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How much it costs

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Last week, I wrote an email about 10 things that are working for me right now. One of the 10 was the following:

#6. Making a coaching offer that consists of a down payment to get started, and the rest conditional on success

I’m working with a few people on this arrangement right now. It makes selling easier. It makes delivery easier. It makes me more motivated. It makes coaching clients more motivated. It allows me to charge more than I might otherwise. I’m waiting to find out what the downsides, if any, might be.

I’m also making a new offer right now.

I’ve made an agreement to write an advertorial for a client.

I’m inviting copywriters to join me and work alongside me as I do this.

You get my help with writing an advertorial following the 1-Person Advertorial Agency system.

You get my help tracking down, vetting, and closing a client (or partner business) using the two client-getting methods in 1-Person Advertorial Agency.

Plus, I’m promising to keep working with you and giving you my support and input until you get to $10k from advertorial work.

So how much it costs?

$5k.

The destination we’re headed to is advertorials that you can reasonably make $2k+ with the right clients, and that take max 1-2 days each to finish.

If you get just one such gig a month, I figure it’s worth $24k over the next year.

$5k is a reasonable investment to fix that.

That said, I am committed to getting you to where I say I will get you.

That’s why I’m breaking up the $5k as follows, so I have a stake in the outcome I promise to get you:

* $2k to start

* The remaining $3k when you make your first $10k from advertorial work

If you’re not completely appalled by the above numbers, and if you want to find out if this opportunity could be a fit for you, reply now. We start next week.

TOTO, Nintendo, and Bejako: Titans of the surival-based business

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Yesterday I read an article that’s been going viral around the world, and which tackles the seemingly pointless topic of “Why Japanese companies do so many different things.”

Example:

TOTO is a Japanese toilet manufacturer that’s been gaining ground in the US.

But besides excellent toilets, TOTO also makes excellent bathroom tiles, faucets, modular kitchens, photocatalytic coatings for buildings, and assistive equipment for the elderly.

And now, thanks to the growth of AI and the resulting demand for memory chips, TOTO has a booming new business making something called an e-chuck, which is a component of the semiconductor supply industry.

There are dozens of examples like this among Japanese companies.

Kyocera makes kitchen knives, LCD systems, and joint replacements.

Yamaha builds motorcycles, guitars, and industrial robots.

Nintendo started out as a handmade playing card company, tried to enter the taxi service and instant rice markets, and eventually settled on making Mario and Zelda.

A bunch of Japanese companies do a bunch of stuff, often entirely unrelated, at a very high and very profitable level.

How? Why?

I won’t attempt to summarize the viral article here. It’s over 5k words long, and it is itself based on summarizing a number of much longer econ research papers. Here’s just one relevant insight for you and me today:

American and Japanese companies are built up of fundamentally distinct “bundles of practices.” Among economists, these distinct bundles have gotten the names H-firm (typical American biz) vs J-firm (typical Japanese biz).

Elements of the H-firm you’re probably familiar with. Things like employee specialization, promotions and salaries based on performance, frequent workspace switching, openness to external capital.

Elements of the J-firm are much more foreign if you’re not from Japan. They include such practices as lifetime employment (even in times of economic crisis), hostility to outside capital, general employee knowledge rather than specialization, promotion and salary based on seniority rather than performance.

There’s one more distinction that’s relevant for us:

The H-firm is geared towards profitability and returns to investors.

The J-firm, on the other hand, is aiming simply at its own survival, even though it can be wildly profitable as it looks to survive.

It’s an interesting topic, and the viral article is worth looking up and reading.

But it’s not just idle curiosity why I’m sharing this with you. This whole distinction between J-firms and H-firms sounded familiar and personally relevant to me. I figured the J-firm is much more like my email-newsletter-based biz, which you might call the B-firm (for Bejako-style business).

The B-firm is also a bundle of practices, such as:

1. Selling yourself, your own personal attitudes and interests, rather than promising to solve a customer problem first and foremost

2. Regular and frequent communication

3. High prices

4. High trust

5. Customers who stick around and continue to buy for years, and often buy many different things, often entirely unrelated

Ultimately, the B-firm is also about long-term survival rather than short-term profitability, though the B-firm has been very profitable to me over the long term.

