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The Side Hustle Show - Episode 726: The $300/day Marketing Funnel: From Content to Cash Flow
Episode Overview In this episode, Nick Loper interviews financial educator Brian Feroldi about how to create a marketing funnel that generates $300 per day without relying on paid ads or complex algorithms. Brian shares his journey from sharing investing content on social media to building a profitable online business through a systematic content-to-cash funnel.
Key Guests
- Brian Feroldi: Financial educator, author of *Why Does the Stock Market Go Up?*, and creator of LongTermMindset.co.
Main Concepts Discussed
- Content-to-Cash Funnel
- The funnel consists of:
- Free Content → Free Email Opt-in → Paid Offers
- This system works on autopilot once established.
- Building Attention
- Importance of selecting the right social media platform where your audience congregates (e.g., Twitter, LinkedIn).
- Focus on one platform initially to build traction before diversifying.
- Tripwire Offers
- A low-priced offer (e.g., $7) helps identify potential customers who are willing to pay.
- This approach converts casual followers into paying customers through incremental value.
- Email Marketing Strategy
- Following the opt-in, subscribers receive a sequence of value-driven emails designed to build trust.
- Integration of educational content to keep the audience engaged and to provide additional offers (e.g., mini-courses).
- Monetization Strategies
- Direct sales of digital products (like eBooks and courses) significantly outperform ad revenue.
- Building a sequence that naturally leads subscribers to purchase more expensive offerings.
- Tools and Tech
- Hypefury: For automating social media posts and tracking engagements.
- Kit: For landing pages and email sequences.
- Spiffy: For checkout processes.
- Circle: For course delivery and community engagement.
Key Takeaways
- Get Started: The most important step is to take action and start selling something, no matter how small.
- Focus on One Platform: Concentrate your efforts on mastering one platform before expanding to others.
- Value Before Sale: Provide genuine value before asking for a purchase to build trust.
- Systematize Your Funnel: Automate as much of the process as possible to create a self-sustaining revenue stream.
- Continuity in Content: Ensure that all content flows logically to lead to the final product you're selling.
Actionable Steps
- Identify your target audience and the platform they use.
- Create valuable content that addresses their needs.
- Develop an email list with a strong lead magnet.
- Implement a low-priced tripwire offer to convert leads into customers.
- Use automated tools to streamline your social media and email marketing efforts.
Conclusion Brian's strategies highlight the necessity of creating a structured, value-driven funnel that nurtures potential customers from initial interest to purchase. By focusing on providing valuable content and establishing trust, entrepreneurs can develop a sustainable side hustle that generates consistent income.
Next Steps: For listeners looking to implement these strategies, a visual funnel building worksheet is available through the show notes, helping you map out your own content-to-cash flow system.
Additional Resources
- Links to Brian Feroldi's social media profiles and LongTermMindset.co.
- Tools mentioned in the episode for building the content and sales funnel.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOUnderstanding the $300 a Day Marketing Funnel
0:53 to 1:25
Explore the fundamental structure of a successful marketing funnel.
“That's W-H-A-T-N-O-T dot com slash sell.”
Building Attention on Social Media
1:25 to 2:26
Learn strategies for capturing attention on social media platforms.
“My guest is a financial educator and online entrepreneur.”
Selecting the Right Platform for Your Audience
2:26 to 4:28
Understand how to choose the most effective platform for your target audience.
“The first question you need to ask are, who of the customers that I am trying to serve and what platforms are they naturally hanging out on?”
Content Adaptation Across Platforms
4:28 to 5:56
Discover how to repurpose content effectively for different platforms.
“from growing on the first platform, apply them to the second platform, and repeat that process again.”
The Unique Benefits of YouTube for Creators
5:56 to 7:20
Explore the advantages of using YouTube as a content creator.
“But one reason that I do that is because algorithms are constantly changing, constantly changing across all of the platforms.”
Creating Timely and Timeless Content
7:20 to 9:10
Learn how to craft content that remains relevant over time.
“When you hear somebody's voice, you get to know how they speak, you know, what words they kind of flub or any inside jokes that you have.”
Monetization Strategies Beyond Ads
9:10 to 10:36
Understand better ways to monetize your audience outside of traditional ads.
“And that will become more long-term related.”
From Engagement to Email Capture
10:36 to 14:02
Learn how to effectively turn social media engagement into email list sign-ups.
“Yeah, if you ask anybody that doesn't understand social media or the world that we are in, how YouTubers make money, most of them assume it is with the ads that are natively served up on YouTube, right?”
Creating an Effective Landing Page
14:02 to 16:45
Learn how to design a landing page that maximizes email capture.
“I'm waiting until it has some minimum bar of traction before I'm making an offer here.”
Importance of Offering a Tripwire
16:45 to 17:15
Discover the significance of presenting a low-priced offer after email capture.
“you your email address, you should present them with what's called a tripwire offer.”
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Crafting the Tripwire Offer
19:36 to 23:08
Understand how to create an enticing tripwire offer to boost sales.
“infographics that I've made related to investing.”
Navigating Customer Psychology
23:08 to 28:00
Explore the psychological factors influencing customer purchasing decisions.
“what the buyer is naturally thinking about.”
Understanding the Funnel Mindset
28:00 to 29:52
Learn how to shift your perspective on marketing funnels to better engage customers.
“They're not something that actually manifests.”
Creating a Compelling Offer
29:52 to 33:54
Discover how to structure your content and offers to maximize conversions.
“So I make it easy to become a customer and easy to get a refund.”
Building Relationships Post-Opt-In
33:54 to 36:20
Explore strategies for nurturing leads and maintaining customer relationships.
“It's something that the side hustle show audience struggles with.”
Post-Education Marketing Strategies
37:38 to 42:06
Understand how to effectively market after providing value through education.
“Look, payday is awesome, but when you're the one running the payroll, like calculating the taxes and the deductions, trying to stay compliant, it's not always as simple as it was when you're just on the receiving end.”
Understanding Customer Engagement and Value
42:06 to 43:24
Learn about the importance of identifying high-value customers early in the marketing process.
