The Russell Brunson Show - Correctly Leverage Facebook Groups with Christina Rowe

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

How do you use Facebook Groups to help grow your business? Inside my Inner Circle mastermind, the members voted twice that Christina Rowe had the secrets. So I finally sat down with her to get all of the details about how she leverages Facebook Groups and the possibilities are suddenly endless! Whether you’re looking to leverage a small or large group, the ideas and strategies in this episode will get your mind reeling and the wheels churning! Join The ClickFunnels Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClickFunnels/ And model Christina Rowe’s group: https://WomenHelpingWomen.group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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They'll do very well. So, you know, it's just the right people. That's the most important thing, getting them into your group, your right target market. In the last decade, I went from being a startup entrepreneur to selling over a billion dollars in my own products and services online. This show is going to show you how to start, grow, and scale a business online. My name is Russell Brunson, and welcome to the Marketing Secrets Podcast. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Marketing Seekers Podcast. I'm excited to say we've got a really special episode. For any of you guys who want to figure

out how do we build a list, how do we get more traffic, how do we get a following of people who we can sell to in the future without spending a ton of money. I don't know about most of you guys, but right now the climate in paid ads is getting harder and harder. It costs more money to get traffic. We used to spend, back when we launched ClickFunnels, we spent $2 or $3 to get somebody to opt into a webinar. Now today it's like $5 to $10 per opt-in to register for a webinar. It's crazy how expensive it's gotten. If you're not really good at funnels, it's getting harder and harder to be successful online.

And I've seen that just inside the ClickFunnels community. People who 10 years ago had a lot of success because ads were so cheap. They had these funnels, they blew up. And now today, because it's harder, a lot of these people aren't able to stay in business right now. And so I've been trying to find who are the people who are having a lot of success getting traffic that's not the typical ways you get traffic. It's not just buying ads on Facebook or Instagram or YouTube, but they're doing things that are different, that are unique. And so I'm excited because the special guest we have for you today is someone who's built a Facebook group of over 850,000 people. Those people who joined the

Facebook group also joined her email list. So she's got an email list of the same size. And she's using this in business after business, market after market to grow an audience before someone launches a product. And it's really fascinating. It's using Facebook groups. It's funny because I don't know about you, but I've had a Facebook group for a long time. In fact, ClickFunnels, when we first launched ClickFunnels, we couldn't keep up with the support demands we had. And so we like created a Facebook group.

It was like ClickFunnels, I think it was community support. And so we'd have everyone like submit a ticket and then go to the community. Maybe they can help you try and like help us out. And this little community support went from, you know, five people to 500 people to 5,000 to 50,000 to five, you know, they're not 500,000, I think it's 300 and something thousand people now in this group. Um, and for me, it's been like this thing where I didn't know what to do with it. Like it's an asset, but I don't know how to monetize it.

It's this thing. And it's like, uh, and so I've been trying to be like, how do we have success with our Facebook groups? I didn't know. And what's interesting is in my inner circle, the last two inner circle meetings, everyone here, basically to be in the inner circle, you have to have made at least a million dollars. You have to one or two comic book awards to be able to apply to be in the groups. Everyone here is successful. They've all won a two comic book award. They're doing good things. And everyone has a chance to master my network. And then based on what's happening over the event, the people have the best presentations, come on stage and share what they did, how they did it. And the person I'm going to introduce you guys say during today's podcast interview,

um, actually went in the last two times in a row, won the contest where she was on stage explaining her Facebook group strategy, because it's so cool and it's unique and it's different. And it's a way to get a lot of traffic for free. Again, she's got 850,000 people in Facebook group on an email list and she didn't pay Zuckerberg anything for that, which is crazy. This is also something if you're just getting started, that's powerful, right? If you're working on a funnel, working on a product or something and you're like, who am I going to sell this to when it's done, right? If you follow the process you're going to learn in today's episode, you can start a Facebook group, get people in there so by the time your product's ready, you already have an audience who's ready and willing to listen to what you have to say.

So this is something if you're a beginner, it's going to be powerful. If you're advanced marketer, it's going to be amazing as well. And so I'm excited to introduce you to our guest today, Ms. Christina Rowe. And it's going to be a lot of fun. So let's jump right into how to grow your company with Facebook groups. What's up, everybody? I'm excited today to be talking to you guys about traffic and lead generation through a different unique method that our guest has mastered. I'm excited to interview her to find out exactly how she's doing it. So her name is Christina Rowe. She's been in my inner circle for a while now. In the last two inner circle meetings, everyone breaks down. We have a hundred really high level entrepreneurs in these rooms and everyone has a chance to go

and mastermind individually. And then each of the rooms people vote on like who had the best idea, the best way to grow their companies and things like that. And two times in a row, you've won. Come on stage and share it with everybody. And I've been in the back and I kind of hear you talking about it. I'm trying to take notes, but it's hard to understand. And so I pulled you aside today to find out all the stuff for me and for everyone who's listening about how you have done that, which is going to be exciting. So I'm excited.

