New promo eyedea 4U

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Last night, I got on a call with a dude whose very expensive course I bought just last weekend.

The dude is a media buyer, and he has worked on the teams of the most famous/notorious Internet marketers and biz opp sellers, ones you would for sure know.

Now, this dude has his own brand teaching folks how to launch and scale a low-ticket offer, as a way of building up an email list with buyers.

Like I said, his course is properly expensive, but I figured it will save me both time and money in the long term, so I happily paid for it. Plus, it’s nice to get some 1-1 contact with the guru, which is what last night was about.

The dude and I talked about my “Daily Emails 101” offer, which I recently validated to cold traffic, and which I will be spinning up as my first low-ticket funnel.

He had a handful of suggestions for me, including one thing I’ve myself told coaching clients before, and practiced myself before:

Strip down your offers to be smaller, and charge for what you were giving away before.

(In the case of my Daily Emails 101 offer, that means making the offer just the 101 daily email prompts and maybe the 5-Minute Crash Course On Writing Daily Emails, while turning the other elements into order bumps.)

If you have an offer you’re selling just to cold traffic, then this is a change you can make from today to tomorrow.

But if you have an offer that you’re selling to your warm list, it is a huge waste to simply make this change from today to tomorrow.

Instead, take the opportunity to turn this change into a promo, an event of a few days, where you make a big deal about the fact that something sexy is disappearing (free bonuses in this case), and that there is a strict deadline to protect ya neck before it happens.

I’ve done this with my Copy Riddles program. I’ve done with my Daily Email Habit service. And now I am willing to do it with you.

Specifically, here’s my offer for you today:

1. I’ll help you plan and run a promo, in this case, a “bonuses disappearing” promo.

2. I will help you define and refine the offer, as needed, come up with an occasion for the promo, hooks for emails, and help you run it live (reposition and clarify the offer if it turns out not to be hitting, integrate new events into emails, deal with complications on the fly). I’ll also give you feedback on your email copy if you want it.

3. The investment is $1k up front, and another $1500 after you make $10k from your promo. If you don’t make $10k with this promo, I will work with you on another promo, or as many as it takes, until you get to $10k.

If you’re interested, hit reply, tell me about your offer, your list, and I will take it from there.

What niche I am in, as are you

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A couple days ago, copywriter Svet Dimitrov, one of the content-creating, profit-making partners in my Daily Email House community, asked a question of the group:

“What niche are you in?”

It’s one of those questions I hate answering when asked by marketing folks, much like I hate answering “What do you do?” when asked by non-marketing normies. (My stock answer to the second question is, “Not much.”)

As far as I am able to articulate:

I’m currently in the niche of sharing what’s been working for me, and for the people I’ve been coaching, in order to make money online.

Previously, around the start of this decade, I was in the niche of writing Most Valuable Emails.

And before that, in the first year or two of my newsletter, I was in the niche of quoting Gene Schwartz’s books and seminars.

The fact is, as grandiose as it sounds, I am in the niche of being me.

If you want to have a personal brand online, the same is true of you.

That means YOUR personality, YOUR unique interests, and (as I am doing these days) YOUR results and case studies.

Yes, you typically have to have some sort of core topic to circle back to. But the “core topic” your readers will happily consume from you is surprisingly fluid, and it can definitely change over time (as it has for me).

The one thing that is constant is YOU.

Maybe you’re thrilled by that fact, or maybe it makes you uncomfortable.

In either case, you might as well start writing online now, because you ultimately have everything you need, or will ever need. If you want my help turning that into daily emails that make people buy today, and keep them reading tomorrow:

https://bejakovic.com/deh

How to dissolve a fight before it breaks out

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Once, in between doing my squats at the gym, I listened to an interview with a prison guard who also moonlights as a standup comic. (Wait, it’s relevant.)

The prison guard, who is a male of the species, also guards female prisoners.

One time, in close quarters, the male prison guard had to confront a female prisoner, who was pregnant, and who was in a section of the prison where she was not allowed to be.

As he moved past the female prisoner, she spun around, and quarters being close, and she being pregnant, her belly hit his belly. Or vice versa. One thing is clear:

The female prisoner flared up.

“You just hit my belly!” she said.

Prison guards I guess have a good sense for when fights are about to break out. “In my head,” says the prison guard, “I went, uh-oh. I think I might be fighting this lady.”

