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How to Go from Zero to Full Certainty When Launching a New Product

How to Go from Zero to Full Certainty
When Launching a New Product

Transcript

So, yeah, so you wanna create that you know, you wanna start pulling those emotional triggers by connecting with their pain points, letting them know that, hey. You know what? If you are overwhelmed with how disorganized your home is, because of whatever, you know, like or, you know, let’s say you got the the quiz result that shows that you’re currently feeling extremely overwhelmed because your home’s full of clutter, I have something for you. Right?

This is what I have, and this is something that I’ve created based on twelve years of experience as a home organizer dealing with exceptionally cluttered homes. And if I can help x number of families do that, I can help you too. So you’re connecting with their pain points. You’re introducing the offer early on in the conversation, and you’re creating certainty by establishing yourself.

When I say yourself, if you’re working for a client, establishing your client as the expert by helping by doing all of this really early on in the funnel, whether it’s a webinar, a quiz, whatever it is.

So here’s what what you need to know. And I’m sure all of you know this already, but we kind of need sometimes step away from it is people buy when they’re both excited about the outcome and when they’re convinced that it’s the right investment for them. So it’s both a right brain, left brain kind of a thing. We we want both of these things to happen, and that will happen when you are going ahead and building certainty in the product, in the seller, and then, of course, the brand.

So here’s an insight into my process. When I’m working on a launch of least resistance, I lean very heavily on, of course, the offer. And something that I do as part of my process is and I do that for all kinds of launches, not just this one, is I go through the course or the membership or whatever is from a first person, from a student point of view so I can see exactly what they’ll be seeing.

And then I also lean really, really heavily on brand affinity.

So if you’re not collecting information about why your clients’ clients are loyal to them or, you know, are connected with the brand, not just the client. Right? We’re talking about the brand. How do they run their business?

That’s something you wanna start doing, especially if you wanna use launches of least resistance. I firmly believe you should be doing it in any case, but these three factors really come into play because these would help you, a, remove objections, b, create that logical certainty, and, see have that direct conversation with confidence and without it feeling, pushy or salesy because that’s why straight line selling generally gets a bad respond you know, get gets a bad rap is because it’s considered very pushy, very, you know, like, oh, I’ve got but you wanna come at it from a place of confidence, and you can still use the principles to help your prospects make a decision that they’re excited about.

So, yeah, definitely collect start collecting. If you’re not doing it, start collecting data. And next time you’re working with a client on yes. What makes the product great? What makes the client an expert? But what is it about the brand that brings people back to them or even attracts them initially?

Next up, you wanna start building emotional and logical certainty with offer presentation.

So, again, something to remember, you wanna connect features to pain points. You wanna connect features to benefits.

Really, really important. Start using stories and examples that speak directly to the struggles that your audience is experiencing. I’ll give you a great example of this. So, where I was writing copy for, my client who’s an astrologer.

Right? So one of the things that her audience really struggled with was with two things that kept coming up. One was called armchair astrology. Now armchair astrology is where people are reading we call it armchair astrology.

Why? Because or they would call it armchair astrology because they would be sitting in a chair reading a book and then, you know, you would be expected to kind of know about astrology by reading a book. So it just doesn’t work that way, especially for serious astrologers, and I was amazed at how many serious astrologers there are.

So they really struggled with this on chair astrology approach where, you know, you just read and then you are expected to kind of just go ahead and give readings.

That was something that came up. And the second was that it’s very confusing.

It can be extremely confusing. Why? Because there’s so much of free information, and there are all of these bits and pieces that you’re, like, just kind of supposed to put together, but no one really shows you the full picture.

Or the courses that are out there are extremely long and overwhelming and confusing. Like, you’re just kinda watching, like, hours of videos.

We used the fact that her course had a shorter videos. So instead of saying shorter videos, you know, we connected it with the pinpoint of not them not having to sit through and watch hours of videos.

But, also, we told them that it’s an approach that goes again. That’s not armchair astrology because not only will they be learning, but they’ll also be implementing as they learn. So and then we backed it up with social proof. So we had stories of, you know, people who’d gone through the course.

Every single feature from the workbooks to the videos to the teaching assistants to the community, all of those are features, but every feature was linked to a struggle that our audience is experiencing. Feeling lost while practicing astrology? You don’t have to be. We have trained teaching assistants, and we have a community.

Feeling judged by others? Well, this is gonna be your judgment free space. Feeling overwhelmed, it’s literally, every objection, every pain was tackled and addressed while being honest with, with them. So you wanna use especially, again, in this case, every feature has to be linked to a pinpoint. Every feature, I very rarely say has, but if you’re using this launch model, you definitely wanna do this because it would work otherwise.

And you’d say you wanna use data, you wanna use testimonials, you wanna use case studies, but your features should be connected to a pinpoint or a benefit.

And like I said, you could do this with with any product. You’re selling email software, whether you’re selling a membership, whether you’re selling coaching, whether you’re selling your copywriting services.

Right? If you wanna start having a straight line conversation with your prospect, your features need to speak to the pain or a benefit. So you’re selling copywriting services.

If you’re sending them a questionnaire, why should they care? I mean, like, really, who wants to sit through sixty minutes of trying to fill out a questionnaire?

Is there a way you can repack reposition, repackage that to address either an objection or highlight a benefit?

Now this is specific to courses, but, again, or software and things like that. But you wanna demo the course. Like, one of the things that we do is we get we do an open house or we do an ask me anything or we do a behind the scenes, or we do a day in the life of one of our students, kind of an email that goes out, which includes a demo of the course.

Again, you can do it with your with SAS as well. You can even do it with copy, and I’ll tell you how in just a minute with your services because I’ve done this in the past.

Let me describe it.

So but what you wanna do is you wanna do it too as the final stage because by then, you’ve removed all of their objections, and now you wanna help them visualize themselves in the course using the service, using the product.

So things like, like I said, video tours, BDS, modules, or day in the life of a student, actually take them with you inside. So, again, going back to the astrology clients example, what we did was we gave them, we gave them access to, like, a course preview almost. That was that was amazing as a conversion mechanism. We gave them access to, I think, the first module, few lessons in there so they could, you know, actually go and see how all of the lessons flowed, that we weren’t just kidding when we were saying the lessons aren’t long or assert or aren’t longer than x minutes.

The worksheets, they had, like, the complete student experience.

I did the same thing, last year, with my program launch, for a ESL is I did a board I call it sales kitchen. It was a complete experience. We had, like, the we had a pop up group to give them the community feel. We had the a lesson that was taken directly from ready to sell and, you know, even the process and everything worked really, really well.

We had, like, almost a fifty percent conversion. Like, every fifty percent people who signed up for sales kitchen converted, which was great. And it’s a high ticket investment. Right?

It was it’s a three thousand dollar course. So claim being but keep it for keep the demo towards the final stage of the funnel. Copywriting services. One of the ways I do this is when I’m on a call, I walk my prospect through this exact same process by actually showing them the examples of the deliverables they’ll get.

So it helps them see what they’ll be getting. So I’m not just gonna say, oh, yeah. Yeah. I can do your sales page or I’ll do your email file or map out your ecosystem.

I actually show what an ecosystem would look like. I show what my messaging recommendations guide looks like. It’s like for most clients, it’s like almost forty, fifty pages of data and, you know, implementable suggestions and recommendations for content and things like that. It just blows people’s minds.

It might yeah. I rarely get pushback. Rarely.

I don’t even remember. Last time I got pushed back on price. Right? So, why? Because I walk I showed them that’s like the final stage.

I showed them exactly what they’re getting.

Next up, objection handling. This is gonna be one of the most important parts of this kind of a launch. So you wanna be really, really good at this. You wanna start writing your copy, whether for a sales pitch or for emails, with your list of objections in front of you.

I don’t want this. I don’t want this because. I don’t want this because. This will not work because.

This will not work because. You want that whole list of of objections right in front of you, and then you wanna just start going through them one by one by one and making sure that you’ve addressed all of them. So anticipating those concerns, whether it’s to do with themselves, because you’ll always have those inner you know, oh, I’m not ready, or I don’t have the right experience. I don’t have the right credentials.

Whatever. So you’ll always have this inner objections, but then you’ll also have the external ones. Don’t have the money. Don’t have the time.

And we’re you tried this before and it didn’t work. All those things. So you wanna just dismantle all of those through the funnel, through your sales page.

The goal here is for you to just on really digging into the objection beneath the objection.

Is it time? Is it overwhelm? Is it past experience? And instead of just addressing a few, address them all. Right? So you wanna say and before you your prospects even come back to you or, you know, like, oh, I don’t think this is gonna work for me because I don’t have time. Well, it’s only gonna take you ten minutes to watch a video and just another nine to eleven minutes to implement it.

Can you take out ten minutes of your day to make this happen? You could, like, watch it on your way to work.

You would literally address objections like that, whether it’s an email, whether it’s on a sales page.

You wanna start getting them to think and look at those and go, okay. Yeah. Of course, I can do that. I can watch ten a ten minute video.

Tell them you gotta you’ll you’ll have, like, seven modules.

Yep. That’s not gonna work. You tell them yes. I I know you’re thinking this is gonna be time consuming, but do you have ten minutes or nine minutes? Whatever.

Okay. This is, this is a technique taken from straight line selling, the straight line selling school call looping, where you revisit points of certainty, like the creator’s expertise, the course’s effectiveness, the brand’s track record as you address new objection set rise. So for example, someone comes in and says, yeah. I did a similar course or you, you know, in your funnel, you wanna address the you’ve seen this objection come up in the past that people have done this done similar courses, have not seen results.

You wanna remind them that this is not the way it was because this pre this course creator is different, because this brand is invested in ensuring that we, you know, we get you results because we have a guarantee that would work, that would kick in if you don’t see results.

So keep coming back to those points of certainty, which is why I said here. It’s really important for you to, yes, know how the course or the offer works. You wanna know have complete knowledge of your clients or your own expertise, and then, of course, the brand affinity as well because you would be wanting to use that and keep coming back to that to address objections and to increase and strengthen your prospect’s belief in your offer.

Okay. So things to consider when you’re strategizing this launch. Like, put this on a worksheet for the next launch. You wanna know pinpoints.

So okay. What specific challenges will you be talking about? How can you map those to the features? Right?

Consistent mess messaging. How will you keep the narrative unified and in a straight line across all stages of the funnel? You do not want to be going in five different directions here. One message is more important in this kind of a launch than in any other kind of launch.

So you wanna get really clear on that one message, that one theme, that one story line that you’ll be drawing from start to finish. Certainty building. How will you be building certainty and the main messaging angle across the sequence? How will you be creating certainty in your client, in the brand, all of that?

Objection handling, I’ve already kind of, yeah, beat the drum on this one, but preempting and addressing objections, all of them. You wanna know you wanna know all of the m. And you wanna know, okay, which features, which benefits will I be mapping here? Which how will I be using emotional and logical hooks so that I’m balancing the storytelling part but with data and proof?

So you wanna have these five, six elements in place in a document when you’re working on a launch of user assistance.

When you have these in place, it becomes so much easier for you to write the copy that would just go in a straight line in a straight line. Yeah. It’s really, it’s now here’s the thing. It sounds very simple, but it’s not.

It’s I found over the years with the hundreds and hundreds of launches that I’ve written for, it’s way easier to do a traditional launch because you have that you have the runway. You can build that, you know, the know, like, trust factor. But when you’re going in cold and you need to sell and you also need to do it without being pushy or, you know, like a typical salesperson.

You wanna be thoughtful and mindful and demure.

You would wanna keep keep these things in mind because that kind of helps you keep the conversation on track, but it is a little bit harder than a traditional launch because you’ve you’ve gotta keep it really tight across the funnel, your sales pitch and your emails.

That messaging is so, so important.

Okay. Yeah. Your job as a copywriter is to obviously keep the process moving forward by addressing their concerns. That is the one thing I want you to take away from this one is that your objection handling is gonna play a huge role.

The more control you have, the easier your close will be. And, again, this this will work, but, like I gave you example, this will work on a sales call. This will work with a webinar. This would work with a quiz.

A launch of least resistance is great where high ticket offers are involved and where an audience needs that extra persuasion.

Alright.

Cool.

Questions? I can see Katie’s hat is up.

Hi, Berna.

As always, I love your workshops.

They’re so meaty and, give us so much to go on.

So I have a couple of questions about implementing this.

One, you mentioned how this is different from, like, the traditional launch runway where you would do, you know, your your prelaunch runway. I’m curious, like, the objection handling, are you doing most of that? Like, is the difference the fact that here you’ve introduced the offer and then you’re handling objective objections, or are you handling those objections?

But, like, I I guess just what’s the sequence of handling the objections versus introducing the offer and kind of more, like, selling?

Yeah. So, yeah, in this case, you introduce the offer first.

So since you you’re in this pretty much same niche as I am with online course creators and coaches and consultants, with a traditional launch. You know how you do it. Right? You have, like, your prelaunch runway, and then you have, like, your launch mechanism kick in, then you have your cart open. You’ve got, like, a lot of room to kind of play with.

And you wanna address those objections before you like, typically, I’d wanna do that before I introduce the offer. Right?

Yeah. Yeah. Here, what’s happening is you’re going in cold. You’re just going in straight for the sale, and you’re addressing your the objections, preempt preempting them and addressing them or, you know, like, your Okay.

In fact, for one of the launches, what I did was the sale the pitch email, like, generally, my pitch email is more of I call it the path for value pitch email. That’s why I call it, but because it has a lot of value in it, and then we are introducing the offer. But in launches of least resistance, what I do is it’s the offer and then the big objection that I know they would have, whether it’s cost or time or money. I’m just it’s like a whole series of objection demolition emails, and the sales page is structured the same way as well.

So there’s like yeah. Will work for me. You know? Don’t have the money. Don’t have the time.

Or, you know, like, tried this before or not ready.

Just yeah. So that’s how it’s structured.

And then so do you if you because I’m assuming that all of these principles that you were sharing, you’re using those both on the sales page and in the emails. Yes.

Does the sales page in this type of funnel also spend much time on, like, desires, dream state, or is it more like, here’s what we do and then boom boom boom?

So what does how the sales page differs from, say, a regular, maybe even a PS or a pays off or the, you know, the different frameworks that I I, kind of have developed over the years is there’s we talk about the pain.

That’s why the emotional certainty kind of comes in. So we, we tap into their pain and their struggle. Do we show them their desires? Yes.

But we tie it to a, a feature of the course. We tied we that’s where the logical certainty starts to build. It’s like, okay. You know, if you want more time freedom, this is how you’re gonna get it using a b c from the course.

So we are tapping into it, but it’s not the structure of the sales page is different. The structure of the sales page starts with the pain that they’re experiencing and how this particular offer is gonna solve that pain for them, with whatever framework, method, etcetera.

And then we go into their you know, maybe what they want, but also, again, that’s why it’s benefit first. So every feature is linked to a benefit, which is, in other words, a desire or an outcome, and then, of course, objection handling, all through the page.

Okay. Thank you. And if I may, could you just elaborate a bit on the looping technique? I didn’t quite understand.

I, you know, I know you said revisit points of certainty as you introduce new objections.

So could you just give an example of what that might look like?

Sure. So I’ll give you an example from okay. I’ll give you an example from sales calls. Right? So I whenever I’m on a sales call with clients, they’ve already you know?

The thing is, most of them are not cold because they’ve either found us through the our website or they’ve, at the very least, have sent us a contact form from the website. So it’s not that, like, they’re entirely cold, but I like using straight line sign for that because it’s a high ticket service. Like, they’re all five figure services. Right?

So how I use Looping is I they already know, my expertise. They know my experience. But what I always always do is I would have I would bring up case studies of clients who are from similar niches, or I would let them know if, if recently recorded a podcast somewhere or if I’ve spoken on stage somewhere. So I’m just building certainty because the big objection most people would have in hiring a strategist or a copywriter is either they’ve been booked before and which is, you know, usually when they come to us or maybe their launch hasn’t worked before or it’s their first time hiring, which is rare, but maybe. You know? So you wanna kind of loop back to, the fact that you’re the best person for this, and here’s why.

Okay. Does that help, Katie?

Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. So just kind of, like, as you know or as we’ve seen or, you know, as I mentioned on this like, just reinforcing those points of certainty so that that’s an ongoing theme.

Yeah. Because you need again, like I said, you need to know what objections, like and after you’d you know, when you do a ton of sales calls, you know exactly what objections your prospect has. And similarly, with a program or a product or service, you know, what objections, you know, your clients would have. So you want to loop back to this.

So it’s not just, oh, let me just put my bio here on the sales page and think we’ve established trust and credibility, but you wanna loop back to it maybe, you know, in the social proof section. Maybe you wanna loop back to it in the FAQ section. Maybe you wanna loop back to it in the in the closing section of the sales page. So you wanna kind of keep coming back to so it’s not just a, let’s just put the bio here and call it a day, but how can we come back and establish certainty?

I’m just giving an example from, say, the credibility of the creator, but you could do that with pretty much any of the other elements as well.

Cool.

Any other questions?

Not even if not related to the training or if anyone’s got, like, copy or a review or things like that, we could dig into it.

I guess I have not necessarily, like, a question. So you mentioned that the course preview or some kind of showing them behind the scenes, that should go out in one of the last emails or at the end of the funnel.

And I usually do that in, like, email four or five.

And How how many emails? Like, how long does the emailed. So it’s in the in the middle. Okay.

Yeah. And then I have an FAQ email that’s emailed six out of eight.

Mhmm. Mhmm.

So I’m wondering if you’ve tested different placements in the promo structure to see which one works best.

Yeah. The reason I so, yeah, I actually have, and I have found I have, in fact, even tested not including FAQ emails. Yeah. Okay, Michelle. Bye.

Even not including FAQ emails in in a sequence because if you, a, addressed and answered most of the questions, you don’t really need an FAQ email. You could easily use that email for for something else.

Mhmm. And the reason why I feel and this is again, I’ve, Blanca, I’ve tested it only with audiences, like, in the online course world. And, That’s my niche as well. So Oh, amazing.

Okay. Great. So yeah. So then we’re in Concord. Okay.

So yeah.

The reason I find that it works really well by placing it towards the end is because by then, you’ve handled most of their objections. You’ve established trust. And now what you’re doing as the final step is helping them visualize themselves as a student in the course. It works beautifully. So for me, I’ve I’ve found you know, placing it towards the end of the funnel is that final little push that they need to kind of go, oh, wow. That’s good. That’s what my experience is gonna be like.

And do you just send them to the sales page where you have a section with that kind of behind the scenes video?

So we’ve done this different ways. We’ve done this with, by recording a like, just like an over the shoulder Loom walk through Mhmm. Of what the post dashboard looks like. We’ve also done this, like I shared, with with my course launch, you know, example where it was a complete experience where we invited them to a pop up group.

We had a full lesson that they needed to log in to Teachableforce. They had to be at a login and everything. So it was a complete student experience where, and we also did this with our astrologer client is that, you know, it was a complete student experience. You created an account.

Why? Because these are micro conversions. Right? Yeah. So it helps them get into that whole student mindset.

And then because, so with the astrologer client, in fact, what we did was really cool was because we had the whole course laid out, and they had unlocked access to this. So they could actually see what happens next. Right? And they all they had to do was upgrade.

So they just had to click the upgrade button. So that really helped as well. So we took this, like, in a few different ways. We’ve done this as an open house where literally, like, as a school or a college would do an open house, we would have, like, some students.

It it is a room Zoom room like this. There would be some students joining in, and then, you know, the the course creator would share screen, walk them through the course portal, show them the community, everything, and then they would have a q and a. They would have the chance to ask questions of the students as well. So it kind of depends on the audience you offer and, you know, of course, what your client’s willing to do, that kind of thing.

That’s cool. Thanks. I I now have a bunch of ideas to test for upcoming promotions.

Yeah. Absolutely.

Absolutely. Yeah. Awesome awesome training, by the way. And I liked your previous one too.

How much Thank you. Thank you. Marina, question.

I’m not a Yes. Yeah. Course creator for this purpose, although I have done other stuff.

So this offer is going to cold traffic.

So you could use this as a starting point for, offering copy services to SaaS potential SaaS clients.

So they know they so they’re starting at problem aware already, and then you have to show them that this is the solution for your and you’re starting, like, right there Mhmm. Jumping in Mhmm. Hard selling. Essentially, you’re hard selling.

Like, this is hard selling.

Exactly. Yes.

You’re just hard selling it.

Hard selling.

This is this is what you need. And then going into the and this is why you need me to do that for you.

Absolutely. Okay. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is hard sales. It’s just that I like to just be mindful of the fact that, you know, we wanna respect people’s reasons for not buying, but at the same time, we wanna make a strong argument for why they should buy.

So which is why you wanna handle those objections. You don’t wanna overlook them. You don’t wanna kind of, you know, brush them aside or anything. You wanna handle them and move on.

But then the objection handling is not like you’re like, it’s integrated, not like you’re saying this. I’m saying this. It’s more subtle.

Yes. Yes.

Oh, I had another question related to that. Oh, have you tried this for productized services?

Oh, good question.

No.

But I do have an opportunity to test it out. We’ve recently overhauled one of our product based services. So, yeah, I could test it out, but, no, I haven’t.

Okay. Right. Thank you.

You’re welcome. Cool. I would love it if you would go ahead and test it out. Like, if you would test out I plan to. A launch of least resistance.

I would love to know how it goes or if you get find yourself coming up against, like, a roadblock.

Find me in Slack and, yeah, just chat with me about it.

I love these launches. They’re just yeah. Them, you know, they’re a challenge, but they’re they’re so exciting to to write for. So yeah.

I’ve done emails sorry, Katie. I’ve done emails, like, email promotions where each email was answering a specific objection, but it was usually for brands that had such a bad reputation or such a bad perception with their audience that it just felt like I can’t really afford to sell anything. Like, I have to afford to sell the product. I first need to repair the trust.

So each email was, okay.

We asked you, and we got some, like, really crazy feedback from you. So let’s settle things straight. So over the next few days, that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

And, yeah, that did work well. Whereas with other audiences, you just don’t need to do all that much.

You don’t need to exactly.

Exactly. Which is why this works really well, like I said, for skeptical audiences. Right?

Like, where like, in your case, the crust has been you know, it needs repairing, but then you also need to do selling.

So works. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing.

Katie.

So I would love to I’m still building out my, like, post workshop funnel. So I have, you know, my diagnostic workshop online.

I have, you know, I know you haven’t watched the workshop yet, so go watch his sequence that Yes. But I don’t have a lot that goes out after that.

Like, you know, essentially, my post webinar Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. For my, for my standardized offer. So I think that this would work well. Yes.

But I’d love your tips on, like so if the offer is, you know, a productized service around behavior based back end automations Mhmm.

What because to me, I’m like, oh, I don’t see what objections you could have. It’s a great idea. But I know, you know, it’s like okay. So the founder’s time, the team’s time, like, adding something else to their plate, not wanting to annoy or bother their clients, like, not wanting to have feel salesy.

Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, it’s my first time. Like, I haven’t sold it yet, so I need proof, like, proof that it will work and that I can do it.

The idea that they can’t imagine what it looks like or how it would Yes.

Go. Exactly. Which is where a demo would come in. So you wanna kind of show them what it would look like. I would like actually, if you’ve not done this, then I would actually build that build something out so you can kinda walk them through what it looks like so they can see that it’s not as either as confusing because with something like this and because I sell a lot of these, you know, behavior based sequences, I find the biggest objection is they just can’t visualize what it looks like. So Mhmm. Yeah.

And you would just build that out in whimsical or something?

Like, Yeah. Or whimsical, fun analytics, whatever you wanna kind of use. Whimsical works just fine. Just, you know, kind of visually helping them to see, hey.

This is what’s gonna happen. This is what happens when this happens. And if this happens, and then you kinda see light bulbs go up. Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Mhmm. And is there anything else that comes to mind that I didn’t mention that you think it would be a big one?

Yeah.

Tried it in the past, did not work.

Mhmm. Okay.

Yeah. That come up, you know, with a few established creators.

They have sequences in place, but didn’t work, which is where your credibility comes in as I actually heard from an OBM that I’m friends with.

She she was like, oh, yeah. We already have something like that. I was like, I don’t think you I don’t think you have what I’m talking about.

Like Yeah.

Yeah. Exactly. So it’s which is why the looping technique kicks in. You know? So you wanna kinda remind them. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. I’ll let you know how it goes. Thank you.

Cool. You’re welcome. Rayna?

Okay. So two things, commenting to Katie, about the OBM that said we already have something like that.

Herna, I’m just wondering, is it too cheeky just to ask them, so are you getting the results that you wanted from them?

Yeah. No.

That’s not you know, like, if they say that, hey.

We’ve got this.

Like, even thinking about Yeah.

Yeah.

If we’re saying, okay. So here’s an onboarding flow.

Well, we already have one.

Okay. So are you happy with your conversions?

Exactly. You that is preempting.

Like, I mean, you could say it so it’s not snarky, but, is that where that kind of comes down to your tone.

Right? Yes. Exactly. Yeah.

You know, it kinda comes down to your timeline.

Curiosity.

Like Yeah.

Exactly. More like I would do that. Okay. One hundred percent. One hundred percent. Yeah. Address it.

That’s exactly what straight line is. You wanna address those objections. Like I said, you don’t you wanna be mindful, of course. You wanna be, you know, you don’t wanna be disrespectful.

But at the same time, you don’t wanna tiptoe around it and not address not address it. I yeah. I would definitely do that one hundred percent.

And then secondly, because it’s cold, can you run ads can you run ads directly to your straight line funnel?

Yes. Yes. Cold. Cold traffic.

Right?

Like, it’s meant to convert cold traffic, and it’s just a numbers game.

Right?

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One hundred percent. I would want to, however, ensure that the offer is validated.

So you could run it the because the last thing you wanna do is Yes.

Spend money on an invalidated offer.

Exactly. Yeah. It’s not So It is for cold audiences. It’s not for untested, invalidated offers. That’s an important distinction.

Okay. So then here’s my question because I’m kind of in the same boat as Katie right now. Like, I’ve done the work for other people, yes, and gotten results, but I haven’t done this particular set of activities to accomplish this particular outcome in this in my signature way.

Mhmm.

So is the offer proved by the fact that, yes, I have written onboarding flows that have increased conversions, or is the offer proof that I’ve done it my way in this current system and gotten results with that signature?

I mean, yeah, it’s it’s not either or. It’s both. You’ve written onboarding sequences that have bought gotten conversions.

Right. And, you know, you know, I would do both. Like, I would lean on both of those. I would call this a validated offer. I would so to I would not what would an invalid offer be? Where you’ve never done something, for either your own brand or a client, and you’re, like, absolutely near the market.

Okay. So yeah. So if you’ve done it either for your own brand or for even, like, another brand, and it’s not, like, the full scope of things, but it’s been, like, you know, I’ve done one for one client. I’ve done one for another client.

That’s about it all for me. Like, you’ve you’ve tested those out. People need it. They work. Mhmm. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Thank you.

Can I add something here?

Yes.

So if you don’t have, like, case studies right now to demonstrate how effective the solution is, like onboarding sequences, you can use industry data to back that up.

So something that I’m doing is my framework is customer centricity applied to sales emails in a way that allows me to sell a course each month without making it aggressive, salesy, or burning the list. That’s because I’m implementing the customer centric concepts. And, obviously, I’m not, like, an authority right now. I haven’t done any research in this specific area, but there are professors. And there are big, economic studies that demonstrate that companies that use customer centric frameworks are actually gaining better results than product based companies. So for me, when I go to a client and say, well, obviously, yes, you can run a flash sale that’s product based. But can you do that every month in a way that actually lets you convey your unique brand messaging whatever?

Although, actually so if you turn to customer centricity and here are all these sources that back it up, then that’s a lot better than me saying, well, I’ve been doing this for a long a long time.

And I do have the results, but if you don’t believe me Exactly.

Data. So that is why you know? And that’s where both the emotional and logical certainty factors kick in with this one. So you wanna lean on the data.

You may have you may have or may not have testimonials and case studies or the the stories to back it up. But if you have data, that will work too. And then your expertise is what would help create and, you know, the the other side of the certainty equation. So, I think that’s what the yeah.

Katie says she uses this data too. So amazing. Great.

So do this, Marina.

Do the quality of your questions to your clients also validate your authority?

One hundred percent. I’m a big fan of sales calls because of that.

It really helps me close way bigger projects and packages, and which is why I yeah. I have, like, I would say, a list of questions, but I don’t have a quote, unquote, a templated sales call flow, because, yeah. It just helps me to kind of, you know, assess what I need to do. And, sales calls are, like, the perfect example of straight line selling, like, you know, but you wanna do it your way.

So yeah. But one hundred fancy your question? Yes. One hundred percent.

Thank you.

You’re welcome.

Awesome. Anything else?

All good. Perfect. Marina, apparently, for some reason, like yes. Sarah’s saying, Zoom is recording, so, hopefully, yes, we record it.

But I’ve told her that yours is recording too. Mine got kicked out. It’s a weird Zoom world. I may need to reach out to you for the recording.

I’ll wait for Sarah to come back to me on that.

Yeah. I can also send you the or the fathom.

Okay. Awesome. That would be that would be great. Yeah. Yeah. That’s fine. Perfect. Perfect. Thanks so much, everybody.

Lovely seeing y’all.

Bye now. Bye. Bye.

Transcript

So, yeah, so you wanna create that you know, you wanna start pulling those emotional triggers by connecting with their pain points, letting them know that, hey. You know what? If you are overwhelmed with how disorganized your home is, because of whatever, you know, like or, you know, let’s say you got the the quiz result that shows that you’re currently feeling extremely overwhelmed because your home’s full of clutter, I have something for you. Right?

This is what I have, and this is something that I’ve created based on twelve years of experience as a home organizer dealing with exceptionally cluttered homes. And if I can help x number of families do that, I can help you too. So you’re connecting with their pain points. You’re introducing the offer early on in the conversation, and you’re creating certainty by establishing yourself.

When I say yourself, if you’re working for a client, establishing your client as the expert by helping by doing all of this really early on in the funnel, whether it’s a webinar, a quiz, whatever it is.

So here’s what what you need to know. And I’m sure all of you know this already, but we kind of need sometimes step away from it is people buy when they’re both excited about the outcome and when they’re convinced that it’s the right investment for them. So it’s both a right brain, left brain kind of a thing. We we want both of these things to happen, and that will happen when you are going ahead and building certainty in the product, in the seller, and then, of course, the brand.

So here’s an insight into my process. When I’m working on a launch of least resistance, I lean very heavily on, of course, the offer. And something that I do as part of my process is and I do that for all kinds of launches, not just this one, is I go through the course or the membership or whatever is from a first person, from a student point of view so I can see exactly what they’ll be seeing.

And then I also lean really, really heavily on brand affinity.

So if you’re not collecting information about why your clients’ clients are loyal to them or, you know, are connected with the brand, not just the client. Right? We’re talking about the brand. How do they run their business?

That’s something you wanna start doing, especially if you wanna use launches of least resistance. I firmly believe you should be doing it in any case, but these three factors really come into play because these would help you, a, remove objections, b, create that logical certainty, and, see have that direct conversation with confidence and without it feeling, pushy or salesy because that’s why straight line selling generally gets a bad respond you know, get gets a bad rap is because it’s considered very pushy, very, you know, like, oh, I’ve got but you wanna come at it from a place of confidence, and you can still use the principles to help your prospects make a decision that they’re excited about.

So, yeah, definitely collect start collecting. If you’re not doing it, start collecting data. And next time you’re working with a client on yes. What makes the product great? What makes the client an expert? But what is it about the brand that brings people back to them or even attracts them initially?

Next up, you wanna start building emotional and logical certainty with offer presentation.

So, again, something to remember, you wanna connect features to pain points. You wanna connect features to benefits.

Really, really important. Start using stories and examples that speak directly to the struggles that your audience is experiencing. I’ll give you a great example of this. So, where I was writing copy for, my client who’s an astrologer.

Right? So one of the things that her audience really struggled with was with two things that kept coming up. One was called armchair astrology. Now armchair astrology is where people are reading we call it armchair astrology.

Why? Because or they would call it armchair astrology because they would be sitting in a chair reading a book and then, you know, you would be expected to kind of know about astrology by reading a book. So it just doesn’t work that way, especially for serious astrologers, and I was amazed at how many serious astrologers there are.

So they really struggled with this on chair astrology approach where, you know, you just read and then you are expected to kind of just go ahead and give readings.

That was something that came up. And the second was that it’s very confusing.

It can be extremely confusing. Why? Because there’s so much of free information, and there are all of these bits and pieces that you’re, like, just kind of supposed to put together, but no one really shows you the full picture.

Or the courses that are out there are extremely long and overwhelming and confusing. Like, you’re just kinda watching, like, hours of videos.

We used the fact that her course had a shorter videos. So instead of saying shorter videos, you know, we connected it with the pinpoint of not them not having to sit through and watch hours of videos.

But, also, we told them that it’s an approach that goes again. That’s not armchair astrology because not only will they be learning, but they’ll also be implementing as they learn. So and then we backed it up with social proof. So we had stories of, you know, people who’d gone through the course.

Every single feature from the workbooks to the videos to the teaching assistants to the community, all of those are features, but every feature was linked to a struggle that our audience is experiencing. Feeling lost while practicing astrology? You don’t have to be. We have trained teaching assistants, and we have a community.

Feeling judged by others? Well, this is gonna be your judgment free space. Feeling overwhelmed, it’s literally, every objection, every pain was tackled and addressed while being honest with, with them. So you wanna use especially, again, in this case, every feature has to be linked to a pinpoint. Every feature, I very rarely say has, but if you’re using this launch model, you definitely wanna do this because it would work otherwise.

And you’d say you wanna use data, you wanna use testimonials, you wanna use case studies, but your features should be connected to a pinpoint or a benefit.

And like I said, you could do this with with any product. You’re selling email software, whether you’re selling a membership, whether you’re selling coaching, whether you’re selling your copywriting services.

Right? If you wanna start having a straight line conversation with your prospect, your features need to speak to the pain or a benefit. So you’re selling copywriting services.

If you’re sending them a questionnaire, why should they care? I mean, like, really, who wants to sit through sixty minutes of trying to fill out a questionnaire?

Is there a way you can repack reposition, repackage that to address either an objection or highlight a benefit?

Now this is specific to courses, but, again, or software and things like that. But you wanna demo the course. Like, one of the things that we do is we get we do an open house or we do an ask me anything or we do a behind the scenes, or we do a day in the life of one of our students, kind of an email that goes out, which includes a demo of the course.

Again, you can do it with your with SAS as well. You can even do it with copy, and I’ll tell you how in just a minute with your services because I’ve done this in the past.

Let me describe it.

So but what you wanna do is you wanna do it too as the final stage because by then, you’ve removed all of their objections, and now you wanna help them visualize themselves in the course using the service, using the product.

So things like, like I said, video tours, BDS, modules, or day in the life of a student, actually take them with you inside. So, again, going back to the astrology clients example, what we did was we gave them, we gave them access to, like, a course preview almost. That was that was amazing as a conversion mechanism. We gave them access to, I think, the first module, few lessons in there so they could, you know, actually go and see how all of the lessons flowed, that we weren’t just kidding when we were saying the lessons aren’t long or assert or aren’t longer than x minutes.

The worksheets, they had, like, the complete student experience.

I did the same thing, last year, with my program launch, for a ESL is I did a board I call it sales kitchen. It was a complete experience. We had, like, the we had a pop up group to give them the community feel. We had the a lesson that was taken directly from ready to sell and, you know, even the process and everything worked really, really well.

We had, like, almost a fifty percent conversion. Like, every fifty percent people who signed up for sales kitchen converted, which was great. And it’s a high ticket investment. Right?

It was it’s a three thousand dollar course. So claim being but keep it for keep the demo towards the final stage of the funnel. Copywriting services. One of the ways I do this is when I’m on a call, I walk my prospect through this exact same process by actually showing them the examples of the deliverables they’ll get.

So it helps them see what they’ll be getting. So I’m not just gonna say, oh, yeah. Yeah. I can do your sales page or I’ll do your email file or map out your ecosystem.

I actually show what an ecosystem would look like. I show what my messaging recommendations guide looks like. It’s like for most clients, it’s like almost forty, fifty pages of data and, you know, implementable suggestions and recommendations for content and things like that. It just blows people’s minds.

It might yeah. I rarely get pushback. Rarely.

I don’t even remember. Last time I got pushed back on price. Right? So, why? Because I walk I showed them that’s like the final stage.

I showed them exactly what they’re getting.

Next up, objection handling. This is gonna be one of the most important parts of this kind of a launch. So you wanna be really, really good at this. You wanna start writing your copy, whether for a sales pitch or for emails, with your list of objections in front of you.

I don’t want this. I don’t want this because. I don’t want this because. This will not work because.

This will not work because. You want that whole list of of objections right in front of you, and then you wanna just start going through them one by one by one and making sure that you’ve addressed all of them. So anticipating those concerns, whether it’s to do with themselves, because you’ll always have those inner you know, oh, I’m not ready, or I don’t have the right experience. I don’t have the right credentials.

Whatever. So you’ll always have this inner objections, but then you’ll also have the external ones. Don’t have the money. Don’t have the time.

And we’re you tried this before and it didn’t work. All those things. So you wanna just dismantle all of those through the funnel, through your sales page.

The goal here is for you to just on really digging into the objection beneath the objection.

Is it time? Is it overwhelm? Is it past experience? And instead of just addressing a few, address them all. Right? So you wanna say and before you your prospects even come back to you or, you know, like, oh, I don’t think this is gonna work for me because I don’t have time. Well, it’s only gonna take you ten minutes to watch a video and just another nine to eleven minutes to implement it.

Can you take out ten minutes of your day to make this happen? You could, like, watch it on your way to work.

You would literally address objections like that, whether it’s an email, whether it’s on a sales page.

You wanna start getting them to think and look at those and go, okay. Yeah. Of course, I can do that. I can watch ten a ten minute video.

Tell them you gotta you’ll you’ll have, like, seven modules.

Yep. That’s not gonna work. You tell them yes. I I know you’re thinking this is gonna be time consuming, but do you have ten minutes or nine minutes? Whatever.

Okay. This is, this is a technique taken from straight line selling, the straight line selling school call looping, where you revisit points of certainty, like the creator’s expertise, the course’s effectiveness, the brand’s track record as you address new objection set rise. So for example, someone comes in and says, yeah. I did a similar course or you, you know, in your funnel, you wanna address the you’ve seen this objection come up in the past that people have done this done similar courses, have not seen results.

You wanna remind them that this is not the way it was because this pre this course creator is different, because this brand is invested in ensuring that we, you know, we get you results because we have a guarantee that would work, that would kick in if you don’t see results.

So keep coming back to those points of certainty, which is why I said here. It’s really important for you to, yes, know how the course or the offer works. You wanna know have complete knowledge of your clients or your own expertise, and then, of course, the brand affinity as well because you would be wanting to use that and keep coming back to that to address objections and to increase and strengthen your prospect’s belief in your offer.

Okay. So things to consider when you’re strategizing this launch. Like, put this on a worksheet for the next launch. You wanna know pinpoints.

So okay. What specific challenges will you be talking about? How can you map those to the features? Right?

Consistent mess messaging. How will you keep the narrative unified and in a straight line across all stages of the funnel? You do not want to be going in five different directions here. One message is more important in this kind of a launch than in any other kind of launch.

So you wanna get really clear on that one message, that one theme, that one story line that you’ll be drawing from start to finish. Certainty building. How will you be building certainty and the main messaging angle across the sequence? How will you be creating certainty in your client, in the brand, all of that?

Objection handling, I’ve already kind of, yeah, beat the drum on this one, but preempting and addressing objections, all of them. You wanna know you wanna know all of them. And you wanna know, okay, which features, which benefits will I be mapping here? Which how will I be using emotional and logical hooks so that I’m balancing the storytelling part but with data and proof?

So you wanna have these five, six elements in place in a document when you’re working on a launch of user assistance.

When you have these in place, it becomes so much easier for you to write the copy that would just go in a straight line in a straight line. Yeah. It’s really, it’s now here’s the thing. It sounds very simple, but it’s not.

It’s I found over the years with the hundreds and hundreds of launches that I’ve written for, it’s way easier to do a traditional launch because you have that you have the runway. You can build that, you know, the know, like, trust factor. But when you’re going in cold and you need to sell and you also need to do it without being pushy or, you know, like a typical salesperson.

You wanna be thoughtful and mindful and demure.

You would wanna keep keep these things in mind because that kind of helps you keep the conversation on track, but it is a little bit harder than a traditional launch because you’ve you’ve gotta keep it really tight across the funnel, your sales pitch and your emails.

That messaging is so, so important.

Okay. Yeah. Your job as a copywriter is to obviously keep the process moving forward by addressing their concerns. That is the one thing I want you to take away from this one is that your objection handling is gonna play a huge role.

The more control you have, the easier your close will be. And, again, this this will work, but, like I gave you example, this will work on a sales call. This will work with a webinar. This would work with a quiz.

A launch of least resistance is great where high ticket offers are involved and where an audience needs that extra persuasion.

Alright.

Cool.

Questions? I can see Katie’s hat is up.

Hi, Berna.

As always, I love your workshops.

They’re so meaty and, give us so much to go on.

So I have a couple of questions about implementing this.

One, you mentioned how this is different from, like, the traditional launch runway where you would do, you know, your your prelaunch runway. I’m curious, like, the objection handling, are you doing most of that? Like, is the difference the fact that here you’ve introduced the offer and then you’re handling objective objections, or are you handling those objections?

But, like, I I guess just what’s the sequence of handling the objections versus introducing the offer and kind of more, like, selling?

Yeah. So, yeah, in this case, you introduce the offer first.

So since you you’re in this pretty much same niche as I am with online course creators and coaches and consultants, with a traditional launch. You know how you do it. Right? You have, like, your prelaunch runway, and then you have, like, your launch mechanism kick in, then you have your cart open. You’ve got, like, a lot of room to kind of play with.

And you wanna address those objections before you like, typically, I’d wanna do that before I introduce the offer. Right?

Yeah. Yeah. Here, what’s happening is you’re going in cold. You’re just going in straight for the sale, and you’re addressing your the objections, preempt preempting them and addressing them or, you know, like, your Okay.

In fact, for one of the launches, what I did was the sale the pitch email, like, generally, my pitch email is more of I call it the path for value pitch email. That’s why I call it, but because it has a lot of value in it, and then we are introducing the offer. But in launches of least resistance, what I do is it’s the offer and then the big objection that I know they would have, whether it’s cost or time or money. I’m just it’s like a whole series of objection demolition emails, and the sales page is structured the same way as well.

So there’s like yeah. Will work for me. You know? Don’t have the money. Don’t have the time.

Or, you know, like, tried this before or not ready.

Just yeah. So that’s how it’s structured.

And then so do you if you because I’m assuming that all of these principles that you were sharing, you’re using those both on the sales page and in the emails. Yes.

Does the sales page in this type of funnel also spend much time on, like, desires, dream state, or is it more like, here’s what we do and then boom boom boom?

So what does how the sales page differs from, say, a regular, maybe even a PS or a pays off or the, you know, the different frameworks that I I, kind of have developed over the years is there’s we talk about the pain.

That’s why the emotional certainty kind of comes in. So we, we tap into their pain and their struggle. Do we show them their desires? Yes.

But we tie it to a, a feature of the course. We tied we that’s where the logical certainty starts to build. It’s like, okay. You know, if you want more time freedom, this is how you’re gonna get it using a b c from the course.

So we are tapping into it, but it’s not the structure of the sales page is different. The structure of the sales page starts with the pain that they’re experiencing and how this particular offer is gonna solve that pain for them, with whatever framework, method, etcetera.

And then we go into their you know, maybe what they want, but also, again, that’s why it’s benefit first. So every feature is linked to a benefit, which is, in other words, a desire or an outcome, and then, of course, objection handling, all through the page.

Okay. Thank you. And if I may, could you just elaborate a bit on the looping technique? I didn’t quite understand.

I, you know, I know you said revisit points of certainty as you introduce new objections.

So could you just give an example of what that might look like?

Sure. So I’ll give you an example from okay. I’ll give you an example from sales calls. Right? So I whenever I’m on a sales call with clients, they’ve already you know?

The thing is, most of them are not cold because they’ve either found us through the our website or they’ve, at the very least, have sent us a contact form from the website. So it’s not that, like, they’re entirely cold, but I like using straight line sign for that because it’s a high ticket service. Like, they’re all five figure services. Right?

So how I use Looping is I they already know, my expertise. They know my experience. But what I always always do is I would have I would bring up case studies of clients who are from similar niches, or I would let them know if, if recently recorded a podcast somewhere or if I’ve spoken on stage somewhere. So I’m just building certainty because the big objection most people would have in hiring a strategist or a copywriter is either they’ve been booked before and which is, you know, usually when they come to us or maybe their launch hasn’t worked before or it’s their first time hiring, which is rare, but maybe. You know? So you wanna kind of loop back to, the fact that you’re the best person for this, and here’s why.

Okay. Does that help, Katie?

Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. So just kind of, like, as you know or as we’ve seen or, you know, as I mentioned on this like, just reinforcing those points of certainty so that that’s an ongoing theme.

Yeah. Because you need again, like I said, you need to know what objections, like and after you’d you know, when you do a ton of sales calls, you know exactly what objections your prospect has. And similarly, with a program or a product or service, you know, what objections, you know, your clients would have. So you want to loop back to this.

So it’s not just, oh, let me just put my bio here on the sales page and think we’ve established trust and credibility, but you wanna loop back to it maybe, you know, in the social proof section. Maybe you wanna loop back to it in the FAQ section. Maybe you wanna loop back to it in the in the closing section of the sales page. So you wanna kind of keep coming back to so it’s not just a, let’s just put the bio here and call it a day, but how can we come back and establish certainty?

I’m just giving an example from, say, the credibility of the creator, but you could do that with pretty much any of the other elements as well.

Cool.

Any other questions?

Not even if not related to the training or if anyone’s got, like, copy or a review or things like that, we could dig into it.

I guess I have not necessarily, like, a question. So you mentioned that the course preview or some kind of showing them behind the scenes, that should go out in one of the last emails or at the end of the funnel.

And I usually do that in, like, email four or five.

And How how many emails? Like, how long does the emailed. So it’s in the in the middle. Okay.

Yeah. And then I have an FAQ email that’s emailed six out of eight.

Mhmm. Mhmm.

So I’m wondering if you’ve tested different placements in the promo structure to see which one works best.

Yeah. The reason I so, yeah, I actually have, and I have found I have, in fact, even tested not including FAQ emails. Yeah. Okay, Michelle. Bye.

Even not including FAQ emails in in a sequence because if you, a, addressed and answered most of the questions, you don’t really need an FAQ email. You could easily use that email for for something else.

Mhmm. And the reason why I feel and this is again, I’ve, Blanca, I’ve tested it only with audiences, like, in the online course world. And, That’s my niche as well. So Oh, amazing.

Okay. Great. So yeah. So then we’re in Concord. Okay.

So yeah.

The reason I find that it works really well by placing it towards the end is because by then, you’ve handled most of their objections. You’ve established trust. And now what you’re doing as the final step is helping them visualize themselves as a student in the course. It works beautifully. So for me, I’ve I’ve found you know, placing it towards the end of the funnel is that final little push that they need to kind of go, oh, wow. That’s good. That’s what my experience is gonna be like.

And do you just send them to the sales page where you have a section with that kind of behind the scenes video?

So we’ve done this different ways. We’ve done this with, by recording a like, just like an over the shoulder Loom walk through Mhmm. Of what the post dashboard looks like. We’ve also done this, like I shared, with with my course launch, you know, example where it was a complete experience where we invited them to a pop up group.

We had a full lesson that they needed to log in to Teachableforce. They had to be at a login and everything. So it was a complete student experience where, and we also did this with our astrologer client is that, you know, it was a complete student experience. You created an account.

Why? Because these are micro conversions. Right? Yeah. So it helps them get into that whole student mindset.

And then because, so with the astrologer client, in fact, what we did was really cool was because we had the whole course laid out, and they had unlocked access to this. So they could actually see what happens next. Right? And they all they had to do was upgrade.

So they just had to click the upgrade button. So that really helped as well. So we took this, like, in a few different ways. We’ve done this as an open house where literally, like, as a school or a college would do an open house, we would have, like, some students.

It it is a room Zoom room like this. There would be some students joining in, and then, you know, the the course creator would share screen, walk them through the course portal, show them the community, everything, and then they would have a q and a. They would have the chance to ask questions of the students as well. So it kind of depends on the audience you offer and, you know, of course, what your client’s willing to do, that kind of thing.

That’s cool. Thanks. I I now have a bunch of ideas to test for upcoming promotions.

Yeah. Absolutely.

Absolutely. Yeah. Awesome awesome training, by the way. And I liked your previous one too.

How much Thank you. Thank you. Marina, question.

I’m not a Yes. Yeah. Course creator for this purpose, although I have done other stuff.

So this offer is going to cold traffic.

So you could use this as a starting point for, offering copy services to SaaS potential SaaS clients.

So they know they so they’re starting at problem aware already, and then you have to show them that this is the solution for your and you’re starting, like, right there Mhmm. Jumping in Mhmm. Hard selling. Essentially, you’re hard selling.

Like, this is hard selling.

Exactly. Yes.

You’re just hard selling it.

Hard selling.

This is this is what you need. And then going into the and this is why you need me to do that for you.

Absolutely. Okay. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is hard sales. It’s just that I like to just be mindful of the fact that, you know, we wanna respect people’s reasons for not buying, but at the same time, we wanna make a strong argument for why they should buy.

So which is why you wanna handle those objections. You don’t wanna overlook them. You don’t wanna kind of, you know, brush them aside or anything. You wanna handle them and move on.

But then the objection handling is not like you’re like, it’s integrated, not like you’re saying this. I’m saying this. It’s more subtle.

Yes. Yes.

Oh, I had another question related to that. Oh, have you tried this for productized services?

Oh, good question.

No.

But I do have an opportunity to test it out. We’ve recently overhauled one of our product based services. So, yeah, I could test it out, but, no, I haven’t.

Okay. Right. Thank you.

You’re welcome. Cool. I would love it if you would go ahead and test it out. Like, if you would test out I plan to. A launch of least resistance.

I would love to know how it goes or if you get find yourself coming up against, like, a roadblock.

Find me in Slack and, yeah, just chat with me about it.

I love these launches. They’re just yeah. Them, you know, they’re a challenge, but they’re they’re so exciting to to write for. So yeah.

I’ve done emails sorry, Katie. I’ve done emails, like, email promotions where each email was answering a specific objection, but it was usually for brands that had such a bad reputation or such a bad perception with their audience that it just felt like I can’t really afford to sell anything. Like, I have to afford to sell the product. I first need to repair the trust.

So each email was, okay.

We asked you, and we got some, like, really crazy feedback from you. So let’s settle things straight. So over the next few days, that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

And, yeah, that did work well. Whereas with other audiences, you just don’t need to do all that much.

You don’t need to exactly.

Exactly. Which is why this works really well, like I said, for skeptical audiences. Right?

Like, where like, in your case, the crust has been you know, it needs repairing, but then you also need to do selling.

So works. Yeah. Yeah. Amazing.

Katie.

So I would love to I’m still building out my, like, post workshop funnel. So I have, you know, my diagnostic workshop online.

I have, you know, I know you haven’t watched the workshop yet, so go watch his sequence that Yes. But I don’t have a lot that goes out after that.

Like, you know, essentially, my post webinar Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. For my, for my standardized offer. So I think that this would work well. Yes.

But I’d love your tips on, like so if the offer is, you know, a productized service around behavior based back end automations Mhmm.

What because to me, I’m like, oh, I don’t see what objections you could have. It’s a great idea. But I know, you know, it’s like okay. So the founder’s time, the team’s time, like, adding something else to their plate, not wanting to annoy or bother their clients, like, not wanting to have feel salesy.

Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, it’s my first time. Like, I haven’t sold it yet, so I need proof, like, proof that it will work and that I can do it.

The idea that they can’t imagine what it looks like or how it would Yes.

Go. Exactly. Which is where a demo would come in. So you wanna kind of show them what it would look like. I would like actually, if you’ve not done this, then I would actually build that build something out so you can kinda walk them through what it looks like so they can see that it’s not as either as confusing because with something like this and because I sell a lot of these, you know, behavior based sequences, I find the biggest objection is they just can’t visualize what it looks like. So Mhmm. Yeah.

And you would just build that out in whimsical or something?

Like, Yeah. Or whimsical, fun analytics, whatever you wanna kind of use. Whimsical works just fine. Just, you know, kind of visually helping them to see, hey.

This is what’s gonna happen. This is what happens when this happens. And if this happens, and then you kinda see light bulbs go up. Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Mhmm. And is there anything else that comes to mind that I didn’t mention that you think it would be a big one?

Yeah.

Tried it in the past, did not work.

Mhmm. Okay.

Yeah. That come up, you know, with a few established creators.

They have sequences in place, but didn’t work, which is where your credibility comes in as I actually heard from an OBM that I’m friends with.

She she was like, oh, yeah. We already have something like that. I was like, I don’t think you I don’t think you have what I’m talking about.

Like Yeah.

Yeah. Exactly. So it’s which is why the looping technique kicks in. You know? So you wanna kinda remind them. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. I’ll let you know how it goes. Thank you.

Cool. You’re welcome. Rayna?

Okay. So two things, commenting to Katie, about the OBM that said we already have something like that.

Herna, I’m just wondering, is it too cheeky just to ask them, so are you getting the results that you wanted from them?

Yeah. No.

That’s not you know, like, if they say that, hey.

We’ve got this.

Like, even thinking about Yeah.

Yeah.

If we’re saying, okay. So here’s an onboarding flow.

Well, we already have one.

Okay. So are you happy with your conversions?

Exactly. You that is preempting.

