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Content Marketing On Steroids: Email Autoresponder Secrets with John McIntyre
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Jake Hower:

You're listening to the Multimedia Marketing Show.

Jake Hower:

This is episode number 16.

Jake Hower:

Today's guest is John McIntyre from Dropdead Copy, who is

Jake Hower:

known as the autoresponder guy.

Jake Hower:

So essentially, John writes email series that can be sent out to your

Jake Hower:

customer base and help close sales.

Jake Hower:

While you ask, are we bringing on someone to speak about email marketing when.

Jake Hower:

The focus of the show is content marketing.

Jake Hower:

I feel it plays an integral role and it really helps build the

Jake Hower:

connection with your audience.

Jake Hower:

Email is still incredibly personal for most people.

Jake Hower:

Just about everybody manages their entire day via their email box.

Jake Hower:

Getting in, and I guess you could say getting traction in somebody's

Jake Hower:

email inbox is very important.

Jake Hower:

So we've brought on John, who's an expert in his field today.

Jake Hower:

So rather than hold off any longer, let's get straight into the interview

Jake Hower:

with John and speak to him about how you can go out and create your own

Jake Hower:

autoresponder funnel to help connect with your audience and also to sell more.\

Jake Hower:

John, how are you?

Jake Hower:

Fantastic, Jack.

Jake Hower:

Thanks very much for coming on.

Jake Hower:

And as you can imagine, or if you've been following along to the show out there,

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listeners, you might've worked out that.

Jake Hower:

What I tend to do is consume information or learn information as I need it.

Jake Hower:

And so over the last few episodes, you will have noticed that I've

Jake Hower:

been bringing on people relevant to what I was learning at that time.

Jake Hower:

So one of the recent shows with James Wedmore was about moving

Jake Hower:

people from YouTube into your funnel.

Jake Hower:

And this is a natural extension of that with John today, who is

Jake Hower:

obviously an expert at moving people from that funnel into customers.

Jake Hower:

So John, I'd love.

Jake Hower:

For you now to give our listeners a little bit of a background about you and

Jake Hower:

how you've become the autoresponder guy.

John McIntyre:

All right, Jake.

John McIntyre:

So I moved to the moved to the Philippines in October, 2011, as

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part of kind of an internship doing marketing for a resort there that wasn't.

John McIntyre:

Copywriting, that was something different.

John McIntyre:

So I was doing that for a while and around, maybe six months

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after I arrived, I started getting involved in learning copy.

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And the reason for that was that I, I had a product, right?

John McIntyre:

So it was a weight loss product, taught people how to lose a little bit of

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weight with fresh fruit and vegetables.

John McIntyre:

Now, at first I was selling this product as a 30, 30 30 recipes, right?

John McIntyre:

So it was a very, what I call a commodity based title, just recipes, right?

John McIntyre:

And then, so what I did is I changed that title because it wasn't really selling.

John McIntyre:

So I changed the title.

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I don't know where it came from.

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Maybe it was a light bulb moment and I changed it to lose 10 pounds in

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two weeks and that one simple change instantly caused people to buy it.

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Like all of a sudden I, the amount of people buying it.

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Increased by two or three or four times.

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And that to me, really worked me up to the power of how I say stuff like

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the way I present things and the way I communicate things with the

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marketplace is extremely important to to being successful in that way.

John McIntyre:

So that was kinda like where copywriting started for me.

John McIntyre:

And I also knew that if I could be the guy that could knew how to make

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money, that knew how to make myself money and knew how to make other

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people and their businesses money.

John McIntyre:

There would always be demand for whatever I did, whether in a recession or

Jake Hower:

not.

Jake Hower:

Yeah, absolutely.

Jake Hower:

Yeah.

Jake Hower:

So it makes total sense.

Jake Hower:

So why autoresponders?

John McIntyre:

Autoresponders.

John McIntyre:

It was like a gradual shift when I started writing, I started

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doing just random copy jobs.

John McIntyre:

I would maybe do a sales letter for someone or I did do an autoresponder.

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But I wasn't really hip to the value that orders, order responders could

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create for the small business owners.

John McIntyre:

So it was I guess I just found my way over a number of months, a number of weeks and

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it transitioned into where I am right now.

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And, as the order responding guy, which is something I did about a month ago for

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positioning reasons, was to realize that I can either be a generic copywriter

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and there's tons of generic copywriters.

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Or I can start calling myself, and tell people that other people call

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me this as well, as the autoresponder guy, which then positions me

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as this guy who specifically...

John McIntyre:

Does autoresponder, still does sales letters.

John McIntyre:

That's fine, I can write, doesn't matter.

John McIntyre:

I can write either.

John McIntyre:

But, if people think, oh, I need an autoresponder, they're much

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more likely to go, you can get an autoresponder from the autoresponder guy.

