Marketing Secrets with Russell Brunson - Extreme Ownership, Russell's Rant...
Episode Date: October 30, 2019Russell goes on a rant about "extreme ownership", mastering webinars, and a whole bunch more. On this special podcast within a podcast Russell goes on a rant about taking responsibility for your own ...business because he is not your savior, he is a leader. Here are some of the awesome things to look for in this episode: Find out why Russell is going on a rant about taking ownership in making your business successful. See how you can model Russell's 12 month plan for financial success. And find out how you can get access to every single product Russell has done to be a master of the webinar. So listen here to find out why Russell decided to rant about taking responsibility for your success instead of blaming others for your failures. Transcript - https://marketingsecrets.com/blog/254-extreme-ownership-russell-s-rant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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What's up, everybody?
This is Russell Brunson.
Welcome back to the Marketing Secrets Podcast,
and today, I've got a rant.
So, the big question is this.
How are entrepreneurs like us,
who didn't cheat and take on venture capital,
who are spending money from our own pockets,
how do we market in a way that lets us get our products
and our services and the things that we believe in
out to the world, and yet still remain profitable?
That is the question, and this podcast will give you the answers.
My name is Russell Brunson and welcome to Marketing Secrets.
All right, everybody.
I hope you're all doing amazing.
As I said during the intro today, I've got a little bit of a rant. And this is a rant, not out of being upset,
more out of love for somebody who reached out to me on Instagram the other day and said some things.
And I wanted to grab the person and spot coach them on the spot and just be like,
I see what's wrong. But instead I thought, you know what, there's more than one person who's got this exact same problem. And so I want to do this as a podcast so that it will not only help
her, but hopefully help everybody. So I'm not going to tell you her name or situation
or story or anything. Um, but I'm going to kind of tell you a little bit of conversation. I'm
going to do a little bit of rant and hopefully it'll help somebody else out there who's listening
as well as her as well. So, um, some of the, the really, really quick backstory, this is somebody
who has kind of popped in and out of our community a couple times. I've seen her at a couple events and she's someone who is definitely trying, putting forth
the effort. And so that's why I'm aware of her and I'll kind of leave it at that. She came to
an event we did last year for our high-end coaching clients as a guest. I let her come and kind of
attend. And then I've seen her at Fun Locking Live and a couple other spots. And so I'm like
really excited. I'm like, this looks like good. And then, um, and I've seen her from locking live a couple of spots. And so I'm like really excited.
I'm like, this looks like, you know, good things are happening.
Momentum's happening.
So I was, I was really excited.
And then I didn't hear anything from her for a while.
And then, um, I don't know, a week or two ago, I got a message on Instagram asking her
if I would help with this, with this project she was doing.
And I, I don't know, I get like 8,000 messages a day on every platform.
So I just am not able to respond to everything.
So unfortunately I don't respond to most things unless it's something that really pops out.
So I didn't, and then she messaged again and then she messaged again. And she was like,
you know, what I'm selling is very similar to what, to what Myron was talking about in this thing.
Like, can you help me? Can you be the executive producer for this documentary I want to make?
And so it kind of caught my off guard and I responded back. Let me see if I can pull up my,
my response here. Um, keep the recording going hopefully. Um pull up my response here. Keep the recording going, hopefully.
So my response was, why don't you just do a webinar and sell the training direct?
There's a proven model that works over and over again.
Sounds like you're trying to gamble on an unproven model, crowdfunding for a TV show.
Don't try to reinvent the wheel.
Just follow the model that's proven to work.
She was trying to say, I'm doing this crowdfunding thing for this TV show.
I want you to be the executive producer, and it's going to tell my story.
And from there, we're going to sell my course that teaches how to do this thing.
And it's like, okay, you could do that.
Or you could do the model.
It's been proven by thousands and thousands and thousands of people that we know works
beyond a team.
You just model the proven thing as opposed to running down this rabbit hole on something
that makes no logical sense.
Nobody's ever done before because you think it would be easier than doing what actually
works.
Um, right.
So that's what I said.
And then she responded back.
She said, my honest answer. I wrote a webinar, which is awesome. Like, yeah, congratulations.
