Step 1 starts with the bat-signal calling everybody to the bat-cave… On today's episode Russell talks about how he is using Trello and a bat signal to make all of his amazing ideas come to fruition. Here are some of the awesome things you will hear in this episode. -Find out how Russell is using a bat signal to get his ideas out to his team. -See how Trello is going to help keep Russell's ideas organized so that every member does their part. -And find out how you can make a similar system work for your own team. So listen here to be let in on this awesome new system for getting Russell's ideas out of his head and turned into funnels. ---Transcript--- What's up everybody? This is Russell Brunson and welcome to the Marketing Secrets podcast. Alright everybody, I'm heading into the office today for a fun filled day. It's going to be short because it's almost Christmastime and we thought it would be fun to do something out of the ordinary. Everyone's working their butt off and at the end of the day we're going to leave early to go and see the Star Wars movie, which I'm freaking out about because I haven't seen it yet. I want to see it so bad. Everyone's got the positive and the negative reviews and all that stuff, and I don't care what they say, there's no way I'm not going to like it. I'm so excited. So I'm pumped about that. Also, we have an acupuncturist who's coming into the office to poke people all day. So I'll be going through a session today, which I'm excited for. I don't know how acupuncture works, but I had a miraculous healing from it one time, so I'm a big believer. And I'm not even hurt, I just feel like I want more people poking needles into my body apparently. So that's exciting. But what I want to share with you is the most exciting thing of all. So excited. It's funny that we've grown as big a company as we have, with the fact that I'm not the best systems person in the world. I'm a big believer in it, just not ever been good at it. And Mr. James P. Freill, who is amazing. In the inner circle and been my friend for probably 3 years or so now. He came in originally and set up our Trello system, and it worked really good for a week, and me as a bad manager of it, it kind of fell apart. I hired him again later, he came back and set it up again, it worked for a while and then fell apart. And then the third time I did it, so three times he's helped me set this process up and the third time it lasted longer and then eventually kind of fell apart as well. So eventually I was just like, you know what, how about we just hire you to actually come and run this thing for us. So we hired him for the next six months and he literally moved to Boise, like a block from the office, which has been really fun. And now he's living next to me as we're doing everything and systemizing everything. And what we've been focusing on is something I think everybody should do. Because as you know, you've listened to my opinion on this before, your business is not the thing that you do or sell, the business is the marketing of the thing you sell. So I think every company, the real company is your own marketing and advertizing agency. That is the company. And then what you sell is incidental, it doesn't really matter. I can plug in chiropractic, I can plug in dentistry, I can plug in supplements, it doesn't matter. Your business is the marketing. So I was like, we need to build a marketing agency where we are our only clients. So we build this marketing agency out and there's a funnel building team in the agency and there's the traffic team, and it's been really fun because he's going through all the stuff we've been doing for the last decade that we redo every single time and he's been trello-izing it and systemizing it and all sorts of stuff. But the biggest thing we realized, when I have an idea, it's like the idea, I have that moment where it's like the flood of inspiration. And for me, I don't know if it's this way for everybody, I'm assuming that, I wasn't this way when I began, but the longer I've done it and the more I've immersed myself in it, when I have the idea, I see the whole thing in my head. I don't know if that makes sense. It's not a vision, I don't know, maybe it's a vision. But it's like, as soon as the idea comes, all these connections, all the things, everything I've learned and done and seen over the last 15 years in this business, it's like as soon as the idea hits, I see perfect clarity what it looks like. I know, I see it really fast. Then I freak out and try to explain it to everybody really fast, which is why I talk so fast, because I'm trying to get it out of my head before I forget it. I'm trying to explain the whole thing. And usually, whoever is closest to me, I grab and I explain it. So usually it's Dave's there, Melanie's there, sometimes Dave's there, Steven's there, whoever. I just grab people and I'm like, "AHHH" and I freak out and tell them the whole thing. And everyone's excited and we go and run and do our things. But then we try to relay that to the next part of the team and then next part of the team. And eventually it's like, playing telephone booth and everyone forgets and then, even Dave and Steven who were there initially, they're like, "Remember on the white board we doodled this thing." And they're like, "What's that square again for? I have no idea what's actually happening. I remember you had a squiggly line here that was really important, but it just looks like a squiggly line now and I'm not sure exactly was it is." And we always try to…we lose all this stuff. So we're like, man, how do we capture that moment of inception when the first big idea hits? How do we capture that so we don't lose it? So in our trello process system now, it's so cool. We've done it twice to test it out. But we literally…the way it works is like step one we have the aha moment, this is the idea. And the second we have that, I log into voxer and there's a group with the entire agency in the voxer group and I literally send them the a gif of the bat signal. So boom, they get that which means, "oh my gosh, Russell had an idea. Get to the bat room." So then we set up the Zoom room, which is a Zoom room, we call it like the bat line or the bat cave or something like that. So as soon as I set out the bat signal then every…then I'll send out the direct link to the bat cave, then everybody who is able to jumps on. And then right there I open the Zoom Room on my computer, from a white board I'm like, "Oh my gosh guys.." and I explain the whole thing as it happens and it records the whole thing. So the whole thing's being recorded and I go through the whole thing and anyone who's able to come, comes. And obviously not everybody can come every single time. But whoever's there comes, we explain the whole thing, we get excited, and I map out the vision on the white board, I explain things and then when I'm done I break down, "okay here's the whole vision. I need so and so to do this part, so and so to do this," and I explain all the different pieces. And then when it's done, I stop the recording, upload it dropbox, post it in trello, here's the vision and then here's the, I take a picture of the whiteboard, here's the whiteboard of the vision, here's the video of the vision. And then I vox that out to everybody who may have missed the call. Here it is. And then that happens and the person on our team who does the project management stuff, which right now is James and John, but eventually we're going to be bringing in somebody full time to do this part, then goes and watches it second by second and basically builds out all the trello cards based on the vision. And then everyone's got their stuff, trello cards, deadlines, everything. And it just all magically happens and it is the coolest thing in the world. So we did it twice, two days ago and then yesterday. We've done two bat meetings. These aren't like new aha moments, but it's like new funnels we're relaunching, so everyone's got a little piece of this puzzle that I have in my head and we're all working towards it, except for now everyone knows the whole vision. And it's insane, just the clarity, for me and I think everyone on the team has now, it's just like, "Oh, that's what Russell's talking about." Or people are like, I'm watching the office when I walk around, they're rewatching the video like, "Oh, that's what he's talking about." Or like, "In minute six of the video you said this, what did you mean again?" And then I can, it's just really cool. It's simplifying our process, I'm not repeating and re-teaching and re-explaining and re-showing things a million times. Oh, and the other cool thing is after we got the whole thing done, then Jake on my team, he's taking my whiteboard doodle and then he actually is going into Photoshop or illustrator or whatever he uses, and if you got the Funnel Hacker Cookbook, you know the little images of the pages and funnels, he's actually building out a map for the funnel I sketched out in that , so we have a pdf of the actual map of what I doodled out, but it's very specific. Like, "Here's page one, page two, page three. Here's the email sequence. Each sequence is here and goes to here." We have an actual map we're building off of as well, as opposed to some doodles I gave out. Anyway, it's just getting really, really cool so I'm excited. We're systemizing the crap out of everything, we're speeding up our processes, we're making it so we remove me from a lot of the things I've been doing, just because they're stuck in my head, and getting out into a spot where other people can help facilitate it. And it feels good, it feels freeing, it feels exciting. So there's an idea for those of you guys who are trying to figure this process out and trying to get the vision from your mind out to your team. Do a batman meeting like we're doing. Send out a bat signal, bring them all to the bat cave, record your ideas, and then you've got it archived as everyone starts building and driving traffic and all those other pieces that come with it. That's it, I'm excited. Anyway, I heading in right now, I'm going to get some acupuncture, work on some funnels, I'm probably doing the batman meeting, we have four projects we're trying to do by the end of the year. So I'm doing four bat meetings to catch everybody up, then we'll have all our marching orders before the end of the year, then I'm heading to go see the new Star Wars. So excited. Alright guys, that's all I got. Appreciate you all, have an amazing day and we'll talk to you guys soon, bye.

Late night coaching session with my son Dallin… On today's episode Russell teaches his son Dallin, and the listeners all about the concept of supply and demand. Here are some of the cool things you will hear in this episode: Why Russell decided to teach Dallin about supply and demand after he saw a pair of Airpods on Amazon for $850. Why supply and demand of Tickle Me Elmo dolls several years ago caused some parents to take back their own kids Christmas gifts.- And how you can use supply and demand to boost sales for info products or supplements or anything else. So listen here to find out how to use supply and demand to make more sales and more money. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson. Welcome to the Marketing Secrets podcast. This is a special audio episode just for my audio friends. This will not be on video. I'm in the car right now driving to the grocery store with my son, Dallin. Dallin, how are you doing tonight? Dallin: Tired. Russell: He's a little tired, it's late. We forgot we have to have treats. He's always tired though. He's a growing boy. He asked me a question. I said, "Dallin, we're going to answer this on the podcast." So let's queue in some music and we'll come back and we're going to share with you guys something very important for you to understand about supply and demand and Christmastime. Alright everybody, welcome back. So Dallin came in the car and we were talking about headphone buds. Do you want to tell them what you told me, Dallin, when we were getting in the car about how much cheap headphones are versus these ones? Dallin: So I was looking up how much the ear buds cost for apple, because I was looking at the iPhone 10. Russell: He's talking about the airpods that are super cool. Dallin: And I looked up on Amazon, usually Amazon's amazing, and it says it's $850! Russell: $850 for the Amazon headphones. He said, you can buy regular headphones for $5. And I pulled out those headphones out of my pocket, because I actually love those a lot. If you don't have them you should get them. I said, actually these sell for $100… Dallin: Not from Amazon though. Russell: Not from Amazon, and I'll tell you why. I just explained this to Dallin. So I wanted to explain it to all of you guys, who I'm sure understand this but this sets up a teaching lesson I want to have here in a second. So if you look at the pods, if you look at them they're $150 on Apple's site. But the problem is it takes two or three months to ship to you. So if you buy them and plan ahead it's $150, but if you didn't and it's Christmastime and you're like, "Ah, my wife, my girlfriend, my significant other, my kid, they need airpods, they've been asking all Christmas." You try to buy it and you go to Apple and they're like, "We're not going to deliver til May." And you're like, "What, Christmas is in December." And they're freaking out. So they have to go look for other places, so they go on Amazon and they find people that had the foresight to know that people were gonna not have foresight. So they take their Apple Airpods that they bought for $150 and jack up the price for $800 on Amazon. And the people who are slow have to pay the difference. So I was about to tell Dallin about Tickle Me Elmo, and then I said, "Wait a minute, we should share this story on the podcast." So Dallin, here is the lesson of the story I want to tell you. And everyone can listen in on this. So when I was a kid, it was right when Elmo came out. Sesame Street didn't used to have Elmo. When Elmo came out, everyone, I remember being a kid and being like, "Elmo is the coolest." He was just so much cooler than all the other muppets and we all loved him. And then one year for Christmas they came out with this, they called it Tickle Me Elmo. You guys have Elmo dolls now, but this was like the original Elmo one, where it's a doll and you tickle it and it'll giggle. And that was ground breaking 30 years ago. Dallin: He's scary. Russell: He's a little scary. So anyway, everyone wanted Tickle Me Elmo so the company that makes him, it's the law of supply and demand. They made so many Tickle Me Elmo's, and that was it, that was all they made. I don't know the whole story behind it. But basically there was a lot more people that wanted them. Everyone's kid wanted them, it was all over the news. So Tickle Me Elmo started going, you'd normally buy them for like $20 and they got to $50 and $80 and people were auctioning them for tens of thousands of dollars for Tickle Me Elmo. And then other people heard about Tickle Me Elmo, and when they started talking about how there are none left. And then one of them sold on auction for $10,000. And people were freaking out, and people who already had them were like, "Well I can sell this and make some money." So they would take the gifts away from their kids to make money by selling them to other people and it was just crazy. Dallin: That would be sad. Russell: Pandemonium. So the lesson that I want to teach you Dallin, and everyone who's listening today, is the power of scarcity, supply and demand. So when you have a ton of stuff, like if there were a billion Tickle Me Elmo dolls, nobody cares and they're not going to freak out and try to buy them. So the price goes lower. But when they're high demand form and the supply is smaller, like the airpods, there's a high demand for them, everyone wants them. But there's only a few left, the people who sell them can charge way more for them because they need them. So a lot of times in our businesses, depending on what we're selling, a lot of times there's not typically that built in supply and demand curve because we're selling info products or supplements, or things that are kind of easy. But you can always do things in your marketing to create the illusion of supply and demand. A good example is Bill Phillips, Muscle Media. When I was a kid it was the biggest supplement company in the world. In fact, some of my buddies now used to work for them, which is kind of fun. Anyway, Bill Phillips had Myloplex shakes and his whole EAS supplement line. He had unlimited stuff, he could sell as much as he wanted. But they needed to create urgency and scarcity to get people to buy it more, increase the price, all that kind of stuff. So there's a marketing campaign that I believe Joe Polish was a part of or in charge of, Idon't know. But I heard him tell the story one time, so somehow I know it's credited back to him. But what he did is they had two big shipments of supplements coming to their warehouse, two big semi trucks full. So they took a picture of it and they're like, "We should do a marketing campaign around this." So they sent a sales letter back to the entire Muscle Media Magazine list that basically said, "Hey, we over ordered. We've got two big semi trucks of supplements in the front. We need your help. Buy the excess stuff, that way we can get back to normal life." So they sent the letter out and they sold a ton of supplents. And then they're like, "Well now we sold a bunch, so let's decrease the supply, therefore increasing the demand." So they took the exact same sales letter, and they took the picture of the two trucks and crossed out one of the trucks and said, "One down, one to go." And then changed the letter to "one left, one left, one left." Then they sent the same letter out to the same customer base. All it did was decreased the supply, therefore increasing the demand and they sold more from the second letter than they did from the first. So that is what I wanted to share with you guys. Dallin already jumped out of the car, so maybe this is a lesson for you guys. Dallin, maybe when you are 25 working in a marketing company someday, you're going to come back and listen to this podcast episode and hear the moral of the story, but until then we should go shopping for your treats. Alright, that's all I got guys. Anything to tell everyone who's listening Dal? Dallin: No. Russell: Alright, you heard it here first. Alright guys, appreciate you and we'll talk to you all again on the next episode of Marketing Secrets podcast. Bye everybody.