John McIntyre:

Which is way better than an autoresponder from just an ordinary copywriter.

Jake Hower:

Yeah, absolutely.

Jake Hower:

It sure is.

Jake Hower:

Now, one of the things I guess, which really attracted me to you, John, and

Jake Hower:

what you're doing, I've heard you on a couple of podcasts prior, but the

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main thing was the fact that you've recently been recording a heap of videos.

Jake Hower:

So I guess you've prescribed to this content marketing strategy.

Jake Hower:

And that really built up my trust in inviting you on the show,

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because I knew based on your videos, I knew you were an expert.

Jake Hower:

How have the results been with that to date?

Jake Hower:

I'm

John McIntyre:

just being, it's been, a little bit slow.

John McIntyre:

What that came from was I I've always thought of content marketing

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is a very slow way to do things, but I was out with a friend one

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weekend and we were, going hiking.

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And we started talking about it, and I can't remember exactly what made me do it.

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And I was like I'm going to do a video challenge.

John McIntyre:

I'm going to create 60 videos in the next 30 days.

John McIntyre:

And part of it was just, to see if I could do it, to have a bit

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of fun, to do something that I hadn't really done before.

John McIntyre:

And I've had a few people say great videos, just same stuff you said.

John McIntyre:

Yeah, great videos, really like what you're coming out with.

John McIntyre:

But the way I'm thinking about it is it hasn't been,

John McIntyre:

it has been a little bit slow.

John McIntyre:

But that doesn't bother me because to me it's a long term thing.

John McIntyre:

So I know that in six months someone could be browsing around the website

John McIntyre:

and could finally, maybe they get a ton of value out of these videos.

John McIntyre:

And what really woke me up to it was I had a few people before I

John McIntyre:

started doing the videos that they would email me about Dropdead Copy,

John McIntyre:

that's the site, dropdeadcopy.

John McIntyre:

com and they, it had been a hobby, right?

John McIntyre:

I hadn't been putting much time into it, I'd post whenever

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I, felt inspired to write.

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That was about it.

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And then I had a few emails from people and some of them said

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that the content was incredible.

John McIntyre:

One guy even said that he printed out a number of my articles to

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read, make notes and highlight, which I thought was incredible.

John McIntyre:

And that really made me think that's what the articles are doing.

John McIntyre:

I can do the same thing with videos.

John McIntyre:

Videos are easy to produce and it's just another way to communicate.

John McIntyre:

Some people are going to prefer videos to content.

John McIntyre:

So that's really got me up, got the ball rolling and

Jake Hower:

yeah.

Jake Hower:

Yeah, definitely.

Jake Hower:

Definitely.

Jake Hower:

And I can certainly see that long term I'd suggest that's a strategy

Jake Hower:

you should continue to focus on.

Jake Hower:

Now, what we'd like to do in today's interview, John, for our listeners

Jake Hower:

what we aim to do here is to provide some actionable advice that people

Jake Hower:

can take away from an episode and go and implement in their own businesses.

Jake Hower:

Now I would like to.

Jake Hower:

First of all, focus a little bit about the connection between

Jake Hower:

content marketing and introducing an autoresponder into your sales funnel.

Jake Hower:

And then after that, maybe we break down how we go about setting

Jake Hower:

up an autoresponder sequence.

Jake Hower:

How does that sound?

Jake Hower:

That sounds great.

Jake Hower:

Fantastic.

Jake Hower:

All right, so let's keep focusing on you for just a second and what

Jake Hower:

you're doing with these videos.

Jake Hower:

Have you spent any time?

Jake Hower:

I'm strategically thinking about how you're going to connect your

Jake Hower:

audience from viewing these videos on YouTube to getting them into your

John McIntyre:

funnel.

John McIntyre:

Absolutely.

John McIntyre:

The whole reason, and this goes back into marketing as a whole, like content

John McIntyre:

marketing and marketing as a very broad thing is the fundamental idea is you're

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trying to get someone's attention and you don't want anyone's attention.

John McIntyre:

You want the attention of a very specific person.

John McIntyre:

So say a business owner like myself has something to sell.

John McIntyre:

I want the attention of people who need that product and who are likely to buy it.

John McIntyre:

All the other people.

John McIntyre:

I couldn't care less about right.

John McIntyre:

So when I am thinking about these videos, I have been and I've been

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doing this with blog posts as well is that I because I'm positioning

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myself as the autoresponder guy.

John McIntyre:

I want the attention of people who You don't need an autoresponder

John McIntyre:

right now or may need one in the future or are interested in

John McIntyre:

learning about autoresponders.

John McIntyre:

So the way I think about that is therefore I need to create content

John McIntyre:

that's going to interest those people.

