Marketing Secrets with Russell Brunson - The Dream 100 (Part 2 of 3)
Episode Date: November 7, 2018Today we have part 2 of 3 where Russell speaks at Dream 100 Con about traffic and how to build your list. Here are some of the things you will hear in part 2: Find out the difference between hot, wa...rm and cold traffic, and why you need to change how you get your word out to them. Why you need to build out your dream 100 list by knowing who everyone else is in your market and what they are doing at all times. And find out how phones are like TVs in 1965 and how you can use that to your advantage. So listen here to part 2 of 3 of Russell's super informative presentation at Dream 100 Con. Transcript - https://marketingsecrets.com/blog/the-dream-100-part-2-of-3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hey everyone, this is Russell.
Welcome to the Marketing Secrets Podcast.
I hope yesterday you enjoyed part one of three
from my presentation at Dream 100 Con.
Today, I want to give you part two.
So we're going to drive in today
into the next section of the presentation.
Hope you're taking notes and starting to piece together how this process and how this concept can work inside of your company.
With that said, we're going to cue up the intro and then jump right into part number two of my presentation at Dream 100 Con.
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 answer. My name is Russell Brunson and welcome to Marketing Suitcase.
Okay, now one thing I want to explain as you're doing this is
these are little landing pages right here.
The landing page or the funnel for each of these
is going to be a little bit different, right?
Because they're different parts in the journey.
In fact, Dana, this is the reason why your stuff works really, really good on Dream 100
and sucks on Facebook ads.
It's not because the offer doesn't work.
It's because right now your offer works really good at this phase right here, right?
Someone needs traffic, boom, Dream 100.
So you have a list of people trying to get traffic, you Dream 100 them,
like it's really, really good.
But if he's going to come back here to somebody who they don't even
know they need traffic, they just got the first website set up and they're trying to figure out
how to sell something like that person needs dream 100 more than anybody. But if he says dream 100,
like, I don't know what he's even talking about. Okay. As you move further out of the person that
they don't understand your language patterns. And so you have to rephrase how you do it. So every
single step back in this timeline, my landing page, my funnel has different, uh, different ways that I
explain things. Okay. Um, if you read the.com secrets book, I talk about, there's basically,
how do you guys remember drawing here? There's like hot traffic, there's warm traffic,
and there's cold traffic, right? So the hot traffic, like they know this
thing. They're like, those people like the super easy, just have like push them over the edge and
they're in, right? Like I know about traffic, but everything dream 100 sweet. That's more traffic.
I'm in that's hot traffic. And so that's how you speak to people, people down here that are warm.
You have to speak to them differently. They don't even know what they don't know. They don't know
what they don't have. So you have to speak to them differently. And people that are really cold,
you have to speak to them differently. Okay. Um, Gene Schwartz, how many of you guys study the old school copywriters?
If not, they're the best, like all the good stuff's in the old school. So Gene Schwartz,
old dead dude, who's a genius. Um, he said, he's talking about this concept right here.
He said, if your prospect is aware of your product and realizes it can satisfy his desire,
your headline starts with the product. Okay. So if he knows about your product, like, uh, I was at
FunWalking Live. I was on stage. I heard about Dream 100 knows about your product, like, uh, I was at fun, like he live, I was on stage.
I heard about dream 100.
Dana was there or,
uh,
I was on a webinar and my buddy introduced me to Dana on this webinar and
talked about this thing.
Like they know what the product is.
It's really simple.
It's just like,
Hey,
just buy my product and buy the thing by click funnels.
Right?
If someone knows about click funnels,
I can just pitch the click funnels.
Right?
Okay.
Now I move back.
If they're not aware of your product,
only the desire,
the desire itself, your headline starts with the desire. So if I'm here, right? Okay, now move back. If they're not aware of your product, only the desire itself,
your headline starts with the desire.
So if I'm here,
so here I'm selling the product.
Here I'm selling the desire, right?
So it's like, I want to grow my company.
That's my desire.
So if I'm speaking to someone in my world
with that desire,
my headline, my hook, my pitch
is not going to be like,
you need a funnel,
because they're like,
I don't know what you're talking about.
But if I'm like,
I got a way to double your business in like the next 30 days, that's their
desire. Like, well, what is it? Then I can introduce them to like, well, this is really weird thing
called a funnel. Okay. Who wants to get 10 times more traffic to your, to your website without
buying a single Facebook ad, right? That's the desire they have. Now you can transition them
into dream 100. Okay. And then you come back here to the cold prospects. Um, if he's not aware of
what he really
seeks he's only concerned with the general problem your headline starts with the problem and
crystallizes into a specific need so here's a problem the problem is like i i i need somebody
to give me money okay that's the traffic comes in whatever um so this is kind of this is kind
of looking at now um one more example as you're going here, like with,
with hot traffic, people that are close to the, to the thing. If I walk up like you guys right
now, if I came, if I came to you guys, Hey guys, I figured out a new funnel. This funnel is amazing.