But, like I told you, the prison guard also moonlights as a standup comic.

“My mind’s always going,” he says. ” Like, I really have some funny things that go through my head.”

Most of the time, he filters himself from saying those things. This time, he chose not to filter anything.

So instead of trying to appease the woman… instead of trying to prove it was her belly that hit his belly, and not the other way around… instead of invoking his authority and telling her to shut up and get in line, the prison guard said:

“If you come at me, I’m fighting both of you.”

The female prisoner was stunned. “What do you mean?”

“You and your baby.”

The female prisoner couldn’t believe it. “That’s fucked up,” she said.

“I’m just telling you straight. And when I write the report, I’m writing it as a two on one. And so I’m putting in that report. I felt the baby try to kick me through your belly.”

The female prisoner shook her head, chuckled a bit, and walked off. “You’re fucked up,” she said.

“We’re all fucked up in here,” the prison guard replied.

And so the fight was off.

If you wanna find out the subtle and invisible psychology of what happened to make this forming fight dissolve, and how you can do the same, even if your mind is not “always going” and you don’t find yourself very quick-witted or funny on your feet, then go read Commandment VI of my 10 Commandments of Con Men etc. book.

I name and explain both the technique this standup prison guard was using, and explain the underlying reason it works, so you can make it work for you as well, whenever somebody accuses, mocks or criticizes you. If you’re curious:

https://bejakovic.com/new10commandments

How to grow a Skool group to 500+ members in 14 days

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Yesterday, I sent out a handraiser email asking my readers if they have a Skool group with 500+ members. Results:

A handful people replied to tell me NO.

Precisely ZERO people replied to tell me YES.

I found that surprising, because a few weeks ago, I sent out similar handraiser email and asked my readers if they have an email list of 5k+ subscribers.

I got dozens of people replying YES to that.

Maybe some of my readers have Skool groups with fewer than 500 members. Maybe they have groups on other platforms than Skool. Or maybe folks on my list are primarily concerned with email, and have no interest in running a group, on Skool or anywhere else.

About that last option, back in 2025, I wrote the following:

“The people who do a good job running communities will have the same advantage that, say, a business that emails its customers regularly with interesting emails and desirable offers has over a business that emails stupid coupons at holiday time with nothing else in between, except maybe a ChatGPT-generated listicle.”

I still stand by that. In fact, I’ve doubled down on it, and now I have two Skool groups, rather than just one. Each of my Skool groups has made me tens of thousands of dollars over the past year.

The thing is, there is plenty of genuinely valuable info on how to write emails and make money from an email list.

There is not so much info on how to manage people in a group, get them engaged, and get them to gladly and even eagerly hand you money.

Yes, there are a bunch of new-baked Skool experts promising to teach you how to be Skool experts, if you would only join their Skool group for would-be Skool experts. so they could finally have some proof to show their Skool-expert system works.

But there’s not a lot from people who have been running groups for, say, 10+ years, who have made millions of dollars per year via groups, who have spun up dozens of new groups and made them successful.

And with that, it is now time for me to once again promote Travis Sago’s Royalty Ronin community, of which I am a card-carrying and paying member myself.

Travis has been running groups and communities for 10+ years.

Out of everybody I have seen manage groups, nobody is as good as Travis in terms of 1) engagement and interesting group content 2) the ability to pull money out of a group.

Travis’s Royalty Ronin community is a paid group of about 500 members. Last year, Travis pulled out more than a million dollars out of it, and the majority of that was not through membership subscriptions. Rather, it was by partnering up with members, licensing his courses to members, and by running auctions to sell his new offers.

Last month, Travis ran an auction where the offer on auction was a brand new community that Travis would create, stocked with 500 members, which the auction winner would run and monetize with Travis’s help.

Two days ago, the winner of that auction posted the following inside Ronin:

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$540 monthly recurring. 519 members. 15% conversion.

From scratch. In 14 days.

That’s what Travis Sago’s Netflix Method did for Leads on Demand, the Skool community we built from zero (I say we…Travis is building…I’m doing the documenting!)

If you’ve got a community that’s gone quiet, or you’ve been putting one off because you just don’t know where to start, this is the step-by-step.

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… and then came the step-by-step (part 1 of 4).

