Marketing Secrets with Russell Brunson - Content Launch Funnels: The Secret to Selling Anything... Without Selling Anything! | #Selling - Ep. 12

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

In this episode of The Russell Brunson Show, I’m pulling back the curtain on a powerful strategy I’ve been quietly perfecting for the past four years… I call it the Content Launch Funnel. I love this funnel because it allows you to email your list daily without burning them out while simultaneously converting more people into buyers!  Seems to good to be true, I know, but it isn’t! Forget traditional product launches, this approach wraps your offers in value-driven content… Like candy!  You’ve heard, “A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down.”  Yea, it’s like that. The Content Launch Funnel makes it feel like you’re giving instead of selling. If you’ve ever struggled to keep your audience engaged or wanted a way to increase conversions without annoying your list, this is the strategy you need. Key Highlights: Why traditional email promotions burn out your audience - and how to fix it The Content Launch Funnel formula that makes your list want to hear from you daily How to wrap your offers in irresistible “candy” content so they naturally convert The “Thank You Page MIFGE” strategy that turned ClickFunnels into a billion-dollar brand How to structure your emails so they drive engagement, not unsubscribes Most people treat email marketing like a necessary evil - something they have to do, but that slowly erodes their list over time. With the Content Launch Funnel, you’re flipping the script and turning email into your biggest growth engine. Your audience will actually look forward to your messages, stay engaged longer, and buy more - without feeling like they’re constantly being sold to. If you’re ready to transform how you market, increase conversions, and build a loyal customer base that trusts you, this episode is packed with the exact blueprint to make it happen. https://sellingonline.com/podcast https://clickfunnels.com/podcast https://www.secretsofsuccess.com/how-to-get-anything-you-want-challenge Special thanks to our sponsors: NordVPN: EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal https://nordvpn.com/secrets Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Northwest Registered Agent: Go to northwestregisteredagent.com/marketingsecrets to start your business with Northwest Registered Agent. LinkedIn Marketing Solutions: Get a $100 credit on your next campaign at LinkedIn.com/CLICKS Rocket Money: Cancel unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster at RocketMoney.com/RUSSELL Indeed: Get a $75 sponsored job credit to boost your job's visibility at Indeed.com/clicks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey, this is Russell. Welcome back to the show. Today, I want to talk about something that I have never talked about before publicly but I think it's something that'll be really powerful for you it's called the content launch funnel and this is really one of the secrets to selling anything without selling anything okay and I may seem confusing at first but come back with me I'm gonna explain how this thing works because it gives you the ability where you can literally email your list every single day and they never get frustrated never get burned out they never get burned out,

they never get tired, in fact, they start looking forward to your emails and at the same time, it converts more of these people, every single opener, every single clicker, into a buyer, which is the key and so that's what we're talking about today. So if you want to drive more traffic, if you want to send more emails, have more success,

this content launch funnels concept is something new that I've been tinkering out there for like the last, man, four years now, and this is the first time I've ever shared it. So here we go. Now to understand this, there are three or four different things you have to understand first, right? So I need to give you some context.

And so I'm gonna explain these three or four different types of funnels first, and then afterwards I'll explain how we weave these things together into a content launch funnel, okay? So the very first type of funnel it's important to understand these things together into a content launch funnel. Okay, so the very first type of funnel that's important to understand is what's called a product launch funnel. This is the funnel that was made famous by Jeff Walker.

If you've ever gone through Jeff Walker's PLF course, Product Launch Formula, that's what he's teaching, how to do a product launch funnel. Jeff calls it a Sideways sales letter, which is kind of fun. I always think about this long form sales letter to sell your product or service, and the Side like tips over

and then breaks into four different things, right? So if you look at a traditional Jeff Walker style product launch funnel, it's the way it works, right? The very first step, you go on this landing page, you put in your email address, and then after that you put on an email list, right? And then what's gonna happen is typically they're gonna have four videos, okay?

Video number one is gonna be there, and usually, depending on how you do the product launch, there's some people who do a lot of pre-launch, and they'll release video one, then a week later video two, a week later video three, a week later video four. Some people do an evergreen, where every 48 hours unlocks one.

Others do it where it's like, you get video one, when it's done, then you can go to video two, and then video three, and video four. But these four videos are all about setting up a sale, right, same way if you were to read a long form, like 60 page sales letter, the first part of the sales letter is video number one,

second part of the sales letter is video two, third part of the sales letter is video three, and the fourth part of the sales letter is where you actually sell the offer, okay? If you look at Jeff's formula, it's actually, it's very similar to my model with the Perfect Webinar. It's not the same, we have kind of our nuances,

how we do it differently, but the process of selling is the same, right? And so if you look at, if you are an avid Russell Brunson follower, you've gone through my Perfect Webinar training before, you look at video number one is usually origin story, new opportunity. Video number two is like you teaching, like an ownership experience,

you're teaching them how to do the thing. Number three is gonna be your internal false belief, number four is gonna be your external, and then you make the pitch, right? So it's different, but very similar model, right? It's how you break up the four videos. And so that's kind of the concept of how Jeff Walker runs his product launch funnel.