“If your goal was to get more money from them right out of the gate, I would definitely focus on raising prices.”
Tech Tools for Content Creation and Audience Retention
43:24 to 45:34
Discover essential tools for managing email, checkout, and course delivery effectively.
“customer of than just somebody that I randomly opted into.”
Maximizing Content Production Efficiency
45:34 to 47:44
Explore strategies for content creation and the importance of repurposing successful material.
“Those are more edited and highly produced and really optimized for either SEO or they're optimized for content consumption, whereas my live streams are live streams, right?”
Transformative Insights from Content Creation Journey
47:44 to 49:54
Hear personal reflections on the unexpected journey of becoming a professional content creator.
“All I was doing, I was working for The Motley Fool back in 2019, which is a financial newsletter publication on Ryan.”
Embracing AI in Finance and Investing
49:54 to 51:14
Learn about the potential impact of AI on the finance industry and upcoming tools.
“Well, I'm excited to let me know when it's live.”
The Importance of Taking Action
51:14 to 52:28
Discover the key takeaway of starting small and taking action in entrepreneurship.
“And in fact, they probably change by the time you get there, but you just got to take that first thing.”
Listener Bonus and Engagement
52:28 to 53:03
Find out about the free resources available to help you implement the discussed strategies.
“consistently like showing up for your audience, but the continuity of what you're talking about, where it's like starting with the end in mind, like Brian mentioned, and then kind of reverse engineering.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Brian Feroldi:If you're selling online or out of a storefront, you already know the challenge. You're hoping people find your listing or you're waiting for them to walk in. Whatnot lips that. This is the live shopping platform that's exploding right now. On Whatnot, you go live and you sell directly to real people in real time. They see what you've got, they ask questions, and they buy. And what's crazy is Whatnot buyers spend more than an hour a day in the app. So whether it's beauty products, collectibles, thrift store finds, electronics, even cookies, sellers are building real thriving businesses on Whatnot.
0:34Brian Feroldi:I've seen the rankings, I've seen the revenue numbers, and the number of sellers making over a million dollars on Whatnot has doubled in the last year. Now's the time to give it a try for yourself. For a limited time, Whatnot will match your first$150 sold in the first month. Visit whatnot.com slash sell to start selling. That's W-H-A-T-N-O-T dot com slash sell. Whatnot.com slash sell. This is the$300 a day marketing funnel that you can replicate in your own niche. Now here's the formula, the TLDR version of this. It's free content leads to free email opt-in, which leads to paid offers. But there's quite a bit of nuance and quite a bit of strategy to each of those steps, which is why I'm excited to give you kind of a real-life breakdown, some real-life examples in today's episode.
1:25Brian Feroldi:My guest is a financial educator and online entrepreneur. He's the best-selling author of Why Does the Stock Market Go Up? From longtermmindset.co, Brian Feraldi. Welcome to The Side Hustle Show. Awesome to be here, Nick. Thank you for the invitation. Yeah, I'm pumped for this one because I saw your presentation at FinCon with the same title, my$300 a day marketing funnel. It's like, hey, this magical ATM from the internet gets a lot of people's attention. But this game starts with attention. And in your case, it starts with going where your target audience already is. Look, I want to teach people about being a smart long-term investor.
2:03Brian Feroldi:And so I got to go out onto these social platforms where they're already consuming content, Twitter or X, LinkedIn, Threads, YouTube. And how do I get people to notice me there? Something you've done a very effective job of, a couple hundred thousand followers on LinkedIn, over 650 ,000 on Twitter or X, and something you've been really prolific at for the last several years. So speak to me about the attention-getting game. What's working there now? The first question you need to ask are, who of the customers that I am trying to serve and what platforms are they naturally hanging out on? Now, the platform that I got started with was Twitter, aka X at the time.
2:44And that was the place that investors were going to talk about stocks. So I kind of got lucky that the platform that I naturally gravitated to and started on was also the right platform to choose on. At least it was the right platform for me at the beginning. Now, if you're starting from zero, a big mistake is to try and use like five or six platforms or 10 platforms all at the same time. That's absolutely the wrong thing to do.
3:07Brian Feroldi:Everybody's advice is be everywhere. Yeah, which sounds so smart, but if you are really starting from scratch or you don't have a big presence, it is far better to be excellent at one platform than horrible at 10 platforms. And if you really spend time on any given platform, you'll notice what kind of content is resonating on that platform at that particular period of time. And those things are constantly moving targets. So the first thing you need to do is ask, what platform are your customers already hanging out on? It could be Twitter, it could be LinkedIn, it could be YouTube, it could be Instagram, it could be Threads, it could be Reddit, it could be Medium, right?
3:48It could be Substack. There's actually many different places that you could look.
3:52Brian Feroldi:Start with one, in your case, Twitter, and then as that platform matures, as the audience grows, okay, now I figured this out, let me add in a second and a third. Yeah, but you want all of your energy, all of your focus, focus on just one thing, one platform, until you are getting traction on that platform, until you can clearly define a repeatable system for yourself that you can reliably get traction and attention from. And only once you have that platform systematized should you even think about going on to a second platform. And you should take the lessons that you learned from growing on the first platform, apply them to the second platform, and repeat that process again.
4:35Try and figure out what content works on that next platform. What is the format that consumers want to look at? And keep iterating and experimenting using the content you already have from the first platform ported over, but sometimes you just have to reformat it. For example, platforms like X might love text, but platforms like Instagram obviously love images. So you can even start by just taking a screenshot of your Twitter posts and put them over on your Instagram account and maybe turn them into slideshows, for example, or convert them into being very simple reels. So it doesn't have to be a huge leap.
5:12You just have to make sure you're optimizing the content that you're making to be the format that each platform is going for.
