In this episode, Chase shares a retrospective of his most recent course launch, covering everything from how to create demand to how to capture lessons learned so that your next course launch can be even better.
Throughout the conversation, both of the guys talk about their experience with previous course launches and share some of their best advice for making tough decisions like how to price your course or striking the perfect balance for building up hype heading into the launch without coming off as overly spammy or self-promotional.
This is an absolute must-listen for anyone who wants a step-by-step playbook for making their first course launch or their next course launch a runaway success. When you’re done taking notes, drop a comment with your favorite tactic that was shared!
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:
How To Successfully Build & Launch A Course – Review the end-to-end process of launching a course, from brainstorming the course structure to creating content and utilizing different marketing strategies to crush your revenue goals.
The Perfect Tech Stack For Any Course Launch – Get a checklist of the tools and tech that are necessary to launch and support the course effectively, from website hosting to email marketing, payment processing, and CRM for buyers.
Demand Generation Strategies That Work – Learn how to build hype around your launch without coming off as a sleazy snake oil salesman. Copy successful tactics like building a waitlist, utilizing social media, and offering pre-sale discounts.
Webinar Launch Strategy – Consider the often overlooked strategy of promoting a new course offering through webinars, which quickly build trust and authority and create genuine urgency that can quickly turn leads into customers.
Course Pricing Strategy – Learn about how to set the price(s) for your course, and what aspects might help you decide whether what you’re building is better suited as a low ticket offer, a high ticket option, or something in between.
Course Launch Expectations – Gain valuable perspective on how to set healthy, realistic expectations for your launch results, which should be based on your unique situation, not the highlight reel you commonly see on social media.
KEY MOMENTS IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:29 – Chase’s Latest Course Launch Experience 00:05:52 – Personal Experience With Demand Generation For Courses 00:09:07 – Pricing Strategies & Finding The Right Fit 00:11:18 – The Perfect Course Launch Tech Stack 00:18:28 – Effective Multi-Channel Marketing For Courses 00:24:29 – Webinar Strategy for Course Launch 00:29:18 – Educational Email Sequences For Courses 00:33:24 – Can A Course Business Make $1M+ ?
Cardinal Jason and Chase from Ace Diamonds discuss the strategic framework for launching online courses. They cover identifying market demand, implementing tiered pricing models, and leveraging high-ticket coaching to improve student outcomes. The conversation emphasizes the importance of over-delivering value to amplify brand reputation and using structured launch tactics to scale revenue.
We're back with another episode of Diamond Download with Cardinal
Jason from Ace Diamonds.
How's it going?
Hey, I'm doing great brother.
How are you?
I did good.
I know you're doing good.
I know very well how you're doing.
Yeah, I'm doing I'm doing well.
Excited to chat through this one.
I think it's gonna be a little bit different than normal, but
this is gonna be a great one.
Yeah, for anybody who's expecting three topics and just a
roundtable and everything.
You're gonna be extremely disappointed with this episode
here.
We got some stuff.
Okay, so Chase, you're dropping a course or it's dropped already,
right?
Yeah, and that's just what I want to talk about.
So as the time recording, this is like the quote-unquote official
launch.
But last week I did like an early launch, which actually was
not planned.
It might have seemed like it was planned, but it was actually
extremely organic and genuine.
I just had a crazy idea when I was working on it late at night.
So we can start there.
What do you want to start?
Well, yeah, so like for everyone for the audience Chase is
dropping a course and I have a client actually right now that
I'm like helping him like set up a launch and everything.
And so we're both kind of in the trenches right now.
I've also you and I together have dropped multiple different
courses over the years.
And so this is something that I think like we know a lot about.
I also think that this is like just a way that people like
make money now.
Like there's a lot of course sellers.
But yeah, I think like I actually had a theory that the online
education space is turning into like DC a little bit where it's
like, you know, how like back in the day like you had a DC
brand was like, whoa, he's selling online.
Like that's cool.
Or she's you know, her product is on a website.
You can order it to your house.
Wow.
How cool is that?
And then everyone started doing it and now like everybody has
like random ass subscriptions to like a bunch of different
DTC brands and it's gonna be the same for info where it's like
used to think where it's like, oh, he bought someone else's
course.