So yeah, I'm sure you've seen him before. If not, that's kind of the way it works. Someone ops in, there's a video, you know, a couple days later, video two, video three, then video four, and then makes the special offer, okay? And so that's what the product launch funnel looks like. And so from a structure standpoint, we're using very similar structure

with the content launch funnel, but different strategies. So I don't want you thinking, oh, Russell's teaching a product launch funnel, I'm not. Okay, it's just understanding the strategy. In fact, if you look at a traditional product launch funnel, you'll see usually the top, there's like four videos, and like video one will be unlocked, and video two, three, and four,

there's a lock sign, they get locked down, like you can't get them until they release video two and then video three and video four, right? And this is a very similar structure to how we do our content launch funnels, okay? So that's number one. Number two, one of the most powerful things that we discovered a decade and we launched ClickFunnels,

in fact, this is the difference why ClickFunnels is not a hundred million dollar company, instead it's a company that's done over a billion dollars because it's one little thing we figured out along the way. Okay? What it was is when somebody would come and they would register for our webinar, we'd have them submit a register for a webinar,

then during the webinar, I'd make an offer where they could buy access to ClickFunnels for $1,000. Right? But we still had, like, if you go to ClickFunnels.com, there was a trial, like a four-week trial, right? And so the one thing we added was on the thank you page, ask someone to register for the webinar. This was Todd's brilliant idea,

Todd Dickerson, my business partner. Todd said, hey, let's add this thing where it basically, make a video, say, hey, thank you for registering for the webinar. It's gonna start in two days, whatever. But before you show up, register for, like sign up for a free ClickFunnels trial down below and just play with it a little bit.

And then during the presentation, I'm gonna show you how to use it. I'm gonna walk you through it, but make sure you have an account right now so you can use it. Again, there's a 14-day trial, so you can cancel it afterwards, but make sure you have the trial when you show up to the webinar.

And again, there's a free 14-day trial down below. So we add that one little thing in there on the thank you page. And what's crazy, like in hindsight, now going back a decade, year number one of ClickFunnels, we ended up getting 2,500 people ended up buying the $1,000 offer

I made at the end of the webinar, which is great, right? It's a really good business. But what's even better is 7,500 people created a trial on the thank you page and stuck. So we had 7,500 people paying $97 a month for ClickFunnels after the first 12 months. So it's crazy, you look at like, most people do webinars like,

oh, we did US 2500 times a thousand, right? We had two and a half 12 months. So it's crazy, you look at like most people do webinars, like oh we did US $2500 times $1000, right? We had two and a half million dollars, so that's great, right? But what you don't understand is that 7500 times 97 is $7.5 million, no it's more, no, what's the math, anyway, it's like, I think it's close to $9 million a year in recurring revenue, right?

Way more profitable than what we sold on the webinar. It was that little tweak, little hinge that swung a huge door, right? And so we started calling these Thank You Page Mifkis. What's a Mifki? Mifki stands for the most incredible free gift ever. I learned this from Dan Kennedy. When I bought Dan Kennedy's company, it was funny. I'm a consultant as well, so when I consult with the company, I look at what's already working and then how can we double down on that? How can we take that and improve upon it versus like scrap everything and start over? So when I bought Dan's company working and then how can we like double down on that? How can we take that and prove upon it versus like scrap everything and start over? So when I bought Dan's company and that was this whole team from right here to Boise

and I asked them like, hey, you guys have been running this company for 40 years. Like what's the like what's working, right? And they said, well, the thing that's been working for 40 years is the Mifke. And I was like, what? The Mifke? Like yeah, the Mifke. And I remember I hated that word for a while. I was like, that's the most annoying word ever.