Like, I mean, you could say it so it’s not snarky, but, is that where that kind of comes down to your tone.

Right? Yes. Exactly. Yeah.

You know, it kinda comes down to your timeline.

Curiosity.

Like Yeah.

Exactly. More like I would do that. Okay. One hundred percent. One hundred percent. Yeah. Address it.

That’s exactly what straight line is. You wanna address those objections. Like I said, you don’t you wanna be mindful, of course. You wanna be, you know, you don’t wanna be disrespectful.

But at the same time, you don’t wanna tiptoe around it and not address not address it. I yeah. I would definitely do that one hundred percent.

And then secondly, because it’s cold, can you run ads can you run ads directly to your straight line funnel?

Yes. Yes. Cold. Cold traffic.

Right?

Like, it’s meant to convert cold traffic, and it’s just a numbers game.

Right?

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One hundred percent. I would want to, however, ensure that the offer is validated.

So you could run it the because the last thing you wanna do is Yes.

Spend money on an invalidated offer.

Exactly. Yeah. It’s not So It is for cold audiences. It’s not for untested, invalidated offers. That’s an important distinction.

Okay. So then here’s my question because I’m kind of in the same boat as Katie right now. Like, I’ve done the work for other people, yes, and gotten results, but I haven’t done this particular set of activities to accomplish this particular outcome in this in my signature way.

Mhmm.

So is the offer proved by the fact that, yes, I have written onboarding flows that have increased conversions, or is the offer proof that I’ve done it my way in this current system and gotten results with that signature?

I mean, yeah, it’s it’s not either or. It’s both. You’ve written onboarding sequences that have bought gotten conversions.

Right. And, you know, you know, I would do both. Like, I would lean on both of those. I would call this a validated offer. I would so to I would not what would an invalid offer be? Where you’ve never done something, for either your own brand or a client, and you’re, like, absolutely near the market.

Okay. So yeah. So if you’ve done it either for your own brand or for even, like, another brand, and it’s not, like, the full scope of things, but it’s been, like, you know, I’ve done one for one client. I’ve done one for another client.

That’s about it all for me. Like, you’ve you’ve tested those out. People need it. They work. Mhmm. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. Thank you.

Can I add something here?

Yes.

So if you don’t have, like, case studies right now to demonstrate how effective the solution is, like onboarding sequences, you can use industry data to back that up.

So something that I’m doing is my framework is customer centricity applied to sales emails in a way that allows me to sell a course each month without making it aggressive, salesy, or burning the list. That’s because I’m implementing the customer centric concepts. And, obviously, I’m not, like, an authority right now. I haven’t done any research in this specific area, but there are professors. And there are big, economic studies that demonstrate that companies that use customer centric frameworks are actually gaining better results than product based companies. So for me, when I go to a client and say, well, obviously, yes, you can run a flash sale that’s product based. But can you do that every month in a way that actually lets you convey your unique brand messaging whatever?

Although, actually so if you turn to customer centricity and here are all these sources that back it up, then that’s a lot better than me saying, well, I’ve been doing this for a long a long time.

And I do have the results, but if you don’t believe me Exactly.

Data. So that is why you know? And that’s where both the emotional and logical certainty factors kick in with this one. So you wanna lean on the data.

You may have you may have or may not have testimonials and case studies or the the stories to back it up. But if you have data, that will work too. And then your expertise is what would help create and, you know, the the other side of the certainty equation. So, I think that’s what the yeah.

Katie says she uses this data too. So amazing. Great.

So do this, Marina.

Do the quality of your questions to your clients also validate your authority?

One hundred percent. I’m a big fan of sales calls because of that.

It really helps me close way bigger projects and packages, and which is why I yeah. I have, like, I would say, a list of questions, but I don’t have a quote, unquote, a templated sales call flow, because, yeah. It just helps me to kind of, you know, assess what I need to do. And, sales calls are, like, the perfect example of straight line selling, like, you know, but you wanna do it your way.

So yeah. But one hundred fancy your question? Yes. One hundred percent.

Thank you.

You’re welcome.

Awesome. Anything else?

All good. Perfect. Marina, apparently, for some reason, like yes. Sarah’s saying, Zoom is recording, so, hopefully, yes, we record it.

But I’ve told her that yours is recording too. Mine got kicked out. It’s a weird Zoom world. I may need to reach out to you for the recording.

I’ll wait for Sarah to come back to me on that.

Yeah. I can also send you the or the fathom.

Okay. Awesome. That would be that would be great. Yeah. Yeah. That’s fine. Perfect. Perfect. Thanks so much, everybody.

Lovely seeing y’all.

Bye now. Bye. Bye.

Your Buyer Handbook: Closing High-Ticket Offers

The Buyer Handbook: Closing High-Ticket Offers

Transcript

So Jo on Monday shared, you know, the buyer handbook and how to go high ticket, and my training kind of builds on that where we talk about selling high ticket packages and just being going beyond the usual, oh, let’s just, you know, put more things into it or let’s so what I would wanna focus on is how do you actually, instead of just creating a package, actually sell a package. And I’m pulling on loads of experience here. I’ve I’ve sold a hundred thousand dollar package.

And just this year, like, I’ve sold multiples of packages upwards of fifty thousand dollars.

So it’s something I’m very familiar with and and good at.

So we’re gonna kinda dig into how do we do things, and I’d love to get your questions as well after that.

And, of course, yeah, if anyone’s got copy they like, critiqued, we can look at that too.

So cool. Abby’s here as well. Hey, Abby. Welcome. We’re just getting started.

Cool. Okay. I’m gonna share screen.

And let me pull this up first. Present.

Alright.

Cool.

So high ticket offers, offers. Like I was saying, this is something that I am deeply familiar with, love doing, and, yeah, have sold several projects upwards of fifty thousand dollars, and these are, like, single projects. So, yes, we’ve also done a lot of, you know, multiple projects with the same client where the client lifetime value exceeds a hundred thousand dollars or more.

But right now, we’re talking about a single a single project that you can, you know, sell for fifty k, twenty five k. Whatever is, say, you know, I’m saying fifty k because that used to be my aspiration. You know? Like, that was where I was a few years ago.

But then we sold a hundred k project. And I was like, okay. So maybe my, you know, new baseline could be fifty k, and then we go upwards from there. So, but that said, you can define what high ticket means to you right now. Like, if you feel like, oh, I’m selling packages, I’d say, or projects for fifteen k, twenty k, maybe your high ticket could be forty five k. You know? This is just don’t use this as like, oh, that’s what it needs to be.

Alright. So like I said, we’re not gonna be looking at the basics. I’ve done a couple of other trainings on selling packages and all in the past, which you’ll find in your CopyScore professional dashboard. You can revisit those.

But this one, essentially, we wanna look at, specifically, the tactical elements of closing and convincing clients that you’re worth it.

So the one thing most freelancers forget when going high ticket, the three key elements in a high ticket offer, and you’ll be surprised that they don’t include, oh, you need to do this and you need to do that. And then the five tactical strategies you can use when you wanna close high ticket.

So core principle that you need to remember is when you’re selling high ticket, you’re not selling a ton of deliverables. You’re selling high impact transformation for your client. That needs to be at the core of the package or the, you know, proposal that you create for that client. So it’s not about, like, just shoving a ton of items in there to, you know, make it look like a very robust package. The idea here is what’s going to create the maximum transformation for your client.

So it could you know, you could have, like, a few deliverables, but the impact and the transformation for your client would be huge. So this is something that we all need to remember when creating these high ticket packages. The idea here is not to just throw in a bunch of stuff at them. The idea is to think deeply about what is going to create the biggest transformation for them.

So one thing I find that most freelancers forget is that some of your existing offers can be high ticket too, which is something that this is I’m speak sharing this from personal experience.

So, one of the projects that we sold for this was twenty twenty three maybe. Yeah.

Was around seventy five thousand dollars, and it was an existing offer. So you don’t always have to create from scratch. You know? You don’t have to sit down and think of a new offer.

You may full disclosure. You may have to, but sometimes you may have an existing offer that you can optimize for this client and turn that into a high ticket offer.

So what are the key elements?

And we’ll kind of dig into how to kind of deliver on these key elements in the sales process as well. So the first thing is you wanna start thinking of your discovery calls or whatever you call your, you know, your, the I call them copy chat. Like, essentially, your initial consult with a client, you need to start thinking of them as a consult call and not just, oh, tell me more about the project. What are you looking for?

Yes. All of that information is great, but you also wanna look at what’s a quick win that you could deliver on that call and really wow them without having to kind of give away the entire strategy. Because I know that is a struggle that a lot of us have where we start asking these questions and then our brains are spinning ideas out and we think that, oh, let me just share all of these with the client only to then end up either overwhelming the client or just kind of giving them way too much for that initial consult call where they start to feel, do we really need this? Should we look at a different direction?

You don’t wanna start doing that. You wanna give them a quick win, but at the same time, you don’t wanna give away the form. The second element is you wanna make your offer a no brainer. I’m gonna dig into this in a bit, as well.

I When I say a no brainer, you wanna start thinking about when you put that proposal together when you put a high ticket proposal together, you need to have all the information you need from the client to be able to give them the results that they’re looking to get.

So sometimes that may mean meeting for two calls before you set out a proposal instead of just the one call. And when someone is paying you a hundred grand for a single project, it’s in your interest to do that second call and get as much clarity as you can before you put a proposal together. Because, again, remember, it’s not about, like, oh, I’m gonna just toss in a bunch of line items at them. The idea is for you to be able to create the maximum amount of transformation for them. So you wanna have every possible objection in mind.

And how do you overcome that? And we’ll look at that in a bit, but you wanna have a plan to overcome that objection.

Oh, but we don’t have our brand voice. Okay? But we you know, you you’ve had that objection handled. Oh, but I don’t have a designer.

Alright? I have that objection handle. Oh, but, I wouldn’t know what to do with a Google Doc, which honestly, like, not a high ticket fan would say, but maybe. You know?

They’re like, would you work with a designer? You know? So you need to have an answer for every objection, preempt those objections in that proposal.

Sometimes I’ve not had that experience, but I’m just kind of preparing you. Sometimes, a client may come back to you and say, but we don’t have this. They may come back with an objection that you may not have thought of, in which case it’s totally good to say, alright. Let me look at the proposal again.

Let me see what we can do. So you would need to kind of then think about, okay. How can we handle this objection? Can we handle it or not?

Nine times out of ten for your high ticket offers, you will be able to handle objections. You will be able to make it happen.

I’ll tell you how.

And then the final thing is you wanna make it ridiculously easy for them to pay you and work with you. Now most of us may think that, yes. Oh, yeah. I have Stripe or I have PayPal or I have, you know, Wise or whatever payment mechanism, but you need to be sure that it runs seamlessly.

With a lot of these high ticket plans, they would have, and here’s the the fun part. I don’t know if this is true for all niches, but in the niche that I am, which is online course creators, coaches, and consultants, Even with high ticket projects like these, like anything upwards of fifty k, you do get paid in advance. Like, it not the entire amount, but we have milestone based payment plans, which is what I say make it ridiculously easy for them to pay you. So, I know with a lot of enterprise level clients, you may have, like, net thirty, net sixty as payment terms.

That is not the case with us. We get paid a certain amount for them to you know, when they book us. We get paid a certain amount before kickoff. We get paid a certain amount during the project.

We get paid a certain amount towards the completion of the project. So by the time, the project’s completed, like, we’ve been paid completely.

So we do divide it up into milestone based payment plans, but we do get paid well before the project is completed. Now, again, this may not be true for all industries, for all issues. I’m just I can speak for the industry that I’m in. So if you, like me, are in a coaching, cost creator industry, I know Abby is in that, Claire. I don’t know about your industry right now. But or, and I know Andrew is in in, you know, SaaS as well. Todd, I don’t know what your industry to pointing.

You would need to look at your industry and see what’s the practice there. But if you’re in this particular industry, I can tell you you will get paid before the project so well.

But you need to make it really easy for them to pay you. So you need to think about how are you gonna split the payments. How does it make sense for you, and how does it make sense for the clients as well? Right?

It needs to be a win win at all points of time, and you wanna make it very easy for them to work with you. So it’s shocking, but one of the you know, I would say I’m gonna call it feedback. Like, one of the things that comes out in our testimonials from clients who’ve worked with copywriters in the past is that they find it they’ve worked with copywriters earlier, but they’ve not had a great experience. They didn’t know what was going on at different stages.

They didn’t know, you know, when things would happen. They didn’t know, where to find what. So you need to have those processes in place if you’re looking to go ahead hit it. You it’s a nonnegotiable.

You need to have your onboarding in place. You need to have your client portal in place. You need to know exactly what when client communication is gonna happen. The good thing is, yes, you can automate a lot of this.

Speaking for myself and our business, we don’t have it automated.

Shocking.

But we do have a project manager. We do have our an assistant. We you know, who maps out all of the dates in the Notion in the client portal that we have, so clients can see exactly when what happens, when they get what, when when would when they need to give us feedback so they can plan accordingly when to schedule calls. Everything is there.

And also communication channels. With Hiretteq clients, you will end up joining their communication channels. Sometimes you may even end up joining their project man management systems and setting the whole thing up there for them. So you need to be kind of prepared to do that.

I I usually join their Slack channels or, their, you know, whatever communication medium they’re using.

But for the most part, they’re pretty cool. Like and, again, I’m speaking from our clients. They’re pretty cool with using our client portals, except probably in one case last year where we had to use appliance Asana. But yeah. Point is make it really, really easy for them to work with you.

So how do you do this? How do you do all of this so that you can go ahead from, like, just kind of putting packages together to actually selling them. First up, show initiative. Like I said, your consult calls, you need to show initiative.

You need to go prepared. You need to have your research done on that client on what you can help them with. You need to have all of that information before you get on the call. You need to have the relevant case studies to share on the call.

You need to have relevant pro product, you know, service assets that you may wanna show them on the call. For instance, in some cases, I need to show a client what the final wireframe sales page is gonna look like. In other cases, I may walk them through what my, you know, messaging document could look like. So you need to have those relevant everything lined up so you’re not wasting time on the call looking for things.

You’re not wasting time thinking about, oh, who was a similar client that I worked with? What relevant case studies do I have? And you’re not wasting time thinking about how can I best help this client? You do go in with enough background about the client.

You do with about the prospect. You do do some digging, some, you know, due diligence and some work on all of that, but then you spend most of the time trying to understand how can you best help them and then show initiative. So like I said, initiative means sharing an idea that can help increase profit margins. You don’t go ahead and implement it for them.

You don’t go ahead and start mapping a funnel out for them on the call. It’s about making moves that help your client and you win. And you can you can, and, ideally, you should be doing this even when you’re working with the client. I’m sure most of you already have that done, but remember this even for your discovery calls.

Okay. Better have a drink of water, and I’m just gonna check.

Chat.

Okay. Oh, Claire’s in SAS. Cool.

Cool.

So I don’t know why this poll is not showing up, but, anyways, you wanna use the who not how method.

So this is Benjamin Hardy’s book.

Point is you need to know who you can bring in to handle an objection that a client may have. So I’ll give you an example. I’m working on a fairly high ticket project right now. It’s, it’s a huge project where I’m doing, like, multiple launch funnels and all of that. So but when the client came in, one of the big challenges was that their brand voice was muddied, and they did not have a brand voice guide.

Right? And that could have caused them to either wait. And they have a very, very, very distinct brand voice, a one that, you know, I just can’t immerse myself in the brand and then write for it. I needed a brand voice guide. So we brought in a brand voice expert. In fact, I had my call, where we presented the guide to them this morning.

It’s for those of you who don’t know, it’s late evening for me right now. I’m in India. So, yeah, I’m towards the end of my day.

But point is, you need to start thinking about who can you partner with for projects. And you wanna start doing that right now before you get a high ticket client. So I’ll give you an example. For the hundred k project, we partnered with a brand voice expert again because that was a it was a brand new brand, basically.

Like, they it was a membership site. They were they were launching their membership. They had, like, a summit, and they’ve not it was, like, absolutely new. So we needed we were starting from scratch, which is exciting, but that also meant that they didn’t know what their brand sounds like.

They literally had no idea. So we needed to bring a brand voice expert in. We needed to, you know I always hire out research. That that’s a given.

But before we had, like, a regular research contractor, it would be something someone we would bring in for, you know, these bigger project. But now it’s, like, almost it’s a given. So you need to start thinking about what are possible objections that a client may have when wanting to hire you, a. And, b, if not you, then who can help solve that objection?

And you wanna start doing that now. You don’t wanna be scrambling and settling for whatever option you get should a client prospect comes in. So you wanna prepare for the kind of clients you wanna have right now.

Bring those partners in, bake in the cost and a percentage because, well, you would also be doing communication, coordination, all of that stuff, right, into the quote that you prepare and the proposal that you give them.

So and that is how you help your clients overcome objections really easily.

High ticket positioning. And I think our last call was about positioning, for those of you who did not you know, weren’t able to attend it. And if you get a chance, please watch it because your positioning matters, especially when you’re, you know, quoting high ticket. The moment you’re seen as an expert, price kind of becomes irrelevant.

The moment your clients know that you you’re you’re speaking on stages, you’ve, you know, got case studies under your belt, you can offer the same package for five k, twenty five k, or a hundred k when your positioning shifts, which, you know, is to my point that sometimes you don’t need to create anything new. The more expertise you bring to the table, the easier it is for you to command highlighted prices.

Ease equals easy yachts.

Like I said, make it really, really easy to work with you. So you wanna be really communicative with the appliance. You wanna show them the deliverables that they’ll be getting, when would they be getting them, walk them through their client portal.

Every time we onboard a client and this goes for, you know, this goes for all our clients, by the way. But the you know, everything that we’re discussing goes for all our clients, but even this one, for instance, every single client we onboard, but it’s only for a sales page or it’s for, like, a, you know, high ticket offer. I will record a Loom video walking them through the Notion portal explaining how everything works. Can I just record a video once and send it out to everybody? Because, well, the Notion portal is pretty standard.

Yeah. Sure.

But for us, client experience, and I’ll come to that in a bit as well, is paramount. It is what helps us stand apart and create a really great experience for people for clients working with us. So I will record that for every single client.

I will show them exactly what they would be getting, when would they be getting. We have a communication cadence with you know, if depending on the number of deliverables. It could be middle of week updates and end of week updates. Otherwise, it’s end of week updates always to fill them in on what’s going on with their project. Who have we interviewed or who have we or where are we on the research phase? Every single thing. Where am I on the writing phase?

They’re in the loop. My experience can be such a differentiating factor. I mean, I’ve been in business, like, for years. Like, Mank and I, we started our business in two thousand and eleven. So yeah.

It’s been over a decade, and I cannot tell you how many times I have heard from from peers, from prospects, from clients about poor experiences with with copywriters, with contractors, you know, which is why your client experience counts. Now this does not in any way mean that you need to have no boundaries and you should be available all the time. Absolutely not.

But you do need to give your clients the experience that, you you know, you’re charging for.

So it’s easy when you create a client experience your clients talk about. Because when they talk about it, it creates word-of-mouth, word-of-mouth creates credibility, credibility creates high ticket conversions. It becomes so much easier because when clients talk about you in rooms that you’re not present, it becomes, you know, at least referrals. People who come in are already sold on you. They have zero resistance when it comes to pricing.

They know what it is like to work with you. It just makes it so much easier.

So your high ticket offer should be a solution, a high impact one. You need to start thinking about that right away. Like I said, if you wanna look at what to put into a package, we’ve already done that, or it would be in the CSP portal. I would highly recommend visiting that.

But when you’re putting your proposal together, when you’re going on those sales calls, you need to start thinking about the solution you’re offering.

And closing your high ticket offer will be so much easier if you show initiative, solidify your positioning, have a delivery team in place, make it easy to work with you, and create a client experience that has clients talking about you in rooms you aren’t present. And you can actually do pretty much all of this, including client experience even before you sign on a high ticket client. Even start, you know, testing it out with your current clients so that when you do have that high ticket client coming, everything’s running like a breeze. In fact, I would highly recommend upgrading any of these systems and processes for your business right now.

Alright.

That’s it, folks.

Q and a copy critique time.

Okay.

Alright. Andrew, are you subcontracting the brand voice expert and folding them into your project, or are you just getting the client to hire that Yeah. No. So the client is not hiring the expert.

We let the client know that we will be bringing in. So in this case, for example, this current client that I’m working with, we work with Justin Blackman.

Right? And we let the client know that we will be bringing Justin in to create the brand voice guide. So we had Justin, the client, the client’s team, me. We were on the brand voice discovery call where, like, he has his whole process, where he works for the client to kind of uncover their voice.

Then today, we did the brand. Then in between, we met Justin and I met to go over the voice guide so that, you know, I could bring in my insights and he could share his and all of that. So it’s a very it’s very much a collaborative effort. It’s not it’s not one where I would say, oh, we will create it for you, and then Justin has no contact with the client.

He he has contact with the client. He meets the client because I want him to follow his process. Right? He’s the expert there for brand voice. And neither is it, where I’ll we tell the client that, oh, here’s who you should work with for this so you can you know, so they run that separately.

It’s very much an it’s integrated into our project. Like, their the time like, when we present the timelines to our client, the timeline has these, you know, outsourced deliverables as well.

Question? Yes.

Absolutely.

Do you have, a certain, like, gross margin that you aim for when you bring someone like that in? So if you bring those margin that you aim for when you bring someone like that in?

So if you bring let’s say you bring in Justin, you, yeah, like, what percent are you looking for a margin in terms of, yeah, difference between what what they’re paying you to bring to bid and then what you think?

Excellent question. I would need to bring Mayank in for that. So because he’s the one who does all of our, SEO, he handles all of that side of the business. So let me ask him and come back to you on that.

That’s a great who not how answer.

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I have, like yeah. He does all all of that, so I’m gonna ask him and come back to you on that.

K. Yeah. No problem. I’ve heard I’ve, I asked Shane in the in the group similarly, and he said that he aims for I think he said sixty five percent gross margin, but, yeah, I’m just asking the developers to get the general feel. So Sure. Starting starting to hire a little bit more, and I’m still having trouble wrapping the head around the path of how this ultimately benefits me.

Appreciate it. Thanks.

Yeah. No. Absolutely. You’re most welcome. And I will I will ask him and come back to you in Slack and answer your question there. Cool.

Any other questions about selling high ticket?

Yeah. I have I’ve gone on delivering, so I’ve got a lot of experience doing, but delivering has always been historically weak for me because two reasons. One, like, it all works up to this big frenzy and you’re like, here, implement it.

Mhmm.

And then either it takes them forever to implement, some people never implement.

Mhmm. So I decided that it would make sense to start implementing.

But I was wondering if you have experience on how to how to make that streamlined.

So where exactly in the delivery process do you find yourself struggling the most?

Well, I’m sort of changing what I what I usually do. So I used to it used to be all about web copy, and now I’m sort of shifting over to emails.

So that would be actually getting access to their email platform. I’m a little uncertain as to how a high ticket client would react to me going, give me all of your passwords kinda thing. Add me as a user, and give me all all the edit access. Oh, and my team as well. Like, how do I streamline that part?

So you would do that when you walk them through your process on your discovery call.

You would walk them through your process. You would tell them like, for instance, I’ll give you an example with with our clients. Right? And I do emails as well, and sometimes I need to look at how are their past email sequences performing or how because how would I otherwise, you know, come up with strategy if I don’t know what’s working?

Or sometimes I and not sometimes. All of the times I need access to their courses. So when I’m discussing my process, I walk them through that. And I say, so what I walk them through the re and research.

We’ll, you know, interview students. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All of that. But then I also let them know that for me to really understand your student experience, I will need access to the course, the community.

You will need to add me as a user on your email service provider so I can see how your emails are doing.

You don’t need to give me most of them don’t even need to get passwords. Sometimes they do. They use either they use LastPass or they resend it late one time or whatever. That is that is on that.

You can give them options. You can say, you know, I’m I can work with anything you’ve got, but I will need access to this because without it, I would not be able to do a, b, and c. So when clients know that, it’s they’re prepared for it. And then when you press you walk them again, you remind them about all of this when they sign on and when you’re walking them through your client portal.

They need to know that so we have two sections in our client portal. We have deliverables, and then we have, you know, research and materials needed from the client. And in that, we, again, have these as line items.

Add to the student community. Add to email account. Send us heat maps record and recordings. Add us on this whatever is needed, everything is laid out for them, and, yeah, they know exactly what’s expected of them.

Got it. So it’s all it’s all up front.

That makes sense. And then just sorry. Just to follow-up on that. In terms of do you guys actually do, like, the designing of emails as well?

No. No. No. But we Yeah. So, for emails, again, this is audience specific. Right? Like, your audience may need those emails designed.

What my audience needs essentially is the emails written. They’re semi wireframe. There’s, like, a rough wireframe so they know exactly where, if I’m using a GIF that goes if I’m using an image where that goes, everything is there. They have their subject line options, their preview text.

Everything is, like, laid out very neatly, but there’s no designing involved there. For sales pages and opt in pages, on the other hand, however, I present my initial copy in a Google Doc. But then once it’s final, we have a designer wireframe it. It’s a black and white wireframe.

It’s it’s not it’s very low key, but it it’s super helpful for clients to see how the copy should be laid out. They may go ahead and do something different, which is fine, but at least, you know, we know it makes it faster and easier for them to implement again.

Right. Makes sense. Cool. Thank you.

You’re welcome. Todd, you had a question.

No. It was just gonna be in reply to what Claire was saying. Just something that, she could look to do. So I just I’ll hit her up on Slack after and go over it with her if she wants. It just goes back to what you’re saying with automating.

Your onboarding email, your kickoff email, your onboarding email right away should have a doc where it says we need such and such and such and such with a link to such and such and such. And, I mean, it it’s again, if I can say it clear, the thing is is that the more you let the client control the engagement, the more they’ll put you at arm’s length and control an engagement. So the the goal is to start controlling it right away and professionally, of course. And the more you control it right away, there’s less hiccups because then your timelines will go from, say, if it’s a two month project, for example, to a three month project because you’re waiting for Google Google Tag Manager or you’re waiting for their goo GA or your, like, your email and everything.

So you’re onboarding right away, control it, and then your kickoff. When you go over, you have a visitor checkbox. We’re still waiting for such and such. So, like, you know, what you’re saying is the more you automate it, the more you control it, the other the easier it becomes.

So there you go. Blair ends. Thank you. Yeah. Exactly what it is. It’s Blair ends.

Exactly. Pricing creativity. Right? Exactly. That’s exactly what it is. So, yeah, I just didn’t wanna jump in with that, Claire.

I can hit you up after, but, yeah, it’s absolutely. Andrew, I think, will be best friends. But, yeah, it’s Blair Ends for sure. So yeah.

Thank you so much. That’s for being helpful. Is that a book by Blair? Yes. Blair?

I yeah.

So It’s in a book. Yeah.

Yeah. I I would share it with you. It’s a five hundred dollar book. My, my business my manic max business partner has it now. It’s called Pricing Creativity.

You can also I would start with, winning without pitching And I know that’s a brand manifesto.

Thinking. Yeah.

So but, yeah, we can talk after. Also, I’ve really upgraded that clearance. I’ve got stuff I can share with you. I’ve got some docs, but I’m doing what’s called blueprint training right now with, Ryan Stewart.

And he really kicks stuff off really nicely, like questions that he asks. And, yeah, it it you have to. I I don’t wanna control the conversation story. It’s just that it just makes life so much easier. This is not my workshop.

So Thank you.

Yeah. Yeah. No. Absolutely. You need to start like like I said, you wanna show you’re sharing if you wanna create a great client experience, but at the same time, you don’t wanna let you know, you don’t wanna have any boundaries. You wanna have those guardrails set right from the start so your client knows exactly what happens. And it you know, you’re in control of the project right from the start.

Cool. Any other questions?

Nope. Okay.

Copy that needs critique.

All good. Yeah.

Hi. Sorry. I have a question about the copy needing critiquing part. Like, how does that work?

Oh, fairly straightforward. If you have copy that you need critique, you show up with a Google Doc that I can, you know, review and make edits in. And, obviously, we’d need some context and yeah.

Okay. Cool. So, like, if I put together a sales pitch, for example, would you be able to critique that? Okay. Great.

Yes.

Good to know. Thank you.

You’re welcome.

Awesome.

Any other questions? Any thoughts about high ticket selling? What does high ticket mean to you?

Yep, Todd.

With high ticket prices and depending on what the project is, what are your normal deliverables that you’re looking at? Like, how long, for example?

So as far as length of project goes, I’ll give you an example. Right now, I’m working on a fairly high ticket project. It’s upwards of fifty thousand dollars.

We it’s so, basically, what I’m working on is two sales pages, two opt in pages, a whole bunch of emails about, say, I would say, twenty six maybe twenty six, thirty odd emails.

That’s those are the deliverables. Of course, my research process is baked in.

The brand voice is baked in, all of that.

That’s that’s the project.

So how long, though, like, how long are those twenty six emails? Is it over, like, a week, four weeks, two months?

Oh, gosh. No. No. No. No. So, essentially, most of our projects are spread out, which is what a lot.

So here’s the thing that you should and this is, again, this is true for our business because it may not be true for every other business. So I need to caveat that by saying, I’m the only copywriter in the business.

Mhmm.

So I write all the copy. That’s how we built it. I we have tried subcontracting copy in the past. It doesn’t really work out the way we want it.

We much rather subcontract. I’m much faster, and dare I say better. So it just makes more sense. So with that and plus the other thing is I like working on multiple projects at a time.

So I’m working on this massive project, but I’m working on two other massive projects as well. I’m writing website copy for a school, and I’m working on website copy for a food blogger at the same time. So which means we structure the projects in a way that they take a few weeks. So for instance, this particular project, we’ve we’re we’re wrapping up with the research phase towards the end of June when we enter the offer optimization phase, but and then the client needed to go on a break for a while.

She’s on a book tour. So this one’s gonna finish oh, and then we are moving house, so we needed to factor that in as well. We’re moving house in August. So, this one’s gonna finish in September.

Cool. Alright. So September. Okay. Yeah. That’s one of the things for me.

I mean, we have, you know, twenty minutes here. I don’t know if I’m I don’t wanna hijack your day, but but you’re asking for questions and feedback. For me, that’s one of the things I’m really liking about the intensive is in the past, when you’re saying, like I think you said here, You just talked about the different, tactics and everything. I’ve sold projects.

It was, like, ninety k over six months. We’ve sold, like, eighty k over four months. We’ve sold, like, fifty k over four months, and some of them were, like, you know, full. Like, the ninety k was full email.

It’s like it ended up being newsletter and social and all these things. You’re just throwing the kitchen sink at people, And they’re like, yeah. Great. I get all this for that.

And then, you know, lately, it was, like, website. We’re doing, like, full ICP work, full, SEO work, full work. We weren’t doing the SEO work. We were doing, like, full, site planning, full wireframing, and full dev.

And those would take three to four depending on the page size and everything like that. And then we would just chuck so much more into it. And that’s what I’m liking about this. Is that really what this is teaching me is just the refinement of what we do.

Because like you said, most of us when when you are the person who understands things like, when you say brand voice, to be honest, the first thing I do when I come into it is what’s your brand voice? Because, like, you’re gonna walk into a room. I I love I love Jasmine Blackman because soon as you walk into a room, people are like, well, you know, we think we’re we’re playful. And it’s like, well, that’s not a great that’s a personality.

Right? And then they’re like, like, I’ve I’ve had people I’ve gone into meetings who are like, yeah. Her voice is like think of, like, buttery potatoes with a side of horseradish that’s just kinda splintered into it, and you’re not expecting that. And I’m sitting there going, that’s not a voice?

And they’re like, well, yeah. It is. It’s it’s it’s a surprise voice. I’m like, no.

There’s nine types of voice.

Yeah. Yeah.

I’m like, yeah. There’s, like, three types of outlook, three of accessibility, three of authority, and you’re like, what? And it’s just you just you just stop edits.

It’s weird. You squash edits right away. Yep. So that’s what it is for me. But the idea of the copywriting, yeah, that’s what I’m thinking is, like, yeah, I just I did all the copywriting. When we sold a package, I was eighty to ninety percent of the work. So that’s why I’m wondering about the projects and the deliverables.

And I’m just also like, I like where this is going because what you’re saying, I wanna go CRO. And this is a conversation I’ve I’m really bringing it up, but I know there’s time with CRO, and I know I’ve got things really refined. But, you know, when you were saying you you didn’t say really CRO. You said some you said web copy and everything there. But I’m just curious about, yes, what you’re selling, what the deliverable is, and what that is. Because it’s I just find what this is happening is really kinda fascinating. So that’s just me.

Yeah. Yeah. No. You need to, like again, our our packages are fairly straightforward.

Most of them are on our side. They I have made the mistake of throwing the kitchen sink at a client and then just, yeah, feeling overwhelmed and not being able to see the transformation that we wanted them to see, which means, like, yeah, it doesn’t make any sense.

The other thing that I need to you know, like, let everyone know is, like, I focus only on the copy and the strategy side of things. Everything else that is not my core skill is outsourced, baked in. So like I said, editing, outsourced, baked in. I don’t spend any time on edits, before the copy goes to the client.

I don’t spend any time on wireframing. I don’t spend any time on research. I don’t spend any time on things like if a client needs brand voice or if a client needs design or whatever or implementation.

Nope.

So I just focus on what my zone of genius is, and, yeah, that’s it. Every it’s it’s who not how for me, basically. Yeah.

Yeah. And that’s what I think I for me, it’s it’s the who has always been this guy. It’s always been the design, the Well, that’s been the way this guy. Brand, everything from logo, illustration to everything.

The only thing I handed over in the last last little bit was dev work because we were using Thrive, and I use Elementor. And I just didn’t wanna be in like, really just start a new thing from scratch in that. So I hear all of that. Absolutely.

But I find when I have done that, standards drop. So that was the only thing for me, and and you’re absolutely right. And getting people in the but, yeah, standards drop. And when standards drop, you’re running behind then, like, you’re you’re you’re off on projects.

Right?

So Yeah.

Yep.

Yep. So which is exactly why what we realized is, like, for us, for and this is what we realized with with copy is, like, I wanna own the copy start to finish. Everything else, I wanna work with you know, mine kinda very clearly work with, like, whoever’s the best when it comes to, say, you know, research or whatever or editing. So we and we start we what we what we found was we needed to work with a few people to kinda see what the experience was like before we knew that we were going to bring them into a bigger project, which is why I said, you wanna start looking for the who’s now before you, you know, have like, you’re starting a huge project, but you wanna finish in a certain amount of time and you wanna be working on other projects. Like I said, like, from in our case, could I finish the project sooner? Absolutely.

But the way I’m wired is, like, I like to work in different projects so that it just kinda keeps me creative. If you wanna pull off one project in a shorter piece I mean, like, the amount of copy I’m writing, like, we could easily condense it.

But, yeah, I wanted to also work on the school website project. I also wanted to work on the blog at Baker.

Hundred percent.

You know? Yeah. So but most importantly, what I want everyone to remember is, like, you need to start looking for the people who you can bring in right now.

Use them for smaller projects. Use them for a project for your own business if you have to. That’s exactly what we did when we have a brand voice. We hired someone to work on our brand voice guide.

Great great work. But we also knew that we wanted when it came to client work, we wanted to work with someone who was the next level.

So Yeah.

For me, you know, one of my moments is this last couple of days. And I, again, I don’t wanna hijack this, but I, you know, I just think it’s important for us to share. One of the biggest things for me is, principles that we learn in copy school are not really easily replicated, and you need people need to know certain terms that you’re sharing, like sophistication levels, awareness levels, emotional journeys. And, you know, when I’ve talked to people, like, I when we were when we were hiring and I was looking at an intern, I’m like, how do you, you know, how do you define brand voice? And they were just like, crickets.

And I’m like, oh, it’s three measures. And I, like, walked them through it and walked them through master of headlines. For example, I had SOPs. What my moment was was that takes a lot of time, but I could be wrong in saying this.

But, you know, I think it was last week. Claire, I think you were on the call with that. And Jo was like, you know, we kinda turn a blog a blind eye to when someone logs in with your credentials. And for me, that was kind of a game changer.

You can bring someone on and go, okay. Take this course, and then we can get that going. But it I I really, yeah, hundred percent, it’s a who not how. I had a site planner, and that’s what they were doing was just site planning.

And then I was reviewing it because I, you know, I think to build what we’re building, and I could be wrong, is you need to be more of a reviewer and not a doer. Right? You need to get to that level. So and I still like to do.

I you know, the, idle hands or the devil’s play things, you can insert two weeksdays everywhere you want, but I like getting my hands dirty a lot. And I think what this is teaching me is that all I have to do is just make sure your fingernails are clean. You know what I mean? You can still keep them dirty, right, kind of idea.

So yeah. And I like that on the coffee side. Again, I don’t wanna hijack this, but what I’m learning, like, this workshop, everything we’re looking at is just that the refining process is the most difficult. But I think once you clear that that that hurdle, you’re like you just have no one in front of you, and that’s gonna be the coolest thing.

So Yep.

Absolutely.

Talking too much.

But Yep.

All good. Awesome. Great. So if you have no other questions, we can wrap up.

I’m sorry. I have one more.

Sure. Go ahead.

First, thanks, Todd. That was really helpful to to listen to and understand about your process. But, you mentioned celebrity I can’t remember the exact way of phrasing it, but, celebrity equals, like, easy conversions or something.

The moment you start talking on stages Amplify your positioning.

Yes. Yes. That’s the one.

So I’m kind of in this phase where I’m like, I do wanna talk on stages. I’m sort of too terrified to even ask someone if I can, because I tried once and failed. And I’m like, that’s it. That’s the rule, which it’s it’s obviously not, and I’m learning to accept that. But I I wondered if you had any advice on how to stop, like, at the very, very beginning involving your celebrity authority?

Yeah. I would say start by, again, looking at who you know. So you wanna look you wanna start by seeing, okay, have you spoken to smaller groups before? If not in person, have you spoken virtually before? If not virtually, can you start there? Can you warm up those speaking muscles by presenting to smaller groups? You know?

Or in if you have been speaking to smaller groups virtually, can you start speaking to smaller groups in person? Is there a coworking space close to where you live where you could, you know, possibly go and do a session for SaaS founders?

Do you know a friend who’s spoken at an event? Could you ask for an introduction? So just start by who do you know and what you know right now and how can you use it. I would start there.

None of us started off speaking on big stages.

We all started with the smaller ones. I’m pretty sure maybe some people have. None of none of us is too wide a generalization.

So but I would say most of us started with the smaller stages, built up our, you know, courage and confidence to speak on bigger stages. So that is where I would start. Yeah.

Awesome. Thank you so much. That’s really helpful. You’re welcome.

Also, we would be, I think I’m pretty sure, we would be talking about, you know, speaking on stages and on A list podcasts, in the near future, for sure. I know it’s it’s the theme for one of the months. So yeah.

Great. Thank you. I look forward to it.

You’re welcome. Thanks, everybody. Have a great rest of your day. Bye. Bye.

Thanks, Berta.

You’re welcome.

Transcript

So Jo on Monday shared, you know, the buyer handbook and how to go high ticket, and my training kind of builds on that where we talk about selling high ticket packages and just being going beyond the usual, oh, let’s just, you know, put more things into it or let’s so what I would wanna focus on is how do you actually, instead of just creating a package, actually sell a package. And I’m pulling on loads of experience here. I’ve I’ve sold a hundred thousand dollar package.

And just this year, like, I’ve sold multiples of packages upwards of fifty thousand dollars.

So it’s something I’m very familiar with and and good at.

So we’re gonna kinda dig into how do we do things, and I’d love to get your questions as well after that.

And, of course, yeah, if anyone’s got copy they like, critiqued, we can look at that too.

So cool. Abby’s here as well. Hey, Abby. Welcome. We’re just getting started.

Cool. Okay. I’m gonna share screen.

And let me pull this up first. Present.

Alright.

Cool.

So high ticket offers, offers. Like I was saying, this is something that I am deeply familiar with, love doing, and, yeah, have sold several projects upwards of fifty thousand dollars, and these are, like, single projects. So, yes, we’ve also done a lot of, you know, multiple projects with the same client where the client lifetime value exceeds a hundred thousand dollars or more.

But right now, we’re talking about a single a single project that you can, you know, sell for fifty k, twenty five k. Whatever is, say, you know, I’m saying fifty k because that used to be my aspiration. You know? Like, that was where I was a few years ago.

But then we sold a hundred k project. And I was like, okay. So maybe my, you know, new baseline could be fifty k, and then we go upwards from there. So, but that said, you can define what high ticket means to you right now. Like, if you feel like, oh, I’m selling packages, I’d say, or projects for fifteen k, twenty k, maybe your high ticket could be forty five k. You know? This is just don’t use this as like, oh, that’s what it needs to be.

Alright. So like I said, we’re not gonna be looking at the basics. I’ve done a couple of other trainings on selling packages and all in the past, which you’ll find in your CopyScore professional dashboard. You can revisit those.

But this one, essentially, we wanna look at, specifically, the tactical elements of closing and convincing clients that you’re worth it.

So the one thing most freelancers forget when going high ticket, the three key elements in a high ticket offer, and you’ll be surprised that they don’t include, oh, you need to do this and you need to do that. And then the five tactical strategies you can use when you wanna close high ticket.

So core principle that you need to remember is when you’re selling high ticket, you’re not selling a ton of deliverables. You’re selling high impact transformation for your client. That needs to be at the core of the package or the, you know, proposal that you create for that client. So it’s not about, like, just shoving a ton of items in there to, you know, make it look like a very robust package. The idea here is what’s going to create the maximum transformation for your client.

So it could you know, you could have, like, a few deliverables, but the impact and the transformation for your client would be huge. So this is something that we all need to remember when creating these high ticket packages. The idea here is not to just throw in a bunch of stuff at them. The idea is to think deeply about what is going to create the biggest transformation for them.

So one thing I find that most freelancers forget is that some of your existing offers can be high ticket too, which is something that this is I’m speak sharing this from personal experience.

So, one of the projects that we sold for this was twenty twenty three maybe. Yeah.

Was around seventy five thousand dollars, and it was an existing offer. So you don’t always have to create from scratch. You know? You don’t have to sit down and think of a new offer.

You may full disclosure. You may have to, but sometimes you may have an existing offer that you can optimize for this client and turn that into a high ticket offer.

So what are the key elements?

And we’ll kind of dig into how to kind of deliver on these key elements in the sales process as well. So the first thing is you wanna start thinking of your discovery calls or whatever you call your, you know, your, the I call them copy chat. Like, essentially, your initial consult with a client, you need to start thinking of them as a consult call and not just, oh, tell me more about the project. What are you looking for?

Yes. All of that information is great, but you also wanna look at what’s a quick win that you could deliver on that call and really wow them without having to kind of give away the entire strategy. Because I know that is a struggle that a lot of us have where we start asking these questions and then our brains are spinning ideas out and we think that, oh, let me just share all of these with the client only to then end up either overwhelming the client or just kind of giving them way too much for that initial consult call where they start to feel, do we really need this? Should we look at a different direction?

You don’t wanna start doing that. You wanna give them a quick win, but at the same time, you don’t wanna give away the form. The second element is you wanna make your offer a no brainer. I’m gonna dig into this in a bit, as well.

I When I say a no brainer, you wanna start thinking about when you put that proposal together when you put a high ticket proposal together, you need to have all the information you need from the client to be able to give them the results that they’re looking to get.

So sometimes that may mean meeting for two calls before you set out a proposal instead of just the one call. And when someone is paying you a hundred grand for a single project, it’s in your interest to do that second call and get as much clarity as you can before you put a proposal together. Because, again, remember, it’s not about, like, oh, I’m gonna just toss in a bunch of line items at them. The idea is for you to be able to create the maximum amount of transformation for them. So you wanna have every possible objection in mind.

And how do you overcome that? And we’ll look at that in a bit, but you wanna have a plan to overcome that objection.

Oh, but we don’t have our brand voice. Okay? But we you know, you you’ve had that objection handled. Oh, but I don’t have a designer.

Alright? I have that objection handle. Oh, but, I wouldn’t know what to do with a Google Doc, which honestly, like, not a high ticket fan would say, but maybe. You know?

They’re like, would you work with a designer? You know? So you need to have an answer for every objection, preempt those objections in that proposal.

Sometimes I’ve not had that experience, but I’m just kind of preparing you. Sometimes, a client may come back to you and say, but we don’t have this. They may come back with an objection that you may not have thought of, in which case it’s totally good to say, alright. Let me look at the proposal again.

Let me see what we can do. So you would need to kind of then think about, okay. How can we handle this objection? Can we handle it or not?

Nine times out of ten for your high ticket offers, you will be able to handle objections. You will be able to make it happen.

I’ll tell you how.

And then the final thing is you wanna make it ridiculously easy for them to pay you and work with you. Now most of us may think that, yes. Oh, yeah. I have Stripe or I have PayPal or I have, you know, Wise or whatever payment mechanism, but you need to be sure that it runs seamlessly.

With a lot of these high ticket plans, they would have, and here’s the the fun part. I don’t know if this is true for all niches, but in the niche that I am, which is online course creators, coaches, and consultants, Even with high ticket projects like these, like anything upwards of fifty k, you do get paid in advance. Like, it not the entire amount, but we have milestone based payment plans, which is what I say make it ridiculously easy for them to pay you. So, I know with a lot of enterprise level clients, you may have, like, net thirty, net sixty as payment terms.

That is not the case with us. We get paid a certain amount for them to you know, when they book us. We get paid a certain amount before kickoff. We get paid a certain amount during the project.

We get paid a certain amount towards the completion of the project. So by the time, the project’s completed, like, we’ve been paid completely.

So we do divide it up into milestone based payment plans, but we do get paid well before the project is completed. Now, again, this may not be true for all industries, for all issues. I’m just I can speak for the industry that I’m in. So if you, like me, are in a coaching, cost creator industry, I know Abby is in that, Claire. I don’t know about your industry right now. But or, and I know Andrew is in in, you know, SaaS as well. Todd, I don’t know what your industry to pointing.

You would need to look at your industry and see what’s the practice there. But if you’re in this particular industry, I can tell you you will get paid before the project so well.

But you need to make it really easy for them to pay you. So you need to think about how are you gonna split the payments. How does it make sense for you, and how does it make sense for the clients as well? Right?

It needs to be a win win at all points of time, and you wanna make it very easy for them to work with you. So it’s shocking, but one of the you know, I would say I’m gonna call it feedback. Like, one of the things that comes out in our testimonials from clients who’ve worked with copywriters in the past is that they find it they’ve worked with copywriters earlier, but they’ve not had a great experience. They didn’t know what was going on at different stages.

They didn’t know, you know, when things would happen. They didn’t know, where to find what. So you need to have those processes in place if you’re looking to go ahead hit it. You it’s a nonnegotiable.

You need to have your onboarding in place. You need to have your client portal in place. You need to know exactly what when client communication is gonna happen. The good thing is, yes, you can automate a lot of this.

Speaking for myself and our business, we don’t have it automated.

Shocking.

But we do have a project manager. We do have our an assistant. We you know, who maps out all of the dates in the Notion in the client portal that we have, so clients can see exactly when what happens, when they get what, when when would when they need to give us feedback so they can plan accordingly when to schedule calls. Everything is there.

And also communication channels. With Hiretteq clients, you will end up joining their communication channels. Sometimes you may even end up joining their project man management systems and setting the whole thing up there for them. So you need to be kind of prepared to do that.

I I usually join their Slack channels or, their, you know, whatever communication medium they’re using.

But for the most part, they’re pretty cool. Like and, again, I’m speaking from our clients. They’re pretty cool with using our client portals, except probably in one case last year where we had to use appliance Asana. But yeah. Point is make it really, really easy for them to work with you.

So how do you do this? How do you do all of this so that you can go ahead from, like, just kind of putting packages together to actually selling them. First up, show initiative. Like I said, your consult calls, you need to show initiative.

You need to go prepared. You need to have your research done on that client on what you can help them with. You need to have all of that information before you get on the call. You need to have the relevant case studies to share on the call.

You need to have relevant pro product, you know, service assets that you may wanna show them on the call. For instance, in some cases, I need to show a client what the final wireframe sales page is gonna look like. In other cases, I may walk them through what my, you know, messaging document could look like. So you need to have those relevant everything lined up so you’re not wasting time on the call looking for things.

You’re not wasting time thinking about, oh, who was a similar client that I worked with? What relevant case studies do I have? And you’re not wasting time thinking about how can I best help this client? You do go in with enough background about the client.

You do with about the prospect. You do do some digging, some, you know, due diligence and some work on all of that, but then you spend most of the time trying to understand how can you best help them and then show initiative. So like I said, initiative means sharing an idea that can help increase profit margins. You don’t go ahead and implement it for them.

You don’t go ahead and start mapping a funnel out for them on the call. It’s about making moves that help your client and you win. And you can you can, and, ideally, you should be doing this even when you’re working with the client. I’m sure most of you already have that done, but remember this even for your discovery calls.

Okay. Better have a drink of water, and I’m just gonna check.

Chat.

Okay. Oh, Claire’s in SAS. Cool.

Cool.

So I don’t know why this poll is not showing up, but, anyways, you wanna use the who not how method.

So this is Benjamin Hardy’s book.

Point is you need to know who you can bring in to handle an objection that a client may have. So I’ll give you an example. I’m working on a fairly high ticket project right now. It’s, it’s a huge project where I’m doing, like, multiple launch funnels and all of that. So but when the client came in, one of the big challenges was that their brand voice was muddied, and they did not have a brand voice guide.

Right? And that could have caused them to either wait. And they have a very, very, very distinct brand voice, a one that, you know, I just can’t immerse myself in the brand and then write for it. I needed a brand voice guide. So we brought in a brand voice expert. In fact, I had my call, where we presented the guide to them this morning.

It’s for those of you who don’t know, it’s late evening for me right now. I’m in India. So, yeah, I’m towards the end of my day.

But point is, you need to start thinking about who can you partner with for projects. And you wanna start doing that right now before you get a high ticket client. So I’ll give you an example. For the hundred k project, we partnered with a brand voice expert again because that was a it was a brand new brand, basically.

Like, they it was a membership site. They were they were launching their membership. They had, like, a summit, and they’ve not it was, like, absolutely new. So we needed we were starting from scratch, which is exciting, but that also meant that they didn’t know what their brand sounds like.

They literally had no idea. So we needed to bring a brand voice expert in. We needed to, you know I always hire out research. That that’s a given.

But before we had, like, a regular research contractor, it would be something someone we would bring in for, you know, these bigger project. But now it’s, like, almost it’s a given. So you need to start thinking about what are possible objections that a client may have when wanting to hire you, a. And, b, if not you, then who can help solve that objection?

And you wanna start doing that now. You don’t wanna be scrambling and settling for whatever option you get should a client prospect comes in. So you wanna prepare for the kind of clients you wanna have right now.

Bring those partners in, bake in the cost and a percentage because, well, you would also be doing communication, coordination, all of that stuff, right, into the quote that you prepare and the proposal that you give them.

So and that is how you help your clients overcome objections really easily.

High ticket positioning. And I think our last call was about positioning, for those of you who did not you know, weren’t able to attend it. And if you get a chance, please watch it because your positioning matters, especially when you’re, you know, quoting high ticket. The moment you’re seen as an expert, price kind of becomes irrelevant.

The moment your clients know that you you’re you’re speaking on stages, you’ve, you know, got case studies under your belt, you can offer the same package for five k, twenty five k, or a hundred k when your positioning shifts, which, you know, is to my point that sometimes you don’t need to create anything new. The more expertise you bring to the table, the easier it is for you to command highlighted prices.

Ease equals easy yachts.

Like I said, make it really, really easy to work with you. So you wanna be really communicative with the appliance. You wanna show them the deliverables that they’ll be getting, when would they be getting them, walk them through their client portal.

Every time we onboard a client and this goes for, you know, this goes for all our clients, by the way. But the you know, everything that we’re discussing goes for all our clients, but even this one, for instance, every single client we onboard, but it’s only for a sales page or it’s for, like, a, you know, high ticket offer. I will record a Loom video walking them through the Notion portal explaining how everything works. Can I just record a video once and send it out to everybody? Because, well, the Notion portal is pretty standard.

Yeah. Sure.

But for us, client experience, and I’ll come to that in a bit as well, is paramount. It is what helps us stand apart and create a really great experience for people for clients working with us. So I will record that for every single client.

I will show them exactly what they would be getting, when would they be getting. We have a communication cadence with you know, if depending on the number of deliverables. It could be middle of week updates and end of week updates. Otherwise, it’s end of week updates always to fill them in on what’s going on with their project. Who have we interviewed or who have we or where are we on the research phase? Every single thing. Where am I on the writing phase?

They’re in the loop. My experience can be such a differentiating factor. I mean, I’ve been in business, like, for years. Like, Mank and I, we started our business in two thousand and eleven. So yeah.

It’s been over a decade, and I cannot tell you how many times I have heard from from peers, from prospects, from clients about poor experiences with with copywriters, with contractors, you know, which is why your client experience counts. Now this does not in any way mean that you need to have no boundaries and you should be available all the time. Absolutely not.

But you do need to give your clients the experience that, you you know, you’re charging for.

So it’s easy when you create a client experience your clients talk about. Because when they talk about it, it creates word-of-mouth, word-of-mouth creates credibility, credibility creates high ticket conversions. It becomes so much easier because when clients talk about you in rooms that you’re not present, it becomes, you know, at least referrals. People who come in are already sold on you. They have zero resistance when it comes to pricing.

They know what it is like to work with you. It just makes it so much easier.

So your high ticket offer should be a solution, a high impact one. You need to start thinking about that right away. Like I said, if you wanna look at what to put into a package, we’ve already done that, or it would be in the CSP portal. I would highly recommend visiting that.

But when you’re putting your proposal together, when you’re going on those sales calls, you need to start thinking about the solution you’re offering.