5:19Brian Feroldi:Yeah, it's got to be native to that platform, which is where you see a lot of podcasters, and I was guilty of myself of this in the early years, their tweet would be, hey, new episode dropped today. You know, here's the link. You're like, this is the worst tweet ever, right? Like it's, you know, nobody's scrolling Twitter looking for a 45-minute, you know, audio episode to listen to. Like it just didn't connect. What do you see working today on Twitter or LinkedIn or, you know, one of your primary platforms in terms of just, you know, starting out, it always feels like shouting into the void. Like, I've got good stuff.
5:53Brian Feroldi:Somebody pay attention to me. Like, what do you see working today? I take a very diversified approach to social media today because I've spent multiple months, if not years, on every single platform to kind of grow it up. But one reason that I do that is because algorithms are constantly changing, constantly changing across all of the platforms. And as a general statement, I usually have one platform that's doing very well and one platform that was previously doing well that's not doing well. And those things do ebb, ebb and flow. I can tell you that the platform I am currently putting the most time into is YouTube.
6:28So that is the one that I am focusing the most of my energy and time on. And I have the other platforms largely in maintenance mode.
6:36Brian Feroldi:Okay. What's attracted you to YouTube? What's the opportunity you see there? YouTube is a platform that combines discoverability, SEO, as well as when a subscriber joins your channel, if they watch a couple of your videos, they have a deeper connection to you as a creator than they would if they were just reading text. You know, you're a podcaster. I'm very jealous of that because people that consume podcasts tend to listen to multiple episodes and you have been in their ear for dozens, if not hundreds of hours. And they are likely developing a very strong connection to you as the host simply because you are spending so much time with them.
7:17That's not the case really for written platforms. And it's just a completely different human experience. When you hear somebody's voice, you get to know how they speak, you know, what words they kind of flub or any inside jokes that you have. You can do that with audio and video platforms. And you can't necessarily do that as easy with written platforms like LinkedIn or Substack. So I'm focusing my energy on YouTube because it combines discoverability, the ability to go live and with the ability to establish a deeper connection with the audience.
7:45Brian Feroldi:Are you targeting the kind of evergreen, how to evaluate a stock type of keywords that people are searching for this month, they're going to search for next month. On social, it seems like the lifespan of a piece of content is 24 hours, maybe a little bit longer if it really hits, but it can be more evergreen on YouTube. Yep, that's another reason. I've made YouTube videos that, you know, if you're a YouTuber, you understand this, when I publish them, they're 10 out of 10, which is horrible, right? That means it's like the least popular video of the last 10 that you've produced. Oh, sure, sure.
8:14But eventually the algorithm has found that video, served it to the right audience, and those videos eventually become one in 10 in time. So you are absolutely correct. That is another benefit of YouTube, whereas the content you create can have a shelf life that lasts years where you can't say the same about tweets.
8:31Brian Feroldi:Okay, I'm looking at some of your titles now. Investing for Beginners 2026, which S &P 500 ETF is the best? So kind of these evergreen type of topics or, you know, keyword targeted type of videos. I've heard it said by Ryan Holiday, you're trying to create content that is timely and timeless at the same time, which is a really hard thing to do. So I am trying to create content that is related to right now. So putting 2026 in the title tends to do this, but I'm also trying to create timeless content. So I will remove 2026 from the title on those videos in, let's just say six months time, and they'll become videos that you can watch.
9:09So that'll become which S &P 500 tracker is best. No date on it. And that will become more long-term related.
9:16Brian Feroldi:Best performing video of all time, 1.7 million views for Warren Buffett, how to analyze a balance sheet. So obviously this is tapping into the popularity of Warren Buffett related search terms. And so anybody who's watching investing related content on YouTube, this gets served up as like, hey, you might also like this. Absolutely. And I've made lots of videos that are similar to that and accounting related. And you know, as a content creator, you can never predict ahead of time what's going to do well, what's going to resonate for the long term. But in that case, I was borrowing the authority of Warren Buffett, diving deep into how he thinks about a balance sheet, which is an idea that not only applies to investors, but it also implies to business owners, to managers, to entrepreneurs.
9:58So I think that one did well because the topic applied more broadly than just my niche, which is investing. Okay.
10:03Brian Feroldi:so kind of this combination of social content written content sometimes it's just like a little short form take on what's going on in the market and then some of this you know more longer form evergreen content you know eight ten minutes sometimes an hour long video on this stock investing course for example but then you can make money as a creator on these platforms like facebook has started paying people obviously youtube has their partner program or ad program but you have a much more in-depth funnel that doesn't rely on any of that. So talk to me about kind of the next step you would like someone to take after consuming your content, if you have an example of that.
10:41Yeah, if you ask anybody that doesn't understand social media or the world that we are in, how YouTubers make money, most of them assume it is with the ads that are natively served up on YouTube, right? And there's lots of reasons why people think that. They're used to watching the ads. They know that there's some kind of creator split. And if you're a creator, it's very easy to just click a button, monetize, and you get paid on that. But I don't think people understand just how little those payments are, even at a relatively big scale that you have to be at. So if you're a Mr. Beast of the world or some massive creator with tens of millions of views, that can amount to sizable amounts of money.
11:24But that is one of the worst ways to monetize an audience. So if you are depending on programmatic advertising, which effectively that is, that is the bottom of the barrel way to monetize an audience, in my opinion. All right. So what do you do instead? The best way to make money from an audience is to have that audience directly give you money by buying products that you have created. By far, the best way to monetize an audience. Like I can make a YouTube video and let's just say it gets 10 ,000 views, which may be a lot or a little depending on what scale of a creator you are at. From an advertising perspective, that will amount to maybe$100 in like ad revenue or maybe like probably less than that.
12:11Very little when compared to like what you like would require to like build a business on and be sustainable. But that same video with just like 10 ,000 views, if you are pitching a product that you personally own, create, and is digitally native, that same video can make you$1 ,000,$2 ,000, or even more in direct revenue from the audience. So when you're talking about the scale of monetization, selling your own audience products that you make is a way better way to monetize them.
