Viral marketing, the very foundation of any web developer that's comitted with success, this component WILL make that happen to you.

And example, since little people help in forums, integrating joomlaboard karma system to give prizes people that helps its an option but for a minimal share of your audience, but, the vast mayority wont be forum or blog gurus and wont imput content, even in youtube only 1.8% of users upload content or comments, but with this extension you can give prices to people that invite more people, this is the very best lead generator for your casual audience.

installation: is simple (cb plugin, component)

css templates: piece of cake

support: is mostly not needed, but when needed mike is there, the forum is read-open to non-clients

inteface presentation: very intuitive and sleek, nice design with ajax feels very WEB 2.0, this one wont generate desertion from naive users

price: 92$ (cb plugin+component and module)no matter how little your website is, this one pays for itself, its worth 5 times its price, I know there are dozens of scripts that apparently do this but, believe me:
none works for more than 3 months,
none has nice design,
none integrates with community builder,
none uses AJAX,
none levels up inviters (karma+joomla awards CB ;),
none connects inviter with invited people in CB
except mike's ajax plaxoinvite

my user registration went TOPNOTCH 400%!, using this. before I used to send thousands of promotional emails, the statistics speak for themselves:

Mass email vs Ajax plaxoinvite: (actual site members: 7000)

50,000 email DB, discount/prize email bulletin with PHPlist

lead generation: 6523 visitors
registration conversion: 2710 new members (same month)


Ajax Plaxoinvite site members invitation (30 invites per user aloud only one time):

lead generation: 27,000 visitors
registration conversion per user: 2
Total new registrations: 9960 new members (same month)

Most web master shouldn't be surprised, since sites that implement contact importers like hi5, myspaces, facebook know this, they only use invitational emails as viral strategy, but my point here is:

SPARE YOUR VALUABLE TIME, free scripts arent an option in some areas, saving 92$ and using a free script, will result in "Error 404, or service not availiable" most days,although 80% of the extensions I use are GNU/GPL, after 1 year testing user conversion strategies, the hotmail-gmail-yahoo importer proved the best one, and again, after 1 year of testing this scripts and hardcoding payed and free ones, my last bet was mike's, 2 weeks with joomlancers trying to integrate a cheap script with joomla at a very basic level (users), VS 5 min installation plus 1hour css with plaxoinvite it's no brainer I learned the hard cheap way, but now I'm makin money not tweaking php.

joomla doesn't aloud to post sites to prevent seo association and google rank punishment if eg: a warez or porn site posted here, my 2ct (you should do the same in your comment extensions)


greets, to mike