Magic Niche Finder
During the summer I picked up the tool called "Magic Niche Finder" It was an amazing program for someone like me who can't think like common people. It brainstormed keywords of all interests and then scraped all of them for related wonder wheel like keywords. It was sort of like a "keyword snatcher" tool but it scraped all your generated keywords like crazy and needed decaptcher or you would go insane. Since Keyword snatcher is no longer sold this was my only option other than using the tools in scrapebox to wonder wheel scrape. The choice to buy magic niche finder was clear in my mind. It was the most expensive software I have bought to date for my work in marketing. But I felt it was worth it because it did what I could not, and made the huge lists I needed to bang out micro niche sites.
I used it for about a month for the beginning of my niche research to generate about two hundred thousand random niche keywords. I then spent few months after researching them in Market Samurai and building sites. When I returned to gather more I had found that the program has NOT been updated to reflect Google's changes. The author decided in stead to make a "pro" version which I believe will be monthly cost.
A great idea!... IF you are HIM! The original $197.00 tool is now totally worthless and if you want to be able to do anything like what it does you have to wait for this new pro version. Also you need to fork over more money... MONTHLY! That to me made it so I will never buy something from that developer ever again. It is what is called bad business. He figured 197 a pop wasn't making him rich enough so he decided to keep up an annual payment plan. This way he doesn't have to keep updating a program for "free" nor does he have to give current license holders free updates any more. Total screwing, not an opinion but a FACT.
I know they don't want "bashing" in here for reviews. So I am giving nothing but honesty. I don't curse the guy or anything but I'm out 197 bucks for a desktop icon. If I had known it would be abandoned so soon after I bought it I would never have bought it in the first place.
The program was awesome when it worked and it helped me. But that does not change the fact that the developer did not have to abandon his customers totally. I know he is giving some 1 month free or whatever to the new "pro" version but that's really adding insult to injury for those that bought the program within the last 4 months.
I understand the desire to have a monthly paid software. As a developer I would want the same thing, it pays your "salary" so to speak as you develop the software and keep it updated. If it had come out as one I would have gladly bought it if it were a reasonable price, something like no more than 15-20 bucks a month. And I would still be paying for it and using it. But to switch in the middle in a way such as to screw old customers out of updates is just unacceptable.
What I would like to see is the old "non pro" version still updated once the new one starts bringing the author the residual income he seems so sorely in need of, but I doubt that is going to happen.
This is not as much a review as it is a discussion about the software and the authors practices. I would really like to hear from fellow customers and even more so hear from the developer. I believe that staying on top of software in our market is of the utmost importance and have a few different softwares I am always researching. Ones I own and ones I want to own.
For instance due to this subforum I found out "SEO Elite" was abandoned by it's authors as well. I was on the verge of buying it this week and someone here saved me that trouble. That is what I want to find out when I come to this forum, it's mainly why I even come here. I hope they don't pull any Gestapo act on my thread just because it is not an overly positive review.
So to finish, I believe the "pro" version will be a good product, I just won't be standing behind it due to feeling cheated as a loyal paying customer. What do people think about "Magic niche Finder" and my observations of it?
I mostly want to hear from current owners, and people planning on getting the "pro" version.
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