It sucked. Yay. It should suck. The first one you do is always going to suck. I knew it did. So I
never even launched it. Then I went to funnel hacking live 2019. I joined two common Quebec's
thinking that I'd get help, the help I needed to write it. That didn't happen. Um, so that was, that was the thing. So I wrote back, I said,
okay, I'm gonna do a rant today inside the two comic club X group. I'm going to seem a little
frustrated, but it's out of love. I won't use your name. Um, I'm sure other people need this.
Um, hopefully it's going to give you a clear roadmap. And she wrote back, I'm not in the two
comic club X group anymore. They kicked me out when I put my account on pause. I have no more
credit on my cards. Okay. So I've got a couple of things I want to talk about tied to this.
The first one is I want you to listen to how she phrased these things.
Cause this is so, so, so, so, so essential to your success.
Okay.
The second you put your success on somebody else, you automatically failed.
Okay.
I want to, if I could grab every one of you guys and just yell this to you, notice what she said. She said, um, uh, I joined too comically X thinking that
I'd get help, the help I needed to write it. That didn't happen. And then I'm not in the group.
They kicked me out. Okay. Notice in both those situations, she put her success on somebody else.
Okay. I joined this so that I get the help. didn't happen okay so she didn't get the help
she didn't want although the fact that we've got nine full-time coaches four coaches including
myron golden steven larson julie stoyan all of which are amazing at things um we do live calls
weekly um between all the coaches we do like like the help was there she didn't get it i don't know
if she thought someone was going to come to her house and write it but but she didn't like it's
there like the people were there right it's like you come to her house and ride it, but she didn't like, it's there. Like the people were there, right? It's like you have to
grab it and take it. You need to be on every single call, go to every single event, like,
like jump on the coaching calls, jump on the open office hours. Like the things were there,
but she said, I didn't get the help I needed. Okay. So I, I just wanted to like put that out.
And then, um, they kicked me out when I put my kick. So I stopped paying and they kicked me out
like that. She's putting her success on somebody else. Okay.
The way, the way that if you're taking, uh, and I said, everyone who called my Quebec's book,
um, extreme ownership, by the way. So hopefully everyone's read that book. If you haven't, you
like, like, like that's a big tweak first off. Right. So I'd be like,
my first feedback is, is you need to take a hundred percent responsibility for yourself. She says, um, and ah, like if this was the answer, like my honest answer, I wrote a webinar
and then I launched it. I tried, it didn't work. So I tried it again. I tried it again. I tried
it again. Tried it again. Tried it again. Tried it again. 10 times. It didn't work.
Then during two common Quebec's, then I was on every single coaching class as every single coach,
the question I got feedback inside the groups, inside the other things. I went through the 10
X training 50 times. I watched your webinar a hundred times. Like those are the
things that if she would have taken personal responsibility for, those are the actions that
help you to have success. The webinar, it's not a mystery, right? I wrote a book on it. We did the
10 X secrets training, which is inside the coaching program. We have all the coaches, all the staff,
all the people are like, like it's a proven model. Half of the people inside through comic books are
doing this thing. Like if you just jump in and do it, they're there anyway.
And then, ah, and then again, like they kicked me out of the account. Like they didn't kick you
out of the account. You kicked yourself out of the account. You stopped paying. And I understand if
you ran out of money, I totally respect that and understand that, but they did not kick you out.
You kicked yourself out by not, by not continuing to pay. Like, ah, it's just like this little
phrase that seems inconsequential, but it's
so freaking important. Okay. Don't put your success on somebody else's. Garrett White spoke
of Phonological Life three years ago and do this whole rant about, um, for each of us individually,
he says, and one of the pieces was that you're a, you're a leader, not a savior. Like our job is not
to save you. Our job is to lead you. And we are leading. How many webinars have I done? How many, like inside the members area, there's like 15 different
webinars that I've done that were successful. You can watch, you can watch over and over and over
again. All my staff, all my coaches, all my people, all that, like everyone knows how to do webinars.
Like the, the access is there. But the problem is that you wrote one and then you thought it
sucks. So you never did it. Like, like, ah, ah. All right. So there's the first part of the rant.
