Order Page Upsell

The side bar system on your order page could help you upsell to the customers, to find out how it works watch this video. 

Easy Upsell Tip

As the CloudNet360 user you have access to so many upselling options and now you can also use the side bar system, keep on reading to find out more. 

Order Page "Click Saver"

To make things easier for the users CloudNet360 has now come up with a default order page feature which is going to take the hassle away from your business.

Order Page Upsell with Coupon

Upselling could be really effective in helping you sell more, now watch this video to learn how you can make an upsell offer using coupons.

Who does not like discounts?

You can make a good upsell offer with the help of coupon codes, this is extremely easy but highly effective. Keep on reading for more.

Efficiency Lies in Simplicity

Everyone knows what the acronym KISS means – Keep it simple stupid.

There’s no way you could beat simplicity, especially in business. Yes, there have been complex business models that achieved great success, but most successful businesses have a simple foundation. The simple models might not sound trendy, but they do their job and end up delivering the results.

The Google home page is literally a master’s class example of how a simple function, simple home page, produced amazing results.

It’s why you so often hear CEOs of multinational companies explain why they’re selling all the companies they recently bought and getting back to basics… describing their “new” strategy as, “getting back to basic blocking & tackling”. Because when their business was “simple” they were successful.  Read More

Engaging video content

Every expert claims "large is bad" and small is the key to engagement success.

“Don’t go over 60 seconds… nobody will pay attention to anything longer”.

But when I check my video statistics, why are my longest videos often getting the most views? My 45+ minute videos consistently beat my short videos in viewer volume and minutes watched. Read More

Upsell – Bundles

This CloudNet360 upsell tip is going to help you upsell more using bundles products. To learn how this works keep on reading.

Order Page - Product Specific Customization

If you are using CloudNet360 then you would love to know about the order page customization feature which allows you to have product specific order pages, Watch this video for more details.

Order Page Upsell - Using Bundles

If you are a CloudNet360 user then you would love to learn about this new upsell tip, which is going to help you sell more.

Alerts Hurts… & Other Blogging Pitfalls

I don’t know about you but my brain is like a Newton’s cradle.

When one thought slams into my brain from one side, it knocks an existing idea out of my brain on the other side. To compensate, I’ve developed a sure-fire strategy for content writing success that captures these thoughts and spins them into content gold... and I’m going to share this strategy with you today.

These proven methods will work for anyone that uses them so I know they'll work for you. Read More

Get Your CRM Implementation Right

Sometimes companies go absolutely wrong with their CRM implementation which inevitably leads to losing money, not just money but it also leads to loss if time and effort.

While most articles like to focus on these 2 issues, I’ve found that they are really not the root cause of the problem and even if they were, the topic has already been covered extensively.

There are certainly many challenges lies in bringing your CRM sales automation online but the reason this article is so short is because the true root cause and the core of the problem is so simple. But there is no need to assume that every CRM implementation is a failure, far from it. But I am saying that every CRM horror story shares a common theme and fails from the same slow death in the same predictable manner. Read More

Cloudnet360 – The Smarter Choice for Managing Your Entire Business

It’s so much better and less chaotic to run your entire business operation with one login. It helps you get your work organized and manage all that needs to be done in the sales and marketing segment. CloudNet360 happens to be a system that it offers an “all in one” solution which you cannot find in any other system.

There are plenty of companies that have jumped on the bandwagon claiming to be an “all in one” solution… but all that can be said about those claims is that “imitation is the best form of flattery” and lately it seems we’ve been receiving quite a few compliments from our competitors. Read More

Order Page – Copy

We’ve added a new feature to our order page system to make it easier for you to create a unique order page look and feel for each of your product.

In the past we have a cart wide setting and a product specific setting.

If you wanted all your products to look the same, you’d use the cart wide setting.

But if you wanted each and every product to have a unique look and feel, you would use the product specific setting. Read More

Order Page Copy Feature CloudNet360

Now creating an order page has become easier thanks to the new CloudNet360 order page copy feature.