John McIntyre:

I don't need to create generic copy content.

John McIntyre:

I do that from time to time.

John McIntyre:

But I read the big picture is really about getting the attention.

John McIntyre:

Of these people who want to know more about auto response.

John McIntyre:

So it's just great content about auto response.

John McIntyre:

So I've had a, it was a blog post I wrote called eBooks suck, which is about

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why I don't think eBooks are a very effective way to get people onto the list.

John McIntyre:

A lot of the videos I've done are focused on.

John McIntyre:

How do I write autoresponders or how many emails should you have or

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how to make people open your emails.

John McIntyre:

So by doing that, what that does is it gets the attention of people

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who the attention of the people that want to get the attention off.

Jake Hower:

Yes, certainly.

Jake Hower:

That makes a lot of sense.

Jake Hower:

What I can take out of that is certainly that thinking strategically

Jake Hower:

about it is very important.

Jake Hower:

There's no point just going out there and producing content willy

Jake Hower:

nilly without the end goal in mind.

Jake Hower:

So I think for our listeners out there, if you can take anything from that is

Jake Hower:

to, if you haven't sat down and thought about strategically, what you want your

Jake Hower:

customers to do or your prospects to do is to actually sit down and focus on that

Jake Hower:

and then start molding content around it.

Jake Hower:

Okay, so if we continue going through your funnel, John, people view

Jake Hower:

these videos on YouTube and on your site, where do you take them from

Jake Hower:

that free content across into your autoresponder funnel at the bottom

John McIntyre:

of every post?

John McIntyre:

So I have a kind of a nontraditional blog website, theme most blogs have a, the

John McIntyre:

main content on the left and a sidebar on the right or the other way around.

John McIntyre:

I can set mine up.

John McIntyre:

So it's just one big page.

John McIntyre:

So the focus, when someone lands on the website, it's all in

John McIntyre:

the content, it's all in what?

John McIntyre:

What value I'm trying to give to them.

John McIntyre:

So at the bottom of every post, there's a section which at the moment,

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it starts off by talking about what they want, and this is a key to.

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An absolute key to copywriting, to sales copy, to marketing is that

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instead of just writing what I want or what I think they should want, I'm

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thinking, what do they really want here?

John McIntyre:

So at the bottom of every post, it says something like, would you like

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to build an automatic sales machine?

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And what that really does is I think a lot, it gets a lot of people's

John McIntyre:

attention and then they, I don't put the form there on the page.

John McIntyre:

I discourage people from doing that.

John McIntyre:

You want to make people click.

John McIntyre:

And then take them to another landing page where you can tell them a bit more

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about what you're going to give to them.

John McIntyre:

And then, for me, on my page, the form is at the bottom of the page.

John McIntyre:

So I don't do this above the fold stuff.

John McIntyre:

I don't put the form in the sidebar or even on the, below,

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right below the blog post.

John McIntyre:

I make people click over, then they read a bit more about

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Basically I sell them on it.

John McIntyre:

So I tell them about autoresponders.

John McIntyre:

I tell them they're going to receive an autoresponder course, crash course,

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basically, and where they're going to learn about how I write autoresponders.

John McIntyre:

I had a, how I write subject lines, how I create concept,

John McIntyre:

all those different things.

John McIntyre:

So then that means is that if someone actually ends up signing up, they're

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very qualified there because they're going to be very interested in

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autoresponders because they've taken the time to go and read that page, scroll

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all the way down the bottom and find the place where they get to sign up.

Jake Hower:

Yeah, it makes a lot of sense.

Jake Hower:

And I think looking at one of your videos recently, you're talking about you tested

Jake Hower:

offering something as an upting bride against just the offering a newsletter

Jake Hower:

signup box on the bottom of every post.

Jake Hower:

So maybe before I actually delve into this, can you recap for the

Jake Hower:

listeners exactly what you're talking about in this video?

John McIntyre:

So what happened there was I, so I've had this autoresponder

John McIntyre:

about autoresponders out for a while now.

John McIntyre:

I thought a lot of blogs have a free updates.

John McIntyre:

We sign up and you get sent, send updates.

John McIntyre:

So I thought if people are signing up to this other list, they're

John McIntyre:

only going to want free updates.

John McIntyre:

That's a logical kind of thing.

John McIntyre:

So I do what most people do.

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And I put the form, a little opt in box just below the post, just below

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there's a little about me section.

John McIntyre:

And then you have the email updates section and almost no one signs up to it.

John McIntyre:

So yeah, so much more people sign up.

John McIntyre:

So that form's right there.

John McIntyre:

It's right below the blog post.

John McIntyre:

It's.

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It's very easy to see it's right in front of you.

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The other order is like the other list or funnel.

