When we first started our business, we needed a way to collect payment from customers across the world. We were literally making sales on day 3 of our new venture. We hadn’t even formed a corporation yet. So the quick and obvious solution was PayPal. It seemed easy enough and would work just fine for our needs…at least that’s what we thought initially.

Over time we found that not only was the checkout process cumbersome for our clients, we ourselves didn’t want to go in and create a unique money request for each and every client. I won’t tell you how long we ran our sales like this. I’m turning red just writing about it.

Long story short, we finally got hooked up with a gentleman by the name of Paul Lonsford. I had sold Paul Infusionsoft years ago when I was still with the company. He really hooked us up. Here’s what you really need to know though:

Once we had our merchant account in place, it streamlined the way we processed credit cards. Here we were Infusionsoft Mavens and we weren’t using the shopping cart for what it was really designed for. We were losing out on all sorts of automation with PayPal.

We didn’t realize it, but we had been neglecting our sales efforts because of the difficulty in processing the actual transaction once a deal had been closed.

Here’s the really clincher – when we switched from routing sales through PayPal to our new merchant account, we almost doubled our revenue in the first month! It’s like there was some unknown barrier to our success processing sales the old way. Thank heavens for Merchant Processing 2.0.

If you are running your business with Infusionsoft, using only PayPal and not a merchant account, I’m calling you to repentance. Wink. Wink. You are going to face the exact same challenges we faced. Learn from our experience:

1) When you make it easier for a client to pay you, they are more likely to do so.
2) When you make it easier to close a deal, you are more likely to do so.
3) Storing credit cards on file for payment plans and subscriptions is priceless.
4) Having a cart skin/theme that is branded with your site curbs the shopping cart abandonment you get when throwing people over to PayPal to complete a transaction.

Since the time of our transition we have referred 12-15 clients asking for merchant recommendations over to Paul. We’re pleased to say that each and every one of them have come back with rave reviews of his unmatched pricing and customer service.

We recently partnered up with Paul to provide our clients as well as Infusionsoft Users a unique package to help them get up and running (and doubling sales) in no time. We really have put together the sweetest merchant account deal for internet credit card processing. Absolutely no one can beat this offer.

But don’t take my word for it – see for yourself. Check out: http://infusionpay.com

~ Jarrod Morris

P.S. Did I mention that our rate dropped from 3% with PayPal to 2.09% with InfusionPay?

Well, my answer is a resounding YES! Not only am I going, but our company will have a booth there. So please make sure you stop by and say hi to Dustin, Dallin and myself.

To mention a few of our clients and partners who will be there:

Paul Lonsford: First Data Independent Sales Dallas
Wes Schaefer: The Sales Whisperer®
Mike Searls: LA Boxing & Success Training Systems
Brian Johnston: Johnston Search
Chris Wise: Credit Line Millionaire
Curtis Dueck: Muvezi & Guardian Silver
Ray O’Donnell: TotalRewards Software
Jennie Jorgens: Small Business Lifeline
Chris Griffin: 3 Day Dentist
James St. Clair DVM: TopDog
Jess Wilkinson: Dorado Vista
Wade Ungaro: Jodo Collections

I know I’m leaving out many of you that I’ve already spoken with. We have 3 short days and would like you to connect with as many clients as possible. If we didn’t mention you on the list, but you’d like us to know you’re coming, you can either comment on this post or CLICK HERE to fill out our contact form.

If you’d like us to mention you in the list above, just disclose that in your submission and we’ll gladly add you to it.

If you haven’t made arrangements to be at InfusionCon, I highly recommend you do so (as long as they are still accepting registrants). If the seats aren’t completely taken already, go to http://infusioncon.com and reserve yours now.

I look forward to meeting many of you in person. Please let me know if I can help you make any connections with Infusionsoft Employees, Partners or any of our clients. I am happy to assist you with anything I can.

~ Jarrod Morris

P.S. The dates are March 10-12, 2010.

I thought it important to celebrate his life here on our blog. Jim Rohn has been revered by just about every successful person I know.

If you’re not familiar with Jim Rohn, you can search his name on Google or Youtube. The banner to the right will take you to the official tribute page where you can view the tribute video.

As a business professional and practitioner of personal development, I have turned my vehicle into a rolling university. While driving to and from work I am learning how to improve different areas of my life. I learn from great mentors like Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and of course, at the top of my playing list is Jim Rohn.

I thought I’d share a handful of some of my favorite quotes. So here they are:

“We all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

“The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.”

“Rich people have big libraries – poor people have big TVs.”

“Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.”

“After you become a millionaire, you can give all of your money away because what’s important is not the million dollars; what’s important is the person you have become in the process of becoming a millionaire.”

“Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.”

“I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change.”

“Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.”

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”

“The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.”

“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me.”

Hope you’ve enjoyed the quotes. If you don’t own any of Jim’s stuff, you should! What a great man.

~ Jarrod Morris

Disclosure: These quotes are by Jim Rohn, America’s Foremost Business Philosopher. To subscribe to the Free Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine, go to: www.jimrohn.com Excerpted from The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn. Copyright © 1994-2008 Jim Rohn International. All rights reserved worldwide.

Obviously there’s a lot more to calculating total return on investment than just keeping the investment low. I’d rather spend $200 and get back $10,000 than spend $20 and get back $1,000…but maybe that’s just me. In my mind any comparison of Infusionsoft and Aweber is apples and oranges anyway. Moving on to the purpose of this post, clients are constantly asking me about Infusionsoft’s deliverability. I share with them the honest facts, based on the time I spent as an employee at Infusionsoft as well as my own usage of the service in my day-to-day business. Let me clarify that our company does a lot of testing and measuring when it comes to opened emails and click-thru rates – and we have been more than satisfied with Infusionsoft’s deliverability.

