3 random things on my mind

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Yesterday, copywriter Svet Dimitrov posted in my Daily Email House community about a kind of email he writes each Saturday. It’s a “3 random things on my mind” email that Svet picked up from evaporated marketer Justin Goff.

Says Svet about this kind of email:

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Well, a lot of folks who read my emails tell me they’re always excited to read my Saturday email.

Why?

Because that’s one way to get to know the person on the other side of the screen more.

I love it. My audience loves it. And I don’t need to always think about a marketing lesson in every single email I send.

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I’m game to try anything once (in email). So here’s 3 things on mind on this Saturday, September 5, 2026:

#1. What it’s like to learn something new these days

I recently started taking Thai kickboxing classes. A former pro fighter has been putting on these classes for the past 10 years, down by the beach in Barceloneta.

I saw them training once, got curious, signed up, and loved it. I’ve been going for my third month now.

Somehow, YouTube found out about my new hobby, and has since been serving me up a steady diet of boxing, kickboxing, and MMA advice.

I find myself inevitably clicking on much of it, and I find myself pulled in a hundred separate directions, feeling both inadequate and hyped up.

I have no idea what’s important, what’s not important, or who to listen to. I’m ready to jump on every new suggestion in the hope of getting better sooner.

It’s the first time I’m learning something genuinely new in a long time, and I’ve forgotten how disorienting it can be, particularly now in the days of the mature “creator economy.”

#2. 24-hour info fast

In part to escape the mature “creator economy,” as soon as I finish and schedule this email, I will turn off my Internet, power down my laptop, and hide my Kindle and my New Yorkers under a couch cushion.

For the next 24 hours, I have decided to hold an information fast.

I can write in my Remarkable, I can go for a walk, or I can stare at the wall. But there will be no media consumption, modern or ancient.

If you don’t hear from me again, it’s because I’ve gone insane and have been committed to an asylum in the Barcelona hills.

#3. Substack pop-up newsletters

There’s a guy on my list who joined a few days ago. He used to be on my list before, but then unsubscribed, and now has rejoined.

Two years ago, we exchanged some messages. That’s how I know that back then, he had an email list of 72 people.

We exchanged some messages again now, two years later. Today, he’s got an email list of 12,000 people.

How do you go from 72 to 12,000 in two years? In his own words:

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First, I was finally able to grow my audience on social media (this helped me go from 72 -> 2,500ish subscribers). But at the start of this year, I started taking Substack more seriously as I also like to write long-form newsletters and this helped me go from 2,500 to 12,000.

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This stuck out to me because I’ve recently heard the idea of “pop-up newsletters” — newsletters that only run for a fixed length of time or number of issues.

I’ve since been thinking about creating a pop-up newsletter on Substack for a project that’s been on my mind for years, a series of persuasion lessons illustrated with scenes from movies. Now that I hear the list-growth benefits of a Substack newsletter, well, I’m still thinking about it.

And that’s it.

I have more things on my mind this Saturday, but three is the magic number.

If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy my Daily Email House group.

Lots of good and random ideas are getting shared there by House members, and I’m also in there participating regularly, whenever I’m not on a 24-hour info fast.

If you’d like to get inside the House, here’s the entrance. Just knock and I’ll let you in:

https://www.skool.com/daily-email-house

Here’s what I CAN do for you, and it’s great

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Here’s what I CAN do for you today:

I can give you a marketing tweak so simple, so brilliant, so money-making that when you hear it you will clap your hands and jump for joy.

When you unleash this tweak into your business, the result will be a large swimming pool, filled with gold doubloons, that you can toss yourself into and swim around in like Scrooge McDuck.

Best of all, this tweak is super easy. It’s really just a matter of changing a few words, and more than anything, of throwing out a bunch of dead weight that’s been slowing down the gleaming ship that is your business.

Ready?

Ok. Then lemme tell you that earlier today, Maliha Mannan of the Side Blogger shared a success case study in my Daily Email House community.

