Marketing Secrets with Russell Brunson - Waiting for the Radical to Arrive: Day with Dan Kennedy (1 of 4) | #Marketing - Ep. 15

Episode Date: March 5, 2025

In this episode of The Russell Brunson Show, I’m bringing you something super special - the first of a four-part series featuring Dan Kennedy from our Day with Dan at Funnel Hacking Live 10 ‘The Last Dance’. If you’ve ever felt like your business is different, that the usual marketing strategies don’t apply to you, or that breaking into a market is harder than it should be, this episode is going to shift your perspective. Dan and I dive into the biggest mistake entrepreneurs make: believing their business is unique when it comes to marketing and sales. The truth? All businesses follow the same core structure… Attracting customers, converting them into buyers, and maximizing revenue.  Those who succeed are the ones who understand this and leverage it to their advantage. Key Highlights: Why the belief that "my business is different" is killing your success How every industry has hidden power structures, and why breaking the rules is the key to market disruption The fundamental marketing principle that applies to every business, no matter the niche Why most entrepreneurs fail to recognize how Vegas and Disney extract maximum dollars per customer (and how you can apply the same strategies) The real way to define your business (hint: it’s NOT the product or service you sell) Most people look at the surface of a market, but the real opportunity is underneath - in the unspoken rules, outdated structures, and unsatisfied customers waiting for something better. In this episode, you’re getting some real gold nuggets from Day with Day as he breaks down how to spot those opportunities and position yourself as the disruptor who rewrites the game. You can’t afford to miss this episode… and the next ones coming soon! https://sellingonline.com/podcast https://clickfunnels.com/podcast https://www.nobsletter.com Special thanks to our sponsors: NordVPN: EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal https://nordvpn.com/secrets Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Northwest Registered Agent: Go to northwestregisteredagent.com/marketingsecrets to start your business with Northwest Registered Agent. LinkedIn Marketing Solutions: Get a $100 credit on your next campaign at LinkedIn.com/CLICKS Rocket Money: Cancel unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster at RocketMoney.com/RUSSELL Indeed: Get a $75 sponsored job credit to boost your job's visibility at Indeed.com/clicks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Russell. Welcome back to the show. I've got something fun for you for the next couple episodes. So this year's Funnel Hacking Live, you may have heard we did a special VIP day with Dan Kennedy before the event started. And Dan was my original mentor. He's who I learned marketing from. I still to this day listen to more Dan Kennedy than any other marketing person on the planet. I have calls in once a month. Like I still, he's my, he's the guru to the gurus. He's who I learned from. Anyway, it was really fun the whole VIP Dan Kennedy day. But the

very first two hours of the day I had a chance to sit down and actually interviewed Dan. And we specifically for the event wanted to talk about a concept he actually brought up at the last Federal Hacking Life. He shared this really cool thing about how you know any market there's people that are frustrated, they're waiting, they're trying to figure things out, but he said that they're, that in every market, people are waiting for the radical to arrive, for the person to step up and say,

no, things are different, things are gonna change, this is where we're gonna go, right? So you think about like our businesses, like we as the attractive characters of our businesses, we are the radical in our industries, right? We come in and we have different ideas, different things, and from there people will then follow us. And that's kind of how it's supposed to work, right? And so the whole day in Kennedy Day,

he went deep into that philosophy and principles and how we do it and stuff like that. And so I'm gonna take my two hours with him. I'm gonna break it up over the next couple episodes with you guys so you can learn some cool ideas. This first episode, we specifically start off by talking about how a lot of people think that our business is different,

and these things don't apply to them, where in reality they do, and Dan will talk about that. And then number two, we're gonna start going deeper into markets and understanding them and how you as the radical can step in and actually dominate. It's gonna be a lot of fun. So the way it works, usually I'll ask Dan a question,

he'll respond for 15, 20 minutes, I'll ask him a second question. So you have a chance to hear the first couple questions from my Q&A with Dan Kennedy from our VIP. I hope you enjoy it, I hope you love Dan Kennedy. If you're not a Dan Kennedy member yet, go to NoBSLetter.com. There's a really cool, you cover shipping and handling,

we ship you out this whole box of Dan Kennedy stuff and give you a trial to his newsletter, which is amazing. So go to NoBSLetter.com if you wanna go learn more about Dan. With that said, here's the first part of my interview with Mr. Dan Kennedy. Welcome everybody to the day with Dan. We're excited to have you guys all here.