Yet, on a weekly basis I’ll listen to something like this, “I heard Aweber has better deliverability than Infusionsoft.” This statement is usually hearsay by someone who knows someone who uses Aweber. There never seems to be any raw data to support this theory. Recently though, I had two clients who left Aweber for the host of additional features and functionality Infusionsoft has to offer. They actually seemed (SEEMED) to have data to support higher open rates and click-thru rates using Aweber than Infusionsoft. I was stumped. Was it time to get off of my soap box and put my foot in my mouth?

Nope. Joey Novak to the rescue! Joey is the author of the blog post I’ve been rambling about. He decided to put Aweber to the test and while doing so uncovered some pretty interesting facts about the way Aweber measures deliverability and counts their open rates and click-thru rates. I was shocked to learn about the logic Aweber developers used to program email tracking and reporting statistics. Either they weren’t thinking like marketers (which Infusionsoft is really, really good at) or they knowingly designed this sneaky secret to sway the statistics in their favor. I’ll let you decide for yourself.

Check out Joey’s original post here.

I hope the 2 clients I mentioned above read this post. (I’m emailing them about it now). I also hope it’s helpful to new Infusionsoft users or prospective users who are investigating Infusionsoft. If you have any questions, post them below and I will make sure to respond quickly. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

~ Jarrod

Okay, “trick” really isn’t the most appropriate word. Perhaps “persuade”, “educate,” “convert,” “influence,” “entice,” might be a better explanation. You see, you don’t have to trick prospects or customers into doing business with you. All you really need to do is follow up with them. Unfortunately, 90% of small businesses don’t have the time, man power or other resources to properly stay in touch with their audience.

Your responsibility is to remind them that you’re there, clearly educate them on your service (focused on benefits and what’s in it for them), and consistently provide value. Not only will you establish yourself as an expert or leading provider in your industry, you’ll establish something called “reciprocity.” (To be discussed in a later post). When your prospect is ready to buy, you’ll be the one in front of them.

By now, you’re probably wondering what kind of spooky offer I offer I have up my costume. As a trusted partner of Infusionsoft, they have allowed us to extend their standard 15 Day Trial to 30 Days for all of our clients, subscribers, blog readers and social media followers. In addition to doubling your trial period, we are offering a complimentary 1 hour consultation to help you maximize your ROI. We usually charge $100 for this initial Infusionsoft planning session.

In order to claim your 30 Day Free Trial and complimentary 1 Hour Consultation ($100 value), all you need to do is buy Infusionsoft through the link below:

Buy Infusionsoft

Let me tell you a little about the The League of Extraordinary Minds…

Two of marketing’s top players, Jay Abraham and Rich Schefren just brought 53 of the business world’s finest expert minds together for a six-week long, brain trust experiment that’s unprecedented anywhere else in the business world.

Jay and Rich have purposely put this group of extraordinary business minds together and focused each expert’s content on ideas and advice that will quickly help any business out there that’s suffering from:

* Poor marketing * No distinction or preemptive advantage * Ineffective sales efforts * Poor marketing message * Lack of credibility, trust in marketplace * Limited capital to market.

The League of Extraordinary Minds brings together power-house panels of experts all specializing in one major business building skill. In each session, these different panels will talk about the most important profitability issues, challenges and questions your business is facing and they provide the most actionable answers, ideas and solution you’ve gotten from anyone, anywhere, ever before.

One panel consists of seven world famous marketers: Another has six celebrated mega-bestselling business authors. Another has internationally renowned legendary mastery in dealing with business competitors. Still, another is a legendary master icon in the field of persuasion and infamous prominent consulting giants who charge $250,000 a day to share their prized perspectives.

Hey, I even took the time to show you some of the extraordinary minds:

Why not see if Jay and Rich’s League of Extraordinary Minds six week experiment interview Brain can be just the solution you’re after? Remember, it’s totally yours, gratis, for the entire six week experiment/try-out period.

Jay and Rich can only accommodate a maximum of 1000 people on each one of the nine separate panel interview sessions they’re conducting. They’ve got over 150 other list owners, bloggers and major business publications all nominating and including people from their list to participate, too.

That means hundreds of thousands of people won’t get to hear any of those nine interviews, because they won’t get inside fast enough.

So, if you want to be one of the 1000 people who DO get to listen at no charge to all nine interview sessions over the next six weeks (for nothing), you need to register (no charge) right now.

Here is my cleverly disguised affiliate link: https://schefren.infusionsoft.com/go/loemo/autom8/ And yes, if you buy something from Rich or Jay in the future, I may receive a small commission for it.

P.S. You’d have to seek out additional products though because there’s no selling and no pitching whatsoever. It’s simply the most powerful business-building content you’ll ever hear, all focused on helping you and your business get back in the black.

Tomorrow they are launching what could be one of the most revolutionary mastermind groups and they are letting entrepreneurs and small business owners listen in for free. What does that mean for you as an affiliate marketer?

They have developed 14 profit touch points with residual income for years to come. Tomorrow I will be adding a post outlining a ton of insider information about The League but today’s post is short and sweet for one specific reason:

Launch day is tomorrow, October 15th so you need to Register as an Affiliate Now in order to ride this profit wave.

By the way, if you’re wondering if promoting The League is worth your time, take 5 seconds to view the Affiliate Document and check out 44 of the 53 Business Advisors: