This Problem STOPPED My Success
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I have a special video for you today I just created, I hope it helps you. YOU MUST TAKE ACTION on this if it applies and you want to progress, this problem stopped my success for SO LONG –
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To YOUR success
Dean 
P.S- The winner of the guest post will be announced in the next few days, jet lagg from Vegas set me back days!! Just recovered lol…
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Dean Holland Is A Successful Internet Marketer, Entrepreneur And Business Mentor. Through his internet marketing expertise, his shear passion to achieve higher levels of success and strong desire to help others Dean Holland can and will help you gain the knowledge and skills needed to get you started making money online or improve your current business to make even more money with the internet.
February 6, 2010
9:18 am #comment-1
Hi Dean mate,
Hey – I read your email…lol
That’s because you’re in my number one email inbox!!!
My solution is slightly different to yours –
I have multiple email account
That way I subscribe with email number 2 or 3 or 4 depending on my initial thoughts to the promotion that got me adding an email.
Then after seeing a few emails I decide if I’m going to resubscribe to my number one inbox.
Those that remain in one of the others get the headlines skimmed just to keep me up to date as to what other marketers are doing. I find this can help with my own marketing.
But it also means I know that I don’;t have to waste those hours when I have things I need to get done.
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Now – I wonder where my emails to you go…hehe
Warm Regards
Randy
P.S. Hope to see you in Newcastle in a couple of weeks
http://www.RandolfSmith.com
February 6, 2010
5:05 pm #comment-2
Dean,
I’m sorry but I think you’re looking at this from the wrong perspective. I subscribe to many list as I’m sure you do too, and it’s the smartest thing in the world. Here’s why:
When you subscribe to lists of successful internet marketers guess what you get from them for free…their exact ways of marketing because they are marketing to you. This is the best way to see how the best are being successful, what tools and strategies they are using, and that you can do to make your business more successful.
Instead of looking at these emails as products people are trying to sell you, look at HOW they are trying to sell them.
Best of luck Dean, I really like your stuff.
Kevin
February 6, 2010
6:22 pm #comment-3
Yeah Dean. I hear you about all the “SALES” emails that get sent to subscribers. It reeeeaaaally stinks. I’m glad that you taught us that you have to build a relationship with your list. Give them something they can use to help get them started online or to help them build their business, don’t just try to sell to them with every email. Be a friend, not a cheesy sales person. The more people you help succeed, the more successful you will be in the long run.
Thanks for the great post,
Ed Rubi
February 7, 2010
12:17 am #comment-4
Hi Dean
I agree about the amount of time reading emails can take up. I had stopped opening everything and just scanning and deleting, but I think even that takes up a lot of time, so I’m now going to unsubscribe.
The biggest reason for me to delete? Those emails which say things like “your free download” or “take a look at this” and don’t give you any idea what it’s about. I really dislike that and don’t even bother to open them – If you can’t be bothered to tell me what your email is about, I can’t be bothered to open it as I have much better things to do with my time thank you!
I have to be more productive now as my work contract was recently terminated. I told you in December that I planned to give up my job this year – it’s a bit sooner than I’d planned but now I have to do what I dreamed of doing as I need to earn the money to pay the bills!
I’m just making the plans at the moment to be productive and consistent. This is one thing I can do quickly and easily – perhaps ten minutes at a time. Thanks for the push in the right direction. I hope next time that I will be in Vegas as a successful online marketer.
Hilary
February 8, 2010
2:22 am #comment-5
Hey Dean!!
Hope you’ve recovered from Vegas.. I’m just about back to normal!!
Awesome video… this was a problem that I suffered from for a long time. In fact, whilst in Vegas I made a video all about information overload (and spaghetti) for my own blog…
–> http://www.marcmilburn.com/blog/spaghetti/index.html
I’d love to hear what you think too, dude!
Anyway, everyone, listen to everything Dean says.. he really knows his stuff.
Cheers,
Marc
February 8, 2010
4:17 am #comment-6
Hey Dean,
I hear ya, loud and clear. Embarrassingly, I have 102,456 unread messages in one of my Yahoo accounts!!!
I am about to take your advice. I spend half my life and income on line, going through my daily e-mails….
I could have created dozens of digital products, just in the past few years alone, instead of playing with my e-mails….
More people should take heed…we are all guilty from time to time.
Thanks for the passionate and personal touch to help us get off our butts…!
Great Content!
