Rui: Hi there, I’m Rui, and I have here Patrick McKenzie with me at MicroConf Prague and we are going to be talking a little bit about Email Marketing. Patrick: Thanks very much for having me. Rui: Thank you for being here. What do you think is the most important thing about email marketing […]
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This was actually my first WDS. I honestly didn’t know what to expect. There were two previous ones (500 attendees in 2011, 1,000 in 2012 and about 3,000 in 2013). I wasn’t actually going to attend WDS 2013 initially because of some urgent client engagements but that resolved itself a few days before WDS
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What next? Well it’s certainly tempting to start building the product or service straight away before anyone steals your idea! Right? Well, in most cases, that’s just paranoia. 1. Store Your Great Ideas in One Place Whenever you have a great idea, put it all in the one place. Some keep a notebook. I personally
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Read my guest post on 5 critical skills for entrepreneurs here.
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Thinking of time as money is a good way to allocate your time when you’re working. Now I did say while you’re working. Not when you’re with your family/kids/loved ones/on dates etc. While it’s true that lost money can indeed be recouped but time cannot; lost money is actually more difficult to make back as an
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Andrew Warner of Mixergy.com (very highly recommended by the way! I listen to his stuff all of the time) puts this up on Twitter: He shows how he got 33 emails by using SplashPost.com with $3.27. Anyway, I responded on Twitter that he should be able to get a lot more emails (10K
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I’m reading a fantastic book by Chet Holmes, The Ultimate Sales Machine Are you struggling to find enough time to do what you want? Are you not as productive as you want to be? Most people spend their day being reactive, not proactive. They are reacting to their businesses, to constant distractions. Instead of focusing efforts on the
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Autoresponders I love using Autoresponders. You can build tens of thousands of relationships and communicate your message over an extended period of time. That’s how people get to know you. And when it comes to sell, the ones who have been reading your emails, clicking your ebook, videos, podcasts — they’re the most receptive. It’s
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The best businesses in the world center around Recurring Income. Patrick McKenzie has done a great job of promoting the recurring model in the start up community. If you have a great idea, you should consider first whether it can be sold as a subscription product. Let’s take a look at some successful companies, some
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A subscriber emailed me yesterday asking which SEO blogs that I read. Here are the main 3 that I usually look at: http://searchengineland.com/ seomoz.org/blog http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/
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