Monthly Archives: November 2012

JonRocket.com 2012 Holiday Sale (11/22 through 11/29)

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Each year JonRocket.com kicks off the holiday season with a special sale. This year, the Holiday Sale begins on Thanksgiving, November 22, and runs through November 29.

During the sale, almost everything listed on our web site will be on sale at discounts of up to 30% off our already discounted prices. Plus you benefit from our everyday low shipping charges.

The sale prices will go into effect in the early morning hours on Thanksgiving and will be updated periodically during the sale. Shop early for the best savings!

Please note that Virtual Vendor coupons are not valid during the sale period.

JonRocket.com Affiliate Program

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JonRocket.com has joined Shareasale, a trusted affiliate network. This means that, if you maintain a web site or blog of your own, you can join the JonRocket.com affiliate program and earn commissions on purchases by people you refer to our web site.

Once you sign up at Shareasale and join our program, you will find a selection of ad banners and text links that you can place on your site.  When a visitor to your site clicks on one of the banners or text links then makes a purchase on our site, you earn a commission.

Sharesale tracks the commisions you earn and provides reporting, and real-time commission statements for our affiliate program. Because we use Shareasale to manage our affiliate program, you are assured of on-time and accurate payments of your commissions.

Shareasale represents hundreds of other online merchants, so you can benefit by joining other affiliate programs and receiving commissions from them also. Shareasale combines your earnings so that it is easier to meet the monthly minimum payment amounts.

We also provide a data feed through Shareasale. The data feed is a listing of the products we have for sale through our web site along with descriptions, links to images, and current prices. The list is formatted to allow it to be easily imported into a database so that your web site can use it to dynamically display information about the products.

If you created your web site using popular blog software such as WordPress, look for plugins which will make it easy to integrate information from our data feed into your site. Plugins are also available for other Content Management Systems (CMSs) which are commonly used to create a web site.

We Will Be at NEFAR Bunnell Blast, November 10 & 11, 2012

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JonRocket.com plans to attend the Northeast Florida Association of Rocketry (NEFAR) launch this coming weekend. This is the annual, two-day “Bunnell Blast” launch which usually attracts more fliers and more interesting rockets.

Currently the weather forecast calls for Saturday to be cool and clear with light winds. Sunday should be a bit warmer and windier.

In addition to the model rocket motors, igniters, parachutes, and other supplies we usually bring to sell at launches, we will have a number of kits, from small model rockets to large, high-power ones.  Don’t forget that we accept credit cards on-site!

I’ll be flying my “YouBee” rocket.  It’s a 12-foot tall upscale of the Odd’l Rockets Breakaway kit which we sell. The original Breakway flies on 18mm A, B, or C motors. The YouBee will use a 54mm diameter, composite K motor to travel to about 2500′ in altitude. As it reaches apogee, an onboard electronic altimeter will fire an ejection charge splitting the rocket into five sections, connected with four 15′ long tubular nylon shock cords. The rocket will descend, “Wacky Wiggler” style, until it reaches about 700′ in altitude at which time, the altimeter will fire a second ejection charge which will deploy a large parachute to gently lower the rocket to earth.

We’re also planning to use a K motor to power our Big Daddy Akavish.  But, the furry four-foot tall rocket will only reach about 600′ in altitude before it deploys its parachute.