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In today's episode we're talking Facebook ads again, this time with my buddy Keith Kranc.Keith recently visited the Facebook offices in Austin, Texas where he met up with his Facebook ads account rep and he left with some really interesting takeaways. Specifically, how Facebook wants us to approach Facebook ads these days.Today Keith shares what he learned during that meeting and how we can all use this information to make our Facebook ads even better.You'll hear that we talk a lot about Facebook video ads. Video is where it's at right now with Facebook and if you're not doing Facebook video ads, it's definitely time to get on board.Rick Mulready's Links:Visit Rick's websiteDM Rick on InstagramFull episodes of The Art of Online Business Podcast on YouTubeKwadwo  [QUĀY.jo]  Sampany-Kessie's Links:Visit Kwadwo's website for Facebook Ads helpSay hi to Kwadwo on InstagramSubscribe to Kwadwo's YouTube channel to learn with him as he learns about personal finan

Today I’ve got one of my closest friends joining me, Amy Porterfield, to talk about social media sales funnels.We’ve been talking a lot lately about sales funnels here on the podcast, like with Russell Brunson in episode 29 and Jody Underhill in episode 33, and I realize many of these conversations have been more advanced.So I wanted to take a step back and cover sales funnels more for the beginner. Amy's been focusing much of her efforts on these strategies lately.So if you’re just starting out, maybe you’re just now getting your product together, this episode is for you.Amy shares the exact 7 steps that make up a personalized social media sales funnel strategy that's is simple-to-set-up, non-techy, automated, and most importantly, it’s a profit-generating machine.If you’re Selling a product or service online and want to put a system in place for automating your revenue, you know, we’ve talked about it a lot here on the show, that having a social media sales funnel that converts is the backbone of

Today's episode of the Art of Paid Traffic is a solo episode where I’m going to be talking about Facebook video ads.I share what kind of results I’m seeing with them, what you should know about them, and some tips & tricks for getting great results with your video ads.So in addition to 2015 being the year of retargeting on Facebook, it’s also about video.When Facebook came out and reported their first quarter earnings, they said that there are 4 billion video views being served every day on Facebook right now.That’s a whole lotta video.And If you’ve been reading my articles or listening to other episodes of AOPT, you know there’s a shift going on right now with Facebook ads.As advertisers, Facebook wants us adding value to its users and ideally, in the form of stories that we tell about our businesses.Gone are the days of scammy offers that aren’t truly enriching people’s lives.Knowing all of this information, Facebook video ads are a great way to add value to your target audience, engage them and gr

I've got a really interesting episode for you today as my guest is Gus Sevilla and he is an expert in running paid traffic to the Latin American market.I asked Gus to join me because this conversation offers a different perspective on this show than any we've talked about. If you're looking for an opportunity to grow your business outside of the U.S. where paid traffic is a lot less expensive, this episode will really give you a lot to think about.Rick Mulready's Links:Visit Rick's websiteDM Rick on InstagramFull episodes of The Art of Online Business Podcast on YouTubeKwadwo  [QUĀY.jo]  Sampany-Kessie's Links:Visit Kwadwo's website for Facebook Ads helpSay hi to Kwadwo on InstagramSubscribe to Kwadwo's YouTube channel to learn with him as he learns about personal finance, financial freedom, foreign languages and enjoying life!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's AOPT episode, we’re continuing our discussion about sales funnels but this time from a copywriting perspective. Specifically, how to be consistent in your messaging within your funnels.And to share with you his expertise in this is Steve Erl who is a copywriter at a company called GameChanger Profits.We focus a lot today on webinar sales funnels but the copywriting concepts and ideas we discuss are relevant to any sales funnel.Rick Mulready's Links:Visit Rick's websiteDM Rick on InstagramFull episodes of The Art of Online Business Podcast on YouTubeKwadwo  [QUĀY.jo]  Sampany-Kessie's Links:Visit Kwadwo's website for Facebook Ads helpSay hi to Kwadwo on InstagramSubscribe to Kwadwo's YouTube channel to learn with him as he learns about personal finance, financial freedom, foreign languages and enjoying life!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Another great AOPT episode today, talking again about one of my favorite topics — sales funnels.  And joining me to share sales funnel tips and strategies is Funnel Architect & Conversion Specialist, Jody Underhill.Jody’s currently a partner at GameChanger Profits where he architects sales funnels for clients and used to be at Digital Marketer, Ryan Deiss’ company, where he also helped architect funnels.  He’s also a local marketing strategist.Jody really knows his stuff as you'll hear today.In Today's Episode, You'll Learn:Overviews of successful sales funnel strategiesWhere to start when building your sales funnel, including where most people get it wrongSpecific types of funnels you might consider using for your businessTypes of email sequences and timing for when to send emailsWhat a highly converting webinar sales funnel looks likeWhat a sales funnel might look like if a webinar doesn’t make sense for your businessThe concept of a liquidation offer and how to use it to pay for your pai

