3 lessons from my just concluded promo

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After promos, I have this habit to sit down and write up a list of conclusions.

After promos that go well, I have this habit to publicly share some of those conclusion in an email.

I just concluded my promo for for the 1-Person Advertorial Agency.

It went well.

I promoted from last Monday until last night. I sent 7 emails. I made a nice pile of money, enough to buy an F1 Savannah cat.

Here are three things I concluded/learned/want to remember from the current promo:

#1. Keep mailing as long as you’re making sales

I was 93% sure this promo would be a 98% flop for me.

I had already promoted 1PAA to my list, less than 6 months ago, when v1 became available.

I figured I had tapped out demand. I figured the mystique and excitement had gone. I figured the updated version — a nice and polished video course as opposed to a live all-evening training — actually lowered the perceived value rather than increased it.

“Should I promote this at all?” I said to myself.

I decided I would send one email on Monday and most likely be done with it. I had planned out bonuses but I purposefully didn’t even list them in the initial email, because I didn’t want to make more work for myself.

I sent that one email on Monday… and I made a couple sales.

So I decided to mail on Tuesday also.

I made more sales.

So I kept mailing, day after day after day.

Every night, I would look at my 1PAA promo like the Dread Pirate Roberts looked at Westley, and I would say to it:

“Good night, 1PAA promo. Good work. Sleep well. I’ll most likely kill you in the morning.”

Well, I ended up promoting all week long, and making sales with each email I sent out. When I decided to close the promo last night, so I could move on to other things, I wrote one final farewell email, after which half a dozen more sales came in.

Lesson being, I don’t know anything, the market decides, and so I should keep mailing as long as I’m making sales.

#2. Roll your own affiliate offers

In some ways, I’ve been intimately tied to this 1PAA offer.

Last summer, Thom Benny announced this offer without making it available for affiliates.

I pushed him to open it up to affiliates because I wanted to promote it.

When Thom said he might do so in the future but cannot now, because he doesn’t have a shopping cart that accepts affiliates, I offered to run the entire offer through my ThriveCart.

Thom agreed.

The result was that we ended up selling the 30 spots of v1 of 1PAA in a matter of hours after I promoted it to my list.

When this v2 rolled around, Thom sent out a draft of his sales page.

I pushed back on what I thought was an injustice being done to the amazing case studies this offer has, which were buried deep in the body copy.

As a result, Thom pulled these case studies into the lead, and turned the dutiful v1 of the sales page into a sexy v2 of the sales page, at least to my opportunity-seeker eyes.

There’s a bigger point here:

I’ve realized I love being in a position of helping put together an affiliate offer, and promoting offers that haven’t yet become sclerotic because the offer owner really wants nothing to do with the offer any more, except to trot it out from time to time to some new affiliates, and maybe make a few more sales if those will come.

I first influenced and helped shape an affiliate offer a couple years ago, with Steve Raju’s ClientRaker.

I did it again here with 1PAA.

I will be seeking out more opportunities to partner with people and help them put together a great offer that I can then promote as an affiliate.

#3. Old promise + new plan

Marketer Justin Goff, who used to write these kinds of post-promo lessons-learned emails, which I loved and am copying now, said something profound once:

“Making money with an email list is really about selling the same benefits over and over again with a new mechanism.”

I’ve summarized this to myself as, “Old Promise + New Plan.”

I’ve realized that, when I stick to this super simple formula, offers I create or promote perform well (again, with a 98% certainty). When I stray from this formula, offers flop (with a 93% certainty).

And on that note, I can tell you that for the rest of this month, I will be talking about how you can monetize your email list, so you can buy your own F1 Savannah cat, by creating 1k+ offers that your list actually wants to buy, and that you feel good about delivering. But more about that… tomorrow.

Last call for 1-Person Advertorial Agency & my bonuses

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It’s 10:32 pm on Saturday night as I write this. I’m having my chamomile tea. I’m eyeing my Kindle longingly. Frankly I had been hoping to skip writing this final email BUT—

Every time I’ve sent an email this week about the 1-Person Advertorial Agency, I’ve made multiple sales.

People want this offer.

