I haven't seen this approach mentioned and would love some feedback, especially if you see a flaw I'm missing. If you sell to local businesses , web design, social media, SEO, etc. , one of the biggest challenges is simply getting the business owner's attention. They're buried with people trying to sell them the same things. I'm going to try a provide-value-first approach this week: 1. Buy a $100 gift card from a local business you'd like to work with. 2. Auction it on your business Facebook page or personal page, starting at $1, and tag the business so they can watch the auction happening. 3. Let's say it's a $100 gift card from a massage therapist. You get 29 bidders and the winning bid is $79. 4. The winner pays you $79 and gets the $100 gift card. Your cost to get the attention of that business owner was $21. ($100-$79) Let's say you now have 28 other people who have demonstrated that they're interested in buying what that business sells. So you approach the massage therapist: "29 people bid on the $100 gift card I auctioned. It sold for $79. Would you be willing to let the other bidders buy a $100 gift card from you for the same $79 winning price?" If she says yes, you send the losing bidders a link to purchase directly from the massage therapist for $79, with a deadline. The money goes directly to the massage therapist. You're out of the transaction. So instead of just cold calling the owner saying: "Can I help you get more customers?" You've spent $21, bought something from their business, created some social media attention for them, and potentially brought them several new customers before you've tried to sell them anything. Then you can ask: "Would you like me to do more of this?" That's the experiment I'm going to try. What am I missing? Where does this break? And how would you improve it? Thanks!

Heard a great way to seperate the 2 on My First Million recently they said... They said if you held an event which way would the chairs face? Audience towards the front. Community towards each other. LOVE this. How do you define it?

Got a campaign going in the Hair niche with a partner. We sent 600 emails and got zero replies. Zero replies! Killed it. Went back and did the ONE THING Travis preaches on darn near every call. Sent out another 100. 12 said yes. Anybody wanna guess what the ONE THING is?

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This turns my business into a money printing machine for 2/3 days... Best thing about this? It's stupid simple. If you've got an audience and a proven offer this will work. I copied Amazon Prime day... You know the day where they make crazy offers? Yea I do that, BUT all I do is get people to make me an offer on some of my products... I focus on the result that they want. Hammer that home and then tell them I wanna make this really easy for them... Reply to the email and make me and offer. I have fun with it, I tell em it might not get accepted etc... I've used this for my own biz, partners and made a fair few quid. I usually do 2/3 emails connecting with them, telling them what it is, what day its all happening. Then 2/3 days of emails hitting it to get them to reply.... That's it.