Website Creation

638: Get a Website That Converts: Implement a Martial Arts Mindset into Your Business to Create a Powerful Marketing Message, Manage Stress and Become Your Greatest Self with Dr. Joe Schaefer

May 9, 2019

Dr. Joe Schaefer, Co-Founder of Motiliti, is a digital marketing expert with an incredibly diverse background. In addition to owning a digital marketing agency for over 11 years and working personally with hundreds of business clients, he has a PhD in Neurophysiology from the University of Texas. His clients often call him Doctor Joe, but hundreds other people call him Master Joe as he is also a 7th degree black belt in kung Fu and operates a school of 300+ students in Austin. He has has trained and taught for over 30 years. He brings these various disciplines together into every strategy and tactic he uses to take his business clients to their next level in web marketing.

Quotes

“Business owners often have a huge blind spot when it comes to their website and marketing. They need someone from outside their organization to shake things up a little.” - Dr. Joe Schaefer

“We all know exactly what our website should look like if we were able to set aside our biases and view it as we do every other website.” - Dr. Joe Schaefer

“Anything worth doing is a long journey where you're always kind of restarting it again.” - Dr. Joe Schaefer

Takeaways

05:55 Physical exercise is crucial for entrepreneurs to manage stress, recharge mental batteries, and maintain peak performance.

10:24 When designing a website, prioritize clear conversion goals over aesthetic design - focus on what action you want visitors to take.

19:59 Every website visitor's primary question is usually about pricing, so make it easy and upfront.

22:19 Effective marketing sometimes means making people slightly uncomfortable or even angry, which signals you're saying something meaningful.

28:49 Business growth is like martial arts training: expect challenges, set realistic expectations, and understand success takes consistent effort over time.

31:47 Compare your website with competitors' sites and critically ask yourself why someone would choose your business over others.

Resources

562: Be Consistent: Branding, Work Ethic, Organization, and Management with WordPress Website Designer Colleen Keith

June 29, 2018

Colleen Keith is a Graphic Designer and WordPress Stylist that offers reliable and versatile creative design services to entrepreneurs, startups and growing companies. Truly believing that you must be the change you want to see, she only works with and supports clients that are making a positive change in society and the world. While now based in Germany, she's originally from Vancouver and started her business in Sydney, Australia.

Colleen tells us what we need to know about WordPress, especially how to make a website look great by starting with the "demo" in any theme. She also explains how to hire the right person to create your website, how to manage expectations, stay productive, focused, and on-track with our goals.

Quotes:                                                                                                                                   

“I'm here to help you create any type of site you want. I'll do my best to ensure it looks great and show you how to maintain its appearance over time.” – Colleen Keith

“I work at the client’s pace. My goal is to simplify things for them, as my job is to make their lives a little easier.” - Colleen Keith

“As an entrepreneur and freelancer, I understand the costs faced by individuals working independently, so I strive to offer affordable solutions to my clients.” - Colleen Keith

Takeaways:

01:42 WordPress offers more control and flexibility compared to other website builders, allowing entrepreneurs to customize their sites easily.

11:30 Free consultations can be a low-risk way to get professional insights and potentially solve business challenges.

24:27 When hiring a web designer, have a clear vision of your website's end goal to save time and reduce costs.

36:01 Choose a designer who aligns with your business values and is committed to helping you understand and manage your website.

40:44 Consistency in branding, work ethic, and daily effort is crucial for entrepreneurial success.

Resources

Book a Free Consultation with Colleen

407: Generate Leads, Drive Sales, and Grow Your Social Outreach Using Interactive Quizzes with Josh Haynam

September 27, 2017

Josh Haynam is the co-founder of Interact Quiz Builder, a tool used by more than 30,000 businesses including The American Red Cross, Home Depot, and Forbes. He's probably seen more quizzes than any other human on earth right now.

We speak today about why you need quizzes to get traffic to your site, best practices, as well as do's and dont's for your own interactive quizzes. Josh's tool has 175 pre-existing templates to choose from, sorted by conversion rate, so you can begin engaging with your visitors in this new way, starting today.

