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    Hassassin's ecommerce journey

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    Thanks for posting the update with so much detail. I'm not an eCommerce expert, but I understand statistics, and you haven't been running this anywhere near long enough or had enough visitors to make an accurate decision. All kinds of factors could be affecting your results. You need more eyes...
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    How to Build and Grow a Newsletter as a Business Model

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    I don't think they are all paid subscribers. I'm reading Matthew Paulson's email marketing book (updated 2022). He talks quite a bit about the strategy used to grow the subscribers, how much it costs, and where the revenue comes from. I have my business ticking over well with quite a lot...
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    Anatomy of a Launch Success

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    Progress update. The course's launch period ends tomorrow after two weeks. During this time, I've made a small number of sales daily, usually between 5 and 20. This is much better than I had hoped at the start of the launch. I sent a final email to customers this morning as the launch was...
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    Anatomy of a Launch Success

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    Yes, I think it would have made a difference if I had been able to launch earlier. I would say 6 weeks feels like optimal for my subscriber base. It was around 6 weeks after I published the initial registration article that I hit peak subscribers, and the article was getting regular comments...
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    Second Time Course Creation - Progress

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    It's a good point @Andy Black. I was thinking about my content and what I regularly publish. Typically, I post on Instagram three times a week, a 1,000 - 2,000 word how-to article on my website each week, an 8-minute instruction video on YouTube every 2 weeks and a monthly newsletter. The more...
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    Second Time Course Creation - Progress

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    That sounds like a lot of material. Personally, anything over two hours puts me off purchasing a course because of the time I would need to invest. Could this be broken into multiple courses, or is it a single topic? It may be more appealing if you could break it down into multiple courses, but...
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    Building a Fiction Empire

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    Remember to enrol in all the platform Affiliate schemes, especially as you're using Genius Link. You can earn a nice little boost from Amazon, Google, and Apple. My affiliate commissions for Amazon UK and the US sometimes achieve bonus rates, just from the sales I make on traffic I send to look...
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    Anatomy of a Launch Success

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    How on earth do you conclude that? Making a profit is what business is about. It lets you reinvest and grow.
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    Anatomy of a Launch Success

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    I recently launched a new course after being inspired by @Lex DeVille in another thread. I’ve been selling courses for around 10 years but struggled to turn a profit. This time, things were different, and my first two weeks generated over 300% more revenue than my previously most successful...
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    Lex's Digital/Physical Product Group Accountability Thread

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    @Lex DeVille, I hope you don't mind me posting an update here, but you inspired me to give course sales another go. I decided to create a video course and book to sell and to test Jeff Walker's launch strategy, which he describes in his book (also called Launch). After reading the book...
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    I've Hit a Plateau in how to Market my Subscription Box

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    What makes your box special that no one else is doing and would be difficult to copy? Why would I use your subscription service instead of buying 6 different supplements of my choice? Come up with a concrete argument, and selling this will become easier. If there isn't a reason, that's probably...
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    Lex's Digital/Physical Product Group Accountability Thread

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    I guess this proves the headline is where you should spend 80% of your time. It's the only thing people seem to read. I'll amend that. The first 5 words of the headline is all people seem to read.
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    Lex's Digital/Physical Product Group Accountability Thread

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    Here's the first part of the FAQ on the sales page showing that question and answer. I've had three more people question it since. The course is performing quite well despite this.
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    YouTube channel about Google Sheets / Apps - Script - Progress thread

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    The CTR dropping after 4 or 5 days is also expected and another good sign. This is because YouTube is showing videos to more people. Check your impressions to see if they are rising, and you will probably find that they are. Sometimes, you see people in Facebook groups shouting about having a...
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    Lex's Digital/Physical Product Group Accountability Thread

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    Snap! I launched a new course yesterday (inspired by @Lex DeVille and this thread). 300 people pre-qualified themselves as Adobe Lightroom users to be notified of the course launch. The course has "for Lightroom" in the title. The description clearly states that it's only for Lightroom. So...
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    YouTube channel about Google Sheets / Apps - Script - Progress thread

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    Although you say the video didn't have an extraordinary start, it does look to have a good one. It's 3rd in popularity on the last 10 published. The % click-through is 6.3% which looks good and is above the usual rate as confirmed by the green up arrow. Also the watch duration is up on your...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    I love reading about other people's projects and how they are tackling their challenges. With your attitude, I'm sure you will crack this.
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    Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole

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    It's been around seven months since my last YouTube progress update. I planned to post this in December 2024, but I've changed my approach, and that's worth sharing. I've scaled back my video publishing! For the last five years, I've published one video a week, believing consistency and...
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    Starting Management/IT consulting company

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    Of course you can do better, but you need to understand their business model. The best people make the sale and are first in. They then have targets to get more people in who also have targets to get more people in. Soon, there are dozens in the organisation, and most are straight out of...
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    Starting Management/IT consulting company

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    I've been there and got the T-shirt. I offered Project and Programme Management, specialising in IT delivery or new product delivery where a large component involved a new system. Within that, I niched down on the financial services industry and concentrated on project/programme recovery, where...

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