I am going through this step-by-step carefully, and I am going to be applying it to my groups.

If you’d like to go through it yourself, Travis offers a 7-day free trial to Ronin (the “Netflix Method” is currently pinned as the top post inside). If you are interested in growing, running, or monetizing a Skool community, and you want to learn how the best that I know is doing it:

https://bejakovic.com/ronin

I refuse this nemesis

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A few weeks ago, I got the following notice of a new subscriber who had signed up to my email list:

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Name: ur a vaxxed faggot

Email: killl@yourself.com

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A few days after that, I checked my 10 Commandments of Con Men etc. book on Amazon. I found that, along with a handful of new 5-star reviews, I now also have a new 1-star review that said:

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A bunch of stories loosely strung together. Grammatical and spelling errors. Poor quality.

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The name of that reviewer on Amazon is “Nemesis.” I checked, and this Amazon shopper has posted no other reviews, ever. Apparently, “Nemesis” had it in for me so bad that he or she decided for the first and possibly only time ever to create a custom account name, write up a book review, and even press the “Submit” button.

So do I have a nemesis now? And is it the same person whose first name is “ur a vaxxed faggot”?

I hope not. Not because I’m afraid of having a nemesis, but because I’m waiting for a worthy nemesis.

Sherlock Holmes has Professor Moriarty, a criminal genius.

Batman has the Joker, carnage and chaos personified.

I hope I’m not left with some troll who slinks around the web leaving 1-star reviews on Amazon and who spells “killl” with three l’s.

But let me get back to my 10 Commandments book, because Commandment IV is actually relevant to the topic of refusing an unworthy nemesis. Commandment IV of my book states:

“Remember the push-pull, to keep thy adversary’s interest keen”

That commandment lays out a bunch of stories, loosely strung together, to illustrate how screenwriters, pick up artists, and con men have figured out that the human brain works by contrast, and that without adequate contrast, the world becomes invisible.

These “influence professionals” have also figured out specific techniques, such as the “near miss,” the “push-pull,” and the “prat-out,” that are fundamentally about taking advantage of our brains’ need for contrast, in order to influence people in subtle and powerful ways.

Applying the core of those techniques to nemesis territory, my conclusion is that your nemesis should both be very like you — in terms of power, size, ability — and very unlike you — in terms of core beliefs, style, and method.

I’d now like to invite you to buy and read my book.

Worst case, you buy the book, you find it fascinating, and you decide to leave a 5-star review.

Best case, you buy it, you find it the most preposterous thing you’ve ever read, and you also happen to be well established in your field and have a large audience and a lot of authority. If that turns out to be the case, then write me an email, because I’m happy to discuss entering upon a mutually beneficial nemesis relationship together.

In either case, here’s where to get started:

https://bejakovic.com/new10commandments

My results on cold traffic vs. email

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This morning I woke up and checked my email to find a new sale notification. Daily Emails 101, $5. “Damn it,” I said.

For the past week, I’ve been running my “Daily Emails 101” offer to cold Meta traffic. Results as of this morning, when I shut the campaign down:

Outbound clicks: 195

Sales: 6

Conversion rate: 3.07%

I was doing this because I wanted to test if this offer had legs on cold traffic. It apparently does — only barely.

I was told that 3% to an ugly, unoptimized page, selling a $5 offer, is the minimum you should get if have any hope of eventually having the optimized funnel break even on cold traffic.

With today’s sale, I managed to squeeze in right at the buzzer. (I was going to run the campaign until 200 clicks and then stop.)

Compare that to the results I had when I made the exact same offer to my list about a month ago:

Outbound clicks: ~470

Sales: 155

Conversion rates: ~33%

The same dude whose “offer validation” process I’m following said that if you’re testing an offer to warm traffic like your email list, you should get at least a 20% conversion rate.

I got over 30%, which I think is a reflection of the quality of my list and the relationship I have with that list, thanks to emailing daily.

My point today is not about how wizardly I am at email marketing. My point is how email marketing, even when done at an average level, completely transforms the math of selling.

Same offer. Same copy. Only difference is cold audience vs. an audience that’s gotten a bunch of emails from you… and the result is 3% vs 20% conversion rate in the average case, or more if you’re willing.

