Have you ever told someone something so valuable, so life-changing, so mind-boggling awesome, powerful, and outright the best piece of advice they’ve ever gotten—only for them to end up dismissing it and never making any use of it?

I know I have.

And I know many others have as well. Because I see it happening all the time.

Truth be told, it happened to me a lot. Especially early on in my consulting career. Or when I’m trying to help friends of mine get started on their own business.

But somehow they don’t end up valuing the advice.

Sometimes they give a quick smile and enjoy hearing the small bit of advice, thinking it’s a nice idea, but not realizing the sheer potential it has or how important of a message they just received.

Other times they outright dismiss it thinking “It doesn’t work that way” or coming up with some other excuse as to why my friendly advice/information wasn’t really valuable altogether.

But I now know why this happened.

I figured it out. After a long time of failing to aid friends and early consultation clients as well as possible and make them see the grandness of the information I’m giving away, hoping they’ll take action on it and dramatically improve the quality of their life or business.

The immense pain I felt every time I thought “wow this was a really valuable session” only to check back up with my client a month later and realize nothing changed.

This has at least taken me half a year to figure out. To pinpoint EXACTLY why this happens.

But more importantly. How to keep it from happening again and again.

And I got it down to just 2 factors. Both of these are related, but slightly different, so it’s useful enough to still make the distinction.

First reason: the person who gets the advice isn’t invested enough. They didn’t have to pay anything to get the information—either in time, money, or some other resource.

I saw this happen with my first 10 consultation clients who I offered to help for free. They didn’t value my advice fully, they didn’t take it to heart. Simply because it didn’t feel valuable. It was nothing more than “free advice” after all.

This problem completely disappeared when I started working with clients who paid me $200 or more per hour to talk with me.

They all valued the advice.

Every word I said they dissected and noted down. They pondered about the implications of everything I mentioned. And most importantly, they immediately started implementing the advice I gave them.

Not because my advice was more valuable than the advice I gave to the first 10 people. But because they valued the advice as more valuable because they paid for it.

But now, I already hear you asking me, “Does this mean I can’t help people see the value of my advice unless I make them pay me?”. But that’s not the case either. You can help people see the value.

This brings me to the second point—which is a more general look than the first one, an overarching view if you will.

People don’t value advice because you didn’t frame it as valuable.

In the previous case our “framing” was simply by making people pay for it with their hard-earned cold-hard cash. That’s more than enough framing to make it work.

But that’s not the only way.

You can—and I often do—give free advice that people value. As long as you “pre-frame” how valuable the information actually is.

Pre-framing often takes the form of you telling them the story about how you learned or earned the information you’re about to share with them. Did it take you 10 years to figure this out? Tell them. Did you have to pay $5,997 to get someone else to share this with you? Tell them.

Share the pain and struggle you had to go through to get a hold of this information.

This will make them realize just how valuable your information is—helping them actually pay attention and take action.

Which brings me to the following:

I talked about how I started working with 10 clients for free to get my business running. That was back in March (I joined Twitter in late January).

Since then I’ve been hard at work trying to figure out how to best play this game of life and business. How to create a business model that allows me to 1) help others 2) read, write, and talk for a living 3) only work 3 hours a day and 4) have complete freedom over my time and location.

I still haven’t reached the top level of the game. In fact I’m far from it—it’s a long game.

But through 9 months of experimentation, lots of failed attempts, months where I literally had a negative bank balance and had to scrape together all that I could to pay my bills—even having to borrow money from friends at one point. But at last I figured out a framework to make it all come together and make it work as good as I originally hoped it would.

More specifically I've mastered the first 3 points and figured out how to get paid reliably by getting leads, qualifying my prospects, and landing clients consistently and effortlessly.

If you want to learn how to do the same and work your way to financial, time, and location freedom. Then click the following link today: https://alexvandromme.gumroad.com/l/clients

Happy first day of the new month.

I hope October has been amazing for you, and let’s work on making November an even better month.

In fact, here’s how I can help you make November even better.

(This is probably the most blatant sales pitch you’ve ever seen. I can’t imagine me sending a more blatant sales pitch and talking about my offer more directly than I’m about to do now. Not even the old infomercials you saw on TV could compare to this one. If this bothers you, click away now. I’m telling you. Click away. I’ve warned you. Whatever happens now is because you decided to continue reading. Got it? Ok here we go…)

I’m helping 2 new creators like you add $1,000–$5,000/month to their revenue in 3 months or less.

