A: You can generate a Roundup with our direct integrations with Amazon, AppSumo, and Envato, select products, easy integration with affiliate programs, OR you can import just about any product on the web just by pasting in a link. You can import X products per month.
We plan to add other direct integrations, but the URL input to add a product means you don't have to wait for us either.
Q: what's the success rate of affiliate commissions
Unless I am understanding this incorrectly, the purpose of this tool is to automate product review so people click and buy the products. Are you measuring the success rate of your clients who use Roundup so new potential clients have an idea of the potential ROI? And if not, what are the KPI metrics you are using to measure success for your product?
A: Best question yet, so I'll take the time to answer it.
TLDR; We don't know. We just launched this product in January and that's why we're running the LTD - To build it in public. Our development path has analytics coming later on for a few reasons (see below) so in the interim we're looking for "Success Stories" people share.
Phase 1: - AppSumo has a lot of WordPress users, so we positioned the product as a content engine for WP users looking for high value SEO content they can monetize easily via affiliate links
- We're dealing with different Affiliate platforms to automate Affiliate links and users can just import products with random affiliate links so we're not even connected to those affiliate platforms. Wish we could close the loop programmatically, but we can't.
- WordPress users just want the content. They don't want us to add any tracking. Some don't even want the images remotely hosted by us. So, we're a content engine for WP users. We're OK with tapping into an existing workflow in this phase while we focus on content creation, editing, and exporting.
Phase 2: - if we're tapping into an existing workflow in Phase 1, our plan is to also build out a "Medium for Product Research". Essentially, our own community where we host the content and we can track and communicate results.
- We still can't close the loop on the affiliate earnings, but those that publish Roundups to Roundups.ai will benefit from analytics.
- Our long term plan is get product brands to sponsor Roundups hosted by Roundups and then we can deliver both revenue to Roundups users from that and close the loop on the analytics and revenue generated and shared. Any of the affiliate earnings from actual purchases will be additional revenue for marketers, but still outside of our scope of tracking success metrics beyond Success Stories shared.
Can you explain more about the publishing roundups to benefit from analytics? Is this term of website traffic to gauge engagement or interest?
So to measure that, there needs to be a way to see the customer journey (e.g., utm campaigns from affiliate links from blog to show clickthrough rate, affiliate commissions metrics to see if they pulled the trigger, etc).
Q: Wordpress Integration
I have bought T3 I have some question:
Why is the format of the content on my WordPress site not satisfactory after integration? Can you explain why the generated posts are shorter than expected?
What can be done to improve the level of detail in the content produced?
Are there specific settings or configurations I need to adjust to enhance the output quality on my WordPress site?
A: Content look and feel is going to be determined by your WordPress theme. You use your own theme, so we're just providing WordPress users with baseline content. How it looks on your end is going to be dictated by your theme. It's standard HTML that appeals to the lowest common denominator, so we don't add styling to buttons. You use your own theme's CSS. Roundups has it's own CSS within it's website and editor.
People get creative with it and I think these users did a good job: This one had very little editing in WordPress - https://freodom.net/the-best-ergonomic-office-chairs/ This one, the guy modified his theme for Roundups: https://suggestionstream.com/10-streaming-devices-every-cable-cutter-needs-this-year/
The level of details is going to be determined by the number of products, so if you select 50 products, no one wants to read an in depth review of 50 products on a single page. It's going to be brief captions. If you select 2-3 products you'll get more detail. We're going to give you sections though that you can pick AI to write about in an update, so you'll get to decide what and how much it will write about.
Q: Why can't increase the number of product imports?
I tested the trial and everything looks good so far. However, I noticed that the number of product imports is limited. I'm not sure why this restriction is in place, but the current limit isn’t sufficient for me, as I mainly promote non-Amazon products. Do you have any plans to increase the product import limit in the near future?
A: I think it's entirely possible that we increase the limits, but this is a brand new feature.. We're talking 3 weeks new as of writing this, so I think we need to monitor things and see how to expand on that feature. That said, on Tier 3, you can currently import 6,000 products a year. What is the use case to import more than that? I mean, you could create a single product review, head-to-head, or compare up to 50 products in a single Roundup, so any combination of products you import really multiply. On top of which we may make "imports" an optional shared experience too, so I might import a product from my Shopify store and select a checkbox on import to share with others, and now you have access to my Shopify product and you're including it in your Roundup. So, there are lots of ways we're looking at how to scale this, but don't want to make a decision on increases during a campaign, especially for a feature we rolled out just a few weeks ago. What we can guarantee is that if there are increases in limits on our SaaS plans, you would get those increases as well.
