Marketing Secrets with Russell Brunson - (MS) Brainology: The $50,000 Book Set That I Got For $500!

Episode Date: March 10, 2023

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Starting point is 00:00:35 Hey, what's up, everybody? This is Russell Brunson. Welcome back to the Marketing Secrets podcast slash YouTube video slash I have no idea where my team's going to use this, but I want to talk about this today. And I think it'll be fun and hopefully you guys will learn something about it. But this is kind of a multi-faceted. If you're watching the video version, you can see in front of me, I've got this really cool old book set that I am kind of freaking out about. It's called Brainology and it was written in, let me see if I can pull this out here. There's actually a 14 book set. Those who are watching the video, here's the cover. I don pull this out here. There's actually a 14 book set. Those who are watching the video, here's the cover.
Starting point is 00:01:08 I don't know if it's gonna be blurry or not. There it is. Brainology, it's this little mini book. It's written by Elise Lincoln Benedict for the School of Opportunity. What? And it was written in 1925. And so this is a little book here.
Starting point is 00:01:23 And you may be wondering, Russell, why are you so excited about this little tiny book? Which is a book set. And all books for that matter. Those who follow me everywhere are probably like, man, I don't know about you, but this Russell guy keeps buying all these old books. And he's freaking out about it. And he's building this huge library slash museum and a whole bunch of other things. And so I want to step back and just kind of tell you guys why.
Starting point is 00:01:43 I think a lot of people have beliefs on what I'm doing and why I'm doing it, but I'm going to kind of shed the curtain back a little bit more just because this is fun for me. And I have a grand vision of where I'm going in the next, man, three slash 10 years. I know exactly where I'm going. I know what I'm creating. I know what's happening. And because I'm so excited. In fact, Steve Larson was here last week and he's like, man, I can tell there's like
Starting point is 00:02:04 a different energy and you're excited about something. I was like, because I have a vision. I know what I'm so excited. In fact, Steve Larsen was here last week and he was like, man, I can tell there's like a different energy and you're excited about something. I was like, because I have a vision, I know what I'm creating, I know where I'm going, and I'm so excited for it. And as always, the people that I serve are entrepreneurs, so everything I'm creating is for you guys. And I think it's something that will dramatically change
Starting point is 00:02:18 your life and the lives of your customers, the people you've been called to serve, and that's why I'm so passionate about it. So, what does that have to do with these old, old, old books? Well, first off, I'm gonna tell you guys the story of the treasure hunt of how I actually got this book set called Brainology. So I'm telling you how far back I want to go. I've been collecting a whole bunch of old books, as you guys know, but the era, like the period of time that I'm actually fascinated in is between 1850 and 1950. That's the sweet spot.
Starting point is 00:02:46 That's the time of the world history that like fascinates me the most. It's interesting. Ryan Holiday is one of my favorite authors. He spoke at Funnel Hacking Live a couple years ago. And look at what Ryan's done. Like he wrote a whole bunch of marketing books before. And then he kind of geeked out on this era, which was the Stoic era, right? With Stoicism and like all the Roman emperors and all the people who kind of was the Stoic era, right? With Stoicism and like all the
Starting point is 00:03:06 Roman emperors and all the people that kind of brought the Stoic philosophy into light, right? And Ryan's kind of taking that decade or so when Stoicism was this thing and he's blown it up into now, you know, five or six books, a podcast, a YouTube channel, like all these kinds of things. And it's been so much fun watching him. Like that era. The Stoic era is fascinating. I love it. But for me, the era of time that's most fascinating is about 1850 to 1950. And that era of time was known as the new thought movement. It was the first time that people really started coming back and talking about the fact that you could think and you could change your life, right? Think and grow rich, think and change, think and be like, like it was the new thought movement. I thought was the key to everything, right?