I can plug it into any business and it'll add an extra zero to your bottom line. Um, how many
guys want that funnel right now? Boom. Everyone's in, right? Cause you guys are all here in the,
where in the awareness spectrum, you understand where it's at. Okay. So for me and for you guys
as a business owner, the first thing you want to do, because this is the biggest problem I have.
I'll explain this.
And people are like, cool.
And they start over here.
You don't do that.
Okay?
How many of my inner circle members are in here?
I tell you guys this all the time, right?
Like, the first thing you do is ignore everything and grab the pile of cash that's right there.
Just grab it, take it, and then run with it.
That's the first step, right?
Don't be like, I'll get this in a minute.
Let me step over it really quick. And let me try to figure out how to get these cold people.
It's like, no, grab the pile of cash first. Like that's step number one. Okay. So that's the first
thing. Um, and so do that until it, until the market runs out and like it's, it's done. And
most of your guys' businesses, you can get to multiple millions of dollars a year, only grabbing
the warm traffic. So focus there, right? Find dream 100 partners who their, their, their list,
their customers, their platform, understand what the product is. And then you have to push them
over. It's easier to sell. It's more fun and you get the money fast as you start growing and
scaling. Then you have to move this way on the spectrum. Okay. So next are warm people. Okay.
So for example, I could go to, um, Anissa Holmes is in our, in my inner circle. She's a dentist,
dental guru from Jamaica, right? So she's got about a bunch of circle. She's a dentist, dental guru from Jamaica, right?
So she's got a bunch of dentists.
And what a dentist.
They have desire to grow their practice.
They have no idea what a funnel is at all.
Okay?
So I can go and create a special landing page for Nissa and for the dentist.
And in here, talk to them like,
hey, how many of you dentists want to actually grow your company?
And they're like, oh, we all want to grow.
And then Nissa can be like, this is the secret.
I don't tell many people about this,
but there's this really weird thing that this guy named Russell came up with.
It's called a funnel. And I'm even using my practice practice and they've been amazing. We've grown this huge thing. And then all the dentists are like desiring
this funnel. Then they come in, I can explain it to them and then we can move them towards me and
they'll buy funnels like crazy. Okay. Now the third phase of this now is cold and the litmus test
to figure out if your, if your offer will sell the cold traffic is picture how many guys went to the
mall of America, like next door here. The thing is huge, right? So imagine this, you go
there during lunchtime, you go to the food court and there's like 8,000 people running around.
You get a chair, you step on top of that chair in the middle of the food court. He said,
Hey everybody. And they all stopped and look at you like, this is the deal. I got this really
cool funnel. You can plug into any of your businesses and it'll give you an extra zero
at the end of it. How many guys want it? And in the food court's like, what is he talking about? Is he selling funnel cakes? Like,
did he say funnel cakes? I think he did. That sounds awesome, right? They're not gonna make
any sense. So if I speak my language patterns to the cold markets like that, it's going to
completely crash and burn. But if I stand on the chair and I say, how many guys want a free money
making website? Everyone's like, oh, and they're freaking out, right? I can get them come over here. They
cool. Here's a free money making websites called a funnel. Like what was the funnel? And then all
of a sudden I can start moving them up the scene and warm them up, moving from cold to warm to hot.
Okay. Two of our biggest affiliates right now, all they do is they target cold traffic
and they're doing this. They're on there. They're on the scene screaming top of the top of their
lungs. I'll give you free money making websites, free money making websites. And the cold world
is standing up and they're going crazy because of it. Okay. So that's, that's what's
happening outside of it. But you notice as I go further and further back, my messaging has to
change. The landing page changes, the funnel changes, everything's changing as I'm going this
direction. So initially you're just going to go right here. Then the other side of this, after
someone's coming and they bought funnels, then I started thinking like, what are all the other
things someone's going to buy? So they bought funnels.
They may buy traffic and maybe a graphic design. They may buy, um, all the different things that
you need after you got, you've got a funnel, right? So start looking that side. Uh, let me
make sure I got my doodle right here. I will pop it up here. Here's the finished one. So the other
side I'm looking at, these are potential Dream 100 partners and things like that.
This right here,
if someone's come through this world
and if they're not already using my software,
my platform, my product, my service,
then what I'm going to do
is I'm going to do an opportunity switch,
trying to get these people to come backwards
and come to me, right?
So if you've read the Expert Seekers book,
we talk about their three core markets.
Stephen Larson calls them the three core desires,
which I think is really cool.
There's health, there's wealth,
and there's relationships, right? And you look from there,
every one of your products and services fall into one of these three, right? If you break
down one more thing, then there's a sub-market typically, just call it your sub-market. And
then from there, there's all these different niches that are coming off here, right?
