The Clients On Command DM - 2022 Edition by Sean Ferres
The Clients On Command DM - 2022 Edition by Sean Ferres
The Clients On Command DM - 2022 Edition by Sean Ferres
Almost out of the blue, I had a record month in March businesses to the 6-figure mark.
I’ll confess though, me and my clients have a secret And besides, I’m on a mission to help 100
weapon up our sleeves that you don’t - one that freelance copywriters hit six-figures.
penetrates a prospect’s inbox like a hot knife
Working completely on their own terms and
through butter.
printing cash from their laptops all over the
A weapon that I’ve never shared publicly, until now. world, all while helping businesses reach more
people and impact more lives.
Read on, and I’ll give it to you.
In short, I need you. The more you win, the more
Three years ago, one of my first 6-figure students,
I win, and the more my clients win.
James, took 3 of my best client-getting strategies
and mashed them together like a homemade (just promise me you’ll let me use you as a case
money-printing Frankenstein. study as soon as you hit the $100k/yr mark, ok?)
The result of this accidental hodgepodge gave birth Anywho, stop distracting me.
to what has since been dubbed ‘The Clients-on-
Onto the DM.
Command DM™’
Myself and the “Trillion Dollar Man”, Sir Dan Peña. Dan famously grew his oil business from $820
to over a billion dollars, and has since created over a trillion dollars in equity between himself
and his mentees. He’s an absolute savage and doesn’t take bullshit from anyone.
There are 2 ways to do this: we can either kill the elephant, or tame the beast and ride it.
There’s an old saying – you never want to build rapport, you want to assume it.
And what better way to assume rapport than to let your prospects conclude that you and they are a part
of the same tribe?
You’re part of the same circles, or you hang out with the same people. We call this the in-group bias
effect.
Namedropping gets a bad rap and I don’t know why, because it’s easily the simplest and most effective
way to generate rapport with someone instantly.
For instance:
A bit over a year ago, I tried to get into contact with 9-figure fitness titan, Bedros Keuillian, about
collaborating with him on a track (yes, I am also a DJ and dance music producer). Given he runs one of
the largest gym franchises in the world with 5000+ locations, I knew it wouldn’t be easy.
Nothing worked. So in a Hail Mary, last-ditch attempt to get in touch with Bedros, I pulled out this
very cheatsheet, dusted it off, and sent him a DM following these principles.
I mentioned the tracks I’d done with Jason and Elliott, that I’d love to do something similar with him,
and that I didn’t need anything from him - just his permission to use some of his speeches for the track.
I hit send and went off to brush my teeth, not overly hopeful given he had over 600k followers.
I checked my phone before bed, and to my utter astonishment… not even 10 minutes later, he’d
replied with a voice message: “Hey Sean! Just listened to your track with Elliott. It’s sick man, killer job! I’d
love to do this and share it with my worldwide audience. If there’s anything you need, just ask brother.”
From unable to get a reply in 4 months, to Bedros dropping everything at 6am to listen to my track
and reply… What the hell changed?
In case you’re curious, the song is called
I namedropped. ‘Titans’ by BIGMOO feat. Bedros Keuillian
And you can too. In fact, you should. As much as humanly possible. This could be something as simple
as one short sentence along the lines of:
Hey NAME, I’m Sean. Our friend (X) recommended that we talk. blah blah blah
“That’s great Sean, but they’re a 9-figure whale and we don’t have any mutual friends whatsoever.”