This morning, when the 6th sale came in via cold traffic and I realized that my offer still has legs, I said “damn it” because it means I will now have to do all the work of building out the cold traffic funnel for real:

Better copy… order form bumps… upsells… more ads… constantly monitoring results… watching money drain out of my account and then maybe get replenished, maybe not… family drama… increased blood pressure… rising oil prices… basically pandemonium.

All that sounded exciting before I got started. Of course, now that I’m in it, it just seems like a ton of drudge work.

I’ll still do it, primarily because of ego. Because after being in direct marketing for 10+ years, it bothers me that I’ve never really “mastered traffic,” whatever that might mean.

But logically — logically — things are just so much easier and better on the back end.

It’s 10x easier to a sell a $5 offer to your email list than it is to cold traffic.

It’s perfectly legitimate to sell a $5k offer to your list with just a few emails (I’ve done it multiple times this year), while it’s impossible to do on cold traffic, at least directly (yes, you can do it as an upsell, but even that’s likely to require sales calls).

And the back end is just more fun — not everything needs to be a “template,” “swipe,” or “AI prompt,” the way it does on cold traffic.

It all starts by emailing your list regularly. Actually, not regularly. Daily. I don’t want to shortchange you.

You can get average results by emailing regularly, but you get top-tier results simply by showing up every day.

It’s not hard to do. In fact it’s even fun and after a while, liberating. You can get started today if you like, and if you want my help, there’s my Daily Email Habit service, which gets you writing daily emails, daily. For more info on that:

https://bejakovic.com/deh

They thought he was crazy to SEARCH ON UPWORK for $12k/month retainers…

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… but he’s found them twice and he’s about to do it again.

When Nick Bandy and I began talking about the cohort Nick is starting up tomorrow, offering folks to help them find them their next $10k of freelancing work, with higher-paying, more chill, more retainable clients, Nick told me:

“Just browsing Upwork the other day, I actually think there are MORE good jobs available now than there were in 2024—last time I checked. But I am going to cull all the references to Upwork. I think no matter how much I talk about Upwork people still don’t believe me.”

Nick’s email list is made up of veteran freelancers looking for bigger clients.

Whenever Nick brings up the idea in his emails of getting cool, stable, big-ticket clients on Upwork, those veterans call him crazy.

Whoever heard of getting great clients on Upwork? How could it work with the glut of low-skill and low-price competition? What slave-wage conditions would you have have to subject yourself to? Objection after objection.

For generations now, Upwork has had the reputation of a bargain bin of both clients and of freelancers foolish enough to serve them.

Except Nick got a gig on Upwork, back in 2024, the last time he went looking for new clients there. That client paid him $4k for a one-off job writing some emails and opt-in form copy, a job that Nick says took him 5 hours. The $4k gig soon turned into a $12k/month retainer for 10 hours of work per week, a gig that has paid Nick ~$300,000 over the past couple years.

(Nick did this before also. The most impressive story was when he went on Upwork and got a one-off blog-writing gig. That turned into a profit-sharing partner position with an established marketing agency, a relationship that lasted for 8 years.)

In his spare time, Nick created several courses showing folks how he has been able to find good clients on Upwork and repeatedly turn them into long-term, stable sources of income.

He started to advertise, using modest little Facebook ads. 1,000+ people have bought Nick’s Upwork trainings so far. Enthusiastic letters began to pour in about the insightfulness of Nick’s ideas, the quality of his courses, and his unique approach to client-getting…

… and STILL people call him crazy whenever he brings up the simple fact that you can get great clients on Upwork.

Here’s how Nick’s crazy idea is working right now:

Nick is himself looking for clients on Upwork again, because he is starting up an email marketing agency.

Like he says, there are more good clients now than the last time he looked, back in 2024, when he found a $12k/month retainer on Upwork.

But it’s not like Nick is gonna take all these clients.

So he is offering to take you along, and help you profit in the same way he has been able to profit. Not only to tell you the insights he has distilled into his courses, but to apply his experience to your unique situation, and to give you support and encouragement for you when you might need it.

Nick is guaranteeing your results up to $10k in new client work.

If you are hungering for your fill of client work, with cool, stable, decent clients who pay you what you’re worth, and who keep giving you work and money month after month, then you will want to join Nick’s cohort.

