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Suffering from Pandemic Blues? Try This

We’re living in one of those movies where a virus threatens humanity, some leaders don’t pay attention to the scientists and everything looks hopeless while the protagonists race to save lives and find a cure despite the politicians best efforts to be total idiots.

Then the heroes save the day, all is well and we can leave the movie theater relieved it was ‘just a movie’.

Except that now we are trapped on the movie screen, the director is gone and there is no one to yell, “CUT!”

This stuff is REAL.

And it’s scary.

But do you know WHY it’s scary?

Because that’s what we’ve been told and that’s what we’ve decided to think and feel about it.

You’ve maybe heard this story before…

A farmer’s horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically.

“Maybe,” the farmer replied.

The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. “How wonderful,” the neighbors exclaimed.

“Maybe,” replied the old man.

The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy for what they called his “misfortune.”

“Maybe,” answered the farmer.

The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son’s leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out.

“Maybe,” said the farmer.

The farmer is detached from current events in a way that allows him to reserve judgment and see how things play out. He doesn’t emotionally invest in what is happening, but rather he observes it and moves on with his life.

If he had broken down and sobbed when the horse ran away, would it have brought the horse back? If he had been filled with anguish that his son’s leg was broken, would it have mended the leg?

If you are sad, depressed or angry over the pandemic, will that bring an end to it? Is there any emotion or state of mind you can use to make the pandemic vanish? Of course not.

The pandemic is here. It’s real. It’s happening. We cannot change any of that.

But what we can change is how we think about it and how we view it.

We can change the reality we live in with a simple shift of our thinking.

“That’s crazy! It’s stupid, nutty, impractical, short-sighted… do you SEE what’s HAPPENING in the world?”

I do. And I understand the emotions, too, because I’ve felt all of them.

But no matter what I think or feel, the pandemic will still be here.

And so I have a choice – the same choice you have – of how I will respond and what reality I will live in.

I could choose to focus on fear, being highly emotional and overwhelmed as I binge watch the news and hang on the edge of panic.

I could be unfocused, uncertain what to do and playing a wait and see game.

Or I can be strategy-focused on using this time as a massive growth opportunity for myself and the planet.

In my chosen reality, the pandemic is happening. I am social distancing and taking all precautions. But I am also looking at this as a time of renewal and rebirth, a time to choose my priorities and plan my future and take massive action in my own life.

I am choosing the reality I want to live in right now. We all choose our realities every day of our adult lives. My reality is that we are going through a new time that will result positive changes and a better world.

No birth labor is easy, but the result is worth the difficulty.

Just as I get to choose how I view my world, you also get to choose the reality you live in.

And you get to choose it every single moment of every single day.

Pandemic Readers’ Unprecedented Demand

What is it that readers are searching for like crazy right now?

Hint: It’s not toilet paper.

It’s not the latest novel or diet book, either.

According to National Geographic, demand for this right now is unlike anything they’ve seen before.

Upworthy has seen an unprecedented level of growth for this in the past four weeks, with 65% growth in followers on Instagram and 47% increase in on-site page views in March.

We are, of course, talking about good news.

Desire for uplifting stories and news has seen unprecedented levels.

At the end of March, actor John Krasinksi introduced his weekly show, “Some Good News” on YouTube and within a week had over 1.5 million subscribers and 25 million views.

The Washington Post and The New York Times have both increased their good news stories to meet unprecedented demand.

While a good movie or book can distract people from the pandemic, what people want more than distraction is a genuine sense of hopefulness. They want to see people coming together and helping each other, as well as any glimmer of positivity from what’s happening such as pollution levels decreasing.

Can you spread some good news among your readers? You might find it becomes the most popular section on your website and your most shared content on social media.

Businesses That Are Booming During Covid-19

Here’s a list of businesses that are doing exceptionally well during this pandemic:

Nearly anything and everything healthcare related

Natural supplements

Nearly anything food related except some restaurants – grocers, farmers’ markets, produce stands, convenience stores

Restaurants that deliver or offer takeout

Food cultivation such as plants, seeds, farming

Organizations providing social services

Media of every type – newspapers, television, radio and internet

Hardware stores – people are fixing things at home and doing projects they’ve been putting off

Shipping and mailing services as well as delivery services

Distance learning – including and especially online courses of every type

Business that supply or support working from home (think Zoom)

Survivalist info, kits, food, tools, water filters, camping gear

Pandemic supplies – obvious items like masks and hand sanitizer are selling like crazy online

Toilet paper – both in stores and purchased online

First aid supplies

Gun supplies and security services – got to protect that TP, right?

