Synopsis
Transforming Your Business Isn't About Doing A Million Different Things. It's About Finding ONE BIG THING And Then Leveraging That.Frank Kern has been advising entrepreneurs like you all day, every day, to do just that since 1999.This is his podcast.
Episodes
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The Episode About Math? (Klassic Kern)
10/02/2026 Duration: 15minWhy You're Actually in the Math Business Frank breaks down a hard truth that most entrepreneurs avoid because it isn't "sexy": Business is a math game. Whether you are selling vitamins, courses, or cars, success comes down to understanding the multiplication of capital through the leverage of assets. Frank shares a cautionary tale of a marketing funnel that looked good on paper but failed the "math test," and explains why your focus should be on acquisition costs rather than just "pretty" sales letters. Key Takeaways 1. The "Sexy" vs. "Unsexy" Side of Business The Asset Leverage: Business is ultimately about multiplying capital by leveraging assets like ad copy, web pages, and sales systems. The Math Blind Spot: Entrepreneurs often obsess over the creative (sales letters, offers) but ignore the underlying math that determines if a business is even viable. 2. Case Study: The $500 Course Trap Frank discusses a client's plan to use direct mail to drive traffic to an online funnel: The Cost: Sending a 4-
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Your Decision Making Process (Klassic Kern)
06/02/2026 Duration: 21minMaking decisions is perhaps the most important skill an entrepreneur can possess. To move from a vague idea to a structured project, Frank Kern uses a specific "Decision-Making Worksheet" to ensure every move aligns with long-term success. Phase 1: The Big Picture Before looking at the decision itself, you must ground yourself in your ultimate destination. Clarify Your 20-Year Goal: Define exactly where you want to be two decades from now. For Frank, this is building a sustainable $100M company with a minimum 35% profit margin. Define Your Purpose: Identify the "why" behind your business. Frank's purpose is to have a measurably positive impact on the global economy by changing how consumers view marketers. Identify the Decision at Hand: State clearly what you are considering. (Example: Launching a flagship program to cold media via a webinar funnel). The "Alignment" Gut Check: Ask yourself: Will this move me significantly closer to my 20-year goal? If the answer is no, stop there. Phase 2: Success C
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How I Replaced Myself With AI. (Not For Beginners)
03/02/2026 Duration: 27minI literally replaced myself with AI, and by that, I mean AI took over my actual job. I've been a professional online direct response marketing copywriter and consultant for the past 26 years, and I handed over all of my marketing to AI. In this video, I show you exactly how I used my new "Chief Revenue Officer" (an AI agent inside oJoy.ai) to take over my entire marketing department. I gave it my 26 years of experience, and then I stepped out of the way. Warning: This is NOT for beginners looking for a "magic button." This strategy only works if you have a real business with actual customers. Chapters: 00:00 - The Replacement: How I fired myself 01:45 - The Audit: What a Marketing Team actually does 05:15 - The "Chief Revenue Officer" Agent 08:45 - The Input: Giving AI my 26 years of data 14:00 - The Campaign: Filtering out the "Lazy People" 17:21 - The Results: 62 Trials from a "failed" experiment 23:00 - The Upsell: How AI found "Free Money" in my funnel
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Your Self Milking Cow (The One With Dean Jackson)
30/01/2026 Duration: 49minA deep dive between host Frank Kern and marketing strategist Dean Jackson. They discuss the psychological and operational shifts required to scale a business from seven figures to the next level by focusing on "Who" rather than "How" The Core Philosophy: "How" vs. "Who" When entrepreneurs look to reach their next million, they often hit a "ceiling of complexity". The "How" Path: This involves the entrepreneur trying to learn and execute every new task themselves (e.g., learning Facebook ads, writing copy, building funnels). Jackson describes this as writing a "blank check" with your time—a non-replenishable resource. The "Who" Path: This involves finding a person who already knows "how" to do the task. By hiring the right "Who," the entrepreneur pays with money—a replenishable and multipliable resource—to protect their time. The "Self-Milking Cow" Analogy Jackson introduces the concept of the Self-Milking Cow to illustrate the entrepreneur's true value: The Cow's Role: In a dairy operation, the cow's
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Stop posting Educational Content. (Do this instead)