So what's typically happening on this side of the value ladder is somebody,
boom, they're in my world. They're making money online. They're using funnels. Maybe they're using some crappy funnel software, like every other product out there on planet earth. Right?
So I'm looking at that. So they're, they're in my sub market and they're using, I don't even know
what the name's there. Let's say it's 10 minute funnels or something like that. Right? They're
using another product. So my job then is to have to opportunity switch those people back
into my thing. Right? Or maybe they're in our world, but they're selling stuff on Amazon.
So they understand what funnels are, but they're selling stuff on Amazon.
So maybe they're right here.
So if I do a Dream 100 with somebody who this is their customer base at this point in the timeline,
they're making them on Amazon.
The way I present it is going to be differently.
Like, hey, Amazon's awesome, but I'm going to show you an opportunity switch.
Instead of doing this one right here, it'll switch you to this right here. Okay. And so my joint ventures, my dream 100,
all the things are coming from switching them back into my opportunity as opposed to just,
um, just try to pitch them on, on my solution. Okay. So this is, I want to kind of help you guys
think about this. This is your customer's journey. And I don't think I haven't heard
people talk about this and very few people think about this, but for you guys, I would be spending
time doing this. Okay. Sitting down like,
here's my customer. All right. What, what am I selling? What are they buying before they come
to me? What are the things they're buying after me? What is like all those kinds of things that
gives you a good landscape of where, uh, where you fit in the ecosystem for this person for their
life. Okay. The better you understand your customer, the easier this whole game begins.
This whole game becomes, um, for me, whenever I'm thinking about, uh, my your customer, the easier this whole game begins. This whole game becomes, um,
for me, whenever I'm thinking about, uh, my dream customer, that person in the middle,
um, if you've heard my story before, when I was, uh, 12 years old, I started ordering junk mail like crazy. Right. And, uh, I was obsessed with it. I get all the work at home, junk mail to come
in every single day. I'd get, um, like a stack of 20 to 30 letters. And I come home from school as
like a seventh grader. My parents would hand me my stack of junk mail. I take it in, I start reading it. And so for me, whenever I'm
trying to like figure out what my dream customers would want, I picture little, um, 12 year old
Russell. My parents called me rusty back then. So I'm picturing rusty sitting on his bed, reading
this junk mail and I'd rip it open and read the headline. And someone's like, ah, I throw away.
And then the next one, like, Oh, Whoa. Oh my gosh. And if it got'd read the headline and someone's like, ugh, and I'd throw it away. And the next one, I'm like, oh, whoa, oh my gosh.
And if it got me to the point where I was like,
I have to have this and I go and I beg my parents
to borrow their credit card,
like that's how I knew this was a good offer, right?
And so for me, I'm thinking about myself,
12-year-old Russell sitting in the bed like,
would this thing that I'm offering them,
would this get them to want to go beg their parents
for their credit card?
And that's my test, okay?
The reason why a lot of you,
have you guys bought something from me in the past?
Okay, it's because it passed that test.
Because I sat there,
would 12-year-old Russell buy this?
And if I'm like, eh,
then we don't sell it.
If I'm like, yeah,
I would totally go beg my parents for their credit card,
that's the test.
That's where I get them in.
Okay?
So become obsessed with your dream customer.
The more you understand them,
the more you understand where they're coming from,
where they're going,
what their goals are,
what they're trying to get away from,
where they're trying to go to. The better you understand this about your customer, the better you're going to be able to serve them, the more you understand where they're coming from, where they're going, what their goals are, what they're trying to get away from, where they're trying to go to. The better you understand
this about your customer, the better you're going to be able to serve them, be able to buy or sell
stuff to them. And also you're going to be able to better understand where in the dream 100 they fit.
Okay. If I'm looking at this, I'm saying, okay, who's my dream 100? All right. I'm going to start
here. This is the big pile of cash. Who are the closest partners I have where their customers are
easily going to figure it out?
So usually my first dream 100 goes from here, right?
What's the stuff they have right before they need me, stuff right after they need me?
Those are going to be the easiest ones to sell.
Then after I saturate that, then I go to the next level.
Okay, what are the next two or three levels here of things that are coming before me?
So I'm moving more to warm.
And what's the next things here?
This direction, I start moving out. And I tweak my dream 100 campaigns to focus on that.
And it keeps going out from there. Now, most of you guys, luckily in most of your businesses,
you can make a couple million dollars a year just doing these two here. Okay. But if you want to get
to $10 million, you've got to come out to about here. And right now we're, we're, uh, we'll pass
a hundred million dollars this year. And right now, we are a continual focus of going further and further and further out.
Because eventually, you run out of customers.
You've saturated everything.
How many of you guys see 40 to 50 ads of me a day every single day?
I can't show you that many more ads, you guys.
I'm trying, but it runs out.
So eventually, you have to keep going further and further out.
