Launch Canvas: 0) The Problem & Desire
Launch Canvas: 0) The Problem & Desire
External Problem: barely making any money working a job they don't like or
studying something in uni which they're not passionate about.
Internal Problem: feels like he's losing precious time of his life working/studying
something that won't take him anywhere. They feel like they're missing out on life
Real Desire: reclaim the ownership of his life by replacing his job/dropping out of uni.
Examples:
External Problem: barely making any money working a job they don't like or
studying something in uni which they're not passionate about.
Internal Problem: feels like he's losing precious time of his life working/studying
something that won't take him anywhere. Feels like he's someone with a lot of
potential, but little to no results.
Real Desire: be the owner of their own futures and live an unconventional lifestyle:
one where they get to enjoy financial, location, and time freedom.
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External Problem: He's stuck at the rat race. He can't afford to do the things that he
wants because he's stuck to a job/college that's location dependant, that takes all his
time, and that pays him just enough to get by, but he's never left with any disposable
income at the end of the month - so he has to keep slaving away indefinitely (even if
he doesn't want to) because he got bills to pay and he doesn't have any other
options.
Internal Problem: He’s frustrated with his current position in society - financially,
professionally, in the dating market, and with his current status in general. He feels as
if he's leashed to his current situation. The thought of being stuck in such situation
indefinitely, without and end to it in sight, makes him feel miserable. He's trying to
find the way out and he believes that money/self-improvement are the answer.
Philosophical Problem: You can have all the money/self-improvement you want, and
still be stuck in the rat race.
Real Desire: He just wants to be in control of his own life and stop being hostage to
the circumstances and events that happen around him.
He not only achieved financial success, but he did it so without having to slave away
on a soul-draining job. He has location freedom and, more importantly, time freedom
to enjoy the riches that his business provides him with. He's a top 1% man.
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He feels that he's in control of his own life. No outsider can tell him what he should
do or what he's allowed or not to do. He knows that he's the one in charge.
Someone else now owns you. They are in control of you. You're enslaved by your own
job and your own lifestyle, without even realising.
You feel like you're never in control of your own life. You're always at the mercy of the
decisions of the ones above.
What's the action the avatar has to take which he didn't want to?
As the saying goes: “no man is more enslaved than the one who falsely believes in
his own freedom”. So he has to: 1) accept that he's enslaved; 2) realize that all the
regular career paths are just different paths that lead to the same destination:
modern-day slavery; 3) decide that he'll be a contrarian and go down an alternative
route.
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Internal Problem: Don't enjoy taking pictures anymore and start avoiding them.
Philosophical Problem: starts avoiding going out of the house altogether because
of their anxiety towards pictures, which just makes it even worst and creates more
anxiety.
A good storyteller is able to provoke his audience through his narrative. This,
creates discomfort. Discomfort breeds action for change. And the way to
provoke the audience and still such discomfort is by presenting them with a
scenario of duality.
He not only achieved financial success, but he did it so without having to slave away
on a soul-draining job. He has location freedom and, more importantly, time freedom
to enjoy the riches that his business provides him with. He's a top 1% man.
He feels that he's in control of his own life. No outsider can tell him what he should
do or what he's allowed or not to do. He knows that he's the one in charge.
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Someone else now owns you. They are in control of you. You're enslaved by your own
job and your own lifestyle, without even realising.
You feel like you're never in control of your own life. You're always at the mercy of the
decisions of the ones above.
What's the action the avatar has to take which he didn't want to?
As the saying goes: “no man is more enslaved than the one who falsely believes in
his own freedom”. So he has to: 1) accept that he's enslaved; 2) realize that all the
regular career paths are just different paths that lead to the same destination:
modern-day slavery; 3) decide that he'll be a contrarian and go down an alternative
route.
The One Belief: This new opportunity is the key to their desire and it’s only
attainable through my new mechanism
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P90x: Avoiding the plateau effect (new opportunity) is the key to building muscle
(desire) and it’s attainable only through the P90-X “muscle confusion” system (new
mechanism).
Invisalign: Aligning your teeth without ugly braces (new opportunity) is the key to
getting the smile you want without disrupting your life (desire) and it’s attainable
only through the Invisalign proprietary technology (new mechanism).
Subway: Eating healthy fast food (new opportunity) is the key to losing weight
(desire) and it’s attainable only through a diet based on Subway sandwiches (new
mechanism).
