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Well, hello and welcome to the eCommerce podcast with me,

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your host, Matt Edmundson.

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The podcast is all about helping you deliver eCommerce Wow.

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I am super, super excited with today's guest, who is Cody Bramlett

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from Science Natural Supplements.

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And we're gonna be chatting about how to take product into direct marketing.

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We're talking about all things old school.

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Definitely, definitely get yourself ready, but before we jump into it,

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let me give a quick shout out, uh, to some of the past episodes that we've

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had here on the eCommerce podcast.

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And given that we're talking about how to take a product into, uh, direct marketing

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today, I thought it'd be great to mention

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uh, a podcast we did very, very recently with Evan Padgett on everything you need

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to know to take over with subscription commerce, the links there are obvious, uh,

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and check out, I've mentioned this before, but check out Maureen Mwangi's, uh,

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podcast again, uh, from Startup to Growth.

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Let's get into this.

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Cody Bramlett is the founder of a multimillion dollar

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nutritional supplement empire.

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Uh, after years of struggling as a personal trainer and gym owner Cody's

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life changed when he solved his father's chronic inflammation problem with his own

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custom formulated products, this empowered Cody to start growing his company,

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science, natural supplements to help other people, uh, get pain, free, lose weight,

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and just feel better about themselves.

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And as a result of starting and scaling this company, Cody now also teaches

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other driven entrepreneurs, how to do the same thing with his coaching and his

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mastermind called supplement millionaire.

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So basically I'm really keen to hear what he has to say about

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all of this, especially direct marketing, old school stuff.

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Honestly, grab your night, grab your pens, grab your cup of coffee.

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Uh, cuz you are gonna want to take some notes.

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Let me tell you here's my conversation with Cody.

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So Cody, thank you for joining me on the eCommerce podcast.

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I've been looking forward to this conversation, uh, since we had our

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pre-call because well, quite frankly, you have got quite a fascinating story that

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I'm hoping that we can dig into, uh, in terms of your own business success and

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how you've made all this sort of stuff work as well as what you're up to now.

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So welcome to the show.

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Great to.

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I'm excited to be here.

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Thanks, Matt.

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It's, it's fun to be on these podcasts to be able to share these kinds of stories,

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because you know, so many people have been through, uh, attempts at starting

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at companies and failed out and I've had massive failures as well, but I've learned

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from them rebuilt my company and have continued to succeed over and over again.

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So I'm, I'm excited here to, to share that.

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So people know that you can succeed online.

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It's not as hard as everybody makes it out to be.

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Yeah, it's very true.

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I've in my bio.

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I always say to people, you know, and people say, well, who is Matt?

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And what's going on?

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And I'm like, well, I, I like to say that, um, I'm an eCommerce

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entrepreneur, blah, blah, blah.

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And there's always this line I throw in, I've had more

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failures than I've had successes.

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It's just, my successes have far outweighed my

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failures, if that makes sense.

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And there's something quite true and quite liberating about

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this whole idea of it's okay.

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If it doesn't go right the first time or the second time I don't.

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Is, is that what you found?

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It's 100% true.

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I mean, uh, there's people in, in the industry that I work in the side that

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I do more, mostly direct marketing for traffic and, um, people will have unicorns

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and sometimes the unicorns are just brand new people out, out of the gate.

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They have no clue what they're doing and they succeed.

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But most of the time it's the, uh, failed 30 times to have that unicorn.

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It's the idea of, you know, you know, I'm.

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I launched my company first shot and I won after 20 years of practice

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and trial and error, you know, it's, it's that, that kind of concept.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So those who succeed in the industry in any industry are those who

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just persevere and keep going, because there's a way to do it.

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And if you just did it failed the first time you just did something wrong, it's

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a matter of just finding out what it was, plug in the hole and do it again.

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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I couldn't agree more.

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Consistency is the key, isn't it.

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And just showing up a hundred percent, uh, just showing up is, is, and

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we say this all the time and, and people don't believe it, actually,

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they genuinely don't believe it.

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And it's like, well, uh, you know, that didn't, didn't work that time

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and we lost some money and it's like, well, but what did you learn?

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And, and how could you, you know, change as a result of what you've learned.

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So going forward, it might have a bigger chance of success, but

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it, it's a really hard mindset I think, for people to get into.

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So do you, why do you think that.

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I think it comes down to just the way society's top people to

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think and what success can be.

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So if you, if your idea of success is a six figure job, a hundred thousand

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dollars a year, $150,000 a year, or something like that, then your whole

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goal is of making that kind of income.

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And you're constantly looking for that income.

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And if you try starting your own company, you will not make that income initially.

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Right?

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You're gonna probably lose money, potentially work for free.

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And that scares people away immediately.

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They're like, well, gosh, I could just go get a job.

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It's easier.

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Mm-hmm of course it's easier, but long term, it's not long term.

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It's not gonna financially take you where you wanna be.

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Um, so yeah, it definitely comes down to how people have been taught in society

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and where they're thinking about what successes a lot of people I work with.

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I first asked them what are their goals and why, why, why do you

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wanna have an online business?

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What is the actual reasons you're gonna achieve?

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Why make a lot of money?

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How much is a lot of money?

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Yeah.

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Million dollars.

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Have you ever made a million dollars before?

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No.

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So what is it?

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The million dollars are gonna buy you?

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Well, I wanna have X, Y, and Z.

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You don't need a million dollars for that.

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Mm-hmm a lot of times you don't.

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So it's just a matter of truly understanding that and working

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your way back and that'll help give you the drive to be able to

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persevere through the hardships.

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That's a really interesting point that you've raised there

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because, and I like that question.

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Why, why do you want to do this?

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And it's, it's one of those questions.

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I think people rarely ask themselves is why do I, why

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do I need the million dollars?

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Why, why do I need the fancy car that the million dollars is gonna buy me?

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What is it about that, um, that that is driving me.

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Why, why, why?

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And I think that, that simple question really helps people drill

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down to figure out who they are, why they're here and what they stand for.

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And I think so often, uh, we just.

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I dunno about you Cody, but I see a lot of people just jumping straight in without

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really understanding those questions.

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Uh, and whenever we've done coaching with clients, no, no,

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let's stop right at the beginning.

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Let's what let's answer this question.

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Why what's it all about?

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So we know we know what success really is for you.

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Yeah.

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It's a hundred percent.

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I, I, so I good, a little back backstory about me.

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So, um, I was a salesperson, you know, won the magazine competitions in high, you

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know, middle school, elementary school, chocolate competitions in baseball.

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I sold all those, those things and did very good job at it.

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My, uh, first real job outta college was selling at US food service, selling food

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and restaurants and stuff like that.

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And, um, The idea of starting my own business came very early.

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And so I joined Bill Glazer and Dan Kennedy Masterminds.

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I was on newsletters.

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I was all excited about, um, direct marketing, marketing,

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old school, direct marketing.