A few cool stories that will hopefully re-align what you define as what you actually earn. On today's episode Russell talks about doing what you said you were going to do instead of trying to lie, cheat, and trick your way into money. Here are some of the other insightful things Russell talks about in this episode: Why Russell gave back 8 figures to Pruvit, even though he had signed a contract to have equity in the company. And why it's important to only take the things you have actually earned. So listen here to find out why integrity is more important than money. ---Transcript--- What's up everybody? This is Russell Brunson and welcome to the Marketing Secrets podcast. Tonight we're going to be hanging out and talking a little bit about the fact that nobody owes you anything and you should just be grateful for the opportunity. Alright, I'm going to share with you guys some stuff tonight that I don't normally share. Probably, I haven't decided if I want to share normally or not. Anyway, I'm going to go into that here in a minute. But I wanted to share one idea that's completely not related to marketing, maybe it is. Who knows? Right now I am eating this, I don't know if you can see this. If you guys are sitting here, I'm in my kitchen. This is my dinner. I share this because right now I'm on this, "How to get ripped before Funnel Hacking Live" diet with Bart Miller. It's been funny, he's got me working out, doing all sorts of stuff, but also had me eating a very specific way. And I knew that there was no way that I was going to be able to stick with it. In fact, the first day Dave and I, Dave's doing it with me, we both went over to the grocery store and bought stuff and it was like $50 for that one day just to eat stuff. We just bought packs of chicken breasts and broccoli and it was horrible. And the second day, I brought turkey from Thanksgiving, you know a little bit ago. And then Dave ran out of time to buy food, so he literally had his son go and buy him packs of deli meat. So he sits there all day eating packs of deli meat. And by day two we were like, we will never actually do this, because this is too hard to actually live this way. Which I'm sure is why a lot of people don't lose weight and probably other things in your life you don't do because it's too hard to consistently do it. So we went online and found someone here in Boise who cooks meals. So we gave her all the macros, micros, all that kind of stuff of what it needs to be and then everyday she literally makes us three meals, drops them off in the morning all perfectly cooked, fine tuned, healthy with exactly the carbs, macros, micros, fats, proteins, everything that is perfect to actually what it's supposed to be. So that's what I'm eating now. This is my third meal today and it's nice not to think and just grab it and eat. So I recommend it for any of you guys. And it's not that expensive. We're paying $300 a week for this, which if I was to go out one meal a week, that's way more than three hundred bucks. This is three meals a day and plus it keeps me, all I'm allowed per mouth is what she puts into the boxes, that's it. So just a thought. Find someone to cook your meals for you and do other things that are keeping you from getting the goals you want. Alright, I digress. What I wanted to share with you guys today, or tonight, is pretty important I think. So it, I was going to share one thing, but there's stories I can't tell. So there's been, honestly three or four situations in the last two weeks that have been insane. It's been probably some of the hardest two weeks of my life, when it relates to the negative sides of business. So for me, it's been funny because I've been trying to block it and defend it because I need to keep moving forward and the negativity of stuff can keep me or you or anybody from moving forward. So I don't want to share those specific stories, but the way that people dealt with them was really, I don't think right. So I'm going to leave it at that. I'm not going to go deeper into it. But what I do want to share, I want to share something that actually…I want to share this not to brag, that's not the point, but to show I practice what I preach. I don't just talk about this stuff, but I actually believe it, because I think that's important. So that's the only reason I'm sharing this story and hopefully it will help some of you guys to think about how you deal with stuff in the future. Hopefully it will help at least somebody out there. Some of you guys know that a couple of years ago there was a company that got launched called Pruvit. And I was part of the original team that helped launch that and I was the dude who wrote the script for the animated video. I had my animators animate the whole thing and that became the campfire video for that company and in exchange for me doing that initial stuff we negotiated some equity in the company. The equity right now, looking at where the company's blown up in the last three or four years, is worth insane amounts of money. Well over 8 figures, probably closer to…..well, it's insanely a lot. I negotiated that ahead of time, and then I was going to do a bunch of other things for the company, and just for some reason some of the things didn't work because it was hard within the company. Network marketing companies software makes it hard to do some of the funnels and things I was planning on helping with. So that was kind of hard and then Clickfunnels was taking off at the same time, so I was focusing there. When all was said and done at the end of the day, I didn't do what I thought I was going. But what I did have was this really cool fancy thing called a contract that I had signed that said I owned x% of the company. The situation with the multiple people this week, it was not this same situation, it was something kind of like that. Where people didn't pull their load and then they're demanding this justice. It was unjust because they didn't do anything. It makes me so angry and frustrated. So I was thinking about that with myself and I was like, I'm in the same situation here. Based on what I negotiated three years ago, I own x% of this company. And while that's awesome and it's worth insane amounts of money, if I'm completely honest with myself, it is not fair. Not to me, it's not fair to them. And if I was in their situation, I know in my mind that I would be annoyed by me all the time. The very thought of me, "Russell got this thing, and he did this little thing upfront and then we haven't heard from him in the last three years, doing his own thing, running his own direction." And instead of being like, "Hahahaha, I got the contract, you owe me." I actually actively reached out to them and said, "Hey, I don't feel like I deserve this." And Brian who is the owner of the company of course is like, "No, no you totally deserve it." And I'm like, "I don't and I'm okay with that. I thought I was going to be doing this, this and this for this movement and I didn't. I wasn't able to. Some things were because of technical things didn't connect on the funnel side, some of it was because I didn't have time. And I didn't do what I was supposed to do. It's not fair to you and I want someday when you sell this thing for you to be mad at me or angry at me when you have to give me this huge check because I didn't deserve it, and I didn't earn it and I don't want it." He's like, "Well this is kind of weird. What do you want?" and I was like, "For what I did, I think this is what would make sense." And it's literally like me giving back 8 figures worth of cash and just being like, "Here you go." And taking something way less. Because that's what I actually earned, and that's what I deserve. I think he was kind of confused, then he said okay and now we're making the transition, the shift away and I'm signing away my equity in exchange for something way less, because that's what I actually earned, and what I actually deserve. So that's what I want you guys to start thinking about and doing. In a situation with a business partner or a friend or an employer, whatever it is, get what you actually deserve. Don't get more. There's this weird thing inside where people think they deserve everything. It's ridiculous, it's insane. I wouldn't have believed some of these things if they didn't happen to me over the last two weeks. But it's insane what people feel like they deserve, even though they don't deserve. Because of something, they feel like they….it's so infuriating to me. I remember I had a chance to hear this guy speak a little while ago name Nido Qubein, if you guys never heard of him, he is probably the best speaker I ever heard. I heard him probably seven or eight, longer, probably ten years ago now, at a Dan Kennedy event. And I think he's like the CEO or something of Wonder Bread and a bunch of other things. He's an entrepreneur and he actually came over to the country with like $20 in his pocket and built this huge empire. He's an awesome dude. In this speech, I'm totally going to slaughter because it's a decade ago that I heard it, I don't remember all the details, but I do remember the feeling I got and the message. But he talked about how he basically got a job as the, I don't know what they call them in college, he was in charge of this college. The college had been struggling and he came in to turn it around. And he came in the first week, he worked really hard for the first week and then when he came in they handed him a paycheck. He said, "What's this for?" and they said, "This is your paycheck." And he said, "Well, I haven't done anything yet." And they're like, "Well, you get paid every two weeks, that's how it works." So they gave him the check and he sat at his desk and said, "I did not earn that." And he kept working and working. Two weeks later they came in to give him the next paycheck and he's like, "What is this for?" and they're like, "That's your paycheck." And he's like, "I didn't earn that." He put it down. He kept trying to, his job, his role was to transform the university and he couldn't do it, he kept trying and it took him a while because it's a big thing to do. And eventually, I can't remember, a year or two years later, whatever it was, he transformed this university and had this big impact. At the time I guess somebody came in his office and he had this stack, five or six inches tall of these envelopes and somebody said, "What's that big stack?" He said, "Those are the paychecks they keep giving me, but I haven't earned them yet so I'm not going to…they're not mine." I remember hearing that and just being like, that's the right attitude. I don't know, as opposed to the other situations, where you try to slip your way in and if you don't get what you want you try to sue somebody. Or you try to get a contract signed, you try to sneak in, or you stop doing what you committed to do. Or whatever that thing is. It's insane to me. And like I said, it's happened four times in the last six weeks. Dang. That people have done that. Where they feel like they deserve something, so they're threatening to sue. Or they feel like they deserve something because they have a contract, they didn't actually do what they committed to do, all these things. It's just so frustrating to me. That's not how I want to be remembered. I want to be remembered as a person who actually got what I earned, and I showed up and did what I said I was going to do and if I didn't do what I said I was going to do, I didn't take what I contractually signed to because the contract said, because I know inside my heart that I broke the contract. I didn't do what I said I was going to do. I'm not someone who wants to come in and try to get what's not mine through threats. It's just ridiculous. I want to be the kind of person who someday I can tell my kids, I can tell my grandkids, hopefully someday a thousand years from now, someone's going to watch this podcast. Someone in my posterity and be like, "Wow, great, great, great, great grandpa Brunson was a man of integrity. He actually did what he said he was going to do. When he didn't earn something, he didn't contractually trick somebody. 'well, they got a contract so it kind of sucks." No, I freaking gave it back to them because I didn't earn it. And I took what I did earn. I hope that rings true to some of you guys. If it does it will be worth the rant for tonight. So I hope it does. And if you haven't heard Nido Qubein speak, I'm going to try to find…I bought a bunch of his stuff back in the day, I wonder if I could find that presentation where he talked about that. Because it was so impactful for me just to hear that and realize that's how we should be working. Just because the rest of the world shows up to work, falls asleep and gets a check every two weeks. Us, the people who are producers, who are moving forward, that's not how we should look at things. We shouldn't be okay with that when our team is doing that. We shouldn't be okay when people around us are doing that. We need to earn what we earn and go out there and do the thing. That's the goal. And if you do work your butt off and you do, do the thing, you do earn the money. Be proud of it. Don't hide and be embarrassed, you actually worked your butt off and you deserve it. But don't do it the other way around. Where you trick, cheat, scam, lie, whatever it takes to get what you think is yours because it's not yours. You don't actually deserve it. You should just be grateful for the opportunity. So that's where I'm leaving this one. I'm grateful for the opportunity Pruvit gave me, excited……it's funny, I should be so sick to my stomach about this, but I have no issues. I'm so excited to be giving back this equity in exchange for something that's really cool, that's a good fit. It's good and I feel good about it, and I'm going to sleep really, really good tonight because of that. That's what really matters. So hopefully that helps somebody. Hopefully my great, great, great grandkids are watching this and they straighten up when you hear it, because it's important. That's what I got. Thanks guys for listening, appreciate you all. Have an amazing day, bye.

