The mid-life crisis that made my client 24k...


I'm 31 and I've had about 5 mid life crises.

Each crisis gave me a wrinkle across my forehead...

...Aging me in the process. But also giving me wisdom.

Every time I look in the mirror there is one wrinkle that I'll NEVER forget. You see this wrinkle came after the traffic for my online biz was smeared off the face of the planet (overnight).

Now I can sit here and point fingers at algorithms, Elon Musk, or the person chewing with their mouths open next me. But if ya wanna make the big time as an entrepreneur....

...The only person you can put the blame on is YOURSELF.

Let me explain...

About 1.5 years ago I'd finally hit the jackpot with online biz. I'd built a big following on Twitter. I was passively getting email subscribers to my list. They'd enter my funnels. And I'd make sales while I sleep.

But it wasn't long until life gave me a wet willy. And made me realize I'd built a fragile business.

Getting traffic to your business via one social media platform is a recipe for disaster. It's like letting your child hop in a McDonalds play pit. You know that kid's gonna get sick.

Anyway...

It's no secret that social media is rented land. Your traffic depends on algorithms, politics, and news. So you can build a business on it. Only to see it flushed down the toilet when you wake up.

Now I have to be honest. I was a little freaked out...

...Who wouldn't be?

But I made a move and went back to the greatest book ever written. Antifragile by Nicolas Nassim Taleb. I'll give you the entire book concept in one sentence (and it'll help you build a business that lasts even during stock market crashes)...

Something that is Antifragile grows from disorder.

When my business hit the disorder button from Twitter algorithm shifts. It fell apart. So it was fragile. But what if I built an Antifragile business? A business that grew while algorithms caused havoc?

Well there's only one asset online that is truly Antifragile. And that's your email list.

There's a reason email has been around since the 90s. When Myspace died, Zuckerberg stomped all of the returns on ad spend, and Sam Altman nerfed the world with ChatGPT...

...Email still grows in users. Email is used daily by 4 billion people. And unlike social media, your emails are seen by 40-50% of your audience.

Here's the reason I'm telling you this...

Last week, the news was filled with tariffs, job cuts, and stock market crashes. A lotta doom and gloom. The future looks bleak right?

Wrong.

Because last week, my client earned $24k from a launch campaign that I wrote. If you know how to market and work an email list, you can make money during any economy.

Even better? I wrote this email campaign while I was on vacation...

...So this week I'm going to break down how I got this client an awesome pay day during the "market crashes". With methods like:

  • The whiskey positioning technique.
  • The Mercedes Benz diesel deal trick.
  • The unique mechanism that dominated a competitive market.
  • Creating an market villain so evil people will pay your to be their hero.

Plus a heckuva lot more.

Stay tuned.

Catch ya soon,

-Parker

PS

I was tossing around the idea of making my email list growth tactics a separate course from email 365. But I believe in providing the most valuable possible my readers. I just finished writing the Email 365 course. And here are some off the nifty tricks you'll learn to build a die hard email list of customers:

  • A counterintuitive "quality over quantity" secret that helped me make $18,000 from just 800 subscribers (and why a person with 300,000 subscribers couldn't get 10 people to fill out a simple survey).
  • The embarrassing "caveman mistake" I made with my first landing page that cost me 80% of potential subscribers (and the exact 6 elements you need for a high-converting opt-in page that works like magic).
  • Why your lead magnet might be repelling your potential buyers (and the step-by-step system I use to create irresistible free gifts that convert casual browsers into eager buyers)
  • The unusual "PAS Framework" social media hack that leverages human psychology to stop scrollers in their tracks and convert them into email subscribers (works even after the recent algorithm changes).
  • A little-known "list swap" strategy that helped me add hundreds of subscribers in a single day (including the exact outreach template that gets 90% response rates from complete strangers)
  • The "podcast interview secret" that creates an evergreen stream of passive subscribers month after month (plus what to look for so you don't waste hours on shows that will never publish your episode).
  • A bizarre LinkedIn outreach system that has generated 5-10x ROI on my investment (including the exact 4-step process my virtual assistant uses to turn cold connections into warm subscribers).
  • The "warm outreach method" that helped me convert over 90% of my first 100 contacts into loyal subscribers (this works even if you're just starting out with zero followers).
  • The forgotten Kit Creator Network trick that added 1,099 new subscribers to my list without me lifting a finger — and how I got featured next to Ramit Sethi's 800,000-subscriber newsletter.
  • The startling truth about why most people fail at email marketing (hint: it's not about writing better emails) and my proven 60-90 day system for building a list of buyers who eagerly await your offers.
  • The shocking mistake I discovered when analyzing a client's 180,000-subscriber list that was generating almost zero sales (and how to avoid this fatal error that dooms most email marketers before they start).
  • A deceptively simple "3-a-day" strategy that will help you build a profitable 1,000-person email list in under a year (even if you're starting from absolute zero).

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