Maliha has been promoting her paid membership regularly to her email list. Recently, she had a success getting new members with a specific email hook. That hook, in Maliha’s words:

“Promise a big result with very little effort.”

“Shyeah,” you might say in your best Wayne’s World voice. “That’s kind of what direct marketing is all about?”

Yes but:

I’ve been consulting business owners on how to make more sales from their email lists. These are smart people, with good offers. And yet, I’ve seen the same pattern pop up in their copy, over and over, across various launches and various businesses. It goes like this:

1. “I have this new offer”

2. “I cannot promise you a result with this new offer”

3. “But I can promise to get on a bunch of calls with you, and to give you a bunch of homework, and to keep inflicting this on you for the next 90/180/365 days”

My diagnosis for this is that there’s a generation of business owners who have been raised on the new crop of “authentic” and “transparent” Internet marketing.

As a result, all they end up talking about is what their offer CANNOT do… and how the odds of success are UNKNOWN… and how it ultimately ALL DEPENDS ON THE BUYER, and the effort the buyer puts in, and his natural intelligence, and how many adverse childhood events he may have had…

… which is all fine and good, once you’ve got people foaming at the mouth for your offer.

But unless you’ve already got folks who are fighting to give you money for what you are selling, it’s best to first talk about the super cool outcome you can lead them to, and how your offer makes it super easy compared to all the other stuff out there. As direct marketing legend Gary Halbert said, “Maximum Money in Minimum Time.”

Speaking of Gary:

Gary used to have to pay each time he attempted to sell anything to his WARM audience (he had a paid print newsletter, and sending that out cost printing and postage).

Gary for sure had to pay each time he attempted to sell anything to a COLD audience (either by renting direct mail lists, or by paying for advertising spots in newspapers and magazines).

That kind of discipline — that kind of fear of LOSING money each time you say something stupid, self-defeating, and ineffective — made Gary figure out what copy sells, and what doesn’t.

I’d like to transplant Gary Halbert’s hard-won secrets directly into your brain so you can make money and run successful launches and sell a bunch of your good offers.

And I have a way to do it — the simplest, easiest, fastest way I know of. For more information:

https://bejakovic.com/cr

Transformative power of catastrophic thinking

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These days, I’m reading a 50-year-old book called How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World, by a libertarian guy named Harry Browne.

In spite of Browne’s absolute trust in markets and the infallible human ability to rationally choose what we most want, the book gives a bunch of good and practical advice on how to live life more happily. Here’s one bit:

“If your lover is going to spend an evening with someone else, imagine the situation you’re afraid will happen. Imagine the worst. Picture them talking, laughing, kissing, making love – whatever it is you fear will happen. Keep doing it over and over again until it no longer affects you emotionally.”

I haven’t tried this with a wayward lover, but I have tried it when I was thinking to quit my office job, back in 2014, to start writing online.

On the one hand, I never wanted an office job. I didn’t particularly enjoy the one I had, even though it was as good as I could ever hope for. I wanted to control my own time and be productive rather than simply filling a seat.

But what if I quit my job to write online, and it didn’t work out? I would be leaving behind this sure thing for something unknown and unlikely to succeed… but I also didn’t want to stay at my job… but I also couldn’t commit to quitting… but the current job was unsupportable…. but the alternative could be even unsupportable!

I had read Tim Ferriss’s 440-Hour Workweek some time earlier, and Tim advocated pretty much the same thing that Browne suggests above — imagining the worst case scenario in detail, when faced with an uncertain and out-of-control life situation.

So I did what Tim Ferriss advocates for business, and what Harry Browne advocates for cheating, and I imagined the worst.

In my case, the worst meant I’d quit my job… try to make it online… fail… eventually burn through all my savings… have no money to even support myself while I looked for a job… have to move back to Croatia to live in my dad’s spare apartment… and look for a job there, without pressure.

When I faced up to the “worse than unsupportable” worst outcome, my anxiety and indecision vanished. Honestly, the worst really wasn’t that bad. And I could see now there was a fair chance it wouldn’t happen. I quit my job soon after, and I’ve been jobless ever since.

