Conducting sales calls instead of email campaigns provided valuable insights into target customers and their pain points for the ghostwriting intensive program.
The hosts plan to use the information gathered from the sales calls to refine their marketing campaigns and tailor their messaging to resonate with different customer archetypes.
Deep dives
Building Infrastructure for Ghost Riding Intensive
The podcast episode discusses how the hosts built the initial infrastructure for their ghost riding intensive program within a short timeframe. They highlight the importance of idea execution and the tight feedback loops they utilized. Initially, they had a plan to launch the intensive through an email campaign, but they ended up making a hard pivot and decided to conduct sales calls instead. They spent 24 hours scrapping their previous plan, filling their calendars with sales calls, and ultimately filling the entire cohort within four days.
Identifying Target Customers for the Ghost Riding Intensive
During the sales calls, the hosts learned valuable insights about their target customers for the ghost riding intensive. They discovered three key archetypes: freelancers looking to improve and earn more, burnt-out freelancers who needed a change, and individuals working full-time jobs seeking a career pivot. These archetypes showed the hosts exactly who their program could help and how to address their pain points. The hosts plan to use this information to fine-tune their marketing campaigns and tailor their messaging to resonate with each archetype.
Long-Term Vision and Evergreen Approach
The podcast episode also delves into the hosts' long-term vision for their ghost riding program. They discuss the idea of making it evergreen and offering standing coaching calls across various pillars, such as positioning oneself as a premium ghost writer, social content niching, writing email courses, client acquisition, and scaling up. They highlight the potential for building relationships with the initial cohort and turning them into success managers or coaches within the program. Additionally, they mention their plan to document and share the process of landing a client using cold outreach on Twitter to demonstrate the efficacy of their methods.
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In this episode, Ship 30 for 30 Captains Dickie Bush and Nicolas Cole discuss the beta launch of their Ghostwriting Cohort and what they learned from their sales calls.
(00:00) Intro (00:27) Idea to execution (01:27) Tight feedback loops (02:04) An unexpected pivot (03:27) Why calls are better than emails for high-ticket (04:58) What did we learn after 50 sales calls? (06:43) Dickie's notes (10:12) Cole's notes (12:17) Long-term plan (13:39)Cole's secret master plan