Well, hello and welcome to the eCommerce podcast with me,
Speaker:your host, Matt Edmundson.
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Speaker:I am super, super excited with today's guest, who is Cody Bramlett
Speaker:from Science Natural Supplements.
Speaker:And we're gonna be chatting about how to take product into direct marketing.
Speaker:We're talking about all things old school.
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Speaker:And given that we're talking about how to take a product into, uh, direct marketing
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Speaker:podcast again, uh, from Startup to Growth.
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Speaker:Cody Bramlett is the founder of a multimillion dollar
Speaker:nutritional supplement empire.
Speaker:Uh, after years of struggling as a personal trainer and gym owner Cody's
Speaker:life changed when he solved his father's chronic inflammation problem with his own
Speaker:custom formulated products, this empowered Cody to start growing his company,
Speaker:science, natural supplements to help other people, uh, get pain, free, lose weight,
Speaker:and just feel better about themselves.
Speaker:And as a result of starting and scaling this company, Cody now also teaches
Speaker:other driven entrepreneurs, how to do the same thing with his coaching and his
Speaker:mastermind called supplement millionaire.
Speaker:So basically I'm really keen to hear what he has to say about
Speaker:all of this, especially direct marketing, old school stuff.
Speaker:Honestly, grab your night, grab your pens, grab your cup of coffee.
Speaker:Uh, cuz you are gonna want to take some notes.
Speaker:Let me tell you here's my conversation with Cody.
Speaker:So Cody, thank you for joining me on the eCommerce podcast.
Speaker:I've been looking forward to this conversation, uh, since we had our
Speaker:pre-call because well, quite frankly, you have got quite a fascinating story that
Speaker:I'm hoping that we can dig into, uh, in terms of your own business success and
Speaker:how you've made all this sort of stuff work as well as what you're up to now.
Speaker:So welcome to the show.
Speaker:Great to.
Speaker:I'm excited to be here.
Speaker:Thanks, Matt.
Speaker:It's, it's fun to be on these podcasts to be able to share these kinds of stories,
Speaker:because you know, so many people have been through, uh, attempts at starting
Speaker:at companies and failed out and I've had massive failures as well, but I've learned
Speaker:from them rebuilt my company and have continued to succeed over and over again.
Speaker:So I'm, I'm excited here to, to share that.
Speaker:So people know that you can succeed online.
Speaker:It's not as hard as everybody makes it out to be.
Speaker:Yeah, it's very true.
Speaker:I've in my bio.
Speaker:I always say to people, you know, and people say, well, who is Matt?
Speaker:And what's going on?
Speaker:And I'm like, well, I, I like to say that, um, I'm an eCommerce
Speaker:entrepreneur, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker:And there's always this line I throw in, I've had more
Speaker:failures than I've had successes.
Speaker:It's just, my successes have far outweighed my
Speaker:failures, if that makes sense.
Speaker:And there's something quite true and quite liberating about
Speaker:this whole idea of it's okay.
Speaker:If it doesn't go right the first time or the second time I don't.
Speaker:Is, is that what you found?
Speaker:It's 100% true.
Speaker:I mean, uh, there's people in, in the industry that I work in the side that
Speaker:I do more, mostly direct marketing for traffic and, um, people will have unicorns
Speaker:and sometimes the unicorns are just brand new people out, out of the gate.
Speaker:They have no clue what they're doing and they succeed.
Speaker:But most of the time it's the, uh, failed 30 times to have that unicorn.
Speaker:It's the idea of, you know, you know, I'm.
Speaker:I launched my company first shot and I won after 20 years of practice
Speaker:and trial and error, you know, it's, it's that, that kind of concept.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So those who succeed in the industry in any industry are those who
Speaker:just persevere and keep going, because there's a way to do it.
Speaker:And if you just did it failed the first time you just did something wrong, it's
Speaker:a matter of just finding out what it was, plug in the hole and do it again.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker:I couldn't agree more.
Speaker:Consistency is the key, isn't it.
Speaker:And just showing up a hundred percent, uh, just showing up is, is, and
Speaker:we say this all the time and, and people don't believe it, actually,
Speaker:they genuinely don't believe it.
Speaker:And it's like, well, uh, you know, that didn't, didn't work that time
Speaker:and we lost some money and it's like, well, but what did you learn?
Speaker:And, and how could you, you know, change as a result of what you've learned.
Speaker:So going forward, it might have a bigger chance of success, but
Speaker:it, it's a really hard mindset I think, for people to get into.
Speaker:So do you, why do you think that.
Speaker:I think it comes down to just the way society's top people to
Speaker:think and what success can be.
Speaker:So if you, if your idea of success is a six figure job, a hundred thousand
Speaker:dollars a year, $150,000 a year, or something like that, then your whole
Speaker:goal is of making that kind of income.
Speaker:And you're constantly looking for that income.
Speaker:And if you try starting your own company, you will not make that income initially.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:You're gonna probably lose money, potentially work for free.
Speaker:And that scares people away immediately.
Speaker:They're like, well, gosh, I could just go get a job.
Speaker:It's easier.
Speaker:Mm-hmm of course it's easier, but long term, it's not long term.
Speaker:It's not gonna financially take you where you wanna be.
Speaker:Um, so yeah, it definitely comes down to how people have been taught in society
Speaker:and where they're thinking about what successes a lot of people I work with.
Speaker:I first asked them what are their goals and why, why, why do you
Speaker:wanna have an online business?
Speaker:What is the actual reasons you're gonna achieve?
Speaker:Why make a lot of money?
Speaker:How much is a lot of money?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Million dollars.
Speaker:Have you ever made a million dollars before?
Speaker:No.
Speaker:So what is it?
Speaker:The million dollars are gonna buy you?
Speaker:Well, I wanna have X, Y, and Z.
Speaker:You don't need a million dollars for that.
Speaker:Mm-hmm a lot of times you don't.
Speaker:So it's just a matter of truly understanding that and working
Speaker:your way back and that'll help give you the drive to be able to
Speaker:persevere through the hardships.
Speaker:That's a really interesting point that you've raised there
Speaker:because, and I like that question.
Speaker:Why, why do you want to do this?
Speaker:And it's, it's one of those questions.
Speaker:I think people rarely ask themselves is why do I, why
Speaker:do I need the million dollars?
Speaker:Why, why do I need the fancy car that the million dollars is gonna buy me?
Speaker:What is it about that, um, that that is driving me.
Speaker:Why, why, why?
Speaker:And I think that, that simple question really helps people drill
Speaker:down to figure out who they are, why they're here and what they stand for.
Speaker:And I think so often, uh, we just.
Speaker:I dunno about you Cody, but I see a lot of people just jumping straight in without
Speaker:really understanding those questions.
Speaker:Uh, and whenever we've done coaching with clients, no, no,
Speaker:let's stop right at the beginning.
Speaker:Let's what let's answer this question.
Speaker:Why what's it all about?
Speaker:So we know we know what success really is for you.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's a hundred percent.
Speaker:I, I, so I good, a little back backstory about me.
Speaker:So, um, I was a salesperson, you know, won the magazine competitions in high, you
Speaker:know, middle school, elementary school, chocolate competitions in baseball.
Speaker:I sold all those, those things and did very good job at it.
Speaker:My, uh, first real job outta college was selling at US food service, selling food
Speaker:and restaurants and stuff like that.
Speaker:And, um, The idea of starting my own business came very early.
Speaker:And so I joined Bill Glazer and Dan Kennedy Masterminds.
Speaker:I was on newsletters.
Speaker:I was all excited about, um, direct marketing, marketing,
Speaker:old school, direct marketing.
Speaker:Oh yeah.
Speaker:Old school.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Love that stuff.
Speaker:And um, I love the idea of swipe and deploy.
Speaker:They get a good idea from one industry and deploying it a
Speaker:different way in the new industry.