For instance, who is someone that you know they know? (either
personally, or someone they look up to)
From a brief social media stalk, you find out that Mr. X is also
friends with Dr. David Doolittle. Great! Your opening message
would start with:
t
Ray Pang, Gold Coas
Hey NAME, I’m Sean. Heard good things about you from Dave. blah ys )
($0-10k/mo IN 31 da
blah blah
“Just smashed $51k in rev for Feb,
Now, it sounds from the outset that you know Dr. David a little over 6 months after joining
Doolittle personally, and that you and David were talking about CMB. I barely even knew this
Mr. X in a 1:1 conversation. industry existed 6 months ago lol
and last week I just finished writing
Except you’ve never personally met David in your life (and I
a VSL for Jordan Belfort. Beyond
would never encourage you to blatantly lie). However…
grateful for your teachings Sean 🙏"
What if you heard Dan say good things about Mr. X on a
podcast? Or a youtube video? Or a blog post? Or a facebook post? Or an Instagram story?
Meaning if you can’t find a way to kill the elephant, then climb up there and ride that son of a bitch. Own
it. Call it out.
Shamelessly admit that you guys are complete strangers and that you’re doing this for selfish reasons.
Admit that they have no reason to trust you, or really to pay you any attention at all.
Just as you’ll see with principle #3, the reason this works is because it’s disarming.
Almost like a perfectly timed cold read, we’re addressing the thought in the prospect’s head at the
exact moment they have it.
(In copywriting terms, the $1.2B/yr (yes, that’s Billion with a B) copy-goliath Agora would call this process
“copy-boarding”).
Your blatant honesty captures their attention and simultaneously crushes their first objection which is
“who the hell are you and why are you messaging me?”
In a world where everyone is trying to bullshit each other all the time, honesty can be the most
refreshing thing of all.
I mean, you wouldn’t want to start off your relationship based on a lie, would you?
Winning $5k after my speech on ‘living life with urgency’ captured the hearts and minds of the
950+ attendees at Jason Capital’s 2019 HSS business conference. The energy of that audience
was unlike any other I've ever seen (apart from maybe Ultra Music Festival in Miami)
People beg for a spot in his program; they beg to be accepted. “Three months ago, I was working
at a café for minimum wage,
And as a side note, as of early 2022, Simon Cowell’s net worth is earning $300 a week. I had no sales
over half a billion dollars – that’s more than all of the above sales or marketing experience, and
training legends combined (besides Grant). lacked direction in my life. Fast
forward 90 days, and I just had my
Do you think Simon Cowell is spending his days on sales calls,
first $25,000 month. I’m making
frantically dialing and following up? Or is he laid back in his
more than both my parents
chair deciding: “fit, or no-fit?”
combined, and I just turned 19!
Of course, all he’s looking to find out is, “is this person a fit, or is Can’t thank you enough bro ❤”
“If you’re not a fit, then we don’t want you and we’ll part ways as friends, or I’ll find someone else who might
be a good fit for you.”
“If you are a fit, however, then you have no fucking choice - you have to be in, this is exactly what you need.
You’re in serious trouble and anguish if you let this opportunity go to waste.”
Meaning, before we can start to even think about pitching our services, we need to determine: “is this
person a fit, or is this person a no-fit?”
And the way we do this is by asking a very particular set of questions to determine the following:
I don’t want you working with anyone whom you don’t like as a person. The headache isn’t worth
any amount of money.
Can you legitimately help them achieve their goals? If you’re not the person that can help them,
point them towards someone who can, and move on.
You need to find this out ahead of time for obvious reasons. Spending 45 mins on the phone with
someone only to discover they have $500 in their bank account isn’t fun for either of you.
The exact wording you use in your auditioning process is also very important. You need to discover the
answers to all these questions in a particular manner so that your prospect remains friendly &
cooperative and doesn’t feel interrogated.
You also must be sure to make a fast and seamless transition between the opening message and the
auditioning process, so you can quickly flip the power dynamic back in your favour (given you’re the
one that reached out to them in this situation).
As far as the exact questions to ask that accomplish all of these crucial aspects, I have a 5-question
sequence that myself and my students use to do this effortlessly inside our CMB (Copy Millions
Blueprint) Implementation Program.
They’re extremely devious, and lethally effective. But they’re outside the scope of this cheat sheet.
Hear me out.