So I just want to paint that picture so you understand long-term, if you want to keep scaling, that's what it's about.
It's getting better at language patterns this way, this way, getting better at teaching to the warm and to the cold.
Okay.
But don't stop or don't skip that.
Get the big pile of money first before you shift to the next one and move out from there.
Make sense?
All right.
Sweet.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
So now that you've got this vision of who is my dream customer,
then the next question we ask ourselves is,
who has my dream customer?
Okay?
And this is where, in my mind, the Dream 100 picks up.
Who has my dream customer?
Okay?
All right. So the first phase, and Dana talked about this yesterday,
the first phase in this is I need to, first off, build that list.
How many of you guys have built a list of your Dream 100?
How many of you guys haven't yet?
What are you doing here?
All right, this is like your first thing on the plane ride home.
You should be doing this. You need to actually build your list. I mean, sit down with a piece
of paper and write this right out your list. Okay. And some of you guys have like, well,
how do I find my list? How do I, I got it. How do I know who my dream 100 partners are? I get
that all the time. Like, I just don't know how to find it or figure it out. Like who,
like, how do I find these people? And if you have to ask that question, it means you're not obsessed enough about this guy right here or girl, okay?
When you become obsessed with your dream customer,
you put yourself in their spot, right?
Like for me, when I'm thinking about things,
I'm like, okay, if I was my dream customer
and I went to Google, what would I be searching for?
And how would I say it?
I'd be searching for this phrase and this phrase
and start searching, right?
And when I start searching, that's what starts popping up.
All these options start popping up on both sides of it, right? So I go to the pages, I subscribe
the email list. I go to the podcast. I subscribe. Like I'm becoming like insane. I need to get a
really good, uh, a vision of the ecosystem that already exists. Okay. Everyone in your markets,
there's already an ecosystem that exists. Don't think you're coming and inventing something new.
There is an existing ecosystem. Okay. If you read the, my fourth, the dream 100 book, do you have the dream 100 book
here? Does anybody have a book? Okay. Um, this is, this is key. Some of you guys thought I was
saying, Oh yeah, this, this is, um, Russell uses for traffic, but it's more than that. Like,
listen to what I said in the forward here. Okay.
As a CEO and co-founder, the fastest growing blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's difficult to narrow down one thing that's really propelled us to where we are more than anything else.
But it's not.
It's the Dream 100.
The Dream 100 is the foundation for our entire company.
At ClickFunnels, we don't just leverage the Dream 100 approach for traffic.
We use it for everything.
Okay?
Did you guys catch that when you read the forward?
We use it for everything.
Okay?
How do we pick what markets we want to go into?
The Dream 100.
We use the Dream 100 to research different markets,
niches, and narrow down the one that suits us best.
How do we decide our blue ocean strategy?
We use the Dream 100 to find the red oceans and carve out our place in the market.
How do we create our offers
and figure out what we're going to sell?
We use the Dream 100 to model offers
that are working in our marketplace,
which takes the headaches out of hassle,
out of blind guessing.
Everything we've done has come off to master the Dream 100 and specifically knowing how
to complement as opposed to compete.
That is how you build your foundation.
From there, you just get traffic again, tapping into Dream 100 and the rest is history.
I want you to understand, when we're doing this and I'm deciding what market to go into
or how do I destroy this market, how do I conquer the whole thing?
My first goal is I have to understand the ecosystem.
I had a guy who came into our coaching program. He's like, I'm going to be a
real estate guru. And he's all excited. He starts telling me, I'm like, cool. I'm like, well, who are
all the people in your dream? 100. He's like, I don't know. I'm like, how about Robert Kiyosaki?
He's like, who's that? I'm like, are you kidding me? You don't know. I'm like, how about this guy?
This guy? And I named off like 30 different real estate gurus. He hadn't heard of any of them.
I'm like, dude, you're going to get screwed. You're going to get destroyed. And he's all excited.
I'm going to teach people how to flip houses. You heard this
before. I'm like, dude, that's what everybody like, what, how in the world are like, how do I
know more about your market than you? Like you have to like, I envision like, this is this like
huge ecosystem I'm stepping into and I need to come in and be like, okay, that guy's teaching
that they're teaching this third. And I understand like, here's everything that's happening. So I
have a really clear picture. And then I'm like, where, like, how am I different? Where do I carve out my space in this ecosystem? How do I create
my very own category that I can control that I can own? Uh, there's a really good book. I have
my entire team reading right now. It's called playing bigger. Have you guys read this book?
Well, like two people I've recommended to, it's called playing bigger. And the whole concept of
the book is about, um, creating your own category, right? Um, which is very similar. We talk about
with like new opportunity and things like that.
But if you look at any market, there's always like one category king in every single market,
which sucks up like 90% of the business.
And then everybody else fights over the last 10%, right?
Look at us in the sales funnel world, right?
Okay, we've sucked up 90% of all the business.
