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Hey Don-
You have to be using an affiliate software or network. That’s why so many people use W+ and JVZoo…because they are two easy networks to use that have the software built in that records the cookies when someone visits so they know where the sale came from. There are tons of affiliate networks to sell your stuff through that will do the tracking for you with their software or you can find your own (much harder to do).
Hope it works out for ya.
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Thanks for posting this Bruce. One of the quotes in the video that rang so true is that “greatness is a lot of small tasks done well.“ It is so easy for us to get caught up trying to be great by doing one or two big tasks that are impressive instead of just doing a lot of small things well. Thanks again for the post.
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Sean’s suggestion to read the book ONE THING changed how I do things. Now I don’t have a list of 20 things but just 1 to make me feel like I accomplished something worth while. And it is amazing when you do things that way how often the one thing gets done and you can move on to something else that would probably be tomorrow’s one thing and you feel great instead of defeated. I love it. Just a thought.
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Sean is right…Google doesn’t care about YOU…Google cares about Google’s bottom line. But it all then goes back to a couple things.
If you create content that benefits your readers, Google will rank you and you’ll benefit along with your readers. And…even though Google might have ads that show up ahead of your organic search engine your readers will see YOUR content as better IF and ONLY IF you also employ good copy skills (which includes a great headline). If you spend enough time making sure the headline of your content is compelling, engaging and invokes curiosity or something else to get the searcher to want to read more, you’ll end up getting as many or more clicks than Google’s ad customer. And then, as you get more clicks your ranking increases even more.
I know, I know, I know, it’s a long-term type ‘game’ but it does pay off if you keep at it.If you're looking for a someone to bounce things off of in the IM world, I'm your guy and I really would love to help you out. Helping others is just who I am!
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Great thread…hopefully making those who read it look further into whether what they offer is worth what they hope to make. Jen is right that everyone needs a clearly defined niche and a unique hook, but as Sean replies, even if what you offer isn’t as “awesome” as some other ‘cup of coffee’ in the same niche, as long as your tribe trusts you because you always offer what they want or need, you’ll do well.
I just want to add, though, that as a marketer you have to realized that your time is worth something. Even though what you offer may be available online in other formats for free, all compiled in one place, from someone who has researched the field and knows it, and from someone who is trusted to deliver something besides run of the mill or garbage, it is still worth much more than the free versions people would have to spend tons of time to collect themselves.
A story I heard recently tells the point very well. Henry Ford had built an auto plant that was completely off the grid and run by 5 large generators. They all went out at about the same time bringing his whole operation to a grinding stop. Employees could do nothing and after finding engineers to work on the generators they could not figure out how to get them back in operation.
Henry Ford reached out to the one who had built and installed them originally and after only 2 hours they were all working again. Ford got a bill for $10,000 and being the frugal man he was called to complain. The one billing him sent him another bill that broke down the service call as follows: ‘$10 for tinkering and $9,990 for knowing where to tinker.”
The one who knew the niche well enough to know where to tinker got paid because he was willing to stand up to what he knew he was worth. He could have resent a bill for a couple hundred dollars but he know that his knowledge was worth what he asked.
You have to be willing to ask what you know you’re worth instead of caving in and asking for peanuts because you think that is what some customer might want to pay. (But the tight-rope you have to walk is to not charge way MORE than you’re knowledge and compilation of it in your product really is worth.)
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Great Question Julia,
It invokes true thought and should make anyone who reads it really think through their site(s).
I however, have 2 questions (maybe suggestions) for you.
Have you intentionally made it difficult for people on you site to get your guide? Most squeeze page sites are simple with no scrolling and easy to see that there is only one objective. Yours is more like a sales page, long with lots of scrolling and at one spot even tells the reader to scroll back up to the button. I bet if you split test another version exactly like it but added a 2nd or even 3rd or 4th button throughout the text you’d get a higher conversion rate because people like easy.
And 2nd… The font is pretty small and hard to read (at least for me it is). A quick scroll down showing no images, and only super small text makes me not want to read all the way through. Again, I bet if you added some images to break up the text and made the font a bit larger (and added more buttons for your guide) that it would get better results.
