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Jonathan Courtney

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3654 total appearances

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

Fine, if you wanna be, if you're already like, if you've already got funding, if you've already got some angel investment, or if you're just like, have a huge personal brand oh yeah no dude I remember you were saying first post on you know first post on social media before ads and I agree with this the only thing is sometimes people I agree that this is the best way to do it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

In the best case scenario, you're able to test things out in an organic environment and even just getting a feel for the way you write and practicing. So we tell people and our people to practice on LinkedIn just because that's where they happen to hang out.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

In the best case scenario, you're able to test things out in an organic environment and even just getting a feel for the way you write and practicing. So we tell people and our people to practice on LinkedIn just because that's where they happen to hang out.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

In the best case scenario, you're able to test things out in an organic environment and even just getting a feel for the way you write and practicing. So we tell people and our people to practice on LinkedIn just because that's where they happen to hang out.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

Running ads, though, I think in itself is worth learning just as a discipline, just because when you get that thing you want to sell, you don't want to be feeling helpless and just like, oh, there's nothing I can do now. I just have to wait and beg people to buy my thing or come to my thing. I love the idea of just being able to put money into the machine. The machine finds the people for you.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

Running ads, though, I think in itself is worth learning just as a discipline, just because when you get that thing you want to sell, you don't want to be feeling helpless and just like, oh, there's nothing I can do now. I just have to wait and beg people to buy my thing or come to my thing. I love the idea of just being able to put money into the machine. The machine finds the people for you.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

Running ads, though, I think in itself is worth learning just as a discipline, just because when you get that thing you want to sell, you don't want to be feeling helpless and just like, oh, there's nothing I can do now. I just have to wait and beg people to buy my thing or come to my thing. I love the idea of just being able to put money into the machine. The machine finds the people for you.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

And then you can figure out how you're going to convert them, which is another whole thing. But I do think you're right. If you can do both, it's even better. But I just think that discipline or knowing someone who can do it, knowing someone who can help you run these things and demystify it is great.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

And then you can figure out how you're going to convert them, which is another whole thing. But I do think you're right. If you can do both, it's even better. But I just think that discipline or knowing someone who can do it, knowing someone who can help you run these things and demystify it is great.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

And then you can figure out how you're going to convert them, which is another whole thing. But I do think you're right. If you can do both, it's even better. But I just think that discipline or knowing someone who can do it, knowing someone who can help you run these things and demystify it is great.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

And becoming the type of person who can help other people do that, not huge startups, but small businesses. I think it's a no brainer.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

And becoming the type of person who can help other people do that, not huge startups, but small businesses. I think it's a no brainer.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

And becoming the type of person who can help other people do that, not huge startups, but small businesses. I think it's a no brainer.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

Well, we definitely always... We think about it more like return on ad spent, essentially. So our ROAS. And we're aiming... We're basically aiming for... Okay, we spent... $1, we want to make $1.50 back, right? And we have our funnel laid out essentially in every step. So we'll have a funnel. We'll have like 12 steps, 12 different things that are going on.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

Well, we definitely always... We think about it more like return on ad spent, essentially. So our ROAS. And we're aiming... We're basically aiming for... Okay, we spent... $1, we want to make $1.50 back, right? And we have our funnel laid out essentially in every step. So we'll have a funnel. We'll have like 12 steps, 12 different things that are going on.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

Well, we definitely always... We think about it more like return on ad spent, essentially. So our ROAS. And we're aiming... We're basically aiming for... Okay, we spent... $1, we want to make $1.50 back, right? And we have our funnel laid out essentially in every step. So we'll have a funnel. We'll have like 12 steps, 12 different things that are going on.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

And we're constantly, constantly tweaking it. So like our workshop or master funnel, which is our kind of most successful program, We have been tweaking and poking at this funnel to increase conversions for four years now, since November 2020. But it's not just landing page conversion rate. It's sales calls. It's tweaking the video on the second page. It's the survey. We're constantly tweaking it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

And we're constantly, constantly tweaking it. So like our workshop or master funnel, which is our kind of most successful program, We have been tweaking and poking at this funnel to increase conversions for four years now, since November 2020. But it's not just landing page conversion rate. It's sales calls. It's tweaking the video on the second page. It's the survey. We're constantly tweaking it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

And we're constantly, constantly tweaking it. So like our workshop or master funnel, which is our kind of most successful program, We have been tweaking and poking at this funnel to increase conversions for four years now, since November 2020. But it's not just landing page conversion rate. It's sales calls. It's tweaking the video on the second page. It's the survey. We're constantly tweaking it.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners

So the answer to the question is we obsess about it, but we don't obsess about it in the very beginning. We get the funnel out there. And then we can really quickly see which things are broken, which things make no sense. But yeah, a funnel from day one to day 100 usually looks pretty different. Or a landing page.