Now I love it, right? But and I said, what's the Mifke? He said, oh, it's the most incredible free gift ever. M-I-F-G-E, Mifke, right? And they took the Mifke, and so what Dan Kennedy would do is when he launched his newsletter back in the day, he was like, hey, when you sign up for my newsletter, you get all, you get like $10,000 worth of bonuses

and money-making advice for free. So it was like an irresistible offer, right? And so when we launched the Dan Kennedy Company, when I relaunched the company, we just made it a really good Mifke offer. We launched it and you know, that's how we, that's how we built that whole business and that brand again. And so that's what, that's what a Mifke is, a really good offer. And so what we do inside of, on the thank you page, Mifke, someone registers for a webinar, for a challenge, for a launch, whatever it is. And then on the thank you page, after we thanked them,

they make an irresistible offer, a MIFKEE offer, right? An offer they can't say no to. And so that's kind of what the MIFKEE is, all right? Okay, so those are the two things you've got to understand. Okay, number one was how the product launch funnel works, and number two, how a MIFKEE funnel works, okay? Now, what we're going to be talking about differently, what we're going to do today, again, is the secret to selling basically anything without selling

anything, okay? And I call this the content launch funnel. And we started this four years ago where basically, like, I have a ton of offers, right? I have more offers than probably anyone would plan. I've got my doc, I'm a secrets book expert, secrets book, traffic, secrets book, perfect webinar script. I've got list building secrets. I've got, like, there's tons.

Click funnels and funnel hacks webinar. I have so many offers. The problem is I take my email list and I want to email offer one and then offer two and offer three. there's tons, ClickFunnels and FunnelHacks webinar. I have so many offers. The problem is I take my email list and I wanna email offer one and then offer two and offer three. My list ventures like, he's selling something every single day, right?

The list gets burned out and they start responding. And so I was sitting back four or five years ago and I was like, how do I change this process so that they look forward to hearing from me and they're more likely to buy? And so I was kind of where the whole thing came from initially. In fact, one of the code names we call it,

internally we call it Mifke candy, right? We're gonna take the Mifke and we're gonna wrap it in a bunch of candy. So people, they don't even know that the offer's coming. They just know that like, there's this candy and it feels so good and it tastes so good, right? It's like medicine where they take medicine, they, spoonful of sugar makes medicine go down, right?

Because it's flavoring it. So what I'm doing is I'm taking the offer. So let's just say for example, here we go, .com secrets book, right? So let's say I'm gonna sell a.com secrets book. I can send four emails, five emails to my list, sell in the book, but then it's like, okay Russell, we got the gist, like you're selling the book,

like there's no value here other than just us buying your offer. So I'm like, okay, how can I do this? I started looking back, like what are all the things I've done over the years content rise around.com secrets, right? I found there was like, there was a, I did a one day event going through all the stuff

inside.com secrets. I did a three day event. I had spoken on tons of people's podcasts. I'd spoken on stage multiple times. Like, I have so many cool things teach, a.com secrets book can be teaching things in really cool spots, right? So I thought, like, instead of me just selling the book,

what if I go back and I find a bunch of that content and I let people watch that for free so they get a taste of the book, the candy, and then inside of that, then I offer them the irresistible offer, the most incredible free gift ever. What does that look like? And so what we do is we took, again, I took four videos, okay?

I have four videos and I have an offer. What's the right funnel I can use? And I was like, what if I use the product launch funnel? But instead of having these product launch videos all set up to launch a $2,000 course or something, what if it was like this? Okay, so basically this is what it looks like right now. This is what the content launch funnel looks like. So we have a landing page that says, hey, I've been teaching people how to have success

with funnels for the last 10 years. I'm a bestselling author teaching this concept, but I've got four videos that I've done throughout my life teaching the most important things. I did one over here, one over here, one over here. People have spent $5,000 to be at this event, 2,000 years, these are real actual valuable videos. If you want to get free access to them,

give me an email address, right? So I turned to Lead Magnet. So someone comes in, they want access to these cool videos, they give me an email address, right? So I turn to a lead magnet. So someone comes in, they want access to these cool videos, they put in their email address, right? Email address goes in, boom, they go to the next page, and the next page we slide in the thank you page Mifke, okay? Hey, thank you so much for registering for the.com Secret Training Series.

If you haven't read the book yet, there's a link down below, you can get the book, get a free copy of the books, cover shipping handling, links down below, you can get a free copy. And then they go down and they say yes, get a free copy or no. Say no thanks. Boom, takes them over to video number one. They say yes, takes them to the book funnel and then takes them back to video number one. Right?

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Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn, the place to be, to be. What's up, Funnel Hackers? Today I want to talk to you about something that's kind of like a funnel for your finances. There's an app called Rocket Money that my wife and I recently downloaded. We went and added our bank accounts, added everything in there and instantly started showing us all the subscriptions we were paying monthly for. And what's crazy is most of these things we completely forgot about.

Oftentimes my wife has signed for something and I also signed up for it and we're paying twice for the exact same service. It was crazy. So we started using Rocket Money and it changed everything for us. Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps you to find and cancel your unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending, and it helps lower your bills

so you can grow your savings. Now here's what Rocket Money did for me. It showed me all of the subscriptions in one spot. Our streaming services, our apps, our membership sites, some of which we literally had not seen in months and a couple in over a year. Now Rocket Money canceled the ones we didn't want anymore, saving us hundreds of dollars. In fact, actually for my wife and I, it was over a thousand dollars per month.

