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Doing Sales Sequences Right

coachingJan 15, 2022

It won't surprise you that I woke up today with emails in my inbox from some company whose form I filled out a few days ago. It likely won't surprise you either that in that same inbox were emails from vendors whose forms I filled out months ago. Short sales sequences and long sales sequences...

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Comparing Online Learning SaaS Products

wordpressJan 12, 2022

Later this month I'll be talking about all the choices you have when it comes to online courses. In that talk, I'll show you why you might want to use a WordPress plugin (like LearnDash), or when you might consider an online learning SaaS (like Kajabi). Today I'm not going to spoil that entire discussion...

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Add A Monthly Connection To Your Online Course

online-learningJan 10, 2022

One More Tip For Your Online Courses Over the last few days I've written about selling your course and adding team licenses to your courses to help you generate more revenue. So it makes sense that I would bring this last tip for those of you getting ready to launch online courses this year. It's...

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Embracing Segmentation

ecommerceJan 9, 2022

What is Customer Segmentation? Customer segmentation is the opposite of treating everyone the same—which is how most companies that do mass marketing work. When I was growing up, everyone saw the same commercial for the same product and we all wanted the same things. In those days, communicating was expensive, and only available to the...

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Make More Money Selling Your Online Course

online-learningJan 8, 2022

Making More Money Means More The other day I showed you how to sell your online course. That was a long post about your landing page and the 20 different sections to strongly consider including. But if you want to make more money, there's a strategy I didn't discuss. So I'm sharing it now. How...

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The Anti-Pitch

agency-adviceJan 7, 2022

\"Dad, you're crazy.\" My daughter is a high school senior and interested in more than one boy. One appeared today and they had a chat. Tonight at dinner I asked if she was going to text him and maybe set up time to hang out tomorrow. The look I got told me that she knows...

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Great Introductions

marketing-communicationsJan 6, 2022

The Art of a Great Introduction The other day I wrote a tweet about generosity. A way to be generous without spending a penny. It was all about networking and great introductions...

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Mini Habits & Repetition

insightsJan 5, 2022

The first time my wife walked into my office crying, I knew two things. First, I knew something bad had happened (like she'd made some mistake she felt awful about). Second, I knew that adding my own emotions wouldn't help anything. So I told myself, repeating over and over in my head, \"stay calm.\" That's...

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WP Membership Sites without a Membership Plugin

membership-sitesJan 4, 2022

The Question Was Simple Last week I got an email with a simple question. Can a person who already has a WordPress website protect content via a membership site without a membership plugin? While the question was simple - no words in it were confusing or anything - it did make me scratch my head...

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Using FluentCRM with Uncanny Automator

ecommerceJan 3, 2022

There are multiple WordPress CRM solutions out there (Autonami, Groundhogg, Jetpack CRM, and FluentCRM). The two I like for their visual automation platforms are Autonami and FluentCRM, and as you've seen lately, I've been digging deeper into FluentCRM. Today I worked on an automation where I was bringing FluentCRM with Uncanny Automator to make some...

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