Quotes:                                                                                                                                   

“Instead of asking people for their information so quickly, you guide them through a whole scripted conversation using the questions in the quiz, creating a back-and-forth interaction.” – Josh Haynam

“The thing that's annoying about marketing and advertising is when we keep getting messages sent to us that we're not interested in.” – Josh Haynam

“We process images much faster in our brains, so it's important to include visuals to help people avoid feeling overwhelmed.” – Josh Haynam

Takeaways:

02:46 Interactive quizzes are a powerful tool for generating leads and growing your business across multiple industries.

07:33 Seven-question quizzes with image-based answers can double your email opt-in rates compared to traditional lead magnets.

17:55 Successful quizzes focus on helping people learn something about themselves, not just collecting data for businesses.

20:49 Personalization through quiz results allows for more targeted and meaningful marketing follow-ups.

23:53 The key to a great quiz is starting with what your customers want to answer, not what you want to know about them.

Sign Up for Interact Quiz Builder

357: Buy and Grow Online Properties with the Website Investor with Jeff Hunt

July 19, 2017

Jeff Hunt, The Website Investor, makes his living online buying and growing online businesses. He has purchased over 300 income producing websites since his first buy 10 years ago. Jeff is the author of "The Website Investor", a guide to building passive income buying revenue generating websites.

In our episode today, Jeff details his early failures with buying and holding websites, what went right and what went wrong, as well as the system he's developed since then to hit the ground running by buying money-making websites.

Quotes:                                                                                                                                   

“If you do a little bit of homework and get another set of eyes on things, you can come away with some sites that can really have consistent earnings from the very, very beginning.'” – Jeff Hunt

“Businesses—even if it's just a website—are still businesses. If you think through it one step at a time, you can uncover a lot of that stuff.” – Jeff Hunt

“Don't necessarily look for anything that's rapidly skyrocketing with a steep upward curve, because things that go up quickly tend to come down quickly.” – Jeff Hunt

Takeaways:

04:40 When buying websites, cross-reference multiple data sources to verify the site's true performance and potential.

11:20 Stability and consistent performance matter more than rapid, unpredictable growth when investing in online properties.

17:50 Look for websites with established business systems that can be learned and potentially improved upon.

22:30 Successful website investing requires upfront work to optimize and streamline the site before making it truly passive.

25:37 Strategic website investing is about making smart moves - buying, improving, and potentially selling to maximize returns.

Resources

349: Build a Messy Beast of an Online Business That Focuses on Traffic, Lead Capture, and Offers

July 7, 2017

Let's talk about creating your online funnel (opt-in page, follow-up sequence, sales letter, download page, membership site, blog, traffic, and more) by dumbing things down and keeping them simple...

  • Ugly websites sell better: what matters most is that visitors do what you want them to do on your web page
  • Absorb your competitors (they absorb you back, arms race)
  • Strengthen Your Content Muscle: get ahead of this month in the calendar

We also cover one of my best secrets: daily marketing emails... and:

  • Is it possible to email too much? (how to send those emails every day)
  • Why the "exclusion list" balances things out so your buyers aren't "bombarded"
  • How to provide value and use the restaurant mentality
  • Why it's okay to be overloaded (and it's okay to stay in constant contact with your list)

Quotes:                                                                                                                                   

“Ugly websites sell better, and I think the reason is usually because there are fewer distracting elements like links or fancy graphics. That way, people focus only on what's on your web page.” – Robert Plank

“We all get excited about these super advanced, super crazy ideas, but a lot of the time, those are things that either only excite us or maybe only excite our competitors—and don't excite our customers.” – Robert Plank

“It's scary to put yourself out there, but what's scarier: being slightly uncomfortable now for the chance that your business will take off and make money, or not having money and not being able to pay your bills?” – Robert Plank

Takeaways:

03:50 Creating an ugly, simple website is better than spending months on a perfect design.

13:07 Focus on solving customer problems, not impressing competitors.

27:48 Emailing your list daily keeps subscribers engaged and increases sales potential.

40:09 Entrepreneurs should absorb information selectively and avoid getting distracted by every new idea.

49:31 Build a basic business foundation first, then improve and experiment with new techniques.