Loved it,
andrew
February 8, 2010
5:46 am #comment-7
Hello Dean,
thanks for the informative video on the way I spend my time every morning, (i.e. every morning I waste 2 hours going through emails. that are a only pitching for the marketers latest affiliate venture and I can’t seem to get going myself on the road to internet riches! seeing your video helped open my eyes this morning to a new day in my on-line career as a marketer. this and a few other videos from the weekend will get my new pages up and marketing them the way I should be.
thanks Again for the fast action tips to getting my day started off making money rather then spending it.
Joe
February 8, 2010
8:52 am #comment-8
Hey Dean…
The idea is to carefully consider each marketer and their emails after a while.
When you first subscribe to a new AR list, if the marketer knows their business interest, you will get a series of targeted emails, follow ups to the main topic you were interested in.
If that happens, I start reading the emails.
After a while, they finish the series and either they send you to a new offer or start broadcasting.
There are also others who start broadcasting immediately.
In any case, as soon as they start broadcasting, I start the evaluation.
If I get the copycat unmodified swipe emails whenever a new IM launch pops up, I only keep them for about 2-3 messages and when I’m sure they have nothing new to tell me I unsubscribe.
However, if they still send for the launches but at least try to change the subjects if not the body message, too… then I keep them on my Inbox.
Just as Randy Smith said up there somewhere – I need to see what happens in the industry.
The other main category – the marketers who share info, write blog posts etc… (like you’re doing) – are always welcome to my Inbox.
Regarding the necessary time and the personal way I’m managing my Inbox, here it is.
I use Gmail and I use filters and labels there.
I am archiving emails that might be interesting, while I still delete large numbers of them.
BUT
I do so as a reward for a job done in that day.
This helps me keep productive and also keeps me happy when I select the bunch of emails to be deleted on that day and hit the ‘Delete’ button – I feel so elated!
Steve Lorenzo SEOVirtuoso
February 8, 2010
1:21 pm #comment-9
Hey Dean
Great advice – just unsubscribed to your list ~ just kidding! Actually, yours is one of the emails I look forward to receiving. You rarely ask for money or try to sell.
I agree that most of the emails I get are either junk or salesy. I do try to make an effort and unsubscribe, but I guess I am weak!!
Thanks to your video, off to unsubscribe to some more!!
Thanks Dean
February 8, 2010
3:48 pm #comment-10
Good practical point Dean
Will take action.
February 8, 2010
6:52 pm #comment-11
I was very pleased to see and hear your video message. Yes. I am a newbie but I also have in excess of 5000 e-mails. When I look back and think of what I do have coming in nly a very are offering REAL HELP to me and I enjoy them, the others are generally BS and only HYPE. Yes I was very vulnerable and purchased many worthless products. My fa,oly has been long saying I am a succker however one day I will get where I need to be because I am vey motivated and willing to learn
If you are or want to be in this business you had bettewr be able to differenciate to helprs from the takers. Thanks for this tid bit as it was a help and you are 10000000000000000000% correct. Have a great day.
Tim Campbell
February 8, 2010
9:32 pm #comment-12
Hi Dean, I have done “list cleaning” many times but I really don’t understand that more and more emails are coming to my inbox. My conclusion is that some list owners are selling email addresses forward. I’m 100% sure that I have never asked to be on their lists and emails are pouring in.
This really is frustrating and irritates me and could be very confusing to newbies because they simply don’t know who are honest people and who scammers.
In some phase I even changed my email address to get rid of all junk but it doesn’t guarantee you’ll get only emails you really want to have.
Thanks for advice, this and all other you have shared.
Kitte
February 9, 2010
7:22 pm #comment-13
Found all the comments, but the video wasn’t there..
Dan
February 10, 2010
10:06 pm #comment-14
Hi Dean,
Getting too much email and reading it is too time consuming. Even sorting it out can take hours.
I’ve been canceling subscriptions for some time now but still have to keep on doing it.
It was great to meet you at the Las Vegas Workshop in January.
I posted about the event and included some pictures and you are also featured.
Vance
February 11, 2010
5:02 am #comment-15
HI Dean:
I have far too many emails, too. So, I’ve been thinking of unsubscribing from most of them.. Since I see you guys doing it, I will too.
Thanks
Dan
February 11, 2010
12:34 pm #comment-16
Keeping up with emails, blogs, forums, and all the rest can be a real drain on your time if you don’t know how to manage it. Affiliate marketing has been my main focus until recently and it certainly keeps you busy managing multiple websites. I’ve just launched my own products and membership and will be spending more time on that now, hope your new ventures going well Dean,
Onwards and Upwards!
February 11, 2010
11:04 pm #comment-17
Dean,
We’ve had this conversation before! At least once, while you were mentoring those of us, in your first online academy. Spot on, Dude!
Got to stop the crap! Sooo easy to get distracted by it all. I will definitely take your advice and unsubscribe and only visit the inbox occasionally, instead of 1st thing everyday.