General example: "The easiest and most profitable way for any pub (new
opportunity) to get new customers using the internet (desire) is with Location Based
YouTube Ads (new mechanism)"
Pen To Profit: Creating visceral desire in your reader (new opportunity) is the key to
writing converting copy (desire) and it’s only attainable by making your prospect
aware of their philosophical problem (new mechanism).
Pen To Profit #2: Getting your reader to create stories in his own head (new
opportunity) is the key to getting them to ****take decisions while getting them to
think it was their own idea (desire) and that is only attainable through the use of
dualities.
The Best Online Business Model To Start as a Beginner: Starting an online biz with
the most beginner-friendly business model is the key to going from 0 to $10k online
in record time and it's only attainable through selling ROI services.
Digital Renaissance: Achieving financial, location, and time freedom is the key to
working your way up to the top 1% and it's only attainable through becoming a New
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Big Idea:
Unique: original, unexpected, different from what the prospect has seen before
Easy to grasp: instant appeal. Avoid the curse of knowledge. Simplicity encourages
belief. If they have to watch your whole video to understand your big idea, it's not a
good big idea.
Track-record: it has proof to support it and there's people already taking advantage
of it.
Easily applicable: easy to put into practice through a mechanism. Doesn't require
too much to get started (money, study). Doesn't require previous
knowledge/experience.
EC = Emotionally Compelling
PP = Primary Promise
UM = Unique Mechanism
II = Intellectual Interesting
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The Best Online Business Model: How 20-Year Olds Are Using This
Beginner-Friendly Business Model To Get Paid Monthly By Small Businesses,
Without Having To Deliver Any Work Themselves… The Same Strategy Used By
Companies Like Uber and Expedia, Experts Are Calling It The New “Arbitrage
Economy”
4) The Offer
Presenting your offer as "pillars" helps you have a smooth transition from the
content to the pitch, while avoiding triggering the viewer's sales pitch radar. It
feels more genuine, less salesy and helps to fill in all the "missing gaps" you
created.
The reason your prospects get pissed with you when you transition to selling is
because you're approaching your sales video as a 2-act structure: a “content” part
and a “selling” part. Ideally, there should be no differentiation between the two. You
have to create a narrative that creates the need for the sales during the entire
“content” part, from the very beginning. So that when you transition to your product,
instead of the prospects going “oh, here it comes. He's gonna sell me now”, they go
“oh my gosh, that's exactly what I needed, it fixes the exact problems I need to fix” -
and that happens because through our narrative we've created the gaps that our
product fills.
Pillars
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Pillar #2 - Access to the right knowledge: programs created with the best and
most up-to-date knowledge in the industry
Tiered system
Fish: Clients who pay $1,000-3,000 per month. You get a couple of these clients and
you’re already making a full time income. We get students catching fish everyday!
Shark: Clients who pay $3,000-8,000 per month**.** This is where you’re getting into
more serious territory. One of these clients and you can quit your job! It’s always a
proud day when students sign their first shark.
Whale: Clients who pay $8,000+ per month. This one client alone will bring you more
than $100,000 in a year. This is the greatest catch of all- they’re the North Star for
everyone in the community!
This is how we add testimonials without coming across as try hard. It creates sense of
community. Hence why 7 people in the company have whale tattoos.
Rock-bottom
Risk-reversal
Unconditional guarantees
Conditional guarantees
If an argument is not moving the prospect closer to accepting the thesis, it should
not be there.
Examples
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The puppet masters are trying to control you. They try to keep men weak, because
when so happens, men obey and then they can push their agenda. And I don't need
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to tell you this. You already figured it out by yourself, by looking at the things that
have been happening around you.
What if I told you this has already happened before? The Dark Ages
Hopefully, after the Dark Ages humanity experienced one of the most prosperous
times in history: the Renaissance.
People - more specifically men - were tired of the worldview that had been
propagated for centuries that viewed man as a sinful & rotten creature.
The renaissance man pushed the boundaries of what was thought possible in
science, technology, art, and architecture - and men started to be seen as God's
creation endowed with reason, with strengths, and created in His image.
The renaissance broke the church's monopoly on knowledge one of the most
important bastions of the church. The traditional myths propagated by the church
simply weren't acceptable anymore. Knowledge was now widely available.
For the first time, self-confidence and pride in personal achievements were no longer
seen as sinful.
History repeats itself. We’re about to experience a a new "Renaissance" period. But if
you don't act fast, you'll be stuck in the New Dark Ages
A man that gets to play by his own rules and get to enjoy financial, location and time
freedom.
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Proof points:
Personal experience: If I had chosen the traditional path, I'd probably have very
similar results and be on a very similar place to where most people are today.
