July 18, 2023

Mastering Email Marketing and Strategic Partnerships with Igor Kheifets

Mastering Email Marketing and Strategic Partnerships with Igor Kheifets

In this episode of the Creative Collaboration Show, host Chuck Anderson interviews email marketing expert Igor Kheifets. Igor shares his strategies on leveraging big data to identify potential customers and developing irresistible offers. He highlights the value of lead generation, the power of email marketing, and the importance of strategic partnerships in building a successful business. Listeners will gain practical insights into effective email marketing techniques and how to cultivate profitable collaborations.

Igor Kheifets is a leading authority in email marketing and customer acquisition. Using big data, he identifies potential customers who are ready to make a purchase and runs dynamic promotions to capture their interest. Igor's expertise in testing and refining offers has helped him redefine and develop front and back-end offers, resulting in increased customer value. With a focus on lead generation and strategic partnerships, Igor has built a thriving business and is passionate about helping others achieve their goals.

Timestamped Key Points:

[00:03:45] Leveraging Big Data for Targeted Marketing:

- Igor discusses how using big data helps identify customers who are ready to make a purchase.

- By running dynamic promotions, he entices potential customers who may have missed the initial offer.

[00:12:15] Developing Irresistible Offers That Customers Cannot Resist:

- Igor shares his strategies for creating valuable offers that customers find impossible to resist.

- He emphasizes the importance of testing different offers to find the winners and losers.

[00:21:38] The Power of Front and Back-End Offers:

- Igor explains how upselling and offering lifetime memberships greatly increase average customer value.

- Incorporating smart offers in the back end can significantly increase profit without changing the upfront aspect.

[00:33:02] The Role of Lead Generation in Sales and Conversions:

- Igor highlights the significance of lead generation in cultivating relationships with potential customers.

- He emphasizes that leads and contacts are more valuable to a business than its products.

[00:40:20] Harnessing the Power of Strategic Partnerships:

- Igor discusses the importance of forming strategic partnerships in the business world.

- He explains how collaborating with partners in the same market but non-competing can lead to significant growth and referrals.

Must-Read Book Recommendation:

In this episode, Igor recommends "The Listen Lifestyle: Confessions of an Email Millionaire" as a must-read for anyone interested in lead generation and growing their business. The book shares Igor's journey with list-building and its importance as a form of lead generation. It also covers how having a large email list makes various aspects of business easier, such as making money, launching projects, collaborations, and getting joint venture partners.

Guest's Website and Links:

To learn more about Igor Kheifets and his effective email marketing strategies, visit his website at https://listbuildinglifestyle.com/. Connect with Igor on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/igor-kheifets-891411163.

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Chuck Anderson,

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Transcript
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Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the show. This

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is the creative collaboration show with Chuck Anderson, and

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I have another amazing guest for you. And before I

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introduce him, I just wanna remind everybody, you know, our theme here

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in every show, we do talk a little bit about collaborations

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and joint ventures and how those are the key

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to not just growth in your business, but in a lot of times,

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exponential growth. And, you know, we're we really encourage people to

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move away from this idea of, you know, I'm a solopreneur. I'm doing

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things myself. And as so you know, we're very, very pro collaboration,

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very pro joint venture partnership. Well, today's

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episode is going to be entirely dedicated to that

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because our guest here today has really embraced that in his

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business. Got multiple ways that he collaborates and

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partners with people. And so I've we've been trying to get

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this scheduled for a while. We're finally here.

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So my guest today is Igor Kefetz.

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Welcome to the show, Igor. For having me, man.

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Appreciate it, and hope to inspire the listeners

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for more partnerships and collaborations. I'm sure you will.

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And I know, you know, just in our pre chat and when we spoke

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earlier this year, it's pretty obvious that, you know, you've embraced

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this in your business. You've been able to to to make that work

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for you. So, yeah, so let's let's dive in and

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and and share with everybody. But, you know, I think the the place to

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start is let everybody know a little bit more about you. Who are who are

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you and and a little bit more about your business, and we'll go from there.

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So I help people make money with e farming. We have a coaching,

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mentoring program, a bunch of products and services in the make

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money online space. They range from as little as 10

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dollars to as high as, you know, thousands of dollars. And

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you know, basically, you can call me an information marketer,

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coach consultant, whatever. And a big part of my business

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today is creative collaborations

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that allow me to have just an automated stream

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of leads coming in on daily, weekly, monthly basis.

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In fact, just as we're filming this, I'm doing a

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collaboration this week. I actually got several going on, but 1 of them is, you

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know, just stands out so much. That I've received

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in the last 24 hours over 800 leads from

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just 1 collaboration coming in. And I

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didn't have to, like, be there, put in the work, fly

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out to a seminar, speak on a stage. It just it's happening

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automatically without me being involved. And I think that's a tremendous

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advantage because it it creates a lot of space

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for me to just focus on growing my business, further developing my

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products rather than having to be stuck in the trenches, you know,

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doing the guerilla marketing as I used to do when I was

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A11 man show. Amazing.

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Well, yeah, definitely looking forward to diving

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into that. By the way, you mentioned the e farming thing. We've got a link

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to that beneath the video if anybody wants to check out and see

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what that's all about. It's a it's a great offer. I I think you touch

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on something that's really important, and I think why

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collaborations have played such a big role in my business as well.

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But, you know, getting 800 leads in a single campaign.

