The Russell Brunson Show - Behind The Scenes Of Day 1 At 10X Growth Con

Episode Date: February 11, 2019

Find out what really happened this year, behind the scenes of the 10x growth con. On this episode Russell recaps his experience of preparing for the 10x event, along with what happened with his presentation on day one. Here are some of the awesome things you will here on this episode: Find out what kind of stress Russell was under in order to prepare for the 10x event. Hear the things that went right at the event, along with the things that went totally wrong. And see how much money he made from his first presentation at the event, despite the problems. So listen here to find out how day one of the 10x event went, and tune in next time to hear day two. Transcript - https://marketingsecrets.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-day-1-at-10x-growth-con Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the Marketing Secrets Podcast. I am back from the 10X event. I have completely lost my voice. And this episode, I want to give you guys a rundown of everything that happened. The good, the bad, the ugly. And I'm excited to share it all with you. So the big question is this. How are entrepreneurs like us, who didn't cheat and take on venture capital, who are spending money from our own pockets,

how do we market in a way that lets us get our products and our services and the things that we believe in out to the world and yet still remain profitable? That is the question, and this podcast will give you the answers. My name is Russell Brunson, and welcome to Marketing Secrets. All right, everyone. So I've been getting blown up everywhere from everybody asking me, how'd you do a 10X? What happened? Tell me the stories. I saw the pictures and the Instagrams and all the stuff looked amazing. Like, how did it go? I know a lot of it came because, um, last year or last year's 10 X event. Um, you know, we, we set a goal to do $3 million in sales and we did 3.2 in 90 minutes. It was amazing. Obviously we launched 10 X secrets, the product,

um, kind of talking about it. So everyone's expecting, you know, big things, which cause insane amounts of stress on my side, in case anybody's wondering. It's like, um, imagine you win an Olympic gold medal and then going back four years later, try it again. Like everyone's just expecting you to win. Oh, it's a horrible feeling. It's way better to be the underdog. But anyway, so, um, we were excited and there was a huge opportunity. Some of you guys probably heard it was in the Marlin stadium. There's going to be 35,000 people at it. And, um, oh, we were so excited. And so to prepare for this whole crazy event, um, we started, uh, a long time ago, started to prepare for it. It was interesting as if you look at, um, uh, the very first 10X event we went to three years ago, um, you know, we showed up there and, and, um, we were went to three years ago um you know we showed up there and and um we were

trying to you know do my normal presentation and sell and and grant and his team had didn't know a lot about events and how to choreograph them and stuff and so when we got there right okay we need a table and sales people and they're like no we don't really have that and so um we kind of had to do it on our own and unfortunately it was dave there with a with a with a box full of order forms and some pens and i did my pitch and they all ran to Dave and luckily Alex and Layla Hermosi were also in the audience. They came and helped. And those three sat there on the side of the room with no tables, handing out order forms and pens. And somehow they closed just shy of a million dollars from that. Then fast forward, you know,

12 months later, we did the 10X. It was in Vegas. And, you know, obviously if you guys bought the 10X Secrets product, you heard me talk about that whole courtyard choreography there's a lot that went into that um we did the 3.2 million and so this year we thought with 35 000 it's going to be even bigger we got to do even more so we had over 40 of our team members that we flew out and prior to that they spent so much time and so much effort coordinating where people understand how are they going to do it how are you going to to collect order forms and deliver the pens? And just, there's a ton that goes into it. And so for weeks and weeks prior, they were planning and meeting and making sure everything was choreographed just perfectly on our side. The other side of it then is I had to

figure out my presentation as well. Now, obviously I have a presentation I give that I'm selling ClickFunnels. It's my Funnel Build funnel builder secrets presentation. And I've given that presentation live probably 150 plus times or more. And so, but because I'm speaking at 10X each time, I try to change it enough that it seems different and new, but then it's gotta be the sit, you know, what works, works. And I don't want to deviate from that either. And so if you look at the very first 10X, I just gave my presentation the way I did on every webinar for a year prior, you know, for the second one, I really changed a lot of the introduction and how I, how I began the presentation. I talked about the four minute mile. I shared stories about John Reese. It was really a quick way to impact people. And so this

year I wanted to change that as well. And so, um, my intro, uh, I'm really proud of it. I started with, um, the Winston Churchill quote where he says, to each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that, which could have been their finest hour.