You can't buy mine like no dude, like the average like consumer
of this kind of stuff like buys probably like five to ten
courses a year and like some pretty expensive stuff to like
up to like five ten thousand dollars.
Like a lot of people will spend a lot of money on all kinds
of stuff.
So there's room for you to do this.
If you want to drop a course, so if you're like a personal
brand that wants to do this, this will help you or if you're
like a freelancer agency that wants to like help your clients
drop courses and this falls.
Yeah, I was going to say exactly.
I think the three people it helps is the core seller the
marketer or copyright or work with the core sellers and
actually even think like other industries, whether you're
doing DTC or doing SAS or you're doing something outside
this.
I think there's actually a lot of stuff that's pretty
applicable.
Whether it's launching a physical product in terms of doing
the hyping that we're going to talk about the actual launch
kind of some of the updates.
So I think this actually can be more Universal than just
specifically for sellers.
100% so I think to start.
The first thing that you need when you're dropping a course
is obviously demand.
You need to know that people are going to want to buy your
---- before you start making anything.
There's a couple of ways to gauge that.
I think if you are going to launch a course, you should
either see somebody else doing it where it's like already
sort of like validated and there's like someone who you
know, you see making some money with something and you
think you can compete with them or do it differently or do
it better.
Or like you can just straight up ask your audience like I
think you've done that before Chase where it's like, what
would you want to see me drop?
You'll tweet like you want to see an email marketing course
or something like that.
Like what do you how do you like find demand?
Yeah, so two different courses.
I've done.
So the one I did for the e-commerce email marketing one
that one kind of came about a couple ways.
One was a thread or two on Twitter where everyone was
saying like there's no e-commerce email marketing course
or does anyone have a course like that and then two at the
same time that was around the time that we were kind of
trying to productize the knowledge that I had for the
agency as we're about to scale.
So I wanted to kind of build out like almost a loom library
of videos for the internal team.
So that was kind of the two forces for me was the fact
that people were asking for an e-commerce email course
on social.
So I was just listening to I guess the noise and kind
of the voices on social that were asking for this and
then also to my team needed and was going to need this.
So that was the first course on the second course.
I actually did what you're talking about where I looked
at the kind of the the audience that I have and there
are three groups of people.
One is kind of brands themselves.
So e-commerce brands or SAS brands most of the time
e-commerce brands to a lot of marketers the markers
that work for these brands marketers that did their
own stuff, whatever that might be and three kind of
like this copywriter freelancer type of person and
I already kind of felt like I had that course for the
brands and it really felt like sure a lot of those
people do by the e-commerce course, but I felt like
there was this group of my audience of about two-thirds
my audience that could or would buy something for me
if I came up with the right product.
So I kind of went through a whiteboard through a
bunch of ideas of like what I thought I was equipped
to teach and what I thought people wanted and then
I just started asking on social media in the form
of like a poll.
Hey, you know would ABC or DB the most helpful and
then as people ask me questions in the DMS.
I was just being really thoughtful about understanding
what they wanted a lot of people ask me.
How do I get clients?
You know, how do I sign clients?
How do I send proposals?
What kind of agreements do I need to I just started
keeping like a mental kind of log an inventory of
what my audience was asking and when I tallied it
up at the end, you know, I must have had a hundred
200 people ask me.
How do I get clients in a kind of a couple months
period?
So that's kind of what I went with and it's also
like yeah, it applies to everybody everybody.
There's so many people that have service businesses
and they're all seem to be they all seem to be on
Twitter and LinkedIn.
They all want to know how to get more clients and
I'm in and I think like the next part is also like
do you want to go low ticket like super commoditized
or do you want to go mid ticket where it's like a
little bit more specialized, but it's like do it
yourself like a DIY type of thing or do you want
to do like a coaching program where it's like above
$3,000 is usually a ticket for that.
And in your case, you want to go this mid ticket,
right?
What you sounded at right now?
Yeah, it's like this the sticker price is about
$700.
I'm doing like a pre-sale launch kind of about
$500 give or take a little bit less than that.
So yeah, it's it's kind of like in that upper end
of low ticket kind of some more than maybe lower
to middle mid ticket, right?
Like I think five hundred seven bucks is probably
mid ticket.