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I mean, the the, you know, the the challenge that

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a lot of business owners have, I mean, they'll say, okay. Well, what do you

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need in your business? Well, I need more sales. And where am I gonna get

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more sales from? Well, I need more leads. And some

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people say they have a sales problem, but they don't really have a sales problem.

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What they have is a leads problem. Either in generating them or

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following them up. So how important is that in your

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business, that generation of new leads con continually?

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Well, it's pretty important. I think most of everything that I

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do is usually geared towards lead generation

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I don't think there's anything that I will do that will result in 1

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time sale or just an immediate sale without capturing the lead.

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It'll be always proceeded with getting an email address

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or or, you know, getting some kind of contact established because

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Over the years, I just learned that you get better conversions this way.

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Plus, you know, many people, should I say most

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people, they don't buy on the first exposure with you. You know, there is

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probably a 10 percent or so of your market who

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are, like, ready to go now, and then they know what they want. And as

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long as you just stand up, raise your hand, and say, I offer

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service XYZ. You know, they'll they'll reach out to you, but you know, most

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people, there's a for for them, there's a timeline. You almost wanna think about it

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like like strawberries. You know? Some of them are green. Some of them are, like,

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getting red, but not really. And some of them are ripe for the

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taking. And so when you lead generate rather than just sell sell

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sell, you're getting the benefit of almost cultivating this

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strawberry bush or strawberry field where they're

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just slowly percolating and getting to condition until they're ready to be

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to be picked. So I I agree. Lead generation is

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absolutely tremendous. And even when I set up any sort

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of collaborations or partnerships, I always think in terms of

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equity. Like, if I own the lead, I have equity

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in my business. In fact, I would argue that you know, my my

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leads and my list of contacts, my database

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is way more valuable to me than, you know, for example, my

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products. Because, you know, if I lose my leads but keep my

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products, I'll have to be rebuilding the database. But if I lose my products

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but have my leads, I can actually launch something within just a

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few days. In fact, they can probably launch something without building the product first

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to get paid upfront and then build it once I got paid.

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Mhmm. Yeah. That's a huge advantage when you do have

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that foundation of leads, and I would say also the

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ability to bring new and fresh leads in

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And and so which I wanna talk about a

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little bit more. I mean, that's where I think

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collaborations and partnerships really impact my business,

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and I'll get you to weigh in on that. But first, I just because

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Because you do have that base of leads, and and you mentioned something really important,

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and that is probably only 10 percent are ready to go now. What

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do you do with the rest of them? What are what are what are you

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finding is the like, what's the time

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frame from, you know, Okay. So they're not gonna buy

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right away to the point where they are gonna buy. And and and so what

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are you finding is most effective for you in that? So the

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thinking is we we really don't know when they're they're

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gonna be ready to buy. But the assumption is also that

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at any given point within my big data There's gonna be a number of people

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who are. So if this week they chose not to act in a promotion, I'll

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just run the next promotion next week. It could be for a different product. It

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could be same product with a different bundle. Like, if my

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program is, say, a thousand dollars and they didn't go for it this week,

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next week, I'll run a promotion where you know, it's a it's a

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lighter version, but it sells for 500. Or

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maybe it's a bundle of 3 of my you know,

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flagship products bundled together into 1

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price. And, you know, I would basically try and come up with

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creative ways to make offers.

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That's, I think, that's the what following up with people

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is all about. It's really not about telling them about your kids. Or telling

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them about your hobby that you like to serve on the weekends.

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It's it's not about, you know, putting yourself out there. It's more about,

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okay, last week's offer, some bought, others

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didn't. This week, what sort of offer can we put together in front of

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them that they would see it and be like, wow, that's a really good

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offer. I'd be stupid not to get it. Right? And so these

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these are some of the lessons that I learned when I started my agency.

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And, you know, basically, what I started doing at some point is I

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started just sending out daily email. And in that daily

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email, there would always be the same offer for my agency and be like, okay.

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Reach out to us. Reach out to us. Reach out to us. And that's effective.

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But then I said, Can we mix it up? And

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I started putting together these unique promotions,

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unique, if you will, packages. So if the initial offer was

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we're gonna do this service for you, then next week, I I put

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together, you know, an offer for, okay, get this service and get this

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amazing bonus for free. So all of a sudden, the offer

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became a little bit sexier, and I strategically made

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an effort to to

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make the bonuses almost more valuable or more

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desirable than the service itself. And and

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by doing so, by driving the premium first, I was able

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to substantially boost the revenues of my

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agency. Of course, what this also does is you

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end up testing lots of different offers, lots and lots and lots of them.

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And so before you know it, you start you'll get a few losers, of course,

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but you also get a few winners. And when you get a few winning offers,

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you can actually look at these offers, look at the statistics,

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and redefine or or redevelop your front end offer

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altogether. Or maybe even incorporate that offer in your

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back end. So once somebody becomes a customer, you can increase

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overall customer value by making an additional offer right

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away. So this was, for example, the way I discovered that

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when I sold the initial offer in my agency, for the time it

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was 787 dollars. Don't ask me why

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that price, it's just you know, I was, like, raising the price until I hit

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a resistance. Right? We discovered that we could

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also upsell with a 4 97 a month,

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and we had about 20, maybe 30 percent of people take that. So all of

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a sudden, the average customer value increased dramatically, and we didn't have to

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drive more traffic. But then, you know, we started testing some additional stuff,

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and we found out that if after this second offer for 4

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97 a month, we offered a 1 time

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a 1 time offer where they could pay a 1 time payment

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of 3000 dollars 29 97

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for a, quote, unquote, a lifetime membership. Mhmm.