I call this my Ascend Your Business Program where the focus lies on building simple but effective systems to help you land clients, sell products, and get paid consistently and reliably.

Here’s how it works:

We’ll first create a personalized roadmap just for you. We’ll look at where you are, what you’ve already done, and where you want to go so we can craft the best possible route from A to B.

Afterwards we’ll work on 1) Getting you the right traffic 2) Improving (or creating) your offer 3) Systemizing your client acquisition and 4) Productizing your knowledge so you can get paid even while sleeping.

This process allows you full flexibility.

Whether you want to keep scaling with your 1-on-1 offer or you want to eventually transition out of it and focus solely on selling (digital) products to maximize your freedom. The choice is yours.

To make all of this possible we’ll hop on weekly calls to keep up with your process and guide you to making a hell of a lot more progress (and profit) the next week. Aside from that you’ll have permanent Telegram access to me to ask whatever questions you have whenever you have them.

What’s the investment you ask?

I want to make the offer as affordable as possible for you while also making sure you’re invested in it so you’re bound to make progress and achieve your goals.

So instead of asking for monthly payments like most people do.

I’ve put the investment for the Ascend Your Business Program at $250 per week.

What’s so special about that you ask?

Well, I want to make you feel at ease at all times. You’re the one in control after all. So on top of that, you’re free to leave whenever you want and stop making further payments. No questions asked. If you feel like you’ve got the gist of it after just 3 weeks and feel like you can continue on your own—the ultimate goal of this program—then that’s the end of it.

No more extra payments.

You’ll also be able to start earning early so you don’t have to make a big investment hoping for the best.

Almost no risk to you while having an unlimited upside.

How to join the Ascend Your Business Program?

1) Reply “Let’s do this” to this email

2) I’ll get you onboarded

3) We’ll schedule our first call at a date & time that best suits you

 

I’ve been reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.

Been loving every single second of it so far. It’s an immensely popular book about spiritual enlightenment and I can see why. Every single page teaches me something new, allows me to think about life in a new way. And it makes me aware of ‘problems’—and solutions—I didn’t even know existed.

I could go on for a while about the new insights I’ve gained because of this book, but I want to shine a light on one particular sentence I found intriguing while reading.

This one:

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“The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind”.

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In the book, Tolle talks about how the mind creates a false sense of self. You think of ‘you’ as being the same as your past and future, your feelings and emotions, or even your accomplishments and life situation.

And you can see this everywhere around you. People’s sense of self is often defined based on their achievements/failures.

You hear things like, “I am an engineer” instead of “I work as an engineer”.

All of these examples are things which are created by the mind. Social constructs.

But never anything real. 

So the sentence above refers to the fact that your sense of self—your being—can’t be created by the mind. Because after all, it’s your mind that came up with the mistaken sense of self in the first place.

Finding your actual sense of self, your actual being—the solution to your problem—can’t come from the mind. Your mind can’t understand it. You have to feel it instead. Because deep down you do. Deep down you already know all of this. But your mind is working against you—as it most often does.

Now I’m not saying I’m an expert on any of this myself.

I’m sure my explanation has some errors. I’ve just entered this new world myself. I’m actually still struggling with trying to ‘understand’ it—using my mind to solve the problem my mind created.

But I like this saying because it applies to everything. Not just spirituality.

All our problems are self-created. Whether in life or business.

But the way they’re created all differ. More specifically, what created them differs. And often times—or so I’ve experienced—I spend way too long trying to solve a problem by using the exact same type of thinking that originally created the problem itself.

An approach doomed to fail from the very beginning.

So remember this.

Every time you have a problem, come across an obstacle or encounter a tough life situation. Think about what created it. And do your utmost best to avoid that same line of thinking. Search out different perspectives. Look for methods outside the ones you already know.

You’ll find that those problems immediately simply cease to exist on their own or you’ll be able to fix them almost straight away.

And if you struggle with writing simple emails that get you paid and keep your readers reading day after day, then you might want to check out another perspective on that topic.

I’m talking about the perspective I teach right here: https://alexvandromme.gumroad.com/l/SME

I'm sitting in my room, writing my email for the day.

