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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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So you lead with the lead magnet and you have to email them, obviously. Do you have any recommendations on the first email you send after the opt-in via the lead ad?

So you lead with the lead magnet and you have to email them, obviously. Do you just email them both the lead magnet and a link to the VSL? Or do you have any recommendations on the first email you send after the opt-in via the lead ad? Yeah. First of all, if you have a VSL and it's educational, then your lead magnet can be the video itself...

Oct 10, 20227 minSeason 2Ep. 257

How do I expand and find different targets within a sub-niche?

So my niche is a sub-niche, it's dreadlocks, which is a sub-niche of natural hair. And so if I were targeting natural hair, there are lots of influencers and products and brands that I could target, but not so much, being the case for specifically dreadlocks. So I'm trying to think about how do I expand and find different targets when there's really not targetable...

Aug 29, 20224 minSeason 2Ep. 251

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...

Jul 04, 20222 minSeason 2Ep. 243

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...

Jun 27, 20222 minSeason 2Ep. 242

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?

Jun 20, 20222 minSeason 2Ep. 241

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...

Jun 06, 202211 minSeason 2Ep. 239

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...

May 30, 20224 minSeason 2Ep. 238

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?

May 16, 20222 minSeason 2Ep. 236

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?

May 09, 20224 minSeason 2Ep. 235

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...

May 02, 20222 minSeason 2Ep. 234

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 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 client, they don't really want emails. They want phone calls...

Apr 25, 20227 minSeason 2Ep. 233

Never Forget This One Thing

Discover the single most effective way to quickly and easily get as many customers as you want.

Apr 19, 202217 minSeason 2Ep. 232

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...

Apr 18, 20223 minSeason 2Ep. 231

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...

Apr 11, 20222 minSeason 2Ep. 230

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...

Mar 28, 20226 minSeason 2Ep. 228
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