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 With Brad Costanzo

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Copyright 2014 Brad Costanzo      

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   Brad:   All  right,  welcome  back  to  Bacon  Wrapped  Business.  Today  is  a  special  video  

episode.  If  you’re  listening  to  this  on  the  podcast,  I  want  to  encourage  you  to  go  over  to  baconwrappedbusiness.com/mikef.  I  made  this  one  really  easy  for  you  guys  to  spell  in  case  you’re  listening  and  you  want  to  go  to  it.  

If  you’re  looking  on  the  show  notes  just  go  ahead  and  click  view  link,  because  today  we’re  interviewing  Mike  Filsaime.  We’re  going  to  talk  about  some  incredible  strategies  that  Mike  is  up  to.  I’m  fortunate  enough  to  know  Mike.  I’ve  followed  him  for  years.  We’ve  become  friends  and  a  mastermind  together.  If  there’s  anybody  who  can  deliver  the  bacon  wrap  strategies,  the  sizzling  hot  advice,  it’s  Mike.  Mike,  I’m  really  excited  to  have  you  on  the  show  today.  I  think  the  first  time  we  may  have  met  correct  me  if  I’m  wrong,  maybe  it  was  somebody  else.  Were  you  at  Kevin  Wilke’s  Quattro  event  back  in  2008?  

Mike:   Yeah,  way  back.  Yes.  That  was  a  great  event,  yeah.  

Brad:   Yeah.  I  think  that  Butterfly  Marketing  had  just  come  out.  When  did  you  come  out  with  that?  

Mike:   Butterfly  Marketing  came  out  in  January  of  2006.  

Brad:   Okay.  

Mike:   I  did  a  re-­‐release  I  think  in  2008  where  we  were  giving  away  the  course  for  a  trial  of  our  newsletter.  We  put  15,000  people  into  a  $39  month  newsletter  by  giving  away  the  $2,000  product.  

Brad:   I  love  it.  To  back  up  a  little  bit  for  the  folks  who  don’t  know  who  you  are,  Mike,  you’ve  been  in  the  online  marketing  business  since  when,  about  early  2000s  or?  

Mike:   Yeah.  I  bought  my  first  domain  in  October  2002.  It  was  this  great  domain.  A  lot  of  people  call  me  all  the  time  looking  for  it.  It  was  called  letsallworkathome.com.  

Brad:   That’s  good.  

Mike:   Because  workathome.com  was  taken.  Letsworkathome.com  was  taken.  They  couldn’t  fool  me.  I  got  letsallworkathome.com.  I  always  chuckle  at  like  when  you  first  buy  those  domains,  everybody  has  got  this  funny  little  first  domains  like  hateyourboss.com  and  stuff.  

Brad:   Uh-­‐huh  (affirmative).  

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Mike:   That  was  October  of  2002.  I  bought  a  product  from  Frank  Kern  actually.  Frank  was  my  idol  for  [inaudible  00:02:49]  friend.  Now  I  make  him  do  my  dishes.  

Brad:   Exactly.  Is  that  him  in  the  apron  back  there?  

Mike:   Yeah.  That’s  him  in  the  apron  back  there.  March  of  2003,  things  started  clicking  for  me.  About  six  months  later,  I’m  doing  about  five  grand  a  month.  I  was  working  in  the  car  industry.  I  was  the  general  manager  of  the  second  largest  Hyundai  dealership  in  United  States,  Millennium  Hyundai.  I  was  also,  before  that  the  general  sales  manager  of  the  ninth  largest  Toyota  dealership  in  the  country.  

Brad:   You’ve  got  sales  in  your  blood.  

Mike:   Yeah.  I  did  that  for  14  years.  I  started  making  money  in  2003.  By  2004,  I  was  doing  about  18,000  a  month.  It  was  more  money  than  I  was  making  in  the  car  business.  I’m  not  going  to  bore  you  with  that  story  but  came  to  heads  with  the  general  manager  of  the  13  car  franchise.  He  told  me,  “You’ve  got  to  make  a  decision.  It’s  either  that  or  this.”  I  really  think  he  thought  I  was  selling  on  eBay  making  about  800  bucks  a  month  on  [inaudible  00:03:52].  

When  I  told  him,  “Hey,  it’s  been  a  great  five  years.”  He  was  like,  “Really?”  He  said,  “Give  me  the  keys  to  your  demo.  Give  me  the  keys  to  the  safe.  Give  me  the  keys  to  the  front  door.”  He  walked  out  like  Gordon  Gekko  on  the  phone  saying,  “Tommy,  you’re  the  new  general  manager  of  Millennium  Hyundai.”  

Everybody  chased  me  outside.  I’m  trying  to  compose  myself  and  call  my  wife  at  the  time  and  tell  her  to  come  pick  me  up  because  I  don’t  have  a  car  anymore.  She’s  like,  “What?  You  mean  we  have  no  health  insurance?”  I’m  like,  “Don’t  worry  about  that  right  now.”  Everybody  is  like,  “Mike,  you  know  John.  Talk  to  him,  don’t  worry  about  it.  Everything  is  going  to  be  okay.”  I’m  like,  excuse  my  language,  I’ll  just  use  the  F  word.  

Brad:   Hit  it.  

Mike:   I  was  like,  “F  this.  F  him.  F  this  place.  F  this  business.”  I’m  crying.  I  couldn’t  control  myself.  I’m  like,  I  said,  “Guys,  you  don’t  get  it.  I  didn’t  have  the  balls  to  do  this  myself.  I’m  so  glad  that  this  day  happened  because  now  I’m  going  to  …  I’m  just  going  to,  I’m  going  to  go  on  my  own.”  They’re  like,  “No,  talk  to  him  in  the  morning.”  I  said,  “No,  you  don’t  realize  I  feel  like  Mel  Gibson  and  Braveheart.”  I  feel  like  …    

Brad:   Freedom.  

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Mike:   I  was  like,  “Freedom.”  Exactly.  The  very  next  month,  I  went  on  to  do  $50,000.  Three  months  later  I  had  an  $85,000  day.  A  year  later,  I  did  the  million  dollar  launch  with  Butterfly  Marketing.  We  did  $1.5  million  with  that  launching.  As  I  said,  that  was  2006,  the  rest  is  history.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   Yeah.  It  started  out  just,  read  a  sales  letter  one  day  that,  “Hey,  you  make  money  online.”  It  was  2002.  Times  were  very  different.  I  always  try  to  remind  people  this.  I  may  be  wrong  on  the  date.  I  believe  it’s  something  like  this.  In  2004,  the  guys  that  started  YouTube  were  working  for  PayPal.  In  their  part-­‐time  they  started  YouTube.  In  2005,  they  bought  the  domain  name  YouTube.  In  2006,  Google  bought  YouTube.  

There  was  no  Myspace,  Friendster  hadn’t  come  out.  There  was  no  social  networking.  It  was  impossible  for  me  to  know  who  you  were.  You  couldn’t  even  get  video  on  without  having  to  download  this  Videx,  Codex.  We  didn’t  even  know  how,  people  take  for  granted  Brad  how  difficult  it  was  to  get  a  picture  online.  

Brad:   I  know.  

Mike:   We  didn’t  have  these  types  of  smart  …    

Brad:   You  had  to  scan  them  or  do  something.  

Mike:   You  had  to  scan  them.  Or  you  had  a  35  millimeter  camera  and  you  had  to  scan  them.  Or  you  had  a  digital  camera  that  you  were  at  RadioShack  trying  to  say,  “How  do  I  get  this  into  my  computer?”  Because  USB  hadn’t  come  out  yet.  Every  computer,  there  were  30,000  different  serial  buses.  

Then  finally  you  get  the  picture  off  and  you  don’t  realize  that  it’s,  back  then  it  was  a  large  file  for  a  dialer.  It  might  have  been  a  2  Meg  photo  or  something.  It  could  be  36  [inaudible  00:06:39]  bytes.  The  photo  would  load  on  your  website  like  this  …  It  would  take  two  minutes  for  your  photo  to  load.  Then  you’d  have  to  take  it  off  because  you  didn’t  know  what  you  did  wrong.  That’s  how  difficult  it  was  back  then.  WordPress  wasn’t  around.  It  was  difficult.  It  was  also  fun.  

Brad:   I  feel  like  one  of  the  guys  from  the  Saturday  Night  Live  skit.  In  all  our  day,  we  didn’t  have  YouTube.  We  loved  it.  

Mike:   Yeah  exactly.  Back  then  people  were  doing  these  things  called  teleseminars  because  webinars  hadn’t  come  out  yet  where  they  were  teaching  you  about  the  ability  to  take  credit  cards  online.  No  joke.  They  were  saying  you  no  longer  have  

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to  put  call  or  fax  to  your  ordering  because  it  was  difficult  to  take  credit  cards.  PayPal  was  just  starting  to  make  it  easy  for  people.  I’m  going  to  shut  off  my  wonder  list  here.  It  keeps  sending  me  notifications.  

Brad:   All  the  stuff  you  have  to  do?  

Mike:   Yeah.  Some  of  the,  the  people  on  my  team  keep  checking  off  the  stuff  they’re  doing.  Yeah,  that’s  a  little  back  story  about  me.  

Brad:   That’s  great.  I  remember  yeah,  I  got  into  the  business  in  2000,  actually  the  very  January  of  2008.  I  met  you  briefly  at  Kevin’s  event.  I  purchased  some  of  your  stuff  over  the  years.  The  first  thing  I  purchased  you  had  a  software  that  allowed  you  to  put  your  offer  on  the  thank  you  page.  

Mike:   For  the  thank  you  pages?  

Brad:   What  was  that  called?  

Mike:   The  software  was  called  HyperJava.  

Brad:   That’s  right.  

Mike:   The  product  launch  with  the  training  and  everything  was  called  Traffic-­‐Fusion.  

Brad:   Traffic-­‐Fusion,  that’s  right.  

Mike:   Everybody  was  doing  the,  “Hey,  do  a  video  in  your  car.”  I  pulled  out  of  my  parking  lot,  didn’t  look.  A  car,  I  almost  got  hit  by  a  car  making  that  video.  

Brad:   Did  you  get  it  on  video?  

Mike:   Yeah  it  was  on  video.  It’s  probably  out  there  somewhere.  

Brad:   That’s  awesome.  

Mike:   Yeah,  Traffic-­‐Fusion.  

Brad:   Yeah.  To  just  enlighten  the  folks  who  are  listening,  one  of  the  things  that  you’re  very  much  known  for  is  not  only  just  training  on  information  of  the  how  to,  the  informational  products.  What  to  do  with  video  tutorials  etcetera.  You’ve  always  created  software  that  makes  your  life  easier.  From  Traffic-­‐Fusion,  even  Butterfly  Marketing  was  a  software  component  right?  

Mike:   Yeah.  

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Brad:   Or  a  script  that  allowed  you  to  get  other  people  to  sell  your  products  after  they  list  them  as  an  affiliate  to  help  spread  the  word  for  a  quick  explanation.  Then  throughout  the  years  not  only  have  you  had  some  of  the  top  information  products  and  training  out  there,  now  you’ve  got,  correct  me  if  I’m  wrong  but  Webinar  Jam  on  how  to  use  and  how  to  run  really  high-­‐end  webinars,  really  sophisticated  but  easy  to  use  webinars  using  Google  Hangouts.  

Mike:   Mm-­‐hmm  (affirmative).  

Brad:   You’ve  got  DealGuardian,  an  entire  market  place.  It  takes  place  in  a  merchant  account  and  affiliate  software  for  people.  I’ve  seen  it.  It’s  absolutely  remarkable.  You’ve  got  the,  obviously  the  genesis  products,  Traffic  Genesis  and  Video  Genesis.  I  know  you’re  working  on  a  new  one  with,  I  believe  it’s  Conversion  Genesis  if  I’m  not  mistaken.  I’ve  always  been  really  …    

Mike:   Yeah.  We  did,  with  Andy,  we  did  Video  Genesis,  Genesis  Labs.  Then  Traffic  Genesis.  Now  we’re  doing  Conversion  Genesis.  The  softwares  we  put  out  were  Webinar  Jam  and  DealGuardian.  

Brad:   Yeah.  I  think  that’s  great  how  you  give  people  not  only  just  the  tools.  You  give  them  the  training  but  also  the  tools  too.  

Mike:   Yeah.  I  developed  a  lot  of  software  over  the  years.  I  actually  was  stronger  in  software  than  information  products.  My  first  big  info  product  Butterfly  Marketing  was  really  wrapped  around  the  software.  I  developed  another  market  place  years  back  in  2005  to  compete  with  ClickBank  that  I  sold  for  a  pretty  good  amount  of  money  back  in  2013.  Just  recently  sold  it  because  I  wanted  to  move  to  DealGuardian.  

Brad:   Which  market  place  was  that?  

Mike:   PayDotCom.  

Brad:   That’s  right.  

Mike:   Yeah.  PayDotCom.com  It  was  a  nine  letter  domain.  It  always  confused  people.  

Brad:   PayDotCom.com.  

Mike:   Yeah.  PayDotCom  made  me  millions  over  the  years.  The  tough  part  about  selling  it  was  getting  a  buyer  that  understood  that  I  wasn’t  going  to  give  a  non-­‐compete  because  I  was  going  with  DealGuardian.  

Brad:   Sure.  

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Mike:   I  didn’t  feel  the  need.  I  need  too  money.  I  basically  found  somebody.  I  said,  “Look,  it’s  a  money  maker.  You  don’t  have  to  do  anything.  You  can  just  wake  up  every  day.  It  will  make  you  money.”  I  did  small  software  things  like  [inaudible  00:10:58]  Generator  to  Power  Link  Generator  back  in  the  day.  Then  we  did  the  Traffic-­‐Fusion  product.  

We  also  had  things  like,  when  Twitter  came  out,  I  tried  to  compete  with  TweetDeck  with  a  product  called  TweetGlide.  Basically,  the  more  you  tweeted,  the  more  points  you  would  get  for  free  ads.  Twitter  didn’t  have  ads.  We  created  an  ad  platform.  The  more  people  you  referred,  the  more  they  tweeted,  the  more  credits  you  got.  It  was  one  of  those  Downline  Builders  if  you  would  inside  of  a  Twitter  product.  We  tried  a  lot  of  different  things.  

Brad:   Right.  I’ve  got  a  software  that  I  developed.  This  was,  at  the  time  that  I  developed  a  product  in  the  dating  market,  developed  a  software  product  for  GPS  devices  to  change  the  voice  in  your  GPS  called  PIGTones.com  

Mike:   Really?  

Brad:   Politically  incorrect  GPS.  Most  people  aren’t  using  Garmin  and  TomTom  anymore  versus  just  like  the,  in  the  iPhone  which  is  what  I  use.  The  software  business  has  always  had,  been  a  double-­‐edged  sword.  It’s  way  quicker  and  easier  to  throw  up  information  product  and  make  some  quick  money.  The  nice  part  about  software  is  that  if  it’s  really  good,  people  paying  you  month  after  month  after  month,  that  nice  continuity  income.  

