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Posted By GordonJ

What is your MINIMAL VIABLE PRODUCT?

Thanks for asking some great follow up questions, and it is also great that experienced Warriors have provided some insights, makes WF seem useful today.

I like the advice given, nothing more to...

Forum: Offline Marketing

9th April 2026, 07:15 PM

Replies: 9

Views: 435

Posted By Claude Whitacre

Re: What is the "something" you would like to make?

This is really for Socialentry.

That's key. And you want to find out, before you show your offer, and recommend a solution, which appeal is their main reason to buy.
I mean which one do they see...

Forum: Offline Marketing

9th April 2026, 10:28 AM

Replies: 9

Are there just certain type personalities you can't get along with ??

Views: 435

Posted By Jason Kanigan

Re: What is the "something" you would like to make?

What reasons do they need your solution for? I've written about this many times starting 10+ years ago at my sales & marketing blog. In the mid 2000s I worked for a boutique IT firm that had an offer...

Forum: Off Topic Forum

6th April 2026, 10:20 AM

Replies: 44

Views: 760

Posted By Claude Whitacre

Re: Are there just certain type personalities you can't get along with ??

You may be right about that. Your entire post had some well thought out insights.

I know I used to, for decades. Recently (maybe in the last few years) I've cared less about whether...

Forum: Offline Marketing

6th April 2026, 09:09 AM

Replies: 9

Views: 435

Posted By GordonJ

What is the "something" you would like to make?

First, shout out to Old Warriors Claude and Jason for offering their valuable opinions, you got gold from these experienced, successful Warriors.

You have followers. You want to make something...

Forum: Offline Marketing

5th April 2026, 09:10 AM

Replies: 9

Views: 435

Posted By Jason Kanigan

Re: Parallels between sales and marketing

I would look into levels of buyer awareness.

Forum: Offline Marketing

30th March 2026, 10:45 AM

Replies: 9

Are there just certain type personalities you can't get along with ??

Views: 435

Posted By Claude Whitacre

Re: Parallels between sales and marketing

Your post is asking a lot, and most of it is outside my experience....but here's what I know...

"Buying signals" aren't part of marketing...However, a huge part of marketing is determining who is...

Forum: Off Topic Forum

29th March 2026, 08:27 PM

Replies: 44

Views: 760

Posted By Claude Whitacre

Re: Are there just certain type personalities you can't get along with ??

Studies show between 50-75% of humans are extroverts to one degree or another.

I think the reason introverts seem rare is because extroverts tend to be far more social, including social media. So...

Forum: Off Topic Forum

25th March 2026, 06:57 PM

Replies: 44

Are there just certain type personalities you can't get along with ??

Views: 760

Posted By Claude Whitacre

Re: Are there just certain type personalities you can't get along with ??

By the way, most people think being an introvert means you are shy. Nope. Riffle is an introvert, and God knows he's not shy!

I'm not shy at all. Being an introvert means that you are inwardly...

Forum: Off Topic Forum

19th March 2026, 08:49 AM

Replies: 44

Are there just certain type personalities you can't get along with ??

Views: 760

Posted By Claude Whitacre

Re: Are there just certain type personalities you can't get along with ??

Want to hear something interesting?

INTJ's are about 3% of the male population, but less than 1% of the female population.

And the INTJ personality has lots and lots of shared characteristics...

Forum: Offline Marketing

17th March 2026, 12:12 PM

Replies: 2

What's preventing you from adopting AI in your sales process?

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Posted By savidge4

Re: What's preventing you from adopting AI in your sales process?

I dont use AI for sales. I am not looking for A SALE, I am looking for a string of sales over time. I am more concerned with Life of Customer, than I am the next and the next and the next.

Now...

Is there a way to do article marketing these days that actually works?

17th March 2026, 11:58 AM

Replies: 41

Views: 970

Posted By savidge4

Re: Is there a way to do article marketing these days that actually works?

I've been building websites, writing content, and researching SEO for right in at 29 - 30 years.

The strategies I used way back when and the ones I use today I pretty much the same. Granted...

Forum: Offline Marketing

15th March 2026, 07:07 PM

Replies: 2

What's preventing you from adopting AI in your sales process?

Views: 301

Posted By Claude Whitacre

Re: What's preventing you from adopting AI in your sales process?

Decades ago, I sold fire alarms (my very first selling)

The manager had three girls on the phone...pretending to be a recording.....and it generated enough appointments for all of us.

Then,...

Is there a way to do article marketing these days that actually works?

14th March 2026, 12:47 PM

Replies: 41

Views: 970

Posted By savidge4

Re: Is there a way to do article marketing these days that actually works?

Claude is right.... the days of guest writing are long gone. focus on your own content for your own site.

Something to consider.... Look at me thread here: (...

