Marketing Secrets with Russell Brunson - How To Acquire Awesome Companies For FREE!

Episode Date: July 6, 2022

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Welcome back to the Marketing Secrets Podcast. First off, hope you're awesome. Second off, I got some gold to share with you guys today. This is a question people will be asking me about because a lot of you know that in the last, I don't know, 12 months, I've bought in half a dozen companies and a whole bunch more are coming and people keep asking me what and why and how and all the things.

So that's what this episode is all about. So the big question is this, how are entrepreneurs like us who didn't cheat and take on venture capital, we're 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. Okay, so obviously this is something that we could and probably should go really, really deep on. This could be a three-day seminar.

This could be a 17,000-day challenge. This could be a book. This could be a lot of other things. But I've been talking about it just like my inner circle meetings and masterminds and unlock secrets a little bit here and there. And every time I talk about it, people's eyes light up and they're so excited. And they have so many questions. And then when I tell them a couple of the big gems, they don't believe me. So I want to blow your mind a little bit, get you excited. So as you

probably know, we're moving into a really interesting economy and it's going to be really scary for a lot of people and really good for other people. Those who are prepared, you shall not fear, right? And hopefully you've been preparing for as long as you've been hanging out with me and listening to me and talking to me and listening to podcasts and books. I've been doing my best to prepare all you guys for the last almost two decades now, but specifically really heavily over the last eight or nine years as ClickFunnels has been around. We've been trying very, very to the best of my abilities to give you guys the understanding and the skill sets to be able to write your own paychecks, to be able to drive traffic, to be able to understand funnels and offers and strategy and all that kind of stuff.

And so I hope you've been geeking out. I hope you've been studying, hoping and applying because now is the time when those skill sets are being called, um, called into play. Uh, the people who understand these principles will be the ones who, um, over the next three to five years, we'll build a solid foundation and literally be the ones who control the next three to five years will build a solid foundation and will literally be the ones who control the internet afterwards. I don't know how to say it more nicely than that, but it's true. Right now, businesses are going on sale at a huge discount. Most business owners don't have the chops for this economy. And so because of that, as shifts and things are changing, people are either wanting to get out of business, selling their business, shutting their businesses

down, or some variation of all those kinds of things. And so you're able to get businesses at a very, very low and expensive rate. A lot of times they're literally free. And so let me explain that a little bit more. Most people in most of the markets that we're in have businesses that aren't sellable to traditional buyers, right? So they have a business that they think is worth 10 million or 50 million or whatever. And they try to sell it to a traditional business and most people don't want to buy. And so the deals and the offers that are there for you are coming and realizing like

they don't have a sellable business in the world, you know, out to the market. But because of that, it opens up these huge opportunities for you. So for example, some of the businesses we've had a chance to acquire or we are acquiring right now, these businesses couldn't get bought on the open market. And so we're able to come in and say, look, we know you don't have the ability to get purchased here, but I want to buy the business from you, but I want you to finance the business for me. So we do what's called seller financing. And it's similar to back in the day, Robert Allen had a book called No Money Down. You could buy houses with no money down.

That was always confusing to me. Just, I didn't study enough to know, but there was this weird thing where someone's got to have the house. But the business is really cool where I can literally buy a business. Let's say I come in and I say, I'm going to buy a business for $10 million, but I'm not going to give you any cash right now, but I will pay you $100,000 a month for the next five years or whatever, you know, whatever the math ends up being on that. There are so many people that will take that deal right now because first off, they want to sell the business. They want to get out of the business. They want the risk, all the fear,

all that kind of stuff. So I can buy the business for almost nothing. And now if I understand these core principles that you understand, that I understand that we've been teaching you guys on, you can take a business and very quickly get it into cashflow. So a good example is Dan Kennedy's business. We bought that and I'm not going to discuss the price, what we spent, all that kind of stuff. But, um, I will say this, you guys would be shocked at how inexpensive it was. And then most of that purchase was financed. So what that means is we bought the company. I put some money down to get the company. So they handed the reins over to me. And then I had all the assets. I had the content. I had the customer list. I had the email list. I had all this stuff. From that, what did I do? I created

an ears of sploffer. Most of you guys know this. If you went to nobsletter.com, you saw the ears of sploffer. We took that, you know, we put a month together, rebuilt the newsletter, launched this offer, $97 a month newsletter. And we added like four or 5,000 people to the subscriber base. And then the cashflow from those customers now paid off the rest of the bill, right? It paid off the business. And now guess what? I own the business free and clear and it didn't cost me any money.