Speaker:Um, but in that whole process, I watched the people start businesses and one of,
Speaker:one of them in particular, she started a gym and had her entire business plan.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Mm-hmm I had still don't have a business plan because I was, I didn't want to
Speaker:go down in that thought process of, you know, what's the reason why to think,
Speaker:have to think internally requires so much energy mm-hmm and self-judgment
Speaker:and questioning if, if this is right or wrong or what it is, it's something
Speaker:that we, as humans, we avoid, we like to be told what to do to get it done.
Speaker:We don't like to look deep to understand why we're doing it.
Speaker:Mm-hmm um, and it's taken a long lot of work now.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:My companies have more of a structure now, but the whole idea of that initial
Speaker:like, you know, what are we doing as a company and why, and what, what did
Speaker:we exist and was the differentiator.
Speaker:I didn't have that for years.
Speaker:Um, and even right now, it's not at the point where a lot of people would have
Speaker:it when they're first starting out.
Speaker:So when, when I do work with people too, and I'm giving them advice and
Speaker:coaching them, it's that main question.
Speaker:It's why are you doing this?
Speaker:What is the reason a recent guy, he's like, I want a
Speaker:hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker:Like why came down the fact that he wants to be able to give money
Speaker:to his kids so they can survive each month on their own as well.
Speaker:He wants to take care of his two kids and himself.
Speaker:That's really interesting, isn't it?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So it's, it's not a hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker:It's being able to take care of his two kids in himself.
Speaker:So the, the, the number is, is a fictitious goal to hit mm-hmm.
Speaker:But as long as he can achieve that, he'll be successful.
Speaker:And if you know what that is, you won't be disappointed by failure.
Speaker:So you didn't hit a million dollars a year, but you did a half million.
Speaker:What did you used to make?
Speaker:50,000?
Speaker:Like that's a success times
Speaker:anybody's where anybody could tell, could speak about.
Speaker:So it's just, um, understanding.
Speaker:What it really is, and being able to really march towards that and then, um,
Speaker:of course, modify and retarget yourself so you can keep marching forward.
Speaker:Oh, that in itself is worth the price of admission.
Speaker:Not that we charge people listening to the podcast, but if
Speaker:we did, that would be worth it.
Speaker:Um, so you've sat under then, uh, some remarkable names that, I mean, I've been
Speaker:around business for a little while and I, I I've heard the names that you've
Speaker:mentioned, like Dan Kennedy and so forth.
Speaker:Um, and you used this phrase, uh, whether intentionally or not that I,
Speaker:and I just note that jotted it down, um, direct marketing for traffic.
Speaker:Um, and so I wanna dig into this a little bit, because this is
Speaker:a bit more of your background.
Speaker:It.
Speaker:Can I use the phrase that direct marketing is a bit old school for
Speaker:what we in a digital industry.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:So, and this intrigues me.
Speaker:So let's dig into some of these things that you've learned, uh, sitting under
Speaker:the, the likes of, of Dan and so on and so forth and how you've bought them across.
Speaker:Yeah, definitely.
Speaker:And guys, I did not invent this.
Speaker:I was not the first person to do it.
Speaker:I just grabbed onto the supplement space in the industry and was one of
Speaker:the first dozen or so that did this in like 2015, 2016 and was able to start
Speaker:building a company on top of that.
Speaker:But let's, let's look at the difference.
Speaker:So right now we have eCommerce and then I call direct marketing.
Speaker:Those are two different channels.
Speaker:Mm-hmm eCommerce is a, an e-commerce page Shopify page, right?
Speaker:You have your product description, you got some information, you got some customer
Speaker:reviews, bada bing bada boom, that's it.
Speaker:Maybe a five minute video on there that kind of describes the product.
Speaker:So it's all benefit driven.
Speaker:This does this, this does that.
Speaker:It's good for this.
Speaker:It's good for that very simple bullet point kind of conversation.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Now, in order to get that product sold out there, you need to have an influencer.
Speaker:You need to have someone with a face or traffic that they people know like and
Speaker:trust them to then say, Hey, buy this product or you have to go online and
Speaker:create an ad campaign on Facebook, Google
Speaker:tikTok, whatever it is that has compelling ads that get someone to
Speaker:realize that, oh, this deal, this product, this something is worth
Speaker:buying and I need to, I need to get it.
Speaker:And it needs to be able to solve that problem.
Speaker:So you have to understand what their problem is.
Speaker:You have to understand the right traffic source.
Speaker:You have to nail it all down perfectly.
Speaker:Um, you have to make sure you don't lose money on the, on the front end on that.
Speaker:And then a lot of this comes down to that whole idea of seven touches.
Speaker:It takes seven touches to sell somebody mm-hmm . So you have to have a campaign
Speaker:and a marketing concept set up that allows for that entire process.
Speaker:Now direct marketing is a one shot.
Speaker:It's a shotgun blast to get a customer in one, one touch.
Speaker:And so there is two ways of doing direct marketing for
Speaker:health and supplement offers.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Um, and I'll go over the first or standard one, and that is what's
Speaker:called a long form sales page.
Speaker:People do this with a TSL, which is text or a VSL, which is video.
Speaker:And those are those 45 minute long videos that you might get tricked into
Speaker:when you're clicking on Facebook and it has like a countdown like boop, and
Speaker:then like a lady goes ha on my, on my wedding anniversary, I tripped and fell
Speaker:down and thought I would never come back from this until I discovered this
Speaker:amazing secret that changed my life.
Speaker:And then it goes into the, this story and the text sales face
Speaker:scripts by this hands of it.
Speaker:Uh, I'm not, I'm not a writer, but I've, I've watched and
Speaker:read thousands of 'em probably.
Speaker:Um, and so those stories are how you help someone know like, and trust
Speaker:you in one sitting mm-hmm . And so this idea is creating an entire story
Speaker:and a lot of times they're based on reality and that's what I stand behind.
Speaker:Everything should be based on a real story.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And a real person.
Speaker:Um, cuz you know, just making stuff up is kind of lame.
Speaker:Um, it's kind of used car salesman kind of status.
Speaker:It should have something meat and potatoes behind it but it's really creating that
Speaker:connection and letting the customer feel like they are relate to somebody.
Speaker:So there's just a problem.
Speaker:A good example is a, there's a program out there for like pelvic
Speaker:floor stuff for women, right.
Speaker:Mm-hmm and, uh, it really goes into helping women with this very unique
Speaker:and, and, and kind of like shameful issue that they're worried about because
Speaker:of, um, P themselves kind of stuff.
Speaker:Mm-hmm . And so it teaches them how to do stuff and they
Speaker:have supplements for as well.
Speaker:And it's, it's a great product, great concept.
Speaker:And it really creates a storyline of like the worst day, worst scenario
Speaker:possible to happen to this woman.
Speaker:And it, it just kind of lets the reader go, oh, God.
Speaker:Yeah, that's happening before, or I've come close to that.
Speaker:And they really create that connection.
Speaker:And that's that know, like and trust.
Speaker:mm-hmm, , You're able to build that connection with, with a
Speaker:story kinda like right now I'm building a connection with you.
Speaker:You're listening to my story, you're going, oh, I like
Speaker:Cody this is interesting.
Speaker:Um, so then it goes into there the mechanism and explains the benefits of the
Speaker:product and you try and make it unique.
Speaker:So, you know, uh, turmeric it's great for anti-inflammation mm-hmm but
Speaker:why can we go three or four layers deeper into the science, into the
Speaker:actual studies to explain that.
Speaker:And can we, um, coin a, a terminology for it that makes us sound unique.
Speaker:Mm-hmm are we a sales page once that was a, for a thyroid supplement based on the
Speaker:best selling Throid supplement on Amazon.
Speaker:Um, I had just amazing amount of customers say how great it was, but we,
Speaker:uh, used a car method, C A R and the car method had to do with driving with
Speaker:the analogy it all worked and people connected their brain and it, it dumbed
Speaker:down the science in a way that allowed them to understand mm-hmm um, Then you
Speaker:sell 'em on the product with a deal.
Speaker:And this long form sales page allows for that one sale to happen initially.
Speaker:And then once they purchase you, then offer up sales.
Speaker:Hey, would you like to buy more of the same?