So that’s my bit of advice for you.

Here’s another bit of advice:

If you would like to take advantage of the above psychology to influence people — not by scaring them, but by getting them excited and encouraging them — then go ye and get my Copy Riddles program.

Because the same psychology that makes the unexamined “worst outcome” so scary also makes the unexamined “secret” or “blind opportunity” so exciting and tempting.

In both cases, we are standing outside the temple, with only a childish sense of all the wonders and terrors that must be hidden inside.

Copy Riddles guides you and imprints on you all the fine and delicate ways that A-list copywriters have discovered to play with this bit of human psychology. Owning these skills will be the most valuable skill, or thereabouts, you possess if you too write online.

For more info on Copy Riddles:

https://bejakovic.com/cr

The best piece of copy Dan Kennedy ever wrote

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Thanks to the sleuthing of two members of my Daily Email House community, Robin Timmers (the Netherlands’ largest copywriter) and Maliha Mannan (who runs the Side Blogger), I can bring you the link at the end of today’s email.

It’s a recording of the legendary “Success Tour” speech that direct marketer Dan Kennedy gave hundreds of times across the U.S. back in the 1990s.

Dan, for the record, was at one point the highest-paid copywriter on Earth. And I heard him say somewhere, I forget where, that this speech is the best piece of copy he has every written.

And no wonder:

This speech sold millions of dollars’ worth of Dan’s Magnetic Marketing program from the back of the room…

… it got tens of thousands of people to become prospects for Dan’s paid newsletter, high-ticket seminars, and done-for-you services…

… and it has fed Dan’s stable of racing horses for many decades now.

For several years, this speech wasn’t available anywhere online.

Years ago, I managed to track down a copy using archive.org. I’ve listened to this speech multiple times all the way through, and I’ve started it again this morning after Robin and Maliha clued me in that it’s now on YouTube.

Yes, Dan’s speech is worth listening to for the content, to learn the fundamentals of direct marketing, to be amused by Dan’s jokes and fast-paced delivery and combative approach, and to hear some good stories, told well.

But the real value in Dan’s speech is if you take the time to look between the lines of what he is saying. I’ve done it, and I’ve profited from it in ways I’ve written about before.

I suggest you analyze and model Dan’s speech also, so you can sell, whether from a stage, on a podcast, in a webinar, from a Zoom call with prospects or buyers, or just in an email, book, or sales letter.

If you have a personal online brand, I cannot recommend this enough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNcu27fpfBs

Magic positioning through maddening repetition

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I’m sitting in the Croatian coast town of Cavtat as I write this, under some pine trees with crickets chirping around me, an occasional plane landing overhead, and incredible humidity rolling off my body drop by drop.

I don’t know anything about this town — I ended up here last night due to my usual missed connecting flight — expect one curious thing.

A long time ago, I read a Bloomberg article about a gang of casino sharks who kept winning at roulette in casinos around the world, to the tune of millions of dollars per year.

The entire article was set up in the classic “Cialdini mystery structure,” teasing out the answer to the question of how the gang kept winning.

Was it computers up their sleeves?

Was it glasses that recorded and transmitted to some processing center?

Did they tamper with the roulette table in some way?

After all these avenues were explored and found to be dead ends, the author of the article tracked down the ringleader of the casino shark gang.

The ringleader was a Croatian guy who lives somewhere around… Cavtat.

He said the secret was simply that he bought a specific roulette table for his house and watched it spin millions of times, until his brain caught on to tiny regularities that he could exploit on other similar roulette tables in real casinos.

Point being:

What looks like magic can sometimes simply be maddening repetition and preparation, the kind of work that nobody would believe a sane person would ever do.

Yesterday, I had a call with a coaching client, a bona fide expert in his field, with years of experience and a sizable audience.

He said that while he is having success selling info products and even some 1-1 engagements, he still hasn’t hit upon the exact right positioning that would make it seamlessly easy.

I unfortunately don’t know any magic, rabbit-out-of-a-hat way to create the exact right positioning for established experts.

