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Aren’t You Just Trying To Sell Me Something?

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I have a terrible poker face. I tend to be more of an “all cards on the table” kind of guy.

So when people ask me, “Are you going to try to sell me something at the seminar? Is it just a giant sales pitch for your services?”… I don’t try to hide my intentions at all.

After all, it’s a fair question, especially when you’re paying $3,000 to show up.

The answer is: No, I’m not going to try to sell anyone anything, but there is a good chance some attendees will be interested in doing business with my company.

I mean, think about it…

At the seminar, you’re going to discover marketing principles that can realistically help you add 15% to 30% growth per year. You’ll understand exactly how to grow your business to $10MM (or more).

I would HOPE that you’d want to implement it into your business.

You already know that before even showing up. That’s WHY you’re showing up.

So then you’ll have 3 choices:

  1. Implement it yourself,
  2. Get somebody else to implement it for you, or
  3. Have us do it.

Honestly, implementing it yourself is going to be extremely difficult. We’ve spent two full decades honing these skills. While it is easy to understand the principles after a couple of days, it’s very difficult to actually implement them successfully. But if you do go this route, you’ll certainly be better equipped (by a long shot) to succeed than you were before attending.

And you’ll also quickly realize that nobody else actually does what we do, so hiring somebody else to do it isn’t really a viable option. This will be crystal clear about an hour into the seminar.

And then there’s hiring us.

If you are interested, we’d be happy to talk to you about it and see if it’s a good fit. Hand us your business card, and we’ll set up a time to talk to you. We have a limited capacity to accept new clients, so we scrutinize each one very carefully.

But here’s a promise:

There will be no “sales pitch” at the seminar. None.

The point of the seminar is to educate and enlighten. To show you the guiding principles to get you where you’re trying to go.

The seminar is a great value. You’ll definitely get your money’s worth. If you don’t think so, just let me know and I’ll gladly refund what you paid to attend.

To get all the details about the seminar, and to see if we have any spots left available (we limit attendance to just 10 companies to ensure maximum interaction), click here.

I look forward to meeting you soon!

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The Guy Who Paid $40,000 For This Event

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How much is the information worth that you’ll get at my upcoming “Make The Jump to $10MM” 2-day seminar?

Would you believe $40,000?

Would you believe $90,000,000? (yes, MILLION!)

I was on spring break with my family in 2011 when I got a call from my assistant. She said some guy had called in urgently requesting to speak to me, who wanted to attend my 4-day, $8,000 marketing training bootcamp.

“So, why are you calling me? Just give him the information and sign him up,” I asked her.

“He said he really wants to speak to you personally first,” was the reply.

So I jotted down his number and called him from a gas station in Galveston, TX.

With all the background noise, it was hard to hear him. Here’s what was said:

Him: Hey, how much will you charge me if I want to bring 4 people to this event?

Me: Well, it’s $8,000 for the first 2, then $1,000 each for the other two as long as they’re from your company.

Him: How much would you charge me to come do the seminar here?

Me: Huh? Where is here?

Him: I’m in (city); how much would you charge me to just come here and do the seminar?

Me: Uhhhh… well, we normally gross between $50,000 and $70,000 in registration fees for one of these events.

Him: How about $40,000? Would you come here and do it for $40,000? We’ll pay your flights and hotel, too.

Me: Uh, well. I’ve never really done that before. But I guess I would.

Him: How soon could you get here and do it?

Me: Who is this?

We discussed who he was and what his company was for a moment, and agreed that I’d make the trip to do the training.

The $40,000 check arrived at my office before I got home from my vacation.

I stayed in a luxury suite at the downtown Sheraton hotel for 4 days while I conducted the training for him and his staff. He actually ended up bringing a few other friends of his—other business owners—so there were about 10 or 12 people in attendance.

On the last day, he asked me how much I would charge him to do “THAT” for his company. We worked out a price, and we’ve been working together for the last 5-plus years now.

During that time, his sales have skyrocketed from about $40MM to over $130MM.

That’s up over $90MM a year.

I engineered a media buying plan that started at $1MM the first year, and has grown to over $4MM this year (that’s just the radio and TV part of the budget).

I’ve written over 100 radio commercials and 40 TV commercials for this company.

You’ll get to see all of it at the “Make the Jump to $10MM” event.

We limit this event to 10 companies to make sure that it’s personal, hands-on, and intimate. You should consider attending if you:

  • Are already doing AT LEAST $2.5 million in sales. If less, we may have other events that are a better fit for you. Contact us to find out.
  • Are serious about 15% to 25% annual growth.
  • Feel like your internet marketing strategies are impotent or stagnant.
  • Want expert advice and instruction on using broadcast media to blow up your sales.