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Another 25 percent of the people who took the the previous offer

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would take that. So all of a sudden, you know, you're getting 1 sale that

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turns into an additional money, but then also into big lump

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sum where I think about 70 percent of it was profit.

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And that changes the the

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mathematics in your business Imagine what you could do

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if without changing anything up front,

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you simply were able to get an extra 50 percent

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for your bottom line just by incorporating smart offers in the back end. And,

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again, the reason it happened was because I tested offers to

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the people who didn't buy right away, Now what's really funny is that I got

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this book. It's called The Liston Lifestyle, Confessions of an Email

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Millionaire. And, you know, a lot of people tell me, oh, Igor, that's a funny

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title. Well, what they don't know is that this title

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is a winning subject line to people

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who didn't buy my product. I was just looking at the open rates I was

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getting, and this 1 got the the the highest open rates, which, you know,

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which how I decided to make it a title for my book.

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Wow. I love that. So so and I've

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met so many book authors. You know? They're brainstorming

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titles and they're workshopping titles. And I love what

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you've done. It's like, you know, you go back to your emails

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and say, what words, what

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language performed the best, which ones got the

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highest response, and then you make that your book title. Yeah. The idea

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came from Tim Ferriss. I think I read somewhere that Tim Ferriss, the author of

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the 4 hour work week, said that the 4 hour work week was a winning

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Edwards headline, I believe. So when I

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read it and I said, well, you know, I don't run too many AdWords ads,

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but I do email a lot. So Let's see what

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subject line 1, and it did. And I said, you know what? I like

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the creativity to sit here and brainstorm titles plus I can be

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brainstorming titles for the for you know, until next year, and I still still

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won't know. So I might as well go with with the numbers.

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Amazing. Yeah. That's a that's a great thing to do. Now talk

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about frequency of email a little bit because 1 of the things that I think

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helped you to come to that is you said you were you're

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emailing daily -- Yep. -- similar offer, but then you tweaked it and

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it's like, okay. And then you're offering different bonuses in that.

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Yeah. And and so what did you because I have

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conversations with people all the time and sometimes arguments

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about email frequency. How

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much is too much and how much is too little with -- I think

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the the baseline as to how much is too much shifted over the

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years. Because when I started with email,

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if I told anyone that I was emailing twice a day, I

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would be immediately labeled as a spammer, and nobody wants to touch me with a

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stick. But these days, I know a lot of people who email

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their list way more than twice a day. In fact, some days, I'll

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even email 6 times if it's the last

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day of a promotion. So the deadline day, I'd be mainly very

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hard. And what's really interesting is that usually half the sales from a

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promotion would come from the last day, which means on

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that last day, the closer you get to the deadline, for your promotion, you can

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actually hit the list harder and the list doesn't mind.

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So to answer your question, Unfortunately, there is no 1 size

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fits all solution. But if I had to come up with a 1 size fits

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all, I'd say you're safe to email every day. Whether you're a

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lawyer, a consultant, a a teacher,

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an educator, a service provider, a software, a content

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newsletter, or whatever. People have high tolerance

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for email these days. They prefer to receive

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offers in email. There's been many studies done. By Adobe and

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other big companies, Nielsen, etcetera, that that show

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us that people prefer to be pitched in email. That's

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why they invented the promotions tab, and people actually go

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into the promotions tab. And I know. There

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was a point in time, I think, 2 years ago when I became a little

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bit worried about the promotions tab. I was like, oh, my email is going to

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the promotions tab. Wonder how much more money would I be making if I went

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to the primary. And I actually found a way to get my emails out of

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the promotion step and into the primary folder. And you

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know what I discovered? My open rates went up,

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but my sales didn't. Mhmm. Now with this, then this

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was very confusing at first. What I concluded

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is that, apparently, people actually do go

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and check out the promotions tab when they're in a mood to buy something.

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So even if they see your stuff while not in that mood,

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they don't necessarily wanna buy more, But even

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if you do land in the promotions tab, no big deal. People still

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go and check out your emails and read your emails and click on your links.

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They they prefer to have that control to say, you know

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what, I don't wanna be pitched now. But in 3 hours, when

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they feel like it, they'll they'll log on and read your email with a

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special offer. So, yeah, at least once a day,

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you're safe. And and what you can do, you can actually use an approach

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that I call the castaway emails approach where each email is

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basically separate from the rest, and you're almost, like, sharing your thoughts for

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the day. Whether you email in the morning, in the afternoon, doesn't matter.

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You sort of send out this informational, but at the same time, a little bit

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entertaining email, almost treating it like like talk radio

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where, you know, you, you know, shows like, I don't know, Howard

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Stern or, you know, shows like that, where you can just

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share your thoughts and feelings, but find a way to tie

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that in to to your offer. So for example, if you're

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a consultant to CEOs, and your list is

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or people who follow you are CEOs. And, you know, you can talk

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about a day in the life of a frustrated CEO. You

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know? You're getting to work. You're all fired up to get

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shit done. And then, you know, as soon as you hit the office, You

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got 15 people pitting you up. Everyone's got a fire you need

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to put out. There's 3 documents waiting for your signature.