It was just personal responsibility. Like it's, it seems so little, but it is, it is everything
shifting that from like, ah, I just, I just, you know, they kicked me out. Um, I didn't get the
help I was expecting. I didn't, I didn't like, like, no, no, no, no, no, no. Like you have to
shift that because until you do, you always, always be a victim in
the situation.
Okay.
So that's the, that's the first piece of advice I wanted to kind of put out there.
Um, now let's shift to the second piece of advice.
And it's funny as I was, as I was, um, thinking about this this morning, um, it's funny for
those of you guys who go to church and I'm assuming it's true in any church, but we go
to church and they're always like, you need to pray, you need to repent, you need to do
this right.
And you're like, this is the same message you keep telling
me every single time. And it's like, well, it's the same message that everyone still needs. That's
why we keep on saying it. Right. Um, and I feel like it's almost the same thing. Like I think
two years ago I did, uh, I did a podcast called this is your business plan or your business model
for the next 12 months. And in there it said, basically you need to do a webinar week live
every single week until you're a millionaire. And if you do that every single week for a year, you'll be successful. Um, and
that's the next, the next piece of advice here is that you said, I wrote a webinar. It sucked.
The market didn't tell me, but I just assumed it sucked. So I stopped trying. Like, no, that is,
that is how you don't have success. Well, you have success as you write a sucky webinar.
Then you get people on the sucky webinar. You do it and you suck. Then you look at the feedback from that sucky webinar. You make the
tweaks, you make it a little bit better and then you do it again. And the next time you suck a
little bit less and you keep doing that every single week for an entire year until you're a
millionaire. Like that's it. It's not that hard. Okay. Like that's, that's the model. It's, it's
the thing that we, that's like, he just,
it's, that's, I don't even know what to say. So I'm thinking because, um, I, I did that podcast
two and a half, three years ago. The time I did it is when, um, it's funny because Brandon and
Kalen, uh, were launching lady boss at the time they heard that. And then they did a webinar every
so many can boom. Now they're doing like 40 or 50 million bucks this year. Um, and I can tell you a
handful of inner circle members who listened to that podcast and then guess what they did. They went and boom, you know, did, uh, did,
uh, did these huge, you know, have built huge companies often. So, um, just like if I was at
church and say, you need to pray, you need to repent, you need to do what's right. I'm gonna
do the same thing now. And I'm going to actually insert that podcast episode right here. Um, that
way you guys can go and listen to it again and realize that this is still
the same message. It has not changed. My advice for the next 12 months is the same as the advice
was back then for the next 12 months. You need to be doing this over and over and over and over
and over again. So person who this podcast is specifically for, take the crappy webinar you
wrote and then do it live. Don't retweak it or change it or hope that somebody else is going to
take your responsibility in and rewrite
it for you.
Like this is your business.
You're the only one that cares about it.
Therefore, you're the one that has to do the work and you've got to do it.
And then I would go and plug into every single group and like go find people, say, can you
listen to my webinar and ask people questions.
And then after you do, go watch my webinar and then watch five other people.
Find Liz Benny's webinar.
Find Annie Grace's webinar. Find Caitlin Poland's webinar. Watch all the webinars and watch watch five other people. Find Liz Benny's webinar. Find Annie Grace's
webinar. Find Caitlin Poland's webinar. Watch all the webinars and watch mine again. Okay. Some of
the people that have had the most success webinars told me, Russell, I've watched your webinar over
50 times, 50 times. How many times you watched my webinar? Have you dissected it? Have you written
it out? Have you figured out how would you change this for your market? If not, you're not trying
hard enough. You're putting the blame on somebody else. This is your responsibility to do the hard work, okay?
Like, it's not my role.
It's not my team's role.
It's not anybody else's role except for yours.
We are not your savior.
We are a leader.
We are leading.
We are going and trailblazing and leaving back everything we're finding.
Here's all this stuff.
Just take it.
But you've got to be responsible for it, not me, okay?
