Constant Worry And No Salary After 21 Years After 21 years in business, our sales were down to a paltry $368K. Our profit was a mere $15,000…and that’s with me drawing a salary of ZERO dollars! I spent every day worrying whether I would be able to pay...
It All Starts With Our Drip Marketing Mailing a postcard to prospects every few months (when you finally have the time) isn’t enough. Sending an e-mail or two to your client base won’t cut it. In order to achieve REAL results, you need a marketing plan that is...
Top-Line Growth And 199 New Leads! Despite opening a new division and falling well short of our sales goals for it, we still grew our top line by 2%. This was driven primarily by our 30% growth in income from our monthly recurring revenue managed IT contracts. We...
A Decade Of No Marketing, No Plan And No Direction I started Cyberian Technologies in 2005 as a project integration company. In 2012, we started down the road of managed services. Somehow I drew the short straw to be in charge of sales and marketing, of which I...
Overwhelmed And Overworked With NOTHING To Show For It My story begins where many of Robin’s clients’ stories begin. With a desperate man and his Toolkit. The year was 2011, and I was struggling. I was holding on to my previous company by a thread. Were we profitable?...
We Started The Year With 2 Serious Problems At the start of 2018, we had just come off a strong year with revenue up at $894,154 and our monthly recurring revenue (MRR) increased significantly at $16,415. Our goal for the year: to finally break the million-dollar mark in...
Years ago, I was stuck and financially in trouble. Our gross revenue was stagnant and in many years it actually shrank. I just believed I was sitting at the crossroads of my business, and managed services was the way out of the grueling hours that were my reality....
From Zero Profit To Profiting First After eight long years in business, I had not really made any money. In fact, most years were a loss. Finally, after my best year in sales costing me $2,000, I decided I needed to make a change. I joined Robin Robins’...
As a lover of Halloween and all things spooky, my favorite time of year is here. But there are things that truly frighten me, like bad business practices. So gather ‘round for the “Tale Of The Lost Prospect.” Often we’ll get this e-mail from a member: “I ran...
Before, I Was A Mess, My Business Was Bleeding And I Was $172,000 In Debt! Before I joined Robin Robins’ Producers Club, I was a real mess. After years of doing the same thing over and over again and somehow expecting to see different results, I knew I...
