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  1. Empires

    Get Your Blog Approved by Google News

    MARKETPLACE 
    What sort of traffic do you typically see being generated from Google News in some of the various categories?
  2. Empires

    Question about Facebook Ads

    MARKETING 
    How big is your audience?
  3. Empires

    Do you know what this is without me saying? (Kickstarter campaign)

    HOT! 
    You need to draw more attention to the actual product. I think blurring a lot more of the picture would help. The problem is that everything is the same color. Everything is black or gray so nothing stands out. I think having someone edit the 45lb weights to be a silver color would help your...
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    How Much is TOO MUCH For a Membership Subscription Rebill?

    MARKETING RANT 
    What is the value of the membership to the customers? It all depends on how relevant it is to the customers on your website, if it is extremely valuable and relevant you can charge a higher price. If it is not as valuable but extremely relevant you can charge less to compensate for the lack of...
  5. Empires

    Ippei kanehara Local Lead Gen Week 2 Update

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    What happened?
  6. Empires

    Having trouble deciding between college and a business

    EXECUTION 
    What do you really want to do with your life? After you answer that, what does it take to get there? If college gets you there, then do that. If not, then don't. Do what you need to get you to where you want to be. If that involves getting a job and getting kicked out and having to sustain...
  7. Empires

    Using free version of CRMs like Hubspot, or Google Sheets + Integrations like Zapier/Integromat?

    MARKETING 
    Checkout Bitrix24. Their free CRM is really robust for being free. The only thing that was unreliable about it, and the reason I moved away from it, was their phone system. But if you won't be needing that then I think it should have all the capabilities you need.
  8. Empires

    What do you do when hit by failures?

    MINDSET FAILURE 
    You accept it and move on. You can't change what has already happened but you can change what happens moving forward. Take what you can from your experiences (I wouldn't even call them failures) and learn from them. Get up and start swinging again
  9. Empires

    steady Ecommerce biz with unique product – learning to grow and would love to hear your thoughts!

    MARKETING 
    Great job on what you've done so far. The product design is really clean and aesthetic. No matter what happens, I am sure you have learned a lot from your first business experience! For many businesses, they don't make a lot of profit on there first sale from a customer. Because as you...
  10. Empires

    The future of entrepreneurship: Creating big change

    For most people, it is best to solve the problems that are right in front of them. These problems you listed are not capable of being solved by most people. It may be a person that starts the 'next shitty app' which makes them 100m and gives them the means to solve one of these problems you...
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    Dropped out!

    What you need right now is not to start a business. You need to figure out what you want to do with your life. Starting a business isn't going to solve your problems. Sit down and take the time to figure out what you want to do. Really think about it. And I don't mean "have a million...
  12. Empires

    SEO providing inconsistent sales

    MARKETING 
    That would be interesting. Do you have analytics set up so you can see what search terms your website visitors are coming from? Is it possible that your amount of traffic is not changing but the search terms that they are coming from is? During certain parts of the month you may be getting...
  13. Empires

    How You Can Get A 100% Conversion Rate

    MARKETING 
    Great start! Keep the ideas going. I like the free gift, what is something that compliments your product really well and that you could give away for free or cheap? Something that none of your competitors currently do that will help you stand out. Is there a product that people tend to...
  14. Empires

    Growing profitable business. Hard to scale

    MARKETING 
    I am also a local service business. 300-400 is really high for your acquisition cost. It sounds like there was a problem in your sales process. What percentage of your website visitors from the google ads were actually calling? You could have had a landing page issue. It is also possible that...
  15. Empires

    Growing profitable business. Hard to scale

    MARKETING 
    Don't knock Google just yet, thats where the customers who need you the most are going to be looking for you. Do you have a Google my business listing? It cost nothing and can be relatively easy to rank depending on the competition for your immediate service area. I ranked #1 in my area with...
  16. Empires

    What is Fail Fast? Fast Idea Validation and Follow Through

    IDEA 
    Ideas aren't worth anything. People aren't going to steal your idea from seeing a Fb ad. The feedback is worth way more than the small risk someone copies your idea. Plus the harder an idea is to copy, the better. So try not to have something easy to copy.
  17. Empires

    How You Can Get A 100% Conversion Rate

    MARKETING 
    Absolutely. Every business is different, and the sales process for every business is going to have different KPIs that are important. Local service businesses like an emergency plumber should have a much higher conversion rate like 30-50% when compared to an ecommerce website which may have...
  18. Empires

    How You Can Get A 100% Conversion Rate

    MARKETING 
    I agree. The point is not about actually achieving a 100% conversion rate though, but about the thought process you can use to identify what is holding your customers back.
  19. Empires

    How You Can Get A 100% Conversion Rate

    MARKETING 
    Okay you can't get a 100% conversion rate, but that is a question I've asked myself every week as I've been growing my business. How can I get a 100% conversion rate? What would it take to get 100% of your website visitors or phone calls to pull out their credit card and purchase? The answers...
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    Ippei kanehara Local Lead Gen Week 2 Update

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    How much is it costing you to generate each lead?

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