Okay.
How do you think about that?
You know, it's high ticket to three grand over
and the mid tickets like 500 to 1500.
Like, how do you think about the kind of that
gap in that breakdown?
I think like under okay.
So like you have and this is important people
to know to you have certain price points that
you have to kind of abide by if anyone ever
wonders why everything is 27 47 97 197 297.
There's a reason for that.
There's a reason why you don't see 397 or or
like, you know,
300 on the dot, you know, I mean like these
are like anchors that people use because it's
just where people are comfortable.
If you're not there, you're in no man's land.
So under 300, so like 297 and below is where
you're going to see that's low ticket, right?
That's something that people can kind of impulse
by if they see like, oh, this is a cool skill
that I want to have like, let's do it.
I think between like 497 to like 1497 and
that's still kind of pushing.
That's pretty high.
I honestly think it should be captured like
997 497.
I like that.
497 997 is like that's comfortable mid ticket
where people are more serious about the thing
that you're going to try and that they want
to learn from you, but it's still not like
a huge investment, right?
Then you have like between 3,000 and obviously
there's like nothing between like 1497 and 3k
like it doesn't make sense to have anything
that's like a course and not a coaching program
that's that price point 3k up to like 10k is
like you can kind of experiment with stuff
like people kind of at that point.
It doesn't really matter because you're being
closed on the phone like you're actually hiring
sales people to sell this thing, but that's
how I take it and you have to have a lot more
support in the community.
So like with a course like a 497 you just
throw it out.
You don't need a community.
You need to ever talk to these people again
if they buy it right now.
It doesn't matter.
There's no fulfillment, but above 3k you need
to have some sort of filming.
You need to have a community.
You need to have a group.
You need to do group calls.
You need to like be there present as like
the founder of course creator making touch
points like making sure people are good
and like adding a lot more to it.
And I think you also like you have to decide
kind of like where you want to go with the
price point first, but you went mid ticket.
I know you don't want to do like high ticket
because you don't want to like do a whole
community.
You want to do the fulfillment part.
You just want to sling a course, but you also
don't want to go low ticket because you think
your stuff is valuable.
It is.
Yeah, I think I think I've lived in this mid
ticket range since I first started courses.
I think you know my kind of my core course
has always been 750 and then I've had other
courses.
I've introduced between
97 and 1497 and I really kind of like that
mid ticket approach that makes it accessible
and affordable because I really am passionate
and sincere about helping but making sure
that the course packs and delivers high ticket
value.
So I want to be a mid ticket course seller
for a course that actually is high ticket
value. So I always want my courses and people
to go through it to feel like they took
advantage of me, right?
I paid this guy 500 bucks 750 bucks, whatever
it might be and I got 5000 $5000 $100,000
worth of value for every person.
Obviously it ranges but you know, I've had
people that I've met and said like my course
have made them five figures six figures seven
figures, right?
I think kind of an aggregate maybe some agency
that maybe made eight figures for their clients
from it, but I know people directly that made
upwards of seven figures from you know, like
my main course.
So that was really cool to hear the email
course is definitely made me in the six figures.
Yeah.
Yeah, so that's kind of interesting.
And yeah, that was just such a monumental
course from that drop like that was just so
huge that like I think it kind of set the
tone. And so that's another important thing
to do is like doing to understand like you
you have a lot on the line when you push
your course really hard.
Like if you're pushing a course really hard
and it sucks like you will get slaughtered
and you probably won't have a good audience
after that because people just know that
you're not worth it.
But if you have a really good course that
changes people's lives, then you will have
a stronger audience than you've ever had
before. It's an amplifier.
And so when you drop the email course, everyone
was like Chase is the man bro.
Chase has done so much of this in the marketing
community. Same with cold email wizard. When he
dropped cold email mastery, everyone bought
that and everyone's like, oh my God, this is
the best course you could possibly get for
85. I got it at 85 bucks.
Way back and like it really does, you know,
change the way people look at you.
And so like you have to make it good, you
know, I mean like you got to go in there
and you got three modules.
You got to like really over deliver like
you're saying.
Yeah, dude, 100% so far by the way to recap
we've talked about kind of a little bit of
how to land on the course you're going to do
right some research, you know, sing was on
social listening to people would ask you.
