Yesterday, I asked for questions I can answer in emails while I’m traveling, and questions I got.
Let me start from the beginning, from the first question that landed in my inbox yesterday, asked by a reader named Moeed:
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What are some things you regret doing in your business?
From when you started out till now.
It’d be great to know, like a list of things to avoid, no matter what.
And hi John, I love your daily emails, including all the promotions.
Thank you for all that you’ve done, you’ve helped me a lot as someone who’s young and obsessed with the world of Direct Response.
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On the one hand, I don’t really regret nothing, because I pretty much get to do what i want when I want, and I guess all the mistakes I’ve made got me here. But that’s not a fun email.
So let me regret some stuff. Here’s a list of 10 things I regret doing doing or not doing in my business:
1. Not continuing to find more revshare partners after I realized how much money one good revshare partner could make me, and after running into a bit of an obstacle finding more such partners
2. Not repurposing my content better
3. Not charging higher prices or capping the prices I was willing to charge (both for services and for info products)
4. Setting prices based on what I felt comfortable charging, rather than on what this could be worth to the buyer or what they would be willing to pay
5. Not listening to Travis Sago ideas sooner, or paying him to find out his full systems like Phoneless Sales Machine and BEAMER, and applying that to what I was doing both for myself and for others
6. Thinking that the only way I can communicate with my readers is via broadcast, or maybe over 1-on-1 email, instead of regularly reaching out to some of them to suggest getting on a call
7. Launching stuff without validating demand
8. Launching stuff after I attempted to validate demand and was told explicitly by the market that there was no demand for what I wanted to launch
9. In general, coming upon obstacles and saying, let me turn back or simply sit here instead of looking for ways over, under, through, or around the obstacle
10. Thinking that the only options are either do everything myself or hire others to do it for me.
And now, for my offer:
In regret 5 above, I say I regret not listening to Travis Sago or paying him earlier.
The fact is, the remaining 9 of my 10 regrets would have been reduced or maybe even eliminated had I not only stalked Travis Sago online for years, but had I gladly and unquestioningly paid him a few thousand dollars for his programs, and had I started implementing those programs in my “business” earlier.
All of that is a warm introduction to and endorsement for Travis Sago’s community, Royalty Ronin, which I am member of, and which gives you access to all of Travis’s programs, along with contact with Travis himself, plus over 500 online business owners, investors, and marketers.
At the moment there’s even a free 7-day trial for Royalty Ronin. If you want to avoid making the same mistakes I made, I highly recommend Ronin: