Personal Change

The opportunity seeker’s way to success

by

I’m a bit stressed as I write this. It’s Saturday morning. Tomorrow and Monday I’m going on a mini-vacation. Also on Monday, I have a deadline for the advertorial I promised to deliver to my first client/partner in years.

The advertorial that’s due Monday is, err, 75% of the way done?

I have a bunch of research, a bunch of notes, and a bunch of very rough AI drafts. Still, I’m far from having something I can give to the client. And I have today to finish it.

In moments like this, I ask myself, “Why do I do this to myself?”

And the answer comes, “Because I would never get anything done otherwise.”

I have long had this theory that everybody who succeeds in direct marketing is an opportunity seeker at heart.

Opportunity seeker = somebody who chases bright shiny objects, much like a bee that flits from flower to flower.

I think the business owners and the copywriters and everybody else who somehow makes it in direct marketing are first and foremost opportunity seekers, meaning that they get sucked in by marketing that promises you hot new riches now, even if you have no time or money to invest and cannot count past 5.

I myself am a veteran opportunity seeker.

It started in high school when I responded to a direct response ad in the back of a newspaper, which promised a lucrative and enjoyable new career (forestry service), without any qualifications, presumably even without finishing high school.

I have since spent tens of thousands of dollars buying various stuff that promises to be a hot new opportunity.

You might think I’d know better by now. I don’t know better.

Anyways, here’s my point for you:

If, like me, you are an opportunity seeker, then make it work for you. Take the psychological levers that you know can be pulled to make you act, and pull them yourself.

At the heart of every opportunity pitch are three words:

1. NEW

2. OPPORTUNITY

3. NOW

The NOW is why this opportunity wasn’t available yesterday, and why it won’t be available tomorrow. It’s enforced in opportunity marketing via scarcity and, more typically, urgency.

You can enforce NOW on yourself in the same way, by setting deadlines for yourself, like I did with that advertorial I told you about.

(Of course, for a self-imposed deadline to be meaningful, you need some kind of public accountability, like clients or customers who are expecting stuff to be delivered.)

The OPPORTUNITY part boils down to the idea of SOMETHING FOR NOTHING.

The fact is, we will all have to work in some way until the day we die. Even if you make all the money in the world, you will still have to invest and manage and secure that money.

But nobody wants to hear that. I certainly don’t.

So I embark on projects that promise to be bolt-on opportunities, things I can work on for a bit, get up to speed, and then simply profit from for the rest of my life, without sacrificing anything I’ve already got. Of course, it never really works out that way, but so what? It gets me moving.

And the NEW, of course.

If you’re an opportunity seeker like me, the familiar and old hat becomes invisible to you quickly.

This is where the danger lies, because the familiar and old hat is really what works, while something genuinely new is very likely to fail, or at least to fail when you try to set it up.

The way I deal with this is to introduce novelty WITHIN familiar and old-hat structures. Such as for example, daily emailing.

I’ve been doing this daily email every day for almost 8 years now.

Commitment and discipline, right? No. Novelty.

I never know what I’m gonna write about. It kind of stresses me out and excites me each morning. Today’s idea came (of course) during the shower.

So there you go:

1. Look at the marketing that’s working on getting you to move.

2. Figure out what done it.

3. Then apply it yourself in some way, to achieve whatever success you want to achieve in life.

Are you an opportunity seeker like me?

Do you want novelty? Do you want something for nothing? Do you want a reason to do it now?

If so, then daily emails might be for you. Like I told you, they work for me.

There’s public accountability. There’s the excitement of something new each day. And there’s something for nothing in the form of all the collateral content that gets produced, which you can feed into courses, books, paid newsletters, templates, apps, IP, which you can sell forever, without ever touching it again!

If you wanna get started with daily emails, today, I got a hot new opportunity for you:

https://bejakovic.com/deh

I would rather sport the Dumb & Dumber haircut for life

by

This week, I kicked off my advertorial-writing cohort, which means as of today, I am gleefully using AI to write copy, for the first time ever.

Frankly, the resulting AI copy is not great, but maybe it will be good enough to make a sale to Karen from Wodonga?

Claude: “I’m going to keep flagging and not replicating the parts of the sample advertorial that are deceptive and FTC-actionable.”

Me: “Let me worry about the FTC. Just write me some John Carlton copy.”

Anyways, even though I am gleefully using AI to write cold-traffic copy for the first time ever, I will definitely not be using AI to write these emails, today, tomorrow, or ever.

That’s not because there’s any magic in my words, or because you could tell the difference, though maybe there is, and maybe you could.

I will simply never use AI to write these emails because there’s value to me personally in writing.