Some awesome advice from Bart Miller as we were doing our late night walk. On this episode Russell talks with Bart Miller from his inner circle about immersing himself in the things he does instead of dabbling. Here are some of the cool things to listen for in today's episode: Find out how Bart made a commitment to get in shape and ended up winning awards for body building in under a year. Hear why both Bart and Russell have been able to really commit to things instead of dabbling. And find out how you could possibly see Russell standing on stage at Funnel Hacking Live in a Speedo! So listen here to see why it's so important to be an extremist when you set a goal to do something. ---Transcript--- Hey everybody, this is Russell Brunson. Welcome to Marketing Secrets podcast. I'm walking right now with Bart Miller. How you doing, man? Bart: I'm good, how are you guys? Russell: Doing awesome. We're going to show you guys some cool stuff here after the intro. Alright, so we're out here, it's freezing cold out here. Bart: It is cold. Russell: Bart's been in the inner circle now for a year and a half and I want to talk to you about him because he's taught me some cool stuff, and I think it will help you guys as well. It makes it harder to walk and talk. It's going to throw the whole thing…. Bart: Another level here going on, I love it. Russell: So I'm going to embarrass Bart, because he doesn't even know what I'm going to ask, I just turned the camera on. First off, for background for those who don't know, he runs a couple of businesses. What are the core things you usually run? Bart: So we have an Amazon business, we have a makeup school and Russell tries to keep me as focused as possible on those two things. So we'll just say those. Russell: As he does everything else. The other ones he refuses to tell me about because I will tease him forever. So this is what I want to talk about. We hung out, when was it we went to Dallas? Bart: That's been a year ago. Russell: So a year ago we went down there because we working on the beauty school and we filmed an episode of Funnel Hacker TV, which actually is the next episode, I don't know if you knew that. Bart: I didn't know that. Cool. Russell: The end of the last one said, "Up next week," and it had that thing with Collette. Bart: How did I miss that, I watched it. Russell: It was after the credits. Anyway, next episode is going to be showing that whole story. It shows me wearing skinny jeans and bunch of other things. Bart: Which was amazing, by the way. Russell: Oh skinny jeans. Anyway, so what I think was interesting and why I love Bart so much, why I just wrote him a big huge check to come kick my butt is because after that, you've always been into fashion but that wasn't your thing. We talked about it, "Okay, Bart you should be doing fashion for people." And then he got intense and obsessed in it and just was awesome. And he basically at the last Funnel Hacking Live, dressed me, dressed half the inner circle and a bunch of other people. Then fast forward 7 or 8 months, since Funnel Hacking Live, when was it you decided you were going to get ripped and shredded and everything? Bart: So my son was leaving on an LDS mission, and I've been racing bikes for the last 7 years and I just always wanted fitness, because a lot of people think it's easy to be fit all the time. And I'm here to tell you, and don't tell my family this, but my mom's obese, my sister's obese, my dad's obese, I know it runs in my family. I'm probably taking way too long here, but what I'm saying is, my son, I wanted to spend time with him before he was leaving and getting out of the house. That was a year ago, so I decided I was going to start lifting, and then Russell's going to tell you I'm afraid, that I'm an extremist. Russell: Which is actually the moral of the story, this is a good thing, not a bad thing. Bart: So I get super extreme into things. And that's why I hired Russell really, for inner circle to be honest with you. We'll get into that, but anyway, I couldn't take it anymore and I went after the best coach in the world in my space, which is physique and body building and I hired him. So I fly to California every month for a full week and I lift with him, then I fly home, implement it all and then I fly back and do more. I did my first show in California with him, did my second show in Boise. At the first show I won an overall, and 40+ category and took second in the 35+ category. So I was super, super stoked, blessed, but put all the hard work into motion, made it happen. Russell: Awesome. Okay the battery is about to die, I'm going to grab my phone and finish this because I still haven't got to the point of what I want to share with you guys. Alright we'll be right back. Alright the battery died, but now we got it back. So you missed our walk, it was really fun. Bart: It was amazing. Russell: Went four miles, it was awesome. So I don't remember exactly where we left off, but it was somewhere between why I respect Bart and why you guys should listen to what he's going to say right now. So my question, not my question, but my observation, I would love to get your thoughts on it, is just….the battery is going to die again now. We may go back to the phone in a second here. But it's basically, when you go into something, you don't dabble. Some people in life, they dabble, "I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, or do this." You're like, "I'm going to get fit. I can't remember if you talked about this or not, but you went and hired a weight lifting coach who lives in a different state, you fly out there one week a month, work out with him, come back, and then you sign up for body building competitions, all sorts of stuff. It wasn't just like, "Oh I'm going to get in shape." And then you do it for two or three days and then you quit like most people do, including this guy right here sometimes. You went insanely all in. I just think that that is cool and people should learn from that. Bart: Thanks, so one thing I'll just tell you. The camera's on and I'm a talker, Russell knows it. Russell: That one died as well. We're back again, we're on the new phone now. Bart: So you guys get the honor and the privilege to see Tony at his event coming up, which is why we're getting fit. But on that note, I learned this from Tony Robins, he said, "If the pain doesn't outweigh the pleasure, you'll never be successful." At the time I was like, are you kidding me? And I really didn't understand it. And then he made it really clear. He said, "If you want to quit smoking, or you want anything in life, that if you'll make something so painful, that you have to get there. Like you have to accomplish it." For example, if I wrote a check for a half a million dollars, let's say I was super wealthy like Russell. I wrote a check for an enormous amount of money to a charity that I absolutely detested, and if I failed at that, then XYZ could cash that check. That pain would outweigh me ever getting there. So the pain of me getting on stage and not looking my very best was enough to, I would give up anything. I never cheated on my diet or anything one time because I knew that if I failed, I couldn't live with myself. Russell: You'd be embarrassed in a Speedo on stage. Bart: Totally. Well, not in a Speedo. Russell: And actually, by the way, when I started this process, he was like, "What is the thing that's going to cause you the most pain?" I was like, "Honestly if I ever had to get on stage in a Speedo with a black tan, that would be the worst." So if I don't hit my goals, you guys will see me on stage. Bart: You'll see Russell doing an event. And that's the thing, if I could you any advice, it's the same advice Tony did. So when I commit to something, I always tie it to "what's the consequence". And I shouldn't be teaching this to Russell because now he's going to do this crap to me. This is a horrible podcast. Don't listen to this again. Anyway, the moral of the story is, you've got to put something there that helps you not just get there, but you're going to make it because if you don't this consequence is extreme for you. If you say you're going to have a funnel every week and you don't accomplish that, you need to have something so serious that there's just no way you're going to fail doing that. And that's what I've learned in my life to push me to that next level, and that's why I did it. Russell: That's awesome. So I've seen Bart do it twice in two different things right now, and it's super inspiring. In fact, it was like a year ago, when you came and worked out at my place the first time with Anthony here. You were just kind of doing some stuff. Then here today he was kind of taking the show, "Hey Russell, do this, do this." I was like, dang. This is a different Bart in less than a year, which is insanely cool. But it's because you go all in and you don't dabble. It's awesome. Bart: It's like you said, immerge in yourself. It's the same thing you teach, you don't have to be only a few steps ahead of everybody else to be successful, but if you total immerse, it's the same thing that Tony Robins preaches, and you're the best at it. Russell commits to things he should never commit to. I mean it serious. Have you seen his life? Russell: My wife's like, "Why are you doing this?" Bart: Yeah, but it's the same thing I'm doing. He puts himself through so much pain that if he doesn't get it done, he knows he'll never accomplish it if he doesn't do it. Just like taking this challenge right now. He does not have time to get ripped for Funnel Hacking Live, let's be clear. But we're out here at 10 o'clock at night. How many other people are sitting doing something else? And while we're doing it, we're creating a podcast. He utilizes time like crazy, it's insane. But he does the exact same thing that he's complimenting me for, but it's the same model he runs every single day of his life. So learn from that and you'll be super successful. Russell: There you go guys, you heard it here first. So thanks Bart for hanging out man, and for the walk and the workout, and for, I got a sweat belt on, this is sucking all the fat out of me. Dude, I'm going to be so ripped, it's going to be amazing. And if not, you'll see me in a Speedo, which would be the worst thing ever. Let's all pray that I stick to my goals. Bart: Hey everybody, send him really clean food, nothing for the holidays, be nice. Russell: No junk food. This guy's going to be gone my FHL. Anyway, if you don't have your tickets yet, go to funnelhackinglive.com. Bart, you're going to be there, hanging out for the party. Bart: Hanging out for sure. Russell: So when you're there, grab him and pay him to help get you dressed nice and get you fit, it'll be awesome. Anyway guys, appreciate you all. Thank you man, for hanging out. See you guys later. Bart: Bye

Be a fly on the wall during the ClickFunnels partner meeting and hear the #1 thing each of us learned on our journey so far. On this episode we get to hear from the entire Clickfunnels partnership team. They all share the big takeaways they have received as they have watched the company soar to over a hundred million dollars a year in revenue. Here are some of the cool things you will hear. How Russell learned that having a great partnership and team was better than being on his own. Why Todd thinks it's important to have someone who is obsessed with the product you're selling. Why Dave thinks the Dream 100 is so important. How John prioritizes and delegates to make sure everything is done by the appropriate people. Why Brent thinks it's important to stay small and nimble as long as possible and why you shouldn't sweat the small stuff. And why Ryan believes that constraints are not a limiting factor, but what helps you focus and succeed. So listen here to find out what the Clickfunnels partnership team members have learned that have lead the company to surpass their goal of a hundred million dollars in revenue a year. ---Transcript--- What's up everybody, this is Russell Brunson. Welcome to the Marketing Secrets podcast. Today is a special episode, we're here above the ice right here, there's hockey happening down there. But we're in our partner planning meeting, here are all the cofounding partners of Clickfunnels, hanging out and plotting world domination. The theme of today's event and the theme of this podcast is this: It comes from social network, millions of dollars isn't cool. You know what is cool? A billion dollars. Alright everybody, so welcome back. We're excited to have you guys here. We've been here locked up in this awesome office for the last day and a half planning world domination and how to make Clickfunnels better for you as a user, how to get more of you as users, so we can serve more people, more audiences and more entrepreneurs. It's been really, really fun. We've been going around plotting and scheming and planning and creating and doing and a whole bunch of really fun stuff. So I thought we'd take a quick ten minute break here and I thought it'd be fun because we actually had a call yesterday with, I guess they're not really competitors, a cool company that we like what they do. We're potentially interesting in maybe buying them or whatever. It's funny because they've been watching what we're doing, obviously and he's like, "You guys are what, 10 million dollars a year in revenue?" and we're like, "No." So in case you guys are wondering, we passed $10 million in revenue year one. We're year three. So I thought it would be kind of fun to maybe look at this, a little bit ago, like 2 months ago we passed a hundred million in revenue. So we went from zero to a hundred million dollars in about 3 years. And I wanted to say what was the biggest aha that each of us individually got, that we've learned in that process. So you guys get ideas from everybody inside the team here. So just a really quick intro with everybody, then I'll share my aha and then move on. So I'm Russell, I'm the nerd who is the dancing monkey who's talking about Clickfunnels all day long. That's what I do here. This is Todd Dickerson, he is the genius that built all of the original Clickfunnels and look at that beard, so manly. Over here, this is Dave, he's all the business development stuff, he's got the retro Clickfunnels shirt on. Then over here is John, he does all of our ads, and if you see us every day on every platform it's because of that guy, so blame him. Over here we have Brent Coppieters, he does all our operations stuff and he's going to be transitioning to a bunch of our new, something we can't talk