@S Santiago If someone purchases from Amazon I lose access to contact details for back end follow up. So I want them to purchase through a CRM that I control without me having to pre-order and then manually ship the POD items from home (like my friend is doing) and w/o me having to manually enter the prospect's email details into Amazon for them to get the electronic version for free. There is an easier way? I'm Googling 'Frank Kern Convert 2.0' next. Thx

@Paisley Zoey I certainly am all ears. Sounds like I may be over complicating things. I did not know there may be an existing way to ship POD via a CRM I myself control. Am having the darnedest time finding a CRM that specifically lists this as doable. Thx

@Dave Brown Fiverr quotes for my specific needs are in the range of $100 - $300. Outside of Fiverr I faced $400 to $600 quotes. Needless to say I went with a Fiverr designer. In addition to my color cover image, my book also has 11 color images inside, all variations of the same image. And my book contains more than 200 pages. So I was quoted more than the cheaper $35 quotes that show on Fiverr's search results for 'kdp formatting' or other such phrases. The expense is well worth paying a professional because my book was accepted by Amazon on first try. No resubmissions required. And I already have some sales without any direct marketing. Plus the designer did an excellent job with the text and graphics formatting and fixing the book cover and making a matching back cover and spline (and didn't charge me extra--maybe I shouldn't have admitted that). My original back cover mockup was basically just a white background with text and didn't align with the front cover at all. And I lacked a spline in my submission. He fixed all of that. Now the paperback book looks more pro than I imagined. Huge attention to detail from the designer. Even fixed my too-many-to-count mismatched text formatting errors throughout the book and added dramatic page breaks and other elements that did not so much as cross my mind. Oh. And did I mention he did all this in a day and a half? Not even two full days passed and he had this to me. I was stunned how fast he works. No regrets at all.

@Mark Wesley scroll up. Thx

AI has improved its writing capability tremendously. I found your post while searching for examples or experiences using the perfect sales script. Just for kicks I asked ChatGpt to reformat your post for my own selfish 'edification' and curiosity. ***Thank you for helping me understand the value of the perfect sales script.*** Now to continue to search for experiences and feedback from those using the PSS. Btw, here's what Ai wrote. No clue if ChatGpt is even close to recognizing what you had in mind since the thoughts are yours not mine: People are diverse, yet fundamentally similar. This is especially true when considering the human mind and body: universally similar in structure, yet displaying vast differences in performance. One key point to remember, particularly in service sales like sales training, is that people often decline offers when they don't perceive a clear personal benefit. Unlike tangible products, services like sales training aren't physically quantifiable – you can't measure them in a box. What you're actually selling is the outcome or benefit of the training. Consider the medical field: a surgeon knows the physical structure of arms and legs is consistent across individuals. However, understanding the brain is more complex. Its mechanical aspects might be clear, but the 'software' – our thoughts and nervous connections – are still subjects of study. As a salesperson, your focus should be on understanding how people make decisions. Resistance to change is almost universally due to evolutionary survival instincts. Humans have an inborn tendency to seek safety in numbers, to fit in rather than stand out, to avoid danger. This means your prospects are likely to initially ignore your advice unless you follow specific communication strategies. People respond to personal recognition, like hearing their name. They seek solutions to their problems, though they might not readily admit these problems due to a fear of vulnerability. For example, asking a business owner if their business is failing might yield a defensive response. However, inquiring about what's going well in their business, followed by what results they'd like to improve, tends to elicit more openness.

The product roadmap first of all *is* for your own business. It is one way to define what you do. Every critical step of what you do should reside within your roadmap. The roadmap encourages you to define your processes in 9 steps, and then break those steps into three sub-steps. It is based on the concept of the rule of threes. This is just one way to package your materials.

You may have 50 or 100 different things you do for clients however Aaron says to exclude non essentials steps from the roadmap. If an item can be removed without breaking what you do it is not essential to add to the roadmap. Focus only on the utmost critical elements. Are you in any of Aaron's courses? I might be able to tell you which one(s) to turn to for examples of product roadmaps.

Outside of the GW software you are free to use as many phases and steps as required by whatever you do. Aaron's launch materials can help define your roadmap regardless the number of phases. You'll need some other process to create the materials though because, at least last I looked, the software does not accommodate changing the number of steps or phases since the software is based on Aaron's own proprietary three phase, nine steps approach.