Infusionsoft Masters

It seems that in our current time we all need to find just a couple more hours in the day and guess what…

I found them!

I want to show you how I found several hours in a day… YES, I SAID HOURS!

Back when I was in my early 20′s, working as a bartender just to get a few extra bucks in my pocket in my little hometown of Ontonagon, located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the local band used always sing a song at my request, because it fit me to a tee!  I worked 3 if not 4 jobs and it always seemed like I was rushing out of one place to run to another… And I still had to find time for family and fun!

The song was from Alabama… I bet you know it…

“I’m in a hurry to get things done, Oh I rush and rush until life’s no fun.
All I really gotta do is live and die. But I’m in a hurry and don’t know why”

…Sorry, I know you are going to have that stuck in your head all day now!  ;-)

Anyway, as I grew older an realized there is more to life that just rushing from one place to another, I started to think, there has got to be an easier way!

I worked in Billing and Collections at the time of being introduced to Infusionsoft, and found out I could literally automate the “main” job that I had.  I was freeing up a ton of time and then had time to work on some bigger projects!

Do you want to know how I did it?

Sign Up here to get access to a video where I show you what I did to free up hours

(yes I said HOURS)

of my time!

How would you like to find a quick way to increase the number of prospects that actually see your emails?

Infusionsoft makes it easy to send a duplicate email, with a little different message to those who haven’t opened your email yet.

Just go to the email batch status report.

Reports -> Marketing Reports -> Email Batch Status

Click on the pie chart on delivered.

This will give you a second pie chart that will show you the opened vs who did not.

You can click on the “Nothing” section, then click on “I want to” Send a Broadcast (Email, Fax, etc.)

This will allow you to send a second email with the same message to get a higher open rate for that message.

….And…if you do the math… higher open rates equal higher sales numbers!

If you want to find out more awesome Infusionsoft tips from the Masters just send us your name and email and we will keep you in the loop!

Anyone who knows us, knows we don’t like to ever do anything 1/2 way, or not perfect…. So, we are going to slightly postpone opening our doors to our 12-week training program.  We have gotten some great feedback and we decided to add even more great content and training.  And I am also setting up some additional webinars with some experts that can help you help your business!

We want this program to be about your business…  Yes, we will open our knowledge of InfusionSoft and give you our secrets, but we also want to give you some additional information that will help your business in every aspect.

Look for the doors to open shortly after the 4th of July holiday!

I don’t know about you, but I am so excited that InfusionSoft is now offering real-time shipping!  You can now instantly calculate shipping rates at check out if you have a UPS account set up.

This has been one feature that several of my clients have been interested in!  I am pleased to make some happy calls to each of them today!

Check out all of the new features and updates that came out with the Summer Release here.

Last year I had the opportunity to attend InfusionCon 2009 and I was completely impressed.  InfusionSoft puts on a top notch conference, and I know that this year will be no different.

I am one of those people that love to get out there an talk to everyone!  Networking is the key to learning and I challenge every one of you to reach out to as many people as you can while you are at InfusionCon and find out what they are doing with InfusionSoft.  …My favorite part of InfusionSoft is seeing it used in so many different industries for completely different reasons.

I am interested to hear what new ideas you got from the people you meet while networking.

InfusionSoft’s Winter Release is here, and I am very excited! Check out all of the great features that are being released here.

A few of the features that I am excited for are:

• Ability to run actions when recipients open your HTML emails.
• Creating appointments based on custom dates.
• Advanced HTML Editor for editing email messages… I have been talking about this since I got wind of it.
• Ability to import people from third parties to include Aweber®, ConstantContact® and 1ShoppingCart®
• Drag & Drop category and sub-category setup
• Email Throttling to assist with spam complaints

I am curious what features you find to be most helpful in your application?

It is that time of year again, where we are all trying to get together all of our paperwork for Uncle Sam.  And this activity must have brought this ongoing question to fruition again.

“Do I charge sales tax on a digitally delivered product?”

This question was asked to me by 2 different clients last week, and the answers were completely different!  I realized that there are probably several other business owners out there that are seeking the same information, so I thought I would take a look around and see what I can find.  And get this… I found that from state to state the laws differ and there is no master list that gives us an quick glance to know if we are to charge sales tax on a digitally delivered product in the state that we do business.

Sales & Use Tax is regulated by the state that you are operating out of.  For example, a business in Washington state may have completely different rules than a business in Kansas.  So, rather than going out on a limb and trying to pull together a list for y’all that will only be out of date shortly, I decided to just bring this to your attention so you can get the up to date, correct information!

…If you are setting up a new product in InfusionSoft, this is a perfect time to double check the laws.  Please contact your accountant, or the state that your business is located to find out what the laws are that govern your business.

***Disclaimer:  I am not an accountant, nor do I plan to be… This is only a suggestion that you contact someone with real accounting skills to get your information.

Working with InfusionSoft, I have found that it is VERY IMPORTANT to always keep up with the updates that InfusionSoft puts out!  These updates can be anything from information on a new tool that they have released, like their HTML email editor, to bug fixes that could have affected your application.

You will find all of these updates in the Fusebox.  Just click Help the next time you are in your InfusionSoft application to check it out.

Ahhh, finally, a place for us to call home, a place for us to share our tips and tricks that we have learned through our ventures with the InfusionSoft application, and a place that we can help our fellow business men and women make more money… Because, honestly, isn’t that what the end game is in business.