I think you’ve done a good job at focusing on what you want people to do as your post says but from my experience, people need to have their attention grabbed, then they need to be told what to do and then you need to make it easy for them to do it.
But at least you have something up. That’s far better than most. Good job!If you're looking for a someone to bounce things off of in the IM world, I'm your guy and I really would love to help you out. Helping others is just who I am!
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Bruce- Your latest comments are very true but most marketers don’t think of the value of their time so keep ‘spending a dollar (in time) to save a dime’. If you have zero money it can be a way to get started but after you’re started, your area of expertise is not ‘everything’. Spend a little to save a lot (of time which is money). Great post.
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Jen,
I gave a ‘like’ and commented on your youtube channel. Great job just DOING something. It doesn’t have to be PERFECT. (not saying it is not…just giving you props for getting something going!). One small suggestion for your video… the picture of you inside the screen you are recording could be a little smaller so that it doesn’t cover up so much of the screen. You do a great job and are good on camera so don’t make it TOO small but a little smaller might help.
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Leslie,
I log in here regularly but didn’t check my own profile to see that I had unaccepted friend requests. I have lots of requests out there that haven’t been accepted so now, thanks to your post, I know that they aren’t just ignoring me but that like me, they haven’t spent the time required to figure out that friend requests are posted on your own profile.
I read your stuff as you post it, now I guess we’re friends….whatever that means. 🙂
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Jan,
I’ve been with Hostgator for years with nothing but great results, so can’t help from experience. But I have heard really good things about BlueHost so Leslie’s recommendation might be a good one. Good luck in your future hosing and sorry about any bad experience you had with Hostgator. I have actually heard nothing but good and had nothing but good about them. Has to happen sometime. Just sorry it was for YOU.
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Bruce- Like Sean said…you have some great insights. But I want to add another point. Marketers by nature tend to do what they do to benefit themselves instead of who they are supposed to be ‘serving’ and as you’ve noted the changes in algorithms is attempting to change that (and is actually doing a fair job at it). But you’re also right that Google has always been outspoken that their mission is to get their ‘customer’ the best experience they can.
So…what I’ve attempted to do (and has worked fairly well for me to date) is to do exactly what you said by also trying to produce a good experience for Google’s searchers and if it is done right it benefits me at the same time. The way I’ve done that is by figuring out what their searchers want by spending time doing a specific type of keyword research and then creating what is needed to get those searchers exactly what they want. The result is that I end up sort of ‘gaming’ the system and end up on top of the search engine results pages and that benefits the searchers and me at the same time.
So I guess what I’m saying is that you’re right…when I pursue Google’s agenda (good experience for the searcher) I benefit at the same time. It doesn’t really have to be an either or deal. I can benefit. Google benefits. The searcher benefits. And it all starts by doing exactly what your post said…focus on the why of the platform you are using and everyone benefits.
Thanks again Bruce.
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Great insights from Both Bruce and Sean! There is one thing that probably could be said here for those reading it all… Launching a product at a lower price is better than not having anything out there at all because you’re working on getting it worthy of charging more. Sean is right that it makes a great buyer lead. It also helps eliminate procrastination and/or perfection syndrome because you always learn more and better by DOING IT than you can by any other way.
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Yvonne,
Very good post…something we all need to remember. What you’ve said would be like a motivational speaker or a preacher deciding not to deliver his/her message because someone else just did something similar. Nobody EVER is the same. We are all totally different people, with different things to say and from a completely different perspective and we all have a completely different audience. So…NEVER let someone else doing something similar to what you want to say stop you from saying it.
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Thanks Julia, I’m watching for when you add more. Looks like a great approach to the ‘social’ scene.
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Bruce- You’ve got a lot of good advice in this thread but something nobody has mentioned is your email subject lines. If people don’t open your emails to read them because your subject line doesn’t get them to want to see what you’re going to say, the whole email is worthless. If you spend as much time figuring out exactly who your audience is, what makes them tick, what they want from you and how you can get it to them and then craft a subject line that makes them curious, makes them realize you have what they need, or makes them in some way really NEED to read your email, THEN and only then will what you write in your email matter at all. Spend as much time on the subject line as you do in the email and it’ll work. Just a thought!