Therapy and life coaching

Home activities for kids to keep their parents sane

Almost anything pet-related – pets still need food and care, plus people are spending more time with pets and are looking for toys, training, etc.

Stocks and currency trading – people need help to make sense of what’s happening in the markets and what to do next

Marketing advice and help for struggling small businesses that are trying to survive

Online businesses, especially those that supply the physical products people want, and those that are teaching new skills like how to build an online income.

Irving

While the world as we know it is completely different than it was just a couple of months ago, this might be a good time to notice priorities.

Things that may have seemed crucial on January 1st
might not make any sense at all now. And things you were neglecting might be what’s truly important after all.

This is an awesome time to get clear on what you want and what you want to achieve, both this month and in the coming year.

Spend some time each day just sitting quietly with a pad and pen and write down ideas as they come.

Notice which 20% of your efforts result in 80% of your positive outcomes and do more of that.

Get clear on what you want, where you want to go, and how you will get there.

Upside Down World – Lean into the Times

Now is the time to adjust your offers to suit the world situation. Don’t go forward with marketing as it always has been. Acknowledge what your customers are going through and help to ease their burden.

Do you offer a plan for people to start their own businesses? Offer them a much-needed discount to gain entry.

Do you offer a software as a service? Upgrade them for free for the next 3 months or 6 months.

Do you offer a service? Tailor that service to address the problems your customers are experiencing right now.

By meeting your customers where they are right now, you’ll come across as compassionate and caring – two things everyone needs right now.

Irving

 

Don’t Make This Sales Video Mistake

I received an email the other day from a well-known marketer, inviting me to learn more about his new service. It sounded promising, so I clicked the link.

In the sales video he starts off telling me that the video is only 2 minutes long and that he knows this because he timed it. Great! I’m busy but I decide I’ll dedicate two minutes to watching the video and finding out what he’s offering.

15 minutes later, I closed the window. I never did find out exactly how long the video really was because I’d lost all interest.

The funny thing is, I liked what he was promoting. I thought it made good sense and it was something I could use. But when he told me the video would be 2 minutes long, and then it turned out to be far longer than that, I realized I couldn’t trust this marketer.

Which is why he lost the sale.

If you say your video is 2 minutes long, make it two minutes long. In fact, whatever it is that you promise someone to get them to watch your sales video, FULFILL THAT PROMISE. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been promised a key piece of info if I’ll sit through the sales video, only to realize at the end that they never gave me the information they promised.

And I never, EVER buy from those videos. Do you? I doubt it. Because don’t you feel deceived? And maybe a little bit cheated, too? I know I do.

Irving

 

When Keeping 10% Pays You 1,000%

There is an old piece of advice that says you should always, ALWAYS pay yourself first. Take 10% off the top of everything you earn and save it, invest it and most of all, keep it for yourself.

You save this 10% off the top before you pay any bills, before you pay taxes, before you buy food or pay the mortgage.

And over time, that 10% will add up to significant money and even financial freedom.

But there’s another 10% I want to talk about, and it’s time.

If you’re spending the best 10 hours of your day working for someone else, or even staying home with the kids during this unusual time in history, I’d like to suggest the following:

Spend the first hour of every day working towards your big goal. If your big goal is your own business, then spend that hour making progress on your business.

Nothing gets in the way of this hour because this hour belongs to YOU – not to the kids, your spouse, the boss or to your emails.

You are paying yourself first with this hour. I’ve seen people build entire businesses and quit their jobs by being iron-clad adamant that this hour – every single day – is used for nothing but growing their business.

Maybe your goal is fitness oriented. Use the hour to work out. Or maybe your goal is learning a language or new skill. Whatever the goal, commit the first hour of the day – when you are freshest and the ideas and solutions come quickly – to work towards your goal.

And six months from now you’ll probably need a new goal because you will have (finally!) achieved your current goal.

Irving

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Irving

Save $100 Dollars a Month – By Using This Simple Free System

If you use shopping cart or affiliate software for your business, you’ll want to pay close attention to this article. It can save you hundreds of dollars in overhead expenses for your business.

Especially if you’re using software or services just a ThriveCart, SamCart, PayKickStart, Clickbank or JV Zoo. You’ll want to pay attention…because what I’m sharing with you today is making marketing history.

GrooveDigital software development company, owned by marketing legend Mike Filsaime, is focused on creating the most powerful, affordable and simple to use all-in-one software service that you can use to build, grow and manage an online business.

Well, they just seriously disrupted the business software market by carving off a major portion of their flagship product, GrooveFunnels, and making it completely free (at least for now).

Introducing GrooveSell.. a powerful sales and affiliate platform for digital marketers and infopreneurs to sell their products. The software at it’s core helps you take payments and manage customers for physical products, digital product and services. It comes with a full-featured affiliate system too (GrooveAffiliate) which lets you amass an army of commission-only salespeople to help you promote and get paid for your products!