Starting point is 00:03:47 And in fact, the first person, there's different, depending on the timeline, there's different times that first started and first authored. But anyway, there are a whole bunch of these old authors. I think Samuel Smiles was one of the very first people that wrote a personal development book. In fact, it was called Self-Help. I wrote it in the 1850s
Starting point is 00:04:01 and that kind of sparked this movement. And there's other amazing writers about the same time. And these writers start talking about new thought. And then this new thought movement kind of bumped into Christianity. And people were like, well, how do these things coexist? And from that were a whole bunch of other authors and speakers and people that came out. And I've just been fascinated by that era, like 1850 to 1950, when all this stuff was new and exciting. People learning about how our minds work in the subconscious mind and, and, uh, and how it relates to God. And like all these, it's just, it's
Starting point is 00:04:27 fascinating to watch these people as they're discovering it. And so as I started going, going into it, the first author, obviously I got obsessed with Napoleon Hill. He's still my favorite. Like I love that dude. I love studying him and learning about him in his life and his teachings and like all these kinds of things. Um, and one of my favorite things, actually, I just finished reading his, um, just finished reading his biography, you know, is that he didn't just have success right out of the gate. Like he had all sorts of ups and downs, up and downs for his entire life. Yet he was the one who wrote this whole first philosophy on success. He was obsessed with the success, yet he struggled so much in his own personal life
Starting point is 00:04:57 until the end of his life when he started, when he really got all the pieces together and started actually having success. And so, you know, it's funny because a lot of times we want to study people who are flawless and there's only been one flawless person ever and that was Christ. I love studying him and his life because of that. But most of the rest of us, we're trying to figure this stuff out and we are messing up along the way and the mistakes is how we actually learn the philosophies, how we learn the lessons. And so I respect Napoleon Hill. I had people like, oh, you've seen all the anti-Napoleon Hill stuff online.
Starting point is 00:05:21 I'm like, there's anti-everything good. There's anti-Christ things, there's anti-Mormon things, there, anti-everything. Everything I believe in, there's the opposite that people are out there. And I choose to believe the things that bring me more faith and hope and happiness and light in my life. And so I respect Napoleon Hill. He's one of my favorite authors. But there's a whole bunch of other amazing authors that came up during this period of time. And there were only a few actually female writers. It was a lot more rare back then than nowadays and one of my favorites is this woman here, Elise Lincoln Benedict
Starting point is 00:05:50 and I have a whole bunch of her books. She's got a book set. It looks just like this little mini one. Those of you can see the videos. It's a little mini book. It says Brainology on it. There's a picture of this angel knocking on a front door and it's cool
Starting point is 00:06:01 and the book's probably three inches by five inches, a little mini thing and it's part of a book set of 14 books called Brainology. Which first off, is that the coolest name ever? Come on now, Brainology. And but she wrote another book set called, oh, I'm gonna blank out the name right now. It's like How to Have Everything You Want in Life.
Starting point is 00:06:17 Or How to Get Anything You Want in Life or something like that. And there's another book set, little mini books like this, I think six books. And what happens, I started learning about her and started reading about her life and everything. And she had this school of opportunity and what she was doing and how she was like going around the country and giving seminars and teaching stuff. And that's when I found that first little mini book set on eBay. And I found it and I was like,
Starting point is 00:06:33 oh, and I bought it and it's amazing. And then, man, probably six months later on eBay, I found one copy of Brainology. And I was like, wait, that's like the same author, same book, like same mini book and everything. So I bought it, got shipped to me. And then what I found was like volume one of, it was like volume three or something, something. All I knew is that it wasn't a standalone book. It's part of a book set, which then started me on this thing of like, well, I need, I want the book set. And as you can see right here, those who are watching the video, I have, I got one, I found one, which is exciting, but it's crazy because I started looking for this book set. And as I started searching, it was like finding buried treasure.
Starting point is 00:07:08 I think there were two references to it on all of Google. And one of them was somebody who on Etsy had sold one like five or six years ago. And it was missing like half of the volumes. It had like six or seven of them. And they sold Etsy for like 60 bucks or something. And there's a picture of him. I was like, okay, now I know there's books. I don't know how many books are in it, but I know there's a book set.