And so, in respect to the spirit of Gary Halbert, who said you keep mailing an offer for as long as it keeps making money…

… in due deference to my own pocket book, which is always hungry for a little more cash…

… and also with your best interest in mind, in case this offer could be useful to you, but you haven’t given it proper consideration until now…

… let me say this is your last call.

The deadline to get 1-Person Advertorial Agency + my bonuses is tonight at 12 midnight PST, a short 5 hours from the time this email, scheduled as it soon will be, will go out.

This is the last email I will send about it. (Even if it ends up driving in multiple sales. Sorry Gary!)

All week long, I’ve been saying 1-Person Advertorial Agency is the hottest opportunity for copywriters in 2026.

You can get the full details about this offer at the sales page below.

If you act before the deadline, I am also offering the following bonuses:

#1 Horror Advertorial Swipe File, which you can feed to the AI beast so it produces better, or rather, more horrifying advertorials

#2. 26 Rules of Client Management for Copywriters, taken from my Copy Zone guide to the business side of copywriting

#3. Most Valuable Postcard #1: Nota Rapida, which digs into the topic of building long-term relationships with copywriting clients much more deeply

#4. Ghostbuster, Nick Bandy’s 5-stage sequence for reactivating (reanimating?) dead clients or prospective clients

If you want to get in in the little time that remains, before the church bells toll, the wolves start howling, and the gates shut you out:

https://bejakovic.com/advertorial-agency

Free 3-step plan to get more testimonials, perform an X-ray of your market, have buyers recommit to what they just bought from you, and possibly even drive more sales

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Here’s a 3-step plan to get more testimonials, perform an X-ray of your market, have buyers recommit to what they just bought from you, and possibly even drive more sales:

STEP 1. Sell an offer.

STEP 2. Offer people a bonus if they buy the offer now.

STEP 3. When people buy, send them an email with the promised bonuses. At the top of that email, paste in the following mystical, secret, wizard-like spell:

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Thanks for taking me up on [the name of your offer].

I’m curious, what made you do it?

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Yes, that’s it.

Yes, I can see your jaw drop and your eyes roll back in your head from mock amazement.

All I can say is, don’t knock it till you try it.

I’ve been doing this all week long with people who took me up on my recommendation for the 1-Person Advertorial Agency.

As usual when I interact directly with people on my list, I’ve been blown away by how little I know, how pale my own imagination, and how rich and surprising it is to go out to my market and talk to them.

You want examples?

I’ve gotten a dozen responses so far, with varying answers to “What made you do it.” Three categories have been prevalent so far:

A. The opportunity of the beast

This being a biz-in-a-box offer, it’s inevitable that people would cite the opportunity of it. Ok, that’s not surprising. But still, it’s different and more insightful to hear it in people’s own words:

#1. “I still don’t plan on leaving my job which I like no matter how successful it is though I might stop working overtime and do this instead once it starts paying. In the meantime it’s not that much of a time commitment that I can’t do both.”

#2. “I like Travis [Sago]’s model of working other’s lists but this method looks equally profitable but might be more helpful in expanding my skills.”

B. A point of differentiation

I hadn’t thought of this one at all, and I didn’t talk about it in my emails. And yet, multiple people brought up the uniqueness of advertorials as opposed to other things copywriters can offer:

#1. “It’s also a point of differentiation since it seems that everyone who hasn’t firmly planted their flag in the email copywriting camp (i.e. most copywriters/marketers) has rebranded themselves as a creative strategist overnight (soon-to-be most copywriters/marketers).”

#2. “Clients who are willing to spend money on advertorials are more serious overall. Meta ads is the bright shiny object that everyone and their dog in law wants rn. But advertorials have been around way longer and sophisticated clients like them a lot.”

C. Because of me

1-Person Advertorial Agency is a great offer, I think its value is self-contained.

And yet, the fact that my readers know and trust me (and maybe even like me???) definitely helps sell the offer, and makes it more credible — even when I say I haven’t used this system myself:

#1. “Plus, as a previous buyer of yours, products you recommend carry more weight than other offers.”

#2. “The fact that you are promoting it. Especially your honesty in saying you have not been taken the course yourself.”

So there you go. Sell something. Then ask people why they bought, and you shall receive.

And now, an important announcement:

The opportunity to get 1-Person Advertorial Agency + the bonuses I am offering is ending tonight at 12 midnight PST.

