Frank Haywood

How To Succeed

In a previous post I made – How To Fail Without Trying – I pointed out how time can disappear without proper focus and a plan.

It’s particularly relevant to me, as I reckon I must have spent hundreds of hours last year just answering email from customers. This is one of the key reasons my business “freewheeled” for a good chunk of 2007.

It’s also why one of my next products to be released is a full support desk, knowledge base, and live support system. Yes, I’ll be handing day to day support over to an assistant.

The bulk of the issues and questions I get asked are the same ones over and over, simply because people won’t or don’t read the more than adequate documentation. Many of the questions I get asked have nothing to do with the products I sell, and up until now I’ve even tried to help people out with things that have nothing to do with my core business or products.

Clearly that can’t continue.

In order for my business to grow, I must cut back on email. To do that, I’ve decided that a support desk manned with people who can handle the day to day questions for me is the way to go.

I realise that for the many people I’ve helped over the last year, this will be a disappointment as I will no longer be communicating in that way. Instead, this blog will be a good place to contact me, as you’ll be able to leave comments on posts like this one.

However…

Because I know that some people who take their businesses seriously will continue to want to discuss their business with me, I’ve decided to take a limited number of email only coaching students.

That number will be ten.

For your money, you’ll get access to me by email Monday – Friday, and I’ll answer your questions within 48 hours. You’ll also receive all of my new business tools as I release them, and in some cases before they go on general release.

I intend to release a lot of new software this year (I have three new tools now complete and in countdown to launch), as well as many business processes which you’ll be able to put in place to automate your own business as it grows.

The 10 places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, and will open in April.

To highlight the extreme value for money you’ll be getting from this programme, I’ll first tell you about the coaching I’m currently running.

At the beginning of 2008, ten people signed up for 60 days coaching where they get my full attention, my Skype ID, and my phone number. I’ve essentially given up 60 days of my life to dedicate to them, and to be available whenever they want me, as long as I’m online, which is most of the time at the moment.

They can contact me to talk any time they like, and even after the 60 days is complete and they have their products complete and on sale, they’ll still be able to contact me any time they want as they’re now my friends.

They also get almost all my business tools that I release, forever. That was their unadvertised bonus that they learned about after they signed up.

They got that package at the bargain basement price of just $997. I said when I launched it that I would likely never repeat it, and I certainly wouldn’t do the same thing again at that price.

After just 3 weeks, I’ve had most of them say to me privately that it’s already worth every penny they spent. Put simply, they would not have achieved the accelerated level of learning without my coaching programme.

At the end of this next 12 months, they will all be earning at least as much as they are today in their day time jobs. I expect it of them.

If you want that same deal, well I’m sorry, it’s too late and you can no longer purchase it.

The coaching package for the next 10 people will be by email only, and it will be at $300 per month. You will get almost all of my business tools as they are released for as long as you remain on the programme. You will also receive all of my business processes as they become available.

This may well be worth several thousand dollars to you over the coming 12 months.

When those ten places are gone, I may release a further coaching package.

That later coaching package will be priced at $10,000 / year, again by email only, and probably only answered a couple of times a week. I may not include my business tools, or at least only include a smaller selection of them. I will include all my business processes.

Under my guidance, you may well be earning your full time income from home in 12 months or less. I can’t guarantee that as I don’t know you or your capabilities, but I know it’s achievable for most people who apply themselves, once they know what to do.

If you’re even remotely serious about working from home and running your own internet business, then please fill in the contact form below to be notified as soon as places are available.

They will be on a first come first served basis, and when all ten places at $300 / month are filled, coaching from me will only be available at $10,000 / year.

-Frank Haywood.

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How To Fail Without Trying

Jan Evensen is one of the ten students on my coaching programme.

A couple of weeks ago, we did a session on focus and the importance when you’re starting out in your internet business, to give yourself very focussed 30 day projects.

Thirty days to complete a project and end up with your own saleable product is more than enough time to do everything.  In fact, I proved you could actually do it in a day, and have a sales page and autoresponders set up without a problem.

That is, once you’ve done it a few times and it becomes second nature to you.

Giving yourself 30 days to begin with is a good idea, especially if you have a day time job and have to fit in your product creation time in the evenings.  However, you shouldn’t spend much more than the first seven days to create your product.

You should spend another 5-7 days writing your sales page, setting up your site flow, and making sure your autoresponder sequence is set up correctly.

Then you should think about traffic.  If you don’t have your own mailing lists, or a regularly visited blog like this one, then you will need some time to find and write to potential JV partners.  You will probably get a ten percent response with a well worded email.

Any remaining time after that would be well spent working on your blog, and in the process doing things like linking to other related blogs, visiting other blogs and making relevant comments.