My three monitors, one in the middle of my view and the other ones to the side, turned on in front of me while the fourth one—a TV I use to watch shows and movies—is turned off.

Immediately beneath those three monitors is my piano.

I like being able to play on it at a moment's notice. It helps me get more practice in than I would if it were located somewhere in another room—environmental design at its finest.

Beneath my piano are both my keyboard and my mouse. My desk is like a carefully crafted and intricate design constructed with different floors to neatly put everything at the right height.

In front of my desk I have this nice, big, cosy reclining chair. You know. The type of chair you think about when I tell you to imagine a director sitting in his chair, feet resting on his desk, enjoying his single-malt whisky and smoking a cigar or something.

Anyway, I've been working on this email for about 5 minutes now when I suddenly look at the time and realize I have to do something else—don't ask me what, I don't remember.

2 hours pass.

I still haven't gotten back to that email. I didn't even think about that email in those 2 hours.

Suddenly I remember and immediate panic strikes.

I hadn't finished that email. But it ended up being scheduled to send out anyway. I pick up my phone. Unlock it. Open up my email. And there it is.

My unfinished email.

The subject line reads, "fill in later", blank subheadline, and the email it self. Oh boy the contents of it. Three sentences of introduction, all talking about a different topic followed by a listicle of 10 unfinished and typo-filled transitions, only to end with a half-written word which reads, "stu-…".

That's my email. My email which had been mailed to over 600 people on my list.

I started panicking. Not knowing how I could've let this happen.

Until I woke up and realized this way all a dream.

Now I don't know if this has anything to do with the fact that I took the day off yesterday. But dreaming about writing an email? A failed one as well? That's definitely a first.

Look this is the point at which I normally share an insightful lesson about the story I just told you. But I have no idea what's going on myself.

So let me just tell you that email is great and most people don't start dreaming about sending out unfinished emails (or at least I don't think they do).

Anyway, if you like to learn more about writing proper and finished email yourself, then go here: https://alexvandromme.gumroad.com/l/SME 

Just letting you know that there’s no actual mail for today.

I’m taking the weekend off for once.

I’ll be back next week with my usual Sunday-type email.

Cheers.

So my first “build-in-public” adventure is over.

I created, launched, and sold my Abundant-Client System. I purposely didn’t advertise anything on Twitter itself. That would’ve been the more “optimal” thing to do, but I wanted to see how good this would go using nothing but email.

The result?

I did quite well. Nothing extraordinary, no 6-figure launch or anything even close to it like you see your favorite gurus talk about—as if those things are the new standard.

No but it did give me my first ever $1,000 month solely from products & email. That’s without taking into account what I earn with my coaching & consulting work.

But the most important accomplishment?

I created a new product. And while it’s not making me rich yet, it’s one tiny step toward the goal of an easy passive “an email a day keeps the doctor away” lifestyle.

Because I could do this every month if I wanted to. I’m not saying that’s what I’ll be doing. I won’t.

But I could technically create a new product every month.

I could iterate those products over time. Build an insanely valuable backlog of products. Make them all as good as I can make them. And they’ll keep growing more valuable over time.

Slowly but surely. Step by step.

That’s giving you an insight into how I think about business and what my philosophy is like. I don’t care much about creating 6-figure offers. Or doing really high-ticket sales. Nor do I care about making $10,000 right now at this moment.

I care about building a simple and enjoyable—the most important part—a business that gets me paid consistently and reliably without much hassle.

One where I can choose how much content I create for the day.

Do I want to write 10 hours and finish writing half a book or do I want to relax and just spend 15 minutes writing a 400-word email like I’m doing today? Both are fine.

That’s also what I’ll be doing this weekend.

Taking a bit of time off. Relaxing because I earned it.

Go here in the meantime to learn how you can build a relaxing “email a day” business yourself and get paid reliably and consistently: https://alexvandromme.gumroad.com/l/SME

P.S. I’ll probably be overhauling my Simple Money Emails course this month.

Completely rebranding it, even going as far as renaming it. I might increase the price later on as well while I’m at it. No specifics just yet. Will share more about it in probably a week or so.

But you’ll probably do yourself a favor by getting it early rather than later if it already piqued your interest.

You know the drill.