Starting point is 00:07:23 And so I contact the person on Etsy. I was like, Hey, five years ago, you sold a book set. Um, do you know who sold it? Or I was like, I was like, I will pay you $5,000. Tell me who sold it to, so I can contact that person and see if I can buy the books from them. And the person on Etsy first off, they responded back, which is pretty cool. Cause they could have thought I was just a crazy person, but they responded back. So I'm not willing to contact the buyer. And I was like, seriously, five G's you sold for 50 bucks. Like this is a good deal. Anyway, I said, no, actually, that's not true. I told him I'd pay up to $5,000 for the book set as if you, if you contact them and see if we can buy it back, I'll give you whatever the
Starting point is 00:07:53 difference is in that, in that thing. And the person said no. So then I was like, dang it. So I started looking again, started looking on eBay. Obviously the only thing I found on eBay was the one copy they already had. Um, I started, there was someone who had sold on eBay a couple of years ago and there's a reference on online somewhere of someone selling it. Um, and there's a picture of it and I can see the full book set, but that was it. There was no other reference. Um, I started searching everywhere and there's no, like most books you, there's a, there's a, you can find stuff from it, like people talking about it or writings of it or transcriptions of it or like, but this book, it was like nowhere. I can't, I think there was two references on all of, on, um, all of Google for this book. And so I kept
Starting point is 00:08:28 searching and looking and going to all the old bookstores online. I was like contacting people I knew who I bought books from the past. Like, have you ever seen this book? Have you ever found it? Like, anyway, I'm starting this treasure hunt. It was so much fun. And I'm searching everywhere for this, for this book. And then, um, finally I go to Instagram and I typed in the book title and nothing shows up. Then I typed in the author's name and i go to instagram and i typed in the book title and nothing shows up then i typed in the author's name and i go to and i look through accounts look everything finally on instagram i look at images i start scrolling down and like seven years ago somebody posted on instagram that they they had this copy right here and it was a bookstore
Starting point is 00:08:57 over in europe in london and they posted that look like look at this little gem we found blah blah whatever i saw it i like, seven years ago. Do you think they still have it? So again, it was a used bookstore. So I went to their website. I went through all their catalogs, everything. No trace of it. I'm like, God, they sold it to somebody.
Starting point is 00:09:12 It's sitting on somebody's shelf. They don't even know how cool it is. But I messaged them on Instagram. I was like, hey, do you happen to still have this book set? Like, I am a huge fan. She's one of my favorite female authors of all time. And I'm searching everywhere. Like, do you still have the book set?
Starting point is 00:09:26 I went to bed that night, woke up in the morning to a response, and they said, yes, we still have it. I was like, oh my gosh, I'm freaking out. I messaged them back. I was like, cool, I want it. Let me know all the details, whatever. I gave them my contact information. Then my morning routine, I'm up working out.
Starting point is 00:09:41 I took my son Aiden, I was driving to school, and I started telling Aiden about this treasure hunt I was going on to find this book. I'm telling him the stories and how I contact this person. I'm up working out, took Aiden, my son Aiden, I'm driving to school. I start telling Aiden about this treasure hunt and I was going on to find this book and tell him the stories and how I contact this person that search everywhere. And finally I told him I found someone actually has the entire full book set. I guess it's like finding very treasure. I'm so excited. And I asked Aiden, I'm like, how much think, how much think I should spend on it? And he was like, you know, he's like, then he asked me like, well, how much do you think it's worth? I was like, well, I told the other person I'd pay five grand for a partial set. I was like, I probably wouldn't spend more.
Starting point is 00:10:08 I don't know how much more. And he's like, well, would you spend $10,000? I'm like, yeah, I'd probably spend $10,000. He's like, what's the highest? I was like, I'd probably spend, I'd be willing to spend $25,000. That's a lot. But I know what my vision is with this. I know what I can do with it.