I’m telling you this in case you have an idea of what a “business” looks like.

Some of the most fundamental ideas we have about “business” are actually only assumptions, or rather, bundles of practices that make sense in a given context, like Silicon Valley or Wall Street.

Other forms of business exist, as part of other bundles, and can be very successful, and maybe much more palatable to you personally.

A final insight from that viral article:

In Japan, there was a trigger that caused the emergence of the J-firm bundle of practices. That trigger was the decision by the Japanese government, during the 1930s and 40s, to instruct firms to prioritize employees over shareholder profits, as part of the Japanese drive to build up military capacity.

Similarly, if you want to have a B-firm like mine, there’s a trigger that will in time pull in other practices, like high prices and customers who continue to buy year after year. That trigger is starting to communicate regularly and frequently with your audience, such as by sending daily emails.

You don’t need my help to start a daily email habit. But if over time you’ve decided that you want my help in starting your own daily email habit, here’s where to go:

https://bejakovic.com/deh

10 things that are working for me now

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#1. Pre-auction polls

I wrote up an email for a list owner (and potential auction partner) to test interest for an offer he thought of auctioning off.

The poll went out, and there wasn’t enough interest to run the auction. But the list owner got a bunch of coaching clients simply by following up with the people who did express interest.

The whole point of an auction is to get leads. But you might not even need an auction.

#2. The Most Valuable Offer

I had 9 people sign up. 5 actually put on their own Most Valuable Offer. Based on what I’ve heard from so far, everybody made sales and got leads for future offers. I will be running this offer regularly in the future.

#3. DFY newsletter service

I offered this a couple weeks ago. I got a grand total of two people raising their hands. One was not a fit. The other was, and we agreed to work together. This DFY newsletter service is also something I will be advertising regularly in the future.

#4. Asking myself, “What’s working for me now?”

In fact, that’s why I’m writing this email today.

And also asking, “What’s worked for me recently?” I asked myself that a couple weeks ago and I identified two offers over the past 6 months that worked dramatically better than everything else (the 1-Person Advertorial Agency promo and my “I endorse YOU” auctino). What’s next is to figure out how to deliver more of the same outcome, in new ways, or to new people.

#5. Daily emails

Not new, but worked for me before, and working for me still.

For example, I wrote recently about the value of having two tracks, a client and a student track. I ended up convincing myself with what I wrote in that email.

That led me to relaunch the DFY newsletter service. Soon will lead me to start offering more client work of a different kind (if you’re feeling like a detective, it’s something I mentioned above).

#6. Making a coaching offer that consists of a down payment to get started, and the rest conditional on success

I’m working with a few people on this arrangement right now. It makes selling easier. It makes delivery easier. It makes me more motivated. It makes coaching clients more motivated. It allows me to charge more than I might otherwise. I’m waiting to find out what the downsides, if any, might be.

#7. Making lists of 10 ideas, like this

My first idea is almost never the best one. And usually, idea 7 or 8 is something I never would have thought of but is surprisingly valuable. This is not something new I’m doing. I’ve been at it for years. But like daily emails, it has been working for me for years, and continues to work.

#8. My Monetization Mastermind group as a way to open doors

It’s a reason why to get introduced to people. A reason to get on a call. A reason to find more good people to get introduced to.

#9. Getting on calls with people

I’ve found it’s the fastest and most indepth way to communicate, at least if you work from home like me. You can get info out of people you could never get over email alone.

Whenever I talk to people, they always make some side comment that ends up changing how I think about a crucial issue. (Such as points 3 and 5 above, which were the direct result of getting on a call with somebody inside my Monetization Mastermind group).

#10. Weekly work budget

I wrote about this last week, but in a nutshell, it’s a total amount of time I allow myself to work each week. It’s forcing me to prioritize and focus. I’m getting more done in less time.

At this point, I could promote something, like my Daily Email Habit service.

But I’d rather know what’s working for you now. If you’re game, hit reply, and let me know.

First time ever, I signed up for a free challenge

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Last week, I got an email from direct marketing legend Dan Kennedy himself!

Ok, probably not Dan himself.

For one thing, Dan is famous for not exposing himself to the digital crack that is the Internet or even having an email account.

