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Marketers, You Probably Don’t Need Those Tools

Mark Thompson
2 min readOct 14, 2023
Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash

Hi, My name is Mark, and I am a tool Junkie.

I’m the guy who has spent over $ 5,000 on tools from Appsumo, I am the guy who once cancelled over $13,000 worth of monthly and annual subscriptions in one day.

I am here to tell you that you don’t need half those subscriptions you have.

Like a true zealot I urge you to learn from my mistakes and if you take some of my advice you’ll save yourself some money today.

I use very few tools now, and where possible most are on annual or lifetime subscriptions.

Making Sales

How much does it cost you to make sales?

What tools are involved? Do you have a sales page then a cart you pay for each month? Do buyers then go to a LMS such as Thinkific or Kajabi?

What costs are involved before you make your first sale? $100, $200? More?

18 years ago my first online sales happened when I asked people to PayPal me $10, I then sent them a PDF that contained the course they had bought… Simple

Last week I launched a cohort by sending people to a Notion document which had a payment link (Thrivecart, which I paid a one-time fee for 5 years ago). I then set out access to a shared Google Drive file and my messenger…

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Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson

Written by Mark Thompson

Veteran Content Marketer, Keeping it Simple and Sharing What Works in my regular newsletter: https://substack.com/@simpleisprofit

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