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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,
Jake Hower: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
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre:after I arrived, I started getting involved in learning copy.
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre: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.
John McIntyre:I don't know where it came from.
John McIntyre:Maybe it was a light bulb moment and I changed it to lose 10 pounds in
John McIntyre:two weeks and that one simple change instantly caused people to buy it.
John McIntyre:Like all of a sudden I, the amount of people buying it.
John McIntyre:Increased by two or three or four times.
John McIntyre:And that to me, really worked me up to the power of how I say stuff like
John McIntyre:the way I present things and the way I communicate things with the
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre:money, that knew how to make myself money and knew how to make other
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre:doing just random copy jobs.
John McIntyre:I would maybe do a sales letter for someone or I did do an autoresponder.
John McIntyre:But I wasn't really hip to the value that orders, order responders could
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre:it transitioned into where I am right now.
John McIntyre:And, as the order responding guy, which is something I did about a month ago for
John McIntyre:positioning reasons, was to realize that I can either be a generic copywriter
John McIntyre:and there's tons of generic copywriters.
John McIntyre:Or I can start calling myself, and tell people that other people call
John McIntyre:me this as well, as the autoresponder guy, which then positions me
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre: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
Jake Hower: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,
Jake Hower: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
John McIntyre:is a very slow way to do things, but I was out with a friend one
John McIntyre:weekend and we were, going hiking.
John McIntyre:And we started talking about it, and I can't remember exactly what made me do it.
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre:I, felt inspired to write.
John McIntyre:That was about it.
John McIntyre:And then I had a few emails from people and some of them said
John McIntyre:that the content was incredible.
John McIntyre:One guy even said that he printed out a number of my articles to
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre:doing this with blog posts as well is that I because I'm positioning
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre:how to make people open your emails.
John McIntyre:So by doing that, what that does is it gets the attention of people
John McIntyre: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,
John McIntyre:it starts off by talking about what they want, and this is a key to.
John McIntyre:An absolute key to copywriting, to sales copy, to marketing is that
John McIntyre:instead of just writing what I want or what I think they should want, I'm
John McIntyre:thinking, what do they really want here?
John McIntyre:So at the bottom of every post, it says something like, would you like
John McIntyre:to build an automatic sales machine?
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre: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,
John McIntyre:right below the blog post.
John McIntyre:I make people click over, then they read a bit more about
John McIntyre: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,
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre:very qualified there because they're going to be very interested in
John McIntyre:autoresponders because they've taken the time to go and read that page, scroll
John McIntyre: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.
John McIntyre:And I put the form, a little opt in box just below the post, just below
John McIntyre: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.
John McIntyre:It's very easy to see it's right in front of you.
John McIntyre:The other order is like the other list or funnel.
John McIntyre:Someone has to actually click over to another page, like I said, and scroll
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre: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
John McIntyre:strategy of preeminence, which is...
John McIntyre: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.