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  1. Growth & Learn

    LeadPages vs. OptimizePress vs. Unbounce

    MARKETING 
    They can all be split tested. Lead pages and Unbounce are monthly services so you have to factor that into your costs. This is less profit for you. Optimize Press is a little harder to use and doesn't have built in split test. If you combine it with Optimizely though your'e can split test lots...
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    eBook sales in a depression/recession? Reliable Income?

    PUBLISHING 
    This is correct. Asking about e-books in general as a format is probably too broad. Depends on the topic. E-books about what to do with 10k of extra income per month in a recession might not do well. E-books on how to find a job, how to save money, how to budget, and other topics that middle...
  3. Growth & Learn

    Stuck in a passionless wantrepreneur rut

    MINDSET 
    If motivation and work ethic is an issue make the stakes higher for yourself. If you're making 60k per year from your day job your pain/fear threshold towards action might not have been triggered successfully yet. When I graduated college I moved to my first city with $600. I hit that pavement...
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    Management/ Hiring Advice?

    PEOPLE 
    Ahh see that's a great question. There are certain things and certain opportunities that I'd like to do to grow the business. I've built infrastructure, products, customers etc….but i'm not an expert on some of these next level things. So, I'm trying to bring in experts who are.
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    Management/ Hiring Advice?

    PEOPLE 
    That's interesting. I'm real tapped into that personally from the intrinsic level but not sure how to get my employees to recognize intrinsic rewards. Anybody have thoughts on this? I mean can that be taught?
  6. Growth & Learn

    Management/ Hiring Advice?

    PEOPLE 
    I've actually read Emyth Revisited and found it helpful for 101 level systemizing…especially when some of the work is repetitive. I found that it wasn't as useful for me on hiring talented people who have beyond entry level skills and managing them. This is where I'm stuck.
  7. Growth & Learn

    Management/ Hiring Advice?

    PEOPLE 
    Have a question for those of you who are great managers and also business owners. How do you hire and find amazing employees with incredible work ethics to match your own? I've built my businesses by working my tail off. I'd rate my work ethic and intensity at about a 9 or 9.5 out 10. That's...
  8. Growth & Learn

    Wrong Price ? Or Wrong Marketing ?

    MARKETING 
    Ultimately you're going to want to price test this. People's concept of what something is worth can fluctuate and is constantly in motion in their mind. Especially when you put it in context of something else. Value can be very subjective. For example, I got some qualitative feedback from a few...
  9. Growth & Learn

    Cheap Ghostwriters

    PUBLISHING 
    No dude. Nobody said you're stupid. You're hear to learn. It's all good. Sometimes you're going to get a little tough love though. Just trying to point you in the right direction.
  10. Growth & Learn

    Cheap Ghostwriters

    PUBLISHING 
    Your whole approach reeks quick buck internet marketing 2006. It's 2015 now. Good luck with that.
  11. Growth & Learn

    What is the FIRST thing you need to know about Hiring

    PEOPLE 
    Here's my tip. Go in this order for finding talent. 1.Start recruiting from your network first. 2.Then, 1 step removed from your network (trusted referrals from your network) 3. Finally go with job ads (Monster, Indeed, etc.) Bonus points: Interview the hell out of them. Multiple interviews...
  12. Growth & Learn

    What is the FIRST thing you need to know about Hiring

    PEOPLE 
    This is actually interesting. In some ways I agree but I've also loved the loyalty of having someone I trust immediately be part of the business. For example, a few years ago I had one of my family members work for one of my businesses for a couple years. He did a few things here and there...
  13. Growth & Learn

    Wrong Price ? Or Wrong Marketing ?

    MARKETING 
    No. Got my own business to run. Especially since I know you didn't fix those under things yet. Get some more visitors and split test too. Like I said. Get to work.
  14. Growth & Learn

    Wrong Price ? Or Wrong Marketing ?

    MARKETING 
    I don't have time to get into everything that's wrong but you have a ton of issues. I'll just give you a few. 1. Your sales page is in English. The only country your targeting who's native language is English is the U.S.A. That's going to cause some serious conversion issues. 2. If you're...
  15. Growth & Learn

    $3k Per Month

    EXECUTION 
    Just to show you I practice what I preach. I just spent 72 hours adding a new feature to one of my products. I won't earn a dime from 'selling' this new feature. I've added it and I'm not increasing prices. It's free. But, if I continually make my customers lives better by improving my products...
  16. Growth & Learn

    $3k Per Month

    EXECUTION 
    Dude you're asking the wrong question. It's a newbie question. Ask this question instead, "What can I create or offer that will provide value for many people?" Once that question is answered you can use your answer as a compass for building something that will make you real lasting money...
  17. Growth & Learn

    How to connect with a new "better" social class and dissolve the old?

    MINDSET 
    I think the feeling you're experiencing is a common feeling in various stages of your entrepreneurial journey. Even though I own what most would consider 2 successful businesses, I've had the desire for the last year to spend a lot more time with successful people. It's getting harder and harder...
  18. Growth & Learn

    Getting Started - Ready, Fire, Aim: Stage 1 (0-$1M)

    HOT! 
    Bought mine just now. Ready to dig in...
  19. Growth & Learn

    Attitude Toward Spending Money?

    MINDSET 
    You are correct and that I do know my business well. 1 person is being hired to create solutions to address one of the biggest problems in my business. The only real challenge is that we are essentially inventing this position. We aren't 100% clear if it will work out in terms of ROI. Especially...
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    Attitude Toward Spending Money?

    MINDSET 
    What do you have your assistant do that allows you to focus on money making activities?

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