And they didn't stop there. Rocket Money even monitors my spending and sends alerts if bills increase or if I'm going close to my budgets. Now, with their personalized dashboard, you can see exactly where your money's going. I've even created custom badges with categories for everything from groceries to business expenses. Do you want to save automatically for a new house or paying off some debt? Their goals feature makes it simple and hands-free.

Rocket Money has over 5 million users, including my wife and I, and it saved over $500 million in canceled subscriptions, saving members up to $740 per year when using all of the app's premium features. So if you want to cancel all your underwater subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money, then go to rocketmoney.com slash Russell today. That's rocketmoney.com slash Russell, R-U-S-S-E-L-L. That's rocketmoney.com slash Russell. Now what happens is a percentage of people

buy the book right there, but a bigger percentage don't, right? They bypass the book, they watch video number one. So watching video number one, free video, free training, it's awesome, it's like, you know, for me it's like a 60 minute video, like something that people would pay for other places, right, but they're watching this video,

and the video's gonna be going deep into one of the chapters from the Dotcom Seekers book. They watch, they learn, like this is amazing, right? So now they're at the peak excitement, they just like witnessed an hour of me teaching this thing, like this is awesome, I want some more. And guess what, right below the video, there's a link that says,

hey, get a copy of my book right here. Like, oh, and they go get a copy of the book. You know, they go get a copy of the book, okay. Now, after they've registered, they put their email address on the opt-in page. Now, immediately they get an email, it pushes them to video number two. But then day number two,

they get a video, it pushes them to video number two. Like, hey, I hope you enjoyed yesterday's video. If you missed it, here's a link to watch yesterday's video. But today, I gave you another video. This is when I had a chance to speak at So and So's event. I wanted to go deep on this concept. And so this is from chapter 13 of the book. But if you wanna go watch a free hour long session

on how to do this, click here. And they go there, boom, to video number two in the content launch funnel, right? And so if you look at the way the page is structured, up top, you can see there's the four videos, right? And so when they go to video number one, video number one's open in video two, three, and four. The little image has a locked videos, right? And so when they go to video number one, video number one's open and video two, three, and four, the little image has a locked icon, right?

When they go to video number two, right? Now video number one and number two are open. So they can click back and forth and go back to video one and two, one and two, so they can watch one and two, but three and four are still locked down, right? So they watch video number two, they're like, oh, I wanna watch video number three,

but I can't, oh, but then Russell's talking about his book and I'm like, oh, so all of a sudden another percentage are like, I got a lot of people on the thank you page who bought the book, a lot of people on video one bought the book, but now I'm on video number three, but I can't, oh, but then Russell's talking about his book again, like, oh, so all of a sudden another percentage are like, I got a lot of people on the thank you page who bought the book, a lot of people on video one bought the book, but now I'm on video number two just giving value, right? They have a chance to go and they watch video two.

If they like it, boom, then they go buy the book, and then they're just sending video three next day, hey, here's video one and two again, but if you haven't watched them, now here's video number three, which is me teaching this concept, go watch it, boom, right? And the video number four, so I got four different content videos, four hours of training of me like giving them my

best stuff, my best content, right, all pushing down to my ears, this offer, right, my book offer, or my continuity offer, whatever offer you have, right, all pushes down to the exact same offer. And that's kind of the way that works, okay? So if you look at our email sequence, the way it works right now is what we'll do is each week we pick a new content launch funnel that we're going to focus on, right? So for example, in my business right now, the time I'm recording this next week is the Expert Secrets is the offer, Expert Secrets book is the offer.

And so we have a content launch funnel in front of that that wraps, is miffy candy. It's candy wrapping around this irresistible offer, right? The most incredible gift ever. And so what we'll do is the email list, we'll send out three emails, one, two, three, trying to get them to opt in to register for the free content. Okay? And if they do, then they're taken off that email list temporarily. Then they get emails pushing from video one to two to three to four. Okay? And then after video four, then we do two more emails that just promote the book. Okay? Now, if I send them three emails and they don't ever opt into the list, that's okay.

Video four and five, I just push them directly to the offer. Okay, so either way, they're seeing the offer, but I'm wrapping it in candy first. Okay, so again, this is what I call Mifki candy. And so that's kind of, that's how we structure. That makes sense. And so again, next week we're doing expert secrets. The week after that, we're doing perfect webinars.