Well, thank you, Russell, for having me. I'm excited. Oh, thank you, Russell, for having me. I'm excited. I just love to talk about Facebook groups because I believe they're the greatest lead generator that you can have for free organically. It's interesting because most Facebook is a cost, at least for us, it costs so much money. And also on top of it, we've built a group. We have like 300,000 people in our group and we're not making any money off of it all. So I'm like, there's something I'm doing wrong for sure. And something you're doing right for sure. I guess my first question is, how did you like, um, I just go back a little more so people don't know who you are. Like, uh, tell us about your business, how you got started into, uh, into the whole world of online

marketing. Sure. So in my former life, I call it, I used to own a hair and nail salon way back in New Jersey. And when I got divorced and sold that, I decided to write a book about divorce. And it was called Seven Secrets to a Successful Divorce. And it was for women. So I had a choice. It was 2006, whether to try to get a publisher and then this thing called, you know, online marketing. So I went down that route and loved it. And then other people started saying, oh, can you help me with your business? Help, you know, help me, coach me, teach me how to do it. And so I've been like, you know, old school back when we had FrontPage. We didn't have ClickFunnels, right?

You guys do not realize how it was back then. Because I used FrontPage all the way until ClickFunnels was launched. Like that was the same way. I loved FrontPage. Yeah, it was like, yeah, that was my first funnel builder. And so then I started a women's organization in South Florida when I moved there. And that's how I got involved with eventually creating the Facebook group. builder. And so then I started a women's organization in South Florida when I moved there. And that's how I got involved with eventually creating the Facebook group. So the original group, it was mainly a thousand women from South Florida. It's called the Women Helping Women

Entrepreneurs. And then it started to just grow. It started more women started to join lots of conversations. And I know it's all organically or do you do anything to make it grow? Oh, that was just all started all organically, word of mouth, a lot of members inviting other women. And I know it's all organically or do you do anything to make it grow? Oh, that was just all started all organically. Word of mouth. A lot of members inviting other women. And the key was it was the engagement because I think two things. It's the engagement and the name of the group. The group being women helping women entrepreneurs.

When people searching Facebook looking like women are looking for help, They're going to put women entrepreneurs and like Facebook's little bots go out and will show your group based on your keywords. And that's why you'll see in groups you ever noticed, you'll see, I'll say you'd like to join this group. So it's just all, you know, recommending other groups that you may like. So I think that's what helped kickstart it in the beginning. And then it started taking off. And I realized at the time I was doing coaching, personal coaching, and so were everyone else in my group. So I was like, okay, I can't compete with my own members. So I took a step back and decided to create a new model for the group. And I did a continuity membership program where I allow the women to promote their

businesses in the group. To the other women's internally? Yes. And that's what really started, you know, making it explode because the women were using it to grow their own businesses. And to this day, that's what they do. So now we're up to 850,000 women. And yeah, so all over the world. It's amazing. So many different countries. And it's just been incredible. And, you know, a lot of those women have invited, you know, that's a great way to get members to your group is to ask your members, you know, if you love the group, share it. I've never done a contest, but I know group members who've done contests, you know, invite this many people and get them in. But you don't need a giant group to make money with Facebook groups. That's a big myth. People think you need this big, giant group.

I mean, I know people, members of mine who've had very small groups that made millions of dollars. There's maybe 3000 people or a couple hundred people. They'll, they'll do very well. So it, you know, it's just the right people. That's the, that's the most important thing, getting them into your group, your right target market. Interesting. So, so outside of like creating it and it started, started growing organically and stuff like that. Was there ever a spot where you're buying ads or pushing? I know some people do do that, right? We haven't done that. But I think there's ways to buy ads and also grow the group as well, right?

There is now. I have never done that for my group personally. But there's a brand new feature that came out about six months ago. It's called Promote Your Group. You'll see it under your manage section. You'll look and it'll say Promote Group. And basically it's like boosting your Facebook group. You'll see it under your manage section. You'll look and it'll say promote group. And basically it's like boosting your Facebook group. So it'll populate with your about section of your group and then it'll allow you to pick your audience. The key with that, I have a lot of

smaller groups as well. We have different countries, different states. We're all over with groups. I've lost count of how many groups I have. I don't even know how many more. But I've tested it out in my smaller groups. And I've gotten some really high-quality members. Like, for example, right now I'm doing, because we're having an event in London in May. So I have a UK group. So I just went into there, did promote group. And I changed the about section a little bit up, you know, just made it shorter. And then it mentioned that we're having getting together. made it more like, you know, join this community.

And then I targeted, you know, women at a certain age who are in the London area. And then I picked like coaches, you know, coaches, that demographic. And I've been getting tons, those couple days, tons of new members. And I put $100 into it. I did this with my Arizona group. I think I spent $100, like a 51 women, women entrepreneurs who make over a hundred thousand into the group with email addresses. So it could be very powerful. What's that? That's a $2 lead, right? My math right on that?

I think, yeah, about $2 lead. Yeah. Yeah. It's, I think because it's a newer feature, Facebook isn't like chart, you know, charging as much for it. I did try it on being more vague in a different group and it didn't work as well. So I think you have to like really be very specific, even location wise, like don't try to do the ad for like a whole bunch, the whole United States at once, like target it and test it, you know, and be very specific. And then Facebook will go out and show it to people. And then I think a better thing to do, and I haven't done this yet, is to put something really irresistible lead magnet in the ad. So, you know, cause they're going to see join group on the bottom. So if you give some ethical bribe and then they can only access it by getting

in the group, they'll be more apt to join the group as well. Interesting. Okay. So I want to understand your model then. So you've got your huge group and then you have the little group. Is this all feeding the same business or are they all different businesses? What's the model look like? You know, they get to promote in the business. They get a promotional post. They go live. They get other features like spotlights and, you know, directory and all that stuff. So that's the main, everything feeds into that. And plus I have courses and all that other stuff. But everything, all the local groups, you know, feed into the big group. So you do local group to find the people locally, then you push them from there into the bigger group? Yeah. So like a lot, yeah, they've all pushed in.