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Oh yeah.

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Old school.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Love that stuff.

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And um, I love the idea of swipe and deploy.

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They get a good idea from one industry and deploying it a

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different way in the new industry.

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Um, but in that whole process, I watched the people start businesses and one of,

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one of them in particular, she started a gym and had her entire business plan.

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Right.

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Mm-hmm I had still don't have a business plan because I was, I didn't want to

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go down in that thought process of, you know, what's the reason why to think,

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have to think internally requires so much energy mm-hmm and self-judgment

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and questioning if, if this is right or wrong or what it is, it's something

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that we, as humans, we avoid, we like to be told what to do to get it done.

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We don't like to look deep to understand why we're doing it.

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Mm-hmm um, and it's taken a long lot of work now.

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Yes.

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My companies have more of a structure now, but the whole idea of that initial

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like, you know, what are we doing as a company and why, and what, what did

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we exist and was the differentiator.

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I didn't have that for years.

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Um, and even right now, it's not at the point where a lot of people would have

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it when they're first starting out.

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So when, when I do work with people too, and I'm giving them advice and

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coaching them, it's that main question.

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It's why are you doing this?

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What is the reason a recent guy, he's like, I want a

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hundred thousand dollars a year.

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Like why came down the fact that he wants to be able to give money

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to his kids so they can survive each month on their own as well.

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He wants to take care of his two kids and himself.

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That's really interesting, isn't it?

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Yeah.

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So it's, it's not a hundred thousand dollars.

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It's being able to take care of his two kids in himself.

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So the, the, the number is, is a fictitious goal to hit mm-hmm.

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But as long as he can achieve that, he'll be successful.

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And if you know what that is, you won't be disappointed by failure.

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So you didn't hit a million dollars a year, but you did a half million.

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What did you used to make?

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50,000?

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Like that's a success times

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anybody's where anybody could tell, could speak about.

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So it's just, um, understanding.

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What it really is, and being able to really march towards that and then, um,

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of course, modify and retarget yourself so you can keep marching forward.

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Oh, that in itself is worth the price of admission.

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Not that we charge people listening to the podcast, but if

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we did, that would be worth it.

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Um, so you've sat under then, uh, some remarkable names that, I mean, I've been

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around business for a little while and I, I I've heard the names that you've

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mentioned, like Dan Kennedy and so forth.

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Um, and you used this phrase, uh, whether intentionally or not that I,

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and I just note that jotted it down, um, direct marketing for traffic.

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Um, and so I wanna dig into this a little bit, because this is

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a bit more of your background.

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It.

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Can I use the phrase that direct marketing is a bit old school for

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what we in a digital industry.

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Yes.

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So, and this intrigues me.

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So let's dig into some of these things that you've learned, uh, sitting under

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the, the likes of, of Dan and so on and so forth and how you've bought them across.

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Yeah, definitely.

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And guys, I did not invent this.

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I was not the first person to do it.

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I just grabbed onto the supplement space in the industry and was one of

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the first dozen or so that did this in like 2015, 2016 and was able to start

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building a company on top of that.

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But let's, let's look at the difference.

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So right now we have eCommerce and then I call direct marketing.

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Those are two different channels.

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Mm-hmm eCommerce is a, an e-commerce page Shopify page, right?

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You have your product description, you got some information, you got some customer

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reviews, bada bing bada boom, that's it.

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Maybe a five minute video on there that kind of describes the product.

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So it's all benefit driven.

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This does this, this does that.

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It's good for this.

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It's good for that very simple bullet point kind of conversation.

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Yeah.

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Now, in order to get that product sold out there, you need to have an influencer.

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You need to have someone with a face or traffic that they people know like and

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trust them to then say, Hey, buy this product or you have to go online and

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create an ad campaign on Facebook, Google

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tikTok, whatever it is that has compelling ads that get someone to

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realize that, oh, this deal, this product, this something is worth

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buying and I need to, I need to get it.

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And it needs to be able to solve that problem.

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So you have to understand what their problem is.

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You have to understand the right traffic source.

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You have to nail it all down perfectly.

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Um, you have to make sure you don't lose money on the, on the front end on that.

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And then a lot of this comes down to that whole idea of seven touches.

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It takes seven touches to sell somebody mm-hmm . So you have to have a campaign

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and a marketing concept set up that allows for that entire process.

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Now direct marketing is a one shot.

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It's a shotgun blast to get a customer in one, one touch.

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And so there is two ways of doing direct marketing for

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health and supplement offers.

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Okay.

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Um, and I'll go over the first or standard one, and that is what's

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called a long form sales page.

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People do this with a TSL, which is text or a VSL, which is video.

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And those are those 45 minute long videos that you might get tricked into

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when you're clicking on Facebook and it has like a countdown like boop, and

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then like a lady goes ha on my, on my wedding anniversary, I tripped and fell

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down and thought I would never come back from this until I discovered this

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amazing secret that changed my life.

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And then it goes into the, this story and the text sales face

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scripts by this hands of it.

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Uh, I'm not, I'm not a writer, but I've, I've watched and

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read thousands of 'em probably.

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Um, and so those stories are how you help someone know like, and trust

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you in one sitting mm-hmm . And so this idea is creating an entire story

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and a lot of times they're based on reality and that's what I stand behind.

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Everything should be based on a real story.

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Yeah.

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And a real person.

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Um, cuz you know, just making stuff up is kind of lame.

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Um, it's kind of used car salesman kind of status.

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It should have something meat and potatoes behind it but it's really creating that

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connection and letting the customer feel like they are relate to somebody.

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So there's just a problem.

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A good example is a, there's a program out there for like pelvic

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floor stuff for women, right.

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Mm-hmm and, uh, it really goes into helping women with this very unique

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and, and, and kind of like shameful issue that they're worried about because

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of, um, P themselves kind of stuff.

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Mm-hmm . And so it teaches them how to do stuff and they

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have supplements for as well.

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And it's, it's a great product, great concept.

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And it really creates a storyline of like the worst day, worst scenario

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possible to happen to this woman.

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And it, it just kind of lets the reader go, oh, God.

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Yeah, that's happening before, or I've come close to that.

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And they really create that connection.

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And that's that know, like and trust.

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mm-hmm, , You're able to build that connection with, with a

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story kinda like right now I'm building a connection with you.

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You're listening to my story, you're going, oh, I like

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Cody this is interesting.

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Um, so then it goes into there the mechanism and explains the benefits of the

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product and you try and make it unique.

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So, you know, uh, turmeric it's great for anti-inflammation mm-hmm but

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why can we go three or four layers deeper into the science, into the

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actual studies to explain that.

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And can we, um, coin a, a terminology for it that makes us sound unique.

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Mm-hmm are we a sales page once that was a, for a thyroid supplement based on the

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best selling Throid supplement on Amazon.

