Partnerships

Can you make money “birddogging”?

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Dear Diary,

Day 14.

I keep promoting Travis Sago’s Royalty Ronin membership, with no signs of a rescue ship on the horizon.

Instead, new people keep signing up for the Ronin free trial week, and new questions keep arriving.

For example, the following message-in-a-bottle washed up on the beach a few days ago:

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I have now listened to 3 interviews of Travis Sago and looked at other info so I understand he is very sharp, so I get that.

So the question is about the (no product, no list) issue. Does he teach a way of profiting by finding or Bird Dogging out these deals and turning them over to others like himself to deliver the service and making a commission?

Maybe better said, is there a way to find deals for him or others to do, and profit in that way vs. doing the work yourself?

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For clarification:

One of the things Travis teaches is partnering up with business owners, and helping them get more money out of their existing courses, lists, communities, etc.

The budding birddogger above wants to know whether you can make money just by finding such deals, and not by actually doing the marketing and sales work yourself.

Maybe this is cruel to say, or maybe I’m projecting here from my desert island… but I figure that anybody who goes to the trouble of asking whether you can make money just by finding great deals, has little chance of finding great deals in the first place.

Maybe I’m wrong.

In any case, the answer to the question above is an absolute unqualified yes.

If you have the deal — for example, if you’ve found an online business owner who has an asset that he doesn’t really value or use well, but you see how it could be milked for cash, and you’ve convinced him to let you try a little test on it — then there are probably a hundred and one people inside Royalty Ronin who would be happy and able to deliver on the technical side, and split the profits with you in some way you agree on.

For a good enough deal, I bet Travis himself would be interested.

If you work with clients — if you are a copywriter, a media buyer, a designer — then this kind of birddoggin’ could be 1) a way of getting paid more from your existing and past clients, without 2) doing any of the actual work.

But somehow, my feeling is that this is not the burning question on the minds of most people reading this email.

So just for the sake of completeness, let me say it goes in the other direction too.

If you have technical skills, in particular if you are good at sales copy but also other stuff, then there are people in Ronin who are looking to hand off the delivery side of deals. A few examples I just dug up (excuse the Royalty Ronin jargon):

#1. “I am looking to partner with someone who is a Systeme.io expert. I have many courses I own that should have been put up for years. However, my nature is to do everything myself.”

#2. “Can I request an experienced Sales Saver in here to partner up for experience/bona fides? Coffee date said they have room for another 20 spots per month at $5K, doing 60 calls a month.”

#3.”Tapper & T1/3 writer potentially needed for Beamer Deal (Fitness Biz niche)”

#4. “Per Travis’s ‘Do this. Get partners!’ vid, I would love to partner with one or two folks here who have some experience with either email, SMS or social group campaigns. You can count on me to do the heavy-lifting of getting partners. Just need someone to be my wing-person on this so we can hopefully get some quicker wins together.”

If you’d like to look inside Royalty Ronin, or even maybe partner with some of the people there, on either part of the deal, you can sign up for a week’s free trial to Ronin here:

https://bejakovic.com/ronin

P.S. If you’ve already signed up for a trial of Royalty Ronin via my link above, forward me Travis’s welcome email — the one with “Vroom” in the subject line.

I have a small but valuable bundle of bonuses, including my Heart of Hearts and my Inspiration & Engagement trainings, which are waiting for you as a way of saying thanks for taking me up on my recommendation

Ronin case study: What break-even marketing funnels really look like

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Yesterday I wrote that inside the Royalty Ronin community, which I’m promoting these days, there are 300+ success stories.

Today, I decided to leaf through some of them.

I found one from 11 days ago that got me juiced, so I want to share it with you.

The case study runs for 8 pages in a Google doc. I won’t retell the whole thing. Here, with all the dogmatism of brevity, are 9 highlights from this case study:

1. A business owner is running $1k a day in ads, and is breaking even on day 0. Great, right?

2. Not so great. Cash flow is tiiiight. The business owner is juggling money between accounts. Any sudden new expense could sink the business. Business owner says:

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Over the last six months though, we significantly depleted our cash reserves [dialing in the sales funnel to break even], and we were at the stage where it’s like, every dollar we spend on advertising was like having our back against the wall with no buffer. If I mess this up, I stop buying ads for a while.