about live or publically yet. It's going to be cool. And this is Ryan, what's up Ryan. Ryan is the genius who is always coding. So I thought it would be fun to give you different people's perspective, because obviously we're all in different parts of the company, lifting different parts, doing different things, so I thought it'd be interesting to hear everybody's ideas. So I'll start with mine. So I think the biggest takeaway, I shared this last night with these guys, is as I was growing my business initially, the first 8 or 9 years I was very, I don't know what the right word is, scarcity mindset or whatever. Where it's like, I am Russell. I am the leader. I own the company, and all these things. And I think I had one or two deals with partners that went sour because I was like, I will never have a partner, I will only be me. It's funny, with that mindset and that attitude, we were able to get to this level and we kind of camped out there. And I'm lucky for me, Todd came in. Trojan horsed his way in, where he basically worked for free for an entire year, which was awesome. And then we worked together for a couple of years. I don't even know how many years it was ahead of time, a couple of years before that, and then we had the idea for Clickfunnels. We were sitting in an office in Boise, we bought the domain, we were going to call it something different and then we finally found Clickfunnels, we bought the domain, then for a whole week we were mapping out on the whiteboard everything. At the end of the week, and this is to kind of take you back, this is on the backend, we had 100 employees, the whole thing collapsed, we had to fire 80 people. I had to go from a 20 thousand square foot building to a 2 thousand and we could barely afford the rent. It was the most humbling, painful time of my life. I think that the Lord or whoever, whatever you want to call it, humbled me to a spot where I was willing to say yes to this. And I am so eternally grateful that I did. But at the end of that week Todd was like, "Okay, I'm going to go back to Atlanta. I'm going to build this thing, the Clickfunnels thing. But I don't want to do it as an employee, I want to do it as a partner." And the Russell two or three years earlier than that would have been like, "Um nope. This is the Russell show." And I would have done something stupid like that. But luckily I was at a point where I was sufficiently humble. I was like, you know what I'm going to do that. And I'm so grateful that I did because then Todd built Clickfunnels. Holy crap, seriously. It's insane. And then after that, that's when we brought in these other guys as partners as well. They're all rockstar people. It wasn't just like, "I'm going to give you a base salary." Or whatever. It was like, "Okay, come in and become a partner in this thing." For me it's like, as you find the right people and incentivize them….If I were to ever build a company again, I would never build a company where Russell's the thing. We went and watched Justice League last night, so maybe this is because it's in my head. Justice League, Avengers, Batman, whatever. I would literally, if I ever build a company again, the initial thought will be, I'm going to build my Avengers team, my Justice League. I'm Batman, there's Iron Man, everyone's got their spot. Ryan's Wonder Woman, I just want to look like Aqua Man, that dude is ripped. But if I ever start a company again, the first thought will not be, what product should I sell? It will be what team should we assemble? And then I would carve out where everyone's roles were going to be. I'm not going to be CEO next time, so any of you guys can pick that, I'm done after this. But we each pick our different roles and then from there, collectively, be like, "What should we create? What should we build? Who should we serve?" And then we'd go from that. So my biggest takeaway from going from zero to a hundred million dollars is definitely give up control, build your Avenger team ahead of time, because Russell Brunson could have never gotten here. It took these guys and the team we built to create that. Anyway, there's my number one. So I'm handing it off to Todd now to share the biggest thing he's learned from going from zero to a hundred million dollars. Todd: What's funny is that I was actually thinking about saying very similar things. One of the biggest things is the team. Seeing how to build a team around you and actually do things as a team as opposed to by yourself independently. That's how I've always done things in the past, on my own more or less, same type of scenario. But I think something else that stands out to me is having someone who is obsessive about the product itself. We always talk about how marketing is the big thing, and it is. But if you're focused on the marketing, you still need someone on your team that is obsessed with the actual product. Making sure you're delivering the best possible thing to people. So when you sell it to them, they actually like it and they come back and want more. So that's my other big epiphany I think that I've had over the past… Russell: Especially in our world. Our world, everybody's obsessed with marketing, rightfully so. A lot of times if you're in the marketing and product, if you do them both, it's really, really hard. I tried to build software companies in the past where I was like the marketing guy, plus trying to convince the developers how to do it. Whereas with this, you were able to run with the product and I could just sell. Todd: Absolutely. That's why I think that's worked as a great partnership. Russell focuses on the marketing and I focus on the product. And I think having that really makes a difference. Pass it on to Dave here. Dave: Hey there. So we talk about this all the time and I cannot express the importance of it, and that's the Dream 100. So I took a look back on everything that's happened as far as first of all having an amazing product and then amazing leaders, and then Todd and Russell, the two of them are amazing together. I think the part for me, is I look at everything we've built over the last three years now, is the importance of the Dream 100. Originally Dream 100, as far as affiliates, and even most recently when we did the book launch, what I really learned a lot from that was the importance of understanding it's a Dream 100 per platform as well. So as far as your influencers, where are they at? Are they on YouTube, are they on Facebook, are they on Twitter, or are they in Instagram? Wherever they might be. And then as recently, as far as, a new Dream 100, as far as hiring partners that you really want to end up working with long term. So for me, I think the most important thing is when you start looking at building something, is really identifying your Dream 100 and then being very, very consistent in continuing to mail out every single month to them. Establishes and builds that relationship with them, they get used to seeing you. It's been fascinating as we've gone out and traveled and go to these different places and people remember the boxes and things that have been sent. And they're like, "Oh, how do I get on that list?" And if they're asking to be on the list, I don't need them on the list, I don't need them basically. But the reality basically says that it actually works. So I would say, in building a hundred million dollar company, and any size company I would definitely say Dream 100 is one of the most important things. John, up to you. John: Alright, so a really interesting journey we've been on. It's been so much fun. One of the things that I've learned which is just huge, is prioritizing your time and your tasks. I mean, especially when we're all internet entrepreneurs, we're on the computer, it's so easy. The computer is a gateway to anything. So a huge thing for me is to, before even opening the computer, physically write down or use your phone or use something else that's not your computer, to structure out. We all do this, Russell does this, I do this. We structure out what we're going to do.What are the next things I need to do? Because if you can get that basically spiritually created, if you can get that thought through before you actually begin, then it changes everything. Then you're actually getting through stuff instead of just fumbling along. It's so easy because we're all bombarded with a million different things, we could be paying attention to a million different things. Only some of which are really going to move the needle. And the other thing is, especially as you grow your team, as you get more people working with you, it's about….So I build out that list and then the next thing I ask myself as I go through that list is, "Okay, who can do this? Who can I get to do this? Who can I get to do this?" And that specific question, as I go through the list, as who can I get to do this, that allows me to go through and delegate as much as possible to team members, so then I become more of a leader. Because it's so easy to just be like, I could just do it all. Yeah, you can probably. But maybe you shouldn't be doing it all. You know, that's something to think through. So build out that list, really think through it before you start to take action in the day, prioritize it and then go through and glean through the list and be like, "Who can get to do these things." Assuming you'll be doing none of them. Of course there will be a handful that you end up doing, but that way it's just a mindset that will help you get things delegated properly. Here you go Brent. Brent: Awesome. Hey everybody, it's good to connect with you. I just want to express how much we appreciate you. Everybody who follows us, who's obviously dedicated listeners of Russell's program. It's funny, more and more as we travel with Russell, even locally here in the Boise area, he's getting like, people recognize him all over the place. They see the jeep, or they see him in the hallway of the hotel and they're like, "Hey, I'm your neighbor." Just these random……Albertsons…..it's just funny. Anyway, a couple of things. I've had the privilege of working with Russell for over 11 years and the one thing I think that you just cannot replace, or that's absolutely needed is hard work. You have to be dedicated in getting this business and be willing to sacrifice what you need to sacrifice to get going. Another thing that I think we've learned through this journey is stay nimble and small as much as you can. Don't go out and try to lease some big office space until you've got sales coming in, consistent sales, your business is in good shape that way. Another thing that we've kind of followed here in our company is we've been slow to hire and quick to fire. Building a team, and Russell's done a tremendous job of this, obviously we've got great partners here. And then that has extended to our team members. Again, we love all our team members. We are essentially a great family of likeminded individuals who are focused on a goal. And the leadership in this company has helped us all work to achieve that goal. So that's been awesome as well. So stay small as long as you can, be nimble, be humble, but you gotta work hard. Once you do those things, don't sweat over the small things. We've had different variations of an employee handbook, and I'm just finally getting it out here in the next few weeks. And we've been in business three years. So don't stress about the mistakes. We were somewhere, we were at an event in Denver a few weeks ago, it was related to customer support, and that's very normal. For small startups, that's very normal. Those things just come, but don't worry about those little details. They work themselves out. But work hard and you'll achieve that success. So I will hand this over to my buddy, Ryan. Ryan: So I love talking about this topic, and I think it's best summarized as, "Worse is better." You can do a lot more than you think. Gary V told us that when we met with him on the social media side. We're like, "We already do everything, we already do a ton, we're on everything." He's like, "You can do more." And I think this is true on everything we do in engineering, everything we do when it comes to product. You've heard it in every single answer from everybody to some degree. But I think the killer, underlining subtext to all that, is that constraints are not a limiting factor. They force you to focus, the focus forces you to prioritize, that forces you to do the one thing everyday that's most valuable so that you can compete with somebody who's got 40 million dollars in funding and you've got three guys in an office trying to figure it out because it makes you laser focus on the thing you have to do every single day. That's what enables you to compete at a higher level, that's what enables, and I believe the most important thing we've done in our culture is force everybody, from hiring decisions, to business processes, don't worry about the handbook, don't over complicate this, simplify this. Because those constraints are what make us as powerful as we are and what enable to be a hundred million dollar company with a hundred people. To grow to a billion dollars with fewer resources and a fraction of the budget and everything else. Everyone else who's competing with us, they have no idea how we do it. They're all like, "Wait, how many engineers do you have? How do you do this? How big are you?" it blows their mind and I think that's the thing they miss. Those constraints are what enable us to do it. Our weaknesses are our strengths and people see them backwards. And we see it the opposite. That's why everyone's so blown away and why nobody gets it. I think that's our secret sauce in many ways. So I love that. That's our thing. That's what I learned, that blew my mind. Russell: That's awesome. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Its fun hanging out and we just want to thank you guys so much for allowing us to serve you and serve your audience. We love what we do. We're obsessed, we're passionate, we've been up for the last two days going crazy trying to figure out ways to do it better. You know, for us, a lot of people say, "You guys made it to a hundred million. That's crazy." That's step number one for us. We're just getting started, wait until you see what's going to be coming out over the next twelve months and beyond. We love you guys, we appreciate you, we're so grateful for the ability and the right and the gift we have to be able serve you guys in what you guys do. So thanks again so much for everything and we'll talk to you guys soon, bye everybody.