Along with the core 1-Person Advertorial Agency offer (full details at the sales page below), I am offering the following bonuses:

#1 Horror Advertorial Swipe File, which you can feed to the AI beast so it produces better, or rather, more horrifying advertorials

#2. 26 Rules of Client Management for Copywriters, taken from my Copy Zone guide to the business side of copywriting

#3. Most Valuable Postcard #1: Nota Rapida, which digs into the topic of building long-term relationships with copywriting clients much more deeply

#4. Ghostbuster, Nick Bandy’s 5-stage sequence for reactivating (reanimating?) dead clients or prospective clients

If you wanna get that, you will have to act today. But why not act now, while it’s on your mind? Here’s where to go:

https://bejakovic.com/advertorial-agency

How to sell innovative products that eliminate a common gripe and are completely different from other solutions the market has tried

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I have a little treasure chest I call the “Horror Advertorial Swipe File.”

This swipe file collects 25 horror advertorials I’ve written in the past, which were responsible for millions of dollars in sales to cold Facebook and YouTube traffic of random ecom products, from dog seat belts to kids vitamins to shoe insoles.

I also have outlines of 6 common “horror advertorial” structures found in this swipe file, which I realized and formalized only after writing dozens of these advertorials.

These structures are broken up by the kind of product that’s being promoted and the kind of market problem, for example:

* Everyday need – innovative product that eliminates a common gripe – completely different solution to what they’re currently using

* Acute, annoying problem – science breakthrough packaged into technology

* Unaware of ongoing problem – no good solution – finally a good solution

I even followed one of my own advertorial structures recently when writing up the case study of the $31k auction I ran last month. (I followed the first structure above, of the everyday need and the innovative product that eliminates common gripes with previous solutions like launches, webinars, and sales calls.)

Yes, ecom advertorial structures can be a a great fix for writing boring and literal (version 1 of my case study) and turning the same into exciting and mysterious (version 2), even if you’re writing an entirely different-seeming format (case study/lead magnet versus cold-traffic advertorial).

I’m telling you this because I’m currently promoting the 1-Person Advertorial Agency, which I claim is the hottest opportunity for copywriters in 2026.

Yesterday, I wrote about the “quality” or lack thereof of the copy that this system produces.

I’m putting “quality” in quotes because the real quality is not whether the copy sounds like AI or not (AI does the heavy lifting, and you then polish), but whether it sells or not – and it sells.

In any case, I got a reply to yesterday’s email from Sam Bradbury-Butler, who is both a reader of this newsletter and the creator of the 1-Person Advertorial Agency system. Said Sam:

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I would say a John Bejakovic level writer is likely to get John Bejakovic level advertorials out of the system. The better you know a market, your skill as a writer and the better the examples you feed it, the better an advertorial you’ll get. There’s also no reason why you couldn’t use a John Bejakovic advertorial as the base structure and rhythm of your advertorial if you have his swipe file (!!)

Since there’s a final layer of editing we do, the final product comes down to the writers judgement and skill. AI lays out the proven pieces, and we come through and polish by hand (which I show in the program).

That said, the biggest benefit of the system isn’t that you can make an AI write better than JB but that you can pump out advertorials of a very high quality fast that have the highest possible chance of making an ecom brand (and YOU) a large amount of dosh on each one.

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I was unclear on the bit where Sam says folks could benefit from having my Horror Advertorial Swipe File, and how that fits into his AI workflow. I asked Sam to elaborate. He did:

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After we’ve done our research and designed our ‘argument’ based on the avatar’s beliefs, we use a proven advertorial swipe to become the ‘blueprint’ for the structure and rhythm of the piece. So if someone was to use one of your swipes as the model for their advertorial, it would follow the same structure but written with the stories and language of the researched market and specifically about the product of focus.

For anyone who loves your Horror advertorial style (me included) it’s a great way to create this style of page and then make it your own.

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When I initially promoted the 1-Person Advertorial Agency last summer, I didn’t include any bonuses, because I figured nothing I had could materially contribute to the already overflowing cup of value included in this offer.

This second time, I have come up with a few bonuses that make it even easier or more likely that you will see success, and quick, if you decide to go the 1-Person Advertorial Agency route.

