How To Make The Leap from Six to Seven Figures

Hello, listeners. If you’re thinking you just heard Elon Musk, I hate to burst your bubble, but it’s just an AI voice model trained to sound like him. Nonetheless, I’m here to introduce a stellar episode of the list building lifestyle show with you go get her host Igor Kheifets. Now it may be fake, but trust me this episode is as real as it gets. It features egos’ tireless journey from being an overworked six figure business owner to a seven-figure entrepreneur, with more free time than my rockets have thrust power. Okay, that was a bad joke, but you get the picture. This journey isn’t about getting rich for the sake of money. But it’s about something that hits close to home for many of us. It’s about finding the balance between work-personal life in the satisfaction of achieving one’s goals. In the realm of startups and entrepreneurs, we often celebrate the hustle and the grind, the sleepless nights and the relentless pursuit of success. Your story will inspire you to rethink this narrative. It’s about finding ways to work smarter, not harder. Leveraging assets and systems to grow beyond limitations and carving out time to actually enjoy the fruits of your labor. So, buckle up or as I like to say strap in for lunch. As we dive into this enlightening conversation. Here’s your host who can probably turn a lemon into a lucrative lemonade empire: the one and only Igor Kheifets.

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I’m Igor Kheifets and this is the list building lifestyle. The podcast for anyone who wants to build a wildly profitable email list working from home. If you’d like to make six figures, travel the world and help people improve their lives in the process. This podcast is for you. I also invite you to claim a free copy of my bestselling book, the list building lifestyle confessions of an email millionaire at www.igorsbook.com. Get the free book plus $3,000 bonus package that includes my best capture page templates, email, swipe files, and traffic blueprints, visit www.igorsbook.com for details. And now it’s time to claim your list building lifestyle.

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The focus of these interviews is helping people to really make that leap from six to seven. And as you know, a lot of people don’t make that leap. So, let’s talk about the person, the entrepreneur, you know, maybe their list has either become stagnant, or they’re not exactly sure how to build it. You know, nowadays, as you and I both know, you know, what worked a few years ago doesn’t always work today, right? And so, what would you say to that person? Like give us some So, strategies of so, what So, do you think we can do to really make that leap.

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You know, this conversation immediately takes me back to that time in my life when I was the six-figure overworked, struggling, online marketer slash coach because at the time I had already started my coaching program. And I was good at what I did. But I wasn’t really good at leveraging myself or multiplying myself and leveraging the technology that was available to me to deliver the impact I wanted to deliver, while at the same time not having to sacrifice my life because at some point, I’ve had a very, very big problem: a big wall. And that was when I was like on my laptop typing away or doing a call with somebody or something. And then I looked around and I noticed there’s no one home. So, my wife, Anastasia, took our newborn baby Erica, who’s today she’s actually almost 10 As we’re recording this, and she just left.

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Now, I mean, that was her way of saying I’m sick and tired of being number two in your life. And I’m sick and tired of waiting for you all the time. Because at the time, I was really overwhelmed, overworked and stressed out. And I was working until 2am in the morning and woke up at seven, then went all over again, client calls, emails, accounting, you know, employees that quit on me, I have to go and do their job now too. It was a very stressful time in my life. And I think the biggest problem for me at the time was the thing that if I were to somehow leverage technology, or to start finding ways to, to So, break that link between invested time versus income, that my clients will hate me or otherwise would I would not, I would not be able to deliver the results that I was delivering for them. And I would be making this trade off, if you will, with more free time, but work with clients will suffer and therefore I was never making the tradeoff. But it just wasn’t true. Because a couple of things that I’ve done that really allowed me to propel my income further to allow me to have more personal freedom, and more life satisfaction, less stress, and overall, just a higher quality of life. Were you know, the first thing of course, was to leverage building my list and mailing lists because what happens when you have an audience in the form of an email list, you can reach 1000s of people just by sending out an email and fundamentally every

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Buddy understands that, like anyone who’s ever heard of the concept of link building, you understand that, but almost no one does that. Do you know what’s the number one occurrence that I see in pretty much anyone who ever built an email list, but it’s frustrating, because their income doesn’t match their ambition, and they’re still working. The number one issue, man, the number one issue is they don’t email the list. Can you believe it? Now I’m on your list. And I see how you mail you’re doing this right? Like you guys, if you want to, if you want to funnel, hack someone, or if you want to see how it’s done, and go get on those lists, because no one was like, the gold standard for me. You know, there’s an email going on every day, it has personality, it has good copy offers, like everything that an email has to have. But what’s most important is you email your list, because a lot of people build that list. And they simply don’t mail it. And it sounds so fundamental, almost crazy. But that’s number one issue, if just more people emailed their list and felt comfortable with just putting out the message, whether it has a pitch in it or not, they would be making a lot more money with a lot less effort.

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So, you’re saying that you see people build the list and go through all that trouble, as you said, and then they don’t email the list? Now I know what I would say about why they don’t do it. What are some reasons why you see people not doing that? I think I think for the most part, it’s psychological, I think for the most part, it’s them being afraid to annoy people, or that somebody will unsubscribe, things like that, which I think really comes down to conditioning to self-esteem, really, because if you’re if you’re a coach, consultant, author expert, you probably have something important to say, you probably, you’re probably able to make an impact in someone’s life. And if you have clients right now, you are making an impact you’re working with clients, clients tell you about their problems, and you’re helping them overcome these problems. So you know, one of the easiest ways to monetize your list and to truly leverage it is to simply talk to your subscribers, email subscribers, about the things that you see occurring every single day, you know, one thing you could be doing is if you had a session with a client, and let’s say your marriage counselor or a couples therapist, and you know, you had a client who complained about their spouse cheating on them, right, you can actually just talk about that, you can send out an email to talks about today, I saw a client and the client, you know, is in a very common place where lots of marriages end up, you know, their spouse cheated on them. But they don’t know why. Because they’ve been the perfect spouse. They’ve been, you know, doing this, and this and this. And they’ve been cheating the well and yada, yada, yada, yada, but the other party still cheated on them. So, what happened there, and then you can explain why it happens. And so, by the virtue of describing this challenge that your other client is having, you’re going to have a ton of other people in your email list who are just sitting there like flies on the wall, just watching because they’re still timid, they’re still afraid they maybe they don’t even believe that their problem has a solution. Maybe their self-esteem is so low, or their self-esteem sort of accepted their position and be like, Well, my marriage sucks. And that’s that. There’s no cure for me, you know, we’ve all been there in many different ways. So, they’ll see that email and then be like, wow, that’s the exact same thing that I’m facing right now in my marriage, maybe I should talk to this person, maybe I should reply in that email. Maybe I should go schedule my you know, free consults or strategy session or assessment or go through the quiz or whatever other tools you have in your, in your direct response arsenal. But the point being is that it’s that sort of communication that will allow your reader the person who knows you exist, who follows you, who went through the wow extra step of actually giving you their email address. That’s how you have them feel inspired to finally take action and reach out to you and ask for help. Because essentially, if you’re, if you’re allowing someone to bridge the gap between where they are and actually asking for help, you’re doing them a huge service.

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