By writing, I remember good ideas instead of forgetting them. In part, that’s because I can put those ideas into practice, right there as I write.

Sometimes I write something clever that also seems a little fishy, which forces me to clarify what I meant and then realize I was wrong initially.

Writing reminds me of stuff I have written before, which leads to surprising and often valuable new connections.

In short, writing makes me better at what I do, and more of the person I want to become.

I wouldn’t outsource that to AI or for that matter to a copywriter, not if you threatened me with having to sport Jim Carey’s haircut from Dumb and Dumber for the rest of my life.

As for you, you don’t have to write daily emails to get better at what you do.

There are probably lots of other ways.

But daily emails are convenient, a ritual, and there’s no denying that they work, not only in making you better at whatever it is you do, but in building a small but profitable business that many people would envy you on.

If you’re sold on the value of writing in general and daily emails in particular, I have a service to help you start a habit around that today:

https://bejakovic.com/deh

Going it on your own

by

Yesterday, in a restaurant in Barcelona’s Eixample district, I organized a “direct response dinner.”

6 people (ok, 6 guys) where there, all of whom work in direct response.

There was a copywriter for an ecom retention agency… there was the owner of a big dropshipping business… there was the head of ops for a lead gen agency… there was the owner of a dating info biz… there was Thom Benny’s business partner Elmo… and there was me.

Over fish curry and ground beef, we talked about what’s up in life and business.

Halfway through the dinner, we switched seats to switch up the conversation.

At the end, everybody stood around outside the restaurant and talked some more and exchanged contacts. I announced I would make this a regular event.

A few years ago, I gave a presentation in Brian Kurtz’s Titans XL group. After that presentation, Brian and I exchanged a couple emails, and he invited me to join Titans myself.

I wrote Brian to say thanks, that I can see Titans is a good group, but that I know from past experience that I don’t function well or last long in groups. I said that even though I know it’s not smart, I always end up going it alone. To which Brian replied:

“Not that I need to teach you anything, John…but whether it’s my group or someone else’s (or one you manufacture on your own), “going it on your own” is a huge mistake.”

That has stuck with me for years. It was a key motivator for why I decided to create my Daily Email House community, and later, why created the Monetization Mastermind. It’s also why decided to organize the dinner last night.

I’m kind of weird and awkward whenever I’m invited to other people’s stuff. I don’t really participate. I look for any excuse to skulk out.

I could tell myself that’s silly, and wait for myself to change and become a better, more sociable, more well-adjusted person.

Or I could simply work with what I’ve got, and figure out how to do something with it. In my case, that’s meant following Brian’s advice, and “manufacturing” groups and communities of my own.

I’m telling you this because maybe it applies to you as well.

Maybe what applies is the specific idea that, if you don’t function well in other people’s groups, then you should manufacture one of your own.

Or maybe what applies is the broader idea to stop waiting for yourself to become a better person in order to get what you want. (Business coach Rich Schefren phrases this as, “Put your business goals ahead of your self-development goals.”)

Final point:

I personally knew everybody I invited to dinner last night, with the exception of James, the head of ops for a lead gen agency.

I had never met James before or interacted with him in any way. I invited him because he is inside Travis Sago’s Royalty Ronin group, and I figured anybody who is in Ronin is ok in my book and is worth meeting. (James turned out to be great.)

Royalty Ronin is the only group I’m a member of in any meaningful way, and the only group I’ve managed to stick around in for more than a few weeks. (I’ve been in Ronin for over two years now.)

That’s not because there’s magic inside Ronin that makes me into a chipper and regular participant. (I rarely post and I comment even more rarely.)

Rater, I stay inside Ronin and I keep lurking there because I’ve learned so much from Travis Sago, both via the ton of expensive trainings that he makes available for free inside Ronin… and via observing Travis and what he does. (This is stuff that might or might not make it into future expensive trainings, but it’s yours free if you only pay attention.)

If you wanna see if Ronin could work for you, whether you participate in groups or not:

https://bejakovic.com/ronin

P.S. If you do make it past free trial and stay inside Ronin, write me an email and let me know. I have some bonuses with your name on them.

Last call for 1PAA cohort

by

I’m reading a book called No More Mr. Nice Guy, and on page 65 it says:

“Nice Guys have a difficult time comprehending that in general, people are not drawn to perfection in others. People are drawn to shared interests, shared problems, and an individual’s life force.”

The book is about 1-1, personal relationships. But the same applies to 1-many or business relationships.

Let that be the useful marketing message for today.

In entirely unrelated news, this is the last call I will make for the 1-Person Advertorial Agency cohort.