Thanks,
Mike
February 19, 2010
1:11 pm #comment-18
Superb post Dean
This is one of the biggest things that stop people progressing….we’ve all suffered this way in our early days!
Cheers
Barry Cross
March 7, 2010
4:27 pm #comment-19
Hi Dean,
I can see where your coming from I am a newbie but still get too many emails I need to sit down and keep the ones that deliver good content of course everybody will send out marketing emails but if you have cleaned up your inbox the only ones you get will be worth opening
March 8, 2010
5:10 pm #comment-20
Hi Dean,
The video is not appearing right now, but I see from the comments what it is about.
You’re quite right of course, but I have to say that unsubscribing doesn’t always work and still get the emails, and then there are the ones with no unsubscribe – I just report them as spam but they just keep coming!
Did your video address this problem?
Mary
March 12, 2010
7:07 am #comment-21
Hi Dean
I too can’t see a link for the video. The comments have given me the information. Do you know that one of the top marketers in the US is getting answers to his email up to 4 weeks after he has sent them out. The cell phone will take over soon because 85% of people answer text messages withing 15 minutes. This is what will happen in the future – cell phones will overtake emails.
As you see my name is Sue McDonald and I live in Australia. I am at present doing the Newbie course with Mark Terrell who originally did the course with Alex a few years ago.
It’s interesting learning and like everyone that starts these types of courses we all want to make money and have more time to ourselves. I hope you are making a great living and if you have time over the next few weeks and you could take a look at my blog and leave a comment, I would certainly appreciate it.
Kindest regards
Sue
April 19, 2010
5:28 pm #comment-22
Pretty interesting, but I did not see the video. Actually, I liked typed words, I can find out what it is faster.
April 26, 2010
10:23 am #comment-23
Thanks so much for this post.The information overload is becoming unbearable and this post was in the nick of time for me.
I have unsubscribed from a lot of lists as they just bombard you with sales pitches.
You give good free value and I appreciate that and if you have something of value that costs you genuinely share it with us.
Keep the good posts coming
Thanks
Steve Reh
May 10, 2010
9:04 pm #comment-24
I find the best thing to do is use rules or filtering to place any emails into folders so you can view at a later time. This leaves your inbox clear for just the emails you want to see i.e. new sales, subscribers etc.
Also it’s best to do your daily marketing tasks before you view your emails. This way you don’t get distracted!
Regards
Martin
May 11, 2010
2:54 pm #comment-25
hi dean
just been going through your site and story up until now, fantastic mate, good on you. im on alex’s course, a newbie, just set up my blog, now im out and about seeing what tips i can pick up from other blogsites.
marcus passey, james howard, yourself etc, i like what you lot are doing and have done, i feel i can relate to that, gives me a nice buzz, to realise it is possible.
anyway, keep it up mate, hope to bump into you 1 day.. nicky
May 12, 2010
1:45 pm #comment-26
Hi Dean,
I’ve been following you along with along with Marcus Passey, and joined Alex’s MWA 3.0 as a result.
I can’t tell you how close I came to giving up just recently, partly because of information overload from all the lists I’m subscribed to, and partly because I spent three weeks eating sleeping and drinking what I thought was a fantastic blog, only to realise it sucked.
I’ve unsubscribed to about twenty lists, last week, so hopefully that will help. The rest I don’t have the heart to remove just in case something valuable comes up.
Anyway, having listened to Alex’s Module 4 on event driven content, I had an idea, that I like to run by you. I would really appreciate your time and hope it could be of mutual benefit.
If you can, please contact me either via my blog, or through my e-mail, I really need your help, and I’m sure I’m not the only one.
Here’s to success
Tony
May 17, 2010
6:49 am #comment-27
Hey Dean how’s it going?
I couldn’t get the video but I’m really enjoying reading your story on your site. It’s really cool seeing how far you’ve come with Alex Jeffreys’ help. I’m in MWA 3.0 and looking to make it as far as you.
Thanks!
Peace,
Darren L Carter
May 18, 2010
9:42 pm #comment-28
hi dean, hows it goin
Ive been reading your blog for quite a while now and think its amazing how far you have came in such a short time, i to work in construction like you were and i hope i can go from that to where you are now, im in MWA 3.0 and just set up my new blog, im in the process of desiging it but i do have my first post up, speak soon
jonny balfour
May 23, 2010
12:27 pm #comment-29
Hi Dean.
I want to watch the video but it’s not there.
I would love to know if whatever stopped your success is also stopping mine.
Any chance you could point me in the videos direction?
Please
Gert.