We've not talked about price kind of the low
mid high ticket one question for you before
we move to the next kind of section here.
You you had a course right copy MBA.
That was a mid ticket course, right?
I forgot what it was.
I think at one point it was like what 997
or something was kind of the the upper
threshold and then I think you moved almost
entirely to this kind of coaching kind of
mastermind high ticket thing, right?
Can you talk at all about like that transition?
Like why did you do that?
Right?
So we launched at let's tell the whole story.
We launched at 497 or something like that
and then any like we were just selling it
with our list, right?
So we had to copy MBA list.
That was kind of like my list and then we
had your list that you'd spent years building
up. So you have probably like 100,000 on there
and we were just kind of like going back
and forth like promoting it whenever like
I don't know do a little sale or something
like that do a little like live.
It was kind of like webinar, but it wasn't
it was like Q&A and we were just like ask
you to buy at the end and so like we would
kind of make just a random little sales
like we send an email once or twice a week
and make like whatever you know, I mean
nothing crazy and then we had like a decent
Black Friday decent Christmas and then I
took it over because that I need something
to work on like I had a couple of other
projects that went sideways.
And so I was like, you know, just give me
this and I'll do it and then we started
running webinars and that was like we started
to get the word out because that's a very
we're going to talk more about this later,
but that's a very effective way to sell
a mid ticket and on webinar you actually
can go up to $14.97.
I've seen people go up to $4,000 just a piff
on a webinar.
You can do that.
Well, I recommend it but I think like $4.97
to like $9.97 sweet spot still right?
So we're on there.
We're selling we're slinging it.
I think like $5.97 was the price we were
for a little bit and bro with tick-tock
and like organic traffic.
I was able to fill weekly webinars for like
we were getting between two and four thousand
people to sign up and then 500 to 1,500 to
actually show up and we were doing well.
It was like every single week.
That was all we would do.
That was like how we made money.
That was how coffee made money and then
I realized and this is after I fully took
it over that we could probably be monetizing
these people better because there's just
like more like we didn't have any coach like
there and there was no copywriting coaching.
There was no one doing that and I saw my
buddy Luke at the time doing closer cartel.
So he had like a $4.97.
He was singing a webinar and then a coaching
Ascension and so I was like I should do a
coaching Ascension and so I just like took
the weekend and spun up as much course
content as I could.
I pitched it at the end of a group call
for all my students that had just bought
from the previous webinar and I was like
you guys want to sign up.
Here's a link and I just started booking
calls in my own calendar started closing people
make a link on Stripe and then we just
add them to a slack and like two extra
course content and that was kind of how
that started.
The only reason I do is because and you
if you had the time you would do this
too, but there's so many people that buy
stuff from you and want more.
Yeah that you know, like you owe it to
them before I hand it back.
I'll give you an example.
You know Bo right?
Yeah, you know, she's working on the first
video.
Yeah, she had been in copy MBA for months
and months and months like bought the
course on a webinar didn't do anything
and was kind of just sitting there with
it.
And then once she joined in her circle,
which is like the Ascension she joined
for coaching and that was when she started
getting results and that was when she
started hitting like 50 60 70 K months,
which is crazy to do in your first year
of entrepreneurship and she would she
wouldn't have done that if I didn't have
a coaching program.
So like you add a ton of value by having
that and you also make way more money.
Like it's just it's almost not even
worth it to just do road ticket.
If you're going to be serious about it.
Yeah, a lot to lots unpacked in terms
of like and I know we're talking about
what mercy gets in a little bit, but
in terms of the webinar, correct me
if I'm wrong, but you were converting
what five to eight percent of people
that showed up.
Is that correct into actual buyers
around there on the week?
But yeah around there and then on the
I remember when you were doing it yourself
on the booking the inner circle kind
of a high ticket thing.
Didn't you go like 19 for 20 in terms
of like closing people or something
18 for 20 something crazy.
It was it was like 30 for 31 or 32.
Like it was yeah.
Crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was crazy.
And then on the both thing.
Yeah, dude, she's a she's a rock star.
I think she got up to I think she's
doing like 74 K a month.
She said and she actually built like
an entire course within my course.
