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Quote of the Day: Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life...

(Ed. note: ...unless your membership site's income makes it as enjoyable as any other day of the week!)

Free Up More of Your Time

What would you do with an extra hour or two each week?

Maybe work on a new project, earn more money... or better yet, spend more time with your family and friends?

I've been saving myself time every single day using a favorite tool. It helps eliminate any repetitive tasks that I might do during that day on the computer. I am referring to using a "macro" program. This is a program that lets you specify a series of small tasks to do instantly with a shortcut key or button press.

A good example is one I use dozens of times a day. It dawned on me that I was constantly typing in:

Best wishes,

Tim Kerber

Now, I simply type in: ==bw (the bw stands for best wishes so I can easily remember it). When my computer sees ==bw, it instantly pastes in that phrase.

Now the time saved on that one phrase is not that big of a deal. I have many different phrases "macroed" such as my "thank you for writing", "pricing questions", "frequently asked questions", "can I pay you via paypal?" questions and many more. They do add up to time saved from having to continously retype them out.

I now pay attention to any phrases that I use repeatedly and then create an easy to remember macro.

Macros can do much more than just type out frequently used replies however. It can also run programs at times you indicated for example.

Want a sales report run everyday just prior to you starting in the morning? A good macro program can record the steps necessary and display those results at the precise time you set it up to do that. It "remembers" those steps involved and will do it on a schedule.

Its hard to explain how helpful it can be. Only after using it for a period of time will you discover a wide variety of uses to save you a few minutes here and there.

Those minutes saved really add up over time.

Here are some macro programs. Some free, the others inexpensive:

MacroExpress is the one I've been using for years (PC): www.macroexpress.com

ShortKeys has a free lite version (PC): www.shortkeys.com/lite.htm

Keyboard Maestro for Mac: www.keyboardmaestro.com/main

iKey for Mac: www.scriptsoftware.com

Do you have a favorite Macro tool or routine? Please post is here in the forum:
http://www.membershipsiteowner.com/members/forum/openforum.cfm?forum=1

Free Solid Content Videos

If you are familiar with internet marketing, you likely recognize the name Yanik Silver. Yanik's the "real deal" when it comes to content and over delivering. His annual seminar is the only one that I regularly attend and it served as the catalyst for the membership site bootcamp. (I finally met Ryan Lee at that event, which is where Ryan delivered a fantastic talk on membership sites).

Yanik has released a series of online videos, which are 100% pure content. They are on the topics of:

• How to Sell at Prices Double or Triple Your Competitors (and still provide an incredible value)

and

• Psychological Hot Buttons to Higher Prices

These two videos are a total of 40 minutes long and are well worth watching:

http://www.infoplayersworkshop.com/high/supersecret

Not only watch them but do yourself a favor: Pay attention to how Yanik is marketing this. It is an extremely effective technique and similar to what we did to promote the membership site bootcamp.

There will be some upcoming articles discussing this powerful tactic on our site. In the meantime, go grab some excellent content now and pay attention to the process:

http://www.infoplayersworkshop.com/high/supersecret

 
Discussion Forum Posts

There have been some excellent posts lately that you can take part in. Those include:

• Testmionial Gathering Strategy for a New Site? - Matt wrote that he's looking for a strategy to gather testimonials for my upcoming launch. Unfortunately, he doesn't have much of a list to offer a charter membership too. Ideally, he'd like 5-10 testimonials to help with conversion so he can get members on board. What's the best way to go about doing this?
  http://www.membershipsiteowner.com/members/forum/openthread.cfm?forum=1&ThreadID=2009
  
• Does Any Have "Squeeze" Page Examples? A request for examples of effective squeeze pages was posted in the forum. Here are some that members of the site are using to collect email addresses:
  http://www.membershipsiteowner.com/members/forum/openthread.cfm?forum=1&ThreadID=1767
  
• Is it OK to Use Articles From Free Content Sites in My Membership Site? - Matt noticed that one of his competitors is offering content from free article sites within a paid membership site. What are people's feelings on that?
  http://www.membershipsiteowner.com/members/forum/openthread.cfm?forum=1&ThreadID=1825#7823
  
  
  

 
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