So I was checking my email this morning and I found a really cool thank you letter from someone who I hadn’t actually met before.

So you’re probably wondering… if I had never met him, how the hell did I deserve the thanks?

Check this out to get the story:

Since filming the vid, I had a few more exchanges with Dean. Very cool guy with a great story.

THE BEST PART…

His product that he had some success with, was all about a topic I am currently needing advice and coaching on. He sent me a copy at no cost cuz he’s cool like that.

It’s all about outsourcing and Virtual Assistants. AWESOME TIMING!! I can’t wait to read it but in the mean time, go check out his offer here:

Building a Killer Business With VAs

(not an affiliate link )

Let me know what you thought about this overall topic in general. Is there someone you need to thank or acknowledge?

If you are not familiar with Wayne Dyer’s work, I wanted to introduce you to him today. If you already follow him, then you are going to enjoy this.

Wayne Dyer has been a personal development specialist for many decades and his work continues to grow, expand and evolve. Some of his latest projects have been absolutely amazing. I credit a number of his books for helping me personally change the way I see the world, my family and my business.

The following sequence of videos is his movie called “The Shift” which has been published for free distribution on Youtube.

I have collected all of the parts of this movie here on my blog for your benefit so you can watch them back to back and experience the entire movie.

Let me know what you think.

How many times have you set a goal and failed to reach it?

Personally, I have lost count.

Sometimes it was because my goals were too aggressive. Other times I lost interest in the goal. And then another portion of the time, I was pretty much sabotaging my achievement of the goal.

The following video explains why.

Please leave me your comments and let me know what you think

This blog is the very first website I built as an entrepreneur. It actually used to be an old school HTML style site and then I turned it into a blog in 2009.

As I have evolved my online business, I have started dozens (if not hundreds) of websites and projects.

In the mean time, I have kind of let this blog grow a little stale. I update it once in a while but it had lost my focus for a long time.

The original reason I built this site was the same reason I became an entrepreneur. To share my insights, inspirations, ideas, stories and philosophies about personal development. To use this site as a tool to motivate and inspire other people who wanted to become entrepreneurs… or anyone who wanted to take their life to a new level.

I decided I had lost some of that vision and I want to re- “ignite” it.

Starting today, and every Friday moving forward, I will be publishing Friday Ignite! This will be a motivational style concept that will come out every Friday to get you going into your weekend on a high note.

Here is the first video for week 1. Please leave any comments you may have:

I have been neglecting this blog for the past couple of months but it does not mean I have not been working on new ideas, techniques and so on. In fact, I have been immersed in some really exciting personal growth studying that has been really helping in many areas of my life.

I have resurrected my study of the book “Psycho Cybernetics” by Maxwell Maltz.

In my opinion, if you only read one personal growth book… this should be it. I have picked up so many ideas and strategies that have helped me in huge ways in my life.

One of my favourite lessons learned I discuss in this video. Check it out:

1 new member on the final day. The sale came as a result of my latest WSO on the upsell page. I was pretty happy about that

Here is a text summary of my 3 major actions towards adding 100 new members to my business:

Action Item 1: More affiliate meetings

Had another set of interesting meetings on Skype/email with new friends and potential partners. Some people have emailed my latest Video Marketing PLR as affiliates so there is a chance I may still get some new members before the day is out (based on the upsell).

We made over 60 sales of our Video Marketing course and the interest level is still high. I anticipate over 100 sales before the end of the weekend with the affiliate traffic. Each sale gives more exposure to the membership program.

Action Item 2: Worked on membership sales copy

After having a really interesting discussion with a very experienced marketer, it was pretty obvious that our sales copy does not do our program justice. The most difficult part of selling our membership program is the fact that we have a small window of time to capture a prospect’s attention and make them aware of our value.

I have a huge list of ideas that I have been working through which involves switching everything from the headline to the P.S. Statements on our sales page.

I also have been chatting with a professional copywriter who does sales letter re-writes. I have worked with him in the past so I plan on hiring for this site.

Action Item 3: Direct Customer Engagement

This is something that would not really lead to sales today but it is much more important. I have been making a concentrated effort to reach out and speak to the people who are currently members in the site. It has been pretty cool to see the variety of experience and the different kinds of projects all of my clients are working on.

My goal is to help each member as best as I can so that they get the most value out of our products. The more value they get, the more likely it is that they will spread the word and help sell the site as affiliates (since all members automatically get enrolled as affiliates).

Final Words

Thanks very much for following my 30 day challenge. I await the final numbers but it looks like 16 new members is what the result is shaping up to be. I will write a full blog post that details everything I learned and why I’m not disappointed with the outcome…despite falling well short of my goal!