For another, a buncha people in my Daily Email House community have lately expressed displeasure with Russell Brunson of ClickFunnels, who bought Dan Kennedy’s business a few years back, for firing the copywriters and replacing them with AI (presumably for emails going out in Dan’s name also).

Anyways, here’s what “AI Dan” wrote me:

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That was the first time anyone told me I was grotesquely underpriced.

In my experience since, almost everybody is.

Not because the market will not pay more. Not because the work is not worth more. Because of what is going on between their ears.

For five days starting May 18th, I am going to show you exactly what changes when you cross from six figures to seven.

Not inspiration. Not theory. The actual system.

Day 1: Add a Zero

Day 2: Add a Comma

Day 3: Faster Than You Think

Day 4: The Marketing Machine

Day 5: Dan Kennedy Day

90 minutes a day. Completely free.

I have charged $19,400 for a single consulting day. The Seven Figure Academy, where this material was first taught, required a significant four-figure investment to attend.

This challenge costs nothing.

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I don’t think I’ve ever, in my life, signed up for a challenge before. But I signed up for this.

For one thing, I’m working on my Art of Charging More book, and I’m constantly looking for more ideas (and case studies and stories) that I can include.

For another thing, I suspect I myself could be charging 10x what I charge. (Advising others to charge more is one thing. Doing it yourself is another.)

For a third thing, it’s Dan Kennedy. Live. And Dan is the guy I’ve quoted the most in this newsletter and learned the most from, both directly and indirectly, when it comes to direct marketing, copywriting, and running a personality-first biz like this newsletter.

I’m telling you all this because my new philosophy is to take people along when I do something.

Day 1 of Dan Kennedy’s free challenge is today. It’s happening live at 7pm CET/1pm EST/10am PST.

Dan and Russell say it’ only happening live, with no replays.

Is that true?

I have no idea. But I do know for a fact that Dan believes that the only hope you have of selling at a distance is to deliver such a tonnage of sales content that the audience gets themselves into a state of gullibility.

I’m telling you this to warn you.

I don’t know what Dan is selling on the back of this challenge.

He’s sure to be selling something.

That doesn’t take away from the fact the guy is the most experienced person in the world today when it comes to direct marketing, and that this challenge is going to be valuable whether you buy whatever Dan ends up selling or not.

At least that’s what I’m telling myself.

If you wanna join me, live tonight, to hear what Dan has to say about charging more:

https://bejakovic.com/dkchallenge

Last call for Tour de Commandments bonuses

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The past week, I have been running the Tour de Commandments event to mark the 1-year anniversary of the publication of my 10 Commandments of Con Men etc book.

As a result of this event, I have sold more than 100 paperback copies of my book, and have rocketed up the book rankings, at least for a few days, above the paperback of Robert Cialdini’s Influence. That’s really all a daily email writer could ever want for.

Today is the last day of this promotional spectacle. With one final, desperate push towards the finish line, the Tour de Commandments event ends tonight, Sunday the 17th, at 12 midnight PST.

If you take me up on this offer before the deadline (instructions below), you get the following bonuses:

#1. “Manna for Marketers” live workshop and implementation call

Happening next Wednesday at 8pm CET/2pm EST/11am PST. I will cover how I’ve consciously applied these 10 Commandments of Con Men etc. in my biz. I’ll also offer you my help and input if you want to raise your hand live on the call, and ask me how to apply any of these commandments to your biz (or life).

#2. “3 lessons after $18,487 spent on running Amazon book ads”

Over the past 7 years, I’ve spent $18,487 on Amazon book ads. The majority of those ads have been for my two “10 Commandments of SOMETHING” books. I’ve put together a report on the 3 main lessons learned after 7 years, thousands of copies sold, and $18k+ in ad spend.

#3. “40 Pages to Authority: A $1k article series”

Back in 2023, the the Professional Writers Alliance paid me $1,000 to write a 4-part article series about my experiences writing, promoting, and profiting from a 40-page book (my first 10 Commandments book).

PWA made these articles available to their paying members only. But you can get them as a free bonus for taking me up on my Tour De Commandments offer.

#4. “How I made an extra $1404.53/month in Amazon royalties at the push of a button”

This report outlines a hack, which involves the push of a button — literally, that’s all there is to it — and which made me an extra ~$1.5k per month in Amazon royalties. I used this hack once, over the span of a few months, or rather a few weeks. I made money with it. And I never used it again.

