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Infusionsoft Mastery Seminar Day 3

by Russell on April 15, 2010

Follow Up Sequence or Follow Upside Down in Sequence?

Ziplining through the canopyAwoke at 4a.m. this morning with monkeys dancing on the hotel room roof. Looked for a piece of fruit to throw at them but thought better of it as I thought it might encourage them further. Returned to peaceful but clammy sleep

Liz rang at 7a.m a request to update the WordPress Thesis skins on our server to Thesis 1.7 so got to work on this and missed breakfast.

Follow Up Sequences Tips

On the infusionsoft Mastery course this morning, the session was the best one so far: Micah Mitchell covered Follow Up Sequences and Email Templates. These can be immensely powerful in the right (skilled) hands and I came away with a bunch of really good tips to improve conversions, recover cart abandonment, reduce post sale support calls and increase retention rates. Worth the course fee several times over in itself.

Carl Chapman also gave an incredibly insightful description of his Infusionsoft setup from squeeze page, order form, through follow up sequences and on to the membership site.

Follow up to Follow Upside Down – Ziplining the Canopy

After lunch we had a ‘free’ so decided to do something even more reckless that create a trackable link

Led by Stanning and Carlo, our guides, Micah then me, then Maggie, Jay and then David followed each other upside down through the canopy.

Micah and Maggie glad to have survived

David proves its as easy as falling of a tree

The Canopy is beautiful when viewed from this perspective

Maggie cant stop laughing

Just let go

A tentative start

I wish I could fly

Look no brains - I meant hands

Is that a tightrope I see before me?

Get off those electricity wires!

Maggie completes the first two lines unperturbed

The dismembered arm prepares to pluck another victim

Intrepid Infusionsofties

Initial Briefing - have you been to the restroom?

David ascends the path to the launch site

We trek through the jungle to the battling ants and humidity

David Shows Us What He’s Made Of

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Now is time for a siesta

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iPhone or Android – Need help

by Russell on March 17, 2010

In 20 days I am attending a conference in Central America. And I want to stay in touch. The question is how? iPhone, iPad or Android?

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My current phone is a Samsung SJH J700 which was low cost place-holder while the technology improved. But what next?

My requirements? Email, Twitter, GPS, coverage in Devon and Costa Rica, a keypad I can work with my larger than average fingers – definitely not reet petite.

On the 11th April my flight to San Jose, Costa Rica, is via Dallas so I am able to buy an iPad at the airport if any are for sale.

My wife Liz, has an iPhone, but maybe I should play away in the Android camp?

What is the best phone, given I need to buy by the end of March 2010?

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Display your Flickr Photos in Slideshows using Slickr Flickr

March 15, 2010

If you have a lot of photos on Flickr and want to show them in a slideshow on your WordPress blog then Slickr Flickr is the plugin to use. Rocco Slideshow I tagged the following photos with “Rocco” and added the slideshow to my post using the line [slickr-flickr tag="rocco" type="slideshow"] Roma Gallery I then [...]

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Ronald Rae Sculpture

October 15, 2009

Moving an artist’s website onto WordPress Last month, I migrated my brother-in-law’s sculpture web site Ronald Rae Sculpture onto the Power Blog Service. Ronnie is a famous sculptor who hand carves enormous granite sculptures. They are awesome. We have kept the way the site looks pretty much the same as the old site as this [...]

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Back from Stompernet Internet Marketing Conference

March 15, 2009

I am back in the UK after ten days in Atlanta; four of which of which at Stompernet’s annual Internet Marketing Conference and six days holiday with family. Still jetlagged, I am now getting back to work with a head full of business strategies, online and offline marketing strategies, web design tips, SEO best practices [...]

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Syntax error: unexpected end of file

February 18, 2009

Salutory example of basic error in moving shell scripts written on Windows on to a UNIX platform

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Snowed In

February 6, 2009
Snowed In Devon

Today was a typical day in my new, post Barclays life, in Devon. Having fed the dogs their breakfast of Weetabix (don’t say anything), I sat down at my computer at 08:30. I had neglected my CFA studies for a couple of days this week so decided to catch up on Session 4, Private Wealth [...]

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Widgets and Blidgets

January 16, 2009

Today I discovered a website that really impressed. It is called http://www.widgetbox.com What it does it allow you to build widgets, or in my case a blog widget or blidget which produces a cool viewer of my recent posts on my creditlust.com. It literally took under five minutes, it was intuitive and it all worked [...]

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Technology Overload

January 3, 2009

Today was spent developing a couple of web pages on Spring MVC Controller technology. I find it difficult to know what logic to put in the remote EJB’s, what to put in the controller, what to put in the service layers and then what to put in the JSP. This is how I broke it [...]

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CodeIgniter, SimplePie, Artisteer – all for one page

January 2, 2009

Today I spent about 12 hours getting to grips with a number of technologies: codeigniter – a Model View Controller PHP development toolkit simplepie – a RSS feed reader artisteer – a page design tool that generates two sets of output such that the main web site and the WordPress blog have the same styling The [...]

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