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Dear Reader,

I want to share a personal story with you that I think you'll probably resonate with, and I'd love to hear from you.

About ten years ago, I was sitting in my apartment on Kong Georgs Vej in Copenhagen in Denmark with my newborn daughter (I love you Flora) and my now-ex wife.

I was developing a new software product for my startup with a co-founder who lived in Silicon Valley, who had written my favorite user interface design book, and led the UI team at Yahoo. I was so counting on…

Before I got into the information business in 2008, I paid my bills as a freelance programmer, and I hated it.

I knew I wanted to get away from selling my time and into a product business.

I knew in my heart I could do it. That I could make information products and make it work. Not because I'm particularly gifted. But because I was determined. And I know that when I commit myself to something, I will figure it out.

So I just made the choice one day in the spring of 2008 to draw a line in the…

I wanted to do something I don't often do, and send my conscious entrepreneur insight as a video.

It's about decision-making, and specifically you'll learn why it's sometimes great to NOT make decisions.

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You can now allow your customers to name their own price for your products, or to simply choose to donate extra for your products.

When defining a price, check the box that says "Allow customers to donate more than what's asked on purchase", and your customers will be presented with an input field where they can choose how much to pay.

The minimum amount will be what you say in your price, and then they can add on top of that.

If your price is a subscription, then they can choose to apply tha…

I've just added the ability to have triggers on affiliate programs.

What that means specifically is that you can do things when a new affiliate applies, is approved, or rejected. A good example of a use-case for this would be to start an automation, so that you can give them access to a space, start an email auto-responder sequence, or anything else that you can think of.

In other words: Automation for affiliates has landed.

Someone mentioned to me the other day that there were speculations about my ongoing commitment to Simplero now that I'm relaunching my coaching business.

So just to dispel any notions of that: My commitment to Simplero is as strong as ever.

In fact, Simplero wouldn't exist if it weren't for me starting my own coaching and online training business back in 2008. I was looking for software to run that business for me and didn't like what I found, so I wrote my own. Simplero came to be from me scr…

Simplero is a great alternative to Ontraport or Office Autopilot for information entrepreneurs, coaches, mentors, trainers, teachers, consultants, and anyone else primarily selling information products and services.

You get all-in-one integrated email marketing, shopping cart, content delivery, membership site, and landing pages.

Our customers who come from Ontraport tell us they save not just on the monthly cost of the service itself, but also thousands of dollars on all the hired help they n…

It's always valuable to think deeply about what your business is about. It's never about what it seems to be about.

Apple, the way I see it, is about fusing spirit and technology. Steve Jobs talked about certain products having a "spirit of enlightenment" about them, that would impact people whether they realized it or not. That's what I see that they do with technology products. They don't always get it right. They don't always have the best feature set. But they almost always have this spirit…

Simplero is a great alternative to InfusionSoft for information entrepreneurs, coaches, mentors, trainers, teachers, consultants, and anyone else primarily selling information products and services.

You get all-in-one integrated email marketing, shopping cart, content delivery, membership site, and landing pages.

Our customers who come from InfusionSoft tell us they save not just on the monthly cost of the service itself, but also thousands of dollars on all the hired help they no longer need,…

You can now suspend and resume subscription to a list in your automations.

This is useful if you want people to go through an introductory sequence when they subscribe to your list, and you don't want them to get your normal newsletters until that intro sequence is over.

Here's what to do:

• Create a trigger on subscribe that starts an automation
• Create a trigger on unsubscribe that stops the automation (this is important, otherwise they'll keep getting your intro sequence even after they've…