12:40Brian Feroldi:Yeah, let's go through an example, if you have one handy, of taking somebody from a YouTube or LinkedIn or Twitter and kind of walking them through the next step. Okay, what's going to be the opt-in offer and then what is behind, you know, what happens after that? So in this case, what I'm sharing here is just a direct tweet that I had from my Twitter account. So it's just a short little text tweet and it says, investing isn't risky, buying without doing any research is. This is a tweet that I have on basically autopilot. It's published through a platform that I use called Hypefury. And this tweet surfaces every like 45 days or something along those lines.
13:19Now, I have the platform that I use called Hypefury, which does the tweeting for me, set up so that once a tweet gets, I think it's 50 likes, which isn't that many for an account of my size, it auto-plugs below that tweet a link to a lead magnet that I created. So in this case, the lead magnet is about a free ebook that I made that creates some of my infographics that explain the content of investing. So every time a tweet gets a certain amount of likes, the software that I use will automatically publish this lead magnet below it and say, hey, if you like this tweet, you know, grab a copy, a free copy of my infographics here.
13:56Brian Feroldi:Yeah, this is pretty slick. Can I pause here? Because it's like, I'm not plugging this from the point of publishing. I'm waiting until it has some minimum bar of traction before I'm making an offer here. Yes. Yeah. So the opt-in here was the access a PDF of 10 of the most popular investing infographics I've ever made. Yep. So if somebody decides, hey, I like that, and they click over to it, they get taken to this, which is my Landon opt-in page for capturing their email address. A simple landing page built on kit, it looks like. Yep, exactly. It's a simple landing page built on kit. I've done my best to optimize the heck out of it.
14:32Notice that on the page, you cannot do anything except for give me your email address or exit out. There's no other options on this page. In addition, it ties in directly to the link that they clicked before. So the link that they clicked had a visual showing off what the thing is. So it's a free ebook. It's in big letters, 10 of the most popular things I've ever made. If you go over to it, I actually have a visual of what the ebook looks like kind of on your phone to make it very easy to understand what you're getting. This has been downloaded by over 5 ,000 investors at this point. So trying to pack it with social proof, and this is optimized for conversion.
15:13The last I looked, I think this page was converting at about 72%. So 72 out of every 100 people that land up on this page do give me their email address. Okay. So I fill in my email address, and then you click, yes, I want the cheat sheet. So now I have their email address, which is the critical step. That is the thing that you as a creator truly want people to give you. And maybe we should harp on this point for a second. I view the entire point of creating content on social media to get people to give me their email address. Social media is not reliable at all as a way to get in contact with your audience, but emails are.
15:54So I am very much focused on creating content on social media with the sole goal of getting people to give me their email address. Once they give me their email address, a big mistake that I say is they just have a pop-up that says, email sent or welcome. Yeah, thanks. So, you know, confirmed. Like that. Yeah, thanks for giving me your email. Huge mistake. Right now, somebody has looked at a tweet that I had or some content that I had. They've clicked over to a lead magnet that I've created and they've chosen to opt in. So right now, they are thinking, I know who this person is or I know a little bit about this person.
16:32I just got a free thing from them. So you have their attention. And what I have chosen to do and I think is a huge opportunity, especially if you're a creator with any size audience, is right now, as soon as they give you your email address, you should present them with what's called a tripwire offer. This is a very low-priced offer that allows them to become a customer, not just a subscriber, as quickly as possible.
17:04Brian Feroldi:Hey, real quick, I took Brian's advice and turned it into a free visual funnel building worksheet you can download and start filling in the blanks for your own business. Just hit the show notes for this episode and grab that for free. We've got more with Brian in just a moment, including the Tripwire offer in this example and how that's presented coming up right after this. In the next 60 seconds, 23 entrepreneurs are going to find their next team member on Indeed. I'm excited to partner with Indeed for this episode because when you need to find amazing candidates fast, you need the powerful matching technology and unmatched reach of our sponsor, Indeed.
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19:26Brian Feroldi:Go to shopify.com slash side hustle. That's shopify.com slash side hustle. So in this case, they just downloaded a free ebook for me that has 10 of my most popular infographics that I've made related to investing. And what this offer is, is I basically say, well, do you want a hundred of my most popular infographics? You like that? There's more. Yeah, there is more, right? Instead of just 10, do you want 100? Do you really like these infographics? And do you want all of them, not necessarily just 10 as a sampler? It's like at this point, they haven't even checked their email. Yeah, they haven't even had a chance to consume the original 10.
20:10Brian Feroldi:But it's like, hey, while you're hot on this downloading infographics spree, I got more where that came from. Exactly. So this is a full on sales page. And right at the top, it says, hey, your free gift is on its way to your inbox. and you just unlocked a one-time offer. So I normally sell my ebook for$49, but I am offering it to you today for just$7. So that's what I'm looking for,$7 from a purchaser. And there's a decent-sized page here that explains who we are, what we do. There's videos, it's packed with testimonials, there's frequently asked questions. And what I'm trying to get them to do is click over to this button here, which takes them to my checkout page.
20:53This is what my checkout page looks like. So it's very, it's the same consistency. So you get all 100 infographics on there, lots of testimonials. You are trying to do everything in your power at this point to build trust with the person and show them that they're making a legitimate purchase.
21:12Brian Feroldi:It's like, look, it's just$7, but still like the hurdle from free to any amount of money is significant. It's like, well, who's this guy again? Yeah. Exactly. So you're trying to pack it with social proof, lots of people on here. So again, 3 ,000 people have purchased this from me. It's actually more at this point. And generally speaking, it gets great reviews. And it is just that$7 and you try and reduce all friction, just all friction from the offering. So you can use your credit card, you can use PayPal, you can use Google Pay, you can use Apple Pay. When I chose a checkout device, I wanted to make sure there was as many checkout options as possible for them.
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21:52Brian Feroldi:What's the shopping cart that you're using here? It's called Spiffy. Spiffy is the shopping cart that I use, and I like them quite a bit. So right on this page, they can just check out and buy the seven if they want to, but I offer them the ability to upsell. So I created a couple of mini courses. These are less than half an hour long and they dive into some aspect of investing. So I built a mini course that's all about how to analyze a company's moat. I built another mini course that's how to do a reverse discounted cash flow calculator. And similarly, I price these at a one-time discount. So these are normally$80 each and I discount them to$27.