We got all these little me too's who are trying to compete for the last 10%.
But we own the market.
We are the category king, okay? Look the market. We are the category king.
Look at Apple.
They are the category king of multiple things.
They're the category king of phones.
They're the category king of music.
They're the category king of all these things.
They suck up 90% of the business, and everyone else fights over the scraps.
For you, if you read that book that teaches you about category design, how do you design your category so you can be the person?
So I walk in the ecosystem.
I'll look around and be like, which category hasn't been taken yet?
If I come in and be like, oh, cool, they're flipping houses, I'm going to do that too,
then you're just going to let me do two.
And the best case scenario, if there's already a category king,
you're fighting over the scraps of everybody else.
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I want to get a very good perspective
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comes from that.
So if you don't know yet,
it's time to start doing the research,
start becoming intimate with your market because if you don't know yet, it's time to like start doing the research, starting coming intimate with your market. Okay. Because if you don't know what
all the different messages are bombarding who you're serving, trying to serve right now,
it's going to be really, really difficult for you to compete in that world. Okay. But for me,
I'm in there, I'm like, I know what everybody's talking about all the time. Okay. Um, that's the
key. So the first thing is like understanding the ecosystem. And then the second step that
Dana talked about is like starting to dig your well before you're thirsty. Okay. You got to go in there and start figuring out, start building
relationships, start sending packages, start sending gifts and go to events, meet people like
in your market. You need to know them, calling them on the phone, buying all their products,
subscribing to their podcasts and listening to them. Okay. I listened to, I don't know,
conservatively on the low end an hour a day, some days, three or four hours a day, a podcast.
You'd be like, Russell, Russell, what are you trying to learn
in your podcast?
You trying to pick up
the next marketing thing?
I'm like,
no.
I know all the people
in my ecosystem.
I'm listening to what
all of them are saying
so I can have my finger
on the pulse
so I know what's happening.
I know who's talking about
what's happening,
where they're going,
what their ideas are
and so I can make sure
that I can create
and continue to dominate
my category.
And then I'm sitting there
thinking,
okay,
well,
JLD's talking about this and over at Mixergy, JLD is talking about this. And, um, and over a mixer, G Andrew Warner's talking about this.
And I look at all these different people. I'm like, cool. Now that I, now that I know where
I fit in the ecosystem, I see what everybody else is doing. Now it's easy to be like, oh man,
me and JLD could do cool things. He's the entrepreneur on fire. We'll help him like
do a funnel thing with his people. And like, now it's this really good compliment between us.
Okay. I'm not competing with him, but I can compliment what we're doing. Any wrestlers in the room? A couple of wrestlers.
Okay. So in wrestling, just so you guys don't know if you don't never wrestled before in wrestling,
when we come, you know, those who don't see it, don't know wrestling is probably weird watching
it. Right. But I come out and I shake someone's hand. Initially we started the match and we're
head to head. Right. So we're like, we're competing against each other. Now the person who wins the
wrestling match is not the person who just go head to head thehead, right? So we're competing against each other. Now, the person who wins the wrestling match is not the person who just goes head-to-head the best, right?
Wrestling's all about angles.
When we're out there hand-fighting and doing all sorts of stuff, the goal what I'm trying to do is try to get someone to step so I can get an angle on them, and then I can attack them, right?
So I get them to step.
It opens up a little hole, and then, boom, I shoot, and I take them down.
Okay, I'm finding my angle.
It's the same thing in this Dream 100 stuff.
I'm not going head-to-head with people.
I'm looking at everything, building my own category and saying, cool.
Now, this category, this thing that I control, that I own, I can partner with everybody on this now.
Everybody fits in somehow because I've designed it the right way initially.
Now, all these people in the ecosystem become partners.
We can compete or we can complement each other as opposed to going head-to-head and competing.
Okay?
So, we're figuring out this thing.
So, again, it's coming back to figuring it out, consuming's safe stuff, reading the blog posts, listening to the things,
getting their emails, like watching what's happening and becoming intimate with your
market. And at that point, um, that point we start approaching people. You can figure out exactly how,
how what you do fits in with what they're doing. Okay. We may or may not be working on, um, a
really cool software product, um, based around this whole concept. And what's really cool in
this thing is you literally plug in your whole dream 100 and then it has like a Facebook news
feed of what all your dream 100 is doing. So in the future, when this is live, you'll be a login
and you'll see everything here's, Oh, so-and-so posted a podcast, a blog post, and you'll see
like a whole news feed to everyone in your dream 100, everything you're doing at all given times.
You just, you always have your, your fingers on the pulse of your market. Okay. I can't tell you
how important that is, is understanding those things.
Okay?
All right, so dig your well before you're thirsty.
That's the first step.
And like Dana said, that's how you start building relationships, serving people.
How can you actually help these people?
Not with the intention of them doing something, but ahead of time, doing stuff really nice for them.
