Ask Frank Kern

Hope everybody's well. Happy whatever today it is...Saturday.

I want to answer a question that was on my mind. It's been on a lot of people's mind, what's the deal with this Clubhouse thing, is it worth messing with?

There's a lot of debate on it. So here's the thing about Clubhouse...

He says, how do you inspire to create new stuff and trainings for your clients without modeling the new guy, modeling the new guy?

Dude, I don't care what the new guys are doing. I care about what I learned from that guy, Albert Lasker.

And from that other guy, David Ogilvy.

And from that guy, Claude Hopkins.

And from that guy, Gary Halbert.

And Dan Kennedy...and hard won experience.

When would you use campaign budget versus ad set budget?

Later...

So you lead with the lead magnet and you have to email them, obviously. Do you just email them both the lead magnet and a link to the VSL? Or do you have any recommendations on the first email you send after the opt-in via the lead ad?

Yeah. First of all, if you have a VSL and it's educational, then your lead magnet can be the video itself...

How do you inspire yourself to create content? 

Dude. It's fun!

So, this is like...this, debauchery and food, and, you know, inappropriate things to talk about on a livestream that all other dudes think about it.

I had some problems with the ad approval. I'm selling mortgage and basically I'm trying to base my ad upon the refinancing of the mortgage. So I would like to ask you for some advice, for my copy, so it doesn't get not approved. 

One more question. A friend of mine asked me to help with an ad for a water purification system he sells, but this will be very hard to try to get leads for that.

So the lowest hanging fruit is going to be an individual who's thinking about buying...

I'm getting a good quantity of leads, but they are not scheduling consults or calling or emailing at the rate that I would like. So my question is what's the number one thing I should do next?

OK. What's the thing you sell?

So my niche is a sub-niche, it's dreadlocks, which is a sub-niche of natural hair. And so if I were targeting natural hair, there are lots of influencers and products and brands that I could target, but not so much, being the case for specifically dreadlocks.

So I'm trying to think about how do I expand and find different targets when there's really not targetable...

Let's talk about money goals. They say you're supposed to have 'em and they say you're supposed to set financial targets. I got to tell you, I'm not sure I agree. I mean, to some degree, obviously it's a pretty good idea, but here's something I'll share with you from personal experience, might help you have yourself more fun and a better life...

There's something I forgot to mention to you, which is how absolutely horrible the sales page is.

Seriously, look at it...

A lot of people are curious about the in-between...they publish their ads, what should they be doing for the next three days? Just while they're waiting for the ads? 

Any recommendations? 

Let's talk about one of the most powerful, mass-influence methods ever. I wanted to say weapons, but that just sounds weird. I don't want to weaponize this kind of thing. You know, technique, strategy, tactic, how 'bout that?

Anyway, before I tell you about this, I want to warn you, this cannot be faked...

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