Mike:   Yeah.  If  you  look  at  Webinar  Jam  compared  to  a  product  launch,  it  did  phenomenal.  It  made  multiple  millions  in  its  launch.  Usually  a  launch  goes  like  this.  Then  it  goes  like  that  unless  you’re  driving  advertising  to  it  which  you  should.  Some  companies  can  even  do  so  strong  on  word  of  mouth  without  even  doing  advertising.  The  nice  thing  about  things  like  Webinar  Jam  is  that  product  does  about  $125,000  a  month.  If  I  went  away  for  a  year  and  just  decided  I  want  to  go  on  some  Antarctic  exploration,  I  would  come  back  and  it  wouldn’t  change  as  long  as  I  had  my  support  desk  taking  care  of  the  customers.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   Having  a  company  like  that  that  now  you  can  say  now  I  can  go  do  YouTube  advertising  and  Facebook  advertising  and  Google  pay  per  click  and  drive  traffic  to  it,  that’s  where  it  gets  good.  

In  this  day  and  age,  the  more  and  more  that  you  have  a  software  as  a  service  company,  usually  there  is  some  type  of  link  involved  in  the  sharing  of  that  product.  If  I  were  to  share  something  with  you,  with  Screencast  or  with  Jing,  I  

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give  you  a  link.  Then  when  it’s  done  it  says,  “Get  a  free  Jing  account.”  Or  if  I  share  something  with  you  with  Dropbox,  as  you  download  it,  it  says,  “Would  you  like  to  create  a  free  Dropbox  account  to  store  this  in  or  download  it  directly  to  your  computer?”  

If  you  get  an  invitation  to  work  in  my  project  [inaudible  00:13:45]  software.  We’re  working  together.  I  say,  “Hey  Brad,  join  me  over  here.”  Suddenly  you  get  an  invite.  You’re  like,  “Wow,  Mike  and  Andy  are  using  this.”  Whenever  you  have  a  software  that  does  that,  sometimes  it  can  propagate  itself.  It  can  self-­‐perpetuate  through  the  use  of  different  users,  add  a  little  bit  of  social  aspects  and  elements.  It  saves  for  people  to  do  so,  and  even  better.  

For  Webinar  Jam,  we  have  a  little  tracking  code  in  the  player  [inaudible  00:14:12].  Brad  can  just  go  to  webinar  and  unclickable.  It  says  powered  by  Webinar  Jam.  We  [inaudible  00:14:20]  the  opportunity  when  they  [blew  00:14:23]  a  webinar  one  time  in  their  profile  to  add  the  affiliate  link  to  that.  Then  that  takes  a  little  powered  by  Webinar  Jam  and  makes  it  a  live  hot  link.  If  people  click  that,  it  goes  to  Webinar  Jam.  If  you  were  doing  a  webinar  with  400  people  and  anybody  clicked  at  the  Webinar  Jam  and  bought  the  product,  you  get  paid  your  commission.  

What’s  interesting  is  we  have  hundreds  and  hundreds  of  webinars  every  single  day,  from  30  people  to  400.  Some  people  that  I’ve  never  heard  of  get  five  times  more  people  than  I  can.  We  heard  people  last  week  got  5,000  people  on  a  webinar.  

Brad:   Seriously?  

Mike:   Yeah.  I’m  like  who  is  this  person?  They  were  in  the  real  estate  niche  which  is  fantastic.  That’s  5,000  people.  The  more  and  more  we’re  getting  online,  the  more  and  more  the  people  that  learn  information  from  us,  many  of  them  have  their  own  websites  and  their  own  businesses.  It  used  to  not  be  true.  Definitely  in  personal  development  in  finance  and  in  make  money,  we  find  that  to  be  true.  Even  in  health  products,  I’m  finding  that  people  that  go  on  webinars  for  Chalene  Johnson,  many  of  these  people  are  personal  experts  or  they  have  their  own  Zumba  websites.  They’re  trying  to  build  their  own  community.  

The  bottom  line  is  we’re  getting  people  that  go  on  Webinar  Jam  as  a  guest  of  somebody  else,  as  a  guest  of  Brad  Costanzo  or  a  guest  of  Chalene  Johnson  or  Brandon  Bouchard.  Then  they  say,  “Brad’s  using  this.  That’s  interesting.  If  it’s  good  enough  for  Brad,  it’s  good  enough  for  me.”  Our  users  are  helping  us  advertise  the  product  just  by  the  use.  The  more  users  we  get  the  more,  it’s  a  snowball  effect,  this  fly  wheel  effect  that  happens.  

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Brad:   Right  yeah.  Ryan  Holiday  wrote  a  book  called  Growth  Hacking  not  too  long  ago.  This  was  this  whole  concept  about  how  software  and  app  companies  etcetera  they’re  hacking  the  growth  with  traditional  marketing.  

Mike:   Exactly.  

Brad:   They’re  just  building  in  the  viral  aspects.  That’s  really,  it’s  what  Butterfly  Marketing  is  all  about  as  well,  turn  your  customers  in  this  case  info  product  buyers  into  your  affiliates.  

Mike:   Exactly.  

Brad:   That’s  fantastic.  A  couple  of  answers  you  gave  me  at  two  different  masterminds  that  we’re  in.  One  day  I  asked  you,  “What  part  of  the  whole  marketing  thing  do  you  like  the  most?”  I  think  you  answered  the  conversion.  Most  marketers  tend  to  gravitate  towards  more  the  conversion  side  like  if  you  could  spend  all  of  your  day  writing,  coming  up  with  hooks  and  copy  and  offers  versus  coming  up  with  traffic  strategies  etcetera.  Did  I  get  that  right  or  is  the  conversion  side  of  things  a  little  bit  more  of  your  passion?  

Mike:   Yeah.  I’m  fascinated  …    

Brad:   With  why  people  buy?  

Mike:   I’m  fascinated  that  human  beings  move  in  herds.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   Yeah.  For  instance  if,  I  don’t  think  we  really  go  down  to  this  granular  to  the  fact  that  if  I  have  a  29%  conversion  on  an  opt-­‐in  page.  You  say  to  me,  “Mike,  this  is  something  we’ve  tested.  It  increased  our  conversion.  You  should  try  it.”  My  conversion  goes  from  29%  to  45%.  Really  what  we  have  there  Brad  more  than  anything  is  a  study  in  human  behavior,  because  it’s  not  something  that  helped  me  close  one  person.  It  doesn’t  matter  if  I’m  getting  10  visitors  a  day  or  100  visitors  a  day  or  10,000  visitors  a  day  or  a  million  visitors  a  day,  that  conversion  rate  would  have  stayed  at  29%  or  will  compete  over  here  doing  better  at  45%.  

What  it  means  is  fundamentally,  human  beings  make  decisions  the  same  way  and  in  mass  numbers  over  several  days,  over  several  years  that  we  can  predict  the  way  humans  are  going  to  work.  Even  across  niche,  you  can  tell  me,  it  worked  for  me  in  this  market.  It’s  something  I  did  on  my  podcast.  Try  it  here.  

Brad:   Yup.  

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Mike:   For  me  the  fascinating  thing  about  the  conversion  is  really  breaking  down  into  the  human  psyche.  That’s  why  I’m  fascinated  with  books  like  Predictably  Irrational  by  Dan  Ariely.  

Brad:   Dan  Ariely.  

Mike:   His  other  book  yes  obviously  Influence:  The  Psychology  of  Persuasion.  Books  by  Joe  Sugarman  like  Triggers.  When  you  can  find  out  what  improves  conversion  based  on  the  way  human  beings  think  because  we  respond  to  stimuli.  As  much  as  people  say,  “Advertising  doesn’t  work  on  me.”  It’s  like,  yeah  look  at  the  shirt  you’re  wearing.  It  does.  We  conform  to  group  norms.  We  want  to  fit  in  crowds.  We  want  to  do  things  that  others  do.  We  make  different  choices  based  on  different  options  we  have  when  the  choices  are  there.  That’s  why  there’s  things  like  price  decoys,  all  these  little  things  that  work  in  the  human  mind  to  me  is  fascinating.  I  study  that  more  than  anything.  

Just  to  give  some  ideas  about  the  way  that  the  human  mind  works  based  on  the  frame  that  you  put  before  something  when  you  said.  For  instance,  the  simple  way  to  say  it  is  if  somebody  says,  “It’s  sunny  today  but  it’s  going  to  rain  tomorrow.”  People  will  say,  “Yeah,  that’s  too  bad.”  We’re  framing  that  with  a  negative  outlook.  If  I  say  the  same  exact  thing.  When  I  say,  “It’s  going  to  rain  tomorrow  but  it’s  sunny  today.”  That  will  change  your  attitude  to  be  like,  “Yeah  let’s  take  advantage  of  today.”  Right?  

Another  example  of  that  is  if  we  take  a  look  at  somebody  eating  and  they  work  out.  If  you  see  somebody  and  if  we  understand,  for  the  most  part,  calories  in  from  food  intake  and  calories  burnt  in  exercise  are  pretty  much  the  same  thing  without  getting  too  technical.  

A  lot  of  people  will  argue  that.  They  should  because  calories  in  and  food  is  a  lot  different.  Let’s  just  say  that  they’re  the  same  in  through  the  mouth  as  they  are  working  out.  If  I  say,  “Hey  Brad,  I  just  saw  you  over  at  Fit.  Great  work  out.  I’m  going  to  go  over  at  Hodad’s.  I’m  going  to  get  a  double  bacon,  cheese  burger  and  fries  and  some  of  that  orange  sauce.”  You’re  going  to  be  like,  “Dude,  why  would  you  do  that?  You  just  worked  out.”  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   There  was  a  certain  amount  of  calories  I  burnt  off  and  a  certain  amount  of  calories  I’m  going  to  go  put  into  my  body.  It’s  the  same  exact  math  if  I  say  to  you,  “Brad,  I  just  at  Hodad’s  man.”  

Brad:   Now  I’m  going  to  go  to  Fit.  

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Mike:   “Now  I’m  going  to  go  to  Fit  and  burn  it  off.”  You’re  going  to  be,  “High  five  brother.”  Right?  

Brad:   That’s  a  great  point.  

Mike:   At  the  end  of  the  day,  they’re  the  same  amount  of  math  went  in  in  calories  in  and  calories  out.  If  we  can  sometimes  understand  that,  that’s  simply  a  frame  that’s  put  around  something  that  can  change  people’s  perspective.  We  can  do  it  with  words.  We  can  do  it  with  calories.  We  can  do  it  with  videos.  They  do  it  to  us  at  the  movie  theaters.  

Brad:   Give  me  an  example  of  how  you’ve  used  framing.  I’m  predicting  that  I  know  what  you  might  answer.  I  may  be  wrong.  Give  me  an  example  of  how  you’ve  used  framing  similar  to  this  in  your  marketing.  

Mike:   It’s  the  biggest  thing  that  Andy  and  I  struggle  with  before  we  start  a  product.  Excuse  me.  We  for  instance  for  Traffic  Genesis,  everybody  is  talking  traffic.  We  didn’t  want  to  be  just  another  traffic  product.  Here  are  some  of  the  things  you  see.  Traffic  equals  money.  Imagine  you  could  spend  a  dollar  and  make  two.  People  have  all  heard  that  before.  

We  needed  to  change  their  thinking  by  introducing  a  new  frame.  It  was  what’s  called  a  pattern  interrupt  or  an  incongruent  juxtaposition.  It’s  getting  traffic  is  easy.  First,  you’re  going  to  say  to  me  and  everybody  listening  to  this  podcast  if  they’re  buying  traffic  or  knows  anything  about  traffic  then  you’re  saying,  “No,  it’s  not.”  I’d  be  a  fool  not  to  finish  my  point.  

Brad,  getting  traffic  is  so  easy  it’s  ridiculous.  Getting  a  thousand  visitors  is  easy.  Here’s  the  experiment.  I’m  going  to  give  you  $1,000.  I’m  going  to  take  a  thousand.  Let’s  say  we  have  10,000  people  listening  on  your  podcast.  We  get  them  a  credit  from  Facebook  as  well  for  1,000.  They  give  us  all  $1,000  real  money.  Guess  what  Facebook  is  going  to  give  you,  me  and  every  single  one  of  those  people?  $1,000  worth  of  traffic.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   Getting  traffic  is  easy.  

Brad:   Yeah.  You  prove  that.  

Mike:   If  you  give  them  10  bucks,  they’re  going  to  give  you  10  bucks  worth  of  traffic.  If  you  give  them  100  bucks  they’re  going  to  give  you  100  bucks  worth  of  traffic.  You  prove  that.  Then  what’s  the  problem?  The  problem  is  not  getting  the  traffic,  it’s  what  happens  when  the  traffic  comes  to  your  site.  We  had  to  create  the  

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frame  that  you  don’t  have  a  traffic  problem,  you  have  a  conversion  problem  because  getting  the  traffic  is  not  hard.  What’s  tough  is  spending  $1,000  and  not  making  anything.  

We  now  have  to  figure  out,  okay,  now  that  I  know  it’s  a  conversion  problem,  you’ve  just  changed  my  thinking  that  if  I  can  get  the  conversion  problem  fixed,  you’re  right,  traffic  is  easy.  Facebook  will  give  me  as  much  traffic  as  I  can  spend.  That’s  where  it  gets  beautiful.  We  Focus  Traffic  Genesis  on  a  course  that  we  call  after  the  click  system.  Everything  that  happens  after  the  click  is  what  makes  that  dollar  turn  into  two  dollars.  We  didn’t  want  to  focus  so  much  on  how  to  create  ad  sets  and  all  that  stuff  because  that’s  teaching  people  how  to  spend  that  $1,000  which  is  very  easy  to  do.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   Spending  $1,000  is  as  easy  as  wasting  $1,000.  We  wanted  to  show  people  that  it’s  all  about  what  happens  after  the  click.  That  was  the  frame  that  we  created  for  Traffic  Genesis  in  our  first  video.  

Brad:   That’s  great.  One  of  the,  I  was  wrong.  I  love  what  you  said  there.  It  is  true  because  a  lot  of  people  think  that,  “Oh  my  God  traffic  is  so  hard  to  get.”  Yeah,  no  traffic  is  hard  to  get  a  good  positive  return  on  investment  for.  That’s  the  challenge,  right?  

Mike:   That’s  right.  

Brad:   Traffic  in  general,  that’s  easy.  

