Category: Conversion

  • Underground Rebel Bingo

    Underground Rebel Bingo

    Wowzaroonie. I got a ton of replies from this morning’s email. The majority of them were asking about the Rebel Bingo Rave I mentioned.

    So I thought… I share my wiley secrets about building an online biz, why not share them about how to party as well!

    The photo I sent this morning is kinda old. I’ve got to be honest with you, I haven’t been to an Underground Rebel Bingo evening for a few years.

    But they’re awesome.

    A long time ago, I used to manage the events at celebrity parties in clubs all over London. So I always knew what was going on.

    Then these guys appeared on the scene. They were just some normal guys who’d rented a church hall for small event one evening, when they found an old-school bingo machine.

    You know the sort where you have to turn it by hand.

    Anyhoo… they started playing bingo, and had an awesome evening.

    Which is when they thought…

    Hey, if we’re having a great time doing this, other people will as well!

    So they went and got their own bingo machine, still old-school of course, and began running parties where you played bingo.

    And it exploded.

    When I went to them, they were holding parties in venues with over a thousand people!

    The pretence for the party was always something else, like a school disco or a group meeting. Then at the prescribed time, which they had huge clocks setup to show you, they’d shut the doors and it would change to the Underground Rebel Bingo party.

    Yes you played bingo. Yes they gave away prizes. Otherwise it was like any other party, you drank and danced.

    But what they’d done, was to start with something they enjoyed, that sounds familiar ;), and then tested it out for themselves.

    Kinda like a case-study online.

    Once they knew it was working, they scaled it up into a huge business.

    Why did it work so well?

    Because everyone was bored of going to normal club nights. The same ole thing time and again. What they did is sell something normal, like the school disco party, but everyone knew there was something else going on from the name.

    Then on the night itself, they bridged the gap between school disco party and underground rebel bingo rave superbly. They made you feel like part of a small and secret group, even though there were a thousand people the room.

    Which is exactly what you need to do when someone opts into your landing page, you need to bridge them from opt-in to sales page.

    And one very neat way of doing this is shown in Jason’s Payday Tornado.

    You can check it out here.

    I was going through a copy of it last night, and it’s got some good information. It’s not rocket science, it’s not trying to be all new and clever, it’s just showing a very nifty way to immediately sell to the people on your list and convert them at a very high rate.

    But the most interesting part was in the last video, around the six minute and thirty five second mark.

    This is where he talks about how to choose what you’re going to sell.

    Nnnnngggg, I really want to tell you what it is. But it’s not my product, so I can’t.

    I tell you what, if you take a look at it, like it and decide to get it, then shoot my an email to contact@michaelwilding.com and I’ll shoot you back an email with what I think is so clever about that part.

    Honestly, I’m not sure Jason even realises how clever what he’s said to do is. It’s so obvious when you see it, but those are always the hardest things to uncover.

    https://michaelwilding.com/recommends/?id=paydaytornado

    Michael

  • What the jiminy cricket was that!

    What the jiminy cricket was that!

    Yesterday I ballsed up. I’ve been running online businesses for over a decade, and still make mistakes. Hey that’s normal. We can’t get it right all the time.

    I re-sent the welcome email to my newsletter, to every single person on my list. So you probably got it again.

    Apologies for that.

    But something interesting also happened…

    A bunch of people who’d joined my newsletter months ago, had never opened a single email, opened the welcome email and are now part of our FB group.

    So welcome to all those folk who decided to start reading my emails yesterday. You’re gonna be pleased you did.

    Now, we’re into count-down for the printing of the next issue of Business Ignition, and inside it’s got:

    • Crushing Twitter On Auto-Pilot
    • Preventing Your Readers from Slitting Their Wrists at your Outsourced Blog Content
    • The Email Toilet Brush
    • Episode 1: Becoming A Facebook Rockstar
    • Video Marketing Revealed

    Which, if you’re serious about your online business, is going to make your investment back ten times over.

    Heck, some folk have said I should be selling my Twitter strategy for hundreds on it’s own. After all, my tweets now get 5972 views a week.

    All that spine-tingling goodness is inside the pages of next months issue, and there’s still time to grab it before it goes to the printers.

    https://michaelwilding.com/business-ignition/

    Michael

  • Great British Biscuits

    Great British Biscuits

    If there’s something that we love in England, it’s a cup of tea and biscuits. Which is why, when the tree surgeons arrived this morning, that was the first thing I offered them.

    To my amazement, they rejected my offer until they’d done a few hours of work.

    Initially, I had a few people come to quote on trimming back our trees. They all came out and spent about an hour looking around our grounds, and then almost none got back in touch.