Speaker:Hey, this other product could help.
Speaker:Hey, this other product also helps and you give people opportunity to buy more.
Speaker:And these types of funnels can generate $200 to $250 average order
Speaker:values where you're bringing about a hundred to $150 profit per order.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:So that gives you the ability to pay very high ad costs in Facebook,
Speaker:Google, YouTube, or through direct marketing with affiliates.
Speaker:My specialty is finding affiliates with similar companies, health and supplement
Speaker:companies, and having them promote your products to their existing customers.
Speaker:And that's how I do most of my sales.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:So, okay.
Speaker:Um, So this long form content is still online, um, in my head, I mean, just
Speaker:going back to the direct note, are you, you're not mailing out letters to
Speaker:people you're doing it online and you're still driving traffic to them, right?
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:It's just moving from the idea back in the day of doing out doing letters
Speaker:and things like that to emails.
Speaker:And so the emails can be short and simple.
Speaker:Get someone to click.
Speaker:They can be long and compelling to get someone to be invested
Speaker:before they land on the page.
Speaker:And then it's just from there getting them to read the sales page, watch the sales
Speaker:video and, and, and make the purchase.
Speaker:You typically see about a 1 to 3% conversion rate these pages.
Speaker:So it's not a massive number, but when you're able to pay out a hundred dollars
Speaker:commission to the traffic source, it's makes sense all day long for the traffic
Speaker:to send you so back to the traffic source.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:We talked, you said earlier, direct marketing is a traffic source, right?
Speaker:That idea is really what allows us to get a massive influx of customers.
Speaker:Now, at the beginning, you may not make very much money, but you
Speaker:can on the reorgs, you can on the subscription plan, you can on the
Speaker:secondary products, you sell them.
Speaker:Um, and it really allows for you to get in front of a lot of different places.
Speaker:So it, in this space, um, there's hundreds of hundreds of
Speaker:people that have email lists.
Speaker:I mean, I have about five email lists ranging from 20,000 contacts
Speaker:to about a hundred thousand contacts.
Speaker:Mm-hmm and all these people are, look, don't have enough products to promote
Speaker:internally to send an email every day.
Speaker:So they're looking for third party offers that convert.
Speaker:And so you have, I have a whole team of people who go out and just try and find
Speaker:these companies to get them to promote us
Speaker:and to make sure that our offers convert well for them.
Speaker:Cause I have about five different offers.
Speaker:You know, I have weight loss offers.
Speaker:I have offers for pain.
Speaker:I have thyroid one.
Speaker:I have generic offers for turmeric and moringa.
Speaker:Um, so it's really determining what offer fits best for each traffic source and
Speaker:then helping them find reasons to mail to your offer multiple times a month.
Speaker:Well, Cody, there's a lot going on here.
Speaker:Uh which, um, which I'm keen to get into now it's worth stating, uh, again, if
Speaker:you are, if you're tuning in a little bit later, you zoned out in the introduction.
Speaker:Cody is involved in the supplement business, um, and you have built up your
Speaker:empire for want of a better expression, um, selling supplements, um, which
Speaker:you started in 2015 using more of the
Speaker:um, long form sales, either text or videos to, to sort of drive people, to
Speaker:buy these, these products, um, using some of the direct, uh, marketing methods.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:So, Cody, let me understand.
Speaker:I've got, let me just summarize, make sure I've got this right.
Speaker:You have got, well, I would technically call a sales page.
Speaker:Um, you've got a long form sales page, um, uh, or a landing page or the people
Speaker:have called them and that can either be video or it can be text we're sending
Speaker:traffic to that page, but that page is predominantly telling story and it's
Speaker:telling story of how people have gone,
Speaker:undergone a transformation they've sort of gone from point a to point B in
Speaker:their life because of your product or your intervention that has helped them.
Speaker:They were suffering with X and now they're, you know, they're, they're
Speaker:doing really great over here and you are telling the stories in these sort
Speaker:of long form sales pages, um, and to drive traffic to that sales page, your
Speaker:particular specialty is finding affiliates that wanna send their tribe to that page.
Speaker:And they earn a high level of commission because you've got high profits
Speaker:in that typical average, uh, sale.
Speaker:Am I right?
Speaker:A hundred percent.
Speaker:100%.
Speaker:Whew.
Speaker:I feel like I was just in a school test.
Speaker:Um, so, so I'm curious, let's start then.
Speaker:Uh, if I can, with this sales page, what are some of the things that
Speaker:you are looking for on that sales page you are thinking about I've.
Speaker:I mean, you've sort of given us a broad brush strokes with, I'm looking for a
Speaker:story, a transformative story, but what are some of the things that your, you
Speaker:think that sales page really needs to.
Speaker:100%.
Speaker:So I'm gonna do for those of you who are watching this, I'm gonna do a little
Speaker:screen sharing at the same time, so you can see a successful page, but I'm
Speaker:also gonna try and articulate as best I can for those who are listening.
Speaker:So one of our new offers is called Beach Ready Bites.
Speaker:It's a probiotic gummy, the, the actual enzymes in it helped, uh, prep,
Speaker:your digestive system for digesting.
Speaker:It's kinda like when you have a salad before you eat, it helps your body
Speaker:prep to digest everything quicker.
Speaker:Mm-hmm um, and it helps people lose weight in that aspect.
Speaker:Um, so the sales page starts out with the, the headline and the lead.
Speaker:Um, so this, this headline is that captivating thing.
Speaker:That's like this thing that to change your life or this story that, that, you
Speaker:know, helps someone lose 20 pounds or it's very sensationalized mm-hmm . Um,
Speaker:and then we usually start out the story with the thing that destroyed the.
Speaker:This particular one, the, the child said, mommy, am I gonna be fat?
Speaker:Like you, like someone made fun of you in school kind of thing.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And from there, the story goes into a little bit of reduction about the actual
Speaker:customer about the actual story person.
Speaker:And she goes, oh, and I figured out this whole transformation, but kind of
Speaker:let me walk you through my, my journey.
Speaker:And then she, she kind of, you know, will hint at the, the idea and the solution
Speaker:as she goes along as the mechanism the whole time, we're not calling it a
Speaker:product, it's just a solution for all.
Speaker:We know it could be a workout program, it could be a supplement,
Speaker:it could be pretty much anything.
Speaker:So from there, the story breaks down and we just tell the story of the person.
Speaker:Um, this is how you're getting to know, like, and trust the
Speaker:person, understand their journey, understand what they went through.
Speaker:It starts to go into the science of what's been causing the problem and making sure
Speaker:that the reader knows it's not their fault, but it's something that they
Speaker:didn't have control or knowledge about.
Speaker:Mm-hmm , you know, like my parents were brought up on
Speaker:eat, whatever you want, right.
Speaker:Taco bell who cares?
Speaker:Food's food calories in calories out.
Speaker:We now know that calorie's not a calorie, right?
Speaker:Eating gluten and, and carbs versus, you know, lean meats and vegetables
Speaker:far superior and different in your diet and how your body responds to that.
Speaker:So, um, it's not your fault.
Speaker:This is, this is facilities that are new, that are changing the world
Speaker:and can make everything better.
Speaker:And then we really get into the mechanism of what makes that special
Speaker:and which is referring back to actual scientific studies from
Speaker:universities, from wherever it is.
Speaker:And a lot of the writers we work with, they know all the websites
Speaker:to go to, to review these studies.
Speaker:Um, and then from there we go into the actual product reveal and
Speaker:we go, tada, here's the product.
Speaker:And the product's amazing.
Speaker:It changes your life.
Speaker:It's on sale now there's a massive guarantee.
Speaker:You know, it's a short inventory and supply for this product.
Speaker:That's true.
Speaker:It's really hard to get.
Speaker:Um, and it's a one time discount and it's gonna change your life and there's no
Speaker:risk to you and buy the product mm-hmm
Speaker:And then from there people buy, it goes to an upsell and it's like,
Speaker:Hey, now you can get the product at a discount because you're part of
Speaker:the family have more of the same.
Speaker:And then if they say, uh, no, thanks to that.
