Dear Future Successful Design Business Owner
From: The laptop of Patrick O'Connell
Re: Selling Design Expertise Online Successfully (and why this is your only way out)
Would it surprise you to learn, that I quit my 9-5 design day job of doom and built a $800,000 per year business using the information revealed in this book?
Skeptical?
You should be.
After all, you can’t believe everything you read on the internet :-)
so let me prove it to you
But first, read this disclaimer:
And I Did It By Using A Completely Counterintuitive Model That I’m About To Share With You On This Very Page…
The same model that Designers from all over the world are now using to book qualified appointments and charge what they're worth…
...And turn their passion into a profitable business faster than ever before...
...All while freeing up their time so they can focus on WHAT THEY WANT & PICKING CLIENTS THAT THEY WANT...
...And best of all, building an audience of life long customers and fans who they can nurture into projects and revenue in the future.
And even though getting his two year revenue goal in a few months is incredible, that's not the best part...
The best part is that he had the confidence to quit his full-time job.
That's right, he had the confidence and predictability in his business to turn down a 6 figure income and do things on his own terms.
And Varun isn’t the only one either…
This Is Teagan, Another Private Student, Who Downloaded The Never Sell Design Book Not Too Long Ago…
...And soon as she hit $97,000 in November alone...
Here’s a post she posted in our private FB Community (which you will have access to once you download the book)...
Here’s another Never Sell Design book owner who started using these strategies…
Meet Cam Who Generated $90,000 in design expertise revenue and getting a 10x return on his google ads
And you can BET...
This Never Sell Design model is unlike any method you heard of before…
…This is something completely different, because…
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We don’t focus on building follower numbers or likes on social media (but this happens as a byproduct of executing).
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We don’t focus on constant creation of social media content.
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We don’t focus on trying to win industry awards.
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We don’t focus on constantly curating our portfolio.
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We don’t focus on coming up with great comebacks to people objecting about the price of our fees.
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We don't focus on efforts trying to convince people of the value in our skills and expertise.
In fact: we rarely (if ever) do we even need to speak to prospects or customers unless we really want to.
This is something completely different and it has the power to change everything for you…
…and I know that’s true…
Because it changed everything for me.
The Never Sell Design model allowed me to get rid of 99% of all the BS that I hated when it comes to profitably selling my design expertise…
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Like sounding desperate when I made a post on social media.
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Like feeling embarrassed to tell people that I'm a designer business owner because it wasn't actually making that much income.
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Like spending hours putting together a 30 page proposal because "that's what everybody else is doing".
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Like having to grovel for my fees because my prospects didn't understand my process or value.
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Like not wanting to dance like an idiot on TikTok.
The Never Sell Design Model Freed Me From All That and It Allowed Me To Create $800,000 A year design expertise selling machine
Here’s what my life used to look like (and If you’ve tried grow your design business online, then I’m sure you can relate)…
I call this the “Designer Cycle Of Doom”:
Step 1 - Make a branding adjustment to your website.
Step 2 - "Re-launch" on social media with one or two posts.
Step 3 - Wait for somebody to contact you and book a call.
Step 4 - Continue waiting... and waiting.... nothing happens.
Step 5 - Turn to the internet to try find other ways to get leads.
Step 6 - Get overwhelmed and confused.
Step 8 - Start over once you adjust the website again.
The Designer Cycle Of Doom not only sucked, but kept me stuck for 8 years - forcing me to spin my wheels waiting thousands of early mornings and late nights making peanuts whilst working my ass off.
To be honest…
...I actually gave up on this whole idea of building my own design business...
... But just before I gave up for the last time..
I decided to try something.
Something that - if it worked.
It would change everything.
And as you're about to find out, what I tried...
... It worked...
And I spent years turning it into a system...
And I Put This Entire System In A 175 Page book Called “Never Sell Design” And You Can Start Reading It In Just A Few Moments From Now…
But before you do.
I’d like to introduce myself and tell you about how all this came to be.
My name’s Patrick O'Connell...
You probably haven’t heard that name before. That’s by design.
My life’s pretty good…I don't have to work a job I hate anymore.
I make $10,000s each week from the expertise that helps only my best clients get great outcomes.
I get to take time off when I want.
I can travel the world with my beautiful wife and 2 kids at the drop of a hat (even during covid).
I have freedom to do what I want, when I want.
I'm what they call a 'Creative Nomad'.
Here are some of my favourite moments since figuring things out...