Mike:   That’s  the  blessing,  is  that  if  now  that  you  know  that  getting  traffic  is  easy,  then  you  never  have  to  worry  about  getting  traffic.  All  you’ve  got  to  do  is  realize  you  got  to  focus  on  the  conversion.  Andy  and  I  called  it  the  scar,  the  $100  scar.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   $100  scar  is  I  spent  $100  on  Facebook  or  Google  AdWords.  It  didn’t  work  for  me.  Those  people  they  never  come  back  again.  They’ll  say,  “Well,  it  just  didn’t  work  for  my  product.  It  didn’t  work  for  my  niche.”  We’ve  basically  showed  that  you  sent  an  offer  directly  to  a  video  sales  letter.  You  didn’t  give  a  freemium.  You  didn’t  get  their  email  address.  You  didn’t  have  the  proper  sequence.  

You  didn’t  have  a  Tripwire.  You  didn’t  have  an  upsale  process.  Your  members’  area  didn’t  monetize.  You  didn’t  do  retargeting,  all  these  different  things.  We  called  it  the  no  fail  traffic  system.  That  if  you  implement  these  things,  pretty  

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much  it’s  impossible  to  fail  at  the  prices  you  can  buy  traffic  for.  What  do  you  think  it  was?  

Brad:   I  thought  it  was  a  little  tidbit  that  you  shared  with  me  one  time  about  pre-­‐framing  with  the  checkbox  the  upsales  on  the  order  form.  

Mike:   Yeah.  That’s  a  great  example.  

Brad:   I  love  it.  

Mike:   That’s  one  of  a  thousand.  Do  you  want  to  tell  that  one?  

Brad:   No.  Go  ahead  because  this  is  yours.  I  love  it.  I  still  have  not  put  it  on  any  of  my  or  my  clients’  websites  yet.  That’s  coming.  This  is  some  bacon  wrapped  shizzle  right  here.  

Mike:   At  PayDotCom,  people  can  still  witness  this  today.  I  don’t  know  if  the  new  owners  changed.  When  you  signed  up  I  gave  you  an  offer  after  you  signed  up.  Man,  I  lost  a  lot  of  money  not  doing  that.  I  wanted  to  keep  the  site  pure  and  not  make  a  onetime  offer  after  people  were  opting  in.  After  two  and  a  half  years  I  realized  at  one  point  I  was  getting  975  sign  ups  a  day.  I  made  $97  offer  that  converted  10%.  That  meant  I  was  getting  90  sales  at  $90.  Let’s  call  that  100  sales  at  $100.  It  was  10,000  a  day.  

Brad:   Right.  It  wasn’t  just  a  one  click  upsale?  

Mike:   No.  It  was  just  an  upsale.  It  was  the  first  up  sale.  We  were  doing  about  $8,700  a  day  for  a  good  long  time  with  that.  It  blew  my  mind.  What  really  killed  me  was  how  much  money  I  left  on  the  table  by  not  wanting  to  make  an  offer.  Changed  my  perspective  about  it,  always  made  people  offers.  People  love  to  buy.  They  hate  to  be  sold.  Just  give  them  an  opportunity.  That’s  where  this  leads  to.  

The  offer  was  converting  pretty  good.  I  decided  to  start  split  testing  everything.  I  tested  with  video  and  without  video.  Here  is  a  little  side  note.  At  the  end  of  the  video,  I  tested  something  that  actually  had  an  improvement  on  conversion.  At  the  end  of  the  video,  I  just  stood  there  and  I  kept  going  …    

Brad:   Just  silent.  

Mike:   After  30  seconds  I  said,  “Hey,  don’t  mind  me  take  your  time.  Take  all  the  time  you  need.”  I’d  wait.  I  would  just  shake  my  head,  look  at  my  watch  and  be  like,  “Come  on,  you  know  what  to  do.”  It  did  that,  it  increased  conversions.  

Brad:   Are  you  kidding  me?  

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Mike:   The  pressure  that  they  felt  that  I  was  watching  made  them  take  action.  That’s  not  the  real  [crosstalk  00:27:35].  

Brad:   No,  that’s  great  though.  It  reminds  me,  if  you  really  want  to  make  somebody,  silence,  that  awkward  silence  is  really  what  it  is.  They’ll  feel  it  with  something.  

Mike:   I  think  they  also  stayed  on  the  page  just  to  see,  how  long  is  he  going  to  do  this?  Because  I  took  the  scrub  [inaudible  00:27:51].  

Brad:   What’s  he  going  to  do?  

Mike:   Yeah.  At  the  end  maybe,  who  knows?  

Brad:   Still  it  worked.  That’s  great.  

Mike:   I  think  why  it  did  better.  You  have  a  page  where  people  sign  up.  Then  after  they  sign  up,  they  go,  they  think  they’re  going  to  the  members’  area.  They  get  the  “Wait,  we  have  a  special  offer  for  you.”  What  I  did  is  at  the  top  of  that  it  always  said,  “Save  85%  on  some  of  our  most  popular  products.”  It’s  interrupted  marketing.  People  when  they  sign  up  for  something,  they’re  expecting  to  go  into  the  members’  area  and  stop  playing  around  and  building  products  or  getting  an  affiliate  link  to  promote,  not  get  sold  something.  

At  PayDotCom,  right  where  the  sign  up  button  was,  where  there’s  a  tick  box  for  the  terms  of  service,  I  put  in  another  tick  box.  It  simply  said,  “I’m  interested  in  saving  85%.  I’m  also  interested  in  saving  85%  on  some  of  your  most  popular  products  now  or  in  the  future.”  It  was  a  dummy  tick  box.  They  saw  the  offer  either  way.  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   When  they  clicked  on  that,  while  they  were  signing  up,  the  next  page  said,  “As  you  requested,  save  up  to  85%.”  Now  this  wasn’t  an  interrupt  anymore  in  their  …  They  opted  in  to  see  this  offer.  They  saw  this  page.  They  said,  “This  is  what  I  just  elected  to  see.  Now  you  have  permission  to  market  to  me.”  In  their  mind,  actually  they’re  giving  themselves  permission  to  see  the  offer  and  buy  it.  It  had  a  20%  increase  on  conversion.  

Brad:   That’s  great.  What  about  the  folks  who  did  not  check  it?  Did  it  change  what  it  said  at  the  top  or?  

Mike:   Yeah.  We  simply  didn’t  put  as  per  your  request.  

Brad:   It  just  said  say  yes.  It  was  before.  

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Brad:   That’s  great.  Anybody  who’s  read  Robert  Cialdini’s  book  Influence  will  understand  that’s  the  principle  of  commitment  and  consistency  because  you  get  somebody  going  down  that  path  saying  yes.  They’re  much  more  likely  to  say  yes  in  the  future.  You’re  framing  up  the  upsale  in  a  perfect  way.  That’s  where  I  thought  you  were  going  to  go  with  that.  

Mike:   Yeah.  People  tend  to  stay  consistent  with  their  initial  commitments  no  matter  how  small  those  commitments  are.  That’s  why  all  these  things  that  we’re  seeing  with  lead  boxes,  lead  pages  does  where  people  are  called  to  two-­‐stepped  opt-­‐in.  You’re  no  longer  seeing  the  name  and  email  address  on  a  form  when  people  are  asking  for  something.  You’re  seeing  a  big  red  button  that  says,  “Download  free  PDF.”  All  that  does  is  get  a  commitment.  

Once  that  buyer  commits,  a  live  box  opens  up  and  says,  “Where  should  we  send  it?”  Now  the  person  is  only  staying  consistent  with  what  they  just  committed  to.  People  are  much  more  likely  to  just  go  click  something  that  says,  “Download  free  report  than  fill  out  a  form.”  Today,  gosh  man,  I  see  people  that  on  their  opt-­‐in  forms  which  are  okay  to  have  it  on  your  page.  I  just  still  recommend  going  to  the  two-­‐stepped  opt-­‐in.  They  ask  for  first  name,  last  name,  email  address  and  sometimes  even  address  and  phone  number  to  give  something  away  for  free.  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   We  stopped  asking  for  name  years  ago.  If  you  look  at  anything  Andy  and  I  have  done  in  the  last  year  and  a  half,  we  have  not  once  ever  asked  anybody  for  their  name,  not  unless  they  bought.  All  of  our  emails  start  with  hey,  because  we’ve  tested  name  and  email  decreases  conversions  over  asking  for  just  email.  

Brad:   Yeah  exactly.  The  people  who  are  the  biggest  perpetrators  of  that.  Like  you  said,  they’ll  go  to  a  white  paper  or  something,  you  see  this  all  the  time  like  yeah,  you  get  this  white  paper  on  X,  Y,  Z  or  sign  up  for  this  demo.  They  ask  you  for  everything.  Mother’s  maiden  name  basically.  It’s  always,  it  seems  to  me  it’s  always  the  biggest  companies  like  the  Fortune  500  companies  out  there.  I  run  across  them  all  the  time.  Sometimes  they’ll  do  an  AdWords  ad  to  something  they’re  giving  away.  They’re  asking  for  the  moon.  These  huge  companies  they  should  know  better.  

Mike:   No,  they  go  for  the  sale  too  quickly.  Even  when  they’re  not  asking  for  the  credit  card,  it  makes  you  feel  like  this  is  part  of  a  buying  process.  This  is  work.  It  shouldn’t  be.  It  should  just  be  download.  In  fact,  I  think  you  showed  me  the  best  basically  bread  crumb  trail  of  a  commitment  and  consistency  of  anything  I’ve  ever  seen.  

Brad:   What  was  that?  

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Mike:   It  was  the  one  where  you  sign  up  with  Google  Plus  the  other  day,  what  was  the  name  of  that  company?  

Brad:   Primeloop.  

Mike:   What  is  it?  

Brad:   Primeloop.  

Mike:   Yeah  Primeloop.  Guys  after  you’re  done  listening  to  this  podcast  here,  go  to  primeloop.com.  Really  the  only  thing  you  can  do  is  one  call  to  action  on  the  page.  The  way  they  walk  you  through  the  sign  up  process,  Brad  and  I  thought  that  was  the  neatest,  friendliest  way  to  make  you  want  to  do  business  with  a  company  as  you  are  also  giving  them  your  information.  

Brad:   Yeah,  it’s  so  cool.  Not  to  divert  too  much.  You  can  sign  up  for  free.  If  you  do  any  retargeting  let’s  say  perfect,  a  really,  really  cool  strategy.  I’m  actually  going  to  try  to  get  the  CEO  on  the  show  because  I  just,  I  love  what  they’re  doing.  Even  at  the  very  end  when  you’re  all  done,  they  have  a  drawing  of  a  hand.  It  says  place  your  hand  against  the  screen  and  feel  the  high  five.  

Mike:   Yeah.  

Brad:   Just  little  stuff  like  that.  I  love  that.  A  couple  of  things  I  wanted  to  bring  up.  First  of  all,  I  want  to  ask  you  if  you’re  still  using  the  PayPal  strategy  that  we  talked  about.  

Mike:   Yes  absolutely.  

Brad:   I  want  to  go  into  that.  I’ll  just  frame  this  up  for  the  way  I’d  really  love  the  rest  of  this  conversation  to  go.  I  want  to  talk  about  that.  I  want  to  talk  about  anything  else  that  you  have  not  yet  divulged  me  in  private  that  you’re  willing  to  divulge  here  that’s  really  working.      What  are  your  favorite  techniques,  strategies,  tactics,  anything  that’s  just  really  sizzling  hot  that  you’d  like  to  share  that  people  can  do  because  you  really  always  are  on  the  cutting  edge  of  stuff.  You  see  what  works.  You  test  it  for  yourself.  You  talk  to  a  lot  of  people.  I  want  to  do  that.  

Then  I  also  want  to  talk  about  any  opportunities  that  you  see  out  there  that  maybe  aren’t  being  exploited  as  much  or  that  you  see  the  trends  moving  forward  like  man,  I  really  think  is  where  the  pack  is  going.      Let’s  talk  about  the  PayPal  strategy  because  you  and  I  have  both  had  some  really  

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good  experience  with  this.  For  anybody  marketing  online  right  now,  this  is  a  strategy  they  could  be  using.  We  all  could  have  been  using  this  for  years.  Almost  no  marketers  that  I  know  have  been.  I  saw  you  and  Andy  doing  it  for  the  first  time  on  your  launch  I  don’t  know,  six  months  ago.  

Mike:   Yeah.  This  is  not  a  shameless  plug.  This  is  a  place  where  they  can  see  it  demonstrated.  If  they  go  to  trafficgenesis.com.  There  will  be  a  big  red  button  under  the  video.  They  can  click  that  at  any  time.  Then  see  the  order  page.  It  will  actually  show  this  exact  strategy.  

Brad:   They  can  also  buy  trafficgenesis.com.  

Mike:   Yes  they  can.  I  recommend  that  if  they  have  a  product  that  they’re  looking  to  sell  and  they  want  more  traffic.  I  highly  recommend  it.  Basically  PayPal  has  something  called  Bill  Me  Later.  We  got  to  understand  just  a  couple  of  things  about  it.  

Brad:   They  just  changed  the  name,  didn’t  they,  to  PayPal  Credit?  

Mike:   I  believe  so  yeah.  Now  I  got  to  get  back  and  change  my  images.  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   Bill  Me  Later  was  a  private  company  years  ago.  PayPal  bought  them  out.  They’re  not  very  good  marketers.  A  lot  of  these  companies  are  just  so  big  for  different  reasons  that  they  don’t  know  how  to  market  some  of  their  other  products.  In  fact,  we’re  proof  of  that  that  we  showed  if  they  would  teach  their  vendors  how  to  use  it,  they  could  do  so  much  better  with  it.  They  try  to  do  it.  The  people  are  checking  out  with  a  little  line  that  says,  “Would  you  like  Bill  Me  Later?”  A  little  bit  more  needs  to  go  into  that.  

Let’s  first  talk  about  some  of  the  caveats  ahead  of  time.  Number  one,  it  only  works  for  US  customers.  Number  two,  people  have  to  qualify  for  the  credit.  Number  three,  it  doesn’t  work  on  any  type  of  subscription  for  a  payment  plan.  It  only  works  on  a  one-­‐time  payment  purchase.  If  you  are  going  to  do  three  payments  of  399,  it’s  not  going  to  work  on  that.  If  the  customer  lives  in  Canada  or  UK  or  Australia,  not  going  to  work.  If  they  don’t  qualify  because  of  their  credit,  it’s  not  going  to  work.  

They’re  pretty  aggressive  in  approving  people.  They  will  approve  people  up  to  $10,000,  not  the  price  of  your  product.  If  your  product  is  997,  when  they  get  approved,  it  might  say  something  like  congratulations,  you’ve  been  approved  $3,200  which  might  also  help  in  your  upsale  process.  

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Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   All  we  did  is  when  we  introduced  the  price,  we  told  people  about  this.  Here’s  the  funny  thing,  when  people,  a  lot  of  my  friends  that  saw  this  on  my  checkout  said,  “Hey  Mike,  I  notice  that  you  have  a  Bill  Me  Later  at  997.  Then  you  had  a  9.97  price,  what  was  the  difference  in  technology  between  the  two?”  Basically  I  said,  “The  text.”  Both  of  them  goes  to  PayPal.  One  had  text  that  explained  that  you  could  go  use  the  Bill  Me  Later  option.  The  other  one  was  basically  just  a  way  for  somebody  to  ahead  of  time  say,  “No,  I’m  not  interested.”  When  they  got  to  PayPal,  they  still  saw  the  option  for  Bill  Me  Later.  It  was  a  [crosstalk  00:37:10]  process.  