It’s come to my attention that this entire week, I’ve been promoting this cohort and insisting that it kicks off on May 1.

That of course is nonsense, since May 1 is well past.

The fact is I made a mistake, one I then copy-pasted over and over. The cohort actually kicks off tomorrow, JUNE 1.

Since I’ve been promoting this offer all week long, I imagine that you’ve either dismissed it as not being for you, or you’ve replied to me to express interest. But on the odd chance that this is the first time you’re hearing about this offer, here’s what’s up, in 3 points:

#1. The investment is $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

#2. I will help you get clients via the two methods laid out in 1PAA

One of these methods is Upwork (that’s where I got my biggest advertorial clients back in the day).

The other is cold outreach to promising brands with a ready-made advertorial.

(I suggest doing both of these methods in parallel during the cohort, for the quickest and best results.)

I will help you filter out who to approach, the messages to send them, the offers to make them. But you still have to do the work, as laid out in 1PAA.

#3. We get started next week, May June 1st, and we keep going until you get to $10k

The cohort will be organized as a month-long Skool group where I can answer questions and give feedback on copy and client-getting efforts.

1 month is plenty of time to pick/get a client, write an advertorial for them, and deliver it. (If you’re feeling very proactive, it’s enough to write and deliver 5 or 10 advertorials.)

After the month is done, I’ll keep giving you ongoing support and feedback over email (for any questions you might have) or Google Docs (for advertorial critiques).

Again, my promise is to keep working with you until you make $10k from advertorial work.

That’s it.

If you’re interested, reply to this email. Again, we start tomorrow, JUNE 1st.

Hundreds of course buyers… one implementer

by

In reply to my email yesterday, the original Crazy Email Lady, Liza Schermann, writes:

“Ha! This offer sounds eerily similar to what Sean Ferres teaches in his AI Ads Lab. I wonder if this guy came through that program.”

The context is that yesterday I wrote about a guy who is getting clients for his ad copywriting services by running ads on FB. The offer he’s promoting via his ads is, “I’ll beat your best ad or it’s free.”

Liza’s message got me curious that maybe there are dozens, hundreds, thousands of people all running eerily similar offers, all coming out of this AI Ads Lab?

Facebook ad library is very unfriendly to searching. But after about 10 minutes of poking around with various terms like “beat your best ad” and “or you don’t pay,” I found exactly… two advertisers making anything like the offer I told you about.

The first is the guy I wrote about yesterday. The second is some agency that’s offering to create scripts for 5 video ads, and in case they don’t get a winner, you pay nothing (in other words, it’s really a different offer).

Strange, right? Really strange.

What I mean is, apparently there’s a guy teaching this strategy for getting clients for writing ad copy.

Also, the strategy clearly works (as I wrote yesterday, the dude who’s running these ads has had close to 70 takers in the past ~6 months).

And yet, there is exactly ONE guy (well, at least that I could find) who is executing this strategy.

What about all those other people who went through the AI Ads Lab course?

I’m sure they have good things to say about the course. I’m sure some of them have consumed the material all the way through. I’m sure a few have even gotten results, maybe with some other client-getting strategies. Still, I would bet my left lung, kidney, or testicle that the vast majority never even consumed the material, much less implemented it, or pursued it consistently enough to see results.

The fact is, ideas have zero value unless you put them to use in some way.

I’m telling you this because I’m currently promoting an implementation cohort that’s using the 1-Person Advertorial Agency course as a blueprint.

I’ve heard lots of good things about 1PAA over the past few days. People say it’s a great course. Some have gone through it all the way. Some have even put it into action, at least partly. But the majority haven’t pursued it enough to write a single advertorial, much less to get a paying client.

That’s where my cohort comes in.

The cohort is not free. In fact, it’s expensive.

We will be following 1PAA, both for advertorial-writing and client-getting.

If you join me, you get my feedback and input, both on advertorial-writing and client-getting.

The immediate goal is to get you to complete an advertorial, and get a client who will run it.

The long-term goal is to get you to make $10k from advertorial work. My offer is I’ll keep working with you until you get there.

We start next week. In case you’re interested, reply now.

When breakthroughs fail

by

If, like me, you’re into pop psychology, you’ve probably heard the following (ahem) fascinating, dramatic, and yet true story:

A UFO cult was expecting a UFO to land in Chicago on Dec 21 1954, and whisk away the believers before a huge tidal wave wiped out the face of the Earth.

December 21 came and went. No UFO came. No tidal wave came either.

The UFO cult was headed by a woman named Dorothy Martin. She was in contact with the aliens via automatic writing (and sometimes over the phone).

