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The biggest mistake I made when pitching clients

By Mike Killen | Mar 14, 2025

Posted in Being helpful, Business Growth, Client Acquisition, Closes, Entrepreneurs, High-Ticket Sales, Pitching, Pricing, Proposal Strategies, Sales strategy

Imagine having $10,00 in your hands and throwing it down the drain, all because you made one stupid mistake. I did exactly that and it still haunts me to this day. A few years back I was quoting for an email marketing project for a corporate training company. It was a pretty simple project and…

3 things I wish I knew before starting my business

By Mike Killen | Mar 13, 2025

Posted in Being helpful, Business Growth, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurs, MArketing, Sales

STOP trying to add value

By Mike Killen | Mar 12, 2025

Posted in Business Growth, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurs, MArketing, Pricing, Sales, Sales strategy

Ah man, how many businesses have been ruined by “adding value”. Stop it. I forbid you from adding value. It will RUIN your business. It’ll strip any profitability away from your bank account. AND – it does the exact opposite of what you think it does. It makes you MORE generic and MORE bland. Businesses…

STOP believing this marketing lie

By Mike Killen | Mar 11, 2025

Posted in Business Growth, Business Scaling, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurs, High-Ticket Sales, Lead generation, MArketing, Marketing strategy, Mindset, Pricing, Revenue Growth, Sales

This is the biggest lie told in marketing. Ignoring it will cost you thousands of dollars and years of your life. 4 years ago I worked one on one with a client who was in the copywriting game. They wrote brochures and instructional manuals for consumer products, like cars, kitchen equipment etc. They had some…

$25,000 email template

By Mike Killen | Mar 10, 2025

Posted in Business Growth, Client Acquisition, Conversion optimisation, Copywriting, Email marketing, Email templates, Entrepreneurs, Lead generation, MArketing, Pricing, Sales strategy

This email is what I use to close clients who are on the fence. I send it to them when I need them to take action. I also use it to generate leads from my list and social channels. Subject: Make $25,000 in 30 days (no ads needed) Opener: 3 spaces left Body: Hey [name],…

3 steps to get 10x more clients (with no ads)

By Mike Killen | Mar 7, 2025

Posted in Business Growth, Client Acquisition, Content marketing, Conversion optimisation, Copywriting, Email marketing, Lead generation, MArketing, Sales Funnels

1. Use this subject line. The one you just clicked and opened. Replace “clients” with what your customers call their customers. I.e. 3 steps to get 10x more dental patients (with no ads) 2. Create emails, video content, books and social/written content that shows people how to do just that 3. Include a call to…

Make 100 sales for ANY product FAST

By Mike Killen | Mar 6, 2025

Posted in Automation, Business Growth, Business Scaling, Copywriting, Email marketing, Funnel, Lead generation, MArketing, Mindset, Sales

There’s an email I’ve got in my arsenal that is so powerful, I try to use it all the time because it works. It works so well that if I need to get replies, or sales, or book calls or generate leads, I use it. It’s like a magic panacea that fixes any and all…

You’re closer to success than you think

By Mike Killen | Mar 5, 2025

Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Business Growth, Business Scaling, Challenges, Content Creation, MArketing, Mindset, Motivation, YouTube

I remember reading an apocryphal tale of a gold prospector buying a ton of mining machinery and land and after years and years of digging, he finally gives up and sells the land and the machinery for scrap. And then another guy comes along and buys all the machinery for pennies, heads over to where…

Sell $25K project without a portfolio

By Mike Killen | Mar 4, 2025

Posted in Business Growth, Business Scaling, Client Acquisition, Entrepreneurs, High-Ticket Sales, Lead generation, MArketing, Pricing, Sales, Sales strategy

If I had to start from scratch, like, literally from absolute zero. No social media presence, no past clients, no testimonials, no portfolio. This is how I’d get my first $25,000 client. First, I’d make sure I pick a niche and a market that is easily fixable. It’s one thing to work with people who…

3 ways to make money in under 60 minutes

By Mike Killen | Mar 3, 2025

Posted in Automation, Building funnels, Business Growth, Email marketing, Email marketing, Entrepreneurs, Funnel, Funnel tactics, Lead generation, MArketing, Sales, Sales Funnels

So I’ve got 3 email automations that I use, that took me seconds to set up, that bring in thousands and thousands of dollars a month. 1. Are you still? Have you _ yet? This email sequence is designed to be sent to people who almost bought. Proposals, lost to competitors. It’d even work on…

