March 13, 2020

Content Ideas for ROI

If you’re looking for a foolproof way of generating ROI with your content, this email is for you. A question... Have you ever used email nurture sequences? They’re certain to generate a nice ROI. Let me show you with a client example… 
March 13, 2020

Selling in Emails

Linking to your product in a non-aggressive way can be a great way of landing more sales, especially if your content is awesome. If you have these three things in place, people will love receiving your emails. And you won’t be annoying people, either.
March 13, 2020

Does Great Writing Equal Success?

‘It's not important how you say it. It's important WHAT you say.’ Content marketers often forget about the marketing part altogether. Sometimes the “grammar police” come out in full force and scrutinise details that don’t matter.
March 13, 2020

Choosing a Content Idea

Here’s the thing – your audience doesn’t care about everything that you can offer. They only care about the things that solve their problem. The issue is that your audience’s needs aren’t evenly distributed. This is what makes it hard to choose the right content idea. I’d suggest choosing a few key ideas and get rid of the rest.
March 13, 2020

Start up Madness

You may lose your sense of direction at some point. You half-ass through things without following any of them through to the end. How do you avoid this? It’s simple – by educating yourself and getting your priorities in line.
March 13, 2020

One Call, One Sale

Have you ever had a prospect come up to you ready to go? If so, you know that it feels damn good to have a $25,000… $50,000… $100,000 sale in one quick chat!.  Nobody can get enough of these prospects. To get these prospects, you need to do two things.
March 13, 2020

Reviving Failing Campaigns

Most of your marketing campaigns are going to suck. It’s not your fault. It’s just the way things work. If you know what you’re doing, you can maybe expect 1 out of 10 campaigns to work. But you can breathe life into a dying campaign.
March 5, 2020

Content into Sales

The whole point of your content is to get people to engage with you.  And in my opinion, there’s no better way to do this than with nine-word emails. Here’s what I mean...
March 5, 2020

Bionic Content

If you work hard on your content, or someone else does it for you, you should squeeze everything out of it. So let me ask you... Have you ever wondered if a single piece of content could work like three or more?
March 5, 2020

Gifting Your Content

People often ask me whether they should give away content for free. Many of them still believe in the age-old idea that you shouldn’t do it. On the other hand, there are those who think that they should go all in. Here’s an example, courtesy of one of our clients… 
March 5, 2020

Your Marketing Sucks (And That’s Ok)

We ran a bunch of email split tests.  We emailed literally millions of people (legally) using all kinds of publishers.  Most of them amounted to pretty much nothing, but one publisher gave a three-to-one ROI. So what we did was:
March 5, 2020

How Often Should You Email Your List?

This is a question that I get a lot, and yet it’s so irrelevant.  How so? Because the frequency of your email doesn’t matter – the performance does. Here’s what I mean…