Other accomplishments for the day:
I made contact with a private finance guy in the states and he's looking into seeing what kind of financing options he may have to offer to me. We'll see what come of that.
I have also been really hitting up the networking on Facebook. I have added another 40-50 contacts for real estate investing all over the US and Canada over the last week or so. Word to the wise: be careful, facebook does not like you adding random people in an over abundance. I was warned! HAHA
Over the next 6 days I am going to try and message some of these people and see what kind of networking opportunities we can come up with.
I emailed my ERP Nutrition guy the following message:
Drew,
Here's the time line I am looking at. I leave for Mexico on Saturday night. I would like to have the following completed by then.
1. Have the multi-vitamin formula completed and ready for manufacturing
2. Have the official formula for the energy/fat burner pills.
3. Receive the samples which I was promised over 2 weeks ago now.
4. Have label mock ups made.
5. Container prototypes
I looked back and noticed that we started our dialogue 2 months ago now and all we have is a label. I am by no means blaming this all on you but I also see that to make sure I meet certain time lines, I need to see progress, which has been minimal as of late.
I enjoy dealing with you Drew and I think you are very capable of meeting these requests but if for whatever reason you feel they are unreasonable please present a more agreeable time line based on your expectations.
Thank you
Scott
I thought it was a good one. I stroked his ego just enough but I also made sure I sounded like I meant business!
He emailed me back and asked when I return from Mexico... I told him the 30th and I have yet to hear from him. More to come...
Monday, March 16, 2009
Website
For this site to work the way I envision it and the way it has already worked for Daniel, there are 5 elements we need to implement to ensure success.
These are:
Product Supply
Website Design
Campaign Management
Fulfillment Services
Self Confidence/belief
Product supply: This is where we choose our product which we are going to offer. I mentioned before that I found our detox foot pads at www.alibaba.com. You can find absolutely anything there. Anything! I would suggest deciding on a subject that interests you and searching it on alibaba. Email a few distributors and ask them about:
Product Cost
Shipping Cost
Max. Orders
Min. Orders
Shipping Time
Product information or ingredients
Product Pictures
If the product is approved by your target market's governing agencies
There are plenty more questions you may want to ask as well but these are some that I found were vital when researching a product distributor or manufacturer.
Website Design: As I said yesterday, Kinkar is working away on it as you read this. He is in the initial design phase and as we proceed I will update.
Campaign Management: This could be the most important factor in our success with this project. A campaign management service is the driving force behind your presence on the internet. They will aid you in your quest to get the word out about Detox Foot Pads!
I had Kathy from ROI Revolution provide this brief description of what their service provides:
Fulfillment Services: I don't know about you, but the idea of boxing up 10's, and soon, 100's of boxes of Detox Foot Pads and shipping them out, really doesn't appeal to me. The whole reason I'm doing this is to create freedom, not more shackles!
Enter Fulfillment House Here!
A fulfillment house will receive your product from the manufacturer, store, pick your orders as they are ordered, box the order and ship it to the customer for you. The become your own complete warehouse!
Once Kinkar has comepleted the design, he will link the shopping cart system to the fine men at AtLast Fulfillment and they will automatically receive the orders, pick and pack the orders, and then ship it to the customer all for a very reasonable cost.
Self Confidence / Belief: As I always talk about, this is where everything both begins and ends. Self belief is the biggest factor in determining success. If you believe that this is going to be too hard or not sure that your product will sell, it won't! If you believe in the people around you and what you are doing and that you ARE going to SUCCEED... YOU WILL!
Give yourself an opportunity to be a winner. Already picture yourself on the podium as the best in your event.
If your event is downhill skiing, picture yourself having the fastest, cleanest run and raising your arms in victory as you cross the finish line.
If your event is the 100m dash, picture yourself as the powerfully graceful champion who tears first through that ribbon!
If your event is online sales / marketing, picture yourself collecting that steady stream of income created by your creativity and working with some amazing people. Picture yourself quitting your job to spend more time with family and friends because you have a money making machine that you have placed on autopilot, doing all the work for you. Take that vacation, buy that car, give to that favorite charity and then offer to show the person standing next to you... how you changed your life!
These are:
Product Supply
Website Design
Campaign Management
Fulfillment Services
Self Confidence/belief
Product supply: This is where we choose our product which we are going to offer. I mentioned before that I found our detox foot pads at www.alibaba.com. You can find absolutely anything there. Anything! I would suggest deciding on a subject that interests you and searching it on alibaba. Email a few distributors and ask them about:
Product Cost
Shipping Cost
Max. Orders
Min. Orders
Shipping Time
Product information or ingredients
Product Pictures
If the product is approved by your target market's governing agencies
There are plenty more questions you may want to ask as well but these are some that I found were vital when researching a product distributor or manufacturer.