If you'd like to see how to setup that funnel, join our course:

Join the Income Machine Online Course

Paper Template: Push the Right Button, Don’t Get Bogged Down with Design and Ditch the Copywriter to Create a Website Fast

March 5, 2017

This might make you angry... I know that it did for me back when I realized that:

I'd spent literally years unsure about how to make a sales page and opt-in page... I was scared that my website would "look stupid" with an ugly design and some of those weird cheesy "headlines" and "sales messages"... copywriting...

But can I tell you what happened next?

This was before I created Paper Template. I hired someone to create a "mini-site" design for me... about 300 bucks... I had to wait a couple of weeks... it came back, and I didn't discover until years later that the plain "white piece of paper" design (Amazon uses a plain white background, Google uses a plain white background, eBay) out-coverted the "pretty" looking website... by a long shot...

The only thing I can figure is that visitors were pulled in MORE by the words on the screen than the "beautiful" design, huge logo and everything...

And then... I paid a copywriter 400 dollars (an inexpensive one, this is a person who writes the persuasive text on the web page) and had to wait two more weeks for that...

Let me tell you what happened with the copywriter. They had me fill in a 12 page questionnaire. It took me a couple of days to complete, actually. And then, the copywriter only made MINOR tweaks to the text I had entered.

It was largely a copy and paste job. To give you an idea, one part of the questionnaire asked me to list the names of all 17 videos contained in my product. The copywriter chose to only list the 9 most exciting videos and then said... plus 12 more videos for a total of 17 videos!

I don't regret paying the copywriter or the graphic designer because I wouldn't have finish the sales page anyway... but as they say... here's what I paid for:

Pushing button: $1
Knowing which button to push: $399

Now, you yourself might have paid thousands of dollars for a website design, and maybe thousands more for a copywriter...

And I don't think copywriters are bad... but...

Can I give you a free copywriter? (in plugin form?)

It's called Paper Template.

And it not only creates your landing pages for you (opt-in pages, sales letters, download pages, webinar replay pages, etc.) but it also:

  • allows you to do it independent of your website's theme (let Paper Template run your whole site or create a landing page in addition to your blog)
  • has a number of designs (including that tried and tested plain white one that converts) so you can have a website where people focus on the WORDS and not just how beautiful your design is
  • has a ton of pre-built pages with the EXACT words and phrases you need to use... just customize to make it your own or delete what you won't use (it's easier to edit crap than air)
  • has a bunch of pre-written headlines and bullet points built right into the plugin... just click, click, click your way to a profit-pulling web page

Check out Paper Template and discover how you can get it for 7 dollars (the quick and easy version) or 47 dollars which includes mobile responsiveness, templates, swipe file, and so much more.

Waiting Years And Years For “Them” To Add A Contact Form?

December 27, 2016

The good news is that 2016 (and 2017) is the best possible time to setup your web pages because it's easier than ever... and web pages have never looked better than ever!

You used to have to learn HTML, CSS, uploading FTP files, maybe even a little scripting and then you'd have to test things with Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers until you had it right...

Now, many things are point and click, such as with Paper Template.
(click to see a quick video demo)

  • WordPress (click a button and you have a blog)
  • Paper Template plugin (install and now you can create sales letters and landing pages within WordPress)
  • add any other plugins you want to add a contact form, legal pages, pop-ups, caching, security, SEO...

So, it's a great way to get started fast and do all the things you want... BUT...

I honestly don't believe that the "hosted platforms" are really up to snuff. If you use some sort of hosted service that runs it all for you:

  1. you are now tied to their business (if their sites are down for 2 hours, your site is down for 2 hours)
  2. they don't do everything (maybe they're missing an autoresponder)
  3. you have to take a bunch of extra steps anyway to host your own .com domain and make it look like it runs on your own websites (sometimes you have to install your own WordPress blog, and their WordPress plugin on your site, just to run their service... weird)
  4. they might not do all the cool stuff that you want. For example, with WordPress you can just grab a quiz plugin if you want that. Grab a contact form plugin if you want that. On a hosted service, you have to wait for them to "get around to it"...

I honestly believe this is the best of both worlds... easy to setup, uses WordPress, create landing pages in addition to your blog or let it take over your site... and then add plugins or tweaks as you wish. The Paper Template WordPress plugin lets you have your cake and eat it too.