My best advice for figuring out winning positioning is simply to keep writing daily emails, keep making offers, keep seeing what works, and then doubling down on that.

Yes, it can take hundreds or maybe thousands of tries (millions?).

But it also means you can see the kind of ultimate success others only dream about and wonder at when they see it in you.

And even along the way, life can be pretty good… money can flow… and it can even be kind of fun.

Which brings me to my Most Valuable Offer training, which is happening tomorrow, at 8pm CET/2pm EST/11am PST.

This training will show you my process for coming up, selling, and delivering paid live training, which I call Most Valuable Offers.

Most Valuable Offers are easy, fast, cheap. Inevitably, a few might flop. Some will be a modest success. And some will be a big success.

Along the way, you can be making money… building a relationship with your audience that translates into future sales… and zeroing in on the perfect positioning that both keeps you happy and lights up your prospects’ eyes.

All that, and more, tomorrow. If you’d like to sign up for Most Valuable Offer before the casino doors close:

https://checkout.bejakovic.com/most-valuable-offer

My “chicken sexer” argument for why you should pay me

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If you teach anything worthwhile, here’s my 4-part “chicken sexer” argument to persuade people to pay you for what you teach:

#1. In the poultry industry, there is a profession known as a “chicken sexer.”

A chicken sexer’s job it is to classify newly hatched chicks as either male or female. A chicken sexer will typically classify 1,000 chicks per hour, in only half a second per chick.

#2. An expert chicken sexer is accurate 98% of the time.

#3. A naive chicken sexer is no better than random.

4. There is a “critical cloacal structure” on a newly hatched chick that is slightly different in males and female (“convex vs. concave or flat”).

This structure is tiny (the whole chick is tiny), and odds are that most people would never notice the difference even after repeat viewings of male and female chicks.

But after having just this one distinction pointed out, a novice chicken sexer’s accuracy will rise from “no better than random” to a level comparable to that of experts.

I’ve been reading William James’s Principles of Psychology. Says James:

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Men have no eyes but for those aspects of things which they have already been taught to discern. Any one of us can notice a phenomenon after it has once been pointed out, which not one in ten thousand could ever have discovered for himself. The only things we commonly see are those which we expect to see and the only things which we expect to see are those which have been labelled for us, and the labels stamped into our mind.

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So if you teach people anything worthwhile, that is your argument to get people to pay you for what you teach.

The fact is, people might go out and try to do what you teach on their own.

The fact is, they will most probably fail to see the “convex or concave critical cloacal structure” that spells the difference between success and failure.

They might spot it with repeated tries, or they might not. Because like James says, “not one in ten thousand could ever have discovered it for himself.” But you have discovered it — however that happened — and you’re willing to share it, for a modest investment, of say, $97.

Which brings me to my Most Valuable Offer training, happening live this Wednesday, just two days from now.

The basic idea of a Most Valuable Offer is:

1. Pick a topic for a live paid training, and announce a date to your list when you will hold the training

2. Promote this offer to your list over the course of a few days and a few emails

3. Hold the live training when the date comes

Simple enough. But several “critical cloacal structures” about which topic to choose, about how to sell, about what to deliver and what not to deliver, can make the difference between a successful Most Valuable Offer and a Most Valuable Offer that lays an egg.

I’ve discovered these “critical cloacal structures” because of an enormous amount of Most Valuable sexing education and experience. I’ve paid for and attended live trainings by other course sellers… I’ve bought and studies courses on teaching and info product design… I’ve studied influence, copywriting, and email marketing… I’ve run a dozen or more Most Valuable Offers myself… plus I’ve coached a bunch of coaching clients to run their own successful Most Valuable Offers.

If you want to learn the most important distinctions when it comes to running a successful Most Valuable Offer, I will cover those on Wednesday’s training.

The Most Valuable training happens at 8pm CET/2pm EST/11am PST, this Wednesday, September 2.

Yes, there will be a recording if you cannot make it live. But you’re sure to get more out of it if you can join me on the actual call.