What did I do? I found really cool spots. Me in Mexico teaching perfect webinar. Me in the UK teaching perfect webinar. Different pieces of it. Boom, boom, boom, boom. They opt in for four free videos teaching concepts from the book. Boom, thank you, Paige.

Perfect webinar is not a book. It's a $7 course, but then we push them. The most incredible free gift ever is a $7 course, right? And so on and so forth. So that's what a content launch funnel looks like. Does that make sense? Okay, now obviously if you wanna sell stuff online, you're gonna need a good funnel.

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by clicking on the link in the description or going to clickfunnels.com slash podcast right now. ClickFunnels, because you're one funnel away from changing the world. Okay, so now you guys understand this concept, right? What I want you to start thinking through is a couple things. In fact, I got three steps for you, okay?

Step number one is figuring out what is the thing you actually want to sell, okay? Again, it could be a book, it could be a course, it could be your membership site, it could be whatever it is, right? And so that's the first thing. Now, I wanna amplify something. A lot of people miss this, right?

Whenever I say Mifke, the most incredible free gift ever, a lot of times I think about this, they think about this in relation to how I traditionally teach in the past, which is if you're launching a membership site, you create a Mifke, like a really good offer to get people in continuity. But the reality is every single offer I'm creating,

I'm attaching it to a MIFKI. Does that make sense? So again, I'll come back to the dot com stickers book, right? This is the book, it's free plus shipping. It's $7.95, get a copy of this book, right? But then if you go to dot com stickers, the common look on the page, like you don't just get this book,

you also get, I have like six different things, okay? You get these six things for free when you buy the book. Okay, so when you buy the book, you get these six, so I think if I went to the page, it's like you get, there's like a 30 day challenge, there's two or three other e-books, there's two or three video courses, so you get all these things, right?

So I took those things, that is the most incredible free gift ever you get for free when you get a copy of the book. Okay, so every offer I create, there's a Mifke. The Mifke is always the free stuff they get you're attaching to the core product you're trying to sell. Does that make sense? Okay, so step number one is what is it you're trying to sell?

What is the offer? And then what is the bonus, is the most incredible free gift ever you're attaching to the offer. And the reason why I do that because I wanna make this very, very special. If somebody comes to my content launch funnel and they opt in, the next page will say,

hey, congratulations, I'm gonna give you a very special offer, okay? When you buy my book right now, I'm gonna give you all these things for free, right? Like that's how I structure this irresistible offer. It's very simple, it's very easy. It's MIFKI, so it's attaching a MIFKI to anything that you're selling.

So when I'm selling a continuity, a membership site, I say use a MIFKI to do that, I'm just attaching a MIFKI to that, right? But if I'm selling a $10,000 offer, again, let's say my $10,000 offer is a coaching program, what's my MIFKI to do that. I'm just attaching a MIFKI to that, right? But if I'm selling a $10,000 offer, again, let's say my $10,000 offer is a coaching program, what's my MIFKI? Okay, it's all the other bonuses they're getting that I'm attaching to that core offer.

Does that make sense? So don't think a MIFKI is only for memberships and continuity, right? It's for when you're selling anything, okay? So step number one, what is the thing you wanna sell that you're gonna attach an offer around it? Okay, that's step number one. Now we're going to move to step number two. So step number two, the thing I started thinking through is like, okay, I've got this product, this offer I'm trying to sell. What are all of the things that I've done in the past to create content for? Right? And for

most of you guys, if you are, if you are a producer or publisher, you're putting things out there, you've probably done YouTube videos, you've probably been on people's podcasts, you've been in your own podcasts, right? So I'm looking for those things. I'm looking for things to have like a unique story where somebody is interviewing me or I did it somewhere, a unique spot, or I went deep on one topic or whatever it might be.

So for example, really good with expert secrets, I had a chance, I was in Dean Graciosi and Joe Paulish's Genius Network X, which is their 100K group. So you had to spend $100,000 to be in this room, right? And so the very first time before I finished the book, I did a session there where I taught the concepts from the book, right?

It was on a whiteboard and stuff and recorded it. And so it's me teaching part of the book, but there's a story behind it, right? What's the story? It's like, well, I was at this event, it's called Genius X, where I spent $100,000. Everyone in the room spent $100,000 to be in this room, right, and I had the leaked recordings of me

teaching this book before it was published. I taught things that didn't actually make it to the final copy of the book, but you can go listen, you can go, give me your email address, I can give that to you for free, right? So boom, they get that video, and then there's another video, another video.

Does that make sense? So I'm finding things that have a unique story around the content. That way, when I'm sending out the three emails prior, I'm not saying, hey, opt in to go get a thing, hey, opt in to go get it for free training, hey, opt in, right? I'm saying something very unique,

like hey, I've got three videos, here's what the first one is. Give me your email address here and get this one that happened at the Genius event, right? Then day number two, it's like, hey, there's this other video that's blah, blah, blah, just insert a story about this video, why it's so cool, why you want it.

