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15th March 2024, 04:50 PM
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14th March 2024, 05:08 PM
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10th March 2024, 06:03 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 109 Re: How Much Have You Spent With Amazon
It's not a lot of books. I read two or three a week. And I buy them in print, so I can write in the margins and take notes in the blank pages.
In a month, we buy cat food and toys, shoes,...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th March 2024, 05:43 PM
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
9th March 2024, 02:43 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 109 Re: How Much Have You Spent With Amazon
Even now, we spend maybe $800 to $1,000 a month on Amazon.
Maybe $200-300 for books, and the rest for items we used to buy in stores. Really fast shipping (for free with Amazon Prime), huge...
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9th March 2024, 02:32 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 200 Re: This is just yucky to me
I wouldn't mind tasting alligator....but the visual of seeing the head of a dead animal (pig, fish or reptile) would really bother me.
But putting out a whole animal for food? Maybe it's a macho...
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7th March 2024, 06:01 PM
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6th March 2024, 06:00 PM
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
5th March 2024, 04:32 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 272 Re: Upselling a subscription product
You may want to offer a comprehensive video course on how to get the most from your software. And in that course, you could sell a monthly update service. I would sell it for $7-10 a month. And sell...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
4th March 2024, 04:38 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 272 Re: Upselling a subscription product
Asking for a phone number, so you can call them, will kill sales. One of the main appeals of buying online is the fact that you don't have to talk to anyone.
If you have their e-mail address, I'd...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
25th February 2024, 10:32 PM
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Replies: 68
Views: 1,090 Re: Do You Look Your Age?
I think I was about 50 years old.
The photos on my book covers were taken when I was about 56 years old.
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Forum: Copywriting
25th February 2024, 10:14 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 291 Re: Do you need talent?
That may be the heart of it.
Understanding the subtleties of language means you have read a ton of good fiction.
Another distinction (at least it's my theory) is that you have to love the process...
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Forum: Copywriting
23rd February 2024, 06:28 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 291 Re: Do you need talent?
Nobody is born with a talent to write great copy. It's all developed and absorbed through study and practice.
Everybody starts at zero.
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20th February 2024, 05:34 PM
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19th February 2024, 06:09 PM
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19th February 2024, 02:57 PM
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
19th February 2024, 02:35 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 328 Re: Why do they OPT IN?
And that free offer (to secure the subscription to the e-mails) selects the audience that will opt in.
For example, your free offer is about weight loss. Now we now what the subscriber wants to...
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18th February 2024, 07:09 PM
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Replies: 68
Views: 1,090 Re: Do You Look Your Age?
The only reason I think I usually look better in a photo is that the photo is posed. Lighting hides many faults. Positioning hides many faults.
And all photos were taken in the past. ;)
By the...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
18th February 2024, 06:26 PM
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
18th February 2024, 05:57 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 328 Re: List building
I'm very sorry, but that's not how you build a list.
Offering back to back affiliate offers isn't how you build a list, it's how you take a profitable list, and destroy it.
If you want to build...
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18th February 2024, 01:43 PM
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Replies: 68
Views: 1,090 Re: Do You Look Your Age?
To me, one of the best benefits of being 69 years old? I no longer care how I look to attractive women. Losing the constant need to attract the females is maybe the most liberating thing that's...
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18th February 2024, 01:37 PM
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Replies: 68
Views: 1,090 Re: Do You Look Your Age?
Because looking at yourself in the mirror, you focus on the good parts, and your face is moving, blurring lines. A photo is static...and a stark reminder of what others see.
Me? I look thinner in...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
18th February 2024, 01:23 PM
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Views: 194 |
Forum: Mind Warriors
15th February 2024, 05:30 PM
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Views: 207 |
Forum: Mind Warriors
12th February 2024, 07:24 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 190 Re: It's all in your head ??
It works both ways.
Nearly every thing we experience is neither as bad or as good as what we anticipate or fear.
The reason is that we are always dealing with incomplete information before any...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
12th February 2024, 07:15 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 339 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
15th January 2024, 03:56 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 2,022 Re: Unconventional marketing?
I think I understand why the question is asked. But being unconventional isn't an advantage in itself. It's only an an advantage if it works better than the alternatives, whether they are...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th January 2024, 11:44 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 365 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th January 2024, 03:05 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 365 Re: Difficult problems with headlines
A great headline addresses a very specific audience (that you are marketing to), makes a strong promise (or benefit), and arouses a little curiosity.