22:33What I'm trying to do is if somebody is going to go through with the checkout process, I want them to have many options to give me more than$7, right? If they are a purchaser. And it's very important that all of this makes sense in the eye of the buyer. Notice that all of this content is directly related to investing, right? It is from visual or tweet about investing to lead magnet about investing to tripwire product about investing to upsells about investing. And so it's very important that you think through all of those flows that they match what the buyer is naturally thinking about.
23:13Brian Feroldi:Do you think it helps that there is kind of an inherent ROI in your customer's mind where if I'm in a hobby niche and you're going to teach me about how to grow better tomatoes, like I've got to pull some different psychological levers than you would in a financial niche? I do think that helps. The problem with the quote unquote problem with being in the investing niche is there's no way for me to like guarantee people money. I'm effectively selling them education related to investing. I can't make a guarantee about you're going to do well as an investor. You're going to buy anything. But a lot of people that are in the business to business can offer guarantees around around money.
23:54Right. Like buy this thing and I'll help you land your first sponsorship or buy this thing. and I'll help slash your profits. And you can make guarantees. So the best offers to me are you buy this thing and I can guarantee you that you will make money from it. That is a much easier sell. I can't necessarily do that. But to your point, in theory, this does help them to become a better investor, which can lead to money. I just can't promise it.
24:19Brian Feroldi:Yeah, what's the little guarantee badge at the top that's just related to the product itself? So it has a 30-day money-back guarantee. Okay. So if anybody buys this, they can email me and they can get all of their money back within 30 days. Yeah, just some kind of risk reversal. I think that's important to have. Absolutely. All you're trying to do is minimize risk in the buyer's eyes at this point. And I'm absolutely dead serious about this. We have refunded people for$7 purchases. It's zero questions asked. So we do everything we can to make it as frictionless and easy as possible to become a customer of mine right away.
24:54Okay. So you can add, you know, these upsells to it and the button does happen. But this is the simple funnel. It is content to lead magnet, lead magnet to email opt-in, email opt-in to low price ticket. And this is the funnel that makes me$300 per day.
25:12Brian Feroldi:So you said 72 % of the people who hit the original landing page give you their email. And then what are the percentages look like on this next page, on the$7 page? For every 100 people that kind of go through this opt-in process, a bad funnel will convert about half a percent of them into paying customers. A top-tier amazing funnel will convert about 7 % of them into paying customers. My funnels, I've never been able to get that good, but I'm in the 3 % to 4 % range. So for every 100 people I get to give me their email address, roughly three to four of them become paying customers. And the average selling price on those customers is about$17.
25:57So for every 100 emails that I get, I roughly make$50 or$60.
26:02Brian Feroldi:Oh, okay. Like getting paid to build your email list is one way to look at it. Exactly. Now, I haven't gone and been so sophisticated as to connect this to ads so that you are, you know, you're paying for ads to get email addresses and then you're liquidating the cost. I am. That is something I do want to do. So the only thing that I'm driving traffic to on this particular funnel is organic traffic. But if you really get this dialed in and you really know your audience well, you can use this to dramatically offset the cost of running ads or in some cases even make a profit immediately from running ads.
26:37So it's a super, super simple, in theory, funnel to run. But I think it's one that every creator should implement as soon as possible.
26:47Brian Feroldi:Yeah, that was the next question. I was like, well, now, yeah, do you have the paid ads running from Meta or from any of these platforms, really, where it's like, I'm sick and tired of creating all this organic content on a daily basis. Like, maybe there's an easy button where I could pay a dollar a subscriber or whatever if your subscriber is worth 50 cents on average organically, maybe it's higher. It's quite a bit higher than that, but this is really interesting. So I am a little bit surprised. Okay. Lots of people opt in 70 % plus for the freebie. And then there's a pretty steep drop-off. Well, I only get 3 % to actually buy the thing, but it is kind of this psychological switch that has to flip of like, well, I look, I just said, I get your free thing.
27:28Brian Feroldi:And now you're trying to sell me something, like, do you get that pushback of, dude, just, just give me the thing that I asked for. Like, why are you trying to sell me all this other stuff? Yep. So that is by far the biggest mental hurdle that creators have to get over when, when they think about implementing that. And that's, I was resistant to that idea for quite some time. I was like, I don't want to bother my audience. They're going to be mad at me right away because I'm asking them for money. as a general statement, all of those fears are completely fake and exist in the creator's head. They're not something that actually manifests.
28:06One way of thinking about this, when you are at, let's just say, the grocery store and you are checking out, are you mad at the grocery store that right there is gum for sale? No, it's just an offer, right? It is an offer to buy gum or candy or a tabloid magazine. That's the mindset that you have to get into when you're doing a funnel like this. You are just presenting them with an offer and you're trying to make that offer as compelling as possible. But in no way are you deceiving the audience. I promise them a free ebook. They receive in their email box a free ebook. The only thing I'm doing is I'm inserting a intermediate step in there where I'm asking them to become a paid customer.
28:51But if they don't want to, They just X out of that box, which is something that 97 % of people choose to do. But doing this funnel, I'm identifying people that are willing to pay for digital products.
29:05Brian Feroldi:Yeah, I like that language, that mindset shift around, look, I'm being super salesy to, no, I'm presenting an offer. Take it or leave it. Yep. Here it is. If it's going to help you, go for it. If not, that's cool too. Exactly. And I do think that the things that I am selling are designed to help people. My category is investing. I know what it's like to be an individual investor and all the education that you need to do investing the right way. So the content that I create, I am very proud of and I wish I had when I was a new investor. So that is the mindset that I have adopted for myself. I'm just making an offer.
29:42If they take the offer, I think that this content will help them. If they later decide that they want their money back, I will always give them 100 % of their money back. No harm, no foul. So I make it easy to become a customer and easy to get a refund. And if you have that mindset, I don't feel like I have any ethical reasons not to do what I'm doing.