Thanks – Justin

2 new members today. 1 from my mentoring promo and on canceled customer who decided to come back!!

Here is a text summary of my 3 major actions towards adding 100 new members to my business:

Action Item 1: Built an affiliate guideline document for our new product launch on Warrior Forum

This worked out great. I launched a new WSO to promote our latest PLR product and to upsell the membership program. In order to get affiliates promote it, I offered commission on the WSO and on the backend upsell. I had to setup a special affiliate link so that new affiliates could promote both offers with one link.

Its actually pretty cool.

http://gopo.me/affdoc

Action Item 2: Launched the WSO for Video Marketing Mastery

Here is the sales letter: Video Marketing Mastery

After about 6 hours we have made 41 sales and added 35 new people to our buyers list. All 41 people were sent to the membership upsell page so I’m waiting to see if any convert to the membership. Pretty decent numbers so far actually!

Action Item 3: Talked to new affiliates

Had 6 or 7 really great chats on Skype with new friends/JV partners. Some of them are already promoting the Video Marketing WSO and others are signing up to promote the membership site. One particular affiliate is a very experienced marketer who I am super excited to be working with.

Additional Update

Was supposed to run a webinar tonight with my friend Brad Gosse. We decided to pull the plug on the idea. It is a long weekend in Canada and many US people are taking a long weekend for July 4th. The numbers would have been super low and we decided it is smarter to run the webinar next week instead. Kinda hurts my shot at reaching 100 new members but I need to think long term LOL

See you on Day 30!

Here is a video summary of my 3 major actions towards adding 100 new members to my business:

In the video above I mentioned the 2 videos I created to promote our latest launch (going out tomorrow morning). Here they are…

2. The Video Marketing Backed Offer (One time offer upsell):

Here is a text summary of my 3 major actions towards adding 100 new members to my business:

Another late night working here so I’m going to keep this update short. Added a new member today and also turned away a potential member. Based on the promo I described on Day 26, I had someone who wanted to join because I was giving away my mentoring as a bonus. But he had a lot of questions and seemed nervous to get started. I always tell coaching prospects who have that mindset to NOT buy yet. Instead I advise them to do more research and make a confident decision. They often come back to me later anyways

Action Item 1: Webinar Setup

So working with my friend Brad Gosse, we are going to run a webinar on Thursday evening to members of his list. We have the conference room all setup and the content is pretty much prepared. I have to spend some time tomorrow making sure I know how to operate all of the features… ESPECIALLY the feature that let’s me place my offer up for all to see

Action Item 2: Worked on sales letter for next Product

I have not yet released our latest PLR product (which came out 5 days ago) as a promo on the Warrior Forum. We do this step for every single product we create because there are lots of buyers there who want this content. I am still in the process of finishing a sales letter that will be used to sell this product and upsell the membership site.

I am going to include a special section of the sales letter to entice people to look at the membership option. This WSO offer should be up and running by tomorrow or Thursday at the latest.

Action Item 3: Contact Canceled Members

I have started sending personal messages to all former members who decided to cancel their membership for one reason or another. I am asking for feedback as to how we can improve and if/when they respond, I will offer them a special price to re-join the program. I have a feeling this may work as I have had a number of comments from canceled members who said that they enjoyed the products, but they just needed to cancel for one reason or another.

Hopefully some of them see the new content that has been added and decide to re-join us!

See you on Day 28!

Here is a text summary of my 3 major actions towards adding 100 new members to my business:

Didn’t even start “working” for the day until 10:08pm. I had to take my son to some specialist appointments and then when that was done, it was time to pick the other one up from day care. My wife was working a crazy shift (she is a teacher so it is end-of-year chaos) so I was on kid patrol end-to-end

At any rate, now that you know about my uber important life, here are the 3 actions I took.

Action Item 1: Redesigned my “video email” campaign

The video I made yesterday was WAY too blurry and it didn’t look pro at all with that level of quality. So I re-shot the entire video and I’m glad I did. My message comes across better now and it looks a lot cleaner:

Action Item 2: Updated the landing page

I truly believe this offer is going to convert some people into new members so I wanted to make the offer as strong as possible. After completing and amazing mentoring call with my newest student, I decided that my offer needs to be loaded with testimonials because I have had many mentoring clients tell me that it was the testimonials that sold them.

So I re-built the page and added my 8 strongest testimonials.

The video email campaign is cued up for tomorrow morning at 8:55am EST.

Action Item 3: More JV networking

Spent about an hour reaching out to people in my network asking if they would like to do a last minute webinar for an amazing deal. Hoping to hear back from some folks tomorrow and maybe get a few webinars booked before the end of the 30 day challenge.

See you on Day 27!