Forum: Offline Marketing

5th March 2026, 08:31 AM

Replies: 4

Views: 308

Posted By Steve The Copywriter

Re: How do you say "I don't know"

Just admit you don't know - and reassure them you'll find out.

Or if you have a glimmer of an idea - you could say - "I' haven't got the exact info, but let me get back with the accurate...

25th February 2026, 09:22 AM

Replies: 12

Clients Ghosting: Advice please!

Views: 488

Posted By Jason Kanigan

Re: Clients Ghosting: Advice please!

This is a sales process question, not a "magic words" question. And as usual the problem is at the beginning, not at the end where people think it is.

As you have discovered, a sale is not a sale...

Forum: Offline Marketing

24th January 2026, 01:22 PM

Replies: 4

Views: 308

Posted By Princess Balestra

Re: How do you say "I don't know"

Troo.

Sumtimes you jus' don't know.

An' I believe sum chump from back in the day disconfugurated buttween degrees of naht knowin'.

Kinda things you don't know, an' things you don't know you...

Forum: Offline Marketing

23rd January 2026, 01:42 AM

Replies: 4

Views: 308

Posted By zenattica

RE: How do you say "I don't know"

in pitches I usually say something like “I don’t have that answer yet, but that’s exactly what the assessment is for. It keeps momentum without pretending to know everything For rare or high-stakes...

Forum: Off Topic Forum

11th January 2026, 04:14 PM

Replies: 13

Is cheap tipping more than just bad manners...

Views: 470

Posted By discrat

Re: Is cheap tipping more than just bad manners...

i think you make a good case, hadn't thought about it in these terms

Forum: Offline Marketing

6th January 2026, 06:59 PM

Replies: 4

Is that me or is Christmas getting sadder as time goes by?

Views: 308

Posted By Claude Whitacre

Re: How do you say "I don't know"

Different offers are best pitched one way. But those ways are different depending on the nature of what you are selling..

I would have to know what you are selling to be of any help.

Forum: Off Topic Forum

30th December 2025, 12:33 PM

Replies: 10

Views: 423

Posted By Frank Donovan

Re: Is that me or is Christmas getting sadder as time goes by?

I'm about the same age as Claude. In my experience, occasions such as Christmas have become opportunities to reflect with happiness and gratitude on the enjoyable times I've had throughout my life. ...

Forum: Off Topic Forum

30th December 2025, 10:47 AM

Replies: 10

Is that me or is Christmas getting sadder as time goes by?

Views: 423

Posted By DWolfe

Re: Is that me or is Christmas getting sadder as time goes by?

Part of it is just life in general. Both of my parents died in December, my mom only a few years ago on the 21st. Plus knowing people who died on Dec 25th or around that time. Things in life changed....

Forum: Off Topic Forum

29th December 2025, 03:32 PM

Replies: 10

Is that me or is Christmas getting sadder as time goes by?

Views: 423

Posted By Claude Whitacre

Re: Is that me or is Christmas getting sadder as time goes by?

I lost my wife a few months ago.

This is the first Christmas I've spent without her. I went to her sister's home for dinner. There were a couple of relatives there, ones I care about....and my...

Forum: Offline Marketing

5th December 2025, 03:24 PM

Replies: 5

Are farmers insider or outsider?

Views: 270

Posted By Claude Whitacre

Re: Are farmers insider or outsider?

You're in luck. I've read every book that I've ever seen on the subject of referrals.

This is the best one.

Fearless Referrals by Matt Anderson.

You can buy a good used copy on Amazon or...

Forum: Offline Marketing

4th December 2025, 10:57 AM

Replies: 5

Are farmers insider or outsider?

Views: 270

Posted By Claude Whitacre

Re: Are farmers insider or outsider?

I understand the question.

The reason most salespeople "Farm" is because they are afraid of calling a prospect, initiating a conversation...or (God forbid) actually asking someone to buy.

The...

What's the Best IM-Related Skill to Learn Today That Can Help in the Future?

15th May 2024, 11:13 AM

Replies: 53

Views: 2,167

Posted By savidge4

Re: What's the Best IM-Related Skill to Learn Today That Can Help in the Future?

Someone wants to open a sandwich shop... there is doing it yourself OR buying a Subway franchise - in oh so many things the option for a clear path are available.

Right now... AI has become a...

What's the Best IM-Related Skill to Learn Today That Can Help in the Future?

14th May 2024, 05:46 PM

Replies: 53

Views: 2,167

Posted By GordonJ

Sampling the smorgasbord of Internet Marketing...one very long way to go about it.

So, I Googled INTERNET MARKETING, and got some interesting answers, but for the most part, the consensus opinion is/was: A place where offers are made for goods, services and expertise.

There...