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Someone has to actually click over to another page, like I said, and scroll

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down the bottom and sign up there.

John McIntyre:

And that gets many more opt ins than the free updates box, which is right in front

Jake Hower:

of them.

Jake Hower:

And that's really interesting.

Jake Hower:

And it's I've to this date followed that free update strategy, thinking that

Jake Hower:

only people who are really interested in what I'm talking about or the

Jake Hower:

topic will sign up for free updates.

Jake Hower:

But I think what clicked in my head, watching your video is that you have

Jake Hower:

to direct people and you've got to get the right people on your list.

Jake Hower:

And by offering a free updates, you're not necessarily targeting someone

Jake Hower:

who's going to become a customer.

John McIntyre:

Cause I think what a lot of people miss is that when you have.

John McIntyre:

Free updates is that all you're doing is you're getting the attention of

John McIntyre:

people who just want to get updates.

John McIntyre:

That's all you know about them.

John McIntyre:

Whereas when you have a specific offer, such as I'm going to send

John McIntyre:

you a course about how to write autoresponders, everyone who signs

John McIntyre:

up to that is, I already know they're interested in autoresponders.

John McIntyre:

So there's a real critical, it's very simple, but it's a really critical

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difference between the two things that, that a lot of people miss.

John McIntyre:

And they could really improve their, their content marketing efforts,

John McIntyre:

their marketing efforts as a whole by understanding this, that they need to get

John McIntyre:

specific attention, not broad attention.

John McIntyre:

Yeah,

Jake Hower:

definitely.

Jake Hower:

All right let's move down into the actual autoresponders then.

Jake Hower:

What's the typical structure of an autoresponder sequence that you're setting

John McIntyre:

up?

John McIntyre:

The ones I do for clients are usually 10 emails.

John McIntyre:

We usually send them, it'll depend on the situation and the context, but

John McIntyre:

usually every three days and it will be the first thing I will say, Hey, welcome

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to, depending on whether it's corporate or a personal style kind of thing.

John McIntyre:

I might say, Hey, welcome to the family.

John McIntyre:

I can actually bring up my template.

John McIntyre:

So the first thing I will say something like, welcome to the family.

John McIntyre:

Hey, John Dropdeck Coffee Crash Course, which from now

John McIntyre:

onwards I'll refer to as DDC.

John McIntyre:

Real glad you're here.

John McIntyre:

Before I start, I have a question for you.

John McIntyre:

What's the most important thing in marketing in 2013?

John McIntyre:

Think about the answer.

John McIntyre:

I doubt you'll even get close, but give it a shot.

John McIntyre:

I'll give you the answer in in another email.

John McIntyre:

Now, what I've done right there is created an open loop, which is going to make them,

John McIntyre:

it's going to create tension so they're more likely to read my future emails.

John McIntyre:

The rest of the email essentially sets the stage.

John McIntyre:

I might say, ask them a couple of questions like that.

John McIntyre:

And then I might say I'm going to be sending you some information

John McIntyre:

about order respondents, right?

John McIntyre:

So you're going to learn some really valuable stuff about how to write

John McIntyre:

subject lines to get opened or how to write emails that really build a solid

John McIntyre:

relationship or how to get people to actually click or how to get people to

John McIntyre:

reply to your emails with these special questions or what questions you can

John McIntyre:

ask your audience to, that will get you valuable information on what you need to

John McIntyre:

say to them to get them to buy something.

John McIntyre:

So that's what I'll set the stage for in, in the first email and then the next.

John McIntyre:

Email two or email 10 is just delivering that value.

John McIntyre:

Whatever I've told them, I'm going

Jake Hower:

to give them.

Jake Hower:

Okay.

Jake Hower:

And that value that you're delivering, is it simply just value that they're

Jake Hower:

going to derive from the actual email?

Jake Hower:

Are you directing them to, I don't know that content in which you've

Jake Hower:

already potentially produced on site or something like that?

Jake Hower:

There's no

John McIntyre:

right answer here, right?

John McIntyre:

So I think most people seem to think that there's like an exact recipe, but the.

John McIntyre:

There's not, right?

John McIntyre:

The crucial thing is that you're helping someone.

John McIntyre:

And I read a forum thread this morning and someone said to me, someone posted

John McIntyre:

the question that they had just, they were getting more opt ins, right?

John McIntyre:

So they were getting more sign ups, they were happy with that, but

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they wanted to sell them faster.

John McIntyre:

So they weren't happy with the fact that they were presenting someone with

John McIntyre:

a sales page after they signed up, and they wanted to sell them faster.

John McIntyre:

And I can't understand that, because if they don't...

John McIntyre:

If they don't know who this person is in the first place, they're

John McIntyre:

not going to sign up faster.