As We Get To Know Each Other… You’ll Quickly Realise That I’m The Luckiest Person On Earth - So Let’s Talk About Where I Was In January 2017
I ended up with A demotivating 9-5 design role And I Hated It…
Stopping To Sell design and starting to sell the outcome that Your Skills & expertise can contribute towards, Is The Most Legitimate And Easy-to-Follow Way to build a profitable business model
Or do they want to pay you to help them get somewhere? Yes that’s probably it.
Will they pay more if they can see how you help beyond design? Yes they will.
How are you sure? Because your best clients already do.
Why are they your best clients? Because they see the value in your advice as much as your skills.
The minute I realised this, building a business that sold my expertise instead of my time was the perfect thing for me...
And the best part that attracted me to doing it this way?
You Don't Even Have To Meet Customers Face To Face
Which means you can sell your design expertise to anyone, in any part of the world if you want, opening you up to a global market place...
All you have to do is focus on what advice you you combing with your skills to get the best transformation for your best clients.
And that was the birth of
my Profitable Design Business
After doing a bit of research - I started to pull apart my best ever clients.
I had no idea how to make it work like these guys in this forum did.
All I knew how to do was post my work on social media.
Here's what my marketing efforts looked like
I had passion for what I was doing.
But I just couldn't get the eyes on my design expertise, never-mind sell it.
I was still asking friends and family if they knew anyone they could refer. It was getting embarrassing.
Looking back, those first few years were brutal.
Late nights.
Hard work.
Stress.
Confusion.
I was doing what I thought I had to do, what the creative industry and the internet told me. But it wasn't working.
I was actually spending more time on social media than working on delivering projects.
I didn't want this to be a hobby, I wanted it to be a career and I wanted it to pay me.
That was my life and I was ready to quit and move onto another path.
But thankfully, I didn't...
That was more than 6 years ago, And fast forward to today and it almost seems like a bad dream
I proved the idea of “following the traditional designer path” to be all wrong…
Instead of confusingly trying to find people to speak to...
I'm getting email notifications like these, all day, every day.
Automatically.
[My email inbox once I had my offer up and doing Linked-in outreach and Google ads]
I have my dream design business, bringing in qualified prospects automatically. They then sit nicely in my email list allowing me to reach out to them again and again.
Unlike most other designers who struggle to get their information in front of people, never mind sell it.
You see, they end up spending more time worrying about filling their instagram grid, posting engaging content, liking, commenting and following people.
Why? To try and get the algorithm to work for them.
All this, in hope that their business will be shown to more people and they'll book the call they've been waiting for.
I did this for years, and it not only drove me crazy…
It drove me to the point where I was neglecting the very reason I wanted to start this... Designing cool projects and creating happy clients.
The reality is, most designer nowadays are spending more time creating content for social media than creating their actual work.
And even when they are creating their work, they're not fully present in the moment that is supposed to bring the joy. They're thinking about how best to present it in a reel or on Instagram.
Wanna Know What The Main Difference Is With The Never sell design Model And That “Old Way” Of Doing Things?
OTHERS CHASE DESIGN SALES, DESIGN SALES COME TO US AUTOMATICALLY
Rather than doing all those things I mentioned above in order to get a paying clients for your design expertise, here’s what it looks like now...
And The Result Of Using This New Way?
[My email inbox once I had my offer up and doing Linked-in outreach and Google ads]
Which Naturally Leads To...
Me getting qualified people booking appointments.
And the best part is that these people are coming to me already sold on how I can help them.
So my sales process is mostly done and I can easily turn a majority of these people into project clients.
The really cool thing is that…
If you follow every single step that I teach, you end up with a real working design business...
But it’s much more than that..
How many tactics and flash-in-the-pan have you seen come and go through the years in the design space?
People telling you to build out a dribble portfolio...
Or people telling you to post your work into design blogs to get published and build exposure...
Or people recommending you go on Clubhouse and start creating audio content so they can see your value...
The #1 Mistake Everyone Designer Makes is Assuming That Talking about "design" is the best format for communicating your value to clients
Here’s why:
There are two types of designers out there.
There are the "Self Focused Designers" and there are "Audience Focused Designers".
For my first 8 years of my freelance side-hustle - I was a Self Focused Designer
Self Focused Designers are out there thinking what they they want to look like and that what they create should sell itself.
They think that they can design what they want and people will just reach out and buy from them.
They think that just by designing something, their work is done.
