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The 60 second business: scam or spam?

By on May 17, 2012

business in a box have recently been promoting their , a 60 second .

Yes, the claim is that within 60 seconds you can have your own customized business. But is this really possible?

I have seen and tried many other products that have made similar claims. So far none have lived up to the promises.

So is this just another spam building system, or simply a scam? And is a 60 second business even possible?

Fair questions indeed.

First I would like to share this quote with you:

“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of ,
manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.”
- Tom Peters

Some key concepts here are simplification, design, layout and processes.

What if using technology it was possible to enhance the currents systems and procedures to improve quality and reduce time? After all this has been done in every other industry. Why not ?

So far all attempts I have seen to do this fall short. So what about FusionBox?

Well FusionBoxes come in two forms. Business templates and complete business in a boxes.

The first is not really a business ready to go, but a complete business that requires you to add your own products and sales copy. This alone though has huge advantages.

It can save a lot of time, headache and setup costs. But it’s not really a ‘ready to go business’ in 60 seconds.

The model however is.

There is nothing missing it seams. From a , sales copy, product to sell, membership areas, autoresponder sequences, graphics, affiliate backend and all of the tech stuff configured and setup for you. Literally the entire business is ready to start making money in approximately one minute.

You will not become a millionaire from owning one of these businesses. That should be clear. But you can make money, and it provides an excelent starting point for any beginner. What makes it better is the ability to fully customize any part of the business.

So how is this possible?

Unlike previous attempts FusionBoxes rely on the technology that drives FusionHQ. FusionHQ itself is a complete marketing platform, so it is one of the only technologies available that would allow a total setup of an entire business within one system.

“With technology what people think is
impossible often becomes inevitable”

For more information see for yourself at www.MyFusionBox.com or www.FusionHQ.com.

The seed of speed

By on May 8, 2012

time-is-moneyAs mentioned in a previous post  about (Do you have an MVP) in the modern world speed is of the essence.

This is especially true in the information and software service based industries which are changing and releasing at ever rapid rates.

Even from a very simplistic perspective of ‘how can I make more money faster?’ speed is obviously a critical factor.

The faster you can get your product to market, and the faster you can repeat the product creation and launch cycle, the faster you can build and scale your business. That is if you don’t take short cuts that lead to project failure of course.

Not every project will be a . Indeed, a former CEO of IBM once said the formula for was ‘to increase your failure rate’.

This quick turn around period that is the essence of an MVP gives you this ability to speed your learning curve as well as to launch quicker.

There are a few simple things you can do to help you achieve this.

1) Don’t be a perfectionist (easier said than done for many entrepreneurs)

2) Use a team, or become part of a team. Together Everyone Achieves More. Once again this is something I hear people complaining they can not afford a team. Get creative, find different ways to partner with people. You can not afford not to have a team. (and trying to hold on to a 100% of the profit will only leave you with less in the long run)

3) Create systems. Boring I know. But systematization is the key to any . Just ask McDonald’s, SubWay or Toyota. Good systems help reduce cost and increase efficiency (make things faster).

4) Don’t re-invent the wheel. If something already exists that you can use that will get the job done, then use it. For example templates already exist, and in most cases are going to do as well as anything you may try to get made. Images for sales pages can be bought for a couple dollars from somewhere like iStockPhoto, there is no need to go and take the photos yourself.

In information and there are many things you can do to increase the speed to launch, and to scale your business faster.

To give you some ideas of what you can do I have listed just a few of the things we have done inside of to assist in this process:

  • Business Templates. These are entire business structures installed for you in just 60 seconds. This includes the affiliate tracking integration, sales funnels layout and configuration, site , mail list setup, optin form configuration, hosting configuration and even the layout of the content. (All you do is enter the new images and sales copy.)
  • 1 Click Site Replication. Already have an existing sales funnel or site you could modify? Click duplicate and choose the new domain/URL for the new site. Make the changes you want and click upload. An amazing time saver.
  • Affiliate Integration. By having an affiliate system fully integrated into the business platform not only saves any coding or setup time but has the added benefit of reducing customer support time. On previous projects we would need to process a refund in the merchant account, the membership site script and the affiliate system. Now even if a customer cancels direct with PayPal everything else is taken care of automatically.
  • Drag and Drop Sales Page Builder. I am a copy writer, not a programmer. Creating sales copy was time consuming because using DreamWeaver was a nightmare to get the copy to look how I needed it to. Now I can just drag and drop the different page elements around on the page and the system automatically codes it for me.
  • 1 Click Upload. Press a button and all changes are sent direct to the server. No manually uploading files.

By removing the need for programmers, creating pre designed templates (for site , page layout and for business structures) and be making everything push button or drag and drop we have massively improved the systems in our information and affiliate marketing businesses.

What took 4 weeks now can take us 1 minute – literally.

This may sound unbelievable, but really it is inevitable. Think of any industry – as it develops it creates better systems to increase efficiency.

Make sure you are not left ‘ploughing the fields by hand’. Structure your business intelligently.

 

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 .

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 SEO 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…