Ask Frank Kern

Ask Frank Kern

Transforming Your Business Isn't About Doing A Million Different Things. It's About Finding ONE BIG THING And Then Leveraging That. Frank Kern has been advising entrepreneurs like you all day, every day, to do just that since 1999. This is his podcast. More at FrankKernPodcast.com.

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September 29, 2025 4 mins

Do you think there's any connection between the MK-Ultra experiments and modern marketing methods, especially the ones that have a background in NLP.

Okay. Number one, I don't know...

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If you were to go back to when you were 20, do you think you would still choose the same lifestyle that you have now. And the answer is yeah, absolutely. I would have done a lot of stuff differently though...

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Mike says, is the majority of your business still from selling info or consulting? Which business model do you prefer? Right now, it's info.

And there's a deliberate reason for that. There are two deliberate reasons for that.

#1 - it's personal preference, which was spawned by me being wore out...

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What are people buying online today? And then the question goes a little deeper...is it online courses, white papers? Just curious what the hot products are right now.

The short answer to that is everything.

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Is high-end continuity still a significant part of your business model? No, high-end continuity isn't and it never really has been. By high-end, I'm assuming you mean multi-thousand dollar consulting engagements...

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What was the single biggest obstacle I overcame to get where I am today?

That's a serious question. There are a lot of them, so I'll just tell you all the dumb stuff that I do. And then I'll let you decide what the biggest obstacle is.

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That question could be translated into "do fancy videos work better than non-fancy videos?"

And you know, what?

The non-fancy videos work better.

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What courses of yours are a good fit for a very advanced, well-established internet marketer?

Really depends on the desired outcome.

I consider myself to be a very advanced, well-established internet marketer, and what I always go back to is the fundamentals or...

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I want to share an unusual belief that was, I'm going to put this in air quotes, forced on me growing up that forever changed my life for the better. I say forced on me, again in air quotes, because I was never given an option to consider it. It never occurred to me that it might not be true. It was literally repeated to me over and over and over again. And I believed it and I gotta tell ya, I thank God for the belief. And I thank ...

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Would an e-com store brand benefit from the maximizer?

Yeah! With e-com, where you guys fall off...

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I think it's a great question because he's trying to target B2B. So he has a general contractor who wants to target commercial business owners only. Do you have any recommendations on the copy and target audiences that he should use?

Okay. So they own the office building, I would assume?

They own or lease and need a general contractor...

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How long should we be leaving each ad on for this challenge? 

I like three days, generally speaking. So if I'm willing to pay...

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My question is...I am doing web design, you know, landing page on websites, so I was wondering what is the best way to create a segmentation on Facebook for that?

To create a segmentation? By segmentation, do you mean target?

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So I've got a physician and a therapist and she's working with PTSD and trauma. Wondering what the best way to do an old-school ad would be with this. 

Oh, "read this if you..."

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What do you think about building a lead generation ad that is actually a conversion ad on Facebook? First step is the freebie/lead collection. Next page is a low ticket offer and order bump, then upsell. 

It's fine. You just have to be prepared for them to a. not click to the next page...

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Today, I have 10 words for you that can polarize or they can unify. My hope is that they unify.

Here they are. The words are...

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Really my question is wrapped around the case study that you used in the direct presentation that you used to get us into this class where day one was the $1.80 ad spend and then eventually you showed the 30 days in May where you spent about $3.50 and generated $600,000 in sales. So I guess really, I'd love to have a walkthrough of the 30,000 foot view of, you start day one at a $1.88, you get three days worth of data. Day three to...

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June 2, 2025 14 mins

It's not like it happens every day. It's not like the whole campaign was a 100X return on ad spend and it's not like that is happening at scale.

It still looked cool though! So that's pretty good and I've never had that happen before. No kidding, it was really pretty freakin' crazy!

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How can I build clientele for my wife's salon targeting a 50-mile radius?

Dude, this fits in perfectly with the earlier question of what would you do if you lost everything and only had $10K and had to start all over. I would service businesses like the one referenced.

So dude, here's what you do...

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First thing I want to point out is that is not really normal. A little bit of a fluke there, doesn't happen every day. Just happened to have 2 of them do that yesterday, which was great!

So when I put those little videos up...

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