Persuasion

I am abolishing my $5 typo bounty

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Back in February, I set up typo bounty for my 10 Commandments of Con Men, Pick Up Artists, Magicians etc. book. That was in response to a 3-star review I got back then, which said the book is full of typos.

I found that hard to believe, since I had more than a dozen people proofread the book before I published it.

But money can fix many things, and maybe it could find and fix typos my proofreaders had missed?

So I set up the bounty, and announced it to my list.

Since then, thanks to the Herculean efforts of nitpicking readers around the world, I have been clued into 3 legitimate typos in the book. Actually, make that 4, because just this morning I got an email notifying me of one more.

I’ve honored all typo bounty hunters so far, and paid out $5 via PayPal, as promised.

But from this moment on, I am abolishing this typo bounty, for two reasons.

The first is that I have no interest in actually updating the book to fix a few spread-out typos. Amazon makes it a pain to update the manuscript, and I don’t want to mess with it for the sake of changing “Cialidini” to “Cialdini” in one place on page 7 (that’s the typo I was notified of today).

The second reason is that this entire bounty process makes me actively dislike the people who write in to tell me about the typos.

Which, appropriately enough, goes back to most important Commandment of Con Men, Pick Up Artists, Magicians etc., a commandment so important, so prime, that I put it at number one, in the first chapter of the book.

If you disobey this prime commandment, it becomes absolutely impossible to influence people to do what you want.

If you obey this commandment, you can perform almost magical feats of persuasion.

You can find Commandment I, and 9 more surprising and valuable commandments, in my book. Beware though, because there are 4 typos there as well, on pages 7, 48, 80, and 136. If that doesn’t scare you off:

https://bejakovic.com/new10commandments

Magic positioning through maddening repetition

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

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

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

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

Was it computers up their sleeves?

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

Did they tamper with the roulette table in some way?

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

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

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

Point being:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The basic idea of a Most Valuable Offer is:

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

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

3. Hold the live training when the date comes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ultimate high-ticket lead magnet

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Important point that Dan makes:

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

So go and write a book.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I refuse this nemesis

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A few weeks ago, I got the following notice of a new subscriber who had signed up to my email list:

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Name: ur a vaxxed faggot

Email: killl@yourself.com

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A few days after that, I checked my 10 Commandments of Con Men etc. book on Amazon. I found that, along with a handful of new 5-star reviews, I now also have a new 1-star review that said:

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A bunch of stories loosely strung together. Grammatical and spelling errors. Poor quality.

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The name of that reviewer on Amazon is “Nemesis.” I checked, and this Amazon shopper has posted no other reviews, ever. Apparently, “Nemesis” had it in for me so bad that he or she decided for the first and possibly only time ever to create a custom account name, write up a book review, and even press the “Submit” button.

So do I have a nemesis now? And is it the same person whose first name is “ur a vaxxed faggot”?

I hope not. Not because I’m afraid of having a nemesis, but because I’m waiting for a worthy nemesis.

Sherlock Holmes has Professor Moriarty, a criminal genius.

Batman has the Joker, carnage and chaos personified.

I hope I’m not left with some troll who slinks around the web leaving 1-star reviews on Amazon and who spells “killl” with three l’s.

But let me get back to my 10 Commandments book, because Commandment IV is actually relevant to the topic of refusing an unworthy nemesis. Commandment IV of my book states:

“Remember the push-pull, to keep thy adversary’s interest keen”

That commandment lays out a bunch of stories, loosely strung together, to illustrate how screenwriters, pick up artists, and con men have figured out that the human brain works by contrast, and that without adequate contrast, the world becomes invisible.

These “influence professionals” have also figured out specific techniques, such as the “near miss,” the “push-pull,” and the “prat-out,” that are fundamentally about taking advantage of our brains’ need for contrast, in order to influence people in subtle and powerful ways.

Applying the core of those techniques to nemesis territory, my conclusion is that your nemesis should both be very like you — in terms of power, size, ability — and very unlike you — in terms of core beliefs, style, and method.

I’d now like to invite you to buy and read my book.

Worst case, you buy the book, you find it fascinating, and you decide to leave a 5-star review.

Best case, you buy it, you find it the most preposterous thing you’ve ever read, and you also happen to be well established in your field and have a large audience and a lot of authority. If that turns out to be the case, then write me an email, because I’m happy to discuss entering upon a mutually beneficial nemesis relationship together.

