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Welcome to More Cheese Less Whiskers Podcast. My name is Dean Jackson and this week I'm very excited. I just had an amazing conversation with my friend Nicholas Kusmich.  Now Nicholas is a bonafide Facebook expert. I mean he's at the top of the game. We spent a very long time on the phone. Normally, when we do a More Cheese Less Whiskers episode, it's with the intention of hatching evil schemes for the guest. We did a little bit of that, but very cleverly what I was able to do is turn it into an almost two-hour consultation for me to hatch some evil schemes for how I could get all the knowledge that Nicholas has about running Facebook ads, taking his knowledge and applying it to the Email Mastery program that I'm currently running a case study group with, but with a view to opening that up to everybody in the New Year and Facebook is a big pillar of that. I got some incredible advice, some incredible insight and I had an amazing time talking with Nicholas here. You'll see we had some little surprises at the e

Hello and welcome to the More Cheese Less Whiskers podcast. My name is Dean Jackson and today we have a great episode with Peter Van Stratton.  Peter is a exterior cleaner in Vancouver, Canada. He has a really cool opportunity in that he's been using a lot of the marketing ideas we talk about, a lot of the ideas using direct response and thinking about a before unit to generate new business. He's been using some direct mail strategies with compelling offers to start a relationship with him and he's figured out something that a lot of exterior cleaners have not figured out. We had a great opportunity to talk about how to take that knowledge, leverage it, and maybe introduce it to other exterior cleaners, or take that information and create a new opportunity for him to be the before unit for other exterior cleaners, or even create a whole franchise around it. This is a great episode that's going to be appealing to you if you've figured out something in your business and you've ever wondered, "I wonder if I coul

Welcome to the More Cheese Less Whiskers podcast and today I'm talking with Steve Cunningham from ReadItFor.Me. Steve & I met about 5 years ago when ReadItFor.Me did a beautiful video summary of the breakthrough DNA book, and they have a pretty cool concept. They take the world leading business, marketing & leadership books and summarize them into a short, easy to consume video and text. I really love this concept because it's such a high leverage way to learn and to get the gist, the essence of all of the books, to know which ones you want to dive into deeper. He has a great concept. We talked a lot about how to get the word out about the idea. We hatched some evil schemes on how to promote a new program they have where you can get a lifetime subscription. They've been offering for years as a monthly subscription or an annual subscription, and now they have shifted, where the whole thing now is about creating a movement, creating a world full of people who are leading and learning. I think you're goi

Welcome to the More Cheese Less Whiskers podcast and today I'm pretty excited. We've got a great guest in Bill Macintosh who's from Saint-Tropez, France of all places. He is selling super high-end luxury homes with sea views all over the French Riviera, and we had a great conversation. Of course, real estate is one of my favorite things to talk about and we're able to hatch some evil schemes for Bill to really narrow in on a very specific segment of that market and you'll hear that as we talk you start to understand the value of narrowing things down, of getting into a situation where you've narrowed to a single target market and that's going to make it easy for us to identify those people. In real estate, the great thing that Bill has going for him is he has a chance to be what I call a market maker, where he can not only find people who are looking for homes in Saint-Tropez, but he can also find people who are looking to sell their home in Saint-Tropez and that makes things pretty exciting when you are a ma

Welcome to the November update call. I'm excited to share the latest from the Evil Scheme Hatchery here in Florida. Listen in for the all the updates on what's working today & the resources you need to take your business to the next level.

Welcome to the More Cheese, Less Whiskers Podcast. Today we have a really interesting podcast for you in a lot of different ways. Today I'm talking with Harry Massey and Harry does something that you've probably never heard of or thought about in your life. Harry has a company that helps people increase their energy and increase their well being with something called infoceuticals. Now, I've never heard that term either so we spent a long time trying to get to the bottom of how infoceuticals work, for me to understand it a little bit, and then how to do you convey something that somebody has never heard of. That's where the convincing part of the 8-Profit Activators come in. When you've got something that requires some education, you'll see we're concerned about how do we compel people to raise their hand so that we can have the conversation that introduces the idea, a brand new idea, to them in a way that's compelling and convincing that they would want to try something. This episode goes a little bit longer

Welcome to the More Cheese Less Whiskers Podcast. Today we're going to be hatching some evil schemes with Craig Olson.  Craig is a rare book dealer in Maine and I was opening up the call with him I kind of felt like I should be hearing some Masterpiece Theatre music in the background and be in a wood panelled library in a smoking jacket preparing for this episode. Craig has a really cool business that serves a very niche market. We talked a lot about target markets. We talked about the opportunities that he has in the way he communicates with his group of 1900 email subscribers and the opportunity he has in ramping up the communication with those people. We also talked about some of concepts we've used very successfully with email using a super signature in the email he sends out, giving people an inside look into what it's like to actually be a rare and antique book dealer. He's got a pretty neat business. I'm excited to let you hear how we hatch some evil schemes for him today.