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Um, I had just amazing amount of customers say how great it was, but we,

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uh, used a car method, C A R and the car method had to do with driving with

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the analogy it all worked and people connected their brain and it, it dumbed

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down the science in a way that allowed them to understand mm-hmm um, Then you

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sell 'em on the product with a deal.

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And this long form sales page allows for that one sale to happen initially.

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And then once they purchase you, then offer up sales.

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Hey, would you like to buy more of the same?

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Hey, this other product could help.

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Hey, this other product also helps and you give people opportunity to buy more.

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And these types of funnels can generate $200 to $250 average order

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values where you're bringing about a hundred to $150 profit per order.

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Wow.

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So that gives you the ability to pay very high ad costs in Facebook,

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Google, YouTube, or through direct marketing with affiliates.

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My specialty is finding affiliates with similar companies, health and supplement

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companies, and having them promote your products to their existing customers.

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And that's how I do most of my sales.

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Wow.

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So, okay.

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Um, So this long form content is still online, um, in my head, I mean, just

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going back to the direct note, are you, you're not mailing out letters to

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people you're doing it online and you're still driving traffic to them, right?

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Yep.

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It's just moving from the idea back in the day of doing out doing letters

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and things like that to emails.

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And so the emails can be short and simple.

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Get someone to click.

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They can be long and compelling to get someone to be invested

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before they land on the page.

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And then it's just from there getting them to read the sales page, watch the sales

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video and, and, and make the purchase.

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You typically see about a 1 to 3% conversion rate these pages.

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So it's not a massive number, but when you're able to pay out a hundred dollars

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commission to the traffic source, it's makes sense all day long for the traffic

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to send you so back to the traffic source.

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Right.

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We talked, you said earlier, direct marketing is a traffic source, right?

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That idea is really what allows us to get a massive influx of customers.

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Now, at the beginning, you may not make very much money, but you

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can on the reorgs, you can on the subscription plan, you can on the

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secondary products, you sell them.

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Um, and it really allows for you to get in front of a lot of different places.

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So it, in this space, um, there's hundreds of hundreds of

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people that have email lists.

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I mean, I have about five email lists ranging from 20,000 contacts

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to about a hundred thousand contacts.

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Mm-hmm and all these people are, look, don't have enough products to promote

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internally to send an email every day.

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So they're looking for third party offers that convert.

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And so you have, I have a whole team of people who go out and just try and find

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these companies to get them to promote us

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and to make sure that our offers convert well for them.

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Cause I have about five different offers.

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You know, I have weight loss offers.

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I have offers for pain.

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I have thyroid one.

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I have generic offers for turmeric and moringa.

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Um, so it's really determining what offer fits best for each traffic source and

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then helping them find reasons to mail to your offer multiple times a month.

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Well, Cody, there's a lot going on here.

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Uh which, um, which I'm keen to get into now it's worth stating, uh, again, if

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you are, if you're tuning in a little bit later, you zoned out in the introduction.

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Cody is involved in the supplement business, um, and you have built up your

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empire for want of a better expression, um, selling supplements, um, which

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you started in 2015 using more of the

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um, long form sales, either text or videos to, to sort of drive people, to

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buy these, these products, um, using some of the direct, uh, marketing methods.

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Yep.

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So, Cody, let me understand.

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I've got, let me just summarize, make sure I've got this right.

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You have got, well, I would technically call a sales page.

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Um, you've got a long form sales page, um, uh, or a landing page or the people

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have called them and that can either be video or it can be text we're sending

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traffic to that page, but that page is predominantly telling story and it's

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telling story of how people have gone,

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undergone a transformation they've sort of gone from point a to point B in

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their life because of your product or your intervention that has helped them.

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They were suffering with X and now they're, you know, they're, they're

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doing really great over here and you are telling the stories in these sort

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of long form sales pages, um, and to drive traffic to that sales page, your

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particular specialty is finding affiliates that wanna send their tribe to that page.

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And they earn a high level of commission because you've got high profits

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in that typical average, uh, sale.

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Am I right?

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A hundred percent.

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100%.

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Whew.

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I feel like I was just in a school test.

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Um, so, so I'm curious, let's start then.

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Uh, if I can, with this sales page, what are some of the things that

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you are looking for on that sales page you are thinking about I've.

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I mean, you've sort of given us a broad brush strokes with, I'm looking for a

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story, a transformative story, but what are some of the things that your, you

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think that sales page really needs to.

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100%.

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So I'm gonna do for those of you who are watching this, I'm gonna do a little

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screen sharing at the same time, so you can see a successful page, but I'm

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also gonna try and articulate as best I can for those who are listening.

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So one of our new offers is called Beach Ready Bites.

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It's a probiotic gummy, the, the actual enzymes in it helped, uh, prep,

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your digestive system for digesting.

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It's kinda like when you have a salad before you eat, it helps your body

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prep to digest everything quicker.

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Mm-hmm um, and it helps people lose weight in that aspect.

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Um, so the sales page starts out with the, the headline and the lead.

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Um, so this, this headline is that captivating thing.

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That's like this thing that to change your life or this story that, that, you

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know, helps someone lose 20 pounds or it's very sensationalized mm-hmm . Um,

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and then we usually start out the story with the thing that destroyed the.

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This particular one, the, the child said, mommy, am I gonna be fat?

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Like you, like someone made fun of you in school kind of thing.

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Yeah.

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And from there, the story goes into a little bit of reduction about the actual

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customer about the actual story person.

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And she goes, oh, and I figured out this whole transformation, but kind of

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let me walk you through my, my journey.

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And then she, she kind of, you know, will hint at the, the idea and the solution

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as she goes along as the mechanism the whole time, we're not calling it a

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product, it's just a solution for all.

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We know it could be a workout program, it could be a supplement,

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it could be pretty much anything.

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So from there, the story breaks down and we just tell the story of the person.

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Um, this is how you're getting to know, like, and trust the

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person, understand their journey, understand what they went through.

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It starts to go into the science of what's been causing the problem and making sure

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that the reader knows it's not their fault, but it's something that they

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didn't have control or knowledge about.

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Mm-hmm , you know, like my parents were brought up on

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eat, whatever you want, right.

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Taco bell who cares?

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Food's food calories in calories out.

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We now know that calorie's not a calorie, right?

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Eating gluten and, and carbs versus, you know, lean meats and vegetables

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far superior and different in your diet and how your body responds to that.

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So, um, it's not your fault.

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This is, this is facilities that are new, that are changing the world

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and can make everything better.

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And then we really get into the mechanism of what makes that special

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and which is referring back to actual scientific studies from

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universities, from wherever it is.

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And a lot of the writers we work with, they know all the websites

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to go to, to review these studies.

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Um, and then from there we go into the actual product reveal and

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we go, tada, here's the product.

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And the product's amazing.

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It changes your life.

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It's on sale now there's a massive guarantee.