Speaker:They get sent to a down sale.
Speaker:It goes, Hey, how about less or a cheaper deal?
Speaker:And then after that, if they, uh, if they, uh, keep going down the
Speaker:funnel by way, they can exit time.
Speaker:They want it goes, Hey, try this thing too.
Speaker:It's gonna help make it even better.
Speaker:And, and ideally you wanna go through about three upsells and down sells.
Speaker:So you're selling three different products in the funnel.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And that allows people really to build that connection.
Speaker:And that's kind of the structure of the sales page and the funnel behind it.
Speaker:The actual upsells and down sells are very rudimentary and basic.
Speaker:There's not a lot of, um, uh, magic about it.
Speaker:The sales page is truly where, um, the, the magic happens.
Speaker:And then that's the key point is really finding either a writer who can help you
Speaker:put it together and, and do it correctly.
Speaker:You gotta find writers who are in communities and have their own within
Speaker:their own coaching programs who are intelligent, who have made pages that do
Speaker:a million dollars because, um, I've had a lot of trash pages sold to me before.
Speaker:And so it really takes finding a, a writer who is quality or
Speaker:learning the skillset yourself, um, to be able to put stuff together.
Speaker:And that's one version.
Speaker:And then I wanted to show the second version, which is actually
Speaker:what I think a lot of people in the ecommerce space might like to do more.
Speaker:And I call this a long form ecommerce page.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And so this is a turmeric offer by one, get three free.
Speaker:And, um, basically it's a video of me for five minutes explaining
Speaker:the benefits of turmeric.
Speaker:It is a longer page talking about the company and what turmeric does for you.
Speaker:And then it has the buy option for buy one, get three free, uh, same thing, the
Speaker:upsells and down cells, more of the same.
Speaker:We do the same sale for the upsells.
Speaker:You know, we tested omega three and probiotics and Dasai and MEA and the
Speaker:backend on the upsells and down cells.
Speaker:You can kind of put whatever you want in the back, but this idea of a shorter
Speaker:form eCommerce page, I think is truly the almost easiest way to start.
Speaker:Cause if someone's figured out how to get traffic from Facebook to like a Shopify
Speaker:page and it's successful, I bet million bucks that drive into a offer like this
Speaker:will probably double their profits.
Speaker:That's a really interesting point that, um, uh, I'm just bringing it
Speaker:back to e-commerce for one second, that you've made there about, and thank
Speaker:you for showing those, by the way.
Speaker:Mm-hmm just so you, if you are listening and you didn't get a chance to see them,
Speaker:um, I think could, he did a very good explanation of what you saw on the screen,
Speaker:but we will put screenshots, we will put links to those web pages in the show
Speaker:notes and you'll be able to access them.
Speaker:Or of course, just turn on over to YouTube, watch the video.
Speaker:Uh, it's all there.
Speaker:Um, so going back to, to what you mentioned then about eCommerce,
Speaker:one of the fascinating things for me is the experimentation in how
Speaker:long an eCommerce page should be.
Speaker:Uh, and we have tested thousands of different combinations over the
Speaker:years, you know, short, long image here and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker:I won't bore you with all the stuff that we've tested.
Speaker:But one of the things that I do know is actually long form eCommerce
Speaker:pages, usually convert at a higher rate than short form eCommerce pages,
Speaker:especially when you start to integrate in those pages, the, the old school
Speaker:method of direct marketing, you know, in the sort of the letters that they
Speaker:used to send you and you, you bring those with the headlines and, uh,
Speaker:they can convert super, super well.
Speaker:I mean, super, super well.
Speaker:So, and this is what you've discovered, right?
Speaker:This is what you were, what you were saying, and this
Speaker:is an easy place to start.
Speaker:Um, but, uh, Mr.
Speaker:Cody, I'm, I'm kind of curious.
Speaker:I, I can just hear, you know, all the listeners go, this is all very great.
Speaker:Um, uh, the, the primary question people are gonna have though
Speaker:is how do I get started, right?
Speaker:Where, and, and for, and you mentioned about finding a writer and how, how
Speaker:actually that's not straightforward.
Speaker:So what tips do you have for people who perhaps would go, want to go
Speaker:find a writer that can help them write good long form content?
Speaker:Definitely.
Speaker:So first things first, I'm gladly share more about it later if you want Matt, but
Speaker:I definitely coach people how to do this.
Speaker:So I, I have a whole system and procedure of doing that.
Speaker:But in short, how do you find quality writers?
Speaker:Number one, you need to first find what you want in your why, right?
Speaker:Mm-hmm . So if you, if you, if you don't have a product, you don't have
Speaker:anything yet, you gotta discover that.
Speaker:Um, that's very important.
Speaker:If you already have a product and you're like, Hey, this thing does
Speaker:well, I'm selling a lot of it
Speaker:and I wanna make the page better.
Speaker:The first step is to understand what you have and what you don't have.
Speaker:So looking at pages like the example of the term work page, or any kind of
Speaker:eCommerce pages that are crushing it, uh, you could find online, you can tell it
Speaker:because the ads are going constantly or it's on, uh, click think or buy goods.
Speaker:Those are lot of the direct marketing affiliate platforms where most
Speaker:people put their offers, finding pages that work that are doing well,
Speaker:and then reverse engineering them.
Speaker:So, uh, long form ecommerce page is more like Legos stacked on block together.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's like an ecommerce page.
Speaker:There are little block sections, a long form sales page
Speaker:that is a indepth story.
Speaker:So understanding like our turmeric, you know, it's got the video and
Speaker:the headline with the call to action of, with the deal they're getting.
Speaker:And then the video talks about what they're getting and why.
Speaker:And it does a little tease in there too.
Speaker:You can always watch the video.
Speaker:It's got a good script.
Speaker:I had a wonderful person named Mary Agnes who gave me tips on
Speaker:making that script a little better.
Speaker:Um, we then go into the benefits and what it's used for, we then go
Speaker:into the company and who it is and who it's for and how to use it.
Speaker:And then we give a deal and then they see the, the sale deal.
Speaker:So like, okay, cool.
Speaker:So you're not sold something beginning, a lot of e-commerce pages
Speaker:have the buy option on the top.
Speaker:So I land the page $59.
Speaker:Nope.
Speaker:I'm done.
Speaker:Mm-hmm you want them to read and get connected as they're, as they're going
Speaker:in with them to get know, like, and trust you before you try and sell 'em.
Speaker:Uh, imagine.
Speaker:So I, I was, I worked at US food service.
Speaker:I sold food, to restaurants, I used to do 15 million a year in San Diego
Speaker:when I was outta college in that job.
Speaker:And you can't walk into a restaurant in the back kitchen, be like, I
Speaker:got steak peace for a great deal.
Speaker:They'll be like, who are you?
Speaker:Why are you here?
Speaker:And get outta the kitchen.
Speaker:Mm-hmm so you first gotta.
Speaker:Get to know who it, who is, who is the person you're talking to.
Speaker:So that way you can actually talk to the right person.
Speaker:You're prepared for the actual conversation, cuz you
Speaker:know who you're talking to.
Speaker:Are they the person doing the orders?
Speaker:Are they the owner of the restaurant?
Speaker:Are they the chef?
Speaker:Are they the line cook?
Speaker:Are they the manager?
Speaker:Who's the one placing the orders.
Speaker:So you can speak to them correctly.
Speaker:What matters to them?
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:If it's the cook, he wants quality.
Speaker:If it's the manager, he wants best price.
Speaker:If it's the owner, he just wants to not deal with anything, you know?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So you gotta understand what the person actually wants.
Speaker:You're solving their problem.
Speaker:And then you have to get them to feel that you're gonna co complete
Speaker:all that before you sell them.
Speaker:Hey see, that's a really interesting point.
Speaker:Isn't it?
Speaker:Because you are right.
Speaker:Every traditional, every standard eCommerce website, um, uh, is on the
Speaker:base of the price and the product
Speaker:is there.