I’m not saying anybody else should use this hack. I’m not saying anybody else should NOT use it either.

All I’m willing to do is to tell you what this hack is, why I’m no longer using it myself, and how you can try it out yourself, if you so choose, to make easy money off Amazon.

#5. “The best direct marketing book of the past 15 years”

That’s according to me, somebody who has read and reread all the great direct marketing books, and some of the not-so-great, and who has made millions in sales via the ideas I’ve learned in those books.

Odds are excellent you have not read this book or even heard of it. But I will tell you what it is so you can grab it on Amazon, and I’ll even give you $15 in Bejako Bux so you can get it effectively FREE.

#6. “The best course on selling via email I have personally found”

The information in this course has influenced a ton of people online, indirectly. Yet I never hear anybody talking about this course directly, or implementing the complete system inside, rather than just one fraction.

(I have been going through this course and implementing it myself and helping my coaching students implement it.)

If you like, you can be among a select elite of people who both know about this course and who profit from it. Because, if you take me up on my Tour de Commandments offer, I will tell you where to find this best course on selling via email, for FREE, and completely legally.

#7. Influence Riddles Vol. 1

7 real-life case studies of successful episodes of influence, turned into riddles for you to ponder and profit from, including:

* How one clever offer owner got me to promote his offer as an affiliate even though I knew it wouldn’t sell to my list

* A lead magnet I’ve seen two very successful marketers using, which gets better conversions and higher-intent leads than the usual free report/course/template etc.

* A new upsell strategy that “exploded average order value overnight” (taken from the best direct marketing book of the past 15 years, which is #5 inside this bonus bundle)

If you want to take me up on this Tour de Commandments offer, here’s what to do:

1. Grab five paperback copies of the 10 Commandments book (or four, if you’ve already got a paperback and can dig up that receipt as proof)

2. Forward me your receipt (or receipts, if you already got one) from Amazon

3. I’ll get you in for the Manna for Marketers workshop, and get you access to the above bonuses, as well as others I release in the coming days.

Again, the deadline for this event is tonight, May 17, at 12 midnight PST.

If you’re in, here’s where to take me up on this offer:

https://bejakovic.com/new10commandments

3 lessons after $18,487 spent on running Amazon book ads

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Yesterday, with much fanfare and a bit of fireworks, I kicked off the Tour de Commandments event for my 10 Commandments of Con Men etc. book.

I published that book a year ago, and have since sold ~4k copies.

I got a reply about that number from from online creator Kieran Drew, who continues to read my emails even though I viciously and without provocation assaulted him a few weeks ago in another email.

Kieran graciously wrote:

“4k! Incredible. What’s contributed to sales most? Just through your list?”

My list, great though it is, has not been the main driver of my Amazon sales. For one thing, my entire list is not 4k people. For another, while many of my readers did buy the book, more did not.

Instead, I attribute the biggest part of my book sales to Amazon ads.

Over the past 7 years, I have spent $18,487 on Amazon book ads. The vast majority of that has been spent on promoting this new 10 Commandments book and my previous 10 Commandments of A-List Copywriters.

I’ve seen on a couple occasions how my book sales (including organic sales) plummeted after ads were turned off.

For those reasons and more, I believe Amazon ads are the best way to sell books and get quality buyers onto my list, and something I plan to scale up soon (immediately after this promo).

But back to the Tour de Commandments. I have written up a new report, titled:

“3 lessons after $18,487 spent on running Amazon book ads”

I’m offering this report as a free bonus for the Tour de Commandments event. I’ve also prepared two other free bonuses:

#2. “40 Pages to Authority: A $1k article series”

Back in 2023, the the Professional Writers Alliance paid me $1,000 to write a 4-part article series about my experiences writing, promoting, and profiting from a 40-page book (my first 10 Commandments book).

PWA made these articles available to their paying members only. But you can get them as a free bonus for taking me up on my Tour De Commandments offer.

#3. “How I made an extra $1404.53/month in Amazon royalties at the push of a button”

This report outlines a hack, which involves the push of a button — literally, that’s all there is to it — and which made me an extra ~$1.5k per month in Amazon royalties. I used this hack once, over the span of a few months, or rather a few weeks. I made money with it. And I never used it again.

