Do Paid Traffic Right With AdSkills Master, John Belcher

June 05, 2018

Learn how to find where your customers are and give them what they want with effective paid traffic 

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Sales Tips you’ll learn today on The Sales Podcast…

  • You need to pay to play

  • To grow you need to grow quickly so you need to efficiently use paid traffic

  • Started in sales

  • Understands delivering a value-based sales pitch

  • Worked for Google on the AdWords team

  • So many people lose money with Google

  • 3.5 years ago he went out on his own

    • Managed $5 million directly of his own spend

    • Managed another $25 million for clients

  • Over 5,000 students on AdSkills

  • Smaller companies have a better chance of getting ads right because you can move quickly

  • Educate yourself and get going

  • Think about the offer

  • Understand where your customers are, i.e. “The Network Funnel”

    • Eugene Schwartz “Breakthrough Advertising“

    • Pro-Persona, i.e. the Angel Customers, will help your company grow because they love you

    • Know who you don’t want to sell to, i.e. Demon Customers

    • You can’t serve everyone (not everyone is an Angel)

    • Figure out how to exclude the Demon Customers in your ads

    • Find out where your Angel Customers hang out

      • Interview them

        • Find their Heaven

        • Find their Hell

      • Keyword research

        • SEM Rush

        • Google Trends

        • YouTube

      • “The Marketer’s Guide To Finding Customers Online” and name your price

      • You have to build a foundation to be successful

        • “Traffic Traps” is where you need to start. Find the 7 areas you’re losing money.

        • Commit

        • Have proper expectations

  • Your offer is not your product

    • Make it a great deal

    • It needs to be understood

    • You don’t need just a good video, you need a good ad

  • Facebook charges at 3 and 10 seconds

  • YouTube only charges for 30 seconds of viewing

    • He spends about $3/day on YouTube for his AdSkills

    • Grew from 500 to 1,100 Subscribers

  • This can be overwhelming

  • Create an offer

  • Put blinders on your racehorse and focus

  • Read “The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results“

  • Learn how to sell first

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You don’t have a traffic problem. You have a conversion problem.

  • Get educated. It has a huge ROI.

  • Get 2 things going:

    • Confidence

    • Cashflow

      • Start with your current community and get them to buy more or buy for the first time

      • Retargeting

        • Offer what they first considered

        • Offer complimentary solutions

  • Do a 30-day campaign and spend $100

    • “Mention this ad and get 10% off” so you can track its effectiveness

    • If it works then add to it

    • If it doesn’t work then adjust and re-launch

  • People are on YouTube for two reasons

    • To be entertained

    • To be educated

  • Do an isolation experiment with your YouTube ads

    • Three days

    • Narrow the time frame—maybe two hours

    • Soda Stream made a new brand to test it

    • You can measure with Google Analytics down to this level

  • Once you have something people want then you focus on tracking

  • Email is getting tougher

    • Deliverability is down

    • But try timing your retargeting to match your email sequence

    • Email is here to stay, you just need to understand how to leverage it with paid traffic

  • “Tracking 101” is “Analytics Explained”

  • Tracking is a habit

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