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3. A Ronin knocks on the business owner’s door and makes a Ronin proposition*:

“Let me make you look good to your audience, do all the work, and maybe make you some money. If I make you money, you can give me a cut.”

4. Business owner agrees. “There was no real downside for me,” he says later. “Like, if it didn’t work, it didn’t work.”

5. Ronin creates a new $1k offer* out of the business owner’s existing assets. Business owner says about it:

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And you came up with this offer, which was the same offer I sell for $200 with a couple of extra bonuses, bundled in with a couple of other things, and an onboarding call.

It’s more than our low ticket offer, but not much more.

And you’re selling it for $1,000.

I looked at this $1,000 offer you came up with, and thought, Wow, that’s a great deal.

But it’s the same thing we sell for $200. But it was $1,000. But it still sounded like a great deal because you’re good at creating blockbuster offers.

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6. Ronin writes copy for emails* and FB posts* (I’m guessing again repurposing existing content). There are no sales calls* for the business owners to handler, even though it’s a $1k offer. There’s no sales page* either. All the sales are handled by the Ronin via email* and DMs*.

7. 9-day email promo*. 49 sales at $1k. $49k in revenue.

8. The $49k in revenue is split between the business owner and the Ronin, negotiated the easy way*.

9. Business owner says at the end:

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The result was magic. That is a whole month’s worth of revenue in a week.

Can we do it again? And how quickly can we do it again? If we can do this again in three months, I’m right on with it. It was a great experience right the way through.

This has been one of the easiest, best, and smoothest business transactions.

I never knew [Ronin] before this offer but I have a lot of respect for the man.

I wish him the best and would love for him to get a lot of business out of it because he’s done the right thing for us.

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If you wanna read the full details of this case study, you can find it inside the Royalty Ronin Skool group. Just search for “[Case Study] The One That Started It All (BEAMER).”

And if you want to do something similar, either in your own business, or for a partner, including one who doesn’t even know you today, then:

All the bits above I marked by * are things that are taught inside Royalty Ronin…

… both inside the actual community via case studies like these…

… and also inside the bonus trainings offered, such as Phoneless Sales Machine (no sales calls or even sales pages for big-ticket sales)… BEAMER (finding and negotiating partnerships like above)… Big Ticket Email Mojo (err, about emails and promos for big-ticket sales)… and Passive Cash Flow Mojo (for coming up with great offers).

That’s where the Ronin above learned these skills.

That’s where you too can learn them, and apply them, and help other people with them, and make money for yourself as well.

If you’d like to get started today, Royalty Ronin has a free one-week trial, which you can take advantage of here:

​https://bejakovic.com/ronin​

P.S. If you’ve already signed up for a trial of Royalty Ronin via my link above, forward me the welcome email — the one with “Vroom” in the subject line.

I have a small but growing bundle of bonuses, including my Heart of Hearts and my Inspiration & Engagement trainings, which are waiting for you as a way of saying thanks for taking me up on my recommendation.

A daily email newsletter I read and recommend

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Today, I’d like to get you to sign up to Jason Resnick’s daily email newsletter.

6 months ago, I had never heard of Jason. That says less about him (successful and well connected) than it does about me (hermit and a half).

The way I did eventually hear about Jason was that I got on a call with one of my own customers, Chris Howes.

Chris runs Creative Strings Academy, a paid online membership of hundreds of musicians, and he has an email newsletter with over 10,000 people on it.

“Wouldn’t it be nice to have more customers like Chris,” I said to myself.

So I asked Chris to get on a call. I wanted to find out more about who he is, how his business works, what his problems are. Maybe this could help me create new offers to attract more customers like him.

Chris agreed to get on a call with me. But he told me straight up, “If you’re trying to recruit me as a coaching or consulting client, I’m already working with someone.”

That someone turned out to be Jason Resnick.