So they talk about design and their process.
They think that by posting to social media about "design", that their "business work" for the day is done.
Their strategy is to put their love for their craft first.
And by focusing on this strategy - they spend a ton of time on..
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Curating their portfolio to show how good they are at design
- Looking for the "magic wand" easy solution on Google and Youtube for solving their design sales.
All of this requires time and energy.
The problem isn't the model itself, it's misalignment of focus when it comes to what people are actually wanting to invest in.
And this is the same exact thing that happened to me before I figured out the Never Sell Design model.
Create a secondary branch to your business, and create an offer with a specific high value niche in mind
That's right...
I said it, we create an offer for others, not ourselves...
...Because I rather get paid to help people get towards their goals and have it as my career instead of designing but not getting paid enough to leave a 9-5 I hate.
No thanks. I did that before and it sucks.
And believe it or not, even when creating an offer with others in mind, you can still keep your design integrity the same but now you will have far more opportunities to use your skillset.
It's because people now understand your value.
So here's the deal...
...I explain everything in Never Sell Design, it's a 175 page book that shows you everything you need to know.
So here's the $800,000 Per Year idea behind the never sell design Model
And that's where the Never Sell Design model comes in...
It does this beautifully in four easy steps...
And you know what? I'll Stake My Entire Reputation On This One Promise
You can build a hyper profitable design business just by focusing on giving your best clients what they really want.
And Just A Few Years Ago… i’d Tell You That You’re Crazy If You’d Ever Believe Such Model Existed…
If I Can Do This, So Can You!
Because over 400 others are doing it too right now within our private Facebook Community...
Here are some recent posts:
and here's another reason
you too can do this
It took me over 6 years to "figure this out"...
...and another gruelling 24 months to perfect it.
Which is safe to say that there isn't anything left for you to figure out.
I already did all of the hard work for you.
I figured it all out.
Which means...there’s nothing for you to “figure out”.
You just need to download this book and most important of all - implement it!
That’s it…
Here’s The exact seven Step System Revealed in the Never sell design Book For selling your design expertise like clockwork
Step 1 - Building Your Core Offer - (I'm going to give you my personal method for picking a design niche that you can get the attention of and will automatically see the value in your expertise)
Step 2 - Building Your Product Suite - (I'll help your build a range of products (starting with a $10 eBook all the way through to your high ticket offers) that will allow people at every level to become a customer and "Ascend" up your value ladder)
Step 3 - Building Your $10 eBook - (I'll help your very own marketing asset that will not only provide people with the information they need to see the real value in your design skills + expertise, but now create an audience of highly qualified customers we can nurture)
Step 4 - Building Your Funnel - (I'll show you how to build every step of the funnel you will need to turn your traffic and the people you connect to into customer sales and qualified calls)
Step 5 - Getting Your First eBook Sales - (I'll show you how to strategy to build a big initial audience for your eBook launch, the 7 day launch sequence to get your first eBook sales and then what do do on an ongoing basis to keep the sales and qualified leads coming in)
Step 7 - Turning Paid Consults Into Projects - (I'll show you the "current situation to desired situation" process to turn your all of your paid consults into profitable high, medium and low design client engagements)
Those are the seven steps to total design business freedom.
All of this is revealed in the 175 page Never Sell Design ebook in step-by-step detail.
Making it a counterintuitive approach to selling your design expertise for the person that seeks freedom in what they design and who they choose to design for.
And that's not all, because...