I’m not saying anybody else should use this hack. I’m not saying anybody else should NOT use it either.

All I’m willing to do is to tell you what this hack is, why I’m no longer using it myself, and how you can try it out yourself, if you so choose, to make easy money off Amazon.

And on top of these three new bonuses, there is the bonus I announced yesterday, Manna for Marketers, a live workshop where I will cover I’ve consciously applied these 10 Commandments of Con Men etc. in my biz.

Plus, I’m offering my help and input if you want to raise your hand live on the call, and ask me how to apply any of these commandments to your biz (or life).

If you want to take me up on this Tour de Commandments offer, here’s what to do:

1. Grab five paperback copies of the 10 Commandments book (or four, if you’ve already got a paperback and can dig up that receipt as proof)

2. Forward me your receipt (or receipts, if you already got one) from Amazon

3. I’ll get you in for the Manna for Marketers workshop, and get you access to the above Amazon-related bonuses, as well others I release in the coming days

If you’re in, here’s where to take me up on this offer:

https://bejakovic.com/new10commandments

Announcing: Tour de Commandments

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Today, being May 11, marks the busy and drama-filled kickoff of Tour de Commandments, a special event to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of my conveniently titled book:

“10 Commandments of Con Men, Pickup Artists, Magicians, Door-to-Door Salesmen, Hypnotists, Copywriters, Professional Negotiators, Political Propagandists, Stand Up Comedians, and Oscar-Winning Screenwriters”

I published this book exactly a year ago, on May 11, 2025.

Since then, I have sold some 4k copies of this book… gotten a bunch of 5-star reviews (“Can’t tell you how glad I am that I clicked Buy Now”… “This is going into my yearly reads collection”… “More compelling than Cialdini with sprinkles of Houdini”)… and had people tell me this is the best thing I’ve ever written.

And now, I have a spectacular, amazing, uncanny Tour de Commandments bonus bundle to encourage you to get your copy, and a few extra copies to boot.

Over the course of this event, I’ll be dripping and leaking these bonuses. Today, I’ll tell you about just the first leg of the Tour de Commandments bonus bundle:

“Manna for Marketers,” a live implementation workshop for the influence ideas from the 10 Commandments book.

Who: For email marketers, list owners, course creators, online business owners, coaches, and sales professionals.

What: How I’ve consciously applied these 10 commandments in my biz, in expectation of this workshop. Plus, my help and input if you want to raise your hand live on the call, and ask me how to apply any of these commandments to your biz (or life).

Why: The #1 thing my readers have been asking me for, on the back of this 10 commandments book, is advice and examples on how to implement these ideas.

So I’m giving it to you.

You can see behind the curtains of how I use these commandments practically. You can get ideas for how you too can use them. And can get my direct help in tweaking these ideas to help you perform miracles of persuasion.

How: Like a gameshow? Listening to me rattle on for a long time is not fun for anybody. So I’ll apply everything I know about making workshops fun, interactive, and even exciting to this “Manna for Marketers” workshop.

There will be a gameshow component, there will be rewards and prizes, and you might win a brand new Tesla (ok no Tesla but everything else is true).

When and where: Next Wednesday, May 20th, at 8pm CET/2pm EST/11am PST, inside the Big Store (I’ll send you a link if you take me up on the offer below.) And of course, if you cannot make it live, there will be a recording, which others will have to pay for, but which you get for free, as part of this special event.

As I said, I will tell you about the remaining bonuses over the coming days.

If you already know you want to participate in the Tour de Commandments based on the Manna for Marketers live workshop, here’s what to do:

1. Grab your five paperback copies of the 10 Commandments book (or four, if you’ve already got a paperback and can dig up that receipt as proof)

2. Forward me your receipt (or receipts, if you already got one) from Amazon

3. I’ll get you in for the Manna for Marketers workshop, and all the remaining bonuses as I release them over the next few days

If you’re in, here’s where to take me up on this offer and reserve your spot for “Manna for Marketers”:

https://bejakovic.com/new10commandments

[T-minus-5] Countdown to the start

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A few days ago, I was sitting in the center of Barcelona, near the Arc de Triomf, waiting for a friend, when I noticed something that deserved an email.