You’ve seen me talk about my Abundant-Client System for however many emails now.

Either you’re interested in leveling up your client-acquisition game and you hop on this chance to get my product for a mere fraction of the full value. Or you’re simply not interested in learning how to get leads, qualify your prospects, and land clients consistently and effortlessly, in which case you probably shouldn’t get the product. I wouldn’t want you to make useless investments after all.

But those are really the only 2 types of people that should be on my list.

Don’t let me catch you being the type of person who’s a bit interested, maybe, maybe not. He doesn’t really know. He’s not sure if it’s for him and decides to sit around, wait, and do nothing.

Worse even. Some people want the product but keep procrastinating and only end up attempting to buy the product after the deadline.

After which they’ll send me an email where they come up with a sob story of how they couldn’t get it in time and ask whether I could still give them the discount even though I clearly stated—way too many times—when the deadline was due and that there will be no exceptions.

Trust me. I guarantee I’ll get emails like those.

Anyway.

Think about what you want. Make a decision before it’s too late so you won’t regret it later.

If you’re reading this, there’s less than an hour before the discount is gone for good.

Here’s the link: https://alexvandromme.gumroad.com/l/clients/CLIENTS

P.S. The 67% discount on the product only lasts until midnight CEST today (that’s less than 1 hour remaining)

Here’s what to do if you want to hop on this deal:

1. Buy it before the deadline via the link below

2. Use code CLIENTS at the checkout in case it didn’t get added automatically

3. Make sure you see the price change before entering your credit card info

Once again, here’s the link: https://alexvandromme.gumroad.com/l/clients/CLIENTS

Exactly 3 weeks ago, I sent a “59 minutes left” email for the Content Kitchen cohort I was promoting at the time.

Some people hate emails like this and think they’re scammy, salesy, pushy, or some other negative word ending in -y.

They’re missing the point.

See people are forgetful, indecisive, and they procrastinate. Sending emails like those are meant for their own good. To help them make the best choices for themselves.

Here’s a reply I got from Cassie May—who bought herself the $450 ticket for the cohort—to my “59 minutes left” email 43 minutes after I send it (16 minutes before the deadline):

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Glad I snuck in right on time!

Thanks! Excited!

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A short & sweet, but powerful response.

It shows you that if you have quality offers. People will thank you for making sure they’re more than well-informed and don’t miss the opportunity to buy.

And it’s the same with my Abundant-Client System.

I’m making sure you’re well-informed and aware of what’s going to happen. You still have the opportunity to buy until later today (Midnight CEST).

After that? You can still buy, but for 3x the original price.

Will I send you a “59 minutes left” email tonight? Maybe. I’m not sure yet. I don’t owe it to you to send these reminders.

So if you plan on buying the product. Save yourself the trouble and get it right after you finish reading this email.

Here’s the link: https://alexvandromme.gumroad.com/l/clients/CLIENTS

P.S. The 67% discount on the product only lasts until midnight CEST, Friday 27th.

Here’s what to do if you want to hop on this deal:

1. Buy it before the deadline via the link below

2. Use code CLIENTS at the checkout in case it didn’t get added automatically

3. Make sure you see the price change before entering your credit card info

Once again, here’s the link: https://alexvandromme.gumroad.com/l/clients/CLIENTS

A few emails ago I shared my first time hopping on a sales call.

It was one of the longer emails I’ve written in the last few days, maybe even weeks. I filled the email with as much as I could, while still trying to keep it to the point and entertaining.

Not too much exposition, but not too little either.

But there’s one big part of the whole story I left out. Well, not necessarily something that happened in that story. More how I felt and why I made the choices I made.

See, I was needy.

I looked at the possibility of getting my first client. And I just needed to have it. I needed to close her. To convince her to give me money—even though I just made up my offer a few hours prior to the call.

And as anybody intuitively knows. It never pays to be greedy.

You need to understand that in every interaction, whoever needs the result less has the power. They have the upper hand. They have the bargaining power.

This goes for everything. From sales calls to applying for a job, going on dates, selling second-hand products, asking for a raise, buying a car, deciding where to go on holiday next year, hell even deciding where to eat.

So if you want to make the most out of every life situation, understand this:

You are the prize.

They need to pass your qualifying process. Not the other way around.

