Autostumble Review
Quite a while back, Mark from digeratimarketing.co.uk asked me to review his software autostumble. In the meantime I’ve been messing with it and seeing what it can do. WARNING: Mark didn’t pay for this review so I’m gonna be totally honest 
So to start…
What does it do? It’s a database of stumblers who exchange stumbles with you without you begging them for a stumble, kidnapping their close relations, or manually stumbling at a stumbleexhcange place. It sits in your **windoze** task bar. (And yes that does mean it refuses to run in Linux) It’s a ridiculously light program though so you can run it in a vm fine.
Unfortunately I haven’t actually used stumbleupon before because it doesn’t make sense to me. I can understand how digg works, and sphinn, and del.icio.us. But stumbleupon has a toolbar, and I don’t normally trust anything with a toolbar 
. So in the course of using the software I fecked it up because I hadn’t reviewed my URL and my votes went into the void of cyberspace. The software doesn’t check or notify you if you make a stupid mistake like that. On the other hand there’s only a few of boxes so there’s not many places you can screw up. I just managed to find probably the only one. To be honest if you have half an idea about stumbleupon it’s easy to figure out, just make sure you submit your url to stumbleupon before exchanging stumbles with the program. Doh!
So the page I promoted. Well it has days of nothing and then all of a sudden traffic in a couple of days, but that’s probably explained by my complete screw up. I stumbled the same URL after Mark fixed the database up so it was getting old as an entry and I don’t know if that counts for anything.
You also have to tailor your content for the audience. It’s an obvious one but you’re not promoting to your normal website audience, it’s got to really hit a nerve with the stumbleupon crowd. Now I have yet to discover exactly what makes them tick and I think my page may have lacked something in that direction.
Worth £10/$20 soon going up to £20/$40? I never reached the full potential of this program. I plan to have another go mind you. I’d say it’s definitely worth the price of what is basically a quarter of what you might spend filling your car up for something that will still be there whenever you have an idea and want another way of promoting it.
I reckon if it does gain a *lot* of users over time that could increase your competition, and stumbleupon may notice that their algorithm is being subverted and change it. So I’d recommend buying it early now before he promotes like a madman. That way you get the bonus of being in early and if it does continue to work you don’t pay anything extra.
June 1st, 2008 at 2:40 am
I want to increase my normal website audience.Thanks for your great help.
June 1st, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Stumble works pretty damn well. Its far easier to get a few thousand from stumble then it is to get people from digg. I’m not exactly sure how well the system works to be honest. The issue is that I can’t track if the people that are liking (voting for) my site are from autostumble, or if they’re just coming from the large amount of stumble traffic I’m receiving. I created a quite horrible (un-sourced badly written) article about solar energy for my blog that received around 6.5 k of people in 3 days. All I did was submit it to digg, click “i like it” and then hit the autostumbler. Unfortunately thats the norm for stumble upon, so again not sure about autostumbler.
BTW, great blog you have here
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:27 am
If you’re using autostumble it should give a rough estimate of how many are autostumble stumbles.
I just wish he’d make a linux version of autostumble
June 13th, 2008 at 5:02 am
How to run AutoStumble under Linux with Wine:
- http://j0rd.com/auto_stumble_linux-howto.html
June 26th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
The software doesn’t work and the support e-mails bounce.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:26 am
@Camilo:
I actually tried to send you and Mark an email to get this sorted but the email address you left in your comment failed to receive mail.
If you want the issue sorted comment with an email you can be sure I can reach you at. Or some way of actually contacting you.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:35 am
Support email was down for a couple of days - software works fine if you rtfm
If you’re not happy you can have a refund.
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
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September 17th, 2008 at 6:26 am
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October 10th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I really enjoy more to read then write my opinion because i don`t want to get someone`s attention but i liked all your thoughts and ideas thanks to the owner because he created this blog to share with us his knowledge.
November 7th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Just bought the tool.
Curious to see the result, if at least i get one order from it i get my money back.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:40 am
The software is not working for me anymore. I tried to re-download it, but the website is down.
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:03 am
Thanks for this review .I found many useful things about this software in this review.Well,the best is that all your thought about this are acceptable because you are honest in this review.
May 25th, 2009 at 2:05 am
May 29th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Is autostumble still available to purchase,if so, can you send me the info.I cannot find a link in google that works,or AOL.Thanks Mike