Disqus - Latest Comments for forestlinden

Re: How to Test Meta Conversion Events

Forest Linden — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:29:12 -0000

Thanks for the response, Jon! The pixel on the kajabi thank you page has been there for a long time. Years, actually. In testing recently, I noticed that my wife's wordpress site (I'm jumping in to help my wife's team with FB ads) was missing the pixel. Not fully understanding the necessary workflow of FB pixels, I created a different one last week and put it on there. I see that was a mistake, so I'll fix that.

And yes, the confirmation/thank you page is on Kajabi, but I can change that so it redirects to a thank you page on the wordpress site. I think I'll do that and make sure there is just one pixel to rule them all, and I'll use the one that's been active for years.

This is a result of me launching a new ad campaign and learning as much as I can after I jumped off the cliff. :)

Thanks again for your time and all the amazing content!

Re: How to Test Meta Conversion Events

Forest Linden — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:55:22 -0000

Hey Jon. First of all, holy moly thank you for all of the amazing free content you publish. You remind me of how blogs and the web used to feel back in 2007 - 2012 era. It was an amazing time.

Question on conversion tracking: I'm running FB ads to a sales page that's on Wordpress. I have a pixel installed there. But the conversion event I'm tracking happens on another site, which is on Kajabi, where our checkout/payment process and course lives. I have another FB pixel installed there.

I have a funny feeling that FB won't track conversions properly from the ad to the wordpress sales page to the checkout page on Kajabi, or will it? Is there another way to track sales conversions (which are currently set to fire when someone hits the thank you page after a purchase on the kajabi site) if this method won't work?

Thank you in advance if you have a moment to steer me in the right direction. :)

Re: Atrial Fibrillation Causes, Triggers, and Prevention

Forest Linden — Sat, 15 May 2021 17:49:16 -0000

Hi Dr. Ruscio. Thank you for the work you do to help us all. Last August I had to stop training and racing on my road bike due to preventricular contractions, which in my case seem to be induced by long term, intense endurance sport training. Do you have a podcast or blog post about pre-ventricular contractions and ways to stop them that don't involve the ablation procedure? I haven't found much information about pvc reduction or prevention for elite endurance athletes anywhere. Psychologically I'm having a lot of trouble not training anymore and it seems like the only way I could start again is to undergo a risky ablation procedure, or many of them, as this procedure seems to require 2 or 3 tries sometimes. Thanks much for any thoughts or links to content you've created on this topic. :)

Re: New feature update: Increase conversion with secure payment plans offering multiple payments

Forest Linden — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 23:19:09 -0000

Okay. Got it. Thanks, Joe. I'll go underline that request I made in the ideas site a few more times :)

Re: New feature update: Increase conversion with secure payment plans offering multiple payments

Forest Linden — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 11:47:26 -0000

Hey Joe,

with this separation of multi-pays will we now be able to see cash flow projections based on active multi-payments that members have left, similar to the cashflow projections we can now see in the report for monthly recurring subscriptions?

Re: Demystifying Email Deliverability

Forest Linden — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 12:47:17 -0000

Awesome post guys! It is SO GOOD to see every single step that happens in the process of sending emails out from Kajabi. I'm always trying to explain this process to people, but without knowing all these details, it usually ends with "it's really complicated and there are about 30 different variables that can affect your deliverability rates...and lots of them are out of Kajabi's control." Thanks so much for putting this post together. I'll be a great resource to send folks too :)

Re: How to Curate Content: The Secret Sauce to Getting Noticed, Becoming an Influencer, and Having Fun Online

Forest Linden — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 20:38:06 -0000

Awesome post, Kevan, as usual :) You're actually high up on my list of favorite sources for content to curate for my own curated newsletter. I'm always astounded by how much great, long-form, useful content you consistently crank out. Amazing work, man!