Use Affiliate Coupon to Boost Your Affiliate Campaign

With Cloudnet360’s newest feature Affiliate Coupon you can easily make more sales. To learn how this feature works, visit our site now.

Cloudnet360 - Exclusive Affiliate Coupon Feature

We at Cloudnet360 are continuously adding smarter feature to help you sell more, faster. Now with our new easy to use and drop-dead simple affiliate portal you can also include exclusive affiliate coupon for your affiliates to help them sell your product faster!

Your BIG IDEA Matters… But

As Steve Jobs would say, "Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right".

The most successful people know the secret to real success is in the details.

Maybe that’s where profits first became associated with evil because “the devil is in the details” and he must be seated next to “profits” because “the profits are in the details” as well.

There are multiple lessons I’ve learned over the last 12 years of software development creating the CloudNet360 sales and marketing automation system: Read More

Perry Marshall - 80/20 Summit Sales Process Case Study

It is not impossible to be better than the best, this video takes you through 80/20 Summit Sales Process Case Study. Go through it and you might end up learning valuable tricks to be better than the marketing guru Perry Marshall.

Are Fishermen the Best Marketers?

There’s a reason so many fishing terms are used in marketing.

There’s the negative “bait and switch” but the more ethical “bribe” or “bait” we use to “lure” the customer (fish) into our offer where we eventually present the “hook” and close the deal.

While the fish end up with a raw deal, hopefully your customer walks away from the experience feeling like they were the captain of the ship instead of a hostage in the "live well". Read More

It’s the “Trump Factor” at Work

Some will call it an “effective headline” while others call it “click bait”.

But in either case, stay on the line because I want to share a short fishing story with you that will help you sell more... and it’s so simple that anyone can do it!

Every year I take the kids on a 2-week camping trip in northern Wisconsin, just outside of Minocqua, on the shores of Big St. Germain lake at a campground called Lynn Ann’s.

While my wife's workload seems to dramatically spike each year during this 2-week period, forcing her to "miss" the trips, the kids love them and each year there’s always the need for a 2nd vehicle to transport all the “imported” kids that accompany my own. Read More

The Magical “Cloud” & “Funnel”

I have an accountant that has no idea what the “cloud” actually is… he speaks of the “cloud” as though it’s some mythical deity from the heavens that computes and stores his data.

He doesn't realize that the “cloud” is basically “someone else’s computer” where he’s just renting a portion for his needs.

But from a marketing perspective, it’s far more interesting to sell a magical “cloud” than to tell people they’re basically buying space in a mass public housing unit. Read More

I'll Buy More... Just Ask!

Unless you’re selling kidney dialysis or insulin, the people buying from you are buying from you because they want to buy from you.

They’re happy to be buying your product or service and in most cases, it’s fun to buy “stuff”.

Even things that you would think people hate buying like car repairs, often they’re happy because their car is now back to the way it was when they were excited to buy it.

The trouble with most businesses is the belief that their customers aren’t truly excited to buy from them so they fail to sell them more. Read More

The Art of Boredom & The Sales Created

TV used to be the primary “time wasting” culprit and was even called the “boob tube” because of the effect it had on the people wasting countless hours mindlessly sitting in front of the screen watching sitcoms and toilet paper commercials.

Next came the video game consoles and the “vidiots” who wasted even more time battling fake monsters and winning fake sporting events. Imagine having to punish your kids for not taking the dog for a walk because they were too busy taking care of their “virtual dog”.

And just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, the “smart phone” became part of mainstream America and took any semblance of intelligence and turned it into a series of pouty duck-lip and peace sign photos shared to entire networks of “friends”. Read More

The Art of "Simple Selling" & CRM's

It’s why you so often hear CEOs of multinational companies explain why they’re selling all the companies they recently bought and getting back to basics... describing their "new" strategy as, "getting back to basic blocking & tackling”.

Because when their business was “simple” they were successful.