They all go into the, you know, into the order responders. You know, every new member comes in, get the emails. Not everybody's going to give you an email, but we still, people ask me, do you still accept them? Well, we do. And so they all go into the welcome, you know, series of emails. And then in the part of that will be to convert them into becoming a paid member. So that's been the model of just, you know just driving them all back to the main group to promote. So I was actually, before we started the interview,

I actually found your sales letter and was reading it to see how you were doing it and saw that it was like $197 a month they get to do. They promote inside the group. So basically they're doing Facebook Lives and they're stuff like that. So I'm curious, does it make the group crazy? I don't know how many members you have, but they're all posting stuff all the time or is that just increasing engagement? Is that, what's it feel like? I'm not a female entrepreneur, so I haven't snuck in yet. I don't know how to get in the group, but I want to know what's happening. Yeah, we have only women, but

yeah. So at the live, we do schedule out the lives. So we try to not like, you know, have like maybe a 15 minute overlap. Posts though, you know, they can post whenever they want. They're all on pre-approval. Anybody who becomes a paid member gets pre-approval. And what really works are call to action, like two-step posts. That's what's really does phenomenal in groups. So it's giving something of high value away for free. This is what the women do. They're like, I've made, created, you know, this training, I've got X result with it, you know. So I made, you know, $780,000 doing this and, you know, here's my free training. Who wants it before I make it paid? Me, me, me. Then in the comments, everybody's saying yes.

And then they'll go in and respond to those and either lead them to their own Facebook group or to the beginning of their funnel. And I like to say leading them to your Facebook group is a very powerful way to grow your Facebook group or to the beginning of their funnel. And I like to say leading them to your Facebook group is very powerful way to grow your Facebook group. Because once if you're giving them that training, once they get the three questions, they have to give you the email. Because you'll say, well, we need your email, we can't send you what you know, the training, we need your email. So now you've got them both, you've got them in, you know, you're going to get put them into your into your autoresponder, and you're also getting them into your group so chances are then when they're if they're acting or interactive they'll see in the feed the facebook feed they'll see your group so it's like a double whammy right i'm assuming that all these women who are posting to just

helps the group like the quality of the group getting more people like it shows them people's feeds more often so it increases the value and all that kind of stuff from as well. Right? Yeah. It's because it's because engagement, like, you know, how the algorithm works for groups or for posts or anything is like the more you like or comment, Facebook says, okay, you like that. We're going to show you more of that. So that's what happens inside of groups is that they see, okay, you like that group. You've just asked, you know, you know, five, 10 people, you just said, yes, I want that. Or are you having a conversation? I mean, we have a lot of posts too, that are very helped. People want help, you know, like I'm ready to quit. I'm so frustrated with my business. What do I do? And then everybody rallies and, you know,

and so those are really nice, you know, the value type posts, but these posts that are on like the color backgrounds that are the short, you know, call posts those you tend to see those first in the group because they're the ones getting massive amounts like thousand two thousand comments you know just huge reach because people are excited to get those you know lead magnets yeah so cool um am i allowed to ask how many members you have paying for that sure sure yeah yeah so i think we we have close to a thousand i believe okay yeah that's about a thousand and then do you ever have an issue i'm just imagining on my side like my thinking like how could i implement this and what i'm doing like do you have people who sign up for it and they start i don't in my world there's a lot of people like i don't want them talking my audience they're gonna spam them

they're gonna do stuff like that they're gonna you know i mean do you have any of those kind of issues or do you have to deal with and clean you know kick people out or whatever or is it not too bad well no we get issues with um well women fighting oh yeah that's yeah yes oh yeah yes we have very like a lot of moderates by 17 moderators in the group and we have very strict rules you know and they'll spam each other's comp like you know somebody who's paying will have a post and they'll come in and try to pervade in the comments and immediately you know they're warned and then kicked out but though more of an issue used to be is the you know we have to have very strict rules there's no politics there's no you know you cannot talk about i mean they'll fight over anything they

fought over the barbie movie okay yes we had fights oh yeah they'll just i mean crazy things you're like what like why are these women fighting because women can get you know when they're in conversations so we have to be like on top of it at all times yeah i imagine when they're going live and stuff so you said you you schedule out when they're able to go live so if you have a thousand people is a thousand lives a month happening well you know not everybody takes it you know right it's like people join and not some of them don't want to go live ever they don't want to be live so some of them will ask can to go live ever. They don't want to be live. So some of them will ask, can I just do two posts? We will allow that.

Or they'll just – they won't go live at all. So we haven't had that problem where it's just too many people. It's just so many people in the group, such a large group that it hasn't been an issue for us as far as lives being overlapping each other. Thankfully. Hey, Funnel Hackers, let's be real. How many of you have forgotten about subscriptions and you keep paying for these things month after month after month? That was my wife and I before Rocket Money came along.