27/01/2026 Duration: 10minEveryone says you need to post "Educational Content" to grow B2B sales. And technically, the data agrees (94% of marketers use it). But if you're reading this, you know the truth. It isn't working for you. The problem isn't the volume of content you post. It's the mechanism. Educational content "teaches"—but it doesn't necessarily "sell." The method that actually built my company to nearly $1M/year—without running real ads—is simple: Demonstration. So today, I'm going to show you how to stop "teaching" and start "showing." We are going to build a high-converting, demonstration-based content asset... without writing a single word from scratch. IN THIS EPISODE: We analyze why "How-To" posts are failing and break down the "Demonstration" logic that drives Ojoy.ai. We then use Project Shepherd to write a script using the famous "South Park Rule" (But... Therefore...) and instantly turn that script into a social carousel. Anyway, here is how we will use AI to stop educating and start demonstrating: Step 1: The "Ed
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Your Best Process (Klassic Kern)
23/01/2026 Duration: 15minIdentifying your Best Process—the most effective and predictable method for converting leads into customers. The 5-Point Scoring System To find your best sales process, list every method you have used to sell products and rate them from 1 to 5 based on these criteria: Net Profit: How much actual profit remains after paying affiliates, refunds, and expenses? Ease of Entry: How easy is it to get a prospect to say "yes" to starting the process? Goodwill: Does the process provide value and make people like you more, even if they don't buy? Sustainability: Can the process be automated, replicated, or performed consistently without burning out? Energizing: Does the process give you energy to perform, or does it drain you? Key Principles The One Big Thing: Success comes from finding one big process and leveraging it, rather than doing a million different things. Goodwill Equals Revenue: Your total revenue is in direct proportion to the amount of goodwill you have created with your prospects. Value
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Stop Posting Content. AI Cloned The '6,300% ROI' Story Angle In 4 Minutes
20/01/2026 Duration: 17minEveryone thinks AI-generated social media content sucks. And usually, they're right. But not for the reason you think. The problem isn't the AI. It's that people use it to talk about themselves (or random generic topics). But the data proves that Stories—specifically stories about other people—are the highest converting asset you can own. So today, I'm going to show you how to create 7 days of high-value, story-driven content... in 7 minutes. And we're going to do it without making anything up or sounding like lame AI. IN THIS VIDEO: We look at the "Significant Objects" experiment (where a $1.49 object sold for $197.50 just by adding a story) and then use Ojoy to replicate that effect for your business. We also find two completely different pieces of content (one about a Universe Guru and one about Copywriting) and we use oJoy to turn them into stories. Anyway, here is how we will use AI to find the stories... and turn them into authority content: Step 1: The "Significant Objects" Logic. We review the data (M
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Your Best Bait (Klassic Kern)
16/01/2026 Duration: 23minThe concept of "Your Best Bait," the essential marketing material used to attract and magnetically draw in your Best Buyer. Following the two episodes on identifying your Best Payday and Best Buyer, Frank explains how to leverage these insights to create high-value content that generates leads and builds trust before any transaction occurs. The episode focuses on the core philosophy: "You can't catch whales with minnow bait." If you want premium customers, your marketing must offer value that matches their specific needs and challenges. Key Highlights The Power of Magnetic Marketing: Why your current leads might not be the right fit and how to shift your marketing to attract your ideal customer. Defining "Bait": It is not a nefarious tactic but rather free education and information that helps your Best Buyer achieve significant results in advance. The Strategy of Value: The more you move a prospect toward their desired result before asking for money, the easier it becomes to acquire them as a customer. Real-W
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This AI Exponentially Increases Revenue (No Extra Ad Spend)
13/01/2026 Duration: 22minAI can now identify exactly where your business is losing money. Watch the new AI called "Director of Sales" exponentially grow revenue—without spending a penny more on ads—by systematically finding and fixing bottlenecks in the sales process. In this video, we demonstrate the mathematics of the Sales Process. This is a look at how AI can isolate specific "break points" in your funnel (like a low opt-in rate or missing follow-up) that act as a cap on your income. This is different than just asking ChatGPT for marketing ideas. Most AI guesses based on patterns. This AI analyzes your specific numbers (Traffic, Conversion, LTV) to find the "Lowest Hanging Fruit" that will yield the highest return. You will see the AI audit a sales process, find the part that's leaking money, and then create and help implement a plan that fixes it.
