Why is Selling to One Customer a Joy, and to Another a Nightmare?

I sell big ticket projects daily, but getting the check has little to do with how I feel about the exchange. What makes the

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Please Critique My Sales Page

Please critique my sales page so you can learn from what I do well and what I do poorly, just as I learn from your

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How I Got Comfortable Charging a Premium for Our Art (sort of)

How we sell our art is everything. If we sell like our competition we’ll lose out to a cheaper price because the customer will believe we are interchangeable with our

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The Artist as a Brand, a Company, a Salesman

The artist is a shitty salesman because he’s accepting the wrong form of

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My Mission: To Change The Future Of Financial Education

I’ve wasted a lot of my adult, working life making stupid financial choices. I didn’t know what I was doing. I learned everything through experience, which is effective, but can lead to a lot of trouble.

I want more than that for my kids. And I want more than that for the generations to come. I want to change the future of financial education. I’m opening the doors now. Come on in and let’s plan for the

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Conscious Me vs. TheInfoPreneur: The $10 Prize

James at TheInfoPreneur.net is a really ballsy guy and I love that about him. He was talking big about how TheInfoPreneur is going to replace his $4000 a month income this year with an internet-based income so he can blog full time. I wrote a comment, being a guy who likes a good challenge, daring him to a race to see who can quit their job first.

The challenge of quitting our jobs, though, was not immediate enough for my liking, so I challenged him to the first step of that race. Both of us were planning on waiting until April or so to start monetizing our sites, but we agreed to a friendly contest to see who could make their first $10 of internet income in March.

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The Wu-Tang Plan, Part 6. C.R.E.A.M: Carlos Really Expects Abundance to Manifest

Dreams and desires are nothing without defined goals. The previous posts in the Wu-Tang Plan have led up to this point, where I start laying down exactly what I intend to do and the results I expect from monetizing my blog. After laying out several methods of making an income with a blog, we’re moving forward into setting down specific goals and

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The Wu-Tang Plan, Part 5. C.R.E.A.M: Carlos gets Really Excited About Marketing

If I were an infamous gangsta’ rappa’ I’d be on MTV with gold chains, gold rings, and gold teeth telling you to buy my new gold record with all the subtlety that 50 mostly naked dancers shakin’ booty and lookin’ like they lovin’ it can muster.

Since I’m an unknown blogger from Topeka, KS (where? that’s Kansas…please hold the Dorothy jokes) I am on my blog telling you how I’m planning to make that cream, that scrilla, and eventually be able to afford some fly girls to back me up.

In part 4 of the Wu-Tang Plan we began a discussion of different methods of communicating the opportunity to buy your products or services. In this part we’re going to discuss a few more methods, which I feel most attracted to and how I believe they’ll fit my

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The Wu-Tang Plan, Part 4. C.R.E.A.M: Communicating to Readers is an Essential Aspect of Monetizing

You’ve got a blog and a product, but that doesn’t mean anyone’s buying. How do you connect your supply to the reader’s demand? Let’s look at some ways to pitch the sale to your

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The Wu-Tang Plan, Part 3. C.R.E.A.M: Carlos Relays Everything he knows About Monetization

How the hell are you going to make money from a blog? Let’s talk about exactly that. We’ll continue our discussion on opportunities to fill a need for blog readers and how to turn it into value for the reader and profits for the

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