1) Analytics - we need some analytics to see who clicked, who visited, from where etc. Or at least add Google Analytics, usermaven etc. 2) Domain - we need a custom domain so we can actually shot Roundup on our subdomain. 3) Workspaces - it would be great having workspace so we can split our products, teams, clients into some spaces. Or have some labels or sorting feature. 4) User access - same as workspaces. We need some user rights. 5) Marketplaces - oh that would be awesome of having a marketplace where user could potentially publish their own roundup and we could actually get a commission from sale. somehow
A: 1 - Analytics are at the bottom of the product stack. It will come eventually but we're focused on the top of the stack first, creating the content. A lot of people publish to WordPress too so they can manage analytics there if this is a top priority for you, but analytics will come in time.
2 - Will consider it, but you should get a blog. It's free and you'll have your domain.
3 - Low priority - We'll add multi-user access accounts at some point for teams and agencies, but enabling Workspaces is overkill for this product.
4 - Answered above ^
5 - You can already do that. Just connect one of the affiliate programs to us like Amazon Associates, or drop in an Affiliate Link when you import a product. You'll get a commission when readers click through and buy.
On point 5 I'm lost. honestly I apologise for that. How does that work? Could you explain further? Does that mean if I connect Amazon Associates to MY RoundUp account and then somebody clicks through and purchase the product on Amazon then I get commission right? But what I mentioned was that I would love to get paid through commission for promoting someone else's Round Up.
I mean like if we have a sort of marketplace where every Roundup user could publish their own Roundup then we can promote it and get paid our commission. This was my point...The reason why is that I might have a limited account like Tier 1 so I can promote other's Roundups. Or other users have published better products ie. Roundups so I can promote those as well.
I get what you mean now! You can't do that today and I think there are already influencer marketplaces out there that could facilitate this. For example, on Fivver you might have "I'll promote your Roundup for $100". I think we might approach it a little differently than that.
What we here is from product brands is "How can we get users to generate and share Roundups with our products?" So, we're thinking about a Sponsored Roundup program where commissions could be earned for just including products in a Roundup and get AI to show bias towards it. Happy to keep this discussion going in our Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/roundups/
Q: whats Product imports per month what does it mean
Josh_Roundups
Apr 6, 2025A: You can generate a Roundup with our direct integrations with Amazon, AppSumo, and Envato, select products, easy integration with affiliate programs, OR you can import just about any product on the web just by pasting in a link. You can import X products per month.
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oh nice so its an option for extra products right? would u add mercado libre?? or idk in the future other gigant online stores?
We plan to add other direct integrations, but the URL input to add a product means you don't have to wait for us either.
Q: what's the success rate of affiliate commissions
Unless I am understanding this incorrectly, the purpose of this tool is to automate product review so people click and buy the products. Are you measuring the success rate of your clients who use Roundup so new potential clients have an idea of the potential ROI? And if not, what are the KPI metrics you are using to measure success for your product?
Josh_Roundups
Edited Apr 6, 2025A: Best question yet, so I'll take the time to answer it.
TLDR; We don't know. We just launched this product in January and that's why we're running the LTD - To build it in public. Our development path has analytics coming later on for a few reasons (see below) so in the interim we're looking for "Success Stories" people share.
Phase 1:
- AppSumo has a lot of WordPress users, so we positioned the product as a content engine for WP users looking for high value SEO content they can monetize easily via affiliate links
- We're dealing with different Affiliate platforms to automate Affiliate links and users can just import products with random affiliate links so we're not even connected to those affiliate platforms. Wish we could close the loop programmatically, but we can't.
- WordPress users just want the content. They don't want us to add any tracking. Some don't even want the images remotely hosted by us. So, we're a content engine for WP users. We're OK with tapping into an existing workflow in this phase while we focus on content creation, editing, and exporting.
Phase 2:
- if we're tapping into an existing workflow in Phase 1, our plan is to also build out a "Medium for Product Research". Essentially, our own community where we host the content and we can track and communicate results.
- We still can't close the loop on the affiliate earnings, but those that publish Roundups to Roundups.ai will benefit from analytics.
- Our long term plan is get product brands to sponsor Roundups hosted by Roundups and then we can deliver both revenue to Roundups users from that and close the loop on the analytics and revenue generated and shared. Any of the affiliate earnings from actual purchases will be additional revenue for marketers, but still outside of our scope of tracking success metrics beyond Success Stories shared.
Share Roundups
Thank you for this.
Can you explain more about the publishing roundups to benefit from analytics? Is this term of website traffic to gauge engagement or interest?
So to measure that, there needs to be a way to see the customer journey (e.g., utm campaigns from affiliate links from blog to show clickthrough rate, affiliate commissions metrics to see if they pulled the trigger, etc).