195: Rock, Paper, Simple: Create a Marketing-Focused Website in Seven Easy Steps with Joshua Adams

December 5, 2016

Joshua Adams is the founder of Rock Paper Simple, a company that helps businesses create websites that focus on marketing and results. With over 14 years of experience in web design, marketing, and branding, Joshua works with business owners to make sure their websites do more than just look good—they help bring in customers. Joshua often speaks at events and colleges about web design and marketing.

Joshua Adams from Rock Paper Simple wants his agency to help you create a marketing-focused website that's them-centric, with clear navigation, that speaks directly to visitors and makes conversions. Be sure to claim his free self audit worksheet to find out how your website measures up.

Seven steps to creating a marketing-focused website:

1. Shut up and listen (know thyself, benefits, goals)
2. Plan for results (design, words, pages)
3. Direct traffic (differentiate value of pages, decide on three most important services, call-to-action on homepage/sidebar)
4. Them-centric copy (wording that's beneficial to them)
5. Convert (phone number, working form, less fields)
6. Simplify navigation
7. Rock the visuals

Quotes:                                                                                                                                   

“People really don't care who you are or what you know until they know that you either care about them or have value for them.” – Joshua Adams

“If you don't plan, you're just not going to get to that end goal. If you don't have a destination, you'll never get there.” – Joshua Adams

“Marketing serves as the intermediary step leading to sales. While the ultimate goal is achieving sales, marketing is driven by the intention to fulfill a specific purpose.” – Joshua Adams

Takeaways:

01:16 Focusing on marketing when building a website helps businesses get better results.

05:31 Making your website about your customers, not just your business, is important.

19:31 Setting clear goals for your website is a key first step.

25:05 Make it easy for visitors to take action, like buying or signing up.

36:35 Simple and clear navigation helps people use your website without confusion.

Resources

 

192: Create Fearlessly: Get a High Converting Website for Your Business with Stephen Christopher

November 30, 2016

Stephen Christopher is the founder of Sequest Digital Marketing, a company that helps businesses improve their online presence through services like SEO, pay-per-click advertising, and web design. He is also the host of the Business Revolution podcast, where he talks with entrepreneurs and shares advice about business growth. Stephen has experience running several businesses and is known for focusing on what his company does best, while also making sure his clients are well taken care of.

Stephen Christopher from Seequs.com wants to help you with your organic search results, pay per click advertising, and web design.

Choose the top one to three objectives for your website: that's usually for your hot, warm, and cold leads. For example, your hottest prospects who want to buy right now could be looking for a phone number, the warm leads might fill out a contact form to request service, and the cold leads might only want to signup for a video or short report.

Don't take anything for granted, be super persistent (failure leads to perspective). Change the "bad" things about your business.

Quotes:                                                                                                                                   

“Client success is not optional. We’re committed to providing as much guidance as possible because their success—both within our work and overall—is essential to us.” –Stephen Christopher

“Never give up. There is always a way to make what you want happen. What you're doing right now might not be the right approach, so if you fail, it's time to shift your perspective.” – Stephen Christopher

“Sometimes you might be doing something with the potential to succeed, but it’s not aligned with who you are or who you’re truly trying to become.” – Stephen Christopher

Takeaways:

01:02 Focus on what your business does best and let go of the rest.

06:17 Make your website easy for visitors to take action, like calling or filling out a form.

12:32 Good communication and customer service are very important for keeping clients happy.

21:53 Learn from mistakes and use them to build a better business.

26:53 Set clear company values and use them to guide your decisions.

Resources: Seequs SEO agency, Business Revolution Podcast, Business Revolution Facebook Group

Case studies: Petri Plumbing and Hal Elrod

126: Courses, Webinars and Funnels: Attract Customers and Clients with Brian Lofrumento

August 30, 2016
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Brian Lofrumento, creator of The Ultimate Profit Model, tells us about his online system to not only develop an idea into an information product (or coaching program) that serves a hungry and specific crowd, he also explains his webinar model (shatter existing beliefs and rebuild them) as well as how he fills up his webinars with attendees using Facebook ads.

