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  1. 0:00In this video, I'm going to be going
  2. 0:01over
  3. 0:02ad hooks specifically. So, I I think the
  4. 0:05best way to understand anything and to
  5. 0:07get really really good at anything is
  6. 0:08you can break down this big thing. In
  7. 0:10this case, it's just going to be hooks
  8. 0:11into its various component parts. In
  9. 0:14fact, when I was younger and when I was
  10. 0:15a kid, that was one of my favorite
  11. 0:16things to do. It wasn't to like always
  12. 0:18play with the toys. It was to completely
  13. 0:20disassemble them and understand how all
  14. 0:22the pieces work together, then figure
  15. 0:24out how to put it all back together.
  16. 0:25That was one of my uh one of the
  17. 0:28activities I really enjoyed when I was
  18. 0:29younger. And I think that's part of the
  19. 0:31reason why I'm good at what I do now.
  20. 0:32It's because in order to truly
  21. 0:34understand something, you should
  22. 0:35understand how all the parts work
  23. 0:36together. And you should strip it down
  24. 0:39as much as you possibly can to its bare
  25. 0:41bone uh elements, the foundations. And
  26. 0:44if you understand those, then only then
  27. 0:46can you build on top of that. The issue
  28. 0:47is a lot of you guys go to uh you know
  29. 0:50you go to get hooked or whatever, you
  30. 0:52swipe some ads, you swipe some copy, you
  31. 0:53throw it into Claude, you say rewrite
  32. 0:55this. And Claude is not good at writing
  33. 0:58hooks in general. [clears throat] Um I
  34. 1:00don't actually use Claude a lot for
  35. 1:03uh for copy overall. Um if I do, the
  36. 1:08most
  37. 1:10recent model I would ever use for
  38. 1:12writing copy is Opus or Sonnet 4.6. I
  39. 1:14would not go beyond that. and eventually
  40. 1:16those are going to be deprecated as
  41. 1:17well. So at at that point you got to
  42. 1:20find other alternatives for writing
  43. 1:22copy. So uh I've been writing a lot of
  44. 1:25copy with chatbt over the last few
  45. 1:27months. I've been writing copy with
  46. 1:28Grock over the last few months. Um but
  47. 1:31just so that you know typically most
  48. 1:32these LLMs they work pretty similarly
  49. 1:35unless you are feeding in a ton of
  50. 1:39really really good context around how to
  51. 1:41actually write good hooks. as soon as
  52. 1:42you go to rewrite it with AI and just
  53. 1:45expect the swipe to work, it's probably
  54. 1:47going to [ __ ] up the swipe in the first
  55. 1:48place. And that's why swiping is, you
  56. 1:51know, difficult thing to uh to to really
  57. 1:54make work sometimes, especially if it
  58. 1:56works. Then you're really [ __ ] Like
  59. 1:57it's good, but then you're [ __ ]
  60. 1:58because you have no idea why it's
  61. 1:59actually working. Um anyway, to strip it
  62. 2:01down to its its component pieces. What
  63. 2:03do we have the hook, right? Let's talk
  64. 2:05about video ads specifically. That's
  65. 2:07going to be the majority of what this
  66. 2:09video will be about. I'll I'll maybe
  67. 2:10have a little bit about some uh primary
  68. 2:13text on native static so we can talk
  69. 2:14about the hook there because that's also
  70. 2:16incredibly incredibly important. But
  71. 2:18let's talk about videos first. So in
  72. 2:20regards to videos,
  73. 2:23right?
  74. 2:26Videos, if you take the first roughly 3
  75. 2:29to 5 seconds of a video ad, that is what
  76. 2:31we define as the hook. And with video,
  77. 2:34it's not just something that you're
  78. 2:35reading. Like it's it's an experience.
  79. 2:37Like watching a video is an experience.
  80. 2:39And there's three things that kind of
  81. 2:41make up said experience. Um, which is
  82. 2:44your hook. So like this entire piece al
  83. 2:46together is your let's just call like
  84. 2:50the hook, right? So first thing that we
  85. 2:52have is going to be
  86. 2:55the actual the actual copy. Right? This
  87. 2:58is one of the most important pieces. I
  88. 3:01think this actually used to be even more
  89. 3:02important and now it's starting to shift
  90. 3:05in another direction which I'll get to.
  91. 3:07But one of the three pieces is your
  92. 3:08copy. The other is going to be your
  93. 3:10scroll stopper, which is essentially the
  94. 3:13video portion. So you have text that is
  95. 3:16being stated. That's the copy. And then
  96. 3:18you have the actual video being played
  97. 3:21behind said text. And that is of course
  98. 3:23your scroll stopper. And then the third
  99. 3:26and final thing, if you think there
  100. 3:27can't be possibly anything else, there
  101. 3:29is because here we have the visual, we
  102. 3:31have the
  103. 3:34text on screen. And then we have to have
  104. 3:36the audio as well, which is going to be
  105. 3:37the third and final thing, which is
  106. 3:38going to be what actually happens in the
  107. 3:40background audio-wise to bring together
  108. 3:43this hook. [clears throat] So these
  109. 3:46three things make up your hook. If I had
  110. 3:48to put it into percentages of which is
  111. 3:50most important, I would say audio is
  112. 3:52probably like 5% maybe 10% max. You
  113. 3:56know, a lot of people watch ads even
  114. 3:58with their sound turned off. So that
  115. 4:00alone should tell you that it's not
  116. 4:01anywhere near the most important thing.
  117. 4:03I would say 5 to 10%. And then we're
  118. 4:05going to have these two things which
  119. 4:07carry the most amount of weight. If you
  120. 4:08ask me a few years ago before this this
  121. 4:11algorithm update from Facebook and the
  122. 4:13few algo updates that have been from
  123. 4:15Facebook over the last uh year, yeah,
  124. 4:19roughly year, um
  125. 4:22you'll notice that having more diversity
  126. 4:25when it comes to your scroll stoppers
  127. 4:27specifically
  128. 4:29is a really good thing
  129. 4:31because that means that you're
  130. 4:32increasing the level of diversity across
  131. 4:34them compared to keeping everything in
  132. 4:35the ad the same and only changing like
  133. 4:37the copy. of the hook.
  134. 4:40So,
  135. 4:41for that reason, um, before that, I
  136. 4:45think copy was literally the most
  137. 4:47important thing. And the reason I can
  138. 4:48tell you why is because there are comp I
  139. 4:51mean, [ __ ] there's still companies now,
  140. 4:53but [clears throat] like the old school
  141. 4:55VSSL, like VSSL is a video sales letter,
  142. 4:57the old school VSSLs, which we could we
  143. 4:59could say VSSLs are being run as ads all
  144. 5:01the time. Old school VSSLs, the way that
  145. 5:04they would work is you would literally
  146. 5:05take a text sales letter. You take a TSL
  147. 5:08and you would convert it into a video.
  148. 5:11And the way you do that is you would
  149. 5:13just have this dude, you know, voicing
  150. 5:16over uh the particular script because,
  151. 5:19you know, here's here's something you
  152. 5:20may not know. Uh most copywriters,
  153. 5:23myself included, you know, a lot of them
  154. 5:26relatively antisocial. [laughter]
  155. 5:28And if if at least not antisocial, don't
  156. 5:31like showing their face on camera
  157. 5:32actively all the time. That's probably
  158. 5:33the reason they became, you know, a
  159. 5:35copywriter.
  160. 5:37so that they didn't have to do that. And
  161. 5:39so this guy is basically like speaking
  162. 5:41and narrating a PowerPoint presentation
  163. 5:44that's like a 100 plus slides. And
  164. 5:46that's that was like the uh the
  165. 5:51genesis I guess of the VSSL. Um Keith
  166. 5:56Bowman, you know, you know. So that was
  167. 5:59that was essentially the invention of
  168. 6:00the VSSL. And the reason I say that is
  169. 6:03because in the same way that you have a
  170. 6:06VSSL, it was literally just text on a
  171. 6:08white background. It's like black text
  172. 6:10on a white background. The most basic
  173. 6:11[ __ ] of all time. Yet, these would
  174. 6:12print, you know, eight plus figures if
  175. 6:14you had a phenomenal phenomenal VSSL and
  176. 6:17you had really good traffic being sent
  177. 6:18to it. That could that can be an eight
  178. 6:20plus figure VSSL right there. And I have
  179. 6:22specific ones like in mind that I can
  180. 6:24think of that I have watched that are
  181. 6:27literally just black words on a white
  182. 6:30[ __ ] PowerPoint. That's it.