A great book is How To Write A Good...
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7th January 2024, 01:03 PM
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7th January 2024, 12:56 PM
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7th January 2024, 12:08 AM
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Views: 236 Re: Happy Birthday, Claude
Thank you very much for the kind......
Wait...WAIT! Why are you being nice to me?
Suspicious...Very suspicious.
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28th December 2023, 11:29 PM
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
20th December 2023, 03:39 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 879 Re: Bum Marketing In 2023.
Of course article marketing works.
You can start a blog easily. A membership site like this one has lots of high ranking articles that are on the first page of a Google search.
But, and here's...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
18th December 2023, 05:00 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 208 |
Forum: Beginners Area
17th December 2023, 02:07 PM
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Replies: 55
Views: 1,768 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
11th December 2023, 04:53 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 316 Re: Sage Words of Wisdom from eMarketing Gurus
Not Clickbank.
You have an enourmous asset that marketers will covet...your list of buyers and subscribers.
You didn't say what you sold, or what you blogged about.
But I would absolutely...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
9th December 2023, 06:12 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 392 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
7th December 2023, 04:53 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 650 |
Forum: Offline Marketing
4th December 2023, 03:25 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 427 Re: how do you feel about follow up?
Something I learned from Tom Poland....
His e-mails state in the subject line whether the e-mail is about a podcast interview, a free offer from one of his joint venture partners, or a webinar....
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Forum: Offline Marketing
3rd December 2023, 05:20 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 427 Re: how do you feel about follow up?
E-mail subscribers get annoyed if we just ...keep...pitching....every day.
But if you provide great content, even with a pitch at the end, and they are really engaged with what the content is...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
1st December 2023, 12:48 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 427 Re: how do you feel about follow up?
One thing I've seen work exceptionally well is, after the deadline, offer a separate offer that is 90% as good, but for half the cost.
The way I've seen it done is in courses....you get offered...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
27th November 2023, 03:59 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 395 |
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26th November 2023, 10:30 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 395 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
25th November 2023, 11:24 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,091 |
Forum: Off Topic Forum
24th November 2023, 04:09 PM
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Views: 351 |
Forum: Off Topic Forum
23rd November 2023, 06:39 PM
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Replies: 68
Views: 1,090 Re: Do You Look Your Age?
Cher looked great.
But great hair, surgery, spa treatments, a very good diet, make up, and distance will make anyone look better.
My guess is that close up, at the end of the day, she looks...
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23rd November 2023, 02:43 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 351 Re: Is This A Quandary For You?
A man that slaps his wife once will do it again.
That's assault, and deserves jail time. And she was smart to leave his loser ass.
Personally, I think her father showed restraint.
And...I...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
20th November 2023, 09:05 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 427 Re: how do you feel about follow up?
Are these leads your friends?
If they aren't, then you follow up (by e-mail) until they say "Go away".
If you are following up by phone, you do it until they stop being warm with you....and as...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
20th November 2023, 08:59 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 399 Re: Give us your poor,
One problem marketers have with affiliate enquirers is that the "affiliate" just wants to pay half, instead of the whole price.
Another problem is the "affiliate" making promises that can't be...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
20th November 2023, 01:47 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 399 Re: Is this legit?
It's only $9.
Heck, I'd be happy to give them $9 just to see their funnel and upsells.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
20th November 2023, 01:43 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,588 Re: Give me an elevator pitch of your product
Again...what an elevator pitch is.....is your response when someone asks "What do you do for a living?". The answer is supposed to get them to ask a question that furthers the conversation.......
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
17th November 2023, 10:35 AM
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Replies: 46
Views: 1,105 Re: My Latest Health Thing...
I think you are missing the point.
It doesn't have to be true. It's spiffy to say. And it's a compulsive part of our nature to put things in categories....and also to make statements more poetic....
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
17th November 2023, 10:25 AM
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Replies: 68
Views: 1,090 Re: Do You Look Your Age?
It's interesting to me that virtually everyone that is over 40 says that people think they look younger than they really are.
When statistically, half of old people look older than they really...
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
16th November 2023, 11:00 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 395 |
Forum: Copywriting
16th November 2023, 10:54 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 932 Re: Copywriting in 2024...
I have nothing to add really...... just wanted you to know that your brilliant statement brought a smile to my face.
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