Doing
the Jonathan
"That's
a great ad, I said. "Who taught you copyrighting?"
Little did I know that sentence would make me over $100,000.
How could "doing the Jonathan" make you more money this month?
This is a crazy business we're in. Sometimes the things you think are
going to be great actually bomb on you. And sometimes the things you
don't think twice about turn out to be your real winners.
A case in point for me was years ago when I first met my friend Jonathan
Mizel online. That was before the World Wide Web existed. It'll take
me a minute to tell you the story. But there's a payoff for you in reading
it. So stick with me if you will.
Back then, we sold our stuff on America Online and Compuserve. Anyway,
the game in those days was to run a little classified ad and people
would respond for more information. You'd send the info and hopefully
they would buy. You didn't have sequential autoresponders in those days
like Aweber, Getresponse, Quicktell or Postmaster Online. So what you'd
do is follow up by hand emailing everyone.
One day I spotted an ad that grabbed my attention. I still remember
the email that came back to me. It led with a free offer. You could
get a free copy of a Russ Von Hoelscher book if you subscribed to the
Online Marketing Letter. I sent an email back saying that I admired
the copywriting and asked who he learned his copywriting skills from.
He wrote back and told me John Caples and Robert Collier.
John Caples
had several classic books on copywriting including "Tested Advertising
Methods." And "The Robert Collier Letter Book"
was likewise a staple for anyone who cared about learning to write copy.
I about freaked out! John Caples. I loved John Caples. At the time I
hadn't written "The Amazing Formula That Sells Products Like
Crazy." There was NO step-by-step formula for writing ad copy
as I later created. John Caples and Robert Collier were as good as it
got.
Anyway, I introduced Jonathan to the owner of the company I was writing
ad copy for. He sold some of Jonathan's books. I've always networked
by helping the OTHER person make money first. That's how Jonathan and
I became friends.
Is your first initiate with someone asking THEM to do something for
YOU? Or do you first help THEM make money? You know, in all the time
I've taught this method, I've never received one email from someone
who said, "Hey Marlon, I'm doing this to help you make money."
It's always, "Hey Marlon, I have a product. Can you sell it to
your list for me?" And so forth.
To get to the point, that friendship with Jonathan later landed me a
position on his team travelling around the U.S. and speaking at over
120, $3,000 one-day seminars.
Over the
years, my friendship with Jonathan has made me at least $100,000 and
maybe more. The lesson? I call it "doing the Jonathan." Meeting
someone by helping them make money. Who can you "Do the Jonathan
for" today?
- Meet
someone new. Let them know you admire their marketing if you truly
do.
- Help
the other person make money before you ask anything from them.
- When
you help someone else, don't do it with strings attached.
Know that the universe often returns the favor from a source other than
the one in front of your face. If I had initiated my friendship with
Jonathan by asking for something from him such as free help or whatever,
then how far do you think that friendship would have gone?
Best wishes,
Marlon Sanders
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Marlon
Sanders is a renowned marketer on the Internet with customers in virtually
every country of the world. He lives in Dallas, TX and can usually be
found at a bookstore scouring pages for just one more little "Jonathan"
technique that brings in extra profits.
You'll find his "Amazing Formula That Sells Products Like Crazy"
at:
http://www.TamerTips.com/amazingformula.htm
Jonathan's Mizel can be found hanging out at:
http://www.TamerTips.com/onlinemarketingletter.htm