There’s something so pure and disarming about the way young adult women text each other (not that
I would know 🌝)
Charlie Munger, business partner and advisor to Warren Buffet, always talks about using inversion to
solve problems. “Because avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance.”
So before I explain what the hell I’m talking about, let’s consider the opposite.
shamelessly pitched me? No, wanker, you didn’t. how much this dude cares about his
students.”
5. Go pester someone else. *delete request*
Talk about starting from a difficult position… you’ve lost the battle before it’s even begun.
Long formal message = sales pitch = automatic gut response: “piss off, I’m not interested.”
You see the message, and instantly your guard goes up. You’re cold, skeptical and closed off.
And your chances of buying? (or even responding for that matter)
And that’s no bueno if you’re trying to land clients in the DM, my dude.
And besides, we know that we shouldn’t be trying to pitch people off the bat anyway.
We haven’t auditioned them yet, how do we know if they’re a good fit or not? How do we know if they
even want what we’re selling? We don’t. And that’s another problem.
You’ve seen it before: The onslaught of carelessly executed one-liners that assault your screen in rapid
succession – turning your iPhone into an industrial Swedish vibrator.
Hey girlfriend
what’s up
wyd tonite
Let’s grab drinks 😘
So hungry rn fml
last night soooo good tho
Dj on point
so many creepy old dudes hitting on me :((
👌 x
missed u there Two of my first ever mentors: Jason Capital and
feel like shit today tho omg Dan Lok. They helped me go from 0 to $10k/mo in
head feels like its been hit by a bus 30 days when I was first starting out. Very smart
chipotle at 6? businessmen and very generous human beings
Totally spontaneous and unplanned. And that’s exactly how we want it to seem.
Take a look at the following 2 dialogues. The words are almost identical but pay attention to the
formatting - there’s a huge difference in the way they come across.
Ignore the fact that you might be wondering “How the hell did I get Elon Musk’s number?” Imagine
you’re Elon and this is a cold DM you got from a stranger in a public domain, like Instagram or facebook.
• Big block of text is intimidating and • Messages are little bite size chunks
physically difficult to read making it much easier to read & digest
• Looks like it was copy-pasted and • Was clearly written personally for
sent to a lot of people them and could not have been copy-
• Gut reaction is it looks like a sales pasted easily
pitch, or like there’s some ulterior • Looks completely spontaneous and
motive behind the message unplanned - no ulterior motive
• Language is stiff and formal (who • Language is more casual and informal
speaks formally to each other? That’s (who speaks informally to each other?
right – strangers!) That’s right – friends!)
You slide up in their DMs like Severus Snape and sneak right
past the “bullshit” guard at the front of their brain – allowing
your message to actually get through.
Even if you don’t agree with my points above and think that one
big block of text is less intimidating than many small blocks of
text – the truth is, it doesn’t matter what you think.
“Sean, is this some type of crude April Fools joke? Are you seriously my full-time job behind. Today I
received an email from my
telling me to use lower case, emojis, and text speak to close high-
accountant. From Dec 2020 to Dec
ticket copywriting deals? This is serious business here 😤”
2021, my business made a grand
Yes, I am. total of $132,000! I never dreamt
of or planned to make these figures
In a world rife with automation, chatbots, and canned sales
and I would never have made it
scripts, you stick out like a slab of ribeye at a vegan convention.
without the GOAT Sean Ferres and
A slab of ribeye that’s real, raw and above all - authentic.
all the other MVP’s in here ❤”
People buy from people. Specifically, people that they know like
and trust. And that’s only going to become more and more important as technology continues to
play an increasingly larger role in our lives.
Typing in lowercase, with casual language, signals familiarity – a “we know each other so we don’t
need to be formal” type of vibe. It comes across as honest and unedited. The general vibe is more
relaxed, and the stakes feel lower.
If formal, professional language worked the best, then every Buttcoin MLM forex fuckboy on
LinkedIn would be a billionaire by now.
