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Ryan Levesque

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
179 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

But then there was hundreds in the getting started mode, but I wasn't choosy or selective.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

If someone wanted to have me on their show,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

I was there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

Well, what's interesting about it, so the reality now is different than a year and a half ago or two years ago when I set out to write the book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

Two years ago when I set out to write the book, we had intended on driving traffic to basically execute what's come to be known as the ask method for clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

The ask method is using surveys and quizzes online to build a quote-unquote marketing funnel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

And a marketing funnel is nothing more than a way to get leads and customers into your business and do it through paid advertising on a consistent, predictable, recurring business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

And I've done that successfully in the 23 markets that we talked about.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

And my most successful market to date, we do upwards of between 95 and 100,000 email opt-ins, so leads,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

per day, that's daily.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

These are huge numbers and I've had other markets where we do 200 leads or opt-ins per day and then everything in between.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

So I've had a ton of experience and so at the time that was the goal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

And our business model evolved in the last two years to the point that we are now exclusively an education company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

Why?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

Because there's only one of me and there's only my team is small.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

We have about 25 people on my team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

And we realized that we could impact more businesses by teaching how to execute the ask method and coaching people through that process rather than doing it for a small select number of businesses who have hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

Because that's what it costs to work with or what it did cost to work with businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

The evolution works like this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ep 355: Why He Spent $1M to Sell 55k Copies of His Book, "Ask" with Ryan Levesque

So I executed the ask method in three markets, scrabble, tile, jewelry, orchid care, and memory improvement.