Saturday, October 08, 2005

Latest newsletter and musings

The latest Keeping Reptiles newsletter (you can get it from here for free) has just been published . There was a nice reply from a reader:

"Cool stuff Mark-keep it coming. Just put my Texas Indigo snake into a new 72" by 24" enclosure I built with your design book-we're both loving it!
Bill"

It's always gratifying to get feedback like this. The newsletter is always well received and we have quite a few testimonials for it. It's a bit embarrassing as this edition was a bit delayed as I had some work done on my bung finger and the school break also intervened.

I forgot to put in Jeff's story about his Burmese python, but it's probably just as well as I don't think I had yet asked his permission to publish.

The website, Reptile-Cage-Plans.com, has been running for nearly 12 months now and the traffic is still growing. Feedback has been good from customers and there is now a good range of testimonials. There are plans to make some more reptile cage plans and these are being developed in the coming months.

The site is running to over 80 pages (approximately). It may have to have some serious revamping of the backend shortly so it is more navigable. At the same time it is not meant to compete with some of the very large sites such as Kaplan's. It is just a matter of building a mass of useful material over time and trying to address what people's needs are.

"How to build an Incubator from scratch in less than a Day" has been added to the bonus packages, so there are now nine bonuses and they are all really good value. I have some other bonuses I would like to add in the coming months. Reptile Cage Plans.com is also instigating an affiliate program. You can email me if you are interested in this and I will notify you when it is going to be launched.

Every time the newsletter is sent it prompts a range of questions from customers. These are being published on the website. The aim is to have a bank of questions that people can view and wander through over time. The latest one was about temperatures for Bearded Dragons in Winter in New England (I'm assuming New England USA, not Australia). Hopefully the answer was useful. You can read it here if you are interested. There is also a link to a very useful Bearded Dragon Care sheet that is free to download. It's about 14 pages and you will find it a very useful resource if you keep dragons as pets.

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