Website Design: As I said yesterday, Kinkar is working away on it as you read this. He is in the initial design phase and as we proceed I will update.
Campaign Management: This could be the most important factor in our success with this project. A campaign management service is the driving force behind your presence on the internet. They will aid you in your quest to get the word out about Detox Foot Pads!
I had Kathy from ROI Revolution provide this brief description of what their service provides:
Thank you for your email!
I’d be glad to put our services in laymen’s terms below.
The core of our business is tracking the traffic we’re sending to your site from AdWords with Google Analytics.
Google AdWords is the majority of the online search market and this is where we focus our work at first by building the campaigns composed of many relevant keywords and also negative (terms that you wouldn’t want to show for). We also write the ads that will show up for these keywords making everything relevant to your landing page. We track all of this with Google Analytics which allows us to know which keywords and ad text sells the best and also which are not worthwhile.
Basically we’re getting you as much profitable traffic as possible. We have a lot of experience in qualifying visitors based on what they type in and what ad text shows. Our experience also extends to tracking many different websites to ensure the data is correct
Your team here would include 3 people:
1. Your Relationship & Strategy Manager who directs the progress of your account based on your business goals.
2. Your Google Analytics Consultant who oversees the tracking of all the data for your site.
3. Your AdWords Account Manager who builds out your AdWords campaigns.
There are quite a few details to keep track of in a process like this and especially with all of the changes Google continually makes. As an AdWords Qualified Company we maintain a close relationship with Google so we are prepared for any changes.
Fulfillment Services: I don't know about you, but the idea of boxing up 10's, and soon, 100's of boxes of Detox Foot Pads and shipping them out, really doesn't appeal to me. The whole reason I'm doing this is to create freedom, not more shackles!
Enter Fulfillment House Here!
A fulfillment house will receive your product from the manufacturer, store, pick your orders as they are ordered, box the order and ship it to the customer for you. The become your own complete warehouse!
Once Kinkar has comepleted the design, he will link the shopping cart system to the fine men at AtLast Fulfillment and they will automatically receive the orders, pick and pack the orders, and then ship it to the customer all for a very reasonable cost.
Self Confidence / Belief: As I always talk about, this is where everything both begins and ends. Self belief is the biggest factor in determining success. If you believe that this is going to be too hard or not sure that your product will sell, it won't! If you believe in the people around you and what you are doing and that you ARE going to SUCCEED... YOU WILL!
Give yourself an opportunity to be a winner. Already picture yourself on the podium as the best in your event.
If your event is downhill skiing, picture yourself having the fastest, cleanest run and raising your arms in victory as you cross the finish line.
If your event is the 100m dash, picture yourself as the powerfully graceful champion who tears first through that ribbon!
If your event is online sales / marketing, picture yourself collecting that steady stream of income created by your creativity and working with some amazing people. Picture yourself quitting your job to spend more time with family and friends because you have a money making machine that you have placed on autopilot, doing all the work for you. Take that vacation, buy that car, give to that favorite charity and then offer to show the person standing next to you... how you changed your life!
Healthy ME
Shoulders and Biceps again... mixed with a little more than usual for abdominals. Tomorrow I am expected at work by 7am from 7:30 am so it's going to make working out in the AM a lot tougher, but I'm sure I can manage! I just have to get to bed a little earlier.... RIGHT! ;)
Ran through it fast today, in and out in 35 minutes or so....
Clean & Presses
4 sets of 6-10 reps
Lateral Raises
3 sets of 10 reps
Bicep curls
3 sets of 10 reps
Rear Delt Raises
3 sets of 10 reps
Incline bicep curls
3 sets of 10 reps
Cable Upright Rows
3 sets of 10 reps
Isolation Bicep Curls
3 sets of 10 reps
After each group I added 2 of the ab exercises from yesterday. It was a good one! 6 days to Mexico!
Ran through it fast today, in and out in 35 minutes or so....
Clean & Presses
4 sets of 6-10 reps
Lateral Raises
3 sets of 10 reps
Bicep curls
3 sets of 10 reps
Rear Delt Raises
3 sets of 10 reps
Incline bicep curls
3 sets of 10 reps
Cable Upright Rows
3 sets of 10 reps
Isolation Bicep Curls
3 sets of 10 reps
After each group I added 2 of the ab exercises from yesterday. It was a good one! 6 days to Mexico!
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