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I checked my inbox this morning and cleared out 41 emails without reading a single one all the way through. Every one of them was somebody trying to sell me something. "Hi Paul, I came across your website and noticed a few things that could be improved..." Delete. "Quick question about your online presence..." Delete. Not because those people are bad at their jobs. Because I've seen that exact email four hundred times, and I know a template when I'm looking at one. So does every plumber, roofer, and chiropractor in your town. They get the same forty emails I do. Now here's the thing that would have stopped me. If one of them had sent me a short video with MY website up on the screen, and a person in the corner saying my actual name, walking through the exact broken thing on my exact site, I'd have watched it. All the way to the end. Probably twice. Because that's not a pitch anymore. That's somebody showing me something I half suspected was wrong and never got around to checking. That's the entire strategy Josh walked through on the session yesterday afternoon. And the replay is still up if you didn't catch it. He calls them the ugliest videos you'll ever send, and he means it as a compliment. They're not cinematic. They're not 4K. It's a screen recording of somebody's outdated website with a security warning in the address bar, and a presenter in the corner talking about it. That's the whole thing. And that ugliness is the point. Pretty videos look like advertising. A screen recording of your own broken site looks like a warning from somebody who was paying attention. The part that got everyone on the call though is that you don't record any of it. The AI crawls their site, finds what's actually wrong, writes the script around it, records the screencast, generates the presenter, and puts the finished video on a hosted page with your logo and your call to action button. You never sit down to film. You never write a script. You never do a second take because the dog barked. Josh laid out what your first week looks like, and it was almost aggressively simple. Day one you pick which service you want to sell and filter the lead database for businesses with that problem. Twenty minutes. Day two you build two videos. About fifteen minutes. Day three you send them, which takes under five. Then you do it again. Two to five a day, every day. That's it. That's the business. The thing I keep coming back to is that the hard part of this strategy was never the strategy. Pointing out a broken website and offering to fix it has worked for years. The hard part was always that recording twenty personal videos is a soul-crushing way to spend a Tuesday, so almost nobody ever got past the first handful. That excuse is gone now. One heads up on the replay... The deal Josh put together for my group is on a step ladder, and the price moves up every time another batch of sales comes through. It was already climbing while we were live on the call yesterday. Whatever number is on the page when you open it this morning is the lowest number you'll see on it. |