Interesting thoughts after my whirlwind week. On this episode Russell talks about what's it's like being an introvert in an extrovert's business. He shares how you can still be successful while being introverted, just like him. Here are some interesting things in this episode: Find out why Russell loves speaking in front of thousands of people, but can still be awkward one on one. See how Russell is able to get past his introverted tenancies to still be able to sell a room. And find out why you just need to start sharing your message and with consistency you will find your voice. So listen here to find out how an introvert is making it in this extroverted business. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson. Welcome to Marketing Secrets podcast. Today we're going to be talking about what it's like being an introvert inside of an extrovert's calling. Here we go. Alright so last week was a little bit insane. I think I only slept about 2 ½ hours last night and I am really excited to fall asleep. The kids are almost all in bed, but one of them is finishing their homework so I'm like, I'm going to sneak away and talk to you guys before I pass out and then go back and finish the homework with them so. That's why we're here right now. So last week there was an event that I wanted to speak at for a long time and I got invited probably about six or seven months ago. I was looking forward to it and then after someone else….I get invited to speak at a lot of events, and unfortunately I have to say no to most of them just because it's hard to leave and travel and be away from family, so it's not typically worth the investment or the time away, especially this level in the business. It's tough because it's like, I've had people come back like, "Hey we'll pay you $100,000 to come speak." And I'm like, I feel like a jerk because to be able to travel there, being there, being able to travel back, it's like, I could do a webinar and clear way more than that, you know what I mean, and be able to go sleep in my own bed at night and be with my kids that night. So it's just tough unfortunately. But someone asked me, one of my friends, James Malinchak asked me and since I was already going to be speaking at WarriorCon, which is widespread event that I was super excited to speak at. James is in the same city. So it was like, "Sweet dude. I'll just drive over and we'll do this whole thing." So we're at the event and I'm like, I'm going to be in LA, what else is in LA? Tai Lopez is in LA, we should go hang out with Tai. Justin and Tara Williams are in LA, we should hang out with them. And it turned out to be really, really cool. Here comes Bow-dog, who has been working on his homework. Say hi to everybody. Bowen: Hey! Russell: Anyway, the vacation was crazy. Basically what happened is Dave and I jumped in a plane and flew out there to LA, and at night we got to the Warrior Event, so we decided to sneak in. We were at the back and we had white shirts on and everyone of the warriors got black shirts on that say "Warrior" on it.  I wasn't speaking until the next day, but I walk in and they came and grabbed the shirts and like, "Go put these on right now." So we put our shirts on so we could fit in with the whole cult-ture that their building over there. It was just cool. And then that night I was going to work on slides, I was super tired so I just went to bed. Woke up in the morning and I was going to work on slides, and I was super tired so I didn't and we went and got massages, don't tell mom. Massages were really good. Then after the massages I was going to work on the slides, but then I didn't. And then Justin and Tara came to lunch, we hung out with them for lunch, which was awesome. Then it was like, the ninth hour, or twelfth hour, however that works. So I had to go get the slides done. So I went up into the room, got my slides done, saw Kevin Anderson who does all our Funnel Hacker TV stuff, he came to come film. And Brandon Fischer was there as well, he does all of other video stuff. So it was kind of cool to have those guys come out as well. They were filming the room, walking around, getting a bunch of footage and everything, which is pretty sweet. So you'll probably see some of this on Funnel Hacker TV soon. But that's kind of what's happening. It's so cool, Warrior was insane. 600 men, just insane, everyone dressed in black, it was really, really cool. I was teaching a lot of the Expert Secrets book stuff, but as I was teaching it to them I was also showing how Garret had done it. The process Garret had done to create the Warrior movement, it was really kind of cool to be like, "Here's this piece of it, here's how I did it. Here's what Garret's doing, here's what you need to do." And kind of go through the whole thing. So I think everyone thought it was pretty cool. The only problem, it's so bad. I started the presentation and then I come up and Garret does this huge thing to get everyone pumped up and excited and I come on stage and start my slides and my slides aren't working. And it's like, I had done all this research to find out, the day we launched Clickfunnels, it was like 138 days later that he had launched his and it had the dates and time and all this stuff in the first slides. So it wasn't like I could just BS my way through the first three or four slides. They had like pictures and the date and time. I'm like, "Ugh. Well…." So it was super anticlimactic for probably, seemed like an hour, but probably the first 2 or 3 minutes. And then they came back, you know you get kind of thrown off. It took me 5 or 6 minutes to get back on and then I think the rest of the presentation went pretty well after that. That was awesome and then we got done and we were supposed to leave to head to Tai Lopez's house, which is like a 2 hour drive I think, but also Stu McClarin was doing a charity event…..this is homework, we'll talk about that in a minute. We're almost done bud, then you can….. So Stu McClarin is doing an online charity event, so I was supposed to do an interview for that, so I jumped on at the hotel before we left. And of course the hotel internet goes out. It keeps going in and out, so it's all…..but we did our best there and ended up raising like $22,000 I think for that charity event, which was really sweet to help some families out that have been struggling with hurricane stuff. Then jumped in an Uber, drove to Tai Lopez's house, they asked us when we got there, "What's your hard leave time?" "We have to leave at 11:00 sharp." So we ended up being there until after 1, almost 1:30 I think. We filmed to info products there, ate dinner with Tai and then did an interview with him, which if you haven't seen yet, it's online. It ended up being almost 2 hours long, it was really good. I'm going to see if I can get it on the podcast, so I may play here for you guys to hear. It turned out really cool. If I do that I will explain some of the reason behind the podcast. But we got done with that at like 1 in the morning. Jumped in an Uber and got to the new hotel somewhere else by 2. And then passed out and woke up at like 6 because I still had to do slides for the next day's event. So I was working on slides all day. Then got down, get onstage at James event, closed 30% of the room on our package, did the whole thing and by the time we left, we were driving to the airport and I'm like, I just can't keep my eyes open, I'm so tired. We drive to the airport, fly home and it's interesting, because in those situations, I'm onstage, 100's of people, everyone's cheering, I love that. That's me, as Russell the extrovert. I love that. My calling in life and in business is like, requires me to do that, be good at that. Because I gotta stand onstage in front of all of these people and entertain and inspire and hopefully give them the tools they need to be able to move forward. But what a lot of people don't know is that's not natural to me. I'm not naturally very extroverted. In fact, my whole entire life up until probably 10 years ago, when I kind of started into this business, it wasn't even when I started this business, it was way into the business before I realized I had to start learning how to speak, talk. But I was super introverted, in fact, still am very, very introverted. But when I'm in those situations, I'm at an event and I'm onstage, it comes out of me. I love it, I really, really enjoy it but it's funny because Dave, who's there at all these events, he told me, "You're onstage, you're present, doing your thing, loving it. Then you get off stage and someone comes and asks you a question and you just shrink in this weird introverted, like you can tell I'm not comfortable in that kind of situation." At James Malinchak's event, it's funny because I haven't spoken at an event like that, where you speak and sell and people can ask you questions afterwards for a long time. And it was just tough because I'm in the back of the room and probably for an hour and a half I had people ask me question after question after question. Which is just like, super uncomfortable for me typically. And introverted Russell was really, really struggling. And then it's funny, I got home, we took an Uber home, flew home, got back to my house about midnight and the next morning at like 8:00 we had this big church Christmas party that my wife was in charge of. Such a crazy week. So we get there and there's you know, all the entire church, all these people, and all this stuff, and I'm there with the kids because she was stuff ready. So I bring the kids in and it was just interesting. I come in and totally introverted Russell took over. Not comfortable in that situation. I kind of sat down at the table with my kids and there's all these amazing people who go to church with us, that I know who they are, I like them, I like them a lot. There's especially a bunch of guys that I really think are just awesome. And it's so weird how much fear I have to go and just say hi to them. I hate it. That's one thing that really frustrates me about myself. In my element, it's easy to go out there and people come to me, because it's the brand I built. I go to events and people come and they want to ask me questions, so it's really easy. It just very naturally comes to me and I can talk to them. But I go to these other places where no one really knows who I am, and it's just, I'm a person. It's hard. I don't know why I struggle so much to just walk up and say to them and talk to them. It's interesting how much that introvert side of me, how much I struggle with that. I remember sitting there the whole Christmas party, looking around and seeing all these amazing people, people that are fascinated by us, "I want to go talk to that person, I want to ask them a question, or do whatever." But I honestly have so much fear inside of me, it drives me nuts. All this fear keeps me from going and saying hi, just going and talking to them. And even when they do come say hi to me or whatever, it's just weird. I'm really good at carrying on a conversation when people come and ask me questions, you know, but it's like, we're on mutual ground, they don't really know much about me or whatever, I really struggle. I always try to think, I need to be interesting and ask them questions about themselves, but I'm just not as good at that. It's just fascinating, the contrast of the night before I was onstage in front of all these people, people chanting my name and screaming and going crazy, people crying and this whole thing. And then the next day I'm around people that live near me and I can't even…it's interesting. So that's a little glimpse of what it looks like to be an introvert in an extrovert position or calling. So unless you think that I got everything put together, I still get scared to death. One of my biggest fears in life is calling people. I hate calling people on the phone, it scares me to death. That's why I use Voxer with my inner circle members, that's why I never, the only phone call I ever answer is from my wife. Everyone else I make go to voicemail, then I listen to the voicemail and if it sounds awesome I call them back, otherwise I just don't call them back at all. I'll text them back or I'll vox them back. Just because I have these weird fears about that. Anyway, it's not just me, it's everyone. So don't feel bad if you are like, "I'm too introverted I'm never going to be good at this business. I don't dare talk to people." I get that. Still to this day, I get so nervous behind it. But that's one of the powers and beautiful things about this kind of business. My thoughts are like, when you are introverted it's really hard to do face to face, one on one selling. Nothing scares me more than that. It's funny how we built huge call centers and stuff like that and I don't think I've ever picked up the phone and called someone and sold them on the phone. I don't think I would even have the guts to do that yet. I can stand in front of a room of a thousand people or five thousand people and sell. For example, I'm speaking at Grand Cardone's event in February and there's supposed to be somewhere between 8500 and 10,000 people. I'm so excited for that. The extrovert in me is like, yes, this is going to be awesome, I'll step onstage, I'll speak, I'll sell. It'll be so much fun. And then afterwards in the hallway, anyone asks me questions I get all awkward and weird. Hopefully someday I figure it out. So hopefully my kids, hopefully Bowen over here, will never be nervous. Do you get nervous from talking to people at all? Bowen: Yeah. Russell: Do you get nervous standing in front of a lot of people and talking? Bowen: Yeah. Russell: Both of them? Bowen: I'm about to do it in front of my entire class. Russell: You're giving a presentation tomorrow? Bowen: Wednesday. Russell: On Wednesday? Does it make you nervous? Bowen: Yeah. Russell: What makes you more nervous, talking in front of a class of a whole bunch of people, or just talking one on one with somebody? Bowen: Probably the whole class. Russell: The whole class does? Interesting. See for me, I was just telling them, when I'm onstage with a whole bunch of people I feel comfortable, but then one on one I get really nervous. Bowen: if it's one on one I guess you do kind of get nervous. I mean, it was kind of hard for me to do this because one on one is kind of hard because if you mess up they'll recognize it. Except if it's a lot of people, they don't yell it out. Russell: Anyway, I just wanted to share with you guys tonight, I don't think this is something anyone is going to learn much from, other than hopefully give the introverts out there some hope that they can do this. And people that are extroverted, help them understand their super powers. A lot of those guys are going to be a lot better one on one and a lot of introverts just seem like….it's funny, because it's not just me either. I was talking to Frank Kern and he's like, "I love doing big events, but it scares me to talk to people afterward." He's super introverted. I think a lot of people in these kinds of positions are. So it's neat because it's something that introverts can thrive in, in mass situation, but then they're…even within there they can still have success. Hopefully that helps some of you guys who may get nervous or may think, "I can't do this, I can't do this. I'm not like Russell." I get people all the time, "I'm not like you Russell. I can't stand up in front of people and just talk for hours." I'm like, "Dude, but you can talk to someone face to face, I can't do that. It scares the crap out of me." I mean, that's a bad word here, in this family. It scares the..something else out of me. That's the worse swear word you're going to hear from Russell. Bowen: Crud maybe. Russell: Crud? It scares the crud out of me. Yeah, that's way better. Good job.  Anyway, I hope that helps those introverts out here to understand how it is that you can still succeed in an extroverts world. In doing this stuff, the Expert Secrets stuff, putting your voice out there, putting your message out there. Because when all is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the impact you have on people's lives. So do it, it's worth it. At first you're not going to be very good, but if you get consistent with it, you get better and better and better. I think I told you guys, Steven Larsen told me, because I started this podcast back before I knew how to see if anybody was listening to it, so I think for four or five years I didn't have it hooked to any stat system. And I'm glad I didn't know because I just kept doing it and doing it. And Steven Larsen said to me one time, "Yeah, the first 45-46 episodes weren't very good. After that it started getting really, really good though." But that's how it kind of works. It's all about you guys getting out there and sharing, sharing, and sharing and eventually you'll get comfortable with your voice. I just watched Alex Charfin, he launched his Momentum podcast after the Pirates Cove mastermind this year, and he's passed like 80 thousand downloads, which is awesome. And what he just posted on Facebook about it was just, because he thought about doing a podcast forever and I was the one that was like, "Dude, just do it. You'd be awesome at it. Just jump off the cliff." And he said that by doing it, it was really cool. He's like, "I found my voice. People started finding me. Other people referred people and my audience grew. I have people listening to my voice every single day and it's just like such a good thing." But again, it's all about just doing it. And the more you do it, the better, the more your message will get clear, the better you'll find your voice, the more comfortable you'll feel. The nicest thing about these mass media things that we have, podcasts and videos, webinars, things like that, is that even if you're introverted you can still do this because you don't have to talk face to face to anybody. You can do group selling, group everything and it's awesome. So there you go, that's all I got. I'm going to go get this kid to bed, get his homework done so I can go to bed because I am so tired. Appreciate you all, talk to you soon. Bye.