Starting point is 00:10:23 And I don't think there's other copies of this right like um and so i told aiden i was like i'll pay 25 000 he's like we'll come back and want more than that i was like ah went back and forth i was like i need to have a set point like this is the most i'm willing to pay like i need to have that number because they come back like three million i gotta say no right i was like ah like worst case scenario i'd be willing to spend 50 000 for this for this rare book so that's what would be worth to me in the museum i'm buying and in what i know i can do with the trainings inside of it like i was like fifty thousand dollars would be my set point and so i told my little buddy aiden that uh dropped off at school and i came back and the bookstore had
Starting point is 00:10:57 sent me over an email with the description telling me all the details about the book telling me about you know the box set like where it's ripped where it's torn all you know all the details they normally send you you're buying books um and then they told me the price for this would be 500 pounds. And I was like, wait, what? 500 pounds? And I start freaking out. Right. Uh, so I messaged him like, you have no idea. I'm looking for this everywhere done where I send the money like quick before they changed their mind. Uh, send them the 500 pounds plus shipping, which is gonna be like 615 bucks or something like that. And they shipped out this gem, this diamond in the rough, this treasure.
Starting point is 00:11:31 I think for me, like as cool as it is, like what I had to go through to find this thing, to find the one bookstore in London who happened to post a picture seven years ago on Instagram of it, to go find them, locate it, get it and like ship it to myself and then get it for 500 bucks basically. Um, it's crazy. And so anyway, so there's my treasure hunting story, which is exciting for me in and of itself. The question is like, well, why in the world
Starting point is 00:11:53 do you care? So why are you collecting all these little books? Uh, again, the camera is kind of blurry here, but you see behind me, there's a whole bunch of other books. These are the books that came in this week. Um, I'm buying a lot of books, uh, partially because I'm building a 20,000 square foot library slash museum and event center. I got to have enough books to fill it up. But number two is like, I'm on this mission. I'm searching, trying to find all of these, these relics, right? You think about like you, every one of us here, like if you're listening to me, my guess is you've got some kind of vision, something you're trying to do, right?
Starting point is 00:12:20 Something you're trying to create. I think part of the reason why we, we, us creators want to create things is because we want to extend our life, right? Gives us immortality, right? Something you're trying to create. I think part of the reason why us creators want to create things is because we want to extend our life, right? It gives us immortality, right? If you create something that lasts beyond yourself, that's immortality, right? How do you live forever? We can't do it physically. We know we're going to die, but if you can create art that lasts beyond yourself, it gives you immortality, right? I think about Ryan Holiday and the Stoic era, like these Stoics, like they created these things like Marcus Aurelius and Seneca and all these amazing emperors when they created these things out there. And today, however many 2000 years later, we know who they are. They've lived forever because of the works because of the things they put out there. Right. I think so many creators nowadays, we
Starting point is 00:12:56 create courses and podcasts and things like that. And maybe those things will, will last the test of time. I don't know. Um, I know that someone who's buying the intellectual property of people, the only thing that honestly lives beyond the life of the author or the person is not the audio or the video or the seminars or the training. The only thing that lives beyond the life of the author is the written word. It's the books that they publish, which is a reason why I like publishing books so much because it's the thing that gives you immortality. It's the thing that lets you live beyond yourself, right? I think about Funnel Hacking Live.
Starting point is 00:13:28 I have this amazing experience with Funnel Hacking Live every single year. The people in the room, the lives are changed, but as soon as the event's over, it ends, right? I can look at everything I've created in the last 20 years of being in this business. The things that people thank me for today are still dot-com secrets, expert secrets,
Starting point is 00:13:43 traffic secrets, the written word. I've created hundreds of courses, hundreds of live events, hundreds of seminars, workshops, you name it, podcasts, episodes. The thing that lives beyond yourself is the written word. And so for me, I'm going back in this time period, 1850, 1950 of, of what I think was the time when men's minds were growing the fastest and the most. And we were like discovering all these things the very first time. Like that's the era I want's the era I want to find these books, the written word. These people spent decades of their life, and they put them into something where I can grab and read and figure out what they learned that no one else is talking about.