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You know, there's a lawyer on the phone about this, and there's a marketing campaign

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that went to the crapper over there. And, oh, we just lost our hosting

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account. And so all of a sudden, all all the plans that you had

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went down the drain. Right? So if you're a CEO, then you can

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relate. Well, guess what? I got this amazing program.

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It's called, you know, CEO productivity x,

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and, you know, it's only 1 97, and it's gonna show you my

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methodology to do y zed. That's an email. Right? It's it's

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basically sort of reflecting the

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frustration of your market, but in the form of a story.

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Right? That could be an email, very easy to write, very entertaining. People

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who are CEOs who can relate to the story will actually find it

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enjoyable. They'll be actually reading it, and be, like, nodding with their head, and

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they'll be way more receptive to click on the link to check out your course.

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And you can you can do it pretty much every day.

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Yeah. That's that's a a great I think 1 of the

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takeaways that I just got from what you were saying is if

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you if you make the content engaging

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and relevant, that's they're they're gonna get a lot more of it. They're

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gonna be a lot more respect. Receptive. I also love what you said about the

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promotions folder because, you know, I I found myself having that

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same thoughts. It's like, ah, the promotions folder, but it's not the primary

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But I think you're right. There's a mindset difference

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when people are actually clicking on the promotions

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tab, and because now you know that type of email you're

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reading are promotions, and so you're not rejecting

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it. And I love it. And I I love that idea. So -- Yeah. Absolutely.

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And, again, like, there's been a lot of talk and fear about the

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promotion step over the years, but you know, if if you ask

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anyone who emails a lot, you'll see that it's it's just a lot

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of a lot of noise, really. Because people do go

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into the promotion step. And I'll I'll go as far as saying

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it is better to land in the promotion step than it

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is to go to the spam box But if you're in the promotions tab,

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you're good. You actually don't need to worry too much about being

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in the primary or going to the social tab or whatever. Because when

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people get an email and goes to the promotions, there's still gonna be that orange

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thing, that little orange tag on top of it.

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So the the OCD will force people to go and click on it and check

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it out. It's just they won't be misguided expectations with regards

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to, is this a promotion or not? They'll know. And they'll approach it with that

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same mindset. It's the same as we when we run ads on social

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networks, for example. You know, do people know these are ads?

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Yeah. No one's trying to hide that fact. Right? It says either sponsored or

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skip ad. So that's okay. But if the ad delivers the message at the

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right time to the right person, then, you know, it gets us gets the job

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done. Absolutely. Well, obviously, our theme

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here is collaborations and partnership And, you know, I wanted

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to ask you. I know that, you know, we've talked

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about generate lead generation

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list growth. How important

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are collaborations and partnerships in terms of your

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overall lead generation and list growth. I mean, it sounds like you've got other

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things going on, social media, maybe some advertising. And

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I know that you're you've got an affiliate program and and do JV

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partnership as well. Talk a little bit about collaborations maybe in

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the overall mix and then how important they are to the, you know, the

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growth of your business. Collaborations are a big part of my

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business. I'd say about 40 percent of my business is done through collaborations. And

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what I'm what I can also attest to is that

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I I'd say the highest quality customers usually

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come from a a collaboration of some sort. Could be somebody

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who listens to a podcast episode like this. Could be somebody

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who gets on a webinar that a joint

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venture partner of mine you know, promoted. So

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this transfer credibility, I think, is really powerful. So just in the in

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the in the landscape of of lead generation,

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When you've got a consistent stream of

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leads coming through a collaborative relationship, you know, be

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the quid pro quo or maybe you're paying commissions for referrals.

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What you'll notice is that getting an endorsement

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lead, meaning that, you know, your JV partner actually endorsed you to

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that particular group of people, makes pretty much

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everything else much easier.

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Because if I take just pure numbers, like

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average customer value, average order size, average

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conversion, I can clearly tell that my paid

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traffic generation efforts, right, they fall

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short of the joint venture lead generation.

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Anytime I talk to my sales guy, for example. Right?

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Because he only gets to talk to people who started escalating the back end. You

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know? Anytime he sees that we had, like, a great JV and had

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a bunch of people come in, he's, like, excited because he knows

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these are gonna be easy people to talk to. They're gonna be very

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easy to get to comply with our procedures and protocols.

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Is gonna be way less skepticism for him to overcome,

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way fewer objections to handle, and way

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more willingness to spend

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money. And as a business owner, you know, I do have to look at that

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metric. Yes. It's also about helping people. It's also about you know,

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the the the rosy and pink thoughts of making the world a better place. But

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at the end of the day, when when you got a couple hundred thousand dollars

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of you know, payroll expenses, software bills, etcetera. I

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I have to look at the numbers. And, you know,

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III would much rather spend more time

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and more effort and and cultivate relationships over the course of the

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next, say, 3 years to create a sustainable

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partner driven lead generation

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than to get stuck with

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I I'd say paid traffic leads that are,

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like, less trusting. You know what I mean? Because a lot of these

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pay traffic leads are you know, they're still skeptical. They're not sure

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can they really truly believe you. They're sort of like excited start to take

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it, you know, to to look. But at the same time, to still have

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a a healthy degree of skepticism there And you you can

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tell by all the numbers, whether it's refund rates or the amount of money they

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spend on the first order, how quickly they escalate to the second order. I I

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think I think, you know, JV

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lead flow is unmatched. It's just the absolute best you can hope to

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get. Aside from people, who you'd call upstream

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leads as my friend, Ben Settle, calls them. So people who proactively