  183. 6:34Now, the reason I bring this up is
  184. 6:36because there's no there's no video
  185. 6:38element to this whatsoever. Like, yes,
  186. 6:40it's a video because it's recorded and
  187. 6:42there's this visual element to it, but
  188. 6:44it's not like the way that we know VSSLs
  189. 6:46today. But this is how VSSLs were
  190. 6:48legitimately created. Like this is this
  191. 6:50is truly the foundation here. And again,
  192. 6:53the reason I go down this whole [ __ ]
  193. 6:55rabbit hole about VSSLs is because this
  194. 6:58skews very very heavily in the text
  195. 7:00direction, specifically the copy. The
  196. 7:02copy will make or break a VSSL. But with
  197. 7:05ads, because they're so short and
  198. 7:06because of these new algorithm
  199. 7:07algorithmic updates that we had from
  200. 7:09Facebook, we know that the scroll
  201. 7:11stopper is slowly increasing and its
  202. 7:14overall weight in the formula of how to
  203. 7:16make a successful hook. becoming more
  204. 7:18and more important, you know, over time
  205. 7:24because this element of not having
  206. 7:27similar ads, this element of creative
  207. 7:29diversity,
  208. 7:31it's becoming more and more important as
  209. 7:32we see. So, in any case, I would still
  210. 7:35probably give more weight to the uh the
  211. 7:38copy. Like, I would say this is probably
  212. 7:39going to be 60%.
  213. 7:41And then I would give I guess that' be
  214. 7:4335% here to the scroll stopper. So, when
  215. 7:46you're creating your hook, right, the
  216. 7:48most important part of the ad, keep this
  217. 7:51in mind. If you're not spending
  218. 7:53proportionate amounts of time on each of
  219. 7:55these, like the far majority of your
  220. 7:57time on copy, and then second that only
  221. 7:58the visuals that's going to be happening
  222. 8:00behind the copy, then you're probably
  223. 8:02wasting your time and not spending it in
  224. 8:04uh in areas that that are going to be
  225. 8:06highly effective. Okay, so that's the
  226. 8:09the first thing. Now, just like
  227. 8:11anything, let's talk about let's talk
  228. 8:13about the copy and the scroll stopper
  229. 8:14specifically, right? That's like 95% of
  230. 8:17of your success of a good hook. It's
  231. 8:18funny because if you look at like
  232. 8:21ads overall, it's like 90%
  233. 8:26your creative.
  234. 8:30If you look at creatives,
  235. 8:35your success is like 90% the hook.
  236. 8:42Dude, what is what the [ __ ] is wrong
  237. 8:43with this [ __ ] thing?
  238. 8:47And then if you look at the hook,
  239. 8:50[laughter]
  240. 8:52it's 90%
  241. 8:56the copy
  242. 8:59and uh scroll stopper, right? So, if
  243. 9:05you're looking where you should spend
  244. 9:06your time in ecom in general and you're
  245. 9:07running paid ads, everything points
  246. 9:10here. And now let's take it deeper like
  247. 9:14copy
  248. 9:15and uh scroll stopper
  249. 9:1890% of your success of those things is
  250. 9:21what? Who can tell me? Type it in the
  251. 9:24chat right now. What is 90%
  252. 9:26of your success in copywriting and 90%
  253. 9:30of your success in creatives in general?
  254. 9:33What does it come down to? Tell me.
  255. 9:35[snorts]
  256. 9:46>> [snorts]
  257. 9:50>> Someone said
  258. 9:52voice of customer visual. No hook. No,
  259. 9:58we just said the hook. You We can't go
  260. 10:00backwards. We have Okay. Who's the first
  261. 10:03person to get it?
  262. 10:07meter metarin co whatever your name is
  263. 10:10bro you got it bro it's research 90% is
  264. 10:14research and just like anything that is
  265. 10:16where we're gonna start okay so I put
  266. 10:19out a video on on uh a secondary YouTube
  267. 10:22channel that I have with one of our BBA
  268. 10:24students William highly recommend you go
  269. 10:26watch it just search up Mark Builds
  270. 10:28Brands reviews but William was William
  271. 10:30has done well over seven figures over
  272. 10:32the last year and I was asking him like
  273. 10:36what are the main inflection points
  274. 10:37where you were like unsuccessful and
  275. 10:39then became successful and he hopped on
  276. 10:42a call with one of our coaches. Um, and
  277. 10:45shout out to this this coach, you know,
  278. 10:46you know who you are. Shout out to you,
  279. 10:48bro, for giving him this advice. But I
  280. 10:50have this whole foundational docs
  281. 10:52process, right? I make it so easy for
  282. 10:55you to have incredibly good research. In
  283. 10:59fact, I'm going to take it a step
  284. 11:00further,
  285. 11:02right? You want to have the best
  286. 11:03foundational [ __ ] docs on the planet,
  287. 11:04do this.
  288. 11:09run it on perplexity
  289. 11:14and specifically you're going to run it
  290. 11:16on perplexity computer.
  291. 11:19This is an additional feature of uh just
  292. 11:21an agentic computer that is run by
  293. 11:24perplexity itself to do research. Let me
  294. 11:27tell you what happened when I did my
  295. 11:29research on Perplexity computer. when I
  296. 11:33ran it against regular perplexity.
  297. 11:35All right, we're going to do like per
  298. 11:38and then we're [ __ ] And then we're
  299. 11:40going to do
  300. 11:43per comp perplexity computer. All right,
  301. 11:48so I was ranking it on a few different a
  302. 11:51few different things. Number one is I
  303. 11:53was looking at how many sources is it
  304. 11:54using
  305. 11:57and when it came to sources
  306. 11:59just regular perplexity I think gave a
  307. 12:02total of uh by the way I told this to
  308. 12:04our BBA guys like weeks and weeks ago.
  309. 12:07[clears throat] Um the sources I believe
  310. 12:10it got like 130 on perplexity roughly.
  311. 12:15Perplexity computer 580.
  312. 12:20Next thing I'm looking at is the length.
  313. 12:22So, how many pages of research can I
  314. 12:24actually get right on Perplexity
  315. 12:27Standard? Um,
  316. 12:31I think I got about 22 pages. Perplexity
  317. 12:35computer I got 73.
  318. 12:41Next thing I'm looking at is domains.
  319. 12:44So like, okay, maybe you scoured 130
  320. 12:46sources, but every single one of them
  321. 12:49was like Kora or Reddit and you didn't
  322. 12:52have any diversity in your sources
  323. 12:55domains. I believe Perplexity got like I
  324. 12:59don't know, I think like seven or so.
  325. 13:02Um, Perplexity Computer
  326. 13:06last time I ran this
  327. 13:08got over 30 domains.
  328. 13:12So, when it comes to comparing tools,
  329. 13:14you know, to me there's a pretty clear
  330. 13:16winner. And by the way, I'm always split
  331. 13:17testing like these research tools. In
  332. 13:19fact, I split tested Perplexity Computer
  333. 13:22against another thing that actually did
  334. 13:24better than Perplexity, but not as good
  335. 13:26as Perplexity Computer, and that was my
  336. 13:28own Hermes Agent.
  337. 13:31I literally had a Hermes agent follow
  338. 13:34this prompt as well and it did better in
  339. 13:37every area compared to Perplexity, but
  340. 13:40it did not beat Perplexity Computer. So,
  341. 13:42the overall winner was absolutely
  342. 13:45Perplexity Computer. Just so that you
  343. 13:47know, when it comes to research, I have
  344. 13:48my foundational docs. Um, somebody if
  345. 13:51you could please share them. Share the
  346. 13:52foundational docs uh document if I have
  347. 13:55any mods in the chat. I don't know if
  348. 13:57you guys could share it, that'd be
  349. 13:58great.