Starting point is 00:14:13 What's crazy is that I read these books and I study them. What I realize is that this is the foundational stuff people learned. And then that game of phone booth where one person tells an ex, and the ex goes down this huge line, long line. It eventually gets to us and we hear it like, you know, it's like the 400 times someone's told and it's all watered down where this is like where the original thoughts were stem from these amazing minds. We weren't just regurgitating what they read about online or let's do a podcast and then
Starting point is 00:14:37 act like it's their own. Like they were sitting there thinking, trying to figure these things out, testing, trying and all these things. And this is where the ideas where God first inspired these men and these women to create these things is because they were placing these ideas inside their minds and then boom, they became books that now we have today. And for the most part,
Starting point is 00:14:52 most of these books are lost to time, right? These treasures, these like amazing things. And so part of my mission, what I'm doing with the museum, the library, the upcoming membership side and a whole bunch of other things is like bringing these works back to life, try to immortalize them
Starting point is 00:15:04 so that people like me and you can have them for forever. So my kids, my kids' kids, my kids' kids' kids can have the original sources of all this amazing information, which is why I'm so excited for it. And so what I want to talk about for you guys is just, again, this is me telling my treasure hunting story, but I want to give you guys something tangible that you can do for your business, for your offers. And this is coming back to understanding a principle and the concept called the public domain. Okay. And it was crazy to me looking back in time. Now, one of the very first courses that are very first memberships that I ever
Starting point is 00:15:34 launched was called public domain. Uh, it was called the loss files and it was, I would find products, books are in the public domain and I would republish them. I'd write a sales letter for them. I'd give them to people where they could go and every month they could log in the membership site. They could download the public domain book, take my sales letter and they could go and sell and keep all the money. And I had five or 600 members paying me, I can't remember, 50 bucks a month or 40 bucks a month to have access to the membership site. My very first info product, my very first one ever was called Public Domain How To and I taught people how to like find products in the public domain, how to publish them, how to like sell them, how to like, how to turn this into a product or service how to like sell them how to like how to turn this into product or service you could sell it's my
Starting point is 00:16:06 very first course I ever sold and now like almost 20 years later I'm coming back and now I'm doing this at high scale where I'm buying hundreds of books a month that are in the public domain so I'm going to give you some quick some quick understanding what public domain is and how you guys can actually use this in your in your business okay so public domain is are things where the copyright has expired. Throughout time, copyright laws have changed. The very first copyright law, and again, I'm not a legal lawyer, and it's been a decade or two decades almost since I taught this course.
Starting point is 00:16:34 I could be messing up on some of the details, so consult a lawyer or whatever to figure out if this is true or not. But basically, 1923 is when the first copyright laws came into existence. That means anything published before 1923 in America, this isn't true everywhere, but anything pre-1923 in America, there's no copyright on it, which means it's in the public domain, which you can take that and you can republish it. You can make a derivative work out of it. So for example, Walt Disney, everything that Disney makes for the most part are stories that are in the public domain, right? He didn't make up Frozen. It's the Ice Princess, which is a story in the public domain. He didn't
Starting point is 00:17:07 make up Beauty and the Beast. That's a story from the public domain. Like most Disney movies came from things in the public domain. And so Walt Disney took these stories, right? They were in the public domain and they made a derivative work. Now you can copyright your derivative work, but Snow White is still, you know, maybe not Snow White, I'm not sure, but you know, Little Mermaid is still in the public domain. So you can go take that and make a book called Little Mermaid and you can do that because it's in the public domain. You can't take Disney's version because their derivative work, the thing that they created can, it is copyrightable, but the original files are still in the public domain.