In the hours after the supposed UFO arrival failed to materialize, Martin got the message that the aliens had decided to spare the Earth because of the good work of the UFO cult in spreading the word.

That’s the dramatic part. Here’s the fascinating part:

The UFO cult, which until then had been very secretive, very hostile to publicity, very closed to outsiders, suddenly went on a PR blitz, announcing to the world the good news. It was no longer enough for the cultists to be in direct contact with powerful aliens who had decided to spare the Earth from destruction — everybody else had to know about it too.

I’ve written about this before in my newsletter. I got the story from Robert Cialdini’s book Influence, in the chapter on social proof. Cialdini in turn got the story from the book When Prophecy Fails, a classic of pop psychology, which was written by the researchers who infiltrated the UFO cult in order to study it.

Only one problem:

I was wrong. Cialdini was wrong. I mean, we were wrong to report this as a fascinating, dramatic, yet true story.

Today, with recently dug up reports and research, it appears that the original research was tainted, exaggerated, or even made up. As many as half the cult members were actually researchers who infiltrated the cult. One of the infiltrating researchers became a cult leader, and told people to say and do things that would look good in the book. Several of the legit cult members changed their tune and walked after the UFO failed to show, completely negating the claims of “cognitive dissonance,” a term this book introduced.

Over the past few years, it has seemed like all the dramatic, memorable social science stories were invented:

* The marshmallow test, in which kids who could delay marshmallow gratification did dramatically better later in life. (The result doesn’t hold up when you control for some obvious other variables.)

* The Harvard “power poses” research, where standing like Superman — head high, arms akimbo, legs apart — raises your testosterone and lowers your cortisol. (Sloppy data collection and wishful statistics.)

* The Stanford prison experiment, where ordinary people suddenly turned into monsters when put into positions of power. (The “guards” were apparently told what part to play.)

So what’s left? What do we have when all the good stories are gone?

What’s left is a mountain of boring, incremental progress, unintelligible and uninteresting to anybody except the experts in the field, which grows decade by decade, century by century.

Harumph. If you didn’t like that, I’m afraid you’re gonna hate this:

I’ve been listening to a bunch of big-time, behind-the-scenes marketers who do not primarily make their money by teaching or by via their personal brands. (These interviews are part of bonus #5 in my recent Tour de Commandments bonus bundle.)

One thing I’ve noticed these behind-the-scenes, big-time marketers say is some version of:

“There’s really no secret to the success of this funnel/offer/business. It’s just been a bunch of small and incremental improvements and fixes over time, which added up.”

It’s instinctive for all of us to search for the dramatic, memorable breakthrough that upends our entire understanding of how things work. It’s a good story. Our brains like it. It sticks in the memory and it invites us to share it with others.

The real story though is about smaller, less dramatic, even boring improvements that accumulate.

I’ll leave you today with that idea, and by pointing you to my Most Valuable Email training.

The Most Valuable Email trick, which I teach in this training, started out as a way of making my emails more fun to readers and myself.

It’s since become the guiding philosophy of this newsletter, and it’s become a transformative practice that has allowed me to accumulate hundreds of small improvements in the way I write, in the way I create offers, in the way I position myself.

Over time, it’s added up.

If you too have a personal brand online, and if you want to rack up your marketing and persuasion wizard points, slowly but surely, over time, to levels that you cannot even imagine now:

https://bejakovic.com/mve/

Tonight: Manna for Marketers live gameshow

by

Tonight at 8pm CET/2pm EST/11am PST, I’ll step in front of the camera, with my best Alex Trebek mustache and grey suit, to host the first and last Manna for Marekters gameshow.

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

I’ll show you how I’ve consciously applied the “10 commandments of Con Men etc.” in my biz, in expectation of this workshop.

Plus, I’ll offer 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).

And, because listening to me rattle on for a long time is not fun for anybody, I’ll run “Manna for Marketers” like a gameshow.

The whole thing will be structured like Jeopardy (hat tip to reader René Kerkdyk for this idea), with quiz questions, answers, a final winner, and a big prize for the winner.

If you took me up on my Tour de Commandments offer last week, I sent you a link already for today’s Manna for Marketers call.

Yes, there will be a recording in case you can’t make it, which I will put into the already-existing bonus area. But considering the live gameshow aspect, and the big prize for the winner, I hope to see you there live in a few hours.

And if you didn’t take me on the Tour de Commandments offer, you can still join Manna for Marketers.

It’s an Obvious Adams thing, but if a promo did well because of the bonuses (and there’s no denying that Tour de Commandments was a success because of the bonuses), then it makes sense to get more use out of that.

And why wait?