This is video number two, make sure you opt in so you get video number two. And then here's video number three. It doesn't have to be videos. And it could be a webinar, it could be a PDF, it could be a lot different, it doesn't have to be videos. For me, videos are easier for me, but it may be different for you.

Something else might be different, might be content, right? And it doesn't have to be four videos. Like a product launch funnel traditionally has got four videos, right? That's the way Jeff Walker always taught it. But I have some of these where I just have three videos. Some where I only have two. Okay, there's also some where I only have one and that's okay too, right? Nothing wrong with that. In fact, I'm gonna teach you guys one really cool secret that you can do.

I had a chance a while ago to interview Ryan Holiday on stoicism, right? So I had this interview with Ryan teaching stoicism, all the core pillars of stoicism, all this kind of stuff, right? So what do I have? I've got a video teaching what I call Stoic Secrets, right? And so, and unfortunately he won't let me use the domain name, but I had StoicSecrets.com for a long time, right? And when someone opts in StoicSecrets.com, okay, this is the content launch funnel,

I was just taking a podcast interview I did, right? So somebody would opt in to see the interview with Ryan Holiday, the next page is like, hey, thank you so much for opting in for the interview. Before I take you to the interview, I wanna make you a special offer, right? Boom, and I drop my MIFKi right there, which for me, the MIFKi was for secrets of success, right?

So I create the MIFKi, I drop it, boom, people sign up for the trial for the success, and then from there, afterwards, boom, they get taken to go watch the interview with Ryan. The interview with Ryan is 60 minutes long, and then what happens at the end of the interview? Yep, I pitch him back to the same MIFTY again, right? And there's two or three emails now pushing back like,

hey, and because I only had one video, I just sent three emails to the same video. Like, hey, did you have a chance to watch it? Hey, if you missed yesterday, make sure you watch it. Hey, I'm pulling it down, go and watch it, right? So keep pushing people back to that thing, okay? And so it's interesting because like, literally you can do this strategy

with like every piece of content. I see people who have done 100 interviews for their podcast. They have 100 videos. They put them on podcasts, put them on YouTube and then they kind of forget about them. You can take those and you can publish them in other places. Last night I was going back through my YouTube channel, just like all the videos from 4 or 5 years ago. There's something I have like half a million views on.

They're great. They're getting more views than any of my videos nowadays are getting for whatever reason. There's some really good ones about like how to structure a funnel, like top seekers about funnel. Like, so I'm pulling some of my old YouTube videos and boom, plugging them into the content funnel. So like go back in your archives,

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So a good example with my secrets of success business, I had a book that I wanted to promote. So I found three other people who were nerdy like me who love books. I sent them a copy of the books. One was Joe Vitale, one was Eileen Wilder, one was Annie Grace. I said all those guys that's all read the book and I want to interview each of you guys on one of the chapters of the book, right? So somebody would come and they would opt in. In fact, I pulled the page up here a second ago.

I wonder if I could find it and tell you guys if you wanna go see it. Okay, if you go to, well it's kinda long, dang. Secretsofsuccess.com slash how-to-get-anything-you-want-challenge. I gotta find a better domain name than that. Anyway, that's where it's at. YouTube will drop a link down below, maybe the podcast we can as well,

but there's the challenge, it's a free thing, right? It's the opt-in, they call it the three-day challenge, and day number one, it's me interviewing Joe Vitale. Day number two is me interviewing Eileen Wilder. Day number three is me interviewing Annie Grace. And guess what we do? After they register, there's the thank you page Mifke. Okay, then I do an interview with Joe Vitale,

we talk about the book, his favorite chapter, then there's the thank you page Mifke. Okay, then I do an interview with Joe Vitale. We talk about the book, his favorite chapter, then push it back to the Mifke. Day number two, Eileen Wilder talk about the book, then push it to the Mifke. Day number three, Andy Grace back to the Mifke. Does that make sense? So literally that's how we do it. And the same thing with the Robert Collier book, right?

We have three day event on Robert Collier and like the same process, right? So we're creating the content around the offer to push to the offer. So it hopefully makes you start thinking about content a little bit differently. Where like all these, the things you're doing to create content anyway now are more valuable than just the one thing, you know, I create a podcast and it's gone, right? I put on YouTube and now it's gone.