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You know, it's a short inventory and supply for this product.

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That's true.

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It's really hard to get.

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Um, and it's a one time discount and it's gonna change your life and there's no

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risk to you and buy the product mm-hmm

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And then from there people buy, it goes to an upsell and it's like,

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Hey, now you can get the product at a discount because you're part of

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the family have more of the same.

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And then if they say, uh, no, thanks to that.

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They get sent to a down sale.

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It goes, Hey, how about less or a cheaper deal?

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And then after that, if they, uh, if they, uh, keep going down the

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funnel by way, they can exit time.

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They want it goes, Hey, try this thing too.

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It's gonna help make it even better.

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And, and ideally you wanna go through about three upsells and down sells.

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So you're selling three different products in the funnel.

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Yeah.

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And that allows people really to build that connection.

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And that's kind of the structure of the sales page and the funnel behind it.

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The actual upsells and down sells are very rudimentary and basic.

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There's not a lot of, um, uh, magic about it.

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The sales page is truly where, um, the, the magic happens.

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And then that's the key point is really finding either a writer who can help you

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put it together and, and do it correctly.

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You gotta find writers who are in communities and have their own within

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their own coaching programs who are intelligent, who have made pages that do

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a million dollars because, um, I've had a lot of trash pages sold to me before.

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And so it really takes finding a, a writer who is quality or

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learning the skillset yourself, um, to be able to put stuff together.

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And that's one version.

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And then I wanted to show the second version, which is actually

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what I think a lot of people in the ecommerce space might like to do more.

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And I call this a long form ecommerce page.

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Okay.

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And so this is a turmeric offer by one, get three free.

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And, um, basically it's a video of me for five minutes explaining

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the benefits of turmeric.

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It is a longer page talking about the company and what turmeric does for you.

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And then it has the buy option for buy one, get three free, uh, same thing, the

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upsells and down cells, more of the same.

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We do the same sale for the upsells.

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You know, we tested omega three and probiotics and Dasai and MEA and the

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backend on the upsells and down cells.

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You can kind of put whatever you want in the back, but this idea of a shorter

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form eCommerce page, I think is truly the almost easiest way to start.

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Cause if someone's figured out how to get traffic from Facebook to like a Shopify

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page and it's successful, I bet million bucks that drive into a offer like this

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will probably double their profits.

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That's a really interesting point that, um, uh, I'm just bringing it

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back to e-commerce for one second, that you've made there about, and thank

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you for showing those, by the way.

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Mm-hmm just so you, if you are listening and you didn't get a chance to see them,

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um, I think could, he did a very good explanation of what you saw on the screen,

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but we will put screenshots, we will put links to those web pages in the show

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notes and you'll be able to access them.

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Or of course, just turn on over to YouTube, watch the video.

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Uh, it's all there.

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Um, so going back to, to what you mentioned then about eCommerce,

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one of the fascinating things for me is the experimentation in how

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long an eCommerce page should be.

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Uh, and we have tested thousands of different combinations over the

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years, you know, short, long image here and all that sort of stuff.

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I won't bore you with all the stuff that we've tested.

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But one of the things that I do know is actually long form eCommerce

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pages, usually convert at a higher rate than short form eCommerce pages,

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especially when you start to integrate in those pages, the, the old school

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method of direct marketing, you know, in the sort of the letters that they

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used to send you and you, you bring those with the headlines and, uh,

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they can convert super, super well.

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I mean, super, super well.

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So, and this is what you've discovered, right?

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This is what you were, what you were saying, and this

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is an easy place to start.

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Um, but, uh, Mr.

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Cody, I'm, I'm kind of curious.

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I, I can just hear, you know, all the listeners go, this is all very great.

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Um, uh, the, the primary question people are gonna have though

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is how do I get started, right?

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Where, and, and for, and you mentioned about finding a writer and how, how

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actually that's not straightforward.

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So what tips do you have for people who perhaps would go, want to go

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find a writer that can help them write good long form content?

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Definitely.

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So first things first, I'm gladly share more about it later if you want Matt, but

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I definitely coach people how to do this.

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So I, I have a whole system and procedure of doing that.

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But in short, how do you find quality writers?

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Number one, you need to first find what you want in your why, right?

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Mm-hmm . So if you, if you, if you don't have a product, you don't have

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anything yet, you gotta discover that.

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Um, that's very important.

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If you already have a product and you're like, Hey, this thing does

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well, I'm selling a lot of it

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and I wanna make the page better.

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The first step is to understand what you have and what you don't have.

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So looking at pages like the example of the term work page, or any kind of

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eCommerce pages that are crushing it, uh, you could find online, you can tell it

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because the ads are going constantly or it's on, uh, click think or buy goods.

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Those are lot of the direct marketing affiliate platforms where most

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people put their offers, finding pages that work that are doing well,

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and then reverse engineering them.

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So, uh, long form ecommerce page is more like Legos stacked on block together.

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Yeah.

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It's like an ecommerce page.

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There are little block sections, a long form sales page

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that is a indepth story.

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So understanding like our turmeric, you know, it's got the video and

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the headline with the call to action of, with the deal they're getting.

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And then the video talks about what they're getting and why.

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And it does a little tease in there too.

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You can always watch the video.

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It's got a good script.

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I had a wonderful person named Mary Agnes who gave me tips on

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making that script a little better.

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Um, we then go into the benefits and what it's used for, we then go

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into the company and who it is and who it's for and how to use it.

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And then we give a deal and then they see the, the sale deal.

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So like, okay, cool.

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So you're not sold something beginning, a lot of e-commerce pages

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have the buy option on the top.

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So I land the page $59.

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Nope.

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I'm done.

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Mm-hmm you want them to read and get connected as they're, as they're going

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in with them to get know, like, and trust you before you try and sell 'em.

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Uh, imagine.

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So I, I was, I worked at US food service.

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I sold food, to restaurants, I used to do 15 million a year in San Diego

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when I was outta college in that job.

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And you can't walk into a restaurant in the back kitchen, be like, I

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got steak peace for a great deal.

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They'll be like, who are you?

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Why are you here?

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And get outta the kitchen.

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Mm-hmm so you first gotta.

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Get to know who it, who is, who is the person you're talking to.

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So that way you can actually talk to the right person.

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You're prepared for the actual conversation, cuz you

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know who you're talking to.

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Are they the person doing the orders?

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Are they the owner of the restaurant?

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Are they the chef?

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Are they the line cook?

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Are they the manager?

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Who's the one placing the orders.

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So you can speak to them correctly.

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What matters to them?

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Right?

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If it's the cook, he wants quality.

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If it's the manager, he wants best price.

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If it's the owner, he just wants to not deal with anything, you know?

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Yeah.

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So you gotta understand what the person actually wants.

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You're solving their problem.

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And then you have to get them to feel that you're gonna co complete

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all that before you sell them.