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seek you out in some way they kinda find ways to get

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into your world without being necessarily pushed into it. You know? They'll

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hear your name on a podcast. They'll Google your name, find your website

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from 10 years ago, get on get on some page that you'd forgot

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even exists, those would be the absolute best leads because

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they've invested to get onto your world. The next

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best thing is an endorsement from a joint venture partner. Really,

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nothing comes close. Yeah. I you know, I have to

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agree with the campaigns that we have. I mean, they're they're so much

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easier to convert Their attitude is different. Their mindset is

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different. That it's almost like and sometimes

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it's not positioned as a third door third party endorsement, but

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it's it's perceived, you know, it's perceived by them that way,

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and so they come with that open mind. When compared to

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something like a lead generated through a Facebook ad where, you

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know, they weren't really looking for you. They were looking for what their

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mom had for lunch or whatever. And and so we interrupted

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with them an ad, and and they came in the door. There's no

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relationship. And so In fact, in a lot of

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our campaigns, we don't even run the ads anymore. We just go all in

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with affiliate partner traffic because because of all the

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reasons we just said. So so, yeah, I and

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I kinda knew when I answered the when I asked the question that it's a

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big part of your business. So So my follow-up

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question to that is, what do you look for in a JV

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partner or a collaborator because I know that that's

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something that you guys are actively doing every day.

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Yeah. Absolutely. So first and foremost, we're

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obviously looking to see if they have reach or an audience because

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that's what makes that GB partner most attractive, is can they

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bring the heat? The other thing that I I would say I'm looking for

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is how are they generating deletes. Now it's not

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necessarily something I can know ahead of time or know about

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every single 1 of them. But sometimes you you get a hunch

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because every now and again, I'll I'll have a GED partner whose

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audience just isn't a fit to the kind of

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products that I that I sell. For example, if they're if they're promoting

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a thousand dollar offer that's sold through a webinar.

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But I know that predominantly, their list or audience

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is used to buy, you know, 20 dollars a month pieces of software,

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then it's gonna be quite difficult for me to convert them. I'm sure I can

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get a few sales, but it's not gonna be the same result as if,

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you know, a JV partner who is cons

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constantly conditions his audience to buy through webinars. Can

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generate for me. So so that's probably the

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second thing. The third thing that's a bit of a nice have really

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is cloud. So in other words, do they have a

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reputation? Do people know them? And I'm talking people in the

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industry because what I found is,

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you know, the joint ventures seen or or getting partnerships is a lot

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like high school. Like, if you hang out with the

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cool kids, all the other kids wanna hang out with you. So, you know, that's

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why when we were able to secure partners like, for example, the

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Rigidad company, who ran our offer, you know, I immediately went on

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and put their information on my, you know, recruitment

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page because, you know, like, if somebody's looking over, And let's

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say they're not big even if they're, like, small time. If they see that I

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work with guys, like, over at Bridgeport, I mean, it's

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like, okay. So Igor, you know, is this somebody? He's got

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something going on, so they automatically want to work with me

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just because of that. Or if they were considering This is like,

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you know, kinda tipping them off off the fence, if you will. So

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that's another thing that I would actually love to have in an ideal GV

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partner is somebody whose name carries value to other

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joint venture partners because if I think long term, which I usually

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do, I think of equity in every sense, So if I've

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invested into building a relationship with a new JV partner, and,

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obviously, I also have to invest to maintain that relationship

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then I want to make sure that there's not only the direct and

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immediate impact that that I'll experience such as them

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promoting my offers, but also the indirect

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where okay. So maybe the joint venture with them wasn't

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necessarily a big hit, but it is because

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I am working with them. This other JV partner actually

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spotted me too. And this happens all the time.

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Like, whenever I would get a a big JV partner,

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somebody, like, who's, you know, a top in the industry,

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Within, I don't know, within 10 days, I get at least

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1 message on on email or WhatsApp or something. Some

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hey. So I I saw that so and so mailed

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e farming. That's that's cool. I was like, yeah. That's really cool.

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Here's the here's the stats. Like, here's what they made. It's

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like, oh, cool. Cool. Cool. Well, send send me the send me the JV docs.

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Send send me more information. I I might hit that And I swear, the amount

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of times that happened to me in the last couple years is is ridiculous. Like,

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they everyone's spying on everybody, and I'm pretty sure that's true for every

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industry too. Because, you know, the riches are in the niches.

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So, like, I'm I'm assuming that, you know, I'm in the make money

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align niche, and there's probably about 350, maybe maybe

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500, you know, partners in this niche. And if you're in the financial

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space or weight loss or alternative health or something.

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There's also probably, like, a handful of players that everyone's watching. So as

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soon as you get 1 player, to work with you or, you know, everyone else

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kinda shows up, right, at your doorstep and you're like, hey. I was

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I was just thinking about you the other day. Let's let's get in a cult.

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Your name just came up in a conversation. I hear that all the

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time too. Yeah. It's amazing.

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The amount of clout that that that actually

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adds. And, you know, to your point,

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when you're having the conversations, yeah, they kind of reject

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it the first time. But now then they see this

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evidence Like, tell me about this thing again. What is this going on? Like

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-- Yeah. Exactly. Right? And so, yeah, I've had that exact

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same thing happen to me. So Well, I love it. And, you

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know, again, you know, it's a JV conversation

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is how you and I met. And so not only does

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it help to build your business, but you get to meet really amazing, cool

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people as well. And I I think, you know, 1 of the

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things I always tell people is patience. With those its relationship building.

