James looked like the busiest and most important person in the mill.
He always had a clipboard and made notes as he hurried everywhere.
James was right there as new installations happened.
He was right there when deliveries arrived.
He was right there when new loads were shipped out.
It took three years before someone figured out that he didn’t do anything.
His original manager had retired, but no one had picked up the role, and James was left adrift.
Concerned for his job, he decided that the best way to hide was to be obvious and everywhere.
Looking busy doesn’t mean you’re being effective.
We can all fool ourselves that we are working on our businesses with all our busy work, but if that work isn’t bringing in new subscribers or making sales, then it’s a waste of your time.
Your tip for the day is to audit your work over a few days to determine if you are working effectively.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. Part of your audit should be on the tools you are using.
Not all tools help you be more effective or efficient.
Some of you are using old-school tools that you have had for years.
If they still do the job for you, that’s excellent, but some are causing roadblocks and slowing you down.
For an efficient business, you need to be able to build sales funnels, take payments, deliver products, and communicate with your prospects and customers.
Most of us still use three or more different tools to do this.
They rely on being able to integrate together for your sales to be silky smooth, but any one of them can break and screw up your entire system.
You may not notice for days, and you rely on someone else to fix it.
After extensive testing of multiple platforms and systems, I have found only one that delivers.
Only one has easy page builders, a built-in autoresponder, and a payment system.
You can host your documents, videos and audio for delivery to your customers.
No matter what type of business you want, this platform can deliver, and you can recruit and manage affiliates easily.
“Without promotion, something terrible happens… nothing!” – P. T. Barnum, Born Jul. 5, 1810.
One of the most significant differences between those who make money online and those who don’t is how much promotion they do.
If you genuinely believe that the product you are promoting is the answer to your prospect’s problem, it is your responsibility to promote it as hard as possible.
If you don’t genuinely believe that it is, why are you promoting it at all?
You must promote good products enthusiastically and hard because if you don’t, the scammers will.
Why do you think spam emails constantly fill your inbox?
That hard, relentless promotion works.
It’s the same with the constant barrage of junk offers that also hit your inbox.
So don’t let strangers suffer from problems you know you can solve!
They are out there, suffering in silence and desperation.
They are living with their problems, or even worse.
They are pitched hard by some shitty scam artist who isn’t afraid to go fishing for dollars.
They are getting victimized, and you are letting it happen!
You owe it to those people to beat the scammers at their own game.
Promote heavily across multiple platforms.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. I just received an email promoting a service to get web pages indexed, for which they wanted payment of $500.
If you grab a free trial of Convertri from here https://go.wm-tips.com/Convertri and email me your proof of purchase, I’ll give you the code to load that funnel into your account.
I’ll also give you the white-label rights to that funnel so you can change anything, including the price.
Poets, novelists, scriptwriters, etc., all turn bad stuff into great poems, books and movies.
You can do the same with your emails.
Not only can you turn the crap into gold, but you can ramp it up to make it even crappier before you turn it into gold.
This is story-telling at its finest.
Humans are genetically wired to pay attention to stories.
Stories have been central to human development since we began painting on cave walls.
Paintings superseded speech.
When we developed speech, we combined paintings with stories about the images.
As civilisation developed, the stories became the central part, and the images enhanced the stories.
Now people can visualise the story without pictures, but sometimes we still use actual images rather than visualised ones.
This is why we enhance the story with stronger verbs and ramp up the emotion.
It helps the reader visualise what you are trying to share.
It’s not lying.
It’s embellishment to make the story live.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. I said in the last email that I would have the offer of White Label for my products available for you today, but (you knew I was going to say that) it’s not ready.
It was my wife’s birthday today, and we have been doing birthday things all day.
What you will need for this to work is a Convertri account.
You probably don’t give a rats if you’re driving traffic to your web pages via Solo ads or another paid traffic source.
But, if you want to get some of the free traffic that search engines can deliver, you might want to get your pages indexed as quickly as possible.
I was in a discussion in a Facebook group regarding getting some web pages indexed.
The discussion was initiated because the person asking the question had 100 links to their main site on web pages that hadn’t been indexed.
That meant that those links were not doing anything for them.
Indexing doesn’t mean ranking.
It means that the Google or Bing bots have found the page and also the pages the links go to.
If the bots don’t find you, then you cannot get indexed or ranked, and with no links to your pages, they cannot find you.
So indexing is an essential first step.
My experience with the Google Webmaster Tools suggests that indexing is not guaranteed when you use them, but the methods I shared work and work very fast.
Pages get indexed in seconds sometimes, minutes often and rarely take more than an hour or two.
After that discussion, I decided that there must be others who need the same information.
Why do they bother to give contact details when they clearly have no intention of responding?
This time I’m talking about the Bricks and Mortar companies that deal in the 3D world.
I need to replace some clearance lights on the caravan, don’t ask why.
The original lams are no longer available because the van is 21 years old.
Who knew they’d stop making things that work fine.
I found some lights on a large company’s website but couldn’t find the same items in any caravan or automotive outlets yet.
The online details are sketchy, to say the least, which wouldn’t be a problem if they’re being installed on a new vehicle, but are not suitable for fitting as a replacement.
Simple things like how are they wired up or what does the inside of the assembly look like.
So I emailed the Australian head office to ask for some additional details.
That was over a week ago, and I have had no response, not even an automated response to say they got my email.
Now I’ll have to ring them and wait for a while telling me that my call is important to them, and they’ll still have to email me their response.
Customer service is slipping badly in this country.
What’s it like in yours?
Regards, Brent.
P.S. I’ve been talking about embracing your flaws to free your creative self for the last couple of days.
Apparently, I managed to demonstrate my flaws at the same time.
I failed to set up delivery of the free report correctly, so those requesting it didn’t get it delivered.
I have corrected that and have delivered the report to you.