Because I don't care about your business as much as you do. Okay. Just like nobody cared about my business when I was getting
started, man, I can't tell you how many times I failed over and over and over and over and over
again. And it wasn't like on a webinar where nobody was there. It was me failing on a stage
in front of people like that is embarrassing. Super embarrassing. When my wife and I are broke
and I'm flying across the country, leaving my wife with her brand new twins for, for three or four days, paying my own way to get there, paying for my own hotel, hotel,
and four or five grand in the hole. And I step on stage and I speak and nobody buys.
And I call my wife and I was like, Hey hon, guess what? Um, she's like, how'd you do? I'm like,
Oh, I did it right. So how many people bought? I'm like, none. She's like, none? Like, yeah.
She's like, well, how, like, like, but how much did it cost you to get out there? I'm like,
ah, you know, about three or four grand in. She's like, well, why, like, like, but how much did it cost you to get out there? I'm like, ah, you know, about three or four grand in.
She's like, well, why did you do that?
Like, well, because like I have to learn the skill, right?
It's, it's hard.
It's embarrassing.
It's frustrating, right?
Leaving my wife and our kids and not having the money, not making a penny from the trip,
losing five grand to go and practice on stage, standing in front of a group of a hundred
people or 200 people and embarrassing yourself, not having a single person move and walk the back
of the stage. That sucks. Okay. But guess what? I did it week in and week out, week in and week out,
week in and week out. And we'll go and I sit during the event for three days, watch every
other presenter present. I take notes. What did they do? Why did they do that? How did they do
that? How did they get people to walk in the back room? How did they structure the presentation?
What worked? What didn't work? Over and over and over and over and over again.
And now 15 years later, it's easy. Okay. But you got to put in the work first. You got to put in
the time first. Okay. And so this isn't, and I wish that I could have someone just do my whole
webinar for me, but guess what? Nobody cared about it like I did. Nobody cared about my little ideas
except for me. I knew they were big. I knew they were going to change the world, but I had to go out
there and learn the skill. And so for you, and again, this is for that one person, this is for
everybody who's listening. You need to take this personal responsibility on yourself. Okay. This
is your product. This is your services, your business. Nobody else cares about it except for
you. Therefore you're the one that needs to make it successful.
Therefore, if you write a crappy webinar, you don't just stop.
That's the beginning point.
We all write a crappy webinar to start.
Then you go and you do it.
And then you do it again.
And you do it again.
It's going to suck at first because at first you're going to make zero dollars.
You're going to probably spend money trying to get ads to show up.
You're going to be bribing people.
You're going to be going and spending 40 hours on Facebook and every group related to you
trying to recruit people to come to your webinar. And can get a hundred people to sign up and one will
show up and it's going to suck and it's going to be embarrassing.
You're going to cry your eyes out, but that's the path.
Okay.
If it was super easy, guess what?
Everybody here would be doing webinar every single night, right?
It's not.
So you've got to care more.
Okay.
And you can't expect anyone else to care.
You can't, you can't put the blame on
anybody else. Extreme ownership. It's you. You are the only person. You're the one who's stepping
out in the arena and you've got to figure this thing out. Okay. And so that's, that's the goal.
And if you're too shy or you're introverted, I get it. So am I, I hate talking to people.
Okay. But if you really care about this business and your mission and stuff,
then you've got to go out of your way to go out there and ask the questions,
jump on the coaching calls, go into the Facebook groups, talk to people, trade them, say, Hey, I,
if you know, I'll work for free for you. If you'll review my webinar, I'll do this for you.
Like whatever it takes, it's going to be uncomfortable. It's going to be painful.
It's going to suck at first. I get it. But if you really want this thing to happen, like that's the path. If you don't, that's cool. Go back and do whatever you're
doing before. I don't care. But if this is the path you want to, I just want to paint a really
clear picture. This is not all sunshine and roses. Okay. Um, it's, it's hard. It's hard work,
but no one ever said that changes in the world is going to be easy. So if you really do believe
in your product, your service, and you really do want to change
the world for the people that you've been called to serve, then this is the path and
you got to do it over and over and over and over again.
All right.
So that said, I'm going to, I'm going to stop talking here for a second.
I'm going to have my brother go and find the podcast episode that I did.