30:03Brian Feroldi:Let's talk through kind of creating the different tiers here. Because you have the free content that you put out for everyone on all these different platforms. you have you okay well what am I going to gate behind the email opt-in in this case the the infographics the paid product the initial paid product was you know a bundle of a ton of different infographics and then we had these paid courses on you know mini courses behind that like it's kind of a lot of quote-unquote extra content to create or maybe you already had something in the archive or you'd been building for a year like speak to that piece of it if like I'm trying to piece this together as a newer creator?
30:40Brian Feroldi:Like, what do I, what do I plug into all these different steps? To me, the creator mindset is how do I create content? How do I get attention? That's great. You absolutely need that mindset. There's another mindset that you want to be if you want to be a professional creator, and that is the mindset of business owner, right? Creating content just to get likes and clicks and hearts and all that kind of stuff. That's a great way to start. But if you want to make this a sustainable career, or you want to turn it into a meaningful side hustle, you also have to build the business brain behind becoming a full-time creator.
31:11So a lot of creators just focus on creating content, making videos, trying to get their eyeballs and stuff like that, but they give no thought for how do I turn that attention into something that I can build a business around. So that's something that every creator needs to think through. And if you're in this business for any period of time, you know that there are dozens, literally dozens of ways that you can take attention and monetize it. Yeah.
31:38Brian Feroldi:What do you think about, you know, in terms of your mini courses and these like digital products, like there's a really high degree of continuity between each step. I'm trying to think maybe if we go back to the gardening example or helping somebody learn how to play guitar or something, what would be the equivalent at the different stages there? What I recommend you do is you start with the end in mind What is the thing that you are trying to sell to your audience at the very end of the process? Right, so in my case, I have a digital course and tool that I call stock simplifier and it is a It's a course.
32:19It's some ai prompts and it is a checklist that I use to go through and analyze a business from start to finish That to me is the thing that I want people to buy. And I charge$200 for that thing. So then we have to think in reverse from that. I can't just ask for$200 right out of the gate to a new subscriber, someone that I haven't built necessarily a trust with. So I say, what is one part of that course or one part of that idea related to learning how to analyze a business that I can break up into a lower priced course? So as you saw before, a part of my course is how to analyze a company's moat.
32:59That's a competitive advantage for people that don't speak investor. So I broke that piece out into a mini course that's like a sampling of the course, the larger course that I created. And I break that out and I bundle that into a$27 offering. And I think, okay, I have my$27 offering. How can I turn that into a$7 offering? Well, I created infographics related to investing that I share online. And all I did was bundle a bunch of them up into a PDF. And that is the content that I share online. So it's content visuals related to investing becomes a book about investing, becomes a mini course about investing, becomes a full course about investing.
33:46So start with the end in mind, break that down into mini chunks, and get all the way back to free. And there's your funnel.
33:54Brian Feroldi:Yeah, that's helpful. It's something that the side hustle show audience struggles with. A portion of the audience is, you know, coming up with side hustle ideas. And so maybe there is a certain sequence or funnel around finding your idea. You know, here's a strengths finder type of, maybe there's AI quiz prompt, something related to this. And it goes on and on and on up the sequence there. Yep. There's a great tool called Score App I recommend you look into. Okay. It's an AI tool that you answer a series of questions and it gives you a custom score at the end that is AI powered. And it can be, yeah, to your point, what side hustle is the right choice for you?
34:31Brian Feroldi:Cool. You kind of alluded to it, but that was the next question was what happens after somebody opts in and the 97 % of people say, no thanks to this offer. So ultimately, I want to continue to serve them and build trust and build the relationship and build the authority so that they buy this$200 course and tool. So what does that portion of the relationship look like? Great if they pressed the follow button on whatever social platform they found you on, but now you also have the opportunity to be in their inbox. So my funnel post, let's say you're going through my funnel and you don't choose to become a customer.
35:06Or in fact, if you do choose to become a customer, I have the same follow-up sequence. So you've come into my ecosystem because you're interested in investing and you've downloaded my infographic ebook. That's the free thing that you got. So as soon as I get your email, I send you through a free five-day course, an email-based course, that teaches you the principles behind the infographics that you downloaded. So what's the difference between a stock and a bond? How do you read financial statements? What are the different types of moats and why are they important. So it's a five email sequence delivered once a day for five days.
35:46And it's pure me giving educational value related to the lead magnet to the new customer. So I put them into this one week long welcome sequence. So that way they're getting used to opening my emails. They're getting used to me being the source of information. And as they're reading the information, I'm hoping to build credibility with them that I know what I talk about and look how, look how useful this free thing was that this, that this guy created.
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38:55The mini course then or the$7 thing? Yep. I will offer them the ability to buy. If they didn't buy the$7 ebook, I repitch it at the end. If they didn't buy the mini course with the ebook, I repitch that at the end. But if they go through that whole sequence and they don't buy anything, no problem. I then add them to my newsletter. So I have two newsletters that I write. One is a hand curated one that comes out every Wednesday. and that is a newsletter called Long-Term Mindset that is all about investing. And me and my partners hand you that every single week. That's a new and update issue. Then I also have a evergreen newsletter that comes out on Saturday that is all about the fundamentals of stock investing.
39:40We've written one year's worth of content for that. So 52 emails that come out every Saturday. So after they go to that sequence, I'm in their inbox at least twice a week with pure value-add education on top of that. And what I'm trying to do is stay top of mind with them and, again, help them with educational content related to investing that is pure value-add. Okay.
40:06Brian Feroldi:And are you making an offer for the$200 thing along the way? Yep. So along the way, the strategy that I have there is I do monthly promotions to my audience. I discount the products that they have and I do temporary sales on them. But the bigger thing that I do is I invite my email audience to private webinars. And during these private webinars, we're typically researching a company's stock that's in the news from scratch over the course of an hour, or we're doing some type of educational content with them related to just general concepts about investing. But the goal is to get them on live webinars with us because, as we talked about before, then they see my face, hear me talk, watch me and my business partners go through and analyze companies, show them how we think as investors, take their question, and they get to know us.