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So when I started this and we started the group in October 2016 and the membership model, I think it was the beginning of 2018. So since then, there's been several of my members who have grown their groups to maybe 100,000, 50,000, 70,000, who have now taken my model, and they're doing my model. So they're, you know, they're feeding from my group, paid members to their group, and we've got members who are paying for all of our groups. So it's like a little network. And I've actually did Zooms with several of these women. So like, we've got to collaborate somehow on this, you know, make like, you know, they'll figure out the idea of how we can do something together. But it's interesting. So it's like a network of women who've decided that this is a great model. But yeah, many members come into my group,

and they'll quickly build their group up, you know, to huge levels by just simple asking questions like, you know, a question just like we have a member who just asked like, who here wants to meet on Zoom on Thursdays and have coffee and collaborate, you know, let me know. And then all these people, Oh my God. Yes. Yes. And then she's inviting them to her Facebook group. You're getting them in. Yeah. Um, so I'm thinking about it now. So we have a business we're launching. Uh, it's called understand. I mean, you may know about it. It's a personality thing, but I'm trying to figure out, cause I feel like that would be a really cool place to have a group because everyone in there sharing their i you know like here's my personality here's my desk here's my 16 you know

it can be fun engagement anyway um i'm just like if i was to hire you to consult me like what would you look like how would you what would you try to do with something like that the group like that well i first want to identify you know who the exact target market of people that you want in to the group. And then I would base do some searches. First thing I always do when I tell anybody to do this is like, okay, think exactly who is the person looking for a group like that? Like, you know, what will they be thinking when they're searching in the search bar to join a community? Because everybody joins communities because they want to be with like like-minded people or they want like answers to questions so you have to be and put yourself in their shoes and then see when you put those you

know that search and what hit groups what's coming up what groups are coming up and then you could quickly see the ones with a lot of members and the ones that you know maybe are flopping and you just look look and see and you'll get an idea of what to name it because that's really important, the name. The name is number one. And then your about section, you want it to load it up with, you know, all the keywords related to the person that you're trying to target and to niche to. And so that would be the step number one to create the group that way. And then once you have that, then you would, you know, again,

you'd want to start start you know drawing in people into the group even for your personal profile so doing the two-step posts that i just spoke about you do it on your personal profile and the where they're going to get whatever you're giving away on that concept will be inside that group so it'll drive people from your personal profile the initial surge of people in there yeah that's my fear is like you start an ad and like the first person signs in, they're like, they're the first member. It's like, oh no. Oh, right, right, right.

Yes, yes. It's like a ghost town, like am I in the wrong spot here? Yeah, you want to actually plant some people in there first. You had to get the conversation going and people always want to talk about themselves. So if you have a group and you start asking them, you know, questions about, you know, in three words, what do you do?

Like people love to answer that. Or, you know, even where do you live? People, anytime you're getting them them each time they're like voting for your group, because they're commenting or engaging, they're going to have, it's going to be more engagement. Facebook gets the single. So this is a good group. This is something people want to see, I'll recommend it more. And that's where it really comes into, you know, getting your Facebook to do the work, the heavy lifting for you for free, be showing your group, you know, and we did have, um, we were lucky and fortunate. We were one of the Facebook commercials. If you remember the commercials, yeah, we did,

we have, um, they asked me and they did, um, two or three versions of a commercial for us and even a radio spot, which I did the voiceover for, which was really exciting. I'm curious, did you get traction from the radio and TV to the group? Were you able to see people coming in? Yeah, I mean, I guess they were coming. We just get them so many members all the time. But it was a little uptick in that time period, yeah, when they were running the commercials.

It was just really cool. I remember that happened. I remember sitting there and I was watching TV and some ad came up for a Facebook group. Maybe it was when you're, but I was like, how crazy that Facebook's advertising groups on TV. I remember thinking that like, that like, this must be something big that like, we're not even aware of or not paying attention to if they're buying TV ads to promote it, which is interesting. It's interesting because the,

I was invited in 2019 before COVID early to, to the Facebook community summit, which was at in Menlo park at Facebook. So it was thrilling to actually be there. You know, I had to make a post, you know, I'm posting on Facebook while I'm at Facebook. And so that was super cool. And so they do those virtually now, but they were very invested in community. I think Zuckerberg had said at one point, you know, the heart of Facebook is the community is in it. There's I think 1.8 billion people in Facebook groups. So that's where, you know, you say, well, Facebook is for old people. Or, you know, you get all of that.

But people still go for groups and maybe your family and your friends. But I think they get the most engagement from groups. And that's why they've been invested in it. Yeah. Now, next question I have is I'm thinking about logistically. Like we have our big ClickFunnels group, right? Which is similar to your big group. Right. And when you start talking about the fact that we have our big ClickFunnels group, right? Which is similar to your big group. Right.

And when you start talking about the fact that you have these little ones in different cities, I was like, oh, how cool that'd be if we had like funnel hacker meetups or funnel hacker or entrepreneur groups in each city. But I'm curious, how do you manage all that? Like the one group's hard off managing. I can't imagine if we had 12 or 20 or a hundred, like, oh yeah. How do you, how do you do it right now with all the multiple groups? Well, I do have, you know, we have volunteers.

That's your biggest thing is to get volunteers. A lot of my moderators just volunteer because they love the group. So in that case for you, I mean, you have people volunteering to be leaders, like make them into a leadership position for, you know, who wants to be a leader for whatever town you're in. And then you facilitate that. And this is what, you know, you're going to moderate the group. You're going to spend X amount of time in the group per week. And then whatever perks you want to give them. You know, one of the things we did with, and this worked really well, was now when somebody posts, right, we have to approve every single post. So if you're not a paying member and you try to promote in the group, we have our moderators tell, you know, you have to pay but but i let them give their affiliate link so now when they decline posts people are oh okay i have to pay and they're they're joining and so they're actually making oh you have the moderator yes okay yes and that motivates them so they make money they make us they're making good money by just putting and it's exciting for them to decline people like a standout group as much as you want.

Yeah, exactly. Yes. Here's my link. Yes. So that's the motivation. Like anytime you can motivate people by giving them any sort of perks or benefits to work for free.