The 2-day seminar is being held April 26 & 27 in Dallas; to learn more, just click this link. Registration is extremely limited… to just 10 companies.

P.S. Here’s a question I get a lot: Hey, I’m going to pay you to come to a seminar… are you just going to use the seminar to sell me something else? Read my next post for the honest answer.

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Creating TV Commercials That Move The Needle

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One of my clients spends a tremendous amount of time, effort, and money creating TV commercials.

For weeks prior to the shoot, they are busy casting, assembling wardrobes, arranging locations, fine-tuning the scripts, and coordinating with the production crew.

It’s an impressive operation.

On the day of the shoot, there are usually about 20 to 25 people on the location—about 80% of those from the production crew, and the rest are various personnel from the company.

The production crew consists of a couple of camera guys, some lighting guys, sound guys, several assorted other guys who I’m not sure what they are doing… as well as the director, a makeup lady, a woman who sits in a chair and takes notes on what’s happening, and one person who’s sole responsibility is to be in charge of the food.

It’s like being on the set of a Hollywood blockbuster. Or at least what I imagine it would be like.

We usually shoot 5 spots over the course of 3 days… then it takes another 3 to 5 days to edit those into rough drafts, which then take another 2 to 3 days to fine-tune into final spots.

The final cost: about $20,000 per spot. A hundred grand for the 5-pack, not including my fees.

And I will tell you—the spots are fantastic.

I have another client who is on the extreme opposite end of that spectrum.

After I write the spots, we usually spend about 10 minutes on the phone fine tuning them.

He usually finds a home to shoot in (of a previous customer—he’s a kitchen and bath remodeler) a couple of days before the filming date.

He normally arrives at the shoot about 10 to 45 minutes late, which is okay, because the camera “crew” of one guy is usually still trying to get the lighting set up, or rearranging the appliances on the kitchen counter.

He’ll quickly change into a company polo shirt, and sometimes there is a makeup girl there—sometimes not. If so, she spends 4 minutes making sure his head isn’t too shiny.

Then we put the script for the ad on a teleprompter app on an iPad, and he busts through the script 3 or 4 times to make sure we have a good take.

We normally go to a second house to shoot in a bathroom. Sometimes it’s the same house. Either way, we can nail 4 or 5 spots in about 6 hours, including lunch and travel time between homes.

A couple of days later, the first drafts are edited, and I usually spend a couple of hours giving feedback and fine-tuning the spots.

Total cost: About $2,500 for 4 or 5 spots. Not per spot. Total.

The spots don’t look spectacular, but they are professional and well done. They communicate the selling advantages, and make this company the obvious choice to do business with.

The real question, of course, is how do the spots work?

The answer, in both cases, is amazingly well.

Because the reality is… as long as you’re not making cheese-butt-used-car-salesman commercials, it’s the content of the ad that is the most important thing.

Consider a few things:

In my last post, I made a case that massive repetition is the master key to advertising success.

And I also said that you can start small. Start by dominating one day per week on one radio or TV station. Then 2 days. Then 3 or 4. Then do the same thing with a second, then a third station. As your budget grows, keep adding stations.

What most people fail to realize is that because you will be talking to people on a regular, consistent basis… you DO NOT have to grab them by the throat, throw them on the ground, and force-feed them your message.

The goal is not necessarily to get the phone to ring RIGHT THIS SECOND.

Instead, you should be having a conversation with each person in your audience. Talk to them a little bit today. If they ignore you or don’t happen to be watching, that’s okay. You can continue the conversation tomorrow. And next week. And next month. And next year.

You should be thinking of your advertising today as nurturing sales for your company in 2017, 2018, 2019, and beyond.

The goal is to get everyone who will ever need (whatever you sell) to:

  1. Know that you exist,
  2. Understand your value proposition, and…
  3. Trust that you will deliver what you promise.

That’s it.

Most TV advertisers manage to do #1 above pretty good—repetition definitely leads to awareness.

Unfortunately, many advertisers fail (and hard) on #2 and #3—the value proposition usually isn’t very clear (or believable), which in turn, does not breed trust.

This leads to commercials that tend to simply annoy people over time. And annoyed people don’t usually become customers.

A big part of what I’ll be teaching in my upcoming “Make The Jump to $10MM” 2-day seminar is how to create killer TV commercials that will move the needle.

I’ll talk about the concept of Identity; how it is the foundation of your entire marketing program, and how your TV commercials should incorporate yours. We’ll talk about using powerful language and creating scripts that let your passion shine through.

And I’ll show you dozens of examples of TV and radio ads that my clients have spent literally MILLIONS of dollars to run.

Like anything else, there’s a right way to do it, and a wrong way to do it.

I’m looking forward to showing you the right way.

If you haven’t already done so, please take a minute to take a look at everything that will be covered in the course. If you’re truly ready to “make the jump,” you won’t want to miss out.