  350. 13:59Um, but research is where everything
  351. 14:02comes from. Now, the reason I brought up
  352. 14:04William in that BBA interview is because
  353. 14:08on that call that he had with one of our
  354. 14:10coaches, our coaching, our coaches gave
  355. 14:12him a very, very specific piece of
  356. 14:14feedback. And that was, "Did you do the
  357. 14:16foundational doc?" And he was like,
  358. 14:17"Yes." And then he was like, "Did you
  359. 14:20read the full research document from top
  360. 14:22to bottom?" And William at the time
  361. 14:24said, "No,
  362. 14:27you can have AI do work for you, but to
  363. 14:29become a great marketer, you have to
  364. 14:31understand you need to know your
  365. 14:34customer better than they know
  366. 14:35themselves." I'm not saying your AI
  367. 14:38agent needs to know your customer better
  368. 14:41than they know themselves. You do. You
  369. 14:43do. If there's one document that you
  370. 14:45should read in the entire foundational
  371. 14:46docs, it is your [ __ ] research doc.
  372. 14:49And what you should do is get really
  373. 14:51high quality research, sit down for an
  374. 14:54hour. Uh, pop it open in a Google doc,
  375. 14:57whatever you want to do. And what you're
  376. 14:59going to do is go through and just
  377. 15:01[ __ ]
  378. 15:03see if I have a You're just going to go
  379. 15:05and highlight [ __ ] You're going to
  380. 15:07highlight the takeaways. Highlight.
  381. 15:09You're going to add comments, right?
  382. 15:13Going to add little, you know, comments
  383. 15:14here and there. Comments here and there.
  384. 15:16and you're just going to go down this
  385. 15:17entire longass document and understand
  386. 15:20your market to a level that nobody
  387. 15:22nobody ever really has. And when you do
  388. 15:25that, you'll be able to understand
  389. 15:27things when you're creating your
  390. 15:28landers, when you're creating your ads,
  391. 15:29when you're writing your [ __ ] hooks,
  392. 15:31which is what I'm talking about in this
  393. 15:32video right now, that your AI will never
  394. 15:35actually pick up.
  395. 15:37It'll pick it up if you ask it directly.
  396. 15:40But this is one of those like unknown
  397. 15:43knowns where if you don't ask directly
  398. 15:46about something super specific that you
  399. 15:47highlighted, for example, then the AI is
  400. 15:49not going to bring it up themselves. So
  401. 15:51they can help with ideiation, but they
  402. 15:53should help your own ideation that is
  403. 15:56already there existing. Does that make
  404. 15:58sense? This alone, I think for many of
  405. 16:01you that are struggling finding and
  406. 16:03creating profitable ads, you need to
  407. 16:05[ __ ] understand your customers, bro.
  408. 16:07I was talking to another uh another BBA
  409. 16:09student actually. He went through this
  410. 16:12process. I told him, "Did you read it?"
  411. 16:13He said, "No." I said, "Go read your
  412. 16:14[ __ ] research doc." He took an exact
  413. 16:16quote from the research document, ran
  414. 16:19that quote, that quote as a hook for a
  415. 16:21native static, and now it's one of his
  416. 16:22most profitable ads that he's running.
  417. 16:28It's all there. It's all there. You just
  418. 16:30have to stop being a lazy [ __ ] and read
  419. 16:32it.
  420. 16:34Now, the re the foundational docs
  421. 16:36process is, you know, one of many ways
  422. 16:39that you can do really good research,
  423. 16:40right? We have, let me write this down.
  424. 16:43Foundational
  425. 16:50foundational dicks, foundational docks.
  426. 16:54So the next method that you can use for
  427. 16:57research is what I call intentional
  428. 17:04doom scrolling.
  429. 17:09And this is where you set up a burner
  430. 17:11account on Facebook and Instagram,
  431. 17:13especially Facebook.
  432. 17:16You literally get it on your phone
  433. 17:18ideally. If not, try to use the mobile
  434. 17:20version on your desktop and you're going
  435. 17:22to legitimately doom scroll after
  436. 17:24training your burner account on your
  437. 17:26particular market by going and liking
  438. 17:28other pages, uh, by commenting on post,
  439. 17:30by clicking on links, by going through
  440. 17:32the entire checkout process, aband
  441. 17:34hitting checkout. You're going to train
  442. 17:35your algorithm. I don't need to go over
  443. 17:36how to create a burner account, like how
  444. 17:38to create a burner profile, but that's
  445. 17:40exactly what you do. And then you're
  446. 17:41going to start intentionally doom doom
  447. 17:43scrolling. You want to doom scroll and
  448. 17:45you want to be sucked in, but you also
  449. 17:47want to be conscious. You don't want to
  450. 17:48be completely subconscious separated
  451. 17:50from the fact you're just consuming
  452. 17:52useless media. You're consuming media
  453. 17:54with the intention of identifying hooks
  454. 17:56of identifying emotional hot points by
  455. 17:59looking at the comments, looking at the
  456. 18:00top comments of like these really
  457. 18:03polarizing posts and using those as
  458. 18:05hooks, using those as additional points
  459. 18:07of research. This is super super uh
  460. 18:10underrated in general. And you want to
  461. 18:12observe like what is making you stop
  462. 18:14scrolling
  463. 18:15because even when you're in a niche,
  464. 18:18there's this uh you just kind of get
  465. 18:22lulled into the doom scrolling, but
  466. 18:23eventually there's going to be something
  467. 18:25that you scroll and you're like, "Holy
  468. 18:27shit." And that is the kind of content
  469. 18:30you want to emulate when it comes to
  470. 18:32writing really good hooks. And that is
  471. 18:34an incredible form of research that most
  472. 18:36people just do not um just do not do.
  473. 18:40Okay. So, as an example, right, with the
  474. 18:44deep research that I'm speaking about
  475. 18:46and the
  476. 18:48uh what's the [ __ ] name?
  477. 18:53Foundational docs. Yes.
  478. 19:01[snorts]
  479. 19:05What I'm talking about. Now, this one is
  480. 19:07a little bit shorter, right? Uh, but
  481. 19:09what I'm talking about is going through
  482. 19:12with a highlighter like this and just
  483. 19:15highlighting [ __ ]
  484. 19:17Specifically, the main things I'm going
  485. 19:18to be looking at is going to be the
  486. 19:21customer beliefs, emotions, hopes, and
  487. 19:23fears. I want to look at all these pain
  488. 19:25points, and I want to literally
  489. 19:27underline things, bold it, like do
  490. 19:28whatever you want to do. But this is
  491. 19:30going to train your brain on how to
  492. 19:32think when it comes to writing and
  493. 19:35writing really good hooks. So, I don't
  494. 19:37think I need to go through that, but
  495. 19:38that's exactly what you would do.
  496. 19:43Okay. So, if you've done your research,
  497. 19:45you're already better than 99% of people
  498. 19:48when it comes to writing really good
  499. 19:49ads. And again, I don't mean just
  500. 19:51conducting the foundational docs, like
  501. 19:52go farther because the moment that
  502. 19:55something becomes like mainstream and
  503. 19:57standard practice, everybody uses the
  504. 19:59[ __ ] foundational docs now. So, if
  505. 20:01you're running the same product as
  506. 20:02somebody else, how do you have any
  507. 20:04competitive advantage over them? Hm. You
  508. 20:06don't. You [ __ ] don't. Which means
  509. 20:09you're going to lose to them. Your AI is
  510. 20:11going to come up with the exact same ad
  511. 20:12angles as theirs. So now you're really
  512. 20:16in the [ __ ] [ __ ] and you got you
  513. 20:17got some work to do. So just like
  514. 20:19anything, when something becomes
  515. 20:20standard practice, when it becomes the
  516. 20:22norm, you still have to follow this
  517. 20:24fundamental [ __ ] principle of
  518. 20:27marketing, which is creating contrast.
  519. 20:37And yes, I wrote this in red. It's to
  520. 20:40explain the [ __ ] point.
  521. 20:43You want to create as much contrast as
  522. 20:45humanly possible.