Like she delivered like today or yesterday
like 19 modules that was like almost
four hours.
It's like insane or course within the
course is worth the entire price of the
course and then on top of her thing.
We have like over a hundred modules
outside of her like insane.
So shouts to her.
She was awesome.
Yeah, now she's a she's a Savage,
but I am really an advocate of high
ticket.
So this client that I'm working with
now that's launching this thing.
He wanted to do a low ticket or mid
ticket.
I was like don't waste your time.
This is going to be a thing you're going
to work on and spend a lot of time on
go high ticket.
All you're adding is an extra call or
two a week.
You can outsource everything else.
You make a lot more money.
There's a lot more value there to
capture for like three to five thousand
dollars.
So you get more that and there's your
students get more.
So it's usually worth it.
I have a whole list.
If you want I have a whole list of
stuff that I did.
So I will I also want to talk about
the tech stack with the actual what
you're doing here.
And so this was basically can I jump
into that?
Yeah, of course.
Of course.
Okay.
So to launch a client like this,
they need obviously a website like a
domain for the program.
They need a ClickFunnels account.
They need an active campaign account
so they can send emails because it's
just it integrates each other with
ClickFunnels.
You need Stripe.
You need a Zapier account.
You need an account only account,
a type phone account,
a CRM,
and then tracking.
So high reps.
You already have this stuff set up.
So it's not super important for you
to like basically restart everything
but like this is what someone who's
starting completely fresh with me.
Then you can connect other ESPs like
PlayVio to ClickFunnels
but it's not the same.
And then we have the list of stuff
we did.
One was we wrote the VSL.
We wrote the sales page.
We found social group.
We basically formed social group.
We build the application for the
call funnel.
So basically like qualifying people
like do you have money?
Like do you actually want to do this?
And then we build the CRM.
We set up HiROS
and then we write a bunch of emails,
write a bunch of SMS
and then we place a closure and set it.
But in terms of like
setting everything up,
like you're just going to host it on Teachable.
Like you did that,
right?
Or Podia?
Yeah, I use Podia.
But yeah, same thing.
I know you use Teachable before.
But yeah, same thing.
Yeah, that's super easy to upload
and everything.
But the hard part is like
building hype.
And like building,
you know,
demand for this thing
you're about to drop.
What kind of stuff did you do
recently
to generate demand for this thing?
Yeah, for sure.
And by the way,
my stack was way less thorough.
So I think yours is definitely a better stack.
What I basically did is like
I use Squarespace for my website.
So I built a landing page on my website.
So it was like chasediamond.com
backslash clientacquisitioncords
or something.
So I built a landing page out there
that basically said,
hey, this thing is dropping
by the end of the month.
And if you sign up
and enter your email here,
you'll get a special discount
and be the first to know when it's live,
right?
So I basically
built a simple lander
with probably
I don't know,
maybe one or two paragraphs
and then just like an email opt-in.
And then obviously with that,
right, like I pushed that
within my newsletter.
I push that on social,
push that via my SMS list
just to try to get people
to specifically join that list.
Obviously, right?
Everyone's on my list already
that's receiving the emails,
but I wanted them to take that action
and that intent of actually
going out of their way
and kind of being introduced
to some friction
to enter their email into this thing.
Right, that way I knew they were serious
and you always see
a way stronger engagement
and conversion rate
for the people that actually do that,
right?
The wait list,
kind of the pre-buyers list
is always going to
perform way better,
you know, subscriber for subscriber
than anything else.
So I have my website on Squarespace.
You can use anything.
I had my email account
and then I had basically my Podia,
which was my teaching platform
and that had the Stripe
and the PayPal integrated in
and that was kind of my stack.
As I offer kind of,
you know,
colder traffic webinars
and those things as well,
you know, I think it makes sense for me
to do like some retargeting ads
and make sure high-risk is set up
and maybe
do some of like the webinar software
that you had.
What would you say for you?
Like for me, my stuff was so dead simple.
I already was using it,
already had it,
took maybe
20 minutes to set up everything.
For you with like the new setup,
the new build for this guy,
what was the
approximate time it took to set up
and what was the approximate cost?
Did it take you a couple hours,
a couple days?
Was it $100 a month,
$500 a month starting out?