And so, out of my hermit cave, at a safe distance, I signed up to Jason’s daily email newsletter and started stalking Jason online. It turned out that:

1. Like me, Jason teaches email marketing, but he focuses on the many -ation parts of email marketing I know precious little about, like automation, and optimization, and segmentation

2. Jason’s audience is made up of online business owners with profitable businesses (along with Chris, I recognized a few other common customers and clients among the testimonials on Jason’s site)

3. Jason writes daily emails in which he shares actual email marketing tips, based on his own business as well as his work with coaching clients (as opposed to focusing on magic or golden retrievers or New Yorker cartoons, the way I tend to do)

My stalking and lurking went on for 6 months. That whole time, it was on my todo list to write to Jason to get introduced. Of course I never did.

And then, a couple weeks ago, as part of a “JV Outreach Challenge” I ran inside my Daily Email House community, I finally replied to one of Jason’s emails.

I told Jason some of the story above.

I pointed out that there’s an overlap between his audience and my audience, and that he and I seem to focus on complementary parts of the email space.

I asked if he might be down to do a cross-promotion, where we would each introduce our audience to the other’s newsletter.

Jason agreed.

And so here we are.

I’d like to recommend to you sign up to Jason’s daily email newsletter, the same way that I’m signed up.

Jason is offering a lead magnet when you sign up, a 13-point landing page checklist.

Jason’s checklist is free, it’s short, and from what I can tell, having myself never A/B tested a landing page, it’s full of good points.

So sign up to Jason’s newsletter to get the free checklist.

Or really, sign up because what Jason writes about and what I write about are complementary… because you can learn something valuable from his experience and his work with successful business owners… and because you will get to see daily emails done in a different way than you may be used to.

If you run an online business, or if you do email marketing in any way, I suggest you take a look here:

https://bejakovic.com/jason

The JV Nothing

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The first book I read in English — English not being my native language — was The Neverending Story by Michael Ende.

Maybe you know the 1984 Hollywood movie? The original book is much bigger, and much more profound.

At the core of it is a boy named Bastian Balthasar Bux, who leads a gray and dreary life.

But then one day Bastian is transported to a fantastical land called Fantastica.

He’s brought there to save Fantastica from an existential threat known only as The Nothing.

The Nothing is not a hole. It’s not black. It’s not white. It just makes people and places in Fantastica disappear. Where these people and places were, nothing is left, or more precisely, The Nothing is left.

But let me get to The Something of this email:

Last year, I went on a kick of cold emailing random business owners in a quest for JV partners.

I did this in part because I was following Travis Sago’s BEAMER training, and also because I was working as a coach in Shiv Shetti’s PCM mastermind, where most people were doing similar cold outreach. I wanted to see if I could do it myself.

My quest for JV partners came to exactly nothing in the end. And that’s even though I had a good offer, and I did my research on people, and though my copy was on point.

What happened? Nobody knows, and nobody ever will.

One minute, my cold outreach messages were in my gmail composer, and after I clicked send, they disappeared. The JV Nothing swallowed them up.

No information ever came back about where I went wrong — whether it was the list, or the offer, or the copy.

I’m sure somebody has good experiences to counter my bad experience with cold outreach.

But from what I’ve seen, it takes huge numbers of cold outreach messages to get any kind of a serious prospect, and even when you get somebody, they rarely turn out to be a good partner, and the relationship tends to be very flimsy.

So what to do?

In The Neverending Story, Bastian eventually saves Fantastica (and himself) via an act of total self-abnegation. He has to give up his own identity, down to every desire, every memory. It turns out to be transformative.

I’d like to propose the same if you’re trying to get JV partners, whether for a list swap, or an affiliate deal, or some sort of long-term collaboration.

Many things go into making that happen and turn out well.

But in terms of getting it at least started, I can recommend the following:

Start with people you know, and who know you.

Once you’ve worked through those, go to people you know, who don’t know you — people you’re a fan of, follower of, genuinely can say feel you know them, even though the feeling is not mutual. (Trust me, if you communicate this, it somehow comes through clearly in a message.)