Brad:   You’re  pre-­‐framing,  you’re  framing  them.  

Mike:   Exactly.  

Brad:   You’re  letting  them  know.  I  don’t  know  if  you  just  went  over  this  or  not.  For  folks  who  don’t  know  the  Bill  Me  Later  or  the  PayPal  Credit  allows  you,  if  I’m  buying  something  for  $500,  I  have  no  payments  and  no  interest  on  that  $500  for  six  months  as  long  as  I  make  a  payment,  as  long  as  I  paid  in  full  within  six  months.  

Mike:   I’m  going  to  go  to  trafficgenesis.com.  I’m  actually  going  to  read  the  way  we  wrote  that.  

Brad:   Cool.  More  importantly,  the  customer  is  not  paying  anything  right  now.  They  literally  pay  zero.  You  as  the  merchant  gets  paid  immediately  just  like  as  a  PayPal  account.  

Mike:   Exactly.  I’m  going  to  explain  that  in  just  a  second.  I  want  to  make  sure  that  that  music  doesn’t  come  on.  We  basically  say  option  one  Bill  Me  Later,  six  months  no  payments  and  zero  interest,  zero  dollars  you  pay  nothing  today.  With  this  $997  Bill  Me  Later  option,  you  get  complete  and  full  access  to  traffic  genesis  today  plus  all  the  VIP  bonuses  for  the  live  event  bonus.  You  pay  nothing  today.  You  have  no  payments  and  zero  interest  for  six  months.  See  terms  at  PayPal  during  checkout  process.  Of  course,  the  30  day  guarantees  applies  as  well.  We  get  paid  by  PayPal  today.  You  have  six  months  to  pay  it  off,  interest  free.  

Then  it  says,  important  note,  “To  access  the  Bill  Me  Later  option  during  checkout,  you  may  need  to  log  in  to  your  PayPal  account  or  create  one.  Here’s  a  video  that  explains.  Then  on  that  page,  we  had  a  little  video  maybe  45  seconds  that  says,  “You’ll  notice  when  you  get  to  PayPal,  here’s  where  you  normally  pay  with  your  PayPal  balance.  Instead  click  here  where  it  says  Bill  Me  Later.  Confirm  your  social  security  button,  hit  submit  and  within  three  seconds  you’ll  have  an  answer.”  It  was  that  simple.  

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Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   We  also  Brad  put  it  in  the  sales  video,  in  the  video  sales  letter.  We  said,  “Here’s  how  you  can  get  started  today.  One  option  is”  We  led  with  the  Bill  Me  Later.  “Unfortunately,  it’s  for  US  residents  only.  Don’t  yell  at  us  at  our  help  desk.  That’s  PayPal’s  rules.org.  Ya-­‐da,  ya-­‐da.  We  explained  that.  Then  we  went  through  our  normal  pricing  and  the  payment  plan.  Then  recapped  later.  Why  not  take  the  Bill  Me  Later?  

Brad:   Here’s  another  question  people  have.  You  just  touched  on  it.  How  do  you  get  paid?  

Mike:   It  makes  no  difference  to  you  as  a  seller.  In  fact,  unfortunately,  you  will  not  even  know  and  PayPal  does  not  share  the  data  with  you  who  is  a  Bill  Me  Later  customer.  

Brad:   Right.  You  just  get  deposits  in  your  PayPal  account.  That’s  it.  

Mike:   Exactly.  Basically  what’s  happening  in  the  background  is  instantly  when  the  customer  applies  to  that  bill  me  later,  they’re  given  a  line  of  credit,  let’s  say  $6,000.  It’s  sitting  in  there  as  a  third  layer.  Layer  number  one,  my  PayPal  balance  that  has  $16  in  it.  Layer  number  two  my  credit  card.  Now  layer  number  three,  my  line  of  credit  with  zero  interest  and  no  payments  for  six  months.  They  basically  when  they  make  a  purchase,  they  transfer  that  money  into  their  PayPal  balance  as  real  money.  

Brad:   Yup.  

Mike:   Then  that  money  goes  from  their  PayPal  balance  to  you  and  you  get  paid  real  money  today.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   If  that  guy  doesn’t  make  payments,  it  doesn’t  matter.  This  is  a  separate  risk  department.  PayPal  will  never  even  come  to  you  and  be  like,  “You  put  too  many  Bill  Me  Laters.”  No,  no,  they  want  that.  They  manage  the  risk  by  looking  at  your  credit.  If  they  lose  money,  that’s  in  the  risk.  It’s  very  similar  to  you  going  to  BestBuy  or  a  furniture  store  and  at  checkout  that  you  say,  “Our  budget  was  really  $700.  Man,  I  really  like  that  living  room  set.  It’s  $3,200.  We’re  going  to  live  in  the  house  forever.  After  seeing  that,  I  can’t  not  have  that.  Maybe  we’ll  come  back  in  a  couple  of  months.”  

The  lady  says,  “Hey,  did  you  know  that  you  can  fill  out  a  Capital  One  agreement?”  “No,  we  don’t  have  the  cash.”  “No,  actually  believe  me,  here’s  how  

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it  works.  All  you  have  to  fill  are  these  five  lines  of  information.  We  get  an  answer  in  30  seconds.  You  don’t  even  have  to  get  a  credit  card  or  wait  for  anything.  They  pay  us.  You’d  be  able  to  go  home  with  this  furniture  today.  You  have  no  payments  or  no  interest  for  six  months.”  It’s  the  same  type  of  way  I  feel  like  buying  the  furniture  right  now.  I  sold  myself.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   That’s  what  you  can  do  with  your  customers  at  checkout.  What  you  should  do  with  your  customers  at  checkout  even  for  47  and  $97  products.  

Brad:   Right.  For  the  $47  you  can’t  do  Bill  Me  Later.  

Mike:   I  think  yeah  you’re  right.  

Brad:   It’s  $99  and  up.  

Mike:   99  I  apologize.  

Brad:   Single  payment  only.  Here’s  what  I  think  is  cool.  First  of  all,  the  results  on  this  because  I  remember  us  texting  back  and  forth  when  I  was  like,  “Dude,  how  is  that  going?”  Because  this  was  new  for  you.  You  said,  normally  you  would  offer  the  full  price  at  about  $997.  Then  three  payments  of  …    

Mike:   377.  

Brad:   377.  Explain  the  results  that  you  got  on  that,  because  I  had  very  similar  ones.  

Mike:   Normally,  30%  of  the  people  pay  in  full  and  70%  of  the  people  will  pay  the  payment  plan.  In  this  case  we  had  65%  of  the  people  pay  in  full.  We  had  more  than  double  of  the  people  pay  in  full.  It  was  not  only  increasing  conversions.  We  can  only  assume.  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   Because  you  can  get  the  product  for  free  today.  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   Not  pay  any  payments  or  interests  for  six  months.  It  has  to  increase  conversions.  We  were  getting  more  money  up  front.  Here’s  the  thing,  our  pay  in  full  refunds  were  drastically  lower  than  our  multi-­‐pay  plans.  We  don’t  know  which  one  of  those  were  bill  me  later  not  because  we  don’t  know.  We  only  know  that  our  pay  

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in  full  refunds  in  proportion  to  our  payment  plan  refunds  are  normally  the  same.  In  this  case  they  were  half.  

Brad:   Right.  The  bottom  line  for  this  is  that  if  you’re  using  PayPal  right  now,  you  don’t  have  to  do  anything  technically  advanced  in  order  to  implement  this.  All  you  simply  did,  you  were  giving  them  the  ability  to  purchase  with  PayPal  anyway.  You  just  brought  attention  to  it.  You  just  said,  “Hey  guys,  by  the  way,  PayPal  doesn’t  do  a  good  job  of  explaining  how  great  this  is  for  you.  Let  me  explain  it  for  them.”  

Mike:   I  didn’t  invent  it.  I  didn’t  even  pioneer  it.  I  might  have  been  a  tipping  out  as  we’re  going  out  and  talking  to  more  people  about  it.  I  simply  heard  from  Russell  Brunson  that  told  me  that,  “Hey  dude,  here’s  something  I’m  going  to  test.  I  heard  about  this  girl  that  was  doing  a  webinar.  Her  conversions  were  horrible.  She  did  a  webinar  and  sold  one.  Then  she  basically  just  pitched  the  Bill  Me  Later.  She  had  a  15%  conversion  for  her  $1,000  product.”  

I  was  like  same  questions,  “What  do  I  have  to  do  in  my  technology?”  Then  when  I  researched.  I  was  like,  “I  simply  just  have  to  tell  people  that  the  button  is  thee  and  explain  to  them  what  it  means.  That  it  really  means  yes,  you  get  full  access  today.  You  don’t  have  to  pay  anything  today.  I  get  paid  today  and  you  don’t  have  to  pay  anything  for  six  months.  You  don’t  get  charged  any  interest  as  long  as  you  pay  it  off  in  six  months.”  

Brad:   Right.  That’s  the  key.  

Mike:   The  interest  goes  back  to  day  one  on  six  months  and  a  day.  That’s  why  we  used  special  wording.  We’re  not  fooling  anybody.  It’s  six  months,  no  payment,  zero  interest.  

Brad:   This  paid  off?  

Mike:   Then  PayPal  forces  them  to  check  all  those  terms  of  service  when  they’re  there.  We  just  don’t  want  to  contradict  that.  

Brad:   Right.  You  can  take  this.  If  you’re  listening  to  this  and  you’re  not  selling  information  products  online.  You’re  not  selling  products  online.  You’re  not  selling  anything  over  $100.  Maybe  you’re  in  the  service  business,  this  is  what  I  thought  was  really  cool  as  well.  If  you’re  selling  a  service,  maybe  you  do,  keep  it  in  the  marketing  side.  

Maybe  you’re  an  agency,  maybe  you  do  SEO  for  people  or  pay  per  click  management  or  you  are  a  personal  trainer  or  selling  packages  of  things.  It  really  doesn’t  matter.  As  long  as  if  you  take  payments  with  PayPal  now  or  you  decide  to,  you  could  sell  a  package  deal  instead  of  a  monthly  or  whatever  and  just  let  

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people  know.  Listen,  you  want  to  defer  the  payments  on  this?  Why  don’t  you  repay  with  PayPal,  simply  use  it  like  this  and  you  could  increase  your  business  that  way.  I  thought  that  was  really  amazing  for  anybody  who  does  coaching,  who  does  SEO.  

Mike:   Coaching,  call  centers.  

Brad:   Call  centers.  

Mike:   We  knew  some  people,  I  think  you  were  trying  it  as  well,  having  a  call  center,  let  the  customer  know  that  they  could  go,  see  if  they’re  approved  and  then  send  you  guys  a  PayPal  transfer.  

Brad:   Walk  right  through  it  with  them.  

Mike:   While  on  the  phone.  

Brad:   Yeah.  While  they’re  on  the  phone  to  say  yeah,  listening  just  click  that  button.  Then  go  to  the  process.  They’re  doing  it  on  PayPal.  Oh  my  God,  you’re  approved.  That’s  fantastic.  There’s  just  so  much  that  can  be  done  with  that.  That  is  really  about  as  bacon  wrapped  as  it  gets.  

Mike:   Thanks  man.  

Brad:   I  remember  when  you  discussed  that  at  the  mastermind  this  summer.  I  was  like,  “Dude,  we  have  to  do  this  in  this  podcast,  on  this  and  share  it.”  It’s  been,  we  keep  on  putting  it  off.  I’m  glad  we  got  to  that.      What  else  if  anything,  do  you  have  another  …  Here’s  who  I  want  to  address  because  we  are  primarily  online  digital  marketers.  I  asked  you  the  other  night  who  your  typical  client  is  who  buys  your  information  products.      You  said  these  are  experts  and  people  who  have  information  to  share  with  the  world.  Obviously  you  get  a  wide  suave  on  this.  The  sweet  spot  for  you  are  people  who,  they’re  selling  their  expertise,  right?  

Mike:   Yeah,  not  money  motivated.  They  understand  money  is  a  byproduct  of  the  value.  

Brad:   More  mission  motivated,  right?  

Mike:   Yeah.  I  use  this,  maybe  it’s  overly  strong.  I  say  because  I  met  somebody  at  a  seminar  that  did  this.  I’m  going  to  put  on  my  over  40  glasses.  I’m  trying  to  say  it  as  good  as  I  can  but  you’re  just  getting  so  blurry.  I’m  getting  such  a  headache.  There  might  be  a  little  reflection  on  there.  I  have  to.  I  apologize.  

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Brad:   That’s  all  good.  

Mike:   Basically  the  customer  that  we  serve  is  a  typical  customer  that  would  be  at  an  event.  You  say,  “What  do  you  do?”  They  hold  up  their  book.  They  say,  “I  have  a  book  on  what  types  of  foods  that  you  can  eat  that  can  stop  you  from  getting  cancer  in  your  system.”  You’re  like,  “Nobody  can  stop.”  They’re  like,  “No,  seriously  it’s  about  the  body  getting  acidic.  It’s  the  foods  that  you  eat  and  blah,  blah,  blah.  

It’s  really,  really  important  to  me  because  I’m  only  selling  about  $300  a  month.  I  want  to  get  the  word  out  there  because  I  had  a  family  member  that  died  because  they  didn’t  eat  right.  It  led  me  to  research  all  this.  She  could  have  been  saved  had  she  had  the  information  in  my  book.  I  don’t  want  anyone  to  ever  lose  their  family  member,  Mom,  Dad,  sister,  brother  or  kid  when  this  information  is  out  there.  I  need  you  to  help  me  get  this  information  out  there.  I  don’t  know  what  I’m  doing  wrong.”  

That’s  our  avatar.  It’s  a  customer  like  that  that  feels  that  they  have  a  message  to  share  with  the  world.  Their  message  is  great.  Their  marketing  is  not  as  good  as  their  message.  We  want  to  show  them  that  their  marketing  can  be  as  good  as  their  message.  

We  tend  to  stay  away  from  the  customer  that  asks  a  question  like,  “Brad,  if  you  were  going  to  start  all  over,  what’s  the  fastest  way  do  you  think  a  guy  can  get  started  to  make  money  online?”  Because  they’re  not  asking  the  right  question,  you  and  I  know  that.  

The  question  is  what  value  do  I  provide?  What  is  my  expertise  in  the  world  and  understanding  that  our  income  it’s  a  formula.  It’s  directly  proportional  to  these  two  things.  The  number  of  people  that  we  serve  multiplied  by  the  value  that  we  provide.  That’s  it.  How  much  value  we’re  providing  and  how  many  people  we’re  reaching.  With  the  internet  we  could  reach  people  outside  our  local  community  like  never  before.  