He’s breaking up his fee to make sure he has skin in the game, so you get the results he’s guaranteeing. His deal is $2k to get started, and $3k after you get to $10k in new client work from Upwork, with his guidance, support, and Upwork magic.

NOTE: Nick’s cohort kicks off tomorrow. If you want more information before it closes, write Nick directly at ​nick@nickbandy.com​, and ask for his descriptive free folder. Here’s a message you can send him to start:

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SUBJECT: I think you’re crazy

… but I’m curious about your cohort about getting $10k worth of good client work on Upwork. I am [a copywriter/media buyer/freelance dog groomer.] Would your cohort be a good fit for me?

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$10k worth of freelancing clients on offer

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Yesterday, I wrapped up my own promo early because I have something new and urgent to promote today:

Nick Bandy’s $10k Client-Getting Cohort.

This is for you if you’re a freelancer and:

* You’re making little money

* You have just one client who is monopolizing all your time (9-5 disguised as freelancing)

* You’re not getting paid well for the work you do, and you therefore have to work and hustle after midnight just to hit some baseline income each month

I’m promoting Nick and his cohort for two reasons.

Reason one is that Nick won my “I endorse you” auction last year, and it’s part of our deal. Like I’ve said repeatedly, I was lucky Nick won the auction, and I’ve been able to endorse him wholeheartedly since, because… well, that brings up to reason two.

Reason two is that Nick is legitimately an expert on getting freelancing clients. Consider the following:

#1. For the the past two years, Nick has worked as a fractional CMO with a company that has paid him $12k/month for 5 hours of work a week.

Nick got that cushy role by first doing a small freelancing job for the client, then working and winding his way deeper into the client’s business, until it was just easier for the client to offer him a fractional CMO retainer rather than keep hiring him for one-off jobs.

It hasn’t been just one “lucky break” either.

Before that, Nick was the partner of a marketing agency. He came in as a freelancer in 2015 to write some blog posts and left, 8 years later, as Associate Creative Director and profit-sharing partner.

#2. As part of his fractional CMO gig, Nick hired a bunch of freelancers and agencies himself, for everything from PPC to SEO to blog writing to PR to Reddit reputation management.

In other words, Nick doesn’t just have experience getting, upselling, and retaining clients as a freelancer. He also knows from the other side what clients want and how they can be smoothly guided to ongoing, profitable engagements.

#3. Nick has literally written the book on getting high-ticket freelancing clients, or rather, he has created a series of courses on the matter which are both selling at a profit each day to cold traffic (no easy feat, as I’m finding out these days) and that I have gone through, profited from directly, and promoted to this list.

After years of contentedly sitting around in his bathrobe and clicking a few buttons each week for his $12k retainer client, Nick has now decided to get several new clients, because he wants to start up an email agency.

Since he’s gonna be looking for new clients over the coming weeks, he’s offering to take a few smart and cool freelancers or agency owners along with him for the ride.

That’s the offer I want to promote to you urgently, and that I couldn’t wait any longer to tell you about.

Nick’s cohort kicks off this Wednesday.

If you want in, you’ll have to talk to Nick by tomorrow. Here are the details of his offer, in his own words:

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I’m pitching businesses again.

I’m looking for low-stress, high dollar-per-hour arrangements with the potential for repeat work.

I’m inviting others to join me and work alongside me.

I’ll help you find, pitch, close, upsell, and retain clients.

The goal is to get you your next $10,000 in client work, AND leave you with a repeatable playbook to keep getting low-stress, high dollar-per-hour clients like these, for as long as you desire.

I will continue to support you for as long as it takes to hit $10,000 in client work.

So, how much to invest?

$5k.

That’s to land clients paying you more than you’re currently charging, with less work than you’re currently performing.

The last job I landed at the very beginning of 2025 was a few emails and some opt-in form copy for $4,000 dollars. It took me maybe 5 hours to write. That turned into a $12,000 per month retainer.

(Despite the fact that the client never suggested, hinted, or implied that there would be repeat work.)

Even if you only land $4k worth of work per month for the next year, that’s $48,000…almost a 10x return.

Assuming you don’t retire from client work in a year, you can do the math.

Because of that, $5k is a reasonable investment.

But not everyone has $5,000 lying around.

I would have been hesitant to invest $5k up front back in 2024.

So here’s what we’re going to do:

➡️ You pay me $2k today to get started.

