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  1. theBiz

    Back To Basics - Business in Old Industries

    EXECUTION 
    @codo3500 good luck man, as long as you can validate the idea prior to paying those initial costs, you're always way ahead of 99.9% of other people that go in business for themselves. I know a guy who imports and sells chimney sleeves this exact way, b2b cold calling. His product is not so much...
  2. theBiz

    I went for a drive today

    EXECUTION 
    That patent was from 1985.... and made someone millions over and over again and it took this long for someone to find another solution to cut into his profit..? That just shows you most of us are way overlooking the simple ways to make money, overlooking thinks that clearly have a validated...
  3. theBiz

    Need Any SEO Advice? I'm here to help you

    HOT! MARKETING 
    target="_blank” .............. does this cause a problem for seo when you have this for links on your site? Even aside from link juice does it have any cons?
  4. theBiz

    Diary of Opening A New Business

    NOTABLE! 
    Can't teach this type of stuff, smart.
  5. theBiz

    I lost 70 Thousand in Advertising...

    INTRO 
    Hey spaxton1 great story. Many of us learn its almost like a bike... you have to fall off in order to learn how to ride most times, but hopefully you learn in the process. Can you tell us any valuable lessons you learned, what was different the second time around? Im assuming you kept things...
  6. theBiz

    Any advice for a beginner Salesman?

    Silverhawk has some really good points. Whether you hate selling or not, its extremely important you become good at it. Most of the great leaders and pioneers in the world were in one way or another good salespeople. Selling is one of the most important qualities you can posses. Why did you...
  7. theBiz

    Diary of Opening A New Business

    NOTABLE! 
    Seems like some things never change...
  8. theBiz

    Diary of Opening A New Business

    NOTABLE! 
    You have been saying this for a long time and it really seems logical and true. I met a wealthy guy recently who wholesales plastic bottles, caps,etc to vitamin companies and so fourth... rather than trying to be the guy creating a new vitamin and getting it on the shelf he is finding people...
  9. theBiz

    Diary of Opening A New Business

    NOTABLE! 
    Jack, you haven't spoken much about competition. What is the process of taking accounts from other existing companies? If your potential new client has been working with someone else for 20 years i wouldent image its easy to just get them to swap over to using your company. With that said...
  10. theBiz

    Anyone have experience in the telecom audit industry?

    Trying to see if anyone has ever worked for, or owned a company in the telecom audit industry. This is the business where you take companies phone bills, find overcharges and generally split the savings you get back 50/50 with the company.
  11. theBiz

    Diary of Opening A New Business

    NOTABLE! 
    Just out of curiosity: http://www.alibaba.com Can your product or something very similar be seen here? Its amazing to me how many people are selling things directly from here in raw format just re-branding it, only for it to eventually be discovered and hurt them pretty badly. Im assuming...
  12. theBiz

    [AMA] $25m+ in affiliate mktg revenue & exiting the game: Ask me anything.

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Go back to page two. He pays for advertising, he also gave a big list of places he buys advertising from.
  13. theBiz

    Hitting Primary tab in Gmail

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    I recently started sending my emails from customercare@mydomain and my display name as Customer Care and i seem to be hitting the primary tab in gmail not the social or promotional anymore. Im using an email client (MailCheat(Chimp)) so its not coming from my server. Can someone test this and see...
  14. theBiz

    [AMA] $25m+ in affiliate mktg revenue & exiting the game: Ask me anything.

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    As Vespasian said, my biggest concern is always getting dropped by a merchant, i think its a huge part of the success. Some guys go to trade shows and link up with the right merchants to do high risk, not sure about how most companies go about this though. Also, some companies alternate between...
  15. theBiz

    My Business and My Bank Account are Growing

    Oh man.... that's makes me feel uneasy. Yeah, charge more, or please at least test. http://www.whatrunswhere.com/pricing.php three tier pricing @ max price 700/m. Im sure their motto is "if you cant make a profit after that, that's your problem." They understand people out there are saying...
  16. theBiz

    My Business and My Bank Account are Growing

    Hey congrats but: Be careful here and always test! I have heard from many people and seen it myself that raising prices of digitial services not only increases revenue overall... but even the conversion ratios. Higher prices can many times be associated with Market Leader and also give a...
  17. theBiz

    Bist Stuck At The Moment Just Need Some Basic Income Ideas?

    IDEA 
    Seriously this is a solution, im not being sarcastic. Get up, walk around town, and sell website services. Ive netted thousands per week consistently no problem by simply waking up at 6:00am, walking into stores and getting turned down 30 times only to get 2 maybes and hopefully 1 yes per day...
  18. theBiz

    [AMA] $25m+ in affiliate mktg revenue & exiting the game: Ask me anything.

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Thank you, that's funny ive heard around $5,000-$7,500 from multiple sources ive asked (actual online businesses, not affiliates) That's also a scenario we all see so often, the tough part is knowing when to keep going, or throw in the towel because it simply will not work.
  19. theBiz

    [AMA] $25m+ in affiliate mktg revenue & exiting the game: Ask me anything.

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Thanks man, thats all logical stuff most people including myself probably wouldent think of, especially the connections part. Yeah thats tough, but as you said you deal with it daily. Im sure host gator wouldent copy you if your brought them sales, but host gator would ban you as an affiliate...
  20. theBiz

    [AMA] $25m+ in affiliate mktg revenue & exiting the game: Ask me anything.

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    I remember earlier you speaking about how important testing the proper sales funnel is when using PPV/CPV but with: These chrome and mozilla installs... what is the sales funnel, is there one? It seems they literally just try to model what chrome or mozilla is doing and the install happens one...
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