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Hey see, that's a really interesting point.

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Isn't it?

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Because you are right.

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Every traditional, every standard eCommerce website, um, uh, is on the

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base of the price and the product

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is there.

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And, and I think it's been done like that because of convenience for people

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that want to buy the product again.

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Right?

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So your all, every eCommerce website that I know is built around this

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whole idea that the person coming wants to actually buy your product.

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Um, we call it the knowledge trust factor, but the people that come to your site

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that don't know you, they don't trust you and they don't know their, your product

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and the very first thing they see is your products and a price.

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Well, that's what they're making the judgment on.

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Right.

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Um, and so one of the things that I like about what you've done is you

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flip that around on your head and you put the price at the bottom.

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So my question here is do people actually scroll down when you do that?

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Yes.

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So as long as the each section you're looking at each Lego block is compelling

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and there's a reason to scroll.

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So like, whenever I look at a page I'll, I'll do control shift, I, and

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look at the page via mobile two.

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If you're looking at the page, is there something I want to see at

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the bottom or continue reading?

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So if you're looking at it, the next subject line or image or

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question should be there, oh, what's this scroll up, right.

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Scroll down, whatever they're doing.

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So the, the idea is it needs to be compelling so they keep doing that.

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Um, we typically see these on our long form sales page is about 50% of people

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make it to the first buy box mm-hmm

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And then by the time you have the second buy box, you're down to

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like 25% and then it's just gone.

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So majority of people are gonna see the initial product.

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And then, and then, uh, about 25% later, we'll will get to the next spot and

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decide if they wanna purchase or not.

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So, you know, you, you give 'em as much as you can, you sell the

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product and then you reinforce it.

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Here's why it's so special.

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Here's why it's no risk to you.

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Here's the benefits again, buy box again.

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And then if you have more content, you put more content there and then final

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buy box on the bottom of the page.

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So I, I typically wanna see two or three bisections on any kind of page,

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because it gives that opportunity for someone who's on the fence to keep

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going and just kind of think about it as, um, a used car deal, right?

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You go into the dealership, the person makes friends with you shows

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you all the best cars lets you sit in the cool Ferrari and that neat.

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Oh well you want, well, you came for a Honda, let's go check it out.

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The Honda.

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And now you're buddy's with a guy and now you wanna help him out and

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you want to get the deal mm-hmm and then the price comes out and then

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you're on the fence and they go, cool,

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well, I can give you new tires and I can give you a 30 day oil change guarantee.

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And then you're like, yeah.

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Okay, I'm sold.

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So it's that, it's that entire process of building that friendship

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and giving someone the deal and then sweetening the deal at the same time.

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So that way, uh, they feel confident about the purchase.

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Very good.

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Very good.

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Right.

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And on that bomb shell, we are just gonna take a moment to hear from

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this week's show sponsors and then Cody and I will be back carrying

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so

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right, Cody.

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Um, so before we were talking about sort of long form e-commerce pages,

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um, and how, uh, these pages, you know, you're, you're very much

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taking people on a journey, right?

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Um, And you are sort of giving them a reason to keep scrolling

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and then a good website, like yours is 50% of the people are gonna

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scroll down and, and see that box.

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Um, and you know, you can test this and you can see whether

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the conversion is good or not.

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And you know, if you've got a good copywriter, great.

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Um, it's gonna help you, I guess, one of the questions, um, in my

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head, uh, and maybe this is just me being a bit British, right?

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Maybe it's my English reservedness coming out.

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I'm always skeptical of the sensationalist headlines.

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Um, and I would have a hard time, uh, saying, you know, take this pillar

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is gonna radically change your life.

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Um, unless I knew for a fact it was gonna gonna do that.

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So how do you, am I too reserved?

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What have you found with that kind of, um, headline writing scheme?

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100% works.

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It's a matter of if you wanna stand behind that for your company or not.

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And so, in my opinion, there's the very sensationalized stories.

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There's the scientific article stories, and then there's the, um,

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good company or good deal stories.

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Mm-hmm . And so if like you're doing the turmeric deal, it's, it's

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the deal buy one, get three free.

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That's the headline, right?

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Yeah.

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So if, if you're doing the, the reason, if it's something that's already in

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the zeitgeist, when people understand it, then it's easier to do that.

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If you're having to make that story, you need to grab someone, uh, good example.

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We can do it recording too, but, um, there's, uh, I think it's rounders the

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movie about like that's rounders or it's one of those stock trading movies.

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Mm-hmm beginning of the movie is a woman doing a downhill ski competition,

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like on the Olympics and then crash.

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Has nothing to do with the entire movie.

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It's just so intense.

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It gets you completely like, and then it rolls into the movie and

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you're like completely, oh, isn't that Molly's game pulled in.

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Which one is that?

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Molly's game.

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Was that the one?

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Cause she, she was a ski the poker player.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So that idea, but it is this sensational exciting, like powerful thing.

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And then yeah, it just draws you in and you're and you are.

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Yeah.

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And that's the key.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's the key.

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That's the key, right?

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That's the, the, that's what the headlines got to do.

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That's what you've gotta do in an instant.

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You've gotta draw them in.

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Um, and you've, you've gotta get people's attention, uh, you know, I

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was, um, I was curious when you said you'd list, you know, you'd been into

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Dan Kennedy's masterminds and stuff, so let's just sort of switch gears

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slightly and, and go to direct marketing.

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And Dan Kennedy for if memory serves me, right.

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Was a brilliant copywriter.

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I mean, the man knew how to write stuff and I've, I've

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actually got some of his types.

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Uh that's how old I am.

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I have tapes, uh, you know, with his lessons on, what are some of the key

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things that you learned from these sort of old marketing masters, you

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know, the old school marketing masters, um, you know, what are what's, maybe

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you one or two of the key principles that you sort of that understood the

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test of time for you that you remember hearing in light bulbs going off

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and you've carried that through in, in everything that you've done.

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The one and only thing, swipe and deploy.

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Swipe and deploy.

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Okay.

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Excellent.

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Take what's working in an industry, a different industry

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and make it work for you.

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Mm-hmm so Bill Glazer brought it up about how he would take.

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Uh, deals from Walmart and car deals and apply it to his

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men's, um, clothing business

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cause he had a men's warehouse kind of kind of thing.

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So having that idea of a coupon, having the idea of a reason for a sale is the

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captivating reason for, for his business.

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That's like the tumeric buy one, get three free mm-hmm the reason for that

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sale is that the reason they're there is because there's three units free.

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No one does that.

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So you can take something that's more well known of a product and create

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a reason why, you know, this is, this is because it's my birthday.

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This is because it's Halloween.

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This is because of a, a certain holiday or thanks.

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It's because we've helped a thousand people lose 10 pounds.

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You know, those kinds of those kinds of captivating ideas.

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The other idea, too, you can take the concept away from that idea of that

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sensationalist and pose a question.

