Business Templates Give You A Business In 60 Seconds

By on February 23, 2012

FusionBoxes are a new concept from . They are business templates to get you up and running in about 60 seconds.

They can install sale funnels, squeeze pages, OTOs, sales pages, membership areas, auto responder sequences etc etc and customize it all.

We have now made use of this technology to create a blank business to speed up the process of creating your own business.

By providing squeeze pages, sales pages, thank you pages etc all pre-built it is possible for FusionHQ members to have the entire structure for their business setup in 60 seconds, ready for them to simply paste the copy and swap the images.

Watch the below to see how easy it is and what you can do with it:

If you have not already seen the power of FusionBoxes also visit www.myfusionbox.com.

Facebook Pages App Now Live

By on December 19, 2011

In demand to better Facebook integration has now released its own Facebook App, FusionPages.

This is both a stand alone app (ie not FusionHQ account needed) and an integrated app (allowing you to connect your FusionHQ account to a Facebook page).

FusionPages gives you the ability to create pages inside of Facebook without the need for coding, external software, hosting, SSL domains or any of the usual headache.

It is free and simple to use. See the below:

For those using FusionHQ this means you can now also build site, sales flows, squeeze pages etc inside of FusionHQ, then publish them to your Facebook account.

Have fun and be sure to send us your feedback.

Using the custom tags fuction in FusionHQ

By on November 7, 2011

The below shoes you how to add tags (such as someones first name) inside a site.

This can be useful to customize sales pages (which can increase conversions), or add a personal greeting inside of .

You can also use these tags as a way to provide login information to a new customer on the ‘thank you’ page as well as thank you pages with their name.

Building Templates in FusionHQ

By on October 17, 2011

Learn how to make your own designs without any coding knowledge using .

This takes you step by step through the process of making your own site starting from nothing. Use these designs for sales pages, squeeze pages, content sites or .

Gideon Shalwick Documentary

By on August 19, 2011

Here is a short about and his use of to create a that means for him.

A big thanks to for this, and congratulations on his .

Good Looking Web Fonts – Thanks to Google…

By on April 28, 2011

web fontsWeb developers have long struggled with the font dilemma.

You want good looking fonts to work, and look the same, on everyone’s computer.

For those of you who are unaware of the problem, it basically boils down to this…

Fonts are stored on a users computer. Therefore if you use a font in your web page you rely on the viewer having the correct font on their computer, or risk it being substituted for something that does not look the same, and may throw the entire out.

As a marketer and copy writer this has meant either having dull looking headlines, or having to create our headlines in a graphics package and then using them as an image.

Images are not as friendly, take longer to make, longer to load, take longer to edit and require more server resources.

Thankfully have once again come up with the answer. A very simple solution…

Online font sets.

This now gives web developers a range of great looking fonts that they can be certain will render the same on every machine that views them.

To find out more click here to check out Google’s web fonts.

users will be pleased to know we have already integrated the best ones into the editor. This means you can use them without learning how :-)

Time to get those headlines looking good…

 

FusionHQ Made to Look to Easy?

By on April 23, 2011

FusionHQ drag and dropI wanted to address an issue raised by a few people during our recent …

A few comments suggested that is not as easy to use as I have made it look at seminars or on webinars. I feel these comments are both correct and incorrect.

Let me explain…

FusionHQ is extremely easy to use – when you know how. Of course I know how.

However there is a , as with anything. (Just remember learning to drive a car, now how easy is it?)

The point to make for those still learning is this… It is much faster to learn and much faster to use than the alternatives out there.

FusionHQ is drag and drop simple. You do need to know what you are dragging though, and why.

We have many users who have mastered using FusionHQ without any assistance from us. That said we do appreciated some people need more of a hand, and you will find more training vids being added every week now. We have also increased the size of our customer support department.

Building an is a bit like building a house. There are many different parts and skills required, and they all need to interconnect properly.

For those of you new to this then you will not appreciate how difficult it can be to learn each of the different elements, such as integrating autoresponders, settings up CMS’s, integrating payment gateways, adding affiliate tracking systems, designing the layout of your sales copy etc etc.

What FusionHQ does is to bring these elements together so they are already connected for you. It simplifies the entire process.

I have been doing for several years now, and have had the opportunity to use many of the different tools out there, and have connected many of them together for different projects.

