Turning a public-speaking legend into a direct-response machine
Polito is an institution — teaching oratory since 1975, with 100,000+ students, 30+ books and 1.5M copies sold across 39 countries. But offline authority doesn't convert cold traffic on its own. There was no direct-response engine behind the name.
Take a revered offline icon and build a full DR operation around him — without cheapening a decades-old brand — that could sell online, every day, at scale.
As co-producer owning 50% of the operation, I structured the VSL and the ascension mentorship, ran a live webinar to convert buyers into the high-ticket program, and layered order bumps and upsells to lift average order value across the funnel.