And closing your high ticket offer will be so much easier if you show initiative, solidify your positioning, have a delivery team in place, make it easy to work with you, and create a client experience that has clients talking about you in rooms you aren’t present. And you can actually do pretty much all of this, including client experience even before you sign on a high ticket client. Even start, you know, testing it out with your current clients so that when you do have that high ticket client coming, everything’s running like a breeze. In fact, I would highly recommend upgrading any of these systems and processes for your business right now.

Alright.

That’s it, folks.

Q and a copy critique time.

Okay.

Alright. Andrew, are you subcontracting the brand voice expert and folding them into your project, or are you just getting the client to hire that Yeah. No. So the client is not hiring the expert.

We let the client know that we will be bringing in. So in this case, for example, this current client that I’m working with, we work with Justin Blackman.

Right? And we let the client know that we will be bringing Justin in to create the brand voice guide. So we had Justin, the client, the client’s team, me. We were on the brand voice discovery call where, like, he has his whole process, where he works for the client to kind of uncover their voice.

Then today, we did the brand. Then in between, we met Justin and I met to go over the voice guide so that, you know, I could bring in my insights and he could share his and all of that. So it’s a very it’s very much a collaborative effort. It’s not it’s not one where I would say, oh, we will create it for you, and then Justin has no contact with the client.

He he has contact with the client. He meets the client because I want him to follow his process. Right? He’s the expert there for brand voice. And neither is it, where I’ll we tell the client that, oh, here’s who you should work with for this so you can you know, so they run that separately.

It’s very much an it’s integrated into our project. Like, their the time like, when we present the timelines to our client, the timeline has these, you know, outsourced deliverables as well.

Question? Yes.

Absolutely.

Do you have, a certain, like, gross margin that you aim for when you bring someone like that in? So if you bring those margin that you aim for when you bring someone like that in?

So if you bring let’s say you bring in Justin, you, yeah, like, what percent are you looking for a margin in terms of, yeah, difference between what what they’re paying you to bring to bid and then what you think?

Excellent question. I would need to bring Mayank in for that. So because he’s the one who does all of our, SEO, he handles all of that side of the business. So let me ask him and come back to you on that.

That’s a great who not how answer.

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I have, like yeah. He does all all of that, so I’m gonna ask him and come back to you on that.

K. Yeah. No problem. I’ve heard I’ve, I asked Shane in the in the group similarly, and he said that he aims for I think he said sixty five percent gross margin, but, yeah, I’m just asking the developers to get the general feel. So Sure. Starting starting to hire a little bit more, and I’m still having trouble wrapping the head around the path of how this ultimately benefits me.

Appreciate it. Thanks.

Yeah. No. Absolutely. You’re most welcome. And I will I will ask him and come back to you in Slack and answer your question there. Cool.

Any other questions about selling high ticket?

Yeah. I have I’ve gone on delivering, so I’ve got a lot of experience doing, but delivering has always been historically weak for me because two reasons. One, like, it all works up to this big frenzy and you’re like, here, implement it.

Mhmm.

And then either it takes them forever to implement, some people never implement.

Mhmm. So I decided that it would make sense to start implementing.

But I was wondering if you have experience on how to how to make that streamlined.

So where exactly in the delivery process do you find yourself struggling the most?

Well, I’m sort of changing what I what I usually do. So I used to it used to be all about web copy, and now I’m sort of shifting over to emails.

So that would be actually getting access to their email platform. I’m a little uncertain as to how a high ticket client would react to me going, give me all of your passwords kinda thing. Add me as a user, and give me all all the edit access. Oh, and my team as well. Like, how do I streamline that part?

So you would do that when you walk them through your process on your discovery call.

You would walk them through your process. You would tell them like, for instance, I’ll give you an example with with our clients. Right? And I do emails as well, and sometimes I need to look at how are their past email sequences performing or how because how would I otherwise, you know, come up with strategy if I don’t know what’s working?

Or sometimes I and not sometimes. All of the times I need access to their courses. So when I’m discussing my process, I walk them through that. And I say, so what I walk them through the re and research.

We’ll, you know, interview students. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All of that. But then I also let them know that for me to really understand your student experience, I will need access to the course, the community.

You will need to add me as a user on your email service provider so I can see how your emails are doing.

You don’t need to give me most of them don’t even need to get passwords. Sometimes they do. They use either they use LastPass or they resend it late one time or whatever. That is that is on that.

You can give them options. You can say, you know, I’m I can work with anything you’ve got, but I will need access to this because without it, I would not be able to do a, b, and c. So when clients know that, it’s they’re prepared for it. And then when you press you walk them again, you remind them about all of this when they sign on and when you’re walking them through your client portal.

They need to know that so we have two sections in our client portal. We have deliverables, and then we have, you know, research and materials needed from the client. And in that, we, again, have these as line items.

Add to the student community. Add to email account. Send us heat maps record and recordings. Add us on this whatever is needed, everything is laid out for them, and, yeah, they know exactly what’s expected of them.

Got it. So it’s all it’s all up front.

That makes sense. And then just sorry. Just to follow-up on that. In terms of do you guys actually do, like, the designing of emails as well?

No. No. No. But we Yeah. So, for emails, again, this is audience specific. Right? Like, your audience may need those emails designed.

What my audience needs essentially is the emails written. They’re semi wireframe. There’s, like, a rough wireframe so they know exactly where, if I’m using a GIF that goes if I’m using an image where that goes, everything is there. They have their subject line options, their preview text.

Everything is, like, laid out very neatly, but there’s no designing involved there. For sales pages and opt in pages, on the other hand, however, I present my initial copy in a Google Doc. But then once it’s final, we have a designer wireframe it. It’s a black and white wireframe.

It’s it’s not it’s very low key, but it it’s super helpful for clients to see how the copy should be laid out. They may go ahead and do something different, which is fine, but at least, you know, we know it makes it faster and easier for them to implement again.

Right. Makes sense. Cool. Thank you.

You’re welcome. Todd, you had a question.

No. It was just gonna be in reply to what Claire was saying. Just something that, she could look to do. So I just I’ll hit her up on Slack after and go over it with her if she wants. It just goes back to what you’re saying with automating.

Your onboarding email, your kickoff email, your onboarding email right away should have a doc where it says we need such and such and such and such with a link to such and such and such. And, I mean, it it’s again, if I can say it clear, the thing is is that the more you let the client control the engagement, the more they’ll put you at arm’s length and control an engagement. So the the goal is to start controlling it right away and professionally, of course. And the more you control it right away, there’s less hiccups because then your timelines will go from, say, if it’s a two month project, for example, to a three month project because you’re waiting for Google Google Tag Manager or you’re waiting for their goo GA or your, like, your email and everything.

So you’re onboarding right away, control it, and then your kickoff. When you go over, you have a visitor checkbox. We’re still waiting for such and such. So, like, you know, what you’re saying is the more you automate it, the more you control it, the other the easier it becomes.

So there you go. Blair ends. Thank you. Yeah. Exactly what it is. It’s Blair ends.

Exactly. Pricing creativity. Right? Exactly. That’s exactly what it is. So, yeah, I just didn’t wanna jump in with that, Claire.

I can hit you up after, but, yeah, it’s absolutely. Andrew, I think, will be best friends. But, yeah, it’s Blair Ends for sure. So yeah.

Thank you so much. That’s for being helpful. Is that a book by Blair? Yes. Blair?

I yeah.

So It’s in a book. Yeah.

Yeah. I I would share it with you. It’s a five hundred dollar book. My, my business my manic max business partner has it now. It’s called Pricing Creativity.

You can also I would start with, winning without pitching And I know that’s a brand manifesto.

Thinking. Yeah.

So but, yeah, we can talk after. Also, I’ve really upgraded that clearance. I’ve got stuff I can share with you. I’ve got some docs, but I’m doing what’s called blueprint training right now with, Ryan Stewart.

And he really kicks stuff off really nicely, like questions that he asks. And, yeah, it it you have to. I I don’t wanna control the conversation story. It’s just that it just makes life so much easier. This is not my workshop.

So Thank you.

Yeah. Yeah. No. Absolutely. You need to start like like I said, you wanna show you’re sharing if you wanna create a great client experience, but at the same time, you don’t wanna let you know, you don’t wanna have any boundaries. You wanna have those guardrails set right from the start so your client knows exactly what happens. And it you know, you’re in control of the project right from the start.

Cool. Any other questions?

Nope. Okay.

Copy that needs critique.

All good. Yeah.

Hi. Sorry. I have a question about the copy needing critiquing part. Like, how does that work?

Oh, fairly straightforward. If you have copy that you need critique, you show up with a Google Doc that I can, you know, review and make edits in. And, obviously, we’d need some context and yeah.

Okay. Cool. So, like, if I put together a sales pitch, for example, would you be able to critique that? Okay. Great.

Yes.

Good to know. Thank you.

You’re welcome.

Awesome.

Any other questions? Any thoughts about high ticket selling? What does high ticket mean to you?

Yep, Todd.

With high ticket prices and depending on what the project is, what are your normal deliverables that you’re looking at? Like, how long, for example?

So as far as length of project goes, I’ll give you an example. Right now, I’m working on a fairly high ticket project. It’s upwards of fifty thousand dollars.

We it’s so, basically, what I’m working on is two sales pages, two opt in pages, a whole bunch of emails about, say, I would say, twenty six maybe twenty six, thirty odd emails.

That’s those are the deliverables. Of course, my research process is baked in.

The brand voice is baked in, all of that.

That’s that’s the project.

So how long, though, like, how long are those twenty six emails? Is it over, like, a week, four weeks, two months?

Oh, gosh. No. No. No. No. So, essentially, most of our projects are spread out, which is what a lot.

So here’s the thing that you should and this is, again, this is true for our business because it may not be true for every other business. So I need to caveat that by saying, I’m the only copywriter in the business.

Mhmm.

So I write all the copy. That’s how we built it. I we have tried subcontracting copy in the past. It doesn’t really work out the way we want it.

We much rather subcontract. I’m much faster, and dare I say better. So it just makes more sense. So with that and plus the other thing is I like working on multiple projects at a time.

So I’m working on this massive project, but I’m working on two other massive projects as well. I’m writing website copy for a school, and I’m working on website copy for a food blogger at the same time. So which means we structure the projects in a way that they take a few weeks. So for instance, this particular project, we’ve we’re we’re wrapping up with the research phase towards the end of June when we enter the offer optimization phase, but and then the client needed to go on a break for a while.

She’s on a book tour. So this one’s gonna finish oh, and then we are moving house, so we needed to factor that in as well. We’re moving house in August. So, this one’s gonna finish in September.

Cool. Alright. So September. Okay. Yeah. That’s one of the things for me.

I mean, we have, you know, twenty minutes here. I don’t know if I’m I don’t wanna hijack your day, but but you’re asking for questions and feedback. For me, that’s one of the things I’m really liking about the intensive is in the past, when you’re saying, like I think you said here, You just talked about the different, tactics and everything. I’ve sold projects.

It was, like, ninety k over six months. We’ve sold, like, eighty k over four months. We’ve sold, like, fifty k over four months, and some of them were, like, you know, full. Like, the ninety k was full email.

It’s like it ended up being newsletter and social and all these things. You’re just throwing the kitchen sink at people, And they’re like, yeah. Great. I get all this for that.

And then, you know, lately, it was, like, website. We’re doing, like, full ICP work, full, SEO work, full work. We weren’t doing the SEO work. We were doing, like, full, site planning, full wireframing, and full dev.

And those would take three to four depending on the page size and everything like that. And then we would just chuck so much more into it. And that’s what I’m liking about this. Is that really what this is teaching me is just the refinement of what we do.

Because like you said, most of us when when you are the person who understands things like, when you say brand voice, to be honest, the first thing I do when I come into it is what’s your brand voice? Because, like, you’re gonna walk into a room. I I love I love Jasmine Blackman because soon as you walk into a room, people are like, well, you know, we think we’re we’re playful. And it’s like, well, that’s not a great that’s a personality.

Right? And then they’re like, like, I’ve I’ve had people I’ve gone into meetings who are like, yeah. Her voice is like think of, like, buttery potatoes with a side of horseradish that’s just kinda splintered into it, and you’re not expecting that. And I’m sitting there going, that’s not a voice?

And they’re like, well, yeah. It is. It’s it’s it’s a surprise voice. I’m like, no.

There’s nine types of voice.

Yeah. Yeah.

I’m like, yeah. There’s, like, three types of outlook, three of accessibility, three of authority, and you’re like, what? And it’s just you just you just stop edits.

It’s weird. You squash edits right away. Yep. So that’s what it is for me. But the idea of the copywriting, yeah, that’s what I’m thinking is, like, yeah, I just I did all the copywriting. When we sold a package, I was eighty to ninety percent of the work. So that’s why I’m wondering about the projects and the deliverables.

And I’m just also like, I like where this is going because what you’re saying, I wanna go CRO. And this is a conversation I’ve I’m really bringing it up, but I know there’s time with CRO, and I know I’ve got things really refined. But, you know, when you were saying you you didn’t say really CRO. You said some you said web copy and everything there. But I’m just curious about, yes, what you’re selling, what the deliverable is, and what that is. Because it’s I just find what this is happening is really kinda fascinating. So that’s just me.

Yeah. Yeah. No. You need to, like again, our our packages are fairly straightforward.

Most of them are on our side. They I have made the mistake of throwing the kitchen sink at a client and then just, yeah, feeling overwhelmed and not being able to see the transformation that we wanted them to see, which means, like, yeah, it doesn’t make any sense.

The other thing that I need to you know, like, let everyone know is, like, I focus only on the copy and the strategy side of things. Everything else that is not my core skill is outsourced, baked in. So like I said, editing, outsourced, baked in. I don’t spend any time on edits, before the copy goes to the client.

I don’t spend any time on wireframing. I don’t spend any time on research. I don’t spend any time on things like if a client needs brand voice or if a client needs design or whatever or implementation.

Nope.

So I just focus on what my zone of genius is, and, yeah, that’s it. Every it’s it’s who not how for me, basically. Yeah.

Yeah. And that’s what I think I for me, it’s it’s the who has always been this guy. It’s always been the design, the Well, that’s been the way this guy. Brand, everything from logo, illustration to everything.

The only thing I handed over in the last last little bit was dev work because we were using Thrive, and I use Elementor. And I just didn’t wanna be in like, really just start a new thing from scratch in that. So I hear all of that. Absolutely.

But I find when I have done that, standards drop. So that was the only thing for me, and and you’re absolutely right. And getting people in the but, yeah, standards drop. And when standards drop, you’re running behind then, like, you’re you’re you’re off on projects.

Right?

So Yeah.

Yep.

Yep. So which is exactly why what we realized is, like, for us, for and this is what we realized with with copy is, like, I wanna own the copy start to finish. Everything else, I wanna work with you know, mine kinda very clearly work with, like, whoever’s the best when it comes to, say, you know, research or whatever or editing. So we and we start we what we what we found was we needed to work with a few people to kinda see what the experience was like before we knew that we were going to bring them into a bigger project, which is why I said, you wanna start looking for the who’s now before you, you know, have like, you’re starting a huge project, but you wanna finish in a certain amount of time and you wanna be working on other projects. Like I said, like, from in our case, could I finish the project sooner? Absolutely.

But the way I’m wired is, like, I like to work in different projects so that it just kinda keeps me creative. If you wanna pull off one project in a shorter piece I mean, like, the amount of copy I’m writing, like, we could easily condense it.

But, yeah, I wanted to also work on the school website project. I also wanted to work on the blog at Baker.

Hundred percent.

You know? Yeah. So but most importantly, what I want everyone to remember is, like, you need to start looking for the people who you can bring in right now.

Use them for smaller projects. Use them for a project for your own business if you have to. That’s exactly what we did when we have a brand voice. We hired someone to work on our brand voice guide.

Great great work. But we also knew that we wanted when it came to client work, we wanted to work with someone who was the next level.

So Yeah.

For me, you know, one of my moments is this last couple of days. And I, again, I don’t wanna hijack this, but I, you know, I just think it’s important for us to share. One of the biggest things for me is, principles that we learn in copy school are not really easily replicated, and you need people need to know certain terms that you’re sharing, like sophistication levels, awareness levels, emotional journeys. And, you know, when I’ve talked to people, like, I when we were when we were hiring and I was looking at an intern, I’m like, how do you, you know, how do you define brand voice? And they were just like, crickets.

And I’m like, oh, it’s three measures. And I, like, walked them through it and walked them through master of headlines. For example, I had SOPs. What my moment was was that takes a lot of time, but I could be wrong in saying this.

But, you know, I think it was last week. Claire, I think you were on the call with that. And Jo was like, you know, we kinda turn a blog a blind eye to when someone logs in with your credentials. And for me, that was kind of a game changer.

You can bring someone on and go, okay. Take this course, and then we can get that going. But it I I really, yeah, hundred percent, it’s a who not how. I had a site planner, and that’s what they were doing was just site planning.

And then I was reviewing it because I, you know, I think to build what we’re building, and I could be wrong, is you need to be more of a reviewer and not a doer. Right? You need to get to that level. So and I still like to do.

I you know, the, idle hands or the devil’s play things, you can insert two weeksdays everywhere you want, but I like getting my hands dirty a lot. And I think what this is teaching me is that all I have to do is just make sure your fingernails are clean. You know what I mean? You can still keep them dirty, right, kind of idea.

So yeah. And I like that on the coffee side. Again, I don’t wanna hijack this, but what I’m learning, like, this workshop, everything we’re looking at is just that the refining process is the most difficult. But I think once you clear that that that hurdle, you’re like you just have no one in front of you, and that’s gonna be the coolest thing.

So Yep.

Absolutely.

Talking too much.

But Yep.

All good. Awesome. Great. So if you have no other questions, we can wrap up.

I’m sorry. I have one more.

Sure. Go ahead.

First, thanks, Todd. That was really helpful to to listen to and understand about your process. But, you mentioned celebrity I can’t remember the exact way of phrasing it, but, celebrity equals, like, easy conversions or something.

The moment you start talking on stages Amplify your positioning.

Yes. Yes. That’s the one.

So I’m kind of in this phase where I’m like, I do wanna talk on stages. I’m sort of too terrified to even ask someone if I can, because I tried once and failed. And I’m like, that’s it. That’s the rule, which it’s it’s obviously not, and I’m learning to accept that. But I I wondered if you had any advice on how to stop, like, at the very, very beginning involving your celebrity authority?

Yeah. I would say start by, again, looking at who you know. So you wanna look you wanna start by seeing, okay, have you spoken to smaller groups before? If not in person, have you spoken virtually before? If not virtually, can you start there? Can you warm up those speaking muscles by presenting to smaller groups? You know?

Or in if you have been speaking to smaller groups virtually, can you start speaking to smaller groups in person? Is there a coworking space close to where you live where you could, you know, possibly go and do a session for SaaS founders?

Do you know a friend who’s spoken at an event? Could you ask for an introduction? So just start by who do you know and what you know right now and how can you use it. I would start there.

None of us started off speaking on big stages.

We all started with the smaller ones. I’m pretty sure maybe some people have. None of none of us is too wide a generalization.

So but I would say most of us started with the smaller stages, built up our, you know, courage and confidence to speak on bigger stages. So that is where I would start. Yeah.

Awesome. Thank you so much. That’s really helpful. You’re welcome.

Also, we would be, I think I’m pretty sure, we would be talking about, you know, speaking on stages and on A list podcasts, in the near future, for sure. I know it’s it’s the theme for one of the months. So yeah.

Great. Thank you. I look forward to it.

You’re welcome. Thanks, everybody. Have a great rest of your day. Bye. Bye.

Thanks, Berta.

You’re welcome.

The High-Class Problem Sell

The High-Class Problem Sell

Transcript

Today is, copywriting lesson, and then that’s followed an AMA that will go until we’re just done talking.

There’s a small group of us today, so no need to, maybe it’s just like a good time if you have, like, something you’re going through that you maybe didn’t want to share with more people or something, which I know happens.

It could be a good time to talk through that today too. So, as usual, be ready to bring any questions that you got any wins to preface them, and that can be any kind of win, just celebrating those good things that happen. This is being recorded. The worksheet for today’s session already went out that went out on Friday. It is the high class problem sell, which I’m really excited about. We’ve used it a couple times. And then I’ll show you the one example for a new page in progress that we’re working on, and how we use it there.

But as usual, yeah, just kind of be with me here, set your intention, just be present, closing down other distractions. If you can, I know life is real and all around us, but, whatever you can do to just kind of ignore your phone for a bit and other, you know, notifications that come in?

Yeah, everybody’s feeling cool. I’m I’m feeling really good today. Awesome. Okay. So open up that work If you haven’t already, got it open.

I will only share my screen if you don’t know what worksheet I’m talking about. Because what I’m going to do today is, a little different format that we’re trying for our training now which so far I quite like, but I’ve never done it live. And I have never done it one live, two unsupported by somebody on my team who can, like, talk and fill in the gaps while I’m like, oh, no. The text’s broken. So we’re just gonna try it here today, and see what happens.

But yeah. So the context for this is, you’ve got. I mean, we have so many ways to try to get into stories, into the argument that we wanna make when we’re writing copy.

Lots of different things that you can do but sometimes when it comes down to it and you’re actually writing the page or writing the email, I find that things can feel boring and repetitive pretty fast, not for your right not for your reader necessarily, but for you as a copywriter, I mean, we do data driven things and use better practices and frameworks, etcetera, but it can be tedious sometimes when it’s like a rule of three. So you’re always hitting three points in a row and it’s just like, kinda wanna break out of it. So that’s how I feel about it. The longer you write copy, the more likely you are to feel that way too.

If if this isn’t resonating, stick around. It’s going to eventually. So I like finding and identifying, and I’m sure you do too, identifying little new ways to attack parts of pages in particular. So what I’m gonna show you today is from a long form sales page, I first saw it on someone else’s long form sales page.

I wanna say a bazillion years ago, but it could have been last year. It all blends into one now. And I was really I was really interested it. So I kinda broke it apart and tried to reverse engineer what they were doing.

Tried it in a sales email for our freelancing school, promotion over the Black Friday weekend.

And, yeah, I’m feeling kinda cool about how it could be an unlock for you when you’re stuck. So, I’m going to share Just half a second while I choose the right one.

Okay.

Cool. So you should be seeing my iPad now.

Oh, are you?

Yeah.

Fancy.

I’ve just never shared my iPad before. So, but this is where we’re going to be working today. So This is an example of the opening of that that sales page that we’re working on for copy school pro. So you set up a big promise, like big.

The bigger, the better, and it doesn’t have to be a promise necessarily as in we promise you’ll get this. But something that’s really going to grab their tension. So really thinking about your audience and what they’re trying, what they most want. And that’s where on the worksheet, we have the, what’s really good about this is I can use three monitors now, which is cool.

We’ve got good outcome and then a high class problem. So we often talk about the good outcomes that people have. And these are good outcomes. These here are good outcomes that you might be looking for.

Right? It’s not a promise because it’s in the first person in quotation marks, which, of course, as anybody who has taken any of my training knows, unless I feel like I’m saying it all the time, but maybe I’m not, first person headlines in quotation marks are my favorite across the board. So how I, big thing, big thing, big thing, ending with the big thing, and then and then overcoming an objection right here.

But don’t you need a lot of money that, etcetera. So with the fifty thousand dollar ad budget, which is basically nothing. Okay. So we’re capturing their attention.

I’m not this doesn’t mean it’s ADA. I know as soon as I hear its attention, doesn’t mean it’s ADA. It might be though. But we’re gonna break it really fast.

So don’t try to look too hard for a framework here yet. Okay. Then we get into kind of something a little bit old school. So that is this.

Step one is opening up this idea that there will be something that follows later, a step two. So a small, not curiosity gap, but like an open loop. Right? There’s more to come.

This is just the first step, even if you forget that later. The point is not that you’re waiting around for step two, but it’s an interesting way to start, opening up that attention into something more kind of like a little more intrigue.

Re time, really old school. You don’t have to do any of this stuff for the framework that I’m teaching you or the cell that I’m teaching you today to work. I’m just walking you through kind of the decisions that were made here.

From the desk of, again, old school. I do like old school, founder of copy hackers, grader of copy school, inventor of conversion copywriting, and this is an important thing, mother of kittens, just because what we’re about to get into, we need to set a tone. So far, the tone is kind of bro y. Right? Like, look at all the, you know, money you can make and crap like that. And that can feel a little bit weird.

The tone can be a little bit. We have to make what I’m trying to do here is set it up so that we can have a little bit of fun going forward because this framework, as I’ve used it, has been about tapping into, like, a little bit of fun. The high class problem cell is, like, we’re going to talk about some high class problems And if you make it sound like a problem, that’s not gonna work. Right? Like, that’s the bad thing we don’t want to do.

Okay. So I’m just gonna pop over to the next one. So then we get into the next part of the page.

So we set set up this big cool thing that you can do. Oh, Sorry here. Let me just go back to this. So it opens with so I’m guessing this isn’t the first time you’ve landed on this isn’t the first page you’ve landed on with big promises and enticing numbers.

And I’ll get to that in a second, but let me ask you a question. Do you actually want to? And this really means you could have put almost anything before this part. So I’ll get to that in a second is like, again, you could have done anything before that.

Accept what follows here in these bullets that are about to follow down here is we’re basically building on that cool outcome. So let’s say your cool outcome that you’re trying to hook somebody with is you’re gonna land a thousand customers in a month. You’re gonna land a thousand thousand dollar customers in a month. Really big, really desirable thing that they want that would, attract their attention.

And then from there, we’re going to find that less desirable outcome of that thing, the high class problem. So again, it could be anything to open.

But we want the bullets that follow the good outcomes and then the high class problems, to speak to that thing that just hooked them. So we have, and I’ll get to that in a second, but let me ask you a question. Do you actually want to? Then we have good outcome, Deliver World class copy.

Number one thing. It’s gonna be short in, like, actual length because we’re trying to pull them in. So a short bullet most of the sentences are short at this point. As you can see, they all end here.

Make lots of money for your clients or team and also for yourself good outcome. Cool. And now we start getting into the high class problems associated with those good outcomes, and we spend more time on them because we’re having more fun with it. We’re just kind of like enjoying our time talking to our prospect about the things they want being frankly as we’re about to see similar to the things that, we want.

So do you actually want to have super smart people ping you late at night when they’ve needed, when they need to crack a conversion problem when you become their go to copywriter? That’s a high class problem. You just got a ping in the middle of the night, but it’s pretty solid because someone cool is asking you for help and they trust you a lot. Do you really want to?

Do you actually want to go through life with a sense of guilt that everything is falling into your lap and you haven’t had to toil in the coal mine or perform open heart surgery after building years of schooling to get it? Wanna get so good at selling products that jealous people begin whispering about you and you have to start hanging out with a whole new crew of high achieving nerds? These are high class problems. And the reality is your prospect should want them.

Right? So then we say great. Then you and I want the same things, and then you continue on telling the rest of the story and still building on the stuff that you did. Although I can’t help you with another high class problem, which is the anxiety that overachievement brings or an outcome of a high class problem recommend a marriage counselor for when you spend half your summer texting with a network of smart people who’ve sought you and your genius out.

I can do these things, and then you get into what those things are, and that’s what we’re really here to talk about. But you’re capturing their tension with this like unexpected outcome.

And it’s not just the usual good news, good news, good news, life is always gonna get better as you get better and the levels are higher. Life is like way better. There’s real problems that are gonna come with it, but we’re not positioning them as problem problems. Just as a high class problem. Does this make sense?

Can you imagine how you might use this in your work?

Potentially? Okay. Cool.

So I’ll stop sharing that part and then just quickly walk through the worksheet.

So that you’ve got it. Okay. So the high class problems sell, as always, the worksheet and lesson will help you find a new way into writing about comes so that new way in particularly if you’re bored, but also if you just wanna try something else. Write sales emails or sales pages with that What you wanna do is list out your good outcomes and then the high class problem that comes with it. And this is the framework effectively, bit of a template for you to use. Cool.

Have what you need to use it. Alright. I’m not gonna make you. We can go through and do an exercise if you’d like to try it out. Otherwise, we can just kind of hop into question time or talking time.

Good talking time. Does anybody have any questions they wanna bring to the table today?

Everyone’s quiet.

Do you wanna do this as an exercise?

Go right for something? Okay. I think that’s a good use of time. So what I would love for you to do if you have a productized service, if you have a package of some kind, anything that you already have pre written copy for. So ideally not for a new campaign or something.

Anything that you might have on your site today or that you wish you had on your site today?

I would like you to take the next ten minutes to come up with the good outcomes and the high class problems and then try to fill this part in.

Doable?

Okay. Cool. I’m gonna stop sharing.

And then be sure to come off mute if you have any questions as going through it, and we’ll be back in ten minutes.

Joe, can I ask a quick question?

Love it. Yes.

I’m really I really struggle with ten saying. Right? It’s just my thing.

Like, am I am I writing it, like, in the future terms as or, like, am I writing it as if it’s happening or so it’s do you actually want to in the future?

Yes. So do you actually want to but it’s still written in the present tense. Deliver, not will deliver. So deliver world class copy. Do you actually want to And then it’ll just follow in, I guess, the imperative, really, because it’s just two. Does that make sense?

Yeah. It’s just my noob thing. Like, this is why I can’t write fiction because I struggle with Ted’s sake. That no.

That’s like Latin. Did you take Latin in school?

No.

Oh, okay. That messed me up for some things. So when I when people struggle with these things, I’m like, oh, you probably took Latin. So yeah, this is just like, do you actually want to, and then these are all just present tense. Do you want to have a call that sort of thing. Right? Just happening right now.

Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Jay. Sure.

Alright. Should we talk about that’s how to go?

Any luck?

Did it suck? Was it awesome? Is it hard? Did you get anywhere?

That was fun. I liked it.

Okay. What’d you work on, Abby?

I did for my day one evergreen package.

And, yeah, what I like about it is because, I find myself, like, using the same kind of messaging it with different clients like this kind of like, you can make more money. You can make six figures, and it’s starting to feel, like, quite stale. So I like the the high problem approach is a farmer around that, and I feel like it really boosts credibility because you’re not just saying, like, this is how awesome, like, life is. It’s like. Yeah. Yeah, take them out. So, yeah, I really enjoyed it.

Okay. Cool. That’s wicked. That’s how I feel about it too. Like, it’s just a more interesting way to position of good outcome?

Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Everybody else needs them any anything that didn’t feel that good or, like, you’re not it’s not clicking.

It wouldn’t work for you maybe.

I like that it’s very fresh, but it feels a little bit it feels a little bit exaggerated to me.

It feels a little bit Oh, yeah.

It’s on the sales. Page.

It’s gonna be a little. I hear you there. So what would you what how would you modify it?

Any idea?

Well, I mean, the the goals that I have are are more immediate goals. But the tone feels a little bit of still feels a little bit much even though the actual things I’m writing about are realistic.

Okay. Can you read yours and just share so we can hear what that sounds like?

Yeah. So I am looking at the, the service page I have for, PVC.

So Google Landing Pages and, social ads. So I wrote do you actually want to watch your pipeline fill up with qualified leads effortlessly?

Capture all of the great top of funnel demand your social media. Is generating, become so efficient at attracting new leads that AEs are so overwhelmed with demos that they tell you to slow down the campaign so they can focus on the lead they have and attract so many good opportunities that you actually cringe when influencers cry about pmax ridiculously broad, broad campaigns, and Google’s ever changing algorithm on LinkedIn over and over again.

But the tone, the tone still feels off to me even though those are like very realistic. Things.

Okay. What feels off to you? I guess I wonder as, like, for me, I I heard it and I was like, cool. That sounds dope. That sounds like Yeah. Who wouldn’t react well to that?

Some won’t. Some won’t. But usually, those are the people who are just like I I won’t I won’t think about those ones as much as the people who are like, yeah, I’d like to have that problem, you know, and you’re like really getting there, but how did everybody else feel when you were hearing it?

Any notes for Naomi?

I thought it was really cool. I liked it. Yeah. I didn’t feel like the tone was off. I mean, obviously, I don’t know what you’re going for, like, generally with your tone, but, yeah, I thought it was cool.

Okay. Yeah.

I didn’t feel like the tone pull up either, but yeah, again, same as Abby, but the tone didn’t seem like off to me for off footing.

And I know it can feel like a certain audience, your audience, Naomi, wouldn’t respond well to that, and you may absolutely be right. I would just be curious to test it out, give it a shot, see if they do.

Yeah.

Cool. Awesome. Anyone else wanna share?

Yeah. I’ll share mine. I’ll be. I’ll be able to get feedback on it. Okay. Cool.

It’s a bit it’s obviously a bad fish drop. Okay.

But let me ask you a question. Do you actually want to wake up to sales every day, automate your entire sales process? Miss out on the I mean, Rausch, you usually get when you get a sales notification because it happens so darn frequently that the sensible thing to do is to turn stripe notifications off altogether.

Stop having those indulgent. Ugh, it’s just so stressful conversations with fellow course creators because you’ve hopped off the live launch roller coaster and are now making launch size revenue while on vacation.

Having awkward tail between your legs conversation with your SSO when they ask why you spent twenty k on ads this month and you have to loan that you turned that twenty k into two hundred and twenty k, and now you’d like to buy a vacation rental five minutes down the road from the end loss.

It’s fun. That’s fun. Those are some high class problems to have to have that awkward conversation anyway.

I just can’t relate to the last point about moving close to your in laws. But other than that, it was so infuriating that you’re that good at writing copy that quickly, which I always tell you that.

That’s awesome. Yeah. It really does it was what I liked was. It was so great about qualifying who she’s speaking to. It’s ridiculous.

I mean, if you can’t relate to that, you’re gone and Yeah.

It’s a good side effect. Right? Like, all of these other outcomes of that. That’s really a really good point.

Yeah. Thanks, Jessica.

And you can tell you had fun writing it. It doesn’t sound like it was a slog or you, like, it gets I think it’s exciting. Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that it’s, like, it’s a fun framework to use. It’s, like, nice to to deviate from, like, the usual, like, I just always use PAS.

So Yes. Same. Yeah. Cool. Anyone else wanna share? Jessica?

Yeah. Let me follow Abby.

Jessica.

No. I honestly I mean, I could It was for my seasonal sale thing, which I think you know I’m fleshing out to turn from a what used to be a productized service like thing to a signature.

So I and actually I get I don’t know if this is I think where I struggle is the whole dream state because I feel like I haven’t confirmed this desire for a e commerce client yet. That they really see the connection between. No. No. You can really double your, you can increase your sales for your seasonal sale. But at the same time, you can be creating these long term relationships.

And so it kind of I think that’s where I struggle. So, I mean, I can read you parts of it, but it you know, it’s nowhere near what Abby’s is and it’s partial as per usual with me. Jessica.

Read the whole m thing.

We wanna hear get to that.

Do you actually want to double your next seasonal sale revenue? See a massive increase in LTV over the next? Whatever months, clear out your inventory and have to work quickly with your team to figure shit out. Provide on-site therapy because your team dressing out and worried they can’t get orders out on time, which will inevitably lead to unhappy customers.

And that’s as far as I got.

Cool.

Took a little extra negative on the last one there. It wouldn’t pull back on that one a bit, but no. It was good.

It’s yeah. Just make sure it stays a high class problem. Like Okay. Well, yeah. Like, my diamond shoes are too tight. That’s gotta be the effect. Right?

So yeah.

Okay.

Cool. Cool. Love it. Jessica, you did that so fast. Really?

Oh, thank you. I’m always asking I’m begging Abby for tutorials on how to be fast. That’s what I wanna know.

You just did it.

Nice.

Nice. Cool. Anyone else?

I won’t put you on the spot by calling on you, but I’m probably looking at you.

No one.

Alright. Alright, Katie. Welcome to the crew. You just missed the the tutorial there, but you’ll get the replay after. So I think it I think we had fun with it.

So yeah. Now, if anybody has any questions or wants to talk shop, what are you going through right now? What should you be working on that you’re not that we can help, like, unlock? Jillian.

Okay. I have well, I’ll start with a win. It’s not a money win. I guess I shared that in Slack recently, but my current win is that, I’ve been severely low in iron for like my whole life and didn’t know it.

So I was like this year I’ve been like fainting and like feeling really dizzy and I’m finally back a normal iron level. So it means I can exercise again, which is life changing. So I wasn’t really able to exercise this past year. But it really helps with, like, energy and productivity.

And it’s really Yes. Exciting. So I was going to use it in Doing a lot of stuff.

Congrats. That’s amazing. Yes.

So that’s why I win.

Coming with a little more energy.

Huge. Energy is everything. Yes.

Everything. Yeah.

So on that note, my question is maybe a bit unwieldy, but as I mentioned, I’m like I was going through your training again from a couple weeks ago.

Started watching Shane’s training.

And I’m thinking about, like, the brand also reading PenX is easier than two x, and so I just feel like I have a lot of ideas. Swirling and kinda wanted to like throw them out there and just like get some thoughts.

So I’m focusing on pricing pages, which is a new, you know, I haven’t worked in SaaS that much. I worked with a lot of different companies on websites, a little bit of SaaS that like kind of across the board. So I’m trying to figure out how to balance, like, my current client, and so I do websites with who are not SaaS primarily, and still have, like, my website is geared towards that. I kinda wanna put up a different website so that I can still serve my current customers in the meantime and not be like out money and just, you know, diving into this new thing. Yeah. So the idea that I have is, like, I know you said the brand really starts with, like, your opinion and your viewpoint, which I feel like I’m still developing, but I have, like, a general idea since no one’s really talking about pricing pages yet, which is that like everyone’s kinda missing the point. Of the pricing page, like, they’re all doing it wrong, basically.

And that’s, like, very general. There’s more that goes into it, but the the name that I have or the idea for, like, a book and a podcast and maybe, like, my site, I’m wondering if they can all be the same, is, like, the pricing point. I’m talking about how I don’t know if that’s, like, even a good title or not, but that’s the idea that I’ve been working with. Okay.

Just like, yeah, talking about how everyone’s missing the point, and like they’re all treating it like, you know, they’re putting so much time into their other pages and optimizing, and then they get to the pricing point and it’s just like they get to the pricing page and everything just deflates. Like, that’s the point of the sale, and it’s like, you know, very matter of fact. Here’s the even big brands, like even huge companies they look at are doing this. I think they’re all kinda dropping the ball at that point.

When it should be like the height of excitement value and, like, it’s the most critical point. Yeah. Absolutely. I know it’s a big I’m like rambling now, but, like, I’m just wondering if, like, Should I go in this direction? Because I’m, like, wanting to start doing this stuff, but I just, like, wanna know if that makes sense if it’s, like, on the right track to start with.

Okay.

I’ll jump in first and anybody who would like to add anything.

I’m so happy that you’re doing this, Jillian. Like, I know I’ve expressed that to you, but men, there’s nothing but room out there for this. And it’s it’s like, that’s it’s the money page. Right? Like, it seems like such an easy sell once you start raising awareness for the problem.

Sounds like you understand what your point of view is. I know you said it’s developing, but it’s like y’all are doing it wrong. Like, that’s a good place to start. Right?

Especially since it’s, like such a blue ocean still. There’s not that much competition out there. So I think it’s safe to go with something big like you’re doing it all wrong. Like, full stop.

That’s it. Like, you’re I’m you’re gonna need a lot of help, and I can help you with that. It leaves a lot of room for you to have thought leadership, and to say contrary in things or to, like, make them aware of things that they hadn’t had any clue about, which is always good for, you know, likes on so and comments and things like that. So the pricing point, how did you get to that name?

I don’t know. How do we get to anything?

There. I think it like came to me first. I also thought the URL was available. Also it kind of like ties into this whole thing of like like maybe I can say what the point is. Like, everyone’s missing the point. Like, they think the point is this, but the point is really this.

And also, like, Yeah. I don’t know. That was kind of the the main. And it seemed like kinda short and Yes. It’s not gonna be a subhead.

Like, if it was a book, there’d be like a subhead of I don’t know what that is yet, but Yep.

Totally agree. Yeah.

Yeah.

I think great. And it does, like Jessica chatted out.

Leaves a lot of room for expansion.

Yeah, and you can speak to value, like, what the actual point of pricing is. Right? And those are bigger conversations that are really intriguing. Yeah.

Everyone loves it.

Yeah.

Who else wants to share thoughts with Jillian?

Can I can I offer a, perspective? Sure.

When it comes to SAS, you should keep in mind that there are a lot of very complicated SaaS products that don’t have a pricing page because a lot of that happens in sales negotiation.

Because a lot of times they have to customize the software to fit the solution.

And it doesn’t necessarily have to be like a fifty thousand dollar software product. It happens at lower pricing points too, and a lot of companies choose not to put pricing anywhere on the website because either they’ve tested it or they believe that adding the pricing will increase the, or will reduce conversion rate, regardless of whether that’s true or not. That’s what a lot of companies think. And it may be true on desktop versus mobile or the reverse.

So I would make I think that it would be worth while to expand the conversation, they use because they they usually have a plans page that just doesn’t have pricing on it and it goes through like what you would get with the enterprise suite versus the mid tier versus the small, mini business tier. So I would make sure to not leave them out of the conversation.

Because there are a lot of companies that fit into that category, and your point can still be relevant. It would just have to be adapted to a much more business mindset.

Well, and I think that that’s a fair point. I think it does speak to the need to just identify who that audience is.

I think the SaaS that you’re talking about, Jillian, are people who have Who have.

Have a debt that says pricing in the nav of which there are bajillion so versus people who have sales teams. So we’re talking more people who are product led growth and are likely to have pricing pages at some point that they, and usually, visitor facing ones, and then behind the scenes.

Post use post activation ones. Yeah. Is that accurate, Jillian?

Yeah. That makes that makes sense. But, yeah, it’s a great point, Naomi.

Thanks for thanks for Yeah.

There’s a huge market. SaaS is enormous, obviously.

So it’s just really identifying. Okay. These are although it can be useful to get the enterprises that don’t have pricing pages, it’s just like anybody who doesn’t have copy. It’s really I can’t do much for you.

Like, you’re gonna need to believe in copy or else. It’s like, I can’t sell you copy school, and you can’t sell a person without a pricing page. Pricing page insights. So cool.

Yeah. Awesome. Okay. Anybody else wanna share?

With Jillian or feedback on what Jillian’s working on.

Nope. Awesome.

Jillian, you feeling good?

Yeah. I love that.

It’s like a book cover.

Yeah. And it gives it fine to have, like, you know, a, like, a book, like, if it was a book and a podcast, and, like, even the site, like, just have it all have the same name, like, even where I’m selling my services, keep the same name for everything.

That’s I mean, g n Claire did that with forget the funnel. Yeah. Everything is forget the funnel.

And I mean, juries out. It’s they’re doing, like, a bad ass business. So I would say it’s probably, like, a good Studiesing that story brand, same thing.

Mhmm.

Yeah. So probably okay. A thing to overthink at least.

Okay. I well, I got the URL for it, so I think it’ll just, like, start and I can keep my current site, like, with my current customers.

And kind of start doing the new thing at the new place.

Yeah. Totally. Totally. Cool.

Oh, thanks everyone.

Thanks. Thanks for sharing a nice win.

Excellent. Life changing.

I mean, energy for real though. Like, I have a new energy going with some life changes that I’ve made too, and it’s like energy. It’s a good thing. It changes everything. So that’s cool.

Anybody else wanna share what they’re working on or going through or struggles? Esther Grace.

Hey. Can everyone hear me?

Yep.

Okay. Awesome. So a win. I shared this in channel already, but copy hack is closed. Still excited about that.

Well done.

Thank you. And okay. So I need help with lead generation.

So I’ve nailed down my ideal clients, my customer avatar, all of that.

My offer, even a bit of the delivery system, But right now, I really just want to get on more sales calls.

So I realized last week that I love sales calls. So I did resales calls in the past two weeks. And just those three made me feel so energized about my business. I’m like, this is awesome.

Like, I love talking to these people and selling them on what I on what I do. So where I am right now is I’m also, like, couple of us here. I’m also reading ten x is easier than two x. So I’m not creating any plans to just gradually increase revenue from year to year.

Like, this was one of the thing, Joe, I think you talked about during the CSP info session. About want to be a copywriter who’s gradually increasing revenue from year to year and then in five, ten years before you hit, like, five hundred k. You want to be the one that just ten x is essentially. So that’s kind of where my mindset is now.

It’s more of how do I get this new offer, this new system that I’m building to generate one m in revenue in the next twelve months. And I actually ran the numbers, and I realized it’s actually very possible.

Okay.

It would just take, like, two clients with a high retainer fee and a performance based assistance.

It’s email marketing, so I can do performance basis as well and track everything. So it would literally say two clients if I was going to work on it solo. But if I was building a small team, then I can take on even more. So just running those numbers made me realize how possible it is for me. And so now it’s just like, okay. How do I get on those sales calls to book those two major clients that are going to bring in the revenue.

So what are you doing for lead gen right now? What’s top on your list?

So right now, I’ve been doing a lot of warm outreach. So just people I know asking for referrals, The the that has been my most active lead gen method. So it’s like being in groups, responding to messages, networking, pretty much.

Thought about cold outreach because I’m also still doing my authority building, like, systems. I’m still doing all of that, but I’m like, okay. I still want to get those leads, like, in the next one thirty days, thirty, sixty days. So I’m trying to do some more active, outreach methods as well. So that’s pretty much where I am.

Okay. So how many people are you reaching out to? A day for the warm leads. Let’s pause cold. We’ll ask that next, but warm leads, how many a day?

About two a day. K.

Do you think that’s enough?

About ten people.

Yeah.

Yeah. And so it’s a numbers game. Right? Like, There’s the two. There’s several ways you can go about this. One part is authority building stuff with content that you put out there all the time and then bigger content, and that can feel like a long game. It doesn’t have to be, but it also is a long game too.

Then we’re talking warm leads and cold outreach. So outreach to warm and outreach to cold. It’s good to do both.

But the more you have to do a lot of Right? Like, this is you’re reaching out to people, and you have to hit them right and at the right moment. So It’s a numbers game. So if you’re just doing two a day, what’s stopping you from doing twenty a day?

Oh, so the warm outreach, I just don’t know that many people.

That’s what you think. You don’t know that many people. But I would say really, like, think through everybody that you know and that they know. And I know that can feel like, oh, aren’t I getting in people’s way? I mean, you’re an entrepreneur and this is part of the job. If if your goal is get more leads in because you wanna get to a million dollars a year.

You have got to earn what you want, and that’s how you earn it. It’s hard. It’s hard, but you pick up the phone or you send the email, and but you have to do a lot of it, like, a lot a lot.

Like, an uncomfortable amount. And this is where some people, when they have, like, partners, and they’re both invested in it. That can, like, you spread the job out across two people, which is why a lot of people end up building companies together because it’s a lot of quantity, quantity, quantity, and then there’s the cold outreach. And it’s a doable thing.

People do it all the time. Don’t do it. That’s because I didn’t have to do it. But if I had to do it, it would be a matter of, like, go a hundred a day.

And this is like figure out, you’ve said you’ve you’ve run the numbers. So if What’s your close rate right now? Do you happen to know what it is when you get someone on a call? How many people close out of ten?

So I haven’t had that many sales calls.

That’s the problem with Okay.

Yeah. That was right. Yeah.

So getting in leads, so you wanna make sure that you’re getting these leads into a sales process that isn’t just going to, like, burn up all of these people that you spoke with. But you’re energized about them when you actually get to talk to them and have that sales call.

Make sure you’re running that right. So we have that Huka, sales call training this Wednesday, attend it. Take notes. It’s smart.

And it’s an hour to fucking nail this stuff. So attend that.

And then it’s if you’re gonna do leads, cold outreach and warm, the numbers game, get up every morning, put it in your calendar, do it when you have energy, do the hard thing, personalize the cold stuff, obvious we’ve got that training in copy school dot copy hackers dot com.

But it’s it’s an because it’s a numbers game, if you get one and one hundred people to hop on a call with you.

You gotta, like, that’s why you have to do. A hundred of them a day. You can’t do two a day. It’s not gonna lead to anything except for frustration.

And you’re like, nothing works. No. It it can work, but it’s you have to do Does that make sense? So what I would like you to do is put together, like, a list of warm outreach and cold that you can do, like, give yourself a a to do list of every single day.

I’m going to reach out to five people I know and fifty people I don’t know every morning without fail. And if you can get in that habit, which you have to get. This is your job. You have to get in that habit.

Then you can start to see the needle move, and then you’ll be more inspired to go like, okay. Well, if I’m doing fifty cold outreach, cold attempts a day, And it’s bringing in four people.

If I double it to a hundred, now I’ve got eight, and that’s a lot better to deal with, and you’re gonna get so much better at cold outreach that you can outsource it to a VA because you’ll have it nailed down what to say, how to say it, how to get people onto that call, how to get them to show up, Like, all these reps, all this practice work is the stuff that’ll get you there. But two reps, and you expect you’re gonna, like, build muscle, I lifted the weight twice.

It’s gonna take a little more than that. But you’re doing it. Just do more of it.

Yeah.

And would you see those are the, like, two main, like, lead gen strategies? Or is there anything I’m missing besides those two of an authority?

Oh, yeah.

No. There’s more. It depends if you have money to spend. If you’ve got money to spend, there’s lots of other things you can do. And it doesn’t have to be a lot, but you have to have, like, fifty bucks a day to spend boost things to hire people to do the work for you, stuff like that. I would say start there. Start getting traction.

There. Your immediate network is the place to go first. The people you know that you’re just not thinking of how to really go after them, and then it’s follow-up. As well without saying the word follow-up.

Like, it’s it’s, hey, I talked to my cousin who has a skin care who works at a skin care company. I talked to her one time about it. Okay. Well, now you have to go back and talk to her again.

And again, and wear her down. She’s your cousin. She’s gotta give you work, and that’s just the way it is.

But really it’s like quantity.

More and more and more if you’re still trying to build up leads. If you had and I sit and still do all your authority building stuff as to grace, you’re, like, all of these things work together. Have you read hundred million dollar leads by Hormoza?

That’s next on my list. Yeah.

I was planning to read It’s really practical, like super practical.

And it comes with a bit of a course as well. So check that out, but it really will come down to quantity. Yeah. Cool. Anybody got any notes? For Esther Grace based on what you have done to get leads.

In person networking, going to things. But, like, every single thing you do, you need to do intentionally. Like, I know people who have gone to networking events and they kinda just stand at a table.

It’s like, no. No. No. No. No. You have to work it. You gotta, like, get in there and say hi.

And like, have a pitch ready to go, like, be able to open. So there’s opening and then there’s closing. Right? And so a lot of people suck at the open part.

Maybe you’re okay with closing, but all we’re talking about to get leads is like constantly opening.

So being able to go to a networking event event that’s possible and and do the open. Be ready to start asking questions about their business and Sounds like you’re working on x, y, or z. I do that too. Do you think would it make sense for us to have a talk about this?

Like, should we book a call? Like, be ready to to get moving on something, not just like, oh, cool. And, like, falling into the friend zone, which can happen a lot. So just, like, everything you do, be intentional about what you’re gonna do with it.

Katie also said the five day five k challenge. Totally. It’s, it’s still available.

Yes. So take that too, but don’t just do it once a month. Do it every five days. Yeah. Cool.

Jessica, do you wanna say that out loud?

I was just gonna say Abby wrote a blog post and did a tutorial on utilizing Facebook groups And I know she, of course, has had huge success with it, but I know other people have too applying what she taught. So I don’t know if where your audience is, but can’t hurt.

Mhmm. Yeah. Absolutely.

Love it.

I think I’ve read the post op yet.

I think I told you about it.

Yeah. Yeah. There’s the her tutorial is, pinned to the top of our YouTube channel right now over on. On YouTube. So check it out.

It’s great. Perfect. Okay. Good luck, Esther Grace. Set a goal too. How many warm, how many cold, you’re gonna do a day, and how many you need to get in booked calls every week.

And then post, follow-up in slack when you get those wins, just let people know, like, and my goal was four bookings this week, and I got five. And, like, make that happen. You can. Cool.

Anybody else have anything else? Thanks, Esther Grace. Any questions or anything you wanna share with others?

Hi. One question. Yeah.

Well, I have lots of questions, but, I will start with the most relevant one. So I was approached by a, sorry, I spoke in an event, about a few weeks ago. And so afterwards I was approached by a marketing agency, and it seemed I really feel like marketing agencies are an ideal source, an ideal client because They’re focused specifically on demand gen. They don’t have to answer to a CMO or to upper leadership quite in the same way that somebody who works in house would.

And they’re very data driven. And they tend not to be creatives. So they tend not to provide as much pushback, as somebody who works in house. So anyway, I had a call with the, with a guy again today, and we agreed on a to start with, like, a social ad, for more top of funnel work.

And what I ended up doing this time around, which is different than what I did last time around, last time around, I sold a company just like a bank of ours. And this time, I gave him a pricing page and I said, okay, a set of ads is this much, and a landing page is this much, And then so I’m gonna send him a proposal. We’ll sign the proposal, and then he can just add whatever he needs as he goes, and then at the end of the month, I’ll send the invoice to HR to accounts receivable, and then I’ll be able to bill them. But I’m wondering there’s anything I because I feel like this is such an ideal client, if there’s something I’m missing out on that I could be doing to make it easier for them or to increase the amount that they would get from me from the beginning and that initial conversation.

Whether that’s like, should I expect them to say, oh, well, you should get at least this amount, to increase the amount that they would get from me, or would that be a little bit too aggressive because they sort of get projects rolling in as they come? I’m not sure exactly.

What they’re working on, it could be a little bit too demanding for them right at the outset. So I’m wondering if there’s something I’m missing out on that I should have done and could do hopefully next time.

Yeah. Cool. Who’s working with agencies? Who has been through what Naomi’s going through? Nobody subcontracts?