John McIntyre:

And if someone tries to sell them straight up, they're leaving a

John McIntyre:

huge amount of money on the table.

John McIntyre:

So what really needs to happen, and what most people don't do, is

John McIntyre:

they need to create value and help these people solve their problems

John McIntyre:

before they can sell them something.

John McIntyre:

There's a, there's an element of trust that has to be created.

John McIntyre:

Jay Abraham calls this is in another video I think I've done, is the

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strategy of preeminence, which is...

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You want to become your prospect's most trusted advisor.

John McIntyre:

So when they think about, I need to talk to someone about autorespondence,

John McIntyre:

I want them to think John is the autorespondent guy and I really trust him.

John McIntyre:

I like him.

John McIntyre:

He's the guy I want to speak to.

John McIntyre:

And the only way to do that is by giving them value.

John McIntyre:

So with that in mind, when it comes to emails and what you

John McIntyre:

put in them, it's about value.

John McIntyre:

That can be my blog posts or my videos.

John McIntyre:

That can be other people.

John McIntyre:

I'll send people to YouTube videos sometimes.

John McIntyre:

I will just include the content in the email.

John McIntyre:

But the essential overriding fact that has to happen, preferably in

John McIntyre:

every single email, is that you're helping this person one way or another.

Jake Hower:

Yeah, sure.

Jake Hower:

That's great.

Jake Hower:

I've got a couple of questions from that, but I think it's probably going

Jake Hower:

to pay to hold them for just a second.

Jake Hower:

And let's go through a typical sequence that you deliver.

Jake Hower:

So we've had a look at the first email, we've had a look at

Jake Hower:

delivering value in the next couple.

Jake Hower:

When do you start asking for a purchase?

Jake Hower:

Me

John McIntyre:

personally, I usually wait until email three or email four.

John McIntyre:

There's not really a right answer here.

John McIntyre:

It may be relevant or it may be valuable for you to suggest it earlier.

John McIntyre:

But what most people do...

John McIntyre:

I think Dan Andrews coined this phrase was they try and sleep with

John McIntyre:

their opt ins on the first date.

John McIntyre:

So they try and sell them way too soon.

John McIntyre:

It's like you're trying to meet a girl at the bar and you try

John McIntyre:

and sleep with her straight away.

John McIntyre:

But you ask her, let's get back to the hotel room now.

John McIntyre:

Instead of taking some time to, to, build a relationship.

John McIntyre:

Yeah there's not a right answer, but I would say you want to

John McIntyre:

establish some sort of baseline.

John McIntyre:

Then again, if they already know who you are, if they're already familiar

John McIntyre:

with Jake Powell, or they already know who John McIntyre is because of...

John McIntyre:

Maybe it's interviews that I've been on or different things like that.

John McIntyre:

There's not so much.

John McIntyre:

So there is someone has to take the time to understand what what's the

John McIntyre:

current state of the relationship between the prospect and the business

John McIntyre:

and what's going to make them move them towards the point where they're buying.

John McIntyre:

So if they're cold, then you don't want to pitch them for a few emails at least.

John McIntyre:

But if they're already fairly warm or if they're hot even, yeah, sure.

John McIntyre:

Tell them about the product straight away because they already know I can trust you.

John McIntyre:

But it's that kind of thing.

John McIntyre:

Does that make sense?

Jake Hower:

Yeah, it does.

Jake Hower:

It does.

Jake Hower:

And the question I really had about it, which makes me wonder, you're

Jake Hower:

talking about earlier about the fact that you're trying to warm up

Jake Hower:

somebody, but people will warm up and cool down at different stages.

Jake Hower:

So is there a way in which you can keep an autoresponder funnel going

Jake Hower:

that's going to capture as many people at the right time as possible?

John McIntyre:

You mean, so if you don't put a pitch in every email,

John McIntyre:

you're not going to get everyone?

Jake Hower:

Is that what you meant?

Jake Hower:

Yes.

Jake Hower:

And then on the flip side, if you're pitching too early, maybe you're

Jake Hower:

not going to get someone as well.

Jake Hower:

It's like, how do you keep as many people on site as possible?

John McIntyre:

I think part of it is understanding the,

John McIntyre:

the target prospect, right?

John McIntyre:

So the people who buy straight away, they're probably going to buy later.

John McIntyre:

There's a fairly good chance that if they're ready to buy, the first

John McIntyre:

email, I'm sure they're probably ready to buy in the third or fourth email.

John McIntyre:

Conversely, though, the people who would be ready to buy in the third or fourth

John McIntyre:

can be extremely pissed off when you try and sell them in the first email.

John McIntyre:

So there's more at stake when, you pitch too early than if you pitch too late.

John McIntyre:

And what I think another thing is that a lot of people think

John McIntyre:

about the sale as a one off event.