➡️ You pay me another $3k after you get your next $10,000 in client work.

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If you’re interested in getting higher-ticket, cooler clients with Nick’s help, hit reply to this email, and tell me who you are and what you currently do. If I think Nick could do a good job getting you $10k worth of new clients, I’ll tell you so, and I’ll put you in touch with the dude.

Last call for Fast Revenue Laser Coaching (and my bonus)

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This is the last email I will send to promote Rob Goyette’s Fast Revenue Laser Coaching along with my “I help you” bonus.

Rob’s Laser coaching Offer will go on after tonight, and will continue to be a worthwhile investment. But my promo ends tonight, Sunday, at 11:5pm EST, at which point my bonus disappears, never to be repeated again.

I once listened to a seminar by legendary direct marketer Dan Kennedy in which Dan, an inveterate gambler, helpfully advised one of his seminar attendees:

“You gotta make a bet at least once a day! You could be walking around lucky and not know it.”

I’ll make the same argument for making a $1k+ offer to your list.

You gotta make a $1k+ offer to your list at least once a month. You might have people on there who would happily pay you a thousand dollars or more, and not know it.

Like I’ve been saying the past few days, Rob’s Fast Revenue Laser Coaching is the best and easiest method I know to create a $1k offer that 1) sells and 2) makes sense to deliver for $1k.

If you’re curious about it, here are the details about it, one last time.

The offer:

Rob Goyette’s Fast Revenue Laser Coaching program.

The promise of Rob’s Laser Coaching is to add money to your bank account, fast, even by the end of this week. Previous experience and success with coaching are optional.

I put Rob’s Laser Coaching system into action myself last winter.

I proved to myself it works.

I am now happy and even eager to recommend it to you. Tons of people on my list and in my Skool group don’t have an offer at the $1k mark, and their lists and businesses would be transformed if they did. Rob’s Laser Coaching program legitimately fixes that.

My bonus:

Rob’s Fast Revenue Laser Coaching sells for $997.

My bonus, if you take me up on this offer, is my ongoing 1-1 support until you make your first $997 with your own Laser Coaching offer. That means getting just ONE Laser Coaching client, and it’s very doable.

To make sure it’s not only doable but that you actually do it:

We’ll get on an initial call, to see where you’re at and how best to proceed.

After that, you get access to me over email, as often as you like, on any Laser Coaching related topic, with the goal of moving you forward to signing coaching clients and making your money back and then some.

I’ll help you with your offer, your copy, or you deliverables. I will also be there if you simply need me to tell you that, yes, you’re okay to take the next step forward.

The sales mechanism:

Rob sent me several options for selling Fast Revenue Laser Coaching: a sales page, a downloadable report, a recorded webinar.

I normally sell affiliate offers direct to the sales or even order page.

I also normally hate webinars.

In this case, I will send you to the webinar, and I will in fact insist that you watch it. (I went through it myself just now.) The reason why:

Like I said, Fast Revenue Laser Coaching costs $997. That’s a significant amount.

If you are considering buying this offer, it’s worth 27 minutes of your life to sit through Rob’s presentation about it, and get informed about what you’re buying, and make an informed choice whether or not to buy it.

I’m making your watching this webinar a condition for taking me up on my bonus. (I will simply ask you if you have watched in full, and I will rely on your scout’s honor to tell me the truth.)

Rob’s webinar lays out his entire system in 5 steps. You can go through the webinar if you like, get a clear idea of what Rob’s system is, and run with it.

Of course, you won’t get the implementation specifics, templates, etc. I believe the full system, with all the details and resources that Rob’s experience provides, is worth $997, in order to get better results and to save time.

Once again, this is a recorded webinar.

Quite pleasantly, Rob is open about that fact right at the start.

There’s none of the usual webinar fakery and time wasting: “Where is everybody from? Oooh Ann is from Connecticut… and Mike is from Baltimore… welcome Mike…”

None of that.

You also don’t have to wait 7 mins and 32 seconds until it starts. You can watch right away, and simply find out if this is for you or not, without any fluff.

Once again, this offer ends tonight, Sunday, at 11:59pm PST.

If you’re interested in having a coaching offer that sells, and you want to get my 1-1 support making your first $997 with Laser Coaching, here’s where to go:

https://bejakovic.com/laser