I used to, but I’ve just always do it on a day. Right? So I can’t I don’t really know how to haven’t got anything to give. I’m afraid.

So what did you do? Why did you choose to do a day rate or why did they like a day rate? What was the reasoning there?

Well, actually, now that I think about it, I don’t think I told them it was a date. Right? I think I just priced it in my mind. It was, like, lead gen like, I’ve done a few. I did for a lead gen funnel.

Oh, like a lead gen agency, like, a few emails and stuff for a, SaaS company. So I’d yeah. I was like, oh, I’ll just it was always gonna be, like, fifteen hundred or whatever, for the emails. But in my head, I was like, okay. I’m booking myself for VIP to do those. And then I did the same thing with, like, course agency as well.

But, yeah, that’s I mean, that’s just because at the time, I really liked the IP days.

Yeah. Okay. That’s fair. But they responded well to it as a day rate. Did you did they ever know it was a day rate? Did you tell them that?

I don’t even think so. I just, like, they just didn’t really seem to care. They were just like, okay, like, we need you to do this. What does it cost? And that was kind of it.

Yeah. Okay.

But, like, every time they need like, did you work with them multiple times? And every time they needed you, they booked a day rate.

No. They just said, can you do these, emails or whatever? And I was like, yeah, sure. And then booked myself in as, like, a day and build them the same.

So I was just kinda like, if I I would always say yes. I was just at a time in my life where if I was, I would be happy to give up a Sunday for, like, the extra money. So I’ll just be like, sure. Yeah.

I’ll do it.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I’m wondering about I’ll go ahead, Naomi.

The difference in these kind of agencies are specifically working on Google and social. They’re demand gen agencies, or or it’s usually either Google, or Google and social or LinkedIn.

So it could be like the ads aren’t working. It’s time to refresh the or we want to start a new campaign for this specific persona, or we have a new ABM approach that we want to do, and so we need copy but they don’t necessarily know when they’re gonna need those ads or when they’re gonna want to improve the landing page because it depends on how the campaign performs. And so there’s a level of unpredictability, and which is good to have work rolling in. Like a lot for most of my clients, I’ll have work coming in on a rolling basis.

And I think that having something that’s not connected to ours is definitely more efficient, but I I don’t think that possible to be efficient to the point where I can say like, okay, I can do this within a day.

Yeah. No. I mean, I know, like, some summer, she used to do, like, credits. I think, like, someone was talking about this in Slack today, but, so she would have, like, kind of a menu of what each credit can buy, and then the credits roll over if they weren’t used in, like, the month. So it was kind of like a retainer y type thing.

So she’d get paid, like, every month they’d buy, like, two credits or whatever.

So they would have to commit to a certain number of credits?

Yeah. Yeah. But then they could rush. She would let them roll over So if they only used one, she’d be like, okay, that’s fine. We can use it next month. If next month, you have, like, more clients. So that kept the client happy, but also had that kind of security of a retainer for her.

Yeah. I mean, to me, it’s kind of tricky because every time you work for an agency and they have multiple clients, you have to learn new things about each client in order to write for them. Right? So it’s like you’re taking on a new client every time. Even if you redo and you work for the same client effectively a month later, whatever.

But it’s still it’s a lot of, like, learning time.

Have you experienced that Naomi?

That it is.

I’m, like, Yeah. This is the first agency that I’ve Oh, okay.

Okay. Cool. So and that’s where it’s tricky with credits. We had our credit based agency years ago called Snap that Leanna and James now have.

And it was it was good in some ways, but you do have to spend time thus spend a credit on, like, learning a thing. Like, what’s the what is this product?

And so that has to be baked in, and that’s where I really like the VIP day.

Because it’s like I can do all sorts of things. In that time. I can, like, and if it’s really important to them, I guess I’m just worried, Naomi when you say you, like, you would sell them a landing page.

It’s fine. It’s doable.

It’s, how are the margins though? Like, the reason that I rarely recommend sub tracing to an agency is you just don’t make as much money because they’re charging what you would charge, and now they have to make a profit on you. Yeah.

No. They’re they’re giving me work. They’re the client.

Yeah. But they’re an agency, a demand gen agency that pays that gets paid by their clients.

Yeah.

They’re an agency. Yes.

But I’m not doing the subcontracting contracting.

There’s subcontracting to them. They’re they’re so the client has the contract with them, and they have a contract with you.

Right. So I’m the subcontractor.

Yeah. So you’re the subcontractor. Exactly. Okay. And so every new contract down is, like, losing money losing money losing money lose.

So if you have a subcontract you’re gonna pay them half of what you would charge, and the agency is gonna pay half of what they’re gonna charge at best on a good day. Because they also have overhead and all sorts of other expenses. So if they’re charging it’s probably if it’s demand gen, their performance base, they’re on retainer with the client, it possibly getting a percentage of how things perform depending on who the client is. Okay?

So if they’re making, let’s say, they’re making, they’re billing their client ten thousand dollars a month for services.

They, as a business, need to make a profit to continue to exist.

So they’re trying to get three thousand dollars off that. That leaves them with seven thousand dollars a month to spend on resources for that client. They have their own people that they’re paying and all of the expenses that go along with shipping something out, taking someone to lunch, whatever that other crap is too. And then comes money for the subcontractor.

That’s you. So that’s where I hear subcontracting, or work for an agency as a subcontractor. And, I don’t love it because you have to really optimize your time because you’re not gonna be able to make that much. As much money as you could if you were direct to the client. If you were like, I can do that for you instead and here’s what I charge.

And so that’s it. So how can you if you’ve got three thousand dollars that you might make off them in a month for that one client, let’s say, what can you do to ensure that you are maximizing the amount of money you get for the time you put in. Obviously, it’s all it’s always our game.

And that’s where a VIP day sounds like really good. You could charge two thousand dollars. They can budget that in easily for their differing clients. And as they’re planning on what to do next month with their clients and new clients they take on, they’re like, okay.

Well, Naomi can write a landing page in a day. If you can. Naomi can do, analysis in a day. So we always have to book for every client every month.

We need Naomi two days for each client. So we’re going to budget in four thousand dollars when we’re estimating something with clients. Right now, you have to figure out what they’re estimating with clients right now because of their thinking and have you it sounds like you haven’t talked to them about what you’re what you cost or have you?

Yeah. Give them a pricing sheet.

Okay. So you what what does your pricing sheet? What do you have on it, Naomi? What does it say?

I have an add landing page web copy.

I think I added research can bring it up.

Yeah. It’s like a it’s like a menu.

Yeah.

I made it very simple because, I I figured selling hours was just not going to be sustainable so I Yeah.

Figured this would be a good solution, but I didn’t over complicate it.

Yeah. It’s good not over comp of course. That’s great. And a rate sheet can be a good thing to share.

But if the objective is to make good money off them, on an ongoing basis.

So what’s wrong do you think is broken with giving them the rate sheet right now? What’s not working there?

It’s I I would say it’s more that I would like a more long term commitment, where if it’s just going to be, if it’s going to be like five to ten thousand chat, three to five thousand dollars a month.

Like, that would be good to have it, like, rolling in to have them on retainer.

If it’s gonna be just like a few like a thousand dollars here, maybe a few hundred dollars there, then it’s not going to be efficient. Yeah. But if they’re a marketing agency, then they’re gonna do this on a long term basis. And because tech is in such a bad place right now, more and more and more companies are choosing to outsource a lot of their marketing. So it’s also just practical because they’re trying to cut down on people in house.

Yeah. Yeah. There’s that. So okay. So all you’re really looking to do is set up a retainer with your this agency and then make sure that you aren’t working non got for them. Like, you’re having good boundaries around your retainer. Is that right?

Yeah.

So make sure that the effort that I put in to learning about each company pays off in the long run by not having to acquire new clients.

That meaning that is a long term relationship that is worthwhile because it’s not just like a couple hundred dollars here and there.

Yeah. Totally it. So what’s stopping you from having a conversation with them or have you had that conversation? I think if you gave them a rate sheet, you probably haven’t had the conversation then about, here’s what I would love to get out of this relationship.

Here’s the problem that I’ll solve for you. All of them but here’s the only way that that could work and here’s how great it’ll be when it does work. So the here’s the only way that will work part is I have to learn about all of your clients. Like, that’s that’s real work.

It’s if you had a salesperson, they would have to learn about all of those clients too. So understanding that. And by the way, I’m your scalable online sales person. So I need to learn everything about them.

I need this these engagements to go on. And you also need these engagements to go on. You need, you know, all of the reasons that they don’t wanna just, like, swap in and out crappy freelancers and just, like, have somebody that they love etcetera, etcetera. So the whole conversation, and then you tell them that you want a need and they need.

You position it as what is the best solution for them, a retainer minimum of six months for each client. Is that what you think it is for each client?

So each client that they have, if they have five clients, you have five different retainers with them, or you have one big retainer that covers everything.

See, I think, yeah, I think it would be too aggressive to say that I have five retainers with each of your clients. That’s fair.

Yeah. So it’s like one pool that they get to draw from. For their various clients.

Mhmm. That’s what you want. Is that right? Like a like a bucket. You’re the bucket every week. Yeah.

Because when I went into they were like sort of sold on me. They were like, how do we start? And I thought what I was gonna do was like I’ll just have you pay via credit card for the first project, and then we’ll open up a proposal. But then he was like, oh, well, actually we’d rather just be paid by invoice because that’s how we just manage everything. And so now I was like, oh, well I’ll send you a proposal. And then I thought, like, oh, well, I should have had the conversation that I was expecting to have afterwards, because I thought that they were just gonna pay via credit card who were like, oh, we just want one ad.

But I wasn’t because I thought that that would be a good way in and then afterwards, I’d be like, oh, I’d love to build a more long term relationship with you, because I can’t say like, well, we just wanna have a long term relationship on the star. That’s a little bit.

A little bit much.

So Is it?

I guess I wonder why would it be? If they’re pre sold on you, Why would it be too much to say, like, cool y’all.

Here’s how I work. And then say it’s like, you’re an agency and really, like, help them understand why the best thing to do is put you on retainer.

Know you mentioned the word aggressive a couple times, but to me, it’s only aggressive if you’re, like, if your tone is aggressive about it. Otherwise, it’s just They have a problem to solve. And you know demand gen agencies have it’s constant, test everything, and they need they need you to come up with hundred add variations in a day. So there’s going to be just lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots.

There’s a big numbers game too. Right? So So if you know the demand for what you have is real, then you can solve that. Who else are they gonna hire who can do as good a job as you can. Yeah.

No. Like, they they they got that. They were they were convinced that I was their that I was their person. But also for my sake, like how do I price that?

How do I price in testing and landing pages and ads on a rolling basis with all of these other things and potentially add variations, and then maybe nothing because the campaign is working, Yeah. That’s why I didn’t push it right away. Like Yeah. We could figure that we should have a, like a trial almost.

Yeah. I’m I I I to me, it sounds like I don’t think that the trial is a necessary thing, but I wasn’t in the conversations you’re in, obviously.

To me, it sounds like, okay. You just need to protect your time, but give them a lot of things that they need. Typically, I have not seen and I don’t know if your experience is different. Naomi, but when a campaign is going well, nobody sits back.

Like, now we’re, like, it’s just more. Like, oh, it’s going great. We can do even more. Or let’s shift you over to new client now where the campaign isn’t going as well and where we need your resources over there.

So for me, I hear this If they’re a big enough agency that you think they actually have money to spend on you, if they have a real need for copywriting services, conversion copywriting in particular, if that’s what’s going on and they already like you, but you don’t want to sell your life to them. Of course not, but you wanna be able give them a menu of services without them having to go through and pick and choose one and, like, call you up for one ad at a time. You know, because that’s not how this works. Why not sell them?

Can you sell them?

I don’t know if it has to be a specific day or whatever whatever that looks like. But to me, why not charge x amount for a retainer? This is what it costs to hire you. Say this is what it costs to hire me. And that’s it. And if they’re, like, that’s too expensive, well, then one that you you probably should have, like, spent more time in the sales process to make it so that they understand the value you can bring or two, they might not have ever been a good fit to begin with.

But I wouldn’t worry that it’s too aggressive to say it’s five thousand bucks a month for a retainer to retain me. You’ll get x many hours with that or better for you to have, like, outputs that gives you either a package of a hundred ads for one cloud, whatever. Like, you figured that out because you had the conversation with them. But you say this is the amount five thousand, ten thousand, whatever it might be. And it’s a minimum of six months.

I I don’t know. Is is there you would be wrong with that?

You wouldn’t you would skip the trial entirely and say these are my for all agencies.

I don’t know what the trial solves.

Well, I mean, it also might be budgeting constraints on their side. Like, he may love me, but he had to get the green light from their CFO because the CFO needs to green light everything these days.

For sure.

So other ways until proven yourself.

And I I think like proving yourself is something that I wouldn’t say you should ever even let in the conversation.

Nobody nobody who has proven themselves ever again says I have to prove myself. So to me, it sounds like, oh, I need to prove myself, is the thing that you say when you know that that’s not that common to be able to prove yourself. So it’s kind of a signal. Don’t say. Robin from your vocab.

Prove me fine. He needs to accrue my value.

And I get it, like, to see the level to the rest of the team because he’s not in charge of the the bank account.

There are a totally. And there are other ways to get the CFO to sign off on things. Right? It’s not necessarily going to be a trial.

It could be hey, if once you lock in six months, you automatically get ten percent off for the entire six month thing, which I don’t love discounting, but CFOs love discounting. So if you’re trying to say, get that CFO picturing this person who’s just trying to make sure that profits are great. What’s the solution for them? A trial Could be it. Don’t get me wrong, Naomi. It could be a trial thing. I just don’t know that that’s that’s a chance for them to go.

Was she perfect?

And it’s like, well, no. Nobody would be.

Rather, hey, I’m badass. You already like work that I do, you already need the job done.

What’s, like, the only thing that’s really gotta move you forward is getting the CFO happy So here’s what we do. And if if you sign on for six months, you get ten percent. If you sign on for twelve months, you get fifteen percent off. And now the CFO has something to work with. And everybody knows you can cancel any time, and the the lawyers will cover the contract with, like, after thirty thirty days notice to to cancel the contract, etcetera.

Yeah, I don’t I considering I already agreed to a trial for this specific agency, it would make more sense to say like Okay, like, send time a, send time a proposal with just like the price list that I have, and then say, okay, work with that, and then like, see how that goes, and then say, look, I have a limited availability if you want to get me on the books, then you can either then hear the packages I have for agencies.

Otherwise I Can I see the guarantee availability?

Yeah.

Or should I, like, call them up tomorrow and be like, oh, actually I wanna change everything and No.

If you’re already down the path. What I just don’t wanna do is have you become a commodity for this agency. That’s all. It’s just I want everybody in this room to go into every call in a power position. That’s that’s it. Like, that’s where we I don’t.

I don’t think I’m a commodity.

I I Oh, no.

I just a menu list is a commodity. That’s the thing. So it requires that you have a good, context for it. That’s all. So Naomi, if you’re already down that path, Cool.

Really the is the question then if you’re doing this trial, how do you lock them into something that’s profitable for you? After the trial ends. Is that what we’re looking for?

Yes. For this one specifically.

Yeah.

And I I guess for all of them because, like, I I also would not wanna commit to a tend to a huge retainer without having any sense of what to expect from somebody who’s relatively new at running a business.

Yeah. Justin. Definitely. Yeah.

Is that okay? Go for it.

Yeah. So I’ve been, speaking with Adri Yedlyn, he’s been, like, sharing a bit of, like, Blair. Is pricing strategy, and I it’s just so curious to me. And I wonder if it could work here.

So basically, offering pricing tiers, but doing it by the likelihood of success. So you’ve got the so the first one is basically your, like, champagne popping kind of retainer. Like, it’s like ten hair month you’d be, like, over the moon if you got it, and they get, like, x, y, and zed in it. And then your middle one is the one that you’re happy that’s the one you’re going for, like, the five k and it includes, like, this amount of deliverables it’s capped here.

And then your like lowest likelihood of success, which is one that’s meant to be like the best value for your time. So like a VIP day or something that you can and I wonder if you could do something like that presented in them like that. And then for the trial, do, like, a month under the kind of care that they want. So rather than doing, like, a trial is, like, an or something, be like, okay.

You wanna go for this option. Let’s try it, see how it goes, see if we need to, like, increase scope or decreased scope. And then, yeah, it was just a a thought.

No. I think it’s I think it’s a great idea I would love, in theory, I love it, but measuring success.

Well, it’s not like to increase the likelihood of success.

You’re gonna do, like, way more voice of customer research.

You’re is gonna include a lot more of that stuff.

Whereas when I’m working for agencies, don’t do any of that. Like, I don’t do that great job, to be honest, because they don’t, you know, they’re not paying me, like, the amount to go and interview their customers. So I’m like, okay, I’ll do your sales agent like, I’ll do it in a day. Like, and I don’t think of it as, like, good sustainable income. I treat it like a cash injection, like, just those, you know, when it’s opportunity to get a bit a bit of extra cash. If you wanted to yeah.

What was that about Revshare?

No.

I I thought that you were saying, like, like, if they Oh, like, no.

No. No. No.

No. It then performs well then.

Yeah. Yeah. No. It’s just like this is what I’ll do too. If you want the maximum chance of success, we’re gonna go for the, like, all in option if you Yeah.

Not etcetera.

Yeah. That could be a good way to go. Have you read Naomi pricing creativity?

Blaren’s.

No. It’s it’s got he’s got a bunch of books. But that’s it’s good. It’s very helpful, for something like this.

Yeah. So you’ve got the trial.

It’s really hard to say how to come up with, but I love Abby your ideas there with, like, you I can give you the full service everything every month for every client, or I can you could buy the VIP day, one a month or something, but at least a VIP day can keep you locked in contained and people don’t expect that they can reach out to you anytime, whereas a block of hours, I could reach out to you for one hour hypothetically on a Thursday and expect you to get back to me. The problem with trials, just as a side note, trials are good for systems. If this was a system that you were selling to them, then the trial would prove out the system or not, but the work we do is so custom.

It’s so specific to what’s going on in the market with the audience with the product. The offer with medium, all of it. That it’s very difficult for a trial to perform because the work we do often doesn’t perform until you’ve had a few takes at it. And you were able to go like, oh, that hypothesis was wrong, but look where it led us.

And then you can go along and get better and better and better. And that where, like, the payoff is with a really good copyright. That’s why agencies that’s why the agency you’re talking to doesn’t sign up for month to month. Because that would that does it doesn’t work.

It doesn’t work until you’ve committed to doing something, and trying a whole bunch of different things. I know for certain that demand gen agencies don’t do month to month.

So any any good ones at least don’t. So That’s my only pause for you going forward with trials. If it’s a system, it’s easy not to trial out. If it’s a human engagement, it’s very hard to trial.

And maybe go for a VIP day.

As like the easiest way in and then from there, they can start to look in to bring you in on projects and other things.

Yeah.

That’s my take.

I’ve done a bunch of VIP days with, a couple agencies too, and I feel like it’s a good, like like what Joe said, you don’t want them to be like, oh, we did an hour here and there or two hours for this. It’s like, it’s a contained main time. And I’ve had an easy time, like, selling those.

Sorry.

My biggest concern with the IP days is really the creative component because so much of what in in more performance based mediums the design is such a big part of it that I really have to work very, very closely with the designer to make sure that they follow, like, conversion CRO principles and UX principles, the way that I would like them to.

So I’d be worried that the VIP day, like, oh, oops, the designer isn’t available. You have come back on Monday and finish up for us. So that’s that’s really my biggest concern with VIP Day. Do you have that issue?

I haven’t had that issue because I’m working and like working on different kinds of things, but it sounds like if if that is a thing, even if it’s not a VIP day, is that still going to be annoying schedule if they’re like, oh, hey, the designer’s not available today. Like, is it still gonna be like they’re kinda calling the shots and they’re like, oh, actually, let’s You know, does that make sense? Or does it have the IP plan out? Sure. But even if it’s not a VIP day, they stop the plan ahead and be like, this is when the designer’s available. Right? So whether it’s a VIP day or not, you have to to expect for your schedule.

Right?

Yeah. Like, you don’t pay for that premium, like, then they’re not paying, like, that’s the fact that you work, like, on UX for the designer, like, that’s that’s more value really than a VIP days for, I would think. So that’s where, like, if you were to offer the different options. It’s like the more expensive option is the one where, like, you’re gonna collaborate a bit more with their team and they’re gonna pay, like, the premium for that.

Yeah.

And it’s two VIP days maybe, right, where you get in a flow of VIP day one is you doing the work VIP day too is you doing the checks over how it’s been implemented and then making any changes accordingly.

If that’s a real if that’s a real problem or the other side is, it’s an agency. It’s a subcontract.

Sometimes you just have to be okay with stepping back. You hand over the copy doc. You give all the best direction you can do. The designer is going to do do what the designer is going to do, though. And so, unless you work directly with them very often, and can establish a relationship there. It can be tough to get a designer to do what the subcontracted copywriter wants them to do.

Yeah. Doesn’t mean it’s impossible. It’s just like, do you pick your battles here and just like, is If if working with agencies was your full business model and that’s what you were doing going forward, then we could come up with different things here. But my hope and prayer is that it is not so that we can get you, like, scoring big ass projects and competing with that very agency, not necessarily demand gen. But, depending on what you what you want to do, of course, that’s the goal is not to keep. I is that is that in line, or do you want to keep working with agencies in the long term?

Well, I want to work with demand gen professionals because that’s really my area of expertise. So if they are in an agency, maybe that would work. If they’re in house, great. But Yeah. If they’re in house, maybe they already have a team of copywriters that they they they work with, or they have very strict brand principles, and they don’t wanna outsource anything.

So, like, is there a sweet spot?

Yeah. Working with in host demand gen.

Twenty twenty one.

I have worked with in host demand gen, and they are the best. They get excited about everything that you do because they don’t have a lot of fresh ideas coming in. So That’s where if you love DemandGen, cool, you know, do some stuff with the agencies, whatever, have it be that cash that you need, have it be some, like, experience that you get more and more and more with them so you can try different stuff. But then if you like DemandGen, go work as a freelancer for demand gen that’s in house at, like, almost any e commerce company, and it’s it’s fun and ego boosting, which never hurts. And you make good money. Yeah.

Right. So that’s what I’ve been that’s what I did in house for many years.

Nice. Love it.

That was what I did over and over and over and over again.

So I know that they that they like me.

The the trick is figuring out, do they have the budget to hire me, hire somebody out out of house.

And do they are they even thinking that way?

Yeah. And it’s true that a lot of tech companies have laid off people.

Not necessarily because they have to these days, because it looks good on the books to do it. But hiring agencies can be have its own downfalls. It can be expensive too. So it’s not that they’re only looking at agencies. They’re also looking at freelancers, to fill in those gaps. So I would just keep that in mind too. Yeah.

Okay. Cool.

That was fun.

I didn’t mean to think up so much time.

No. That was a lot of working through a big thing. Hopefully, we got, you know, kind of nodding things a bit, which takes work.

Good. Let us know what what happens with this conversation. Naomi over in Slack too. Cool. Well Yeah. I know we’ve got three minutes technically left, even though we’re over sort of by thirty. Does anybody have any last thoughts or question or, like, a rapid something where we good to go.

Yeah. Quick question.

When is the the free month trial, like, officially and, like, for CSP. Do you know the day?

That’s a Sarah. I think February. I think this is the free month for you.

Yeah.

Yeah. I just wondered if there was, like, a I think the date.

I think the next payment is on February twenty eight, I think.

Okay. Yeah.

What I think? Check with Sarah.

Okay. Yeah. Sarah knows all that stuff. Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Abby. Anybody else?

Alright. Have a good week. We will see you in Slack. And, this Thursday is Percy’s mindset session on rethinking failure.

So make sure you check that out if you struggle with things like the word failure.

Cool. Okay. Thanks, everybody.

Have a good day.

Thanks, Joe. Bye.

Transcript

Today is, copywriting lesson, and then that’s followed an AMA that will go until we’re just done talking.

There’s a small group of us today, so no need to, maybe it’s just like a good time if you have, like, something you’re going through that you maybe didn’t want to share with more people or something, which I know happens.

It could be a good time to talk through that today too. So, as usual, be ready to bring any questions that you got any wins to preface them, and that can be any kind of win, just celebrating those good things that happen. This is being recorded. The worksheet for today’s session already went out that went out on Friday. It is the high class problem sell, which I’m really excited about. We’ve used it a couple times. And then I’ll show you the one example for a new page in progress that we’re working on, and how we use it there.

But as usual, yeah, just kind of be with me here, set your intention, just be present, closing down other distractions. If you can, I know life is real and all around us, but, whatever you can do to just kind of ignore your phone for a bit and other, you know, notifications that come in?

Yeah, everybody’s feeling cool. I’m I’m feeling really good today. Awesome. Okay. So open up that work If you haven’t already, got it open.

I will only share my screen if you don’t know what worksheet I’m talking about. Because what I’m going to do today is, a little different format that we’re trying for our training now which so far I quite like, but I’ve never done it live. And I have never done it one live, two unsupported by somebody on my team who can, like, talk and fill in the gaps while I’m like, oh, no. The text’s broken. So we’re just gonna try it here today, and see what happens.

But yeah. So the context for this is, you’ve got. I mean, we have so many ways to try to get into stories, into the argument that we wanna make when we’re writing copy.

Lots of different things that you can do but sometimes when it comes down to it and you’re actually writing the page or writing the email, I find that things can feel boring and repetitive pretty fast, not for your right not for your reader necessarily, but for you as a copywriter, I mean, we do data driven things and use better practices and frameworks, etcetera, but it can be tedious sometimes when it’s like a rule of three. So you’re always hitting three points in a row and it’s just like, kinda wanna break out of it. So that’s how I feel about it. The longer you write copy, the more likely you are to feel that way too.

If if this isn’t resonating, stick around. It’s going to eventually. So I like finding and identifying, and I’m sure you do too, identifying little new ways to attack parts of pages in particular. So what I’m gonna show you today is from a long form sales page, I first saw it on someone else’s long form sales page.

I wanna say a bazillion years ago, but it could have been last year. It all blends into one now. And I was really I was really interested it. So I kinda broke it apart and tried to reverse engineer what they were doing.

Tried it in a sales email for our freelancing school, promotion over the Black Friday weekend.

And, yeah, I’m feeling kinda cool about how it could be an unlock for you when you’re stuck. So, I’m going to share Just half a second while I choose the right one.

Okay.

Cool. So you should be seeing my iPad now.

Oh, are you?

Yeah.

Fancy.

I’ve just never shared my iPad before. So, but this is where we’re going to be working today. So This is an example of the opening of that that sales page that we’re working on for copy school pro. So you set up a big promise, like big.

The bigger, the better, and it doesn’t have to be a promise necessarily as in we promise you’ll get this. But something that’s really going to grab their tension. So really thinking about your audience and what they’re trying, what they most want. And that’s where on the worksheet, we have the, what’s really good about this is I can use three monitors now, which is cool.

We’ve got good outcome and then a high class problem. So we often talk about the good outcomes that people have. And these are good outcomes. These here are good outcomes that you might be looking for.

Right? It’s not a promise because it’s in the first person in quotation marks, which, of course, as anybody who has taken any of my training knows, unless I feel like I’m saying it all the time, but maybe I’m not, first person headlines in quotation marks are my favorite across the board. So how I, big thing, big thing, big thing, ending with the big thing, and then and then overcoming an objection right here.

But don’t you need a lot of money that, etcetera. So with the fifty thousand dollar ad budget, which is basically nothing. Okay. So we’re capturing their attention.

I’m not this doesn’t mean it’s ADA. I know as soon as I hear its attention, doesn’t mean it’s ADA. It might be though. But we’re gonna break it really fast.

So don’t try to look too hard for a framework here yet. Okay. Then we get into kind of something a little bit old school. So that is this.

Step one is opening up this idea that there will be something that follows later, a step two. So a small, not curiosity gap, but like an open loop. Right? There’s more to come.

This is just the first step, even if you forget that later. The point is not that you’re waiting around for step two, but it’s an interesting way to start, opening up that attention into something more kind of like a little more intrigue.

Re time, really old school. You don’t have to do any of this stuff for the framework that I’m teaching you or the cell that I’m teaching you today to work. I’m just walking you through kind of the decisions that were made here.

From the desk of, again, old school. I do like old school, founder of copy hackers, grader of copy school, inventor of conversion copywriting, and this is an important thing, mother of kittens, just because what we’re about to get into, we need to set a tone. So far, the tone is kind of bro y. Right? Like, look at all the, you know, money you can make and crap like that. And that can feel a little bit weird.

The tone can be a little bit. We have to make what I’m trying to do here is set it up so that we can have a little bit of fun going forward because this framework, as I’ve used it, has been about tapping into, like, a little bit of fun. The high class problem cell is, like, we’re going to talk about some high class problems And if you make it sound like a problem, that’s not gonna work. Right? Like, that’s the bad thing we don’t want to do.

Okay. So I’m just gonna pop over to the next one. So then we get into the next part of the page.

So we set set up this big cool thing that you can do. Oh, Sorry here. Let me just go back to this. So it opens with so I’m guessing this isn’t the first time you’ve landed on this isn’t the first page you’ve landed on with big promises and enticing numbers.

And I’ll get to that in a second, but let me ask you a question. Do you actually want to? And this really means you could have put almost anything before this part. So I’ll get to that in a second is like, again, you could have done anything before that.

Accept what follows here in these bullets that are about to follow down here is we’re basically building on that cool outcome. So let’s say your cool outcome that you’re trying to hook somebody with is you’re gonna land a thousand customers in a month. You’re gonna land a thousand thousand dollar customers in a month. Really big, really desirable thing that they want that would, attract their attention.

And then from there, we’re going to find that less desirable outcome of that thing, the high class problem. So again, it could be anything to open.

But we want the bullets that follow the good outcomes and then the high class problems, to speak to that thing that just hooked them. So we have, and I’ll get to that in a second, but let me ask you a question. Do you actually want to? Then we have good outcome, Deliver World class copy.

Number one thing. It’s gonna be short in, like, actual length because we’re trying to pull them in. So a short bullet most of the sentences are short at this point. As you can see, they all end here.

Make lots of money for your clients or team and also for yourself good outcome. Cool. And now we start getting into the high class problems associated with those good outcomes, and we spend more time on them because we’re having more fun with it. We’re just kind of like enjoying our time talking to our prospect about the things they want being frankly as we’re about to see similar to the things that, we want.

So do you actually want to have super smart people ping you late at night when they’ve needed, when they need to crack a conversion problem when you become their go to copywriter? That’s a high class problem. You just got a ping in the middle of the night, but it’s pretty solid because someone cool is asking you for help and they trust you a lot. Do you really want to?

Do you actually want to go through life with a sense of guilt that everything is falling into your lap and you haven’t had to toil in the coal mine or perform open heart surgery after building years of schooling to get it? Wanna get so good at selling products that jealous people begin whispering about you and you have to start hanging out with a whole new crew of high achieving nerds? These are high class problems. And the reality is your prospect should want them.

Right? So then we say great. Then you and I want the same things, and then you continue on telling the rest of the story and still building on the stuff that you did. Although I can’t help you with another high class problem, which is the anxiety that overachievement brings or an outcome of a high class problem recommend a marriage counselor for when you spend half your summer texting with a network of smart people who’ve sought you and your genius out.

I can do these things, and then you get into what those things are, and that’s what we’re really here to talk about. But you’re capturing their tension with this like unexpected outcome.

And it’s not just the usual good news, good news, good news, life is always gonna get better as you get better and the levels are higher. Life is like way better. There’s real problems that are gonna come with it, but we’re not positioning them as problem problems. Just as a high class problem. Does this make sense?

Can you imagine how you might use this in your work?

Potentially? Okay. Cool.

So I’ll stop sharing that part and then just quickly walk through the worksheet.

So that you’ve got it. Okay. So the high class problems sell, as always, the worksheet and lesson will help you find a new way into writing about comes so that new way in particularly if you’re bored, but also if you just wanna try something else. Write sales emails or sales pages with that What you wanna do is list out your good outcomes and then the high class problem that comes with it. And this is the framework effectively, bit of a template for you to use. Cool.

Have what you need to use it. Alright. I’m not gonna make you. We can go through and do an exercise if you’d like to try it out. Otherwise, we can just kind of hop into question time or talking time.

Good talking time. Does anybody have any questions they wanna bring to the table today?

Everyone’s quiet.

Do you wanna do this as an exercise?

Go right for something? Okay. I think that’s a good use of time. So what I would love for you to do if you have a productized service, if you have a package of some kind, anything that you already have pre written copy for. So ideally not for a new campaign or something.

Anything that you might have on your site today or that you wish you had on your site today?

I would like you to take the next ten minutes to come up with the good outcomes and the high class problems and then try to fill this part in.

Doable?

Okay. Cool. I’m gonna stop sharing.

And then be sure to come off mute if you have any questions as going through it, and we’ll be back in ten minutes.

Joe, can I ask a quick question?

Love it. Yes.

I’m really I really struggle with ten saying. Right? It’s just my thing.

Like, am I am I writing it, like, in the future terms as or, like, am I writing it as if it’s happening or so it’s do you actually want to in the future?

Yes. So do you actually want to but it’s still written in the present tense. Deliver, not will deliver. So deliver world class copy. Do you actually want to And then it’ll just follow in, I guess, the imperative, really, because it’s just two. Does that make sense?

Yeah. It’s just my noob thing. Like, this is why I can’t write fiction because I struggle with Ted’s sake. That no.

That’s like Latin. Did you take Latin in school?

No.

Oh, okay. That messed me up for some things. So when I when people struggle with these things, I’m like, oh, you probably took Latin. So yeah, this is just like, do you actually want to, and then these are all just present tense. Do you want to have a call that sort of thing. Right? Just happening right now.

Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Jay. Sure.

Alright. Should we talk about that’s how to go?

Any luck?

Did it suck? Was it awesome? Is it hard? Did you get anywhere?

That was fun. I liked it.

Okay. What’d you work on, Abby?

I did for my day one evergreen package.

And, yeah, what I like about it is because, I find myself, like, using the same kind of messaging it with different clients like this kind of like, you can make more money. You can make six figures, and it’s starting to feel, like, quite stale. So I like the the high problem approach is a farmer around that, and I feel like it really boosts credibility because you’re not just saying, like, this is how awesome, like, life is. It’s like. Yeah. Yeah, take them out. So, yeah, I really enjoyed it.

Okay. Cool. That’s wicked. That’s how I feel about it too. Like, it’s just a more interesting way to position of good outcome?

Yeah. Yeah. Cool. Everybody else needs them any anything that didn’t feel that good or, like, you’re not it’s not clicking.

It wouldn’t work for you maybe.

I like that it’s very fresh, but it feels a little bit it feels a little bit exaggerated to me.

It feels a little bit Oh, yeah.

It’s on the sales. Page.

It’s gonna be a little. I hear you there. So what would you what how would you modify it?

Any idea?

Well, I mean, the the goals that I have are are more immediate goals. But the tone feels a little bit of still feels a little bit much even though the actual things I’m writing about are realistic.

Okay. Can you read yours and just share so we can hear what that sounds like?

Yeah. So I am looking at the, the service page I have for, PVC.

So Google Landing Pages and, social ads. So I wrote do you actually want to watch your pipeline fill up with qualified leads effortlessly?

Capture all of the great top of funnel demand your social media. Is generating, become so efficient at attracting new leads that AEs are so overwhelmed with demos that they tell you to slow down the campaign so they can focus on the lead they have and attract so many good opportunities that you actually cringe when influencers cry about pmax ridiculously broad, broad campaigns, and Google’s ever changing algorithm on LinkedIn over and over again.

But the tone, the tone still feels off to me even though those are like very realistic. Things.

Okay. What feels off to you? I guess I wonder as, like, for me, I I heard it and I was like, cool. That sounds dope. That sounds like Yeah. Who wouldn’t react well to that?

Some won’t. Some won’t. But usually, those are the people who are just like I I won’t I won’t think about those ones as much as the people who are like, yeah, I’d like to have that problem, you know, and you’re like really getting there, but how did everybody else feel when you were hearing it?

Any notes for Naomi?

I thought it was really cool. I liked it. Yeah. I didn’t feel like the tone was off. I mean, obviously, I don’t know what you’re going for, like, generally with your tone, but, yeah, I thought it was cool.

Okay. Yeah.

I didn’t feel like the tone pull up either, but yeah, again, same as Abby, but the tone didn’t seem like off to me for off footing.

And I know it can feel like a certain audience, your audience, Naomi, wouldn’t respond well to that, and you may absolutely be right. I would just be curious to test it out, give it a shot, see if they do.

Yeah.

Cool. Awesome. Anyone else wanna share?

Yeah. I’ll share mine. I’ll be. I’ll be able to get feedback on it. Okay. Cool.

It’s a bit it’s obviously a bad fish drop. Okay.

But let me ask you a question. Do you actually want to wake up to sales every day, automate your entire sales process? Miss out on the I mean, Rausch, you usually get when you get a sales notification because it happens so darn frequently that the sensible thing to do is to turn stripe notifications off altogether.

Stop having those indulgent. Ugh, it’s just so stressful conversations with fellow course creators because you’ve hopped off the live launch roller coaster and are now making launch size revenue while on vacation.

Having awkward tail between your legs conversation with your SSO when they ask why you spent twenty k on ads this month and you have to loan that you turned that twenty k into two hundred and twenty k, and now you’d like to buy a vacation rental five minutes down the road from the end loss.

It’s fun. That’s fun. Those are some high class problems to have to have that awkward conversation anyway.

I just can’t relate to the last point about moving close to your in laws. But other than that, it was so infuriating that you’re that good at writing copy that quickly, which I always tell you that.

That’s awesome. Yeah. It really does it was what I liked was. It was so great about qualifying who she’s speaking to. It’s ridiculous.

I mean, if you can’t relate to that, you’re gone and Yeah.

It’s a good side effect. Right? Like, all of these other outcomes of that. That’s really a really good point.

Yeah. Thanks, Jessica.

And you can tell you had fun writing it. It doesn’t sound like it was a slog or you, like, it gets I think it’s exciting. Yeah.

Yeah.

I think that it’s, like, it’s a fun framework to use. It’s, like, nice to to deviate from, like, the usual, like, I just always use PAS.

So Yes. Same. Yeah. Cool. Anyone else wanna share? Jessica?

Yeah. Let me follow Abby.

Jessica.

No. I honestly I mean, I could It was for my seasonal sale thing, which I think you know I’m fleshing out to turn from a what used to be a productized service like thing to a signature.

So I and actually I get I don’t know if this is I think where I struggle is the whole dream state because I feel like I haven’t confirmed this desire for a e commerce client yet. That they really see the connection between. No. No. You can really double your, you can increase your sales for your seasonal sale. But at the same time, you can be creating these long term relationships.

And so it kind of I think that’s where I struggle. So, I mean, I can read you parts of it, but it you know, it’s nowhere near what Abby’s is and it’s partial as per usual with me. Jessica.

Read the whole m thing.

We wanna hear get to that.

Do you actually want to double your next seasonal sale revenue? See a massive increase in LTV over the next? Whatever months, clear out your inventory and have to work quickly with your team to figure shit out. Provide on-site therapy because your team dressing out and worried they can’t get orders out on time, which will inevitably lead to unhappy customers.

And that’s as far as I got.

Cool.

Took a little extra negative on the last one there. It wouldn’t pull back on that one a bit, but no. It was good.

It’s yeah. Just make sure it stays a high class problem. Like Okay. Well, yeah. Like, my diamond shoes are too tight. That’s gotta be the effect. Right?

So yeah.

Okay.

Cool. Cool. Love it. Jessica, you did that so fast. Really?

Oh, thank you. I’m always asking I’m begging Abby for tutorials on how to be fast. That’s what I wanna know.

You just did it.

Nice.

Nice. Cool. Anyone else?

I won’t put you on the spot by calling on you, but I’m probably looking at you.

No one.

Alright. Alright, Katie. Welcome to the crew. You just missed the the tutorial there, but you’ll get the replay after. So I think it I think we had fun with it.

So yeah. Now, if anybody has any questions or wants to talk shop, what are you going through right now? What should you be working on that you’re not that we can help, like, unlock? Jillian.

Okay. I have well, I’ll start with a win. It’s not a money win. I guess I shared that in Slack recently, but my current win is that, I’ve been severely low in iron for like my whole life and didn’t know it.

So I was like this year I’ve been like fainting and like feeling really dizzy and I’m finally back a normal iron level. So it means I can exercise again, which is life changing. So I wasn’t really able to exercise this past year. But it really helps with, like, energy and productivity.

And it’s really Yes. Exciting. So I was going to use it in Doing a lot of stuff.

Congrats. That’s amazing. Yes.

So that’s why I win.

Coming with a little more energy.

Huge. Energy is everything. Yes.

Everything. Yeah.

So on that note, my question is maybe a bit unwieldy, but as I mentioned, I’m like I was going through your training again from a couple weeks ago.

Started watching Shane’s training.

And I’m thinking about, like, the brand also reading PenX is easier than two x, and so I just feel like I have a lot of ideas. Swirling and kinda wanted to like throw them out there and just like get some thoughts.

So I’m focusing on pricing pages, which is a new, you know, I haven’t worked in SaaS that much. I worked with a lot of different companies on websites, a little bit of SaaS that like kind of across the board. So I’m trying to figure out how to balance, like, my current client, and so I do websites with who are not SaaS primarily, and still have, like, my website is geared towards that. I kinda wanna put up a different website so that I can still serve my current customers in the meantime and not be like out money and just, you know, diving into this new thing. Yeah. So the idea that I have is, like, I know you said the brand really starts with, like, your opinion and your viewpoint, which I feel like I’m still developing, but I have, like, a general idea since no one’s really talking about pricing pages yet, which is that like everyone’s kinda missing the point. Of the pricing page, like, they’re all doing it wrong, basically.

And that’s, like, very general. There’s more that goes into it, but the the name that I have or the idea for, like, a book and a podcast and maybe, like, my site, I’m wondering if they can all be the same, is, like, the pricing point. I’m talking about how I don’t know if that’s, like, even a good title or not, but that’s the idea that I’ve been working with. Okay.

Just like, yeah, talking about how everyone’s missing the point, and like they’re all treating it like, you know, they’re putting so much time into their other pages and optimizing, and then they get to the pricing point and it’s just like they get to the pricing page and everything just deflates. Like, that’s the point of the sale, and it’s like, you know, very matter of fact. Here’s the even big brands, like even huge companies they look at are doing this. I think they’re all kinda dropping the ball at that point.

When it should be like the height of excitement value and, like, it’s the most critical point. Yeah. Absolutely. I know it’s a big I’m like rambling now, but, like, I’m just wondering if, like, Should I go in this direction? Because I’m, like, wanting to start doing this stuff, but I just, like, wanna know if that makes sense if it’s, like, on the right track to start with.

Okay.

I’ll jump in first and anybody who would like to add anything.

I’m so happy that you’re doing this, Jillian. Like, I know I’ve expressed that to you, but men, there’s nothing but room out there for this. And it’s it’s like, that’s it’s the money page. Right? Like, it seems like such an easy sell once you start raising awareness for the problem.

Sounds like you understand what your point of view is. I know you said it’s developing, but it’s like y’all are doing it wrong. Like, that’s a good place to start. Right?

Especially since it’s, like such a blue ocean still. There’s not that much competition out there. So I think it’s safe to go with something big like you’re doing it all wrong. Like, full stop.

That’s it. Like, you’re I’m you’re gonna need a lot of help, and I can help you with that. It leaves a lot of room for you to have thought leadership, and to say contrary in things or to, like, make them aware of things that they hadn’t had any clue about, which is always good for, you know, likes on so and comments and things like that. So the pricing point, how did you get to that name?

I don’t know. How do we get to anything?

There. I think it like came to me first. I also thought the URL was available. Also it kind of like ties into this whole thing of like like maybe I can say what the point is. Like, everyone’s missing the point. Like, they think the point is this, but the point is really this.

And also, like, Yeah. I don’t know. That was kind of the the main. And it seemed like kinda short and Yes. It’s not gonna be a subhead.

Like, if it was a book, there’d be like a subhead of I don’t know what that is yet, but Yep.

Totally agree. Yeah.

Yeah.

I think great. And it does, like Jessica chatted out.

Leaves a lot of room for expansion.

Yeah, and you can speak to value, like, what the actual point of pricing is. Right? And those are bigger conversations that are really intriguing. Yeah.

Everyone loves it.

Yeah.

Who else wants to share thoughts with Jillian?

Can I can I offer a, perspective? Sure.

When it comes to SAS, you should keep in mind that there are a lot of very complicated SaaS products that don’t have a pricing page because a lot of that happens in sales negotiation.

Because a lot of times they have to customize the software to fit the solution.

And it doesn’t necessarily have to be like a fifty thousand dollar software product. It happens at lower pricing points too, and a lot of companies choose not to put pricing anywhere on the website because either they’ve tested it or they believe that adding the pricing will increase the, or will reduce conversion rate, regardless of whether that’s true or not. That’s what a lot of companies think. And it may be true on desktop versus mobile or the reverse.

So I would make I think that it would be worth while to expand the conversation, they use because they they usually have a plans page that just doesn’t have pricing on it and it goes through like what you would get with the enterprise suite versus the mid tier versus the small, mini business tier. So I would make sure to not leave them out of the conversation.

Because there are a lot of companies that fit into that category, and your point can still be relevant. It would just have to be adapted to a much more business mindset.

Well, and I think that that’s a fair point. I think it does speak to the need to just identify who that audience is.

I think the SaaS that you’re talking about, Jillian, are people who have Who have.

Have a debt that says pricing in the nav of which there are bajillion so versus people who have sales teams. So we’re talking more people who are product led growth and are likely to have pricing pages at some point that they, and usually, visitor facing ones, and then behind the scenes.

Post use post activation ones. Yeah. Is that accurate, Jillian?

Yeah. That makes that makes sense. But, yeah, it’s a great point, Naomi.

Thanks for thanks for Yeah.

There’s a huge market. SaaS is enormous, obviously.

So it’s just really identifying. Okay. These are although it can be useful to get the enterprises that don’t have pricing pages, it’s just like anybody who doesn’t have copy. It’s really I can’t do much for you.

Like, you’re gonna need to believe in copy or else. It’s like, I can’t sell you copy school, and you can’t sell a person without a pricing page. Pricing page insights. So cool.

Yeah. Awesome. Okay. Anybody else wanna share?

With Jillian or feedback on what Jillian’s working on.

Nope. Awesome.

Jillian, you feeling good?

Yeah. I love that.

It’s like a book cover.

Yeah. And it gives it fine to have, like, you know, a, like, a book, like, if it was a book and a podcast, and, like, even the site, like, just have it all have the same name, like, even where I’m selling my services, keep the same name for everything.

That’s I mean, g n Claire did that with forget the funnel. Yeah. Everything is forget the funnel.

And I mean, juries out. It’s they’re doing, like, a bad ass business. So I would say it’s probably, like, a good Studiesing that story brand, same thing.

Mhmm.

Yeah. So probably okay. A thing to overthink at least.

Okay. I well, I got the URL for it, so I think it’ll just, like, start and I can keep my current site, like, with my current customers.

And kind of start doing the new thing at the new place.

Yeah. Totally. Totally. Cool.

Oh, thanks everyone.

Thanks. Thanks for sharing a nice win.

Excellent. Life changing.

I mean, energy for real though. Like, I have a new energy going with some life changes that I’ve made too, and it’s like energy. It’s a good thing. It changes everything. So that’s cool.

Anybody else wanna share what they’re working on or going through or struggles? Esther Grace.

Hey. Can everyone hear me?

Yep.

Okay. Awesome. So a win. I shared this in channel already, but copy hack is closed. Still excited about that.

Well done.

Thank you. And okay. So I need help with lead generation.

So I’ve nailed down my ideal clients, my customer avatar, all of that.

My offer, even a bit of the delivery system, But right now, I really just want to get on more sales calls.

So I realized last week that I love sales calls. So I did resales calls in the past two weeks. And just those three made me feel so energized about my business. I’m like, this is awesome.

Like, I love talking to these people and selling them on what I on what I do. So where I am right now is I’m also, like, couple of us here. I’m also reading ten x is easier than two x. So I’m not creating any plans to just gradually increase revenue from year to year.

Like, this was one of the thing, Joe, I think you talked about during the CSP info session. About want to be a copywriter who’s gradually increasing revenue from year to year and then in five, ten years before you hit, like, five hundred k. You want to be the one that just ten x is essentially. So that’s kind of where my mindset is now.

It’s more of how do I get this new offer, this new system that I’m building to generate one m in revenue in the next twelve months. And I actually ran the numbers, and I realized it’s actually very possible.

Okay.

It would just take, like, two clients with a high retainer fee and a performance based assistance.

It’s email marketing, so I can do performance basis as well and track everything. So it would literally say two clients if I was going to work on it solo. But if I was building a small team, then I can take on even more. So just running those numbers made me realize how possible it is for me. And so now it’s just like, okay. How do I get on those sales calls to book those two major clients that are going to bring in the revenue.

So what are you doing for lead gen right now? What’s top on your list?

So right now, I’ve been doing a lot of warm outreach. So just people I know asking for referrals, The the that has been my most active lead gen method. So it’s like being in groups, responding to messages, networking, pretty much.

Thought about cold outreach because I’m also still doing my authority building, like, systems. I’m still doing all of that, but I’m like, okay. I still want to get those leads, like, in the next one thirty days, thirty, sixty days. So I’m trying to do some more active, outreach methods as well. So that’s pretty much where I am.

Okay. So how many people are you reaching out to? A day for the warm leads. Let’s pause cold. We’ll ask that next, but warm leads, how many a day?

About two a day. K.

Do you think that’s enough?

About ten people.

Yeah.

Yeah. And so it’s a numbers game. Right? Like, There’s the two. There’s several ways you can go about this. One part is authority building stuff with content that you put out there all the time and then bigger content, and that can feel like a long game. It doesn’t have to be, but it also is a long game too.

Then we’re talking warm leads and cold outreach. So outreach to warm and outreach to cold. It’s good to do both.

But the more you have to do a lot of Right? Like, this is you’re reaching out to people, and you have to hit them right and at the right moment. So It’s a numbers game. So if you’re just doing two a day, what’s stopping you from doing twenty a day?

Oh, so the warm outreach, I just don’t know that many people.

That’s what you think. You don’t know that many people. But I would say really, like, think through everybody that you know and that they know. And I know that can feel like, oh, aren’t I getting in people’s way? I mean, you’re an entrepreneur and this is part of the job. If if your goal is get more leads in because you wanna get to a million dollars a year.

You have got to earn what you want, and that’s how you earn it. It’s hard. It’s hard, but you pick up the phone or you send the email, and but you have to do a lot of it, like, a lot a lot.

Like, an uncomfortable amount. And this is where some people, when they have, like, partners, and they’re both invested in it. That can, like, you spread the job out across two people, which is why a lot of people end up building companies together because it’s a lot of quantity, quantity, quantity, and then there’s the cold outreach. And it’s a doable thing.

People do it all the time. Don’t do it. That’s because I didn’t have to do it. But if I had to do it, it would be a matter of, like, go a hundred a day.

And this is like figure out, you’ve said you’ve you’ve run the numbers. So if What’s your close rate right now? Do you happen to know what it is when you get someone on a call? How many people close out of ten?

So I haven’t had that many sales calls.

That’s the problem with Okay.

Yeah. That was right. Yeah.

So getting in leads, so you wanna make sure that you’re getting these leads into a sales process that isn’t just going to, like, burn up all of these people that you spoke with. But you’re energized about them when you actually get to talk to them and have that sales call.

Make sure you’re running that right. So we have that Huka, sales call training this Wednesday, attend it. Take notes. It’s smart.

And it’s an hour to fucking nail this stuff. So attend that.

And then it’s if you’re gonna do leads, cold outreach and warm, the numbers game, get up every morning, put it in your calendar, do it when you have energy, do the hard thing, personalize the cold stuff, obvious we’ve got that training in copy school dot copy hackers dot com.

But it’s it’s an because it’s a numbers game, if you get one and one hundred people to hop on a call with you.

You gotta, like, that’s why you have to do. A hundred of them a day. You can’t do two a day. It’s not gonna lead to anything except for frustration.

And you’re like, nothing works. No. It it can work, but it’s you have to do Does that make sense? So what I would like you to do is put together, like, a list of warm outreach and cold that you can do, like, give yourself a a to do list of every single day.

I’m going to reach out to five people I know and fifty people I don’t know every morning without fail. And if you can get in that habit, which you have to get. This is your job. You have to get in that habit.

Then you can start to see the needle move, and then you’ll be more inspired to go like, okay. Well, if I’m doing fifty cold outreach, cold attempts a day, And it’s bringing in four people.

If I double it to a hundred, now I’ve got eight, and that’s a lot better to deal with, and you’re gonna get so much better at cold outreach that you can outsource it to a VA because you’ll have it nailed down what to say, how to say it, how to get people onto that call, how to get them to show up, Like, all these reps, all this practice work is the stuff that’ll get you there. But two reps, and you expect you’re gonna, like, build muscle, I lifted the weight twice.

It’s gonna take a little more than that. But you’re doing it. Just do more of it.

Yeah.

And would you see those are the, like, two main, like, lead gen strategies? Or is there anything I’m missing besides those two of an authority?

Oh, yeah.

No. There’s more. It depends if you have money to spend. If you’ve got money to spend, there’s lots of other things you can do. And it doesn’t have to be a lot, but you have to have, like, fifty bucks a day to spend boost things to hire people to do the work for you, stuff like that. I would say start there. Start getting traction.

There. Your immediate network is the place to go first. The people you know that you’re just not thinking of how to really go after them, and then it’s follow-up. As well without saying the word follow-up.

Like, it’s it’s, hey, I talked to my cousin who has a skin care who works at a skin care company. I talked to her one time about it. Okay. Well, now you have to go back and talk to her again.