This easy-to-use software creates checkout pages that are designed to convert more visitors into buyers, more clicks into sales, and manage the process from beginning to end.

This is no “basic” software version either. It allows you to do some pretty ninja tactics to increase your dollar per sale. Not only can you do the usual up-sells and down-sells in your product funnel, but the software adds order bumps before purchase, and true 1-click up-sells (with and without confirmation) to your funnels. This allows you to make point of purchase impulse sales of related items, increasing your dollar per transaction of just pure profit.

GrooveSell also features a powerful set of tools that lets you set flexible pricing structures that are unheard of on other platforms. Need a free trial product? No problem! You can set any trial length or price you’d like. If you have an one time onboarding charge followed by a monthly maintenance fee.. GrooveSell can do that too. Want to offer two annual payments that recur every year at the same time? It can do that too.

You even have eight different options for recurring billing. The system will automatically charge your customers at their regular billing interval (weekly, every 2 weeks, monthly, every two months, quarterly, bi-annually, annually and every two years).

It integrates with all of the major payment processors, like Stripe, PayPal, and Authorize.net and if you don’t have a merchant account, they are releasing GroovePayments very shortly, where they will process payments for you for a very competitive percentage.

Plus, it grows with you. For bigger businesses doing high volume there’s merchant account warming and load balancing built into the system, so you can avoid getting your credit card or PayPal account shut down during major promotions.

With your free account you get:

Unlimited products
Unlimited product funnels
Unlimited checkout loads (bandwidth)
Unlimited affiliates
Unlimited customers
Unlimited support
Unlimited payment gateways

And all of this is free. That’s right, free for life.
-no credit card required- ever
-no monthly fees
-no surprise bills
-full feature set
-every upgrade they ever do

Plus, there’s an incredible bonus of GroovePages Basic, which lets you build pages for up to three product funnels. So you can create a sales page, checkout page, and thank you page to deliver your product to your buyer.

The bottom line is: You can do anything with GrooveSell that you can do with any digital marketing shopping cart out there.
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How much does grabbing your free GrooveSell account save you?

Well let’s compare GrooveSell to the other major players in this space
ThriveCart (one time $495.00 payment)
SamCart ($49.00 per/month)
PayKickStart ($99.00 per/month)
JV Zoo (5% commission on all sales, +2.5% additional for some sales)
Clickbank ($49.95 activation fee, $1+7.5% transaction fee for each sale, and a whopping $2.50 fee each time you want to withdraw your money!)

Which brings us to these questions… What’s the catch? Why is it free?

There’s zero catch. In fact, when you get your free account, you won’t even get an immediate promotion to try and upsell you.

The software is in beta at the time of this writing, so there are some features (like support for worldwide currency) that is not yet available. The company has assured me that all features will be ready by their launch in July 2020. Until then, the platform is still fully functional and usable.

GrooveDigital stated that the company wanted to give back to the community, and provide real value to people… not just a flimsy ebook or lame set of templates to entice you to join their list… but REAL value in the form of a usable product that never requires a purchase.

And they’ve done just that. You could build a pretty decent business using nothing but the free product you get with GrooveSell, plus your social media pages.

And while the folks at GrooveDigital hope that one day you’ll decide to upgrade to the full suite of tools that comes with GrooveFunnels (which includes an email service, membership sites, video marketing, a helpdesk, calendar, and all the tools you need to manage and grow a robust business), GrooveSell and GrooveAffiliate are yours to keep for free, forever.

All you need is your name and best email address.

Oh, there’s also an active Facebook group. The company keeps out the spam and off topic posts, and instead ensures a community of users that share ideas and information. We are all learning and growing there together.

Whether you already have a shopping cart service and looking to reduce your monthly bills, or your just getting started with your online business and your budget it tight… you’ll want to check out GrooveSell. Do it today while it’s still free.

Irving

Okay, to be fair your paid members aren’t truly ‘stealing’, even though it might feel that way to you.

I recently joined a paid monthly membership that consists of hundreds of videos. As I was browsing the site, a pop-up box with a one-minute video appeared, showing me how to share videos with my friends.

I paid to be a member. My friends are NOT paid members. And yet I can send them a link to any video I choose with the full blessing of the membership site company.

Now why would they let me do that?

One reason – it’s the best possible advertising they could have, and it costs them NOTHING.

Do you have a paid membership? Can you let your members share a video or module or lesson of their choosing with a friend?

You might need to get a special script to make this happen, but if you’ve got great content, it could be well worth the one-time price.

Irving