Even if you don’t feel like you’re the prize. Figure out your shit and find a way to feel like the prize. No matter what process or growth you have to go through to end up feeling like it. Work on yourself. Get yourself physically, mentally, and physically right. All of these will aid in every aspect of your life. And the result will be a mindset shift that’ll serve you for decades to come.

And while this is a mindset shift you can technically make at all times.

There is a practical element you could do to make it easier for you to reach this state of feeling like the prize. Especially when it comes to feeling like the prize in your sales calls.

More specifically, the act of getting more clients.

No matter how paradoxical—or obvious—it sounds. Getting more clients will help you get more clients. Not just because of the case studies, or the referrals, or the social proof, or anything of that matter. No, nothing tangible like that.

A part is because of your experience and your confidence that’ll increase, yes. But even that’s not the full picture.

The biggest change and the biggest reason why you’ll be able to get more clients?

You’ll be less needy.

You already have clients. You’re already getting paid. You won’t actually need yet another one. They need you to improve their situation, not the other way around.

And that brings me to the fastest way I know of to help you immediately land more clients no matter you’re prior experience or skill level. My Abundant-Client System which you can still get for a whopping 67% for the next 16 hours.

Click here to learn more: https://alexvandromme.gumroad.com/l/clients/CLIENTS

P.S. The 67% discount on the product only lasts until midnight CEST, Friday 27th (aka, today).

Here’s what to do if you want to hop on this deal:

1. Buy it before the deadline via the link below

2. Use code CLIENTS at the checkout in case it didn’t get added automatically

3. Make sure you see the price change before entering your credit card info

Once again, here’s the link: https://alexvandromme.gumroad.com/l/clients/CLIENTS

Your aim should be to build a competition-proof business.

I previously talked about competition-proof businesses regarding ideating and creating an offer your audience desperately needs. And one that’s unique to you, one that only you could offer. One that can’t be swiped, copied, or stolen.

And sure that’s a big part of building a competition-proof business. But there are 2 other techniques you could use to do so.

One of them is proper positioning.

See, most people hear ‘positioning’ and they think about cost-leadership or product differentiation. Or maybe, just maybe, they’ve read and researched a fair bit and they think about Blue Ocean Strategy—a book by Renée Maubornge and W. Chan Kim, and worth the read.

But that’s far from it.

They’re thinking about it in the traditional way. The old way businesses have been thinking for centuries. They’re overcomplicating it, but they also had to for various reasons.

See, we live in the digital age. With digital leverage and the possibility to build a personal brand, to turn yourself into a business, not just own or work in a business.

We can use the new way, the more efficient way, the easier way, or simply the better way.

Think about it this way:

Whatever business you’re in. There are undoubtedly lots of other people in that same business. But there’s only one you, which means there’s a position you can take that’ll allow you to build a world that’s yours and yours alone.

A method that allows you to take a position which has the prerequisite that the user has to be you.

A position that’s competition-proof.

Because who could compete with you on being you?

But there’s a caveat to be made here. While I do talk about it in detail in my Abundant-Client System. I can’t tell you what to do. I can’t even tell you how to do it. All I can do is inspire you and guide you in the right direction.

There’s just no possible way for me to tell you what to do. Imagine if I could create a checklist, a template, or a roadmap for you to follow. One where you just had to execute the next step in front of you. That would take away the magic of positioning yourself as you.

As long as you could use a checklist I made to reach your goal, then someone else could do so as well.

Enabling competition in the process.

So take this into account. Yes, I have included my sales frameworks which you can follow step-by-step to land clients in the DMs. But no, not everything I talk about will be easy to implement. I can’t hold your hand throughout the whole journey. You’ll have to venture out on your own if you want to get the full 100% out of the course.

If you’re unable to do so. then maybe reconsider whether this purchase is the right one for you.

In case you’re still interested in hearing more. Then by all means click the link here: https://alexvandromme.gumroad.com/l/clients/CLIENTS

P.S. The 67% discount on the product only lasts until midnight CEST, Friday 27th (tomorrow).

Here’s what to do if you want to hop on this deal:

1. Buy it before the deadline via the link below

2. Use code CLIENTS at the checkout in case it didn’t get added automatically

3. Make sure you see the price change before entering your credit card info

Once again, here’s the link: https://alexvandromme.gumroad.com/l/clients/CLIENTS