Speaker:And, and I think it's been done like that because of convenience for people
Speaker:that want to buy the product again.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:So your all, every eCommerce website that I know is built around this
Speaker:whole idea that the person coming wants to actually buy your product.
Speaker:Um, we call it the knowledge trust factor, but the people that come to your site
Speaker:that don't know you, they don't trust you and they don't know their, your product
Speaker:and the very first thing they see is your products and a price.
Speaker:Well, that's what they're making the judgment on.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Um, and so one of the things that I like about what you've done is you
Speaker:flip that around on your head and you put the price at the bottom.
Speaker:So my question here is do people actually scroll down when you do that?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:So as long as the each section you're looking at each Lego block is compelling
Speaker:and there's a reason to scroll.
Speaker:So like, whenever I look at a page I'll, I'll do control shift, I, and
Speaker:look at the page via mobile two.
Speaker:If you're looking at the page, is there something I want to see at
Speaker:the bottom or continue reading?
Speaker:So if you're looking at it, the next subject line or image or
Speaker:question should be there, oh, what's this scroll up, right.
Speaker:Scroll down, whatever they're doing.
Speaker:So the, the idea is it needs to be compelling so they keep doing that.
Speaker:Um, we typically see these on our long form sales page is about 50% of people
Speaker:make it to the first buy box mm-hmm
Speaker:And then by the time you have the second buy box, you're down to
Speaker:like 25% and then it's just gone.
Speaker:So majority of people are gonna see the initial product.
Speaker:And then, and then, uh, about 25% later, we'll will get to the next spot and
Speaker:decide if they wanna purchase or not.
Speaker:So, you know, you, you give 'em as much as you can, you sell the
Speaker:product and then you reinforce it.
Speaker:Here's why it's so special.
Speaker:Here's why it's no risk to you.
Speaker:Here's the benefits again, buy box again.
Speaker:And then if you have more content, you put more content there and then final
Speaker:buy box on the bottom of the page.
Speaker:So I, I typically wanna see two or three bisections on any kind of page,
Speaker:because it gives that opportunity for someone who's on the fence to keep
Speaker:going and just kind of think about it as, um, a used car deal, right?
Speaker:You go into the dealership, the person makes friends with you shows
Speaker:you all the best cars lets you sit in the cool Ferrari and that neat.
Speaker:Oh well you want, well, you came for a Honda, let's go check it out.
Speaker:The Honda.
Speaker:And now you're buddy's with a guy and now you wanna help him out and
Speaker:you want to get the deal mm-hmm and then the price comes out and then
Speaker:you're on the fence and they go, cool,
Speaker:well, I can give you new tires and I can give you a 30 day oil change guarantee.
Speaker:And then you're like, yeah.
Speaker:Okay, I'm sold.
Speaker:So it's that, it's that entire process of building that friendship
Speaker:and giving someone the deal and then sweetening the deal at the same time.
Speaker:So that way, uh, they feel confident about the purchase.
Speaker:Very good.
Speaker:Very good.
Speaker:Right.
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Speaker:so
Speaker:right, Cody.
Speaker:Um, so before we were talking about sort of long form e-commerce pages,
Speaker:um, and how, uh, these pages, you know, you're, you're very much
Speaker:taking people on a journey, right?
Speaker:Um, And you are sort of giving them a reason to keep scrolling
Speaker:and then a good website, like yours is 50% of the people are gonna
Speaker:scroll down and, and see that box.
Speaker:Um, and you know, you can test this and you can see whether
Speaker:the conversion is good or not.
Speaker:And you know, if you've got a good copywriter, great.
Speaker:Um, it's gonna help you, I guess, one of the questions, um, in my
Speaker:head, uh, and maybe this is just me being a bit British, right?
Speaker:Maybe it's my English reservedness coming out.
Speaker:I'm always skeptical of the sensationalist headlines.
Speaker:Um, and I would have a hard time, uh, saying, you know, take this pillar
Speaker:is gonna radically change your life.
Speaker:Um, unless I knew for a fact it was gonna gonna do that.
Speaker:So how do you, am I too reserved?
Speaker:What have you found with that kind of, um, headline writing scheme?
Speaker:100% works.
Speaker:It's a matter of if you wanna stand behind that for your company or not.
Speaker:And so, in my opinion, there's the very sensationalized stories.
Speaker:There's the scientific article stories, and then there's the, um,
Speaker:good company or good deal stories.
Speaker:Mm-hmm . And so if like you're doing the turmeric deal, it's, it's
Speaker:the deal buy one, get three free.
Speaker:That's the headline, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So if, if you're doing the, the reason, if it's something that's already in
Speaker:the zeitgeist, when people understand it, then it's easier to do that.
Speaker:If you're having to make that story, you need to grab someone, uh, good example.
Speaker:We can do it recording too, but, um, there's, uh, I think it's rounders the
Speaker:movie about like that's rounders or it's one of those stock trading movies.
Speaker:Mm-hmm beginning of the movie is a woman doing a downhill ski competition,
Speaker:like on the Olympics and then crash.
Speaker:Has nothing to do with the entire movie.
Speaker:It's just so intense.
Speaker:It gets you completely like, and then it rolls into the movie and
Speaker:you're like completely, oh, isn't that Molly's game pulled in.
Speaker:Which one is that?
Speaker:Molly's game.
Speaker:Was that the one?
Speaker:Cause she, she was a ski the poker player.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So that idea, but it is this sensational exciting, like powerful thing.
Speaker:And then yeah, it just draws you in and you're and you are.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And that's the key.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's the key.
Speaker:That's the key, right?
Speaker:That's the, the, that's what the headlines got to do.
Speaker:That's what you've gotta do in an instant.
Speaker:You've gotta draw them in.
Speaker:Um, and you've, you've gotta get people's attention, uh, you know, I
Speaker:was, um, I was curious when you said you'd list, you know, you'd been into
Speaker:Dan Kennedy's masterminds and stuff, so let's just sort of switch gears
Speaker:slightly and, and go to direct marketing.
Speaker:And Dan Kennedy for if memory serves me, right.
Speaker:Was a brilliant copywriter.
Speaker:I mean, the man knew how to write stuff and I've, I've
Speaker:actually got some of his types.
Speaker:Uh that's how old I am.
Speaker:I have tapes, uh, you know, with his lessons on, what are some of the key
Speaker:things that you learned from these sort of old marketing masters, you
Speaker:know, the old school marketing masters, um, you know, what are what's, maybe
Speaker:you one or two of the key principles that you sort of that understood the
Speaker:test of time for you that you remember hearing in light bulbs going off
Speaker:and you've carried that through in, in everything that you've done.
Speaker:The one and only thing, swipe and deploy.
Speaker:Swipe and deploy.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Excellent.
Speaker:Take what's working in an industry, a different industry
Speaker:and make it work for you.
Speaker:Mm-hmm so Bill Glazer brought it up about how he would take.
Speaker:Uh, deals from Walmart and car deals and apply it to his
Speaker:men's, um, clothing business
Speaker:cause he had a men's warehouse kind of kind of thing.
Speaker:So having that idea of a coupon, having the idea of a reason for a sale is the
Speaker:captivating reason for, for his business.
Speaker:That's like the tumeric buy one, get three free mm-hmm the reason for that
Speaker:sale is that the reason they're there is because there's three units free.
Speaker:No one does that.
Speaker:So you can take something that's more well known of a product and create
Speaker:a reason why, you know, this is, this is because it's my birthday.
Speaker:This is because it's Halloween.
Speaker:This is because of a, a certain holiday or thanks.
Speaker:It's because we've helped a thousand people lose 10 pounds.
Speaker:You know, those kinds of those kinds of captivating ideas.
Speaker:The other idea, too, you can take the concept away from that idea of that
Speaker:sensationalist and pose a question.
Speaker:Can this pill really help you lose 20 pounds in two weeks?
Speaker:Copy says no, but you just completely took someone on the idea of can you?
Speaker:That's a pretty good way of doing it as well.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I've not thought about it.
Speaker:So it's doing that, that counter, that counter and is, is easy and not sure.
Speaker:Is it worth testing?