Yeah, I think with everything
and by the way,
not a lot of people are going to need
all of this stuff.
I'm building it this way
because I want him to have these systems
for years.
This is not stuff that everybody needs.
I think in total hours,
especially writing the VSL
that took a long time,
like writing the copy takes a long time,
emails and everything.
But like without that
because that's probably like
four or five hours on its own.
But everything else,
six to ten hours total setup,
maybe three or four
if you're really fast
and you're ignoring like CRM,
Pyros and stuff like that.
And it's also going to contractors.
I have people that are helping me out with this
because I got other stuff too.
But in terms of hype,
so you have the email waitlist,
but you're not only promoting it to
your email list, are you?
Like you're using social obviously too, right?
Yeah, so I did social
and actually want to talk about something that I did.
I don't know if it was by accident,
but I did this last week,
which it wasn't part of the master plan,
but I think it actually worked.
So essentially what I was doing is about
maybe two to four weeks ahead of the launch.
I just started kind of sprinkling in
posts on social,
the kind of announcements within the newsletter.
Hey, got something cool dropping at the end of the month.
So let's say this is at the start of May.
At the end of May was kind of
when I was planning on launching.
I would start saying
got something really cool launching,
perfect fit for freelancers,
copywriters, agencies.
Hey, you know,
here's that link I was talking about before.
Make sure you're on this list.
This is the only way that you'll get a discount type of thing.
So from social, from the email, etc.
You know, I think there probably was around a thousand people
that joined the waitlist.
I pushed it a little bit hard,
not super hard.
Last week, I was supposed to push it really hard,
but I kind of did an audible last minute
where I've been working on this course super late at night.
One of the nights late,
I was like, screw it.
You know, I want to get as much social proof
and as much feedback on the current stuff I have
before I do the official launch,
which that's happening this week.
I'm going to do a pre-sale.
I'm going to let people know
there's no landing page.
There's no sales page.
It literally was the option to buy
with just a list of the modules.
That was all it was.
I told people I'm still adding more.
I think at the time there was like 84 or 94 modules.
Right now, this very point in time,
there's 124 with still more to add.
I said, hey, look,
I wasn't planning on doing this.
It's going to actually benefit you.
Here's why I'm doing it.
I want to get feedback.
I want to get social proof ahead of my launch
and it's just going to benefit you
because you're going to get a price
that's going to be better
than I'm ever going to offer again.
So I sold it at $300
instead of the this week I'm doing at $450.
I gave people like an extra $150 off
just to do tons of urgency.
I wasn't planning on doing that.
I went fairly hard for about two days
just doing that
and I did 149 sales on that at that price.
So end up being about like $44,000 from that.
But most of the promotion is going to happen this week.
So I'm hoping to do
you know, just as many if not more sales
and at a better price point.
So kind of going back to like the low ticket thing.
I do like almost 150 people bought at $300.
You know, to get that many people to buy anything
is really hard.
And at $300, it's like,
damn, if I just waited till this week at $450,
that's an extra like, you know, $10,000, $20,000
I left just on the table
and those people probably would have bought anyways.
So that's probably the downside.
But it was just great to get the urgency out there
and just start getting feedback
and people are asking for things
and they're leaving reviews
and people are asking to affiliate it.
So it was really great to get into motion
and it really kicked my butt
and making sure that I got everything done ASAP
because I was kind of lagging dragging my feet
just making sure it was perfect
and being a perfectionist
or as soon as I hit that button for the presale,
I'm like, oh ----, the pressure is on.
I got to finish this.
So I think that was actually great in that regard.
Yeah.
I think that's a solid launch.
I wouldn't stress too much about like dropping it a lower price
because like,
I don't know.
I feel like that's a pretty big difference
like for the average person like 150 bucks.
It's a big difference.
I feel like that's probably the reason why they would have bought
but what I was going to say about launching.
Okay.
So first thing on the hype,
I personally believe that you can't
it's really hard to over promote on socials.
It's definitely easy to over promote via email.
Like if you're sending two emails a day
and it's all about the course and the launch and everything
people are going to be like,
like bro, we get it
but
on social if you're sending 10 posts a day
and you have like five that are about the thing the launch
that's not over promoting.