Q: Wordpress Integration
I have bought T3 I have some question:
Why is the format of the content on my WordPress site not satisfactory after integration?
Can you explain why the generated posts are shorter than expected?
What can be done to improve the level of detail in the content produced?
Are there specific settings or configurations I need to adjust to enhance the output quality on my WordPress site?
Thanks,
Josh_Roundups
Apr 6, 2025A: Content look and feel is going to be determined by your WordPress theme. You use your own theme, so we're just providing WordPress users with baseline content. How it looks on your end is going to be dictated by your theme. It's standard HTML that appeals to the lowest common denominator, so we don't add styling to buttons. You use your own theme's CSS. Roundups has it's own CSS within it's website and editor.
People get creative with it and I think these users did a good job:
This one had very little editing in WordPress - https://freodom.net/the-best-ergonomic-office-chairs/
This one, the guy modified his theme for Roundups:
https://suggestionstream.com/10-streaming-devices-every-cable-cutter-needs-this-year/
The level of details is going to be determined by the number of products, so if you select 50 products, no one wants to read an in depth review of 50 products on a single page. It's going to be brief captions. If you select 2-3 products you'll get more detail. We're going to give you sections though that you can pick AI to write about in an update, so you'll get to decide what and how much it will write about.
Share Roundups
Q: Why can't increase the number of product imports?
I tested the trial and everything looks good so far. However, I noticed that the number of product imports is limited. I'm not sure why this restriction is in place, but the current limit isn’t sufficient for me, as I mainly promote non-Amazon products. Do you have any plans to increase the product import limit in the near future?
Josh_Roundups
Edited Apr 5, 2025A: I think it's entirely possible that we increase the limits, but this is a brand new feature.. We're talking 3 weeks new as of writing this, so I think we need to monitor things and see how to expand on that feature. That said, on Tier 3, you can currently import 6,000 products a year. What is the use case to import more than that? I mean, you could create a single product review, head-to-head, or compare up to 50 products in a single Roundup, so any combination of products you import really multiply. On top of which we may make "imports" an optional shared experience too, so I might import a product from my Shopify store and select a checkbox on import to share with others, and now you have access to my Shopify product and you're including it in your Roundup. So, there are lots of ways we're looking at how to scale this, but don't want to make a decision on increases during a campaign, especially for a feature we rolled out just a few weeks ago. What we can guarantee is that if there are increases in limits on our SaaS plans, you would get those increases as well.
Share Roundups
Q: More questions
1) Analytics - we need some analytics to see who clicked, who visited, from where etc. Or at least add Google Analytics, usermaven etc.
2) Domain - we need a custom domain so we can actually shot Roundup on our subdomain.
3) Workspaces - it would be great having workspace so we can split our products, teams, clients into some spaces. Or have some labels or sorting feature.
4) User access - same as workspaces. We need some user rights.
5) Marketplaces - oh that would be awesome of having a marketplace where user could potentially publish their own roundup and we could actually get a commission from sale. somehow
Josh_Roundups
Edited Apr 5, 2025A: 1 - Analytics are at the bottom of the product stack. It will come eventually but we're focused on the top of the stack first, creating the content. A lot of people publish to WordPress too so they can manage analytics there if this is a top priority for you, but analytics will come in time.
2 - Will consider it, but you should get a blog. It's free and you'll have your domain.
3 - Low priority - We'll add multi-user access accounts at some point for teams and agencies, but enabling Workspaces is overkill for this product.
4 - Answered above ^
5 - You can already do that. Just connect one of the affiliate programs to us like Amazon Associates, or drop in an Affiliate Link when you import a product. You'll get a commission when readers click through and buy.
Share Roundups
Verified purchaser
On point 5 I'm lost. honestly I apologise for that. How does that work? Could you explain further? Does that mean if I connect Amazon Associates to MY RoundUp account and then somebody clicks through and purchase the product on Amazon then I get commission right? But what I mentioned was that I would love to get paid through commission for promoting someone else's Round Up.
Verified purchaser
I mean like if we have a sort of marketplace where every Roundup user could publish their own Roundup then we can promote it and get paid our commission. This was my point...The reason why is that I might have a limited account like Tier 1 so I can promote other's Roundups. Or other users have published better products ie. Roundups so I can promote those as well.
I get what you mean now! You can't do that today and I think there are already influencer marketplaces out there that could facilitate this. For example, on Fivver you might have "I'll promote your Roundup for $100". I think we might approach it a little differently than that.
What we here is from product brands is "How can we get users to generate and share Roundups with our products?" So, we're thinking about a Sponsored Roundup program where commissions could be earned for just including products in a Roundup and get AI to show bias towards it. Happy to keep this discussion going in our Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/roundups/