You mentioned at the end of this post to let you know if we have a curated newsletter. Inspired by the great Dave Pell's NextDraft, I started curating content in a similar format that Dave uses, but made for small online business owners. I began about a year and a half ago and cover most of the main categories that are important to pay attention to when building an online business, like content marketing, social media, copywriting, software, product launching, psychology, SEO, and so on.

I call it Signals in the Noise. If you want to have a peek, you can find the latest issue here: http://claritylab.co/current/ and there's a link to the archive at the bottom of that issue.

Hope you enjoy if you take a moment to have a look, and thanks again for all the great content. Your work has been featured in many of my issues :)

Cheerio,
Forest

Re: 10 Email Marketing Blunders That Kill Open Rates and Click Throughs

Forest Linden — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:30:23 -0000

Same thing happened to me yesterday, Stu :( I had an answer all prepared to the question in your autoresponse email that arrives after subscribing to your list.

Re: Extortion, Manipulation, Fraud & Deceit: Breaking My Silence

Forest Linden — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 15:39:59 -0000

Glad the box of laughs was delivered to your house! I may not know your address in Costa Rica, but I'm happy to know that I found a way to FedEx things to your heart :) And ohhh yes...that would soooo be me tripping over a stump in the dark! But I shall not fall on my sword, nor let a stupid stump stop me. ONWARD!

My inbox is a comfy, white Pottery Barn couch patiently waiting for more details about this situation, and more importantly: How we can help! (I'll be looking for the call to action, yo. If you don't give us one, I'm going to make one up and do it ;)

Take care of yourself, amiga, and know that the TMP clan is here when you're ready to share more...

Re: Extortion, Manipulation, Fraud & Deceit: Breaking My Silence

Forest Linden — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:31:44 -0000

Ash. I love you. Please, please...let me know if there's anything I can do to help you get through this. I'm serious. You've been battling for yourself and for us, and I'd do the same for you. There may not be anything I can do from over here, but the offer remains. The door is open.

My armor is on. Sword is in hand. I'm running onto the battle field in the dark and I have no clue what's out there, but I'm fucking PISSED that whatever it is has been fucking with you. "YOU ATTACKED THE WRONG PERSON, YOU PAIN IN THE ASH!!! THERE'S AN ARMY OF US, MOTHERFUCKER!!!"

Re: Highlights from Satori’s Last Release

Forest Linden — Mon, 05 May 2014 12:29:56 -0000

Long road, yes, but the best, most epic journeys are never short, right?

Good luck with the final push towards deploying!

Re: Highlights from Satori’s Last Release

Forest Linden — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 22:46:06 -0000

YEEEEHAAAAWWW!!! Looking great, Lach! Can't wait to take the new Satori for a spin around the block! Such great work and love you've put into this update. Bravo, mate!

Re: STOP Giving Away Free Consults. I Beg You.

Forest Linden — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:26:54 -0000

Ha! Hilarious, Tiffany :) I didn't see your rant below until you pointed it out.

You reminded me of something else I wanted to rant about around this, which I will do now by editing my comment in a moment...but OHHHH MY, do I agree with you on the list size requirement. I sigh every time I see that line.

Not sure who is teaching folks how to do this telesummit growth approach...there's probably multiple marketing experts teaching some version of this. I'm sure they're all good folks who like helping people, but to be on the receiving end of their implemented teachings, via their students, is sometimes a little trying.

Glad to know we're not alone in feeling annoyed by this one :)

Cheerio!

Re: STOP Giving Away Free Consults. I Beg You.

Forest Linden — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:55:50 -0000

For the "no, please, no" list:

--> Begin rant <--

People emailing us with an invitation to do an interview for their big telesummit event that they project will reach an estimated 1 million people ("The exposure for your business will be HUGE!!!"), and then listing out the standard, cookie-cutter telesummit interviewee promotional requirements: a minimum of TWO solo emails to our list about their event, plus several social media posts, and getting a face tatoo of the telesummit's logo on your left cheek.