Like I always think about YouTube and podcasts and stuff are great ways to get people into my funnels, right? Obviously. But then those videos, I can use them inside of a funnel, especially for this type of content launch funnel. Okay? Okay, so again, number one, you got to figure out what you want to sell and attach a MIFKI to it. Number two, what content do you have around that? What could you create? What content has stories? Who could you interview about? Like, what are things you can pull in? What stuff have you done in the past already on a YouTube channel or a podcast? You know, you could, one of my friends, oh, Matt Basak back in the day,

he did one really cool one. Him and his wife, they just laid in bed and they talked about, I can't remember what they were talking about, it was like an hour long, they called it pillow talk, like my wife and I were talking about late at night, like you just gotta go grab your microphone, record something, there's so many cool ways to do it, right? But creating the content around it, and then step number three, in fact, I mean, sorry, come back, if you had a book, it could be just reading, I read chapter one, I read chapter six, I read chapter 12, like it could be just you reading a couple of chapters, that could be it too, right?

Okay, now step number three, this is how we structure, at least how we're structuring the emails, right? So I send three emails to get them to opt in to the content launch for that week, okay? Email one, email two, email three. Each email's talking about a different story from the videos inside the members area, boom, okay? After they opt in, then, again, I pull them off that email

list, they won't get any of those three more emails. And then from there, they get the emails inside the content launch, right? So video number one, video two, video number three. Okay. Then after that, then boom, everyone gets back on and we put two, we send two emails directly to the offer to everybody. So even the people, the people who didn't opt in and then the people who did opt in and push two emails to the offer to close people on the actual sale. All right, now the very first time I did this like four or five years ago, this is what I did. And I'm actually going to teach you guys a way to do it differently because eventually Tim Shields, who just spoke at our last Funnel Hacking Live, he taught me a way that was

different. In fact, if you were at Funnel Hacking Live, he dropped it in the last 30 seconds of his presentation and most people missed it, but it was like the secret sauce. So what we did the very first time is we build out these content launch funnels and we have like, I think like 30 of them. It was a long sequence, right? So we're opting to go through the first ones, the next one, the next one, the next one. And it was great, but the problem is like I dumped, after we had that whole thing structured, which took way too long, I dumped everyone at the top of the funnel

and then for the next like 30 weeks, they were going through this gauntlet. And the problem is in between was like, I had a pro FHL, so kind of like threw things off. It's like, I can't email my list because I get emails here and just, it didn't, it kind of worked, but not really. The only structure was someone joined any of my email lists,

they would drop at the top of that and then they'd go through this whole, this whole gauntlet, right? It was pretty cool. But the problem is like, when they got in this gauntlet, then if we promoted anything extra, it's kind of threw things off. And so we ran that for a couple of years,

and then it's just kind of fallen apart, and I needed to rebuild and kind of restructure our offers and things. And so I was thinking like, what do we do for this? What are the pieces, right? And then Tim Shields, he taught me, what he was doing that was so cool is, he basically, Tim's got, I think nine webinars, right?

They're all auto webinars. And what he does is he spends a week promoting webinar number one, and then once it's done, then he transitions to week number two, does webinar two, and then webinar three, and goes through the nine weeks. When it's done, he starts back over to the top again. And he goes back through, and when it's done,

he starts back over to the top. And every time he creates a new webinar, he just stops the campaign, and then he plug in the new webinar, and now he's got 10 webinars, right? And he goes back through, and then starts back, and this is his whole cycle, cycle week after week after week.

Now Tim's built an eight figure year business in the photography market doing this. Like it's really powerful what he's doing. And so I assumed he had just daisy chained them all together and it was just anyway. And he said, no, no, he's like, I don't do that way. He's like the way I do it. And by the way, this is the big aha.

So what we're doing ours differently this time around. Right? He said that I have a spreadsheet. So I have the first week and we do the spreadsheet. We have the emails, we look at the things, we is the big aha. So what we're doing ours differently this time around. He said that, I have a spreadsheet. So I have the first week and we do the spreadsheet. We have the emails, we look at the things, we send them all out. Then the next one we do, but it's always live. It's in real time.

So we can see what's happening in the market. Do we need to stop or anything? Is there something specific that happened today in pop culture that if we tweak the email, would fit for that, whatever it is. So it does each one until it gets to the bottom of the nine. Then when it gets done, they're all nice. Starts back at the top one again. And it looks like, okay, last time we did this, what were the open rates, what were the click does each one, till it gets to the bottom of the nine, then when it gets done, they're all nice, starts back at the top one again,

and it looks like, okay, last time we did this, what were the open rates, what were the click throughs, how did it all look? So, yeah, what can we tweak this time? Like, maybe we, you know, email two didn't really work, maybe the store wasn't right, so like, they go and tweak a couple things,