May 25, 2010
10:54 am #comment-30
Hi Dean
I am a newbie and as Alex recommended that I visit your site, so i have done. I have read your first few blogs and will read further later but for now i have just downloaded your Blog Traffic Guide as a first step. I find I can get a bit overwhelmed with too much information all at once so I will get on with it bit by bit.
Congratulations on your obvious success with what you set out to do. Goodonya as we say in Australia!
Janet
May 26, 2010
2:37 pm #comment-31
I like someone else whose blog I read, trying to find out what the video was about, have more than one email. I have 2 free email accounts. One, I let run wild, unsubscribing only the junk not related to marketing. The other, I’m just a little pickier about. Then I have my domain email, 2 actually, and you are the first person I’ve shared one with, just now. I get your emails at two other places, but, I only answer one. That would be my “Yahoo” account which I use to log in with in the TTS members area. I still don’t know what to do with my website as far as content goes, but, my blog is up, any suggestions? I change it as I go (more like “I change it as I GROW)
May 28, 2010
7:32 pm #comment-32
Hi Dean,
I am currently taking the Starting With Marketing Course, and am on the Blog Hopping video. From the sound of these comments, I would guess that you are referring to a video but I can’t seem to find it. Further judging from the comments, it seems that the gist of the video was to unsubscribe to as many lists as possible or at least have a “junk” email account to send those emails to so that one doesn’t become distracted by the tons of offers that arrive daily. I know that I have become distracted many times by offers that arrive. Even if I only take a couple of minutes to check each one out, if I do that for say only 30 offers, that easily consumes an hour of my time. Of course, each offer usually has an upsell link to the offerer’s affiliate sites etc. It is easy to get so involved with reading the offers and upsells that before you know it, you have wasted several precious hours and really haven’t learned anything nor accomplished anything constructive. I used to rationalize this by telling myself that it isn’t a waste of time; I am learning something. I finally realized that I was only fooling myself. I STILL get distracted sometimes by offers from people I have come to respect, but am getting better. I don’t know if you mentioned it or not, but if someone opens an account strictly to deal with offers, they should make sure it has some type of bulk delete feature. It is maddening to have to go page by page in an inbox to delete the offers you don’t want to read, and since you are basically seeing every one of them, if the subject line is a really good one you might find yourself opening the email anyway. Just my opinion based on my own actions. I hope to soon be getting some organic traffic to my blog. By the way, I only have two ads on my blog at present, one of them is for the Turbo Traffic System!
Steve
June 4, 2010
11:32 pm #comment-33
Hi Dean
Where have you gone, I must admit it has been a little while since I visited your blog, but it also seems unless my computer is playing up, that it has also been a little while since you have been to your blog.
Last post 4 months ago is what I am getting, I hope you are still online making money and if so spare some time to come back and post.
What happened to the guest post, I have not heard and have not seen a guest post yet, anyway may be see you back here soon.
Thanks
Rob
August 3, 2010
8:58 pm #comment-34
Hey Dean
You are really doing well.
Come a long way,
If your willing to learn and put massive of hard work in you can get results your living proof
well done
August 15, 2010
5:37 am #comment-35
Dean;
Good info thanks for blog guide.I will use it.
October 1, 2010
10:21 am #comment-36
Hi Dean
The video is off but the comments tell the story, so I’ll add mine. I have long been getting over 500 emails on a daily basis and it really annys the heck out of me, so i’ve started unsubscribing form a lot of the lists too. A lot of times I just skim over the titles and delete the whole lot because I get fed up with the all time consuming job & don’t get anything else done. Long sales letters also get my goat and like Sue from Australia (I’m there too) said if they told you what it is about at least you can make an informed decision. Most say nothing and just want you to opt in to find out, well not me anymore! All the best from
Jannie
November 3, 2010
1:58 am #comment-37
Funny enough, I’m not subscribed to your list (yet?) but I too get annoyed by all the emails trying to constantly sell, especially if you buy a product and to get updates you subscribe. Fair enough. But, you then get hammered by their adswap offers and have to unsubscribe at the risk of losing updates on the product you bought, if that makes sense.
I have just started seeing things in the light of what Randy Smith and Kevin Stock are saying. Signing up to lists you’re unsure about might be better if you use email #5 instead of your primary email. As Kevin says, instead of opening an email with the hopes of a “magic bullet” product, dissect what the message is saying. Therefore, you are not opening an email “hoping” to find the answer, rather, you have the “freedom” to open to say, “ah, I see what they’re doing…very clever” and incorporate that into your own marketing techniques.
If you don’t like a sales-pitch-fest email, learn to create a better one that’ll get attention and more importantly, a desired action from your subscriber. However, build those relationships and give high value, always.