Speaker:Probably.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I, I definitely wanna find out is, you know, you read that.
Speaker:Like, I don't know.
Speaker:I, I, I do want to know though, so, uh, yeah, , that's, that's quite clever.
Speaker:So this swipe and deploy methodology then, um, where you see something
Speaker:working in one industry and you and you, and you take that and, and
Speaker:apply that to yourselves and you, you know, your own business and stuff.
Speaker:How have you used that to build, um, your, uh, your supplement.
Speaker:So a lot of it comes down to seeing what works and then determining if you're
Speaker:gonna position yourself in that space.
Speaker:Um, it could be used also in, um, in email marketing to promote your
Speaker:offer, um, with different kinds of promotions or timing of the year, or
Speaker:reasons why to get someone to email.
Speaker:Um, I've always loved the accidental email.
Speaker:You send out an email that's kind of half broken, and then you send another
Speaker:email at 10 months later and be like, oops, the last email wasn't finished.
Speaker:I didn't finish what I was saying.
Speaker:Here's the rest of the email and the other, the bio again.
Speaker:So you get an excuse to talk to someone again.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Um, They're actually quite converting emails as well.
Speaker:They, they are, but I love the subject line test.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That one opens really high . Yeah, it's really funny thing.
Speaker:I'm sorry.
Speaker:We sent it way too early.
Speaker:Here's the rest of the email.
Speaker:And so the open rate of both emails goes up because everybody wants to
Speaker:see what you wrote in the first one.
Speaker:That's maybe not in the second one.
Speaker:Uh, yeah.
Speaker:And you are in their inbox twice, legitimately and it's is
Speaker:quite a fascinating strategy.
Speaker:I think the broken email.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:And then swiping too, like what's working.
Speaker:Is there, um, a particular offer that you want to try and emulate or have
Speaker:like get into so Ric for example, right?
Speaker:I've had people that wanted to start throwing turmeric, uh, offer
Speaker:after how successful mine was for.
Speaker:And I just leaned over and said to them, I'm like, great go for it.
Speaker:But I would encourage you to use mine as a benchmark and keep promoting me
Speaker:until you figure out you can actually beat my offer and of the five big dogs.
Speaker:I know that did that.
Speaker:I only one actually had an offer that continued on and did well.
Speaker:So, um, you know, being able to swipe and deploy is important.
Speaker:You type the idea and run it in your own way, but you gotta make sure that
Speaker:it actually is also more financially advantageous than doing other things
Speaker:they could have just kept promoting me and gotten free money for just copying
Speaker:and pasting an email in a, in a process.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's interesting one, isn't it?
Speaker:Because again, that's the danger of these sort of offers, I guess.
Speaker:How do you avoid the race to the bottom?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So if you are looking at something and someone's done the, you know, buy
Speaker:one, get three free and say, well, do I do buy one and get four free?
Speaker:And then some fellows I'll buy one and get five free.
Speaker:And it starts to become a bit ridiculous after a while.
Speaker:So how do you, how do you avoid the race to the bottom?
Speaker:Definitely.
Speaker:So I've actually not experienced that.
Speaker:So even with the buy one, get three free, I've seen one person try to
Speaker:emulate me, another person trying do a buy one, get two, three, and
Speaker:different products and their offers.
Speaker:I don't know where they are today.
Speaker:I've never seen anybody promote them.
Speaker:So I think that in the affiliate space, if you were directly ripping someone
Speaker:off, then the people who are promoting the offers are not gonna like that.
Speaker:They're gonna be annoyed for the fact that you are copying this or
Speaker:the person that they promote as well.
Speaker:So there is a very tight-knit community of, you know, three, 400 people
Speaker:that know and trust each other and wanna make sure we all do better.
Speaker:And those who just straight up copy, they can go to hell.
Speaker:Now, there is a handful of people who can drive their own traffic
Speaker:through Facebook or Google, and they can do whatever they want.
Speaker:And they typically just do what they want.
Speaker:They don't deal with our side of the affiliate industry and we just kind of,
Speaker:uh, let them play in their own fields.
Speaker:And it, it just kind of is what it is.
Speaker:The idea of race to the bottom doesn't necessarily exist either because, um,
Speaker:for example, that term work offer.
Speaker:When I first launched it in 2018, it was doing $88, $85, um, average order value.
Speaker:So a hundred people bought on average was $88 per person because they would buy
Speaker:upsells mm-hmm . We now have that funnel converting at $130 average order value.
Speaker:Oh, wow.
Speaker:So it's a matter of perfecting the page and the funnel over and over and
Speaker:over again, you're talking about minor headline changes, font changes, color
Speaker:changes, button, color changes, um, popups instead for down sells, instead
Speaker:of down sell pages, you know, all these little tiny minute things you
Speaker:change over and over and over again.
Speaker:And of course, retest continuously is how you're able to keep refining something.
Speaker:So you're more likely gonna see offer, um, churn and offer decline
Speaker:because the page has not been made better than anything else.
Speaker:Um, that's gonna be the biggest, um, biggest killing part.
Speaker:The final thing that kind of can happen with that, um, swipe and deploy concept
Speaker:is like, for example, I an offer called bio harmony that we renamed bio switch,
Speaker:and then we called it something else.
Speaker:And every time it did better, but then not as good.
Speaker:And now it's just kind of dead and that's because the actual mechanism and
Speaker:how people are actually achieving their goals has been copied so many times that
Speaker:although the story's compelling, when they get the actual product itself, it's just
Speaker:been done over and over and over again.
Speaker:So that one's kind of gone, but it's done 20 million in three years.
Speaker:So oh, well what, a way to end.
Speaker:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker:Is the expression.
Speaker:So do you use any specific software to do this testing?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So in terms of testing, uh, there's not a software out there that works yet.
Speaker:I'm actually trying to build something that I could potentially turn into
Speaker:a service, um, because there's just certain metrics that are not as, that
Speaker:are incredibly important in your funnel.
Speaker:Like a lot of people.
Speaker:Care about, uh ROAS but like that doesn't, I need to know profit per
Speaker:order, per traffic source, per per offer funnel mm-hmm . And so that's
Speaker:the key to knowing those metrics.
Speaker:Um, so the best software to use as an affiliate marketer, there's two
Speaker:of them click bank or buy goods.
Speaker:These are systems that you get approved.
Speaker:You put your entire funnel up, like the one I talked about earlier, and then they
Speaker:will manage the credit card processing.
Speaker:They will pay out the traffic sources and track all the track, all the
Speaker:clicks and sales and conversions.
Speaker:Um, they'll do rev share or, or, um, or a CPA.
Speaker:CPA is just a flat rate pay, no matter what happens.
Speaker:And at the end of the day, it's the same.
Speaker:We just doing the law of large number averages to figure it out ahead of time.
Speaker:Um, and then, uh, so they take care of all that.
Speaker:And all you have to do is get the traffic to the page, make call people,
Speaker:make friends, join, join different Facebook groups, masterminds coaching
Speaker:communities, and, and make friends to get you to promote your offer.
Speaker:Um, Once you have that you can export the data directly.
Speaker:And, you know, there's, there's ways of setting it up.
Speaker:Like I had really long, long name, each product code name
Speaker:had a really long string.
Speaker:So I knew exactly what page it was on the price, the conversion.
Speaker:And I would sort do some little V lookups on Excel.
Speaker:Boom, make, make my numbers out.
Speaker:So that's kind of the easiest way to pull your data out to understand it.
Speaker:But it's important to understand what you're looking at.
Speaker:If you're doing a split test on the front end on the, on the
Speaker:sales page, um, then are you, is your conversion rate increasing?
Speaker:Are you affecting the total average order value or profit per order or is
Speaker:it increasing or decreasing because of what's happening on the front end page
Speaker:and same thing for every page you do test.
Speaker:And it's also important to test methodically slow.
Speaker:You know, I wanna like throw 10 things at my D my, um, my
Speaker:testing team to have them test.
Speaker:And they're like, cool.
Speaker:We'll do it one at a time.