The two most important things your can do between now and the end of the year to double your business for next year. On today's episode talks about his upcoming meeting with his partners to plan next year, and goes on to explain why he's simplifying his value ladder and his life. Here are some awesome things you will hear in this episode: Why it's important to have a planning meeting with your partners to decide what you want to achieve for the next year. What kind of things Russell is doing to simplify his value ladder and why he's doing it. And why Russell is turning off two programs that each do well over a million dollars each year. So listen here to find out how you too can simplify your value ladder. ---Transcript--- What's up everybody? This is Russell Brunson, welcome to the Marketing Secrets podcast. Hey everyone, so I'm out walking, I just took the garbage out. If you look out here it is getting close to Christmas time, Thanksgiving is over. For those who are watching the video, these are the lights we have wrapped around our house, lighting up for the Christmas holiday, which is kind of fun. So I'm just going to walk around here so you guys can see my face and get enough light to connect on camera. For those who are listening in, I hope you had an amazing holiday, Thanksgiving, getting ready for the end of the year. The end of the year is always a fun time for us marketers and entrepreneurs because it's focusing and planning for the beginning of next year, which is coming soon. So it's kind of fun, we got not this week but next week, Todd and Ryan and everyone's flying here to Boise and we're going to be doing a big partner meeting and planning out the rest of this year, world domination for next year and set our big HAG's, our big hairy audacious goals, figure out what we're going to do and reverse engineer that to make it possible. It was kind of fun, I was watching a podcast I did last year that basically said, "These are our goals, here are the five Hail Mary passes we're going to do to try to hit those goals." If you haven't listened to that podcast, rewind to about a year ago and listen to it. That's what's going to be the goal of this meeting. We're going to set our big goal, what we're trying do and then I'm not going to just have one execution plan, but here's four or five things we're going to do to hit that goal, if one or two of them hit, then we'll hit these crazy big goals. That's what we're going to be doing, not this week, but next week. So I'm sure I'll be doing podcasts from there talking about it. But I'm excited for that. If you haven't done that yet, make sure this year before the end of the year that you spend some time and block it out with your team and do that. Figure out again, what's the big goal, and reverse engineer what you gotta do to make that happen. And then from there figure out 3 or 4 different Hail Mary passes that you gotta throw to get your big goal. So that's kind of what we're going to be doing, I'm excited for it and it's going to be fun. So what I wanted to share with you guys tonight really quick before I head back in, because it's a really beautiful night. It's not too cold, it's just kind of nice for a little walk around the yard. So what I've been working on, on my side, and I talked about this a little bit after inner circle meetings, one of the big aha's. It's kind of funny how we go through these cycles, we know things and then we forget them and re-realize them. But the Dotcom Secrets book we talk a lot about the value ladder, right. And it's funny because ever since we launched Expert Secrets we haven't talked as much about that. Because Expert Secrets is all about figuring out the first part, the what and how. What are you selling and how are you selling it. So it's like figuring out how to create your offer and how to position yourself, create your mass movement, figure out what you believe and what you don't believe, what's your future based cause, who are your people, all those kind of things. And then you create a message, presentation to get people to follow you to sell your products and that process takes a little while. You gotta re-do your presentation four, five, or six times until you get it perfect, and then you're driving traffic and you keep doing that. And eventually if you do it enough times, follow the process, do a webinar live every single week for a while, keep tweaking and changing based on what we talked about in the book, eventually you hit it and you know you hit it because you go from $0 to a million dollars fast. That is when you've figured out the what and the how. What it is you're actually selling, and how you sell it. So eventually you get that figured out. Now the next phase is really shifting back to the Dotcom Secrets stuff. Now you got customers coming in, and this is where entrepreneurs start freaking out because then they start talking about the value ladder. I need upsells and downsells and backends and frontends, and they start going crazy. And what I want to talk about is the big aha I had from the inner circle meetings. I'm watching the people that are crushing it and the ones who are struggling, and the consistency amongst the people in the inner circle that are killing it is that most of them came in and had one thing figured out, and they got that working. That's about the time they joined the inner circle, right. Because people need to be making about a million bucks a year to be in there. So it's kind of the fit, right. So they came in the group then, and then they're trying to figure out what's the next, how does it all work? And really what's interesting, the people who are growing the fastest, what they're doing is they're very systematically building out the backend of the value ladder. And most value ladders are simple, in fact, traditionally most people making money, they focus on the middle first. The webinar or something like that in the middle. They build out the backend, whatever that thing is, and then that's done. You have the middle and the backend and it stops. You don't keep creating any more backend stuff. That's the end of it. And then what your business is moving forward is creating new front end offers that bring people into the middle of the value ladder, which is essentially the backend. And I started looking, it was interesting, I lost my way, I'd forgotten these lessons. It's funny, I kind of created them in the Dotcom Secrets book and I forgot some of them. It's been a little while since I revisited those thoughts. And what I realized is that my value ladder came and kind of split up and broke off and there's all these different things that people could do. And it was, we're monetizing a bunch of them, but there's confusion. So it's interesting, there's actually two programs that we have, both that do well over a million bucks over a year that I am turning off. Not because they're not awesome, they are. Not because they're not making money, they are. It's because they don't, they're deviants, they deviate off the value ladder. My value ladder's very, very simple moving forward. So the rest of this year, I'm trying to get these few things in place to execute on that. But it's very simple. What it is, we have a webinar where I sell Clickfunnels, Funnel Building Secrets, which is the new Funnel Hacks, Funnel Scripts and Traffic Secrets. Those four products, bundled together, own six full months of Clickfunnels for $2,000. That's what I sell, that's the thing. I did a webinar a couple of weeks ago, it did really well. That's what I sell, that's the middle of the value ladder, $2,000 thing. On the backend of that we have our Two Comma Club Coaching, which will be releasing here probably at the live event. And that will be where we take everyone to and that's the value ladder, that's the backend. Inner Circle is full, so we're not taking any more people in there. So we're going $2,000 for Clickfunnels and then whatever the pricing is on the Two Comma Club coaching that's coming up and that's it. And that won't deviate, that won't change. That'll be the same for forever. And all I will be doing, from this point forward for hopefully the rest of my life, the rest of my business career is just creating cool frontends. So I'll have the Dotcom Secrets book, which is a frontend, then the Expert Secrets book, which is a frontend, eventually we'll have Traffic Secrets, the Marketing Secrets and other ones. Perfect webinar, all these other things. I'll just be having fun and creating frontends, but the only point of frontend is to get people to ascend up to the $2,000 and from the $2,000 to the Two Comma Club coaching. And that's it, that's my business. And I get to figure out cool and new ways to sell frontends and that's all I'm doing, selling frontends. That's it. So it's very simple. So all of your creative juices in entrepreneurship is on figuring out the next event, the next backend and all that kind of stuff, it should be simple. It should just be, what's a cool frontend we can drive more people into. And that's kind of the game, so I'm excited. You'll see some of the tweaks I'm making now with this severe hyper focus on the value ladder. Somebody buys the Expert Secrets book, if I know that this is my severe hyper focus thing, what's the process I'm taking them? They buy the book, they go through the upsell, downsell process, the thank you page I'll have a live presentation right there of me pitching the $2,000 thing. Right there and after they finish that it's like, "Hey, do you want to apply for coaching? Come here." And it's just, that's the process, very simple, very easy. We'll just replicate it over and over again. So anyway, I'm simplifying my business, simplifying my life. Hopefully those of you listening to this will simplify earlier, not later. Because sometimes we get all excited and then next thing we know there's a billion things happening and….simplify now. Anyway, that's all I got for you. I'm heading in right now; get to bed because we got a crazy week starting tomorrow, which I'm excited for. Hopefully this gives you guys a couple of things. Number one, hopefully it gives you guys some thoughts on doing your team core planning meeting with you and your partners. If it's just and your employees or whatever it is, if it's just you and your spouse, or just you. Sit down and plan next year's goals, figure out, reverse engineer what you need to do to actually execute on that and hit them and then figure out what the 3 or 4 Hail Mary passes are you're going to need to throw to be able to get the big goals. And number two is really map out your value ladder, try to simplify it as much as you can. That's what I'm doing. You guys will see it, coming January first, a bunch of new, fun, clean, simplified things will be coming out of team Clickfunnels here. So I'm excited for it. That's all I got. If you haven't got your tickets for funnel hacking live yet, they're getting close to being sold out. We sold a ton of them over this last weekend. So if you don't have your tickets yet, now is the time, go to funnelhackinglive.com. That's about it. With that said, appreciate you all, thanks for listening, thanks for subscribing and we'll talk to you all again soon. Bye everybody.

