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The Power of Using Business Fundamentals

Business fundamentals sound so boring. What about the magic bullets? Isn’t there One Right Way, a fast step I can take to success?

Maybe.

But the magic bullet, should it indeed turn out to be the right thing to apply, is based on business fundamentals. Most of the time, however, the magic bullet is simply a piece of business mythology.

Clarity Takes You Back To Business Fundamentals

Everyone--and that means you--needs just two things to make money.

One: Traffic

Two: Conversion.

That’s it.

And every magic bullet you see is actually only a single element of either of these two things. It’s either a piece of traffic, or a piece of conversion.

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As you continue on your business journey, start looking through this lens. This thing that’s being marketed to you, shouted at you about, shoved in your face: what is it? Really?

Is it a piece of traffic?

Or a piece of conversion?

I assure you, despite the loud and persistent marketing, it is not “everything”. It is certainly not a ‘business in a box’.

Business fundamentals involve being willing to look at and understand basic math.

This is not calculus. It is simple addition and subtraction.

Yet in my experience over the past decade selling online, most people are unwilling to do this basic math.

Basic math is the language of marketers. To be recognized by one as one, you must speak this language. If you refuse to do so, you sound like an inept newbie to them and they will not interact with you.

If you have ever tried reaching out to affiliate marketers, and been surprised at their lack of response, now you know why.

Business Fundamentals Are The Key To Opening Doors To Affiliate Marketers

Learn the language of marketing and business. Learn to speak it. Doing so will open many doors for you that are closed right now.

Traffic…

...and Conversion.

How many leads do you need to bring in to get one sale?

The answer to this question--even if it is only a good estimate--is the kind of idea you must know to get the attention of serious marketers. You bumbling in, exclaiming about how great your product is, achieves nothing. They’ve heard all that before. They don’t care about your product. They care about how many leads it takes to get to a sale.

That will get their attention. You being able to say, with some justification, that it takes “X number of visitors to achieve a sale” is a key that will unlock many doors.

Of course there is more to this, but I have given you the starting point.

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Why Buy Books Or Courses?

Why buy books or courses?

My answer is of course my opinion, though that opinion is backed with many years of experience. And I presume you're reading my blog because you're at least interested in if not value my opinion.

Most people buy books or courses for the wrong reason.

Why Buy Books Or Courses In Your World

Here's what I see most people's buying behavior driven by in the online marketing world:

You buy books or courses because you are looking for the magic bullet.

You are looking for a quick win.

You are looking for the easy answer.

These are bad reasons.

The truth is you're unlikely to find the answers in what amounts to a shiny object.

Success comes from many factors, and most of all from the internal sense of success that you have about yourself. Your beliefs. Your outlook. And these lead to the actions you will (or won't) take.

My Answer To "Why Buy Books Or Courses?"

My answer, which you shouldn't really be surprised at by now, is quite different.

I buy a book or a course because I have identified a NEED.

There is a GAP between what I know and where I want to go.

Take this book:

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This is a $57 book.

Why did I buy it?

I was not looking for a fast answer.

I did not need help with process, in terms of "How do I do what I do?"

I wasn't lacking some transformational magic bullet that would change my life.

No.

I invested in this book because I wanted a specific thing. I wanted some words and phrasing around problems business owners have when they're looking for improvements in operational excellence. These are vital to the effectiveness of the starting point of my marketing & sales funnel.

What better source than a book on that topic?

Have I got some pain point language from my own experience? Of course. But I wanted outside opinions. Something different, something new to me.

And it was well worth it to make what a lot of people would think of as a scary investment ("No way am I spending $57 on a book") in order to find that out.

Note how specific my need was.

How easily success would be met by the investment.

How big the payoff is (five and six figure projects) from this decision.

And now contrast these terms with those, probably not fully clear or understood, you've been using in your decisions about why to buy books or courses until now.

>> Jason Kanigan is a business strategist and process optimization expert--whether it is a sales process or fulfillment process, we should speak. <<