Before Starting The American Dream, We First Had To Flee For Our Lives My story starts 9,000 miles away in Africa. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, I started Impress Computers back in 1993 as a distributor for technology products across Africa. Employing 150 people in five branches throughout...
Apple, originally Apple Computer Company, recently announced that computer sales accounted for just 10.4% of their revenue in 2020. In 2000 computers accounted for 86% of Apple’s revenue. Are they in trouble or going out of business? Not anytime soon… Since 2000 their computer sales have increased 400%,...
As Ogilvy famously said, “On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent 80 cents out of your dollar.” John Caples wrote, “If the headline is poor, the copy will not be...
14 Years Of Hiring And Firing Shitty Marketers Reliable IT is a multimillion-dollar conglomeration of multiple companies that operates out of Texas, California, Colorado, Massachusetts and Louisiana. Last year in a year when growth wasn’t expected, their 2 verticals brought in an additional $420,000 in new MRR for...
Ah, the age-old whine of the failing salesperson: The leads are WEAK! Some people would automatically dismiss this as a lazy salesperson’s excuse (which often IS the case) – but thinking that ALL leads are good is just as foolish. There ARE times, when leads generated, are NOT...
Did you know IT services firms lose THOUSANDS of dollars every year due to very poor or non-existent follow up on the leads they generate? Recently we’ve been getting a LOT of questions from members wanting clarification on how to properly classify and qualify inbound leads to maximize...
Years ago, I was exposed to this marketing example, written by the late Gary Halbert, as an example of brilliant direct response marketing copy AND strategy. It’s a personals ad he wrote that led him to find his then-wife. He also used it as an example of how...
Turning Down A Chance At Paradise Little did I know that my experiences a decade ago would help me to build the cyber security MSP I’ve always wanted to own. Back then, I had a dream job at Amazon-owned Zappos. If there was ever a company that took...