Your investment, should you choose to join me, is $97 today and $2/month ongoing, because, as moons pass, I will be continuously updating the Most Valuable Offer SOP and sharing my Most Valuable Offer results and the results of clients I am helping on this.

If you’d like to sign up and learn how I run Most Valuable Offers that won’t lay an egg, and how you can too:

https://checkout.bejakovic.com/most-valuable-offer

How to get your audience to engage after years of passive lurking

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In this email, I will tell you how to get your audience to engage after years of passive lurking. Or rather, I will tell you how modern Renaissance man Tom Grundy done it.

Tom, as you might know if you are a careful reader of my emails, is a high-powered London banker.

Tom is also the father of someone I only know as “Baby Grundy” (now “Toddler Grundy”)… a half-marathon runner… a semi-professional poker shark… a competitive chess player… a card magician… an avid book collector… and the author of a great daily email newsletter, on topics of self development and happiness and career satisfaction.

Earlier this year, Tom took part in a Most Valuable Offer cohort I ran, where I offered to help list owners plan, sell, and run a paid live workshop to their list. After it was all said and done, Tom wrote me to report on the results:

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I ran Reclaim Your Evening last night. I had eleven people buy the offer so $1k in total which I’m counting as a big win. Every email I sent made at least one sale, which was very cool, and I also had people buying who’d been on my list a couple of weeks and others who’d been on my list a couple of years (and this was the first time they’d interacted with me/bought something from me) so also very cool. So thank you!

 

One thing I realised was that I probably needed the accountability more than I thought I did ☺️

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Like I wrote last week, you can write the engagingest, fascinatingest content in the world, and it still won’t matter much, not unless you have an exciting offer to lead into.

Tom’s case study above is proof for that.

Tom writes great daily emails. Has been for years.

For a long time, Tom was promoting a “waiting list for his coaching program” at the end of his emails. That’s better than nothing, but it was not reason enough for folks on his list to actually take any action.

But one exciting and relevant Most Valuable Offer later, and Tom had 11 sales, new buyers, and engagement from people who have been on his list for years, but who never interacted or bought anything from him before.

Since running his Most Valuable Offer, Tom has launched a group coaching program as well as a 1-1 coaching.

I don’t know if these are directly tied to the Most Valuable Offer he ran and to the leads/buyers he got from that. But to my mind, there’s little doubt that the momentum of a successful Most Valuable Offer can be motivating and can juice you into activity and open up opportunities that were completely unimaginable just weeks before.

This coming Wednesday, September 2, I will hold a live paid workshop, a Most Valuable Offer of my own, about how to plan, sell, and host Most Valuable Offers.

In his message above, Tom mentions accountability, which was part of the Most Valuable Offer cohort I ran in April.

If you like, at the end of Wednesday’s training, I will give you an opportunity to get my direct support and help and accountability for running your own Most Valuable Offer, if you want ’em.

Whether or not you take me up on that, I will give you the essence of what I have learned so far about running successful and client-pleasing Most Valuable Offers, based on my own experiences and my work with coaching clients.

Wednesday’s training happens at 8pm CET/2pm EST/11am PST, and again, the date is September 2.

Yes, there will be a recording if you cannot make it live. But you’re sure to get more out of it if you can join me on the actual call.

Your investment, should you choose to join me, is $97 today and $2/month ongoing, because, as moons pass, I will be continuously updating the Most Valuable Offer SOP and sharing my Most Valuable Offer results and the results of clients I am helping on this.

If you’d like to sign up and learn how I run Most Valuable Offers, to engage both my readers and myself, and how you can too:

https://checkout.bejakovic.com/most-valuable-offer/

The ultimate high-ticket lead magnet

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“He’s doing very well. He’s doing VERY well. You know what he’s clearing himself? 14, 15 grand a week! Why? He’s got the leads. He’s got the good leads!”
— Glengarry Glen Ross

A couple days ago, I ran a poll in my Daily Email House community, with surprising results. The poll question asked:

“What’s the highest-ticket offer you have sold successfully to your email list?”