I can assure you nothing is simpler from my experience. If you think FusionHQ is hard then you will be in for a shock when you try to learn everything else.

I should also mention that FusionHQ is a tool. That means you need to know what you want to do with it.

It is extremely flexible, and not a cookie cutter system. That means you can set up one of many different online business models with it. However you do need to know what you are trying to achieve with it.

I am currently working on a training program that we will release shortly. This will help those of you who have no background in Internet Marketing, and are unsure what it is you are trying to do. (We previously made the mistake of assuming people bought FusionHQ knowing what they wanted it for. Those that did are thriving well, those who did not are struggling. We will put this right very soon though so that everyone can succeed.)

So to sum up…

Yes, FusionHQ is easy to use, but you do need to learn how to use it, and know what you want to do with it.

Once you have a plan and know what direction you want to go FusionHQ is most likely going to be your easiest solution.

Keep tuned for the coming training to get you started (free for all FusionHQ users).

Are you working enough?

By on April 23, 2011

As our have shown most people are not spending enough time on their business to expect it to succeed.

‘waiting’ for it to start making money before you commit more time to it is never going to work. Effort and sacrifice are typical of any .

This looks at a few and gives a couple of suggestions on what to do about it.

(Don’t expect too much from this video. Most people know the obvious but simply try to ignore the harsh reality about what they need to do.)

7 Reasons Not To Use WordPress

By on April 20, 2011

Yes, this blog is hosted on …

WordPress is a great choice, sometimes. But is often a very bad choice.

Too many people choose WordPress as a default CMS () for all their sites and internet needs. Too many IM gurus teach to use this without really thinking if it is indeed the best solution.

Watch this before you install WordPress. It may save you a lot of time later on.

In summary.

WordPress is a blogging platform. It is not designed to be used as a membership site, sales funnel, small information site or a host of other reasons people have tried to adapt it for.

It is not SEO optimized, at least not out of the box. It requires a lot of extra plugins and settings changes to make it SEO optimized. This adds a lot of extra learning and setup time. (there are other solutions out there that are better configured as default)

WordPress Themes can be difficult to customize, unless you know what you are doing. Even for most coders unfamiliar with WordPress theme structure it can take a while to customize.

A major concern with WordPress is its memory usage. sites are large and consume a lot of server resources. They are often overkill for most peoples needs (as well as not being the most suited). Most people do not consider the implications of overloading the server memory (not the same as server storage). Sites can become very slow or even  crash. Shared hosts often do not care and allow this overloading to occur. (There is NO such thing as unlimited bandwidth or storage as many hosts claim.)

WordPress is open source and very popular. This has its pro’s, but also it’s cons. Because it is so popular it is a major target for who can run searches for WP sites and find you even if you have only a small site. Because it is open source it makes it easy for them to find loopholes and security weaknesses, which makes them easier to hack. Hacking of WordPress sites has always been a constant problem.

Because of these constant hacks, and because it is always being improved, WordPress requires constant updating. This does not take long, but can be a pain if you want to set and forget. (I learned the hard way when I left a couple of sites and found they had been hacked and turned into phishing sites. this then led them to be disabled by the hosting company and caused a bunch of headaches getting them live again.)

One of the problems that comes from updating is that plugins can become outdated and no longer work. Even themes can stop working or cause issues. This means you must rely on independent WP developers to keep their contributions updated, which they don’t always do. This can also cause compatibility issues with other scripts that you may integrate with as various versions of php, css, jQuery etc change (though this can happen with any system, it is a particular problem with WordPress and its host of different themes, plugins and developers).

Bottom line is that WordPress is an excellent choice for some people some of the time. But it is often over used and is often not a good choice.

It is easy for those who do not know better to recommend it when it is all they know. In the world many gurus don’t really understand the technical side. Conversely those that do are often well equipped with either the knowledge or the staff to help overcome many of the issues I have sopken about here.

Changing platforms can be a headache. Think first before making a decision. WordPress may or may not be fore you…

Not Succeeding? Is this You?

By on April 17, 2011

We recently conducted a with our customers at . The results spoke volumes as to why many people are failing online.

We will be going over these results in more detail in future posts, and ways to overcome the blocks, and .

However in this I explore some of the basic findings, and perhaps why at least 41% of people have almost no chance of making an online .

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