Yes, you can sell a high-ticket program without sales calls. 9 people joined my $2,500 group program in one week – from a promo list of only 3.8k people, with nothing but plain-text emails and an offer doc.
It works IF the offer is rock-solid (built from real conversations with your readers) and you put a right-fit offer in front of people who’ve been on your list for a while – after months of daily emails that build Know, Like, and Trust.
A while back, I was going over the numbers from one of my launch weeks.
I’d promoted a NEW group implementation program called Front-End Freedom…
And we ended up with 9 people joining in this first enrollment event!
Even better…
Almost everyone who joined ended up paying for the program up-front…
Which means that – at $2,500 a head – this single week pulled in more than $20,000.
Sidenote:
If I were a true “guru”… you know, the sleazy kind…
I’d now extrapolate that weekly $20k to a monthly $80k…
And then extrapolate THAT to a yearly $960k…
And finally, “round that up” to $1M/year…
And I could preach that as:
“Look at me… I’m a 7-Figure guru with a 90% profit margin! Now buy my $50k/year mastermind at a “special” $30k/year Cyber Monday price!”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fortunately for you…
I’m not a scammy guru… and I don’t have a ridiculously overpriced mastermind group :)
Anyway, back to the numbers…
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Not bad at all…
Especially from a relatively small promo list of only 3.8k people.
When I also factored in my other sales from that month…
The math worked out to around $8/subscriber/month!
(the “nice to have” standard is $1/subscriber/month)
That’s an 8X difference! 😮
BUT…
Here’s something even cooler, which actually brings me to…
Can you sell a high-ticket program without sales calls?
Lesson #1: This was a 100% email-only promotion
(not even sales calls!)
That’s right.
No social media…
No retargeting ads…
No pre-launch videos…
No webinars…
No fancy sales page…
And NOT EVEN SALES CALLS!
Just simple plain-text emails (and an offer doc).
Sure… I did have a few 15-min Q&A calls with some people before they joined…
But I didn’t have a *SINGLE* classic sales call for this promotion.
Nada.
Zilch.
And I was shocked that I could actually get away with selling a high-ticket group program without closing people on the phone.
But – as it turns out – that’s perfectly possible…
IF (and this brings me to)…
What makes a high-ticket offer sell by email?
Lesson #2: Your offer is ROCK-SOLID
True…
This was the very first time I publicly promoted this offer…
(so it wasn’t validated yet)
But I was reasonably confident it would convert at least 3-5 people…
Because I’d put A LOT of effort into ensuring I’m offering something people on my list actually want…
And I also spent a lot of time implementing all that feedback and personal conversations I’d had with my subscribers over the previous year.
(and also my coach!)
The result?
Generating some serious dough with just plain text emails + an offer doc.
And let me tell you…
It felt extremely LIBERATING!
I didn’t have to build any new funnels, web pages, upsells, abandoned cart emails… nothing.
I just had to write a daily email + send people to an offer doc.
In a sense, that’s as close as possible to what I’d call “magic”.
And finally…
Why does a right-fit offer convert so well?
Lesson #3: I reaped the rewards of the EXACT thing I teach
I simply put out a “right-fit” offer to the segment of people who had been on my list for at least 2 months.
And I knew this would work at least reasonably well because of:
– All that KLT (Know, Like, and Trust)-building I’d been doing for months
– Consistently showing up in my readers’ inbox (for me, that’s daily!)
– Building emotional connections with lots of people
– Demonstrating how MY solution is different & superior
– And giving them lots of value in advance
That’s the whole essence of the breakthrough “Elegant Lead Activation” system I’ve developed over the years…
And that’s what we built with the people who joined Front-End Freedom.
The process WORKS.
You’ve just seen what it can do, if implemented properly.
It’s very powerful…
And it can really help you to build a profitable, semi-automated online business you LOVE being a part of…
Without sacrificing your values or doing something you hate doing.
And with that, I rest my case :)
(And if you’re wondering how I handled urgency for an expensive program like this one, I wrote about it in why brute-forcing people into high-ticket programs backfires.)
How to sell a high-ticket offer with plain-text emails
1. Build the offer from real conversations. Feedback and personal conversations with your subscribers tell you what they actually want. That’s what makes an unvalidated offer convert.
2. Skip the machinery. No funnels, retargeting ads, webinars or fancy sales page needed. A daily email + an offer doc can do the job.
3. Offer it to people who know you. Put the right-fit offer in front of the segment that has been on your list for at least 2 months.
4. Do the KLT work first. Show up consistently, build emotional connections, show how your solution is different & superior, and give lots of value in advance.
5. Keep the calls short. A few 15-minute Q&A calls for people who need them – not classic sales calls.
If you’d like help building an email-first promotion like this for your own business, tell me about your business here.
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