowledge in e-commerce and online marketing is tremendous. David worked as a professional buyer, managing the facilities, warehouses, etc for Chris Bell. He has created approximately 30 successful websites of his own, relating to e-commerce and affiliate marketing. David mentioned that he’s a man of action and his primary focus initally is to address membership issues. Amongst other things he will later be training us in the ways of boosting our income through affiliate marketing.       
          2. James River, the 10th most influential person on Twitter with a reach of 22.5 million people, will be assisting on the technical side to improve the layout                 of the site and will also be responsible for the design of the inventory items for sale.
 
          3. Laura Cheyne, (David’s wife) accountancy & book-keeping, has also joined the team.
  • BLOG: This will be updated by the end of the week and will ensure that the updates are continuous now AAN have increased their staffing levels.
  • DEPOSITS: Good news, 99% of deposits are now sorted but there are 303 manual deposits that were not made through the website and still need to be resolved. This created a problem as AAN have to manually try to match the deposits with STP usernames to AAN account numbers where members have not submitted an email to AAN with details of their deposit.
          N.B: Cody Halovich, VP of Technical Operations has posted the following message in the forum and also mentioned it on the webinar “You may see your deposit           disappear and re-appear, no worries, we’re just trying to find all possible bugs in the system before re-releasing the final code. Please understand we have all           original data secure, nothing will go missing, if your deposit hasn’t shown up yet, this will probably fix it. if it doesn’t, then you are one of the people that did a           manual payment, not through our web form. we will address that issue a little later. Please do not submit support tickets for your deposits if you see them                   missing right now, they will be back shortly.”
  • INVENTORY TECHNOLOGY:  The next priority after resolving the remaining deposits, is to get the inventory assignment automation up and running. Cody was insistent that they will not launch the process until they’ve ironed out all the bugs. The automation system relies on correct deposits and members will be able to see more in the back office soon. 
  • BUYING & SELLING: This is taking place all the time and even though members cannot see any activity in their account at this stage, your funds started to work for you within hours of you making the deposit. By the time the automated inventory technology is published in members accounts, items may already be showing as sold, but there can be a real diversity of time when items sell. It may be the same day… it may be some weeks… or even longer, for example, if buying from China or the UK, it could take up to 8 weeks to even start processing, due to shipping etc. Other times AAN may have a buyer already waiting for an assignment so we must appreciate that there are many variables to take into consideration. Chris Bell, President/CEO, mentioned he already holds a $5 million inventory.
  • EMAIL SYSTEM: AAN are to implement an email system that notifies members of the activity that is taking place in their accounts. Members will receive an email when an item is entered in the inventory and also when a sale is made.
  • LOGIN PROBLEMS: Some people are unable to login. This is due to an offsite mail server, which occasionally fails to send the email with the new password when members use the ‘Forgot Password’ tool on the website. AAN are consolidating their servers in order to fix this and total migration will hopefully be within the next week. If you are experiencing login problems send an email toregister@affordableaffiliates.com
  • NEW SERVERS: Moving and migrating everything to new dedicated servers in California. It is expected to be a smooth transition and we shouldn’t notice anything, but slight downtime may occur due to DNS propagation around the world.
  • SUPPORT: Response time is now 24-48 hours.
  • CHARITIES:  Initially, AAN will provide 10 packages each for both groups. There will be 10 Aboriginal elders and 10 families from Autism charities invited as AAN members, to enable them to create sustainable and long-term revenues for themselves, their families, and their communities. Chris Bell said that they deserve privileges too. Don’t lock out the financially strapped. Everyone should have potential for life time profitability and that AAN are not a greedy company, they want everyone to contribute to this to be the largest entrepreneurial endeavor to help others.
  • MEMBERSHIP: Over 7,000 members in over 130 countries. 
  • LIVE VIDEOS: Following on from the successful video that can be viewed on the members referral page, they will be making further live videos in future, so that members can experience what’s going on in the background related to buying and selling, warehousing, etc.
Chris Bell, President/CEO, asks for the members patience a little longer to allow them to get the framework, technology infrastructure and the right people in place. Where else can you buy into a strong business model where you have no overheads, no bills, no management issues, etc for years to come.
 
There’s no doubt that the payment processor issues have created longer delays than expected which means we’ve had to wait longer for the inventory assignment automation to be finished and processed, but each week brings us closer to the process launching when we’ll be able to view what’s happening to our investment in real time. I’m confident that we’ll be seeing a lot more unfold during the next couple of weeks that will make us all very excited.
 
The more I hear… the more I like.
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