For more information about the upcoming seminar, click here.

 

P.S. In my next blog post I’m going to talk about a topic that makes or breaks companies trying to get to $10MM… it has to do with scrutinizing who you take advice from. Talk to you then!

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TV Advertising… It’s Not Magic, It’s Math

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I’ve been talking about using TV (and radio) advertising to grow your business to $10MM and beyond.

In this blog post I’m going to give you a quick overview of how and why it works. I’ll cover all this in more detail in my upcoming (April 26& 27) 2-day seminar in Dallas, “Make The Jump To $10MM.”

But for now, the thumbnail sketch:

To grow at a rapid pace, you’ve got to get more customers. A LOT more customers. And to get more customers, more people have to find out about you somehow.

The key is getting in front of a lot of people—without spending a ton of money.

It’s kind of funny that I would use the phrase “without spending a ton of money” about something I routinely have my clients spending over a million dollars a year on.

But you can’t focus on the raw dollars spent. Instead, you have to consider how much it costs to reach each person. Or more specifically, how much it costs to reach a thousand people.

In advertising, we’re concerned with COST PER THOUSAND (aka CPM; M being the Roman numeral for 1,000).

Take direct mail as an example. Let’s say it costs $0.50 per piece of mail you send out. That means it will cost you $500 for every 1,000 people you reach… or a CPM of $500.  Even if your mail is cheaper–$0.35 per piece—that’s still a $350 CPM.

By contrast, TV and radio can be bought for between $2 and $10 per thousand.

That doesn’t mean you should never use direct mail. Direct mail has the benefit of being highly targeted. There are lots of situations where it makes perfect sense.

But when reaching out to the masses, TV can be up to 250 times less expensive.

That’s what you call SIMPLE MATH.

Which leads us to the next advantage TV has—its inexpensive enough that you can afford to hit people with the message again and again and again and again. And again.

Let’s say you’re paying $8 CPM on TV. For the same $350 to $500 it would take you to reach 1,000 people via direct mail, you can reach a person on the TV about 40 to 60 times.

FORTY TO SIXTY TIMES.

FORTY TO SIXTY TIMES!!!!!!!!

This is how you gain traction in a market—and fast.

In my upcoming seminar, “Make The Jump To $10MM,” I’ll show you scientific proof that massive repetition is the key to marketing success.

But you don’t need a rocket scientist to tell you that more is better when it comes to advertising. That’s also SIMPLE MATH.

Think about it—if you are on 2 or 3 TV stations and a couple of radio stations… and your competitors ARE NOT, you’re going to win.

Your lead flow will go up—and not just with any old leads. TV leads are the best kind—these people already KNOW you and TRUST you.

And it’s not just direct leads.  Your web traffic will jump. Your referrals will jump. Your PPC and SEO will work better. When you are on TV, EVERYTHING gets better. Everything.

And the good news: you can start small.

You don’t have to spend a million dollars and be on 2 or 3 TV stations to start.

We can start with one radio station. Or one TV station. I’ll discuss the pros and cons of each media in my course. But for now, who cares—just know that you can start small.

I just put a $4MM in Milwaukee on one TV station for $2,600 a week. They’ll be on that station about 35 weeks out of the year—that’s all the budget they have available right now.

You have to start somewhere!

The key is to dominate that station. Own it. And if you can’t afford to own the entire station, own one day of the week on that station. And if you can’t afford to own one day, own part of one day.

Whatever budget you have is enough to start.

But your ultimate goal should be a million dollars. ONE MILLION DOLLARS spent on radio and TV. Because that’s going to be the catalyst to getting your company to $10MM, and what is going to give you all the financial freedom you hope for and dream of.

Now, a few FAQs:

Q: I don’t even watch TV anymore. Does anyone watch TV?
A: More than enough to get you to $10MM.

Q: What about DVRs? Don’t people just zip past the commercials?
A: Some do, but we have strategies to minimize it… and as long as it’s working, who cares?

Q: We tried TV and it didn’t work. Why would it work now?
A: You almost certainly were doing something wrong. Call me and let’s talk about it. I can probably identify the problem in about 60 seconds.

Q: Isn’t it expensive to make TV commercials?
A: It doesn’t have to be. And if it is, who cares? As long as it’s making you money, that’s all that counts.

Q: How long does it take to achieve success on TV?
A: You need to commit to the long term. 12 months at least.

If you have other questions, or want to discuss your situation, just email me here.

The course will only be open to the first 10 companies who register—I want to be able to handle individual dialogue during the course. If you haven’t registered yet, you can do so by following this link.

Let’s get you to $10MM.

P.S. The ads you run make a huge difference. In my next post I’ll give you some ideas on how to write killer ads that really work.

 

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