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Yes. Affiliate and and and promotions is there's

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a transaction to it so it can be very transactional.

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But thinking big picture is, you know, treating people right.

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And, you know, if if something's not the right fit

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today. It might be tomorrow. And so to

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put more emphasis on the relationship,

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than the transaction. Both are important, but, you

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know, that's that's been our philosophy with it. So -- Yeah. And and if I

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recall, the first conversation we had you know, it was it was the case of,

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you know, I was like, hey. You know, here's my thing. And you're like,

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yeah. But it's not a good fit. And, you know, being able to just take

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that and be like, okay. Not a good fit. No problem. And but

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maintain the relationship is first of the mature thing to do.

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Because I wasn't always like that. I'll be honest with you.

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Early on when I I used to take this personal

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personally, when my with my first affiliate program, it was a very cheap

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program too. I think it was something like 17 dollars, and I was

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paying a hundred percent commission trying to attract affiliates. I remember this 1

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guy looked at and and said something like, yeah. I don't

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wanna rot it. And I I actually blocked him.

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Like -- How dare you do run by promotion? Yeah. How dare you? This is

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the best offer ever. What are you you're still gonna see it. See it.

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But what I learned is is this. And this is something I learned

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probably over the last 3 years more so than before

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First off, there's it's not always the right time. Sometimes you can

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have a great offer, but they might be focused on working on

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a launch. Right? And and right now, they're not thinking about, you know,

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mailing anything. Other times, it could be just a a

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bad fit for the audience. Like, if I'm approaching with my e farming

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offer, somebody with a personal development list, you know, they're making a

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judgment call that, you know what? I don't wanna send a business opportunity to

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offer to a list of people who are into

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NLP. Right? It's just net it's just a judgment call

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specifically. Other times, They just don't like you as a person

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or at least haven't had the chance to like you as a person, so you

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need a little bit more time to cultivate the relationship. And this happened to

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me many, many times, maybe because of my Israeli slash

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Ukrainian upbringing, whatever, like, a very direct in the way I

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communicate. And, again, not everyone's cup of tea, and that's cool.

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But then, you know, I would have a conversation with somebody, not a good

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fit. Few months go by, we meet at a seminar. We go to,

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like, a, like, a seminar in the industry. All of a sudden, you

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know, we sit down, have a drink, or just chat, and

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experiencing each other in person sparks a different,

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you know, brain response or chemicals go off or

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whatever, and and and the conversation naturally flows into something

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like, you know what? You and me should do something together. Right? It

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happens all the time. Other times, they like the offer.

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Like I said, timing may not be perfect, or other times it could be a

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model difference. So for example, if my model

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requires you to mail for my webinar

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for 7 days, but your model actually had this

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happen, is exchanging 2 emails.

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And I have to send and these emails have to go out at the same

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time on certain dates. For example, like, on the

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second of the month and on the 20 first. Right? And that's like the model

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that they're doing. It's it's not gonna be a fit, and that's and

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that's perfectly fine. So I think the lesson I learned

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the lessons I learned about cultivating

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relationships and partnerships is, a, never take it personally.

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Never taken no personally ever. Because

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99 percent of the time, it's really not a value. It it really

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is. 1 time, 1 percent probably about you. They probably hate you. But

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99 percent of the time, it's really not about you. It's a model

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thing. It's a timing thing. You know, they could be just going through a rough

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batch with their email software that's not delivering

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emails, could be anything. And and they usually don't communicate

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openly about it either. It's something you sort of discover

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3 months later in a different conversation. And the second

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thing is you have to be very, very flexible. Because

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while the JV partner is mailing for you or promoting your

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stuff, it is up to you besides making them

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a lot of money with a great offer, it's also up to you to

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adjust your operations

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to fit their operations. So if they've got

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this mindset or or system in place where they will

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only promote 1 partner per month because the other 3

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weeks or the other mailing windows, they're promoting something else.

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They're promoting their own products or whatever. You have to be flexible and say,

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Okay. Well, if your next opening is 6 month from today,

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sure. Let's book it 6 month from today. You know, you can't insist on saying,

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no. No. No. No. I I We have to do it in the next 2

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weeks or it's off. Right? Because then you'll be a douchebag.

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So, you know, you are coming in almost it's almost like you're coming into their

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home So you don't really get to impose your

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rules. Right? You you know? So if if they want you to take shoes off

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when you get get in and, you know, put on the pair of, like,

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hygiene slippers. You're doing that, then you're saying, please, and thank

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you. And you're, you know, and the they offer you milk and cookies. You take

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them because You know? They are doing you a favor

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for running your offer. That's that's how I see it. So

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as a result, I had to get flexible.

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Some partners, you know, they're like, I say, well, we got this really cool webinar

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you can mail. And they're like, Yeah. We don't do webinars. We don't

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mail webinars. Now at first, I was, like, taking it back because, like, why

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wouldn't you even make more money? But they're like, well, we don't

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just not our model. We only mailed VSLs. Mhmm.

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Okay. So I went ahead and I created VSL just for them.

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And You know, that was okay. Another affiliate actually

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approached me, and this was tremendous. I I feel very lucky to

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have an an affiliate like that. They basically

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saw my offer on a paid ad. Then they approached me

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and said, hey, I'd like to run this. And I like

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to, you know, run it on cold ads and pay for the ad spend

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myself. Can we work out a deal?