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I agree with the concept of minimalism as Julia defines it here. But I’m way ahead of the curve in this regard.
My first wife died of cancer a few years back and when that long ugly ordeal occurred, it became very obvious that we had way too much stuff for our kids to have to deal with if I was to follow in her footsteps any time soon. So a few years later when I married again (someone who’s husband had died) we were on the same page and decided that to love our kids partially meant to not leave them with hordes of ‘stuff’ to deal with. So we got rid of tons and we still have tons. We don’t live like the ‘Alaskan Frontier’ folks who choose to live without modern convenience but we don’t just collect junk and pay to store it like so many in the USA do.
And yes…it does relieve some stress not having all that ‘stuff’ around to clutter up the place.
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Great thread to start Yvonne. Thanks.
What I do for planning is a simple to-do list I built in a Word document that I cut and paste prioritized things to the top. I added a quote at the top that says, “Sloppy Success is Better Than Perfect Mediocrity” to help keep me on track and moving. I add a ‘ONE THING’ line for each day of the week at the top of the page. Sean, a while back suggested a book called One Thing by Gary Keller and it revolutionized my planning process. The idea is that as part of every 40 line to-do list is one thing that if you complete you’ll feel accomplished for the day. I make that one thing something that always moves me toward my goals (that are written down on a separate document). If the one thing is done early in the day I move on to the next but I never finish a day without completing the task that I earlier decided was important enough to be on the ‘one thing’ list.So… at the end of every week I have at least 5 ‘one things’ done and can adjust the list for the next week. That way every month has 20 super important things completed where if I just went off my 40-50 item to-do list, I might get overwhelmed and not get nearly as many of them done.
That is what works for me but I do believe that everyone has to do what works for them, their personality, their giftings, their hangups, etc. And really, the only people who will gain ANY benefit by planning are the ones who really want to move along anyway. Those without ambition, initiative and/or drive to succeed can plan all day long but never will accomplish anything. You gotta want it.
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Great advice, Yvonne, and a great story I’m glad you shared to remind us all to get out from behind our screens. It is way too easy to even allow our mindset to keep us isolated which is obviously not good. Thanks again.
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Hi Les (& Scott & Bruce),
Yep- great discussion and much needed. For anyone following Sean for a while you’ll know he’s agonized over how to get people really involved and active for quite a while. I think he was hoping this would/could be different but Scott, you’re right about the ‘where’s Sean’ thing. EVERYTHING in life boils down to leadership and when people don’t see those they are trying to follow they tend to drift off the trail. I believe and hope that Sean’s latest, Membership Tutorials, will breath some life into the group but I’m going to be honest here… I’ve been working my back side off the last few weeks trying to get something I’m happy with ready to run with and having a place to showcase something I’m not done with isn’t what will make it done. Nothing except just plain ole hard work and stick-to-it-ness will. I’ve got that but posting pages of rants here isn’t helping me finish either.
Ya, ya, ya, I know it doesn’t have to be perfect.:) But it DOES have to make sense and without certain parts of it completed it isn’t any better than 95% of the junk peddled in this industry for a quick buck. What I’m working on is exactly what you’re looking for, Les, because every one of my subscribers are asking for the same thing. “How do I just make a little extra…consistently?” I thing I’ll have the answer in a format anyone can understand within the next couple weeks and I’ll post it in Sean’s new Membership Tutorial area and see how it goes.
Until then… I’ll keep popping my head in to see how everyone’s doing but won’t spend as much time here are Scott and Bruce seem to (Both write long post quite consistently and unless they’re super fast with a keyboard that takes TIME).
Talk soon.
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Kristen,
Great job on being able to see a ‘hook’ in everyday news and creating a headline (subject line) that uses curiousity. We all know that curiosity is a huge human incentive but few use it effectively. You’ve done an outstanding job in using it here…and then in transitioning it into something you want to say to your ‘market’. Well done!
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For our business I think a quote by Bill Tracy is very appropriate…
When you have absolute clarity about what you want and how you’re going to get it, you’re able to focus on what’s important so you get more things done in less time.