Speaker:It'll take us two months because if you do it all at once, the
Speaker:whole design could do better.
Speaker:but why?
Speaker:Because if you don't know, then how can you apply that tech, that, that
Speaker:concept to everything else you do?
Speaker:Mm-hmm yeah, that's a very good point.
Speaker:That's a very good point.
Speaker:So how do you, how do you, um, I guess find the affiliates, uh, that
Speaker:are gonna work well for you, right?
Speaker:How do you, how do you, how do you mobilize your affiliates?
Speaker:Definitely.
Speaker:So when I first started out, I had my tumeric offer I didn't
Speaker:know what affiliates were.
Speaker:My brother was in the space selling a workout program and he is like,
Speaker:oh, I'll be your affiliate manager.
Speaker:And so he basically just would send my, the emails that I'd written up that did
Speaker:pretty well when we tested it on his email list and he'd send that and the tracking
Speaker:link out to people and that's all he did.
Speaker:That's all affiliate manager really ever does.
Speaker:But he had, he had been able to get to know these people with his
Speaker:offer for the two years prior.
Speaker:And so it was like, Hey, he's my brother run his thing.
Speaker:And then it worked and they're like, cool, thanks.
Speaker:And then after about a year, I finally got the, got the hang of it, figured out
Speaker:what to do and what it takes is finding someone to help you test your offer.
Speaker:To know that it can, it's converting correctly and paying out correctly
Speaker:and you're not losing money.
Speaker:So that's step one.
Speaker:You can do that through joining, uh, coaching programs, masterminds or
Speaker:different kind of community groups where people help each other in that aspect.
Speaker:There's tons of Facebook groups out there that people just support each other.
Speaker:Um, and then after that, it's going in same thing, joining groups of communities,
Speaker:of offer owners or affiliate managers.
Speaker:I mean, there's one, uh, group, uh, uh, it's called traffic tribe, this lady.
Speaker:Amber Spears runs it, all my people i, I, I, and my group
Speaker:and my community join it too.
Speaker:There's like 400 affiliate managers there.
Speaker:So once you're in there, you just present your offer and share, and you'd
Speaker:start making sales calls and trying to get on zoom calls with people to
Speaker:get them to know like, and trust you mm-hmm . And then you go to conferences
Speaker:like affiliate summit, west, east, you go to traffic and conversion.
Speaker:Um, you go to all these different kinds of conferences and when you get there,
Speaker:you go and meet as many people as you can.
Speaker:And I tell my wife, I'm going to a conference to shake hands and kiss babies.
Speaker:You know, you're trying to make friends and be like a politician
Speaker:to make everyone love you.
Speaker:So that way you can, you know, hopefully help by giving them an
Speaker:amazing offer that converts well, and on the back end, make money yourself.
Speaker:So it's, it's going out and beating the pavement, asking for referrals, asking
Speaker:everybody in the community where it's at, um, and, and, and paying attention.
Speaker:You can't be quiet.
Speaker:You gotta be very proactive.
Speaker:That's really, yeah.
Speaker:And that's an important point, isn't it?
Speaker:Because I think, um, it's not E it's not as, it's not like it used to be where
Speaker:you could just go, listen, if you're an affiliate, I'm go to this website and
Speaker:I'm gonna put my information on there and they fill people would come and go
Speaker:yeah, I've got a list of a hundred thousand people.
Speaker:I'll send 'em to that website.
Speaker:Uh, I think everyone's a lot more choosy now, aren't they?
Speaker:And a lot more, um, sort of a lot more aware of what they're doing, which I think
Speaker:is, is, is predominantly a good thing.
Speaker:Um, so the you're out there, you're pounding the pavement
Speaker:you are kissing the babies and all that sort of stuff, which is . So I
Speaker:never thought I'd heard that phrase on an eCommerce, but anyway, uh, you
Speaker:go there doing all of those things.
Speaker:Um, you're building your affiliate network.
Speaker:These guys are marketing.
Speaker:Are you doing your own marketing as well?
Speaker:Like, are you still doing Facebook and Google and referring traffic to
Speaker:those funnels or are you a hundred percent relying on affiliate market?
Speaker:So, if you have Facebook, Google, YouTube experience, you
Speaker:should be managing yourself.
Speaker:I do not, and I've never been pro at it.
Speaker:And the time we attempted it, we quite broke my Facebook account and I can't
Speaker:be on Facebook anymore promoting ads.
Speaker:yay.
Speaker:So I learned, I learned through one of my mistakes that you need to make
Speaker:sure you're partnering and working with people who know what's going on.
Speaker:So I typically look for, um, agencies or partnerships with people that can
Speaker:drive traffic in those, in those areas for my, each of my offers, because
Speaker:I just don't have the skillset.
Speaker:Mm-hmm um, it's one of those things where I've learned that, trying to
Speaker:learn how to do everything, you're not gonna succeed cuz you can't do it all.
Speaker:You know, my role is the CEO.
Speaker:My goal is to set the vision of the company, the targets of the company
Speaker:and make sure we have the right people in the right seats and that they
Speaker:are inspired to get their job done.
Speaker:So I've had to reposition myself into that concept because I used
Speaker:to try to do everything and there's people out there for 50 or a hundred
Speaker:thousand dollars who will do five or 10 times better than you and pay for
Speaker:their salary, you know, oodles over.
Speaker:So it's understanding, um, who can best help you?
Speaker:How can you inspire them and work together and or work with the third
Speaker:party agencies that drive that stuff.
Speaker:I love the affiliate stuff in house.
Speaker:I think that's important cuz you have to someone that cares about you.
Speaker:Um, but you know, when it comes to Google and YouTube and Facebook and
Speaker:things like that, it's just a little out of our wheelhouse currently.
Speaker:yeah, yeah.
Speaker:No and that's very, I'm the same way.
Speaker:Uh, there are definitely better people at it than me, so let
Speaker:them be better at it than I am.
Speaker:Uh, and I'll just smile and wait.
Speaker:Uh, as they're doing it.
Speaker:So you, you are using traditional marketing methods.
Speaker:You're using, um, the affiliates.
Speaker:Can I ask, is there a specific platform that you are using to build the
Speaker:sites on, you know, with all the up cells and down cells and, uh, cross
Speaker:cells and, and so on and so forth?
Speaker:Are you, is there a platform of choice here that you like?
Speaker:Yeah, I think there's two ways to do it.
Speaker:So I first started using WordPress, which I wouldn't use, cuz there's a lot
Speaker:of extra bloat on WordPress, WordPress, um, page builders and it requires
Speaker:different service setups and things crash.
Speaker:I probably have lost a hundred thousand dollars in profit by having
Speaker:to pay out affiliates who sense to my sent so many clicks to my page.
Speaker:It crashed my server.
Speaker:And then they're, they're the mega affiliate who, if you don't, they don't
Speaker:make what they wanna make that day.
Speaker:You are blacklisted.
Speaker:So you have to just write a check and cry.
Speaker:Um, so that's having me a handful of times on WordPress.
Speaker:Um, I think the best way to go plain Z is HTML.
Speaker:And the reason behind that is because it's just the source code of the internet.
Speaker:It's as basic as it comes.
Speaker:And, um, it is a pain cuz if you don't know how to use HTL or
Speaker:build it, you dunno what to do.
Speaker:You can't edit it.
Speaker:You're screwed.
Speaker:So what I've actually done, um, and this is not a pitch is sharing what I've done.
Speaker:I've built an entire team in the Philippines cuz hiring in
Speaker:the Philippines is amazing.
Speaker:We're up to 18 now and I've actually turned my entire dev, um,
Speaker:department into its own company.
Speaker:Mm-hmm and so we're just getting on the, on the, on the ground right now
Speaker:we've helped like six customers launch and we're doing that at an incredibly
Speaker:low prices because in the Philippines, hourly wages are very inexpensive.
Speaker:And so we do that kind of thing.
Speaker:So I would encourage people to, you know, reach out to me and I'll be glad
Speaker:to introduce you to that division.
Speaker:I'm not running it so I can introduce that person.