And once you’ve worked through those people, go to people you make an effort to get to know, over time, either via an introduction, or by following them, reading their stuff, buying their products, writing them, helping them — without your desires or your memories of your planned JV deal in mind.

Anything to avoid the genuinely cold outreach message.

That’s my fantastical tip for you today.

My fantastical offer today has nothing to do with today’s fantastical email. Well, it does, but in a way that I’m not willing to reveal just yet.

For now, if you’d like my help in starting and sticking with a consistent daily email habit, so you can gradually expand the universe of people who know you, and who can connect you, and who you can partner with:

https://bejakovic.com/deh

The first online course to sell for $1M?

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Will an online course ever sell for $1M a pop?

Probably not, but who knows. Maybe it will be yours. Consider the following:

In 2007, rare-book dealer Glenn Horowitz made a prediction in the New York Times that a rare, signed copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses, known as the Kaeser edition, would become the first 20th-century book to sell for $1M.

“I can’t remember now,” said Horowitz later, “but, knowing myself, I imagine I would have used the statement as a come-hither.”

And that’s what it turned out to be.

Soon after, Horowitz got a call from a collector who proposed paying $1M for the Kaeser. Horowitz then called Ron Delsener, the then-owner of the book, who had paid $460,500 for it a few years earlier.

“It took Ron about 10 seconds to say yes,” Horowitz recalled. Horowitz’s commission for making that come-hiter statement about the first $1M book, for making the call to the then-owner, and for waiting 10 seconds to hear yes, was $100,000.

I was amazed to read an article about Horowitz, the top-of-the-top among rare-book dealers. I found so much in common between the rare-book dealer’s world and the course creator world.

Sure, course buyers won’t pay $1M for a course (yet), and most people buy courses for reasons other than collecting.

But consider the following change in the rare-book industry, brought on by the Internet, as described in the article:

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The Internet made scarcity scarce: everyone could see that there were a gazillion copies of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica for sale online, and their price plunged. To sell, a book now had to be the best copy, the cheapest copy, or the only copy.

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Swap out “copy” for “course,”” and “the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica” for, say, “How to write emails,” and maybe you can see a valuable lesson in the above. Again from the article:

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Such books required dealers to know more and to be more imaginative: they had to articulate what made a particular provenance or inscription so valuable. Christian Jonkers [a rare book dealer] said, “Our job as booksellers is to justify the difference between the price we bought it at and the price we’re selling it at by providing a narrative about why you should buy it.”

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Marketing guru Jay Abraham, who claims he has helped his clients create an extra 8 billion dollars in value, has this idea of industry cross-pollination. Says Jay, valuable practices that are as common as gravel in one industry can be imported profitably into your own industry, where they appear to be magic, or gold.

I would never have thought to go searching for business ideas in the rare-book dealer’s world. but the article I read is full of ’em, down to Glenn Horowitz’s downfall, near-bankruptcy and possible jail time, for engaging in a common though legal-gray-area business practice.

I have pages of notes from this article. I even got the idea to create a kind of paid newsletter where I would profile interesting people from other industries, in a kind of done-for-you cross-pollination report.

That’s almost certainly never going to happen. But if you sell courses or information more broadly… and if you’re looking for profitable ideas that nobody else in the course creator industry is using… then the following article is worth a read:

https://bejakovic.com/rare-book-dealer

Behind the scenes of my affiliate deal-making

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Over the past few weeks I’ve been approached to promote three affiliate offers, and uncomfortable thought it was, I turned all three down.

All three of these offers were solid. They had good info at a fair price. There’s no doubt each of them can be very valuable to the right person.

Also, all three offer owners who approached me I already had previous relationships with. I had already done some projects with them, or at least we had exchanged some non-business emails and had some sort of rapport going.

Finally, all three offer owners were paying out generous affiliate commissions. In theory, I could make some good money here.

And yet, like I said, I turned down the opportunity to promote any of the three offers.

The reason was simply I personally couldn’t get excited about them. I took a look at these offers and my personal reaction was “Hm, I see.”