[showhide type="transcript" more_text="Display Transcript" less_text="Hide Transcript"]Robert Plank: Brian Lofrumento is an entrepreneur, speaker, and author. He's made a thing called the Ultimate Profit Model, and he's written a book called, "Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur." Brian is an internet entrepreneur, speaker, and author whose businesses have reached over 3.5 million people in over 200 countries. He built a six figure SEO agency at the age of twenty-four and has helped over fifty clients from around the US and over three thousand students from around the world grow and automate their businesses by implementing high converting sales and marketing funnels. Sounds like lots of good stuff. Welcome to the show, Brian.

Brian Lofrumento: Thanks Robert. I'm super excited to be here and give your audience some awesome value here today.

Robert Plank: Awesome. What exactly is it that you do, and what makes you unique and special?

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. Great question. That's a loaded question, Robert, to start this out, but I love it. The big thing that I do is I really take people from saying, "Okay. I really want to be an entrepreneur, but I don't know where to go," to packaging it up, whether it's a product or service for an online program. Something that can pull in some serious profits for them. High profit margins. I help them find a market of people who are looking to actually buy that product or service.

Robert Plank: Cool. Exactly how far do you take it? Have you dealt with clients who just have absolutely no idea what to do, or someone would have like a half written book. I mean, do you narrow down their niche? How far do you go with that?

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. Actually, there's an easy way to answer that question. The first thing that I always do with people is I ask them, "Who the heck are you trying to serve?" A lot of people when they do come to me they say, "I want to be an entrepreneur, but I don't have a business idea." I always argue that you don't actually need a business idea. You just need to determine and decide on who it is that you want to serve. For example, one of my most successful students that I worked with, he's a high school soccer coach. He wanted to be an entrepreneur, but he didn't know exactly what to do. He had no business idea.

I asked him who does he want to serve, and he said he wanted to help other soccer coaches become better coaches. Once he decided who he wanted to serve, I simply asked him, "What's standing in between them and the result that they want, which is to become better coaches?" He started listing everything out. He said they don't know how to plan practices, they don't know how to deal with parents, they don't know what nutrition and fitness advice to give their players.

He went through all these things, and we packaged it up into a $997 inner circle. He sells that to coaches all around the country, so that they can learn from him. They can get weekly access to him and go through these training modules that he has. It literally is from idea to actual execution and launch. I love seeing my students go, while they're working with me, go from $0 to $10,000 a month.

Robert Plank: That's pretty cool. I think that what was packed in there a little bit is just the idea that you don't have to come up with a crazy, fancy idea, like you said. You just figure out who you want to serve and that kind of reminds me of early on for me, I was trying to think of what my next product or software program should be. One of my mentors at the time just said ... Something that's hot right at that moment was affiliate marketing, so he was like, "well, put together some set of tools that helps with affiliate marketing." I asked him, "Doesn't that kind of thing already exist?" He said, "Yeah, but it doesn't have to be something that's brand new and groundbreaking. It doesn't have to be like Uber or Facebook."

Then, there was something I saw maybe a few months ago from the creator of Alibaba, who said something like, "It doesn't matter if the thing you're creating is stupid. It matters if people use it." Instagram, Snapchat, PayPal, stuff like that. Well, it doesn't have to be this huge groundbreaking, mind blowing thing. It just has to be something that catches on.

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. That's absolutely spot on, Robert. You had a few really good points in there. I love the argument, entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs they always have that argument of "Oh, there's somebody else doing it." Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg didn't start Facebook just, because MySpace was already doing it. Name any business book. Imagine if that was never written, because there are already other business books. No one can do exactly what it is that you want to do, exactly the way that you can do it. You are the only person on the planet that can do that thing in your unique way. Even if 50 million other people have done it, no one's ever done it like you. That's a great argument.

Robert Plank: Let's kind of unpack that a little bit. One thing I'm always curious about, especially in this kid of thing, where you're a coach to people. Is there a set of steps or a process you go through like if you have one of these people like that soccer dad? He has an idea, and you flush out his idea. Then, after that point, what's the next step? What do you set up for him?

