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What Makes You Dangerous

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What Makes YOU Dangerous?

Every business owner who sells for a living has a secret identity: a marketing superpower that makes the competition nervous. Most never find out what theirs is.

Answer seven quick questions about how you market and how your customers respond. You’ll get a confidential dossier revealing your secret identity, your hidden strength, and the Achilles’ heel that may be quietly costing you sales.

Free · 7 questions · About 2 minutes · Your dossier arrives instantly

The usual suspects

Six Secret Identities. Which One Are You?

Each one is a different way of winning customers. None is better than the others. But knowing which one is YOURS tells you where to push, and where you’re leaving money on the table.

The Hard-Boiled P.I.: a detective in a fedora and trench coat with a monocle

The Hard-Boiled P.I.

Finds the REAL problem before anybody spends a dime solving the wrong one.

The Femme Fatale: a woman in a pinstripe suit lighting a cigarette

The Femme Fatale

Makes people FEEL something, so your message gets remembered and acted on.

The Smooth Operator: a confident woman in a sleek black suit

The Smooth Operator

Clears the path from “Sounds great!” to “Where do I sign?”

The Midnight Broadcaster: a man smiling behind a vintage radio microphone

The Midnight Broadcaster

Keeps showing up until yours is the name they know when it’s time to buy.

The Shadow Architect: a robot in a fedora and trench coat

The Shadow Architect

Turns good ideas into marketing MACHINERY that keeps running next Tuesday too.

The Underground Kingpin: a man in a tweed jacket holding rolled-up plans

The Underground Kingpin

Gives people something to believe in, belong to, and tell their friends about.

Your confidential dossier

Four Things You’ll Discover About Yourself

Not a generic personality quiz. Your dossier is built from your answers about how you market, what your customers say about you, and where things break down.

01

Your Secret Identity

The marketing superpower you lean on most, and why it makes your competition nervous.

02

Your Hidden Superpower

The second strength your customers see in you, and how the two work together.

03

Your Achilles’ Heel

The weak spot your competitors would love you to never notice, and what it’s likely costing you.

04

One Weapon to Fix It

A handpicked hack from the USA’s most dangerous book on business, building off your answers to bridge that gap.

Every hero has one

Which Achilles’ Heel Is Costing You?

Even dangerous marketers have a leak somewhere. Your dossier names yours, and tells you why your answers point to it.

An empty art deco bar at night

WHERE ARE THE BUYERS?

The Empty Speakeasy

Good product, good intentions, and an empty room.

A radio announcer whose words dissolve into static

WHY NOBODY STOPS

The Invisible Message

You’re talking. Nobody’s hearing it.

A detective's desk piled with files stamped Unsolved

WHERE SALES GO COLD

The Unclosed Case

Interested prospects who never quite say yes.

A stage magician vanishing something in a cloud of smoke

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND

The Vanishing Act

You show up, then disappear in a puff of smoke.

An empty bandstand after the party, confetti on the floor

NO SECOND SALE

The One-Night Stand

Great first sale. Then the party’s over.

A cracked, jammed clockwork machine

WHEN THE MACHINE JAMS

Broken Clockwork

Good ideas, jammed gears, dropped balls.

Good news: once you know which one it is, it’s fixable.

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Who’s asking?

A Word From the Monocle Man

I’m Jack Turk. I spent seven years writing for Dan Kennedy’s organization, three of them as head copywriter, and two decades helping experts sell what they know.

Here’s what I’ve learned: most business owners don’t need to master every new platform. They need to know what they’re already good at, and which leak is sinking the ship. That’s what this diagnostic is built to show you.

Jack Turk
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