  523. 20:48All right. So, I want to look at a few
  524. 20:52different ads here, and we're going to
  525. 20:55break them down together, and I'm going
  526. 20:57to tell you why they're successful,
  527. 20:59and you're going to be able to emulate
  528. 21:01those for yourself. I'll tell you this
  529. 21:03as one final note before we do this. One
  530. 21:06of my copywriting mentors, uh, she
  531. 21:08taught me about a concept called your
  532. 21:10copy diet. And your copy diet is the
  533. 21:13copy that you're reading to train
  534. 21:15yourself to become become a better
  535. 21:16copywriter. In the same way that if you
  536. 21:18have a really [ __ ] diet and all you eat
  537. 21:20is [ __ ] McDonald's and you eat
  538. 21:22[ __ ] [ __ ] fast foods every
  539. 21:24[ __ ] meal of the day,
  540. 21:27then your body's going to represent
  541. 21:28that. In the same way, if you're reading
  542. 21:30really [ __ ] copy and you just continue
  543. 21:32to train your your your copy chops that
  544. 21:35this is good, it's not good and you're
  545. 21:39just going to make yourself and your AI
  546. 21:40spit out really really poor quality
  547. 21:42copy. So, when it comes to swiping and
  548. 21:45analyzing successful competitors, I only
  549. 21:48look for these brands that are doing
  550. 21:50like
  551. 21:52that that I know that there's a strong
  552. 21:55direct response
  553. 21:57presence in the hooks. And I'll show you
  554. 22:00exactly what I mean because I got some
  555. 22:01good examples here. All right, let's
  556. 22:02look at this one first.
  557. 22:05[snorts]
  558. 22:34All righty. Again, we're analyzing video
  559. 22:36hooks here. Maybe if I have some time at
  560. 22:37the end, I'll try to get to image hooks.
  561. 22:39But let's take a little look see what we
  562. 22:42got here.
  563. 22:44>> Can you see it?
  564. 22:46>> I think so. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah,
  565. 22:48yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah.
  566. 22:49>> Oh, wow.
  567. 22:52>> Okay.
  568. 22:55Please steal this. Okay. Please steal
  569. 22:58this. Specifically asking if they can
  570. 23:00see something. If you ask like, "Can you
  571. 23:03see this? Do you see this? Do you see
  572. 23:06what I'm looking at?" You're not giving
  573. 23:08people a demand, but you are
  574. 23:11commanding an action that is a
  575. 23:14subliminal
  576. 23:16uh what's the [ __ ] word? Micro
  577. 23:18commitment.
  578. 23:20It's a subliminal micro commitment.
  579. 23:22You'll notice if you study some really
  580. 23:24good uh sales people, especially sales
  581. 23:26people like in person, like you think of
  582. 23:28somebody like Tony Robbins, like this
  583. 23:29dude sells people for a [ __ ] living,
  584. 23:32literally. And he gets on these stages
  585. 23:34in front of, you know, tens of thousands
  586. 23:36of people. And he gets these people to
  587. 23:38[ __ ] run up to the stage all through
  588. 23:40his words and his actions and how he
  589. 23:41speaks.
  590. 23:43And he understands this concept of
  591. 23:45getting micro commitments from people.
  592. 23:46If you've ever been to a Tony Robbins
  593. 23:48event, which I have, and it was it was
  594. 23:51[ __ ] crazy. [snorts]
  595. 23:54What is he always asking you to do? He's
  596. 23:55like, "Raise your hand if you're this.
  597. 23:57Raise your hand if you're that. Raise
  598. 23:57your hand if you're this." Micro
  599. 23:58commitment. Micro commitment. [ __ ]
  600. 24:00micro commitment. Another one. Everybody
  601. 24:02stand up. He starts clapping. Everybody
  602. 24:04stand up. Everybody stand up. It's like
  603. 24:06he's getting people bought in with every
  604. 24:08individual word. Anytime that
  605. 24:11you tell somebody to do something and
  606. 24:12they do it, no matter how small, that's
  607. 24:14a micro commitment and that's getting
  608. 24:15them closer and closer and closer to
  609. 24:18becoming a customer. Everything in the
  610. 24:20way that he speaks and talks, you want
  611. 24:22to get really good at copy, just go, you
  612. 24:24know, go go watch some some Tony Robbins
  613. 24:26events, dude, and you'll see exactly
  614. 24:29everything that he does. It's just so
  615. 24:30incredibly intentional. Nothing is by
  616. 24:32accident. Not the way that he speaks,
  617. 24:34the way that he [ __ ] claps, uh,
  618. 24:37everything that he asks his audience to
  619. 24:39do. I'm not even a Tony Robbins lover
  620. 24:41like that. Like, I I'm neutral about the
  621. 24:43dude, but I understand who's got game
  622. 24:45and who understands this [ __ ] at a
  623. 24:47psychotic level. And he is one of those
  624. 24:49people. He's absolutely one of those
  625. 24:51people.
  626. 24:52>> Can you see it
  627. 24:54>> already?
  628. 24:57Really [ __ ] good. Also understand the
  629. 24:58inflection in the voice. like the
  630. 25:01inflection of the voice. So here, let's
  631. 25:02break this down, right? Because we
  632. 25:03talked about this triangle, this
  633. 25:06beautiful triangle we have up here of
  634. 25:07copy, audio, and scroll stopper. In this
  635. 25:09case,
  636. 25:11in this case, the audio is actually the
  637. 25:14way that partly the way that this woman
  638. 25:16is talking. This was a dude that was
  639. 25:18just like, can you see this? Versus this
  640. 25:21woman who has this upward inflection in
  641. 25:23her voice, this upspeak at the very end
  642. 25:25to signify like a question and get you
  643. 25:28more bought in because you want to know
  644. 25:29the answer. And also she says, "Can you
  645. 25:32see it?" What the [ __ ] am I supposed to
  646. 25:34see?
  647. 25:36Open open [laughter] loop.
  648. 25:40Um, so that's kind of the audio piece,
  649. 25:42right? Let's look at the copy. So the
  650. 25:43copy is twofold here. We have the copy
  651. 25:45that's actually on the screen,
  652. 25:47[clears throat]
  653. 25:48number one, which we'll get into, but we
  654. 25:50also have the copy of the audio. And the
  655. 25:54audio is basically, can you see it? And
  656. 25:56then these guys reacting to whatever it
  657. 25:58is.
  658. 25:59>> I think so. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah.
  659. 26:01Yeah. Oh wow. Yeah.
  660. 26:02>> Oh wow.
  661. 26:03>> That was it. Right. That's that's the
  662. 26:05[ __ ] hook right there. It's like can
  663. 26:06you see it? I think I can see it. Oh
  664. 26:08wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.
  665. 26:11You know. So
  666. 26:14now that's from a copyrightiting
  667. 26:16perspective. You know there's not a
  668. 26:18whole lot to dissect there. It's just
  669. 26:21a wild reaction to something where we
  670. 26:23don't actually know what the [ __ ] is
  671. 26:24happening except for this woman's
  672. 26:25shoulder or neck is moving. Right now,
  673. 26:27let's look at the copy that is actually
  674. 26:30on
  675. 26:34uh the screen here. Let me see if I can
  676. 26:35zoom in a little bit more. Yeah. Okay.
  677. 26:38To the [ __ ] who gave me this
  678. 26:40device, this is the first time I felt a
  679. 26:42brain orgasm. So,
  680. 26:45few things that were done right here. To
  681. 26:47the [ __ ] [ __ ] blurred
  682. 26:49out, but also anytime you include
  683. 26:51cursing in a hook, you're just asking
  684. 26:53for polarity. Cursing is one of those
  685. 26:55things that, you know, I feel like it's
  686. 26:57become relatively normalized over the
  687. 26:59last like 20 years, but it's still very
  688. 27:01polarizing. Like if somebody curses, you
  689. 27:04can assume certain things about that
  690. 27:05person in the same way that if somebody
  691. 27:07is super against cursing that you can
  692. 27:09also assume certain things about that as
  693. 27:10well. It it creates a divide. It's
  694. 27:12polarizing.