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. Good question. For me, specifically ... Well, actually I'll answer it more broadly, then we'll get into me more specifically. Once you've actually got your product flushed out or your service flushed out, there's really only one thing you need to focus on in order to have a business. That's to attract customers and clients. Anything else you're doing is totally superficial. If you spend your time getting a logo and doing all these surveys with your potential people, that's all great, but unless you actually have sales coming in you don't have a business. What I do, specifically with the soccer coach, for example, and thousands of my other students, is I helped them set up an online system that, one, attracts potential customers and, two, turns those customers into clients.

I'm a huge fan of the webinar model right now. I mean, the webinar model's grown in my business over the past two or three years. It's how I've helped countless students do the exact same thing. Webinars are great, because there's no quicker way online to find people totally from scratch through Facebook ads, is what I recommend. Warm them up, because you give them value over the course of a webinar, and then invite them to work with you. Even if only two percent of people ever work with you, that's the mechanics of a $10,000 per month business right there.

Robert Plank: Speaking of webinars and things like that, you running Facebook ads, I mean, how do you figure out the hook and the content for a webinar? How do you get some butts in seats for that kind of thing?

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. Great questions. I'll answer the first question first, which is the content of the webinar. People always freak out about that. I've got a really simple formula that I share with my students. This is actually a great question, Robert. You pried this out of me. Usually I reserve this stuff for my students in my programs. The answer is that what you really need to do, it's very simple, you need to figure out what people's existing beliefs are when it comes to whatever your product or service is. I guess we'll keep running with the soccer coach example, because that's something tangible for a lot of people.

When a soccer coach approached me and said, "What am I going to put in a webinar?" You have to acknowledge what are their existing beliefs about coaching soccer. One of the existing beliefs is that, if my players aren't technically sound, there's no way that they can win. It's going to be really hard for me to get them to improve. That's an existing belief. On your webinar, you want to acknowledge the existing beliefs, shatter that belief, and rebuild those beliefs. If you can do that about three existing beliefs, you've got enough content for a webinar right there.

Robert Plank: That's pretty cool. That's as far as ... For this kind of thing, do you have your clients have a set amount of time, set length time, set number of slides, stuff like that?

Brian Lofrumento: I'm not a big fan of numbers or anything like that. I mean, thinking back to high school, how much did we all hate when teachers said, "Oh. It's got to be a four page paper." Something like that.

Robert Plank: Oh, yeah. I hated that too.

Brian Lofrumento: Oh, it's the worst. I really stick to, typically, about an hour, because people allot in their calendar for an hour to show up for a webinar. Hour long webinars are really successful. I've seen people succeed with shorter webinars, with longer webinars, but I never get into number of slides to anything like that with them.

Robert Plank: Okay. Fair enough, so you figure out all that existing belief, shatter, rebuild, and then if they don't have a list to fill up that webinar, then what's the plan?

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. Facebook ads is an absolute gold mine right now. That's my overwhelming answer to pretty much most people's problems. If you can master Facebook ads, you can reach as many people as you want, and as you can afford as quickly as you want to. Facebook ads is really great, because you can target people based on anything. If you ran a business where your ideal customers were thirty-six year old females who live in the Upper East Side of New York, who drive a Toyota Prius and own a dog, you can target those exact people on Facebook ads. I don't know what kind of niche industry that would be that I just gave that example for, but you can get as fine or as broad as you want when it comes to Facebook ads.

Robert Plank: Have you noticed that with the Facebook ads that maybe it's easier to put those ads out there if you're outside of the internet marketing space, or is there a secret to that?

Brian Lofrumento: Yes. No. Great question, Robert. My students, that's why I love working with students who are soccer coaches, who are health coaches, or who are travel agents. Those students are so much fun to work with, because if you're outside of the IM niche most of those markets have ever been marketed to properly. I mean, the soccer coaching industry, for example, I swear my student must be one of the few people in the world targeting these soccer coaches on Facebook. He's generating webinar sign ups for 75 cents a sign up. When he spends $500 on a Facebook ad campaign, he's getting 700 coaches signing up for his webinars. If you can talk to 700 people on a webinar, you can bet your bottom dollar that you're going to get at least a few sales. That way, if you've got a $1,000 product, you're looking at a pretty sizable business pretty easily.