And again, and wear her down. She’s your cousin. She’s gotta give you work, and that’s just the way it is.

But really it’s like quantity.

More and more and more if you’re still trying to build up leads. If you had and I sit and still do all your authority building stuff as to grace, you’re, like, all of these things work together. Have you read hundred million dollar leads by Hormoza?

That’s next on my list. Yeah.

I was planning to read It’s really practical, like super practical.

And it comes with a bit of a course as well. So check that out, but it really will come down to quantity. Yeah. Cool. Anybody got any notes? For Esther Grace based on what you have done to get leads.

In person networking, going to things. But, like, every single thing you do, you need to do intentionally. Like, I know people who have gone to networking events and they kinda just stand at a table.

It’s like, no. No. No. No. No. You have to work it. You gotta, like, get in there and say hi.

And like, have a pitch ready to go, like, be able to open. So there’s opening and then there’s closing. Right? And so a lot of people suck at the open part.

Maybe you’re okay with closing, but all we’re talking about to get leads is like constantly opening.

So being able to go to a networking event event that’s possible and and do the open. Be ready to start asking questions about their business and Sounds like you’re working on x, y, or z. I do that too. Do you think would it make sense for us to have a talk about this?

Like, should we book a call? Like, be ready to to get moving on something, not just like, oh, cool. And, like, falling into the friend zone, which can happen a lot. So just, like, everything you do, be intentional about what you’re gonna do with it.

Katie also said the five day five k challenge. Totally. It’s, it’s still available.

Yes. So take that too, but don’t just do it once a month. Do it every five days. Yeah. Cool.

Jessica, do you wanna say that out loud?

I was just gonna say Abby wrote a blog post and did a tutorial on utilizing Facebook groups And I know she, of course, has had huge success with it, but I know other people have too applying what she taught. So I don’t know if where your audience is, but can’t hurt.

Mhmm. Yeah. Absolutely.

Love it.

I think I’ve read the post op yet.

I think I told you about it.

Yeah. Yeah. There’s the her tutorial is, pinned to the top of our YouTube channel right now over on. On YouTube. So check it out.

It’s great. Perfect. Okay. Good luck, Esther Grace. Set a goal too. How many warm, how many cold, you’re gonna do a day, and how many you need to get in booked calls every week.

And then post, follow-up in slack when you get those wins, just let people know, like, and my goal was four bookings this week, and I got five. And, like, make that happen. You can. Cool.

Anybody else have anything else? Thanks, Esther Grace. Any questions or anything you wanna share with others?

Hi. One question. Yeah.

Well, I have lots of questions, but, I will start with the most relevant one. So I was approached by a, sorry, I spoke in an event, about a few weeks ago. And so afterwards I was approached by a marketing agency, and it seemed I really feel like marketing agencies are an ideal source, an ideal client because They’re focused specifically on demand gen. They don’t have to answer to a CMO or to upper leadership quite in the same way that somebody who works in house would.

And they’re very data driven. And they tend not to be creatives. So they tend not to provide as much pushback, as somebody who works in house. So anyway, I had a call with the, with a guy again today, and we agreed on a to start with, like, a social ad, for more top of funnel work.

And what I ended up doing this time around, which is different than what I did last time around, last time around, I sold a company just like a bank of ours. And this time, I gave him a pricing page and I said, okay, a set of ads is this much, and a landing page is this much, And then so I’m gonna send him a proposal. We’ll sign the proposal, and then he can just add whatever he needs as he goes, and then at the end of the month, I’ll send the invoice to HR to accounts receivable, and then I’ll be able to bill them. But I’m wondering there’s anything I because I feel like this is such an ideal client, if there’s something I’m missing out on that I could be doing to make it easier for them or to increase the amount that they would get from me from the beginning and that initial conversation.

Whether that’s like, should I expect them to say, oh, well, you should get at least this amount, to increase the amount that they would get from me, or would that be a little bit too aggressive because they sort of get projects rolling in as they come? I’m not sure exactly.

What they’re working on, it could be a little bit too demanding for them right at the outset. So I’m wondering if there’s something I’m missing out on that I should have done and could do hopefully next time.

Yeah. Cool. Who’s working with agencies? Who has been through what Naomi’s going through? Nobody subcontracts?

I used to, but I’ve just always do it on a day. Right? So I can’t I don’t really know how to haven’t got anything to give. I’m afraid.

So what did you do? Why did you choose to do a day rate or why did they like a day rate? What was the reasoning there?

Well, actually, now that I think about it, I don’t think I told them it was a date. Right? I think I just priced it in my mind. It was, like, lead gen like, I’ve done a few. I did for a lead gen funnel.

Oh, like a lead gen agency, like, a few emails and stuff for a, SaaS company. So I’d yeah. I was like, oh, I’ll just it was always gonna be, like, fifteen hundred or whatever, for the emails. But in my head, I was like, okay. I’m booking myself for VIP to do those. And then I did the same thing with, like, course agency as well.

But, yeah, that’s I mean, that’s just because at the time, I really liked the IP days.

Yeah. Okay. That’s fair. But they responded well to it as a day rate. Did you did they ever know it was a day rate? Did you tell them that?

I don’t even think so. I just, like, they just didn’t really seem to care. They were just like, okay, like, we need you to do this. What does it cost? And that was kind of it.

Yeah. Okay.

But, like, every time they need like, did you work with them multiple times? And every time they needed you, they booked a day rate.

No. They just said, can you do these, emails or whatever? And I was like, yeah, sure. And then booked myself in as, like, a day and build them the same.

So I was just kinda like, if I I would always say yes. I was just at a time in my life where if I was, I would be happy to give up a Sunday for, like, the extra money. So I’ll just be like, sure. Yeah.

I’ll do it.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I’m wondering about I’ll go ahead, Naomi.

The difference in these kind of agencies are specifically working on Google and social. They’re demand gen agencies, or or it’s usually either Google, or Google and social or LinkedIn.

So it could be like the ads aren’t working. It’s time to refresh the or we want to start a new campaign for this specific persona, or we have a new ABM approach that we want to do, and so we need copy but they don’t necessarily know when they’re gonna need those ads or when they’re gonna want to improve the landing page because it depends on how the campaign performs. And so there’s a level of unpredictability, and which is good to have work rolling in. Like a lot for most of my clients, I’ll have work coming in on a rolling basis.

And I think that having something that’s not connected to ours is definitely more efficient, but I I don’t think that possible to be efficient to the point where I can say like, okay, I can do this within a day.

Yeah. No. I mean, I know, like, some summer, she used to do, like, credits. I think, like, someone was talking about this in Slack today, but, so she would have, like, kind of a menu of what each credit can buy, and then the credits roll over if they weren’t used in, like, the month. So it was kind of like a retainer y type thing.

So she’d get paid, like, every month they’d buy, like, two credits or whatever.

So they would have to commit to a certain number of credits?

Yeah. Yeah. But then they could rush. She would let them roll over So if they only used one, she’d be like, okay, that’s fine. We can use it next month. If next month, you have, like, more clients. So that kept the client happy, but also had that kind of security of a retainer for her.

Yeah. I mean, to me, it’s kind of tricky because every time you work for an agency and they have multiple clients, you have to learn new things about each client in order to write for them. Right? So it’s like you’re taking on a new client every time. Even if you redo and you work for the same client effectively a month later, whatever.

But it’s still it’s a lot of, like, learning time.

Have you experienced that Naomi?

That it is.

I’m, like, Yeah. This is the first agency that I’ve Oh, okay.

Okay. Cool. So and that’s where it’s tricky with credits. We had our credit based agency years ago called Snap that Leanna and James now have.

And it was it was good in some ways, but you do have to spend time thus spend a credit on, like, learning a thing. Like, what’s the what is this product?

And so that has to be baked in, and that’s where I really like the VIP day.

Because it’s like I can do all sorts of things. In that time. I can, like, and if it’s really important to them, I guess I’m just worried, Naomi when you say you, like, you would sell them a landing page.

It’s fine. It’s doable.

It’s, how are the margins though? Like, the reason that I rarely recommend sub tracing to an agency is you just don’t make as much money because they’re charging what you would charge, and now they have to make a profit on you. Yeah.

No. They’re they’re giving me work. They’re the client.

Yeah. But they’re an agency, a demand gen agency that pays that gets paid by their clients.

Yeah.

They’re an agency. Yes.

But I’m not doing the subcontracting contracting.

There’s subcontracting to them. They’re they’re so the client has the contract with them, and they have a contract with you.

Right. So I’m the subcontractor.

Yeah. So you’re the subcontractor. Exactly. Okay. And so every new contract down is, like, losing money losing money losing money lose.

So if you have a subcontract you’re gonna pay them half of what you would charge, and the agency is gonna pay half of what they’re gonna charge at best on a good day. Because they also have overhead and all sorts of other expenses. So if they’re charging it’s probably if it’s demand gen, their performance base, they’re on retainer with the client, it possibly getting a percentage of how things perform depending on who the client is. Okay?

So if they’re making, let’s say, they’re making, they’re billing their client ten thousand dollars a month for services.

They, as a business, need to make a profit to continue to exist.

So they’re trying to get three thousand dollars off that. That leaves them with seven thousand dollars a month to spend on resources for that client. They have their own people that they’re paying and all of the expenses that go along with shipping something out, taking someone to lunch, whatever that other crap is too. And then comes money for the subcontractor.

That’s you. So that’s where I hear subcontracting, or work for an agency as a subcontractor. And, I don’t love it because you have to really optimize your time because you’re not gonna be able to make that much. As much money as you could if you were direct to the client. If you were like, I can do that for you instead and here’s what I charge.

And so that’s it. So how can you if you’ve got three thousand dollars that you might make off them in a month for that one client, let’s say, what can you do to ensure that you are maximizing the amount of money you get for the time you put in. Obviously, it’s all it’s always our game.

And that’s where a VIP day sounds like really good. You could charge two thousand dollars. They can budget that in easily for their differing clients. And as they’re planning on what to do next month with their clients and new clients they take on, they’re like, okay.

Well, Naomi can write a landing page in a day. If you can. Naomi can do, analysis in a day. So we always have to book for every client every month.

We need Naomi two days for each client. So we’re going to budget in four thousand dollars when we’re estimating something with clients. Right now, you have to figure out what they’re estimating with clients right now because of their thinking and have you it sounds like you haven’t talked to them about what you’re what you cost or have you?

Yeah. Give them a pricing sheet.

Okay. So you what what does your pricing sheet? What do you have on it, Naomi? What does it say?

I have an add landing page web copy.

I think I added research can bring it up.

Yeah. It’s like a it’s like a menu.

Yeah.

I made it very simple because, I I figured selling hours was just not going to be sustainable so I Yeah.

Figured this would be a good solution, but I didn’t over complicate it.

Yeah. It’s good not over comp of course. That’s great. And a rate sheet can be a good thing to share.

But if the objective is to make good money off them, on an ongoing basis.

So what’s wrong do you think is broken with giving them the rate sheet right now? What’s not working there?

It’s I I would say it’s more that I would like a more long term commitment, where if it’s just going to be, if it’s going to be like five to ten thousand chat, three to five thousand dollars a month.

Like, that would be good to have it, like, rolling in to have them on retainer.

If it’s gonna be just like a few like a thousand dollars here, maybe a few hundred dollars there, then it’s not going to be efficient. Yeah. But if they’re a marketing agency, then they’re gonna do this on a long term basis. And because tech is in such a bad place right now, more and more and more companies are choosing to outsource a lot of their marketing. So it’s also just practical because they’re trying to cut down on people in house.

Yeah. Yeah. There’s that. So okay. So all you’re really looking to do is set up a retainer with your this agency and then make sure that you aren’t working non got for them. Like, you’re having good boundaries around your retainer. Is that right?

Yeah.

So make sure that the effort that I put in to learning about each company pays off in the long run by not having to acquire new clients.

That meaning that is a long term relationship that is worthwhile because it’s not just like a couple hundred dollars here and there.

Yeah. Totally it. So what’s stopping you from having a conversation with them or have you had that conversation? I think if you gave them a rate sheet, you probably haven’t had the conversation then about, here’s what I would love to get out of this relationship.

Here’s the problem that I’ll solve for you. All of them but here’s the only way that that could work and here’s how great it’ll be when it does work. So the here’s the only way that will work part is I have to learn about all of your clients. Like, that’s that’s real work.

It’s if you had a salesperson, they would have to learn about all of those clients too. So understanding that. And by the way, I’m your scalable online sales person. So I need to learn everything about them.

I need this these engagements to go on. And you also need these engagements to go on. You need, you know, all of the reasons that they don’t wanna just, like, swap in and out crappy freelancers and just, like, have somebody that they love etcetera, etcetera. So the whole conversation, and then you tell them that you want a need and they need.

You position it as what is the best solution for them, a retainer minimum of six months for each client. Is that what you think it is for each client?

So each client that they have, if they have five clients, you have five different retainers with them, or you have one big retainer that covers everything.

See, I think, yeah, I think it would be too aggressive to say that I have five retainers with each of your clients. That’s fair.

Yeah. So it’s like one pool that they get to draw from. For their various clients.

Mhmm. That’s what you want. Is that right? Like a like a bucket. You’re the bucket every week. Yeah.

Because when I went into they were like sort of sold on me. They were like, how do we start? And I thought what I was gonna do was like I’ll just have you pay via credit card for the first project, and then we’ll open up a proposal. But then he was like, oh, well, actually we’d rather just be paid by invoice because that’s how we just manage everything. And so now I was like, oh, well I’ll send you a proposal. And then I thought, like, oh, well, I should have had the conversation that I was expecting to have afterwards, because I thought that they were just gonna pay via credit card who were like, oh, we just want one ad.

But I wasn’t because I thought that that would be a good way in and then afterwards, I’d be like, oh, I’d love to build a more long term relationship with you, because I can’t say like, well, we just wanna have a long term relationship on the star. That’s a little bit.

A little bit much.

So Is it?

I guess I wonder why would it be? If they’re pre sold on you, Why would it be too much to say, like, cool y’all.

Here’s how I work. And then say it’s like, you’re an agency and really, like, help them understand why the best thing to do is put you on retainer.

Know you mentioned the word aggressive a couple times, but to me, it’s only aggressive if you’re, like, if your tone is aggressive about it. Otherwise, it’s just They have a problem to solve. And you know demand gen agencies have it’s constant, test everything, and they need they need you to come up with hundred add variations in a day. So there’s going to be just lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots.

There’s a big numbers game too. Right? So So if you know the demand for what you have is real, then you can solve that. Who else are they gonna hire who can do as good a job as you can. Yeah.

No. Like, they they they got that. They were they were convinced that I was their that I was their person. But also for my sake, like how do I price that?

How do I price in testing and landing pages and ads on a rolling basis with all of these other things and potentially add variations, and then maybe nothing because the campaign is working, Yeah. That’s why I didn’t push it right away. Like Yeah. We could figure that we should have a, like a trial almost.

Yeah. I’m I I I to me, it sounds like I don’t think that the trial is a necessary thing, but I wasn’t in the conversations you’re in, obviously.

To me, it sounds like, okay. You just need to protect your time, but give them a lot of things that they need. Typically, I have not seen and I don’t know if your experience is different. Naomi, but when a campaign is going well, nobody sits back.

Like, now we’re, like, it’s just more. Like, oh, it’s going great. We can do even more. Or let’s shift you over to new client now where the campaign isn’t going as well and where we need your resources over there.

So for me, I hear this If they’re a big enough agency that you think they actually have money to spend on you, if they have a real need for copywriting services, conversion copywriting in particular, if that’s what’s going on and they already like you, but you don’t want to sell your life to them. Of course not, but you wanna be able give them a menu of services without them having to go through and pick and choose one and, like, call you up for one ad at a time. You know, because that’s not how this works. Why not sell them?

Can you sell them?

I don’t know if it has to be a specific day or whatever whatever that looks like. But to me, why not charge x amount for a retainer? This is what it costs to hire you. Say this is what it costs to hire me. And that’s it. And if they’re, like, that’s too expensive, well, then one that you you probably should have, like, spent more time in the sales process to make it so that they understand the value you can bring or two, they might not have ever been a good fit to begin with.

But I wouldn’t worry that it’s too aggressive to say it’s five thousand bucks a month for a retainer to retain me. You’ll get x many hours with that or better for you to have, like, outputs that gives you either a package of a hundred ads for one cloud, whatever. Like, you figured that out because you had the conversation with them. But you say this is the amount five thousand, ten thousand, whatever it might be. And it’s a minimum of six months.

I I don’t know. Is is there you would be wrong with that?

You wouldn’t you would skip the trial entirely and say these are my for all agencies.

I don’t know what the trial solves.

Well, I mean, it also might be budgeting constraints on their side. Like, he may love me, but he had to get the green light from their CFO because the CFO needs to green light everything these days.

For sure.

So other ways until proven yourself.

And I I think like proving yourself is something that I wouldn’t say you should ever even let in the conversation.

Nobody nobody who has proven themselves ever again says I have to prove myself. So to me, it sounds like, oh, I need to prove myself, is the thing that you say when you know that that’s not that common to be able to prove yourself. So it’s kind of a signal. Don’t say. Robin from your vocab.

Prove me fine. He needs to accrue my value.

And I get it, like, to see the level to the rest of the team because he’s not in charge of the the bank account.

There are a totally. And there are other ways to get the CFO to sign off on things. Right? It’s not necessarily going to be a trial.

It could be hey, if once you lock in six months, you automatically get ten percent off for the entire six month thing, which I don’t love discounting, but CFOs love discounting. So if you’re trying to say, get that CFO picturing this person who’s just trying to make sure that profits are great. What’s the solution for them? A trial Could be it. Don’t get me wrong, Naomi. It could be a trial thing. I just don’t know that that’s that’s a chance for them to go.

Was she perfect?

And it’s like, well, no. Nobody would be.

Rather, hey, I’m badass. You already like work that I do, you already need the job done.

What’s, like, the only thing that’s really gotta move you forward is getting the CFO happy So here’s what we do. And if if you sign on for six months, you get ten percent. If you sign on for twelve months, you get fifteen percent off. And now the CFO has something to work with. And everybody knows you can cancel any time, and the the lawyers will cover the contract with, like, after thirty thirty days notice to to cancel the contract, etcetera.

Yeah, I don’t I considering I already agreed to a trial for this specific agency, it would make more sense to say like Okay, like, send time a, send time a proposal with just like the price list that I have, and then say, okay, work with that, and then like, see how that goes, and then say, look, I have a limited availability if you want to get me on the books, then you can either then hear the packages I have for agencies.

Otherwise I Can I see the guarantee availability?

Yeah.

Or should I, like, call them up tomorrow and be like, oh, actually I wanna change everything and No.

If you’re already down the path. What I just don’t wanna do is have you become a commodity for this agency. That’s all. It’s just I want everybody in this room to go into every call in a power position. That’s that’s it. Like, that’s where we I don’t.

I don’t think I’m a commodity.

I I Oh, no.

I just a menu list is a commodity. That’s the thing. So it requires that you have a good, context for it. That’s all. So Naomi, if you’re already down that path, Cool.

Really the is the question then if you’re doing this trial, how do you lock them into something that’s profitable for you? After the trial ends. Is that what we’re looking for?

Yes. For this one specifically.

Yeah.

And I I guess for all of them because, like, I I also would not wanna commit to a tend to a huge retainer without having any sense of what to expect from somebody who’s relatively new at running a business.

Yeah. Justin. Definitely. Yeah.

Is that okay? Go for it.

Yeah. So I’ve been, speaking with Adri Yedlyn, he’s been, like, sharing a bit of, like, Blair. Is pricing strategy, and I it’s just so curious to me. And I wonder if it could work here.

So basically, offering pricing tiers, but doing it by the likelihood of success. So you’ve got the so the first one is basically your, like, champagne popping kind of retainer. Like, it’s like ten hair month you’d be, like, over the moon if you got it, and they get, like, x, y, and zed in it. And then your middle one is the one that you’re happy that’s the one you’re going for, like, the five k and it includes, like, this amount of deliverables it’s capped here.

And then your like lowest likelihood of success, which is one that’s meant to be like the best value for your time. So like a VIP day or something that you can and I wonder if you could do something like that presented in them like that. And then for the trial, do, like, a month under the kind of care that they want. So rather than doing, like, a trial is, like, an or something, be like, okay.

You wanna go for this option. Let’s try it, see how it goes, see if we need to, like, increase scope or decreased scope. And then, yeah, it was just a a thought.

No. I think it’s I think it’s a great idea I would love, in theory, I love it, but measuring success.

Well, it’s not like to increase the likelihood of success.

You’re gonna do, like, way more voice of customer research.

You’re is gonna include a lot more of that stuff.

Whereas when I’m working for agencies, don’t do any of that. Like, I don’t do that great job, to be honest, because they don’t, you know, they’re not paying me, like, the amount to go and interview their customers. So I’m like, okay, I’ll do your sales agent like, I’ll do it in a day. Like, and I don’t think of it as, like, good sustainable income. I treat it like a cash injection, like, just those, you know, when it’s opportunity to get a bit a bit of extra cash. If you wanted to yeah.

What was that about Revshare?

No.

I I thought that you were saying, like, like, if they Oh, like, no.

No. No. No.

No. It then performs well then.

Yeah. Yeah. No. It’s just like this is what I’ll do too. If you want the maximum chance of success, we’re gonna go for the, like, all in option if you Yeah.

Not etcetera.

Yeah. That could be a good way to go. Have you read Naomi pricing creativity?

Blaren’s.

No. It’s it’s got he’s got a bunch of books. But that’s it’s good. It’s very helpful, for something like this.

Yeah. So you’ve got the trial.

It’s really hard to say how to come up with, but I love Abby your ideas there with, like, you I can give you the full service everything every month for every client, or I can you could buy the VIP day, one a month or something, but at least a VIP day can keep you locked in contained and people don’t expect that they can reach out to you anytime, whereas a block of hours, I could reach out to you for one hour hypothetically on a Thursday and expect you to get back to me. The problem with trials, just as a side note, trials are good for systems. If this was a system that you were selling to them, then the trial would prove out the system or not, but the work we do is so custom.

It’s so specific to what’s going on in the market with the audience with the product. The offer with medium, all of it. That it’s very difficult for a trial to perform because the work we do often doesn’t perform until you’ve had a few takes at it. And you were able to go like, oh, that hypothesis was wrong, but look where it led us.

And then you can go along and get better and better and better. And that where, like, the payoff is with a really good copyright. That’s why agencies that’s why the agency you’re talking to doesn’t sign up for month to month. Because that would that does it doesn’t work.

It doesn’t work until you’ve committed to doing something, and trying a whole bunch of different things. I know for certain that demand gen agencies don’t do month to month.

So any any good ones at least don’t. So That’s my only pause for you going forward with trials. If it’s a system, it’s easy not to trial out. If it’s a human engagement, it’s very hard to trial.

And maybe go for a VIP day.

As like the easiest way in and then from there, they can start to look in to bring you in on projects and other things.

Yeah.

That’s my take.

I’ve done a bunch of VIP days with, a couple agencies too, and I feel like it’s a good, like like what Joe said, you don’t want them to be like, oh, we did an hour here and there or two hours for this. It’s like, it’s a contained main time. And I’ve had an easy time, like, selling those.

Sorry.

My biggest concern with the IP days is really the creative component because so much of what in in more performance based mediums the design is such a big part of it that I really have to work very, very closely with the designer to make sure that they follow, like, conversion CRO principles and UX principles, the way that I would like them to.

So I’d be worried that the VIP day, like, oh, oops, the designer isn’t available. You have come back on Monday and finish up for us. So that’s that’s really my biggest concern with VIP Day. Do you have that issue?

I haven’t had that issue because I’m working and like working on different kinds of things, but it sounds like if if that is a thing, even if it’s not a VIP day, is that still going to be annoying schedule if they’re like, oh, hey, the designer’s not available today. Like, is it still gonna be like they’re kinda calling the shots and they’re like, oh, actually, let’s You know, does that make sense? Or does it have the IP plan out? Sure. But even if it’s not a VIP day, they stop the plan ahead and be like, this is when the designer’s available. Right? So whether it’s a VIP day or not, you have to to expect for your schedule.

Right?

Yeah. Like, you don’t pay for that premium, like, then they’re not paying, like, that’s the fact that you work, like, on UX for the designer, like, that’s that’s more value really than a VIP days for, I would think. So that’s where, like, if you were to offer the different options. It’s like the more expensive option is the one where, like, you’re gonna collaborate a bit more with their team and they’re gonna pay, like, the premium for that.

Yeah.

And it’s two VIP days maybe, right, where you get in a flow of VIP day one is you doing the work VIP day too is you doing the checks over how it’s been implemented and then making any changes accordingly.

If that’s a real if that’s a real problem or the other side is, it’s an agency. It’s a subcontract.

Sometimes you just have to be okay with stepping back. You hand over the copy doc. You give all the best direction you can do. The designer is going to do do what the designer is going to do, though. And so, unless you work directly with them very often, and can establish a relationship there. It can be tough to get a designer to do what the subcontracted copywriter wants them to do.

Yeah. Doesn’t mean it’s impossible. It’s just like, do you pick your battles here and just like, is If if working with agencies was your full business model and that’s what you were doing going forward, then we could come up with different things here. But my hope and prayer is that it is not so that we can get you, like, scoring big ass projects and competing with that very agency, not necessarily demand gen. But, depending on what you what you want to do, of course, that’s the goal is not to keep. I is that is that in line, or do you want to keep working with agencies in the long term?

Well, I want to work with demand gen professionals because that’s really my area of expertise. So if they are in an agency, maybe that would work. If they’re in house, great. But Yeah. If they’re in house, maybe they already have a team of copywriters that they they they work with, or they have very strict brand principles, and they don’t wanna outsource anything.

So, like, is there a sweet spot?

Yeah. Working with in host demand gen.

Twenty twenty one.

I have worked with in host demand gen, and they are the best. They get excited about everything that you do because they don’t have a lot of fresh ideas coming in. So That’s where if you love DemandGen, cool, you know, do some stuff with the agencies, whatever, have it be that cash that you need, have it be some, like, experience that you get more and more and more with them so you can try different stuff. But then if you like DemandGen, go work as a freelancer for demand gen that’s in house at, like, almost any e commerce company, and it’s it’s fun and ego boosting, which never hurts. And you make good money. Yeah.

Right. So that’s what I’ve been that’s what I did in house for many years.

Nice. Love it.

That was what I did over and over and over and over again.

So I know that they that they like me.

The the trick is figuring out, do they have the budget to hire me, hire somebody out out of house.

And do they are they even thinking that way?

Yeah. And it’s true that a lot of tech companies have laid off people.

Not necessarily because they have to these days, because it looks good on the books to do it. But hiring agencies can be have its own downfalls. It can be expensive too. So it’s not that they’re only looking at agencies. They’re also looking at freelancers, to fill in those gaps. So I would just keep that in mind too. Yeah.

Okay. Cool.

That was fun.

I didn’t mean to think up so much time.

No. That was a lot of working through a big thing. Hopefully, we got, you know, kind of nodding things a bit, which takes work.

Good. Let us know what what happens with this conversation. Naomi over in Slack too. Cool. Well Yeah. I know we’ve got three minutes technically left, even though we’re over sort of by thirty. Does anybody have any last thoughts or question or, like, a rapid something where we good to go.

Yeah. Quick question.

When is the the free month trial, like, officially and, like, for CSP. Do you know the day?

That’s a Sarah. I think February. I think this is the free month for you.

Yeah.

Yeah. I just wondered if there was, like, a I think the date.

I think the next payment is on February twenty eight, I think.

Okay. Yeah.

What I think? Check with Sarah.

Okay. Yeah. Sarah knows all that stuff. Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Abby. Anybody else?

Alright. Have a good week. We will see you in Slack. And, this Thursday is Percy’s mindset session on rethinking failure.

So make sure you check that out if you struggle with things like the word failure.

Cool. Okay. Thanks, everybody.

Have a good day.

Thanks, Joe. Bye.

Launching Productized Services

Launching Productized Services

Transcript

Alright.

Before we begin, these launches are not essential. You can sell your product services or your package offers without doing a launch launch. The idea, however, is that you do need to share them in some way. I call them launches because that’s, you know, that’s how I approach them, and that’s how we in the past sold, these packages, especially when they’ve been, you know, like brand new, or, when we know we would like to say see the next quarter booked out. So you would still see me doing that, a lot of times with the newer packages that we launch.

So getting straight to it. The first stop, this is the launch that I have probably used the most because this is really great for high ticket offers.

And it has natural urgency because with the high ticket offer, you generally put a cap on the number of spots because there’s only so many that you can take, or you can give them, like, an extended payment plan.

Something that we’ve done in the past is we’ve prebooked clients and each, like, given them, like, say, a six month or a nine month or even a twelve month period to use the package, which means they can book it, say, in January, they can keep paying for it over time. Let’s say they wanna launch in September. I’m talking about, like, the fully loaded course package. Right?

So we can if, you know, we can give them, like, an extended payment plan. So they they’re paying we’re getting paid in advance in any case. Before we even kick off the project. Right? So we they get, like, that extended payment plan as well. So I love limited urgency focused launches for obvious reasons.

But, yeah, it totally depends on what you want. So You can create urgency for your launch by using any of the following, offering a special payment plan. Like I just told you about limiting the number of spots because, you know, well, you have. It’s like a high touch service generally. And then making the package available only for a limited time. So when the fir when the very first time I launched, the fully loaded launch package.

It was not a high dynamic variety standard. Any one of you who’s watched my tutorial Tuesday knows exactly how much I charge for it. To begin with. It was what it included, you know, underpriced. However, let it also be known that it was my first time offering that package. I had never done something like that before. So I feel like there’s basically what Maikan and I thought was, like, let’s test the waters and see.

It obviously all sold out really, really fast. So that time, what we’ve done is we’d like kind of just post it on social, and I’ll talk about that in a bit too. But we’d limited the time that people could, you know, have for signing up for this. So you can, you know, create urgency in many different ways. You don’t always have to discount your package.

You can choose to combine two or even all of these to run an urgency focused launch.

So what are the copy assets that you need for this? Your opt in page, your sales page goes without saying you need thank you pages for both of these, but All of your smart people, you know that, emails, blog posts, and I’ll come to that in a bit, and then social media updates. If you’re using a shopping cart, for a prioritized service, you obviously need that too, for most of our packages. We do not use a shopping cart, especially for our high ticket packages.

So, basically, because we either, help, you know, let people pay over time so that, you know, if they wanna spread their payments out, or sometimes we need to customize it even further. So so there you go. But anyway, these are, like, the copy assets that you need, or you may wanna use. I hesitate from things absolutely be because sometimes you don’t need a blog post.

I’m just sharing everything that I’ve used in the past. So often, you wanna create a simple opt in form. This is not the opt in form we’ve used in the past. This is just an example of the opt in form we currently have on the site, but point is you wanna create a simple opt in form and to collect your leads, especially if you’re gonna be using blog posts that are specific or social media updates that are specific to your product type service.

A sales page. We’ve already talked about what a sales page could look like for a productized service in, one of the previous sessions. So, if you haven’t watched that, I would highly recommend watching it, but tweet as your sales pitch needs to let prospects know what it is, who’s it for, how can they, you know, use it, what the benefit in it for them? Why do they need it? And why do they need it now?

Because remember, this is an urgency focused launch.

And then let’s talk emails. So these are emails that we’ve, you know, used in the past, and have had really, really great results with for, especially even for, especially, not even for, especially for high ticket packages. So the teaser email is the email that kind of goes goes ahead of time, letting people know what’s coming up. It also gives people who are not interested in the package to opt out. The second is, of course, the launch email, which is, you know, like Gmail. It’s a plural sales email.

And then I have the four f emails. I love creating frameworks pretty much everything. It just makes it easier for me to remember what I’m supposed to be, right, writing in those emails. So first step is my fans and followers emails, which is essentially a social proof email, testimonials, social proof, for p, you know, from people who’ve used your services or if you’re, you know, it’s a tested out product type service who’ve used their service before.

The FAQ email, again, fairly standard. You wanted to move objections by answering their questions, and then they’ve got the future pacing email, which shows them what their life is gonna be or their business is gonna be once they worked with you. And then we’ve got the final countdown emails. So very, very standard emails, and there’s not, you know, like a lot of you don’t wanna get too complicated with them.

Couple emails that we’ve also occasionally used include the authority emails and then grab the bonus email, which are which is both great. Like, if you have authority content, or you’ve got you’re offering a bonus.

Again, something that we’ve also done with our packages in the past. For instance, like last year, I did a Flash sale spritzer package that sold out really fast. It was, you know, basically a package for writing emails a flash sale and the bonuses that I included were, social media blurbs, not full blown posts. No.

Social media posts and then blurbs and news, you know, to use in your newsletter or or even as short social media captions. So why did it include those bonuses because it was they were really easy to create. I’m writing the emails in any case. I can choose full social media copy from those emails itself.

And it kind of removes the hesitation and objection that our audience has, that my audience may have around the Flash sale emails. But, okay, I’m doing this Flash sale, how do I promote it? Well, I’ve got you covered.

So, yep, grab the bonus email. We’ll be one of those. Yep. Money.

Hi. Quick question for you. I’m, I’ve never done a lot before. So and I was asking about software and etcetera. So for somebody who’s, like, never gonna launch.

Where do you start? I guess that’s where maybe there’s more courses I should be taking back in copy school. But if you were like an absolute beginner because, I’ve never launched a package, I’ve Mhmm.

Where where is there, like, a good how to or checklist guide because I feel a little bit lost to be frank. When I I go through this, I’m like, oh my god. I have done none of these, and I don’t know where to go to get you know, frameworks or starting points.

So that’s and maybe I’m the only person in the room that has that, but that’s where That’s a really good question.

So for a launch like this, right? You could use you if you have an email list You could use your ESP for sending out the emails. It’s that simple. You don’t need any fancy software.

You can just use the email system you’re using to send out emails to your list. If you, let’s say, do not have an email list, you can use social media. I I know you started posting on LinkedIn and use your sync script. Traction with it as well.

I have a social only launch as well that I’ll share with you in just a bit that you can just use social media to sell your, you know, productize service.

For the sales page or the opt in page, all you need is basically like your website. Right? You can They got opt in page would be on our website. Our sales page is on our website. So as long as you have a website and ESP, or an email service provider, and like a social platform.

You’re good. And, of course, oh, wait. We accept payments from people. Honestly, like, Aleafia’s recommended, click funnels, click files is, it’s great.

But it’s okay.

Oh, okay. Has that even used click funnels. Yeah. I haven’t used click funnels personally, but I do have clients who’ve used click funnels. It offers way too much for what you all need to sell product. I service selling productized services is the lowest tech.

Kind of launch that you can never think of as long as, like I said, as long as you have a website, you have an ESP, and you have a social platform and a way to accept payments from people.

You’re golden.

It’s such a hackathon.

Well, because it’s interesting that you asked that question about click funnels because there’s go high level. And then there’s Exactly. Yep. And glow go high level, which is really interesting about it, allows you to like, as a full service with email, I think hosting.

Yeah.

I’m It said Quick address as I do.

Yeah.

Yeah. So it would be really interesting at what people thought about that as an option because it’s sort of like the all in one built in I don’t know how efficient it is to do these kind of email sequences, but if the software itself, is an all in one solution would be interesting.

Yeah. Funnel gorgeous. Katie said is another one. So quick funnels, funnel gorgeous, go high level, even kajabi for that matter. You know, they are all all in one solutions.

If that’s what your business needs, definitely look at them.

The re so what I would kind of caveat this with is the last thing you wanna do is over complicate your tech stack.

So you want your tech stack to be as simple and efficient for you to be able to use and lean on as your business grows. And also Also, where most importantly, you want your tech stack to make you feel comfortable and not intimidated.

The What I find that happens with a lot of our clients is, like, especially with things like kajabi or or click funnels, or even funnel gorgeous because I did have a plan who used funnel gorgeous is that they need to bring in someone to be able to set things up for them, to be able to, you know, do a lot off the back and work for them. If you’re cool with that, that’s great.

I personally like to know how my website works. So even if, say, our tech team, we both have a tech support person and a designer and a developer.

If they were to say be sick or unveiled, I can go in and really make sure everything’s running running smoothly, which is probably why we haven’t moved to all in one solution also is because Everything is speaks well to each other. Our website is on WordPress.

Our ESP can work our social platforms are obviously all sorted. So we didn’t really see the need for it. So definitely explore the solutions, but then make a decision that feels good and comfortable for you. Because, Do you need all of these to sell, you know, your your packages?

No. You don’t.

I’m proof of that. I have so many other, copywriters who who don’t use any of these. As long, like I said, you need your website. Yes.

You need your email service provider. Yes. Need a social platform. Yes. You need a way to accept payments.

Yes.

If your current tech stack is doing the job and you’re happy with it, that’s fine.

Katie, said, I use ConvertKit Squarespace and Triclip launches. There you go. Yeah. Triicot is what we use as shopping, car too. So one time payment and has an integrated app. Jessica Business Center once had system before software. Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Cool. That was a really, really great question you asked me. Thank you so much for asking. And, yep, Chris, you’re right. Click files is seen up as a bit. It is, you know, it’s got, it’s got, Russell Brunson behind it, who is the author of quick final, oh, sorry, expert secrets as well. He’s a smart marketer, but some of the things that they do don’t just sit right, with with McAfee personally, which is why we don’t use the calls for us.

Cool. Great discussion. Alright.

So, yes.

Moving on.

Quick notes about blog post authority content.

All of you here are supposed to be building a authority. How I was not supporting the, you know, when I was starting out was was with block posts, which is why I lean on them heavily I since have added a lot of other, elements to our authority plan, but block host is what I I still love a lot and use heavily for both launches or or for, sharing our services and all of that. See, again, you can choose which you wanna leverage to share your content, I choose walkways. You could choose a podcast. You could choose a YouTube channel. But point is you do need to build your authority.

Preferably on a platform that you also own because, yes, social is great.

That social is a fickle friend.

Social will change at the turn off a hat, and, you don’t want to put all your eggs in one social basket.

So which brings me to social media posts. I four sharing our services, our packages, you will find. I usually lean on the, what I call, the ABC firm framework. It just makes it very easy for me to create social content as well.

Katie, I think it asked me in the Slack group, how it creates social content I use, for me, it’s really simple. Authority but it’s called action kind of a thing. So authority is like blog post point of view. You’ll see a lot of my point of view posts on social, like takes and things like that, and also just, you know, value content, buzz posts are, you know, behind the scenes, T as opposed.

These are launch specific.

General assignment field updates that you about what you’re working on. Again, you’ll see a lot of these in the Instagram stories.

Call the action post for your, for your package or your productized service would be like, okay. Here’s what you’re gonna get. And then, you know, you also wanna do a few playout updates. Like, oh, I’ve sold these many spots, and I’ve only got one spot left. Again, you’ll see me me do a lot of this on on Instagram, which is the social platform of choice for me. Like, it is our main platform, then I’ve since added in LinkedIn.

And a little bit of Facebook and threads. But, yeah, Instagram and LinkedIn is pretty much where it’s at.

Now this is the list building Evergreen launch. This is like a lovely launch to give you more. If you have a service, productized service or a package that you sell as a subscription model.

So back in the day, we used to have a service, package service, project service called grab and go. Those were essentially done for you social media captions. I think they used to be oh gosh. I think they used to be, like, sixty of them that we used to do for a client.

They used to be custom creative for them, but we used to get them, like, all sixty. We were not responsible for posting them, but they would have, like, and they would not, like, templates or anything. They were, like, custom created social media updates that they could use to, you know, populate on the probably their social media feeds. It was a subscription based thing because it used to cover them for three months, if they were to post x number of times.

And that it so well. So for something like that, this was a a launch that worked really, really well.

So here’s what you need for this is, again, same assets just kind of slightly flipped over. So social media updates Facebook ads if you wanna run those, again, haven’t run those for our productized services, but feel free to do so. Which take people to the opt in page or the opt in content, which could be a blog post. You’re right, where they have the option of opting in.

And then when they opt in, your email sequence kicks in that sells them into your prioritized service. Which is the sales page.

Again, copy asset, social media updates, five to seven to kind of cycle through. Optent page and a raw content with content upgrades essentially means, they need to probably their email address to get some additional content or just to kind of, you know, know more about your service. You could just give it very clear and simple.

You know, sequence, obviously, sales page.

The emails, updates, and block content for this, like I said, are exactly the same as they were for the emergency launch. It’s just a different flow, and it’s on autopilot.

And you kind of just keep sending people to your opt in, and then getting them to sign up for your subscription based service.

This money is what I was talking about is the social only launch? This is how I launched our fully loaded launch. Happy package the first time ever. This is how I launch.

I’ve launched a lot of different packages since, something that you need to know about me is I am a huge believer in the launches of least resistance. I like to do something that feels easy to me is fast to execute and doesn’t take a ton of time. So this is one of those things. It’s a minimal effort, massive ROI launch.

It works for just about any kind of package or productized service.

It’s a good launch model to use when your email list is not too big. It’s tiny or maybe like a midsize list, but you do have an engaged social media presence.

So it’s also, like I said, ideal if you wanna be that has to package. Right? You don’t wanna create a full blown, like, all of the emails and social media copy and all of that before you launch it. So it’s a really, really great package to use.

You could use I’ve I’ve used Instagram for this. I’ve used Facebook for this. I haven’t used LinkedIn for this. So I will yeah.

But both Facebook and Instagram work really, really well for this. So, it can be both urgency driven or or Evergreen.

Cool. Copy assets. You need to focus and engage presence on one or two social network You need social media updates. Of course, it’s a social only launch.

You need your sales page. Again, caveat, you don’t need a design sales page. It could be a Google doc sales page. I’ve shared a Google doc sales page a previous call with you.

Again, low tech, very, you know, easy to pull together. So that, and then you know, here’s how you wanna kind of plan it out.

You wanna start at least two weeks before you wanna start selling. Your package. So why? Because, again, like I said, social is can be a fickle friend.

So not everyone’s gonna see your updates And when you post them and not everyone will see all updates either. Right? So give yourself some time to kind of I keep two weeks. You may wanna test out a short appear, but two weeks is what’s worked for for both for us.

You need to have multiple updates, and you’re hoping to have multiple types of updates again, photos, texts, videos of your overlap. And again, the three ABC goals, you want authority, buzz call it action. Once you again created those updates, give yourself two weeks to share those updates.

Share them on platforms of your choice. And like I said, I repurpose and repurpose both stuff all the time. I highly recommend. So just kind of adapt them to suit the platform of your choice.

How you wanna split it is week one is authority and buzz. Right? Because you’re sharing, why are you the best person for this package? What’s your point of view?

How is your process different? What kind of proof do you have? All of those things? What’s happening?

How are you working on restructuring this, etcetera, etcetera. Right? And then you start showing up at the peak because it’s, you know, you built thirty posts tend to build a large engagement as well. So do buzz posts.

That’s the whole idea here.

We do is a combination of buzz and call it action. So you still continue with updates on, you know, social proof and what’s, you know, your own excitement around the the package of secrets and tips and all of those things. And the last half is going to be all about a push to sales. So three to five days.

So if you’ll have, like, a five day week, gotta keep day one and two for buzz, you know, if this is coming, keep them your eye open to this. It’s gonna have, like, I’m gonna have only three spots, etcetera, my past clients have shown. Obviously, you don’t wanna lie. If past clients have shown interest, you wanna kind of talk about that.

If they haven’t, then, you know, you wanna say I’m gonna be limiting spots because it’s gonna be very, you know, high touch, etcetera. And then the last half is gonna be called the action to push sales. If you’re using the sales page, all the action updates will include the link to the sales page, whether it’s a Google Doc or a new website. If you’re not using a sales page, again, you don’t need one for this.

You can ask them to message you or comment on your post, and then you can, like they say, take it to the DMs.

For most of these productized services or packages, the card open duration is around three to five days.

Caliet, as always, depending on your audience, your niche, the service that you’re actually offering all of those things. So just kind of keep that in mind. You know your audience and your business best. You can always put your specific business and productized service ID. You can always lean on us in CSP to kind of say, okay. I’m thinking five days, but I feel like my audience may need more time to decide What should I do? And then, yep, happy to lay in.

If you keep keep the card open for three to five days off for your package, This may seem a bit excessive to y’all. I would recommend, though, share a call to action update during the current twice or even twice a day at different times. Your audience knows you’re in launch mode.

People totally understand and respect that. Let them know that you’re letting them you’ll be letting them know that before, you know, during the authority building phase as well. And again, remember, not everyone is gonna see all your updates.

Not everyone is gonna see all the updates. So they’re not gonna it’s just the nature of the game. So it’s okay. I know you may feel like, I’m posting too much.

Trust me a lot. So just enjoy enjoy the process here.

So I want you to keep some of the teams in mind during the social media launch, you wanna encourage people to comment and our message you to engage with you. You wanna be responsive to those comments and likes, like and reply. Always, this you should be doing in any case, but especially during the launch.

Please create your updates in advance. However, be prepared to do a few on the fly updates as well. For instance, you had someone snap up a package. Right? That isn’t on the fly. I think. You may, someone who signed up, you know, gives you permission to share that they’ve signed up to work with you.

There’s an update, or it could just be, you know, yeah, you know, this is me having a good time while my service launch is going on.

Some of those on the fly updates are great from behind the scenes and also for for social proof and credibility.

How do you decide which one’s perfect for you? Depends on your season of life. I’m a huge believer in that. Your productized service positioning and your own secret superpowers. And what do I mean? Season of Life?

You need to think about do you have a lot going on? Is it relaxed with, you know, more manageable responsibilities on the client and family fronts?

Or is it a really busy season right now? Do you have a lot on your plate? Your season like is super important to take into account when you’re creating a launch time, not just for this, but for anything that you may be launching in the future, whether it’s your workshops, whether it’s your course, whether, you know, anything.

So there’s no fun in launching while you’re feeling kind of stressed out and exhausted or overwhelmed.

And again, after working on, countable number of launches, there is no right or wrong way to launch. You don’t even have to make a big sum and dance about launching this. You would just do an under the radar launch, aft and plenty of those as well. But point is you do need to share your productized service or package when you have it ready with the people who may be the best fit for it.

Offer positioning is your package exclusive and high ticket urgency launch, maybe the best option. Is it a subscription based service? Like I said, you know, it may be do a social only blast or do an evergreen for it. Is it a starter package?

Like an audit? Great. Put it on Evergreen. You can mix and match things. You can create your own hybrid version of it.

But keeping your positioning in mind can help you create a launch plan that gives it the greatest chance of succeeding.

And then your own secret super powers. This is really important. Now if you don’t enjoy social, don’t do a social on your launch. Like, in our business, Mike and I, Bank wouldn’t even have a Facebook account if it weren’t for the business.

I mean, he’s not a social person. Social media person. He’s a social person. He’s not a social media person.

At all. I, on the other hand, can live and breathe social media all day long. I love it. It’s a happy place.

So for me to do a social and relaunch, when we first launched started doing our prototype services and packages made complete sense because I thrive on it.

For you, maybe using your email list may be a good idea. So maybe go and agree with your packages, or maybe you’re really great at outreach and writing, you know, emails to connect with as clients or pitch the core pitches. I think Oh, it feels great at that. Right? So leverage that point is create you could create your own hybrid launch model, right, just decide what works best for you, but decide as soon as you create your package and decide right now because overthinking your launch isn’t going to do you any favors. Alright. That’s it for me.

Let’s just chat.

Can I can I ask a question about the timeline of the urgency launch? And specifically, like, you mentioned the blog post of the authority content, and then the opt in How far in advance would you share that blog post and often before you went into your urgency or your email sequence?

Yeah. For the urgency launch, what I would do is I would write in a blog post.

I would keep like a let me just pour some water for myself.

I would keep, like, a four week period, essentially. I would write my blog post, send it out to the email list, send out shared on social, get some people signing up for, you know, the, like, an interest list of things, and then keep my usual three to five day card open period. This isn’t an ideal situation, Katie.

Sometimes And this is more probably me. You may be better at this than I am. I sometimes get a great idea. Discussed it tonight, he’s, like, on board with it. And then I decide that we need to launch it. So so I write up a quick Google Doc Saleslate. I literally did this today.

I write up a good quick Google Doc Saleslate, and then what I do is I will keep, like, earmarked a five day period to start talking about it on social. So my social launches are all urgency for the launches.

But if you have the time, I would say, kind of be smart about it.

Like, do your blog post first week of the month, do your blog post and let you email us get people talking about it week, you know, use week two for your the authority of the buzz updates. And week three, you could use for, you know, your buzz and call to action updates. That’s how it would be like a smarter way. To do it. But again, if you let me have lots of great ideas, I wanna test them out, do a social only low lift launch.

And when you have to often sorry, friend. When you have that often, are you are you having, I mean, generally? Are you having people opt in for a freebie or for to hear more about the offer that you’ve teased in the blog post?

Both.

Both.

I, for instance, I share let me actually show you this in.

An option. So before I launched ready to sell, Right?

I had a blog post that was all about selling evergreen courses.

And it’s like a fairly detailed post.

You’ll see this this often right here is not for ASL, but earlier, this often was for, if you’d need my help to write your evergreen funnel, get on our wait list for when I open up, you know, the I have the excitingly evergreen package, so it was for that. So I used to do specific freebies. Like I shared with you earlier, it just became very confusing. And then those rebies would not be updated, and I would be like, all like, you know, I don’t have the time to kind of work on them.

So I just went with this. It’s been working. So I guess, plus, you know what, I realized, like, people who opt in without getting a freebie are actually genuinely interested in learning about your sources. So or your program.

So, yeah.

Thanks. That’s really helpful.

You’re welcome. Abby, I know you asked the same thing. What are they opting in for? You could give them a specific you know, and offer specific opt in.

Like, for instance, let’s say you are you have the day when evergreen thing. Right? Like, so you could give them, like, say, hey, here’s how you could do an audit. To see if your offer is ready to go Evergreen from day one.

That could be your freebie, but, personally, I don’t they just opt in to be the first to know when I have availability.

So, yeah.

Any other questions about launching your productized services and packages about structuring them, anything else?

I I have another question if nobody else wants to go.

I would love to know, like, how do you decide what, what becomes a productized service versus what is just your bespoke packages. Like, for example, fully loaded launch, you know, how do you reconcile doing like a custom launch strategy for people versus them buying fully loaded launch and having that kind of set menu. Okay. Good.

Good. Good question. Alright.

So For me, essentially, it is about solving a problem for applying.

Like, what would be What would make it an easy yes for them?

Like I just shared with you, I’m, like, literally right now about to beat a test new package for our existing clients who want more from us. So I will keep you posted with how that goes, but essentially we look at what what are people? What do people need the most? What does our audience need the most?

Can we give it to them in a way that’s effective and efficient for us? Is the last thing you wanna do? It’s like, let yes. We can give them the world on a pattern but is that sensible?

No. Right? So how can we do that? And once we kind of figure that out, that’s when something becomes a prioritized service.

Going back, for instance, I used to have an affiliate swipe copy package. Again, it was because, you know, I had a lot of people approaching me like, hey, have dig I have a digital product. This is gonna, again, we were working, as social media managers and content creators essentially. Right?

So we had like a lot of our clients were bloggers, and all of them had, like, ebooks and, you know, like, digital products, workbooks, and things like that that they that affiliates were selling for them. So we had an affiliate swipe copy package for them that would give them, like, say, for affiliate emails, it would give the their affiliates, it would, it would to use a swipe copy, for selling their products.

And from those emails, it became easy for me to pull social media updates.

So I did that. And then What I did was, which was like a one time thing was create, a PDF with, you know, fifteen different ways to promote so and so is a affiliate product. So, basically, those ideas were transferable because the audiences, like, our clients essentially all had, like, nine dollar, nineteen dollar, twenty nine dollar ebooks. So it was easy.

So, essentially, what how we approach this is What’s the problem we’ll be solving for our clients? And how can we do it in a way that’s effective and efficient for us? Because, again, we wanna stick to our our internal hourly rate. Yeah.

Does that help? Cool.

Monique, what courses in copy school are the best to watch, for prioritized services?

I think that’s more, a free Yeah.

I’ll I’ll elaborate on that because I, I feel like I’m going cold into the launch of, like, creating a and I had on Slack, which I saw thank you for your comment about workshop versus productized service.

And have two different types of services or products in mind.

A little bit about, like, where do you prioritize which one first? Because when you’re starting to in that early stage to do both, it’s a question of prioritizing one over the other. And I was just curious if there’s something that you know, as a how to walk me through a guide if there was something that I just missed in Copy school that I could go refer to.

I think.

So what you would need help with is Looking at what to launch or how to launch? What would be most helpful for you?

Well, both actually went to launch, like, in what stage and what order to go for a productized service versus going at it from a workshop perspective. So what was yeah.

I feel like, you know, I feel like what Joe’s doing in freelancing school would probably be a better fit for this. I haven’t had a chance to watch the what rise, sessions, but I believe he did some sessions on as part of master of product type services. I think that would be a better place to start, but I’d like the group weigh in on this, like, for those of you who’ve seen this or who are, you know, who’ve seen freelancing school because I think all of you have access to it as well. Right?

I haven’t been into freelancing school, but it sounds like in terms of developing product based services that rise recent sessions would be the best fit and then ten x launches, I think, is still available. And, Mike, if you’re looking for, like, an overview of, like, what launch emails to send to different phases or, you know, like, I think that’s probably your best bet.

Okay. Yeah. Great.

Perfect.

And you have questions on the blog, Printa’s own resources are amazing. So go on Printa’s blog, and check out your content.

I love that. I haven’t been here in your blog.

Oh, thank you. Yeah. No. I’m a big blog person.

So, alright. Any other questions?

Jessica, read everything Thank you. Okay. All of you. This is very nice. Thank you.