Speaker:But HTML is the best way to do it.
Speaker:Pages don't crash pages, load fast.
Speaker:Everything's built the way it's supposed to for mobile and desktop.
Speaker:There's no question about it.
Speaker:Um, it's as simple as it comes now, if.
Speaker:You don't have the cash for, you're doing your bootstrapping
Speaker:everything on your own click funnels.
Speaker:Mm-hmm , it's the absolute easiest thing to use.
Speaker:Does it have integration issues with these systems?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Do you have to test constantly?
Speaker:Make sure it's not breaking in some updates, screw things up.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Um, but that is the easiest way to build a page.
Speaker:You can go on up fiverr or Upwork and people can build that sucker
Speaker:for a couple hundred bucks.
Speaker:You know, people who have figured out ClickFunnels all over the world.
Speaker:I have many, many people I coach that still use it.
Speaker:I know people with a multimillion dollar companies I've used it.
Speaker:Um, so that is the most bare bone simple system to, to get going.
Speaker:Yeah, it seems to be the industry standard.
Speaker:Doesn't it for that kind of thing.
Speaker:Um, but, but like the load, the load, rate's like three seconds on a
Speaker:page two and a half seconds on HTML.
Speaker:It's like 0.6.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So, you know, as soon as you can, you wanna build HTML because it's like
Speaker:taking a Ford Pinto to the racetrack.
Speaker:You, you want the F one race car, that's what you wanna be driving.
Speaker:And that's kind of what HT melt is.
Speaker:yeah, no, that's fair comment.
Speaker:That's a fair comment.
Speaker:And I think as your business grows, you, you, you do do things.
Speaker:Don't, you, you start off on a platform here.
Speaker:You prove your concept.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:It's working great.
Speaker:Now I feel confident to invest however much over here, getting
Speaker:some in bespoke written and that's gonna be much quicker and much
Speaker:better and, and so on and so forth.
Speaker:So I've, I've, I've seen people do that a lot actually.
Speaker:Um, do that an awful lot.
Speaker:So, Cody, uh, what's next for you, bud?
Speaker:What's the, what's the sort of the next stage in conquer in the world?
Speaker:Oh gosh.
Speaker:I have a handful of more offers coming out.
Speaker:I have a handful of partnerships with people who are amazing
Speaker:at traffic or amazing at like.
Speaker:You know, different types of, uh, industries and niches who don't
Speaker:wanna do the supplement brand.
Speaker:So I got those happening.
Speaker:Uh, the biggest thing I'm excited about besides the, the yo-yo
Speaker:funnels, which is our, um, our funnel building company is just so fun.
Speaker:I, I love the, the concept of being to help people build pages.
Speaker:Um, I actually do coaching.
Speaker:I started a program called supplement millionaire, and I teach people
Speaker:how to launch and build a direct marketing affiliate based supplement
Speaker:brand or health brand in that space.
Speaker:And, uh, you know, we have about 40 members right now.
Speaker:Uh, we have people who have direct marketing funnels who already
Speaker:existing with million dollar funnels.
Speaker:I have people with hundred thousand dollar funnels.
Speaker:I have people who are starting out and know nothing.
Speaker:Mm-hmm . I have a handful of Amazon people and eCommerce people.
Speaker:Um, I got people from, uh, uh, being online, uh, doing, doing,
Speaker:uh, like, you know, the QVC kind of stuff, those kinds of people.
Speaker:So I, I've got a huge, uh, plethora of people in the group, which
Speaker:is exciting to be able to help people from different spaces.
Speaker:And we walk people through the concept, how to work with each individual, um,
Speaker:type of person you need, you know, copywriter, design, webpage, builder,
Speaker:how to get insurance types of lawyers.
Speaker:You need the best people to work with to run your email list.
Speaker:All those different people that I have.
Speaker:Gone through seven or eight people and have failed with these
Speaker:partnerships and to find the right one, we've kind of lined it all up.
Speaker:So basically if you're ready to start a health or supplement business online,
Speaker:it's just kind of an instant resource.
Speaker:And then we do, um, along with that weekly coaching, where we continue to
Speaker:teach more about operations, affiliate management, um, copy and marketing
Speaker:and, and just answering questions.
Speaker:So I've created an entire system to help people succeed.
Speaker:And I just, I had so many mistakes, probably a million dollars of profit that
Speaker:I've lost over the, um, last four years.
Speaker:And I don't want people to have to do that.
Speaker:I want them to know exactly what they need to do to get going.
Speaker:Uh, you know, it's gonna cost you between five and $30,000 to launch this brand,
Speaker:launch a new brand, depending on how much you actually, uh, want do the work
Speaker:yourself mm-hmm . And I wanna show you everything you need to do to be able to
Speaker:succeed without having to, um, guess.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Especially when you're investing that sort of money.
Speaker:Mm-hmm and that's the beauty, I guess, for people like yourself,
Speaker:Cody, you've been around for a while.
Speaker:You've learned a lot.
Speaker:Um, and this is why I think the coaching and the online stuff is so helpful
Speaker:because you can get, yes, you can go to YouTube and you can learn a lot of
Speaker:stuff, but fundamentally you get in under the wings of an expert that sort
Speaker:of walked through the whole thing.
Speaker:Well, that's just, I'd like MasterCard says that's priceless.
Speaker:, you know, it's one of those, isn't it?
Speaker:Where I think actually it, it, it just saves you so much pain.
Speaker:Um, and so, uh, listen, Cody, how do people find out more about the
Speaker:mastermind, the coaching that you've got?
Speaker:How do they find out more about you connect with you if they want to do that?
Speaker:Definitely.
Speaker:So the website for the program is supplementmillionaire.com.
Speaker:You can also look at supplementmillionaireblueprint.com
Speaker:on there.
Speaker:I have a video it's about 30 minutes long.
Speaker:That goes through what it is, the details and all the information about it.
Speaker:I got a few free, free E uh, downloads as well.
Speaker:You can get the kind of Gantt chart and the checklist for
Speaker:launching your own offer.
Speaker:So if you wanna watch the video and download that and go for it - go for it.
Speaker:If you do succeed without joining my coaching program, I want a testimonial
Speaker:it's only, the only thing I require um, and, uh, it's a lot of great content too.
Speaker:It's it's a lot of great content.
Speaker:If, if you were willing enough, you could just watch this and go, like, it's,
Speaker:it'll be a challenge, but you could.
Speaker:Um, so that's there, you can also go to codybramlett.com it's got information
Speaker:there, there, um, otherwise, yeah, I just, I just love to help people,
Speaker:so I encourage people to jump on.
Speaker:You can email our, our support, if it's an awesome question, I'll respond to it.
Speaker:I'm all about helping the industry do better, because if we all
Speaker:rise up the, if the tide rises up, we all rise with it, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So I wanna make sure that we're all doing things better.
Speaker:It's not a scammy industry and we're using direct marketing principles to
Speaker:make sales and help customers, not to trick people and lie, which is
Speaker:what a lot of people kind of think of that in the industry X as that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's brilliant.
Speaker:Listen, Cody, I have really enjoyed our conversation, uh, today, so
Speaker:thank you so much for joining me on the eCommerce podcast.
Speaker:We will, of course put all of the links, which Cody mentioned
Speaker:in the show notes as well.
Speaker:Um, so if you are not taking notes right now, you are driving just, you
Speaker:know, head on over to the website and we will give you all of that
Speaker:information, uh, right there on the page.
Speaker:So you can, uh, connect with Cody.
Speaker:I'm sure he'd love to hear from you.
Speaker:Uh, and, uh, yeah, I definitely wanna see the testimonials that come out of it.
Speaker:So, um, Cody, thank you so much for being with us, bro, it's
Speaker:been, uh, it's been a privilege.
Speaker:Thank you so much.
Speaker:It's been a blast.
Speaker:So there you have it, another plus for the eCommerce podcast,
Speaker:another fantastic conversation.
Speaker:What did you think of it amazingly?
Speaker:So huge.
Speaker:Thanks too, Cody for joining me today.
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