Okay?
When I first met Tony Robbins the very first time, how many of you guys thought when I saw Tony Robbins,
I started licking my chops like, oh my gosh, if he promotes to me, this is
going to be the greatest thing in the world, right? Everyone does. And guess what happens?
Everyone comes into Tony's world, they meet him for like five seconds and they pitch him
on the first thing that comes out of their mind, right? What happens to all those people?
Tony just, they disappear. They come off the thing. So what I do instead, I met Tony, I
was like, oh, this guy is amazing. I freaked out a little bit. And then, um, and I
was like, okay, how can I help get Tony's message out? I know this is most important to him. And
for the next decade of my life, 10 years, 10 years of my life, I went back to try to figure out how
to serve Tony. I spoke his events for free. I've covered my own flights, my own hotels. I did, uh,
help new products. I did multiple consultations on the phone with his team members who were stuck
at this and that, try to help them and coach them. And for an entire decade, I helped and I served,
never asked for anything once ever. Just did it. And I guess it happened 10 years later.
Then I hired him to come on our stage. I wrote him a huge check twice, come on our stages,
a bunch of stuff like that. And then when my book came out, I was like, Hey, Tony,
I wrote another book. I'm so excited. I was like, is there any way you could
do an interview with me on your Facebook page? And he was like, yes. I'm like, really? Okay.
Did the interview and we got 3.2 million people to watch the interview. Sold thousands and thousands
of books. But I didn't just come up to Tony day one, right? I was building the relationship.
And so many good things came to that relationship. Tony introduced me to like 10 other people,
10 other people. And like, if you come with like a serving attitude, just like Dana said
yesterday, if you come with that serving attitude, it'll make your, it'll make you like one of the
cool people in the marketplace to get passed around to everybody. If you come in and you're
like pitching people from day number one, nobody passes you around. Like, oh, that person just
pitched me. Like that guy's annoying. That person, like beware of them all the time. Right? If you
come in and just serve and give and do that kind of stuff, then I'm like, oh man, you should meet so-and-so and so-and-so. And I
start plugging them into my network and instantly you infiltrate the entire dream 100. And again,
if you've created your business in a spot where you're your own category king, now it's just like,
what's the logical connections? We can all work together in this thing and boom, everything grows
up, blows up really fast. Okay. So dig a well before thirsty. All right. Now I've been doing
this whole process, right? I've been mapping out my dream 100. Is this a laser? Yeah. All right. Here's laser
that you can't barely see. Okay. So I list out my dream 100 and I write out all the different
names of the people, right? Now they have the names of all the people and I'm plugging into
their stuff. I'm listening to them. I'm figuring out what they're doing. Now my goal is to figure
out of all these people, who are the people that I can buy my way in and who are the people I
can work my way in? Okay. So the two different things, how do I buy my way in and how do I work
my way in? Let me see if my next image is the one that explains this. It might be. Yeah. Okay.
So I come over here and let's say my dream 100 on there, it's got a whole bunch of amazing people.
Let's say there's, um, there's Tony Robbins. There is, uh,
John Lee Dumas. There's Andrew Werner. There's, um, Richard Branson, like all my different people
here. Right. And so I go through and let's say I'm listening to Andrew Werner's podcast, right?
He's the guy that runs mixture. He's I'm listening to his podcast. I'm like, cool. All right. So he
interviews entrepreneurs. So that's cool. That means I potentially could work my way and I could
get on his show, do an interview and like get him to spread the message. But he also has ads. So I could buy my way in as well. And I could buy ads on a show,
right? And maybe someone else I'm like, Oh man, they don't, they, um, they, they have a show and
they don't, they don't, uh, interview people, but they do sell ads on it. Right. Maybe I see
Facebook live or I'm looking at their email list. I'm looking at all different communication
channels and I'm categorizing and say, okay, what are the people that I think I can work my way in
to get them to do it for free?
And who are the people
that are probably not going to work my way in,
but I could buy my way in, right?
Like for Tony Robbins,
even though it took me the decade
to get Tony Robbins to ever promote me,
during the interim, guess what I did?
I went to Tony,
I targeted every Tony Robbins fan on Facebook,
on YouTube, on Twitter, on Instagram,
and we've been running ads to his entire,
I've been buying my way into his network,
buying ads to his people for the last five or six years, right? So just because Tony's
is not going to say yes to me or to most of us initially, because of the way the network's set
up, I can still buy ads in front of those things, right? So I'm always looking, can I buy my way in?
Can I work my way in? And the goal of both those things is to get them into, to become traffic that
I own. Okay. I know when Dane is talking about Dream 100,
his focus point is on working your way in, right?
Getting on the shows, doing the JV,
having them send an email to your list,
those kind of things.
That stuff's amazing. That stuff, it takes more effort, more time,
but it's free, right?
That stuff costs more money.