I was ogling the people, ogling the dogs, ogling the big red brick Arc itself. And then, I noticed a yellow and black construction in front of it.

It was a countdown timer, counting down second, minutes, hours, and days to something. Immediately, I was sucked it, and I wanted to know more.

“What’s gonna happen? And when? Should I be here? I bet it’s gonna be exciting.”

I saw that the construction had the yellow jersey of Tour de France on it.

I checked later. Sure enough, it’s a countdown clock, counting down the time to the start of the Tour de France, which will kick off on on July 4th, from Barcelona, which is not in France, but okay.

(I gotta tell you, there’s nothing more boring to me than watching bicyclists, but this year, I feel invested in the Tour de France.)

The day after that, I was at the gym, also very close to the Arc de Triomf.

I was listening to the latest James Altucher podcast. James was interviewing Amy Morin, author of the “13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do,” which is a bestselling book that spawned a whole series of “13 Things Mentally Strong X Don’t Do” books for Morin and made her a multimillionaire.

The weird thing is, Morin’s original book wasn’t an overnight smash success.

It took a year and a half for it to reach bestseller status.

James asked about that. Because normally, if a book doesn’t sell well straight out the gate, the publisher will give up on it and stop promoting it.

How did Morin’s book not sell well at first, and yet become a bestseller a year and a half later? Morin explained:

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Honestly it was from Rush Limbaugh. He mentioned my book on a Monday.

He said, “Today we’re gonna talk about the 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do.” And he never got to it that day.

So Tuesday he said, “Today is the day. We’re gonna talk about the 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do.” And he didn’t get to it that day either.

By about Wednesday, the book had literally sold out of every bookstore.

He didn’t get to it until Friday. He plugged my book five days in a row. It sold out.

A year and a half in, where it only sold ok, most bookstores only had one copy. Even Amazon didn’t have that many in stock. So it sold out everywhere by about Wednesday.

It was the next week that I hit Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists.

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My point being:

Most marketers are plenty familiar with countdowns to the end. “Deadline in 24 hours! 12 hours! 8 hours! Deadline is here! Deadline! Deadline! Deadline!”

But few marketers are familiar enough with coountdowns to the start. To teasing excitement to the launch of a thing, and not just the disappearance of an opportunity.

But smart people, or some lucky ones, like Amy Morin above, know the benefit of not only counting down to the end of a thing, but the start of it as well.

Let me put that into practice right now.

I published my new 10 Commandments book, “10 Commandments of Con Men, Pickup Artists, Magicians, etc.” almost exactly a year ago.

In the meantime, I’ve amassed 99 reviews on Amazon, the majority of them 5 star.

To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of this book, and possibly, my 100th review, I will be kicking off a Tour de Commandments event on May 11th.

I’ll have more details about this exciting, unique, spectacular, historic, one-time, never-to-be repeated event over the next few days, as the countdown to the start gets closer and closer to zero.

Meanwhile, if you haven’t yet gotten your copy of my 10 Commandments book, your copy is waiting for you here:

https://bejakovic.com/new10commandments

Announcing: Done-for-you newsletter service

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A couple years ago, I announced a done-for-you newsletter service.

And since I recently wrote an email about the mutually reinforcing benefits of having both an education track (this newsletter) and a client track (something I gave up 3-4 years ago)… and since that email ended up persuading me as well… I’m bringing the done-for-you newsletter service back.

When I first launched this service, I was writing a newsletter in the health space.

​​In that space, I had seen lots of both new and established companies, which either didn’t have a newsletter or had a terrible one, for various reasons ranging from unreadable layouts to offensively infrequent sending to tear-inducing dullness.

I thought, with my email marketing and copywriting and newsletter-creating experience, I could go and help these companies.

I could come up with a new concept for a newsletter for them, and give them ideas for ongoing content that would be interesting to their readers and valuable to the company.

But “concept” and “content ideas” are not easy to sell, at least in my experience.

So I thought I could offer the entire package.

Problem:

​​I don’t want to write another ongoing newsletter, particularly if it’s not for myself.

Solution:

I do have this first newsletter, the one you are reading now, with hundreds or maybe thousands of writers who might be interested in a job.