It's a 50% of your content.
You just have to up the content.
If you're doing three posts a day
and you're doing three posts
all about the course
and maybe it feels like over promoting
but if you're doing 10 a day
five evergreen and five about the course,
you'll be fine.
There are people on Twitter
that promote their thing a lot
promote launches hard
promote even products.
They've had for a long time really hard and it's not annoying
if the copy is good
and
and they have other content that's not about that.
So Hassan Mr.
Overpaid, I doubt you know who that is,
but he's a buddy of mine.
I met him down here in Miami.
He has this group called new money.
He's had a few years
and he has done
stupid numbers like multiple seven figures off just Twitter.
I've never been able to do that.
I don't like Twitter as much for promoting stuff.
I'd rather do it on video platforms like Instagram,
TikTok
or obviously YouTube
but he's done well on 12.
So have the ship 30 guys.
Yes,
pretty sure that's how they make a bunch of my I'm pretty sure it's
Twitter.
I think Twitter is a big one,
but it actually reminds me.
One of the things I did on Twitter was really interesting.
I think I told you about this offline,
but basically what I had done.
I did this actually on Twitter and on LinkedIn
where I basically this post
and I'm pulling up right now where it basically said
deleting this in 30 minutes.
Let's make a deal.
I have an awesome new course launching next week on how to
acquire clients for your agency or freelance business.
I'm talking cold email cold DMS lead magnets social media
more.
The course is really really good.
I'm still adding content and working on some formatting of
the court current content.
There are 84 modules now with another 20 plus coming soon.
I want to get social proof and reviews ahead of launch.
This is where you come in because of this.
I'm giving off almost 60% of the course for the next 30 minutes
DME ASAP saying course and bro.
I did that on Twitter and LinkedIn
and I had 300 something comments by the end of it on
LinkedIn and I ended up with like 150 DMS on Twitter.
A lot of people didn't read the fact that I said I'm giving
60% off people read it as I'm giving 60% of the course away
where I actually put off and then they're like,
hey, you tricked me like bro read this again.
They're like, oh my God.
I'm so sorry.
I got like two three people that read it too quick,
but that actually was really effective.
So I posted about it once or twice on LinkedIn
two or three times on Twitter once or twice my other tools
platforms and I sent like one or two SMS and maybe two or
three emails.
So that was like a good amount of promotion,
but I didn't overdo it.
Like I didn't want to burn the audience before this week
this week.
I'm going to go a lot harder and I'm actually going to take
like more of like an educational approach.
So I actually just sent an email right before this
and I want to really teach in these emails and then sell
alongside it.
So basically like today's email was all about how to attract
your dream clients.
I kind of talk about like, hey, you know,
I've been deep in the trenches growing freelancing businesses
agencies signing, you know, a thousand plus clients all time.
And there's been one thing that's been super consistent
for us and it's been lead magnet funnels.
And then I talked about like what a lead magnet funnel is
basically six steps to actually build one.
So identify your clients pain points create a high-value lead
magnet design it set up emails promote it optimize it right?
And then I'd say like by the way,
those are exactly the things I talked about in the course.
I'm going to teach you exactly that and if you're worried
about the social media part, I teach you how to grow on social.
So that's really the approach.
I'm going to take this week is I'm going to be sending a lot
of emails, but I'm going to make sure that whether people
buy it or not the email teaches them something that either
the a they feel appreciative and don't unsubscribe or be
potentially feel indebted and kind of curious and intrigued
to actually buy the course because the emails were pretty
good. That's kind of how I'm doing like the promotion piece.
I think it's solid the only thing that I would add and this
is only because like, okay, so I will say for anybody who
wants to launch a course.
I know you're doing the numbers in your head and you're
thinking like, okay, I have let's say a hundred thousand
followers.
If I get 2% of my audience to convert that's 200 people
or 2,000 people and if I sell a thing that's 500 bucks,
I'll make that a million bucks million dollars not going
to not going to happen not going to happen when we did
the copy MBA launch.
I almost passed out because I was upset and how do you
remember that?
Well, so I don't remember the launch but didn't we did
about a quarter of a million dollars organic in the first
quarter, right?
Yeah, but we did we only did bro.
I literally in my head manifested like 30 grand.