And so I led with that quote and I started telling stories about some people in our community. I told Jamie Cross's story. I told Chad Wollner's story and then I related it back to their story. And I took people through that where, you know, most of us are entrepreneurs. Like we've, we hear this calling, right? That we need to come in. We need to, we need to do this thing. And then unfortunately for us, we're not, you know, we're not at, when we hear the calling doesn't mean we're ready for it. And so then we have to like go on this journey to become who we need to be to be worthy and able to actually fulfill on that calling so we're on this huge journey and after the after you're on

the journey and you you figured out how to how to do the thing but that's like well how do i get the impact how to get out to more people and so i kind of told the story line weaving in all these different stories i was really proud of i think it turned out really good and then from there i did my my normal presentation right so I spent tons of time preparing that, probably conservatively, probably 30 to 40 hours, retweaking the original presentation to really make it fit. And then also this event, Grant and his team agreed to let us speak twice. So once I got to do Cell Funnel Builder Secrets,

and the second time they wanted me to sell like a public speaking training, teach people how to sell from stage. And so I had to create a whole new presentation I'd never done before. And I'll talk more about this one, but I'm so proud of how this presentation turned out. It was, um, legitimately amazing. All right. So that was kind of all the prep work. Now going into this, like last year, again, we made $3.2 million with 9,000 people. So we're thinking 35,000, we should do at least 10 million. And you know, some people were guessing, you know, 2,500 million and just kind of fun, but we always kind of guessed ahead of time. And I was so scared. I just hate going into it with those kind of like

expectations. Cause if you don't hit them, then you feel disappointed. I didn't want everyone on my team to be disappointed. I didn't care so much for me. I've already experienced all this stuff. I don't, you know what I mean? But like my team was all like, you know, huddling around us. Everyone wanted to go do this thing and hit these big goals. And so I had a lot of fear going into it. Like, Oh, what if I don't hit this and then disappoint them? And yeah, that kind of fear. All right. So then, um, the night before came where we're getting everything prepared and ready and we're leaving the morning. And one of my friends, Brian Underwood, he's the founder of Prove It. A lot of you guys have heard me talk a lot about Prove It. He messaged me a little while ago and wanted

to hang out. And I was like, well, if you want to hang out, I'm speaking at this TEDx event. You should come pick me up in your private plane and fly us out there. And he was like, okay. And so he literally flew his plane and picked up me and my wife and a couple, Dave and his wife and Melanie and Blake. And we all jumped in this plane with him. And so he flew the night before we kind of hung out in the office and talked for a while. And then the next morning we woke up and we went headed to the airport and we jumped in his private plane and he flew us all the way from Boise to Miami, which was amazing. Every time I fly private, it makes me like never want to go commercial again. So for any of you

guys who fly commercial, never fly private. It will ruin you forever. I was telling Stephen Larson this, I think I was like, don't fly first class cause it'll ruin you forever. I just stay in coach as long as you can. Cause it's nice. Like coach is fine until you fly first class. You're like, Oh crap. And first class is great until you fly private. And then it's like, Oh, it's just ruined forever. Anyway. So we flew in four hours in Miami, which is nice. Cause we're flying home from Miami. It took us, we were in four hours in Miami, which is nice because we're flying home from Miami. It took us, we were in the air for seven hours on two planes and we had like three or four hours layover. So it goes from like a four hour trip to like a full day trip, commercial versus private.

Oh, anyway, so grateful for Brian picking us up. He paid for everything. He paid for the gas, the flight, everything. He just, it was super classy of him. So we flew us out there. We hung out and then we got to miami and we got there i was kind of freaking out because i get so super nervous and so we headed over to the stadium where they got us in and we had a chance to like see the whole

venue and it was crazy like walking in there um and i think i supposed to my mic check and give them my slides and go through it all um at a certain time and we got there and they're way behind so we hung out there for probably two or three hours in the stadium and um you know ty lopez was there so he got to do his sound check and and um a couple other people were just kind of testing the whole thing out it was crazy though it's like when you do the sound check sometimes we start talking and the echo was so bad you couldn't even hear yourself and i was like um like if this echo is this bad like no one's gonna hear us they're like oh no no no when 35 000 people are here it'll

absorb all the sound and it would totally be fine so they do stuff like this all the time so it'll be it'll be fine i'm like okay but because if it's like this i can't like standing on stage i would talk and i could hear like bounce off the thing come back to me i was like i can't even hear my own voice and people sitting in the stands like i can't hear you because it's so echoey but you know everyone's kind of nervous but they said you know what they they must have done this before there's no way they haven't it should be completely fine so that was kind of what happened night before and then we went to we went home went to bed and I was super anxious and nervous and excited um so Nat went to bed that night next morning morning, woke up and woke up super early. Cause I

basically we have set up, Grant was speaking and I was speaking immediately after him. And Grant was also going to parachute into the stadium. So we got everything ready. I got dressed in my fancy pants clothes, um, that, um, oh, that's the other thing. When we flew into Miami, we had to get another shirt. So we literally went from the airport directly to neiman marcus i think and then we had somebody we found a shirt and had the tailor tailor it right there on the spot and then delivered that night to us which was crazy so we had a you know i had a brand new shirt on brand you know all these pants all these fancy clothes we get over there and we start waiting and um we walk in the the the stadium they took us to the dugout and through the green room,

which was a batting cage and everything. And we walked in the whole thing. And then I walked into the stadium. You look out and it's just like, oh my gosh, this huge thing. The roof of the baseball stadium is completely open. And looking out, I'm like, this is amazing. And I looked back into the stands and the stands were almost empty. I was like, oh my gosh.