and then boom, it goes out, and then next week come to, you know, number two, and they do it again, they keep going through, and that's the whole process. So for me, that's what we're working on right now as well, is we're going back through and basically every offer I have, and this is not, this is in the Russell business, the ClickFunnels business, PT Barnum business,

or Barnum PT business, which if you don't know about Barnum PT, go to BarnumPT.com. It's a cool plugin, but we're building a whole character around Barnum. The Magnetic Marketing, Dan Kennedy business, and Seeker Success businesses. So we're doing one of these for each brand each week. So it's kind of intense, but it's so cool. And so what we're doing is basically, like I said, is like next week we've got two of them launching, right? So we've got number one, we've got the Russell Business, the ClickFunnels Business both launching,

that one will go out, boom, right? And next week we'll go to the next one, and then based on how many offers we have, those keep going deep. When we get to the bottom, they start back over and just keep going, you know, whichever one it is. And then when we have new offers, we just create a new offer and then we just pause wherever it's at, plug a new offer in, launch that one,

add it to the thing and then that'll come back up next time it comes back around. And that way, you know, these sequences and these campaigns just keep continuing running over and over and over again. You may be thinking, well, Russell, every nine weeks they're getting the same emails, right? It's like, no, they're seeing the same offer. But what's fascinating to me is like,

I think we, sometimes we think that the people following us are paying more attention than they are, right? Let's say you send email out to 100,000 people, you might get 30 or 40,000 actually open email, right? And from that 5,000 that click, right? So only 5,000 people ever actually saw the opt-in page. From there, maybe 2,000 actually opted in, right? So here's the funnel, right?

So yeah, maybe those 2,000 people actually saw it, but the other 98,000 didn't, right? So nine weeks later, now you hit them again. And maybe this time they're more ready, maybe something in their life's different. I have a friend in the dating market, he emails his list nine times a day, nine. I was like, nine times a day? You're crazy. He said, no, you don't understand. He's like, the dudes who follow me, he's like, they have a relationship because I'm fun on my emails and stuff. He's like, but most of them have a girlfriend most of the time, right? And

he's like, but there's this little window of time that happens, everyone's small, where their girlfriend breaks up with them, and when that window happens, I need to be the first email in their inbox, right? So they're reading for entertainment most of the time, and their heart gets broken, and boom, they open the email, and I'm right there, and then they buy. He's like, I always gotta be in front of them, okay?

So same thing's kinda true with you as well. Think about it, like, and by doing it this way, right, you're not just hitting tons and tons of offers, right? They're getting three-day, four-day, like content launch campaigns every way, right, you're not just hitting tons and tons of offers, right? They're getting three day, four day, like content launch campaigns every week, right? There's like, man, this Russell's serving, he's giving more stuff and more cool stuff and more cool stuff and more cool stuff, right? And it builds this really cool reprossity, rep-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re read them all, watch it all. A lot of times people go and they'll take the emails that I send them and they'll create a little folder they save in there. Because Russell's stuff is so good.

If I just want to buy a course, instead of buying a course, I'll go back and just watch Russell's videos because his training videos he gives away for free around every one of his offers are better than most people's offers, right? And so that's kind of what you're trying to do is build this content engine where people are getting a lot of value.

So I know a lot of times in the internet world we talk about using content, right? But we're talking about Instagram and YouTube and podcasts and those things are all great. But for me, to this day, and I've been doing this now for two and a half decades, the channel that makes us the most amount of money is still, and not by a small, like 90, 10, is still email.

Email is the secret, that's how we make our money, right? That's the most important thing to understand. So when you understand that, it's like, okay, how do we build a content machine around our email? Because that's the thing that's actually making make our money, right? That's the most important thing to understand. So when you understand that, it's like, okay, how do we build a content machine around our email? Because that's the thing that's actually making us the money. That's what people are missing, right? They have content machines happening all over the place,

which is great, do those things. But don't forget the most important content machine, which is your email. All right, with that said, you guys, if you have a funnel but it's not converting, the problem 99.9% of the time is your funnel is good, but you suck at selling. If you wanna learn how to sell,

so your funnels will actually convert, then get a ticket to my next Selling Online event by clicking the link in the description or go to sellingonline.com slash podcast right now. All right you guys, hope you enjoyed this episode. That is how you create a content launch formula. It literally is a secret to selling anything without actually selling anything.

You're just providing so much value that people want to buy your offers and they wanna open your emails, they're gonna archive emails emails, they're going to go back and read your emails unlike most people and it's all by using this one simple strategy. So you will see us doing it across all of our brands here. Again, we did a modified version four years ago. This is an updated version I'm so excited for and I'm excited to see some of you guys kind of modeling as well because I think it's going to change everything.

Thanks so much. My name is Russell Brunson. I'll see you guys all soon.