In either case, here’s where to get started:

https://bejakovic.com/new10commandments

People are buying

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Yesterday I started promoting Rob Goyette’s Fast Revenue Laser Coaching system. Basically, Laser Coaching is Rob’s clever and very proven way for people (experienced or not) to offer a $1k coaching offer that 1) sells and 2) makes sense to deliver for $1k.

A few people have already taken me up on this recommendation. One of them is guitar instructor René Kerkdyk, who wrote me last night to say:

“I could not resist this cool offer.”

… and this morning to say:

“I’m through the Fast Revenue part already and it’s cool how turnkey this is. And the affiliate offer is a nice bonus.”

About that nice bonus, I got a question today that came from digital product designer Karla Fernandes, who not only does but also teaches UX/UI design, and who’s got a Substack on UX/UI with 5k readers. Karla wrote:

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I think the offer is really interesting. As I understand it, you pay $997 to join the coaching business, get access to his system, and receive support in creating your own offer and monetizing it.

From your email, I understood that if I buy the program, you would also help me with the copy, emails, and so on.

So my question is: if you completed his course and can help me with the copy, emails, etc., why would you offer that support as a bonus rather than simply offering it as a $997 service?

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A few reasons why I’m selling Rob’s Laser Coaching system and tacking on my support as a bonus, rather than offering the whole thing myself:

1. It’s Rob’s system, and I wouldn’t want to sell it like it’s my own.

2. Rob has a ton of assets, marketing, case studies that make both selling this and delivering the result easier. I don’t want to recreate all that.

3. I am only offering my “I help you” bonus to a few people, and only during this promo. But I can sell Rob’s offer and make half the money to more people, both now and in the future, without having to do any of the delivery. (If this initial promo does well, and the people I’m working with get results, future promos will be easier.)

4. I’ve actually taken some ideas from Rob’s Laser Coaching system, and I’ve integrated them in offers I’ve made (and which I sold for significantly more than $997). I’ll talk about that in an upcoming email.

For now, to get more details on Rob’s Fast Revenue Laser Coaching, on why I’m promoting it, and on the bonus I am offering and the conditions to claim it:

https://bejakovic.com/announcing-fast-revenue-laser-coaching-and-my-bonus/

People are buying

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Yesterday, I announced that, for 36 hours only, I will be once again selling Age of Insight, my training on how to generate the feeling of insight in your audience.

I had no idea if I’d have any takers on Age of Insight, since this is an offer I created four years ago, and haven’t been promoting or talking about to my list since.

But takers there were. I followed up with some of them last night to ask what made them buy Age of Insight. Here are their whys, in their own words.

First, from tech founder, coach, and former nuclear engineer Erik Gross:

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My entire business I’m building is about helping software engineers and architects change the way they think so they can do better work, get noticed on the job, and make more money.

In other words, I am selling insight.

So I figured there was something valuable to learn here – something that could apply both to my marketing and to my work in serving my people.

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(Erik raises a good point. I keep advertising insight as a marketing tool, and it is that. But it’s just as valuable as a teaching tool, to get people to accept concepts and then actually apply them.)

Second, from DTC copywriter Ben Carter, whose copy has made $21 million in tracked sales:

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You sent an email a couple of years ago

(Literally, I just checked; 2024.)

That email has stayed with me.

“When Orcs Were Real.”

Your email, and the piece which inspired it, cemented the value for me in being able to write insightfully:

When Orcs Were Real is a logically-absurd piece of writing, and yet each time I return to it it’s utterly compelling all over again. I find this phenomenon both confounding and fascinating.

Writing this way is also a skill I’d like for myself.

Interestingly, when I looked up your email you mentioned you still think about that piece too (when you wrote it).

Do you still find yourself thinking about when orcs were real from time to time?

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(I talked abut When Orcs Were Real in Age of Insight back in 2022… and I still think about it! Earlier this year I in fact asked ChatGPT to fill me in on the science. ChatGPT was skeptical. I guess the fact that the idea won’t leave my head after years is proof positive this insight stuff works, not only change minds but to make the change stick.)

Finally, from Robin Timmers, the “largest copywriter in the Netherlands”:

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I have 5 why’s, actually:

1. I had a great experience with every single offer I bought from you. They are always unique, insightful, and full of unique insights I can’t get anywhere else.

2. I enjoy consuming your offers.

3. Vasilis’ testimonial.

4. I am a crack junkie for copywriting/persuasion wisdom.

5. I think I actually want to try my luck in the US DR space, so this might give me an edge.

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(No shame in being a crack junkie for persuasion wisdom. At least that’s what I tell myself, because I am a junkie for that stuff as well.)

Age of Insight is available for sale through the end of today, until 11:59pm PST.

