Raoul Plickat
Marketer of the year 2022/2023
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At 18 I wasn’t a marketer.
I was a kid selling gym clothes.
A fitness apparel brand taught me the only lesson that mattered.
I founded my first company at 18 — a fitness apparel brand. The product was fine. The logistics were fine. But none of that decided whether we grew.
What decided everything was sales and advertising. The words on the ad. The promise on the page. That realization pulled me out of apparel and into marketing — for good.
Early days — first brand
Founder at 18
before any marketing career
Ads decided growth
not product, not logistics
The pivot
from apparel to marketing
Studying the craft
I consumed everything — then built my own technique.
I read everything on direct response, branding, and psychology I could find. And I noticed the field was split in two: brand people who couldn’t measure, and performance people who couldn’t build trust.
So I fused them. I called it Performance Branding — personal branding, run with the precision of paid ads. Copy sits at the exact center of that crossroads.
Self-taught
every book, every campaign
Performance Branding
a technique I coined myself
Copy at the center
where brand meets conversion
Germany started calling me “The Face of Marketing”.
The technique worked. E-commerce brands, luxury brands, fitness influencers, online coaches — I launched them to the front of their categories with campaigns built on Performance Branding.
I mostly worked in the background. The names got famous; I got the pattern. Campaign after campaign, the variable that moved everything was the same: the copy.
Behind the campaigns
Category leaders
e-com, luxury, coaching, fitness
The invisible operator
working behind the big names
One constant
copy moved every result
Building CopeCart
Then I stopped renting the game — and built the infrastructure.
I founded CopeCart, a fintech platform that lets digital creators start selling online in minutes. It grew to roughly a hundred thousand registered clients and over a hundred employees.
Sitting on the infrastructure side showed me thousands of sellers at once. The ones who won weren’t the ones with better products. They were the ones whose words converted.
CopeCart
fintech for digital creators
~100k clients
100+ employees
The pattern, at scale
words converted, products didn’t
I met AI in 2015 — long before it was obvious.
My first real contact with AI was at the Thiel Fellowship Summit in 2015, years ahead of the mainstream. When the technology matured, I founded Pressmaster.ai — an AI-driven PR platform.
I bootstrapped it to $1.2M ARR in 7 months — not by shouting louder, but with a framework I call the Key First Click: engineering the first interaction to be impossible to ignore.
Pressmaster.ai era
2015, Thiel Summit
AI before the hype
$1.2M ARR in 7 months
bootstrapped, no shouting
Key First Click
the framework was born
That’s how MBA Copy was born.
A decade of campaigns. 400+ brands scaled. Over $200M in revenue generated across companies I built and clients I launched. Underneath all of it, one skill kept paying: writing that engineers what people believe before it asks them to buy.
MBA Copy is that skill, packaged as a system. Not swipe files. Not templates to fill in. Psychological architecture — the mental models behind copy that keeps working when tactics expire.
400+
brands scaled with the system
$200M+
in revenue behind the frameworks
10+ yrs
from apparel founder to category builder
Now, you can skip the decade but keep the system.
Message Analysis
From Insight To Action
Customer language → Message structure → Action
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Customer Friction
Start with the costly problem your buyer already feels.
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Desired Outcome
Make the change they want specific, relevant, and tangible.
03
Reason To Believe
Show why your solution is the credible path forward.
Every high-converting message follows the same logic.
The format changes. An ad, landing page, email, VSL, sales call, or pitch.
But the job stays the same: help the right person recognize the problem, see the outcome they want, and believe your solution is worth acting on.
Copywriting Mastery gives you the research process and message frameworks to build that logic into every asset without guessing, copying competitors, or relying on generic AI output.
The brutal difference between generic copy and MBA Copy.
You don’t need to sound like a salesman to convince anyone. You need to write with clarity, psychology, and intent.
Generic copy
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Forces the sale from the first line
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Recycled hooks everyone has seen
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Optimizes for noise (100 variations, zero ideas)
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Sells features to people who buy identity
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Sounds like ChatGPT wrote it
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Flatlines after 30 days
MBA Copy
✓
Engineers the first click before asking for anything
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One sharp idea instead of a hundred variations
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Built on psychology that doesn’t expire
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Moves buyers from current identity to desired identity
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Uses AI as leverage (without sounding like it)
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Campaigns that run for years
MBA Copy works for people who…
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Want to earn with words, even if you don’t consider yourself a writer
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Sell a service and need clients coming to you, not the other way around
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Run a business and want ads, emails, and pages that actually convert
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Promote products or services on social media
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Want to write for other companies — and charge like a strategist, not a typist
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Feel their communication undersells how good their work actually is
Does it actually sell?
First campaign rebuilt with the KFC framework
One ad, months of consistent sales
Email list that finally answers back
Webinar rewritten, close rate up
From invisible posts to inbound leads
First client closed with a single page
What’s inside MBA Copy?
MODULE
01
The psychology that makes people buy
Before formats, the foundations. Why people buy identity instead of features, how mental availability decides who wins a category, and the mental models that make every later framework work. This is the difference between copying tactics and owning outcomes.
Identity vs. features
Mental availability
Current → desired identity
Owning the outcome
Why price becomes irrelevant
The land of average
6 lessons
MODULE
02
The Key First Click
The framework behind campaigns that dominate without volume. You’ll learn to engineer the first interaction — the 3 seconds that shift your prospect’s worldview — instead of testing a hundred creative variations and hoping.
The first-interaction principle
The one-ad theory
Clarity beats creativity
The brand oscillator
Foundations of a winning campaign
Case study: 10M views with one ad
7 lessons
MODULE
03
Story, Style, Results
The SSR framework — psychological architecture that keeps campaigns alive for years instead of flatlining after 30 days. How to build narrative, voice, and proof into one system that compounds.
Story architecture
Finding your style
Proof that persuades
Evergreen campaign design
Why campaigns flatline
Case study: 3.6M+ views evergreen
6 lessons
MODULE
04
The formats that sell
The system applied to every surface: ads, emails, webinars, sales pages, and the platform psychology behind each. Where your audience’s head is on each channel — and how the same idea changes shape across them.
Ads for conversion
Email & newsletters
The MBA Webinar Playbook
Sales pages
Platform psychology
AI leverage without the AI voice
8 lessons
MODULE
05
The copy business
Turning the skill into income. How to position yourself as a strategist rather than a typist, price your work, find clients who pay well, and build a portfolio that closes for you.
Positioning & pricing
Finding clients
The strategist’s portfolio
Delivering results
Hiring & training copywriters
5 lessons
MBA Copy is not for everyone.
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Not for people hunting magic words and overnight hacks. There are none here.
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Not for collectors of courses who never ship a campaign.
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Not for anyone who wants to delegate thinking to a template.
It is for operators with a real offer — who are done renting tactics and want to own the system that sells it.
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Who is Raoul Plickat?
Founder at 18. Serial entrepreneur since. Raoul built his reputation launching e-commerce brands, luxury brands, and online coaches to the front of their categories — earning the nickname “The Face of Marketing” in Germany.
He then built the infrastructure itself: CopeCart, a fintech platform serving ~100k digital sellers, and Pressmaster.ai, an AI PR platform bootstrapped to $1.2M ARR in 7 months. Today he runs Marketing.MBA, teaching the systems behind 400+ scaled brands and $200M+ in revenue.
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Nominated among the top 17 digital marketers worldwide
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Creator of Performance Branding and the Key First Click framework
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Founder of CopeCart, Pressmaster.ai, and Marketing.MBA
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400+ brands scaled · $200M+ in revenue across ventures and clients