I am now throwing in the Horror Advertorial Swipe File into the mix. The total list of bonuses, if you invest in 1-Person Advertorial Agency, before 12 midnight tomorrow, Saturday is this:

#1 Horror Advertorial Swipe File, which you can feed to the AI beast so it produces better, or rather, more horrifying advertorials

#2. 26 Rules of Client Management for Copywriters, taken from my Copy Zone guide to the business side of copywriting

#3. Most Valuable Postcard #1: Nota Rapida, which digs into the topic of building long-term relationships with copywriting clients much more deeply

#4. Ghostbuster, Nick Bandy’s 5-stage sequence for reactivating (reanimating?) dead clients or prospective clients

Btw, did you catch the deadline above?

It’s tomorrow, Saturday, at 12 midnight PST.

I have other stuff to get to, and so I’m ending my promo early, even before Sam and company completely close down their order page.

If you want the bonuses above, you will have to act before 12 midnight PST tomorrow, Saturday. Or why not act now, why it’s on your mind? Here’s where to go:

https://bejakovic.com/advertorial-agency

If you have ambitions of copywriting mastery…

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A long time reader and professional copywriter writes in to ask about 1-Person Advertorial Agency, which I claim is the hottest opportunity for copywriters in 2026, and which I’ve been promoting all week:

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John, be honest… is the copy the system spits out for the advertorials any good?

Because compared to your advertorial copy, I don’t know, man.

I looked at the advertorial samples on the sales page, and one of them pretty much reads exactly like AI.

That second-to-last paragraph in the joint pain advertorial especially… it made absolutely no sense.

I don’t know, maybe it’s just me being picky.

I just wanted to get your opinion before I consider pulling the trigger.

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Is the copy any good?

I can’t say. I haven’t used the 1-Person Advertorial Agency system myself. But I think the proof is in the pudding.

Does it matter if professional copywriters say it reads like AI?

Or is it more important if it’s making sales to cold traffic, and both the business and the copywriter are making bank?

As for the results of the copy this system produces — the 30% boosts in conversions, the millions of dollars worth of resulting sales, the $49k paychecks — I trust Sam Bradbury-Butler and Thom Benny, the two guys who created this offer. That’s why I’m promoting this to you full-throat.

If you have ambitions of copywriting mastery, I think that’s a noble goal to strive after.

All I will say is it’s much easier to get good as a copywriter if you have successful clients… if you are working on real projects… if you can see sales coming in hourly or minutely… if you have opportunities to test and get results on your tests every day.

Ultimately that’s what this opportunity is about:

Get clients, get results, get paid.

If that’s something that interests you, either so you can take your ample earnings and chill in your ample free time, or so you can take your client relationships and use them to turn yourself into the next Gene Schwartz, here’s where to get at this opportunity, before it closes in a few short days:

https://bejakovic.com/advertorial-agency

The Lazy Man’s Way to Copywriting Clients

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The past few days, I’ve been promoting the 1-Person Advertorial Agency, which I claim is the hottest opportunity for copywriters in 2026.

Do you want a proof element for the effectiveness of what’s being sold to you here?

Will-ye or nill-ye, I’ll give it to ya.

As I wrote a couple days ago, the guy who came up with the 1-Person Advertorial Agency system is a copywriter named Sam Bradbury-Butler.

But the guy who actually got Sam to document his system and turn it into course is former Agora copywriter turned copywriting guru Thom Benny, who counts Sam as one of his proteges.

With me so far?

Good. Cause we have a few more twists and turns:

After the auction I ran in my Skool community last year, I suggested to Thom that, instead of doing a launch as planned for 1-Person Advertorial Agency, we could do an auction. (Remember those?)

We could auction off a done-with-you, 1-1 partnership with Sam… with the post-auction offer being a piece-by-piece breakdown of Sam’s system, along with group coaching to help you implement the same.

Whatever. It doesn’t matter too much if you understand the details of this fantastical offer.

What matters is that meetings were held… plans were hatched… and visions of a $150k auction were had, at least by me.

We even came up with an attractive name for the first (logical) step of Sam’s system, calling it:

“The Lazy Man’s Way to Copywriting Clients”

Aaaaand…. then it all came crashing down.