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I was like, wow. Okay. Sure. What's the deal? And they're

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like, well, we need to recover the ad spend. So, you know, give us

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cost per action. So if we refer a sale to your product, you pay

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us this much for sale, and that's actually more than the sale price.

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Now I look at their proposal, I look at my cost per sale from

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my ads, and I'm like, done. I'll be basically

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getting customers at a slight loss But I'll be getting customers

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automatically without having to run the ads or put the money up front. So the

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affiliate actually carries all the risk and is generating me buyers for

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my business and a teeny teeny tiny loss.

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I grabbed by both hands, got my team. Okay. You see this

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guy? We build him a replica of our business.

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Now go. 7 days later, he's got his own thing.

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You need to install a pixel? Yes. Give me the pixel. I'll put in the

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pixel. You need me to modify the copy. You want me to reschedule the VSL.

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You want me to create a new capture page. You want me to write 15

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headlines? No problem. Want me to redo the the follow-up sequence? Yes.

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So just earlier today, actually, he requested a new VSL

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So I did it. I I shot a Nuvia sale 9 minutes long. It's

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like, here you go. Do you like it? It's like, yeah. I like it. Cool.

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Next step. We'll put it on page. Okay. Like,

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I'll do whatever because he's he's basically doing me a huge

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favor by fronting the cash, generating the buyers,

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and then growing my business, kinda growing my equity if you

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will. Now, imagine if I come up with a different

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offer tomorrow. I can now actually approach him and say, hey, I

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got this new offer. Will I do the same thing? And so now,

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instantly, I got a lead gen stream happening without me having

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to do much work. Amazing. So

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much good in all of that. And I'd you know, the the big

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takeaway there is is look. They're doing you a

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favor. So you know, be accommodating. And and I

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love all the stories that you shared about, you know, that initial resistance. It wasn't

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always there. We come across that all the time. I know I was like that

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as well and, you know, not viewing viewing it

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as transactional and not as a relay. Ship. And just

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because the timing or the no is today doesn't mean it's no

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forever, and it took me a long time to learn that as well. So

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And so well and take, for example, us, like,

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now the timing is better. We have other opportunities

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that weren't available the first time we talked. And so if

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we treat it transactional, that goes away. If we nurture

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the relationship, that door is always open. Right? Yeah. And

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so I love all of that. Well, we're almost out of time, so I wanna

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make sure we talk about your book and and and

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and get the link to By the way, if you're watching this on video

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and you resonate with what we're saying here, you wanna learn

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more e farming. If you wanna learn more about the book you guys are gonna

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talk about right now, it's right beneath this video. And on podcast,

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it's just on the show notes. You just have to go in the player. Wherever

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you're listening to your podcast, all the links are right there as well.

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So, Igor, tell us a little bit about your book. Yes. So the book is

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called The Listening Lifestyle Confessions of an Email Millionaire. It has this

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cover, so you don't miss it. And it's just about my

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journey getting started with list building and why it shows list building as my

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primary form of lead generation. Follow-up

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and why I built my entire business around this 1 concept.

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Because I've always felt that And, again, I I kinda explode

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this idea in the book as well share my story, but I always felt that

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by building a giant list It's almost like I'm building a brick

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wall around me to protect myself from anything that's made of dollar

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bills. Because anytime if you're sitting on the big list, anytime you need

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money, send an email, and you're gonna make money,

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like whether to your own product, someone else's product, a

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service, maybe you're launching a book. Like, this book became an instant

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bestseller in Amazon in this category, and it's actually 3 categories,

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primarily because I had a big list. And so I could mail

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and say, hey, guys, go on Amazon, get it there, forward me a receipt, and

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I'll give you a thousand dollar bonus.

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Who wouldn't buy that? Right? So everything

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becomes easier, good in making money, but also launching different

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projects collaborations, getting joint venture partners, everything becomes

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easier if you have a big list. And so this is what this book is

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about. And when you go to the link below the video, or the

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link in the show notes, I'll print this book for free

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for you, and I'll ask you to chip in on shipping and handling. But for

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your trouble, I'll also throw in 3200.0 dollars of

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free bonuses that include courses on lead generation, on list

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building, as well as a traffic train so you can start growing your list

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as well. So it's all on that link. Amazing offer,

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Igor. Thank you so much for that. Again, click the link below beneath the

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video and in the show notes and go check that out. And not just get

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the book, but that amazing bonus package as well.

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And so before we sign off, I wanna ask you just because books have

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been such a big part of my journey and all the learning in it, we

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highly recommend people to go get yours. But what

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book has really made a difference in in your

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journey that you would consider to be a must read?

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There are only a handful of books like that that I would say fall into

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that category. The 1 that that made the most lasting

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impact on me in recent years

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was never split the difference

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by Chris Voss. By Chris Voss? Yeah. So this is an ex

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FBI negotiator who goes on to share techniques that they

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use in hostage negotiation and how to apply these

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techniques to your everyday life. These techniques are

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absolutely insane at how effective they are as

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long as you don't lose your head. Because, you know,

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sometimes I do. For example, yesterday, I kinda lost it

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in a in an email negotiation chain that it has nothing to do with my

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business more from a personal life, and I regret doing that. But, you know,

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in my business, I tend to keep it level. And I use these techniques all

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the time to secure JV partnerships, to make more

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sales, close more deals, you know, make requests even,

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you know, just asking people for things that they are not really obligated to give

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me, but they end up doing that. And it's all thanks to that book.