Okay.
It might have been three or four years ago now, but basically it was a, it was like,
if I remember right, it was either December or the beginning of the year. I was coming home
and I mapped out. I said, this is the business model for the next 12 months. If you do this
next 12 months, um, you will be financially independent. And, uh, that, that calling that,
that, that statement, that phrase is still true today. And so I'm going to post it here. Same
thing. I talked about the expert secrets book, um. Just because I haven't been ringing that bell as much doesn't mean it's not true.
It's still the path.
It's still the process.
It's still exactly what I'd do if I was starting over again today live.
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Head over to the office today
and just keep getting more and more excited
about how simple and stupid this,
my plan is for next year.
The end goal is always world domination and the strategies changed so many times, but
look at the people in our coaching group that made the most amount of money, look at the
things that made me the most amount of money and it's all had to do with one core focus.
It comes down to this.
I'm taking notes right down right now. If you're in a car, pull over so you can focus a hundred
percent because this is the key. Okay. And I talked about this on my Periscope, the one that
I told you guys about yesterday, uh, we did 150 K sales on it. Um, the key is having a live event
every Thursday. And you're the one singular goal of your entire company is to get at least 1,000 people a week onto that webinar.
That's it.
It's kind of like the whole apple a day keeps the doctor away.
1,000 registrants a week for your webinar keeps money flowing.
We were doing the math on that.
Let's just say, and I don't have the numbers in front of me because I'm driving as you guys know, but let's say you had a thousand people a week
to register, right? So this is all sources of Facebook, um, solo ads, email ads, uh, Twitter,
social media, like everything you're doing is all pushing towards this one event that's happening
every single week. Like you're just focusing on that. Okay. And so you're doing that. You
got to say you a thousand people to register from that. You get 30% show up rate, right?
So that drops to 300 people that show up and then your call to action.
Let's say you closed, you follow the perfect webinar script.
Um, if you don't follow it, you're getting like 1% closure.
You follow the perfect webinar script, you're 10% close rate.
So that means that the 330 people give you a thousand dollars from that webinar.
Okay.
And so you just made $30,000, okay?
Now the math on that, let's say you're,
you should be averaging between $3 and $5
per webinar registered.
So let's just say we spent $5 per registered.
We got thousands.
You paid five grand and you made 30, okay?
And what is that?
If I was talking to my kids right now,
I'd say, son, you call that arbitrage, okay?
I put in $5,000 on Monday through Thursday.
I get, Thursday night, I get $30,000 on Monday through Thursday. I get Thursday night,
I get $30,000 back. Boom. But I didn't just get that because a couple other things are going to happen. Second off from Thursday night till Friday, Saturday, Sunday, we're going to be focusing on
our replay sequence. Okay. Now there's a lot of things you can do in your replay sequence.
You can just send out the replay. You can send out urgency and scarcity that we talked about a couple days ago.
You can do a whole bunch of cool things.
But if you do it right, you should be able to double your sales from the replay sequence.
Because think about it.
You had 1,000 registered.
Only 300 showed up.
Only 10% of those people bought.
So you only had 30 people out of 1,000.
That means you got a whole crap ton of other people who haven't bought yet.
And so your job is to follow up those people and get them to buy.
Give them some urgency, some scarcity, do some cool things.
Let me do a Periscope, rent clothes Friday, Saturday night, trying to get them to buy.
Whatever it is, you're pushing these people to take action and to give you money and to
close.
If you do it right, you should double your sales.
It means that 30,000 has now turned into 60,000.
So you have $5,000 in 60,000 back
out. You have more than 10 extra money, um, that week, which is pretty good, right? You're like,
sweet. This is a good business. I put five grand in on Monday. I get $60,000 back out by Sunday
at midnight. And then you do that every single week. Okay. So let's say that was all you did.
Okay. And I don't have a calculator here and I'm not smart enough to do math while I'm driving,
but if you do that 60 grand times
52 weeks, what's that end up being? Whatever, 3 million bucks or something, right? And your cost,
5 grand times 52 weeks, you're at what? 250 grand. So you put in a quarter million bucks,
you made 3 million or whatever that is. Like that's a great business. That's more than most
people will do ever. Um, so that's really, really exciting right there. Okay. So that's
the first step in this. But the second thing to think about is every single week you're adding a thousand people
to your list.