Yeah. For sure. That's, that's really, really cool. Interesting. And then is there, let's say it's a smaller local, like you said, you're doing an event in, you say London?

Yes, yes. So like, will that group be there long-term or is like you said you're doing an event in you say london yes yes so like that group either long term or is it something you're doing right now getting people there and you're going to use that to do the thing and then you close it out or just keep right now and indefinitely that's been there that group the uk group it's a smaller group i think it has about 3 000 people in it and i haven't really paid much attention to it till now since until i'm doing an event in there and now i'm you know engaging with the members and that's really important too now i'm spending time in there asking questions. And one really powerful feature, I don't know if you guys use it in ClickFunnels group,

is the new chat feature for groups. I don't think we have it. You should look. You probably do have the ability to add a chat. And so for some reason, you have a big group or not everybody's getting alerted to everything, but chats have cool feature with it. So you can invite like your most engaged members and there's, you can click when you start the chat and it'll say, so invite the most engaged members of the group. What's really cool is the events for groups. They have a brand new feature

that's in there. A lot of people don't know about. So when, you know, you do an event through your group. So now you have the event and you want to invite people. And there's a feature that says invite people who are not in the group, which I've never seen before. So you can actually invite friends and stuff who are not actually in your group to this event. So how you could use that is if you want to get more group members, you know, you put the training, again, in the the group that's for the event, the free training. And now you invite other people that are there and they can now go in and get in. And they also

have a new feature in there called message friends and it's in bulk. So if you have friends in the group, you could pick all at once and send a personalized message through Messenger. So you can message a bunch of your friends. Is this just you as the admin or is that each member internally can also do that? No, this is just the admin. That's for that. And also, so the events have their own chat feature and so does your group itself that you can get people in. And that gets a lot of talking.

You have to be careful though, because people love to spam. Oh my God. You say no spamming. Oh, my business, my business, especially in the business world. It's yeah. I've shut a lot of them down. Especially when you're people going there used to be no promote inside the group. The ones who are not remember, you know, they just want to spam, you know, because they

think, oh, this is my opportunity, you know, which is not, let's have conversations. Right. But they could be great when people start talking, you know, in I think, oh, this is my opportunity, you know, which is not, let's have conversations. Right. But they could be great when people start talking, you know, in smaller groups, like when you get real conversations going, getting to know each other, and then they want to come back to the main group because, you know, it's a value to them. Interesting. Um, I'm just thinking about in our world, we keep talking about like, we want to break off and do local events all over the country and the the world potentially anyway but i was like this weird chicken and the egg like how do we do that and how do we find the right person and i'm just thinking through this like how cool it'd be if we did have if we started at the facebook group level we have all these different

groups and find out which ones have the most activity or whoever's hosting moderate whatever it is could then we could start doing local events and have like there's the group it's already pre-built and then from there it's like oh, Oh, we're going to meet, we're all going to hang out or whatever. Oh, that is a great idea. We should be kind of be kind of fun. I love that. That is so powerful because in two, when you use, if you want to even use to promote your group feature locally, like, like I did with Arizona, I just picked three little cities in Arizona close by. And it was just like, boom, getting in these highly qualified people. And people love that people want to want to you know everybody feels like all zoomed out right we want to get back in person so by doing that in local communities and bringing click funnels all over the country like that that

would be so powerful be really cool oh yeah people would absolutely go crazy for that because then they can meet each other and network yeah and i don't know if you know pace morby is yes yes he's amazing pace is amazing one of the coolest things he does is he has meetups happening all i don't know if you know pace morby is yes yes he's amazing pace is amazing one of the coolest things he does is he has meetups happening i don't know how he created how he did initially but every weekend there's a meetup like 50 or 60 around the country and he randomly will fly to each two different ones and people have no idea if he's going to come and then if they do he'll find the head coordinators like him being i'm gonna be in tampa tonight uh tell everybody and then uh he'll show up and there'll be 800,000 people who all show up

and spend all day they're hanging out i was like i want to figure out how to replicate that but again it was like how do we how do we start building those groups initially and i think that doing it through facebook initially and seeing where the pockets of like oh yeah excitement are at and stuff like that could be the could be the way to see starting in like the major cities you know and you'll see which one you know which or which states like i do we do ours by states and just seeing which states are most active like we have you know, and you'll see which one, you know, which or which states like I do, we do ours by states and just seeing which states are most active. Like we have, you know, ones with six, 7,000, 5,000, you know, depending on, on the state or area. Do you have one in each state right now for years? Not every single state, but the major ones, you know, we have Florida,

Texas, California. We had, you have the small, I mean, we have so many of them. Did Idaho make it? Did we make the cut? No. You're a man. We got to make a man's version. But yeah, the, but that would be phenomenal for you though. Cause I could see that, you know, people would really love to join their local, you know, a group in say, Arizona, the ClickFunnels Arizona group, and then have knowing that you might show up would be like really cool. Oh yeah. They'd be so excited. Interesting. Um, man, there's some ideas that I'm like running my head right now as we're talking, it's like hard to ask questions. I'm thinking about how I can apply it. So, um, let me think some more. What are the things that I may be

forgetting or not thinking about? Like if I, if I was going to go deeper, someone who's listening to this, like, I want to go deep on this. I want to start creating my own group, group or groups. Like what are the other things that they're probably not thinking about? Well, the power of other people's groups, right? So going into other people's groups and getting, you know, building your own group with that. And there's some, you know, I won't mention names of anything, but there's some really cool software. And I'm actually going to be a white lady being one that actually does something really crazy. You can literally get like, go to a group and get all the members out like their ids and then run ads so like yeah that's super cool so you could let it you know go to a group i'll give you an example