But once they implemented their “new” systems to manage the multitude of acquisitions, suddenly their business was no longer “simple” and no longer profitable. Read More

When “normal” becomes the new fad

One of the things I like to do is compete in triathlons and the most important leg of any triathlon is the biking portion since it’s typically the longest in duration.
In order to do well in a triathlon, it’s critical that you become a good cyclist so I’ve done a lot of training and research on cycling.
And here’s the scoop on cyclist:

1. In the sporting world, it’s hard to find a group of people less friendly (and yes, I did clean this up from the “explicit” version that starts the alphabet and ends in a hole) Read More

Ray Kroc knew it...

Portillo’s knows it, In-N-Out Burger knows it, SmashBurger knows it and it’s why they’re growing and McDonalds is suffering.

While McDonalds shoots round after round into their blood soaked feet with successive bouts of cost cutting, the “other guys” simply do what McDonalds used to do; provide a decent hamburger and do it quickly and consistently.

None of the “new guys” deliver a truly world class burger but the burger is always “good enough” to keep the customers happy and coming back again and again. Read More

The Super Sales Funnel

Or I could have called this “The Funnel Fallacy” because they both fit in this case.

Lately I’ve been deluged with ads from expert funnel creators that demonstrate in minute detail how to create a multi-faceted sales funnel to create exponential sales growth.

But according to the purveyors of these sales funnel systems, creating these amazing sales funnels is really time consuming and a big “pain in the a@%”… especially if you’re not an expert like they are.

Never fear because they’ll do it all for you for a one-time fee of only $5,000 to $15,000. 

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Are you as "Important" as I am?

I hope I’m never so important that I feel the need to text while “standing” at the urinal.

I hope I’m never so important that I feel the need to text while riding my bike.

I hope I’m never so important that I feel the need to answer a text message in the middle of a movie or check for new messages the second the movie is over.

I hope I’m never so important that I feel the need to text someone while dining out with friends. Read More

Common problems that all startup businesses face today

Business Incubator - Updates and Takeaways

Today was the first meeting with the Mundelein high school incubator team that CloudNet360 is assigned to mentor.

While these are only high school kids, the ideas for businesses from this incubator group have been very advanced with only a few of the teams having ideas that are not really viable in any practical sense.

So what did we cover today? The same things I cover with almost every new startup I consult. 

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"Hit Me Alice!"

Before the days of iPhones recording every instance of our lives, before we lived in fear that every comment made would end up on some social media platform posted out of context and reacted to with frothing outrage, back in the days when an insult amongst good friends was nothing more than a way to enjoy a laugh at the expense of their sporting misery…

…back then, when a guy hit his putt well short of the hole, it was only natural, and somehow expected, that someone in the party would wind up their squeakiest voice possible, and in a half whisper say, “hit me Alice”... as though the ball were communicating directly with the person that just blew the shot. Read More

Keeping it simple... Ain't "simple"

Kids are experts at keeping things simple… mostly because they don’t have the money or other resources to make things complicated.

When I was a kid, we scrounged for any old fishing rod our fathers no longer wanted, grabbed a discarded frozen orange juice concentrate container filled with night crawlers that we “picked” from the wet lawn the night before, and walked to the local park to fish in the lagoon from the shore. Read More

Fishing for a Few Extra Sales?

Sitting in a kayak and drowning a few dozen worms is a therapeutic way to slow down and relax but it’s not altogether different from the things we do every day to find new customers and sell more "stuff".

While the techniques are slightly different, landing a “keeper” and avoiding the distraction of the “bait stealers” happens regardless what you’re fishing for. Read More

When Tradition Meets Technology

In the tech world, it’s the “disrupters” that receive all the glory and front page headlines.

Case studies are written about them and the founders are forever regarded as technology visionaries.

Some of these businesses withstand the test of time but for every Facebook, there’s plenty of “MySpaces” that fade into the land of “inconsequential” and lose out to the next “disrupter”. Sometimes they crash in a most spectacular Theranos style with the “I told you so’s” seeping out from every nook and cranny to celebrate the demise of the billionaire founder. Read More

Do You Put the “Y” in Why?

“Mama” might be the first word young children learn but “why” comes shortly thereafter and becomes the #1 word they use the most.