Okay.
So by the end of the year, you got 52,000 people on your email list and these aren't
normal people.
People have gone through webinar registration funnel.
They've seen your indoctrination series.
They've been on your webinar.
They've been indoctrinated.
They've learned from you.
They've seen you pitch like those people love and respect you a lot more because of that process that you,
that you went through with them.
Right?
And so now you've got a better quality person.
And if you screw this up, if you don't treat your list very well, you should be averaging
at least a dollar per name per month on your email list, which means by the end of a year,
you should be averaging an additional $52,000, um just from other exterior, I know there's a
different word for that, but other things that you sell, you sell that list, right?
And if you do it correctly and you follow the whole dotcomsecrets model and you do a
value ladder and you have upsells and you have high ticket things and you have other
webinars and things like that, you should make a lot more than that.
You should make five or six
million bucks off of that list to be a hundred percent honest. And all that came from one
solitary focus. One thing, the apple a day, it came from every Thursday we do a webinar
Monday through Thursday. We fill that webinar Friday through Sunday. We, we do, we close deals. And that is the fuel. Like that's,
that's the business. Okay. And, uh, I just today, right for the office, I went in on Thursdays and
I went from, for me, I do mine at noon from noon till two o'clock. I put on recurring and said
every Thursday from now till the end of time, I'm doing a webinar. Some people say, well,
do I do new webinar every single week? No, it's the exact same webinar. Well, Russell, shouldn't I do it automated? No, you shouldn't.
Maybe someday, but right now you're going to do it live. Okay. I've done my funnel hacks webinar at
least 30, maybe 40 times live. And I'm going to do it live every Thursday next year that I am in
the office. And I will automate it the days I'm not there, but I'm going to do it live. And a
couple of reasons why you're like, well, why would you do it live?
It's the same pitch, Russell.
It's probably word for word, and it is at this point.
This is the reason why.
On Thursdays when I'm doing a live webinar,
guess what happens?
Everyone is focused on this live webinar.
So support staff's ready.
We've got people answering chat.
Tech guys are watching everything,
making sure that everything's working.
We've got everyone's focus and attention
on this one event that's happening. And guess what happens when you focus on something? It's really weird.
Whatever you focus on will grow. Okay. If you focus on how many leads a day you get,
that'll grow. If you focus on how many web and registration you get each week, that'll grow.
If you focus on how much money you want, it'll grow. If you focus on how much weight you want
to lose, it will grow or you'll lose whatever it is on that side. But it's this weird thing
that whatever we focus on grows. So, Hey, let's focus on that, and it'll grow, and it'll get better.
And so we focus, everyone focuses on Thursday.
This is our sales day.
This is the day we all focus on selling, okay?
Monday through Thursday is marketing.
Thursday is sales, and the rest of it is follow-up.
And if you do that, you guys, that's prescription for an amazing business next year.
I was talking to Liz Benny, and I told her, I said, Liz, I, I seen you when you were running
the webinar model consistently, you, you have the right numbers. Everything was working. I was like,
um, I told her, I was like, I think that you could do five or six or $7 million. I have a
hundred percent faith she can do it. I know she can, and she knows she can, and she's going to,
um, and guess what she's doing. She's coming back to the same model, going back to basics,
all of us. So I'm doing it by hopefully my entire inner circles. You're not going to be sending this
podcast to everyone and forcing them to listen to it because this is the basics. Okay. Again,
if my son was trying to, I'd say, son, that is the basics. That's what we're focusing on. And
if we all do that collectively, um, we'll change the world in our own little, in our own little
ways. So that's what I'm doing. Hope you guys follow suit. Uh, I'm excited. Uh, I hope you're excited and uh, it's going to be a lot of fun. Now I want to,
I want to warn you, there's gonna be some ups and downs. Okay. Sometimes Facebook's going to
kick you off. Sometimes other ad networks won't work anymore. Sometimes you get crap leads.
