Selling products or services online is difficult. There’s a LOT of competition. However, here’s a few best practices from the master Frank Kern himself (you may have never heard of him, but he’s made a killing and focuses on building customer email lists, then how to exploit them into sales).
I'm not a mathematician, designer, strategist, developer, or marketer. I'm an entrepreneur.
Drawing & Websites
Sometimes you just need a break and need to get a little creative. I made the picture below using the latest web markup language in about 2 minutes so don’t judge me, I’m no artist (I just like to play with my etch-a-sketch from time-to-time).
It was built with an HTML5 drawing tool called Harmony. Check it out, it’s completely user friendly.
Thank You
From the bottom of my heart. Thank you. It’s you that make the 18 hour days fly by.
In one month, you visited my brand new site over 1,600 times and stayed almost a minute. I added a blog only 6 days ago, representing 20% of visits, and already 8 of you have subscribed to my RSS feed.
Storytelling
You stumble upon a dark cave lit only by faint, flickering torch light. As your eyes start to adjust, you notice a group of people shackled to the wall, and discover they’ve been here their entire lives, never experiencing natural sunlight.
You feel it’s your duty to unshackle these men and women so they can escape the confines of the darkness. You move towards the man closest to you and furiously try to unshackle him from the wall while excitedly telling the group about the “outside”. He, as well as the group, is a bit startled by your strange dress and confusing descriptions.
Simplicity + Achievements = Powerful
You’re just going to want to click through and view the picture. An excerpt simply doesn’t do it justice.
Data Visualization
PowerPoint often adds complexity rather than taking it away. Similarly, the charts and graphs most “practitioners” produce require a PhD to decipher.
Why not make it easy on the reader and add a “call out” box detailing exactly what you want him or her to take away from the chart. A few examples are shown below for inspiration.
Inches
Inches: “The margin for error is so small…”
The Ultimate Entrepreneur & Small Business Toolbox
These hundreds of links are the culmination of years spent on the web researching, reading, and saving the absolute best of the best resources for anyone looking to start or grow a business, whether that’s freelancing, building an app, or selling a product/service.
The topics covered are as follows: Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Web Design, SEO, Social Media, Advertising, Analytics, WordPress, Data Visualization, Videos, Negotiation, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pitching, iPhone Development, PR, Blogging, Photoshop, Pricing, Icons, Usability, Email Campaign, Textures, Landing Page, User Interfaces, Web App Building, A/B Testing, Logo, and Internet Marketing.
Dreams
Dream big. Dream bigger than big. Nothing great ever came from mediocre ideas. The gap between dreams and achievement, however, can only be bridged with two things: surrounding yourself in the idea and doing.
I vs We
If you’re on a team, whether business, social, or athletic, the only time “I” should ever be used instead of “we” is when expressing your personal opinion or accepting fault:
Entrepreneurship
After years of strategizing, doing, failing, iterating, and finally succeeding, this is the most concise yet accurate way to approach any startup I’ve found to date.
Measuring Performance
How do you measure performance of people, debt, efficiency, athletics, and life?