John McIntyre:

What people really need to do, what businesses need to do is

John McIntyre:

they need to think about this as an ongoing relationship.

John McIntyre:

So that first sale is just the first step.

John McIntyre:

Because this person, if you connect with them on an, on an intimate basis

John McIntyre:

and they, they like you and they trust you, they're going to be buying from

John McIntyre:

you for the next 12 months or for the next 5 years or for the next 10 years.

John McIntyre:

And that's, I think that's the secret to long term business growth.

John McIntyre:

These one off, one hit wonders.

John McIntyre:

They're leaving, it's a huge amount of money on the table.

John McIntyre:

There's a reason why guys like Jay Abraham...

John McIntyre:

Tell people that the revenue and the business growth can, a large

John McIntyre:

amount of it comes from the customer list, the people that you've already

John McIntyre:

sold things to, not the new people.

Jake Hower:

Yeah.

Jake Hower:

Yeah.

Jake Hower:

And I apologize, John, I'm pulling my thoughts together

Jake Hower:

as we're going through this.

Jake Hower:

I guess one way you can probably do it is of course design the autoresponders for

Jake Hower:

the different funnels or the different products you're looking to sell.

Jake Hower:

And I guess that you could almost have, and correct me if I'm wrong, potentially

Jake Hower:

you could have a master autoresponder sequence and then direct people into

Jake Hower:

more relevant sequences as you're going through that master sequence.

John McIntyre:

So Oh, you can do it with Aweber or Office Autopilot is one

John McIntyre:

that a lot of people rave about, which is, yeah you might have the master, the

John McIntyre:

main list, which is about weight loss.

John McIntyre:

And then you have, let's say in one email, in email three, you send people to a

John McIntyre:

video on YouTube about the raw food diet.

John McIntyre:

And what you can do with that email software is every person who clicks that

John McIntyre:

link to learn more about the raw food diet is you can put them on a secondary list.

John McIntyre:

So then when it comes time in the future for you to, maybe you have a product

John McIntyre:

that you're releasing in the raw food market, or maybe you're promoting someone

John McIntyre:

else's product, instead of sending it to the master list and pissing off all

John McIntyre:

the people that aren't interested in the raw food diet, you can just look at the

John McIntyre:

people who clicked on that link, because everyone who clicked on that link has

John McIntyre:

essentially put up their hand and said, I'm interested in, raw food, click that

John McIntyre:

and it's the same if they buy products.

John McIntyre:

Maybe you have a product that you sell and it's a raw food diet, like

John McIntyre:

you have a generic weight loss list.

John McIntyre:

So everyone is on our list, men, women they're all just interested in getting

John McIntyre:

healthier and losing weight, but you have a raw food product that you try and sell.

John McIntyre:

So then what happens is every person who buys that product goes

John McIntyre:

onto a secondary list and you know that everyone who on that list.

John McIntyre:

Is interested in raw food because they've spent money on it.

John McIntyre:

So if you were to have a, send out another offer or another product

John McIntyre:

or another something like that on raw food, you would send it to the

John McIntyre:

raw food list, not the master list.

Jake Hower:

Yeah, cool.

Jake Hower:

Makes a lot of sense.

Jake Hower:

All right.

Jake Hower:

Let's then get to the actionable part for our listeners.

Jake Hower:

Okay.

Jake Hower:

I'm a good example here.

Jake Hower:

I don't have an autoresponder sequence.

Jake Hower:

Let's say I'm selling a four week masterclass course for helping

Jake Hower:

people create a video system.

Jake Hower:

How do I go about setting up my own autoresponder?

John McIntyre:

So the first thing when I would talk to a client, I

John McIntyre:

would say who, so what is the product?

John McIntyre:

So you said it's a video system.

John McIntyre:

Yes.

John McIntyre:

Okay.

John McIntyre:

And what does it teach

Jake Hower:

people?

Jake Hower:

So video system, it shows people how to put in place a team around

Jake Hower:

you, which is going to allow you to produce consistent new style videos

Jake Hower:

and leverage it across the multiple channels in under 40 minutes per episode.

John McIntyre:

Okay, great.

John McIntyre:

Now, who, who was the target, like who was the target prospect for that?

John McIntyre:

target

Jake Hower:

prospects for that would be most of our listeners.

Jake Hower:

So content marketers who are running their own businesses and need more

Jake Hower:

time to focus on running their business rather than producing content.

Jake Hower:

Okay, great.

John McIntyre:

So what we have right there is we have the product, which

John McIntyre:

is this video this course, which teaches people how to do these videos.

John McIntyre:

And then you have the rough market.