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I like a quote by Abraham Lincoln when he said,
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Soooooo true in our business and in life in general!
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Hey Julie,
After reading through your post I have mixed thoughts. First one was ‘I agree’ but then I had to be honest with myself and look a second time at it and came to the conclusion that if the ‘upsell’ sales pitch or page is extremely clear that the front end product has everything I need but if I want to learn a bit more or a bit faster I can toss a little more coins toward the creator, it is really not one bit different than driving through McDonald’s or Burger King and having them ask after I ordered a small burger if I wanted bacon or cheese on it. When that happens I don’t get mad at them, I just say no and eat what I bought.
Seems to me that getting mad at a marketer before you even give a chance to find out if it tastes good is like yelling at the Burger King order taker and saying you’ll never be back because they asked if you wanted more. That’s just something to think about. Just because they asked if you want more doesn’t mean that the first purchase isn’t any good.
Another thing is something I’ve heard a bit lately about email marketing. If you try and try to build a relationship with your subscribers by NOT offering them anything, aren’t you just forcing them to go somewhere else and find what they want? They signed up to get information about a certain subject and if you know what is good and offer it to them won’t they be better off than if you forced them to go to some other ‘used car salesman’ type marketer? There’s got to be more ways to build relationships and trust with subscribers than to never offer them what they signed up to get. Am I making any sense? Sure…give value without offers every once in a while (like Sean is so good at) but don’t be afraid to suggest things that are good for your readers. And yes…there are marketers who I don’t trust as far as I could throw them but that’s what the unsubscribe button is for. I actually look forward to hearing from the ones I do trust and as long as they don’t break that trust I’ll keep reading…and buying…and look at what I buy as a very very small price for some good education. (Beats what colleges teach all day long).
I’m not trying to discourage you…at all…just trying to get you to not throw the baby out with the bathwater so to speak. If someone like Sean (or some other marketers with integrity) suggest something is worthwile…it usually is…and I don’t get mad if they offer cheese or bacon.:)If you're looking for a someone to bounce things off of in the IM world, I'm your guy and I really would love to help you out. Helping others is just who I am!
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Donna, You’re so right. 15 years ago a free ebook would fly but people today want it quick, simple, easy and cheap. Most people (in the IM niche at least) have tons of things on their hard drives that could easily be boiled down into a great cheatsheet or checklist. Then, as you find the one that really goes for it, turn it into a full course.
I agree completely. We make things WAAAAYYYY to hard and complicated MOST of the time.
Great reminder. Thanks.
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Thanks Bruce- I can see it now too. I was looking right past it not thinking it was a link because the ‘Post Anything’ is in black instead of blue. Now I know. Thanks tons.
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I just signed up Jan. I’ll be watching, waiting and letting you know as the 5 days unfold anything I think could be improved.
First off… seems like another sentence or two on your Thank You page after opting in might be helpful. Instead of just saying ‘Thanks’ maybe you could say to watch your inbox or give other instruction as to what they’ll get and when.
I’ll comment more as time goes on.
Thanks.
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Hi Julie,
Just want to encourage you in your Core 4 plan. It is people like you who make a plan AND STICK WITH IT who succeed.
Have you been able to stick with your plan so you can learn your niche?
Have you been able to congratulate yourself with any successful days since you started.
Your plan is fairly aggressive but it will yield you great results if you can make it happen.
Between your reading and studying on your plan, you should know your market better than 99% by the time your first month is over… and THAT makes YOU the expert so you can coach/teach others.
Just wanted to encourage you to stick to your guns and make it happen.
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I seem to remember the same but can only find this forum to share posts in. Great question Yvonne. Looking forward to an answer!
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I agree totally with Bruce who I think is basically saying ‘blogs are still relevant unless you have something better’….which very few people actually have access to.
Another point to notice is that the URL of the author you mentioned who wrote an article about Deep Interest Networks being better than blogs. I thought it interesting that the author is all about Networks rather than blogs so pushes that in the article. All that means is that you have to take what that article says with a grain of salt.