The business produced the money. We're working on another deal right now that we're buying that literally is coming with this huge customer, this huge email list. And after we finish the transaction and we get the business over, we put money down, but then we're financing the we get the business over, we put money down, but then we're financing the rest of the business. And I would say within 30 to 60 days, we'll have created an offer that we launched to that customer list that will then cover the entire financing of the rest of the business. So it doesn't cost me anything after that because I understand structure and offers

and funnels and upsells and downsells and cross-sells and continuity and how to drive traffic and how to write emails and how to structure a thing and how to, you know, all the different things you guys have been learning, we can do it really quickly. There's another company right now that we are acquiring. It's a software company. It's like insanely cool and same deal. We got the, we got the, this one we got completely for free. We are acquiring the company for free. It doesn't cost us anything. And then we have to start paying monthly on it, I think 30 or 60 days after we close. In that 30-day window, I will take the customer list. I will create an irresistible offer. I will send an email to that customer list making an irresistible offer. The profits from that

irresistible offer will then cover all the monthly payments to then pay off the business. So the business literally doesn't cost me anything. Are you guys getting this? Is this making sense to you? So what I want you to start to do, and this is going to be something for those who have put in the time and the effort, who understand these core principles, but start looking in your market, start looking at your competitors, start looking at other people and just realize right now that there are so many insanely good offers. When I first announced that we bought Dan Kennedy's company, I cannot tell you how many people with huge businesses came to me saying, leave it by mine, leave it by mine. Many of them just saying, just take it over and pay me a monthly

fee or pay me a royalty. I'd rather you have it. Okay. Most of the people in your market, they aren't really business owners. They don't have teams. They don't have these things. They're, they're content creators, right? They created content. They have a list. They have ideas, but most of them don't want to run a business. They just want to do the content. You can come in really easily and structure a deal where it's like, Hey, I will run the business. Um, you give me your business, you give me your customers, you do everything. I'm going to do this. And you now are in charge of just this piece. You do the content. We'll pay you 20% royalty or whatever that is. And then we'll literally give you the business to have you take that piece over.

Okay. So I just want you to start thinking strategically because right now there's a lot of them out there and over the next 12 months, 36 months, there's going to be even more. And so now it's time to start looking at those opportunities and those deals and start finding them and start negotiating them and start contacting the people who have complimentary products or even competitive products or people who are in industries you would like to get into. Look for those things and start seeking them out. So anyway, I can't talk more about it right now because we're in the middle of most of these deals, but I would love someday in the future to go deeper into this. Maybe we'll do a course or a challenge or something kind of showing you guys.

I know there's been a lot of people teaching some of this business stuff. Um, and, uh, anyway, I just wanted to throw some of my days, my ideas in as right now we're kind of in the middle of it, uh, and having some fun with it, right? We're literally, we're able to pick up companies basically for free because we know the basic fundamentals of customer lists, email marketing, offer creation, funnels, all the things you guys have been learning and studying and understanding. So I hope this helps get you guys excited and just helps open your eyes to what is actually possible. On top of that, keep your eyes open and you'll start seeing all the fun, exciting acquisitions and things we'll be doing over the next few weeks, months, and years.

And yeah, ride this wave over the next couple of years until we're out of this chaos and this recession. Because those of you guys who are prepared, this could be, you know, for some of you guys, the greatest, I mean, it's like buying real estate at pennies on the dollar right now, holding for two, three years and watching it explode. I have a neighbor who, when the last recession hit, he had cash and so he went and 2008 when everyone was selling and crashing, he went and bought a whole bunch of land out by where I live and sat on it for two or three years and then market turned, everyone started building out here and he made hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars by holding this land. And he was able to hold it for two or three years and then when people started building on it, boom, yeah, insane amounts of

money. That's the same opportunity I think that we're in right now is looking out there, buying or acquiring or controlling these businesses, these assets that are struggling right now. Right now, the market's weird. Ad prices are jacked up. All sorts of weird things are happening. It's just this uncertain time from so many different things, supply chain issues, all that kind of stuff. And just understanding that, okay,

that gives you the ability to walk in and get things for free or really close to free. And then learning these skill sets, understanding the stuff that you've been learning and teaching you for the last, you know, however long and mastering them so you can put a thing in place to get the business to pay for itself and then hold it for the next year, two years, three years, the market changes. And also now you're sitting with this asset that's worth, you know, in the case of my friend with the land, hundreds of millions of dollars. In the cases of the businesses I'm acquiring, I think they will also be worth that much as well.

Um, so anyway, it's exciting. Uh, just wanted to put that thought in your mind as you guys are, um, yeah, as you're sitting around brainstorming, thinking, plotting and scheming and all the things we do as entrepreneurs. So hope that helps. Thanks so much. And we'll talk to you soon. Thank you for listening to the marketing secrets podcast. If you've loved this episode, Thanks so much. And we'll talk to you soon. I would love to give you the most incredible free gift ever designed to help you make maximum money in minimum time. This free gift comes with almost $20,000 worth of pure money-making information for free, just for saying maybe. You can get this gift from Dan and from me right now at NoBSLetter.com. Not only are you going to get the $20,000 gift, you also can get a subscription to two marketing newsletters that will be hand-delivered by the mailman to your mailbox each and every month. One from Dan Kennedy and one from me. To get this gift and your subscription, go to NoBSLetter.com right now.