I imagined writing emails to promote these offers. How? I’d have to do some jumping jacks before, in order to simulate a bit of life in my copy.

I also imagined taking myself out of the equation altogether. I imagined saying, “Hey this isn’t for me, but don’t let me get in your way, maybe it’s for you.”

That still didn’t sit right. After all, with that approach, where do I stop? Do I end up promoting $3.45 pork chops on sale at Target, because somebody somewhere might want them?

I’ve made the point many times before that I don’t look at this newsletter as a business first. I look at it as my own personal playground, an opportunity to experiment and practice, a reflection of my own interests and tastes.

I can’t blame you if you shrug off everything I’ve said above as just my perverse attitude, something that I do because I apparently don’t care enough about money to reach out and grasp it when it’s offered to me.

Still, I remembered something while thinking about this rather unpleasant issue.

Ben Settle, who I think treats his email newsletter as much more of a business than I treat mine, shared almost the same attitude in an email a couple years ago. In fact it’s possible I got my attitude from Ben.

Ben wrote that the best affiliate offer to sell, at least for him, is one that’s personally fun. And when an offer is not personally fun for him… well, here’s Ben’s report on one such campaign:

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No matter how much time I spent writing those emails, no matter how much time I spent strategizing the campaign, and no matter how much time I spent interviewing the creator of the product (and I did) it did not matter, and the sales were lackluster at best.

The reason?

Not because the offer was bad.

It was extremely valuable, especially for the price.

No, one main reason why was because it was not fun.

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I’m telling you this because over the next few days, until Tuesday to be specific, I’m promoting Tom Grundy’s Subtraction Method.

In fact, I’m promoting it as an affiliate, even though it’s a free training.

There was was the option to simply promote the paid workshops that Tom will be running in the coming weeks, on the back of the (free) Subtraction Method training.

But Tom and I both agreed that the best and happiest way to promote this was simply offer the free training first, one where Tom would reveal all the concepts underlying the Subtraction Method.

It’s Tom’s job to sell the group implementation workshops, following the free training, just to those who want help working through those concepts with Tom’s guidance.

Point being, the real reason I’m telling you to go sign up to Tom’s Subtraction Method is that I’m personally interested and even excited by what Tom has to teach. The promise of an affiliate payout alone wouldn’t do it.

But maybe you don’t even know what I mean by the Subtraction Method. If so, here are the details from my Al Pacino-themed email yesterday:

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Tom’s story is that he quit his high-powered London banking job in order to seek enlightenment. Enlightenment found, Tom ended up going back to the bank.

Curious, right?

The first time around at the bank was miserable, says Tom. The second time around has been enjoyable, stress-free, and even fulfilling.

What made the difference is what Tom calls the Subtraction Method.

The Subtraction Method is not about the kind of minimalism that involves living in a hut in the backwoods of Montana, shooting and skinning rabbits, and melting snow for drinking water.

Rather, it’s about a different kind of minimalism, one that has to do with ideas and attitudes.

The end result can be that you achieve all the external success you think you want now, and you do it on such terms that you’re not eaten out from inside like Michael Corleone or Al Pacino.

Or the end result can be you don’t achieve the external success you think you want now, and you find out that that’s perfectly fine, because what you thought you wanted is not what you actually want.

Here is where I start waving my hands and waffling and mumbling a little too much. Because the Subtraction Method is not my area of expertise. Rather it’s Tom’s area of expertise.

That’s why I’d like to invite you to sign up to his training. The training is free. It’s happening next Wednesday, Nov 6, at 8pm CET/2pm EST/11am PST. I’ll be there. If you’d like to be there as well, you can register to get in at the link below:

https://bejakovic.com/subtraction

60% of my book is meh, says reader

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I got a hot/cold review for my book on Amazon a few weeks ago. The headline of the review says, “great.” The number of stars is five. And yet, the actual review reads:

“Love this, recommend this. Could use an update and some more work, 60% is meh. But the other 40% might make about $20k in the next week. So that’s a good ROI on 45 minutes of reading.”