No matter what you ask these kids or what you tell them, the reflexive reply is “why”.

And when you answer the first “why”, it’s always followed by a second... a third... a fourth and keeps on going until one of you falls asleep or an ice-cream bar is offered up in exchange for silence. Read More

Are you "investing" in lottery tickets?

Everyone loves the inspirational coach. They revere them with hallowed pride reciting the speeches that magically motivated their underdog team to rise up from the insurmountable halftime deficit to come back and win the state championship or national title.

These stories are told over and over to each new team and shared by coaches to inspire them to greatness even in the face of adversity. But often missing in the story is how this team was in the position to play in the big game to begin with. Read More

"Did I stutter?" I hope you do!

I was a typical teenager and as a “normal” teenager, I naturally would answer my father in 1 of 2 ways:

What… or why?

And when I answered in my predictable way, my father would follow up in his predictable way:

“Because I said so” or “did I stutter?” Read More

I eat "dog food" because I like it!

Call me strange if you like, but I just cannot trust a skinny chef.

And I sure as heck cannot trust any chef that doesn’t eat his own cooking!

Now I’m sure a good chef can follow a recipe and make a good meal just by following the steps and adding the ingredients as instructed, but I also know there’s a subtly needed to turn a good meal into a great meal. To make a dish that people have had before but have never had quite like this one. Read More

I love Using Our CRM... Do you Love Yours?

There’s a simple reason sales people often hate their CRM… it wasn’t built for them.
So here’s a simple concept; if you want your sales people to use the CRM, make sure you choose a CRM that was built for sales people.

• Choose a CRM that reduces the workload of the sales people instead of adding to their workload.
  
• Choose a CRM that does what the sales people are already doing but automates it so the sales people no longer need to do those tasks.
  
• And lastly, choose a CRM that was built by sales people, for sales people, with the specific intent of selling more instead of reporting more.  Read More

Cloudnet360 CRM - Single Email Feature Alert

Cloudnet360 CRM - Sales Funnel Hot Links

CRM - Merge Records

CRM - Force Opt Out Feature of CloudNet360 CRM

CRM Custom Tasks

Cloudnet360 - Smart New CRM Feature

CRM Funnel Tool Tips

Cloudnet360 CRM - List View

CRM Deactivate

CRM Purpose

Prepopulated Coupons

Adding Movement to Facebook Video

Split Test - Here's the Proof!

World's Easiest Subject Line Split Testing

Below the Surface - Advanced Shopping Cart Functionality Made Simple

5 Product Types - Selling More with CloudNet360

Selling with Video - Webinar Today (April 26, 2107)

Club Review - April 6

Quantity Discount - Sales "Trick"

Sign Up Instructions

Coupon - Product Specific Selectability

CRM Purpose – Add a Purpose to Your Sales Path

Running a business could be really challenging, especially when you are managing everything on your own. You have to run so many errands everyday that at some point it becomes impossible for you to keep track. But with CloudNet360 CRM you can easily overcome this issue as this system is specifically built for people like you.

In the process of running your business, you create more than one sales path and as your business grows bigger these sales paths also start to grow in number. When you created all these sales paths you definitely did so because you had a reason. Each sales path was created with a definite purpose, but with time as they grew in number, it became difficult for you to remember which one was created with what purpose. Read More

Do More with CloudNet360 CRM List View

CloudNet360 is usually touted as the best small business crm not just for being a cutting edge, user friendly system, but also for the fact that it is constantly evolving to give you better user experience.

As your business starts to grow your requirements also start to multiply and you need your crm to do more for you. The good thing is CloudNet360 is always assessing those acute needs and adding features to the system or, sometimes modifying existing features to help you meet those needs.

This time the latest feature to be added to the system is the CRM List View Option which makes it easier for you to keep track of your sales path. Read More

Check out the New CRM Funnel Tool Tips

CloudNet360 always prioritizes the needs of its users, which is why it is one of the most sought after crm system on the market today for the small business owners. The fact that it is built specifically for the small businesses makes all the difference in the way it works.