Logic: You cannot expect to achieve unconventional results if you follow the
conventional path.
Audience's own personal situation: doing things because you want vs doing things
because others want (duality)
From the moment you woke up today, to the moment you went to sleep, out of all
the decisions you took, how many of them were actually your decisions vs other
people’s decisions. And in 5 years, will you want to be doing the exact same thing?
Duality: walking your own path vs walking a path that was put in front of you.
Key 2 - You're either on the internet or you're nowhere: all the future innovations
will happen on the internet. So you’re either part of it, or you’re gonna get left
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behind. Right now you still have a chance, a few years from now you might not have
one.
Proof points:
Before vs after: 1 Year on the internet is like 10 years outside of it. showing what the
internet looked like just a few years ago.
Examples: travel agents with the advent of websites like AirBnB and booking.com
The same is happening as we speak to illustrators, writers, translators.
Dualities: you're either on the internet or you're nowhere; join now or get left behind
Key 3 - Playing to strengths vs playing to weaknesses: If you feel like you've a lot of
potential hidden inside of you, and you're still struggling with little to no results in
life, exactly like I was 7 years ago, that's probably why. You're most likely walking a
path that has been put in front of you, instead of choosing your own - one that plays
to your strengths rather than your weaknesses. That's why on Wednesday I'm giving
you something that no one else has ever given you: options.
Proof points:
Damaging admission: for the longest time I've been wrong about this.
Authority: I've made multiple 6 and 7 figures and each one of these industries
Duality: one way vs multiple ways; walking a path that has been put in front of you,
instead of choosing your own
The 3 paths:
Service-based business
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Track-record: proven to work for our students. There’s a lot of people who also
achieved their first million online. Retired their parents. Bought a car. A house.
Science-backing: personality test. Star signs effects. People wear this hat and say
“this is me” - and by doing so, you're giving them an excuse as to why they have
failed in the past - throwing rocks at their enemies. It was not your fault, it was the
vehicle they showed you.
Sales
Track record: scaled our company from 3 employees in his team to over 40 in 3
different teams
Potential of gains: you only need a few sales in order to make 6 figures with it.
Objection Reversal: you don't need to be extrovert or super social, in fact, the best
closers are introverts
Science-backing: personality test. Star signs effects. People wear this hat and say
“this is me” - and by doing so, you're giving them an excuse as to why they have
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failed in the past - throwing rocks at their enemies. It was not your fault, it was the
vehicle they showed you.
Copywriting
Appeal to greed: the same text can be sent to 100 or to 1,000,000 people. So you can
make 10x more without having to put any extra work.
Objection reversal: you don't have to be good at writing, in fact, if you're good at
writing this is probably a problem.
Risk-reversal: you get paid in commissions, but you also get a base salary.
Science-backing: personality test. Star signs effects. People wear this hat and say
“this is me” - and by doing so, you're giving them an excuse as to why they have
failed in the past - throwing rocks at their enemies. It was not your fault, it was the
vehicle they showed you.
“Information is freedom”
People make it sound that as long as you have information, you have access to a well
of unlimited success and prosperity… As if information was an extremely-hard to
acquire asset, guarded only for a special few.
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Analogy: gold. Imagine there was an unlimited mine of gold, what would happen?
it's value would plummet. That's what happened with information.
AirBnB became the biggest hospitality company in the world, without owning a
single room.
Uber became the biggest transportation company in the world without owning a
single car.
Alibaba became the world's most valuable retail company in the world without
having any inventory.
Uber doesn’t own any cars, but they have access to a fleet of millions of cars
worldwide.
AirBnB doesn’t have any properties, but they have access to millions of properties in
more than 100,000 different cities.
Alibaba doesn't own any inventory, but they have access to virtually unlimited
amounts of products.
Would it be out of this world to think that if you had access to better opportunities,
you'd do better off than you're today?
And if you had access to the right knowledge, don't you think that the likelihood of
you knowing how to take full advantages of those opportunities when they present
themselves would also be much higher?
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And if you had access to the most knowledgeable and wealthy people in the world?
Don't you think that the likelihood of you accessing the most valuable knowledge
and coming across the most valuable opportunities are also 10x higher?
In a world where information is abundant, access has become the new gold.
Being aware of the right opportunities… Otherwise they'll just go straight over your
head.
It's also about being able to take advantage of them, when the right opportunity
presents itself.
A simple 5 minute conversation with someone who has a little bit of experience on
this industry would have saved you 5, 6, 8 months of your life - and an unmeasurable
amount of stress.