I am writing to you this day to inform you of a grand opportunity of which you might not yet be aware.
We’re currently helping doctors, lawyers, brain surgeons and other high-performing professionals replace
their current income and quit their jobs at lightning pace.
Our Direct Response Marketing has garnered a lot of attention in the marketplace and I think it’s something
that your organization might see immense value in.
Perhaps we could schedule a time for a call to discuss this further? This is a very lucrative opportunity I
assure you won’t want to miss out on!
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Warm Regards,
Mike Litoris
Note that I am NOT saying to use incorrect spelling and grammar. I’m saying to use casual, informal
language. Misspelling words will make you look like an illiterate clown which isn’t going to help anyone.
Now, another question I typically get at this point is: “Sean you’re right – the 2nd version looks
spontaneous, under the radar, and not at all copy-pasted, but that’s the problem – I can’t copy-paste
and send it to tonnes of people. I don’t want to type it out manually every time.”
Setup Instagram quick replies or keyboard shortcuts in your phone settings. Yes, it will take 10 seconds
longer to send the full message, but I assure you it’s worth it.
We’re going after high-ticket clients here, not selling a $7 eBook. Every prospect counts.
And yes, you should absolutely keep that format of texting up throughout the rest of the interaction.
So that’s principle number tres. Now, enough foreplay. Onto the actual message.
Here.
We.
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Putting the above three principles together in combination with some CMB magic fairy dust, we get:
FIRSTNAME!
it’s YOURNAME
We haven’t met yet but I’ve heard lots of good things about you from <PERSON B> & some others
This is kinda random so please lemme know if this isn’t a priority for you rn
But I’m a copywriter, have worked with <Client(s)> and made them <x results> in <timeframe>
I noticed you’re promoting <X> right now and from what I’ve heard, it’s really solid!
This may be a little forward of me lol but I actually went ahead and wrote you 3 emails that you can send out
to help sell it
I don’t want a single dollar for them, all I ask for is a quick testimonial after you send them out so I can use you
as a case study (that’s my ‘selfish’ motive hehe)
What’s ur best email to send them to?
A couple ideas on how you can optimize your ads and funnels to
boost AoV on your <X> offer*
Because obviously the emails are only one piece of the puzzle
Swamped with client work rn but have availability Thurs and Fri finally finding your lighthouse when
you were a lost ship sailing in
Not a sales call haha, leave your wallet at home
uncharted waters. If you asked me
‘Clint, where would you be without
SOME NOTES: meeting Sean?’ I literally would
1) You don’t wanna spend time writing people emails for free, I have no idea. His ability to pinpoint
get it. The reality is, you’re a professional (or at least you wanna the exact things that are going
be) – you should have templates for your emails. And if you wrong in a given situation and
don’t, then congrats! Now is the perfect time to make some. immediately point you in the right
direction is so impeccable, it’s
The good news is, you can always wait until after you get an crazy. Plus, USD $120,000 a year in
interested response to actually go and write the samples. And if the Philippines? I’m basically a
that’s still too hard, then go get a job at subway or something. millionaire out here haha. My bank
froze my account last week
2) I didn’t anticipate how popular the first version of this cheat because they thought I was running
sheet would become in the entrepreneurial community, to the a drug cartel or something!!”
point where people using this script are getting replies like
*If it’s a high-ticket funnel, then obviously say
”Sean Ferres taught you well.” (lol) So please, tweak the
“calls booked” or “conversations started” instead
message and the language to match your own personality.
of AoV. Go through their funnel first!
We haven’t met yet but I’ve heard lots of good things about you
from <PERSON B> & some others >>>> in group bias + flattery
testimonial after you send them out so I can use you as a case graduating the course! If you have
the opportunity to join Sean
study (that’s my ‘selfish’ motive hehe) >>>> imagine that!