I figured I could hire one or a dozen such writers from my list, coach them, monitor them, crack the whip on occasion, and guide them to make sure they provide quality work, so that everybody’s ultimately happy — the company, the writers, me.

I might still end up doing that, at scale, in the health space.

But I decided, as an experiment, to offer this done-for-you newsletter service to my marketing list first.

Here’s what to know:

1. This service is meant for you if you have a business already but no newsletter or, let’s be honest, a terrible newsletter.

​​This is for you if you have customers and an offer that’s selling, whether a product or a service.

As you probably know, a newsletter can be an easy, profitable, prestige-building way to get more people into your world, to get more of them to buy what you sell, and to keep them around until you sell the next thing. And with my done-for-you newsletter service, you don’t have to do anything, except pay me to get it all done for you. ​​

2. This is not for you if you have nothing to sell. There’s nothing wrong with starting a newsletter if you have nothing to sell. But that’s just not the kind of client I’m looking for for this done-for-you service.

3. This is also not for you if you already have a newsletter, and you want my help growing your newsletter. My take is that, if you think you have a newsletter growth problem, what you really have is a monetization problem.

As you might be able to tell from my tone above, I’m not desperate to find clients for this service. I have enough money and other plans and opportunities. I even debated for a good while about offering this at all.

At the same time, it would be great to find a business I could genuinely help.

​​I like this newsletter game, and I find I’m good at it.

​​It would be great to have the experience of starting new newsletters and helping them succeed, without having to 1) create the offers to make the newsletters pay off and 2) do the writing myself. That experience was the reason I did decided to offer this in the end.

If you are interested in this done-for-you newsletter service, and if you fall into group #1 above, then write me and we can start a conversation.

I’ll talk about this offer over the next few days and then I’ll shut up about it.

​​If the offer turns out to be successful and the delivery enjoyable, I’ll take it to that health niche I was originally planning on targeting.

​​And if it’s not enjoyable or not successful, then I’ll lock it up in the cellar, along with my Most Valuable Postcard (locked up since 2022, next up for parole in 2038) and my “Win Your First Copywriting Job Workshop” (locked up in 2021, life sentence, not eligible for parole).

For now, this done-for-you newsletter offer still stands. If it’s got you excited, write me, and we can talk.

Off-market affiliate deals

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I’ve been lurking on Facebook lately, doing research for my low-ticket funnel. That’s how I came across an interesting new offer for coaches and consultants:

1. We will build out a low-ticket funnel for you, for free

2. We will run traffic to it, for free, using our own money

3. We will drive buyers who come through this funnel to a sales call for your high-ticket coaching or consulting offer

4. We only take a cut when you close a deal

I don’t know how well these guys are doing.

But I do know another company that effectively has this same business model.

It’s a company I used to write copy for back in the day.

They didn’t advertise that this was their business model, but since I was a copywriter for them, I know that that’s what they did.

They started out with real estate investing gurus who had high-ticket coaching programs, and then graduated to more general bizopp coaching offers.

I happen to know that they were making a killing back when I was working with them. They only seem to have gotten bigger since.

My point for you is:

Affiliate marketing is great.

It allows you to promote and profit from offers, without having to go through the massive trouble of creating and delivering those offers.

Affiliate marketing also sucks.

Most of the available affiliate offers are no good, and the few good ones have a ton of other people promoting them.

The solution to this dilemma is to roll your own off-market affiliate offers, like the guys above.

In other words, to find people who have good offers, or the makings of good offers, but who aren’t promoting them adequately, and who certainly don’t have affiliate programs…

… and then make some sort of a deal with them to promote them adequately, using your own skills and resources.

(And better yet, to put yourself in toll position, so you get the unique right to promote this off-market affiliate deal, while others only look on with wonder and envy.)

If this is something that interests you, you can go off on your own right now and start doing.

I really hope that’s what you will do.

But if you want some support and help for this kind of stuff, my best recommendation is the Royalty Ronin community, which in many ways is a community of people who are rolling their own off-market affiliate deals, using various techniques and approaches.

In case you wanna find out more, you can sign up for a free 7-day trial here:

https://bejakovic.com/ronin

P.S. If you sign up for Ronin and make it past the first 7 days, write me and let me know. I’ve got some bonuses with your name on them.