Selling on Low Price
“Competing on price alone is a race to the bottom, and it’s a race nobody wins.” Why do I say that nobody wins when the salespeople compete on price alone? First, please allow a slight correction: there are huge super-store type places whose entire Value Proposition is indeed that they…
Get Rich with Your Network
When it comes to success, WHO you know matters the most. You need to know the right people. If you do, you can get rich. It’s that simple. WHO you know matters more than WHAT you know. It was true in the 50’s and it’s true today…for better or for …
Creating Your Life
For the writer Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), her childhood represented a kind of Golden Age. A spirited and strong-willed girl, she spent a lot of her time alone, wandering through the town, reading, writing. Then in 1904 her mother–who had always protected and sheltered Zora from her father–died, and the…
How to Get More Customers
Here’s the situation. You want to be an entrepreneur and start a new business because you know that this is the fastest way to building wealth. Mark Ford has told you so in his many books and essays. You know that you have a good idea, but how on earth…
Affiliate Rant
Hats off to Dan Long (Info Mastermind Member) and Mikey Whitfield for running another 5-figure profit launch last week. Their top affiliate was a guy with confidence – and you’ll hear more about this essential quality in today’s affiliate rant. Back to Dan and Mike…they are succeeding because they treat …
Copywriting Sales Letter Questions
The ‘guru’ of selling, Perry Belcher, has a “Copy Test” that he runs on every new sales letter he writes. It’s simple. He reads it aloud. This is something that you should do with EVERY sales letter you ever write. It won’t be the most exciting 30 minutes of your…
The Commitment Conspiracy
I didn’t exactly have your typical junior high and high school experience. I got my first job playing organ in a church when I was 13. While most people took it easy on the weekends, my weekends became “days at the office.” Monday nights were piano lessons with a professor…
3 Tips From Perry Belcher
Back in the summer of 2011, just after we had taken over EarlytoRise.com, Matt Smith and I were invited down to Austin, Texas for a Mastermind with Ryan Deiss and Perry Belcher (for their top affiliates). Even though I had just been there a couple of months earlier – thanks…
Questions about your customers
Try as I might, it’s been tough to carve out my regular writing time while on attending Dan Kennedy’s seminar this weekend. So I’m turning over today’s message to a worthy mentor. I’m sure you’re familiar with the prolific and illustrious Seth Godin. I’m currently reading his latest book, “The…
About Your Attitude
A new movie is coming out this November that you’ll want to see. It’s based on a book I just read by Marcus Luttrell called, “Lone Survivor”. Marcus, along with three other Navy SEALs go on a mission into the mountains of Afghanistan and only one of them survives –…
Truth About Blog Comments and Likes
It’s tempting to look at a guy like Tim Ferriss and think, “Wow, he gets a lot of blog comments. That must be my goal, too!” But you’d be wrong. Earlier this week on our Virtual Mastermind site, we had our best Hot Seat session ever. In a follow up…