Long time lurker here, first time poster... 2 days ago, I ran a 24-hour auction in my Skool group of 400 people. There was a "pool party" theme to make the event even more fun and exciting than it might be otherwise. All in all, around 35 people ended up making a bid. Out of those, 10 or so were actively and continuously bidding for the actual offer over the 24 hours. The winning bidder wasn't one of them — he only swept in during the last 2 or so minutes, and won the auction in a photo finish, with a last-second $31k bid. (I had initially estimated the entire auction might bring in $10k total.) Along with the winning bidder, now I also have 10 people who have expressed a serious level of interest in the outcome I was promising in the auction offer. I'm talking to them as well, to see how we might end up working together. On top of all that, my entire group is on a kind of high. Folks really got into the auction and the pool party theme — there were side bets going on, running gags, people goosing each other on, and lots of jokes, to the point that somebody recommended giving out a prize for the funniest comment (a suggestion that was immediately adopted). There are 755 comments on the auction post, and a bunch of members have written me afterwards to thank me for putting on an exciting and fun spectacle. All that's to say... now I'm a believer. And I'll be doing more auctions soon. Big thanks to both @Travis Sago and @Chris Dyson for their help before, during, and after the auction.

As in...SHIT. THE. BED! Ok, it didn't have the outcome I wanted, but I got great data from it. Here's how I set it up... I reached out to a handful of cool offer owners. "Are you doing a black friday promo this year?" "Hmmm...not sure. I probably should, right? Whatcha have in mind?" That was pretty much the same response from each message. Super simple. Got 5 on board out of like 7 I reached out to. I setup a Skool group. Ran a Last Comment Wins contest to fill the group. Most of the new members came from two of the partners. 1300+ comments in a little over 24 hours...300 in the last 5 minutes. Originally I was going to pull people in for an auction with a bundle of offers from the partners I reached out to. Figured I'd make it more fun to fill the group. Decided to do the auction with just one of the offers in the bundle. Wrote up some copy to pre-sell the auction. It didn't get a lot of response in my group, but did well when the partner posted it. I did a shit ton of masculine mojo and messaged everyone who commented to get them into the group. Out of like 50 people who commented on the partner's post, I got 25 into the skool group for the auction (AFTER the last comment contest...got 53 in for that one). Post went out on Tuesday. Auction started Thursday and ran for 24-hours. High bid: $750 (includes 1-1 call with partner) Not a lot of bidders to follow up with...around 12. Sent three follow up options. Only one took the lowest option. $1397 total collected. Partner sold his self-paced offer in the past for $997 (NO 1-1 calls). I'll likely just send him the entire amount. Here's the data collected... 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐚 𝟐𝟒-𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲! The auction ended on Friday at noon. I had a call at 1:00. Started the follow up around 2:00pm. In their minds...people are already "out the door" for the weekend. And here's where I totally STB...I completely forgot I'd be offline all day Saturday and part of Sunday and wouldn't be able to follow up.

My new Giving Fun-Nel is not only getting 1 in 5 people to respond...(see pic 👇) COMPLETE STRANGERS... It's also taking people from 🧊to 🫠🔥 And getting WARM CONVOS open... That is leading to DEALS (Auction Hero) and other types of collabs. It's fun and NOT WEIRD feeling too! (BTW: this is only 72 records of a 4,000 person (and growing) database.) 👉Any interest in the Giving Fun-nel?

So I’m working on a FUN-NEL in REAL TIME. (NOT in my head!) The dude watches my video and replies back… “I love the open loop.” Before you look at the pic… How would you respond? Then look at the pic. 👉 And comment WHY I responded the way I did! 👇 If we get 50 comments I’ll show you the REST of the convo! (I’ll unlock more in the comments as we get closer to the answer.) Update: See full convo and breakdown 👇

After the warm response to yesterday's NEGOTIATE UP trick... I whipped up 11 more ways for you to NEGOTIATE UP and have your partners LOVE IT! 👉You will make FAR more money! 👉They won't feel like you are TAKING a % from them. 👉They WILL FEEL like they are getting a FANTASTIC DEAL! 👉People say "YES" and say it FAST when they are getting a great deal! In this lil report I give you TWELVE ways to do all the above and more. I DARE YOU to do it once or twice and not get a deal! Now... Here's my deal for you! I've attached the report to this post. Read it. Only if you love it... Then head to Amazon and buy my latest book: Rooting For Ya! (It's super low-priced.) If you've already purchased, THANK YOU! Rooting For Ya, Travis