15 ACTUALLY motivational lessons that are practical and useful

By Mike Killen | Jul 17, 2017

Posted in Being helpful, Digital creative professional, Funnel builders, Gameplan, Make life easier, Motivation, News and blog, Universe fuel

To anyone who knows me or is reading this. It’s obvious that I’ve got everything figured out. Motivational posts, quotes and books are a dime a dozen. But my big problem is that they make me feel good for about 4 minutes. Then I go back to playing Civilisation 6 and feeling like I need…

Creating content silos with OptinMonster and WordPress

By Mike Killen | Jul 14, 2017

Posted in $100K funnel, Content, Content marketing, Funnel builders, Marketing automation, Marketing funnel

Content silos are fantastic way of increasing conversion rates with your blog posts. The key to increasing email subscribers is offering lead magnets. However we can further increase conversion rates with content silos. We’ve talked about content silos here before. At a high level, the idea is that if someone is reading content on card tricks,…

The most obvious place to find $50K missing in sales

By Mike Killen | Jul 13, 2017

Posted in Convert leads into sales, Funnel builders, Funnel proposal, Gameplan, Lead generation, Marketing automation, Sales, Sales emails, Sell more funnels, Worksheets

You ever feel like you’re missing sales for your funnels? Like there is a magical part of your business or formula that’s neglecting transactions and income? Recently, our project sales had taken a dip and we weren’t closing as many marketing funnels as we needed. A few months before and we were on fire. This last…

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Building a delivery page with Beaver Builder

By Mike Killen | Jul 11, 2017

Posted in Beaver Builder, Delivery page, Gameplan, Make life easier, Marketing automation, Marketing funnel, Video

This is the second training video for a series on building a marketing automation funnel with Beaver Builder. Ultimately I want to show you how to build a full marketing automation funnel with Beaver Builder. Watch this third video as I explain how we build thank you pages inside WordPress, using Beaver Builder. I’ll be…

I just can’t work out my purpose

By Mike Killen | Jul 10, 2017

Posted in Being helpful, Digital creative professional, Funnel builders, Gameplan, Make life easier, Motivation

I’ve been receiving emails like this for a while now. I talk about Universe Fuel, Motivation, Direction, Purpose. But sometimes we really struggle to figure out what it is we want to do. What’s my purpose? Why aren’t I motivated? What if I don’t want to change the world? If you feel directionless, no motivation,…

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Do you have to know everything about your chosen vertical market?

By Mike Killen | Jul 7, 2017

Posted in Being helpful, Funnel builders, Gameplan, News and blog, Sales, Sales emails, Sell more funnels

Long time colleague and good friend Amy Key’s asked me this in the Sell Your Service Private Mastermind Group (click to join) about choosing a vertical. I’ve been working with Amy, coaching her on how to choose a market that she can really sink her teeth into. Hey Michael Killen here’s a blog post to consider writing…

How to turn any objection for a funnel sale, into a close

By Mike Killen | Jul 6, 2017

Posted in Being helpful, Convert leads into sales, Difficult customers, Funnel builders, Gameplan, Lead generation, Sales emails, Sell more funnels

An objection is when a customer or prospect turns to you and says “that’s too expensive” or “I’m OK with how we are”. It’s seemingly negative feedback for what you’re talking to them about. Objections are terrifying and the reason we shut down when we hear them, is because we hear the customer saying “NO”.…

Building a thank you page with Beaver Builder

By Mike Killen | Jul 4, 2017

Posted in Beaver Builder, Gameplan, Make life easier, Marketing automation, Marketing funnel, Thank you page, Video

This is the second training video for a series on building a marketing automation funnel with Beaver Builder. Ultimately I want to show you how to build a full marketing automation funnel with Beaver Builder. Watch this second video as I explain how we build thank you pages inside WordPress, using Beaver Builder. I’ll be…

Why vision boards don’t work (and how to fix it) to get what you want

By Mike Killen | Jul 3, 2017

Posted in Being helpful, Gameplan, Motivation

Have you ever completed a vision board, or read The Secret and still struggled to get what you deserve or desire? We’re going to explore the very simple reason why vision boards, goals and wishlists don’t work. A vision board, goal board or wishlist is essentially a principle that says you have to visualise where…

Using webinars to sell your service

By Mike Killen | Jun 30, 2017

Posted in Being helpful, Digital creative professional, Funnel builders, Gameplan, Marketing funnel, Sell more funnels, Video, Webinar slides, Webinars, Worksheets

Selling marketing services and funnel projects can be tough. How do you engage with your potential clients? How can you transform your services from “nice to have” to “I want this more than anything ever!”? I’m going to show you exactly how to use webinars to sell marketing funnels, marketing services and any of your…