It's kind of like,
how many of you guys have more time than money?
How many of you guys have more money than time? Who has more time than money? Who has more money
than time? Okay. So like, where do I focus that first? Russell, if you have more time than money,
focus on working your way in, try to get on the shows, do those things, get them to email,
like build a relationship. You have more time. If you have more money, a lot of times it's easier
to buy your way in.
How many of you guys have a decade to try to court Tony Robbins
before you're going to drive traffic?
It's a lot of work, right?
But you can go tonight
and go start running ads all of this following.
Okay, so it comes down to that.
So if you don't have money
and you're getting started,
okay, focus on working your way in.
How do I get,
what are the people in my dream 100
that have a platform that I can come into
that I can leverage the people
that join my platform?
That'd be my focal point, right?
If it's like I'm busy, I have a bunch of things, like I just want to focus on like the other
way, then just do the traffic control and buy your way and all those things.
And ideally, you're going to be doing both.
Let's see.
It's funny.
This is the first time I taught this and there's all these things
that are like,
I know I'm going to talk about this later
but I need it for context for now
so I'm trying to make sure
I don't screw this up.
Okay, yeah.
I'll keep going from there.
Okay.
Any questions about this part at all yet?
Okay.
So each step's kind of
layering on top of each other.
So we're finding our dream 100. We're figuring out who we can buy our way in, who we can work our way in with a goal, again, Okay. Okay. So each step's kind of layering on top of each other.
So we're finding our dream 100.
We're figuring out who we can buy our way in,
who we can work our way in with the goal, again,
of transforming everything to our own platform
and building our own platform.
Okay?
All right.
So that's how we start creating our dream customers.
If you go back to the very beginning,
we had three types of traffic,
figuring out our dream customer's journey,
who has our dream customers,
and how do we get those dream customers
from these other platforms
and move them onto our platform. Get them on our list, have them listening to our podcast,
have them with whatever the platform is you're trying to build. We're trying to use the dream
100 to get their customers into the ones just like Dana did right here with the goat feed
yesterday. He had the empty one and it's like all about like dumping a little bit in for every
single person. So build your platform and bigger your platform gets the bigger platformers you can
leverage and keeps growing like that. Okay. All right. So next phase here.
Now I want to start shifting so you guys can understand distribution.
So distribution is this game.
This is how it works.
Last night in the hotel room, I was watching Shark Tank.
How many of you guys still watch Shark Tank?
Cool.
It's interesting.
If you watch Shark Tank, if you look at how they all do their deals, like someone brings
a deal to them and when all the sharks, if you notice this in their they, they don't say it out loud, but as you listen to their questions
and which deals they pick and they don't pick, this is all they're focusing on. Each of the
sharks has a distribution channel that they understand, right? Lori's really good at QVC.
Damon's really good at retail, right? Cuban's good at pretty much anyone because everyone thinks he's
cool and he's plugs into whatever he wants. Right. But everyone's got like a channel that they're
really good at distribution channel. So the deal comes in and he's plugs into whatever he wants right but everyone's got like a channel that they're really good at distribution channel so the deal comes in and
it's like a clothing line and all the other sharks like i'm out i'm out i'm out and damon's like i'm
in because he knows the distribution channel he grabs distribution channel he plugs it in
and boom it the the retail takes off right um laurie she's like amazing just come by and she's
like god this one work on qbc it's out comes in she's like oh i have a distribution channel she takes theC is out. Comes in. She's like, oh, I have a distribution channel. She takes the deal, plugs in and boom, explodes overnight. Okay.
So distribution is the key. That's why we're trying to build our own platform. Your own platform
is your own distribution channel. So it's valuable things. Stephen Larson said yesterday,
like the most valuable thing in your business is your customer list. It's your distribution channel.
Okay. That's the only thing when all said and done, that's the only thing that matters.
If you look at all the companies, the big tech companies that get bought and sold,
like it's all based on their distribution channel, right?
I remember when I first got started,
the first time I ever saw a company get bought
for over a billion dollars was when eBay bought Skype.
It was like, I don't know, three or four billion dollars.
And I was like, what?
And I was thinking, I'm like, do they buy,
Skype didn't even have a business model at the time.
They weren't making any money.
I'm like, eBay was like the biggest company back in the day.
You guys remember back when eBay was like
the most amazing thing and all day long you're just trying to like snipe auctions
all day. It was the company, right? Myron remembers. There was like sniper software,
where like 25,000 people all bid on one thing. And then the software was just like,
bite the last second. And it was, it was really fun, huh? And then they ruined their business.
And now it's not boring, but eBay bought Skype. And I was like, they had the best tech people on
planet earth. They could have like, they have cloned skype in about a week but they didn't do that why do they do why they
spend billions of dollars instead because skype had the distribution channel they had the list
okay why did uh why did zuckerberg want to buy snapchat because snapchat had the distribution
channel at time why did he buy instagram did the distribution channel like you look at Why did he buy Instagram? They had the distribution channel.