  695. 27:15And polariz polarizing is almost
  696. 27:17synonymous with creating contrast. If
  697. 27:20you have if you have a high degree of
  698. 27:21polarity,
  699. 27:23like if you think of like political
  700. 27:25polarity, there's also political
  701. 27:26contrast. Very very uh almost synonyms
  702. 27:29for one another.
  703. 27:32So to [ __ ] who gave me this
  704. 27:34device, another open loop here. Very
  705. 27:36simple way to do this. Anytime you're
  706. 27:38speaking, always say this instead of
  707. 27:40explaining what this is because she's
  708. 27:42saying this device, I can barely see it.
  709. 27:44Like I would not see this as voucher
  710. 27:46scrolling on her phone. the fact that
  711. 27:47there's something around her neck right
  712. 27:48now.
  713. 27:54This is the first time I felt a brain
  714. 27:56orgasm.
  715. 27:58Dope, dope, dope [ __ ] term there. Um,
  716. 28:02in all caps with an emoji and also kind
  717. 28:05of designed to look a little bit more
  718. 28:06native with this kind of like Tik Tok
  719. 28:08Instagram text. It's very, very subtle
  720. 28:10detail that I don't even know if it's
  721. 28:12intentional, but you know, it is what it
  722. 28:14is. But the brain orgasm piece is really
  723. 28:17[ __ ] sick. That's almost like a
  724. 28:20unique mechanism of the solution a
  725. 28:22little bit. Um, if not, it's just a cool
  726. 28:25term for the outcome that you can get
  727. 28:27from using this product.
  728. 28:33So having [ __ ] and excuse me and
  729. 28:37orgasm in the same sentence,
  730. 28:41think about the level of contrast you're
  731. 28:42create creating there and curiosity. A
  732. 28:45lot of copy, especially hooks, is just
  733. 28:47opening as many loops as you possibly
  734. 28:49can. Opening these tabs in the brain of
  735. 28:52the person watching the video,
  736. 28:56knowing that you're going to close them
  737. 28:57later down the down the line. Now, if I
  738. 29:00were to be a psycho about this, I think
  739. 29:02the one thing that could have been done
  740. 29:03better from this text here is just the
  741. 29:07length. Because again, think of who's
  742. 29:10going to be watching this, and they're
  743. 29:11mostly going to be watching on their
  744. 29:13phone. Roughly, your phone is going to
  745. 29:14be about this size. Like, if I hold my
  746. 29:16phone up to the screen, that would be
  747. 29:18the actual size. I think I have a iPhone
  748. 29:2016. So, this is the actual size. I'm not
  749. 29:24going to read this entire thing as
  750. 29:26there's speaking going on in the
  751. 29:28background. I if this were me to adjust
  752. 29:30this and turn it to something even
  753. 29:32better, the text on screen should be way
  754. 29:35more simple. It should be shorter. It
  755. 29:37should be simple, but it should still
  756. 29:38punch.
  757. 29:41So, I think the stronger piece is going
  758. 29:43to be brain orgasm.
  759. 29:49Even like first time feeling a brain
  760. 29:52orgasm, that's better. Still a little
  761. 29:54bit too long. Um,
  762. 29:58I think even something as simple as like
  763. 30:00brain orgasm alone creates a ton of
  764. 30:02curiosity.
  765. 30:04>> Can you see it?
  766. 30:05>> I think so. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
  767. 30:08>> Also, just so you know how in-depth I go
  768. 30:10with these these ad reviews, do you
  769. 30:12notice how the camera angles are
  770. 30:14changing? Right. So, first initially, it
  771. 30:17actually starts in this angle. This is
  772. 30:19this is that zero minutes in the ad. It
  773. 30:22lasts for a a few milliseconds. And then
  774. 30:24it goes to a new camera angle right
  775. 30:26there. That was under one second.
  776. 30:29[snorts] And now she's looking off
  777. 30:31camera, but she's looking to the other
  778. 30:33camera, but now she's looking off camera
  779. 30:34directly. And we already have a dynamic
  780. 30:37camera switch, which, you know, camera
  781. 30:39uh angle switches can also improve
  782. 30:41retention a lot because you want to keep
  783. 30:43it dynamic typically every, you know,
  784. 30:45two to four seconds.
  785. 30:46>> Can you see it?
  786. 30:48>> I think so. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
  787. 30:50Yeah. Oh wow.
  788. 30:51>> And then whatever the [ __ ] is happening
  789. 30:53obviously is is a nice little open loop
  790. 30:55of whatever is actually happening.
  791. 30:56>> Oh yeah.
  792. 30:56>> Oh wow.
  793. 30:58>> Oh
  794. 30:59okay. I
  795. 31:02>> All right. We get it. So when people
  796. 31:05talk about like Mark, I have this
  797. 31:06winning ad.
  798. 31:09How do I make more of them? How do I
  799. 31:10make variations? How do I make
  800. 31:12iterations? And what I've what I've
  801. 31:15spoken about here for the last like five
  802. 31:17or 10 minutes is the first 5 seconds of
  803. 31:19this ad. This is 2 minutes long. I think
  804. 31:22a lot of you just don't realize the
  805. 31:25sheer level of depth you should go to
  806. 31:27when you analyze your ad creatives,
  807. 31:29especially the successful ones. Because
  808. 31:31whether you understand it or not,
  809. 31:33there's all these psychological triggers
  810. 31:35that are happening um underneath the
  811. 31:38surface that I can see as somebody who's
  812. 31:40been practicing copy for like eight
  813. 31:42years, but most people just don't see it
  814. 31:46or they just choose not to analyze this
  815. 31:48deeply because they're [ __ ] lazy. So,
  816. 31:52that was a cool ad. Uh kind of like a
  817. 31:54product demo
  818. 31:56and super high curiosity, super duper
  819. 31:59broad as well. Like this is the textbook
  820. 32:01definition of like a top offunnel
  821. 32:03creative. Even though the product is
  822. 32:05immediately being shown, this product
  823. 32:07>> product demos typically are a little bit
  824. 32:09more middle or bottom funnel, but here
  825. 32:11it's being used in a way that's
  826. 32:12definitely top of funnel. Let's move on
  827. 32:13to the next ad here.
  828. 32:23All right, these guys scaling up their
  829. 32:25uh creative production as you can see
  830. 32:28already in September. have tested triple
  831. 32:30the ads that they were testing in
  832. 32:33August.
  833. 32:36Let's take a look here.
  834. 32:39>> Look at that. That's freaky. Ladies, if
  835. 32:41you are over 40 and
  836. 32:44>> Okay, so this is
  837. 32:47[ __ ] This one's a little bit similar to
  838. 32:49the other because it's also like showing
  839. 32:51the outcome, but it's not an actual
  840. 32:52demo. No, it is actually a demo of the
  841. 32:54product. Um, but what you have here is
  842. 32:58kind of like a micro hook into a
  843. 33:01qualifying hook. The micro hook is what
  844. 33:03you see in the first few seconds. So,
  845. 33:05let's let's check it out.
  846. 33:10Also, a very very short clip in the
  847. 33:11beginning that was probably
  848. 33:12unintentional, but just, you know, I do
  849. 33:14notice the text on screen. We see bring
  850. 33:16the med spa home for one price. I think
  851. 33:19that's [ __ ] weak, but
  852. 33:23you know, it's better than nothing, I
  853. 33:24suppose.
  854. 33:26Look at that.
  855. 33:27>> Also, the
  856. 33:29captions on screen are relatively small.
  857. 33:31I think uh it's not too bad. I guess you
  858. 33:34zoom out. This would be on your phone. I
  859. 33:37think for this market is probably okay,
  860. 33:38but I I like to be very maniacal about
  861. 33:41the size of uh text, whether it's on
  862. 33:43ads, whether it's on uh landers. Most of
  863. 33:46you probably are going to increase your
  864. 33:49conversion rate across any asset that
  865. 33:50you have if you just make the text
  866. 33:52larger.