Sometimes your JV partners will screw you over. Sometimes no one will show up to your webinar.
Sometimes the close rate won't work. Sometimes go to webinar will drop you or webinar jam or
things are going to happen
and it's going to be frustrating and annoying and lame and hard and you're going to be discouraged.
Okay.
And every time you get discouraged, I want you to think about the apple a day.
Think about, I got to come back.
This is a focus.
And every single week I'm going to get better.
I'm going to get better.
I'm going to get better.
Maybe the first week I only get 10 people to register.
Next week I get 30.
Next week I get 50.
If I make that my focus, whatever we focus on, what happens?
It grows.
So we're going to start focusing on that.
And what's going to happen in the next 12 months is your business and your life will be transformed.
It can't not be.
And the lives of the people you're serving will be transformed.
You're saying, Russell, this is cool, but I can't afford to buy Facebook ads right now.
I don't care if you can't buy Facebook ads.
Go spam Facebook.
There's a lot of ways to get traffic for free. Go out there and do it. Okay. Write blog posts, promote
them, go talk to people, do joint ventures. Like there's other ways to do it. And if you're, if,
if your excuse is that I can't do it because of my Facebook account got shut down, I can't do it
because I don't know any JV partners. I can't do it because of filling whatever excuse you want.
It's all those things are excuses.
Okay.
And I, and there's a lot of people with a lot of good excuses out there, but the ones
who don't have excuses and just think, how can I figure this out?
They focus on it.
It's weird.
What happens when you focus again?
You get things done.
It starts to grow.
So start focusing on what else can I do?
I'm broke.
I can't buy Facebook ads.
What else can I do?
Um, I just saw,
uh, my man Ryan from hardcore closer just been watching. He joined our inner circle a while ago,
been watching him. It's been crazy impressed with him, like all the stuff he's doing. Um,
and, uh, just grateful that he joined. Cause I have a chance now to see this glimpse of what
he's doing. And it's just been, um, amazing. And I'm watching him do these blog posts and he's
getting like hundreds of thousands of millions of people reading these blog posts and he's getting like hundreds of thousands
of millions of people reading these blog posts and it's just it's it's just he focuses on that
and it grows he said I saw him post the other day how his goal the first of the year is to get
100,000 visitors a month and I think now he's getting like 100,000 visitors a week or something
crazy like that it's just it's it's what you focus on grows and he's doing that through free traffic
because he started making money and then he, you know, spending money on Facebook to boost
those posts and that's the model.
Like that's how it all works.
So anyway, I hope that all makes perfect sense to you.
I hope that gets you excited.
I hope that it inspires you because that's the model, my friends, that's what we're focusing
on here.
That's how we're going to take our company from eight figures to nine figures and beyond
how you should be taking it from six to seven, from seven to eight, from five to six, from zero to
five. It's the model. It's what works. It's what's working today. Um, and there's nothing else you
should be focusing on. I don't think so. There you go. You've got it on a silver platter. Now
on a napkin, you have it in front of you. You just got to pick it up and run with it. And if you do,
then I only want you to send me 10% of what you make. I'm
just joking. All I want you to do is serve other people, help other people get your message out
there. And, um, and hopefully you'll tell people about ClickFunnels along the way because we love
it and it keeps getting better every single day. Thanks everybody. Okay, everybody. So there you
go. There's the path. Now, you know, no more excuses. Um, once again, extreme ownership,
this is all on you. This is all on your
shoulders. It's not me. It's not your spouse. It's not your family, not your kids, not the market.
It's all on you. And as soon as you take personal responsibility, 100% personal responsibility,
and you really buy into your own mission enough that you're willing to do the uncomfortable
things, you're willing to lose money, you're willing to go through the pain of, of jumping on the calls and talking to people and being, getting outside of your
introverted self. If you would like, as soon as you're willing to do that enough, that's been
driving success. So, um, on the softer side of the rant, I just want to say that, um, first off,
I believe in you guys. I wouldn't keep doing this if I didn't believe in you. Um, I know it's possible. I've seen this happen for me and for my family and for the business
because, because I was willing to go through those painful things. So I believe in you. Like,
I know you can do it. Number two, like if you're in this, if you're, if you're listening to me and
you're obsessed with this stuff and you're trying to figure it out, um, I believe that's not just
cause just randomness. I believe you've been called
and there's people that you've been called to serve and it's important. And that's why you
have this thing that keeps drawing you back. He's pulling you back. And so listen to that. That
should be a guiding light that pushes you as you're, as you're going through these, the growing
pains, the pain of the struggle, the pain of growth. Um, because it, it does matter. It's not
just you you're doing this for, right? I know that we're, we're in business to make money for ourselves, but that's not why you
do what you do because there's people out there that you've been called to serve and
you've been called to change your life.
