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Re: It’s About Technology That Creates Community

jessestay — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:50:11 -0000

Andy, Facebook would work well for you in that regard. My suggestion of
creating technology that creates community is more intended for
entrepreneurs, business owners, and technology builders - if you're not in
that category, it's not quite applicable.

Re: It’s About Technology That Creates Community

AndyBeard — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:47:57 -0000

I haven't got time for that level of participation - I spend a lot of time in private communities

They should put a pay wall on Friendfeed :)

Re: Why We Scrapped 3.5 Months Of Development

ethan — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:25:16 -0000

Hi Andy,

Amazing feedback!! thank you :)

We're going to be doing some really exciting things around the follow-up marketing space from within Flowtown, so stay tuned.

P.S. Would love to chat via. phone and get your feedback re: new features and roadmap. Feel free to send me an email and we'll connect - ethan (at) flowtown (dot) com

Cheers.

Ethan

Re: Why We Scrapped 3.5 Months Of Development

AndyBeard — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:47:31 -0000

I can see some real benefit in the metrics and being able to segment based upon various social media activity.
But these are things that interest marketing geeks like me, and I can see a marketing geek wanting this data within their current applications such as Infusionsoft.
I must admit my own initial review was that the landing page creator could be useful as long as I could use my own email service/crm and integrate it with other systems.

Re: Website Redesign Pulls in More Sales?

michelfortin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:13:12 -0000

Some direct from that page, and some from the salesletter, preceded by that page (when people click on 'more info') instead of straight salesletter-to-order sales. The front page seems to boost sales both in the immediate and longer term sense. Perhaps because the new design communicates more credibility and professionalism? I think so. More testing needed, though...

Re: Website Redesign Pulls in More Sales?

AndyBeard — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:24:59 -0000

The new format actually places a greater emphasis on the value proposition of Success Chef (compared to other products), and from memory only the monthly subscription is now a little more obvious.

Were increased sales across the board?

Re: How To Become An Overnight Expert In 3 Years

AndyBeard — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:58:34 -0000

I seem to be on a "M" curve

Rise in expertise, then at least from external appearances throw in the towel for 9 months and now climbing again.

In marketing often the best approach is a series of sprints, and that may also be the case in any field of expertise as well.

Re: Sunset Time for newcritics - 2006-09

AndyBeard — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:42:25 -0000

I don't think requiring registration will prove to be a barrier to worthless comments. The spam/moderation features of Disqus are one of the many reasons I recently removed them.

There is a feature within Disqus to switch off comments on posts which might prove to a a wise move, unless you eventually plan to liquidate everything.

Whatever you do don't just let the registration expire, and find a worthy owner of the domain

Re: WordPress Attack Underway: WordPress Users Must Upgrade

DrewAPicture — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:23:30 -0000

It IS affecting 2.8.4. My company's site got sploited last night and we're running 2.8.4.

Re: Removed My Sold Text Links – Will My PageRank Return To 6?

EvertonB — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:46:01 -0000

I got bumped up to a 4. I guess I'm being watched now, so hopefully I'll continue increasing as long as I behave myself

Re: Removed My Sold Text Links – Will My PageRank Return To 6?

AndyBeard — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:56:01 -0000

Good luck on the reconsideration request.

Vandread they are actually pretty smart on the reconsideration requests, and check things like advertising sales pages, can find evidence of paid reviews and possibly other linking schemes.

However it is possible they won't trust you fully immediately, and that the value of the links you had before have diminished.

Re: Unique Sales Funnel Tricks That Will Blow You Away

AndyBeard — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:27:14 -0000

It is great that others can see the subtle improvements in almost every aspect of the sales process that Dan has implemented. It is a lesson just to experience it once.

Re: Whitelisting Hogwash & Unique Solution?

AndyBeard — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:25:21 -0000

This isn't intended as a guide to reduce the number of spam emails, but rather to prevent emails you signed up for going in the spam though filters can be created for spam as well, they are rarely required.

If you signed up for a mailing list you no longer want, unsubscribe.
If you are receiving emails you didn't subscribe for, hit spam though it is 99.9% certain if you receive emails from any of the listed autoresponders, you probably asked for the emails to be sent, and it is also safe to unsubscribe.

Re: The #Twitter Method?

AndyBeard — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:21:56 -0000

This isn't a course aimed to increase your following, it is much more strategic.

Re: Unique Sales Funnel Tricks That Will Blow You Away

AndyBeard — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:19:13 -0000

I would look on those as being Sales Letter / Copywriting fundamentals, rather than specific components of a sales funnel intended to maximise revenue.

Re: The #Twitter Method?

AndyBeard — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:16:34 -0000

Well you still get access to the free videos

I am going to be totally honest, tools and training about twitter don't excite me - I use Twitter, I have a fair few followers on Twitter and follow lots of people too, but my use isn't strategic, and might also be a time sink because of that... but that is ok.

Re: WordPress Attack Underway: WordPress Users Must Upgrade

AndyBeard — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:56:02 -0000

Sorry I didn't bookmark or promote the link, as at that time it seemed very isolated and hadn't been fixed - too long ago to find it in my Twitter search

Re: WordPress Attack Underway: WordPress Users Must Upgrade

lloydbudd — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:26:58 -0000

Links? I was trying to follow pretty closely this very detail, and I didn't seen any reports for 2.8.4.

Re: WordPress Attack Underway: WordPress Users Must Upgrade

AndyBeard — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:33:27 -0000

The Wordpress dashboard will tell you whether you need to upgrade, plus it is displayed in the footer, and most likely in the header of the code on each page.

Re: WordPress Attack Underway: WordPress Users Must Upgrade

AndyBeard — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:32:17 -0000

I was seeing reports yesterday that this exploit was affecting 2.8.4

Re: Are Blogger | Blogspot Blogs SEO Friendly?

AndyBeard — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:39:05 -0000

I wouldn't invest any time in it because Blogspot I would guess is a Google trademark

Re: Unique Sales Funnel Tricks That Will Blow You Away

drmani — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:49:22 -0000

Took a quick look, and I get what you mean, Andy. Will still study his process, as it's a nicely executed one. Thanks.

Re: Unique Sales Funnel Tricks That Will Blow You Away

AndyBeard — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:39:32 -0000

The product may not necessarily suit all your email lists, but the process is really well put together. I know of a few old friends that will be promoting this when it launches on Monday, but wouldn't ask anyone to mail something that they don't feel comfortable with.
I am a marketing geek and just love seeing really great implementations of sales funnels.

Re: Unique Sales Funnel Tricks That Will Blow You Away

twitter-14843428 — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:05:26 -0000

Cheers Andy, will explore more ;-)

Re: RSS Is Alive And Well

AndyBeard — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:28:31 -0000

I need to get back on my campaign to get Google to support authenticated feeds in reader, along with publisher controls to restrict sharing. It will be an unholy mess if the stock photo companies decide to crack down on illegal sharing of complete copyright works (photos)
There are so many private RSS feeds I would love delivered to my desktop where I have paid $XXXX for the premium content.