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My Autoresponders are DISGUSTING

By Filed Under: Products, Projects and Process

disgusting_fishes_2-frilled-sharkWhen your autoresponders suck, it’s worse than not having them at all.   When someone trusts you with an email address, it’s the beginning of a relationship.  Letting them down is a problem.

Disgusting.  That’s What my auto responders are at the moment.  Foul and nasty and…just plain bad. I’ve gotta fix it this week, and I will.  Its one of those things that fell through the cracks.  Writing autorespoonders is not hard work. it’s not particularly time consuming.

But, mine blow.  I have not done the job I wanted to do because I haven’t REALLY decided what strategy I’ve wanted to execute.  I’ve kind of been in transactional mode because I have been working my ass off to get the IRS out of my life.  And that’s going to be something that I’ll do this week.

Autoresponders work.  I’ve set them up for many people.  Mine?  Won’t do anything but confuse people.  I have 3 set set up with a great plugin that Keith built for me.  Really slick.  Pulls people into aweber in a great way.  Then when they get there?  They hear nothing.

So it’s time to change that, and I’ll let you know what happens when I improve my campaign.

You’ll hear back from me Monday or Tuesday.

First:

A mea culpa to my list.

Then:

Notes that matter, and I’ll add the autoresponders to my daily tasks/tabs.

Measuring And Stuff Like That: Getting A Little Bit Specific.

By Filed Under: miscellany
Right now, I’ve been consumed–consumed–with a couple of projects.  I’ve learned how to produce some pretty nifty videos on the internet, and that’s time consuming–but fun.  And, I’ve written a book.  A book, friends.  It’s called F#@% Therapy: 24 Hours To Splendor in a Post Bust World.  You’ll see more about it as time comes., which is sooner than you think.

That project has had an opportunity cost.  First, I have to make it really good.  It’s good now, but it’s gotta be really good.  Details, loads of ‘em.  35,000 words.  180 images (each worth, 1,000 words?) Most of ‘em matter.   I plan to make money selling it, my goal is about 15k downloads.  That’s stopped me to a point, from growing my client base, and gathering more clients.  There are two clients I have that I’d have trouble grinding out business if either or both left.  So this month is about diversity.  Getting more clients.  More business from more people, as fast as I can.

I digress, as many would say, always.

Real plainly, I want to hit some specifics in January.  Not feb.

Task Based:

-Settle on a CRM and use it and don’t look back.
-FT Finalized (writing wise)
-Marketing done.
-Finish My WhitePaper.
-all blogs for HREU caught up and singing & producing for everyone.
-RightRightNow.Com up as a site (it’s not, it’s not, it’s not).

Behavior Based:  (Joes Goals)

-Morning Pages.
-Vlogging. 5xWeek.
-Organize Task Lists (DAILY)
-Cardio 6x week. (17*50= 850 minutes.)
-Weights 4x week.
-2xD On Monday, Wed, Fri.
-Write 3 GC Blog Posts
-2 Meetup.com meetings.

Numbers Based:  (google docs)

$15,000 in collected revenue.
$20,000 in billed revenue.
$12,000 in retained revenue.
5 NEW clients
10# gone.
+100 subscribers on genuinechris
+100 twitter followers.
+200 contacts in database that fill out my Gdoc form.
+100 downloads of my white paper

This stuff is hit-able.  I think.  Will require that I actually work harder, but what doesn’t?  This kind of project focus that I want is important.  I can do a card and cross off stuff every day pretty easily.  I wonder what I can use to manage this?

First task: to find a CRM.  It’s either going to be HEAP-CRM or Highrise.  Neither have hotkeys that work right.  The hotkeys would make them grow.