This is the marketing secret I'm dusting off from the archives of one of the greatest campaigns we ever ran. On this episode Russell talks about going old school with a technique he used to use that worked every single time. He gives all the information you need to be able to do it for your business. Here are some cool things on this episode: How Russell used to use this technique back in the day. How you can use it to build curiosity, which translates into people signing up for a membership site. And why Russell himself hasn't used this technique in a while, but why he's going to use it again very soon with Clickfunnels. So listen below to find out what awesome technique Russell used in the past with massive success, that he plans on using again. ---Transcript--- What's up everybody? This is Russell Brunson, welcome to the Marketing Secrets podcast. I got something exciting I want to share with you right now. Alright everybody, there's something I talked a lot about in my inner circle recently, it seems like a lot of people are launching membership programs, membership sites. Have you guys ever had something where you did something really successful for a long time and for some reason you stopped doing it and then you don't know why you did? So that's one of these ideas that came out, so I shared it with a bunch of them and they're all going crazy and a bunch of them are all trying it out right . I was like, man, this should be a marketing secret that I share with everyone else. So I'm bringing it to the podcast. So this is what it is. This is a way, if you've got a membership site, to stimulate growth really, really rapidly. It can help you get a hundred signups in like a day, or 200 hundred or 1,000 depending on how big your thing is. How to get a whole bunch really, really quick. I haven't yet done this with Clickfunnels, but I'm going to. Maybe I'll do it on January 1st….anyway, I don't know. But I used to do this back in the day on our membership sites and I saw initially, the person I modeled and did this first was a guy name Alex Mendosian and they did it to fill up a whole bunch of people in their software program, which was kind of cool. So I watched them do it, and then I did it four or five times afterwards and it worked amazingly well every single time and then for some reason I stopped doing it. Because that's what we do, when things work we just stop doing them sometimes. The ADD-ness of an entrepreneurs mind. Anyway, so this is a really important, really cool one. So this is the strategy. I will walk you through all the pieces, and hopefully it gives you guys a tool you can use anytime you want to sell some stuff really, really quick. So what we do, is we would promote it, I did it back in the day of the teleseminars. I think it would still work with teleseminars, in fact, it's almost….anyway, who knows. It will definitely work with webinars as well, or Facebook Live, or a lot of different ways you could do it. But the big key is you're promoting an event. The event is to talk about something cool. A new discovery you've figured out which is brand new to whatever you do. There's different ways to position it. If you read the Dotcom Secrets book there's 5 different curiosity hooks we have in there. But my favorite one for this is, "Oh my gosh, I figured out this thing, I want to show it to you guys live. So you have to be on this thing because I'm going to teach you, show you, walk you behind the scenes of this new thing that just came out." A new discovery is the hook that I love for this the most. For example, last time we did this, this was back when we had, when we were focusing more on business opportunity seekers as opposed to entrepreneurs, and we had figured out a way to generate leads, it was really cool what we were doing. We were going to CPA networks and there were these offers that were getting a thousand sales a day and the people who had these offers, would actually sell you the leads. It's not a strategy that I believe in or I would recommend or I don't think anyone should ever do, but it was a really cool thing. So we were tapping into these CPA networks so that offers, basically when someone would opt in for an offer and then they would buy that person's product and we would get the lead put into our auto responder, kind of like code reds, but a little different. We were getting a couple thousand leads a day coming in and it was really, really cool. I probably shouldn't have told you that because now some of you guys will be like, "Teach us that." But don't. It's a horrible idea. It will get your auto responder shut down; people won't know who you are. It's not spamming, but it's as close as you can get without having legal issues. So don't do it, it's bad. But back then, it was the new opportunity, the new thing. I was like, oh my gosh this is amazing. So what I did, I did this teleseminar. I was like, "Hey I want you guys to jump on and I'm going to show you this new way that we found out to get an extra three thousand leads a day. And it's happening every single day, it's crazy." People are like, "What?!" They're going crazy, they want the thing. So they get on, and this is a mini, it's not a perfect webinar, so don't think of it as the perfect webinar. This is me talking about a new discovery I just had and I'm going to teach them what it is. I said that with emphasis on purpose. I'm teaching what it is. What is the thing. So it's the what, not to be confused with the how. There's a what and there's a how. So this is the what. This is what this new thing is. So for 45 minutes I told the story about how I figured this thing out and where I met this person and how it worked and I showed them exactly what it was and here are the offers that the CPA offers in there. And here's how you plug in your auto responder and this is what it was. And from there we're getting three thousand leads a day, coming in consistently. So I showed the what and people were going nuts. Oh my gosh, I want to do this. But the problem is they know the what, but they don't understand the how. How you actually do it, how you find the offers, the people, how do you negotiate, how much is it going to cost? All those kind of things. So they know the what, but not the how. So you show them the what in a 45 minute thing and this is basically you telling the story about how you figured out the what. If you tell them the story about how you figured out the what and the result you're getting from the what, and they're like, "What the dump?" that's a Brunsonism I think. "What the dump?" And then at that point you step back and say, it's a clock, so you start at the top of the hour, spend 45 minutes. And at that point where they're like, "What the dump? I need this." You say, "Wait, I actually am not going to show you, I don't have to show you this right now. But for all of my members over here inside of Clickfunnels, inside of my membership site, inside of whatever my thing is, I'm going to be doing a 90 minute break down and I'm going to show you exactly how to do this. HOW to do this." "So if you're a member, congratulations! Log into the members area, the call in number or the login number for the webinar is right there on the dashboard. It's there, go login, jump on the training. This is a live training, I'm doing live. I'm not recording it, I'm not going to share it ever again. It's happening one time and one time only. If you want it, now is the time. So go login to the members area, and go login." "If you're not a member yet, you've got exactly 15 minutes before this training starts. In 15 minutes the clock hits the top of the hour, I pull it off the page, and if you wait to sign up til 5 minutes later, you missed your shot. It is gone forever. The only way to ever understand the how on how to do this, is to be on that live training. In fact, we got 3 other experts, the people you need to meet, the person who's going to help you get this thing started, whatever it is, is going to be there on the call. But this is a onetime only, not being recorded, and it starts in exactly 14 minutes. So you better hurry now. Go sign up right now for the trial at whatever.com." You push them into the membership site fast. People freak out. They've got this 15 minute window to go signup, get their account, get logged in, get the downloading, so they can get in on this special live training to show them the how. So that's the marketing secret. That's the trick you guys, it's like the coolest thing ever. So again, to kind of recap, you've got to have a really cool new discovery. You have a new discovery and you want to show them what it is. You get people to come onto either Facebook Live, the teleseminar, or the webinar, it doesn't matter the vehicle you're doing it through, just get it on a live event that's happening so you build some curiosity, anticipation, getting excited. You get on there and say, "This is the what. I'm going to show it to you." And you tell the story about how you figured out the what, you show them the big result that you got from this what. And you say, "look, in 15 minutes for all of our paid members, we're starting the how training. So go login and jump on the how training, we're going to show you what to do. If you are a member, congratulations, it's in the members area. If you're not a member yet, you have 15 minutes before this puppy goes live, so now's the time to start running. And go." And you'll watch your phone with all your stripe notifications, "Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding." I've seen times when we've signed up 4 or 500 people in 15 minutes for membership sites, which is insane. So it works. Let's say your list is smaller, you only sign up 100 people. It's fine, the conversion rates on these, especially if you have a free trial for the membership site, the conversion rates on these things are like 50% of the people who are on your webinar will sign up, it's crazy. Again, I have not done one for a long time, but I'm going to probably do one for Clickfunnels here maybe in January. That'll be fun. I'm going to do it, you'll see me execute on it. But most of you guys should have enough intel to be able to do it faster. So there you go, the what and the how is pretty awesome. I hope you guys love it, I hope you guys use it. Let me know if you do, and if you got any value from this, please share this episode and all episodes with your friends, your family members, other marketers, people you know could benefit from this. Again, this is the Marketing Secrets podcast, thanks so much for everything, and we'll talk to you guys soon. Bye.

A conversation I had today explains the reason why most businesses end up suffocating and dying. On today's episode Russell talks about something awesome he witnessed with his kids school. He goes on to talk about discussing marketing with another parent at school and why he considers it the lifeblood of a business. Here are some of the insightful things in this episode: Why marketing is the lifeblood of a company. How cutting back on marketing in a business is like putting pressure on the carotid artery in wrestling. And how to get a successful business by tripling down on your marketing. So listen here to find out why you need to become obsessed with the marketing of your product, rather than the product itself. ---Transcript--- What's up everybody? This is Russell Brunson and welcome to the Marketing Secrets podcast. I hope you guys are doing amazing today. Alright everybody, it is the day before Thanksgiving. We have 20 bubble soccer balls being delivered to my house; we're going to be playing a huge bubble soccer game on the smurf turf, which is really exciting. Or the Astroturf, we call it smurf turf because of the blue here in Boise. Looking forward to that. But everything's getting ready. We had wrestling practice this morning with the kiddos, and I had some cool experiences that happened there. One that was just a special moment that I want to share with you guys and one that was the reason why most people aren't successful in business. So I'll give you both and hopefully you'll learn a lesson from the two. So number one, it's really cool. At the kids school, there's a kid, it's kind of a crazy story. Apparently his mom and him both found out they had cancer about the same time, together. It's a cute little family, a little kid named Nico. So at the Junior high, or middle school, whatever you call it, it's gotten around this story, and trying to help them out. It was just cute, all the kids wear Huskies for Nico t-shirts. Dallin had a shirt on today that said Huskies for Nico. They do fundraisers for Nico and all these things, it's just such a cool thing how they've gotten the school behind this one person, this one cause or movement. And its cool, I always talk about building mass movements and things like that, but I think a lot of times these little private, intimate movements that mean so much to people and really help people to become something more. And it's just cool watching this and watching my kids participate in this movement for a little kid in their school named Nico. So today at wrestling practice we got all these, probably 60 or 70 wrestlers out there training to be warriors, trying to be tough and everything. In the middle of practice Nico and his dad came in, and when he walked in the whole room went silent out of respect for him. It was just one of the neatest experiences that I've witnessed in a long time. I got chills sitting there watching and all the kids sitting there looking at him and talking to him. They came in and they presented him, because Nico was a wrestler as well before all these problems happened. So they gave him wrestling t-shirts and sweatshirts and stuff like that. And then they had Nico lead a cheer. So they brought everyone in and did their cheer. And it was such a special, such a cool thing. So anyway that was a fun thing that happened today. And then afterwards I was talking to one of the dads, and the dad's a successful real estate dude here in Boise, and it's kind of funny because he's like, "Hey I recognize you. I see you in my newsfeed every single day." I'm like, "Sorry about that. Wish I was better looking." But it was kind of funny because he was in there and we were talking for a while afterwards and it was interesting because there's a big reason why more people aren't successful. It's a mindset little tweak and it's something he had, definitely. So I want to share with you because if you're stuck in this mindset tweak, it's what's keeping you back. I did a podcast episode, I don't know a hundred podcasts ago talking about not outsourcing your lovemaking, and in there I talked about if you look at a business, it doesn't matter what you're selling. If you're selling houses, cars, supplements, it doesn't matter what you're selling, you're selling. That part doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what business you're in, the marketing is the only thing that matters. It's the only thing that's actually the lifeblood of a business. It's what drives leads and customers and sales. It's the only thing that actually matters. I could take my marketing systems and plug them into any business and it will work.  