If you’d like to buy it, or if you’d like to see the fantastic testimonial I recently got about it, which Robin refers to in his 3rd why above, here’s where to go now, while there’s still time:

https://bejakovic.com/announcing-age-of-insight-for-36-hours-only/

Fantastic copywriting skills considered harmful

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Point 1:

A couple days ago, I asked people in my Skool group what offer they want to make to their list in the next week.

Many of the folks in my group are copywriters, and many of those who aren’t copywriters by trade still know a lot about copywriting because they do marketing for their own businesses.

When I asked about offers, there was talk of things like:

* 1-1 coaching

* Courses, full or condensed

* A research system

* Longform sales pages

* 5-minute trainings and hour-long workshops

* Order bumps

Point 2:

Today, I went into Travis Sago’s Royalty Ronin community.

I am a paying, card-carrying member of Ronin. I’ve been making a habit of promoting it, and and easy way to promote it is simply to go in there every week and see what’s up.

Today, I saw a post by Travis about auctions, specifically about a recent auction that made $50k in 24 hours. Here’s the relevant bit, relevant to that offers discussion above, and relevant if you sell online:

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Because the Fun Auction…

Does NOT require fantastic copywriting skills.

The CORE is…

Get ______________! Bids start at $1.

The BLANK is something they REALLY, REALLY WANT, which is worth far more than $1.

It’s funny to me…

That TRAINED copywriters fuck this up more than newbies.

NOBODY WANTS a proven system, coaching, 1:1, orthodontist services, drills or an AUCTION BTW!

If what’s in the blank…for $1…doesn’t make their HEART do a flip…find something that will squirt dopamine into the lizard brain.

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Travis is saying you don’t need fantastic copywriting skills to sell VIA AUCTION, and that copywriting skills might even be harmful.

I’d add that this goes way beyond auctions.

I’ve seen people with a lot of copywriting skill, whether professional copywriters or business owners, who have spent tens of thousands of dollars to learn copywriting, do a terrible job of selling online.

Most often, the reason why they are so terrible at selling is what Travis says above. They focus on couldn’t-care-less deliverables rather than outcomes that make people’s heart do a flip. (I’ve made this mistake myself, btw, plenty of times.)

Point 3:

Last December, I ran an auction in my Skool group that pulled in $31k in 24 hours, and that could have legit pulled $70k+ had I just taken the money that was offered me.

The reason that auction popped was, like Travis says above, the BLANK that people REALLY, REALLY WANTED.

When I polled for interest in my blank, I got about 50 people saying they would bid to get it, with 6-7 people saying they would bid whatever it takes to win. A couple of people even said they might take out a zero-interest credit card to be able to bid enough to win (I discouraged this, even if it was said in jest).

Lemme wrap this up.

If you have an audience and a working offer, my ongoing offer is to help you run an auction, and do everything:

* Craft a HEART-FLIPPING auction offer

* Come up with post-auction offers that move those deliverables you got and focus on, the 1-1 coaching, the courses, the 5-minute trainings and hour-long workshops

* Write all copy (I’ll keep my fantastic copywriting skills in check)

* Run and manage the auction itself

* Sell, sell, sell after, to the people have raised their hands by bidding

IMPORTANT: I charge nothing up front. For every $10,000 I send you in sales, shoot over $2500 to me AFTER the money is in your bank account.

If you’re interested, hit reply and we can talk more.

And if you don’t have an audience or a working offer, specifically if you’re a working copywriter…

… you would be served well by seeing how Travis creates and presents his own offers.

It will make you into a more valuable copywriter, and clients will be willing to pay you much more, and will fight to keep you working with them… instead of you having to chase them for a little gig here or maybe there, today and maybe again in five months’ time.

But more important, if you get good at creating offers, then when you try to sell your own stuff, you will have a real shot of getting 50 people to reply YES and even a few people who say they will pay whatever it takes… rather than hearing crickets, seeing tumbleweeds, and feeling the chill of a desolate wind.

I’ve learned more about offers from Travis than anybody else.

If you wanna learn something also, Travis offers a 7-day free trial to Royalty Ronin. 7 days is not long, but it’s enough to pick up one or two good ideas that you can implement for your client (or yourself) today, and it can give you a sense if Ronin is for you. If you’re interested:

https://bejakovic.com/ronin

Why all copywriters are secretly pervy

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Spoiler: It’s not just copywriters.

Yesterday, I wrote an email with the word “bondage” in the subject line.

What did that word make you think of?

I happen to know what a couple of my readers thought — what Jordan Parker and his wife Diana thought.