John McIntyre:

Where you're trying to sell them to and the way I frame this up is there's

John McIntyre:

a bridge that you have to build from where the prospect is right now, which

John McIntyre:

is content marketers to where you want them to be, which is buying this product

John McIntyre:

and everything in between, which is the bridge is going to be the autoresponder.

John McIntyre:

So in a case like this, instead of saying, science marketing, a multimedia

John McIntyre:

marketing show list just for free updates or just something like random,

John McIntyre:

you would have something like, I'm sure that if you have this product, you

John McIntyre:

could probably create 5 or 10 emails of some really useful information

John McIntyre:

about how to do these videos, right?

John McIntyre:

Sure.

John McIntyre:

And you would, so you would create a course, 5 emails, 10 emails,

John McIntyre:

and you would, it'd be like the product, but a light version.

John McIntyre:

So you would tell them a lot about the what they need to do, but

John McIntyre:

wouldn't so much tell them how.

John McIntyre:

This is a really, this is a marketing technique you can use.

John McIntyre:

So you would tell them what to do in the emails.

John McIntyre:

And then you say if you want to get the how, or you want to get

John McIntyre:

the real nitty gritty details on how to do this, I explain

John McIntyre:

everything in this the free webinar.

John McIntyre:

I see you're promoting it with the webinar.

John McIntyre:

So you would go from website visitor to autoresponder subscriber to

John McIntyre:

webinar, and there are going to be more engaged webinar visitors.

John McIntyre:

And then you would, at the end of the webinar, I'm assuming that

John McIntyre:

you try and sell them the product.

John McIntyre:

So the autoresponder is just to bridge that gap.

John McIntyre:

Those people, the content marketers, you would use the, like a landing page to

John McIntyre:

capture the attention of those content marketers who are interested in video.

John McIntyre:

So the headline would be something like, are you interested in video marketing?

John McIntyre:

Or do you want to automate video, your video marketing process?

John McIntyre:

And what the headline is doing is it gets the attention of

John McIntyre:

the exact people you want.

John McIntyre:

And then you tell them I want to send you 10 emails or five emails to the crash.

John McIntyre:

It's, it's Jay Cowell's crash course to automating the video production.

John McIntyre:

And, sign up and I'll send it out.

John McIntyre:

And then you send them each, each email every three days.

John McIntyre:

And then have this free webinar which you could automate that as well.

John McIntyre:

So you could have that on email five and email ten or, every email.

John McIntyre:

So what you would do, but instead of pitching, instead of sending emails out

John McIntyre:

and say, Hey, my product's really good.

John McIntyre:

Here's why you should sign up.

John McIntyre:

You would just give them valuable information and then say, Look,

John McIntyre:

if you want to learn more, if you want to get more in depth in this

John McIntyre:

and you want to actually make it happen, here's the product.

John McIntyre:

That's how I would use an autoresponder

Jake Hower:

in this situation.

Jake Hower:

Yeah, cool.

Jake Hower:

All right.

Jake Hower:

Okay.

Jake Hower:

How about crafting individual emails?

Jake Hower:

I'm not big on really sneakily crafted sales pages, et cetera, et cetera.

Jake Hower:

I like speaking from the heart and making it relatively personal.

Jake Hower:

Is there like a template or something that you use through your copy

Jake Hower:

that our listeners can implement?

John McIntyre:

I don't really have a specific template I can use.

John McIntyre:

The main thing that people should keep in mind is they want to write like a talk.

John McIntyre:

Same way you talk to a friend.

John McIntyre:

The best way for this white box.

John McIntyre:

Would be to go and look at the emails that they've sent to their friends in the past.

John McIntyre:

Look at the subject lines that they've sent to their friends.

John McIntyre:

And look at the, yeah, the friends and family.

John McIntyre:

Because those emails are going to be relaxed.

John McIntyre:

They're going to be very casual.

John McIntyre:

They're going to be very personal and intimate.

John McIntyre:

And they, you want they should take that language and those, those ways

John McIntyre:

of doing things, and apply that to how they interact with emails.

John McIntyre:

Now, as for templates, I could probably create a template for that

John McIntyre:

first email and, you could, I'll create a page on DropJet Copy and

John McIntyre:

you can send people over there.

John McIntyre:

So that, and that'll give them like the email number one, the template for that,

John McIntyre:

which will set them up for the rest.

John McIntyre:

It'll, set the tone and show them how I write emails and, how they

John McIntyre:

can write the rest of them as well.

John McIntyre:

Yeah that's the main thing.

John McIntyre:

There's not much that can go wrong.

John McIntyre:

When you, yeah, just be conversational be very, be friendly.

John McIntyre:

Don't be too friendly because they might not like that.

John McIntyre:

And just give them good, valuable information.

John McIntyre:

Don't try and pitch them.

John McIntyre:

People hate to be pitched and these days it's like, it's information overload with

John McIntyre:

the internet and with everything else.