Dan, I wanted to, before I get into all the core questions I wanted to ask you today and get into, I wanted to set a pre-frame for everybody because the very first Kennedy event I ever went to, I walked in and there was a big huge sign on the wall that said my business is different, and then you kind of went on around that, because I want to make sure that everything we covered today,

that there's nobody in this room who's like, well that doesn't work for me, my business is different. So what would be your pre-frame for everyone understanding how this stuff applies to all businesses? Well, so I have that same side of my conference room because people haven't stopped voicing the idea in 50 years. And there's very little difference in any business, right?

The structure, somehow we have to attract people to the business and we have to sift and sort them between appropriate for that business and inappropriate for that business. And if we bring them in as leads, then we have to convert them to a sales opportunity of some kind. If we bring them direct to a sales opportunity, those are the only two paths there are. And then a sale has to be made. And in many cases, the game begins because your customer acquisition cost is equivalent to or greater than the sale.

So that's the same with every business. Some businesses are, the economics are harder, right? A Dairy Queen, obviously, customer acquisition cost needs to be a lot lower than a Lamborghini dealership, but then there's offsetting benefits to owning 10 Dairy Queens rather than owning a lot. So everybody is quick to discredit methodology when they haven't seen it applied directly to what they define their business as. And it backs all the way down to what do you define your business as?

So most people will always answer that question with their deliverable. So they will say they have a dental practice or they have an e-commerce site or they have a shoe store or they have a restaurant or I'm in the insurance business. So they will give you the deliverable answer. And that then causes this, my business is not like that business, so what that business does can't apply to me. If they more intelligently think of themselves as being in the marketing business with a deliverable that is far less important

than is the marketing. Now they get closer to, gee, all businesses are really the same. It's a big impediment for a lot of people. Many times they don't realize they're doing it. So you know, they'll be here in Vegas for four days and they're going to see the second most effective place in the world at dollars per head per day. And so every place they go should be a seminar and they'll miss 80% of it because they own jewelry stores and a jewelry website, and they're not in a jewelry store when they are seeing a fabulous sales technique, right? They'll go to a great restaurant and they'll have a great time and they will

never translate what they're experiencing to what should be happening in their business because their business is different, right? And it's not. Yeah. So you said it's the second best here in Vegas. What's the best? Disney beats them. Interesting. Yeah. And Disney does it with no hookers. So that brings the dollars per day down right there. No adult shows and no gambling. And Disney still beats them. They passed them

about almost a decade ago and they've held it. So Disney gets the greatest number of dollars per day per person present and Vegas is right there nipping at him second. Interesting. Okay, so that's a good pre-frame for everyone as we go through this stuff just to kind of figure out how these things apply for your business. I remember going to the very first Kennedy event seeing that sign and a lot of stuff that I was learning was like how does this actually work for my business and when I started shifting the mindset to like okay this is happening over here for a realtor or for a stock whatever it might be,

like how it applies. That's what changed everything for me. So, okay. So we have a lot of cool stuff when we were talking about over today with you. And I'm excited because what I wanted to kind of lead with is, it's talking about if you're in a market or you're going in, going into market, how to disrupt that market. And to kind of preface that, I wanted to mention that when we started building ClickFunnels, and 12 years ago is when we had the first idea,

we started building it. During that time, I had downloaded every one of your courses from all time and I put them all on my phone. And I would listen to you for between an hour and two hours a day, every single because I wanted I was trying to figure out again how to create this business how to go into an existing market and how to disrupt it and how to do things and I wanted you in my mind just like talking through this thing so I was heavily listening to you I said every single day while we were building ClickFunnels while we're launching

ClickFunnels and so I thought it'd be fun because I think everyone here either they're in an existing market or they're going they're trying to create a business and to disruptnels. And so I thought it'd be fun, because I think everyone here, either they're in an existing market or they're trying to create a business and to disrupt the market. And so I wanted to go deep in there, because the same things I was thinking about and learning from you a decade ago. And so I think the first question