Jordan and Diana have a one-stop agency to help creators grow, helping out with everything from tech to sales to delivery. (From what I know, Kieran Drew is one of their clients, but there are other big-name creators too.)

Jordan and Diana both read my emails. And in response to the bondage one yesterday, here’s what Jordan wrote me:

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Me: “Bondageeeeee 🥳“

Also Diana: “Bondage? Why are you copywriters all secretly pervy??”

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Why indeed? Here’s why:

In the words of the greatest living copywriter, Gary Bencivenga, “As a marketer you only have one power, and that’s to anticipate what people are going to think.”

If the word “bondage” in my subject line made you think of bondage in the leathery, chainy, pervy sense, rather than in the biblical sense of slavery and subjugation (Exodus 20:2, King James Version), then I did my job as an influence professional.

Like I said, it’s not just copywriters who are “secretly pervy,” or rather, who tease and insinuate in a way that suits them, when it suits them.

Other influence professionals do the same. Salespeople obviously use word choice and structure to influence, as do hypnotists, pick up artists, comedians, …

Maybe you see where this is going.

I have a book all about bondage influence techniques common to 10 overlapping disciplines.

All 10 of these disciplines have in common that they move people from A to B, without force or lying, by power of anticipation and occasional clever word choice alone. This knowledge can help you make money — or even get into some pervy situations. If you wanna find out more:

https://bejakovic.com/new10commandments

People will pay to watch you shut somebody’s mouth

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I spent last night at a World Cup watch party, watching the final between Spain and Argentina, at the apartment of some screaming Uruguayans.

Turns out, there’s no love lost between Uruguay and Argentina.

“In this apartment,” the host said as the match started, “you can hate Argentina as much as you like.”

Whenever Spain threatened to score, there was loud cheering from my hosts.

Whenever Argentina got the ball, the most common thing I heard from the people around me was “sucio” (dirty), as they shook their heads in disgust.

Spain won the match and the World Cup.

I guess it’s not sporting to kick Argentina now that they’ve lost, but statistically, they did play dirty. 5 yellow cards, 1 red card, and an Argentinian player who started a brawl after the match.

Today, the number one comment I’ve been seeing over and over about this match has been, “Before watching I didn’t even care about who won, but after watching it thank God it was Spain.”

In related news, yesterday I sent an email about a reader I kicked off my list because of a stupid message she wrote me about fellow email marketer Nick Bandy. Like I said yesterday, I don’t want people like her hanging around, and so she’s gone.

Here are some of the replies I got to that email. First, from a proud American:

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Dude. I am so proud of you for this email.

It was surgical.

– Another proud American.

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From an unimpressed Englishman:

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After your auction I briefly joined Nick’s Skool group.

I found him patronising and annoying, and left soon after (unsubbing from his list at the same time).

Would I buy anything of his or get involved in anything he was running? No

TBH I didn’t even know he was American, but I guess that makes sense now.

If the above comments mean I should be removed from your list I will leave it for you to decide.

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And from intrigued people from all around the world:

“What may be funniest of all (to me, at least) was that my immediate response to that person’s raving against Nick was, ‘I should go check out this Nick guy. He might know what he’s doing!’ 😂“

“Thank you. Subscribed to Nick.”

“Thank you, John! I signed up and joined his Skool group.”

A couple facts:

Yesterday’s email got way more spontaneous response than other emails I’ve sent… probably since the last time I kicked somebody off my list. It also got ZERO unsubscribes, which is uncommon for me.

I wasn’t selling anything in yesterday’s email other than Nick’s optin page. I imagine yesterday’s email was still good for business, long-term because — and here’s the point of today’s email:

People will pay to watch you shut somebody’s mouth.

That’s the inverse of the famous statement by professional wrestling “heel” Gorgeous George, who said, “People will pay to watch somebody shut your mouth.”

Both Gorgeous George’s version and mine are true.

Do with that knowledge what you will.

You can build an entire business out of it, and constantly seek out people you can be in conflict with and prove wrong.

Or, if you find that approach tiring or “sucio,” you can simply use the same underlying fact to justify making a public show when you enforce boundaries, as I did with my email yesterday.

All right, on to business.

Nick Bandy, the email marketer I endorsed and hyped up in yesterday’s email, signed up for my Daily Email Habit service when he launched his own email list last year. After Nick had been emailing for a year, he wrote me to say:

“DEH is the biggest ROI I’ve ever gotten on any course or product I’ve ever purchased. It’s incalculable.”

For more info on this “biggest ROI” investment:

https://bejakovic.com/deh/