Direct response for results Marketing was scary for me at first. I didn’t know what I was doing so I did a bunch of things and failed at most of them. Once I found out about direct response marketing and started using tactics from it, things started working. Corey Pemberton gives a great introduction on …
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Issue #53 – October 16th, 2015
Finding clients With the vast amount of information on the Internet it’s easy to find "101 ways to win clients". But the problem is that there is only really one way that works consistently: How to really find clients. Build trust. Grow the relationship. Repeat. Be yourself Paul Jarvis makes case for why you shouldn’t …
Issue #52 – October 9th, 2015
Win projects using email I’ve won a lot of client work using email. Email is powerful when you put effort into what you’re saying. You can use templates (I do) but you need to spend the time to customize and tweak them for every lead. Robert Williams wrote up a great article about How you …
Issue #51 – October 2nd, 2015
I’ve recently launched a new curated newsletter for Shopify and ecommerce merchants called Shopify Dispatch. You can check out the first issue and subscribe here. Loving consulting There’s lot to love in consulting. Even though people complain about it all the time, people complain about their jobs all the time. Or their customers. Or the …
Issue #50 – September 25th, 2015
Last week Brennan Dunn hosted Double Your Freelancing Conference which several of my friends went to and spoke at. Based on what I’ve heard and read about, it was a great conference. Brennan posted his summary and he’s included links to attendee recaps, as well as how to order recordings of the presentations. – – …