I think there was a bit of selection bias among those who responded, because the majority said they have successfully sold offers of $1k+ to their lists. 20% even said they have successfully sold offers of $5k or more via email alone.

In any case, the next day, I ran another poll. I asked House members why they aren’t selling more of their highest-ticket offer?

This time, the answer came back almost unanimous and much less surprising:

86% responded that they don’t have enough LEADS.

Like David Mamet says in Glengarry Glen Ross, it’s always about the leads, the good leads.

So you want leads? The good leads? The Glengarry leads?

Here’s a bit of advice on that from Dan Kennedy, the marketing guru I have quoted most in my newsletter because I have learned so much from the man, and because he is so quotable.

In Dan’s words, here is how you get leads, the good leads:

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My business comes to me because money follows and flows to authority.

For me, the journey toward this authority status began when I first published The Ultimate Sales Letter in 1981 — a book that has been on bookstore shelves without interruption ever since. It established me as an expert in the craftsmanship of letters that sell. It directly brought me clients, but much more importantly, it elevated my status above other copywriters. People wanted to hear from and get assistance from “the guy who wrote the book” about sales letters, and it is not accidental that the preemptive word “the” is in that title.

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Important point that Dan makes:

Yes, a book can get you clients directly. But it also leads others to you, even if they never buy or read your book. The book acts as a mental shortcut, and puts you in a position of “preeminent expert I want to work with.”

So go and write a book.

Or if you know yourself well enough to know that will never happen, or if you simply don’t want to wait as long as it might take…

… then you might like to know there are other, less painful and less time-consuming ways to build the kind of authority Dan Kennedy is talking about.

For example, my preferred method is to announce a live training, charge for it, and sell it. Then I either keep selling and promoting the recording, or I get it transcribed and turn it into a course or a even a book.

Yes, a live paid training that you sell on your site won’t appear on bookshelves at Barnes & Noble, and doesn’t have the same prestige as a book.

On the flip side, a live paid training is much easier and faster to put together than a book.

The deadline forces you to put out something, and in my experience, the result has always been 90% as good as I could have ever made it. The live, personal factor also makes live training attendees more forgiving than book readers would ever be.

Plus, the fact that you can sell a live paid training for $97 or $197 contributes to your authority as well, in a way that a $9.97 book cannot.

For all these reasons and more, I call live paid trainings Most Valuable Offers, more so than books or courses.

Next Wednesday, September 2, I will be running a Most Valuable Offer of my own, showing you how to sell and run Most Valuable Offers.

At the end of Wednesday’s training, I will give you an opportunity to get my direct support and help running your own Most Valuable Offer, if you want it.

Whether or not you take me up on that, I will give you the essence of what I have learned so far about running successful and client-pleasing Most Valuable Offers, based on my own experiences and my work with coaching clients.

Wednesday’s training happens at 8pm CET/2pm EST/11am PST, and again, the date is September 2.

Yes, there will be a recording if you cannot make it live. But you’re sure to get more out of it if you can join me on the actual call.

Your investment, should you choose to join me, is $97 today and $2/month ongoing, because, as moons pass, I will be continuously updating the Most Valuable Offer SOP and sharing my Most Valuable Offer results and the results of clients I am helping on this.

If you’d like to sign up and learn how I run happy Most Valuable Offers to build my authority and attract the good leads, and how you can too:

https://checkout.bejakovic.com/most-valuable-offer/

$7,679 from an 8-person, 2-hour live training

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Last April, I ran a Most Valuable Offer implementation cohort, in which I worked with a handful of business owners to help them launch and run their own paid live training, which I call a Most Valuable Offer.

One of those was AI-agency owner Ryan Lemos, who decided to put on a live 2-hour AI implementation workshop, which he promoted inside some mastermind he is a member of. The results of that Most Valuable Offer, in Ryan’s words:

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I ran one workshop; the $97 one. Had 8 people enroll, of which 7 paid and 1 attended free (had to do a client a favor :). So that was $97×7 = $679.