I kind of wanted to lead with is when you're deciding like this is the market I'm going into, obviously it's easy to see like the tip of the iceberg of what's happening, but what are all the things that are happening underneath we have to be aware of if we want to come and actually disrupt the market we're going to? Well, so it's a good characterization. When you look at a market, a business category of any kind, you are typically from outside,

you are typically only seeing the tip of the iceberg. If you're already in it, you tend to be limited in what you let yourself see because you only see your methodology and the commonly used methodology. Technological advancement for the Amish is very slow because they try only to see each other. So getting to two mules hooked to the plow instead of one was like a two generation revolution. So one of those two things happens. From outside you only see the top, the tip of what's visible to the naked eye. And you hear what's being said at that level, but what's not being said and what is not seen by the naked eye is what's most important in breaking into, disrupting, attracting attention

and leapfrogging in a market. The many markets, the disrupting effect has been built around direct marketing, but it's also been built around personality. personality because most established markets have a organized, established ruling class, a leadership that has a book of rules that it enforces principally for its own purposes to maintain their position and the status quo. Almost every market has that. And so I kind of experienced everywhere I've gone this phenomenon is if there's money and there's a fairly good sized number of people involved there will be an establishment created and it will create a set of rules.

So it doesn't matter if it's your homeowners association, right? Who's on the homeowners association committee? Typically, it's not you, it's not me, it's not anybody who welcomes independent ideas. You know, they're a bunch of petty tyrant, bureaucrat type people who have no power or authority anywhere else. And so they get to, you know, make up rules about how high the hedge ought to be, right?

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There were only 4,000 members, but that's enough to cause this phenomenon of a group of people who jockey their way to heads of committees and onto the board, and then they create rules of how the business is supposed to be done. And in most cases, wittingly or unwittingly, mostly wittingly, a lot of the rules are created to discourage new competition because every new success they think takes gigs away from them. There's a whole discussion of do you have a limited pie or an abundant theory. And for them to admit that some outsider, some newcomer has a better way of doing this, they can't admit that because to do so would make them an ass.

So if they have been doing this a hard way and they have entrenched it as the dogma and they beat it into everybody's head the minute you walk in the door, here's how we do things in this business. And you do it differently and more successfully, you get to a level of success faster than they ever did. They have to say, well, I've been an ass for the last eight years because I should have figured that out. Damn few people in positions of authority will ever say that, right?

So instead, they become kind of violently defensive about their rules. Now what's important from entering that market, any market like that, is that there is a segment of it that is already quietly grumbling to themselves. They are already saying only in their self-talk or maybe to their spouse or maybe three or four of them off in a corner are saying, this does not compute, right? This doesn't make sense to me. But they feel like they're the only one. And so they shut up and they play along. But they're just waiting. They're just waiting for somebody to come along and say what they're already thinking. Some version of what they've been telling you about how to do this is stupid and here's why, right? And, you know, the

Protestant religion exists because of Luther. And of course, most people know about Luther putting the manifesto on the church door and all that, which I'm going to talk about a little later. So Luther's big thing that he objected to with the Catholic Church was what was called buying indulgences. So at the time you could like pay for your sin to be okay. So adultery was you go hell, unless you put the right amount of money in the indulgence box with a note, which they had in every church, and now you're okay. Right?

And everybody went along with this to some extent because it's not a bad deal. And to some extent because everybody else was going along with it until he said, this does not compute, man. The guy that's going to decide which elevator you get, he ain't getting the money. So this is stupid. So there's a bunch of people always waiting for that. I found it the opportunity in the speaker community, which became my first info marketer audience, because the dogma was so stupid.

I'll give you a great example. So there's awards. So almost every association, every membership organization, you included, right? We come up with awards that theoretically are designed to encourage behavior that will make you more successful. So NSA's first big award, Certified Speaking Professional, at the time you had to have fee paid, not sell product, fee paid speaking engagements from a hundred different clients in order to apply to get your PIT. I said, so let me get this straight. If you're really good and a corporation invites you back 10 times, that doesn't count as ten engagements.

So the way to win the award is to be so lousy that nobody wants to use you twice. This doesn't really seem to make sense to me. And here's all these people killing themselves to get this stupid award by getting a new gig and a new gig and a new gig and a new gig. I said, I did one, and then I entered a contract with this company to do 20. And I really don't have to worry about paying the light bill for the year.