my daughter has a product for golden retrievers it's called the healthy golden supplement so she needs health she needs golden retriever owners but that's a hard niche even with ads because it's like people like golden retrievers but it doesn't mean they have one in their house. But there are Facebook groups for golden retriever owners. So she can go in there, go to the members list, and then it will import into a pipeline all of the members. And then you can export that, run it to Facebook, you know, to the Facebook ads ads then use the promote group feature go in and invite all those people to your group oh that's cool so now you're getting in your group and they're exactly i was all geeked out i was like oh my god i can do this oh my god i'm like this

is like so awesome this should be illegal right like that is really cool um now do you go like you have these groups are you spending time and are you posting you do anything or is it just kind of all member run user generated content at this point you know it's very highly user generated the group um i do though i do you know i'll do webinars or i'll do lives you know and like a lot of times i'll restream them back you know use restream and stream to all the groups. Now, unfortunately, that's going away. And it's apps, Facebook's taking away all the apps for groups, all API, I don't know if you heard about that. So no more scheduling groups, no more Zoom, live streams, restreams, unless they figure something out. There'll probably be a lot of go arounds to that. But it's been a great feature to be able to do that. But you know, you could still use live producer. It's a little more

complicated. That's Facebook's. Yeah. Facebook has live producer, which actually has some cool benefits on that too. Like you can pin a post. So when you go live, like your first comment has the link to your product and you can promote your groups automatically while you're going live with live producer. They, they ask you, which group do you want to promote in your life so there's some cool features with that as well with live producer can you push the multiple groups at once or just one at each time you know i've i've been using it through i think well you could still use something like restream with because you put that key in that rtmp key so i think you could still use a software like you were talking about live pigeon or like or Restream. You probably can still use that. You just can't like go through an app like inside of

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And then is your goal with that, do you push people back into the group? Do you push them just the membership? Or what's the strategy with the list you're building on the backside? Well, you always want to push them, you know, always back to your group for engagement. Like even if you're doing a training or anything in the group, you want to, you know, get them back in, say it's inside the group. And one of the things I tell people to use like a deep link thing, like URL genie genius to like cloak it so that when so frustrating, you get that email, Oh, meet me in the group and you open it and now you're not logged in. You're like, Oh, forget it. I forgot my password. Right. So that like will get you right in. So

that's really great. But yeah, so like another thing we've been doing lately is, you know, with pipelines is taking people from the group when they're new members and then tagging them. You know, you can do your automatic tagging where Facebook gives you the tag. So we put that in admin assist now. So it does it automatically. So every 200 members, it just puts the post out. And we do mention like our membership, listen, this is the rules you can't promote, but if you want to promote here's, and here's our newsletter. And then the other thing we do is have the VA go in and go and tag them in the welcome to the group video as well. So they get new members are getting hit twice there. And then we can DM them as well and welcome them

and then give them a lead magnet. Oh, we got, you know, this automated webinar or something we give them to get them in and move them through the pipeline. So that's the way to get them on the backend is to use, you know, to use something like that. Yeah. That's awesome. Man, I like literally so excited right now to go like relook at our, again, we don't have a group strategy right now that, and we've got a big group and we're trying to moderate and like keep people stop spamming. yeah it's almost like it's been chaos like parts like we should shut this thing down because we don't know how to use it as an asset right correctly you know what i mean um and it's a huge asset yeah it could and it should maybe there's more members in our facebook group than we have members using the platform so it's like how do

we get these people to become users of the platform and how do we buy them give them buy-in more into our culture and all that kind of stuff um and right now it's just been more reactionary just like what did we create and we didn't we never promoted either like it was literally we first launched click funnels we never support people to handle support so we made it it was like click on support like give a question post in here we can all members help each other that's how it started now we're 350 000 members whatever like oh what do we do we don't know what to do at this point you know there's so many people coming in spamming and it's just been a oh the spam is going oh yeah hard yeah and that's been an issue with facebook groups in general like

you'll see those telegram spammers and stuff too and like you're like how did these people get in those like you wonder like i've heard they're using you know bots they're using ai to get in like there's still profiles so that's the thing we we deal with on a basis, too, is, you know, and we always ask the members report the spam because sometimes they'll block the admins and all the moderators. And then you won't know. And then the members have to tell us, we'll say, have you, you know, because we can't remove them until somebody reports them and then we can see it. So, yeah, it's a whole thing.

Yeah, that's a whole thing. But it's still such a great opportunity for the new members coming in, you know, to put them through a process where, you know, you have, you're moving them along and you're, you know, getting them from the get go and giving them new resources and exciting things so they can learn ClickFunnels. Yeah. So interesting. I was thinking about the people that are doing all the spamming and stuff. Like if you just took the same effort and ingenuity and just sold legitimate things, you'd be the best markers on the planet. Like all the loopholes they have to go through to like to spam people, which then it's like the success rate, contact him. It's like crazy stuff that they put there. Like, you know, it's like so spammy and like everybody knows that spam, but then there'll be people who comment on that. I'm like, no, oh my gosh, come on. How did you fall for that?