Brad:   I  remember  when  I  first  started  my  very  first  info  product,  my  first  two  sales,  one  was  from  France,  the  other  one  was  from  the  Netherlands.  My  first  sales  I  was  like  multinational.  I  was  global  baby.  That  always  was  thrilling.  There  are  so  many  opportunities  out  there  for  people.  

Mike:   Is  it  a  product  of  marijuana.  I’m  just  curious,  Netherlands,  they  are  always  so  interested  in  it.  

Brad:   No.  It  should  have  been.  It  was  magic  tricks  and  all  things.  

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Mike:   That’s  right.  Yeah,  you  told  me  about  those.  

Brad:   Yeah.  It’s  funny.  I  never  felt  like  I  was  an  expert  at  anything.  I  knew  how  to  do  little  cheesy  bar  tricks.  I  figured  what,  I’m  going  to  use  this  as  a  marketing  laboratory  and  figure  out  if  I  can  show  guys  how  to  use  bar  tricks  to  break  ice  at  bars  and  have  fun  with  it.  Lo  and  behold,  yeah  there’s  a  guy  named  Sebastian  Routier,  I’ll  never  forget.  

Mike:   Yeah.  You  never,  you  always  talk  about  that.  I  remember  the  first  person  I  sold  the  car  to.  

Brad:   Really?  

Mike:   I  don’t  even  remember  anything  about  the  second  customer.  I  remember  my  first  customer  that  bought  my  product  online,  we  never  remember  the  second.  That’s  a  whole  nother  walk  down  why  we  remember  things.  It  usually  has  to  do  with  the  amount  of  adrenalin  that’s  going  through  our  body.  It  creates  such  a  tattoo  on  our  brains.  That’s  why  the  first  is  so  important.  That’s  why  people  put  the  first  dollars  up  at  the  pizza  place  and  the  bagel  stores  [crosstalk  00:50:41].  

Brad:   That’s  right.  That  was  my  first.  Let’s  say  you’ve  got,  let’s  say  that  I  am  somebody  who  I’ve  got  an  information  product.  I’ve  got  it  out  there.  I’m  frustrated  because  I  put  my  heart  and  soul  into  this  whether  it’s,  maybe  it’s  a  book  and  maybe  it’s  a  video  series.  I  went  through  the  tutorials,  I  put  something  together  and  I’m  proud  of  it.  It’s  valuable.  

I’m  frustrated  because  I’m  toying  with,  I’m  balancing  that,  I  can’t  really  buy  profitable  traffic  until  I  get  my  conversion  up.  I  can’t  get  my  conversion  up  without  testing  with  traffic.  It’s  that  doubled-­‐edged  sword.  A  lot  of  the  people  whether  they’re  coaching  students  of  mine  or  friends.  I’ve  even  dealt  with  it  in  the  past,  the  chicken  or  the  egg,  I  can’t  get  conversion  unless  I  drag  traffic.  I’ll  go  broke  driving  traffic  until  my  conversion  is  high.  What  do  you  tell  people  who  are  facing  those  situations?  They’ve  got  a  good  product.  They  just  don’t  know  exactly  the  first  thing  they  should  do  to  really  dial  that  in.  Is  there  an  easy  answer  or  is  it  just  little  by  little,  test  by  test?  

Mike:   I  wish  there  was  an  easy  answer.  

Brad:   Mm-­‐hmm  (affirmative).  

Mike:   In  some  cases  I  can  tell  you  that  you  can  go  out  there  and  you  can  hire  somebody  to  do  your  copywriting  and  hire  somebody  to  do  your  finals  for  you.  The  second  one,  getting  people  to  do  your  finals  for  you  is  more  difficult  than,  it  gets  more  difficult  as  time  goes  on  because  all  those  people  aren’t  available  there  for  you  

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to  continue  to  do  that.  You  might  have  to  hire  somebody  else  and  they’re  not  as  good.  Or  you  may  pay  for  something  and  it  didn’t  convert.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   The  second  issue  going  back  to  the  first  thing  about  hiring  a  copywriter  is  that  I  believe  what  makes  a  good  copywriter  good  is  somebody  with  good  marketing  skills  that  can  explain  it  to  the  copywriter,  because  I’ve  seen  a  lot  of  times  good  copywriters  not  be  able  to  convert  people’s  products  because  they  don’t  know  how  to  explain  the  product.  I  find  some  great  copywriters  and  great  marketers  simply  hire  another  copywriter  because  they  don’t  have  the  time  to  do  the  copy.  They  have  enough  information  to  tell  the  copywriter  what  to  do.  This  is  where  the  bad  news  comes  from.  This  is  my  perspective.  

I  think  at  the  end  of  the  day  we  may  call  ourselves  a  guy  that  is  going  to  teach  people  how  to  meet  people  at  bars  and  meet  women  at  bars  with  magic  tricks.  At  the  end  of  the  day  we  may  think  that  we’re  an  author  that  wrote  a  book  on  how  to  cure  cancer  or  we’re  a  software  developer  or  we’re  in  the  health  niche  or  we’re  in  the  finance  niche.  I  disagree.  I  think  the  first  hat  that  we  have  to  wear  is  being  a  marketer.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   I  think  if  you’re  passionate  about  it  even  better  but  you  must  become  the  student  of  it.  You  must  read  those  books  like  Predictably  Irrational.  Read  a  copywriting  book,  take  a  copywriting  course,  start  understanding  what  the  numbers  mean  and  conversions,  because  I  think  when  you  understand  that  there’s  a  formula  and  a  template  to  selling  something.  

Once  you  learn  that  skill,  you  can  just  fill  in  the  blanks  every  single  time,  you  shouldn’t  have  to  reinvent  the  wheel  again  or  not  understand  the  purpose  of  a  headline.  If  we  ask  10  different  people  what  the  purpose  of  a  headline  in  a  marketing,  we  should  get  the  same  answers  10  times.  We  don’t.  For  me,  my  thing  is  become  a  student  of  what  makes  people  buy.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   Going  back  to  where  we  started,  human  beings  we’re  nothing  but  organic  matter,  carbon  based  life  forms  that  respond  to  stimuli.  

Brad:   Mm-­‐hmm  (affirmative).  

Mike:   The  same  way  cats  will  hiss  under  the  same  circumstances  and  dogs  will  bark.  

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Brad:   People  will  buy.  

Mike:   Yeah.  There  are  certain  things  that  people  will  do  under  certain  stimuli.  I’m  saying  this  obviously  in  the  sense  of  we  do  this  for  the  good  because  we  see  it  happen  in  politics  and  all  these  studies.  They  go  to  the  people  in  politics  and  the  president  and  they  say,  “The  polls  are  saying  this.”  They  use  that  data  to  manipulate  people.  Everybody  is  going,  in  the  back  of  their  mind  is  always  going  to  say  it’s  for  a  greater  good.  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   I  believe  when  you’re  helping  people  with  cancer  or  helping  people  in  relationships,  for  the  most  part,  if  you  know  deep  down  in  your  heart,  you  put  a  lot  of  work  into  your  product,  it’s  going  to  serve  a  better  value  for  the  people  than  the  amount  of  money  that  they’re  going  to  pay  for,  then  you  need  to  do  everything  in  your  job  to  convince  those  people.  

I  don’t  call  it  manipulation.  I  don’t  call  it  using  tactics  and  trainings.  I  call  it  giving  people  all  the  information  they  need  to  make  an  informed  decision.  When  you  know  how  to  craft  your  words  and  position  and  frame  and  make  those  things  better,  everything  is  easy.  You  really  can’t  fail.  That’s  why  guys  like  you  and  me  have  been  able  to  have  product  hit,  after  product  hit,  after  product  hit.  Sometimes  those  things  are  unconsciously  competent  to  us.  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   They  come  as  they  say  second  nature.  It’s  even  difficult  sometimes  for  us  to  go  back  and  say,  “I  don’t  know  why  that  worked.  I’d  like  to  deconstruct  my  brain,  find  out  why  I  was  in  such  a  zone  that  day  that  made  that  sales  letter  convert  better  than  some  of  my  others.  At  the  end  of  the  day,  there  is  a  formula  to  telling  your  message  online.  Guys  like  John  Benson  have  really  good  products  that  teach  …    

Brad:   How  to  break  it  down  into  that  formulaic  thing.  

Mike:   Exactly.  

Brad:   When  it  comes  to  copywriting,  I  struggled  with  this  for  years  because  I  consider  myself  a  really  good  copywriter.  Like  a  lot  of  copywriters  I’ve  got  a  love/hate  relationship  with  it.  It’s  blank  paper,  stare  at  it  especially  if  I  have  to  sell  my  own  product,  it’s  the  last  thing  I  want  to  do.  It’s  like  giving  birth,  it  hurts.  It’s  painful.  I  can  improve  anybody  else’s  copy.  I  love  that.  If  you  give  me  your  copy  and  say,  “Hey  buddy  …”  

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Mike:   That’s  how  Andy  and  I  work.  

Brad:   Right.  Tell  me  how  to  improve  this.  I  forget  who  told  me  this  several  years  ago.  When  I  started  applying  it  to  the  copy  process.  Actually  it  can  apply  to  a  lot  of  processes,  things  got  a  lot  easier.  A  lot  of  people  have  heard  of  the  80/20  rule.  What’s  the  20%  that  gets  80%  of  the  result?  

Mike:   Right.  

Brad:   This  is  the  same  thing  but  it’s  the  10/80/10  rule.  Have  we  ever  talked  about  this  or  have  you  heard  about  it?  

Mike:   I’ve  heard  you  said  it  yeah.  

Brad:   10/80/10,  especially  when  it  applies  to  copy.  I’m  going  to  do  the  first  10%.  I’m  going  to  outline  all  right,  here’s  what  we’re  selling.  Here’s  the  hook  or  the  general  story  that  I  want  to  tell.  Here  are  the  benefits.  Here  are  what  it  does  for  you  and  the  author.  I  don’t  have  to  worry  about  scripting  the  whole  thing  out.  I  don’t  have  to  make  it  flow.  I  don’t  have  to  make  it  in  a  flowery  language  and  use  an  LP  and  do  anything  like  that.  

Mike:   Not  yet  no.  

Brad:   I  come  up  with  this  skeleton.  Now  I  can  hire  a  copywriter  and  say,  “Look,  number  one  you’re  not  starting  with  a  blank  page.  Fill  in  the  other  80%.  

Mike:   Because  a  copywriter  doesn’t  know  anything  about  health  or  finances  or  forex  or  a  flower  shop.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   He  doesn’t.  He  knows  how  to  make  something,  give  them  the  ice,  they’ll  find  the  sculpture  underneath.  You’ve  got  the  give  them  the  block  of  ice.  

Brad:   Bingo.  Then  that  final  10%  is  yours.  You  get  to  go  in  and  polish  it.  By  letting  somebody  else  do  the  other  80%  it  puts  you  in  the  position  of  uncritiquing  and  improving  your  copy  not  mine,  because  I  can’t  tell  you  how  many  times  I’ve  written,  I’ve  just  gotten  in  the  zone.  I’ve  been  sitting  there  typing.  I’ve  come  up  with  what  I  think  is  great.  Then  I  read  it  the  next  day.  I  just  delete  the  whole  file  because  I’m  like  [crosstalk  00:58:24].  

Mike:   Yeah.  That’s  a  horrible  feeling.  Don’t  worry.  Andy  wrote  five  sales  letters  for  traffic  genesis.  

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Brad:   Really?  

Mike:   Five  before  we  got  yeah,  before  we  got  to  it.  That’s  him  or  me  being  harsh.  In  fact  he  just  wrote  a  letter  the  other  day.  We’re  doing  a  short  letter  for  our  video  genesis.  He  said,  “Mike,  please  do  me  a  favor  and  go  and  do  a  second  pass.”  His  exact  words  to  me  the  next  day  were,  “Jesus,  Lord  Jesus,  effing,  Christ  and  all  that.”  I  was  like,  “What?”  He  was  like,  “My  God  Mike,  this  is  brilliant.”  I  just  kept  trying  to  say,  I  was  the  80  guy  in  this  scenario.  I  was  like,  “I  just  went  in  and  polished.”  He  goes,  “Why  do  you  think  that  is  Mike?  Why  do  you  think  when  you  do  it,  I  can  do  this  for  you  and  you  do  it  and  you  could  do  it  for  me?”  

There’s  two  things  that  happen,  number  one,  when  you’re  writing  copy  and  every  single  person  listening  that’s  ever  written  something  or  tried  to  write  a  to-­‐do-­‐list  or  brainstorm  or  do  a  mind  math,  Brad  I  know  this  has  happened  to  you.  You’re  starting  to  write  and  you  know  the  three  paragraphs  ahead  of  what  you  want  to  say.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   Sometimes  it’s  so  important  you  have  to  stop  and  go  write  and  leave  it  there  and  then  go  back.  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   Then  you  get  into  that  what  was  that  thing  I  wanted  to  say  about  what  happens  with  the  Bill  Me  Later?  I  knew  I  should  have  wrote  it  down  then,  because,  now  you  have  this  fear  that  this  is  happening.  Your  copier  is  a  brain  dump.  You’re  putting  all  this  stuff  out  of  your  head.  That’s  why  you  delete  it  the  next  day  because  it  doesn’t  have  that  structure.  

Brad:   Yup.  

Mike:   What  happens  is  it  gets  exhausting.  To  go  back  and  write  a  PS,  sometimes  takes  three  days.  I  don’t  want  to  look  at  that  page  again.  Can  I  just  call  it  done?  You  look  at  it  and  you  know  it’s  not  done.  That’s  why  for  me  or  vice  versa  anybody  that  can  go  in  and  can  easily  say,  “I  see  what  he  wrote  here.  What  he’s  trying  to  say  is  this.”  You’re  run  on  and  your  sentence  is  run  on,  coma,  coma,  coma,  this  one  long  paragraph.  I  think  that’s  what  it  is.  There’s  something  called  in  copywriting  jumping  on  the  table.  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   What  that  means  is  you  and  I  right  now  are  in  the  middle  having  a  conversation.  Imagine  I  just  jumped  on  this  table  and  I  started  talking  about  something  else.  