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Can this pill really help you lose 20 pounds in two weeks?

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Copy says no, but you just completely took someone on the idea of can you?

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That's a pretty good way of doing it as well.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I've not thought about it.

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So it's doing that, that counter, that counter and is, is easy and not sure.

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Is it worth testing?

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Probably.

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Yeah.

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I, I definitely wanna find out is, you know, you read that.

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Like, I don't know.

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I, I, I do want to know though, so, uh, yeah, , that's, that's quite clever.

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So this swipe and deploy methodology then, um, where you see something

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working in one industry and you and you, and you take that and, and

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apply that to yourselves and you, you know, your own business and stuff.

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How have you used that to build, um, your, uh, your supplement.

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So a lot of it comes down to seeing what works and then determining if you're

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gonna position yourself in that space.

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Um, it could be used also in, um, in email marketing to promote your

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offer, um, with different kinds of promotions or timing of the year, or

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reasons why to get someone to email.

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Um, I've always loved the accidental email.

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You send out an email that's kind of half broken, and then you send another

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email at 10 months later and be like, oops, the last email wasn't finished.

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I didn't finish what I was saying.

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Here's the rest of the email and the other, the bio again.

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So you get an excuse to talk to someone again.

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Yeah.

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Um, They're actually quite converting emails as well.

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They, they are, but I love the subject line test.

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Yeah.

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That one opens really high . Yeah, it's really funny thing.

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I'm sorry.

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We sent it way too early.

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Here's the rest of the email.

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And so the open rate of both emails goes up because everybody wants to

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see what you wrote in the first one.

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That's maybe not in the second one.

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Uh, yeah.

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And you are in their inbox twice, legitimately and it's is

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quite a fascinating strategy.

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I think the broken email.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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And then swiping too, like what's working.

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Is there, um, a particular offer that you want to try and emulate or have

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like get into so Ric for example, right?

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I've had people that wanted to start throwing turmeric, uh, offer

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after how successful mine was for.

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And I just leaned over and said to them, I'm like, great go for it.

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But I would encourage you to use mine as a benchmark and keep promoting me

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until you figure out you can actually beat my offer and of the five big dogs.

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I know that did that.

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I only one actually had an offer that continued on and did well.

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So, um, you know, being able to swipe and deploy is important.

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You type the idea and run it in your own way, but you gotta make sure that

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it actually is also more financially advantageous than doing other things

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they could have just kept promoting me and gotten free money for just copying

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and pasting an email in a, in a process.

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Yeah.

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That's interesting one, isn't it?

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Because again, that's the danger of these sort of offers, I guess.

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How do you avoid the race to the bottom?

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Right.

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So if you are looking at something and someone's done the, you know, buy

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one, get three free and say, well, do I do buy one and get four free?

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And then some fellows I'll buy one and get five free.

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And it starts to become a bit ridiculous after a while.

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So how do you, how do you avoid the race to the bottom?

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Definitely.

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So I've actually not experienced that.

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So even with the buy one, get three free, I've seen one person try to

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emulate me, another person trying do a buy one, get two, three, and

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different products and their offers.

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I don't know where they are today.

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I've never seen anybody promote them.

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So I think that in the affiliate space, if you were directly ripping someone

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off, then the people who are promoting the offers are not gonna like that.

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They're gonna be annoyed for the fact that you are copying this or

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the person that they promote as well.

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So there is a very tight-knit community of, you know, three, 400 people

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that know and trust each other and wanna make sure we all do better.

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And those who just straight up copy, they can go to hell.

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Now, there is a handful of people who can drive their own traffic

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through Facebook or Google, and they can do whatever they want.

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And they typically just do what they want.

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They don't deal with our side of the affiliate industry and we just kind of,

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uh, let them play in their own fields.

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And it, it just kind of is what it is.

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The idea of race to the bottom doesn't necessarily exist either because, um,

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for example, that term work offer.

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When I first launched it in 2018, it was doing $88, $85, um, average order value.

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So a hundred people bought on average was $88 per person because they would buy

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upsells mm-hmm . We now have that funnel converting at $130 average order value.

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Oh, wow.

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So it's a matter of perfecting the page and the funnel over and over and

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over again, you're talking about minor headline changes, font changes, color

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changes, button, color changes, um, popups instead for down sells, instead

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of down sell pages, you know, all these little tiny minute things you

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change over and over and over again.

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And of course, retest continuously is how you're able to keep refining something.

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So you're more likely gonna see offer, um, churn and offer decline

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because the page has not been made better than anything else.

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Um, that's gonna be the biggest, um, biggest killing part.

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The final thing that kind of can happen with that, um, swipe and deploy concept

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is like, for example, I an offer called bio harmony that we renamed bio switch,

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and then we called it something else.

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And every time it did better, but then not as good.

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And now it's just kind of dead and that's because the actual mechanism and

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how people are actually achieving their goals has been copied so many times that

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although the story's compelling, when they get the actual product itself, it's just

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been done over and over and over again.

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So that one's kind of gone, but it's done 20 million in three years.

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So oh, well what, a way to end.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Is the expression.

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So do you use any specific software to do this testing?

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Yeah.

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So in terms of testing, uh, there's not a software out there that works yet.

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I'm actually trying to build something that I could potentially turn into

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a service, um, because there's just certain metrics that are not as, that

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are incredibly important in your funnel.

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Like a lot of people.

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Care about, uh ROAS but like that doesn't, I need to know profit per

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order, per traffic source, per per offer funnel mm-hmm . And so that's

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the key to knowing those metrics.

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Um, so the best software to use as an affiliate marketer, there's two

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of them click bank or buy goods.

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These are systems that you get approved.

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You put your entire funnel up, like the one I talked about earlier, and then they

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will manage the credit card processing.

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They will pay out the traffic sources and track all the track, all the

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clicks and sales and conversions.

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Um, they'll do rev share or, or, um, or a CPA.

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CPA is just a flat rate pay, no matter what happens.

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And at the end of the day, it's the same.

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We just doing the law of large number averages to figure it out ahead of time.

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Um, and then, uh, so they take care of all that.

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And all you have to do is get the traffic to the page, make call people,

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make friends, join, join different Facebook groups, masterminds coaching

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communities, and, and make friends to get you to promote your offer.

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Um, Once you have that you can export the data directly.

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And, you know, there's, there's ways of setting it up.

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Like I had really long, long name, each product code name

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had a really long string.

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So I knew exactly what page it was on the price, the conversion.

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And I would sort do some little V lookups on Excel.

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Boom, make, make my numbers out.

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So that's kind of the easiest way to pull your data out to understand it.

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But it's important to understand what you're looking at.

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If you're doing a split test on the front end on the, on the

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sales page, um, then are you, is your conversion rate increasing?

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Are you affecting the total average order value or profit per order or is

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it increasing or decreasing because of what's happening on the front end page

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and same thing for every page you do test.

