Robert Plank

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Are you ever middle of helping someone and suddenly it hits you... and you think, "I can't help you anymore?"

That's what happens when I come across someone who is in "demo mode."

Maybe you do this or you've come across someone who does this every now and then.  These are people who always setup web sites called "Test Web Site." Or blogs called "Demo Blog."  Or membership sites called "Temp Membership Site."

Come on man... tests are for students, demos are for little battery-powered keyboards and temps are for offices.  I honestly want you to make an actual product, an actual membership site, and an actual blog.

Lance and I talked about this in one of our private coaching calls but I think a lot of you can benefit from this advice as well... Read More »

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This is something I was thinking about presenting at my next live seminar but I'll share it with you here anyway...

It's something that most people who teach "productivity" leave out, and I see marketers FORGETTING this over and over again, even though they should know better.

This is "supposed" to be a programming concept but when I worked with other programmers, almost none of them knew about this, let alone implemented it...

It's Keeping Your Stuff SHIPPABLE!

I'll explain.  Think about the order you see items (as a buyer) in a "fully optimized" sales letter... Read More »

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I just came back from the 2nd Warrior Event in Raleigh, North Carolina where I was a speaker.

Speaking of webinars and seminars, remember the "Which Test Won" game we played on the webinar a few days ago?  I showed you how:

• What converts BETTER than a squeeze page giving a free gift?  One of my $7 reports selling almost the exact same thing!
• Removing three words from a headline TRIPLED conversion rates -- an EXTRA $625 from every 500-something clicks
• Adding a small logo to another sales letter boosted conversions from 1.99% to 3.57% -- an EXTRA $846 from every 1000 clicks

When you split test you make those small tweaks.  But if you don't even have a product of your own, or a sales letter, then it's impossible to split test those pay raises!

Here's Something Crazy...

When I was on stage at the warrior event, I asked this question...

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Funny quick story to tell you about today. I launched my 16 Copybombs report on autopilot over the weekend... I actually put it together back in early June but my autoresponder was filled with blog posts and e-mails about Product University 2.0 at the time, so I had to schedule it.

Long story short, I messed up the download link and when I checked my e-mail today (Monday -- I never check e-mail on weekends) to find literally over 100 e-mails from my buyers asking where the file was.  Some of them e-mailed me 2 or 3 times about it.

Replying to 100 people, sounds like something that might take all day or even all week, right?  Wrong... when you're Robert Plank it takes 20 minutes. Read More »

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As soon as I started putting my goals down, I got a lot more productive.  I'm not saying you need to plan the rest of your life out or anything, but you need to know where you're headed... so you know what needs to come next.

List last year (2008), this year (2009), 2010, 2011 and 2012.  Next to each year, write what you'll have accomplished during that year.  Write each thing in the present tense, as if you've already done it.

I'll go first...

2008: I bought my first house.  Attended my first few seminars.  Co-hosted 2 e-classes. (DONE!)

2009: I quit my day job and visited Orlando, Dallas, Austin, Iowa City, San Diego, Chicago, and Buffalo.  Had my first several $30K months, sold a membership site for $32K.  (DONE!) Haven't done this part yet: setup 20 recurring membership sites by year-end.

2010: Paid off 50% my mortgage and had my first $50K month.  Sold at least ten copies of a $1997 package from the stage.

2011: Paid off my mortgage.

2012: Own at least one million dollars in cash and assets.

Now it's your turn.  List each year from 2008 to 2012 and list what you have (or have yet to accomplish) each in the present tense.

I look forward to your comment below...

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1. Do you have your autoresponder broadcasts every day for the rest of the week already scheduled?

2. Every time you mail out to your list, do you archive it as a followup so new subscribers get it as well?

3. When you broadcast to your list, do you schedule a similar mailing 90 days from now?

4. Is your web hosting, mortgage, autoresponder, and all other bills possible setup on autopay?

5. Do you have at least 10 blog posts scheduled in advance, even if it's only one per month?

6. Do you have autoresponder broadcasts scheduled to send traffic to those blog posts?

7. Does at least one of your autoresponder sublists contain 10 followups or more?

Do me a favor.  Answer each of these 7 questions with a yes or no, as a comment below.  (Hey that rhymed!)  Then tell me which of your "no's" you will correct within the next 24 hours.

I need 10 comments to keep this party going...