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Now AI Creates A Custom Sales Plan (And Implements It)
09/01/2026 Duration: 28minIf you feel stuck in your business and you just wish someone would tell you exactly what to do next, or even better yet do it for you, this video is exactly what you need. Here's why: I challenged AI to create a custom sales plan to generate $35,000 in 14 days and then implement the plan for me. This video shows you exactly what happened. I'm making this for you because research shows that most business owners are stuck. They want their businesses to do better, and they know something's not right. Maybe it's not enough traffic, maybe their conversions are off. Maybe it's something wrong with their email. Who knows? So they end up feeling stuck, overwhelmed, and they do nothing. Some turn to expensive consultants. Some use fractional CMOs. A lot of those people give really good advice, but now the business owner still has to implement it. And sometimes they don't know how to implement it. Or they don't have time to implement it. Or they don't have the budget to hire someone to implement it. That's why, in this
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Your Best Buyer (Klassic Kern)
06/01/2026 Duration: 20minBehold - the critical process of identifying your **Best Buyer**. Finding the right customer is more about their specific characteristics and mindsets than just the product itself. Narrow your focus to the clients who will provide the highest return with the least friction. Key Concepts & Definitions Your Best Payday: The specific activity or deliverable you provide that scores highest (on a scale of 1–5) across five criteria: high net profit, energizing to perform, easy to sell, easy to fulfill, and sustainable. Your Best Price: Also referred to as the "perfect price," this is the amount you *want* to be paid for your service, assuming your best buyer is comfortable paying it. The "Pay After Results" Challenge: A mental exercise where you determine what traits a client must have for you to agree to be paid only after they see results. Profile of a Best Buyer Frank Kern uses his own "Private Client Group" as an example to illustrate the three types of criteria needed to identify a top-tier customer: 1. Re
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This AI Replaced My Marketing Team. (Live Demo)
02/01/2026 Duration: 34minAI can now think like a seasoned marketing consultant. Watch the new AI called "Director of Sales" analyze my entire business to find the one singular move that generates maximum revenue immediately. [Context Block] In this video, we demonstrate Autonomous Strategic Reasoning. This is a fancy way of saying we get to see how AI literally analyzes a current business and thinks strategically just like a seasoned direct response consultant. This is much different than what you see with most AI out there. Most AI will just use generic pattern recognition to give you a bunch of ideas that "match" what it thinks you're looking for. The new Director of Sales AI from oJoy.ai analyzes your specific objective, constraints, and marketing assets (list size, offer, timeframe) to find the one singular action that will move the needle the most. You will see it audit a live business, ignore the low-value distractions, and prescribe a tailored campaign to generate maximum sales in the next 7 days. And then you will see it actu
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Finding Your Best Payday (Klassic Kern)
30/12/2025 Duration: 28minAre you doing "all the stuff" in your business—selling dozens of offers, managing endless promotions, and feeling like you're on a constant hamster wheel? It's time to stop doing a million different things and start leveraging one big thing. In this replay of the debut episode, Frank Kern shares a personal breakthrough from 2016 that transformed his business model. By digging through eight years of sales data, he discovered a "hidden jewel": a simple newsletter program he once considered a failure had actually generated nearly $3 million with minimal effort. Frank introduces the Best Payday framework, a system designed to help you identify the specific offer in your business that provides the highest net profit with the greatest personal fulfillment. Key Takeaways from This Episode: The "Hamster Wheel" Trap: Why many successful entrepreneurs feel unfulfilled despite making money, and how to break the cycle of constant product launches. Defining Your Best Payday: It isn't just about the biggest check; it's abo
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AI Found A $22M Hook In 3 Minutes
19/12/2025 Duration: 08minOver 80,000 (and counting) businesses have paid me for marketing advice. And for most of them, one of the biggest "sticking points" is the copy. But not what you think. The hardest part isn't writing the words. It's finding the Hook. The Big Idea. The Angle. Once you have that, the rest is easy. But finding it usually takes forever. So today, I'm going to show you how to use AI to find a multi-million dollar hook... in less than 3 minutes. And we're going to do it without typing a single prompt. We're going to take a random transcript of an Alex Hormozi interview and write a sales letter that sells it. (We're using Hormozi's video as an example. Naturally we're not actually going to sell my man's stuff.) Anyway, here's how we'll use AI to find the $22MM hook ...and then turn it into a sales letter: Step 1: "Brain Dump" Method. This is where you tell AI what you want it to do ...and you give it a bunch of info about whatever it is you're trying to sell. This part is important so be sure to watch it. Most peopl
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Build A $50K Marketing Campaign With AI (Full Masterclass)