Ferres’s CMB case study program
Someone who DM’d you and isn’t trying to sell you something in
and you don’t take it, you’re
the opening message 🤯 Also, people don’t value free, and are
fucking crazy - I’ll just say it.”
actually more likely to say yes when there is a small exchange
involved. Plus, you get a testimonial out of it which is always nice.
Btw I have a plan I’d like to run by you if you’re up for it >>>> segueing into booking a call
A couple ideas on how you can optimize your ads and funnels to boost AoV on your <X> offer >>>>
demonstrating that you have a greater understanding of digital marketing strategy than simply emails
Because obviously the emails are only one piece of the puzzle >>>> something many email copywriters forget
If you’re onboard with my suggestions then of course we can consider working together in the future >>>>
addressing the giant, flashing pink elephant in the room, AKA your real motives for messaging them
(absolutely zero pressure to make this happen) >>>> taking the pressure away. Shows you have options
Would you be open to hopping on a quick 9-minute chat later this week? You’ve helped me a tonne & I’d
love to return the favour >>>> 9 minute chat, not 5 or 10 minutes. It sounds fun and unique, and you’re
showing up like no one else. Blatant reciprocity-flattery knockout combo at the end
Swamped with client work rn but have availability Thurs and Fri >>>> shows you’re in demand and actually
have clients and a life. People want to eat at the restaurant that’s full, not the one that’s empty
Not a sales call haha, leave your wallet at home >>>> handling your prospect’s final objection
ALTERNATIVE: If you have absolutely no one in common to namedrop, you can consider using my student
James’s version, and go straight for the call (not as strong, but gets the job done).
Hey NAME! you can keep them to use and re-use forever
I’ve been seeing your ads everywhere so I can tell
The reason I’m being selfish is that I’d love to use
you’re succeeding with them
you as a case study
I’ll be honest, I’m messaging you for selfish reasons
If you’re happy with my work we can consider
I’m looking for a new client as an <insert niche> working together in the future
copywriter
(no pressure to make this happen)
If you’re interested, I’d love to work directly with
Would you be open to hopping on a quick 9-
you for 7 days for near-free
minute call?
I can write high-converting & loyalty-building
hope to hear from you soon
emails for your list
(Pro tip: it’s even better if you do this via video DM instead of text to be even more personal).
Now of course, the question is: if you’re not going to close them on the call, how do you close them as a
client?
In this instance where you haven’t qualified them over DM, we would use a 2-call model.
Qualify on the 9-minute call, and if you feel like they’re a potential fit then set up a second call and close
them on that one.
If you feel like they’re not a good fit, then let them know and offer to intro them to someone who might
be able to help. Then pawn them off to one of your competitors, because Sean Ferres and his tribe ain’t
got time for no 3 star prospects 💅
Use this to effortlessly close high-paying copywriting clients in any niche for the rest of your life.
If you have any questions (or just want to thank me after landing your next client using this cheatsheet
– shameless flattery is always welcome), don’t hesitate to reach out to me on Instagram @seanferres.
Additionally, there’s only so much I can cover in this short guide. This process of course assumes
you’re fully knowledgeable on the best places to find high quality prospects, how to audition those
prospects to weed out the tyrekickers quickly, and how to close those prospects on the phone for
high-ticket monthly retainer/ commission packages.
Now, at this point, you’re probably expecting me to try and book you onto a “strategy session” and
then shove some half-baked high ticket offer down your throat… I hate to break it to you, but I’m a
little different from the other coaches & “gurus” out there.
I have, however, just spent the last week putting together a private masterclass, exclusively for
readers of this report. It’s a 46-minute crash course on how to land your next 3-5 high paying clients
and crack the $100k/yr mark in the next 100 days.
It’s the perfect companion to this cheatsheet, and a really badass training if I say so myself 😏
To watch it, go to >> h"ps://free.seanferres.com/masterclass
And of course, after you sign your next client using the intel in the class, let me know! I’d love to hear
about how my work has helped you crush it as a full-time freelancer.
Sean Ferres
The Client Acquisition Coach for Copywriters