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Hey Sean,
Is it possible to have dates show up instead of just times for forum posts? Or did you leave dates out on purpose?
The reason for wanting dates is to see which posts are current and still in need of a reply. For instance, some of your replies look like they came minutes ago but they said you were hoping to get something up and running by Christmas.
Just a thought…
Thanks.
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Brick & Mortar businesses and their websites
Julie,
I’m not sure if you have had your sales conversation with your potential client yet because we haven’t seen any feedback yet but if you haven’t, what I’ve done over and over is to ask the client if they have websites of similar businesses that they like. If they do ask what they are. If they don’t have them search a bit and find some websites they like so you know which direction to go that you know in advance will make them happy. THEN… I go into the questions posed by previous posts and use the answers to build their site in a way that incorporates what they need but remember… YOU are the expert. YOU know better than they do what a website should include (and if you don’t know, ask here or do your research). The most important thing in building sites is to ask yourself as you go what the purpose of each page is. Don’t have any pages without a purpose.
Good luck and we look forward to great feedback in this great new year for you.
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Outstanding Read!
Don,
I just accessed and read your book start to finish in one quick sitting. It is outstanding and really shows off your skill in writing. And your skill in thinking. And your skill in sharing your thoughts in a way others need and want to listen to.
Thanks tons for a fantastic way to start my day.
And if anyone else is reading this… you should definitely access Don’s book and read it!!! (Here is a way to access it if you haven’t already… https://seanmize.infusionsoft.com/app/linkClick/66487/0a961168af470a18/21421495/f2539055c6dfa012 ) Don’t just access it! Read it! And it almost forces you to take action on it that will change your life.
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Great Thought Yvonne- Thanks.
I’m a guy who loves quotes that make me think and this one did. Thanks.
Seems to me like way to many people are always waiting for some new beginning they can change but the quote gives a much better alternative…change the ending so the ‘new beginning’ will be better.
Thanks for your efforts to keep us all moving forward in the right way.
Have a great 2018!
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Hey Don-
Congrats for getting your book done and on KDP. I tried to get it but seems the only way to read it is to have a $9.99 per month subscription to Amazon’s KindleUnlimited. Am I right? Would like to see your work but I’m not subscribing to new monthly costs right now.
If you can tell me how I can get to it somehow I’d be glad to leave you a review.
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My Sean Mize Quote of the Day
It is my belief that waaaaaay to many internet marketers do the opposite of what Sean’s quote says…
Sean says (and I believe it is totally true “Not only do you not NEED to be everything to everyone . . you shouldn’t be . . .”
If we would actually DO that instead of just read over it or even just believing it and not acting on it we’d be way down the road.
We all need to specialize in something, become good at that one thing and make sure what we offer regarding that one thing is worth what we think we should be making delivering it.
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Bruce- I agree that we all get stuck and I think I’ve pretty much figured out what MY problem with that is. It is what Norma talked a little about in another post thinking things had to be perfect before getting them out there. For a long time I had tons of stuff ‘almost’ done but nothing out there and ‘ready’. I’m now past that because I finally decided to just put it out there and tweak it later as I have time.
That’s MY two cents about it and I just bet I’m not the only one with THAT as the biggest problem/issue holding us back. 🙂
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Thanks Norma- YOU were actually who I wanted to contact so thanks. I like your optin form/line and how it works on your blog and was wondering what plugin you are using.
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Norma-
I have the same ‘personality’ issue with perfectionism that you discussed. It is great to see that I’m not the only one in the Community with that issue. While I think it is good to be a detail person, having to have things just right before we put them out there causes all sorts of issues…as you know. So to combat that recently, I have printed out something and taped it to my computer monitor. It says ‘Sloppy success is better than perfect mediocrity’. Hope that strikes a cord. Let’s just get it out there and THEN tweak it (like Sean teaches).If you're looking for a someone to bounce things off of in the IM world, I'm your guy and I really would love to help you out. Helping others is just who I am!
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I much prefer B, especially because it makes it easier to find at a glance what the discussion is about. After the Community if fuller and the content in it is bigger that will make a difference.