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Here’s  what  Video  Genesis  [inaudible  01:00:36].  It’s  like,  whether  or  not  you  were  finished  with  that  last  paragraph.  We  don’t  talk  to  each  other  like  that.  What  that  means  is  that  every  single  time  we  look  at  one  paragraph  to  another,  we  can  never  jump  on  the  table.  We  have  to  assume  that  we’re  having  a  conversation  with  a  person.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   Almost  imagine  that  you’re  reading  that  and  talking  to  somebody.  What  you  start  realizing  is  that  those  transitions  start  having  things  where  you  go,  you  may  be  wondering  why  I  said  that.  Let  me  explain.  This  is  what  I  basically  told  Andy.  I  want  to  go  in.  I  want  to  romance  the  transition.  He  says,  “I  love  that.”  That’s  what  copy  sometimes  is  missing  is  that  romance  and  the  transitions.  It  just  suddenly  says,  “Here’s  what  you  get.”  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   It’s  like  I  wouldn’t  talk  to  you  about  that.  I  would  say  something  more  along  the  lines  of  so  you  can  see  why  I’m  so  confident  and  not  only  what  it’s  done  for  me  but  in  what  it’s  done  for  my  customers.  If  you’ll  please  let  me  explain  to  you  what  you’re  going  to  get  in  video  genesis.  It’s  just  those  little  things.  

Brad:   Yeah.  It’s  more  authentic.  It’s  more  conversational  the  way  you  would  really  talk  to  somebody  in  person.  It’s  funny.  I  was  listening,  you  know  who  Porter  Stansberry  is?  

Mike:   Yeah.  

Brad:   Potter,  for  those  of  you  who  don’t  know  runs  one  of  the  largest  financial  newsletters.  It’s  a  nine  figure,  eight  figure  business  and  probably  I  think  a  nine  figure  business.  He’s  one  of  the  best  copywriters  out  there.  He  was  speaking  about  the  first  letter  he  ever  wrote  back  in  the  ‘90s.  It  was  the  railroad  letter  which  set  his  business  on  fire.  The  railroad  letter  simply  means  that  was  the  hook  that  he  was  using.  

Mike:   Yeah.  

Brad:   He  sat  down  across  the  table  from  Michael  Masters  and  his  mentor  at  the  time,  who  is  also  a  copywriting  and  direct  marketing  legend.  He  says,  “I  wrote  18  version  of  this  letter,  18.  They’re  almost  totally  separate.  Not  just  18,  little  biddy  revisions,  18  versions.”  

He  goes,  “Every  single  one,  I’d  sit  down  with  Michael.  We’d  take  turns  reading  a  paragraph  to  each  other  and  simply  saying  is  it,  you’re  familiar  with  the  curb  

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method,  is  it  confusing?  Is  it  uninteresting  or  is  it  boring?  Then  just  marking  them  off,  marking  them  off,  confusing,  uninteresting  or  boring?  It  does  show  you  the  amount  of  effort  that  can  go  into  writing  one  of  these  things  and  the  degree  of  detail  that  goes  into  every  single  sentence.  

Mike:   Yeah.  They  have  a  great  book  called  Copy  Logic.  I  found  myself  making  the  mistakes  of  one  of  the  things  that  they  said  in  there.  It’s  like,  I  can  say  something  that  is  three  times  more  expensive.  They  have  a  problem  hearing  something  as  three  times  less  the  price.  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   I  notice  that  I  would  write  that  a  lot,  it’s,  I’m  going  to  show  you  how  you  can  get  it  for  three  times  less.  They  were  like,  “You  can’t  multiply  something  and  get  less.”  

Brad:   You’re  saying  that  that  doesn’t  register  with  people’s  heads?  

Mike:   Right  yeah.  

Brad:   It  doesn’t  impact  them?  

Mike:   Yeah.  They  would  say  just  change  it  to  one  third  the  price  or  something  along  one  tenth  the  price  that  type  of  stuff  rather  than  saying  10  times  less,  because  the  mind  might  just  see  something  different  and  just  confuse  them.  Like  you  just  said,  it’s  confusing.  

Brad:   It  may  make  it  three  times  more.  It  may  subconsciously  implant.  

Mike:   Right,  if  they’re  scheming  yeah.  

Brad:   Right,  absolutely.  What  do  you  think  is,  what’s  at  least  one  maybe  more  but  one  opportunity  out  there  that,  do  you  think  people,  we  all  could  be  exploiting  and  maybe  aren’t,  do  you  see  any  trends  that  are  going  forward  that,  like  oh  man,  this  is  hot  that  you  don’t  mind  giving  up?  

Mike:   I  don’t  have  any  secrets  right  now  that  I  haven’t  shared.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   Not  just  on  this  call  but  with  everything.  I  haven’t  been  holding  back.  Andy  and  I  tend  to  share  everything  we  have,  because  we  believe  that  there’s  just  too  much  opportunity  on  the  internet.  I’ll  tell  you  where  I  think  things  are  going  and  what  I  like  seeing.  With  companies  like  Stripe  and  Braintree  and  PayPal.  

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Brad:   All  these  payment  processors  for  those  who  don’t  know.  

Mike:   Yeah  Apple  Pay  and  Google  Wallet,  I  would  definitely  tell  people  to  pay  attention  to  that  and  make  sure  that  they’ve  got  an  ear  and  down  close  to  the  ground  floor  and  keeping  an  eye  on  updates  with  their  Infusionsofts  and  Office  Autopilots  pilots  and  their  shopping  carts  because  in  my  opinion,  I  know  people  do  very  well  with  app  businesses.  I  know  content  and  videos  get  watched  very  highly  on  mobile  devices.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   We’re  seeing  more  purchases  happen  on  iPads.  Not  quite  as  much  as  they  should  be  for  the  amount  of  content  that’s  being  used.  It’s  [crosstalk  01:05:14].  

Brad:   It’s  because  of  the  lack  of  ease  of  payment.  

Mike:   Yeah.  

Brad:   Nobody  wants  to  pull  their  credit  card.  

Mike:   I’ll  just  say  wait  till  I  get  home.  I  do  make  purchases  all  day  long  for  one  click,  Remove  Ads,  just  bought  a  cool  app  the  other  day  Remove  Ads.  Do  you  want  to  know  why  I  did  it?  Just  because  they  gave  me  an  option.  It  was  99  cents.  It  didn’t  make  it  hard  for  me.  You  click  the  button.  

Brad:   It  was  a  mobile  app?  

Mike:   Yeah,  on  a  mobile  app.  All  I  had  to  do  is  click  Apple’s  button  to  do  it.  

Brad:   Yup.  The  ease  of  purchasing.  

Mike:   It  was  going  to  send  me  a  free  box  of  chocolate  every  month  for  10  years.  Let’s  assume  I  love  chocolate.  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   I  still  wouldn’t  have  done  it  if  I  had  to  fill  out  a  form.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   I  just  wouldn’t.  The  pain  of  filling  out  forms  is  tough.  I  think  we’re  getting  beyond  that.  Brad,  I  think  that’s  a  year  away  from  every  merchant  account  starting  to  find  a  way  that’s  going  to  be  working  with  Google  Wallet  and  Apple  Pay,  PayPal  is  going  to  compete.  I  believe  that  they’re  going  to  give  this  the  ability  to  API  a  

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button  that’s  tied  into  a  premade  account  without  having  to  log  in,  the  way  Apple  is  doing  Apple  Pay.  The  way  you  can  go  up  and  you  can  scan  something  at  the  register.  

I  think  that’s  going  to  be  great  for  commerce  because  people  will,  be  on  their  iPhones  and  their  Android  devices  and  their  iPads.  They’ll  see  something.  They  know  that  they  can  want  to  click  to  something  that’s  hard  coded  into  their  device  like  Facebook  Connect  is  now  into  their  iPhones.  That  will  be  a  beautiful  day  for  us.  I  think  people  that  are  ready  to  exploit  that  the  fastest,  everybody  will  eventually  catch  on.  I  think  that’s  something  that  I  want  to  make  sure  my  Add  to  Cart  buttons  don’t  stay  unchanged  for  three  years.  That’s  going  to  be  one  of  the  first  things  I’m  going  to  change.  

Brad:   Right,  I  agree.  It’s  probably  not  too  long  from  now  we’ll  be  having  another  conversation  saying,  “Hey,  remember  when  you  had  to  pull  out  your  credit  card  to  buy  something  online  or  you  had  to  fill  in  that  data?  It  wasn’t  just  a  thumb  print.  It  wasn’t  a  retinal  scan.  It  wasn’t  take  a  picture  of  this  or  just  hit  theory  and  say  yes  I  confirm,  bye.  

Mike:   Yeah.  Check  your  voice.  

Brad:   That’s  great.  That’s  exactly  what  I  was  hoping  to  get  is  something  like  that.  Those  are  definitely  some  opportunities  that  we’re  on  the  cusp.  The  technology  is  there.  We  can  do  this  now,  between  Amazon,  between  Apple,  ClickBank  between,  there’s  another  company  I  just  came  across  called  …    

Mike:   [Crosstalk  01:07:45]?  

Brad:   I  met  one  of  the  guys  Atpay,  A-­‐T-­‐P-­‐A-­‐Y.  

Mike:   I  haven’t  heard  of  them.  I  got  to  check  them  out.  

Brad:   Yeah.  What  they  allow  you  to  do  is  all  via  email.  Let’s  say  somebody  purchases  something  from  you  once,  it  could  be  a  dollar.  Now  it’s  on  file.  By  the  way,  they  integrate  with  everybody’s  current  merchant  account.  They  integrate  with  everybody  else.  

Mike:   Nice.  

Brad:   Now  what  will  happen  is  you’ll  send  me  an  email.  In  that  email  it  says,  “Hey  Brad,  we’ve  got  a  special  on  this.  You  can  get  this  new  t-­‐shirt  we’ve  got  whatever  for  $10.  We  have  all  the  information  we  need  simply  press  this  link  in  your  button  in  the  email  in  order  to  purchase  it.”  You  click  that.  If  you’re  on  mobile,  what  it  does  is  it  cues  up  a  new  email  to  Atpay,  the  subject  line  of  what  you’re  

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purchasing.  Then  it  says,  “We  have  all  the  information  we  need  from  your  prior  history,  simply  click  send  and  you  will  complete  your  purchase  for  $10.”  

Mike:   That’s  incredible.  There’s  another  company  Braintree  is  doing  that.  Braintree  is  a  company  that  is  also  and  Venmo  which  is  the  competitor  to  PayPal  payments  through  Twitter  type  of  stuff.  They  have,  if  you  go  to  their  site  and  see  their  parent  company,  they’ve  got  three  awesome  technologies  that  some  are  for  fraud  detection  but  others  are  for  these  easy  payments  going  through  checkout.  It’s  coming,  those  days  are  coming.  That’s  great.  

I  did  think  of  one  thing  real  quick,  it’s  no  secret.  It’s  something  I  think  the  new,  what  if,  the  way  Facebook  has  been  talking  about  marketing  over  the  last  two  years,  I  think  what  you’re  going  to  now  see  is  people  talking  about  YouTube  advertising.  Marketers  have  been  the  last  people  to  get  on  YouTube.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   I  see  maybe  three  marketers  I  know  that  I’ve  actually  seen  ads  where  I  see  a  thousand  marketers  I  know  on  Facebook.  I’ve  learned  some  pretty  interesting  stuff  on  YouTube  advertising  that  it’s  pay  per  click,  not  pay  per  impression.  No,  I’m  sorry,  it’s  pay  per  impression,  not  pay  per  click  on  the  ad.  The  impression  only  goes  on.  

Let’s  say  you  have  a  video  that’s  a  minute  and  30  seconds  long,  you  don’t  pay  for  that  video  until  after  it  hits  the  one  minute  mark.  You  could  do  all  this  branding,  even  get  a  click  to  your  website.  If  they  click  and  the  video  stops.  If  they  don’t  go  through  a  certain  point  in  the  video  you  don’t  pay.  It’s  possible  to  get  more  clicks  than  even  impressions.  There’s  a  great  guy  people  can  look  up  if  they  just  Google.  His  name  is  Tommie  Powers.  It’s  spelled  T-­‐O-­‐M-­‐M-­‐I-­‐E.  This  guy  spoke  at  my  event  and  made  me  just  feel  like  an  idiot  for  not  advertising  on  YouTube.  

Brad:   Yeah.  You’re  right.  That  is  one  of  those  areas  that  a  lot  of  marketers  that  I  know  are  underutilizing.  It  seems  like  the  only  advertisements  I  see  these  days.  It  is  so  funny,  I’m  watching  a  YouTube  video.  Then  you  see  a  Fortune  500  main  street  advertising  commercial.  All  they’re  doing  is  repurposing  their  TV  ad.  They’re  sticking  it  on  YouTube.  It’s  not  addressing  the  state  of  mind  that  I’m  in.  I’m  sitting  there  waiting  for  the  skip  ad.  Hurry  up.  This  doesn’t  grab  my  attention  at  all.  

Mike:   Have  you  seen  Ryan’s  for  Traffic  and  Conversion?  

Brad:   No.  I  haven’t  seen  it.  

Mike:   Just  to  his  site.  Then  he’ll  start  retargeting.  You’ll  not  be  able  to  watch  a  YouTube  video  without  him.  He’s  got  four  of  them.  

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Brad:   Nice.  

Mike:   One  of  them  that’s  really  cool  is  the  first  one  goes,  “Hey  wait,  it’s  Ryan  Deiss.  I  know  you’re  getting  ready  to  hit  that  skip  ad  button.  Let  me  just  tell  you  something.”  He  addresses  that.  I  don’t  know  if  it’s  in  their  terms  of  service  or  not.  I  think  it’s  interesting.  

Brad:   That’s  exactly  what  I  was  talking  to  somebody  else  recently  about  is  this  is  how  I  would  do  it.  I  have  a  [crosstalk  01:11:23].  

Mike:   Yeah.  You’re  interrupting  their  videos.  Address  that  fact.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   “Hey,  wait,  I  know  you  want  to  get  to  your  video.  Give  me  just  a  couple  of  seconds  before  you  hit  that  skip  ad  video.”  Then  he’s  got  another  one  that  says  this,  it’s  great.  He’s  branding  the  event  without  having  to  pay  for  it  because  this  ad  is  a  minute,  is  over  a  minute.  He  doesn’t  pay  for  the  ad.  Basically  he  just  looks  at  it  run.  This  is  what  it  does.  It  goes,  “Are  you  interested  in  getting  more  customers,  the  latest  in  traffic  and  social  media?  Would  you  like  to  learn  how  to  do  better  video  marketing?”  All  these  different  things.  

He  says,  “If  that’s  for  you  then  click  this  video  now.  If  not,  then  click  skip  ad.”  It’s  like  10  seconds  at  an  hour  saying  skip  ad.  If  they  do  that  he  didn’t  pay.  He’s  advertising  it  in  the  local  Southern  California  area.  He’s  branding  his  event,  at  least  getting  it  into  people’s  mind.  Maybe  by  the  15th  time  they’re  doing  it,  he  didn’t  have  to  pay  for  the  14  other  times  to  get  in  their  head.  

Brad:   That’s  crazy  cool.  I  could  do  that  with  Bacon  Wrapped  Business,  right?  

Mike:   Yeah.  

Brad:   I  could  just  …    

Mike:   Can  I  give  you  an  example  of  what  I  could  do  with  Webinar  Jam?  

Brad:   Mm-­‐hmm  (affirmative).  