You are waking up every morning having to worry about paying the light bill. And you're there because you're following this asinine, you know, award system. And really, their whole dogma was And really, their whole dogma was that way. And so you had to be so bad you didn't get invited back. In chiropractic, when we disrupted it with prepay, so chiropractic was all pay per visit. You went in, you got an adjustment, you went to the desk, You paid your $39, your $29, out of your $50. So I was involved in a 1970s, late 70s, early 80s wave in chiropractic of prepay. Diagnose you. Tell you you need to come in three times a week for the first six weeks and twice a

week for the next five weeks and every other time you come in we're going to hang you upside down in the corner and you need to have heat therapy and here's what all that adds up to. It's $23,800. Would you like 10% prepay it or would you like to pay it in thirds? So that was prepaid. Well, the professions establishment went nuts. I mean, you can't do that. Well, why? Why?'t, you know. And the truth is you can't because we haven't been and we don't want to look like jackasses so you can't do that. And they got pretty militant.

The publishing industry, again, when there's even a current example, if you watch Shark Tank, they have a particular built-in bias about bringing a new product to market that sometimes causes them to give really bad advice to people because they really don't understand direct response They really don't even understand direct response online and Kevin privately admitted to me that Three-fourths of their successes now are only possible because they have the others. And they can use the customers they already got from these eight businesses to launch this one.

So they don't really know how to build one for, and so often they will give, there's a guy out there with really, a really expensive golf club. And I had a client many years ago that we sold, we sold a driver for 5,800 bucks, one club. And today's dollars are gonna be twice that probably, and very successfully, but only by direct response. You can't put that in a store at the, you know, at the country club, you can't put it at Dick's Sporty Goods. You just can't, right? That thing's gotta be sold. put it at Dick's Sporty Goods, you just can't, right?

That thing's got to be sold. And they just, this guy had to do whiz, bang, you know, golf club, and they just crapped all over them because it wasn't going to work in three distribution channels that they're really familiar with, right? So this is a dangerous thing, but it is also the opportunity because there are always people doubting what they are going along with and keeping quiet because they don't want to be, you know, the odd man out, right? I'm thinking this, but I must be wrong, because all these other people are going along with it,

so I'll go along with it too. But they keep saying to themselves, there has to be a better way. Something's wrong here with this. And that's your door into the market. Interesting. One side note, good news is Damon John actually of the Sharks is the only shark I know who literally most of the deals he does now, he puts them on ClickFunnels.

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So the first thing was figuring out like understanding the markets. So the next question I have is like, after we understand like, here's the things that people are in control. How do we like understand what's happening so we can reverse engineer what we need to do to be able to come in and be the disruptor in the market?

So the longer tenured the rule book is, the better. The longer tenured the rule book is, the better but skeptical go-alongs, their dissatisfaction is growing, right? their willingness to hear a new and different and better way after, if you will, 10 years of oppression is greater than it was after three years of oppression. So long tenured, here's how we do this business stuff. That's like a marker of opportunity. When the dogma immediately seems silly to you, that's good, because that means it seems silly to others. But again, they are intimidated by being in the club and having nobody else say it. The red cap phenomenon of the moment, right, did not happen with first term, but it is happening with second term because people's dissatisfaction with

what was going on grew and grew and grew and grew and grew. And a greater number of people were ready to hear certain things and then voice them. They felt free to voice them and all of a sudden a ton of people are voicing them. So that's what happens and the more dogmatic the rules of the road are, the bigger your opportunity. Lawyers at one time were not allowed to advertise in America. My guy by the name of Dan Osteen from my hometown took that case to the Supreme Court and won because it's a free speech issue, it's a constitutional speech issue. So they all have the right to advertise because one guy said, how come everybody else has right to advertise and we don't?

How does that make any sense? Right? And he started saying it loud and then a few others said, you know, that actually doesn't make sense. And then in his case, he had to litigate it, but in most cases, you don't. Your dumb phone, that whole thing exists if you track history because of a guy named Bill McGowan who founded MCI because AT&T had a monopoly on long distance telephone. That was long distance telephone in America.

That's it. The local was Ma Bell's and then there was AT&T. And McGowan said, who did they get their monopoly from? Because of course, monopolies are illegal in America, right? We have an antitrust division of the Justice Department. Well, nobody could answer where they got it from, but they got it. Only AT&T can do long distance. So McGowan described the early years of MCI as running a law firm with an antenna on their off.