And just as a suggestion if it is possible, it would be even better if there were a way to categorize the questions to (for example) see all video related q & a in one place and all email related in another, etc.If you're looking for a someone to bounce things off of in the IM world, I'm your guy and I really would love to help you out. Helping others is just who I am!
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Hey Don-
I DO have lots of swipe files simply because they help me so much. I have them organized into exactly what they are so I don’t have to totally reinvent the wheel when building things in the future.
Obviously, MY swipe files (the ones I liked the style of or way they were written) might not be the ones everyone else might have saved but they definitely work for me.
Besides the files (that I usually copy & paste into word docs with a link on the doc to the actual page and then organized into folders on my PC) I save good emails into folders using similar organization (some for optin-thank you emails or welcome emails after purchases, some for well written promo emails, some for JV recruiting emails, etc).
Thanks for the link from LiveYourMessage. Much appreciated.
I am more than willing to share with anyone in this Community what I have but don’t know what the easiest/best method of sharing might be. Ideas?If you're looking for a someone to bounce things off of in the IM world, I'm your guy and I really would love to help you out. Helping others is just who I am!
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“What do you think that YOU and others here should DO to help you get what YOU want out of PreneurPal?
Never Give Up!
We’ve all heard that a thousand times but it seems to me like any time someone tries this sort of thing it starts well and soon gives out. If we all determine to stick with it and never give up in helping those who might need or could use our services and/or expertise, it will continue to be exactly what we each need even in the long run. I doubt that any of us will ever get to the point where we couldn’t use some constructive critique and another person to bounce things off of. Even Professional and/or Olympic athletes have coaches to keep them improving.
Here is my commitment to help anyone in here I can at any time with anything. And the more of us that keep at that… we’ll all do better.
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I’m with the consensus…yes! Larger font sizes are better.
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You could always go back to the trusty PayPal. I know it cost a bit but not more than a typical merchant account and it is easy to set up and everybody (and their dog) knows and trusts the name. Just a thought. Wish I was having the problem of needing to accept large amounts of money regularly. Congrats for pushing toward that. I’m right behind you.
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I live in the beautiful Rockies of Montana and love it. After being in the construction industry for decades and being an assistant pastor of a large church for decades, I started goofing around online back about 2009 after my wife died of cancer and I wrote a research book on natural cancer cures. I loved (and still do) helping people in any way I can so that was my beginning in helping those online that I didn’t know but could really help.
The book did okay but not great because I didn’t know how to get the word out back then.
Since then I had a stroke causing me to forget most of what I already knew. I had to learn how to read and write and everything all over again (and I forgot everything I had learned about the online world). Forgetting what I knew about the online world wasn’t all bad because it changes so fast. Everything was new and different for me whether it was in reality or not. So I immersed myself in learning ( and considered every course or product I purchased as a small part of my new education which I desperately needed) and began helping friends and family and then other brick and mortar clients gain customers from online. I learned a ton by just doing it. I am by personality a detail oriented all my ducks in a row kind of guy but had to learn to be more of a Ready-Fire-Aim guy that was willing to just put it out there and tweak it later.
I have recently (the last year or so) taken all I’ve learned and decided that to most newbies I am actually a specialist in the IM world so have marketed myself that way. I am far from an expert on everything know that I know a LOT more than 95% of those who want to start online. I make some money online but not nearly what I know I am capable of. So am super excited to grow and help others here grow at the same time.
I have done a lot in SEO and consider myself more knowledgeable than most in video rankings and production. I’m more than willing to help anyone in our Community any way I can.
Thanks Sean for all the hard work you’ve put into this Community. Many of us will benefit greatly from it.
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I’m a Camtasia guy too. Love it. I’ve tried pretty much everything for the PC and always end up going back to good ole’ Camtasia.
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Yes Jen, the video I’m referring to is the small one of YOU inside the larger one of your screen. It is not at all that YOU are too big but that the video of you covers up a pretty significant amount of your screen. I’m not sure what software you’re using but the size is usually just a click and drag the corner resizing just before you render the video.
