Interview with John Ainsworth: Increasing the effectiveness of your offer promotions

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John Ainsworth helps you increase your income by using a more effective offer strategy — using bumps, upsells, and regular offers to your subscribers. For some clients, he can work magic, even doubling their income.

If you have great products or courses and a good list, but aren’t making the sales you hoped, listen to his advice in this interview!

After the video is a condensed text version of his answers.

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by Ellen Finkelstein

Two ways to get clients and customers:
1-to-many vs 1-to-1

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Many entrepreneurs are so focused on their current way of getting sales that they don’t realize there are alternatives. You can break down sales strategies into 2 broad categories: 1-to-1 and 1-to-many. By opening up new techniques for selling, you can increase your opportunities manyfold.

What does this mean?

Selling 1-to-1

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by Ellen Finkelstein

You’re wasting time — that’s why you aren’t making enough income — and how to fix it

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To make enough income in your online business, you need to focus on income-producing activities. online-business-income-producing-activities-1-scaled.jpg

Therefore, if you’re wasting your time on other things, you won’t be making the income you want.

It’s hard to know if the time you’re spending is purposeful or not, so this post will help you figure that out. You’ll find the exact types of activities that CAN produce income, with lots of examples.

I’m going to try to prove to you that you’re wasting a lot of time by asking you a few questions.

1. How much time do you spend on social media?

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by Ellen Finkelstein

How to grow your business fast before you have a product – Interview with Quynh Vo

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online-business-grow-business-quicklyQuynh Vo has been helping professionals and entrepreneurs create powerful passive income streams and build wealth since 2008.

Her simple 6-step process is easy to implement and allows her clients to have time and money freedom to accomplish their most important goals.

In this interview, she explains how to get started making money quickly.

 

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by Ellen Finkelstein

Which tools do you need to build an online business?

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Recently, a client of mine bought a product that she didn’t need. She didn’t need it because she already had a similar product, one that did the same thing. But she didn’t understand that and I realized that she wasn’t clear on the building blocks of her online business — what each piece was for. In her case, she bought a page builder when she already had one.

What are the major Building Blocks of an online business?

Building blocks An online business has what I call Building Blocks. The major ones are:
  1. Your website, with an optional “page builder”
  2. Your email service provider
  3. Your shopping cart with a merchant account and gateway to process credit card payments
  4. Your social media accounts — I won’t cover these in this post

Secondary tools might be a webinar service, a pop-up form creator, an appointment calendar, and any number of other possibilities.

Just like toy building blocks, you fit the pieces together to make a strong infrastructure for your online business. For example, you…

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by Ellen Finkelstein