That’s quite an emotional rollercoaster for 37 words.

When I first read it, I was left confused, exhilarated, offended. “Love this… 60% is meh… good ROI.”

I can tell you two things:

1. If you want people to feel something about you, notice you, react to you, then giving them the hot/cold treatment is much more effective than giving them either the hot treatment or the cold treatment by itself. And if you want proof of that, then take this email as proof.

2. Even though the dude above says 60% of my book is meh, I am on the whole well-pleased to have his review up on my page. Not because he gave me 5 stars or because he says he loves the book, but because it sounds like he might be somebody who takes action.

And ultimately, people who take action are the kinds of people you wanna associate with, at least if you are involved in something that might be called business.

If you need some ideas to take action on, here’s my book.

40% of it is apparently worthwhile and has money-making potential, that is, if you have 45 minutes and $5 to spare. Link:

​https://bejakovic.com/new10commandments

The old peanut butter & jelly

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A week ago, a dude wrote me with a proposition:

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Proposition for you: let me in on your Simple Money Emails course and I’ll interview you on my channel, promote your stuff in the description of the video, and anything else.

I heard you in an interview, good stuff, authentic…most other marketers in interviews put me to shleep.

Anyhow, if you’re interested, great. If not, no probs mate.

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… and below that, the dude included a link to his YouTube channel.

Now here’s a fact:

Last month, I got paid good money to come and talk about email marketing inside a small and closed-door coaching community. This involved preparing a bit of a presentation, and critiquing some copy, and a level of transparency regarding how-to that I don’t promise in podcast interviews.

But even when I’m not getting paid to come and speak in front of a group, I don’t pay for the same privilege.

The way I look at it, a podcast or other kind of interview is already a kind of barter:

The host has the audience/platform… I bring the interesting content for that audience.

It’s like peanut butter & jelly. Each has limited dietary uses on its own… but put them together, and you’ve got a culinary marvel you can live on for the rest of your life.

The point I’m trying to make is not that you should be a hard-nosed “Never pay!” negotiator. There are plenty of good occasions to pay for self-promotion. (Last year I paid Daniel Throssell $1k to run 50 words of copy in his newsletter, offering his audience a bunch of valuable stuff for free.)

My point is simply that if you have or can provide good content, there are people who have an audience and who could use good content.

And vicey versy. If you have a platform and distribution, there are people who would love to come and sell for you, present for you, make their good offers available for you.

The old peanut butter & jelly.

And speaking of:

If you run a private community… mastermind… coaching group… podcast… YouTube channel… small-town newspaper… community bulletin board at the local dog park… and you need someone to talk interesting, and to talk email marketing, then reach out to me. Maybe we can barter in a way that makes us both better off.

How to 3x your readership and give the right people an excuse to say hi

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A couple weeks ago I sent out an unusual email using my Most Valuable Email trick.

I got a response to that from a former client/partner, the owner of a successful direct marketing agency, somebody who had at one point paid me a sizable monthly retainer to advise on emails and advertorials. He wrote:

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At first, I thought the [censored] was just a gimmick and part of your email strategy.

But then I wasn’t sure (new CK account and all that).

Finally, on my 3rd read I figured this was actually you being clever and not an issue with your CK setup.

What it DID do is make me pay attention. (Been a loooooong time since I read anyone’s email THREE times).

So I’m voting for “brilliant” vs “haha mistake!”

Also, using this as an excuse to say hi. Hope all is good.

You still doing the coaching gig?

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The [censored] bit above was my use of the MVE trick in that email.

It’s a new form of Most Valuable Email, one I have started playing with from time to time.

It’s still the same old Most Valuable Email trick, but applied in a new way, one I wasn’t comfortable doing before.

It’s getting results like the above:

People paying more attention… leaning in more… even rereading my emails 3x… and reaching out to reopen dropped business conversations.

If all this sounds abstract, it’s probably because you don’t know what my Most Valuable Email trick is.

You can get it below and find out.