  867. 33:54Like I I remember learning this in like
  868. 33:562020 I think from this email copywriter
  869. 33:59dude. He was like, "Yeah, I was sending
  870. 34:01out emails to my list, you know, every
  871. 34:03single day." And I was running a promo
  872. 34:05and every day I just increased the font
  873. 34:07size by one or two pixels and every day
  874. 34:10my conversions went up. It was a split
  875. 34:12test he was running and it was like
  876. 34:14every single day my conversions went up
  877. 34:15and and the emails converted better and
  878. 34:17better and better.
  879. 34:19So, I was like, "Fuck, if that's true
  880. 34:21with email copyrighting, I wonder who's
  881. 34:23doing that on their landers. I wonder
  882. 34:24who's doing that in their creatives."
  883. 34:27Clarity is one of the most important
  884. 34:29principles in copyrightiting. Don't try
  885. 34:31to impress people with how cool your
  886. 34:33copy is. Just try to be incredibly
  887. 34:35clear.
  888. 34:37>> That's freaky.
  889. 34:38>> So, that's kind of the micro hook here.
  890. 34:41It's the first two seconds and then from
  891. 34:43two seconds to however many seconds
  892. 34:44after that, we have the qualifier.
  893. 34:48Look at that. That's freaky.
  894. 34:51>> Look at that. That's freaky. So, I don't
  895. 34:54have a whole lot to say here. Just kind
  896. 34:56of the the shock factor, but notice
  897. 35:00notice.
  898. 35:06>> Can you see it?
  899. 35:08>> You see it? You seeing a trend here? Can
  900. 35:11you see it here?
  901. 35:14>> Look at that.
  902. 35:18You [ __ ] are you [ __ ] putting two
  903. 35:20and two together little [ __ ] [ __ ]
  904. 35:24Not only a micro commitment, but the
  905. 35:26most micro commitment, most important
  906. 35:28micro commitment you could ever [ __ ]
  907. 35:30have, which is to get people to continue
  908. 35:32watching the [ __ ] ad. Look at that.
  909. 35:33Do you see this? Do you [ __ ] see
  910. 35:35that? You guys ever see these videos uh
  911. 35:37trending on social media where it's like
  912. 35:41somebody's using an old audio,
  913. 35:45but it's a new video and the old audio
  914. 35:47is like, "Whoa, look at that. Do you see
  915. 35:50that? What the [ __ ] is that?" And then
  916. 35:52the video literally is showing nothing.
  917. 35:54It's like showing nothing interesting,
  918. 35:55yet the video will have like hundreds of
  919. 35:57thousands of views because the person is
  920. 36:00continually telling them to like look at
  921. 36:01something and you're like, "What the
  922. 36:02[ __ ] What the [ __ ] am I looking at
  923. 36:04here? And then that's just getting them
  924. 36:06cons to consume more and more and more
  925. 36:09of that video.
  926. 36:12So both of these ads are doing this very
  927. 36:14very well by not only getting that micro
  928. 36:16commitment but getting them to consume
  929. 36:17more simply by using this visual
  930. 36:19explainer. Look at this. Look at that.
  931. 36:21Look at me. [ __ ] you. You know
  932. 36:24>> that's freaky.
  933. 36:27Ladies, if you are over 40 and menopause
  934. 36:30has started doing that little gravity
  935. 36:32trick on your face, then you need to
  936. 36:34listen up.
  937. 36:34>> So, that's kind of the the qualifier
  938. 36:36hook after. Um, this was originally
  939. 36:40invented by Prince of Print himself,
  940. 36:42Sergey Halbert. This is kind of like the
  941. 36:44if then. Ultimately, you want to qualify
  942. 36:47as many people as possible within that
  943. 36:49hook. And she's going for menopause,
  944. 36:52ladies over 40, you know, skincare
  945. 36:53issues, then you need to listen up. So
  946. 36:55once again getting another tie down on
  947. 36:58why they need to watch the rest of this
  948. 37:00creative. So I don't really want to
  949. 37:02analyze the rest of this because
  950. 37:04actually let me let me break down this
  951. 37:06um very quickly the the qualifier hook
  952. 37:10because they're actually using hook
  953. 37:11stacking here which is using one hook
  954. 37:12right on top of another in order to
  955. 37:14maximize retention and get more people
  956. 37:15to watch your ad. So the first hook was
  957. 37:18like a micro hook super duper short
  958. 37:20using the product.
  959. 37:22>> Look at that. That's freaky. just
  960. 37:24saying, "Look at that." Getting that
  961. 37:25micro commitment. Next,
  962. 37:26>> ladies, if you
  963. 37:28>> We have the woman actually using the
  964. 37:30product the entire time. If this was
  965. 37:31just a lady looking at the camera, maybe
  966. 37:33with a product in her hand, um you're
  967. 37:36not going to get as good retention where
  968. 37:38you're compared to doing something like
  969. 37:40this where you're actively doing
  970. 37:41something. Like, I'm sure we've all also
  971. 37:43came across those videos on uh IG or
  972. 37:45other platforms where somebody's like
  973. 37:48telling a story, but they're like doing
  974. 37:49something the entire time. they're like
  975. 37:50cooking or like solving a [ __ ]
  976. 37:52Rubik's cube or like whatever they're
  977. 37:54doing something because your brain is
  978. 37:57now,
  979. 37:58you know, your ears are listening to
  980. 38:00what the person is saying, but now your
  981. 38:02eyes have something to feast upon that's
  982. 38:03not just like the person talking. It's
  983. 38:04like them accomplishing something. So,
  984. 38:07you're able to trigger even more
  985. 38:08dopamine to uh to consume the ad. Let's
  986. 38:11look at Let's look at one more. This is
  987. 38:13actually going way uh longer than I
  988. 38:15thought for for each ad, but
  989. 38:19I actually think it's better to go
  990. 38:21through viewer creatives, but go way
  991. 38:23more in-depth because dude, everybody
  992. 38:26posts these [ __ ] videos and like
  993. 38:27there's a reason that I don't post
  994. 38:29videos like this where it's like
  995. 38:30breaking down the successful ad. [ __ ]
  996. 38:33you, bro. Anybody can [ __ ] do that.
  997. 38:36Anybody. I think at least I'm going
  998. 38:39really deep into this and I'm like I'm
  999. 38:40spending five plus minutes on the first
  1000. 38:43two seconds of the video.
  1001. 38:46But these these people that are like
  1002. 38:48here's why this you know ad was
  1003. 38:50successful and they're like okay he had
  1004. 38:52a really high curiosity hook. Like no
  1005. 38:55[ __ ] [ __ ] dude like wow you
  1006. 38:57understand advertising 101. You got to
  1007. 39:00have a good hick. What good [ __ ]
  1008. 39:01hook? This is news to me
  1009. 39:05you know. [ __ ] you. Let's get Let's
  1010. 39:08Let's get into some real [ __ ] [ __ ]
  1011. 39:10huh? Okay,
  1012. 39:12I don't remember this one. Let's see.
  1013. 39:14Um, really strong thumbnail, though.
  1014. 39:16Super strong thumbnail. Let's see what
  1015. 39:17we got.
  1016. 39:19>> Look what this fake under eye device did
  1017. 39:21to my face.
  1018. 39:23>> All right, let's break it down. So, we
  1019. 39:26have the curse word. So, same rules
  1020. 39:28apply there of of creating that
  1021. 39:30polarity. Um, cur uh bleeping it out, I
  1022. 39:34think, creates actually more auditory
  1023. 39:36contrast as well. In the same way, uh I
  1024. 39:40know audio is like not the most
  1025. 39:41important thing, blah blah blah, but to
  1026. 39:44create that level of contrast through
  1027. 39:45the audio,
  1028. 39:47um I think that's [ __ ] badass. I
  1029. 39:49mean, I remember when these these songs
  1030. 39:52were coming out when I was younger. I
  1031. 39:53was like in middle school, and they
  1032. 39:55would legitimately bleep [ __ ] out. They
  1033. 39:57wouldn't just like remove the the curse
  1034. 39:59word. Like, it would be like the beep
  1035. 40:01like in the song. It's like my all my
  1036. 40:03attention went to the beep now. like you
  1037. 40:04you were trying to get me to forget
  1038. 40:06about the curse word. Now I really want
  1039. 40:07to [ __ ] know what what was [ __ ]
  1040. 40:09happening there. Same principle here.