Starting point is 00:17:38 Okay. In 1923, something crazy happened. That's when the copyright laws were first introduced. And the way it worked is between, I think, I remember right, between 1923 and 1963 is the author had renewed their – had like – how did it work? It was like automatically you were copyrighted, but then the author – the copyright lasted a certain amount of time, and then the author had to renew the work. Again, I'm going to mess up on the details on this. But basically between 1923 and 1963, I think it was – it's estimated only seven percent of authors actually filed their work for the public domain or for copyright so 90 whatever 93 percent of works between 1920 through 1963 are actually in the public domain and after 1963 it
Starting point is 00:18:15 changes the copyright laws got really strict so anything post 1963 i believe is like pretty much out of you're out of luck to get access to those things you have to go back to the original intellectual property owner you know if the authors died from the family or from whoever owns the rights, and you can buy those things from them. But for the most part, post-63, the copyright law has protected the copyright holders a lot better. But what that means is anything pre-1923, you can take and you can publish. You can make your own derivative works or publish as is or a bunch of other things like that. Between 23 and 63, depending on all the different rules and logistics of how publishing works. Um,
Starting point is 00:18:45 you know, and again, this is for books, but also for works, which can be videos, audio, things like that. And so it's pretty amazing. And so what that means is you can take these things and you can republish them in your offers. Okay. So for example, brainology, if you look at this brainology book set, which I think I have the only complete copy in the world, maybe there's someone else that's got one. Um, published in 1925. So it was post-1923. But if you look at the way the copyright rule, again, I'm not going to get into it. But basically after the 93rd year, after the work was in the copyright, between 1923 and 1963, it enters into public domain. So right now in 2018, it was when 93 years after, or 95 years
Starting point is 00:19:23 after 2023, or whatever it was. But anyway, two years, basically was when 93 years after or 95 years after 2023 or whatever it was. But anyway, um, two years, basically being, uh, two or three years ago, this book got entered into the public domain, this book set. And so by me finding it's like, this is exciting, but check this out. It means I can now republish this. So I can have this as a course. I can make a brainology course. I can make a brainology book.
Starting point is 00:19:39 I could republish this as the book set you guys could listen to. Again, I could do an audio book of this. I could do a ebook of this. I could do a audio book, ebook, and I could do a course with it. So if I'm doing a book on personal development and I need an offer stack, what's something cool I can do? I'm like, Hey, how about this? The most famous female author from 19, from the early 1900s who wrote an entire book called brainology. If you buy my book right now on personal development, I'm going to give you her entire book set for free right now. It gives you the ability to create really cool offers. Most books I'm buying, once again, are in the public domain.
Starting point is 00:20:11 I'm going through and finding things. This is one I got this week. It's called Science of New Thought by E. Woodford Hopkins. Science of New Thought. If you go through this, it's an amazing book all about, again, the new thought movement and thought, how to have thought change your life. And it's amazing. I could republish this book and this become a bonus.
Starting point is 00:20:30 Again, it's just powerful when you start understanding it because, again, usually you can have your own offer, a thing you're creating. Then we're always like, what are the things we include in the bonus stack? Well, the cool thing is like, yeah, you can include a book from the public domain, but it's not that cool unless you know the story behind it.
Starting point is 00:20:42 I know the story behind Brainology. I know the story of how I found this book set, right? Just me telling this story about how I was able to get this book set, increase the perceived value, right? If you go back to Russell Brunson 101, hook story offer, the goal of the story is increase the perceived value of the offer, right? I just told you the story. I was willing to pay $50,000 for this book set and I'm going to give it to you for free
Starting point is 00:20:58 as a bonus when you buy blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Me telling the story about the author and how she owned this school called the School of Opportunity. She traveled around the entire world giving out, like teaching these seminars on brainology, right? And the book set, again, the second edition was actually just put into one book.
Starting point is 00:21:15 But the first edition, she would leave these little tiny mini books and she only gave those to people who came to her live events. So the only way to get these was to be at her actual live event, right? And I'm the only person that I know of on this planet that actually has a copy of it. So if you want access to this,
Starting point is 00:21:26 you either got to come buy it for me, which I was going to pay 50 grand for it because I'd probably sell it for a million. I'm not ever going to sell it. I'm a hoarder. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to sell it, but, but the perceived value has gone up, right? Now I can tell you that story, explain like how I got it and why I got it. And then, and then why I created a course in the, in the members area behind that, like there's so many powerful things you can do. And there's so many things in the public domain, like so many insane amounts of products and services and things you can find that are amazing. And I remember, like, when I first learned about public domain, I didn't understand it. I didn't get it.