I also have a disappearing bonus to motivate you to act now. The disappearing bonus is simply an explanation of my new way of using the MVE trick, like in the email that drew the response from the agency owner above, and how you can do this too.

If you’d like this disappearing bonus, here’s what to do:

1. Get my Most Valuable Email training at the link below

2. Send me an email by tomorrow, Wednesday Sep 25, by 8:31pm CET, saying you want the disappearing bonus. (After that, no bonus.)

And if you already have Most Valuable Email?

This disappearing bonus is of course open to you too – but the same deadline applies.

Here’s the link to get Most Valuable Email:

​https://bejakovic.com/mve/​

P.S. You might say, “Oh but I want my copy to be crystal-clear like glass, and not to require rereading three times.”

There is something to that.

At the same time, I personally don’t ever want to make what I write scrollable, skippable, and disposable.

If what I write makes people stop, scratch their head, read all the way to the end, reread, I’m good with that.

And in terms of results generated:

Six months ago, the agency owner above and I were talking about working together again.

At that time, I had just started as a coach in Shiv Shetti’s PCM mastermind, and I didn’t have the time to take on a new project.

The new-style MVE email above got the agency owner to reach out and pick up the thread of that conversation… a win in my book, particularly since, as of last week, I am no longer working with Shiv’s PCM mastermind.

I am a most utterly suggestible person

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This past Tuesday, Steve Raju floated the idea for a new workshop, one in which he would reveal:

* Why most traditional high-ticket offers don’t make sense any more in the age of AI

* Why most service providers are struggling nowadays

* What you should pivot to

* What hands down the best offer at the end of 2024 actually is

* All the tools you need to offer that

* How to outsource it if you can’t be bothered to do even that

* How to structure deals for the very highest return

“Interested?” asked Steve at the end of his email. “Just reply ‘Yeah, I’m interested, Steve,’ and if enough people say yes, we’ll do it next week.”

I hit reply and I wrote Steve to honestly say:

“I am not looking to pivot or offer another service but God yes I am interested.”

To which Steve wrote back:

“It’s amazing how you are a master in the arts of persuasion and manipulation… and yet you are one of the most utterly suggestible people I have ever met lol.”

It’s true. I am a most utterly suggestible person.

Frankly, it’s one of the reasons why I got into the direct response field — I wanted to figure out what was happening to me so often.

I also suspect my utter suggestibility is one of the reasons I’ve had success in this field. Because, if I only pay attention to my own reactions, I can say “Aha! Got it. I know what happened. And I bet this would work on others too.”

Maybe you’re utterly suggestible too. No shame in it. In fact, you can even think of it as a valuable gift, if you only pay attention.

Of course, in time I’ve developed a thick and cynical buffalo hide to protect me against the world. Today, my default response to most suggestions is “NO!” — before I even hear what the suggestion is about.

But with people I trust and respect, I will sometimes allow myself to indulge my suggestible nature, like I did with Steve above.

After floating the idea, and I guess hearing back from enough people like me, Steve decided to put on this workshop. It’s called The Word Is Not Enough. It will happen next Wednesday at 10am Pacific. As for your investment, it’s pay-what-you-want.

Plus, if you decide to 1) sign up for Steve’s workshop via the link below and 2) forward me your receipt by tonight, Fri, at 12 midnight PST, I will send you a free bonus, The Secret of the Magi.

The Secret of the Magi will tell you how to open up conversations with people you don’t know, even if they are busy, even if they are rich and successful, and even if they are way above you in status.

Of course, The Secret of the Magi will not work in 100% of cases.

But after observing other people cold contacting me… and after spending this past summer cold contacting a bunch of other people… I’ve had one big takeaway for how to open the door to conversations that can lead to those business partnerships.

I will tell you this takeaway, illustrate it with a few examples, and give you specific instructions on how you can apply it too.

Again, the deadline to send me your receipt for Steve’s workshop is tonight at 12 midnight PST. Why? Because I’ve noticed in the past how well deadlines work on me to get me to move. Maybe they work on you too? If so, here’s the link:

​https://bejakovic.com/the-word-is-not-enough​