Forum: Programming

2nd May 2024, 06:42 AM

Replies: 8

Keeping track of client imputs/revisions when I have multiple projects going on

Views: 628

Posted By Challenge2025

RE: Keeping track of client imputs/revisions when I have multiple projects going on

There are ALL SORTS of project management software. As a programmer of decades that's worked for many clients at once, it's a requirement.

Just google "project management software". There's free,...

Forum: Off Topic Forum

26th April 2024, 06:55 PM

Replies: 77

Do You Look Your Age?

Views: 1,890

Posted By Frank Donovan

Re: Do You Look Your Age?

You should probably stop using their litter box.

25th April 2024, 12:12 PM

Replies: 25

best high quality crypto traffic.

Views: 1,207

Posted By savidge4

Re: best high quality crypto traffic.

Brass tacks here, Crypto is more than basically Forex trading with the added element of speculation. One might suggest that one could be used as the gateway to doing the other - just saying.

The...

What's the Best IM-Related Skill to Learn Today That Can Help in the Future?

21st April 2024, 11:39 PM

Replies: 53

Views: 2,167

Posted By savidge4

Re: What's the Best IM-Related Skill to Learn Today That Can Help in the Future?

I personally have read all of these and many more that by definition have nothing to do with "IM" but have absolutely everything to do with IM. Just throwing it out there "War and Peace" - Leo...

Forum: Offline Marketing

20th April 2024, 12:10 PM

Replies: 42

Are billboards still effective in driving customers?

Views: 1,736

Posted By Claude Whitacre

Re: Are billboards still effective in driving customers?

I notice a theme here.

The billboard signs that are actually bringing in buyers (or the ones we at least think are doing that) are essentially road signs to a destination.

To me, they are like...

15th April 2024, 09:04 AM

Replies: 14

Carry out better target audience research

Views: 552

Posted By Jason Kanigan

Re: Carry out better target audience research

Hmm.

Embarassment.
Frustration.
Lack of sex appeal.

Start with these.

You can drill down deeper (frustration at not being able to lean over one's stomach to comfortably put on socks).

14th April 2024, 06:07 PM

Replies: 14

Carry out better target audience research

Views: 552

Posted By savidge4

Re: Carry out better target audience research

Wanting to lose weight is at the evergreen level... no where near a "Target". Men over 40, or needing lose 10 lbs before a wedding, or dropping a few for the beach bod, or people with diabetes...

what type of content should i write as a beginner in affiliate marketing ?

12th April 2024, 03:16 PM

Replies: 13

Views: 728

Posted By savidge4

Re: what type of content should i write as a beginner in affiliate marketing ?

This is the thought process that is played out across the internet when trying to figure out what terms to start with... and the advice is always the same "High Traffic" terms. I would oh more than...

Forum: Artificial Intelligence

7th April 2024, 09:21 PM

Replies: 8

The State of Google SEO & AI Today: What Do You Think?

Views: 676

Posted By Marx Vergel Melencio

Re: The State of Google SEO & AI Today: What Do You Think?

@socialentry,

Hmmm ... Only if they've overloaded their constructor to include imagination.
But instead of electric sheep, they probably dream of arrays of electric goats.
After all, it's all...

Forum: Mind Warriors

27th March 2024, 03:36 AM

Replies: 68

Views: 3,193

Posted By Odahh

Re: Theory of manifestation.

There is just a lot that is going to happen in physical reality on earth that is beyond any single person ability to manifest on their own.

The looters and anarchy people where already in the...

Forum: Mind Warriors

27th March 2024, 12:05 AM

Replies: 68

Views: 3,193

Posted By savidge4

Re: Theory of manifestation.

Not so fast there Genghis... We are left with a multitude of options.. #1 why did the universe send Looters and Anarchist? #1A was the delivery method hacked and they knew it was coming? #2 Was...

Forum: Mind Warriors

26th March 2024, 03:13 PM

Replies: 68

Views: 3,193

Posted By savidge4

Re: Theory of manifestation.

That just means that the TP is coming, or worse yet, was delivered and stolen. Then you can apply the Pigeonhole Principle to figure out if it was the Looters or Anarchists that took it, and track...

Forum: Mind Warriors

22nd March 2024, 02:36 PM

Replies: 68

Views: 3,193

Posted By savidge4

Re: Theory of manifestation.

Overpowered, or Overpowering? I would say the later - in relation to the other 2 options - "Municipal Bylaws" was/is classically funny btw

Forum: Mind Warriors

20th March 2024, 03:02 PM

Replies: 68

Views: 3,193

Posted By savidge4

Re: Theory of manifestation.

It has to be said, and wasnt... socialentry? do you ever read anything other than over the top ancient history? maybe a self help book?

Forum: Mind Warriors

20th March 2024, 02:45 PM

Replies: 68

Views: 3,193

Posted By savidge4

Re: Theory of manifestation.

