Outranking Gary Vee in Just Under 72 Hours

Hello, dear listeners. This is well not exactly Morgan Freeman. Here’s a digital version of his voice brought to you by the marvels of technology, Igor Kheifets. The email marketing maestro thought it would be fun to have me here. Introducing the latest episode of the list building lifestyle show. Imagine if you will, releasing a book the same week as the indomitable Gary Vee, and not just releasing it, but topping the charts as a bestselling author on Amazon in multiple categories. Yes, Igor did just that. And today, he’s here to unveil the amazing strategy behind this feat, and how he used that same magic to catapult this very podcast onto iTunes’ new and noteworthy list. So, sit back, sip your favorite drink, and let the confessions of an email millionaire wash over you. Let’s dive in, shall we Igor.

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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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You were able to put out a book and be an instant Amazon best seller. So, can we dive into that strategy? What did you do? Yeah. And so, so all it took was a list of about 2000 loyal followers, usually, you know, these are my buyers. Then it took three days or three days. And just me unapologetically bribing people to get my book in exchange. And in exchange, again, within this timeframe, because I understand that to make it a bestseller, you kind of have to have lots of book sales in a very short span of time. And so, what I’ve done is I’ve prepared a little landing page, a very simple page, nothing fancy, just a plain white background, and a big headline that says something like, you know, buy my book. And I will give you these bonuses for free. That it had the cover of my book next to the headline, again, very simple stuff. And then I had three options listed on the page, option one, you just go and get the Kindle version of the book. And for this I gave, you know, let’s call it bonus a I don’t recall exactly what was the bonus right now. But I can look it up. Then option number two, you get the physical version of the book. And that’s going to be bonus B that was a little bit more valuable. And then option C, you get both the Kindle version and the physical version. And then the bonus was, it was worth over $1,000 I believe it was one year membership into my paid mastermind. And some other stuff. It was like all bundled into a nice sexy package, right. And so, what I’ve done is I’ve emailed that page. All right, and below that I had instructions, once you bought the book, forward your receipt to my support desk, and we’ll give you the bonus. And so, I’ve mailed that page for three days straight, sending out one email a day. And I kept saying, hey, please buy my book before the deadline so, is on such and such date and such and such time. You know, buy the book, buy the book, buy the book, and I’ll give you tons of bonuses. I’ll give you tons of bonuses. And it’s always the same link, like an email link. Inside the email. There’s like a little copy text link to text link. And for three days I mailed and we sold several 1000 copies. Actually, people ended up sharing that with other people they knew. So eventually it became a best seller in the business category in the online or digital marketing category, a few other categories that became number one. And what’s interesting is that the same week, Gary Vee was publishing your book as well. So, we ended up beating him but I believe it was either an audio version of the book that he published or maybe an existing book that he rewrote. So, it wasn’t like a big launch. But we still managed to pull it off. And as a result, I was able to call myself an Amazon Best Selling Author, which is what I now use to introduce myself to other people who don’t know me, which is a big credibility booster. Again, think about how much more likely a client is to actually do what you tell them to do. So, they can get the results in their life. If they see you as that authority and again, it won’t happen because I have a list. So, if I didn’t, I’d be, you know, just like lots of other authors walking around and trying to, you know, give away my book to people. But here I had an audience, that list is essentially an audience and you only really truly need about 1000 loyal subscribers to have yourself a really good audience that can support pretty much any book launch product launch. I mean, I did the same thing with my podcast, believe it or not, exactly the same strategy. When I launched for the first time, I asked people to go and subscribe on iTunes, and leave a review. Immediately within maybe three or four days I had about 50 or 60 reviews on the podcast app. I went to the new noteworthy restaurant, and I stayed there for two months. Wow. Yeah, it was a big boost for the podcast. Yeah, that’s amazing.

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