And blogging aside, generally setting things up for launch.

But the first thing you should do is make the decisions to see it all through, and set a deadline.

If you have a deadline, it will focus your thoughts as you get closer and closer to it, and realise that there are things you still have to do.  The basic list I’ve outlined above will get bigger as you get nearer to the date, and start getting contact from JV partners.

If you don’t have a deadline, then you’ll find yourself putting things back “just a few days”, which then turns into a week, two weeks and more…

Back to Jan Evensen.  He now deeply understands the importance of making a plan and sticking to it.

Jan has made a wonderfully ironic post which shows that without focus, how quickly your precious time and money can disappear, just by checking your email.

I’ve done it, you’ve done it, everybody’s done it.

A quick read through your email, and suddenly you’re on a sales page clicking the order button before you even know what’s happened.

Take the time out now and stop for a few moments to ask yourself how you can stop this from happening to you again. It’s not hard, it just takes a little self-discipline.

-Frank Haywood

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Jobs Are For Losers

Keith Goodrum has recently made a post about something that I’ve been intending to write about for a while now, and it’s jogged me to sit down and do it.

Job security.

There’s no such thing and there never has been, but I was taught early on in life that if I “behaved myself” and “worked hard”, I would have a “job for life” a phrase in itself which I’ve always  found disturbing and frightening.

This same phrase was also wielded in later years by a company I worked for.  It was clear to me and a lot of employees at the time that the management in charge didn’t have a clue and were slowly taking the business down.

I think their “promise” was supposed to be comforting for me to know that I had a job for life, but it always gave me the creeps. I could never voice exactly why though until recently.

Jobs are for losers.

What a horrible thing to say you might think, but it’s true when you stop to really think about it.

With a job, you have no guarantee of income, and you’re building your entire livelihood on the well being of the single entity that’s the business you’re working for. Plus, that business couldn’t give two hoots about your well being when you stop to think about it.

When it’s time for job cuts, out you go on what seems like a whim.

Suddenly your home, everything you own, and well… possibly even more… is suddenly in jeopardy.

You have no income. You can’t pay the bills. And if you’re over a certain age, the chance of you getting a similarly paid job could be slim.

All because you willingly tied yourself to a single source of income.

Now I’ve described it, don’t you think that’s loser behaviour?

And that’s an earlier version of me I’m describing above. I was that loser.

It’s different now though.

Now I have several sources of income with more planned for the future, and if one of them ever went bad as in my description above, then no sweat. There are others running too as part of my internet business.

That’s because I now have income security as opposed to job security.

Don’t you think that’s a much better place to be? Don’t you think that you should be taking steps to achieve that same goal?

Now no-one has control over my well being other than me and mine.

Isn’t it time you went for the same thing?

-Frank Haywood.

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Gosh Aren’t I Lucky? (A Non-Lifeline Service)

It seems I’ve been picked out of lots of other entrepreneurs for an opportunity to contribute to a book about earning my first $100 online.

I can see the benefits to both sides, 100 entrepreneurs contribute 2-4 pages which then fills an ebook. The 100 entrepreneurs then promote the ebook, and make the full $27 in commission earnings (100%) in typical 7 Dollar Script style. The organiser gets buyers signed up to their list. Buyers get to see how a wide range of other entrepreneurs made their first slug of money, which may give them ideas to do the same.

Everybody wins. There’s even a slim chance that someone might spot my story amongst the 99 others and I might get one or two click-throughs.

Yeah, okay I’m up for that. Especially as I’ve already written it up here on my blog.

Hang on! There’s a catch! I have to sign up to a $37 / month membership site.

Oh dear.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!

I need to sign up to a membership site like I need a hole in my head. So I think I’ll pass on this one. It’s not the money, it’s my time is too valuable to waste on a non-essential membership site.

My suggestion to you if offered the “opportunity” to sign up to a membership site with a regular monthly subscription is to ask yourself very carefully!

  1. Do I really, REALLY need this subscription?
  2. Does it add to my bottom line?
  3. Is it a lifeline service (e.g. autoresponder, web hosting) I can’t do without?
  4. Or will I just look at it once and never use it again, but be too scared to unsubscribe in case I miss some “special secret”?

If the answer to the first three is no, then don’t sign up.

Take my advice and save yourself some money.

If you have any non-lifeline memberships, unsubscribe now, stop pouring money away, and likely get some time back in the process.

(Incidentally, now I stop to think about it, I wouldn’t recommend how I made my first money online. I guess lots of other entrepreneurs made their first money by doing things they’d no longer give the time of day to, so maybe this isn’t such a good idea after all.)

-Frank Haywood

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