Mike:   I  could  go  in  and  I  could  say,  “How  many  videos  are  there  with  GoToWebinar,  in  the  title,  the  description  or  the  metatext?”  It  turns  out  there’s  110,000.  

Brad:   Dude,  I  see  where  you’re  going.  

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Mike:   Now  every  single  time  somebody  is  looking  for  a  GoToWebinar  review,  GoToWebinar  instructions,  I  can  cater  a  video  for  that.  How  to  use  GoToWebinar.  It’s  like  are  you  looking  to  use  go-­‐to  webinar?  Do  you  realize  GoToWebinar’s  technology  is  old  and  outdated?  In  fact  you’re  paying  $499  a  month  and  you  could  only  get  a  thousand  people  on,  what  if  there  was  a  better,  less  complicated  way?  I  say  Webinar  Jam,  Webinar  Jam.  

Brad:   That’s  cool.  

Mike:   Even  if  they  click,  I  didn’t  pay  for  that  ad,  I’m  getting  in  their  head,  I’m  getting  in  their  head  and  one  day  they’ll  be  like,  “This  is  ridiculous.  What  was  that  company  Webinar  Jam  I  heard  that  competes?”  Even  if  I  do  pay  for  it,  it’s  great.  I’m  going  to  every  single  person  that’s  either  thinking  about  buying  them  or  is  using  them.  I  can  tell  them  they’re  paying  too  much  and  not  getting  enough.  I  can  take  their  customers  away  from  even  free  training  videos  GoToWebinar  may  have  put  out  there.  

Brad:   That’s  hilarious.  You’re  trying  to  get  trained  on  GoToWebinar?  Because  it’s  very  confusing.  

Mike:   You  know  why  we  don’t  have  training  videos?  Because  our  product  is  so  easy.  

Brad:   That’s  awesome.  

Mike:   It’s  right  out  of  the  box.  

Brad:   I  was  also  thinking  it’d  be  funny  to  do  your  video  comes  up.  Let’s  just  say  you’re  advertising  Webinar  Jam  I  don’t  know.  You’ve  got  cats.  Just  put  the  camera  on  your  cats  for  a  second  doing  some  cute  stuff  because  a  lot  of  people  go  to  YouTube  for  cat  videos  or  just  different  stuff.  Then  you  pop-­‐in.  Hey,  listen.  I  know  you’re  waiting  to  go  to  the  video.  I  thought  I’d  show  you  this  cute  little  cats  while  I  tell  you  about  Webinar  Jam.  They  may  have  been  watching  cat  videos  as  it  is.  Just  understanding  why  people  are  on  YouTube,  what  kind  of  stuff  are  they  going  for.  Tommie,  you  know  what?  I  was  at  your  event  but  I  didn’t  get  to  be  at  the  entire  thing.  Tommie  is  your,  he’s  your  go-­‐to  YouTube  advertising  expert  right?  

Mike:   Yeah.  

Brad:   I  would  love  an  introduction  and  love  to  interview  him  on  the  show.  

Mike:   Yes.  I’ll  get  that  done.  

Brad:   Because  that’s  such  a  cool  topic.  I  know  I’d  like  to  know  about  as  well.  

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Mike:   Let  me  do  that  now.  I  always  promise  these  things.  Then  I  always  forget.  

Brad:   I  know  where  you  live.  

Mike:   Tommie/Brad  Costanzo.  

Brad:   Nice.  

Mike:   Hey  guys,  you  should  meet.  

Brad:   There  you  go.  

Mike:   Brad  Costanzo,  this  is  Tommie.  Sorry  guys  that  you  got  to  watch  me  do  this.  

Brad:   I  don’t  think  they  mind.  That’s  great.  I  just  got  the  text  from  you.  

Mike:   This  is  Brad.  All  right,  I’ll  let  you  guys  take  it  from  there.  It’s  done  a  deal.  

Brad:   That’s  cool.  Two  other  cool  things  that  you’ve  got  going  on,  because  this  is  what,  I  want  to  start  letting  people  understand  some  more  of  the  resources  that  you  provide  them.  This  is  the  plug  Mike  part.  I  want  to  do  this  in  a  way  that,  this  is  really  heartfelt  because  you  come  bringing  not  only  the  knowledge  but  the  tools.  Yes,  if  you’re  using  webinars  or  thought  about  doing  it,  GoToWebinar  is  expensive,  Webinar  Jam  uses  Google  Hangouts.  That’s  an  incredible  way  to  just  start  hosting  your  own  events.  

Give  me  an  example  of,  for  somebody  who  is  trying  to  start  to  build  their  brands,  trying  to  get  their  message  out  there,  talk  to  individuals  in  their  market  place  and  give  them  good  content  without  being  highly  tech  savvy,  without  having  to  spend  a  bunch,  how  can  they  use  Webinar  Jam  is  just  one  example?  Tell  me  about  somebody  who’s  used  it  and  grown  their  brand  with  it.  

Mike:   First,  thanks  for  letting  us  talk  about  it.  Webinar  Jam  came  because  it  needed  to  solve  a  problem.  A  lot  of  the  software  that  I  did  usually  solved  a  problem  in  my  business.  We  were  going  to  be  doing  what  we  call  [inaudible  01:16:18]  for  video  genesis.  We  had  6,000  people  register.  That  may  sound  like  crazy.  When  you’re  in  a  height  of  a  launch  and  you’ve  got  every  affiliate  registering  plus  the  70,000  leads  that  our  affiliate  centers  during  the  prelaunch  we’re  inviting  to  a  webinar.  They’re  highly  engaged.  

Let’s  say  only  5%  of  those  people  registered.  We  had  3,000  just  from  there.  Then  all  the  other  four.  We  had  a  problem  with  that.  We’re  going  to  have  6,000  register  for  a  technology  that  the  max  they  give  you  is  1,000  people.  Great,  everybody  at  that  point  was  saying,  why  don’t  you  guys  do  a  Google  Hangout?  

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Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   We  didn’t  know  much  about  Hangouts  and  everybody  does  always  that  stupid  thing  where  they  try  to  invite  everybody  to  be  a  tile  underneath  a  video.  You  don’t  quite  understand.  What’s  the  difference  between  the  guy  that’s  in  it  and  the  people  that  are  watching  it?  You  can  figure  that  out  in  an  hour.  

The  problem  that  we  had  was  we  can  do  the  Hangout.  We  can’t  push  an  Add  to  Cart  button.  There  was  no  chat.  We  didn’t  have  a  registration  page  to  get  the  people  to  register.  After  they  registered,  where  would  they  see  it,  would  they  watch  it  on  YouTube  or  did  we  have  to  get  a  separate  page  for  them?  

After  we  get  a  separate  page,  number  one,  where  are  they  registering  to?  Do  I  actually  have  to  go  in  and  manually  send  reminders.  It  starts  in  15  minutes.  It’s  starting  now.  There  was  no  front  end  marketing  machine  for  Hangouts.  

I  saw  an  awesome  opportunity  to  basically  disrupt  GoToWebinar.  We  could  do  something  for  $297  a  year  that  they’re  charging  $6,000  a  year.  We  can  have  unlimited  people  and  what  we  call  the  Obama  phenomena.  President  Obama,  Arianna  Huffington  and  Oprah  have  not  been  able  to  break  it.  I’m  pretty  sure  you’ll  have  …  It’s  powered  by  Google.  They  can  serve  the  world.  When  we  say  unlimited  people,  we  basically  mean  everybody  in  the  planet  can  attend.  We  also  have  better  marketing  landing  pages.  The  GoToWebinar  pages  are  embarrassing.  

Brad:   Have  you  seen?  They  literally  just  revamped  their  entire  site  in  the  past  week.  Do  you  have  a  GoTo  account?  

Mike:   Yes.  Yes  we  do.  

Brad:   You  should  log  in  at  some  point.  The  inside  looks  better.  They  give  you  one  new  log  in  registration  page.  It  is  so  bad  on  so  many  levels  what  they  do.  It’s  mindboggling.  This  happened  this  week.  

Mike:   Yeah.  

Brad:   I’m  blown  away.  

Mike:   All  we’ve  got  to  do  is  we  just  go  to  …    

Brad:   By  the  way,  if  GoToWebinar  wants  to  sponsor  Bacon  Wrapped  Business.  I  take  that  back  completely.  

Mike:   Do  they  really?  

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Brad:   No.  I  said  if  they  do.  

Mike:   If  they  want  to,  okay.  

Brad:   I’ll  edit  this  out.  

Mike:   Yeah.  I’ll  become  your  official  sponsor  like  Corn  Nuts  does  for  the  UFC.  

Brad:   There  we  go,  yeah.  

Mike:   They  probably  regret  that  every  day  like  what,  why  did  we  give  it  to  them  just  because  they  paid  more  than  we  do?  

Brad:   I  know,  right?  

Mike:   Yeah.  The  bottom  line  is  GoToWebinar  was  a  good  solution  for  its  time.  It  really  is  old,  outdated,  we  call  it  horse  and  buggy  technology  in  a  [far  edge  01:19:26].  Google  Hangouts  is  great.  If  you  want  to  get  people  on,  if  you’re  a  marketer  it’s  not  going  to  work.  You  can’t  push  buttons.  You  can’t  do  chat,  you  can’t  bend  people,  all  the  things  that  you  would  want  in  a  perfect  solution.  

We  took  the  two  solutions  and  we  jammed  them  together  and  created  Webinar  Jam.  I  can  say  this,  if  I  didn’t  even  own  the  company,  you’re  a  fool  to  be  using  GoToWebinar  when  there’s  Webinar  Jam.  It  will  out  convert  landing  page  visitor  to  the  site  down  to  the  shopping  cart  by  the  end  of  the  campaign  better  than  GoToWebinar.  It’s  more  affordable.  

Brad:   I  can’t  ask  for  much  more  than  that.  That’s  one  of  your  flagship  products.  Obviously  you’ve  got  your  training.  I’ve  talked  about  you’ve  got,  how  to  use  video  in  your  marketing,  with  Video  Genesis.  You’ve  got  Traffic  Genesis.  You’re  coming  out  very  soon  with  Conversion  Genesis.  What  I’m  going  to  do,  I’m  going  to  put  a  link  so  people  can  come  get  information  on  this.  If  they  want  to  follow  you,  if  they  want  to  get  on  your  newsletter  which  I  highly  recommend.  

By  the  way,  what  you  guys  have  been  doing  with  your  newsletter  lately,  I  know  Laura  is  writing  some  of  the  stuff  from  Traffic  Genesis.  You  probably  are.  I  can  always  tell  Andy’s  work.  You  guys  send  those  out.  Your  free  newsletter  dude  is  more  valuable  than  most  people’s  paid  newsletters.  They’re  so  jam  packed  with  actionable  stuff.  Like  you  said,  you  and  Andy  Jenkins  who  is  your  partner  don’t  seem  like  you  pull  any  punches.  You  give  a  lot  of  secrets  away  for  free.  

Mike:   Yeah.  We  enjoy  giving  content  and  we  think  that’s  why  we  have  a  lot  of  raving  fans.  We  do  argue  about  it.  I  don’t  mean  that  we  have  different  opinions  about  it.  We  question  ourselves  I  should  say.  We  sit  down  sometimes.  We  say,  “Are  we  

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giving  away  too  much  information?”  Even  when  we  give  a  freemium,  some  people  just  give  a  downloadable  report.  It  immediately  gets  them  to  the  upsale  or  the  offer.  We  give  a  29  minute  training  video.  It  could  be  affecting  our  conversions.  People  love  us.  We  actually  do  start  saying  are  we  treating  our  free  content  as  if  they  paid  for  it?  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   There  may  not  be  anything  wrong  with  it.  It  does  beg  the  question.  

Brad:   You  have  to  be  careful  because  as  a  marketer  who  is  there  to  …  You  make  a  living  by  selling  your  intellectual  property,  it’s  like  are  you  quenching  people’s  thirst  before  they  have  a  chance  to  buy,  if  somebody  is  starving  in  the  desert  and  you  give  them  one  of  these  portable  tanks  that  they  drive  around  with  water.  

Mike:   I’ll  tell  you  though,  what’s  interesting  is  we  tested  it,  right?  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   We  had  something  that  said  there  were  five  laws  to  a  successful  webinar.  No,  actually  we  tell  them  that  after  they  opt-­‐in.  When  they  come  to  the  landing  page,  it  said,  “This  one  trick  whatever,  this  one  tactic  doubled  our  webinar  registrations.”  When  they  got  to  the  next  page,  it  said,  “Hi,  it’s  Mike  Filsaime  and  Andy  Jenkins.”  You  know  there  are  five  laws  to  a  successful  webinar.  We’re  going  to  go  over  law  number  one.  The  law  of  your  registration  page.  We  went  through  the  training.  

At  the  end,  we  said,  “That  was  just  one  of  five  laws.  If  you  want  to  get  the  other  four  laws,  click  below  this  video.  You  can  learn  about  the  other  four  laws.”  The  other  four  laws  was  just  a  $7  tripwire.  You’ve  got  to  watch  a  30  minute  training  video  on  law  number  one.  

Then  what  we  did  is  we  said  you  know  what?  We’re  going  to  give  them  the  freemium.  Then  the  page  that  makes  the  profits.  Then  the  very  next  page  said,  “Hi,  this  is  Mike  Filsaime  and  Andy  Jenkins.  We’ve  just  sent  you  a  video  about  the  first  law  of  successful  registrations.  Check  your  email  in  20  minutes.  We  want  to  let  you  know  that  there  are  four  others.”  We  immediately  went  to  the  sale.  We  actually  saw  a  slightly  lower  increase  in  the  sale  of  that  tripwire  even  though  it  was  only  $7  even  though  so  many  people  saw  it.  

Brad:   Hmm.  

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Mike:   Our  other  one,  we  had  a  lot  of  bounce  rate,  people  don’t  watch  29  minute  videos.  For  damn  hell,  the  people  that  saw  that  video,  they  said  to  themselves,  “This  shit  was  so  good.”  

Brad:   I  got  to  give  them  the  money.  

Mike:   “I  have  got  to  learn  the  other  four.”  Then  they  say  there  was  only  $7.  It  was  a  $7  trip  wire.  That  conversion  rate  Brad  I’m  telling  you  was,  I’m  not  even  kidding,  with  something  like  26%  of  the  people  that  eventually  made  it  to  that  page  even  though  we  were  losing  about  50%  of  the  people.  

Brad:   Wow.  

Mike:   Its  overall  conversion  was  about  13%.  We  had  about  an  11%  conversion  if  they  just  saw  the  page.  Even  factoring  all  the  laws,  we  still  had  a  higher  conversion  rate  eventually  because  the  training  was  so  indoctrinating.  

Brad:   Recapping  that,  they  came  to  the  page.  It  was  a,  just  watch  the  video  first,  no  opt-­‐in  or  was  it  opt-­‐in  to  watch  the  video?  