Starting point is 00:21:55 But if you look at any market, any industry, there's some amazing things, right? The thing is to be able to find them, you have to understand that people spoke different back then, right? Like in the early, you know, late 1800s, early 1900s. So when people were, again, like when printing was happening, people were being prolific and these things were coming out there. If you're in the health business, they didn't call it health and fitness. Okay. They called it physical culture. So if you're searching for health and fitness, you're not going to find any good books back in the public domain. But if you type in physical culture and you go to, you know, you can go to eBay and type in physical culture book and look at books
Starting point is 00:22:28 published pre 1923, right? Or if you go to gutenberg.org and type in physical culture, like they'll start showing you the different books and things were written back then about health, right? There are people writing amazing stock books back in the early late 1800s, early 1900s,
Starting point is 00:22:40 right? And type, and again, I'm not in the stock market, but you can find books on the stock market. And maybe the books are outdated, but maybe there's something inside there, like one principle, one philosophy, one concept that's inside this old book you found in 1940 that, you know, whatever. And it opens up a really cool story for a piece of your offer.
Starting point is 00:22:58 And again, personal development, the new thought movement was what that title at that time was called. So if you go to eBay or Google or Gutenberg or whatever and search like new thought movement or things like that, that's going to start finding these products, right? You start finding these books and things and you start getting to know who the authors are and what other books they wrote. And like very, very quickly, you start finding some amazing things that are in the public domain. Then you can repackage and put them into part of your offer or they become the front end offer. They become a whole bunch of different things. What's up everybody. This is Russell Brunson. I've got something really cool for you today from my friend Taylor Wells.. Taylor spoke at our last Funnel Hacking Live because I wanted
Starting point is 00:23:27 him to share a really cool concept about what he calls the revolving pricing method. And today, he decided to sponsor the podcast to give you guys more access to this super cool strategy that you are going to love. It's something we've been implementing into our high-end coaching program as well, and it is amazing. But to kind of give you some context about this offer he's making for you guys, as you may or may not know, a few years ago, JP Morgan Chase did a study and guess what they found? They found that the average small business only has about 28 days of operating expenses in reserve. That's right.
Starting point is 00:23:53 Less than a month of cash on hands. Now, if you're like me, the idea of your business being one bad month away from disaster is enough to make your stomach drop. Am I right? Especially with how the economy has been lately. It's not the time to be gambling with your finances. So Taylor put together this book called The Revolving Pricing Method, and it's awesome. It helps you turn every client you close into a long-term profit machine.
Starting point is 00:24:11 We're not talking about one-time paydays. We're talking about creating sustainable and real predictable income for the long haul. Now, here's where it gets even better. Taylor put together an awesome exclusive deal just for you guys, my Marketing Secrets listeners. And if you go over to wealthyconsultants.com slash secrets, you can grab the revolving price method book and over $150 worth of bonuses and get this all. It's at 70% off. And I promise you guys as a customer of this, you are going to love it. So if you're serious about growing your business with real stability, this is the model you need to add into your funnels. So go over to wealthyconsultant.com slash secrets, grab your 70%
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Starting point is 00:24:57 and assessments, but this one is different because not only does it help you understand yourself, but more importantly, especially for us who are entrepreneurs, it helps us understand our employees, our teams, and get people sitting on the right seats in the bus so they can get more stuff done. I just had a chance to interview Patrick Lanchoni
Starting point is 00:25:11 talking specifically about this new assessment they created called Working Genius. And the Working Genius is awesome. Like this test, I had actually blocked out an hour to take it because I was so excited for the new assessment. And it only took me like 10 minutes or less to get it done.
Starting point is 00:25:23 Yet, even though it takes only 10 minutes, you can actually apply this immediately. I took it for myself. I had my team take it. And what's cool about it is from there, we figured out exactly what people's working geniuses are. And that's important because if you're building a team or a company,
Starting point is 00:25:35 you gotta figure out, make sure that you have, first off, the right people, but make sure the right people are sitting in the right seats on the bus. And this assessment will teach you how to do. Now, normally this assessment, you can go to workinggenius.com and there's two G's in the middle, workinggenius.com, but I got you a 20% discount on the assessment, which is only $25. So don't stress. It's not an
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Starting point is 00:26:25 right seats as well. So anyway, I love this assessment. Go check it out at workinggenius.com and enter the promo code secrets for 20% discount. Take this test for yourself and for your team. And I promise you, it'll change the working dynamics amongst everybody and help your company to grow. So I'm telling you guys this, cause I'm giving you guys a treasure map for where I'm going. You'll see it. You'll see, You'll see part of it probably summertime. You'll see a lot more happening throughout the end of this year. Over the next three years, you'll see it a lot until the library slash museum is done and being built. And then over the next five years, ten years after that, you'll see where I'm going with all this.