How much do we do a lunch?
I manifested in my head.
I thought that we were going to do a hundred K in the first
day. I was convinced.
I was like, there's no way we won't we launch it in the
so we launched it like a new by midnight.
We had done like 25 K.
Okay, and I was so upset bro.
I think over yeah, like over time like we got a little
bit more in but like I also was thinking like we dropped
it at a discount and I was thinking like **** that was
our ace like how else are we going to get people to buy
this thing?
And so and I put so much time like I do that course took
me forever to make.
Oh my God.
And so I was thinking like dude, that's it.
Is this it?
Like is this all the money we're going to make was this
all for nothing?
I thought that was it little do we know like whatever but
so you're not going to make the numbers you think you're
going to make I would say like keep your expectations
low because even if you think you have this crazy strong
like this is also when I was like doing pretty well on
TikTok and you were still running Twitter like we had
traffic and we had a big waitlist and we launched it
and like I remember it just like not being what we thought
it was going to be anyway.
So I was thinking that for a lot of people.
You included Chase would benefit from doing like a webinar
type of thing for the launch.
Yeah, and I think like it would make a ton of sense to
do like a free training and then you launch at the discount
Q&A and then a ton of urgency like when you're on the
live you have to make it sound like the biggest deal in
the world like you have to make it sound like yo miss
this free class this webinar or whatever.
It's not happening again.
You're never going to see it.
There's no recording.
There's no recording unless you want to pay me $1,000 in
which case yeah, but you're not going to get there's one
chance for you to see this ---- for what I'm about to
show you and then get as many people in as you possibly
can ton of urgency and then sell really hard would say
if it's usually 997 you have 497 on the webinar you can
easily get a thousand people on there and like for a big
launch where people have just been like look sorry, but
blue balled for like the last however long like you can
get hundred fifty two hundred people to buy right there
and then you can you can decrease the discount a little
bit over the next few days like if you do it on like a
Thursday and you sell till Sunday you can make stupid
amounts of money.
I think that's totally possible and I think that's probably
the best way to do it.
I think if you were to ever launch something a little
bit higher ticket or something else or whatever if you
get an opportunity do a webinar.
It's so it feels more guaranteed.
It feels more secure because really what you want bro, and
I remember when we launched copy and data is what I was
thinking.
I was like, I wish I could just like go into these people's
because there's all these people in the waitlist.
They were so interested and then I send out the link and
they're like, well, yeah, I'll buy it later.
Whatever.
I was like, how can I force these people to buy my thing
now?
I was so impatient.
I was so upset.
I was just like how can I force them to buy it doing a
webinar is the closest thing to forcing someone to buy
something that you can possibly get.
I'm very partial to that.
Now.
I don't think I'll ever launch anything else to my audience
without a webinar.
Yeah, and I mean dude with all the reps that you got you
got so good.
I mean seeing the numbers go from like low low five figures
all the way up to like just about six figures on weekly
webinars was like insane remember every week.
I think what I text you before saying good luck an hour
and a half later was about you call me and you would show
me what the numbers were.
I was like what really like insane.
Yeah, and that combined with a high ticket to like upselling
to those people and like running, you know calls to like
numbers like this is like people need to understand that
like if you have a really good course and a really strong
audience and to monetize properly and everything you have
an automatic seven-figure business like this is it's not
that difficult.
Really?
It's much easier than like getting the seven figures profit
with you know, some sort of brand or with a software.
Yeah, you can get to seven figures profit in your first
year almost guaranteed if you don't mess it up if you just
like really try.
Yeah, this was great.
We missed do we miss anything?
So I know we talked about all right.
So kind of a recap we talked about how to learn what to
sell right kind of doing the research that part we talked
about like the different price points that you can live
in between low mid high ticket.
We talked a little bit about kind of hyping and launching
we talked about how you would launch with a webinar for
something like this.
We talked about the tech stack.
I think that's pretty thorough.
That was pretty good.
Cool.
Hell yeah.
I chase episode buddy.
Thank you for watching this.
I this is one episode.
If you have any questions leave it in the comments and I
will go and take those down chase will probably try and
take those down too.
But yeah, go logic course go scam.
I'll see you guys next week.
Cheers man.