Then it carries on: "We also require your list size to be greater than 6,000 people. Please let us know how large your list is so we can see if you meet this requirement."

Whenever I see that line in these telesummit emails, I always hear "Please tell us how big your penis is so we can decide if you can have sex with us." I don't mean to be unnecessarily harsh here, but I do see this metaphorically as being very similar to an awkward, abrupt invitation to have intimate relations with someone you've never met.

We get one to two invitations like this nearly every week, all year long. Everyone seems to be going through the same "how to build your business through telesummits" online course, and they all seem to use almost the same strategies and even the same email templates for the interview invitations. Sigh.

We love people and want to see them succeed with their businesses, but this whole telesummit strategy template people are using over and over makes me want to get out my sledge hammer and go destroy some large boulders in the woods.

--> End rant. <--

Thanks for listening, and for another great post, Ash.

~Forest :)

Re: 2012 Rap Up: R-r-r-eeemix!

Forest Linden — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:28:04 -0000

You guys are unbelievably awesome. Can't wait to see what you do in 2013. The world doesn't need more cowbell...what it needs is more Wistia. Big love coming at you from Boulder :)

Re: Sent from my iPhone — Wistia Learning Center

Forest Linden — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:07:42 -0000

Aha! It's the bulbs! Thanks for the tip :)

Re: Sent from my iPhone — Wistia Learning Center

Forest Linden — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:33:02 -0000

Awesome, Chris!! Thanks heaps for this. Crazy that you can gett better lighting with your $100 setup than I can with a $400 Dayflow EZ Lite softbox lights (which turn everything green.) Looking forward to trying your setup here, and I'm also psyched to learn about your normal lighting set up, with the LED lights and ring light. Rock!

Re: The New Turnstile - Wistia Learning Center

Forest Linden — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:10:33 -0000

So awesome to see the Wistia Learning Center about to launch! Lay it on us, Lavigne!! Lighting and dual camera shoots and color corrections in post production!! Can't wait!!

Re: Writing as a Martial Art

Forest Linden — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:53:38 -0000

Awesome post, Keith. I love how you're drawing from Zen and Kung Fu, bringing teachings from those lineages to shed light on the path of writing. Gave me chills actually. To hear you speak about this idea over a year ago and to see you actually fusing these things in the world is gift to witness. And even though I'm not planning on writing a book right now, the teachings in this post still rang true for a different type of project that's on deck right now. Thanks for the inspiration and guidance!

Re: Even WordPress Usability Sucks

Forest Linden — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:05:30 -0000

You nailed it, Steve.

Totally agree...

Joomla needs a UI team...badly.

Thanks for the post :)

~Forest

Re: How to put modules into articles

Forest Linden — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:18:27 -0000

Hi Dan,

I'm not aware of any extension that will do this for you automatically, but the Modules Anywhere extension may automate some of the process for you (it allows you to do the same thing as using the loadposition method described in this tutorial, plus some other functionality not available with the loadposition plugin):

http://www.nonumber.nl/exte...

cheers,
Forest

Re: http://brettflorio.com/post/383398019

Forest Linden — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:45:20 -0000

Funny stuff, Steve.

Joomla can be a bit difficult to learn, and sometimes challenging to get it to do what you want, but perhaps that's because most of the documentation and instructions have been pretty poor.

We're doing our best to fix that problem (poor documentation for joomla and its extensions) at Joomlashack University.

On another note (and a coincidental note at that), we just published a half hour long video lesson on setting up Foxy Cart and using it with Joomla.

The two seemed to get along very well with each other ;)

Re: Run Noah, Run

Forest Linden — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:01:05 -0000

yeah, that was pretty cool that we caught that on camera! Glad you're enjoying the videos!

Thanks so much for everything!!!

Re: The Top 10 Couple's Issues

Forest Linden — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:33:30 -0000

fawe gasdf asdf asdf

Re: The Top 10 Couple's Issues

Forest Linden — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:33:26 -0000

f awef gasgd asdf asdf