  1041. 40:11So, we actually get some really
  1042. 40:12interesting uh polarity and contrast
  1043. 40:15created just with that beeping sound
  1044. 40:16beeping out the curse word. Plus, it's
  1045. 40:18going to be more compliant on Facebook.
  1046. 40:20I've run stuff uh ads where you're
  1047. 40:22cursing actively in the ad. And I think
  1048. 40:25if it's very minimal, it has a really
  1049. 40:27minimal impact on your your CPMs, your
  1050. 40:29conversions overall. Like I get them
  1051. 40:30approved no problem personally,
  1052. 40:33but I like this better personally.
  1053. 40:37>> This look what this fake under eye
  1054. 40:40device did to my face.
  1055. 40:41>> So we got one of these green screen um
  1056. 40:44hooks here.
  1057. 40:49[laughter]
  1058. 40:50Dude, I mean, wait a minute. Who the who
  1059. 40:53the [ __ ] face is this?
  1060. 40:56This [ __ ]
  1061. 41:00This is like the Is this one of the Is
  1062. 41:03this the captain of the ship from
  1063. 41:04Wall-E? That [ __ ] movie of the
  1064. 41:06robots?
  1065. 41:08Those super overweight [ __ ] people.
  1066. 41:10What kind of
  1067. 41:12[laughter]
  1068. 41:14What kind of [ __ ] squashed faced
  1069. 41:17[ __ ] skull is this
  1070. 41:20[ __ ] butternut butter squash looking
  1071. 41:23ass face, bro? Golly goodness gracious.
  1072. 41:27I don't even like looking at this.
  1073. 41:29That's actually a good principle though
  1074. 41:30when it comes to creating like these
  1075. 41:32visual the visual element of the hook
  1076. 41:34here. You want to create what I call
  1077. 41:38like the uh I'll just call it like the
  1078. 41:41car crash effect, which is like if
  1079. 41:43you're at your house and you walk
  1080. 41:45outside and you're just kind of looking
  1081. 41:47at the cars that are passing you and
  1082. 41:49there's a bad [ __ ] accident, like
  1083. 41:52really bad between two cars. You don't
  1084. 41:56want to look, but you can't help but
  1085. 41:59look. You know, you know that kind of
  1086. 42:02feeling if you look at some really crazy
  1087. 42:04native statics, it's the exact same
  1088. 42:06principle. It's like I don't want to
  1089. 42:07look at this. Like looking at this
  1090. 42:09genuinely makes me uncomfortable, but I
  1091. 42:11can't stop looking at it. That's kind of
  1092. 42:13the element that you should create when
  1093. 42:14it comes to your your visual piece of
  1094. 42:17the hook. those squirrel stoppers is you
  1095. 42:20want to make something that is
  1096. 42:22borderline
  1097. 42:26uncomfortable, borderline disgusting,
  1098. 42:29but like you feel like you still have to
  1099. 42:31look at it, you know, like you just
  1100. 42:32can't look away.
  1101. 42:33>> This look what this
  1102. 42:36>> Once again, we have the same This is
  1103. 42:39crazy. I didn't intentionally pick
  1104. 42:40these. Um, these were just in in one of
  1105. 42:43my swipe files, but notice how all three
  1106. 42:46of these ads that we have now reviewed
  1107. 42:48have used the exact same concept of this
  1108. 42:50micro commitment saying, "Look at look
  1109. 42:52at something in some way, shape, or
  1110. 42:54form. And they're all profitable." Well,
  1111. 42:58I don't know if they're profitable, but
  1112. 42:58they're all successful ads.
  1113. 43:01All of them.
  1114. 43:04And they all use the same principle.
  1115. 43:05Isn't that interesting? Hm. It's almost
  1116. 43:07like maybe you should [ __ ] listen
  1117. 43:09listen to what I [ __ ] say. Huh? H
  1118. 43:13Maybe that's a maybe that's a good
  1119. 43:14[ __ ] idea. What do you think?
  1120. 43:17All right.
  1121. 43:19In this case, we have the exact same
  1122. 43:20text as we do the copy. So, there's not
  1123. 43:25a ton to break down here. We have the
  1124. 43:26look. We have the the cursing. Uh once
  1125. 43:28again, we have underey device. The
  1126. 43:30previous one also had the word sorry
  1127. 43:33this one also had the word device right
  1128. 43:35here
  1129. 43:37did to my face.
  1130. 43:41I think if I were to take over this ad
  1131. 43:43and I was like you know we have to step
  1132. 43:45this up somehow. I would probably make
  1133. 43:47this last uh this image in the back. I
  1134. 43:52would make it a video and I would make
  1135. 43:53it dynamic.
  1136. 43:55>> Thising fake under eye device did my
  1137. 43:57face. Look what this fake under eye
  1138. 44:01device did to my face.
  1139. 44:02>> Okay, that's like a whole three ass
  1140. 44:04seconds right there. Like 3 seconds
  1141. 44:06staring at an image. I mean, granted, we
  1142. 44:08have her in video form, which is good,
  1143. 44:10but if I were to take it over, I would
  1144. 44:11want to see this uh X-ray scan, I guess.
  1145. 44:16I'd want to see it dynamically changing
  1146. 44:19in a really weird way, you know, a way
  1147. 44:20that makes me go like, "What the [ __ ] I
  1148. 44:22need to watch the rest of this."
  1149. 44:26So
  1150. 44:29yeah, um
  1151. 44:32I think at this point I'm gonna I'm
  1152. 44:35going to pause because I've been I've
  1153. 44:37been yapping for a bit. I was not even
  1154. 44:38looking at the chat. I don't know what
  1155. 44:40what's going on there, but let me take a
  1156. 44:41second to look and we can move to Q&A
  1157. 44:44now.
  1158. 44:46We can move to Q&A. So whatever
  1159. 44:48questions you guys got, feel free to
  1160. 44:49drop them in the chat. I got about I
  1161. 44:52actually don't have that much time. I
  1162. 44:53got like five minutes. I got like five
  1163. 44:56minutes and I got to bounce. [snorts]
  1164. 44:59Who is this guy and why is he naked?
  1165. 45:02He must be new here.
  1166. 45:05Yeah, let's drop some questions in the
  1167. 45:06chat, guys. I'll I'll rapid fire get to
  1168. 45:08as many um
  1169. 45:12as many [ __ ]
  1170. 45:16as many [ __ ] people as I can.
  1171. 45:23>> [snorts]
  1172. 45:25>> Okay, great question. Young JB,
  1173. 45:28good to see you, bro. Hey, Mark, how do
  1174. 45:30you know when you're either not selling
  1175. 45:32somebody enough on the ad or landing
  1176. 45:33page when you have good CTR but no
  1177. 45:35sales? It's one of the most difficult
  1178. 45:37things, bro, when it comes to
  1179. 45:38advertising because you have to be able
  1180. 45:40to read the data, but you also have to
  1181. 45:42be able to read between the data. So, if
  1182. 45:45you have really good CTR, I'd want to
  1183. 45:46know what CTR because a good CTR means
  1184. 45:49like different things to different
  1185. 45:50people. But I would say if you have a
  1186. 45:53really good CTR, let's say it's above
  1187. 45:54like 5%. Um, but no sales,
  1188. 46:00you got to break down your metrics
  1189. 46:03associated with your funnel first to see
  1190. 46:05what is within KPI and what is outside
  1191. 46:07KPI. It's really easy to spend money on
  1192. 46:09ads and be like, "My CTR is great. No
  1193. 46:12sales." uh you know, but it was like why
  1194. 46:15was there no sales?
  1195. 46:17Let's let's isolate it first to rule out
  1196. 46:19every possible reason why it's maybe not
  1197. 46:23the lander. Okay, let's look at the link
  1198. 46:25click to landing page view drop off. It
  1199. 46:27should be no more than 20%. Let's look
  1200. 46:28at the add to cart ratio for products
  1201. 46:31like in the 40 to $80 price ration price
  1202. 46:34range. It should be like 8 to 10%. More
  1203. 46:36than $80, it should be like seven or
  1204. 46:38eight%.
