Our Ship Was Sinking We struggled for years with no monthly recurring revenue because we were primarily selling hardware and software. Sure, we WANTED and NEEDED recurring revenue, but we had no clue HOW to get there. Plus, we had no technical people in our company to start...
They Said I Would Probably Be A Bus Driver – I Had Other Plans Growing up, I knew I didn’t quite fit in. Living on a small farm in the economically depressed area of rural northern Michigan meant extra-special fun. Some mornings I got to sling sh!t. Other...
Robin Did What 2 Previous Coaches Could Not Hungry to grow, we hired two different computer consulting coaches. Neither of them ever introduced us to a way to actually grow our business. Then we met Robin Robins. She demonstrated how to use her sales and marketing system to...
When It Rains, It POURS! The day I arrived in Nashville for Robin Robins’ Boot Camp, I found out we were losing our largest client. A couple of months later, we lost another sizable client. Then another. To put this massive loss of revenue in perspective, a year...
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...