And so like, like I honor you for that.
If, if there wasn't, you wouldn't be listening to this, you wouldn't be paying any attention
to it.
So, um, it's worth it to learn the skill sets and to do the things you need to do to be
successful.
So anyway, the, the other resources you need,
um, if you, if you need more help and more on reading stream ownership, um, I think that'll
help you a ton for everybody. Uh, number two, if you want to do webinars and really master it,
um, if you go to funnel flicks.com, the, the course is free inside of funnel flicks. It's
my 10 X secrets course inside there. I go through my breakdown slide by slide by slide i give you my slides um and then i have like 15 of webinars i've
done so in all sorts of different products you can go and you can watch to see me do the pitch
over and over and over and over and over and over again steven larson told me when he first tried to
do his first webinars he went took every webinar in mind he could find he ripped the audio put him
on audio tracking just to listen to him over and over and over again to understand what i said and
how i said it why i said it and my language patterns and my tonality and all
those things. And he started modeling it and modeling it and modeling it. And Steven had his
first million dollar day like two months ago, a month and a half ago, right? From selling on stage,
following the process. And so it's there. In fact, I even ripped the audios and put them in the
audio book format for you so you can listen to it in your car. But all that stuff's there. It's free
inside of FunnelFlix. Okay. And as long as you're, uh, if you go to FunnelFlix.com
and you upgrade to the, to the, to our platinum level of ClickFunnels, you get FunnelFlix for free
and then go into the 10X Seekers training course. It's all there. Everything I've got, all my best
trainings, all there for free for you to go and master a webinar. Um, I've tried to give you guys
every tool, everything you need, because, um, again, again, I can't, I can't do your business for you. I'm not a, I'm not a savior. I'm a leader and I'm trying to lead you. Um,
but the only thing I can do in leading is giving you like, as I'm trailblazing, figuring crap out,
it's turn around and give it to you as fast as I get it. And so if you want to master webinars,
that's everything I got. That's 15 years of me trailblazing for you and giving you like,
here's the scripts. Here's literally the PowerPoints or the keynote slides, whatever one you want to use. Here's, here's 15 different times of me doing it,
selling all sorts of products and services. Here's me. I show videos there of me doing it.
I think I have four or five different people at one of our fat events come on stage and I would,
uh, in fast sense for funnel hackathon, F H A T. We call them fat events. We used to do them.
Um, but people come on stage. I would like with zero notice, like, what's your product? What's your service? I asked him a couple of
questions. I fill out the pitch and I stand on stage and do the webinar live for them.
Um, it's like all that stuff's in there. Like it's all there. He's going to go to
funnelflips.com and go in and log in, go to the 10xsecrets training course and everything's there.
There's nothing that I hid back. Like it's all in there for you. Um, so if you want to master webinars, like go and master webinars,
you got to do it over and over and over and over again. So that's all I got you guys. It's been a
long one. Appreciate you all. Thanks for listening. Um, I believe in you. I believe in your dreams.
I believe the people that you are supposed to change. Um, I believe that their lives are waiting
for you to, to become who you need to become to be able to change their lives.
So this is the calling for you.
Take personal responsibility, step up, become who you need to be to change their lives.
And as you do that, everything else will take care of itself.
You'll make enough money.
Um, all these other things will, will fall into line as long as you shift the focus from
you to them.
But it's all on you.
Personal responsibility.
Um, all right.
With that said, appreciate you all. Thanks for everything. And we'll talk to you guys all again soon. Bye everybody.
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