  1205. 46:40So, is that within KPI? Yes. No. Cool.
  1206. 46:42How about add to cart to purchase ratio?
  1207. 46:44Um, for most products, it should be
  1208. 46:46around 30%. So, if you get 10 add to
  1209. 46:48carts, at least three should go through
  1210. 46:49and purchase. Okay, which one of those
  1211. 46:51is outside of KPI? There's a different
  1212. 46:53answer to all of those. So, for most
  1213. 46:55people, it's add to cart ratio. And you
  1214. 46:58have to be able to look at your lander
  1215. 46:59and then go back to your creative and
  1216. 47:01rewatch it, reread it if it's like a
  1217. 47:03native static, and understand the kind
  1218. 47:06of traffic that you are attracting
  1219. 47:08through your marketing words. Because
  1220. 47:10something that Facebook does not admit,
  1221. 47:12but they 100% do is they use your
  1222. 47:15primary text to determine your targeting
  1223. 47:17to to some degree. 100%. Maybe it's only
  1224. 47:2110% of their uh information that they
  1225. 47:23use to determine targeting. But the
  1226. 47:25reason I can say this with such
  1227. 47:26confidence is because if you run
  1228. 47:28something like a native static, you
  1229. 47:29know, if you simply change the text, the
  1230. 47:32primary text, you can target completely
  1231. 47:35different kinds of people. If it was
  1232. 47:36only targeting based off the creative,
  1233. 47:38you would never come to that conclusion.
  1234. 47:41So that's how you know it's not just the
  1235. 47:42creative that determines your targeting.
  1236. 47:44It's the creative and the copy. That's
  1237. 47:45especially true for images. It's less
  1238. 47:47true for videos. But in general, you
  1239. 47:49have to go and read your uh creative and
  1240. 47:52read your copy associated with it. What
  1241. 47:54I see super frequently, bro, is a lot of
  1242. 47:57guys try to like CTR max on their
  1243. 48:00creatives now with native status.
  1244. 48:01They're like, "Oh, look at me. I got 30%
  1245. 48:03[ __ ] CTR. Oh, I'm at like a 10% CTR
  1246. 48:05link. Then you read the copy and you're
  1247. 48:07like, look at the people you're speaking
  1248. 48:09to, bro. Like, these people have no
  1249. 48:10interest in buying from you. So, now
  1250. 48:12you're just optimizing around these
  1251. 48:14people. Um, because if Facebook doesn't
  1252. 48:16have any conversion data to optimize on,
  1253. 48:19they're going to initially use a little
  1254. 48:20bit of the engagement data. And once
  1255. 48:23again, the targeting partially is due to
  1256. 48:26the text that you have in your primary
  1257. 48:27copy. So unfortunately I can't tell you
  1258. 48:30just like you know exactly what it is
  1259. 48:33for you because I don't know your
  1260. 48:34numbers and your data and I haven't seen
  1261. 48:35your ads but it should be a combination
  1262. 48:37of reading the data and reading between
  1263. 48:39the data to understand most often what I
  1264. 48:42see is people going way way way too top
  1265. 48:44of funnel. They run like these native
  1266. 48:45statics that the the hook is like my dog
  1267. 48:49died and it's my fault. They're like,
  1268. 48:51"Oh, Jesus Christ, bro." Like, yes, of
  1269. 48:53course you have a 50% [ __ ]
  1270. 48:55click-through rate. And then somehow
  1271. 48:58you got to [ __ ] tie the [ __ ] into
  1272. 48:59like a joint supplement for a dog.
  1273. 49:03That's not easy to do. Like, it's
  1274. 49:04possible. And if you crack it, cool. You
  1275. 49:06got the most scalable ads on the [ __ ]
  1276. 49:08planet. But if you don't,
  1277. 49:10now you're just attracting really,
  1278. 49:12really [ __ ] people that just want to
  1279. 49:13read an interesting story and have no
  1280. 49:15desire in buying your product. Not
  1281. 49:17saying it can't work. It can work. But
  1282. 49:20the degree to which you have to be
  1283. 49:21really [ __ ] good at copywriting
  1284. 49:22exponentially increases the more top of
  1285. 49:25funnel you go when it comes to your
  1286. 49:26copy.
  1287. 49:29I don't think people will understand how
  1288. 49:30valuable what I just said actually is.
  1289. 49:32But like if you know then you know
  1290. 49:44how important is a thumbnail considering
  1291. 49:46people mostly get into the ad by
  1292. 49:47scrolling. It used to be way more
  1293. 49:49important. Now ads are autoplayed. So I
  1294. 49:52think it's it's really not like I don't
  1295. 49:53I don't put much emphasis really on the
  1296. 49:55thumbnail at all anymore.
  1297. 49:57Um, hey, I have a 3.5% conversion rate,
  1298. 50:00but my ad cost is higher than my
  1299. 50:01earnings. Should I drop that product or
  1300. 50:03test different ads? Read the data, bro.
  1301. 50:04If you have a three and a half%
  1302. 50:06conversion rate, that's really good. You
  1303. 50:07may just need to make better ads to
  1304. 50:09lower your CPC. So it depends on what
  1305. 50:11your CPC actually is and where the
  1306. 50:14breakdown is occurring on your creative
  1307. 50:15side because your funnel is obviously
  1308. 50:17converting really, really well. So most
  1309. 50:19likely the answer is make better ads.
  1310. 50:32How do you niche down in life? Pick a
  1311. 50:34skill and get good at it, especially not
  1312. 50:35from first world.
  1313. 50:39Um,
  1314. 50:42bro, I think the best the best advice I
  1315. 50:45could give you is don't even don't even
  1316. 50:47try and just
  1317. 50:50let me finish. Don't even try to go do
  1318. 50:53all this research to figure out what you
  1319. 50:56should center your life around. Just try
  1320. 50:59[ __ ] Just start getting your hands
  1321. 51:00dirty. test a bunch of things that you
  1322. 51:03think are a little bit interesting and
  1323. 51:05see where it takes you because you're
  1324. 51:06going to learn very quickly if it's
  1325. 51:08actually something for you, something
  1326. 51:09that you're interested in and something
  1327. 51:11that's going to help you, you know,
  1328. 51:13achieve your your goals with your life.
  1329. 51:15You're going to learn that really
  1330. 51:16quickly. And the only way you're going
  1331. 51:17to know that, it's not the research.
  1332. 51:19It's just through actually doing it. So,
  1333. 51:21the faster you can get into just testing
  1334. 51:23[ __ ] testing [ __ ] the better.
  1335. 51:39All right, I'm not going to lie. These
  1336. 51:40these [ __ ] questions suck. So,
  1337. 51:44I'm sorry. Go rewatch this [ __ ] live
  1338. 51:47and a few other lives. And that's all I
  1339. 51:49got for today. Thank you guys so much
  1340. 51:50for being here. Other than that, I'm
  1341. 51:52going to cue the outro because I got to
  1342. 51:54get out of here pretty soon. But thank
  1343. 51:56you for being here. Share it with a
  1344. 51:59friend or something, bro. Oh, you know
  1345. 52:01what? I got some [ __ ] I got some ball
  1346. 52:03knowledge today. [snorts]
  1347. 52:06I went down a rabbit hole last night.
  1348. 52:22this morning about my [ __ ] I'm bing.
  1349. 52:24She
  1350. 52:29[music]
  1351. 52:31pushing the limit. I'm pushing it up.
  1352. 52:32[ __ ] it up. I'm back with your [ __ ]
  1353. 52:34She g it up.
  1354. 52:37[music]
  1355. 52:38Like I'm got a lot of money. I can't
  1356. 52:41relate to you. I don't know what [music]
  1357. 52:43the time you talk to me. Sounded dumb as
  1358. 52:45[ __ ]
  1359. 52:47If you could understand me, [music] I'll
  1360. 52:49ass.
  1361. 52:56>> I'm pushing the limit. I'm pushing it
  1362. 52:57[music] up. I'm [ __ ] it up.

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