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And it's also important to test methodically slow.

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You know, I wanna like throw 10 things at my D my, um, my

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testing team to have them test.

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And they're like, cool.

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We'll do it one at a time.

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It'll take us two months because if you do it all at once, the

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whole design could do better.

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but why?

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Because if you don't know, then how can you apply that tech, that, that

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concept to everything else you do?

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Mm-hmm yeah, that's a very good point.

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That's a very good point.

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So how do you, how do you, um, I guess find the affiliates, uh, that

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are gonna work well for you, right?

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How do you, how do you, how do you mobilize your affiliates?

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Definitely.

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So when I first started out, I had my tumeric offer I didn't

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know what affiliates were.

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My brother was in the space selling a workout program and he is like,

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oh, I'll be your affiliate manager.

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And so he basically just would send my, the emails that I'd written up that did

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pretty well when we tested it on his email list and he'd send that and the tracking

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link out to people and that's all he did.

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That's all affiliate manager really ever does.

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But he had, he had been able to get to know these people with his

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offer for the two years prior.

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And so it was like, Hey, he's my brother run his thing.

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And then it worked and they're like, cool, thanks.

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And then after about a year, I finally got the, got the hang of it, figured out

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what to do and what it takes is finding someone to help you test your offer.

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To know that it can, it's converting correctly and paying out correctly

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and you're not losing money.

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So that's step one.

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You can do that through joining, uh, coaching programs, masterminds or

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different kind of community groups where people help each other in that aspect.

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There's tons of Facebook groups out there that people just support each other.

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Um, and then after that, it's going in same thing, joining groups of communities,

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of offer owners or affiliate managers.

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I mean, there's one, uh, group, uh, uh, it's called traffic tribe, this lady.

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Amber Spears runs it, all my people i, I, I, and my group

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and my community join it too.

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There's like 400 affiliate managers there.

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So once you're in there, you just present your offer and share, and you'd

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start making sales calls and trying to get on zoom calls with people to

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get them to know like, and trust you mm-hmm . And then you go to conferences

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like affiliate summit, west, east, you go to traffic and conversion.

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Um, you go to all these different kinds of conferences and when you get there,

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you go and meet as many people as you can.

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And I tell my wife, I'm going to a conference to shake hands and kiss babies.

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You know, you're trying to make friends and be like a politician

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to make everyone love you.

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So that way you can, you know, hopefully help by giving them an

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amazing offer that converts well, and on the back end, make money yourself.

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So it's, it's going out and beating the pavement, asking for referrals, asking

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everybody in the community where it's at, um, and, and, and paying attention.

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You can't be quiet.

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You gotta be very proactive.

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That's really, yeah.

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And that's an important point, isn't it?

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Because I think, um, it's not E it's not as, it's not like it used to be where

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you could just go, listen, if you're an affiliate, I'm go to this website and

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I'm gonna put my information on there and they fill people would come and go

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yeah, I've got a list of a hundred thousand people.

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I'll send 'em to that website.

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Uh, I think everyone's a lot more choosy now, aren't they?

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And a lot more, um, sort of a lot more aware of what they're doing, which I think

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is, is, is predominantly a good thing.

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Um, so the you're out there, you're pounding the pavement

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you are kissing the babies and all that sort of stuff, which is . So I

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never thought I'd heard that phrase on an eCommerce, but anyway, uh, you

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go there doing all of those things.

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Um, you're building your affiliate network.

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These guys are marketing.

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Are you doing your own marketing as well?

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Like, are you still doing Facebook and Google and referring traffic to

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those funnels or are you a hundred percent relying on affiliate market?

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So, if you have Facebook, Google, YouTube experience, you

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should be managing yourself.

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I do not, and I've never been pro at it.

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And the time we attempted it, we quite broke my Facebook account and I can't

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be on Facebook anymore promoting ads.

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yay.

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So I learned, I learned through one of my mistakes that you need to make

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sure you're partnering and working with people who know what's going on.

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So I typically look for, um, agencies or partnerships with people that can

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drive traffic in those, in those areas for my, each of my offers, because

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I just don't have the skillset.

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Mm-hmm um, it's one of those things where I've learned that, trying to

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learn how to do everything, you're not gonna succeed cuz you can't do it all.

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You know, my role is the CEO.

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My goal is to set the vision of the company, the targets of the company

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and make sure we have the right people in the right seats and that they

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are inspired to get their job done.

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So I've had to reposition myself into that concept because I used

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to try to do everything and there's people out there for 50 or a hundred

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thousand dollars who will do five or 10 times better than you and pay for

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their salary, you know, oodles over.

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So it's understanding, um, who can best help you?

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How can you inspire them and work together and or work with the third

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party agencies that drive that stuff.

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I love the affiliate stuff in house.

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I think that's important cuz you have to someone that cares about you.

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Um, but you know, when it comes to Google and YouTube and Facebook and

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things like that, it's just a little out of our wheelhouse currently.

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yeah, yeah.

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No and that's very, I'm the same way.

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Uh, there are definitely better people at it than me, so let

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them be better at it than I am.

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Uh, and I'll just smile and wait.

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Uh, as they're doing it.

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So you, you are using traditional marketing methods.

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You're using, um, the affiliates.

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Can I ask, is there a specific platform that you are using to build the

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sites on, you know, with all the up cells and down cells and, uh, cross

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cells and, and so on and so forth?

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Are you, is there a platform of choice here that you like?

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Yeah, I think there's two ways to do it.

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So I first started using WordPress, which I wouldn't use, cuz there's a lot

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of extra bloat on WordPress, WordPress, um, page builders and it requires

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different service setups and things crash.

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I probably have lost a hundred thousand dollars in profit by having

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to pay out affiliates who sense to my sent so many clicks to my page.

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It crashed my server.

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And then they're, they're the mega affiliate who, if you don't, they don't

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make what they wanna make that day.

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You are blacklisted.

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So you have to just write a check and cry.

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Um, so that's having me a handful of times on WordPress.

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Um, I think the best way to go plain Z is HTML.

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And the reason behind that is because it's just the source code of the internet.

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It's as basic as it comes.

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And, um, it is a pain cuz if you don't know how to use HTL or

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build it, you dunno what to do.

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You can't edit it.

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You're screwed.

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So what I've actually done, um, and this is not a pitch is sharing what I've done.

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I've built an entire team in the Philippines cuz hiring in

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the Philippines is amazing.

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We're up to 18 now and I've actually turned my entire dev, um,

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department into its own company.

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Mm-hmm and so we're just getting on the, on the, on the ground right now

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we've helped like six customers launch and we're doing that at an incredibly

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low prices because in the Philippines, hourly wages are very inexpensive.

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And so we do that kind of thing.

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So I would encourage people to, you know, reach out to me and I'll be glad

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to introduce you to that division.

