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One of the best plugins ever, no community should be with out it.

The title say everything. I purchased this pluging few months ago and it worked very fine. However, it doesn't work with CB1.1 and Joomla 1.0.13 actually. I'm waiting since several weeks for a fix but nothing until now.
When I buy an extension, my expectation is to have a good and quick support. This is not the case actually. So, don't buy this extension until a fix.

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

Mike.. I love your work and look forward to many other creative plugins like this one. I have a community site and I absolutely have to say that this plugin was needed. Now my members are inviting new members easily. I had no problem with install or the way it works. It also can be spam compliant depending on your settings.. well done!

I installed the Plugin and initially had a difficulty saving configuration changes.

Mike was able to advise on this issue.

This was apparently due to a bug in wysywgpro which I use as my primary editor component. The bug apparently affects situations when 3rd party components call an editor box.

This was solved easily by editing the content as per normal, changing momentarily to the html tab, then switching back to the normal tab before saving. This refreshed the editor itself and bypassed this bug.

Im pleased with the extension which I believe works well, looks good and is worth the money
Derek

Excellent work!

this is a well constructed plugin, well worth the small price tag!

now I can finally start my online marketing push knowing that my users can invite their friends, making the push that much more worth while.

see live example of this plugin on smart-love.ca

There is everything said about the component. Its great.

There is one thing about the support though. Mike answers questions very fast but wanted to charge me about 50 bucks for a small layout change with this component. Thats almost the same price as the component itself, which is one of the most expensive components around here by the way.

Anyways, maybe the change I wanted wasnt that small at all. If you have regular requests Mike is very supportive and helps you out...

I had found one other cobbled attempt at an invite component / plugin a while back, this one is the missing link. Anyone who is serious about contact managment uses plaxo, and this does a great job integrating with it and most any other contact database. The e-mail invites provide a working link to community builder registration, and the CB plugin does a great job of organizing your invite status. In order to get a compoenent interface seperate from the CB plugin you have to shell out another $30, making the complete solution cost about $80. But it works and it works well, mike is really good about support and the forums are active at his site. I think we are going to see some great stuff from this developer in the future. Layout of the plugin and graphics could use some help in areas, but other than that it is beautiful and it works!

This invite is clean, rather easy to install, and can be a huge help for promoting your site.

More importantly, especially for people who are fairly new to Joomla and website management in general, the developer of this plugin is incredibly accessible and was a huge help when I had some questions about the plugin.

This is what an extension should be - thoughtful... thought out and executed. I think this guy is looking at "what the market wants" and creating products that deliver on those interests instead of just hacking something half-finished together and offering it up as a solution.

These are 'very reasonably priced' products for what they do. You know, we all get a lot of free stuff in this community (and others). I hope we can support the very good work of those who can deliver high quality, innovative products (that work) at very, very reasonable prices... just like we support the community as a whole.

Now then, on to the review:

1. This is a market-driven product (as his others). It is very robust. It works right out of the box (even though there are no boxes anymore). It looks great, works great.

The AJAX is cool. The match up is smooth. It is a professional product. I hope this inspires others like this guy to take the time and effort to produce thought-through products.

And no, I did not require any coaxing whatsoever to write this.

I have now an Invitation Solution in place,

which fits my requirements for a business site

Invite new members,
see the progress / status of invite
revoke delete or renew the invite

IMPORT contacts for invite from
America Online
Hotmail
Yahoo
plaxo
Outlook
Outlook Express
GMail
different files (csv, tsv/tab/txt/stxt/ldif/tsv/vcf)

Ranking for the most active ivite senders

It looks great (AJAX) and it WORKS fine with Communiy Builder
and it send invite links to the CB registration form !!!

I love this all-in-one "AJAX PlaxoInvite Plugin for CB"

Yes, Mike ask for 50$ and i payed the 39 Euro and it worth realy every penny/cent.

From my point of view a "must have" for a joomla/community builder based comunity site.

ups, dit anybody notice that I´m impressed?

so, take it and love it


happy sunny regards from GERMANY

BERND

I love this product. Absolutely brilliant component especially for someone that wants to promote/market their site to a wider audience. Word of mouth is the most powerful marketing tool for any kind of business to grow.

Thank you so much!

Well, I rarely do this until others have posted reviews, but I was dying to have this functionality.

This is a great plugin that does a lot but is simple to set up. Most importantly, it is extremely simple for the end user.

Using the Plaxo widget, users can invite contacts from all major webmail services and outlook, etc. After importing them into the plugin, users can then select which users they would like to send an invite to. Users also have the option of typing in additional addresses and a custom message.

The invitee receives an email with a special link in it, clicks on it, and an automatic connection is made between invitee and inviter.

No complaints from me. In fact, I ran into a snag installing -- no fault of this plugin -- and Mike helped me out. This is a commercial component, but you can expect solid and friendly support.

Anyway, I'm a happy customer.