AT&T, of course, sued him. He had to sue them. They went to the Supreme Court and boom, Supreme Court said, I don't know. I don't know how that could be, but if you want to be in long distance telephoto business, go ahead. And here we are now with no long distance, right? Nobody pays long distance charges. Now you buy data. So the more entrenched it is, the better. Because when you break that dam, because when you break that dam, it's really profound. And then the last thing you're looking for is any sign at all of restless natives.

Of some little breakout group over here, some weird newsletter over there where somebody is objecting to this is the way things are done in this business, in this field, in this sport, etc. Etc. And the people that are attracted to you because of that are really more rabid than just normal customers. Because they essentially have been locked in a little box, pushing against it mentally, but not willing to really knock it apart. And you come along and give them a permission to knock it apart. they get pretty excited. Cool. So when you start doing that, you're going to the market, you start disrupting, like what are the things,

like how do you start, I mean obviously you're identifying that, start pulling them. Well, you need to define your against position right because you are now going to be against some portion of the dogma and the rules of the road and the protocols of how things are done around here, right? And then you start to craft your radical position which is sort of an extreme version of Ogilvy's, you got to have a big idea, you know. So you need your radical statement essentially about what's going on. In NSA, it was speakers. Mine was, and the first time I really delivered it, I did, I only got away with it once, I did a free one-day seminar the day before the National Speakers Association convention, since you

were coming anyway, right? And I probably had 300, 350 there, maybe 100 walked out as we went along, but 250 stayed because I told them speaking is not a business. And you're being told this is a business. It's not a business. All right. At best, it's a good job, but it's not even really a good job because if you get sick, you don't get paid. You can never stop showing up ever, ever, ever, ever.

The only way you get paid is to show up, right? And there's no barriers to competition. You can't put a moat around it. There's no benefit plan. There's no retirement plan. It's a pretty shitty job. And if you figure out your hourly money, because they would all tell you,

like the fee range in the late 70s was about $3,000. So they would tell you they make it $3,000 an hour. They would go, did you travel to get there? Well, yeah. Did you stay there all day? Yeah. Did you travel to come home?

Yeah. So that's three days. So even if you do eight-hour work days, that's 24 hours divided into $3,000. You ain't making $3,000 an hour. You're making whatever $3,000 divided by 24 is. Plus you got expenses. Did you eat? Yeah, I ate.

Did you buy a candy bar at the airport? Yeah. Well, you got to deduct all that stuff, right? So now you're down to like minimum wage. So, I mean, again, you show them, some get really mad and walk out, but others are going, you know, that hand dawned on me, I just never really said it, but, you know, and so, no no this is not a business because you have

no customers. So my definition of business is customers. You don't have any customers. You have gigs. A meeting planner hires you. You go speak. You get a check. You leave and you got to get another one. You don't have any customers. Right? You don't have any recurring revenue other than if you're lucky that place will have you back again next year or the year after. But you don't have any recurring revenue. You have no revenue that occurs unless you are working. So when you take a day off, there's no revenue, right? Shoe store, you take a day off, somebody still comes in and buys shoes, right? The guy may not sell as many shoes as he would if he were there, but somebody is going to buy a pair of shoes today.

So for all these reasons and others, this thing is not a business. And then I would explain that it was pretty good media with which to build a business, but here's what the business should look like that you build with speaking, right? Well, this was as radical as you could get. And at the time, Selling From the Stage was looked down on. There were a few, you know, Zieg, Kevin Roberts, there were Donnie Hudson, there was maybe Tommy Hopkins, there was maybe 20. And they were celebrated to their face and looked down on behind their back because the NSA

prestige model was all about fee paid engagements. So I had to explain to them that the only way to get customers that you get to keep, aside from going and giving another gig, is you have to sell the product to start with. So that part of this is all wrong too. In fact the fee is kind of irrelevant because you can't show me the $3,000 you got from the Illinois Hardware Association last year to go speak there. The money's gone. You spent it. Your wife spent it. Your kids spent it. You can't show it to me. But if you got 300 customers, you could show me those customers, right? So the fee is kind of irrelevant. The business is all about customer acquisition

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