Today's a listener case study episode where Art of Paid Traffic listener Matt Johnson joins me on the show and I give him a live Facebook ads coaching session.Matt is from runneracademy.com and he’s also the host of Runner Academy Podcast and Everyday Runners Podcast.Matt won a contest I ran a little while back where people left a rating/review for the show on iTunes and I chose a winner at random to win an on-air Facebook ads coaching session with me.Rick Mulready's Links:Visit Rick's websiteDM Rick on InstagramFull episodes of The Art of Online Business Podcast on YouTubeKwadwo  [QUĀY.jo]  Sampany-Kessie's Links:Visit Kwadwo's website for Facebook Ads helpSay hi to Kwadwo on InstagramSubscribe to Kwadwo's YouTube channel to learn with him as he learns about personal finance, financial freedom, foreign languages and enjoying life!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today’s episode of The Art of Paid Traffic, we're talking about local marketing for small businesses.Now if you’re not a small business, don’t not listen to the episode because there’s a lot of tips that we discuss today that are super relevant for any business.Specifically we’re talking about PPC remarketing and I’ve invited my friend Michael Alaniz who’s the founder of the marketing agency Local Loop Marketing to join me on the show.Michael’s a Google Certified partner and an expert in local marketing.In Today's Episode, You'll Learn:Why for local small businesses, remarketing is as necessary as having a websiteWhat types of small businesses should be using PPC advertising and remarketingExactly (step-by-step) how small businesses should get started with remarketingWhat elements make up a good remarketing ad banner for small businessesWhat kind of budget you should expect to pay in order to be successful with remarketing (I bet Michael's answer will surprise you)How to get direct help

Today I’m excited to welcome James Schramko to the show.James is the founder of SuperFastBusiness.com which is a business that teaches you how to quickly make your business more profitable.He’s got a great story, having come from being a car salesman at a BMW dealership to having an uber successful online business. And his online business has had different iterations to what it is today, which you’ll hear James talk about.Now, I invited James on today because I knew he’d offer a different perspective on paid traffic. My goal here with the show is to give you ideas and viewpoints and strategies around paid traffic and James definitely offers a different one here today.In his business, James has fine-tuned a system for marketing his content without the need for paid traffic. Well, James does invest in it but not in the traditional sense that we generally talk about it here on the show. And he teaches his methods to you today.Rick Mulready's Links:Visit Rick's websiteDM Rick on InstagramFull episodes o

In this episode of The Art of Paid Traffic, I’m excited to welcome Russell Brunson to the show.If you're not familiar with who Russell is, he started his first online company while he was in college and within a year of graduating he had sold over a million dollars worth of his own products and services from his basement.  Not too shabby.For over 10 years now Russell has been starting and scaling companies online including a software company, a supplement company and a coaching company.He’s the founder of Clickfunnels and he’s also the author of a brand new book called DotComSecrets which is all about growing your business through sales funnels and email marketing.I blew through it in a matter of days and it’s hands-down the best book I’ve come across about sales funnels. If you want to pick up a copy of DotComSecrets for yourself,. You can actually get it for free until April 21st, you just have to pay for S&H which is $7.95. Just go to rickmulready.com/russell.Because i liked the book so much, I wa