40:59And once they know us and trust us, then they're far more willing to become customers of ours.
41:04Brian Feroldi:Yeah. Another touchpoint, a really high engagement or high relationship building touchpoint. If somebody's going to hang out with you live for an hour, that can be really powerful. Or watch the replay if they're not there live. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Real quick, after the five-day mini course, it's about the infographics, pure educational content. If you didn't buy the thing originally, I'm gonna pitch it again, the original upsell. Is it the same$7 price point? Because it was like messaged as like, well, this is, you just unlocked this limited time thing. And so now as a thank you for going through the five-day course, you unlocked it again.
41:33Exactly, it's the same offer. I've experimented with different price points. I just feel that$7 is such a low figure that if you're willing to break out your credit card, it's like such a low friction number. Like I've experimented with 17. I've experimented 27. I've experimented with 47. The thing that I'm trying to optimize for is the absolute number of customers. I'm not trying to optimize for the highest dollar amount right out of the gate.
42:05I'm out of the gate. If your goal was to get more money from them right out of the gate, I would definitely focus on raising prices. You'll obviously trade off that with conversion rate, but that's not the thing I'm trying to optimize for.
42:18Brian Feroldi:Do you find that the three or four percent who bought initially and then, you know, whatever additional percent that buy after the five-day thing, do they convert at a better rate, like long-term for the primary course and tool? Absolutely. Yep. People that are willing to pay any amount of money are just at a completely different class of customer than other people. They're way more likely to open your emails. They're way more likely to click your links. They're way more likely to join you on live streams. They're way more likely to take advantage of offers that you have down the road, which is why I'm trying to identify those people as early in the process as possible.
42:53You know, if you have an email list or anybody on social media, you get to know somebody And it's like you see their content once and maybe you never interact with them again. Or there's a really big, there's a really sharp fall off rate with the following somebody. So there's a cost to our attention to following anybody. So I want to make it so that if somebody does find me online, that I am able to provide them with value in their inbox as quickly as possible.
43:20Brian Feroldi:Yeah, I find myself definitely more likely to even open the emails from people I'm a customer of than just somebody that I randomly opted into. So I'm with you. You mentioned Hype Fury as this kind of social media auto posting tool. It'll recycle tweets on a 45-day cycle. It'll automatically add the opt-in if it reaches a certain level of engagement. That sounds like a really cool tool. We talked about Kit for building the email sequences and the initial landing page. Spiffy was the checkout software. Anything else on the tools and tech side that you swear by? Yep. So I use a platform called Circle for delivering my courses.
43:59Circle allows you to do all kinds of things. You can load courses into them. You can do live webinars in them. We do kind of our higher end premium communities through them. So yeah, my tech stack is really a kit for email collection and email delivery, Spiffy for checkout and Circle for delivery and retaining the audience that I built.
44:22Brian Feroldi:Got it. What's a day in the life look like at this stage of the business where it sounds like some of the social stuff is automated and now I've created five, six years of it. So it's just like, well, let's go back to what content did well and resurface that versus creating new longer form stuff for YouTube. Like where are the hours going today? I'm always kind of creating new content, new infographics, new visuals, that kind of thing for those platforms. And I outsource that work largely to virtual assistants. So I come up with the ideas, the virtual assistants actually create the content and then I approve it.
45:00And then in some cases they post it and other cases I post it. So that thankfully takes up not a lot of my time, but most of my time is devoted to video where I'm creating shorts. I try and do four shorts per week. And I share those across Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, you know, all the places that you can share shorts. And I try and do one live stream per week. That's an hour long on YouTube plus one long form video. And I put long form in air quotes because it's about 10 to 15 minutes long, but those are kind of like highly produced.
45:32Brian Feroldi:That's long form these days. Yeah. The attention spans are short. Yeah. Those are more edited and highly produced and really optimized for either SEO or they're optimized for content consumption, whereas my live streams are live streams, right? So it's not like the editing is perfect on them. On the short form, the four shorts per week, and even on the longer form YouTube content, is it the same call to action where it's like, hey, if you like this, why don't you grab the 10 free infographics that teach you about the basics of investing. Yep. So I even optimize that as well. My short forums, if you follow me, are me talking through infographics.
46:12I literally print out the infographics that I made. I just with a highlighter, go through and explain them, each of the infographics in less than 60 seconds. And again, some of those videos have done extremely well. But again, think through the continuity of that. You watch a short of me explaining an infographic. And then I say, do you want to download these infographics? Do you want to buy a whole bunch of these infographics? Do you want to learn more from me? So again, it's all about continuity from the free content that you make to the premium content that you want to sell. That's very important.
46:43Okay. Yeah, that makes sense.
46:45Brian Feroldi:Yeah, we had a woman Cheyenne Bullock on the show toward the end of last year, and her product, The End, starting with The End in mind, was a cleaning service subscription, but it was like audio guy, like it was old school radio shows where she would intersperse housekeeping tips or, you know, go clean, you go empty the dishwasher or go fold some laundry, you know, interspersed with like dragnet episodes from the fifties. And so her social content was, you know, housekeeping tips and the email opt-in, uh, you know, on almost every post was, Hey, get a free sample episode, you know, plug it into your earbuds, see if you like it.
47:19Brian Feroldi:And so it was really natural progression. Be like, you want more, you know, here it's 25 bucks a month or it's 50 bucks a quarter or something, you know, it was kind of a very straight progression from the social content to the final offer there. But Brian, this has been awesome. I am curious, what's surprised you the most over the last four or five, six years of making all this content and running this business? This can be a business in the first place. I did not set out to become a professional content creator. I did not set out to start a business. All I was doing, I was working for The Motley Fool back in 2019, which is a financial newsletter publication on Ryan.
47:56I was just a writer for them. And I started to share posts online related to investing. And that happened to do very well on Twitter. And it was only basically accidentally that I discovered that you can build a business. So I did not set out to build a business as a content creator. I was purely a content creator. I had so many mindset blocks. I was like so allergic to the idea of charging money for things so much so that the first time I made money online, the price that I set for it, the thing that I was quote unquote selling was$0. It was, you can download this for free, but I basically put a tip jar on there.