Sure, Thom and I, who weren’t involved at all in the delivery of these big plans, were excited by the idea of the auction, and the group coaching on the back of it, and all the money it would bring.

Sam, on the other hand, was not excited. In fact he nixed the idea straight out. When I asked why, Thom explained:

“Sam’s got a big project waiting in the wings which he’ll be turning his attention to once this launch closes. So he doesn’t want this launch to burden him with a bunch of other stuff he didn’t really sign up for.”

In other words, Sam is too busy and too happy simply doing what he is teaching here. He has no interest in doing any more teaching of it than he’s already done, even with the promise of more money.

That’s because Sam is making A LOT MORE money by simply working his own system ($49k earlier this month, for just one client, and Sam’s got several).

And though Thom managed to convince Sam to take the time to share how his system works, that’s where it stops, because Sam is going back to profiting from this thing that he’s offering to you right now.

That’s the proof element I promised you up top. It answers the age-old question that pops up with any business opportunity:

“If this is so great, why aren’t you doing it yourself and why are you so busy selling it instead?”

Well, Sam is doing it himself, and he doesn’t want to be busy selling it any more, because he wants to get back to doing.

Anyways, if you wanna find out more about 1-Person Advertorial Agency, you can do so at the sales page below.

Since our ambitious auction plans got scrapped, you can also find out, or at least get a good sense for, “The Lazy Man’s Way to Copywriting Clients.”

You can find that described in the section under the subhead, “Module 3: Getting Paid As A 1-Person Advertorial Agency.”

For that, and the full details of this opportunity while it’s still live:

https://bejakovic.com/advertorial-agency

Will the advertorial opportunity get saturated?

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Yesterday, I started promoting 1-Person Advertorial Agency, which I claim is the hottest opportunity for copywriters in 2026.

Today, I made some sales. I also got some questions. Here’s a layup:

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My furry little mittens are intrigued, enough to make me interested in creating a lucrative side hustle so I don’t have to rely on overtime from work to pad my pay packet. I am not working in the business or copywriting space but if this works for beginners then I think it would work for me. My question though, is do you think this would get saturated given places aren’t capped?

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“Will it get saturated” is a natural question to ask with any “hot” business opportunity, even a niche one like this.

The glib answer is to do some back of napkin math:

There are an estimated 280 million ecommerce businesses worldwide. Even if only 1% are a good fit for this (it’s likely more), and if a staggering 1,000 people end up buying and applying this program (probably way less), there will still be 280 clients to go around for everybody who gets in on this opportunity.

That’s all probably true and even an underestimate. But who was ever persuaded by numbers? For sure not me.

So lemme tell you a better way to look at this situation, meaning my way to look at this situation.

The real opportunity here is not to get dozens or hundreds of clients, and to keep hunting after more and more clients.

The real opportunity here is that advertorials that increase front-end conversions are a way to get your foot in the door with two or three really good long-term partners, who are able and willing to pay you hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars over the long-term.

I speak to this from experience. Five+ years ago, I was actually writing lotsa advertorials for ecommerce clients.

The results were just like the sales page for 1-Person Advertorial Agency claims:

Dramatic boosts in conversion rates and ability to scale on cold traffic. A lot of demand.

All in all, it was fine work, and well paid, even though it took me 4-5 days to do what can now be done in 45 minutes.

But even at the nice rate I was getting paid per advertorial, the vast majority of the money I made with those clients, and in fact the vast majority of the money I’ve ever made from copywriting — I’m guessing over 90% — came via commission-only emails I wrote to the buyers’ lists of those clients.

You don’t have to write emails if you don’t want to.

My point is simply, once again, to get yourself into a place where “saturation” becomes completely irrelevant to you, because you have formed a tight and codependent bond with a few clients. Once you’re making them and yourself a lot of money, you really don’t care what everybody else might be doing because your clients/partners would never think to go somewhere else.

To help you get there, I have decided to add in a few bonuses to the already overflowing cup of value that’s included inside 1-Person Advertorial Agency. Specifically:

#1. 26 Rules of Client Management for Copywriters, taken from my Copy Zone guide to the business side of copywriting.