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I highly recommend reading it. I highly recommend getting it both so you

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can read it, like, with your eyes, but also to get, like, an audio copy

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for your drive, workouts, etcetera. Because

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unlike many books, including my own, which is

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something I should admit, that book is just every chapter is

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just full of practical applicable advice

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that you can start using in your day to day life and business right away.

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These techniques are so crazy that I use them with my

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spouse. I use these techniques with both of my kids.

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I I got to learn a lot about myself as a result of reading that

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book because The book shows you how to, for example, how to deescalate.

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Like, if you're in a in a heated argument with somebody, how to deescalate

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it to a point where you're you can communicate again. It it's it's

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it's absolutely invaluable. And I keep referring

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to the notes from that book again and again, So if

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you're into any kind of selling or negotiating, which if you're

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listening to this, of course, you are, we all are, you absolutely have to

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check this book out. Yeah. Fantastic recommendation. I

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don't think any of my guests have recommended that 1 before, so you're

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the first. But I have I didn't read it, but I do have

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that 1 on Audible. So I I listened to the the audiobook version

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of that. 1 takeaway that was just just it blew my

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mind, is that in a negotiation,

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you want the other person to say no instead of yes. And I just

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remember that 1 of my early sales

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mentors, like, oh, you wanna get them to say yes so many times. And

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when I listen to Chris, it's like, no. In the hostage negotiation or

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whatever, you're trying to get the person to answer with a no.

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And if you can get them to answer with a no first, then you've

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almost surely won already. You just need to kinda go through the

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process. So that was that was my takeaway from

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it. Complete opposite of what I was taught. And

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just so many other really great, you know, nuggets of

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wisdom in that 1. So thanks for that recommendation. That's a great 1. I'm

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gonna add that to the library. And I think in our pre chat

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here, you had a really great idea of what we can do with these clips.

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So I'll let you know. When that publishes. We'll put your we'll put

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your clip in there. So, Igor, thank you so much for your

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time. You've been extremely generous with your time.

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You're you're sharing your stories, your insights,

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your your tips on email marketing, which has been

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amazing. And probably more than either 1 of us

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expected to to do today. So thank you for that so much.

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And to our audience, I highly recommend that you do connect with

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Igor. I've got all his links beneath this video and in the podcast

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episode, show notes as well. So, Igor, thank you so

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much for being here. If you were to leave our our our audience with just

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1 last piece of advice or words of wisdom, what would you leave them with

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here today? You know, I I

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think I wanna say that in spite of what many people might believe

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at this point in time, we are in a

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partnership economy. If I look back on my

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journey in my industry, And looking at the way

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different companies skyrocketed and different businesses blew up

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over the over the course of the years and the people that I know, I

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can often track back their success to at least 1

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really, really good partnership. In a sense,

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could be in a sense of lead generation, could be in a sense of finding,

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like, a team member that made all the difference. For

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me, I'm convinced that just in

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terms of lead generation, in your niche, whatever that niche is, you can

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probably structure at least 2 to 5 key

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strategic partnerships with people who cater to the same market but

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do it in a noncompeting way. I'll give an example. Earlier

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today, I was doing a consult with

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a tax lawyer who specializes in exit

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tax because I'm considering leaving Canada. And at the same

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time, he mentioned something during the consult about the way I

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can extract my corporate profits from my company while

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minimizing my tax burden from a 40 percent to 25 percent.

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And I say, okay. How do you do that? He says, well, it's called

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something. I don't remember what the term was. And he says, but I don't do

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it. This other guy, you know, does it. You probably wanna

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talk to him. So immediately here refers me to this guy. Now I'm a

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paying customer. I pay this guy for a consult. So pretty much guarantee

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that I'm gonna pay the other guy for the as well to find out how

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I save 15 percent of my taxes. So,

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again, it didn't cost him money to refer me. I don't think he gets

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anything for referring me. But that's a strategic partnership that he's

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got with this other guy that results in

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in instant and most importantly, high quality buyer

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for the other guy, which I'm sure they do it both ways. Right? I'm sure

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the other guy refers back about exit taxes to this

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person. So both lawyers both deal with tax,

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but noncompeting. Right? So supporting,

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collaborating. And so by exchanging the customers, There you go.

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And, you know, I'm pretty sure I'm worth at least a couple of thousand

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dollars to each 1 of them for their services. Of, you

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know, filing different applications and paperwork, etcetera, etcetera.

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So it's, you know, 1 referral that's almost a guaranteed couple of

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grand. I think that's a good partnership. Yeah. That sounds great. Well, thank

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you for sharing that story. That I mean, that's, again, such a

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great example of how collaborations and partnership

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can play a role in all of this. So thank you so much.

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Those are great words to end this episode by to our

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audience. Go check out egor's links. They're right beneath this video and in the

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podcast show notes. And like always, don't let this be for

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nothing. I want you to pick 1 action item from

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today. Maybe that is to check out e farming. Maybe

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that is to go and get the book. Maybe it's some other

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goal that you've been procrastinating on that's really gonna make a difference

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in your business. Go and do that thing today and then come

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back and check out our future episodes Until next time,

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this is the creative collaboration show with Chuck Anderson. My guest has

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been Igor KFETs, and go out

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there. Keep Keep on moving forward in the pursuit of

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your dreams, and we will see you on the next