Episode #58 – My New Online Sales Revolution

The post Episode #58 – My New Online Sales Revolution appeared first on DotComSecrets.com Blog - Weird Marketing Experiments That Increase Traffic, Conversions and Sales.... Russell just discovered a simpler way to sell to your already warm audience. Listen to learn how a simple iPhone video can change your business forever. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good morning, everyone out there in Marketing in your Car world. I want to welcome you to today and welcome you to the podcast. I just stumbled upon an interesting realization today. This goes back to this whole evolution of selling stuff for me. I look at when I first got started online, I did sales letters. Then we moved to me in front of a camera doing Russell talking trying to sell stuff. Then we did PowerPoint videos, then doing some sales letters again. Today and yesterday, we've really built out our Dot Com Secrets Labs Funnel. Instead of doing sleek PowerPoint style videos, I've just done iPhone videos, literally got my iPhone out. I bought one of these iPhone lav mics on Amazon for $60 and they're awesome. The one thing bad about iPhone videos is usually the sound so we got this little thing and it works. All of the sales videos that were in the sales process, I've replaced them now. I tweaked the offers a little bit too but we replaced them with me just in front of a camera and conversions are crushing it. It's interesting. I think I came into an ah-ha and I may be wrong. I'm going to test it out a bunch. I think that with cold, cold traffic, I think still having the PowerPoint style videos is probably the best because it gives you the most controlled environment to make sure you deliver the message correctly. It takes away people's ability to judge you and things like that because the one biggest problems with videos of you in front of the camera is people make instant judgments. If someone comes into my funnel and they see me, they're like, “Wow, he looks like he's 11 years old. There's no way he knows anything about internet marketing,” they're going to prejudge me before they can hear my message. For cold traffic, I still think it's probably more powerful to lead with a PowerPoint style video just because, again, it takes away all the judgment of you as a person. It gets that person in. Then I think as soon as they have come through your funnel and they are introduced to you, and they understand your value, and you've been positioned as a spot of authority or whatever you want to call it, as soon as they believe that, I really think at that point that the most important thing, not the most important but the best way to convert on the next thing you sell them is through an iPhone video. I think at that point, they have a relationship with you and it's so much more powerful to have them just see you, see your excitement and passion, to see you unscripted where you're talking about this thing, showing it and making it tangible. I think if you do that, it's just going to crush it. It is for us right now. If you look at Dot Com Secrets Labs Funnel, it started with the PowerPoint video. I made a quick video of me in my office holding up the book and talking about it and posted that. I was going to use that just to send out to my list but then I was like, “Let's just put that as the video,” and sure enough, it beat the PowerPoint. Then we changed the upsell to where we're giving away a free shirt and they join a $20 a month membership site. We tweaked that. After we did that, it was just a video of me in the office showing the shirt, talking about it, putting it into a box. I tried to make it a tangible experience. They saw me putting the t-shirt in the box. I'm going to shoot this box,