As I see it, the whole ideas behind having YOU showing (which I do believe helps with conversions because it shows you are a real person and not some company with over-produced videos that may or may not be anything but marketing junk) is to make those watching subconsciously connect with you which puts them down the path toward knowing, liking and trusting you. So even if your little in-screen video isn’t large it does its job.
But again, great job.
I just congratulate you for starting your project. Getting started is always the hardest so I have no doubt you’ll be able to ‘get and keep momentum.If you're looking for a someone to bounce things off of in the IM world, I'm your guy and I really would love to help you out. Helping others is just who I am!
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And let me add one more thing…
I’m sure Sean has taken a LOT more effort on making this group what it can be than many in here give him credit for. The fact that the 20% post more than the other 80% isn’t a new phenomenon…but pretty normal. I, for one, am extremely grateful for all his efforts. I think it would be great for more people to acknowledge that instead of just ignoring it.
Thanks, Sean.
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Scott,
I imagine you’re right. I used to type faster than I could read. So you suggesting that the long posts aren’t something you have to slave over is, I imagine, true. But for ME, things are a little different. I just read your entire post in the Members Tutorial section about how much of our brain we use. That whole question is not only fascinating to me but touches home really close.About 5 years ago I, out of the blue, had a brain hemorrhage that put me in ICU for a while and when i emerged, I had to learn how to read and write and walk and talk and pretty much everything all over again. THAT was difficult to say the least but it taught me something and that is that WANTING something is most of the battle. If I had decided at that time that things were going to be too difficult to ‘relearn’ I would absolutely not be where I am today doing what I do today.
Before that lifechanging event, I used my brain pretty well. I was the valedictorian in my high school and did well in bible college but my personal giftings and what I could do or not do had been pretty much cemented into my thinking…so I did what I knew I was good at and didn’t even try anything else. I now know, first hand, that that was a big mistake. A perfect example is that prior to my brain bleed, I was very administrative and organized but I had never really done much public speaking because I had always though that was for the other guy and I was better helping the pastor instead of being the pastor. You get my point.
But since starting over I have basically decided that my brain has the capability to reconnect parts of it that died during the ‘stroke’. We used to call every brain event a stroke…but medicine has now advanced and rather than believing I was in the ICU with a clot in my brain they could tell it was a broken vessel so the old clot stroke now was more correctly known as a ‘hemorrhagic stroke’. When parts of my brain were not getting the necessary blood to function normally those brain cells died and to ‘relearn’ my brain had to basically reconnect to alive parts that weren’t used to doing what they were before.
I am now still administrative and very organized but I also can do a lot of things that I couldn’t before simply because I decided that I wanted to learn how. I now speak in front of churches and other large groups regularly and I teach things I would never have thought of even trying before.
So in reality, though it has been quite difficult, that event 5 years ago actually gave me a new lease on life. I could have rolled over and quit but I’m sure if I had I’d be dead by now. Instead I had a clean slate I could start with and so all the computer languages I knew before I now don’t even need to spend time learning again because of the advances of WordPress and other great software make simple things that used to take lots of time and effort to learn.
Thanks for your ‘touch-typing’ efforts here in this group. I, for one, enjoy seeing what you’ve learned during your lifetime and I learn by just coming in contact with you. I am not (yet) a touch typist but am working on it. I struggle much more than some who’ve been at it for 50 years because I’ve only been ‘at it’ for 5 but I’m getting better every day and I am truly thankful for the ‘reset’. I now know that we can pretty much be anything we want to and can do pretty much anything we want to do, we just have to quit making excuses and DO it!
Thanks again, Scott.
And to everyone else in this group… there’s a vast amount of knowledge that can be gained from the collaborative efforts of everyone here. Don’t take that lightly, like I used to. Glean from what others share and become a better you! I’m working on being a better me!
Steve
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That is what Sean is all about
Very true Scott. Pretty much all the training Sean does boils down in some way to helping people. And the quote you compiled from his training is really true. If you’re not helping people you may make it to some extent but it will be very short lived and you’ll gain a reputation you probably don’t want. Ya gotta help folks.
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I think 'half' is probably low
Great quote but I think that not having a coaching program probably leave a bit more than half of the money on the table…just a guess.
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