Yeah. How did you fall for it? Like, you know, it's what people do, unfortunately. Yeah. So cool. I think this is awesome. Cause I think again, we're in a world right now, at least for us, where it's like Zuckerberg's charging so much money for ads and we're trying to figure out other ways, other things to do. And so for us, we've been redoubling down all the organic things that we're trying to focus on and email lists and stuff like that. And so this is just such a unique, different thing. And again, I haven't met anyone in our community who's really crushing it with groups besides you. So it's been fun to see, to watch what you're doing and understanding it and um and so this has been super helpful for me to kind of figure out some ideas how we can we can you know take the asset we have and actually

monetize it correctly but then secondarily is like what's the future like how could we create you know like we talked about the groups or things like that or even just some of our other businesses that are coming in you know with with our personality profiling company or with dan kennedy's company like creating them i've always looked at groups as like such a powerful tool but also one that's like so scary that we just kind of like, ah, it's like a necessary evil that we're not, you know, Right, to have somebody dedicated to it. I mean, definitely even with Secret Success,

you've got all the mindset people, that's a whole niche in itself. And that should be a community, a Facebook group for that, because those are all people loving to talk about law of attraction and all. I even have a small little group for that just I'd made for fun just for talking about, you know, like your future self and law of attraction and manifesting. And those people are very active. And there's less, they're not spammers either. Those people just want to talk about.

And that's the whole thing. It's like we have to understand that people are in groups for community. So as marketers, we always want to be marketing. Or I see the mistake coaches will make when they start a group they'll make it all about them it's one-sided and then people lose interest in the group it's got to be user generated members have to be interacting and being allowed to you know speak and to be able to have the you know connect with other people because that's the reason that they're going to groups they don't't care so much about, you know, the group itself, but then they will see your stuff. And then if it's an enjoyable place, they'll buy.

So it's got to get a little bit of a different, you know, it's really creating a community. That's the main thing with it. Are there people, like you can hire someone to run Facebook ads, you can hire someone to, you know, to run social media. Are there people that, is that a thing where you can hire people to run Facebook groups for you to manage all the, you know, to run social media. Are there people that, is that a thing where you can hire people to run Facebook groups for you to manage and do all the, all the stuff you're talking about?

Or is it something it's different where most people are just doing it on their own? I mean, it depends on what level, like on your own, as far as strategy wise would be, you know, at a higher level. But like, as far as moderation, yeah, they have like, even you go on Fiverr. I mean, I had got two, two moderators from Fiverr who were, I've won, I took both of them off and they both worked for me. Yeah, they'll say I'm a Facebook group moderator and they've experienced doing that, like moderating, approving. Oh, yeah, there's people out there who definitely do that or Upwork that you could find that they've worked with other groups.

They know how to do it. And those are the ones, you know, you'd want to, you know, vet and make sure they have good ratings and stuff and bring in. So you don't have to worry about, like, I don't touch any of that anymore, thank gosh. You know, because when originally, but they didn't even have, now we have software that puts the group members right into, you know, uploads them, puts them to, you know, wherever you want to send them the emails. But when it started, I had my hand, I would sit there for hours taking each group member, putting their name, their email address in a spreadsheet. Really? Till my hand was ready. Oh yeah.

It was terrible. Yeah. Until then, like group funnels came out and this and that, where it just shoots everything up. And there's so many different softwares that do that now, which is, makes life a lot easier, especially when you're getting a lot of members. So a lot of it could be automated actually with the technology that we have now, thankfully. Man, that's so cool.

So the moderators you're paying from Fiverr and stuff, do you still pay them or do you just give them the affiliate commission when they're promoting stuff or both? Well, the two I have, they do, those two don't get the affiliate. They do more other things in the business too. So like we have, you know, we have two people just do approvals. The moderators who like moderate and approve or decline posts, those are the ones that do the, they get the affiliate commission because they're in there like having to review because every single post has to be reviewed. So when you're getting a massive amount, it's a lot of work. So, you know, their incentive, they don't get paid, they get, they make money, you know,

getting commission. Yeah. On the back end, are they able to see who's a paid member versus a free member when they're seeing the reviews? Like is there a way to see that or do they have to manually look at each person? Oh, yeah. So like all of our paid members get a pre-approval and we also make them group experts. So they've got the group expert badge. That's how they know. Yeah. And then they know too, like they're supposed to put for standout member, they put SOM in the post. So because other members will start reporting them for spam, but they're allowed to promote. So they put that, you know, at that little tag,

but they love and forget to do that. So yeah, but yeah, you want to identify to who's, you know, but the, the moderators, you know, will know that those people are on that list, you know, in the back end of Facebook, you can see who was, who has pre-approval and who doesn't. Is it possible, like if someone,, they cancel their $197 membership, that it automatically will downgrade or whatever? Or is it like a manual thing that someone's got to go? Oh, we got to manually go in. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, we got to, especially, you know, with memberships, you know, people take credit cards or they don't pay, and then you got to go in and, yeah. Constant thing. You got to go in, and what we'll do is, like, you know, say they haven't paid and they still post, so we'll take the post down. We'll put the note for them. You got to go in and, and what we'll do is like, you know, it's, say they haven't paid and they still post. So we'll take the post down. We'll put the note for them.

You got to update your billing, you know, so it's a whole, whole other, a beast. You have somebody doing that. Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, that's what continuity, you know, reoccurring membership. That's the part of the part of the business, right? Especially with mine, we have to manually go and take away the pre-approval when they cancel.

