The Three Month Vacation Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

You know how you're told to set a goal and then benchmark your success based on that goal?

Well, that's what we set out to do with our membership site at 5000bc. However, we kept running into these headaches that seemed to derail us.

In time, however, we found that these constant diversions were to our benefit.

That if we just stopped fighting them so much and figured out a way out, we'd end up better than we expected. And we did.

Here's the story.

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Why Clients Leave — And Why Lack Of Community Is One Of The Big Problems

What does it take to get a membership site to keep going?

We go on a wild journey where the entire site was wiped out and how it bounced back again. And how nearly 20 years later, it's still going.

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Planning On Starting A Membership Site? The Limited Membership Website Model

Kids have a superpower. When they're very young, they don't know Monday from Sunday. And it's this lack of knowledge that also gives them an upper hand when they're learning. Unlike adults who are clear about how the result needs to look like. just about anything will do with a child.

How do we take that child-like attitude and use it to speed up adult learning?

Let's find out in this episode.

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How To Accelerate Learning (And The Surprising Power Of Fun)

You've heard the line many times before, haven't you? And at times, it seems like kids learn at a blinding pace.

But why does this phenomenon occur?
Is it because kids are smart or just that we are more accommodating as trainers?

Let's find out in this episode.

Next Step: More about kids and what you can learn from them.
What I Learned From Children (And How It Lowered My Stress Levels)

One of the toughest tasks a business owner can have is when it's time to write a sales page.

You know that it's unlikely your product or service will sell unless you have that sales page. Yet, once you sit down to write something, it's almost impossible to write anything down. And when you do, the words are so um, boring that you believe it's something to do with you.

In reality, it's because you haven't done a target profile interview. Why does that interview become crucial, even to seasoned copywriters?

Let's find out in this sales page episode.

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Can You Stop Feeling Overwhelmed?

Almost all of us have varying levels of stress. Yet some of us are always in a fog, always struggling. Is there a fix? And is it a non-overwhelming one?

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The Overwhelm Virus: How To Get It Out of Your Daily Routine

When it comes to audience building, we tend to fall for the hype.

It's all about "getting a thousand clients" or "making thousands of dollars". If you've already been down that path you know that all of those methods fail spectacularly.

You have to ask yourself: what works? Or rather, what are the principles that you need to be paying attention to, if you really want to get, grow and keep your audience?

Let's find out with these cool concepts from photographer, David duChemin.

Next Step: Have a look at the series on—How To Keep Customers Coming Back Again?
(available in audio and text)