48:31So if you want to give me money, this is free, but if you want to give me a thank you tip, you can. And that very first part, I vividly remember this day. It was like, you always remember the day you make your first dollar online. I made$2 ,000 in tips online. Yeah. Yeah.
48:47Brian Feroldi:From a tip jar. Wow. But that was because I built up so much goodwill over the course of like 18 months that people were basically looking for a way to say thank you monetarily. But I had all of these hangups about charging for things online, which as you've seen, I've completely gone now. You know, people seem to fall into one of two camps, your camp of like, look, I'm doing this for the love of the game. I'm just putting stuff out there. I don't know, I don't feel bad at charging for this stuff. Like it's all, it's all free in my head anyways. And other people are like, look, it's a thousand bucks, take it or leave it.
49:18It's like, I admire
49:20Brian Feroldi:your confidence, but you know, I'm more in, uh, in your camp there. But what's next for you? What's got you excited these days? So I've been all over AI. Just, I think, I think a lot of people are AI is dramatically set to transform the finance industry. So I've been building an AI powered product that dramatically speeds up the stock research process. So my category is helping individual investors to analyze businesses so they can make better investing decisions. And we have a AI powered product coming out in the next month or two that I think is going to really help with that process. So that's what I'm pretty excited about.
49:55Brian Feroldi:Well, I'm excited to let me know when it's live. We'll definitely add it to the show notes along with a long term mindset.co and all of your social profiles. Make sure to follow along with whatever Brian is up to on your social platform of choice. Let's wrap this thing up with your number one tip for Side Hustle Nation. Number one tip is going to be just get started. So many people, I've heard them called wantrepreneurs, right? They consume content related to starting an entrepreneurship. They think about starting a side hustle, but they're always looking for an idea. They're always consuming more content related to it.
50:34Nothing will actually start the process better than trying to sell something to one person. It doesn't matter what it is. It is so important that you actually take the first step to start a business, to just get that first customer. To me, nothing else matters. So if you've been sitting on the sidelines, if you've been consuming content, if you've been thinking about a side hustle, just do it. Whatever your idea is right now, just do it. Take the next first step to try and get your first customer. If that fails, you now have data that you can try again with more information to make a better decision.
51:06Brian Feroldi:Yeah, this is your year. Go after it. Get started today. You know, what separates a lot of people stuck on the sidelines is this, you know, you don't need to know steps two through 10. And in fact, they probably change by the time you get there, but you just got to take that first thing. It honestly doesn't matter what the thing is because you're going to figure out, do I like it? Do I not like it? What am I going to learn from this. I think a friend, a quote that stuck with me, likened it to your first move in a game of chess. Like, I'm just putting my pawn out into the world. Let's see what kind of reaction it gets.
51:33Brian Feroldi:And then I'm going to go from there. A couple of takeaways for me before we wrap. Number one was this at the very top of the show, go where your target audience already is. Start with one platform. Don't spread yourself too thin. Learn what works and go deep there first before diversifying. And then obviously long-term diversifying would be a good thing because the algorithms are constantly changing and you don't want to see your thing evaporate overnight. The second thing that I wrote down was the content itself is not a business. This is something that took me as a podcaster a long time to realize, you know, but 14, 15 months into hosting the show, it's like, you know, this switch flipped.
52:07Brian Feroldi:It's like, oh, dummy, it's content marketing for a business. Okay, now we can figure this out. I loved the call to, especially if you're kind of have a hesitancy towards selling, it's like, look, I'm going to make an offer. I'm not going to sell you anything. I'm going to put this offer out there. If you want it, great. I think it'll help you. Here's the price, take it or leave it. And then the consistency across creating the content, consistently like showing up for your audience, but the continuity of what you're talking about, where it's like starting with the end in mind, like Brian mentioned, and then kind of reverse engineering.
52:37Brian Feroldi:Well, okay, what is this offer going to be? What is this offer going to look like? And so on. And actually to help you out with that, that's your free listener bonus for this week. It's a free visual funnel building worksheet that I put together based on Brian's advice. So you can plug in different pieces, what makes the most sense for your business. That is the next step. So you don't just listen and kind of nod along as we're talking about this. So it's the next step to help you actually get started and do the thing. So you can grab that for free at the show notes for this episode. Just follow the link in the description.
53:07Brian Feroldi:It'll get you right over there. And if you're already a Side Hustle Nation subscriber, just check your inbox. It'll be in the newsletter. Big thanks to Brian for sharing his insight. Thanks to our sponsors for helping make this content free for everyone. You can hit up sidehustlenation.com slash deals for all the latest offers from our sponsors in one place. Thank you for supporting the advertisers that support the show. It really does make a difference. That is it for me. Thank you so much for tuning in. If you're finding value in the show, the greatest compliment is to share it with a friend.
53:37Brian Feroldi:So do me a favor, fire off that text message. I appreciate you. Until next time, let's go out there and make something happen. and I'll catch you in the next edition of the Side Hustle Show. Hustle on.
From the publisher
What if you could turn your social media following into a $300/day marketing machine without relying on ads or platform algorithms to pay you?
That's exactly what financial educator Brian Feroldi has built at LongTermMindset.co.
He started by sharing investing content on Twitter back in 2019 and gradually built a funnel that now generates consistent daily revenue from digital products without a huge team or a big ad budget.
Brian is the bestselling author of Why Does the Stock Market Go Up? and has grown audiences of over 650k on Twitter/X and 200k+ on LinkedIn. But the real magic isn't the follower count — it's what he does with the attention once he has it.
Tune in to Episode 726 of the Side Hustle Show to learn:
how to build a simple content-to-cash funnel that works on autopilot
why a $7 tripwire offer is the secret to identifying your best future customers
the exact email sequence and webinar strategy Brian uses to sell a $200 course
Full Show Notes: The $300/day Marketing Funnel: From Content to Cash Flow
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