I started feeling sick for granted. I'm like, Oh my gosh. I started feeling sick for Grant. I'm like, what if people don't show up? Like, what are we going to do? Like, this is, I looked at my watch. It was like 20 minutes till nine. I was like, how are they supposed to get 35,000 people in here in the next 20 minutes? You know, we knew that Grant was going to skydive in. And so anyway, all the fears and the nervousness and everything started hitting up again. It was just like, ah, you know, didn't know what to do. And so we're watching as, you know, getting closer and closer. And then finally at 9 o'clock, I assume like, man, people aren't coming in. They're going to push it out until 9.30 or 10 or something.

But sure, at 9 o'clock, you look up and all of a sudden you see Grant's plane. I think it was Grant's plane flying above the stadium. And all of a sudden, boom, at 9 o'clock, this parachute pops out. This big, huge 10X parachute pops out. And then Grant, I think it was Grant. Some people says it wasn't, who knows? I don't know. Maybe the world will never know. But Grant or Grant's stunt double flew by themselves on a parachute into the stadium. And it was like the most epically amazing thing ever. And they landed and then they put a microphone on him and I guess he twisted his ankle or something.

He's like, hey, I'm going to get my ankle twisted. You know, right now we found out the traffic's horrible and bad on whatever thing and people are waiting. So we're going to take a 30-minute break where I get prepared and hopefully give a chance for more people to come in and then we can get started. And so they kind of cut, which was kind of crazy because as soon as they cut, everyone ran up the stage,

stayed to go to the bathroom. It was this huge like anti-climatic moment so amazing this this entrance and then it was like okay come back in 30 minutes we'll get started and anyway but you know i think they did that mostly to get people in so then people are coming in coming in and finally get someone stage he starts talking and the echo is really bad and like it was really hard to hear him from the stands and And I couldn't even imagine on his side. And so I'm watching him. And I'm just like, oh my gosh, you're kind of freaking me out. But I'm like, you know what?

I'm just going to do what I got to do. I don't know any better. Let's just go do it. So finally, about 15 minutes before I'm up, they come and grab me, pull me back, then mic me up, take me back to the backstage, and took me to this little room, a curtained off room. I went in there and was so nervous jumping around and trying to get prepared. And then I sat down to take a, to say a prayer and I have so much anxiety and nerves and tiredness and everything. I was saying this prayer and I totally passed out in the middle of the prayer and woke up a few minutes later. I was

like, Oh my gosh, I'm still here. But I'm in this little, this little curtained off room and all I hear is echo. I can't hear a word that's happening. There's no video. There's no TVs back there. I have no idea if I'm up or when I'm up or anything. It was just kind of this, this, this, this random noise. And I wish I could tell you the anxiety I was feeling. It was crazy. And then somebody can grab me and say, okay, you're almost up. And they pull me up onto the stage and I'm sitting there getting ready, getting ready, but I can't hear anything. And all of a sudden the wall starts going up. Like there's this huge wall of monitors that starts going up, which I know is my cue. And I'm like, oh my gosh, does this mean I'm up?

And the guy's like, I think so. And this fog starts coming in and the thing goes up. And then it gets past my head and I just walk out. I'm like, I hope this is for me. And I walk out and I see this huge audience. And it was crazy because the last 10X event, there was 9,000 people, but it was dark in the stadium. And so, and the lights are shining your face. You walk out and you don't really feel the people because it seemed like it was kind

of like you're walking out onto a stage and you know, those people there, you don't really see them. This was completely different. It was the middle of the day. It's all lit up. You walk out and you can see everybody's faces. And it was like the most breathtaking thing. I had, I had my first lines

all like figured out in my head what I'm going to say and how I'm going to say it. And then the thing opens up and I was like, I forgot everything. I was just like, I caught me off guard. I'm like, Hey, wow, this is amazing. I'm like, what am I supposed to say? I couldn't like grab, it took me a few minutes to like grab, like capture myself. Other crazy thing is I had these new shoes on that were super slick. If you watch my Instagram stories, you saw I was like scuffing them up, trying to make them not slick. But I totally took a step and slipped on stage. I caught myself and I was like, okay, no self, tiny steps, tiny steps. I don't want to slip in front of 35,000 people. It was crazy. And I started talking and it was crazy. I started talking.

