252: The Launch Move That Added $100K After The Cart Closed
Marketing Your Business - Marketing Strategies for Business Owners
Stu McLaren
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The playbook said our launch was done. We'd sent the emails. Hit the reminders. Ran the countdown. Most teams would have let the sequence ride out. We did something different. We opened a Zoom room for three hours with no slides, no script, and no pitch. Just over 100 people showed up. 30 sales came in. Over $100,000 in revenue. And most of those buyers? People we had never seen engage the whole launch.
In this solo episode, Stu walks through the two moves his team made in the "in-between days" of a recent summit launch that completely changed how he thinks about the end of a campaign. You'll hear why the Rule of 7 has quietly become the Rule of 8-to-13, why confidence in your offer is the thing people can actually feel, and the one question that surfaces the highest-converting move you're probably not making.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Why buyers are taking longer to decide and what the new touchpoint research says
- How to sell without selling (and the one condition that makes it work)
- The simple question to ask your team before every launch ends
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| 0:00.0 | Most launch playbooks have a clean ending. The cart opens, the cart closes, and you move on. |
| 0:05.6 | Well, I'm going to make the case today that those last 48 hours you're likely leaving money |
| 0:10.7 | on the table. And those last 48 hours might be the most valuable ones of all. If you've ever felt |
| 0:17.2 | like the traditional launch playbook is running out of gas or those final push |
| 0:21.1 | emails are making you cringe or you're seeing people buy later than they used to and wondering |
| 0:26.2 | what to do about it, this episode is for you. Because I'm going to share two things that we did at |
| 0:31.7 | the end of our last launch that weren't in any playbook and they produced some of our best results ever. |
| 0:38.9 | Welcome to marketing your business. I'm Stu McLaren, co-founder of membership.io, and author |
| 0:43.8 | of Predictable Profits. Now, here's the truth. You are one great marketing idea away from |
| 0:49.4 | transforming your business. One strategy can be the difference between struggling and thriving, |
| 0:55.0 | between a business that drains you and one that fuels your life. Every episode, you're going to |
| 1:00.0 | get specific tactics you need to build your audience, attract more customers, and scale your |
| 1:05.0 | business all without the burnout. These are real strategies, real numbers, real behind the seats. Buckle your seatbelts, my friend. |
| 1:12.6 | Let's go. |
| 1:15.1 | All right, my friend, good to talk to you. I want to cycle back and I want to share a couple |
| 1:19.2 | key lessons from our most recent summit launch. As I've shared with you in some of the |
| 1:26.1 | earlier episodes, this was a total experiment. |
| 1:28.6 | We had never done a summit before. We have done launches before and we're really good at launches. |
| 1:33.9 | You know, typically, you know, we're doing multi-million dollar launches. So we got that whole |
| 1:38.5 | process dialed in, but we had never done a summit. Now, the way this summit kind of worked was |
| 1:43.7 | we had three days where |
| 1:45.1 | we were playing these incredible interviews. And by the way, I'm just so stoked about the |
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