Robert Plank: Oh, yeah. That amount for $500, that's a day no brainer.

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. Exactly. It's insane. How else can you speak to 700 people for $500 and offer them your $1,000 product? You're right. It's a total no brainer.

Robert Plank: What do people actually see? Continuing with the soccer dad type of thing, so lets say some other soccer coach is on Facebook, and they see some kind of ad that's targeted to them. What do they kind of see in the ad and in the landing page they click over to more or less?

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. Great question. Typically, the ads will just speak to the benefits. I mean so many marketers we know that you don't want to sell the drill, you want to sell the hole. People aren't actually interested in the drill. They're interested in making the hole in the wood, in the wall, or whatever they're looking to buy. You've got to speak to the results. For the soccer coach, his example, his ads typically speak to "Do you want to improve your players, your team, and your coaching? Sign up for this free webinar. I'm going to show you the three ways that you can make your team better this season." It's strictly results and benefits based.

When people actually click the ad, they get taken to a very simple page. It's just the picture of a soccer coach out on a practice field. It advertises the free webinar. Shows us the date and the time of the webinar, and they can sign up right then and there. It's literally nothing fancy. It's super effective, because it speaks to the results that people are actually looking for.

Robert Plank: Awesome. Again, it seems like even though you explain it, it's very go from the idea to having it in place very quickly and not a lot of fanciness. No thirty or fifty step process. Just whatever is the simplest thing to get it done.

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. Exactly. No sixty-seven steps here, for sure. Robert, the one thing that I want to point out for people who are listening to this and saying, "This sounds cool. It sounds like a quick way to get started." You can even sell something from a webinar that you haven't even created yet. If you could come up with, for example, an eight week program that you want to sell online. You can sell it. Then, host those eight weeks live with your students, record those, and then turn it into a product afterwards. It really is a quick way to go from idea to $10,000.

Robert Plank: Is this all that you do? Is this your primary business? You find people who need online presence, who need a product, who need coaching, clients, and you set this system up for them. You get the Facebook ads and the webinar and all that stuff set up for them?

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. The fun thing for me is that I stopped doing client-based work back in 2013, so I haven't done client-based work in over three years now which is great. I've really go this system honed in, in an eight week process that people can go through these eight weeks that I've laid out. Do the work. Take the action items that I've given to them, and roll this entire system out on their own. My real business, what I do on a week to week basis, is I welcome new students into the program. Then, I host Tuesday night group calls with my students, usually. Every Tuesday night, I'll get on. It kind of looks like the Brady Bunch, we're all on video interaction, and I answer their questions. I hop on their screens. I take control of their screens and help them out. Yeah, that's absolutely how my business is, and a lot of my students have set up their businesses in very similar ways.

Robert Plank: Awesome. We talked about the soccer dad. Can you give us one other cool niche or cool case study where you set some stuff up for them?

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. Totally. One of my students, who is going through right now, she's got an awesome business that she's rolling out. She calls it the A-List Workforce Academy. She really targets people who are fresh out of undergraduate, so one to five years out of school. They're in an entry-level corporate position, and they're wondering, "How the heck do I climb this corporate ladder without butt kissing, without playing all these political games within an office setting?" She's teaching people who are right out of school how to climb the corporate ladder without all those other things that none of us really enjoy.

She's created this academy where people get that access to her. They get these pre-made training videos, where they learn how to communicate effectively over email, how they should present themselves at work. Even little things like, what are the items that they should have on their desk at work, at their cubicle, so no matter what happens ... She calls it the Office Survival Tool Kit. If you spill something on you, you should have a Tide-To-Go pen. All these things that you just wouldn't think of, and she's providing this awesome service and awesome value to people who have those problems.

Robert Plank: How to get ahead without sleeping with the boss, because that's my problem. I'm just kidding.

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. No, you hit it right on the head, Robert. It's exactly that type of concept.

Robert Plank: Cool. I like that. I don't have as many coaching clients that like, it's always nice to kind of play around in someone else's space. Especially, how you and me, we have all these tools, but the problem is that it seems like a lot of our competitors have the same tools. It's really cool to go into a space where people don't even know that these things exist, right? Like the auto-responder, the funnel, the webinar, all that cool stuff.