I’m glad I asked the question.

Perfect.

Okay. Cool. Anyone else got a prioritized service idea? You wanna run past me or a question about launching one. Go ahead. You have time.

Hi. I’m gonna offer some a question and maybe it’s an observation at the same time. On LinkedIn, has anybody turned on their product services, feature, and I don’t know how many are you aware of it, like, have you had anything come through it?

Is it I have like What what, you know, what are you getting value from that?

I know there’s a lot of hidden features on LinkedIn in a way if you don’t know about you don’t know to use them.

Any questions about that would be your answers to that would be insights talking about that that view by store button.

Are you talking about that one?

Yeah. Like, all you profile, it can say right under your, in the head in the header section. I will call it up front before a vote.

That’s the number for You want me?

Yeah. That’s available for premium users.

Yeah. I have that access. Yeah.

So it’s just the the first. So it changed recently, like, I think two months ago. So first, there was a custom link where you had to go on your and someone have to click customer link, but now that the button has, now that they have the button, so you post anything and then anyone reading your post can see that button so they can go directly to that click your website or there are only three options or blog portfolio website and store is here. Okay.

And have you found that anything has come of that? You know, just out of curiosity? Is it is it actually a pathway that should be considered.

Going to ask that to pre prenup because last time she taught the application funnel and the product has launched. I did I didn’t write my sales stage, and I I never knew that there’s something associated with me, but I guess I didn’t don’t do a cart open cart close to it. But I think I wrote, like, ten days ago, and then I’d be promoting it. And I’ve got like three times the amount of sales calls I usually get from midterms.

I don’t think. About seven days ago, I had no clients, no goals. When I backed up the new year. And then some because when people check my call emails, they go to my LinkedIn and then I don’t know if it’s exactly this button, but the sales page, Google Docsales page.

It did work, but have this one question regarding that that, the current launch package, it’s like I’m doing two offers. One is not not available to people like on on the sale space, which is they pay upfront and then they pay a small amount upfront and then it’s performance based. Have you go to the hot seat section, Ryan Shane had been shamed here at his business model. So it’s really curious to try that since I don’t have those many case studies.

So and it did work really well because I got like two really Really big names would would have ever said yes. Without that, one is Dave Sharp and second Jira got stuck if anyone is familiar.

So they replied to that saying that mister Smith.

But I’m curious that if, like, you share your your high ticket packages on the law firm’s sales page or you get them to a call.

Because Oh, gosh. I don’t know if on the sales page, people are resistant.

Okay.

Yeah. For me, okay. I’m sorry. I I interrupted you. How you feel, but, yeah, for me and, those are, like, Jessica and Katie, and Abby, if you’ve seen the site, you would know that I do share our pricing on the sales. But for me, it’s very important to not get on a call and have people get or shock.

So it’s not a good use of their time or mine for that matter. So, so, yeah, I’m, again, always, we’ve always always, even when we do not have high ticket packages or news, but, always had our pricing on the sales, which just kind of makes our life so much simpler. But I’m sure there is, like, again, a case to be made. So you gotta test it out for yourself. You’ve noticed that people are getting on calls and saying yes to you, so I haven’t stick know, you’re not keeping it off the sales very quick. Whatever was for you.

Yeah.

I love that.

I just looked at your And I saw that you put on store and you put a Google Doc.

That’s I hadn’t seen that. Did anyone do that? Honestly, it’s more the product I or the product services. So good for you. That’s really great idea.

I guess you can’t tell how many people are clicking on that.

Yeah. Yeah. That that’s the thing.

You can’t tell the clicks, a, I’ve put a little video so so that I’ve hacked, like, okay, how many people are seeing the Oh, as you mentioned.

Nice. Nice idea.

How many people are clicking? But here’s the question. So people who are only booking the calls are being nurtured via the DMs. And then someone said that you should, like, if it’s this high ticket, you should not reveal the price. I would really like to know, like, how do you approach it? Because in the launch space, some people are saying that or like fifteen k for now, the economy is really downturn and nobody wants to see that unless they’re getting coached on a sales call.

To to really justify the price point. Like, what I would just like to have a conversation about that. What are your thoughts?

I love for the group to kinda weigh in. My thoughts are very straightforward on this.

I’ve closed packages, upwards of fifty k, even a even a hundred k, with a proposal and not a sales call. Like, I mean, I’m just, like, people have come in knowing that, okay, yes, I wouldn’t call it a sales call. It’s more like a, you know, like a what I call our our copy chat where I go in, ask about their the project scope, So so when we sign our hundred k copy project, and then after that, I did another one for eighty k, it was exactly like that. Like, I went in, got the scope, let them know that, you know, they’d come in knowing, you know, what our where our pricing starts.

And also, like, say, the fully they their scope, I had to create proposal to them because their scope was so big that I needed to create proposal. Otherwise, if I can avoid it, I will avoid creating a proposal.

But in both cases, none of the clients had any you know, like, oh, so your sales pitch is like how much? There’s no there was no none of that, you know, because they knew, you know, what we charge. They so that is my argument. Again, very, very important for something to you, and I think everybody know is that you will always find people making an argument for and against something in business, and that’s probably why they fall, you know, you can call them best practices.

Like, people say, oh, the best practice is to do this, but the point is we can make those best practices better for us. So how do you do that? You do that. I’ve seen what works well for you.

For me, it doesn’t And I also tried, like, for my company, for us, it’s very important to build a business that aligned with our values for us financial stewardship and transparency. Super important. So which is why we’ve never charged interest for payment plans, but then something that people always say you should do is like, oh, you know, you’re giving a payment plan for your program, admin costs. So you need to try or The worst is PayPal fees.

You need to bill your client for PayPal fees. Like, your service fees needs to do, like, kind of, that’s Those are the things that I have very, you know, like my hot takes on. But point is it’s not the only way to do something. It’s not this is just what’s working for us.

So I’d love for the group to weigh, and I’m gonna shut up right now.

Yeah. I just wanted to add, I think, as well, when working with coaches, it’s just it’s like about getting in front of the ones that see fifteen k, like, the way that we see, like, a hundred and fifty dollars.

Like not everyone’s gonna see that. I’d be like, whoa, like, if they’re making, like, hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, then it’s like, they’ll see that. I’m gonna be like, oh, cool. So, yeah, I think it’s it’s just getting in front of those people. Like, I’m only just starting to, like, comprehend, like, how much money like some business owners have and yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely.

You’re welcome.

Also, ultimately sharing prices.

I’ve like, I’ve talked to clients about how if you have a lot of time and you like getting on calls, like sure test out not sharing the price. But if you, like, friend, I was saying, like, if you more value only speaking to qualified people, then at least having, starting from, like, bracket or something on your site is probably a good idea. Think, like, when I was saying, like, it really comes down to which do you prioritize, like, volume of people that you’re gonna speak to, and then maybe even if they do have a sticker shock, you, like, downsell them into a day rate, or are you really only looking to get on the on a call with, like, people who are prequalified for that specific offer?

Yeah. I just I added a link. I found this, download on the upside.

Definitely check it out. It is probably the only resource to date, and I’d love to know if it helps anybody in Slack. Let me know that it opened my eyes to some of the language to use, as well as the starting point, you know, where what what was a big aha for me is under your services, definitely say starting at you know, let’s say it’s a pack of ten thousand dollars because then to your point, you don’t limit yourself on the upper end because you can scope out the upper end.

But it is anyone who can’t even come close to the ten thousand, let’s say, you weeded them out, and it’s a way of qualifying them. And so I thought it was a really powerful language, that I haven’t seen in many places, but, you know, I I think we saw that who did it recently in the group?

Stacy did it, right, where she had her own you know, buy now link to cart package, which was fantastic. So I I it take a look at it. If anyone comes across anything better than this pricing book, as a tool, please let me know because I’m kind of devouring all these ways of sharing your your fee without having to be selling your self and not in regard.

Perfect. Thank you so much, honey. Awesome. Great. Cool. Last minute questions folks, or do you wanna wrap up?

Can I ask a quick question? Yeah. It’s it’s co quite a nosy one. It’s harder.

So, I follow you with the owner console answer on it, but I’m I’m really curious, like, how many of the fully loaded loaded launch, you sell like a month, and, I would love to know, like, how much time it takes you to Yeah.

Yeah. No. Absolutely.

How many of those do we make So full disclosure, Abby, like, right now, we’re at a stage where most of this fully loaded launch copy packages get expanded.

So they usually include way more emails than what’s on the page right there.

Sometimes they include other collateral, as well, including webinar scripts that are right or create, you know, student onboarding sequences and things like that. So when it is, And because it’s me doing all the writing of the copy, if it gets expanded into something like that, then it usually means I do one of those a month and then book the rest for the rest, you know, rest of the year. Though, and that but I still take on, like, you know, smaller projects, like, say, okay, a short email sequence and to say that because, again, I write really fast.

That’s the others think is I I feel like I, you know, it it’s it’s just fast for me to write. So, So that that helps for sure. How much time does it take? I will I actually, you know, will have hard numbers for you. I tracked all my time, but for maybe an idea. Hang on.

Like, I have, like, show to give you context.

I have the screenshot handy so I’ll share that with you. But Queen is, I we try and keep our hours to, you know, below or around this number for the year. So this is twenty twenty two.

Hang on. Let me Yeah. This is this is twenty twenty two. I also have the numbers for twenty twenty three.

How much time does it take? It’s hard. It’s actually hard for me to say. For instance, twenty twenty two is, I think when we did the hundred k package, which is May and June.

So that, basically, I think, took me this is where it was, but I was also working on other other projects at the time.

I can look up my last, you know, fully loaded copy package numbers and share that with you, but it generally would Katie, I use to follow. I have been using to follow for years, t o g g l. You know what? It’s free.

And it’s amazing.

And I track literally everything I do like from If I’m in Slack chatting with you all, I will track that.

And same with our clients. So for client work, I try calls. I tracked the writing. I tracked the edits. I tracked the communication. I have with them in their Slack. I tracked them or in the Asana or in my Notion workspace or any email.

I track edits, So when I look at the number, it gives me everything.

So, Abby, all of this to say, I can review my toggle stats for the last couple of fully loaded launch copy packages and come back to you, but it generally tends to vary depending on the scope.

Yeah. I mean, I would I would love to look at it if it’s not too much. How soon to share it?

Thank you. Abs absolutely cool with it. So yeah.

I love this idea because I think it’s the starting stats. Like what, you know, for me in particular, I’m like, what success look like out the door? And I know that’s a part of, you know, setting a vision for your business, but also the metrics. And sometimes it’s a little bit like, are you following your like, number of followers on LinkedIn that, you know, then it’s the conversions on the conversations, but it’s the the number of potential KPIs you can have starting out is bewildering and you can almost overemphasize, let’s call social media stats. In some ways, and then that’s where your time goes. But it’s almost like, how do you break down what the most critical stats are for starting out product high service. What’s realistic?

What’s a really great ballpark average? Because I think you can fluctuate between doing a, you know, low end.

Maybe a higher sell or reach, or you can do high end ticket, but it’s sort of like the mix of what, you know, maybe you’ve gone through of okay. Here’s just the baseline. If you can achieve something to this effect over x number of months, These are the metrics that will really help you because I feel that’s what I need. I I work well off of metrics and goals, and I just don’t even know where to start, to be honest.

Yeah. Really important fee. I I’m the same, Monique. I I work well on goals, like tangible metrics and goals. So I would say, you know, you need to kinda figure out what’s most important, for you, for us, it is that number.

It’s, yes, for me, revenue is, like, I love looking at, okay, and gamifying the system and, like, oh, you know, just kind of enjoying the game of entrepreneurship, but so I love the revenue number, but, for us more importantly, it’s also the number of hours work and the kind of work we’re doing.

So, why? Because we have both of us deal, my husband and I do chronic illnesses. When we started our business, our daughter was a toddler, so spending time with her was super important for us and being there for her and just sting her grow up. And, like, she’s sixteen.

She’s gonna be sixteen in March, but it still doesn’t stop. Right? Like, for instance, in March, we’re taking off to you know, taking her to Singapore to see Taylor’s veteran concert. So for us looking at the number of, hours that we spend in our business and the kind of life that we are building for ourselves is what defines success for us because just chasing a constantly moving goal post when it comes to revenue or social media numbers, like you said.

You know? Yeah. It’s easy to just get distracted from the big picture.

So Yeah. I feel like that’s probably where I’m stuck right now, if I’m being very transparent, it’s like that balance between time doing, building authority because, you know, in our authority plans, it’s the book, it’s the the podcast, it’s the newsletter, and I I’m like, oh my god, it’s building all that, and it’s not even the actual business development and the launching of a product.

And If I’m being really clear because I think that’s the whole vulnerability aspect of being in a mastermind is that it’s overwhelming right now. So I don’t know if anyone else is feeling that, but I thought I’d share it.

Sure. You know, like, I think Katie had shared something similar in Slack. You know, I think last month or so, you know, where you’re, Okay. As I have the limit authority, but then how do I also get money into the store, which is a very, very real concern. So thank you for for sharing this. And this is definitely something you could consider chatting about on on a hot seat and, you know, getting more insight there.

Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes it’s I don’t know how to present it, I guess, is the thing when you’re in a hot seat. It’s sort of like you feel like you need to have copy as opposed to or something to react to, not a necessarily a mindset thing. And I I guess when it comes to mind, that’s Well, I mean, hey, I’m open to it. I’m open to it for sure as if I wanna if I wanna be the the case study on it.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. No. I think, mindset is definitely, definitely qualifies for for a hot seat. So you should definitely, you know, volunteer for one. That’s, you know, that’s the whole purpose of being in this room.

Now that I have everything in my calendar, and I’ll say that that was don’t know how I missed some things, but I honestly anyhow. Long story. Cool. Check issues.

Awesome.

I asked one last question, though.

If anyone if anyone else hearing and seeing all these creator opportunities come out like Justin Welsh, so there’s a whole bunch of these courses. There’s the upside that people are sharing with me.

There’s another one Donald Miller, like all these you know, essentially, there are the programs that are kind of said to have answered the the questions and the challenges I’m having. And and I’m wondering whether I should be taking any of them, but I don’t know. Like, you can sign up for endless courses. And I guess any thoughts on that?

Yeah. You need to see what you would will those courses give you what you need? If you can decide that on your first second to agree of a sales page, then it probably not the right thing for you. One of the, you know, I don’t know if this would help, Monique, but one of the things that, you know, Mike and I did way back, we, you know, we need to probably go back to it now because but when we were probably at, I would say, at the stage that you are at right now, what we did was we made a commitment to at least finish a course and get the most get what we wanted out of it before signing up for something else.

Because, again, it kind of tied back to the fact that we had limited energy, limited capacity, limited time because you’re also running a business with it. So signing up for a course is the easy thing going through and doing the work is where you wanna see. Okay. Do I really have the time, mental energy, focus, capacity to be able to take on implementing what, say, Justin Welch or a Donald Miller would teach you.

And if so, what would that look like?

So right now, we we don’t do that as religiously, but then that we all set a very different stage. Of life and business both. So it’s kind of, you know, it’s I would say it’s okay.

But point is, it’s tempting to sign up because it feels like the course would be the band aid or the quick fire solution to the problem, and you still label it. Right? But the fact is that you are You already have access to a lot of the courses that you need and the community and the training.

Mhmm.

What is it that you’re hoping to get from those courses that you’re not getting here and how can we kind of fill that gap?

Yeah. I think that’s a great point. Like, for me when I looked at the upside, it’s like step by step. It’s sort of the for me, it’s and maybe I’ve just missed some aspects of some of the courses along the way in in our our community that I’m just need needing to to get that.

And maybe maybe if there’s anyone in the coaching side that can say, hey, these courses, Munich, you have to take that maybe I haven’t seen or taken. That would be helpful. I just don’t know. Sometimes you just don’t know what you don’t know.

And when you’re driving the yeah.

It seems like a lot.

Personally, Monique, I’ve taken the Justin Washes courses and a couple of other ones.

But I can tell you that there’s nothing new, and most of them are pretty outdated.

It’s stuff that you use to work and now everybody’s doing So it’s, basically, it’s seen as a bit of, like, yeah, pushy, like, even the, like, the LinkedIn stuff and Justin Wiresh, basically, all he’s doing is looking at what tweets work, creating templates out of those tweets, systematizing them, and then basically every day sitting down and doing. Okay. Today, you want to write about this. I’m gonna freeze it this way, changing the words. So it’s kind of like a mechanical thing, a repeatable thing, but you can learn all of that for free. Just reading stuff that these creators write on social media or on their blogs, I think.

Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Okay.

Cool. I wanna chat everybody.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Worksheet

 

4x Your Course Sales with A Relationship Focused Waitlist Strategy

4x Your Course Sales with a Relationship Focused Waitlist Strategy

Transcript

Alright. Over the next training minutes, my goal is to help you create a waitlist page, like, understand the secret to creating a weightless page that attracts you perfect student.

This is personally, this is a strategy that I’ve tested out extensively for our clients, with waitlists. And, of course, then the kind of emails to send to those waitlists, and then, you know, what kind of copy to include on those emails. I’ll also walk you through a quick recipe for, for one of those kind of emails. We will try and see how much you can done in twenty minutes. That would be fun.

Okay. So the to create a wait list page, and I know all of you should have worksheets with this.

Apparently, should I come through to the worksheets? I don’t know. You’ll complete you should complete the after the session. In this case, I would want you to complete them after the session.

And feel free to to tag me if you have questions if you’re working on a wait list, project for a client or for yourself, I would love to see what you come up with, and I would love to get feedback on that, as well. So even after the session, feel free to ping me, in Slack, tag me, and all of that. Alright. The SMS recipe is essentially what kind of goes against the grain when it comes to weightless pages.

Most ways wake us pages that I saw, and this is the niches that I run images essentially, coaches, course creators, authors, and membership side owners. Like, these are the four type of audiences, like that across different niches that I’ve written weightless pages for. And when I was doing my research, what I found was weightless pages were either essentially placeholders or like often pages, you know, like really short name, email address. I have to be the first to know when my book releases those kind of pages, and that’s Probably that’s great that works well for them.

I don’t know. I haven’t, you know, I don’t have the data on that. But what we realized is that if we are running ads to a waitlist page or even from social media organically sending people to a waitlist page. Our goal is that it needs to speak to the ideal student or the ideal reader and it needs to move them from unaware or maybe brand aware to most aware with intent to buy.

There is no point in putting up a way to this page when your highest conversions don’t end up coming from there. So for me, that was the goal going in, and this was the that I kinda came up with was that it needs to speak to our ideal students. So we need to structure it in a way that has their struggles. It’s obviously based on voice customer, it has social proof, it has all of the conversion mechanisms that we would use in a in a regular sales page.

Right? And it needs to move them from unaware to most aware, and then sell them on the signing up to the wait list. So we need to kind of make it worked there a while to sign up to the wait list, and that is where, you know, the next part of the training, which is, you know, the emails come in. You can sell them on signing up to the wait list by, yes, incentivizing them, letting them know, hey, you’ll get the lowest price.

But what if, and wonderful client comes to you and says, okay, I do not want to give a discount.

Right? So because that has happened with me where I’ve had clients and, you know, I authors, especially say, you know, yeah, we can give, like, I don’t wanna we’re not gonna give, like, a discount in the book. DLMS for, like, say, ten books or something like that. But, or I’m not gonna discount the course.

So your wait list page needs to incentivize people to sign up to the wait list because they will be viewing from you regularly, and that is where the emails kick in.

One of the things that I want you to know is that waiters pages don’t have to be long form sales pages.

They’re not, you know, they’re not going to be like eight thousand, thirteen thousand word sales pages. They are going to be shorter than that. Think of them as somewhere, but we, long form opt in page and a short sales page.

What I look at is essentially this, is it’s speaking to the ideal student are we using voice of customer to guide the structure of the page talking about what they will get? Is it moving them from most aware, which means that I need to have, most unaware, like, from unaware to most aware, which means I need to have a bio section and social proof as well. Right? I need to have credibility markers in there. And then is it incentivizing them? Is it selling them on signing up to the wait list? As long as it’s taking all of those wear golden, which is why I don’t have a rinsing repeat kind of a framework.

For this, but these are the three things that I look for. Is it doesn’t speak to a writing student? Is it moving them across the stages of awareness?

And is it selling them on signing up to the wait list?

Once they sign up to the wait list, the emails kick in.

You can complete, like okay. Then test it for yourself, but I have multiple times just use the emails that people will be getting as the incentive for signing up to the wait list.

Why? Because there are two kinds of emails that you wanna send.

This one is the one that people love the most. These are the ones that tend to do really, really well. And again, continuing to move our reader across the stages of awareness and getting them really excited about what’s coming there next. Behind the scenes, they come along for the right email is what I call this.

This is like a friendly introduction. You know, you and then you segue into the right behind launching or creating what course, the bug, whatever. So behind the scenes, the previews, any frustrations, you know, bloopers, highlight reels, a lesson or a chapter, those work really, really well. They’re really easy to write as well.

Especially when you’re writing them for clients, you know, then it makes it really easy to do that, because you would wanna work with them closely for this, but it pretty much on, like, a weekly basis. And and so you would meet with them. You would get to know what’s going on with the launch and then basis that, you know, you would wanna write. The email for them.

The second one is something that you could kind of, you know, almost use what I call my not yet for sales newsletters. For this, this is the TGI Fridays recipe. I don’t know how many of you remember TGI Fridays. I’m like totally dating myself here, but basically, the Fridays here Yeah.

At the FBRs or Fridays where you could send out an email any day of the week. Essentially, you’re sending out one email a week here.

And this works really well for evergreen funnels.

This is also the email that kind of inspired to nurture yourselves newsletter.

I would call it almost a package that I’ve, you know, clients have really, really loved and seen great results with. So with the TGI Friday’s recipe, essentially, you’re sending out a weekly email to the list, letting them know, you know, it could be an idea. It could be, again, it could be something behind the scenes as well, but point is with come along for the right email.

These could just be, you know, you could, like, if you if the wait list is, like, a few months long, This could just be a monthly email. This does not have to be a weekly email. When the wage period isn’t that long, It’s almost like a pre launch thing, which is when these work way better.

For this email, what I find invited why I kind of enjoy writing this email more is because I can write this ahead of time, and I don’t have to do, like, weekly calls. We’re applying to find out what’s going on behind the scenes or, you know, what’s the latest with the, you know, what’s happening with the course prep and and all of that. Is because I can just kind of use introduction, which is based in, you know, in Beijing blur. It could be a short story.

Bonus tip for anyone who’s working with clients here.

When you are onboarding your clients, when you’re kicking off a copy project, You want to ask your clients if they have a story wall. I I call it a story wall. You could call it a story bank. You could call it whatever you want to.

And if they don’t, then you wanna start that off for them. So this really when you’re writing these kind of newsletters emails because those emails need stories. Stories work really well for these.

You segue. So from the introduction, you segue into the insights. So what was your insight from that story, the anecdote, the facts, etcetera, etcetera. These are this is just example, if I’m not gonna read through them, you’ll have the slides. You could look at the slides for the examples to see how it kind of all ties together because I, again, wanna be mindful of the time here.

And then you’ll be into the information you wanna share here with them. Now, This is important. The information that you would share would connect to the book, the membership, or the course that you’re talking about.

Why? Because again, remember, these are very close to emails. And then you wanna implement them. Now implementing could be as simple as signing taking the next step with signing up for your webinar.

So you treat these more like pre launch. Implementation could be tagging you on Instagram. So you’re building that relatability, building that rapport with them. Implementation could be to pre enroll in your course, you know, so you if you have an early, early bird.

Implementation doesn’t always mean that they need to go back, print out worksheet right on their takeaways. That’s an implementation just means they need to take some sort of an action.

Besides these two kind of emails, these are some other, copy ideas that I’ve used for course created specifically when it comes to their latest email strategy.

So problem solving content. Again, You speak to your student. Right? So you know what the problems are and you get them some solutions and and, yes, you share how they can make the solutions. We don’t wanna do the what and the why and keep the how gated here, which is really popular in the online world.

And the reason I don’t do that, you know, I’ve been fortunate that our my clients have been on board with this is because when you share the how, your audience has really, really good aha moments, and they realize that their problem is much bigger. You’re solving a very you know, a very high level problem for them here, but they know that the problem goes much bigger. And and that is when they start to see that they need to work with you in order to kind of, you know, not get stuck once they’ve moved past you. Will there be people who will just take that one or two house that you give them and run with it?

Yes. But those were probably not the ideal people to begin within the first place. So You wanna look again, we’re speaking to that one person in these emails who would be perfect for whatever offer it is that you’re selling. Comparative analysis content, comparison tables are your friends here.

I have used them denseively on sales pages, on emails, like, everywhere possible. Like, probably the only page I haven’t used it is like an ten page, but, maybe I should try that out one day. But, point is comparative analysis goes a long way because your audience is considering alternatives.

It’s really important you go ahead and address the conversation that they’re already having in their head about, okay, should I go for this or should go for that by helping them, you know, weigh the pros and cons and reduce that decision over a little bit. Either which way is whatever decision they make, it’s a decision. So that’s really important that we, you know, we can, we help them see how you fill the gaps or, you know, how are you different? Maybe you’re a good different for them.

Maybe you’re not so good different for them. Either which ways, it’s up to us to do, to help them make that decision. And then walk the top content. So this is, this is essentially value you know, where you show value alignment.

For example, Heather Elon, who’s a who’s been a long term client of ours, what she did was she made it very clear on her opt in page. I basically wrote the opt in page for her, but she and she was on board with it by being very clear that people will be invited to join her course.

Why? Because, again, we were speaking to astrologers.

These are not marketers. They do not know how fattles work. These are like obvious regular people who Yeah. It would be very skeptical of just kinda buying something on the, someone they’ve been watching on YouTube, but so we made it very clear about what’s gonna happened next, we reiterated the fact on, you know, in the follow-up emails as well. So people were coming in eyes wide open, and they will know, like, Oh, here’s a free master class, and now here’s what you’re gonna need to buy to keep moving forward. Point is If your clients have an audience that a is not very marketing savvy, B is or has been burned badly in the past by poor experiences, and or You have a brand that is known for a very high commitment to values, integrity, transparency, You know, it may be a good idea to have some walk the talk content in your waitlist email strategy.

Alright. I think we are very good on time.

Yep. That’s it.

Let’s talk about how are you gonna use wait. Let’s see your programs or services, and I don’t know why my Jeff is frozen. But anyways, go forth and wait list await to your users. Okay. Cool. Questions. And then you can do copy reviews.

What do you consider to be a or for you for you personally, like a good benchmark to aim for for a waitlist.

I’m sorry.

What do I consider to be a a good bed benchmark for a conversion rate for your wait list when you’re launching.

Well, that’s a very good question. So I have seen and this is a how I set benchmarks, Abby, is based on what the client has seen so far from a launch. If they’ve used a rate list, then from that rate list. And if they’ve not used a rate list, then what’s been highest conversion software. And then I go ahead and set benchmarks.

Having said that.

The range that we’ve seen for weightless conversions have has gone anywhere from, I would say, thirteen percent to and almost twenty five percent.

Because I’m gonna hazard a guess. It’s probably more than that, but talking to twenty five percent, which been really, really good because and this is probably just my audience, my clients, sometimes, like, I work with a lot of audiences that are very skeptical. I do work with marketers as well, but I do also work. I do work with audiences that are that have a high resistance to being sold to. I think homesteaders, like, right now, just before this call, I had a call with a client of ours who has a homesteading business. Homesteaders.

Sorry. I just want to similarly, astrologers or crafters or, you know, so It could just be me, but I yeah. That’s what we’ve seen. I would say, thirteen to twenty five percent has been what I’ve seen the waitlists.

Okay. Thank you. Okay.

Any other questions?

I’m curious, permit, like, I’ve seen I’ve seen a lot of wait lists that are just like the sales page, but with the wait list button instead. So I’m curious when you said about, like, having you’re selling them on being on the wait list, which I totally understand, but I wonder, like, how much are you also selling them on the offer like, would you say it’s an exception where there’s kind of two things that you’re selling them on, or how do you how do you prioritize, there?

Yeah.

And I’ve done the same, you know, like with, in fact, with our own brand, the wait list we had was basically the sales page with with the opt in form, you know, just switched out. And my reason for that was essentially because One Ray to sell is Hi, Gosh. And I don’t have, like, a huge number of people I’m looking to get into it. So it just kinda makes more sense from you. Have, like, a way to list of people who know exactly what the offer is and exactly who I am, etcetera, etcetera. So it just made sense for us to do that plus interest of time, did not have the time.

To hire myself to write, from scratch, wait list page, honestly.

But point being, For our clients, though, I have seen that, yes, we do let them know that the offer is what the offer is. And what it’s going to be. The thing I should tell you, Katie, is that when you’re selling a client, on using a waitlist. It’s a good idea to do that, like, say, eight weeks or twelve weeks, you know, like, before the launch.

Like, they’re building a waitlist, three months before they’re launching the offer. So all the details of the offer sometimes are not even hashed out yet. Which means that they have an idea. Sometimes they may not even, you know, know what the final pricing is going to be on hold.

So we don’t really sell all of that. We just talk about what the outcome and the benefits are going to be of the of the program and that they can get a behind the scenes look at how it’s, you know, especially if it’s like a first time launch, even if it’s a relaunch, they can get a behind the scenes look because I’ve what I’ve found is that people really like behind the scenes look, at least on the niches that I’ve worked in.

So, Katie or mute, I think. Sorry.

Let’s focus on, like, how many calls you’ll get or what the bonuses will be and more focus on big picture outcomes benefits and behind the scenes.

Exactly. And then just because what you said about the eight to twelve week timeline, would you consider this a good package to sell, like, your clients just closed a launch in the, like, we’ve done our post launch debrief and now Let me set you up with a wait list.

Yes.

One hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah. That is a this is something that I’ve done again multiple times. I love you calls because of that because not only you can you sell people on a way to this package as the next step, but also the nudged for news, sales newsletters, you know, where especially, you know, when, like, you, Abby, and this is something that you could, if you’re not doing it already, essentially, is, like, where for my clients at least when we implemented their evergreen funnel and it’s running and things like that when we do the I do a debrief with them, either sixty days or ninety days after, implementation, and that is when we have the discussion about the initiative for sales and sales.

Thanks. So yeah.

Right now.

Did someone else start speaking or was it you? No. No. That was me. I was just gonna say that.

Yeah. I have another waitlist question.

What do you think is a good discount? Because I’ve just done this with a client we finished up, but one of the the challenges I run into was I wanna we wanna give a good discount for the wait list, but also, like, if these are the highest intent prospects, we don’t wanna, like, undersell them. So what you how do you kind of navigate binding that sweet spot? Do you have any thoughts on, like, what a good discount is to reward the loyalty without understanding?

So, generally, I found like twenty to thirty percent works well. This is something we’ve we’ve tested out.

Having said that with certain offers, we’ve not done any discounts. Where but we’ve given them, I did this with another homesteading client of ours, where we gave them a fireside chat with the founders off the membership site. You know, again, you need to kinda look at your audience. This audience loved it because the founders are homesteaders.

They’re very well known. So, you know, they really enjoyed the whole it’s a zoom chat with the whole image of a first like chat where you get to ask them your questions about your about your homesteading struggles, etcetera, etcetera. So that worked really well, when we did, we we opened up the launch for the membership site to the wait list stores. So that’s, you know, so you could start at options that are not a discount because those tend to work well as long as they’re kind of tailored, but twenty to thirty percent just works really, really well.

Again, depends on what the offer is.

If it’s if it’s like, say, a membership, which is like twenty nine dollars a month or something like that, you know, then maybe nineteen dollars a month would be just fine as a wait list Right? Yeah. But, if it’s if it’s a three thousand dollars or four thousand dollars, it kinda depends on ultimately offers, right, then all of a sudden paying a thirty percent off for your legacy.

So I think we did three fifty.

Yeah.

So that’s that’s just fine.

Yeah.

Thanks, right now. You’re welcome.

Okay. I have a I have a consult booked with someone who is exactly the kind of consult that I find, like, always gets me into trouble in that She doesn’t say exactly what she wants. She just has an offer and is looking for ideas of what the best next thing to do it.

And I find that these are calls where, like, I get overwhelmed with all of the all of the ideas that I have, and I end up just saying all of those ideas, but then they just go do those ideas because I can’t figure out, like, I I don’t know like, ultimately the time of the call is over, and I haven’t actually sold them anything.

So I would just love if you have, like, I know you said you don’t. You never get strategy away for free. I have she’s looking for, like, this offer selling which funnels to implement next.

I have a funnel strategy session offer.

What do you hold back? Like, I don’t know. I guess just like, do you have tips on not on, like, selling them, like showing that you know what you’re talking about enough to be the person they choose without Yeah. Saying all of the thoughts out loud. In that initial conversation.

Here is her answer to so it’s a course around how to develop a concept for a TV show and sell it in Hollywood.

I can share this is the why do you want a call with me blurb that she shared?

Okay. I need help with sales strategy for an automated course. I’m looking for someone to look at the product I’ve built and help you figure out how to automate funnels sell a smaller package item from revenue, how to automate and convert for high ticket course as well, handing out campaigns and marketing, writing and adapting copy, building funnel pages in writing, adapting email notes or sequences.

Okay.

So this is where I find on, like, it’s one thing if somebody comes to me and they’re like, I need copy.

Like, I can I have a flow, but, where it’s where it there’s, like, so many questions around Okay? What do we do? So alright.

So let’s do this. Right? We have a few minutes.

Let’s see if he can race through this.

Alright.

So, Katie, you’re the client. We’re gonna call you, Katie, Alright. So you can’t do any so guys need help. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, do you wanna switch roles? We could do that too. No. Okay.

I would much rather be the client.

Okay. Cool. We can do that. Okay. So alright. So you said I need help with sales strategy.

So I’m gonna say okay. Alright. Hi, Katie. Thank you so much for reaching out. I’m for sharing details that you need help with sales strategy for your course.

Tell me a little about it. Like, when have you, you know, you said it’s an automated course Have you launched it before? Have has it been running on automated mode for a while?

I’ll walk you through it.

In the December of twenty twenty three.

That went pretty well.

We Things. I’ve been in business for a while, but things have just really picked up lately. And now I really want to take advantage of some of the opportunities I know are out there.

Excellent. Alright.

And who’s your audience for this course?

Riders who have not yet had a show acquired, in Hollywood or who are hoping to get their show acquired before they go through the whole they they write a bunch of episodes.

They wanna have the idea and then pitch immediately from there.

Excellent. And, So you launched this course and, you know, your audience’s writers have not booked, book to show in Hollywood. It sounds like you’ve got all of that dialed in. How did the, you know, how’s the automated funnel been running so far?

Right now, I have a wait list page up.

Okay. Alright.

And that nothing else is happening on the other end.

Okay. Cool. And what are your goals from this? Like, what do you hope to do? Like, why reach out to me, why did you wanna work with me?

I feel like I have proof of concept, based on the results of our last launch, And so I know that I am leaving money on the table by not by not, having some systems selling this on the back end.

I hear you. Yeah. No. That makes sense. Talk to me a little about here. You said you have a smaller package item, and you wanna automate and convert for high ticket courses as well. So do you have ideas for this, or would you like to work through this with me?

We so I’ve seen it being done successfully and I would like to add that to our offer suite, but we don’t currently have a small to good item ready to go.

Fair enough. Great. And how many students do you currently have in your in your course?

Thirty five.

Cool. Alright. That’s a really good start. Okay. So, Katie, I’m gonna walk you through my process, and then I can tell you how we could work together.

Right? Which is when I walk them through my process and then tell them that it could sign up for a either a profitably or session, which is basically our offer optimization session, or in your case, that would be like a strategy session, or they could sign up for a full launch copy thing. Usually, I tell them for if it’s the first time client, I tell them to go for the strategy session because I wanna get a feel of how whether I would like to work with them or not, and also basically get paid to create the strategies for them.

And if they’re they’re like, no. We wanna do the whole thing. Fine, buddy.

Okay. So, basically, the call, like, I’m not gonna guide you looking at, okay, let’s look at what are the different options here. You may wanna give them a few ideas But again, when you’re giving a few ideas, what I would probably do is, like, I give ideas like, okay.

So Katie, you know what I’m thinking? This makes total sense. I haven’t taken a look at your course, but I’m guessing there are parts of it that we could pull out, and that could become your local offer, which means that you wouldn’t really have to create anything new or what we can do is and again, I’ll need to take a look at your course and understand your audience better for this. What we could do is maybe add a few elements to it to make it the high ticket offer and have the self paced version, which is what you currently have as the, you know, as the one that’s running on Evergreen or even the no ticket offer, so to speak. But I would know more, once I dig deep and take a look.

Add all of the data.

And so she says, okay, I wanna take you up on the strategy session.

I was thinking, like, I have a funnel strategy session, but that’s more for people who want to do it, like, DIY done with you.

She clearly wants from her intake form done for you. So I was thinking of what I call like my golden opportunity audit, which is essentially, like, I go through, like, dig into the offer, look at her existing list, and what sequences she has, like, many offers resources and then would provide, like, a recommendations report essentially of where she could go.

And I was thinking of saying that if we did that, I would roll fifty percent of that investment into her done for you package.

And how much is that? The golden opportunity thing?

Oh, I was planning to put it at seventeen hundred.

You could do that if it’s already part of your process.

Like, profitably or just offer optimization that we pulled out of our process, essentially. So if someone were to if someone were to buy that and say six months later, come back to us, would not roll it over. But if someone were to buy it and because that has happened in the past, where people have taken this, taken that, and then, like, right after we send them that, they’re like, okay, let’s do the whole thing.

Which makes sense. So, yes, you could totally do that.

Would you do half or would you do all of it?

Ours is fourteen ninety seven. Katie, we’d end up doing all of it.

Okay. Into the full fully loaded launch?

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I did. I did like a launch strategy session that was nine nine seven, and then I did all of that for a, like, ten k launch package.

Well, I was just thinking about the seventeen hundred. If that ends up being, like, more than fifteen percent out of yeah. I guess it would depend on what the what the final Yeah. Because it would be. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. You wanna take a look at that because, again, remember, for for us, most of our fully loaded launch packages are upwards of twenty five k at this point.

So that fourteen ninety seven is like an easy absorb. Yeah.

Yeah. Plus it’s I mean, I would have done that in any case. Right? I mean, so and I’m not having to do that. So it just kinda makes sense. So, so yeah. Okay.

Okay.

I had so I’m just curious. Would you go that fast or was that for for us?

Oh, gosh. No.

That’s for us because it’s like it. We’re over time. Perfect.

Okay. Good. So my main takeaway is show that you understand what they’re talking about. Ask smart questions, but don’t share the ideas on the call. The ideas come on the in the deliverable.

Yeah.

Yeah. You unless you walk in with a really clear idea, like, you know exactly. In this case, you know, in this particular case, she needs to start with strategy. Like, she needs to get really good on her offer suite and what she needs to sell. Sometimes it will be someone comes to you for a sales page and then when you talking to them, you realize that, no, you don’t need just a sales page you need like the whole of the bank, which is when you do wanna give them the idea so that they can see how the pieces fit together But, but yeah, in this case, this is like a straight shipment. Like, this is this is pure strategy. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. I’ll let you know if it goes. It’s a one. So it’s an hour an hour away.

Okay. I’m gonna be in bed. Thank you. Are showing up. Yeah. And, the recording should be in, Slack Cooper usually ends.

That’s it. Thank you.

Bye. Bye, Jessica. Hey, Ralph.

Transcript

Alright. Over the next training minutes, my goal is to help you create a waitlist page, like, understand the secret to creating a weightless page that attracts you perfect student.

This is personally, this is a strategy that I’ve tested out extensively for our clients, with waitlists. And, of course, then the kind of emails to send to those waitlists, and then, you know, what kind of copy to include on those emails. I’ll also walk you through a quick recipe for, for one of those kind of emails. We will try and see how much you can done in twenty minutes. That would be fun.

Okay. So the to create a wait list page, and I know all of you should have worksheets with this.

Apparently, should I come through to the worksheets? I don’t know. You’ll complete you should complete the after the session. In this case, I would want you to complete them after the session.

And feel free to to tag me if you have questions if you’re working on a wait list, project for a client or for yourself, I would love to see what you come up with, and I would love to get feedback on that, as well. So even after the session, feel free to ping me, in Slack, tag me, and all of that. Alright. The SMS recipe is essentially what kind of goes against the grain when it comes to weightless pages.

Most ways wake us pages that I saw, and this is the niches that I run images essentially, coaches, course creators, authors, and membership side owners. Like, these are the four type of audiences, like that across different niches that I’ve written weightless pages for. And when I was doing my research, what I found was weightless pages were either essentially placeholders or like often pages, you know, like really short name, email address. I have to be the first to know when my book releases those kind of pages, and that’s Probably that’s great that works well for them.

I don’t know. I haven’t, you know, I don’t have the data on that. But what we realized is that if we are running ads to a waitlist page or even from social media organically sending people to a waitlist page. Our goal is that it needs to speak to the ideal student or the ideal reader and it needs to move them from unaware or maybe brand aware to most aware with intent to buy.

There is no point in putting up a way to this page when your highest conversions don’t end up coming from there. So for me, that was the goal going in, and this was the that I kinda came up with was that it needs to speak to our ideal students. So we need to structure it in a way that has their struggles. It’s obviously based on voice customer, it has social proof, it has all of the conversion mechanisms that we would use in a in a regular sales page.

Right? And it needs to move them from unaware to most aware, and then sell them on the signing up to the wait list. So we need to kind of make it worked there a while to sign up to the wait list, and that is where, you know, the next part of the training, which is, you know, the emails come in. You can sell them on signing up to the wait list by, yes, incentivizing them, letting them know, hey, you’ll get the lowest price.

But what if, and wonderful client comes to you and says, okay, I do not want to give a discount.

Right? So because that has happened with me where I’ve had clients and, you know, I authors, especially say, you know, yeah, we can give, like, I don’t wanna we’re not gonna give, like, a discount in the book. DLMS for, like, say, ten books or something like that. But, or I’m not gonna discount the course.

So your wait list page needs to incentivize people to sign up to the wait list because they will be viewing from you regularly, and that is where the emails kick in.

One of the things that I want you to know is that waiters pages don’t have to be long form sales pages.

They’re not, you know, they’re not going to be like eight thousand, thirteen thousand word sales pages. They are going to be shorter than that. Think of them as somewhere, but we, long form opt in page and a short sales page.

What I look at is essentially this, is it’s speaking to the ideal student are we using voice of customer to guide the structure of the page talking about what they will get? Is it moving them from most aware, which means that I need to have, most unaware, like, from unaware to most aware, which means I need to have a bio section and social proof as well. Right? I need to have credibility markers in there. And then is it incentivizing them? Is it selling them on signing up to the wait list? As long as it’s taking all of those wear golden, which is why I don’t have a rinsing repeat kind of a framework.

For this, but these are the three things that I look for. Is it doesn’t speak to a writing student? Is it moving them across the stages of awareness?

And is it selling them on signing up to the wait list?

Once they sign up to the wait list, the emails kick in.

You can complete, like okay. Then test it for yourself, but I have multiple times just use the emails that people will be getting as the incentive for signing up to the wait list.

Why? Because there are two kinds of emails that you wanna send.

This one is the one that people love the most. These are the ones that tend to do really, really well. And again, continuing to move our reader across the stages of awareness and getting them really excited about what’s coming there next. Behind the scenes, they come along for the right email is what I call this.

This is like a friendly introduction. You know, you and then you segue into the right behind launching or creating what course, the bug, whatever. So behind the scenes, the previews, any frustrations, you know, bloopers, highlight reels, a lesson or a chapter, those work really, really well. They’re really easy to write as well.

Especially when you’re writing them for clients, you know, then it makes it really easy to do that, because you would wanna work with them closely for this, but it pretty much on, like, a weekly basis. And and so you would meet with them. You would get to know what’s going on with the launch and then basis that, you know, you would wanna write. The email for them.

The second one is something that you could kind of, you know, almost use what I call my not yet for sales newsletters. For this, this is the TGI Fridays recipe. I don’t know how many of you remember TGI Fridays. I’m like totally dating myself here, but basically, the Fridays here Yeah.

At the FBRs or Fridays where you could send out an email any day of the week. Essentially, you’re sending out one email a week here.

And this works really well for evergreen funnels.

This is also the email that kind of inspired to nurture yourselves newsletter.

I would call it almost a package that I’ve, you know, clients have really, really loved and seen great results with. So with the TGI Friday’s recipe, essentially, you’re sending out a weekly email to the list, letting them know, you know, it could be an idea. It could be, again, it could be something behind the scenes as well, but point is with come along for the right email.

These could just be, you know, you could, like, if you if the wait list is, like, a few months long, This could just be a monthly email. This does not have to be a weekly email. When the wage period isn’t that long, It’s almost like a pre launch thing, which is when these work way better.

For this email, what I find invited why I kind of enjoy writing this email more is because I can write this ahead of time, and I don’t have to do, like, weekly calls. We’re applying to find out what’s going on behind the scenes or, you know, what’s the latest with the, you know, what’s happening with the course prep and and all of that. Is because I can just kind of use introduction, which is based in, you know, in Beijing blur. It could be a short story.

Bonus tip for anyone who’s working with clients here.

When you are onboarding your clients, when you’re kicking off a copy project, You want to ask your clients if they have a story wall. I I call it a story wall. You could call it a story bank. You could call it whatever you want to.

And if they don’t, then you wanna start that off for them. So this really when you’re writing these kind of newsletters emails because those emails need stories. Stories work really well for these.

You segue. So from the introduction, you segue into the insights. So what was your insight from that story, the anecdote, the facts, etcetera, etcetera. These are this is just example, if I’m not gonna read through them, you’ll have the slides. You could look at the slides for the examples to see how it kind of all ties together because I, again, wanna be mindful of the time here.

And then you’ll be into the information you wanna share here with them. Now, This is important. The information that you would share would connect to the book, the membership, or the course that you’re talking about.

Why? Because again, remember, these are very close to emails. And then you wanna implement them. Now implementing could be as simple as signing taking the next step with signing up for your webinar.

So you treat these more like pre launch. Implementation could be tagging you on Instagram. So you’re building that relatability, building that rapport with them. Implementation could be to pre enroll in your course, you know, so you if you have an early, early bird.

Implementation doesn’t always mean that they need to go back, print out worksheet right on their takeaways. That’s an implementation just means they need to take some sort of an action.

Besides these two kind of emails, these are some other, copy ideas that I’ve used for course created specifically when it comes to their latest email strategy.

So problem solving content. Again, You speak to your student. Right? So you know what the problems are and you get them some solutions and and, yes, you share how they can make the solutions. We don’t wanna do the what and the why and keep the how gated here, which is really popular in the online world.

And the reason I don’t do that, you know, I’ve been fortunate that our my clients have been on board with this is because when you share the how, your audience has really, really good aha moments, and they realize that their problem is much bigger. You’re solving a very you know, a very high level problem for them here, but they know that the problem goes much bigger. And and that is when they start to see that they need to work with you in order to kind of, you know, not get stuck once they’ve moved past you. Will there be people who will just take that one or two house that you give them and run with it?

Yes. But those were probably not the ideal people to begin within the first place. So You wanna look again, we’re speaking to that one person in these emails who would be perfect for whatever offer it is that you’re selling. Comparative analysis content, comparison tables are your friends here.

I have used them denseively on sales pages, on emails, like, everywhere possible. Like, probably the only page I haven’t used it is like an ten page, but, maybe I should try that out one day. But, point is comparative analysis goes a long way because your audience is considering alternatives.

It’s really important you go ahead and address the conversation that they’re already having in their head about, okay, should I go for this or should go for that by helping them, you know, weigh the pros and cons and reduce that decision over a little bit. Either which way is whatever decision they make, it’s a decision. So that’s really important that we, you know, we can, we help them see how you fill the gaps or, you know, how are you different? Maybe you’re a good different for them.

Maybe you’re not so good different for them. Either which ways, it’s up to us to do, to help them make that decision. And then walk the top content. So this is, this is essentially value you know, where you show value alignment.

For example, Heather Elon, who’s a who’s been a long term client of ours, what she did was she made it very clear on her opt in page. I basically wrote the opt in page for her, but she and she was on board with it by being very clear that people will be invited to join her course.

Why? Because, again, we were speaking to astrologers.

These are not marketers. They do not know how fattles work. These are like obvious regular people who Yeah. It would be very skeptical of just kinda buying something on the, someone they’ve been watching on YouTube, but so we made it very clear about what’s gonna happened next, we reiterated the fact on, you know, in the follow-up emails as well. So people were coming in eyes wide open, and they will know, like, Oh, here’s a free master class, and now here’s what you’re gonna need to buy to keep moving forward. Point is If your clients have an audience that a is not very marketing savvy, B is or has been burned badly in the past by poor experiences, and or You have a brand that is known for a very high commitment to values, integrity, transparency, You know, it may be a good idea to have some walk the talk content in your waitlist email strategy.

Alright. I think we are very good on time.

Yep. That’s it.

Let’s talk about how are you gonna use wait. Let’s see your programs or services, and I don’t know why my Jeff is frozen. But anyways, go forth and wait list await to your users. Okay. Cool. Questions. And then you can do copy reviews.

What do you consider to be a or for you for you personally, like a good benchmark to aim for for a waitlist.

I’m sorry.

What do I consider to be a a good bed benchmark for a conversion rate for your wait list when you’re launching.

Well, that’s a very good question. So I have seen and this is a how I set benchmarks, Abby, is based on what the client has seen so far from a launch. If they’ve used a rate list, then from that rate list. And if they’ve not used a rate list, then what’s been highest conversion software. And then I go ahead and set benchmarks.

Having said that.

The range that we’ve seen for weightless conversions have has gone anywhere from, I would say, thirteen percent to and almost twenty five percent.

Because I’m gonna hazard a guess. It’s probably more than that, but talking to twenty five percent, which been really, really good because and this is probably just my audience, my clients, sometimes, like, I work with a lot of audiences that are very skeptical. I do work with marketers as well, but I do also work. I do work with audiences that are that have a high resistance to being sold to. I think homesteaders, like, right now, just before this call, I had a call with a client of ours who has a homesteading business. Homesteaders.

Sorry. I just want to similarly, astrologers or crafters or, you know, so It could just be me, but I yeah. That’s what we’ve seen. I would say, thirteen to twenty five percent has been what I’ve seen the waitlists.

Okay. Thank you. Okay.

Any other questions?

I’m curious, permit, like, I’ve seen I’ve seen a lot of wait lists that are just like the sales page, but with the wait list button instead. So I’m curious when you said about, like, having you’re selling them on being on the wait list, which I totally understand, but I wonder, like, how much are you also selling them on the offer like, would you say it’s an exception where there’s kind of two things that you’re selling them on, or how do you how do you prioritize, there?

Yeah.

And I’ve done the same, you know, like with, in fact, with our own brand, the wait list we had was basically the sales page with with the opt in form, you know, just switched out. And my reason for that was essentially because One Ray to sell is Hi, Gosh. And I don’t have, like, a huge number of people I’m looking to get into it. So it just kinda makes more sense from you. Have, like, a way to list of people who know exactly what the offer is and exactly who I am, etcetera, etcetera. So it just made sense for us to do that plus interest of time, did not have the time.

To hire myself to write, from scratch, wait list page, honestly.

But point being, For our clients, though, I have seen that, yes, we do let them know that the offer is what the offer is. And what it’s going to be. The thing I should tell you, Katie, is that when you’re selling a client, on using a waitlist. It’s a good idea to do that, like, say, eight weeks or twelve weeks, you know, like, before the launch.

Like, they’re building a waitlist, three months before they’re launching the offer. So all the details of the offer sometimes are not even hashed out yet. Which means that they have an idea. Sometimes they may not even, you know, know what the final pricing is going to be on hold.

So we don’t really sell all of that. We just talk about what the outcome and the benefits are going to be of the of the program and that they can get a behind the scenes look at how it’s, you know, especially if it’s like a first time launch, even if it’s a relaunch, they can get a behind the scenes look because I’ve what I’ve found is that people really like behind the scenes look, at least on the niches that I’ve worked in.

So, Katie or mute, I think. Sorry.

Let’s focus on, like, how many calls you’ll get or what the bonuses will be and more focus on big picture outcomes benefits and behind the scenes.

Exactly. And then just because what you said about the eight to twelve week timeline, would you consider this a good package to sell, like, your clients just closed a launch in the, like, we’ve done our post launch debrief and now Let me set you up with a wait list.

Yes.

One hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah. That is a this is something that I’ve done again multiple times. I love you calls because of that because not only you can you sell people on a way to this package as the next step, but also the nudged for news, sales newsletters, you know, where especially, you know, when, like, you, Abby, and this is something that you could, if you’re not doing it already, essentially, is, like, where for my clients at least when we implemented their evergreen funnel and it’s running and things like that when we do the I do a debrief with them, either sixty days or ninety days after, implementation, and that is when we have the discussion about the initiative for sales and sales.

Thanks. So yeah.

Right now.

Did someone else start speaking or was it you? No. No. That was me. I was just gonna say that.

Yeah. I have another waitlist question.

What do you think is a good discount? Because I’ve just done this with a client we finished up, but one of the the challenges I run into was I wanna we wanna give a good discount for the wait list, but also, like, if these are the highest intent prospects, we don’t wanna, like, undersell them. So what you how do you kind of navigate binding that sweet spot? Do you have any thoughts on, like, what a good discount is to reward the loyalty without understanding?

So, generally, I found like twenty to thirty percent works well. This is something we’ve we’ve tested out.

Having said that with certain offers, we’ve not done any discounts. Where but we’ve given them, I did this with another homesteading client of ours, where we gave them a fireside chat with the founders off the membership site. You know, again, you need to kinda look at your audience. This audience loved it because the founders are homesteaders.