Mike:   The  first  time,  it  was  watch,  they  opted  in,  watched  the  training  video.  

Brad:   The  training  video  is  30  minutes  on  the  first  law  of  the  webinar,  the  registration  page?  

Mike:   Yeah.  

Brad:   Then  the  action,  this  is  the  winning  one,  the  action  right  after  that  was  to  do  what?  To  go  to  the  tripwire?  

Mike:   No,  no,  that  was  the  losing  one  to  go  to  the  trip  wire,  yeah  [crosstalk  01:24:48]  

Brad:   The  winning  one  right  after  they  watch  the  30  minute  video,  it  did  what?  

Mike:   Yeah.  I’ll  recap  it  real  quick.  Both  promises  were  the  same.  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   The  first  one  we  did  and  then  ended  up  being  the  winner,  the  first  one  we  did  was  they  opted  in  and  then  we  said,  “Hey,  thanks  for  opting  in.  We’re  going  to  give  you  exactly  what  we  asked  for.  Here  is  a  30  minute  training  on  the  first  law  of  a  successful  webinar.  It’s  increasing  registrations.  Then  at  the  end  of  that,  we  said,  “If  you  like  this,  there  are  four  more  laws.  Click  the  button  below  this  video  to  find  out  about  them.”  

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That  went  to  a  third  page  which  was  a  $7  tripwire  that  explained  what  the  other  four  laws  were.  We  lost  a  lot  of  people  getting  to  that  page  because  a  lot  of  people  bounced  out  of  the  other  video,  bookmarked  the  page,  got  distracted  and  never  made  it  there.  When  they  finally  made  it  there,  26%  of  those  people  bought.  

Brad:   Because  on  that  second  page  it  was  another  video  or  that  was  just  a  sales  page?  

Mike:   It  was  just  a  sales  letter  $7  sales  letter  tripwire.  

Brad:   Wow.  

Mike:   Ryan  Deiss  and  Frank  Kern  use  a  lot.  

Brad:   That’s  really  cool.  

Mike:   We  tested  against  that.  We  said,  “Let’s  see  what  happens  if  we  don’t  give  them  the  training.”  The  test  that  failed  was  they  opted  in,  they  got  a  short  video  that  said,  “Hey,  what  you  just  asked  for  will  be  in  your  inbox  in  20  minutes.”  

Brad:   By  the  way,  let  me  sell  you  this.  

Mike:   Yeah.  Let  me  sell  you  about  the  other  four  laws  when  you  don’t  even  know  about  the  first  law  that’s  in  your  inbox.  

Brad:   That  would  deliver  the  value  first,  yeah.  

Mike:   We  were  so  convinced  that  that  would  do  better  because  so  many  people  were  going  to  …  Honestly  what  caused  that  test  was  the  breakage  of  the  first  video,  only  58%  of  the  people  that  were  going  through  that  process  were  finally  seeing  the  tripwire.  

We  were  like,  “How  can  we  get  more  people  to  see  the  trip  wire?”  “You  know  what?  Let’s  just  show  them  the  trip  wire  and  tell  them  to  watch  that  video  later.”  We  got  more  people  to  see  it  but  they  weren’t  indoctrinated.  They  didn’t  love  us.  Your  training  is  great  us  and  all  that  stuff,  went  out  the  window.  In  fact  it  turned  into  bait-­‐and-­‐switch  almost  like,  “You  just  told  me  you’re  going  to  get  something  and  now  you’re  selling  me  something.”  

Brad:   So  many  people  make  that  [mistake  01:26:42].  

Mike:   It  turns  out  the  training  did  a  better  job.  

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Brad:   Yeah.  That’s  cool.  I  love  that.  One  other  thing  I  want  to  plug  for  you  because  I  say  this  not  for  commercial  reasons  though  I  think  that’s  always  part  of  it.  You’ve  got  another  system  called  DealGuardian.  DealGuardian  is  a  …  If  you  as  the  listener  are  selling  anything  online,  information  products  or  whatever.  You’ve  been  frustrated  with,  whether  it’s  with  ClickBank  or  PayPal  or  doing  it  on  your  own,  setting  up,  God  forbid  you  use  Infusionsoft  or  set  up  some  stuff  that  is  highly  complicated.  The  tech  side  is  a  pain,  go  to  the  dealguardian.com.  

Mike:   DealGuardian  is  a  better  ClickBank.  If  they’ve  heard  of  JVZoo  it’s  very  similar  to  that.  The  difference  is  we  do  all  the  processing  like  ClickBank.  We  also  do  Adaptive  Payments  which  means  you  and  your  affiliate  can  get  paid  instantly  if  the  customer  pays  with  PayPal  and  you  choose  to  take  that  option.  

Brad:   Just  internally  when  we  were  over,  on  that  exact  computer  you’re  talking  on  now,  we  were  going  through,  you,  me  and  Larry  were  going  through  some  of  the  different  developments.  It  is  really  intuitive  and  cool,  covers  a  lot  of  the  things.  Because  you’re  a  smaller  company  than  a  ClickBank  or  otherwise,  you  can  make  those  changes.  You’re  marketing.  You’re  making  these  changes  for  you  because  you’re  selling  your  stuff  on  DealGuardian  as  it  is.  

Mike:   Yeah.  We  process  $11  million  just  in  the  last  year  with  DealGuardian,  over  8  million  of  that  was  our  own  products.  

Brad:   Right.  

Mike:   It  works  for  us.  It’s  robust.  We  wouldn’t  use  it,  honestly  we  wouldn’t  use  it  if  it  didn’t  work  for  us.  

Brad:   Right.  You’ve  got  some  major  change,  you  don’t  have  to  go  through  all  of  them.  You’ve  got  some  major  …    

Mike:   We’re  going  to  compete  with  Infusionsoft  in  about  90  days  yeah.  We’re  bringing  a  full  CRM,  an  email  marketing  system  and  allowing  people  the  option  to  bring  their  own  merchant  account  or  let  us  process.  They’ll  have  more  choices.  We’re  going  to  be  an  easier,  more  affordable  Infusionsoft.  Infusionsoft,  if  anybody  on  your  team  is  a  Bacon  Wrapped  Business  marketer  lover,  you’re  listening  to  this,  just  be  aware  what  we  did  to  GoToWebinar.  We’re  coming  [crosstalk  01:28:55].  

Brad:   Yeah,  that’s  right.  I  look  forward  to  seeing  it  because  I  know  I’ve  dealt  with  Infusionsoft  enough,  got  to  love  them.  

Mike:   They  want  to  sponsor  you  for  your  next  [crosstalk  01:29:05].  

Brad:   Exactly.  Once  more  if  you’ve  got  money  I  will  edit  this  out.  

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Mike:   Shamelessly.  

Brad:   I  am.  

Mike:   Throw  the  money  I’m  shameless.  

Brad:   Exactly.  Mike,  this  is  awesome.  I  really  appreciate  you  being  on  the  show  here.  We’ve  done  an  hour  and  a  half.  

Mike:   Have  we  been  on  for  over  an  hour  and  a  half?  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   I  didn’t  pay  attention.  I  just  saw  there  as  53  minutes  past  the  hour.  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   I  was  like,  I  forgot  we  started  late.  I  thought  we  were  on  for  like  45  minutes,  oh  my  goodness.  

Brad:   This  has  been  awesome.  You’ve  lived  up  to  the  show’s  name.  You  dropped  some  bacon  wrapped  strategies  which  is  what  it’s  all  about.  

Mike:   [Crosstalk  01:29:42]  pans  in  there  man.  

Brad:   You  like  that?  

Mike:   You  should  have  more  pans.  

Brad:   I  do  need  more  pans.  This  is  sizzling  hot.  Mike,  it’s  so  greasy.  

Mike:   It’s  so  greasy.  

Brad:   It’s  so  greasy  Mike.  I  don’t  think  …    

Mike:   Grease  shoots  there  a  little  bit.  

Brad:   I  should  have  the  grease  show.  I  should  talk  about  all  of  the  scummy,  unethical  crap  that’s  going  on  out  there.  

Mike:   Yeah.  We’ll  call  that  microwave  strategies.  

Brad:   Turkey  baking.  

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Mike:   Yeah.  Turkey,  if  I’m  going  to  eat  bacon  I  want  the  real  deal.  In  fact  I  want  to  take  the  grease  left  over  from  yesterday’s  bacon  that’s  white.  I  want  to  reheat  it  and  deep  fry  my  next  bacon  in  that  bacon  fat.  That’s  why  I  want  to  do  bacon  wrapped  marketing.  

Brad:   Dude,  that’s  genius.  You’re  making  me  hungry  now.  Dude,  I  appreciate.  

Mike:   One  day  that  will  be  a  testimonial  on  your  video  page.  I’ll  be  going  through  your  site.  I  love  this  interview.  It  will  just  be  me  talking  about  how  to  make  bacon  recipe.  

Brad:   Mike  bacon  recipe.  Brother,  I  appreciate  your  time.  This  has  been  awesome.  Every  single  person  on  here,  if  you’re  listening  to  the  audio,  once  more,  there’s  a  video  version  of  this  at  baconwrappedbusiness/mikef.  It’s  Mike  Filsaime.  It’d  be  easier  just  to  go  to  Mike  .F.  for  it  if  you’re  listening  to  this.  You’ll  get  all  the  show  notes,  all  the  links,  all  the  ways  that  you  can  purchase  anything  that  Mike  has  to  offer.  I  can  tell  you  right  now  he  makes  marketing  a  lot  easier.  You’re  one  of  us.  You  know  what  we  go  through.  You’ve  created  a  lot  of  the  stuff  for  your  own  purposes.  I’ve  enjoyed  watching  your  rise  in  the  past  eight  years  that  I’ve  been  doing  this.  I  can’t  believe  it’s  been  that  long.  

For  my  show  listeners,  I  highly  encourage  you  to  get  on  my  newsletter,  subscribe  to  the  show  on  iTunes  if  you’re  not.  Every  once  in  a  while  I  get  people  who  are  listening  to  one  show.  They  think,  this  is  great.  I  wish  I  knew  how  to  get  updated  more  often.  There’s  two  ways.  Number  one  is  subscribe  to  the  newsletter.  You  can  always  do  that  on  baconwrappedbusiness.com.  There’s  an  ample  way  …    

Mike:   Just  subscribe,  it  makes  you  feel  good  [crosstalk  01:31:54].  

Brad:   Where  is  that  from?  

Mike:   Basically,  I’m  sorry  to  interrupt  your  closing.  Yes  guys,  subscribe,  make  sure  to  subscribe  because  there’s  only  going  to  be  great  stuff  like  this  because  I  know  the  people  that  Brad  knows  in  the  industry.  I  know  his  connections,  the  people  that  he  doesn’t  know.  They’re  only  going  to  be  better  than  me.  I  can  promise.  I’ll  probably  be  back  just  to  keep  the  bar  low.  If  you’re  the  listeners,  you  hear  me  say  that.  There’s  this  guy  named  Putty  Pie.  

Brad:   Putty  Pie,  that’s  who  it  was  yeah.  

Mike:   He’s  on,  they  just  did  a  party  on  him  on  South  Park.  It’s  called  hashtag  rehash,  basically  Cartman  goes  around  rehashing  other  people’s  commentary.  It’s  a  whole  show  about  that.  Kids  don’t  even  play  video  games  anymore.  They  just  

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watch  other  people  play  video  games.  I  didn’t  even  know  about  this  guy  called  Putty  Pie  and  all  this  stupid  stuff  he  does.  

Brad:   You  looked  him  up  after  the  show  didn’t  you?  Because  I  did  too.  

Mike:   I  did.  I  looked  him  up.  I  literally  said,  “How  can  he  be  the  number  one  channel  on  YouTube  besides  YouTube’s  video  channels  and  stuff.”  

Brad:   Yeah.  

Mike:   Then  I  realized  where  Cartman  got  all  this  stuff,  the  fast  cuts,  he  was  like,  “Hey  bro,  make  sure  to  subscribe.”  Cartman  is  like,  “Because  subscribing  makes  you  feel  good.”  Then  he  [crosstalk  01:33:03].  

Brad:   That’s  where  it  was  from.  Putty  Pie,  I  felt  stupid  or  what?  I  got  halfway  through  one  of  those  videos.  I’m  like,  “Oh  my  God.”  

Mike:   Don’t  do  anything  he  does  please.  

Brad:   No,  no,  lightening  in  a  bottle  but  …    

Mike:   Fast  cuts.  

Brad:   Absolutely.  That  being  said,  you  can  also  subscribe  on  iTunes  if  you’re  listening.  Hit  that  subscribe  button  because  this  will  just  be  automatically  sent  to  your  phone.  You  can  listen  to  this  drivel  as  much  as  you  want,  drivel  while  you  drive.  That’s  my  next  podcast.  Drivel  while  you  drive.  

Mike:   With  some  giblets.  

Brad:   Yeah.  If  you  have  any  questions  for  me,  if  you’d  like  to  share  your  own  bacon  wrapped  strategies,  if  you’ve  got  a  business  and  you’d  like  to  understand  how  to  potentially  grow  it,  if  you’re  stuck,  if  you’re  plateaued  just  getting  started  or  you  want  to  give  me  money  just  because  you  want  my  brain  power  on  your  business,  send  an  email  to  [email protected].  I  will  read  it.  I  also  read  those  iTunes  reviews  by  the  way.  ITunes  reviews  make  me  feel  good.  

Mike:   You’ve  got  to  do  it  now.  

Brad:   I  know.  Damn  it.  What’s  funny  is  we’ve  probably  watched  because  it’s  about  5:00  here  now.  My  view  is  …    

Mike:   You’re  starting  to  see  the  difference  in  the  lighting?  

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Brad:   Yeah.  Mine  is  definitely  a  lot  darker  now.  

Mike:   Yeah.  I  was  going  to  say  that.  It  was  completely  bright  when  you  started.  I’ve  literally  seen  by  the  minute  get  darker  behind  you.  Mine  was  so  bright  because  I  was  at  this  window.  

Brad:   Now  it’s  normal.  

Mike:   Now  I  look  normal.  

Brad:   Yeah  that’s  awesome.  I  appreciate  your  time  Mike.  Look  forward  to  seeing  you  again  here  real  soon.  

Mike:   I  appreciate  being  here.  

Brad:   Everybody  else,  thanks  for  subscribing.  Thanks  for  feedback.  Go  check  out  what  Mike  has  to  offer.  I  guarantee  you’ll  make  more  money.  Till  next  time,  got  a  problem  wrap  it  in  bacon.  Bye-­‐bye,  because  bacon  makes  you  feel  good.  

Mike:   Bacon  makes  you  feel  good.  They’re  going  to  write  it  on  my  business  card.  

Brad:   That’s  awesome.  

Mike:   We’ll  throw  in  bacon.  Take  it  easy  guys.  

Brad:   Bye-­‐bye.  

Mike:   Subscribe.  

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