Mentors don't give you the secret to success. They just avoid you from making
mistakes that will cost you months - or even years- of your life.
What most people don't realize - is that they probably have come across the right
opportunities a few times already…
Or you're gonna tell me you didn't hear about bitcoin and even thought about
investing on it back in 2015, when it was worth less than $1,000?
So, at the end, we're faced with a very tricky scenario when it comes to having
access to the right knowledge…
In one side we're faced with an algorithmic war: Artificial Intelligences that want to
push you down a rabbit hole of endless content consumption, without you ever
succeeding.
On the other hand, you have universities with their broad and non-specific
curriculums, which is unnecessary long and have little-to-no application in real-life.
That's why I'm starting a revolution. I'm giving the world access.
8 Leads Themes
Offer lead
This is when you lead your message with an offer. Offer Leads almost always mention
the product, the price, discounts, guarantees, and other related “deal” elements very
early in the lead, if not in the headline.
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When to use it: products that are easy to explain and for prospects who already
know something about you, about what you’re selling, and even about the market
value of what’s for sale.
Invitation lead
An “Invitation” lead is a more subtle variation where you still want to lead with an
offer, but you want to make it sound more exclusive - and don't necessarily lead with
the price.
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When to use it: When you want to lead with an offer, but without having people
shopping for prices, for example. In the example above, it wouldn't be a good idea to
lead with a price because you still need to create value to justify the price being
charged for this service.
Promise lead
This is basically where you lead your message with a promise or a claim about the
result people are gonna experience, instead of a claim about your product itself. In
the book “Great Leads”, Michael Masterson say: “In a classic “Promise” ad, the big
promise is your headline, your first line, and often your last line, too.”
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When to use it: Promise Leads work best with “mostly aware” prospects who are
almost ready to buy, and you want to convince them why your solution is the best. As
time passes, promise leads tend to be come less effective and more challenging to
write, as every industry tends to become more competitive, and as a result, market
sophistication increases.
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Problem-Solution Lead
Majority of the copies we have written so far start here. We start by verifying a
problem they experienced, and then using that we pivot to a solution.
When to use it: when your prospect experiences a pain point/problem and is not
aware of the solution.
As humans, we're naturally drawn to secrets. We're very curious creatures, and this
type of lead takes advantage of that. As I have mentioned already, the best
positioning you can have for your promotion is framing it as “the best kept secret
hidden in plain sight”. That's what we do here.
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When to use: this is one of the best lead types to use in highly competitive industries,
where you have to differentiate yourself through a mechanism or different system.
Proclamation/Prediction Lead
Proclamation Leads are one of the most indirect approaches you can have to your
promotion. They're purpose is to draw in the “unaware” readers. And, majority of the
times, not only draw them in, but also to shock them as you do so. Usually with a
shocking future forecast or prediction, or maybe with a bold statement. Again,
quoting Michael Masterson in the book Great Leads “the goal is to disarm the
prospect for just long enough to work your way back to the product and your pitch.”
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When to use: when you want to create awareness about a problem people are not
aware about. If you want to scale out of your current target market and appeal to a
larger audience, this is the way to go. This is my favorite lead type personally, because
it allows me to create a strong narrative and tie it to something bigger than just the
product. Also, I can use this same narrative to create the need for the product, before
people ever know they need it.
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A warning: Proclamation Leads can’t really be written, at all. They have to be found.
Great Proclamation Leads almost always come from research. The ideas for Digital
Renaissance, another event we ran earlier this year called “The Reset”. They came
after weeks of research on historical documents and reports.
Story Lead
This indirect way to open a promo and also one of the most powerful. Everyone loves
a story. Stories are the best way to create authority for you and your product, without
having to rely on direct claims. Testimonials, guru bios, historical proof, or track
record — all yield Story Leads. You just gotta be skilled enough in order to connect
the story back to the main problem or promise of your promotion, which requires
quite a bit of experience to do effectively.
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When to use it: to the most unaware type of prospects, or for specific niches where
you see that stories tend to work well for competitors.
Again, as powerful as they can be, you do have risks to consider when testing indirect
leads. Only use these if you're experienced.
You might accidentally use an indirect lead when you don’t need to.
You might pick a lead that’s too indirect to connect back to your product.
You risk being too subtle by taking your time to get to the product.
You risk boring your customer by taking too long to get to the product.
You risk getting distracted by writing something “interesting” but not relevant.”
Lead checklist
Unique Proposition