From a young age i was brought up with "I Am Darling And The Universe Supplies My Needs"

So we get into Needs and Wants.. you may NEED a car, but want a Lambo... I was brought up to get what you...

Forum: Social Media

14th March 2024, 06:47 PM

Replies: 2

What is shaping up to post TikTok trends

Views: 758

Posted By savidge4

What is shaping up to post TikTok trends

with the possible demise of TikTok I am starting to see where many "influencers" are moving to next... And I think it is interesting.

MANY are discussing - asking their audience, if they should...

Are College Textbooks Any Good? Anybody Know These Guys?

10th March 2024, 09:36 PM

Replies: 24

Views: 570

Posted By savidge4

Re: Are College Textbooks Any Good? Anybody Know These Guys?

Absolutely. It can instantly jump you passed "who the heck is this, and what are they trying to sell me?" to "Oh its the guy I see everyday on the way to work and he sells Life Insurance."

Its...

Are College Textbooks Any Good? Anybody Know These Guys?

10th March 2024, 05:43 PM

Replies: 24

Views: 570

Posted By Claude Whitacre

Re: Are College Textbooks Any Good? Anybody Know These Guys?

Brand advertising tends to make us comfortable with the brand name, and to make it familiar when we go shopping. Very useful for many kinds of companies, and even individuals.

Direct...

Are College Textbooks Any Good? Anybody Know These Guys?

9th March 2024, 07:09 PM

Replies: 24

Views: 570

Posted By savidge4

Re: Are College Textbooks Any Good? Anybody Know These Guys?

Awareness? like i said i have never found the holy grail of info on BRAND... its usually delivered in a manor that uses BIG Brand as examples and most can not correlate how Big or Small, the same...

Are College Textbooks Any Good? Anybody Know These Guys?

9th March 2024, 05:22 PM

Replies: 24

Views: 570

Posted By savidge4

Re: Are College Textbooks Any Good? Anybody Know These Guys?

As much as BRAND BRAND BRAND may sound trivial... Its something I wish I understood and implemented earlier in life. Brand is not just for big Brand names; Walmart, Pepsi, Coors as examples the...

Forum: Beginners Area

9th March 2024, 12:23 PM

Replies: 15

If You Could Share One Marketing Tip ...

Views: 403

Posted By savidge4

Re: If You Could Share One Marketing Tip ...

I tried it, and it doesnt work - translates to I posted 10 times in a month and it didnt work.

TRYING in relation to Internet Marketing - should translate to 1 year 365 days if not more of doing...

Forum: Off Topic Forum

9th March 2024, 06:18 AM

Replies: 21

Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul , July 20th Dallas Cowboy Stadium...

Views: 435

Posted By Dan Riffle

Re: Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul , July 20th Dallas Cowboy Stadium...

In all likelihood, there's an under-the-table contract that stipulates Tyson is not to hurt him and to carry him to a draw.

Forum: Off Topic Forum

7th March 2024, 11:33 PM

Replies: 14

What keeps you up at night?

Views: 393

Posted By savidge4

Re: What keeps you up at night?

its not what you do from 9 to 5 every day that makes you successful, its what happens from 6 to midnight or 4am in my case

Forum: Mind Warriors

28th February 2024, 04:43 PM

Replies: 42

Quick question...about being stuck.

Views: 1,956

Posted By savidge4

Re: Warriors want money...

To be honest... Im not sure I can tell you my WHY? And if it is there it will be something esoteric like building community or something - IE some left field stuff, that wouldnt apply to most.
...

Forum: Mind Warriors

24th February 2024, 12:12 AM

Replies: 42

Quick question...about being stuck.

Views: 1,956

Posted By savidge4

Re: A book reference. HIDDEN POTENTIAL.

Often when I am asked to look at some ones "stuckness" it involves a missed step, and the whole idea of 2 steps back to get one step forward may seem like back peddling, but often times is whats...

Forum: Mind Warriors

23rd February 2024, 02:19 PM

Replies: 29

Allow your Natural SuperPowers to empower your success.

Views: 1,133

Posted By GordonJ

Fortunately for us, Tony Robbins lives in the real world.

Anime Mike Tyson lives in an alt universe where there are 4 moons, and like most SUPERHEROS, it is also fantasy land, probably more NEW AGE than most religions, beyond metaphysical, but if you prefer...

9th January 2024, 03:05 PM

Replies: 27

Difficult problems with headlines

Views: 633

Posted By Claude Whitacre

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...

Forum: Copywriting

16th September 2023, 04:56 PM

Replies: 38

Anyone Tried/Tested "The Negative Sell?"

Views: 2,002

Posted By SARubin

Re: Anyone Tried/Tested "The Negative Sell?"

I agree with you Claude

Most people expect us to be authentic, and they expect a certain amount of consistency in the people they follow.

If you start out as a nice helpful person, which I...