They’re very well known. So, you know, they really enjoyed the whole it’s a zoom chat with the whole image of a first like chat where you get to ask them your questions about your about your homesteading struggles, etcetera, etcetera. So that worked really well, when we did, we we opened up the launch for the membership site to the wait list stores. So that’s, you know, so you could start at options that are not a discount because those tend to work well as long as they’re kind of tailored, but twenty to thirty percent just works really, really well.

Again, depends on what the offer is.

If it’s if it’s like, say, a membership, which is like twenty nine dollars a month or something like that, you know, then maybe nineteen dollars a month would be just fine as a wait list Right? Yeah. But, if it’s if it’s a three thousand dollars or four thousand dollars, it kinda depends on ultimately offers, right, then all of a sudden paying a thirty percent off for your legacy.

So I think we did three fifty.

Yeah.

So that’s that’s just fine.

Yeah.

Thanks, right now. You’re welcome.

Okay. I have a I have a consult booked with someone who is exactly the kind of consult that I find, like, always gets me into trouble in that She doesn’t say exactly what she wants. She just has an offer and is looking for ideas of what the best next thing to do it.

And I find that these are calls where, like, I get overwhelmed with all of the all of the ideas that I have, and I end up just saying all of those ideas, but then they just go do those ideas because I can’t figure out, like, I I don’t know like, ultimately the time of the call is over, and I haven’t actually sold them anything.

So I would just love if you have, like, I know you said you don’t. You never get strategy away for free. I have she’s looking for, like, this offer selling which funnels to implement next.

I have a funnel strategy session offer.

What do you hold back? Like, I don’t know. I guess just like, do you have tips on not on, like, selling them, like showing that you know what you’re talking about enough to be the person they choose without Yeah. Saying all of the thoughts out loud. In that initial conversation.

Here is her answer to so it’s a course around how to develop a concept for a TV show and sell it in Hollywood.

I can share this is the why do you want a call with me blurb that she shared?

Okay. I need help with sales strategy for an automated course. I’m looking for someone to look at the product I’ve built and help you figure out how to automate funnels sell a smaller package item from revenue, how to automate and convert for high ticket course as well, handing out campaigns and marketing, writing and adapting copy, building funnel pages in writing, adapting email notes or sequences.

Okay.

So this is where I find on, like, it’s one thing if somebody comes to me and they’re like, I need copy.

Like, I can I have a flow, but, where it’s where it there’s, like, so many questions around Okay? What do we do? So alright.

So let’s do this. Right? We have a few minutes.

Let’s see if he can race through this.

Alright.

So, Katie, you’re the client. We’re gonna call you, Katie, Alright. So you can’t do any so guys need help. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, do you wanna switch roles? We could do that too. No. Okay.

I would much rather be the client.

Okay. Cool. We can do that. Okay. So alright. So you said I need help with sales strategy.

So I’m gonna say okay. Alright. Hi, Katie. Thank you so much for reaching out. I’m for sharing details that you need help with sales strategy for your course.

Tell me a little about it. Like, when have you, you know, you said it’s an automated course Have you launched it before? Have has it been running on automated mode for a while?

I’ll walk you through it.

In the December of twenty twenty three.

That went pretty well.

We Things. I’ve been in business for a while, but things have just really picked up lately. And now I really want to take advantage of some of the opportunities I know are out there.

Excellent. Alright.

And who’s your audience for this course?

Riders who have not yet had a show acquired, in Hollywood or who are hoping to get their show acquired before they go through the whole they they write a bunch of episodes.

They wanna have the idea and then pitch immediately from there.

Excellent. And, So you launched this course and, you know, your audience’s writers have not booked, book to show in Hollywood. It sounds like you’ve got all of that dialed in. How did the, you know, how’s the automated funnel been running so far?

Right now, I have a wait list page up.

Okay. Alright.

And that nothing else is happening on the other end.

Okay. Cool. And what are your goals from this? Like, what do you hope to do? Like, why reach out to me, why did you wanna work with me?

I feel like I have proof of concept, based on the results of our last launch, And so I know that I am leaving money on the table by not by not, having some systems selling this on the back end.

I hear you. Yeah. No. That makes sense. Talk to me a little about here. You said you have a smaller package item, and you wanna automate and convert for high ticket courses as well. So do you have ideas for this, or would you like to work through this with me?

We so I’ve seen it being done successfully and I would like to add that to our offer suite, but we don’t currently have a small to good item ready to go.

Fair enough. Great. And how many students do you currently have in your in your course?

Thirty five.

Cool. Alright. That’s a really good start. Okay. So, Katie, I’m gonna walk you through my process, and then I can tell you how we could work together.

Right? Which is when I walk them through my process and then tell them that it could sign up for a either a profitably or session, which is basically our offer optimization session, or in your case, that would be like a strategy session, or they could sign up for a full launch copy thing. Usually, I tell them for if it’s the first time client, I tell them to go for the strategy session because I wanna get a feel of how whether I would like to work with them or not, and also basically get paid to create the strategies for them.

And if they’re they’re like, no. We wanna do the whole thing. Fine, buddy.

Okay. So, basically, the call, like, I’m not gonna guide you looking at, okay, let’s look at what are the different options here. You may wanna give them a few ideas But again, when you’re giving a few ideas, what I would probably do is, like, I give ideas like, okay.

So Katie, you know what I’m thinking? This makes total sense. I haven’t taken a look at your course, but I’m guessing there are parts of it that we could pull out, and that could become your local offer, which means that you wouldn’t really have to create anything new or what we can do is and again, I’ll need to take a look at your course and understand your audience better for this. What we could do is maybe add a few elements to it to make it the high ticket offer and have the self paced version, which is what you currently have as the, you know, as the one that’s running on Evergreen or even the no ticket offer, so to speak. But I would know more, once I dig deep and take a look.

Add all of the data.

And so she says, okay, I wanna take you up on the strategy session.

I was thinking, like, I have a funnel strategy session, but that’s more for people who want to do it, like, DIY done with you.

She clearly wants from her intake form done for you. So I was thinking of what I call like my golden opportunity audit, which is essentially, like, I go through, like, dig into the offer, look at her existing list, and what sequences she has, like, many offers resources and then would provide, like, a recommendations report essentially of where she could go.

And I was thinking of saying that if we did that, I would roll fifty percent of that investment into her done for you package.

And how much is that? The golden opportunity thing?

Oh, I was planning to put it at seventeen hundred.

You could do that if it’s already part of your process.

Like, profitably or just offer optimization that we pulled out of our process, essentially. So if someone were to if someone were to buy that and say six months later, come back to us, would not roll it over. But if someone were to buy it and because that has happened in the past, where people have taken this, taken that, and then, like, right after we send them that, they’re like, okay, let’s do the whole thing.

Which makes sense. So, yes, you could totally do that.

Would you do half or would you do all of it?

Ours is fourteen ninety seven. Katie, we’d end up doing all of it.

Okay. Into the full fully loaded launch?

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I did. I did like a launch strategy session that was nine nine seven, and then I did all of that for a, like, ten k launch package.

Well, I was just thinking about the seventeen hundred. If that ends up being, like, more than fifteen percent out of yeah. I guess it would depend on what the what the final Yeah. Because it would be. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. You wanna take a look at that because, again, remember, for for us, most of our fully loaded launch packages are upwards of twenty five k at this point.

So that fourteen ninety seven is like an easy absorb. Yeah.

Yeah. Plus it’s I mean, I would have done that in any case. Right? I mean, so and I’m not having to do that. So it just kinda makes sense. So, so yeah. Okay.

Okay.

I had so I’m just curious. Would you go that fast or was that for for us?

Oh, gosh. No.

That’s for us because it’s like it. We’re over time. Perfect.

Okay. Good. So my main takeaway is show that you understand what they’re talking about. Ask smart questions, but don’t share the ideas on the call. The ideas come on the in the deliverable.

Yeah.

Yeah. You unless you walk in with a really clear idea, like, you know exactly. In this case, you know, in this particular case, she needs to start with strategy. Like, she needs to get really good on her offer suite and what she needs to sell. Sometimes it will be someone comes to you for a sales page and then when you talking to them, you realize that, no, you don’t need just a sales page you need like the whole of the bank, which is when you do wanna give them the idea so that they can see how the pieces fit together But, but yeah, in this case, this is like a straight shipment. Like, this is this is pure strategy. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. I’ll let you know if it goes. It’s a one. So it’s an hour an hour away.

Okay. I’m gonna be in bed. Thank you. Are showing up. Yeah. And, the recording should be in, Slack Cooper usually ends.

That’s it. Thank you.

Bye. Bye, Jessica. Hey, Ralph.

How to Build and Sell GPTs

How to Build and Sell GPTs

Transcript

So today’s presentation is how to build and sell GPTs.

We’re gonna cover, GPTs one zero one. Then we’re gonna cover the three ingredients to make a a GPT, then we’re gonna go over, something called assistance API, which is really the professional version, if you wanna call it, of the of the GPT, then we’re gonna go over how to build a GPT. If we have time, I’m actually gonna do build one with you everything is a bit wonky right now because they’re they’re doing some updates. So it’s it’s not as, streamlined as I’d like, and there’s of glitches right now, especially with the Zapier integration.

Then we’re gonna go through, ways that you can sell GPTs to make money. At the end, we, alright, like I said, we’re gonna provide a soap where if you wanted to, you could start selling custom bots to your clients.

With custom knowledge bases as well. So we will provide you with the soap and the video on how to do that. Then we’re gonna do some walk throughs on how we are using assistance API to launch a productized service, success stories cell, and then I’ll try to go through the process and how everything is connected, including how we’re using GPTs plus also, the assistance API. And then, of course, we’ll do the, the Q and a. So we’ll start with, the introducing the GPT. So basically, these were launched to solve a a specific problem and that business owners were saying like, hey, this is great. I love I love the the chat GPT, but I really want something customized that I can use for my business.

One of the big things was a knowledge base. People wanted a custom knowledge base that AI can draw upon. And, and then they also wanted the ability to to get that AI to to create some type of action.

So this is why, GPTs were introduced. Now they’re claiming that there’s no coding acquired, but that’s not that’s not true.

When you get into GPTs and I’ll I’ll walk you through.

When you get into actions, you do have to have some level of, sorry, who’s in the transcript recording is on. Is every everything okay with the transcript on that? Someone just answered your question.

We’re okay? Okay. So they’re saying that there’s no, recording required, and no coding required, but there is some level of coding that you’re gonna need, especially when you’re getting into actions. Now, and these images here that I I’m literally using AI for everything just to get familiar with it. So if you see some spelling errors or whatnot, AI is is creating the images for me. So when you’re creating a a a GPT. There’s basically three ingredients.

The first one is, prompting. So you prompt is to give the the GPT, a set of instructions to guide its answers. The second is your knowledge. So that’s the custom knowledge base that you can use, to, the that GPT will drop upon. And then there’s, of course, there’s the actions as well. Now there’s there’s two types of actions there’s the actions that, integrate with open AI’s existing capabilities, like you’re browsing with Bing and your data analysis, and then you can also create a custom actions usually by API integration and a few other things as well. So those in a nutshell are are what makes up a a GPT.

The first ingredient number one, and I created a bot to sort of explain the process and then what we’ll go through a live version as well is to create your prompt. Now, what I did, it’s kinda like a using a prompt to create a prompt, but I created a just that, a prompt, a GPT to help me create a prompt.

Which takes me to the next step, which is the knowledge base now to to create that prompt buddy. I used OpenAI’s knowledge base. And what I mean by that is I went to their website, found the the guide on prompt engineering. I turned that into a PDF, and then I uploaded it to chat GPT, and I told, prompt buddy to use that knowledge based when creating prompts for me.

So that’s how the knowledge base works. The second is the the, sorry, the third is the action. Now the action is where you can use prompt buddy where it can not only create a, a a GPT for me and it get but it can also do some type of action, like it can post to a website. It can draw on my schedule.

There’s multiple things that I can do with it. So that’s the action, and there’s two ways you can do this. The main one is through Zapier, and then you can also do it through API integration as well.

Now there’s two types of, and this is important. There’s two types of or there’s two ways to create a g a GPT. The first one is is the the GPT itself, and the second one is called assistance API.

Now they both serve they both do the same thing, but they serve different purposes and they’re for a different audience.

The the assistance API is really for developers technical users.

They wanna build a lot of applications.

The GPTs are for a general audience. They’re for non tech, technical users, entry level users, limited, coding experience.

Use case for the assistance API is you’re gonna build an agent like experience.

You’re gonna use open AI tools like code interpreter, you’re gonna do function calling. GPTs.

They can integrate with, open AI’s products, but you can’t do as much, constant function calling as you can with the assistance API.

The file upload limits for now this is in regards to the knowledge base, the assistance API, gives you the most, amount of, files that you can upload. You can do twenty files per assistant, maximum a hundred GB for an organization. And, of course, for the GPTs, you’re limited to ten files. Now that’s important because the that’s talking about your, your knowledge base that your your GPT will will draw its knowledge from.

Token limits. Now this is essentially when it stops working, assistance API, you get a lot more a lot more tokens to work with with the GPT. It stops following instructions at around seven hundred and fifty words, and that’s important when you are prompting.

So the assistance a API, you can really see how they’re gearing it towards, professional use. And it’s really if you wanna get into client work, or you wanna work with clients or develop products using AI, you really should start learning the assistance API, which will go through as well. Now the usage caps, assistance APIs pay as you go, and GPTs have a cap of fifty messages every three hours. And that’s for the chat GPT plus.

Now, someone way smarter than me dug into their code and they figured out that GPT is launching a, new plan soon. So this isn’t released. So, but they are launching this. It’s called a flexible team plan.

What they’re gonna be doing is offering unlimited, chat, GPT, and you have a monthly plan, which is thirty dollars a month, but it’s a minimum of three users.

So that’s ninety dollars USD a month, and they’re also gonna offer an annual plan as well. So they think they’re saying they’re gonna launch that in a couple of weeks, but just just to let everyone know, and that’ll include the the chat TPTs as well. So you can start doing some, some some fun stuff.

Access the assistance API is through the API and as pay as you go. The GPTs, of course, you’re limited, and it’s through open AI as well. And you have to have a plus subscription.

Now customization, this is the big one between the two. So assistance API, is really meant for fine tuning and you can have a lot of fun with custom integrations. You can have multiple APIs.

You can create custom knowledge bases. You can you can train your, your your bot on a million different things. The GPT, you can also customize, but you’re really limited and you’re also limited in, the amount of API calls that you can make, as well. So you there is some restriction there, the assistance versus the GPTs. And you can see how they’re modeling this as well. They’re really gearing it, the the GPTs to really small business owners, and then they’re gearing the assistance API to really you know, the professional end.

The thing with the GPTs though, especially when you get in the actions, it’s it’s not, it’s not easy to do. Like, small business owners are not gonna start creating their GPTs with custom actions, just to You need to know Python, you need to know API, you need to know some coding.

Here is if anyone’s interested, I can send them. This is the prompt that open AI is using that helps you create the custom, GPT. So if you wanna dig down into the code and just have a close look to see how they’re doing it, I can provide this. Someone else did this. They found it, and then they, they used OTR to sort of describe the info.

Now We can talk about how to sell GPTs.

There’s a few ways that you can do this is open AI is launching a marketplace. They haven’t launched it yet. They’re gonna be launching it soon, and they’re gonna be offering a profit sharing model. Now, that’s kinda work. A lot of people are saying what’s gonna happen is kinda like what Amazon did where they’re gonna they’re gonna partner with select, GPTs, and then they’re gonna purchase them, and then they’ll start selling them on their own marketplace.

There’s no details on the profit sharing model yet, but that’s the the angle that they’re going with it. The other just go here. The other way is to create and sell custom bots and automations using the assistance API. You can sell that to clients or you can sell it just on marketplaces.

And the other one is to, create custom GPTs for clients.

Not as advanced as the the AIs, but you can do you can still do quite a bit with a GPT.

One example is you can use a GPT to, create a lead bot and then use a an action to send that lead to your CRM and then trigger a nurture campaign or something as well.

Another way that you can use the, assistant API besides selling it, and this is where I’m the angle that I’m going with it is to really automate and streamline productize service.

So we’re using Assistant API to to do just that. We have a productized service. We’re gonna use this technology to streamline the process.

And, of course, that’s gonna allow us to get the market quickly scale and make more money. And I’m gonna show you how we’ve done that in a few minutes on how, the exact process we use and then you can swipe that as well.

So the custom, GPT is another angle you can use them that I I would suggest as well is to sort of use these to to help with day to day tasks and your routine tasks that that’s important because It can make you super efficient. I’ll just give you a couple ways that I’m using them. I love to read. I love to read books.

So I created a GPT to create custom cliff notes. So I’ll purchase a note from Amazon converted to a PDF uploaded on this it creates a class, a custom cliff note. I print it. There’s my summary, and I can read, you know, three, four bucks in a day if I wanted to.

That’s just one way to be more productive.

Another way you can do it is, I’m using it to analyze customer feedback for specific pain points. So we we have a survey data that we put out to, patients. And then we upload the survey data, and then it looks for specifics pay pain points. And I can show you the trends it looks for, but it looks for phrases like tired of worried about.

And then it gives a report that we can use for sticky material as well. So we incorporated that into into part of our process.

We’re also using this and this is part of our productized service. This this is a bit more advanced, bot, but it’s still using a GPT where what we’re doing is we’re pasting a form thread inside of GPT, it goes to the form with Bing. It scrapes the data. It takes that data, and then it writes a compelling success story based off a knowledge base, and I’ll show you the knowledge base.

The knowledge base is a book written by Rob Blie on how to write successful case studies. So it uses that book as its knowledge, and then it uses the frameworks inside of that book to write the success story. Then we have examples from nerd fitness. I like that writing style.

So I included that into the knowledge base as well, and it’s using that for the tone and the voice.

And then it’s it’s asking, it also includes things like your USP, you know, how many years of, experience the the clients been doing this. We’ve customized it a little bit because this is one of our clients, and we’re we’re offering the productized service for and that’s really an angle you can do with it. You can really customize these for specific or to solve specific problems.

So having said that, let’s go ahead and build, a a GPT.

I’ll start. What we’ll do is we’re gonna start we’ll we’ll build a basic GPT on delegating what I’m getting to the first problem is, you know, I I have a business I have multiple direct reports and and delegation is is something that I do every day. So what I wanna do is I’m gonna create a custom GPT, and I’m gonna ask it to help me streamline the delegation process. So the great thing about this, make sure it’s probably won’t And it is glitchy. You’ll know that, maybe a lot of people are using it, but it is glitchy. It’s taking a lot longer than usual.

So it’ll start. What this is doing now is this is really asking for, information. This is really the prompting, but they’ve automated this in a sense.

If you go in here and I said those three things that make up a GPT, here’s your instructions.

Here’s your knowledge base. So the knowledge base is you can you can upload anything and it’ll draw from that information, and then you have your actions right here. And this is where you can use different integrations like Zapier to really get it to do something. But let’s let’s go right here. So I want this to I want to streamline the delegation process with my team. So it’s asking me for some info and, please describe your overall goal, for instance, providing specific information.

Okay. Use so I’m just gonna in the knowledge base. Now what I’m gonna do is, I’m gonna go here into the knowledge base. I’m gonna just make this simple. I’m gonna upload it.

And on here, I have a book that, on your view.

On delegating effectively, effectively. So I’m gonna upload this.

It’s a book that I purchased on, Amazon.

This will upload, and I’ll I’ll have it u use this as the, as a knowledge base.

It’ll just take a couple of seconds to load. Okay. There we go.

Can I can I ask you a question?

Sure.

When it comes to the knowledge, one thing that I I still had to understand, how do you tell the GPT when and how to use the knowledge because I tried, but I didn’t see it, like, use it effectively. Like, they do just tell it, use the knowledge in the prompt.

So what is okay. So what I do, to go as in, and I’ll get into the open AI playground is I use the open AI playground to to really to get to a point where I’m happy with the prompt. Because you can get pretty detailed in this. And what I do is I copy and paste it inside of the builder that I’m building, and then it’ll say specifically to use this. It does it does draw on this first.

I don’t if web browsing, I think if this is enabled, it will go outside of that. Did did you have this enabled right here?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, the the problem is Yeah. I uploaded a book, but whenever I asked some stuff, I didn’t see, like, the, you know, where where you see the the animation of, like, looking in my knowledge.

So try I I haven’t had that problem. One trick I do is that I’ll you can start once it’s live, start it with saying, hey, can you please summarize what’s in your knowledge base and have it draw on that first? Have you tried that one? No.

Yeah. Try that. Usually I’ll or I’ll try when I’m When I’m creating a prompt, I’ll I’ll give it instructions, and then I’ll say, do you understand? And then it’ll summarize what I’m saying just to make sure it’s clear or like I said, just have it had it summarize the knowledge base and what’s in there or refer to the files directly in your knowledge base.

Yeah.

Right? That’s that’s usual as well.

So, I’ll got note, Shane, Monique here.

Hey, Monique.

Are you are you high? Hi, everyone. Sorry. Sick here. So I’m off screen today. Yep.

Is it imperative you think to turn off the web browsing aspect I think what you’re saying, Chris, is exactly what I’ve experienced when I built these. It’s just not using any of the layouts or the knowledge that I reference.

It just be it seems very haphazard in some ways. Like, it seems more focused than starting fresh in a chat session, but it’s just not as focused using guidelines and layouts and frameworks like I would have expected when you call on it in the GBT?

Are you using just the the we’re talking about the GPT, not the Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So so we like, I do I haven’t had that problem only because I start like, I don’t jump directly to the, to the GPT.

I use the assistance API, and I I suggest you use that as well because you this is where I really streamline everything, and I get it to the point that I’m happy including the prompts, and then I’ll I’ll paste this into the and I’ll show you in a minute an example. I would paste this into it. Like, I’m I’m using this rate now to sort of guide the process, but I wouldn’t do this normally. I would figure it my own prompt.

I don’t find the qualities as good.

So here’s, I’m asking it right now, so I I said, look at the knowledge base for the delegation process. It is drawing on that. That is the book that I I uploaded in there.

So I don’t but do try if you do come across that, try that does work for me sometimes. Just ask it to summarize the knowledge base and see what it comes up with.

Yeah. I would love to know. And this is where I haven’t worked as the assistance API of the prompt uploading that you’re using. I haven’t done that. So that’s interesting. I you’re developing outside of chat GBT through OpenAI.

You’re developing Yeah.

Like, I’m using so I I I’m not a prompt expert, but I just used the advanced guide to prompting from OpenAI and use that as the knowledge base, and that’s feeding my prompt right, as well. So, Demicize his base.

Let me see what’s the delegation.

And it’s not it is, like, this whole GPT, it is pretty wonky even with the we’ll get into the Zapier integration as well. It’s not perfect, and there’s a lot of glitches right now. It doesn’t always work like it’s supposed to, identify the task. So now it’s going through. It’s telling me what the book is.

So the goal, we won’t we won’t cover all of this. But what essentially this is doing is is I would ask it to summarize the delegation process. Then at the end, I would ask it to help me plan the project asking clarifying questions.

Asking clarifying questions is important because then it it doesn’t assume anything. And then at the end, I would have it create a delegation worksheet that I can print and share with my team member. So that would be the ultimate process of of this. Now what I’m doing here, this would fill in all of this as we we get going. These are conversation starters, instructions.

This part right here is what it’s building out right now.

Let me see if it if there’s a specific so can I ask when you Sure?

When you develop in the this this part of the create, are you then using any of this prompt outside of if you’re not using Assistant API? Are you taking any of this work and putting in the configure section?

Yeah. It’s so what’ll happen is, delegation. It’ll update the configure when it’s done, the the whole point of this is asking me clarifying questions to to build the prompt in layers. And when it’s done, it’ll it’ll update the configure portion as well.

So it’s yeah. That so it’s asking me right now. Do you wanted to call a delegation assistant? I’ll put it yes.

And what’s gonna happen is There you go. You’re gonna see a lot of, messages in conversation.

Yeah. There’s tons of glitches.

You’re gonna see it update this from that, and then it’ll ask me for also if I wanna use the image. As well, but that’s what’s when it’s working properly. That’s what you’re gonna see. But that’s okay.

I’m gonna show you in the back end of the ones that I’ve created. So here’s here’s prompt buddy. I’ll go into prompt buddy. I’ll show you the configuration.

Here’s the the this is what if you use the the t p t tool, this is what it would create for you and this is these are this is the prompt basically it instructs. These are conversation starters that’ll it’ll create these for you, and they’ll populate here as well. And then, of course, you have your, your null base as well, which is interesting because it actually it looks like it’s not saving the the knowledge base like it was. Like I said, there’s a lot of glitches and to work with it as well. And then, of course, at this stage, depending on what you need, you would sort of set up your your web browsing, the the image, the code interpreter, and, of course, your actions as well.

Okay. I wish, but that’s essentially how it is when you’re you’re creating your GPT. You just tell it what you want it to do, and then it asks you questions in it’ll populate this entire section here for you.

Does anyone have any questions on that?

Can I just ask, so you mentioned about having a create a worksheet for you to delegate to your team members? So that would be in the action step.

No. No. That’ll be you don’t need, you can use a quote quote interpreter for that. Like, a lot of that stuff, it just it it does it out without you having to do anything.

Actions are, like, if you wanna include, Zapier. So she’ll give you an example, write a story and, hopefully, it works. So this is a a GPTI I created on write a story and post a word press. Okay?

So in configure right here, you’re gonna see that I’m using the Zapier integration, and I’ll show you how to do that in a second. And on this right here, I give it a a couple of, instructions that I wanted to do. Basically, I’m gonna post something. I want you to use ProMagitate solution, then I want you to take that post and I want you to posted to the WordPress blog.

So the action is really the the action you want it to take. What what actions do you want it to do? It can draw information, from different data sources. Like, maybe there’s an API, like a public API that you wanna draw, maybe the the current time zone in the part of the world or how hot it is in part of a world.

You can pull that information in from the API, or you can use actions via Zapier to to do something. So those are the main the the things in it. So we can try this right now and see if it works. It is set up, properly, but we can go into, I’ll paste this here.

I mean, we automated this. I’ll show you in a second. So I’m just showing the manual version, but we did automate this.

Quite a bit. So let’s pop this in.

Please write and publish to word press.

I spelled out wrong, but if it doesn’t mean it’s spelling, it doesn’t care. Like, it just it So it’s following the prompt right now. It’s gonna take this. It’s gonna it’s gonna it’s asking me to allow because it’s hooked up to Zapier.

This doesn’t always work. Yeah. See there. So stop working as APR. I have checked and configured for creating a post approval.

I need a bit more information so we’ll provide a specific So it’s doesn’t it’s a bit wonky that they’re, that they’re using right now. Sometimes you have to go in and just retest it, allow okay. So, hopefully, we’re good now.

Christine, while you’re on the work. Sure. So in the case where I was using my GBT, and then I did all this work.

Yep.

I think it’s worth calling out, and maybe it’s just how I did it. I did all this work didn’t copy it and then saved saved it thinking I’d save it as a chat as the history we tend to think.

Yeah.

It doesn’t. It doesn’t save all that No.

I I got burnt a few times.

Yeah. So it’s worth calling people at, like, if you do a lot of great work in it on the on the right side after you’ve configured. Save. Save it.

Save it. Yeah. Please reply. Continue Yeah. So it’s working now. It’s like, yeah, a hundred percent.

Like, I, it doesn’t save your history. Like, yeah, I’m so used to it. Right? Just in the side.

I happen to be so many times, and it’s not, especially when they’re getting into prompting, it’s a bit, it’s a bit wonky where all of a sudden, the open AI will decide to update everything that happened to me last night, or you’ll time out at the thirty. Right? Because you’re limited until they offer those plans. So you have to be very you have to be careful. It doesn’t save anything. So this is taking that what I what I just posted.

It’s gonna write it as problem match date solution, and it’s gonna post it to my WordPress blog. It does take and is using Zapier integration. And I’ll show you how to set that up in a second. It’s very simple. You just need a Zapier account and piece of code.

The problem is you can see how you’re clicking a lot of stuff. You still have to allow, allow, allow. It’s not as automated as as I would like, and that’s why we’re it’s better to use the assistance API. You can use a you do it a lot quicker. So now it’s talking as APR seems as an error course.

To try again adjustments, please. Yes. It will work itself itself out, in the end. It does work. So here’s a couple of examples.

On that. Let me go on here.

Hey, are you just straight, but you’re not doing any work on refining. You put it into WordPress, and then you do the work in there.

No. I’m just showing I’m just showing the automation Like, here, you can see these are the ones that it did post into, WordPress. You can get it to work. So it took it took that chat. So you can see it started. It may do it now, but it took it took all of these this content, and then I uploaded the photos like this, and I went in and said, and I took these photos, and I pasted them and then I said, and then I asked it to write the story and then post those, post that to WordPress using Zapier, and it does it’s not perfect because they’re just they’re trying to figure stuff out, but it does work.

Eventually. And this this is the end product that I came up with. This this part was automated through Zapier.

So it took this form thread here k, took that, wrote it as problem match day solution. And then the only problem is you can’t scrape the images. It won’t let you do that. You can save it you can ask it to turn this page into a PDF and then, pull the images from that PDF. That’s a bit of a workaround, but then I find, like, after too many instructions with GPTs, it just doesn’t understand. It just doesn’t work as well as you want it to. Right?

But that’s an example of automation that you can you can make it work. That’s a very basic, level of automation that you can do if you really wanted to. You could I I really don’t know how practical it is right now for GPT’s scale it. I don’t I just don’t see it. I don’t see how that’s beneficial, but it is there with Zapier.

Zapier is the first one out. To set up, use APier. It’s really simple. Just go to explore, and then you can click on create your custom GPT under configuration here.

You just wanna go down to Zapier. Click on, you have to have your Zapier account, of course. And, you’ll go in and under the actions is import from URL. Now you import from URL and this is gonna obviously use the Zapier.

Then you I find as well if you’re gonna use AP or just double check and make sure to test it because it just it’s a bit wonky right now. The other option as well is to use your own. Now this is the part I was talking about where you do need a developer. The there’s this is I have no idea how to Python or, like, JSON.

I I’ve worked with developers so they can handle this stuff. But this is an example of a script that that pulls in, the weather data from an API. And then you can use that as a data source or a knowledge base for your, for your GPT. So there is some level of coding, if you don’t use Zapier, unfortunately.

It’s either Zapier, your custom, you’d have to work with a developer, or you have your your knowledge base. Those are pretty much your options.

Any questions on that?

I have the use case that I would love to ask, but, you know, if there’s other questions in the room, Yeah.

Anyone jump in as well. I’m gonna I’m gonna I wanna go through the, how we’re using it, like, how we use it just to sell a productized service because I think the real value so what’s gonna happen is, like, when GPTs launch, they’re gonna be flooded with all of these free APIs. Right? The quick wins, everyone’s gonna flood it.

Businesses are gonna try. They’re gonna realize outside of these, like, your your basic integration, they’re gonna need in Zapier and whatnot. They’re gonna need to work with a developer, and that’s really where it’s headed. But even then you’re limited, and and I noticed that open AI has done this intentionally.

So if you really wanna get into this AI automation and whatnot, learn the playground, and work find a really good developer, who knows Python and API and work with them and really use the fine tuning and this to really customize stuff. So having said that, this is really how we’re we’re using, GPT. So we have a service.

We were launching a service called, profitable case studies. So what I did was to to start that is we we went and show you the assistance.

So we created, different assistance using the API.

Now we got into a bit more, more detailed prompting. It took us a a while to get to this. And we also uploaded a a pretty large data set. Okay.

So the the goal of this prompt here is our our product high service is success stories that sell. So what we do is we go to forms like this and we we turn these because, a lot of our clients are b to c. We turn these into a compelling success story using proven copywriting frameworks. Now the the database that we use is this database here.

We have the let me go in here. Oh, it’s prompting.

Case studies.

So the database we use is a few things. We we use this book called, marketing with case studies. It’s by Jeffrey Long and Blie. I don’t know if you know Robert Blie, but legend in the direct response world, one of one of the best all time.

This book goes into detail on how to write effective case study covers everything a to z, and we use this as a knowledge base to train our specialized bot in writing case studies. Then we found a bunch of, I don’t know if you’ve heard of nerd fitness, but nerd fitness has, great content that they put out. So I created all these pdfs of emails that I’ve collected blog posts, that I liked and I trained the bot to use that writing style when it writes the success stories. Okay? So that’s the knowledge base that I’m using, and that’s what you see right here. These are the files. Okay?

I don’t use the function. I we use the functions, but I’ll I’ll explain it in a second, on how, but we don’t we don’t use it quite like that. So this is what we use to to craft the, success story. The there’s two ways that we can do it. We did create a GPT for the GPT that we use is, which one is it right here?

And it does work. It’s not as effective as the, the other one, but it does work, as well. We just pasted the assistance API into the instructions and then of course you can notice the knowledge base as well. We included the the the the same knowledge base.

You can, if you’re using the assistance API, add more of a knowledge base, and there’s also something called, I’m not a developer, but my team are there I guess there’s a way that you can take all of this and you can condense it. And make it easier to read and then you can expand your knowledge base. I forget what it’s it’s encoding or something. When it was they’re doing that, they’re gonna do a soap on it.

To to help us, if if that’s something you wanna you wanna get into. But, essentially, we take this this is our, assistance API.

The great thing about this is when you go into here not only do we have this trained on writing, a success story, but we’ve also hooked up this as our AI bot. Okay. So what this is doing is it’s not only gonna find a success story post, I can paste this into it. It’s going to write a success story.

Okay? It’s not only going to write a success story, but it’s going to write a an email plus it’s also gonna write the social media post and then it’s gonna upload those to the WordPress site and then it’s also gonna print a PDF that I can share with the client and get approval for it. You we tried that with the GPT. It doesn’t quite work.

It does work with the open AI, the assistant it does take the only problem is it does take a little bit of, I can start it now and see if it goes through, but it does take a little bit of time.

To work through it. So the final deliverable, just to to let everyone know, this is what it it produces in the end. It’s an email draft.

Here’s the Google doc. It starts with the, the success story. Here’s the original blog post.

Here’s the original post. It takes this. It writes it as the it uses the same, framework that Bob Bla uses, the struggle, the decision, the journey, the transformation, then it uses the same, voice and tone that I like from nerd fitness. And then it writes social media posts that I can use to promote that blog post and then it also writes an email that I can use promoting that blog post that I can send to my list with the ultimate goal of driving traffic to that that page to the course generate leads.

We want to, at some point, the next step is to take these and use the functions in the open AI is we’ll we’ll take these and we’ll actually create, posts using the API and and we’ll try to post them. That’s not gonna be right away, but that’s the ultimate goal. Now we’re also using this as well. This, what’s cool is not only are we using this to create content, and you can see how it takes a while. It does it does take a little while to run, but we’re using the same data as I showed you before, is to create a chat bot. Success story expert. So what’s cool is that this is pulling its information from this.

So what I can do is I can train this ongoing. Like, this is kinda like the engine from my chat bot where it’s getting its information from. And then it’ll feed this as well. So if I ask it, it’ll ask me about the success stories.

Hi. Looking to create a success story. If I said yes, it’ll go through the process and it’ll ask me for my information, my email, and whatnot. If I ask, can you tell me your process?

This isn’t finalized by the way, but you can sort of put it in action. Tell me your process. It’s going to look at the knowledge base and the knowledge base in this case, of course, is the the marketing with case studies. Okay? And it’s gonna explain that process to me. So that’s really how we’re customizing it.

To solve a specific, problem.

Now, it’ll get they’ll take a good it’s slow to to, to work sometimes. Now the ultimate goal is gonna ask me for my email and phone number, then it’s gonna put the lead inside of our sales CRM and of course that’s when our sales team can sort of take over.

And then, of course, the, like I said, this the productized service we’re launching is gonna be, we’re working. This is the page that they’re putting up right now. Oh, there you go. So it talks about here’s the process that we do. We identify the hero. I’d love to create a process.

Here we go, and then it asks me, hey, can I grab your email? You know, if I give him my email and I’ve trained the prompt to ask for that, like, to get the email to put it in the CRM so then I can nurture it as well. And that’s all in the you can see if you if you go through, you’ll see the different.

This is where we request the form link ask for the email, the different types of deliverables I wanted to create, you wouldn’t be able to do this level in the GPT. You you’d need to use the playground to get to this level.

Just a heads up. So here you can put, you can see how it took the that information, and it it wrote the success story. It did do everything.

Here, and then you can you can ask it to create a PDF, for, I can I can email right, for approval, whatever? And so it’ll take that and it’ll create a PDF, and then you can download the PDF, and and you can share it with line if you want. It’ll use code interpreter. I don’t have to create a prompt for that because, obviously, it, it’s just using sort of what what comes with it.

Right? Your your Dale and quote interpreter and whatnot. So that’s a very sort of that’s the big idea on how we’re using it. Like, personally, just a recap I’m using GPTs to really help with my day to day work stuff.

The, which I think is important for me anyways, like on effective delegation, creating summaries, I you I mean, you can use it if you want to to automate a lot of the process with Zapier. It’s it’s wonky. It’s not completely automated because you have to authorize stuff and you have click allow.

So I’m using this really as the, like, create prompts, you know, write your summarize books for me.

This is great where if you wanna learn something, like, if just find a topic on Amazon that or find a course and you can export that course and use that as your knowledge base, right? You can use that with Joanne as she has a great ebook on So you could create a custom GPS that specializes in cross heads and it’s pulling from her custom knowledge. So there’s so much you can do with it. I’m like, something that came out is called the black web where people are saying that that basically all the information out there now is is non human. Because it’s automated by bots right now and and everything out there is just AI generated that it’s not real. There’s this whole like it’s it’s kinda It’s a it’s a mind when you when you think about it, but that’s how I use it. And then for the the big picture stuff, the automation, I use the open APIs.

And, with that, we can get into some pretty advanced automation, and that’s where you can get into the, really, the, to, the package and sell your product type services, everything from creating your wireframe to acting as a leadbot agent, which sends the leads in, to writing and acting the stories, basically anything you can think of. Now to create your own bots and whatnot, we did we don’t have time to walk through the process, but we did do a video for you and a soap as well on the exact process and steps that you need to follow. The only thing you’ll need to do and just message me if you need with it is you do need to create an open AI, API.

Okay? And there’s different, you get them under here. You just need to create an API key. And from that, you insert it, and that’s how you can use all the the, the assistance API and ways.

And if you need help setting this up, I can I can give you some, some tips as well? I do have our developers working on a few things that we’re gonna try some templates for everybody that you can use sort of plug and play, especially the functions and then we’ll be sharing those with the the community as well. And I’ll share this, with everyone as well. If you wanna create your own bot, to show you exactly how to do it.

Does anyone have any questions that I can answer? We can open up that now.

Hey, Monique here.

I was wondering, can we do it over the shoulder exercise, like, where we take the SOPs and kinda do a a working session with each other because Absolutely.

I would love. Like, I this is so much great information, but I’ll tell you, like, even playing with GPT. I don’t know how many people have actually built any GPTs.

Yeah. This is so much great information. I I am going, oh my god. How do I even start it on the assistant API side? Cause that’s something I haven’t done. So I’d love to just, like, start as if we’re ground zero together and ask questions and build something where we kinda come in with a plan because that, like, I would love to do a voice a customer.

GPT where I could just figure out a way to pull in tons of, you know, Kaptara, g two summaries We done that as well.

I’ll show you the, so we did figure that out as well. I’m showing if it’s on here. Where is it?

Yeah. It’s under we actually did that. I’ll share it with you as well. So we had it.

We uploaded the, the voice of customer, and we looked it for patterns. I don’t know if they did an open AI one. Which one isn’t here? Oh, it’s VOC.

Yeah. It’s the VOC research.

So they analyze We had different words that we wanted to. So there’s there’s patterns. So if if someone is looking for a solution, they’re gonna type things on forms. Like, I want to. And then usually it’s followed by, like, a so that phrase. So I wanna do x so that. That’s, like, the outcome they wanna achieve.

So we analyzed all of those patterns, like, for sticky copy, and then we asked AI to look for these patterns and all of the the survey data we have from patients or customers. And then from that create in table format or identify these keyword phrases and just by identifying keyword phrases, it’s gonna be good sticky copy that you can weave together as well. Right? So you can get something cool.

Like, I’m tired of this, and I just want this so that, and you can apply some formulas. So that was the trick, for that. We did solve that. You can see here, and I’ll share this with everybody as well.

That’s so cool. Yeah. Because even just like an example of sorry. One last push on this, like, even pulling down, a whole bunch of, you know, reviews as a process.

You know, in a way that’s, you know, he has a PDF and how to do that off of websites. That even that, I haven’t figured out, like, do I do his PDF or copy and paste copy when one by one, but that’s my question.

And then, I would love it.

Yeah.

We can do it over the shoulder.

Yeah. Like, let’s do, like, something where we can so an example is, you could so we have a thank you page. I’ll show you what we’re we’re doing right now. The this is what we’re gonna set up.

So this is this is the same client I’m showing you right now. So another way another we’re gonna do and I’m gonna make money from this. I’m just gonna upsell all this stuff. Right?

So here’s the the the the board. Let me go into the website and I’ll show you how we’re gonna use it on this do do do we may okay. I’m gonna go in and, this is I’m just showing you how to think, like, how you can incorporate AI is exactly what we talked about. So let’s let’s use it for lead gen.

Okay. So we we collect, basic information, and then we have people complete a hair loss history form. And on this, basically, it’s a persona. It’s understanding your the problem, the outcome they want, the hesitations, concerns, and what we’re doing is we collect all this information, submit it, and this goes to a CSV file.

What we’re gonna be doing, and I’ll show you the CSV file right here.

What we’re gonna ask AI to do is analyze the the data, okay, and from that, here’s the hair loss history form. So this is an example of the data that we collected So the prompt I just showed you will analyze this data. These are all the responses of, like, five thousand responses. And from that, it’s gonna look at the retractor.

So it’s gonna look at the the the survey response with the most amount of data. And then it’s gonna take cost it’s gonna create customized personas based around all of these. It’s gonna look for these patterns and trends, create a persona upload it to the CRM. So when the salesperson meets with the person, they just need to print out that persona which is based off exactly what the the patient said at this stage in the journey.

So now they literally have something that they can sit down and know exactly with the outcome they wanna achieve, the problems they wanna solve frequently asked questions, the the what why are they hesitating the buy?

You can see that was pretty powerful, right? So that’s that’s when we were going to look into automating it.

But yeah, we can do we did solve this. It actually works quite well where we can use this data and we can use those we can compile a pretty cool report. Our ultimate goal is to create, personas from it. And then also yep.

This is maybe, like, super basic, but, like, I’ve been so when I have points of customer surveys, that look, you know, slimmers that form. I have been copy pasting those responses into chat to BT and giving it prompts around, like, know, identifying the most common themes in terms of desired benefits or or pain points they want solved. So just in terms of, like, using this for the purposes of us writing coffee, is there a big difference between chain training at GPTS versus using chat GPT Where you’ve given it a similar prompt?

Well, yeah. Like, the the advantage is that it finds like and I’ll share this with you, but we there’s patterns and there’s there’s trends. It works quite well. It’s like it’s looking for one.

It’s automated, but it’s just like an ongoing thing. Right? You’re always it’s you’re you’re using sort of this. Well, what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna use this to constantly collect the data, analyze the data, then it’s gonna look for patterns.

It’ll start isolating, like, the it’ll look for trends. Like, it’ll look for this is the most common problem this is the most, this is the the the most frequently asked outcome. And then we can go a step further. We can use it to create personas for advertising, for Facebook.

We’re using that for Google ads right now, where we’re using this data to really come up with, we’re we’re saving a lot of money. Right? We’re using it for targeting. Does that answer your question?

Like, how So so I guess that’s through the integrations of this and, like, so you’ve got it integrated with the form and you’ve got it integrated with the, like, that looked like the letter from ten x landing pages that you have in there for the for the, trends.

Right?

The, which one?

The for In the instructions where you had no back in there?

No. No. Beer. No. No. This is what okay. So this and I’ll share this. I’m gonna share all this with you.

So this is asking AI. So okay. So from this so okay. So here, I I see I see what you’re saying.

Okay. So this data right here is not only useful for identifying, you know, how how this problem makes them feel, you know, problem agitate solution.

Solutions they’ve tried and they’re not happy for. The specific outcome they want, including the specific problem they want, plus any fears or objections for moving forward, that’s your basic stuff and that’s really good to know. Right? That’s awesome.

But the real gold is this. Right? There’s phrases in here that you can use, like, think your your VOC mining. So one example phrase is tired of.

Okay. So I know that when when I tired of that there’s gonna be some things you see here, and it’s it there always is. It’s like I shaved my head for a few years I’m just so tired of, like, this x y z, and there’s patterns like that throughout your VOC. So that’s where we use AI to to figure out, similar words that that talk about an agitate or pain point.

There’s there’s worried about tired of. There’s hundreds of them. Right? And that’s where we use AI to, to really identify those sticky words and then put them into a table format, and then we use them for VOC.

Research or for our our copy is sort of like, that’s the way we approach it. And then we also use this to create custom personas, right, based off, well, we do we haven’t done it yet, but we will. Like, each of these is a is a persona that it’s gonna create for the salesperson that they can print through the CRM.

Right? And then also this is gonna help me identify, like, long term trends. Like, so that is another one.

Another one is I just want. Right? I just want. There’s tons of them. And, like, this is sticky copy.

Those are the words you need to look for. It’s like, I would like a full head of hair. There’s another one I would like. Simply put, I just want my normal life back.

Come on. There there you go.

There’s just this is, there’s Johnson here.

That’s so cool.

That’s so so cool. Where did you find well, like, where did you figure out that those phrases were, like ways to identify sticky BSC copy?

Data. You need to hold. So we have like and I’m gonna share this with everybody. Okay? So we have fifty thousand responses, like, over time.

This goes back to the the original training with Joanna. Like, we’ve been collecting this data for a while, and it just it just you need the data to to analyze it. Right? And then have AI look for those patterns. I’m trying to find we they we actually did it. I forget what what I what I called them.

But, yeah, I’m gonna paste it all and it it it broke down. There’s different, there’s different phrases like that that identify problems, agitation, outcomes, dream states, even frequently asked questions. Right? There’s different there’s different strings or patterns that you can look for, and then you’re just trading the AI to look for those patterns.

That’s the way you get You identify those patterns, but by looking through massive quantities of data, part of me?

You identified those patterns by looking through the data?

You got it. This you need the data to to Exactly. I just did what you did. Right? But I obviously used AI. We used to do this with, I’ll show you the old days before AI. So here’s Here’s a form.

The this is what we used to do. This is how I used to use write copy. I’ll show you my and we just sort of automated this.

So here’s, hair transplant network. Like, I’ll well, you can do the hair transplant network.

Same concept. This is like manual though. So here’s the this is how we used to do it. So you go here.

On your form. Let me find a form. Scan, form.

Bago. So here’s the form, and what we used to do is site operators, right, and, we would go site And then this is telling Google to to search the entire form, and then we would use, and quote, we’d have it to return. We actually create custom search engines for this. And then What it does is it looks through the form and it looks for any mention of tired of.

Right? And this is you can do the same thing, tired of, then dude just wants and then do so that. So now it’s gonna look for these patterns and then we would use this to rate our spit draft. Right?

I just wanna know if anyone advice. I’m I’m so tired of stressing about so that and you can and then we would take all of this and, I’ll show you the search operators.

And we would use this to, to create a home page So here’s the here’s an example. This is old school. This is like before AI. So here’s the homepage that we were doing.

So you can see all the operators This is you’ll recognize this voice of customer. These are different operators we would use, afraid, tired of so that embarrassed failed. I just want And from that, you’d get some pretty cool stuff. Right?

I wanna bring my my confidence, feel like myself again. So we just they used AI to to figure all this stuff out. And there is the it’s just math. Right?

It there’s patterns everywhere from stages of awareness to to your vox, all that stuff. Does that answer your question?

How do you identify those strengths of that that would give you VIC? Like, was is that just experience?

You have a, like It’s experience.

Yeah. It’s experience, but then it’s building on it. Like, once you have a good base, like, you know, you know embarrassed is is failed. Like, you just you build on them over time.

I’ll give you the the base that I’ll share with you guys is a good foundation that you can start with. And it’ll, and you can probably build on your own. Right? There’s I did ask, yeah, I was trying to find the thread to expand on it and it did.

Some of it was relevant. Some of it wasn’t.

But but this is sort of where it came from. Right? And then we would use this to did you recognize this Joe as one reader?

Here’s the the data here you know, the product. And then there’s this how we would use all this, to to create a spit draft. Right? This is based off VOC data.

This is how we would do it before. Now this is automated. Right? What’s the outcome?

Okay. Well, I just it’s so bad. And so that is gonna tell me the outcome they want. And then we just analyze it.

And then we have ideal four statements.

You know, ideal form anyone. And we all we got all this stuff from this from the thing, right, including our promise, all that good stuff.

So, like, review my name, Is that something that a GPT could do, or is that something we need to look at the assistant API for?

You want assistance API. It’s all it’s all data. Like, you can get you assistance API, especially a large data set, but you need to get the data from the forms. Right? You and you need a lot of it. Like, we we’re lucky because we we have a massive data set, like thousands and thousands and thousands.

Right? So we but it’s all data. Data has everything. Right? And it just it’s looking for those patterns.

But that’s how you find sticky copy. You look that’s that’s the right way to do it. And then also once you do that as well, then you can you can AI is spot on because then you ask it to also, you know, show me the copy where that you found on it, and it’ll it’ll include that in table format as well.

Okay. Could you could you use a GPT to, like, grape g two reviews, or is that, again, like, something that an assist?

I tried it, man. Like, yeah, I tried it. Like, it’s it’s not you get blocked. Right? There I can usually get away with it once and then it just blocks it. You can use Bing for your GPT, and you sometimes you can get away with it, but then it you get blocked.

Alright.

So that that’s exactly what I was gonna share. What I’ve done is maybe this is helpful and maybe there’s a add ons. If you’re gonna use GPT or Kaptara, What I’ve done is I’ve gone to the site and I’ve said, okay. I wanna have, you know, and click on those who are maybe a one star. And then those reviews come up.

And, you’re able then to save it as a read as, like, a, you know, so it brings it brings it, and you can save it as a PDF.

Do you understand what I’m saying?

So you can use you can create some PDFs based on, and and I was that’s where I was wondering, Shane, if you could do that. So if you go to g two and you’re like, I wanna a competitor set. I wanna see those who are unhappy. Those are the one stars. You can do, click on the Chrome extension that is read as plain text then you can save that plain text as copy in, or you can do as a PDF.

And then you can do those as unhappy reviews, and then you can do five star reviews You can you don’t you won’t get all of the reviews, obviously. That’s a lot of, you know, saving as PDFs.

But it’s an option that I’ve been doing.

Is that clear?

Because I’ve I’ve been trying to You can scrape it too.

Like, just pay someone to scrape That’s what I would do. Like, we if we needed to. Right? It’s pretty easy to do.

I’ve I’ve even seen other people someone guy, instead of PDFs, he was taking screenshots of, like, full Amazon reviews pages, Another one was turning the Amazon review page into HTML code, and then telling chatty to look at these elements, which is where, basically, the text of the review is, and then basically extract it in as, like, with mean review format, I tried that as well.

Yeah. It’s smart. It’s smart to do it. I found the the Amazon got smart with it though. They put the pagination. Right?

Yeah. I I tried. So I created a booklet to, like, to figure out all the paginations and then print it, and then they get and then they blocked me.

You can go to fiverr though and spend, like, honestly, you can go to fiverr at least twenty bucks and they’ll scrape as much as you want.

I did that for, we’re launching WP total care, and I did that for, what is it called? The reviews. Like, I I I did do that, and it went to, and they scraped all the data that I need, and I’m using that data set. So here’s the reviews, that they scraped for me.

And so what I’ll do is now I have this data set on competitors. So they they did trustpilot, they did Facebook, they did developer. Now I have this data. I’ll I’ll turn this into a PDF, and then I’ll use this strategy I just showed you to analyze, outcomes, and I’ll create personas from this.

Yeah. I cool. That’s so cool.

Yeah. And I can shout, like, if we maybe we should do another and and that’s sort of I know we’re almost at what we are at a time, but, like, the Is that something people wanna see? Like, we can do you wanna do over the shoulder, tutorials on this stuff? Absolutely. Like, if if that’s what you know.

Yeah. That’d be awesome.

Yeah. We’re super interested in learning how to use the playground, especially.

Yeah.

Okay. Playground is is the way, like, if you wanna get into, like, and Joe, like, we’re gonna do some cool stuff with with it, but if you wanna get into true, like, or use it to us full, like, you gotta get you have to use the playground. The the GPT is just too basic. Not gonna work.

And and and you’re you’re using credits, right, because I tried, and I think the maximum that it allowed me to put was, like, fifty dollars or something.

No. No. It’s it’s levels. Yeah. The more you get. Yeah. Yeah. Here’s more. So you can see I looked I looked I wanted it to know worried about was anxiety.

This is where we wanted to know about different and FAQs as well. So we wanted to know if you wanna ask questions and then guess what we’re doing with that. Is we’re gonna create an FAQ page on the site that addresses each each question. Right? So that’s how we’re kinda using all this data.

But, yeah, to answer your question, it’s under your API key, there’s different levels that as you the more you use it and they trust you, then they’ll they’ll extend it.

Yeah. And how much, like, let’s say that I want to build a bot on my website to taking leads?

Here you go.

How much would you spend?

Not much. Like, in November first, the thirtieth, I’ve spent thirty nine. Like Yeah.

It’s really inexpensive. Yeah. One of the things I I would share with individuals. If you buy, there’s called it’s called TeamAI or t on appsumo team GBT.

Oh, I have that one. Yes. Right here. This is what it is. I’ll show you.