Besides being a super easy system to operate, it is also the most updated system you will come across. Instead of forcing the users to carry on with dated features, it continues to upgrade the system by adding a fresh bunch of features on a regular basis. This time around the newest feature that made its way to the crm system is Tool Tips.

The reason behind adding this new feature is to shorten the time you spend carrying out your tasks. The crm has the tool tips bar which contains multiple tools, now instead of having to click each one icon to find out what the tool is all about or, looking frantically for the tool you want to use at any given moment you can easily locate it thanks to this new feature and that too without wasting time. Read More

Selling More, Faster means focusing on the right customers

There are some customers you’d want to keep in the CRM but not send emails or call them or have them involve in anyway; in this case, you’d want to “deactivate” them.

The Purpose of the Sales Path

Remembering why you created your many sales paths can be a bit of a challenge.
We added a “purpose” to your sales path to remind you why you created the sales path.

Watch this short video to learn how to use this very convenient feature.

Selling tip: Mobile Optimization and Coupon Codes

The customers we care about are those that are on the fringe, they are the ones who will make our business a success.

Watch the video to learn how mobile optimization can help you sell more, faster.

Boring = Success

And just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, the “smart phone” became part of mainstream America and took any semblance of intelligence and turned it into a series of pouty duck-lip and peace sign photos shared to entire networks of “friends”. Read More

Video vs. Static Image

The hazard of using this style of video is that most often, people don’t know whether what you have posted is an image or a video.

A Simple Technique to Boost Your Email Open Rate

An unopened email is worthless. You need a great subject line to entice your customers to open your email.

This video demonstrates in real life and real time what I spoke of previously in the email split test video.

Discover More About Subject Line Split Testing

If you are not using this, you are leaving a ton of money on the table.

Split testing is something everyone knows they should do, but the reality is almost nobody is doing it.
Did you know how easy it is to split test your email when using CloudNet360?

Check out this video to see how drop dead easy it is to literally double, or more, your open rates.

Selling with Video

Check out this video and then join us for the
wedinar using the webinar links below.
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#1 Sales Secret

Selling effectively is simple once you know the secret. The good news is that the “secret” is really not a “secret” at all!

Just listen to what Tim Stewart has to say about selling and then make sure you follow his advice.

PS Naturally, you’ll sell even more when you religiously use an effective sales path to automate your small business sales but nothing will help you if you don’t listen to Tim and follow his simple advice.

Make More Profit with Easy to Create Membership Sites

Everyone agrees that a membership site is a great business model, but having 2, or 3, or even more membership sites, can double or triple the revenue you’re able to pull in.

Having the ability to easily re-purpose content, re-brand a membership site, and instantly have a “new” product is a proven method of niche marketing and a great way to effectively target your audience for phenomenal conversion rates.

No longer do you need to mass market to everybody, and dilute your sales message, to appeal to the broad audience. Now you can sharpen that message and laser focus your sights on subsets of customers… but without the major hassle of building and rebuilding multiple membership sites. Read More

Mpro-V2 Membership Site is **LIVE**

Yesterday I said I would tell you about a great new product release and today it’s official.

Our built-in membership system has been upgraded to the new and improved Mpro-V2 and it’s live in your account as we speak.

But don’t worry… we kept all the things you already love, we just made the system “better” in almost every way that matters to you.

The “tech-geeks” will love that we upgraded the foundation to the latest Laravel platform while the rest of you will love the slick new way that content is managed. It’s soooo much faster and easier than before (and it was better and easier than anything else on the market so you know you’re going to love this!) Read More

Exciting New Product Update Tomorrow

First I want to apologize on behalf of the entire sales organization for doing such an effective “disappearing act”.

There’s a good reason for our noticeable lack of product update notices and blog updates (reasons why – click here)  but let’s face facts, in business you still need to get the job done regardless of the obstacle and we were guilty of not getting the job done.

The good news… the programming staff never stopped pounding away at new code to improve the current system and add new features to help you sell more. Read More