    Now, I have a policy, if I’ve got someone round to quote and they don’t get back in touch, I never chase them. Clearly they don’t need the work. Or if they do, they’re too disorganised to remember they visited me, and I don’t want people like that working for me anyway.

    Then I found Terry of Arb-Core.

    When I say ‘found’, he was recommended by somebody local who’d used him a number of times.

    Anyhoo… we got chatting, which is kinda something I like to do, and it turns out that a few times Terry had been shafted by prospective clients.

    You see, he also takes care of getting permission from the local government to do the work to the trees. We live in a conservation area, so everything has to get approval before it can be done.

    Well… some people would say they’d use him to do the work, he’d go and submit all the forms for approval, and… they’d then go and use someone else.

    Which meant he’d completely wasted a few hours of his time.

    There’s something lovely about local companies who work based on trust, and quite often you can do that locally. But when you start to scale, you’ll get people who take the piss.

    Here’s what he should have done…

    1. Charged a fee for planning submission
    2. Refund the fee when you booked in for the work

    Doing this, he’d almost certainly get more customers than he does now, aside from the fact that he wouldn’t lose some people after he’s done the planning permission for them.

    Why?

    Because you should always ask your prospects for a small commitment first, then when you get a small one, ask for a slightly bigger one. That’s how you go from selling a $7 ebook to $1997 consulting.

    Michael

    P.S. There’s more on this, and a whole step-by-step bizniss, for you to follow nestled within the pages of https://michaelwilding.com/business-ignition/

  • How to hack your way to wealth

    How to hack your way to wealth

    Let’s be honest with each other. We all want to make more money for less work. I know you’re nodding, even if you don’t want to.

    And it’s possible, the folk on Business Ignition are already on their way to making a six-figure salary on two hours (at most) a day.

    But I don’t want to talk about Business Ignition today. You know where to go if you want to join. And if you don’t want to join, then you’re probably not ready for it.

    Today I want to talk about how you can hack your way to wealth.

    And it only requires you to do one thing. It’s so unbelievably simple, that I know most people won’t do it.

    The simpler something is to do, the less people do it. For some reason, if something isn’t complicated, then it can’t possibly work in the minds of a lot of people.

    Well that’s bull.

    In my experience the opposite is true. The simpler something is, then the more likely it is to work outstandingly well.

    So, here’s the one thing you need to do to hack your way to wealth…

    Track everything.

    Literally that’s it.

    You want to track every single link you put anywhere. It’s not difficult. Sending traffic from your blog post to your sales page, use a tracking link. Sending traffic from solo ads to your optin, use a tracking link. Sending traffic from your Facebook page to your blog, use a tracking link.

    Use a tracking link everywhere.

    If you do that, and the folk who are serious about hacking their way to wealth will, after a couple of months, you’ll start to see which sources of traffic are converting the best. And that means…

    …you can focus 80% of your time on driving more traffic from those sources.

    How do you track all these links?

    Well, you can use Google Analytics, but that’s overkill, and kinda complicated to get setup. Personally I use software called ClickMagick.

    You can get a free trial here.

    There’s no installation, it takes seconds to create a tracking link, and you can put links into ‘groups’ to make it easy to find them.

    Having sent over 20,000 clicks through ClickMagick so far, it is by far the most simple, cheap and reliable tracker I’ve ever tested.

    And I’ve tested most of them!

    My guess is, very few people will start doing this, but if you want to hack your way to wealth in the simplest, quickest way possible, grab a free trial of ClickMagick and start tracking everything.

    https://michaelwilding.com/recommends/?id=clckmgk

    Michael

  • The Marketing Steak Scandal

    The Marketing Steak Scandal

    Over here in the UK, we have a huge supermarket chain called Tesco’s. They have a range of products like these:

    tesco-fake-farms

    Looks good right?

    Nice, wholesome, farm made produce. That’s what everybody wants, and they sell it by the ton.

    But here’s the thing…

    …none of those products are from wholesome farms.

    (and they charge more for them because they’re supposed to be)

    They’re mass-produced, like all their other products, but the marketing department have gone and slapped on names and branding, that makes it ‘look like’ they’re from wholesome farms.

    Clever stuff.

    There’s a bit of an out-cry going on about it at the moment. Which I get, because they’re selling a product as something that it’s not. I don’t like that, and they’re charging more because of what it’s supposed to be.

    Anyhoo… as a lesson in marketing, it’s pretty friggin awesome.

    Because it follows one of the primary principles of selling:

    Sell what your customers ‘think’ they want.

    Yes, it should align with what the product actually does, but your sales pitch has to be about what they desire, or think they desire (and the two aren’t necessarily the same).

    To do this without any Tesco-like jiggery pokery, and still make bucket-loads of sales, you simply need to follow the methods I share in Business Ignition.

    https://michaelwilding.com/business-ignition/

    Michael