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Ask Frank Kern

Transforming Your Business Isn't About Doing A Million Different Things. It's About Finding ONE BIG THING And Then Leveraging That. Frank Kern has been advising entrepreneurs like you all day, every day, to do just that since 1999. This is his podcast. More at FrankKernPodcast.com.
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I started running conversion ads. Should I turn the ad spin back down while it's burning or should I just ride it out?

So I made a bit of a rookie error here. I started running conversion ads last week, and we got pretty good results. We sold 21 orders overall, 20 purchases of the offer and then 1 purchase of the upsell product, which is a markdown subscription to our on-demand training. And so I went in earlier this week and put more money behind it, and I wound up changing the conversion event and I didn't notice...

Oct 14, 20202 minSeason 2Ep. 40

When I set up lead ads recently, the share option was not there. Did I do something wrong or did that change, and are the shares important?

I've run lead ads before and I noticed that sometimes they are shareable. In other words, people can click share and when the program started, they shared amongst friends. They shared and we were able to get more leads that way, just from the shares. I noticed this time when I set up the lead ads, the share option was not there...

Oct 12, 20202 minSeason 2Ep. 39

How do I go about differentiating myself from the competition?

I want to be seen as different, partially because I'm more expensive than other videographers they may have experienced in the past. So how would you go about that, would you want to educate them about that in maybe that first free video?

Oct 09, 20202 minSeason 2Ep. 38

We've applied your advice in the past to our brick and mortar, and now we'd like to get your advice on the best way to sell this thing in this day and age.

What I'm trying to get done now is all of the pieces for this puzzle, and through the years we gathered lots and lots of things. So I'd just like to get your what twos and why fours on the best way to sell this thing now, in this day and age? So, it's been a long time since I've worked with any ass-kickers (that is what I call self defense people). What worked in the past and what probably still works is...

Oct 05, 202011 minSeason 2Ep. 36

How do you ease up your workload to focus more on the sales side than the deliverables side?

I'm just trying to figure out how to ease up the workload that I have for myself, so I can focus more on the sales side instead of the constant deliverables...which are bananas. Well, which is your strong point? I mean, I've run ads for years, so that's, I mean, I've always, essentially created a new job for myself. I'm going to be the business owner, except I just keep then creating new jobs for myself...

Oct 02, 20204 minSeason 2Ep. 35

Any tips to get people really engaged from the get-go? Should there be a warm-up period?

Is there any tips that you can get people really engaged from the get-go? Like I was thinking about starting to bring people in a week or two weeks prior to my challenge to kind of just warm them up. Cause this last time Facebook ads got hung up and basically that day, I did it the day before people got in. Facebook ads got approved. I had 400 people in the group and then I started the program. So I think there's maybe a warm up period?

Sep 28, 20202 minSeason 2Ep. 33

Is there an email sequence or best practice to get more people to say yes to a live offer by a deadline?

I have that program where it's basically a three month program 5k to a cold audience. I take them through a five day workshop and the people that don't buy within that 24 hour period, I do the expiring bonuses and all that stuff. Is there a mapped out email sequence that you recommend or is there any other way to get more people to say yes, either in my live offer or through emails that you recommend? Just best practices?

Sep 25, 20204 minSeason 2Ep. 32

When creating Facebook video and image ads, should I create regular posts or build them in the ads manager?

Should you always create video and image ads as regular posts on your page and then when you create your ad, just select them as an existing post or are there certain times when you don't need to do that? You can just create, upload an image and write the ad copy, right from the ads manager? And is there like a good rule of thumb to know, you know, when to do what? So the only time you want to do it right from the ads manager is always...

Sep 23, 20202 minSeason 2Ep. 31

Do you recommend collecting lead forms directly from Facebook? How do you utilize important but questionable photos within Facebook ads?