Because business psychology's insane, how we can get leads and it's the same, how we convert those leads is the same. So we're talking to him and he's like, "Yeah, I saw Clickfunnels. I just haven't done it yet." I'm like, "Oh, whatever." It doesn't affect me at all. And he's like, "Can I ask a question? Do you guys do stuff for real estate agents? I watched the viral video with the squirrel and the prospector, sounds like it's only for selling products." I'm like, "No, it's for, it generates leads, sells products, whatever you need it to be." And he's like, "Oh, do you have anyone in real estate doing it?" I'm like, "Yeah, we have tons of people." Off the top of my head we have like a half a dozen people or so that are killing it, real estate agents using it. In fact I even told him, "There's a guy that's got one of the biggest brokerages here in Boise, he's using it." He's like, "I hired some marketing company to do that for me and they're trying to get us leads." And I'm like, "So is it working good?" and he's like, "No, not really. I wish we could just get rid of all the leads, but all the other agents underneath us, they want the internet leads so we have to do that and I don't like it. I just think it's done. Right now we're selling about a hundred houses a year, if we got to the point where we had 200 houses a year, then we could afford to hire a full time marketing person to generate leads and stuff." As a marketing guy here, I wanted to grab the guy and be like, "What are you…how do you not understand this?" it's like saying, let's say you're struggling in your marriage and you're like, "My wife and I when we start having, when marriage gets good and we're happy and everything is perfect, then we'll go to counseling." No, counseling or whatever it is, is what gets you there. It's just funny, when we've grown high enough that we can afford someone to generate leads, then we'll generate leads. No, you can't afford not to. You should stop everything you're doing and the only thing you should do is generate leads. It's funny because he's like, "The biggest person in town, they sell a thousand houses a month, but they're doing all of it online and generating all these leads online, but they're able to do it because they're selling so many houses." I'm like, "No, you don't understand. It's because they're doing that they're able to sell so many houses. It's not because they have so many houses they can do it. It's like the chicken and the egg. It's like you're trying to cut off the oxygen to your brain, your brain will stop. So don't, it is the lifeblood…." And he's like, "Can we hire you guys to do that stuff for me?" I'm like, "No, we certify people that can do it, but if you really want to be successful, you have to become the head of the marketing. You cannot outsource your lovemaking. You can't do that in business and expect it to be awesome. In your marriage if you're like, okay this is my wife, I'm going to outsource the lovemaking to somebody else, your marriage is going to fail. It's the same thing in your business. It is the lifeblood, it is the thing that gets customers into your world and gets them to like you and believe you and trust you and give you money. It's the most important part of business." I think the biggest problem, it's funny, if you listen to the Emyth by Michael Gerber, he talks about this. People are technicians and they have an entrepreneurial seizure and they think they want to start a business because they work at a cake factory and they see the dude who runs the cake shop and they're like, "This guys a moron, I could do a better job than that." So they start their own business and they're not entrepreneurs, they're dudes that build cakes. It's like, the dude that builds the cake, anyone can build a cake. You can hire a lot of people to do that. It's the person who is going to actually sell the crap out of the cakes that runs the business. If you don't have that, your business dies. It's funny, in 2008 when the economy crashed and all these companies were crashing, I see all these people in the companies that their first instinct was not, let's lower costs on stupid stuff. They all cut their marketing and their sales budget. I'm like, okay we're struggling, let's cut off the lifeblood to our head. Like in wrestling, when I'm wrestling somebody, there's a little, for those watching the video, right here on both sides of your neck there is a thing called a carotid artery. And if I'm wrestling someone and I get them in a front headlock, if I put a little bit of pressure right there, against the carotid artery, that fast the blood flow stops to your head. It's not like someone chokes and eventually you die. But with the carotid artery, if I touch it right, that fast you will black out. It's really fun when you're wrestling somebody, when you're getting it, you get it and boom, and his whole body goes limp and you flip him over and you pin him. Because it's the blood that goes to your brain. If you cut off the blood, it's like a second and you're out cold. And I take it back off and the blood keeps coming and you're back alive. So companies go and cut off the lifeblood and then the company dies that fast. That is what's keeping you alive. In times of bad economy, triple down on the advertizing, triple down on the marketing. You guys all know that. I'm preaching to the choir here. But for everyone else, I just wanted to kind of talk about that because I thought it was so funny. I told him that and he's like, "Oh, lead generation for me is nurturing the clients we have and things like that, and we can't outsource that. That's my lovemaking." Or something. Anyway, so that's all I gotta say. I don't even know what to say. If you want to grow a company, focus on the marketing and sales of the thing. I know most of you guys are in business because you love the thing you do. That's awesome. But if you want to have a lot of people use that thing, you've got to become obsessed with the marketing of the thing. That is the key, the marketing of the thing is the business. The business is not the thing. The thing is the fulfillment of whatever you want to do, but the business is the marketing of the thing. And that's the only thing that actually matters because without that, your company dies. With that, the lifeblood goes off to your brain and instantly you're out cold. That's why I look at us versus other SAAS companies, other SAAS companies are focusing on hiring these huge teams of people to do whatever, I don't know what they even do. We focus on marketing, marketing drives it. So there you go guys. I hope that helps some of you guys who are thinking and wondering, "I'm going to hire a marketing team." It's hard to do. You can do it, but if you really want to grow, you've got to become obsessed with the marketing of your thing. You've got to not try to outsource your lovemaking and realize that that is the business. And if you want to be in business, you want to be an entrepreneur, like the entrepreneurial seizure you had trying to start this cake company or your whatever thing is that you sell. If you want that baby to survive and to live, being obsessed with the thing is not going to do it. It's being obsessed with the marketing of the thing. So I hope that helps, I appreciate you all. I'm going to go, I got a couple of hours to work, get my to-do list killed, crushed so I can have a Thanksgiving that's not stressful. For those who know, us entrepreneurs, my buddy Alex Charfen always says, we're all about momentum.  So it's like, Thanksgiving scares me because there's no momentum. I gotta get so much momentum over the next four hours; before I gotta go back home that it will knock down any dominoes tomorrow that are standing up when I'm trying to relax with the family. So that's it you guys. I appreciate you all, have an amazing day. Bye.

If you structure your value ladder right, you'll never have to do a payment plan. On this episode Russell answers a question posted on Facebook about why he doesn't do payment plans. Here are some of the awesome things he has to say in today's episode. The reason Russell doesn't have payment plans, and it's not only because he doesn't sell to broke people. Why being handed an already successful business that you didn't have to work for will usually cause it to fail. And how Russell justify's giving away stuff for free and what his philosophy about it is. So listen here to find out why Russell doesn't usually give an option for payment plans. ---Transcript--- What's up everybody? It's Russell Brunson, welcome to Marketing Secrets podcast. Tonight we are going to be hanging out with some Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Alright so, why am I talking real quiet? Because it's late at night and the wife and kids, everyone is asleep. Why am I eating Cinnamon Toast Crunch? Because I have committed that by Funnel Hacking Live I'm going to be in shape. So, Bart Miller who helped dress me at Funnel Hacking Live, he just went through this big body transformation, got ripped with a six pack and everything. I was like, "Alright Bart, we're going to do it, just get me in shape." So we're going to do it, but it doesn't start until the day after Thanksgiving, so I got a week to eat garbage. I've been eating really healthy for the last 6 months, right now I'm going to go as unhealthy as possible so I'm eating Cinnamon Toast Crunch at like midnight. How great is that? I'm pretty excited about that. Alright, I was just going through Facebook right now and somebody asked a good question, they said, "How come RB (I'm assuming that's me, hopefully), why doesn't Russell use payment plans on anything?" It was fun because all the, everyone's just kind of throwing out their guess of why they think I don't use payment plans and stuff like that. I'm just going to tell you why. A couple of things, first off, it's not that I don't believe in payment plans. I think a lot of times you will make more money when you offer payment plans, but there's just things about it that drive me crazy. Especially online, one of the big ones to drive me crazy is the fact that there's no repercussions if someone signs up for a thousand dollar course and you give three payments or whatever, and they do one of the three payments and then they don't do anything else. There's nothing you can do, you can't go after them, you can't call them out. It's just kind of frustrating. In the digital world, unfortunately there are a lot of people who, they'll get one payment through, they'll go through some of the course, then they'll feel okay not doing it. It just kind of bugs me. That's not really the real reason. You know the real reason why I don't do them for the most part, and I won't say that I won't do them because there'll be situations I'm sure I will in the future. One of our new higher coaching programs will be having a payment program, which I've never done that in the past, but we will be just to be helping people with cash flow and stuff like that. But the main reason I don't is because, one person commented and said, "Russell doesn't do it because Russell's rule is don't sell to broke people." And well, that's mostly true. It's not that I don't like broke people or that I don't want to help them. But if you study my stuff, especially Dotcom Secrets, in the book I talk about the value ladder. I'm taking people up the value ladder and I know full well that people likely come into my world and they don't have money when they first come in. So I'm like, okay how can I provide the most value possible so they have everything they need to be successful? On the front end, on my books, my perfect webinar training, things like that that are free plus shipping or really, really low price. I don't hold stuff back on that. Dan Henrie's a good example, he struggled for years, read the Dotcom Secrets book, learned how to do my webinar, did it and made a million bucks in 5 months. I've been giving away the perfect webinar now for 2 or 3 years, just the script and the video and power point slides. And people always ask me, "Why do you give it away for free, your best stuff?" I'm like, "Because if someone uses it and they make money, they can afford my expensive stuff." So for me, that's really more of my goal. I want people to come in and I want them to use the stuff I have and it makes them more money and then they can come for the next things. If they're jumping up four or five tiers, if they have money that's fine, they can short cut success, but I almost feel like sometimes, it does not serve your customer to short cut their success. When we first started doing Funnel Hacker Tv the very first time, I was just taking businesses, a few I liked, the people, the entrepreneur, but they weren't having success yet. We would come in and just do all the work for them, launching their businesses. And what we found is people weren't ready for that. We'd launch it and hand it back to them, and the people who get these businesses back, they hadn't learned all the stuff they needed to have success with it. And they struggled and then despite the fact that I gave them the keys to a Ferrari, they couldn't drive the Ferrari. I think sometimes we do ourselves a disservice. Sometimes people just jump too far too fast, spend a bunch of money they don't have, and then try the thing and it doesn't really work because they don't have the foundation stuff they need to get there. Business is all about for us, increasing our capacity. When you first start a business you have a big capacity to do a lot of stuff. I did, when I got started my capacity was, I struggled to read a book. Then I read a book and I was like, that book was awesome, and my capacity expanded a little bit and I did more and it expanded, more and it expanded. Now 15 years later we run a huge company where we're one of the top two or three most visited websites in the world. Making a lot of money, doing a lot of stuff, helping a lot of people, all those things. But if I would have just been handed this 15 years ago, I promise you I would have destroyed it. Not because I wanted to, but because I wasn't ready for it. And I think a lot of times, I know I could sell more stuff if I offered these huge payment plans to let people in, but the reality is someone comes in on a payment plan they can't afford and they're trying to learn stuff and then they can't afford it, and then they go buy traffic and other things they need to do and they can't afford it, it doesn't really serve them more, or me. So I want people to grow with us. So that's why we do stuff, the way low ticket stuff, mid tier, high tier things like that. That way people come in, they learn, they apply, and if they get value they should naturally ascend up, right. It's kind of like in my stack I have a line that I say in there, it's funny because it's a really good closing line, and I've had a lot of people knock it off since I started using it, but it's true for me. For me it says, "I have a philosophy here at my company that if I can't make you money then I don't deserve yours." And I honestly do believe that, which is why I don't just go hard close them on these huge payment plans. We see a lot of people do product launches, they're selling a $2,000 course, or twelve payments of $300. I'm like, the problem with $300, I remember me in those days and that was a lot of money. It almost does them a disservice. If I have twelve payments of $300, twelve months from now, I'm going to have my stuff in place and start buying ads again because I got this huge budget of $300 a month. So that's kind of my thoughts. So I hope that kind of helps. Again, it's not that I won't do payment plans, I will do them in the future. There will times and seasons I will do them. A lot of businesses I recommend them. So it's nothing against them, I just think for me personally, that's my goal, that's my vision. Just try to blow people's minds at every step of the value ladder, and if I do that correctly then they'll be able to afford the next thing and the next thing and the next thing. You know, I could tell you probably a couple dozen examples of this but Dan Henrie is one of my favorites. He joined the Inner circle and he posted on Facebook. He was like, "I don't know why I joined Russell's inner circle, I feel like I got, I made a bunch of money and everything, I don't really need to be, I don't really want to be in it. But I feel like I owed Russell 25k for all I got for the free book I bought." How cool is that if your customers feel that way. Man, I got so much from this I feel like I owe you. I need to invest in higher ticket things because I got so much down here. That's what I'm trying to create. So there you go, I hope that helps you guys. I hope it helps you, again, obviously we're talking about this for my business which is teaching business owners how to grow. So it's very applicable because it's like "Hey make money here and grow." But it's the same with any business. Let's say your business is helping marriages right. You give them something free and it increases the spark in their relationship or it fixes something and they feel better, man they will want to give you more and follow you further and all that kind of stuff. So anyway, it's a fun game we play. I love it. I appreciate you guys, as customers, as friends, as subscribers, listeners, and I hope that you got some good ideas out of this, I'm going to get back to eating my Cinnamon Toast Crunch before it all gets cold, gets soggy. It's a little soggy already so I'm going to go. And by Funnel Hacking Live I will be sexy. I promise you guys, I will have a six pack. And if not then I won't say anything else about it. Alright everybody, talk to you soon. Bye.