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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

#836 Don’t Write Another Landing Page Without This Framework [2026 Email Funnels Playbook] #836

Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen

Founders, Million, Cashflow, Amazon, Digital Nomad, Ecommerce, Distributed Team, Founder, Business, Operator, Places & Travel, Cash Flow, Management, Operations, Business Owner, Profits, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship

4.9527 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

With so many ways to make money online, many founders and creators have lost sight of the most powerful one: email marketing. John Ainsworth, founder of Data Driven Marketing, says you’re leaving tons of money on the table if you’re not doing it well.

John is back on the pod to share his best tips and tactics on landing pages, upsells, lead magnets, and more. You might want to take some notes for this one!

LINKS

Rolodex Marketing Resource

Free Email Marketing Resources

John’s Podcast: The Art of Selling Online Courses

Meet John and other location-independent founders inside Dynamite Circle

Hang out exclusively with 7+ figure founders

Get 2 months of Perspective AI FREE with promo code TMBA

Share your thoughts about the podcast [takes 2 minutes]

22 FREE business resources for location-independent entrepreneurs

CHAPTERS

(00:02:11) Email Marketing: A Must-Have Money Maker
(00:11:50) 15 Steps to a High-Converting Landing Page
(00:19:18) Do Webinars Still Work in 2026?
(00:24:09) What Makes a Great Lead Magnet
(00:29:09) The Power of Order Bumps and Upsells
(00:36:58) How to Use AI to Improve Your Funnels
(00:40:45) How to Make Extra Money with Trip Wires
(00:44:37) Rapid-Fire Email Tips for 2026
(00:50:49) How John is Running His 7-Figure Agency

CONNECT:

Dan@tropicalmba.com
Ian@tropicalmba.com

Past guests on TMBA include Cal Newport, David Heinemeier Hannson, Seth Godin, Ricardo Semler, Noah Kagan, Rob Walling, Jay Clouse, Einar Vollset, Sam Dogan, Gino Wickam, James Clear, Jodie Cook, Mark Webster, Steph Smith, Taylor Pearson, Justin Tan, Matt Gartland, Ayman Al-Abdullah, Lucy Bella.

PLAYLIST:

Marketing to High-Dollar Clients

6-Figure Sales Expert Calls You Out (Don’t Keep Doing This in 2026)

8 Simple Steps for Improving Your Sales Funnel

Transcript

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0:00.0

In one year, we made them over $200,000 with order bumps.

0:03.9

I think it was $233,000 and $212,000 from upsells.

0:08.3

What can you do with $200 extra $1,000?

0:25.8

Happy 13. Happy Thursday morning, everybody.

0:28.3

Welcome back to the Tropical MBA podcast.

0:30.9

I am in my hotel room in New York City.

0:35.9

Ian and I are here in New York with 30 listeners of the podcast who runs seven and eight-figure business.

0:36.4

Our goal, as always at these events,

0:38.6

is to take copious amounts of notes and bring them back to you on the podcast. So look forward to

0:43.7

that. Recently, I was reading the survey that we put out. And a lot of what I heard from you,

0:50.3

the listener, is that give me tactics that are working right now that are proven that I can

0:55.2

make money with. So today's guest has the tactics and the receipts. I was actually personally

1:01.6

on a recent six-figure promotion that I saw when I emailed him. I was like, who did this?

1:05.7

And he said, John Ainsworth from data-driven marketing did this campaign. And so in today's interview and conversation,

1:12.3

you're going to learn how to increase leads, how to increase revenue per lead, and the best

1:17.0

news is you can do it with the tools and team that you already have. So John is an expert at

1:22.4

using email marketing and smartly designed landing pages to improve your profit and revenue. We already have these tools

1:29.8

at our disposal and most of us aren't using them to their capacity. So stick around to hear

1:34.9

what every business can do to make more money from their emails, how to organize your promotions.

1:40.6

And he'll also share a tactic for dramatically improving your opt-ins, which has had some dramatic

1:46.0

results across his clientele. We're also going to get into some specifics like subject lines

1:50.7

for promotions, how to stay out of the promotions tab in Gmail, and how to train AI to effectively

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