In today's episode we’re diving into Google AdWords with Certified Google Partner Ryan Masters.Specifically, we're going to cover the 3 foundational campaigns every Google AdWords advertiser needs.Seven years ago, the business that Ryan’s family owned only had $500 left to survive.So what did Ryan do? Well, what entrepreneurial person would do, of course!He built an e-commerce website from scratch, dove into AdWords and in 2012 it was doing a healthy six-figures and was sold.Ryan is a Certified Google Partner and helps e-commerce owners grow & dominate online. One of his clients, SunshineYoga.com for example, he helped them grow almost 3000% in just over 4 years.He is the founder and host of the YouTube channel, Sparta Strength, which has over 10 million views & 100,000+ subscribers worldwide.Rick Mulready's Links:Visit Rick's websiteDM Rick on InstagramFull episodes of The Art of Online Business Podcast on YouTubeKwadwo  [QUĀY.jo]  Sampany-Kessie's Links:Visit Kwadwo's w

In this episode of the Art of Paid Traffic, Perry Marshall, author of '80/20 Sales and Marketing: The Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More' explains why and how the concept of the 80/20 principle can be applied to growing your business through paid traffic.The 80/20 rule, or Pareto's Principle, states that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts or input.  Perry shares exactly how to use this principle to grow your business while working smarter rather than harder.In Today's Episode, You'll Learn:How to use the 80/20 principle to squeeze more out of your paid traffic.How to use 80/20 to figure out where you should be spending your advertising dollars.What 80/20 tells you about where to find your customers.Perry shares the concept of “racking the shotgun” and why this is a concept you need to understand if you want increase your paid traffic results.Why he pushed a bunch of people away from buying his book on Facebook ads and the lesson we can all learn from this.

Today on the show I’m happy to introduce you to Kimra Luna. If you don’t know Kimra yet, I’m guessing you’re gonna start hearing a lot about her because what she’s created with her business in a very short amount of time is remarkable.I’ve gotten to know Kimra a bit over the last few months. I first met her in December at a mastermind that my good friend James Wedmore hosted up in Laguna Beach.We geeked out about Facebook ads and she began telling me her strategy for how she uses them to grow her business. We get into that strategy today.Kimra just finished up a launch of her flagship program called Be True Brand You where she did over $720,000 in sales while spending about $13,000 in Facebook ads.She’s got an inspiring story which you’re going to hear about today.Rick Mulready's Links:Visit Rick's websiteDM Rick on InstagramFull episodes of The Art of Online Business Podcast on YouTubeKwadwo  [QUĀY.jo]  Sampany-Kessie's Links:Visit Kwadwo's website for Facebook Ads helpSay hi to Kwadwo on

Today's episode is one of our Q&A shows and this time we're focusing on questions around Facebook ads.People have emailed in or asked questions via voicemail which you can do here on the Show Notes page.A couple of these questions also come from a presentation I did last week at Social Media Marketing World here in San Diego. The presentation was all about Facebook ads fundamentals but I got a lot of great questions that were more advanced too so we'll be covering those as well.If you have a question you’d like me to answer in an upcoming episode, whether it’s about Facebook ads or any other paid traffic strategy, just click the orange "Start Recording" button below and you can leave me a voice message there with your question.If I don’t know the answer, I’ll find someone who specializes in the topic of your question and get the answer for you.Rick Mulready's Links:Visit Rick's websiteDM Rick on InstagramFull episodes of The Art of Online Business Podcast on YouTubeKwadw

In today's episode of The Art of Paid Traffic podcast we dive into a new paid traffic strategy in the Yahoo Gemini ad network.With me to talk about it is Jay Leishman who’s crushing it right now and he's going to share with you what it is and how best you can be using it to get traffic for your business.Jay has been in the digital marketing space for the past 15 years and he specializes in driving traffic and lead generation for a variety of different clients.When I first started talking to Jay about having him on the show, he was telling me all about the success he’s having on the Gemini network and I had never even heard of it. I spent 2 years at Yahoo selling online ads and so the fact that I'd never heard of it was super weird.Well, in our interview here, Jay explains why I’d never heard of it before.Rick Mulready's Links:Visit Rick's websiteDM Rick on InstagramFull episodes of The Art of Online Business Podcast on YouTubeKwadwo  [QUĀY.jo]  Sampany-Kessie's Links:Visit Kwadwo