Converted 2 of them to my 3-month BOT offer (Build-Operate-Transfer) at $3500 upfront.

That’s $3500×2 = $7000.

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I told Ryan he can run this Most Valuable Offer regularly. I don’t know the size of his list, but I figure that with a bit of hustling in groups he’s a part of, he can run this Most Valuable Offer every month, get a few people in the live training, and if the numbers above hold, convert a quarter of them into his $3,500 offer.

Hell, at those numbers, it would make sense to run cold traffic to this workshop.

That might be something for you to consider.

Here’s something else for you to consider:

Next Wednesday, September 2, I will be running a Most Valuable Offer of my own, showing you how to sell and run Most Valuable Offers.

At the end of Wednesday’s training, I will give you an opportunity to get my direct support and help running your own Most Valuable Offer, if you want it.

Whether or not you take me up on that, I will give you the essence of what I have learned so far about running successful and client-pleasing Most Valuable Offers, based on my own experiences and my work with coaching clients like Ryan above.

Wednesday’s training happens at 8pm CET/2pm EST/11am PST, and again, the date is September 2, next Wednesday.

Your investment, should you choose to join me, is $97 today and $2/month ongoing, because, as moons pass, I will be continuously updating the Most Valuable Offer SOP and sharing my Most Valuable Offer results and the results of clients I am helping on this.

If you’d like to sign up and learn how I run happy Most Valuable Offers, and how you can too:

https://checkout.bejakovic.com/most-valuable-offer/

A tiny shift for a big difference in passive income

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I got an intriguing reply to my email yesterday from a mystery man named Paul do Campo.

Paul is a copywriter who has been working in the real estate investing space for a long while. Eventually, Paul created OmniDrip, his own productized service, which he has been selling successfully for years to real estate investors.

I’m giving you that as context, because Paul replied yesterday with his own experience around OmniDrip and creating passive income:

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For your business owner, I think a tiny shift in the offer can make a big difference in passive income.

For years I sold a high ticket upfront product-as-a-services (semi templated sms/emails flows and installed for them). Never had a subscription.

Then someone told me: “Just tack on $97 a month for the updates you make.” I did that, and it has been a huge blessing on my business.

At first it was more of a mental hurdle, thinking, “No one would buy that”…

But now I just tell them on the phone that there is a $97 charge that automatically kicks in (I don’t present it as an option). 99.9% of the time no issues. And really high retention. Truly (almost) passive.

I make a couple of meaningful changes to my master template every month or every other month (I never promised monthly changes). I pay my VA to make the physical changes in the CRM (which takes her 30-60 mins per). People seem to value it.

It shows that our perception of what people will pay for can be off.

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I am quite an old dog, but let it never be said that you cannot lead an old dog to water… err… I mean, teach an old dog a new trick.

And so I would like to announce that I am updating my offer for my upcoming Most Valuable Offer training, which I started promoting yesterday.

Most Valuable Offer is a live training I will hold on the topic of how to sell and hold paid live trainings, which I call Most Valuable Offers.

As part of this Most Valuable Offer training, I will share my own SOP for running a Most Valuable Offer.

The fact is, I continue to run these Most Valuable Offers, and I continue to advise coaching clients on how to run them.

I will be updating the SOP as I do that, and going forward, I will also be including the results of Most Valuable Offer campaigns I run or advise others on.

Because of this, the investment to join the Most Valuable Offer training is $97 today, and after that, $2/month for updates.

(If you bought Most Valuable Offer yesterday, rejoice, and be exceeding glad, for you are getting grandfathered into this new feature without any extra investment.)

The Most Valuable Training training will happen live, next Wednesday, at 8pm CET/2pm EST/11am PST. Yes, there will be a recording if you cannot make it live, but you and I both are sure to enjoy it more if you come on the actual live training.

If you’d like to sign up, and see how a tiny shift in your own Most Valuable Offer can make a big difference in your (almost) passive income:

https://checkout.bejakovic.com/most-valuable-offer/