here's what else you're going to discover in "Never sell design"
How To Build An "Ascension Ladder" That Sells The Value For You (so you're Prospects Book Calls Ready To Buy From You)
How Offering Services Prevents You From Ever Being Profitable (and What to do instead To Create Great Profit Margins)
How Talking About & Selling "Design" Is Killing Your Business (So That You Can Change The Conversation To What Your Best Clients Really Want To Talk About and invest in)
The little known loophole/trick to Multiplying your value (so that you can start charging more for your expertise)
The Secret behind every hyper-profitable company on the planet (and how you can start to apply the same principles)
How "Who" you are talking to dictates your business success (So That You Can pick a niche that allows everything to work in your businesses favour)
Why 99% of designers can't turn strangers into clients (So That You Can change the way you think about how to win)
the most important question you have to answer in your design business (So That you can develop a strong answer and take your marketing to another level)
The Secret behind why i and my 11 7-figure students dominate our market (and how to think about your business to operate at a 7-figure level)
How We 10x the quality of our design business leads (So That You spend less time on fewer people that are more likely to turn into ideal projects)
How To Automate Your Marketing So It Runs By Itself (So That You can focus more time on your existing projects and getting clients better results)
How To avoid the dreaded content hamster wheel (So That You don't feel like a slave to social media)
the complete & detailed 7-step never sell design formula (so that you can leverage the system 400 designers are using to take their design business to the next level)
All Explained On Page 105
How to position your business for long-term success (So That everyone you speak to Automatically is hyper-qualified)
All Explained On Page 106
the secret to better monetising your existing lead flow (So That you can offer something valuable to everyone you speak to and not just the "cream of the crop")
All Explained On Page 122
All Explained On Page 129
how to build the entire funnel that turns traffic into high value design projects (So That you can create your own machine)
All Explained On Page 132
how to turn traffic into customers who automatically see your real value (So That you never have to convince prospects ever again)
All Explained On Page 139
The secret to becoming an authority in your market (So That people look up to you as the leader in your space)
All Explained On Page 143
The Step-By-Step Process To turn dM conversations into paid consults (So That you can turn any engagement online into a hyper-qualified sale call)
All Explained On Page 146
How to close paid consults into profitable client projects (So That you can work with clients and projects that push your business forwards and not towards extinction)
All Explained On Page 150
The 7 Day Fast Start Video Series
A quick course focused on getting you started quickly and how to think about the whole process.
And Before You Download The never sell design Book…I Want You To Know That There's No Catch!
I realise this is very inexpensive and that I’m practically giving it away…
And you’re probably wondering:
“If you’re doing so well with this, why would you give it away for next to nothing?”…
So there has to be a “catch”…
And I know there are some websites out there that offer you a great deal on something but then they stick you in some program that charges your card every month.
This isn't one of them.
There's NO hidden "continuity program" you have to try or anything even remotely like that.
I'm literally giving you this entire book, for US$3.00, as a means of "putting my best foot forward" and demonstrating real value.
My hope is that you'll love it and this will be the start of a good business relationship for years to come.
But with all that said, there is ONE thing to keep in mind:
The truth is...
I was planning on selling this book for $47, but that meant I had to print copies of it, store them and ship them.
Which would eat up profits and also make it much more difficult to help more people.
Then I sold the Never Sell Design book for $47 and people downloaded it at that price....
...Which was was great, but then I realised hey - this is an eBook it doesn't cost me anything to sell other than a few bucks to advertise it.
By lowering the price to $3.00 it allows me to impact more people and help them Build A Long Lasting And Thriving design Business
I consider that at true win/win...
Also in most cases, I take a loss when selling the book at this price.
It costs me just over $25.00 in advertising expense to sell one book.
So why would I do that?
Simple. I'm making this offer with the idea that you'll be very impressed with what I'm giving you today, and you'll want to do more business with me in the future.
I'm betting that you'll enjoy the book so much, you'll call and ask to take additional classes or trainings from me.
Pretty straightforward.
Anyway - with all of that said, this is a limited offer.
You're Also Getting the profitable market niches spreadsheet
[Value $99]
This spreadsheet will help you choose your best market to enter. It contains the principals to select profitable niches to get your ideas flowing. Simply pick the one that auto highlights.
And there's no charge for it. I want you to have this as my gift for checking out the book.
Plus I’m also including these amazing bonuses valued at $326
- Economics Calculator - Helps you figure out your business math with 90% accuracy before you even start. This will tell you if your business is positioned to win long-term. [Value $49]
- Ultimate Ad Post Template - Copy our best ad/post template our students use to generate customers for their design business and save yourself the trouble of finding something that works. [Value $49]
- Private Facebook Community Access - Here you’ll find help, support, and inspiration from thousands of other designers looking to become more profitable.. [Value $199/year]
- Launch Checklist - Ensure you don’t miss any crucial tasks from this 21-step launch checklist and you won’t be leaving money on the table... [Value $29]
Oh. And in case you're wondering ...
Yes.
Of course there's a money-back guarantee.
In fact, I think it's ...
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I know that before I get into anything…
I’d like to know what I’m buying and that a solid money-back guarantee backs it.
And I want you to be comfortable with this buy.
And even though it’s only $3.00
Like my grandpa said, “Test drive the car before you drive it off the lot”…
So here’s what I’ve arranged:
Download the eBook, read it out, but more importantly apply what you learn.
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