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. Exactly. It always gets a kick out of people when I say the F-word, because then I joke around that the F-word stands for funnel. Many people, you're right, don't know what a funnel is. It's easy within our little IM, or internet marketing, world to feel like everybody knows these things. You take one step outside, and they've got no clue.

Robert Plank: If someone wants to work with you or if someone is in one of those niches where no one else is doing anything like that, I mean, it's game over. They're the top dog, at least, until everyone else jumps on.

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. Exactly. You nailed it.

Robert Plank: I know that you have a book, and that you have a program called "The Ultimate Profit Model." Can you tell us a little bit about that?

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. Totally. The book is called Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur. It's targeted at the exactly people who we've talked about here today. They know that they want to be an entrepreneur, but they don't know what steps to take to go from wantrepreneur to entrepreneur. I'm actually giving a thousand copies of that book away for free. People can just go to ImetBrian.com now that they've met me here on your podcast. They could just go to ImetBrian.com, and that's a fun book. I walk them through the concept of what we talked about. How do you come up with an idea for your product or service? Where do you find your ideal person? How do you even know who your ideal person is? Then, how do you turn them from just a prospect into a new paying customer or client? That's the book.

The program, "The Ultimate Profit Model," is my flagship program, so that's the eight week program that we've talked about. It's really a group program where people get direct access to me. They can learn more information about that at UltimateProfitModel.com or the easiest way is to just get a free copy of my book at ImetBrian.com. Then, they can sign up for one of my webinars and see the entire system in play and in process, see how it all works, and they can sign up for "The Ultimate Profit Model" there. I will throw this little tip in, that's actually the most affordable way to get into "The Ultimate Profit Model" is to grab my book for free. Show up to my webinar, and I offer a special discount at the end of my webinar.

Robert Plank: Nice. You're not just a guy that teaches about webinars and funnels, but you actually do them.

Brian Lofrumento: Yes. You're right. That's the one thing that kills me. "Oh, the best way to get new leads and new customers is through quizzes," but they're not using quizzes to do that. That kills me when I see them doing webinars for that. Yeah. I practice what I preach. I'm always testing things and rolling out new, effective things to my students. Absolutely.

Robert Plank: Well, cool. Now, along those lines and as we're kind of winding this call down, do you have anything new and exciting coming up? Do you have some new idea or some new project that you're really pumped up about?

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. I'm super pumped right now about developing more advanced master mind, because so many of my students are getting really crazy levels of success right now. They're just kind of chomping at the bit, and they're asking, "Brian, what's next? I've got these webinar funnels going. I'm making good money. What's next?" Right now, I'm putting together an all-in-one experience. It's going to be part in-person experience, where we're going to fly to cool places around the world and master mind as well as online stuff to really take them to the next level.

Robert Plank: Awesome. Isn't that a nice place to be where instead of you having to scramble around for idea, you have people telling you what they want you to make for them.

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. It's the best. Definitely. No doubt about that.

Robert Plank: Awesome. Pretty good lifestyle to have. Lots of good ideas packed in here. Can you tell us, one last time, where people can get "The Ultimate Profit Model" and where they can get the book? That way we know they have the link.

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. The best way to get both is now that they met me here on your show, just go to IMetBrian.com. They can pick up a free copy of my book. They just have to pay shipping and handling. I'll sign it, send it to them wherever they are. Once they get their hands on my free book, they can sign up for the webinar right there. It takes them straight to the webinar sign up page. From the webinar, they'll see the entire thing in play, and they can sign up for "The Ultimate Profit Model" there.

Robert Plank: Awesome. Works for me. Thanks, Brian, for coming on the show, and thanks for sharing all your little nuggets of gold wisdom. All these things, the things I liked the best, I know that even though you said you're not the Mr. Numbers guy, but still the way that you explained all this stuff. It's very straight forwarded. Very simple. Just follow the steps. Skip the steps that don't apply. I like that way of thinking.

Brian Lofrumento: Yeah. Thanks, Robert. It was a blast coming on the show today. I hope people got some value, and I'd love to do it again soon.[/showhide]

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