Someone has to clean, ship, do customer service until you can afford to hire or outsource the job(s).

Often by the time you do or can hire someone you have developed the opinion that you are the only one who can do or do it your way.

I have often suggested revising business owner’s methods but get many excuses why it won’t work. I think it is inertia, a body in motion tends to stay in motion…

Thanks for the reminder and also the email… I thought you had changed careers!

Phil

Either get closer to the microphone or turn up the microphone volume.

There are a number of factors that makes a good niche to get into but if a website is getting lots of bids I think it’s a good point to start there, how long it has been on the market or if it is a paid listing then it shows there is money to be made.

–David

With our attentions drawn in 100 different directions, it is hard to know what to do first. I take your point to be that any action is better than no action. It is far easier to redirect an object in motion than it is to get it moving in the first place.

The key is to shut out all the noise and keep your focus on the task at hand, whatever it may be, rather than do what most people do and jump from one thing to the next, never completing any of them. Multi tasking is a great way to get nothing done fast.

The problem may not be taking action so much as what action to take.

I have no problem with the methodologies of acquiring subscribers to a mail list – done it before – but I do have one slight problem in the whole list area.

It’s called content. To my mind it should be called _ehtical_ content.

See, I can acquire a list – note the use of the word _acquire_ as opposed to _build_ – but what do I send them? Non-stop proposals for them to give me money?!?

That’s what I get from most of the lists I’m on.

Of all the lists I currently subscribe, only Wilbur Katzenback and Reed Floren provide content – what _I_ consider to be content.

Wilbur’s is a straight-forward email of a lot of stuff I’ve already seen, but it is content, not a sales pitch.

Reed’s is in the form of blog posts, announced in an email. C’mon, Reed, if I’m interested, I’ll subscribe to the feed (which I did), so just email me if you have something to announce/sell.

The other 298 lists – give or take a few – I’m on are nothing but hard sell. Oh, they soften it a bit with a few personal observations, but the impetus is a hard sell.

Now, given that atmosphere, what can I offer a list? No one seems to address that issue, not at all. Yeah, I’m supposed to be _creative_, but that’s a bit rough when all the _instructions_ – yours included – are targeted toward a hard sell.

The only time I really see any mention of content is when someone is trying to sell me some junk to make my site more palatable to the search engines.

Oh, btw … just ’cause someone bought something on my site and is now on my mailing list does not make them a subscriber. Your statement, “How to convert more visitors into buyers,” is a classic example.Its only focus is to sell.

Believe it or not, I’d rather have active, willing,cooperating subscribers, not a list of folk who’ve bought from me. Subscribers can be persuaded – buyers are a shot in the dark. Once you realize – and *act* – on _that_, you might see some improvement in your fortunes.

OK, I’ve wandered far afield enough, so I’ll shut down.

BTW, you didn’t answer #1, you side-stepped it .

Make a good day …
… barn

It’s really cool and powerful. Keep up the great job!

Thanks
^PV Reymond

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