Actually, let me back up. I want to kind of go through some teaching points in here because it's interesting. Like if you look at events and any kind of marketing for that matter, it's all about choreography. And I feel like Grant's team choreographed some things really well and some things not so well. And, um, I think we're going to call them and kind of walk through some of my thoughts and feelings later after they kind of recover from this craziness. But just for you guys who are doing events, one of the big things is after Grant spoke, he did a charity pitch. It was like $67 to get access to this thing that you sell for like 10 grand or 20 grand or something crazy, really good offer. And that's something we do at our events. A lot of times we'll make a charity pitch on day one to teach people like

how the process works to go by. And I think they were trying to do the same thing, but they did the charity pitch unbeknownst to me, right? And for $67 for like a $20,000 offer and people loved it. They start running up, they start running to the sides of the tables. And then right then is right in my, when the, when the screen went up and I walked out. So I walked out to all these people running to the side, to the back of the room and running up the stairs, trying to, to get this crazy offer that he had made to him, which was kind of, you know, from a, from a speaker standpoint, the last thing you want is when you're coming out on stage for a big introduction, have people running to the back

of the room buying, like there should be, if you're ever selling, there should always be a break afterwards. People can get back to their seats and focus back on you. So that was one kind of mischoreographed piece. Um, but they did raise a lot of money for charity. So that's good. So I come out there, I start talking and the echo is really bad. As I start talking, it's bouncing off and like, I'd say something and you talking, it's bouncing off. And I'd say something. And I talk fast anyway. So I'd say one or two things. And as I'm saying it, then the bounce is off the back of the wall. It would come back and hit me.

And it caught me off guard. So I'd hear myself again. And then I'd try to go again. And I'd keep bouncing back and forth. And man, it threw me off for the entire 90 minutes. I couldn't keep myself. I never felt like I was ever in the rhythm of it. It's because the echo was so, so bad.

It was crazy. I had no idea. I'm like, maybe out there they can hear me. But it turns out the echo there out in the audience is even worse, especially some of the upper seats. If you sat in the upper decks, which probably 70% of the people sat up there, they couldn't hear anything. In fact, after my presentation, I found out that tons of people were going to those guys saying,

we can't hear anything that's happening. We need a refund. And it was this huge thing and so i'm doing my presentation and you know 70 of the audience can't even hear me the ones who can hear me it's still it's muffled and it's echoey and it's hard and i'm like not on my game because this echo's throwing me off and it's confusing it's like oh so i did my presentation i was like you know i'm just gonna do it and just hope for the best about half of my presentation they came out like, you know, I'm just going to do it and just hope for the best. About halfway through my presentation, they came out and said, slow down. Oh, and during my presentation, I showed some videos and a bunch of the videos, they worked, but the sound system was set up for like a concert. So it was a concert. Usually they crank up the bass and the singer

singing on top of it. But with our videos and they crank up the bass that high, the base of the videos come through, we can't hear any of the voices. So all my testimonial videos, you can't understand a word. Everyone said, I didn't understand a word of any of your videos, which is like all the setup for the, for the cell. Oh, anyway, so many things. And then they came out later and said, you know, we found out it's the, it's the mic on your, your face. That's the bad thing.

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I wanted 10. I didn't want two. So I was stuck in the stadium forever. I had to go pee, and I'd take pictures with people. It was just huge, like, oh, just all this stuff. I just wanted to get out. I just needed to unplug. Introverted Russell needed to, like, unplug and go plug in, like, go hide somewhere and just, like, recharge. And so it took, like, an hour and a half, two hours to, like, get out,

get out of the stadium, get back to the hotel. It was probably closer to three hours. But I got to the hotel, and then I laid on the bed, and my wife was talking to me and I was gone out cold. And I slept for like three hours. I just like, my body has shut down from all the stress and anxiety and the late nights and preparing and everything went ahead of it. And so, you know, three hours later, I woke up and I was like, Oh my gosh, what happened? I have no idea. I'm messaging Dave and Melanie and everybody trying to find out like, how do we run sales and getting numbers back. And they told me, I was like, I mean, first off, I was happy that 690 people heard me. Um,

and you know, but you know, it's just, it's just disappointing to 2 million is amazing, unless you're expecting 10, then it's like, oh, like it sucks. Right. So that was kind of frustrating. And so I got up, ate some dinner and then kind of just started working on my presentation for the next day that night i had a chance to meet with myron golden the man the myth the legend he came and helped me work on the presentation and then that night steven came into the room where we were working on the presentation in a bathrobe steven larson and then me and him started wrestling and doing jujitsu and fighting in his bathrobe which which was really fun. And that was the night and went to bed. All right.

So that was day number one of 10X. Now on the next podcast episode, I'm gonna take you guys into day number two. In day number two, I'm gonna talk about what happened on the second presentation. Did we fix the echo? Did we sell the $25,000 thing we're trying to do? What happened in the locker room with Garrett White and a bunch of other cool speakers and a whole bunch more. So thanks so much for listening to episode number one.

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