That’s why today you can get an get an entry ticket (and the subsequent recording) for the Manna for Marketers gameshow, plus all other exciting bonuses I offered last week, for $97. Here’s all I’m including:

1. “Manna for Marketers” live gameshow and implementation call

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

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

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

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

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

7. Influence Riddles Vol. 1

If you wanna take me up on this offer, here’s where to go:

https://desertkite.thrivecart.com/manna-for-marketers/

P.S. If you do take me up on this offer today, pay attention to the thank you page. It will have the Zoom link for tonight’s gameshow.

10 things that are working for me now

by

#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.

My new experiment: weekly work budget

by

As a new experiment, I’ve set myself a “weekly work budget.”

It’s the opposite of the workweek, which mandates how much time you MUST work.

The weekly work budget mandates the amount of time each week I’m ALLOWED to work.

If I work more one day, I have to take it out of another day.

The total time I work by the end of the week has to be less than the time I’ve set for myself (currently 24 hours).

I’ve set myself a weekly work budget because I tend to waste a lot of time supposedly working but actually just checking email and Skool… switching between projects (why not? I’ve got ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD to do everything!)… and not prioritizing what actually matters.

So far it’s working brilliant. I’m only wondering why it’s taken me 12 years of working by myself to hit upon this.

I’m telling you this in case you also work for yourself, and in case you spend more time working than you like, and getting less done than you like.

If so, a weekly work budget might be worth trying.

I’m also telling you this because I’ve already spent a bunch of time working today. I’ve had a couple calls — one with a possible auction partner, and a second with a prospect — now turned client, the first I’ve had in years — who replied to my “DFY newsletter service” offer a few days ago.

Those two calls, plus some other work I’ve done today, mean I haven’t had time to prepare any more bonuses for my ongoing Tour de Commandments event. And who knows, with my weekly work budget quickly draining out, I might not have time to prepare any more by the end of this week either.

Will that kill this Tour de Commandments deal for you? I don’t know. Maybe the following list of bonuses will be enough to entice you.

The deadline for this event is this Sunday, May 17, at 12 midnight PST. If you act before then (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.

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 this Sunday, May 17, at 12 midnight PST.

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

https://bejakovic.com/new10commandments

The best direct marketing book of the past 15 years

by

Do you like books?

Do you like marketing books?

Do you like valuable marketing books that can legitimately make you millions of dollars, if you only consistently apply what they tell you to do?

If so, I got something for you.

This whole year I’ve been reading and rereading a book, without telling anyone anywhere what it is. It’s the first time I’ve come across an information resource that is so valuable that I wanted to keep it and hoard it for myself, like a miserly dragon.

This book is:

1. Published relatively recently.

2. Almost unknown. I haven’t heard anybody else talking about it, and as per Amazon, it’s not selling.

3. Written by a direct marketing legend who has little personal charisma and either little skill or little interest in building up a big personal brand. (How is he still a legend then? That’s something I will only tease for now.)

4. The most valuable and useful and impactful book about direct marketing in the past 15 years, going back to Mark Ford and John Forde’s Great Leads, which was published back in 2011. 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.

Now here’s my deal for you:

I’m currently running my Tour de Commandments event. I’m using it to mark one year since I published my 10 Commandments of Con Men etc. book.

The deal is that if you buy 5 copies of my book (or 4, in case already have a copy), I’ll give you a buncha bonuses.

My new bonus for today is that I’ll give you (well, kinda) this best direct marketing book of the past 15 years.

This book sells on Amazon right now for $15 for the paperback.

The thing is, I have no interest in going on Amazon and actually filling out your shipping details and ordering this book this book on your behalf and shipping it to your door. I’ve done that before, and it’s frankly too much work for the small offer I am making right now as part of this Tour de Commandments event.

But I also know the value of getting something for FREE.

So my deal is:

Take me up on my Tour de Commandments offer.

I will tell you the name of this book, and I will give you $15 in Bejako Bux to offset the price if you wanna buy it. You can use this $15 in Bejako Bux towards any of my courses or coaching (or anything I sell directly on my site).

(If by some minuscule chance you already own this direct marketing book, you still get to keep the $15 in Bejako Bux.)

Plus, I’ll also tell you a second resource, by the same uncharismatic direct marketing legend, equally as obscure and unknown, which I have been bingeing on for weeks now. It’s got so many valuable marketing ideas that it could legitimately be packaged up as a $30k/year mastermind. But it’s available for free, if you only know where to look, and that’s what I’ll tell you.

Plus plus, there are the other Tour de Commandments bonuses I have promised so far:

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

Happening next Wednesday at 8pm CET/2pm EST/11am PST. I will cover 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.

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 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