Inside Copy Zone, I put the section on Client Management before Client Acquisition. As I explain in there:

“It might seem like we’re jumping ahead. But in my copywriting career so far, the biggest mistakes I’ve made and the biggest opportunities I’ve squandered were not due to being ignorant of some secret technique for client acquisition. Instead, they were due to choosing the wrong clients.”

#2. Most Valuable Postcard #1: Nota Rapida, which digs into the topic of building long-term relationships with copywriting clients much more deeply.

#3. Ghostbuster, Nick Bandy’s 5-stage sequence for reactivating (reanimating?) dead clients or prospective clients. As Nick says on the sales page for Ghostbuster:

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I’ve been ghosted after:

* The client replies

* I reveal my rates

* The client sends a job offer

* The client funds the first milestone

* And even AFTER getting paid and receiving a review from the client!

And it really doesn’t matter how good of a salesperson you are, or how amazing your first message was. People. Just. Ghost. It happens to everybody. But it doesn’t have to KEEP happening.

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… and while Ghostbuster can certainly help you turn interested but ghosty prospects into actual clients, it’s even more valuable in that last case, where you’ve already done some work for a client, it went great, and then they ghost you for reasons of their own (it happens).

That’s all if you get 1-Person Advertorial Agency.

Like I said, there’s a sales page for that offer, but rather than send you there, I’ll send you to an email-style advertorial, a piece of sales copy masquerading as content, which I wrote about this offer yesterday, and which will allow you to get a good idea if this offer is for you or not:

https://bejakovic.com/announcing-son-of-sams-1-person-advertorial-agency/

Announcing: Son of Sam’s 1-Person Advertorial Agency

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Today, you can get your furry little mittens on the 1-Person Advertorial Agency, which I believe to be the hottest opportunity for copywriters in 2026.

The background:

Sam Bradbury-Butler is a rare beast, an actual, living freelance copywriter who is doing GREAT, both in 2025 and even in these few days of 2026.

Sam’s been working with various ecom clients over the past few years. He has made millions for them by producing (rather than writing) advertorials, and he’s getting PAID as a result.

How paid?

This January 1st, just 11 days ago, Sam got paid over $49,900…

… for one month’s work, or rather, for one month’s results…

… for just ONE client. And Sam’s got a buncha clients.

How Sam does it, and how you can do it too, is what you can find out on the sales page below.

It lays everything out in gruesome detail.

In short, 1-Person Advertorial Agency is a copywriting-business-in-a-box, and it shows you, step-by-step, with nothing held back:

* How Sam gets advertorial clients who have never heard of him before, without flexing his portfolio or client results…

* How he stamps out advertorials that convert on cold traffic, in as little as 47 minutes (AI does the heavy lifting, Sam double checks and polishes)

* How he swings performance deals rather than retainers (performance deals = more money, less workee)

… and, most important, HOW YOU CAN DO THE SAME. I mean that.

The classical business opportunity pitch is always, “… with no experience needed!”

Well, as you can see on the sales page below, that’s actually true here.

One zero-experience dude named Maceo took Sam’s advertorial printing press and made his first $100k as a copywriter.

Another zero-experience dude named Tom took this system and, within 4 hours, produced an advertorial that increased conversions for an ecom business by 30%.

As Sam himself says:

“If I had no case studies and zero clients… I would spend the next 30 days using this system to write an advertorial every day for brands I liked and send it to them offering to test it free of charge.”

Of course, if you do have some experience, it won’t hurt, and who knows, it might even help. In fact, if there were one thing that can lure me back into copywriting, this 1-Person Advertorial Agency might turn out to be it.

This is only the second time this program is being made available.

I promoted it the first and only other time it appeared, last August. Back then, it was only open with 30 spots, and it sold out in something like 12 hours after I wrote about it to my list.

That’s to say, this is a legit untapped opportunity, which not a lot of people know about, but which you can properly benefit from.

If you wanna find out more about it, or better yet, get started with it today:

https://bejakovic.com/advertorial-agency

Taking credit for your rock star clients’ results

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A few days ago, I was on a call with “Rebelpreneur” Gasper Crepinsek.

Over the past couple years, Gasper built an online brand teaching people AI. He’s still doing that, but this year he is going broader, using his background as an ex-Boston Consulting guy to help people build actual and sustainable businesses online.

I helped Gasper launch a $1k+ offer last month.

