No B.S. Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing (2nd Edition)

know where your heart is. I hope to see you again in heaven one day. Lee Miltier August 22 From Lee Miltier I have not spoken yet publicly, but Dan Kennedy is still in hospice and has not passed as of yet no matter what others are saying on Internet. Like you, I am in shock, devastated, and in serious mourning. We will have a Celebration of Life event at the Growth Summit in October for Dan in Denver. It would be important for you to be there to participate in this life celebration so we can process his leaving and truly celebrate his life. Please go to the landing page Adam Witte has had created and share your prayers, love, and appreciation for Dan, so the Kennedy family can read your thoughts and read some of them to Dan. DanKennedyTribute.com To all of you, Lee Miltier, not only did it provide comfort and solace, but inspiration to continue to pursue the mission of this book, helping you to get your message out in a way that people will listen and, more important, take action. Admittedly, I love the irony that tribute after tribute was posted on Facebook about a guy who could only be reached with a fax machine. While it wasn't easy to complete the book, not knowing if I would be able to talk to my co-author again until we get to Heaven, I knew finishing this is exactly what he would have wanted. That, and making sure there are a lot of calls to action in each chapter. In miraculous news, as the book was in final editing, Dan recovered and literally walked out of hospice. His living legacy lives on. If you want to truly honor him while he is here to appreciate it, read, absorb, and then take action. His legacy multiplies the more we all succeed. A LOT HAS CHANGED March 3rd, 2015 That's when the original No B.S. Direct Response Social Media Marketing book was submitted for print. To say a lot has changed since then would be an understatement. Barack Obama was president, Facebook Live was just available to celebrities, and Meerkat and Periscope were supposedly the next big things. Today, Facebook Live is one of the most effective ways to grow your business on social media. Back in 2015, Instagram was used to show chiseled physiques and not something you'd use for business. Now, with over a billion active users, it is rich in opportunities to generate leads and flip them into sales, regardless of industry, niche, or geographic location. And it is still possible to grow this platform organically, aka for free. Personally, a lot has changed as well. Dan Kennedy went through another sale of GKIC Insider Circle, now No B.S. Inner Circle, purchased by one of his longtime protégés, Adam Witte. I sold my marketing agency to Josh Turner, founder of Linked Selling, enabling my dream of devoting time to a growing coaching and training business, Powerful Professionals. And the focus? It worked. Powerful Professionals was just ranked No. 475 on the Incorporated 5000, for the growth we've had since 2015. Dan released multiple books since 2015, including the new Magnetic Marketing, How to Attract a Flood of New Customers That Pay, Stay, and Refer, Forbes Books 2018, https://amz.to slash 2LICapitalZFQC, and I released my first solo book under Entrepreneur Press, The Ultimate Guide to Instagram for Business, Entrepreneur Press 2017. Dan still hates social media with a venomous passion, except for how it can make money for him and his clients. I still love it, for not only the ROI from my audience of a million plus, but also because of the power of community. I've seen firsthand how an online network can bring comfort to a grieving parent, resources to a family post-fire, and joy to those receiving milestones. Yes, there are problems. Dollars wasted by businesses, a comparison trap of grass is greener envy, and a time suck of epic proportion. But that's humans, my friend, not the media. The good news is, your story can be different. One of success and triumph. One of years of hard work that leads to your overnight success, and becomes folklore for those entrepreneurs who come after you. You are different because you have chosen to arm yourself with the knowledge, strategy, and path to accomplish your goals. That, along with your gumption and a little chutzpah, is all it takes.