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I'm not running it so I can introduce that person.

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But HTML is the best way to do it.

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Pages don't crash pages, load fast.

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Everything's built the way it's supposed to for mobile and desktop.

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There's no question about it.

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Um, it's as simple as it comes now, if.

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You don't have the cash for, you're doing your bootstrapping

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everything on your own click funnels.

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Mm-hmm , it's the absolute easiest thing to use.

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Does it have integration issues with these systems?

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Yes.

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Do you have to test constantly?

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Make sure it's not breaking in some updates, screw things up.

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Yes.

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Um, but that is the easiest way to build a page.

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You can go on up fiverr or Upwork and people can build that sucker

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for a couple hundred bucks.

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You know, people who have figured out ClickFunnels all over the world.

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I have many, many people I coach that still use it.

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I know people with a multimillion dollar companies I've used it.

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Um, so that is the most bare bone simple system to, to get going.

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Yeah, it seems to be the industry standard.

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Doesn't it for that kind of thing.

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Um, but, but like the load, the load, rate's like three seconds on a

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page two and a half seconds on HTML.

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It's like 0.6.

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Yeah.

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So, you know, as soon as you can, you wanna build HTML because it's like

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taking a Ford Pinto to the racetrack.

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You, you want the F one race car, that's what you wanna be driving.

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And that's kind of what HT melt is.

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yeah, no, that's fair comment.

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That's a fair comment.

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And I think as your business grows, you, you, you do do things.

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Don't, you, you start off on a platform here.

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You prove your concept.

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Yes.

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It's working great.

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Now I feel confident to invest however much over here, getting

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some in bespoke written and that's gonna be much quicker and much

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better and, and so on and so forth.

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So I've, I've, I've seen people do that a lot actually.

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Um, do that an awful lot.

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So, Cody, uh, what's next for you, bud?

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What's the, what's the sort of the next stage in conquer in the world?

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Oh gosh.

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I have a handful of more offers coming out.

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I have a handful of partnerships with people who are amazing

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at traffic or amazing at like.

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You know, different types of, uh, industries and niches who don't

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wanna do the supplement brand.

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So I got those happening.

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Uh, the biggest thing I'm excited about besides the, the yo-yo

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funnels, which is our, um, our funnel building company is just so fun.

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I, I love the, the concept of being to help people build pages.

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Um, I actually do coaching.

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I started a program called supplement millionaire, and I teach people

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how to launch and build a direct marketing affiliate based supplement

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brand or health brand in that space.

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And, uh, you know, we have about 40 members right now.

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Uh, we have people who have direct marketing funnels who already

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existing with million dollar funnels.

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I have people with hundred thousand dollar funnels.

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I have people who are starting out and know nothing.

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Mm-hmm . I have a handful of Amazon people and eCommerce people.

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Um, I got people from, uh, uh, being online, uh, doing, doing,

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uh, like, you know, the QVC kind of stuff, those kinds of people.

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So I, I've got a huge, uh, plethora of people in the group, which

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is exciting to be able to help people from different spaces.

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And we walk people through the concept, how to work with each individual, um,

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type of person you need, you know, copywriter, design, webpage, builder,

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how to get insurance types of lawyers.

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You need the best people to work with to run your email list.

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All those different people that I have.

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Gone through seven or eight people and have failed with these

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partnerships and to find the right one, we've kind of lined it all up.

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So basically if you're ready to start a health or supplement business online,

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it's just kind of an instant resource.

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And then we do, um, along with that weekly coaching, where we continue to

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teach more about operations, affiliate management, um, copy and marketing

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and, and just answering questions.

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So I've created an entire system to help people succeed.

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And I just, I had so many mistakes, probably a million dollars of profit that

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I've lost over the, um, last four years.

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And I don't want people to have to do that.

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I want them to know exactly what they need to do to get going.

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Uh, you know, it's gonna cost you between five and $30,000 to launch this brand,

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launch a new brand, depending on how much you actually, uh, want do the work

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yourself mm-hmm . And I wanna show you everything you need to do to be able to

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succeed without having to, um, guess.

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Yeah.

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Especially when you're investing that sort of money.

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Mm-hmm and that's the beauty, I guess, for people like yourself,

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Cody, you've been around for a while.

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You've learned a lot.

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Um, and this is why I think the coaching and the online stuff is so helpful

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because you can get, yes, you can go to YouTube and you can learn a lot of

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stuff, but fundamentally you get in under the wings of an expert that sort

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of walked through the whole thing.

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Well, that's just, I'd like MasterCard says that's priceless.

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, you know, it's one of those, isn't it?

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Where I think actually it, it, it just saves you so much pain.

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Um, and so, uh, listen, Cody, how do people find out more about the

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mastermind, the coaching that you've got?

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How do they find out more about you connect with you if they want to do that?

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Definitely.

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So the website for the program is supplementmillionaire.com.

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You can also look at supplementmillionaireblueprint.com

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on there.

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I have a video it's about 30 minutes long.

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That goes through what it is, the details and all the information about it.

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I got a few free, free E uh, downloads as well.

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You can get the kind of Gantt chart and the checklist for

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launching your own offer.

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So if you wanna watch the video and download that and go for it - go for it.

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If you do succeed without joining my coaching program, I want a testimonial

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it's only, the only thing I require um, and, uh, it's a lot of great content too.

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It's it's a lot of great content.

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If, if you were willing enough, you could just watch this and go, like, it's,

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it'll be a challenge, but you could.

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Um, so that's there, you can also go to codybramlett.com it's got information

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there, there, um, otherwise, yeah, I just, I just love to help people,

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so I encourage people to jump on.

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You can email our, our support, if it's an awesome question, I'll respond to it.

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I'm all about helping the industry do better, because if we all

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rise up the, if the tide rises up, we all rise with it, right?

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Yeah.

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So I wanna make sure that we're all doing things better.

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It's not a scammy industry and we're using direct marketing principles to

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make sales and help customers, not to trick people and lie, which is

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what a lot of people kind of think of that in the industry X as that.

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Yeah.

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That's brilliant.

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Listen, Cody, I have really enjoyed our conversation, uh, today, so

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thank you so much for joining me on the eCommerce podcast.

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We will, of course put all of the links, which Cody mentioned

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in the show notes as well.

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Um, so if you are not taking notes right now, you are driving just, you

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know, head on over to the website and we will give you all of that

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information, uh, right there on the page.

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So you can, uh, connect with Cody.

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I'm sure he'd love to hear from you.

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Uh, and, uh, yeah, I definitely wanna see the testimonials that come out of it.

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So, um, Cody, thank you so much for being with us, bro, it's

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been, uh, it's been a privilege.

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Thank you so much.

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It's been a blast.

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So there you have it, another plus for the eCommerce podcast,

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another fantastic conversation.

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What did you think of it amazingly?

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So huge.

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Thanks too, Cody for joining me today.

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