John McIntyre:

We have way too much information.

John McIntyre:

So don't try and pitch people.

John McIntyre:

Don't try and, do sneaky tactics or anything like that.

John McIntyre:

Just try and get their attention.

John McIntyre:

So if you're trying to get the attention of video people, that's what I mean.

John McIntyre:

Instead of creating a clever, entertaining, catchy headline,

John McIntyre:

all you need to say is, are you interested in video marketing?

John McIntyre:

Because that right there is going to get the attention of anyone

John McIntyre:

who's interested in video marketing, which is all you really want.

John McIntyre:

That's really it, write like a talk and provide lots of value and then

John McIntyre:

present the product that they're promoting in the context of that value.

John McIntyre:

You make it sound

Jake Hower:

so easy.

Jake Hower:

That makes sense.

Jake Hower:

Yeah.

Jake Hower:

I guess that really does it.

Jake Hower:

It resonates very strongly with me and your copy does also.

Jake Hower:

It's engaging.

Jake Hower:

It is.

Jake Hower:

It's like I'm having a conversation with you, reading

Jake Hower:

your text and it's to the point.

Jake Hower:

And I really appreciate that.

Jake Hower:

I'm not being sold using tricky tactics.

John McIntyre:

It's, and I think there's a lot of different ways to do it.

John McIntyre:

And you're going to figure out your own way.

John McIntyre:

I was speaking to James Franco the other day and you should see his emails.

John McIntyre:

The, they're like one paragraph with a picture and a link and that

John McIntyre:

works for him because he's built up an audience of people who they're,

John McIntyre:

no nonsense, they don't put up a sales hike or anything like that.

John McIntyre:

So they really appreciate these super simple, super Spartan emails.

John McIntyre:

So that could work.

John McIntyre:

It's just about understanding that like, it depends on the audience, the

John McIntyre:

people that you're trying to talk to, are they used to sales copy or are they

John McIntyre:

used to being especially in marketing, anything in marketing or internet

John McIntyre:

marketing is going to be way rude.

John McIntyre:

They've been overexposed, to the hill, to sales, copy and hype and all that.

John McIntyre:

So you don't want to do it to other people.

John McIntyre:

It might work.

John McIntyre:

So it's really about understanding who you're talking to.

John McIntyre:

That's the absolute key is understanding the

Jake Hower:

prospect.

Jake Hower:

All right, John, that's really great.

Jake Hower:

I think if we haven't done anything else in this episode, we've made it

Jake Hower:

really clear that all you need to really is focus on your customer.

Jake Hower:

If you understand your customer, then you can really write great copy.

Jake Hower:

If you, if it's coming from inside of you.

Jake Hower:

So how can our listeners find out more about you?

John McIntyre:

The best way is to go to my website, which is dropdeadcopy.

John McIntyre:

com.

John McIntyre:

I dropped that beautiful, but instead drop dead copy.

John McIntyre:

And that's where the videos are.

John McIntyre:

That's where the blog posts are.

John McIntyre:

That's where I hang out online.

John McIntyre:

That's fantastic.

Jake Hower:

And I believe you've also got a course coming up in the short term,

John McIntyre:

right?

John McIntyre:

So basically I can only handle, a couple of clients at a time.

John McIntyre:

So I've decided to convert the process I use into a product that's

John McIntyre:

going to be at the middle of March.

John McIntyre:

That'll be a four week course with our videos, audio.

John McIntyre:

Transcriptions, which it'll just walk you through step by step.

John McIntyre:

I think week one, we're going to do the big picture.

John McIntyre:

Week two will be the outline.

John McIntyre:

Week three will be writing it.

John McIntyre:

Then week four will be implementing it and the software.

John McIntyre:

So I'm just going to walk people through how I do water responders.

John McIntyre:

And it's really for small businesses.

John McIntyre:

You want to start leveraging auto responders to build a

John McIntyre:

relationship on autopilot.

Jake Hower:

Excellent.

Jake Hower:

So our listeners can just sign up over at dropdeadcopy.

Jake Hower:

com to get access

John McIntyre:

to that.

John McIntyre:

Dropdeadcopy.

John McIntyre:

com is the blog.

John McIntyre:

There's a link if they go to a blog post to the new product, or they

John McIntyre:

can go to Macintyre method, which is, I need to change my last name.

John McIntyre:

M C I N T Y R E method.

John McIntyre:

com.

Jake Hower:

That's brilliant.

Jake Hower:

All right, John, thanks very much for coming on today.

Jake Hower:

You've shared quite a substantial amount of information with

Jake Hower:

our listeners and I really

John McIntyre:

appreciate that.

John McIntyre:

Thanks, Jake.

John McIntyre:

Thanks for having me.

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