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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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I'd really like to see what I can do to optimize engagement and click through rate on our current email newsletter. I'm seeing that our lead magnet, it has a great open rate. It's an 80% open rate, 60% click through, and then subsequent emails out the gate, you know, it's about a 20/25% open and 6% click through rate.
What recommendations do you have to really kind of help boost that sort of thing?
Any advice on how to learn to put a good course together? I finally feel like this is possible for me. I'm a legal recruiter and realize I have a ton of advice that will be helpful to young, new attorneys.
Dude, here's what I would do. If I was you...
What do you recommend for Book funnels in terms of advertising? Alright. Specifically referencing my Intent Based Branding methodology. And so I will give that answer regardless of methodology. So if the objective of the campaign is to sell a book, you first have to look at what is the objective of selling the book.
Do you want to make an immediate profit during that?
Do you want them to consume the book and then become fans and th...
As I pivot more from the services side or the agency side to the coaching stuff, just curious your thoughts on how to accurately categorize the appropriate price of that in my head and how to continue to elevate that.
So there's a couple things. 1. It's gotta be consulting, not coaching...
The question is how do you script your videos?
And the answer is I personally don't script my videos, but I do have a framework...
I know the types of people that I was attracting before aren't going to be the ones that work with me at the level that I do, these new ones. And so it begs the question, how do I get more qualified prospects in the pipeline?
He's running some ads and he's not getting any sales. And to that I reply, welcome, sir, to the club.
And so I don't really understand the question. It says is it only sales conversion that count? Or should I check for some other stats? I'm not...
Very simple. It would be to get them on the phone, give them a proposal and see if they wanted to become a client.
Everybody's got testimonials, you know. I don't really think it matters.
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...
I think you went through either yours or a version of the perfect day experience where in a perfect day, this is what life would look like. Do you remember that day?
So Simon asks, have I worked with clients from Europe who sold their products/services to US customers? And is it more difficult for Europeans to sell on the US market?
Yes I have, and the answer is no.
Here's a pretty good question. Samuel asks, is SEO dead? How much should I worry about it for a blog/biz website?
Well, I'll give you my answer with a disclaimer.
One thing I've really appreciated about you over the years has been obviously, you know, you're one of the most intelligent marketers out there, but something about understanding human behavior, positioning and dynamics.
So for example, however many years ago, maybe you remember what year it was, you did the first state of the internet address. You did it in an office that looked pretty fancified, you sitting at the big desk and wh...
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...
We're recording this for you in this little wooden room of the California place where we are staying for the next couple of weeks, here in the summer, and just had the craziest health thing happen...
This morning, I read a pretty powerful marketing lesson written by a Saint. I'm pretty sure he didn't intend for it to be a marketing lesson, but it's a good marketing lesson nonetheless. The Saint's name is Nikolaj Velimirović and in his writings, he says that we are better off if we do not engage others in lengthy debates and fruitless discussions. We can better change their hearts by our love and good deeds.
If we take that sent...
Things are without question rarely as they seem. So here's what that means...
As marketers, it's very, very easy for us to make assumptions about our prospects based on our own personal experience or what we observe in our immediate day-to-day life. However, a lot of times those assumptions are completely wrong. And a lot of times those incorrect assumptions cost us a lot of money in lost sales.
I think I'm going to name this episode PROOF that you can do ANYTHING online. Of course there's a caveat to that. I don't literally mean anything, but in business, online especially, we sure do have a lot fewer limitations than we might think.
Hello everyone. Frank Kern here. I hope you're doing well. I'm recording this for you front of the fire once again, in my little office. It's about seven in the morning, beautiful morning here, and now to live up to the title of today's podcast...
Any advice about what ad to run, to have people apply to a webinar? Okay, so this question is, I'll rephrase it like this. I want to have someone do a certain thing. What should the ad say? Alright, that's really what the question is saying.
In this case, Mark is saying, I want to have people go to a webinar, register for a webinar. What should the ad say? The question could be...
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