So yeah, it's not, that. So yeah, it's not fun. Oh, it's so cool. Well, thank you so much for sharing this stuff. I think hopefully for anyone who's like struggling on traffic, especially people who are just getting started, it's like I can't afford to pay $10 a lead to Facebook, right? It's like, hey, we'll make a group, start getting people in there, and all of a sudden leads are coming in for free or really inexpensive,

and then it gives people the ability to have an audience to actually sell to and to talk to you. Exactly. Yeah. You just go out, you know, get your group, start off small, get, bring the right people. Don't worry about making a giant target niche shit, create it for the group and then go into other groups where you can, you know, there's a lot of ones that do allow paid memberships. There's ones that don't, that you can ask the moderator, Hey, I'll pay you. You can even buy Facebook groups. I don't know if that's legal for Facebook, but people do it. They buy Instagram accounts and stuff too. You get access to it through a business or something.

I know people have done that and actually got built-in audiences that way. But going to other groups that you can with your target market and inviting them to your group is just a really powerful way to, um, to grow your group and through your personal profile as well. Yeah. Such a cool thing. Again, I think it's like one of the best, like let's get started strategies, relegate like everyone that should be like create a group, start getting people in there. Now you have an audience.

Cause that's the biggest problem people tell me is like, I bought, I created, I built a funnel, I created a product and like, I have no one to sell to. And to and like i can't buy ads can't afford them yet what should i do and i'm like ah so that's the hardest part right the hardest part right as you're creating your product create the group right now start start building it start nurturing it tell stories about what you're studying your you know whatever it is like get them excited about your content your concept and then at that point by the time your stuff's done there'll be there'll be people who can actually who will care, right? Exactly.

And that's the thing, you know, like you just said, telling the stories, getting to know people in your group and not worrying that, you know, like people have, we have this thing, oh my gosh, only a hundred people, so am I real? Or, well, if a hundred people were in your living room right now, would you think that's a little bit amount, even 50 people, you'd be like, wow, if you were in person, but everybody has these hangups and they don't pay attention, they don't need to rock back. And I think that's, you know, if you have a very tiny group, you can still do very well with that and grow it. You just have to nurture and spend your time and give tons of value to the people that are there

who are showing up and, you know, and make it about them more than you in the beginning so that it like, you know, they become interested and want to come back and give them tons of value yeah that's really cool oh you got me excited okay every business we're going back re-engineering our group strategy is going to become big oh i can see especially the local groups that once you run the promote to group ad like getting people in there locally i mean it's so easy to do to people who like the certain interests that you know already and you just run those ads right to the group because it's it's like it just says join group on the ad they're not going to a funnel they don't have to give their email address all they do is press the button and they're in the group so i think it's it's an easy lower you run the group like that because our big question too

is like do we find someone in arizona and in florida to to do it but it's almost like you create the group and then i'm assuming those people rise to the top right they're the ones who are commenting who are moderating who are always there it's like right they you find out who the leaders are by them being a leader versus you know i have a friend who does something similar but he he sold access people were buying their cities but then the person who bought the city wasn't actually a person who was good at running it or anything they sought the opportunity and so like the whole thing crumbled because you had the wrong people whereas this way around i feel like you could do that and also you start seeing who the rock stars are and oh yeah you can approach them like hey do

you want to run a local meetup style you know whatever that that version is yeah you'll see who the people rise yeah you always see that in groups who's commenting all the time who's posting who's you know the natural leaders will and then you could approach them and say listen would you you know like to be the leader and they probably thrilled and then you know and then if or you it necessarily yeah you could find that locally which is great because then they live there and then they can do the meetups and find the locations and be the ambassador for that city and town and it's great benefit for them because it puts them in a position of authority give them a badge to put you know that they're the official ambassador or leader you get each of those ambassadors the right to like use their affiliate links

for ClickFunnels or whatever to all the members. Like you sign up everybody now in your queue. Yeah. Oh, yeah. All those. That could be cool. Right. At their events, that could be the goal.

See, that would be the key. Like literally the event they're having, they sign everybody up that night and now they're getting all the affiliate commission on it. So that's more and more motivating. So cool. All right. I got to go home now and just work on this. Like this is number one thing. So, uh, well thank you so much for sharing all this stuff. So those, if anyone wants to see your group in action, where can they, how can they go find it? What's the best?

Sure. So the group, you just go to women helping women dot group, and that's where you'll find women helping women entrepreneurs. That's another tip. Get a URL for your group. I know there's a doc group extension. Now that's a doc group find women helping women entrepreneurs that's another tip get a url for your group i know there's a doc group extension now that's a doc group extension so everyone should have one for your group um because this way you can shout it out without the you know facebook slash nobody remembers so oh it's awesome and if you're a man you can't get in the group i'm assuming use buddhist out no men yeah we are all that my wife's coming in there yes you could but you could have any woman come in to represent you. Yes.

That's allowed. That's awesome. Man, thank you so much for coming and sharing this stuff. And yeah, I'm excited for you. I'm proud of you. It's the coolest thing in the world to see. And yeah, hopefully if anyone wants to learn how to do this, follow her, watch what she's doing. Do you teach this to other entrepreneurs as well?

Do you have programs teaching this stuff? Oh, yeah, definitely. I have different courses and programs that I teach of how to grow, you know, um, seven figure communities and Facebook groups. So yeah, I definitely teach this all in, in detail. I geek out on all this stuff. This is like, Oh my gosh, you can do this. You can do that. All the tools are coming out and how to use them and all that kind of stuff. Oh yeah. That's the fun part, trying to hunt them down and think of what you can do because, you know, Facebook's always changing social media, so you got to keep

on top of it. Yeah. It's awesome. Thanks so much for being here. Appreciate you. And thanks for sharing this and everyone looking for a way to get traffic to your funnels, building an audience ahead of time for free groups, the way to go. Christina is one who I know who's doing the best. So thanks so much for being here. Thank you, Russell. This is wonderful. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks.