How Dead Are CDs?

The last two laptops in my household came with no cd/dvd playing options.

But I do have a radio/cd player.

But I'd rather download a video or cd. I am, alas, not as one-of-a-kind person as my mother led me to believe.

Yes, but so is Claude.


But I'm still impressed that he even knows about things like CD's and DVD's.


Like, they had nothing like them a hundred years ago when Claude was in his heydays!


Cheers
Lindy

You gave me a lot to think about. The truth is, I'm probably not interested in licensing. My training isn't going to be a great match for corporate sales.

I know it's lucrative, but I'm not that guy. This is going to be my last marketing effort. Part of it is just to get everything I know about selling out there, so it doesn't get lost when I die.

But I may charge more than $2,000 for the right to deliver my material to a company's sales force.

And I may do it in person as a sales trainer, over a weekend. I actually enjoy that kind of thing.

Thank you.


I think I'll offer the CDs as an option. Personally, I like them...but I'm an old guy, and I also like physical books rather than reading books on a KIndle.

I am going to use a membership site to sell my introductory $15 (or $20) a month weekly training. It will also store all the previous training videos. And I know how I'll get the people there too.

My $2,000 course will be different from the weekly training. More all encompassing, to apply to most forms of selling and marketing.

I think I can do this all from a membership site. A friend (who is doing something similar) is using Kajabi for everything.

I'll have Youtube videos (snippets of training), interviews (of me by other sales gurus I know), And probably I'll use Itunes and Googleplay for the feeder podcasts.

All of this will feed them to a free seminar (my first weekly seminar) where they can sign up for my weekly seminar series. (for $15-20 a month).

And these members will be my market to sell my larger course, and maybe some associated materials. This may lead to some company training. I've done it before, and enjoy it. But I think I'm done calling event planners to get a speaking gig.

My plan is just to get 500 people paying me a small monthly fee...and selling that group my course. So, I'm not looking to build an empire here. Although, ten years ago, I may have.

Is this the part when you go into a new town under an alias and recruit local people to help you build your new business?

No offense but you sit in a vaccum store all day sell like 2 vacuums and eat KFC.. Im sure you have the time LOL ( sorry had to )

Forget opinion and look at the numbers you presented... data before anything else is what I say.. go with the printed version and cd if you like, but have a free download option available.

It would bring more value in my humble opinion. However the way everybody is trying to cut out paper and go green. It could have a reverse effect to a younger audience.

I Use to get a newsletter sent to house and a email addition. The publisher changed to just a email addition about 3 years ago, after awhile never missed the print version. Still subscribe to the same service.

You could offer a email version and a upgrade in price for a print addition with email and test it out.

I like the idea of text in video. These can be feeder videos, probably on Youtube.

One 45-60 minute session can be converted to a podcast, printed as a short book, and...as you suggest, be made into a video. In fact, pieces of the video can be used as feeder videos on Youtube. Maybe 5-10 minutes each.

The weekly videos should be done in person, not just podcasts. But they can be converted to podcasts, leading back to my squeeze page, selling my entry subscription.

The actual course will be separate from all the other material. I won't be chopping it up, using it as additional content. But the ideas in it may be used to create other content.

The main course will be video. Some of the material requires charts and graphs.

After all this is done, I suspect that most of my sales will come from either speaking to groups of salespeople, and trading interviews with other sales gurus.

What I am about to share... I use in my personal business. I use for my hired partner help, and I use for my clients.

https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37082?hl=en A shared Google calendar.. and you can literally drip feed your clients en mass or individually.

You can drip content reminders. you can drip event reminders. you can drip encouraging words. New updated checklists. easy to read reminders.

THIS is how I do all of this in the new digital era, and I believe it works REALLY well.

*** Added *** actually had about cold sweats letting this go.. you dont read this nowhere about this stuff anywheres.. the best thing I ever did to be honest. Put some amount of accountability on the other side once they figured out if I knew the saw it or not. A program is only as successful as the follow thru, and to some extent see the level of interaction with the Calendar gives a good indication of this.

Have to admit, it was clever...and I've never heard it before.

I hate you.