I've got a client who is doing this is diabetes treatment that is unlike any other. It's been around for 20 years, but it hasn't been promoted very well. And, when you're promoting stuff on Facebook, especially in the medical world, the ad got rejected. A number of times I kept kicking back and it finally got approved and this the client, they don't really want emails. They want phone calls...

Sep 21, 20207 minSeason 2Ep. 30

I want to have someone do a certain thing...what should the ad say?

Any advice about what ad to run, to have people apply to a webinar? Okay, so this question is, I'll rephrase it like this. I want to have someone do a certain thing. What should the ad say? Alright, that's really what the question is saying. In this case, Mark is saying, I want to have people go to a webinar, register for a webinar. What should the ad say? The question could be...

Sep 04, 20203 minSeason 2Ep. 29

Any advice on how to learn to put a good course together?

Any advice on how to learn to put a good course together? I finally feel like this is possible for me. I'm a legal recruiter and realize I have a ton of advice that will be helpful to young, new attorneys. Dude, here's what I would do. If I was you...

Sep 02, 20202 minSeason 2Ep. 28

What to do if the ads are not working

He's running some ads and he's not getting any sales. And to that I reply, welcome, sir, to the club. And so I don't really understand the question. It says is it only sales conversion that count? Or should I check for some other stats? I'm not getting sales as you can probably guess. Actually I do understand the question. What am I talking about? It's a perfectly normal question. So I think like in summary, what do I do? I'm running ads. I'm not getting sales. What do I do?

Aug 28, 20206 minSeason 2Ep. 26

What do you recommend for Book funnels in terms of advertising? Any minor adjustments you'd recommend to your IBB for this model?

What do you recommend for Book funnels in terms of advertising? Alright. Specifically referencing my Intent Based Branding methodology. And so I will give that answer regardless of methodology. So if the objective of the campaign is to sell a book, you first have to look at what is the objective of selling the book. Do you want to make an immediate profit during that? Do you want them to consume the book and then become fans and then buy more stuff later. What's the end result?...

Aug 26, 20206 minSeason 2Ep. 25

Frank, how do you script your videos?

The question is how do you script your videos? And the answer is I personally don't script my videos, but I do have a framework...

Aug 24, 20205 minSeason 2Ep. 24

What types of lead magnets work best to attract higher-level prospects for our agency side?

So we're going to move those people to pitch our membership group, but we want to create a new lead magnet, similar to your idea of elite owner operator. But it's specifically for real estate agents who make $500K or our number is more like 300 and up, but what type of the lead magnets do you find work better for attracting that type, or do you go straight to hire us to do it for you?

Aug 21, 20204 minSeason 2Ep. 23

Do you have tips/recommendations to optimize engagement and click-through rate?

I'd really like to see what I can do to optimize engagement and click through rate on our current email newsletter. I'm seeing that our lead magnet, it has a great open rate. It's an 80% open rate, 60% click through, and then subsequent emails out the gate, you know, it's about a 20/25% open and 6% click through rate. What recommendations do you have to really kind of help boost that sort of thing?

Aug 19, 20204 minSeason 2Ep. 22

What would you say to the individual that has all the content in the world but is having trouble implementing it?

The hard part is the implementation aspect or the over analysis of like, oh God, I know I should do this. Should I change the color of the button purple and all this other stuff or, to some of these points, I hear a general sentiment of I kinda know what I need to do, I've heard it before, I'm just having trouble pulling the trigger. How would you address someone who's in that specific situation?

Aug 17, 20204 minSeason 2Ep. 21

If you were doing a State of the Union today, how would you structure it towards more of an agency application funnel rather than an info product or lower-end product?

If you were doing a State of the Union today with a topic like podcasting, or really any, any topic cuz I know so many of the people in this group, how would you structure it if you were looking for, you know, pointing them to more of an agency application type of funnel, rather than like a info product or a lower end product? Or would you strictly do it for a positioning standpoint of kind of putting the entire industry, niche on notice from that perspective?

Aug 14, 20203 minSeason 2Ep. 20
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