Like, you look at all the big acquisitions,
it's not about the technology.
Technology is easy to clone and to beat.
It's because of the distribution channel.
Like, that's the magic, right?
Every business, if you look at the actual value,
what they evaluate things on,
it's the distribution channel.
It's the list.
So you start understanding that.
Everything we're doing is like,
who has distribution channels?
Those are my dream 100 partners, right?
Now, I talked about some fun lacking lines. Some of you guys may remember me talking about this.
Gary Vaynerchuk said something in a little clip that was super cool.
He said, if you look at TV in 1965, it's the same thing that our phones are today.
You guys remember me talking about this?
Who were there?
Okay.
In 1965, there were only like three channels.
There was ABC, CBS, and NBC.
And it was funny.
When I was talking to tony robbins the
first time i met him was um over 10 years ago now it was right after his company kind of like
collapsed and he was like trying to figure out the next step that's where he met all the internet
marketing nerds and we kind of helped him with some stuff um but was interesting as i was talking
to him about it he said look he's like when i got started there were three channels he's like if you
flipped any channel guess who's on every single commercial this big huge giant selling his stuff
he's like it was easy the distribution channel was three things he's like, if you flipped any channel, guess who was on every single commercial? This big, huge giant selling his stuff.
He's like, it was easy.
The distribution channel was three things.
He's like, we just bought all the ads on every single channel, and I became Tony Robbins.
He said, now what happened is distribution got fragmented.
Cable came out, and all of a sudden, there's not three channels.
There's like 300 channels.
He's like, I can't buy them on all of them.
There's all these niche channels.
I'd go over on ESPN, and it doesn't convert for some reason. I'd go over here, and it doesn't convert.
And I ran out of money because I can't keep up with this whole
distribution thing. Right. It was really, really confusing. Um, and so that's why, that's why they
were struggling at the time. And so Gary said, when he said that the phone is like TV 1965,
like for me, it was just this huge aha. I'm like, this is the key. So if you look at this
back when TV first came out, the distribution was, they got TVs into people's homes, right?
Then there was the channels, ABC, CBS, NBC, and then on each channel were the different shows.
Okay. So that's, we had to understand this is like, these things kind of match what we're doing
today. So today this is the distribution channel, right? Our phones. I don't think I would always
believe that. But two years ago in ClickFunnels, I mean, we just see a lot of traffic. And prior
to two years ago, the majority, it was like, we used to see a lot of traffic. And prior to two years ago,
the majority, it was like 60% to 70% of all traffic
in our network came from desktop.
And now it's flopped.
The majority of the traffic coming across
all 65,000 customer accounts,
I mean, millions and millions and millions of visitors a day,
the majority, it's like 60% to 70%
is all coming through your phones.
So this is the future.
It's going to continue to grow.
It's not going down.
We were in Kenya hanging out with these kids,
and none of them have computers,
but guess what they all have?
This, right?
I guarantee you, as our kids get older,
they're not going to have computers.
Like, this is the thing, right?
And so if you look at this, this is the phone 1965.
There are a lot of different apps.
If you look at the apps that,
it's again the category king, right?
The apps that take up like 90% of all the bandwidth
on the phone are a couple things, right? It's a, it's the Facebook app. It's a messenger app. It's Instagram. It's YouTube.
It's Pinterest for some people. Like there's only five or six apps and that's it. And so for us,
you have to understand like everyone's got the phones, right? The first, it's like the TVs has
been done. The apps are there. They already have billions of people on the core apps that are there.
So the job that we have right now,
just like back here,
is for us to become Happy Days
or the Tonight Show or whatever.
We need to be building our own show
on these platforms.
Okay?
And that's the big aha.
That's understanding distribution.
So these things are in people's hands.
The channels are already there.
We just have to create our own shows
and build the distribution.
It's easier today than it's ever been
because everyone's got the phone
and there's nothing like,
back in the day,
you had to get NBC to decide your show's awesome.
Today, any of us can start a show.
You just click a button and boom,
your platform is alive.
So it's understanding the distribution right there.
Hey guys, thanks so much for listening to day number two.
Session number two, I should say.
Hopefully you're enjoying this so far.
All right, tomorrow I will release
the last of the three-part series
here for my presentation, Dream 100 Con.
You guys, this is the foundation for all traffic.
I hope you are getting excited by it
and hopefully you're getting pumped
for the Traffic Seekers book
that'll be coming out later next year.
I don't want to say my only goal in this
is to cause massive FOMO,
but I'm not going to lie.
I want to cause massive FOMO for the book because I'm working my butt off on it. And so I figure if I got to work
this hard, then you need to desire the book as much as possible. So just remember, this is
scratching the surface of what will be happening inside the traffic secrets book. Hope you're
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