Simple Email Marketing with ConvertKit

by Michele Duwe, Miss Task | Content Marketing

Simple Email Marketing with ConvertKit

Are you looking for a simple email marketing tool to grow your email list? ConvertKit is a great tool to begin your email marketing adventures.

Let me tell you why!

They have responsive opt-in forms! With mobile and tablets the primary devices for viewing the internet, this is a very big deal.

Opt-In form are perfect for giving a gift for subscribing!

Are you a WordPress User?

ConvertKit has a WordPress Plugin to easily add a form to your blog post! This allows you to create different calls to action for each post! Why is this important, it will help with those higher conversion rates.

Create a Landing Page!

They really keep this one simple for the user.

Choose from three different landing pages to designs.
Use the visual editor to design a landing page with customized text and colors!
Familiar with CSS? You can write about any change with the custom CSS feature.

ConvertKit will host your landing page for you or get it on your own domain with the WordPress plugin.

Want, to send out emails to your subscribers?

Using Broadcasts lets you send out the email to your list.
Send to everyone or just a particular group with segments.
Once you create the segment, you are able to save it for the future
Or do you want to let interested subscribers know that your course is going on sale? It will let you segment out the subscribers that have already purchased the product.
Customize your messages so that it is personalized for every subscriber!
Save your templates to brand your look to subscribers.

Set it and Forget It

With the Sequence functionality, you can set it and forget it! A visitor signs up for your Tips and Tricks.

Sequences let you selection the new of emails you would like to send out.
The amount of time between your emails
Add a file for download to right to the email

If the above features were not enough to hook ya. ConvertKit has an automation functionality! Email Marketing done simple.

This is marketing automation at it finest!
Use it when they subscribe to a new form
Purchase a Product
Complete a Course
ConvertKit gives you a number of different blueprints to take the scary out of marketing automation.

Psst…ConvertKit also have a number of integrations to make this all even simpler.

Check them out here!

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OMG, Why do I have so much stuff | Time to Declutter

by Michele Duwe, Miss Task | Planning-Organization-Productivity

OMG, Why do i have so much stuff?

OMG, Why do I have so much stuff?

Do you find yourself in the repeated pattern of OMG, Why do I have so much stuff?

I'm putting my hand in the air on this one. While I'm getting better about all of this I'm still a work in progress.

I'm at home a lot, obviously, I run a business out of my home so it plays double duty.

I am beginning to feel overwhelmed with all the stuff I have gathered over the years. A few years back, I read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo. I happened to have a free weekend and started with purging my closet. That was pretty much where it ended.

Let me tell you a little bit about my husband and oldest child. They do not like any type of clutter. Clear counters and knick-knack feel zones. A few pictures here and there will past the test.

I cried

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About six months ago with a heavy and sad heart, who am I kidding, I cried as I put all my knick-knacks into a box and into the storage room. I was testing to see if I actually missed these items.

I bet this will come as a shocker, yup I did not miss any of these pieces. I'll admit this too, the room actually felt open and not as closed in when I would enter it. Crazy that a room could feel more inviting.

Did you see it, did you see it?

But, do you know what put me over the top? The Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix. Girl, I was just like the kids and binge watched this show in two days. For a person that doesn't turn on the TV that was a big deal. That little lady is amazing.

Remember the box

Remember the box that I packed up about six months back? Well, that was donated along with a number of other boxes. Although, I'll give you this advice. Go through the box before you give it away. Ya, so I kinda didn't do that and donated the picture frames with all our pictures in them. Really I have no clue what else ended up in the box. Oops.

Would you like other resources about tidying? I tend to go into research mode. Lucky for me, the internet is an endless vault for a research enthusiast. Let me share a bit of my research.

This is what I found interesting

Time Management Ninja has hit the nail on the head with his article 10 Reasons You Have Too Much Clutter. I keep things because I may need it someday or I have some emotional attachment. But, the big one for me is I may find a use for it in the future.

The Small Things talks about organization versus clutter. I could totally relate because she has the same mindset for 2017. Purge, purge, purge

I Heart Frugal gives Useful Tips To Decluttering Your Home. She said “Having a clean house helps you have a clean mind.” I agree with this 100%.

Dr. Christiane Northrup has a great article on Heal Your Life. She also refers to Marie Kondo book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying. Here are a few of my favorite points:

Possessions carry emotional energy and constantly talk to you, so you want to let go of objects that you don’t love, even if they’re practical.
In addition, piles of stuff in your home are one of the greatest stress triggers. Clutter literally increases your cortisol level!
Take in how good you feel. When you’ve finished throwing out what you no longer love.

I read a number of other articles. Can you say total procrastination to writing this blog?

Please feel free to leave your so much stuff struggles below in the comments!

Calendly | Scheduling Is So Simple

by Michele Duwe, Miss Task | Planning-Organization-Productivity

Calendly | Simple Scheduling

Difficult scheduling meeting or discovery calls?

Calendly, simple scheduling solves an issue that a number of online business owners face. Have you had a prospect fill out the contact form, but nothing came of it because it took too much time and effort to actually get the discovery call scheduled? Would you like to stop the back and forth of scheduling all your meets? Scheduling is so simple when you use a scheduling tool.

Calendly allows a client or prospect to easily find a time that works for both of you! You can embed into your website, add a link to your pages and posts, or in your email marketing.

This tool is exactly how I like them, simple to use. They have a variety of plans! Pick from either the basic (which is free), a premium or Pro. Here is a link to the pricing page at Calendly.

Let’s talk about the features

It integrates with google calendar! This works great, as it will look at the calendar and provided times that are open for a discovery call. They also work with Outlook, Office 365 and iCloud if you are not a google calendar user. (This is basic feature)

It is able to detect the timezone! This is automatic so everyone is on the same page. Because we all have enough to do without having to convert timezones for meetings!

Events

Basic has 1 event type, Premium and Pro have unlimited! This is great if you offer a variety of different types of meetings/events/call options.

Notifications!

It will send notifications of the meeting. Can we really live without reminders?

Time to Prepare

Do you want to set up a 24-hour minimum so that a meeting is not able to be scheduled on the same day?

It works on all your devices!

Whether you would like to use it on your desktop, phone or tablet it will work with all of your devices.

Some great paid features are:

Customizing the email that is sent when a meeting is scheduled.
Setting up a buffer time. Do you want to block 10 minutes before so you are able to prepare? Plus, you would like 10 minutes after so that you can finish up any tasks that came up or notes of the call.
Would you like to limit to three calls a day? No problem, they have the ability to set the total number of meeting that you will allow being scheduled in a day.
Remove the Calendly branding.
Group events
- This is a great option for webinars or classes that you may offer to multiple attendees.
Reporting!
- How do you know if it is working if you aren’t able to look at reports?

Here is a link to the features page at Calendly.

Here is a link to the integrations available.

As with any software they are always evolving and adding new features, make sure to visit Calendly website for all the new and upcoming features!

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