16/12/2025 Duration: 22minEveryone says you can sell more stuff with AI. But if you've actually tried to use it, you probably found out that it writes stuff that isn't any good. Or you have to spend all day typing perfect prompts. That's a pain and it takes forever. (And it still totally sounds like AI wrote it.) So, today I'm going to show you how to write an entire marketing campaign that sounds like you (but better)... without even typing. By "campaign", I mean everything. All of the copy for the offer, the emails, the follow up, the social content... the whole thing. This is the stuff an agency would charge you $10,000 to $50,000 for. But we'll do it in about 22 minutes. HERE'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE BUILDING IN THIS VIDEO: The Quick-Shot Email & The Followup Campaign: I start small with one email, then show you how to build a full scarcity follow up sequence in seconds. The "Winning Hook": We're building this campaign for a random "Hangover Cure" product I found. (I figured it would be cool to use a real product instead of someth
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Make Price Irrelevant. (Advanced AI Copywriting)
12/12/2025 Duration: 20minDon't use emotion to fight price objections. When a prospect is stuck on the numbers, emotion won't work. You have to fight logic with logic. I break down two Advanced AI Copywriting frameworks that make your price feel completely irrelevant: The "Apples to Oranges" Close and the "Identity Reframe." I'm going to give you the specific AI Prompts that mathematically prove their price objections are silly. T hen, we cover the "Identity Challenge." This is the prompt structure that lets you call out the difference between who they say they are and what they're actually doing—without being a jerk about it. TRY THE TOOL: Get the AI that writes this copy for you (Free Trial): https://oJoy.ai TRY THE TOOL: Get the AI that writes this copy for you (Free Trial): https://oJoy.ai WATCH NEXT: Write A Complete Sales Letter In 8 Minutes Without Even Typing: https://youtu.be/8adZD-PIIok TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Stop selling with emotion (The Logic Trap) 0:59 - Framework 1: The "Apples to Oranges" Close Stack 3:37 - The $1.61
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Stories Made Them Pay 64% More For The Same Product
09/12/2025 Duration: 13minStories can increase revenue by 376%, but only if you do them right. In one study, scientists proved that adding a fictional story to a cheap spoon on eBay increased its final selling price by 64%. They found the same result with wine, art, and charitable donations (Those used real stories though. They call it the "Rokia" Effect). Stories don't change the product. They change the value of the product in the customer's mind. But it can be hard to come up with them because we think they have to be about us, our amazing accomplishments, or our lives. THEY DON'T. In this video, I break down: The "Value Inflation" Data: Why stories mathematically increase conversion rates by 30%+. The Revenue Spike: Why a specific type of story can lead to 376% more revenue per customer. The Anti-Personal Brand: How to use stories without ever being the "main character." The Danger Of AI: Why purely AI-generated stories usually cause a 62% DROP in trust (and how to fix it). My Story-Based Workflow: How I use AI (Ojoy) for "Deep Re
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Can AI Email Really Get 4,000% ROI? | Case Study Reveals All
05/12/2025 Duration: 08minIf you send more follow up emails, you'll sell more stuff. The last report I saw was from Hubspot and it said email is the most profitable marketing channel online. It said email gets a 4,000% ROI. That's amazing. Especially since most people don't send follow up emails at all. Probably because writing email sequences is a PAIN. Until now. In this one, I show you exactly how to use AI to create killer email follow-up sequences that actually convert. You'll discover my 3-step process for creating AI email sequences that sound like YOU (not like AI). Plus I show you real results from my own campaigns. (6.76% conversion from leads I got for free.) The tool I used to create the entire email sequence is https://oJoy.ai You can try it for free if you want
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5 Marketing Tricks Should NEVER Work (But They Do) | Real Case Studies Inside
02/12/2025 Duration: 15minExperts will tell you that none of these 5 things should be working. But they are. The reason why (for the most part) is because PEOPLE have changed. Another reason is because you and I are in the right place at the right time. You'll see what I mean in this episode. Here's how and when: CHAPTERS: 0:00 - When more conversions = less money (example included) 3:42 - Why testimonials can hurt sales. (example included) 4:46 - Why ads you can't click can get you more customers. 7:08 - How to become a household name for 11 cents. 9:43 - What to do when people are stupid. 14:52 - The Quick Win method that outsells even the best of sales letters. I used oJoy.ai to help me organize my thoughts and turn them into this usable content. You can try it free at https://oJoy.ai About Frank Kern (Prepare To Be Bored): If you're new to my channel, my name is Frank Kern. I've been selling things online since 1999. My first 7-figure business sold downloadable audio-books about dog training. I sold it in 2007. Over the past 26 ye
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Marketing Experts Are WRONG! (Including Me!)
25/11/2025 Duration: 19minEver wonder if the stuff we THINK we "know" about marketing is wrong? Me too. And it turns out the answers is ...it IS! Sometimes. We shouldn't take marketing "rules" as ...well ...actual "RULES." For example, I just told a customer NOT to use a sales letter. Which is like "Marketing Heresy!" In this episode, I show you why. You'll also discover an amazing marketing lesson I learned from a COP. (This applies to everyone. You can use it immediately). Plus you'll see what your prospects are REALLY doing ...and why it's not always a good idea to try to sell them something. The tool I used for research and organizing my thoughts for this episode is https://oJoy.ai You can try it for free if you want