This week, I've got something that I'd love for you to hear. I remember about two or three years ago, three years ago now, I was running full-page ads in Success Magazine telling about the amazing nine-word email that revives dead leads. I was experimenting with a new approach to engaging with people who would respond to the ad, and it was really interesting because people who responded would call it an article. I've posted the article below so you can see what I was doing, but the amazing thing was we ran that ad for several months and averaged a 68% opt in on the landing page. This was cold traffic from a magazine ad and what was even more amazing was that we would get over 40% engagement once people responded and left their name and their email address. I used a very simple sequence to engage with people who had requested the Email Mastery book. After they received a copy I would invite people to get together with me on the phone to brainstorm some nine-word emails and subject lines. We would have group ca

I'm very excited today because in this episode, we get to talk to Jesse Desjardins. I have a great relationship with Jesse. He has worked with me for several years and then he's gone on to become a big deal and one of the top ten influential people in travel. He's head of social media for Tourism Australia He runs the Tourism Australia Facebook page, and has turned them into the number one travel destination in the world. He has incredible experience in working on the social media side of a destination, like Australia, but he's also got a passion for local, independent hoteliers. We got to spend this episode talking about, and hatching some evil schemes for how independent hoteliers can apply the 8 Profit Activators to their before unit, their during unit and their after unit. I think you're going to get a lot out of this episode, and this hospitality mindset really fits for any business, not just hoteliers, so I think you're going to get a lot of things that you can apply to your own business through this. E

This is Dean Jackson, welcome to the More Cheese, Less Whiskers podcast. I've got a great episode for you today. I spoke with Matt Mason. Matt had been doing some nine-word emails approaching a new audience that he was trying to build a relationship with. One of the things that people always bring up to me especially when they're trying to approach new businesses, using a nine-word email as a cold email approach is that they run into problems or friction when they, as they call it, 'reveal their whiskers'. When they make the switch they feel like they're tricking people into thinking that they're going to be bringing in new business. We had a really great conversation to set the tone of that and the bottom line is you've got to be in the business of getting results for people, and you've got to be so confident about your ability to get those results that you're willing or have evidence that shows that it's a sure thing. That gives you the confidence to make a better offer. I always ask, what would you do if y

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Welcome to the More Cheese, Less Whiskers podcast where we spend a full hour hatching evil schemes and applying the eight profit activators to one specific business. It could be your business. Today I have a guest, Joel Johnson, who I've known for a few years now. Joel has been to a Breakthrough Blueprint Event. We've done some work together and we got a great opportunity to catch up looking at his before unit that's already really working well. We were able to hatch some evil schemes to increase the retention, the value of the asset that he has of all of the leads that he's generated. All of the prospects that he has that have not yet converted into clients. That's one of the greatest assets that any business has. We had a really great discussion about that. We also talked about the after unit and measuring return on relationship. Neither of these concepts were new to Joel but you'll see in our conversation that this deepening process, even with what he is applying, there's lots of room to apply the deeper p

Welcome to The More Cheese, the Less Whiskers podcast. This week we have a very exciting episode. We have best-selling author Jamie Smart. Jamie is the author of the books "Clarity" and "The Little Book of Clarity". He also has a new book coming out in about eight weeks and it's called "Results, Think Less, Achieve More". One of the things that Jamie's really known for is writing very insightful books - when I say insightful, meaning there's no practice, there's no effort required for you to make a change. Once you read the book, you get the insight. Change is immediate and inevitable. I love that kind of thing about the way Jamie writes, but he's got a really cool opportunity with the largest bookseller in the UK for some special placement in their travel-related book stores in the airports and train stations and motorway stores. We are going to spend some time today brainstorming how to maximize this opportunity. We start out with how to convert as many of the people as you can who are in the store and pick

This week, I have a very special episode for us, it's the very first time I spoke about the concept of More Cheese, Less Whiskers back on episode 24 of the I Love Marketing podcast.  This episode will give you a great foundation of the ideas behind the More Cheese, Less Whiskers method we go through each week here on the show. I think you'll get a lot out of listening as we explain and introduce the concept that I'd been working on for quite some time before I actually spoke about it.

This week, we've got a really great episode. I spent some time with Mike Russell, who has a business that turns dentists' waiting lounges into an opportunity in the during unit where, on average, people are waiting for about 8 minutes.  Mike's team have a really great system that play videos that rather than overtly-selling are educational. We talk in Profit Activator 3 about educating and motivating, and this is one opportunity to guide customers to the next step. Now, it's a relatively new adventure for him and one of the things we talked about is how do you get the word out about something that's new.  One of the ideas, building on last weeks episode, is  to create a pilot program and document the results so it's easy for the dentist to see the impact of using these videos in their waiting lounges.  I'm pretty excited about this episode. I think you'll enjoy it. Here we go.

This week I'm talking with Matt Sellhorst. Matt helps boat dealers make more money and this is a great show demonstrating how the 8-Profit Activators apply to any brokerage business where you are looking to match buyers to sellers as well as finding sellers for buyers. You'll hear a great 'lightbulb' moment for Matt as he starts to think in terms of 'What if I only got paid when my clients make money'. It's a change in mindset you'll hear a lot across the shows and can be a breakthrough mindset change for you too...

I'm excited about today's episode. I had a great conversation with Coran Woodmass, a business broker with a very specific type of business modeled after one of the principles we talk about in the 8-Profit Activators. This is exactly the type of conversation I love having on More Cheese Less Whiskers and we were able to hatch some pretty amazing schemes that are going to make a big difference to Coran’s business.

This week I'm talking with my good friend Kenny MacCarthy. The conversation turned into a really great example of how the first 4 profit activators (the Before unit) can work together in harmony to create exceptional results in an automated, predictable way.

This week I'm talking with long time I Love Marketing listener & seafood legend Jeff Moore but rather than focus on what Jeffs doing, we're looking at his wife Doreen's business. This is a fantastic episode diving deep into the difference between convincing & compelling.

This week I'm talking with Dan Sullivan, founder of Strategic Coach. Dan and I record The Joy of Procrastination podcast together and in the first episode the perfect opportunity presented itself. Join me as we talk for an hour about marketing and fill Dan's upcoming event... To get the transcript or if you want to be a guest on the show?  Head over to MoreCheeseLessWhiskers.com & follow the 'Be a Guest' link.