Today we’re going to talk about YouTube ads again, this time about things like who should and shouldn’t be doing YouTube ads and best practices for what you should do right when you’re starting with YouTube ads.You might have noticed that I’ve spent several episodes already on YouTube ads, well, it’s because they’re a huge opportunity that people are just now starting to take notice of. I don’t know, maybe that means I shouldn’t be sharing things about them.To talk to us today about YouTube ads, I’ve asked, Tommie Powers, who was my guest back on episode 11 where we talked about sales funnel analytics, to join me again for today’s episode.Tommie knows YouTube ads really well, he’s been doing them forever, and he was one of the small group of people who were recommended to me when I went looking for the world’s foremost experts on YouTube advertising.If you’ve not yet heard episode 11, definitely check that one out because it’s a great one, but Tommie’s affectionately known as Tommie Traffic because he special

In today's episode we're revisiting the topic of YouTube marketing, talking this time about sales funnels and video marketing strategy with Derral Eves.Derral is a video marketing expert, a YouTube certified consultant and he specializes in growing audiences, generating over 1 billion views on YouTube.When I first began looking for YouTube experts to come on the show here, Derral was one of the guys everyone recommended.By the way, I want you to go subscribe to his YouTube channel because he does something really cool with it when you land on his page. It’s a trick I’ve never seen done before and I’ve since learned we can all do it. So click here for Derral’s YouTube channel. Really cool stuff.Rick Mulready's Links:Visit Rick's websiteDM Rick on InstagramFull episodes of The Art of Online Business Podcast on YouTubeKwadwo  [QUĀY.jo]  Sampany-Kessie's Links:Visit Kwadwo's website for Facebook Ads helpSay hi to Kwadwo on InstagramSubscribe to Kwadwo's YouTube channel to learn

In today's episode of The Art of Paid Traffic I’m really excited to welcome Charles Kirkland to the show.Charles was referred to me by one of my previous guests here on the show and I gotta tell you, this guy knows his stuff.He runs a company called the Media Buyer Association where they serve marketers, speakers and small business owners, teaching them how to use media buying to get consistent and profitable leads and sales.Specifically today, we're talking about pre-sell pages.I asked Charles before the show, let’s talk about THE thing that’s working the best right now when it comes to paid traffic. Can we narrow it down to one thing?And he said, oh yea, pre-sell pages.Rick Mulready's Links:Visit Rick's websiteDM Rick on InstagramFull episodes of The Art of Online Business Podcast on YouTubeKwadwo  [QUĀY.jo]  Sampany-Kessie's Links:Visit Kwadwo's website for Facebook Ads helpSay hi to Kwadwo on InstagramSubscribe to Kwadwo's YouTube channel to learn with him as he learns a

On today's show, Jim Belosic, who is the CEO of ShortStack, joins me to talk about lead magnets that convert.With The Art of Paid Traffic, this is the show where I bring you the best tips, tactics and strategies for using paid traffic to grow your business on autopilot. You’ll also hear what’s working (and not working) right now from the top minds in online marketing so you can get more leads and sales every day without having to empty your wallet in the process.We get into a great discussion with Jim today all about what's working well right now when it comes to lead magnets and how to deliver a meaningful, strategic product/content to attract quality leads.You'll find this discussion relevant whether you're an online business owner or you have a local brick and mortar business.In This Episode, You'll Learn:Whether the format of your lead magnet should be consistent with the paid products that you're leading people to.Why mobile needs to be a priority when considering your lead

In today's episode of The Art of Paid Traffic, we're continuing our discussion of Facebook ads compliance and policy and taking a behind-the-scenes look at successful Facebook ads.I've invited on Curt Maly, who's a fellow Facebook ads guy. He has a digital marketing agency and he also runs a website called Social Media Ad Genius where they run a lot of Facebook ads - about $5 million dollars worth of ads over the last few years. They work with businesses in all different kinds of niches, which you'll hear more about in today's episode.Curt's a great evangelist for doing Facebook ads the right way and recently visited with their ads compliance team. The visit is really timely because you may have heard about a lot of Facebook ad accounts getting shut down lately.And, if you do find yourself with this issue, Facebook tends to be vague at best as to explaining why.Rick Mulready's Links:Visit Rick's websiteDM Rick on InstagramFull episodes of The Art of Online Business