Starting point is 00:26:58 But this is the plan. I'm writing my own books, right? I'm studying these things. I'm taking these gems, and I'm finding these things. I'm taking these gems. Um, and I'm finding the things that are in public domain that makes sense that are still applicable today and figure out how I can use them as lead magnets, get people into my world. So you find different segments of the market that will connect with this person versus me and like, and, um, create books and training courses, all sorts of things based on the works of the great minds that left before us.
Starting point is 00:27:21 Right. Um, again, people spend decades of their life and back then it wasn't like jumping on Google Docs and writing something and shipping it to CreateSpace and you have a book 15 minutes later. Like for them to create something like this, like this book set here, for her to create this, like I can't even imagine how much work and effort had to go into like the writing of it,
Starting point is 00:27:38 the printing, the publishing, putting it into a box set like this and her traveling the country doing seminars and holdups, you guys can see this. This is like one of the most beautiful things in the world for me. But as you can see the video version, this is the original box set of it as well.
Starting point is 00:27:52 But that's the magic, right? This brainology course, again, I will conservatively, I was telling my kids, I was like, I'll conservatively make at least a million dollars the next 12 months off of this book set alone. That's the value of it to me, right? Because I know these skill sets, the things we're talking about,
Starting point is 00:28:06 how to create offers and funnels and courses and product. All the skill sets you guys are learning here inside of our world, inside of our community can all be used for this, right? For you to be able to go and create offers as well out of all these cool things. And so anyway, I hope this stimulates some thought in your mind.
Starting point is 00:28:22 Hopefully, worst case scenario, you go to gutenberg.org, which is where it's a it's a company that, or, uh, I don't think it's a nonprofit that scanned a whole bunch of public domain books. You can find, you know, books that are already like the text file, the entire books there, and you can grab and start using it. Um, or go on eBay. I I'm obsessed with eBay and old bookstore trying to find the original copies. Cause like if I'm going to, if I'm going to republish them, I want to have the original copy. Why? Cause I make my video sales letter, my webinar. So I want to be able to show the original copies. Cause like, if I'm going to, if I'm going to republish them, I want to have the original copy. Why? Cause I make my video sales letter, my webinar. So I want to be able to show the thing and talk about it and show experience. Like this thing right here
Starting point is 00:28:50 cost me blah amount of dollars. Like there's no way to get access to this except when you blah, blah, blah, buy my thing, join a membership site, buy my book. And this is the bonus. Like I needed to use these, these unique, interesting things as part of the offer that then we can wrap in. That makes our offer exclusive. I talk a lot about times we create a product and other people have similar products and that becomes a commodity. But if you can create something where I've got this product, but my bonus is this. And I'm the only person in the world that has this. Therefore, if you want to buy it, you've got to pay a premium because this is the only way to get access to this offer. So anyway, I hope this gets the wheels in your
Starting point is 00:29:27 head spinning, you guys. This is exciting to me. I'm going to keep sharing more pictures and videos of the old books I'm finding. And I think, you know, one of the cool things about this is like, yes, this is content. This is part of an offer. This is me telling a story about it. But like, this is good pictures for Instagram. This is good for Facebook, Facebook lives. Like there's so many stories around acquiring these things that are exciting, that are fun to share. So anyway, hope that helps get the wheels in your head spinning. You guys, I appreciate you all for listening, for being part of, uh, you listen to the podcast, being part of the channel, watching Instagram, wherever you're doing, wherever you're consuming this at. Um, if you
Starting point is 00:29:57 enjoy it, please share it. And, uh, hopefully this gives you some usable ideas about how you can start creating really cool things from the public domain, uh, that'll help you in your business and in your life. So that's it. Thanks, guys. Appreciate you all. And we'll talk to you soon.

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