We worked on it together for a couple weeks, then Gasper went out and sold it to three people in his audience in a matter of days. He then started delivering the actual offer.

Result: One of Gasper’s clients already closed his own sales and is making money as a result of working just a few weeks with Gasper.

About that, Gasper said, “He’s attributing it to me, but I told him, ‘It’s all you.'”

My message to Gasper on our call, and maybe to you now, is to take credit where you’ve earned it.

Sure, it’s smart to sell to people who would succeed with or without you. When they do inevitably succeed, there’s a glow on you as well.

That doesn’t mean you can’t take some of the credit, and legitimately.

Even if somebody is an absolute rock star, you can inspire them… you can push them a bit… you can guide them through a process so they get results faster, sooner, easier, more enjoyably than they might have done otherwise.

In Gasper’s case, his client might have done something similar in another 3 or 6 months. But because of working with Gasper, he’s got another, say, $5k in the bank, today.

That’s pretty much what my situation is with Gasper as well.

The dude was succeeding and would have succeeded more, one way or another, with or without me.

But I helped him come up with a simple, attractive offer that, from the looks of it, will be his main, high-ticket, backend money-maker for the coming year. (Gasper says, “It’s crazy how much people like it,” meaning the offer).

Is having a $1k+ offer, which you can readily sell to your list, something that interests you?

If so, hit reply and let me know.

You can’t buy anything here. But if you do reply, I’ll give you a 1-page overview of the process that I guided Gasper through, so you can go do it yourself if you like.

Where to buy crack

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A few days ago, I saw a video on YouTube that has since been taken down, I’m guessing because of the provocative topic.

The video was by a former crack addict, now turned sobriety coach. The title of it was something like:

“I am a crack addict, I can find crack anywhere”

The dude told a story to illustrate:

He used to have a white collar job (tech sales, “always the next easy thing”). At the same time, he was also a crack addict as his true primary occupation.

One day, his boss and he flew to a sales conference in a new town, I believe Orlando.

Sales conference is fine. But the real question was, where to buy crack in this new town, and quick?

The dude couldn’t just ask other sales conference attendees. “Hey are you from here? You know a good place to buy some crack?”

But he did get the info, and from the other conference attendees, and immediately.

Of course he didn’t ask directly.

Not only would he be compromising himself, but more importantly (crack being his primary occupation and interest) he wouldn’t actually find out where to buy crack.

The other conference attendees couldn’t verbalize the answer, either because they would find the question personally threatening or offensive, or because it’s something they had never thought about, because “where to buy crack” is not the way they think about their city.

So what did the guy do?

Simple. He asked, “Hey are you local? Where should I NOT go? Which part of town am I likely to get knifed or gunned down in?”

As the dude tells it in the now-deleted video, within 15 minutes, he had taken a cab, bought a crack pipe, and was smoking. This led to a three-day crack binge, getting fired from his tech sales job, and a shameful flight back home, sitting next to his former boss.

And now, you know where and how to get crack if you ever find yourself in a new town. But if you’re not planning to travel anywhere new, let me point out how this is also relevant to you right where you are.

Forget about the crack for a minute. Put that aside.

Instead, think about trying to sell your offer.

I’ve heard sales described as “the process of getting the truth on the table.”

How do you do that, though?

You can ask, of course:

“Are you overweight by 40lbs or more?”

Sometimes that can work. But in many cases, it won’t — either because people find the question personally threatening or offensive, or simply because it’s something they had never thought about, because it’s not the way they think about their situation.

Maybe the crack-finding parallels are becoming clear now.

The fix, in both cases, is to ask your leads about symptoms. People might not know they have the problem (or in the case of crack, opportunity). But they sure do know the symptoms, and much of the time, they are willing to tell you.

Over the past few weeks, I have been helping a few folks who have email lists and who had previously tried offering coaching to their audience, only to hear an orchestra of crickets. I’m helping them package up said coaching into $1k+ offers that are easier to sell and deliver.

The kind of asking-about-symptoms I just told you about is a part of this process.

Is having a $1k+ offer, which you can readily sell to your list, something that interests you?

If so, hit reply and let me know.

You can’t buy anything here. But if you do reply, I’ll give you a 1-page overview of how this process works, so you can go do it yourself if you like.