Yeah. So you you start, what I would offer is that you you open your because you have to be billed or a full month than you have to be using. So I almost use it in conjunction with GBT, chat GBT, because then pulling your API. They’re seeing you using it. You’re building up your levels because we’re prior to that. Yeah.

Alright. What is it?

Yeah. This is my team. Like, it’s not their you get a bit of a heart attack when everyone starts using it.

You’re like Yeah.

But it but thank think Heaven’s like the it’s they lowered the price for the four turbo. So it’s like, oh, man. Thank you. I guys almost have a heart attack. It’s just it gets my it’s expensive. But, yeah, I love it. I love I love TeamT.

It’s a little bit brown.

It’s super inexpensive.

It’s Is this still on appsumo right now?

Yeah. It is.

It is a okay.

Yeah. So what it what it is is it’s working like chat GBT at a fraction of the cost, and you’re also I have both, but you’re then using team GBT pulling an API. So you’re setting up an account and you’re building up your, usage with OpenAI so that you’re getting into higher levels.

Oh, I didn’t know that. That’s smart.

Yeah. That’s really smart. Yeah. That’s why that’s why I recommend people to who don’t because it takes a while, like, a billing period, at least, and then you have to be using. So this is where you’re building up your your, yeah, your levels in open AI.

And it it’s so we got this because it was instead of paying twenty bucks for each person, this is so much cheaper because we can it’s unlimited chat. Right? We use this Yeah.

For a bit.

Yeah, it’s a good find. This was really good find.

Yeah. Yeah. So I recommend this.

And both. Like, you you’ll eventually could just go to this, but there’s I don’t know about you. I found there’s some glitches sometimes. I was using originally something else from Absumo, but then I went to Team GBT. It’s way more stable.

Yeah. Okay. I’ve yeah. I’ve I there’s the only one I’ve I I haven’t tried anything else, so It’s I do find that there is there is a difference.

I find I can use the same prompts on this and there is a difference between the two. I don’t know why Yeah. Yeah. But there is, yeah, there’s a bit of a difference.

Yeah. The developers use now. We on this, like, we have a we agencies white label are are WordPress. So we have bunch full time developers for WordPress, so they’re they’re in love with this stuff. It’s just the way the industry is going right now is insane.

Yeah. And there may be people in the call who don’t even have the open, AI, you know, set up.

Yeah. Does does anyone have the I guess for the next meeting that we have, like, if you wanna just put in the message, like, what we wanna cover, we can do over the shoulder, shoulder tutorials. We do have there’s some stuff I can’t, like, I’m not a developer, but we do have developers, on hand, that if you, you wanna try something, then you know, I’m I’m happy to to help with that as well. Like, we can come off some cool stuff probably.

But, yeah, it’s, whatever, if we wanna talk about using VOC and using the data to create avatars, we’re we’re trying to create a tool right now that does that. It takes all of this data and then it it populates, it creates custom avatars that you can print and sell. So we wanna launch it on appsumo. Our goal with it anyway.

That’s good.

That’s so cool.

We’ll see how it goes.

I think we can build the that that helps with the research. Stage of copy copy writing is gonna be, a smash hit.

Oh, yeah. This is old school, man. Like, this this right here was, like, these are so our average conversion rate, we do Google ads. Our average conversion rate with Joe’s process is around thirty percent minimum.

And we just a heads up, don’t use landing pages for Google ads. Use microsites. Use microsites that target the stages of awareness and then set up dynamic campaigns. But if you use the the VOC data from that, you’re gonna kill it.

Like, it’s it’s it’s a gold mine.

And then we I would love just that alone going from using the that to turning as into gold. Like, that whole process just that beginning Oh, yeah.

Look, think about that. Imagine the juicy, like, ads that you can make from this. Right? It’s like everything.

It tells you these, the operators and all that stuff. You got your landing page. You have your your copy, the ads, and the dynamic, like, you can insert the it’s AI based, but you still have the tired of in what? It just mix mixes it up.

Right? You have your FAQs, different stages of awareness. You have all that jazz.

Did you say you were getting thirty percent CTR?

Oh, yeah. Minimum, man. We don’t, I don’t play, yeah, I don’t, we don’t play games with that.

What’s the, what’s the average?

Like, what’s the standard, like, three to five?

Really? Sure.

We don’t we have clients, like, for we do Google ads with our client. Like, we have when I say clients, like, we have some clients that, but I’ve never lost them. Like, we do I’ll just show you quickly. I you got me like talking. I love this stuff.

So what we do for Google ads is, is I don’t know if anyone the calculators he was on this. I don’t know if anyone’s done, ROI connector.

Calculator, miscalculator.

But, yeah, we do, is does anyone do, you have to find it? Does anyone know attribution at all? Or does anyone use attribution for Google Ads? Is that we can we can cover that if if you guys want or not.

But, essentially, it’s the, you know, how everything is data driven right now, and, everyone’s saying to use, like, data driven attribution. The moral of the story is don’t because in, in the the b to c space or service base space, you can have a campaign that’s optimized for say like your cost per lead, but sorry, cost per acquisition, but in our space, it’s actually cost per lead. So it can be sending you AI based tons of crappy leads that aren’t converting. You wanna go a layer deeper and you wanna focus on your cost per acquisition, right, based off CRM data, taking into account your gross margin.

And that’s what you should be optimizing your campaigns around. And then the beauty of that is is once you get to that level, then AI is is optimizing your campaigns off of actual sales and not just revenue, but actual ROI taking into account gross margins. So you can say how powerful that is. That’s that’s the right way to do it.

And that’s why we get such high conversion rates because we start with proven principles over time. We optimize around a profit not leads. That’s that’s the distinction. I can do a separate seminar on that if you guys, if you like that.

I would love to I would love to hear that.

Yeah. We have a couple of key clients that we’ve just because we make them money. Right? I wish I could show you that calculator.

It’s just we but agencies shy away from that because you don’t the the I think the average lifespan is, like, four months with a client. Like, we never lost a client. It’s not that we’re super awesome. It’s just we make the money.

And we show ROI taking into account gross margin. That’s literally the conversation that we have and their eyes open up. And if you ask anyone in in in service business or or or service based, ask them, like, how do you know what’s working?

They don’t know. Well, I’m getting lots of leads, but are those leads converting? Yeah. Yeah. We got a couple of sales prove it.

Well, what’s can you link lifetime value to the original source? And they’re like, yeah. Yeah. Even if they can do that, they don’t take into account their their cost of goods. Like, that’s just it’s insane the how people are approaching this. But once you educate them, they’re they’re not going anywhere, and then you just you use the data to sell it.

Yeah. So I know we’re going over. Does anyone have any other questions that I can answer? Or, for the next I have we’ll have one on December sixth again, is there a topic that people wanna go over for that one?

I will probably go with the playground if it was me, just like learning how to use it as a prompted maybe connected to APIs.

What a bit specific problems?

Like, using VOC data to discover sticky key words and sort of, like, the Yeah.

Yeah. Like, if you could use, like, a Yeah.

That’ll be perfect.

Like, a used case, and we can go through that.

Sure.

I mean, if we if we could interchange, like, a GBT where it’s, like, the whole model behind p a s and emails and crafting and, like, the integration of, you know, using the Vock voice of mail and then taking that summary to connect to create initial emails and sequencing around the frameworks. That would be incredible.

Yeah. You can do, you can do the, what is it called?

You can email, but that’s a great example as well. So you can use Zapier. We tried it, but it’s so wonky. And the problem is you can’t, like, say you did the GPTs, you’re always clicking allow, allow, allow, allow, like, what’s the point of automation then. Right? It’s not true automation. To get them to true automation, you need this.

This is always allowed not not work?

Pardon me?

There’s always allowed not work?

It it’s yeah. But you’re always clicking every it’s like Google has it. Right? This is the limitation. You always have to it works sometimes. It doesn’t work always, but you’re just there clicking buttons.

If you you can get a little more advanced if you wanted to get into the, but then you need to work with a developer. You can go to this level here where you have your actions This will you can use this to send an email. This API, the way I showed you to do it, you can do that through this. You need to you just need to get your Zapier integration, and you can see here you’re gonna click on actions, and you can see the actions that I’ve created.

So I’ve tested this stuff. These are the actions. So I I find an event in the calendar every morning I do my my brain dump, it looks at my calendar and then it looks for a ninety minute slot that I can work, and then it tells me, create a post is what I just showed you. So there’s different ones that you can do email, you can do a bunch of stuff, and it’s handled through this.

It’s just not like I showed you, you just have to click every time authorized. You can use the custom GPS for this, but you have to work with the developer. We do have developers on hand, like if there’s something as a group that we wanna do, then let me know. And I can I can have my team do it for us?

But this is you gotta know Pat, Python. I don’t know this stuff. Like, I’ve been, like, I don’t even understand it, but they do. What this does say?

Yep.

Have you ever tried using ChatGPT to actually write that code for you?

Yeah. Good luck. It’s a I I tried it, man. It’s not as simple because you have to have yeah.

I tried that. I’m like, oh, I know a quick workaround. I can do this. And like, yeah.

Not. So the this right here, you have to have a separate, you need to install Python on your computer to get this to run and then that’s what will will create that. I’m probably botching it, but then that creates the the the data which it draws from. So I wish.

Yeah. You can do this with open AI. There’s a lot of free uh-uh APIs that you can that you can Google and you can do some pretty cool stuff But this is what’s gonna get flooded. Right?

These are all free APIs. Like, you know, public transit is one you’re gonna see flooded. Right? Like, Ottawa bus, API.

Right? A lot of cities have this for developers. These are free. So you’re gonna see a lot of these GPTs come out where it’s like, hey, you know, check your schedule, all this stuff.

This is gonna this way you’re gonna see is flooded. These are the quick wins that everyone’s gonna take down quick. And then after that, you’re gonna get into your custom those will be used up pretty quick, then you’re gonna get into your custom APIs. Then you’re then that’s gonna be used up the specialization, then you’re gonna get into actions.

Right? But now you see what’s happening. Right? You’re into this the you’re into this stuff.

You need a developer, a hundred percent.

Because that that they say it’s for it’s not. No code. It’s not true. Not even close.

I wonder how complex the card is.

The what is the code? I it’s pretty it’s a I work with, one of our developers contributes to the word press core. And he’s he’s, like, this is in his Python and he’s, like, he’s challenged with it. He messaged me this morning, so this is pretty challenging.

Which is good, but it’s pretty it’s not as easy as they’re making it seem.

Interesting. Yeah.

It’s not, like, you do need to know some color some coding. At what level? I don’t know because I’m not a developer, but you need you need some coding. I’ve tried. I’m not a developer. I’m I’m pretty good at, like, figuring stuff out and, like, looking for hacks and I couldn’t do it. I spent, like, a whole weekend trying to figure this out.

It didn’t work.

Hey, were you were you okay with sharing any of, like, the VOC GBT that you built?

Yeah. Of course. I’ll share everything with I’m I’m gonna share let me know what you want. I’m gonna share the, the GPT.

I’ll share the, the data, the trends, me put everything together. We already did some videos as well. Like, if you if anyone wants to build your own bot, you can follow this and build your own bot. It’s gonna be it’s it’s not as difficult as, I think with it.

But of course, I’ll share all of it. Yeah. Absolutely.

Amazing.

Yeah. This is really cool. I’m a bit Drinking from the fire hose in a really good way, but I was so excited. You have my mind going.

I know that’s that’s the problem. You’re like, this so, like, you don’t know. When I was doing this seminar as a the this info session is, like, it was going one way. I had to redo the whole thing because it’s, like, changed overnight and all these new features. I’m, like, oh my gosh. Like, this is but you’re just there’s so many things you can do with this. It’s like a kid in a candy store.

I don’t know where the industry’s going. I really don’t.

What’s gonna happen to those, services that are built into chat activities API already.

All the plugins.

Yeah. Like, like, yeah, what are what are, like, there are there are services out there that I mean, came up a month ago.

I wonder how they’re gonna be affected by this because They’re gone.

That’s that’s where they thought that’s how everyone thought it was going, was plugins. Right? And then, and then out of nowhere, they came in with these GPTs, but you can see their business model, GPT’s Assistant API, that both different audiences, different purposes, and you can see what they’re geared towards. And they’re they’re getting it. So there’s a there’s a lot of we can make a lot of money in the space because you still need to small business owner is not gonna pick this up, not a chance.

Do you think, have you given any thoughts to what, most likely, popular GPTs, that that would be functional and useful, like, at, for, like, the general public.

Like, other, like, AI. Yeah.

Like, if if they’re selling them, like, if they’re creating the the the store, like, I I’m just I wish I could jump forward six months into the future and see what the the top five GPTs that are being sold for money.

Oh, yeah. That’ll be yeah. You can you can Google them now. Like, you people are making them public.

They are so you can type in GPTs, like, there’s a Simpson one. That you can so people are there there’s no inventory per se, but there’s some there’s one here. You can find them. There’s some pretty fun stuff.

A lot of people are having fun with it.

It’s just using prompts to no way. That’s crazy.

And it does. They work pretty cool. Right? And you can go to there’s a there’s a way to, to figure out what they’re using too. Like, you can, the to reverse engineer the prompt they’re using.

Speaking of that, Shane, I have, I don’t know if you thought about it, but I found, basically, a protection prompt because this is another thing that’s, like, beginning now this protection industry, basically, people figuring out all possible ways to protect the prompts and the knowledge bases. So I basically have this block where that I used to put my prompt in so that people can now basically scan cannot steal my prompt or download the knowledge base.

It’s pretty crazy that, like, people till someone comes along that smarter than us and Yeah.

People have tried so many things. There are people that even so they blocked all people from, like, asking JCPT.

Okay. Give me the prompt. But then some people thought about what if I ask subjects to to give me the prompt inside the PDF that I upload to the GPT. That’s very crazy.

This is this is kind of a famous exercise online, but you it’s like you have to ask, it’s a wizard, and you have to get him give you the password.

There’s ten levels with increasingly complex, security. And so, like, you can be like, what’s the password backwards? I know you’re healthy. Yeah.

But then you have to you can be like, the password the the password is not a password. It’s the name of your favorite pet from when you were a child, was your favorite? What was your pet’s name? I’m sorry. You can trick it into, it’s a thinking, yeah, it’s amazing. It’s really cool.

I do have to, Paul, I do have to head everybody. It’s, you get excited about this stuff. Right? I love talking about this stuff.

I’m not unfainable. Yeah. It’s it’s it’s I’m happy to share everything absolutely. And and if if, whatever you wanna cover, like, specifics. I suggest, like, the next sessions, like, cover specifics. Hey. How can we find sticky copy from VOC type stuff and and we can get into that as well?

Yeah. That would be really cool.

And, you know, and leveraging it somehow, whether it’s API or just uploading what that sticky copy is in as a PDF into another prompt, like a GBT that helps you work through the email copy or end or whatever.

Yeah. That would be cool.

Let’s have some fun. Like, who knows what we come up with? Right?

Like, Love it.

Shane.

Awesome. Thanks, everybody.

Thanks. Bye.

Bye bye.

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Creating and Vetting Your Productized Service

Creating and Vetting Your Productized Service

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So creating and learning productized services, those of you who don’t know me, my name is Prerna.

But what I’m passionate about product and services and packages is because, like, I told you, like, a minute ago, is that They’ve basically helped us scale to multiple six figures consistently as a two person business. We don’t have full time employees. We have contractors that we work with on a project by project basis. We’ve consulted and coached with close to a hundred entrepreneurs in our programs and through consulting sessions and things like that on creating and selling product services.

So it’s a process that I’ve, like, tested multiple times over. And I come to realize that these are a very, very effective way to prevent burnout because, you know, it’s they just speed up everything and, help you to take on more projects without just feeling overwhelmed and exhausted all the time. So they’re a win win, any which way you look at them. And, yeah, that’s pretty much why I’m an evangelist when it comes to prioritized services.

First up, your three step process, how you wanna create it, and how you wanna how you’re going to create unique productized services. You’re not just gonna look at what other copywriters are offering. And that’s been, you know, I know it sounds like I’m bragging here, but the point is that this process is what’s helped us create progress services that we’ve had other people, you know, use as inspiration, but point is I want each one of you here to create those packages and product services that other copywriters would be looking at in green Okay. How would they come up with this? And first step, you wanna ideate.

I’m a frameworks processed person. So, yeah, as you id it using the three d framework, I’m gonna walk you through that. Then you create the prioritized service using your, you know, choosing one of three foundational models and taking three different approaches, and then you validate it or vet it. And you don’t validate or vet it by, you know, outsourcing opinions and putting it into, like, Facebook groups to get pure feedback, pure feedback is is great, but you validate it with the launch of these resistance. That’s You know, the best way to know whether or not you’ve got a service that people are willing to pay money for.

So office to say, it’s easy. It’s so easy. And, yes, huge, it’s Greek fan here. So You’re welcome.

Okay. Step one. IDate.

Here’s the three e process.

There are three things you wanna look at. First up, your product service needs to be easy to understand. So anyone that you’re selling to or whoever you’re selling to, whether you’re selling to a SaaS company, whether you’re selling to online creators, like I do, or whether you’re selling to, rick and mortar businesses, you know, it needs to be really easy for them to see the outcome and the benefits.

So take some time to kind of because you know your audience best. Right? Like, this is what sets you apart.

Anyone else, everyone else may be like, hey, you know, with so many fast copywriters. There’s so many, you know, launch copywriters, so many email marketing specialists, but you know your audience best.

What are the gaps that you’re seeing in the market? What are the gaps that where are you seeing your audience struggle? I’ll give you an example here.

When, when we started our business way back in two thousand eleven, right, we started as social media managers and business bloggers. And one of the gaps that we noticed was that they would be people who would either, you know, be offering done for your social media management services or, you know, some some would be like more general ideas and things like that. But our clients wanted and prospects would want, you know, someone who would be able to look at the content that they had and, you know, just create social content for them without having my which they would be able to post when they would wanna post it.

Like, they didn’t wanna bring on a social media manager, but they did want that content. So that led to us creating what we call the grab and go social media content package, which, you know, literally would sell it every month because it would give people who are not ready to bring on a social media manager, but still want to remove the hassle of taking, you know, of creating social media content on a regular basis. So this is yeah. That was way back in the day.

Then, again, when we started copywriting, you know, one of the things that I noticed was that people would offer sales pages. People would offer emails. People would no one was offering, you know, like, a complete launch copy package from start to finish.

That led to fully loaded logs, which is, yeah, since been one not only on one of our most popular packages, but also, is has inspired a lot of spin offs from other popular businesses that, you know, you’re on a good thing. Right? So but why these po packages became so popular is because they were really easy to understand.

Because prospects could see the outcomes and the benefit.

Right? So use your understanding of your market to really think about, okay, What is it that, you know, folks need are not getting but would be an easy yes to them, which brings me to the next point. They need to be easier to buy. So, yeah, easy to understand.

They need to be easier by. You have no idea how many pages of quote unquote productized services I’ve critiqued as part of our, you know, when I coach, freelancers And I see that to buy the service, it would require either sending someone an email that they’re interested, or the price is not mentioned. You need to get on a call. I mean, like, that defeats the whole purpose of a prioritized service or a package.

It needs to be super easy for them to violate literally. Click a button, fill a form, book a call, make a payment. You know, that easy. And right now, I mean, with all the tools you have at your disposal, there is really no reason why anyone should be jumping to hoops to pay you money money.

So make it really easy for people to buy. And then most importantly, and how a product or service will help you avoid burnout and also be booked out is by ensuring it’s easiest to deliver.

The beauty of product as services and packages is that they should be they’re they’re painless. You know, you’re, like, really excited about offering them. I’ve been, like, doing the fully loaded launch copy package and raising rates audit. Like, right now, probably it sets up, like, twenty one k, and then you’ve got add ons. And I’m booked up for it is because it’s paid less for people to buy and it’s payments for us to deliver it.

So how do you do make it really, really painless to deliver by leaning on the fourteenth?

I totally am a frameworks person. I like to name things.

So yeah, tools.

When you’re ideating?

So it’s not just enough to come up with an idea. You need to think about how are you going to deliver it so that it’s like a real delight for everybody?

More so you.

So you wanna look at what tools are you gonna use. So if it’s let’s say you’re off on, you know, you decide to offer email audits, which is like a, you know, a go to starter package, but in your case, you come up with the idea that your audit is going to be maybe for More like a launch debrief. You know, I’m using the launch example because I’m super familiar with that with our industry, but Again, it’s something that’s happened. Someone’s had a launch. You’ve, you know, you you’re gonna audit their launch assets to see what could be better.

Right? So you wanna make a list of all the tools you’ll be using to do that because then you’re, a, super confident, b, you know what you will be doing and how will you be, you know, how will you be fast tracking, the delivery process The next thing is templates.

I don’t mean copy template. I’m not a fan of copy templates, but I am a fan of templates for communication templates for, onboarding your client. Like, if they sign when they sign up, what do they get? Like, you the last thing you want is someone to pay your money even if for, say, an audit.

They need to get an email saying, Hey, we’ve gotten your booking. We’re really excited. Here’s what to expect. Here’s gonna happen here is what I need from you, etcetera.

So what kind of templates would you need to make that process if your service would require other kinds. Maybe you’re doing a design audit. You know, maybe you’re doing a whatever kind of an whatever kind of productized service, maybe you’re going to be offering newsletters.

Is there a way for you to templatize that process?

To start thinking along those lines.

The whole ideation process for creating a unique productized service requires a lot of creative thinking and something that which is like, yeah, all of you are very gifted with. So I’m going to use that and I need to also go back to your offer suite and start looking at the next element, which is time triggers. What elements of your service are the fastest for you to execute.

So full disclosure for me, writing is the fastest. It I’m shockingly fast. I love to. Right?

So it’s like, you know, that’s why you see a lot of done for you copy packages from our business, because writing is the fastest for me. So it makes sense for me to lean on that. In your case, it may be data analysis, and or it may be design, or it may be you know, and, like, it could be any it could be strategizing. You know, that’s another thing that I really enjoy.

So you’ll see a combination of you know, and that’s what makes this unique. Right? Because when you’re you may be offering the same service as another copywriter.

But what you’re great at may not be the same thing that they’re great at. And this is the time for you to own those strengths. This is the time for you to say, okay, I’m really, really fast at research. Research was my time sink, editing was my time sink. Right? So, those were the things that we hired out to contractors.

But I mean, I would I would never dream of offering a research on the package, but if research is your, you know, strength, if we you’re really fast with coming up with great messaging recommendations or, you know, ways of customer data and putting it together so a client just can use it.

That’s a great product that’s on this to offer. Like, really leverage your strengths, leverage, the fact that if you’re fast at something, own it. And then boundaries.

Tight boundaries are what make packages a dream to deliver. Someone assigning for, say, a monthly package. For example, like the grab and go package that I talked about earlier, or we have a newsletter package that we run currently.

Or, yeah, we have a flash sale in a copy package that we already currently. You need boundaries and things. A prototype service, otherwise, can lead to a lot of burnout because you you maybe selling it to, you know, you may be selling it on autopilot from your site. And we’ve talked about selling processes, maybe in another training session, but, point is you wanna ensure there’s no scope creep. You wanna ensure that you’re not, you know, just throwing everything. Like, for the fully loaded launch copy package, my first the first time I launched it, and this was, like, you know, I don’t even remember paying twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. Pointed, there was a lot in it.

And I realized that, you know, I need to taken up my boundaries because it was getting very blurry, very fast. And since then, it’s gone through several iterations, and they’ll continue to go through several interesting book point is even initially, I want you to start thinking about, okay, what boundaries do I need in place?

What happens if someone who signs a foreign audit says, oh, kid you, you know, change this section of copy. Are you going to include are you going to include copy edits in it? If yes, say, I will make edits to three key sections.

Right? What if someone signs up for a newsletter package with a three month commitment and in month two decides to cancel.

How are you gonna protect yourself then? What matters do you need in place then? Right? What cancellation terms do you need? What about revisions?

So how many revision requests are you going to enter today? What about communication?

Would you be available all the time or will you be responding to people, like, within twenty four to forty eight hours or within two business days?

Think about all of those things because all of this is what is going to make your package, not just unique, but also easiest to deliver, and that’s really, really important.

Alright. So once you’ve done this whole exercise, possibly you’ll have a few ideas that you can offer as packages, which brings us to step two, create.

So there are three foundational models, for creation.

The starter package, which is basically usually a single serve flat fee package.

You know, it’s I think exact best example is audits. It’s an entry level offer. Having said that does not mean that a starter package may necessarily always be very cheap. I do not want you to start thinking that, oh, you know, I can’t charge much.

Or I need to only go for, say, you know, a top tier package. You can, of course, but the starter package has other benefits. It’s great for people who may be new to your world. Who’ve never worked with you in the past, you know, who wanna get do like a small thing just to kind of see whether they enjoy working with you or not In our case, it’s it’s our consulting sessions.

We have profitably or before that, we used to have a rapid rise revenue session. So those are, you know, and profitably yours right now. It’s not a special, but, you know, it’s otherwise priced at fourteen ninety seven. And it’s a starter package.

And it’s, you know, we sell, like, I think four of those in a month, which is not bad at all. For a starter package. So point being, don’t let don’t let us the word starter, you know, get you thinking that, oh, it’s not.

You know, I wouldn’t be able to charge much for it. Price has nothing to do with it. Remember, you need to look at what are the outcomes and the benefits that a client is getting. From that package.

But pointing, it’s like a single serve, like, biopsy, single service because you do it one and done and you’re, you know, you move on. The next one is the monthly middle, I put monthly in brackets because it may not always be recurring, and I’ll show you an example of that in just a bit, the middle tier package. Now this sits quite nicely in your in your offer suite by because it’s, best for clients who’ve worked with you in the past or clients who are at a stage of business where they’re ready to bring, you know, get additional support. And most importantly, it usually caters to an ongoing need that a client may have.

Example, a rabbit go. Or newsletters or flash sale emails or, you know, maybe, many sales pages for a product description pages that’s another thing that I did a lot of us product descriptions back in the day. So, yeah, so those are like your middle tier packages. And then the top tier package is way more robust and comprehensive than the other two.

It has a lot. It just solves a huge pain point for a client.

Case in point, a website copy package, which is not just like three pages, but you maybe do like all their pages.

And this is a top tier package.

I used to earlier tell people it’s great for clients who’ve already worked with you. But I’ve since been proven wrong because we’ve had clients who’ve never worked with us tying up for our top tier packages.

So I’m no longer saying that it’s for people who are in work with you. It’s for people who are ready to invest in solving a burning pain point. So what we found and this is, again, from consulting and with our own business is that this is for the seasoned business owner It’s, for someone who’s got the budget and the team and has a huge pain that they need sold and they are willing to invest in it.

Web sites and launches are the first thing that come to mind, obviously, again.

You all know your business best.

Now once you’ve identified how whether you wanna do starter, monthly, or, starter, middle, or top tier, you can take three approaches to creating the package itself. You could go narrow. You could go wide and deep. I’ve talked about this earlier in my tutorial Tuesday as well.

Point is like narrow is where you focus on only one service and narrow down to one element of that service. So for email copywriters, It’s email copy is the source, and one element of that is auditing emails, or email strategy is another one. Right? You’re going narrow.

You’re just taking one element out of the copy process or research for that matter. Why? Why does you focus on one piece of the marketing puzzle? And then you combine services to create a package.

So you’re going wide. For example, you could take content marketing is a piece of the marketing puzzle, and then what you offer is blog and social media content, and maybe Facebook, I copy, you know, So that’s going wide.

Deep is, like I said, you focus only on one core outcome.

You can f you focus on one core outcome for the client and you include services to help that client accomplish that outcome.

Large copy, website copy. The outcome is that one result that the client is getting is that I’m gonna be solving this pain, which is, like, generally, the packages are also top tier packages, but that again, not the rule. This is just for you to, you know, look at how to approach creating your productized services.

So what else do you need when you’re creating, by the frame of use? Treaties, package inclusions, so what really including your package, use the three e’s and the foundational models to decide that positioning, how are you gonna be positioning this? Is it gonna harder package? Is it gonna be top tier, middle rung? Where are you landing? What does it feel like to you?

And here’s the deal. Again, Remember, we are not in the game of creating generic packages that everybody else is selling. So you’re not just doing, like, oh, I’m gonna do, like, a four email welcome sequence. Nope.

You wanna think different. You wanna think bigger. You wanna think more in alignment with what your strengths are. So you that’s why you wanna look at how are you positioning it? And then pricing.

How much will you charge for the initial three to five clients so you can better validate your privatized services? Because that’s what we’re gonna be talking about next. So where you land on pricing, a lot of factors go into pricing again. You wanna look at a What’s your time involvement?

What’s your internal hourly rate? You know, you may wanna do a bit of competition research as well, but remember, chances are you’re gonna find someone offering what you’re offering. So you wanna use what you know that you would be comfortable with and go with that. And generally be found, using your internal hourly rate using the time involved And also keeping in mind the outcome that the client will be getting from it helps you arrive at a figure that feels good and right to you for these initial consonants.

Remember, you will keep increasing the pricing once you validated it.

Alright. Which brings us to validation.

For me, the best and most effective way to validate is withheld.

I have never posted in a group saying, oh, I’m thinking about offering this what are your thoughts? Or maybe I if I have, it would be, like, probably way back when we store it.

The reason is because mine and I believe that sales is the best way to know whether or not you’ve got a productized service that works. I mean, which is what I was talking about earlier. You know, like people in groups can always say, oh, this is great, and you should or maybe you need to add this, or no one is going to buy that for point is, like, if they’re not your ideal customers, really, their feedback.

Their feedback is just that. It’s feedback. It’s not sales. It’s not money in the bank. The best rate validate and vet your productized service is by putting it in front of people who would actually wanna pay for it, so prospects.

Past clients.

You know, p you could put it on your social media profile because, you know, people would be asking there. That’s pretty much how we used to sell packages back in the day is putting it on on social media profiles. So how do you sell it? You launch it? And You launch it with what I like to call the launch of least resistance.

Yeah. It’s really easy to launch it.

Even a baby could do it.

You wanna launch it via a Google doc. I’m a huge huge fan of Google Doc launches. It’s something that talked about often and shared about often because it’s easy. It’s fast.

It’s painless. It’s very inexpensive for you to validate something. You know, you just you don’t need to hire a designer. All you need is a way to accept payments, you need maybe a scheduler, like, the tools that you already have.

Right? So it just may and as copywriters, it’s seriously, it’s like a free way to validate because you basically are hiring yourself to write the sales page for it.

So what do you need for your lines of least resistance? Clarity, really, really important. But when you are putting that Google doc together, it should include who is it for? Why do they need it? What will be included?

Why that matters?

How much will they invest?

And when do they pay? What happens after they sign up? What can they expect like a lot of clarity around it, especially, especially if you are sending this out to, like, say, people who have never worked with you before, like, cold to prospects or even like warm leads that may have gone cold.

Urgency is the other thing you need. Give me a minute.

Okay. The idea here is to vet your offer, not have a six figure launch. Just kind of let’s get our goals clear.

You don’t need thirty or three hundred people. You just need three people. Or the moment you sell one spot and someone’s paying for it, you’ve got a validated idea.

Three amazing. Now, you know, that you could go ahead and fine tune it and then pop up a sales page, like, pop up a proper design page for it. And start selling it on rinse and repeat mode. So you need to mention that urgency on your Google doc sales page clearly that you only have three spots, or you only have two spots, whatever is your capacity or whatever.

Again, remember this is your offer. You decided. You decide how many of these can you offer. Again, it may feel like, oh, let me just go ahead and tell ten of those.

Queen is if it’s a new productized service, you’re learning how to deliver it as well. So you wanna give yourself grace there and you’ll look at, okay, let me just do three of these to see whether or not I even like offering it. Because it seems like a great idea right now, but do I like offering it? You’ll already know it once you do it.

Right? The second thing is time, how much time is it taking me? And then because then you’ll be able to adjust your pricing accordingly. Right?

So you all of those things need to be, kept in mind. So urgency is kind of built into this. Lean on it, and use it.

And then credibility, really important.

Why are you qualified to sell the service have you set yourself apart from other others? It could be your process. You know, it could be your systems. It could be your I for detail, like, remember you, all of you in this room right now have a lot of credibility.

So important way to start using it and talking about it, including it. What past successes like social proof and you have in this space, you may not have it for that particular service, and that’s fine. But if you’ve, like, written, let’s say you are you’re offering consulting sessions for the first time. Right?

Maybe you’ve not never done that in the past. But have you, as part of your other projects, being consulting with clients, being advising them on strategy? If yes, you do have successes there. Right?

Or maybe, you know, you start you add on, say, email copy, and you’ve only been doing websites so far.

Can that process be replicated? Of course it can. Right? So start giving yourself credit where credit is due and start owning it and start mentioning that. So what past successes do you have?

In the space or the niche, whatever it is, think long and hard, and then make sure you include it.

Alright. So this is a real world example that I have for y’all. This was a package we’ve sold out just early this month. It’s called I wanted to show you the Google doc it’s not on our site.

So here’s the thing. It was called it’s called the Flashhell spritzer. And this is exactly how I the process I walked you through is exactly what. I do in our business.

So I’m gonna open this up here.

So very clear. Who’s it for?

What is the outcome?

What’s my credibility?

Why do they need it? Now, this is long copy. You’d again, You don’t have to. You want to, like, I found there are no real rules.

This is what works well for us. So I talk about, you know, Why do they need it? What’s in it? You know, overcoming their objections around, oh, I don’t wanna wait till Black Friday.

That’s fine. Discounts.

Who is it for?

And then what can they expect?

Again, this was a detailed bio here.

More social proof. Got Joe who got, yeah, got social proof here. Then what do they get? Now here this one’s really important because this is where I see a lot of freelancers slip up is you don’t just say, oh, you’ll get a questionnaire.

Why do they need a questionnaire? Like, what’s in it for them? I mean, a questionnaire is part of your process. How is it gonna, you know, help them?

So link learning extensive question is so I can understand your Flash software grant audience. Once you compete with me for a sixty minute calls where I’ll continue to deeper so when I sit down to write, I can write, like, you That’s the fact that they don’t have to worry about their copy not sounding like them because we’ve done all of this.

The email sequence. Again, what is it in it for them? So, you know, you’ll get all the emails needed to sell out your offer, like, Tara. Stewer minus the meltdown and ticketmaster snappos, then these are the bonuses that I was giving because, you know, it’s social media captions, business, boost blurbs.

This was like my urgency thing. I also had, like, capacity. So that was the other thing. And then simple thing, I also gave them then add on.

Then what happens once they sign up? Works like lemonade, easy and breezy, you choose which option you want, fill out the application form, they would fill it up. Book it with a fifty percent deposit comes with a total mentality. So giving everything to them, right there, timelines, questions, They could book a call or they could walk me.

Can you see how easy I could literally chip me sixty minutes to write this? Sixty minutes wide because I’m having, like, most of the social proof and things Right? So, yeah, that’s it. That’s how long it can take you to launch a prioritized service.

And be a good on time. So thirty minutes there.

Questions.

Well, thank you so much.

Go ahead.

No, please. You go ahead.

Okay. Also, I was gonna ask, how would you now distribute the fact that you have this productize service that you wanna because I I think a lot of people that are starting out or with this whole consultancy kind of thing is, it’s hard to get distribution.

Mhmm. So either you already have either you already have some influence LinkedIn or Twitter and you’re using it or, like, if you’re like me, you barely have any followers.

So how do I now distribute this this offer?

Yeah. Good question there. Okay.

So here’s the thing for, for me, personally, it was social media, and it was Facebook. Right? Like, Facebook was my profile at, like, my and my profile at that, not even my page. This is, like, back in the day, before we had industry.

And here’s the thing that we used Facebook, and then because, we live in India and we work with the global audience. Right? So reaching them in person is not really practical or possible. At least when we were starting out, now we, you know, still travel to the US frequently or can’t and attend events and things like that, but it’s not not that easy.

Having said that, if you are in if you’re working with, say, businesses in North America or the UK or, you know, in a country other than your home country, and you have, like, let’s say, no network.

Correct? Like, no social media presence, no email list, nothing. The best way you could distribute the offer that you have would be through warm email prospecting or through where you would like to look at the businesses that you would benefit from, bet who would benefit from the service and reach out to them via email.

That is one option. The other option is in person.

A lot a lot of in person events and, you know, that happen in North America and the UK both big and small. You may wanna start with smaller events. I I know of a copywriter who has No presence. He’s, like, I know him through Joe, and we met, you know, I think in in one of either either in Mastering you together or something like that.

But point it, He his Facebook profile has not been updated since I don’t know when and his, you know, Yeah. So I basically just reach out to him whenever I wanna check check on, him, on mess in messenger because he’s not very active on social, but he’s been able to build his, his business successfully just by attending in person events. And that’s why I keep telling him, I’m like, you know, you’re so lucky because he could just take a train and go to other end. Whereas I have to think about a twenty four hour flight just to attend one event.

So, if you have that advantage, use it. Like, I feel like not many, many copywriters that I know who have that advantage use it enough. Is it Is it, you know, easy to attend events? Nothing is easy.

Attending events is usually an investment. You do need to travel. You do need to make you know, pay for hotel stays or Airbnbs or whatever.

But if you don’t have a network that you can lean on right now, maybe that could be a shark. So so if you don’t have a network, one email prospecting, definitely one, in person events number two, the third is your peer network. So you don’t wanna you may not wanna sell you may not wanna validate your idea by, you know, getting a lot of peer feedback. I’m not saying don’t get peer feedback. Like, this is a great community you’re part of, like, the mastermind right now. So, yes, do get feedback for me. I feel like sales cures all, like, not not human beliefs, so I’m more a salesperson.

But you can always use your network to promote your productized service. And in exchange, you could have like a system of exchange, like a referral fee or something like that for anyone the essential way. So you may not have a list, but they may have. Right? So those are three ways right away. We we can also look at, like, you know, other sales systems, like I said, on another another training I can dive deep into various ways to sell these.

Yeah. Like, all different ways that we tested out and ways that have worked and ways that haven’t worked as well for us. One thing we haven’t used, the other yeah.

The reason I did not mention this is because we haven’t used it. So I can’t really vouch for the results from it, is, ads. You could run ads.

As well. So that’s an option to explore too.

Was that helpful?

Yeah. A lot. Thank you.

You’re welcome. More questions.

Anyone doesn’t have. I’ve been thinking about recreating these packages since I’m work. And then I have some packages in it. If your uplink, I I would love to get the ideas on it.

But, I wanna add a nun that women printed mentioned that, you can use cold emails. I’ve been using them since, like, I I was active on LinkedIn for, like, six, seven months. And I grew my followers, but now selling LinkedIn services. I was getting booked out.

So, yes, social media does work, but then when I pivoted to launches, seems like my ideal ideal audience doesn’t hang out there. So it was easier to, like, sell mini tier packages, but high tier packages. They weren’t just, like, not even ready. And now I’m, like, and maybe it wasn’t the right fit.

And cold emails, like, work meticulously. It just takes some some effort like up hand, but if you can put all your copy, like, volume copy hats, Because for me, I’ve never had a ten, like, above five k package ever sold.

Through any any of social media, but it does happen via emails very regular.

So it was very surprising for me. And if you want any resources, we can chat and rebuber, rebuber is an excellent source of, the way she writes cold emails. It’s like it’s just too good. So you can you can I I think her master class is, like, ninety seven dollars or something like that?

So that’s that. Do that.

Thank you. Yeah. No. It’s definitely something I have to try. To be honest, it’s just there’s a sense of there’s just so much stigma around cold emails just something I never even even really thought about for me to be honest.

Yeah. Sorry. Go ahead.

No. No.

Please. No. Please go ahead.

So I I felt this I felt a similar way, but when you see Breeze approach, I’ve literally got responses. Like, this is the best goal email ever. This is the best I I also added, like, my touch to it. Like, I I because I couldn’t completely align with pre.

So I obviously you find your own style, and I didn’t. And then when you put all your copywriter assets and it actually comes off because it’s not like, hey. The sucks hire me for this. It’s like a whole conversation.

And when you have that conversation, they’re like, Thank you for thinking so far for my business, which I could I wouldn’t have done that in the next three months.

Okay.

Yeah. Just to kind of build on what Alicia said, you know, like we, so when we started back in twenty eleven, we had No network. We were not part of any mastermind. We were not part watchments for, like, the longest time ever.

Joe was the first one I joined. Right? So, But and we had no connections online. Nothing.

This was, like, just mine and me.

And that’s how we landed our first clients was cold emails. So and this was without any copywriting training. So y’all have, like, I’m this was back in twenty eleven, and there were, like, zero tools Like, I had a Yahoo account wrong. So that is what I used.

So if we could close clients with that, I there’s no reason why you wouldn’t be able to do it now. And again, we’re not remember, we’re not talking about, like, oh, you need to, like, get five hundred or thousand contacts from LinkedIn or Biolist and all of that. No. What you’re looking at, you’re looking at, like, identifying thirty people maybe that you would be a good fit for and reaching out to say ten of them.

How hard is that? Like, break it out like that and think about it. So yeah. Don’t let, like, the, you know, I know, call emails gets, like, a bad name. But again, like, I posted out AI today, it, you know, who is sending out those call emails?

It’s it’s us humans. So it’s not cold emailed to blame. It’s how it’s being used.

Thank you.

Welcome.

And, y’all, does it have any question questions? I would love to get your ideas on the patches packages that I’ve been thinking of. Like, I wanna specialize in funnels, but I am, like, I’m getting a lot of traction with goal emails. So I also I am also thinking that it can be like more than three packages for funnels, but I’ve thought as the first one is done with you funnel for course, like, people coaches who have an idea, but they’re so scared and they’re, like, you know, I I’ve sold this, like, two spots.

And one is they can’t see beyond their head. Like, they’re like, okay. I’m great at so many things, and I wanna create a bundle of all that things. And it doesn’t make sense in in the in package.

So it’s like a done with you funnel where the first part is like solid aggregation where we only stick to one part one part and specialize in it. And then I’m I’m selling it for two thousand five hundred. It’s eight eight weeks.

One ninety minute call a week. Have already sold two of them. One for eight ninety seven and the other one for two thousand five hundred. So it’s, like, already and this is, like, not even putting a Google page.

It’s just verbally LinkedIn posts and all. That’s the first package. The mid tier package, now I was thinking of doing a minimal viable funnel. But then now I’m seeing a huge need for list growth.

And that is, like, I’ve been chatting two operators and they’re like, my my programs have sold out before, like, on a huge scale, but now they’re not because my list is capped. So it’s the offer is not the problem. The list is. Like, I’ve worked with Laura, Danny, Samorovis, Paula are sharing the same thing.

So this is just for copper. It doesn’t I’m sure it is somewhat similar for course creators as well. So I don’t want to limit this to creator, course creators. It’s for creator.

Like, it could be for operators, could be for any creators. And the the idea is three related magnets, three landing pages, three nurturing sequences. And if needed, one abandoned cart sequence as well. Mhmm.

So that’s like my middle offer. It will be around eight thousand dollars to nine thousand dollars. I’m currently I I I I’ve sold a fragment because this is just, like, very new. I’ve sold a fragment of it via Coli Mills.

So still need to test this. Then the top tier is now I have, like, two, like, one is the whole thing, and then it could be, like, a down cell. So the whole thing is like a proper full course funnel when if it adds, pre launch emails, launch emails, post launch emails, and even the onboarding emails and upsells, down sells, the cross sells, the whole, the whole full package. And then a minimum viable launch could be, pre launch emails, launch emails, sales pitch. So that’s, like, just one offer, but This is what I’ve been thinking, and now I’m thinking, like, if what are your thoughts on this first?

Just any one of the coupon away in?

Any questions?

Okay.

So my first thought is with the starter package, you already validated the done with your follow-up thing. I mean, you could obviously go ahead and run a pro so it’s it’s a validator offer. You would actually start, like, kind of selling it, owning it, and talking about it and promoting it.

The middle tier.

One it sounds like I’m just a little confused about the outcome. Like, why do they need three lead magnets? How is it going will it create recurring income for you? Are you gonna be giving them one lead magnet every month or every quarter?

What’s the what’s the benefit in that for me as a creator, if I was looking at it, like, how would you be helping me test them out? Like, what’s in it for me? Why would I need to relay my to begin with? Is my first question as a creator?

Do I get all three of them together? Or is it more like a quarterly thing?

How does the abandoned cart sequence fit in? Because we’re not really selling them anything. So I’m not clear about the outcome or the benefits here as a prospect.

If you have sold it, great. Maybe look at it and see what you could, you know, optimize in there. If you haven’t sold it as is, because I’m not sure if I heard you say that you’ve sold it. You said you’ve spoken with a lot of copywriters, or have you done this for a lot of copywriters? I’m not really sure.

No.

I this is what the idea which I’ve got from copywriters because okay.

Got it. Cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Great. So, yeah, so I think this it’s a it’s a really good idea, Alisa, that would help you kind of generate, like, make it into almost like a recurring package.

For I’ll give you an example with the flash sale emails. Right? So people have, like, have the option of three days and five days, but they could also bill book multiple packages if they wanted to run say quarterly.

Sales, right, which is great for them and great for me. I’m not working on multiple, you know, I’m not writing, like, five different sequences for them or even three different sequences for them, but I’m writing, but I’m still booking them in for three different packages. So because they could see how they may need, you know, say three different flagships for three different offers that they have.

The idea you have is good. I would like spend some time spend some more time in the ideation phase there looking at How can it be easier, easy to understand, for your prospect? Right now, I’m I’m tripping over a lot of things. I’m like, okay. Well, why would I need all of this?

And how does this help? Do you think?

Sorry. Go ahead. Do you think it’s better if I do, like, one lead magnet one, then they can book multiple there. So the the outcome is you get, like, the ideal clients in your list.

So if you’re buying my these the entire package, three late payments, three landing bridges, email sequences, three sales emails, and a bunch. So you’re selling something at the end, and every lead magnet will be will be leading to one of your products. So I I missed that part. And then the whole, like, my aim would be adding five thousand subscribers to your list through this.

Mhmm. Mhmm.

You know, it it, like, you you could and then if if that seems like a huge thing, we could we can, like, make it very small, one lead magnet, one landing page, one email sequence, one sales email, one event.

So this is like one because you said that people can book multiple flash sales emails. So I just want that if that sends sounds more sensible. So it’s like a smaller commitment and they can book multiple packages if they get ROI out of.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And so put it out there, vetted, like, like I said, you did the other one with the LinkedIn post. Maybe you could vet it with the LinkedIn post again and see if you have any bytes. And if you do, then run it and see what gaps you come up with. So you can optimize it further before formally launching it. But, yeah, that will probably be better than, like, the whole three lead magnets, three sequences thing because that just throws you off and you’re like, okay, well, what am I gonna do with all of that? So that’s good.

The top tier is, of course, the fully, like, is what we have as the fully loaded launch.

Profiles, I would because I’ve now seen so many of those. I’m gonna and you are in CSP.

So I’m gonna challenge you to kinda look at what gaps can you fill beyond the, you know, I I don’t know if you if you I’ve shared my one thing with you.

So the process is same. My style is So I’m adding, like, stand up com like, elements of humor and stand up comedy there.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That’s, like, the process is same, but I I’m doing, like, a lot more analogies, a lot more, like, humor.

And if if you’re selling to mom, so there will be sprinkled mom jokes, which are resonating with your audiences.

So I think my my style comes different in the end end delivery, but I’m open to hear if I can change something in the process as well. So Maybe you could use positioning here to kind of separate yourself.

It just kind of depends on how you put it together.

And share it.

The reason I’m a little skeptical about it being able to stand out just on the basis of humor in copy is because a lot of us do use humor in copy. We do that’s the whole idea. Right? Like, if your audience is moms, you do, you know, you wanna use, like, mom jokes or references from there, or mom life references, or if your audience is like dentist, then that’s where you go.

I mean, like, that’s part of what what we do. I would be interested in seeing how you really own that one thing and help let it shine in how you present it. I’ll give you an example. For me, one thing, has always been ROI and helping creators accomplish greater ROI out of working with us.

Right? That’s, like, part of our offer one thing. When we the brand one thing has always been blending copy with food. So but that’s only for our brand.

I’m not gonna be leaving in food references for other clients.

Is so in your case, I’m just wondering, is the stat of comedy across the board for clients, and I’m gonna I don’t wanna confuse you about your one thing here, but I’m just touring it out there. Like, is the stand up comedy means copy your one thing for your brand? Like, person who comes to mind is Liana Patch.

Who’s made it part of her brand. Anti brands. Right? Is that where you wanna go? Or do you wanna keep copy and comedy as part of your brand? And then take have, like, a one thing that’s separately. So if it’s copy and comedy for your brand and Poine’s brand, slightly, Adam, then I would be interested in seeing how you present the package.

Like, what different would it be? Would you be giving them, like, for instance, one thing that comes to mind is would you be giving them fun one liner real text ideas to, as for pre launch and launch, you know, would you be giving them, like, how can you make the whole because it’s not enough to say, okay, I’ll stand up comedy meets copy. How is it actually meeting? Where is it meeting?

Right? Would your add text be, you know?

Oh, do you have, I know we are short on time, but I’ll share this in Slack with you. There’s a really great resource on, that that I had I bought back in the day that was comedy and Facebook ad copy. It was so cool. Like, their ads were just, like, hilariously good, but also high converting. So You know, so you so think about, like, that’s why I wanna push you to think about don’t just go to, oh, it’s gonna have your sales page and email sequence and all, yeah, short. Like, I know thirty other copyright organizations have gotten the same thing. So, you know, how are you setting yourself apart?

So, yeah, spend some time in the ideation phase for your packages. Yeah.

Thank you so much. I know it took a lot of time. I’m I’m open to hear if anyone else has questions.

Alright. Yeah. Esther, any questions?

I actually have a question.

Alright. So, Prina, in the three piece, you mentioned, in the positioning, that don’t set yourself up, exactly the way others are doing. And you’ll keep an example of, let’s say, for, email copywriting. So if you’re if you’re an email copywriter, don’t don’t package your, product as saying that, alright, I’ll write four email sequences for you and everything that’s the that’s, that every other copyright copywriter is doing. So what would you suggest how to make our packages stand out? So since our services are all aligned because we are all copywriters. So how can we still stand out in the packages?

Mhmm. Mhmm.

Again, go back to your processes and, you know, go back to your go back to things that you, like I said, like, look at what are your surprisingly or shockingly good at. For example, you may be really good at coming up with micro copy. You may not even realize it. Can you own that and say, okay. I will give you e for So let me show, like, with the Flashhell scritzer. Right?

It’s a package of Flashhell emails. It’s not something that’s others haven’t offered before. However, what sets me apart is not just the fact that I will be giving it to them within five business days, but also that I will be giving them social media a copy to promote their thing. Why?

Because I’m leaning on my social media expertise from back in the day. I used to do this day in and day out. I know social media and it’s not something that I’m gonna be, just winging it. So what other skills and talents do you bring to the table?

So if going back to the point, if if my full copy is a strength of yours, can you use that strength to give them CTAs or micro copy for the site’s banner promoting, you know, like a sticky banner promoting the sale that they have. Can you give them, you know, can you give them multiple subject options instead of one or two? You know, can you give them, like, whole CDAs to use on social so that is how you set yourself apart.

You wanna look at your strengths. It’s not like, okay, Welcome sequence packages. Diamond doesn’t, but maybe you find that your strength is coming up with really great and creative thank you pages. So you tell them that, you know, with your welcome sequence, package. I’m gonna give you a thank you page that’s gonna help you increase conversions or get to know your audience better. So lean on your strengths, which is why you really need to know your know yourself.

Need to know your client, yes, but you also need to know yourself. Alright. Thanks. Does that help, really?

Yes. It it really does help. Thanks a lot.

Awesome.

I was just gonna ask a quick follow-up to that. So I’m actually a UX writer for my day job.

So you said micro copy.

And I’ve really thought about how I can kind of merge UX with because I wanna do SaaS emails as well.

So now that you mentioned that, I’m thinking how I can bring the UX element because every settlement app and, you know, all that stuff. So, that got me thinking into how maybe, like, maybe emails and could be like a package by itself.

So One hundred percent. You know, UX is a part of everything. Right? Like, You could do so much, and then with your knowledge of UX, you could do, like, if you’re selling emails, you could do a user experience audit of what happens when someone opt in.

Okay. You know, that could be your starter. And then once you’ve audited, then you can Here’s the thing. Your, the other thing you wanna kind of keep in mind which we found works really well is your package is generally, you know, lead and kind of which is why I want you to think about them as an offer suite and not like, oh, let me offer this because the world is offering it.

No. Where does it fit into your business model? Right? So they sign up for a UX audit because, hey, you’ve been doing this professionally or, you know, you company trusts you enough to hire you.

So you do an audit which then you say, okay. Here’s your audit. Here’s how I can see. We can optimize it.

And here’s how we can continue to work together. I can you know, either make those changes for you, or I can help you get more out of it by writing the emails. Yeah. Yeah.

Just kind of going from there. Not just that. You could also do, you could even look at there. You could do, like, a not just the opt in thing.

You could look at the whole website. As a whole. Right? So it just there’s so many ways that you could use the skills you already have.

Like, I would just start by, like, listing out all the skills you have. Like, is that that’s just like one teeny tiny part. Right? It’s the checkout experience.

Can you use the checkout experience and then sell them on about in cardinal sequences?

Could you look at the welcome email that goes out and then do an onboarding sequence for them? So I mean, I could just go on and on. Yeah.

Thank you.

You’re welcome. Awesome. Hope this was helpful. Perfect. Esther, happy to hear you.

Thank you so much.

Awesome. Great. So glad to hear that. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions, you know, where to find me. The recording of course will be, and They’ll be where it is for y’all.

But yeah, thank you so much all for being here. And, I’ll see you in Slack

I know a few people have DM’d to say they’ll be showing up a little late today, so I’m just gonna roll with it.