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The seven years since we launched ClickFunnels has been a crazy ride. We went
MAGNETIC MARKETING from serving a few thousand entrepreneurs to now having over 100,000 people
WITH DAN KENNEDY
"E-X-P-A-N-S-I-O-N" using ClickFunnels, with thousands more joining every day.
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But in the last 12 months, everything has changed. If you were at Funnel Hacking
LIVE, you heard part of the story. We had thought about selling ClickFunnels, but
eventually turned down an offer that would have been my retirement. Instead, we
SECRETS OF SUCCESS decided to start building ClickFunnels 2.0!
"RADICAL IMBALANCE"
by Russell Brunson | Pg. 25 This meant that things had to slow down…at least for me.
Todd was busy building the team and casting the vision for 2.0. And honestly, I
hadn’t seen him that happy and motivated since the days that we were building
the original ClickFunnels.
But for me…I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do note, many of the features and principles we built into
right then. the ClickFunnels platform came DIRECTLY from things
we learned from Dan.
I knew the plan for AFTER 2.0 was done. We’ll have a
launch, we’ll drive traffic, it will be like it was during the For me, having the chance to buy Dan’s company was
early days again for me. the equivalent of someone being a Michael Jordan fan
and having a chance to buy the Bulls!
But during this lull…I kind of lost myself.
Obviously my answer was a very fast YES, and within
Alex Charfen once said that entrepreneurs don’t get about a month, we had acquired Magnetic Marketing, as
happy or sad. Those words don’t make sense to us. well as about 40 years’ worth of Dan’s intellectual proper-
Instead we only feel either in momentum or out of ty (IP). As I started to dig through the literal treasure trove
momentum. And during this season of my life, I felt of content that I now owned, I decided to start re-binge
out of momentum. And if I’m honest, I didn’t really listening to everything that Dan had ever published. (As
know what to do. of today, I’m probably about 30+ years into the archives,
with only another decade left until I’m done…ha ha.)
So I think I panicked. I started to write a new book.
I started launching some side companies (many of As I’ve been relistening, I’ve been reminded of many
which you’ll have a chance to read about in this and things that I learned almost two decades ago when I
future issues of the newsletter). I started collecting was first starting out. I also heard so many things that
old books (LOTS of them)—so many that I’m actually I hadn’t really understood at the time or wasn’t ready
building a 20,000-square-foot library next to ClickFun- for until I heard them again.
nels HQ to store them all! (I’ll talk more about this
crazy idea in future issues.) I also decided to reopen And the results of all this binge-listening and reading is
my Inner Circle mastermind group, so I could start that I haven’t been able to sleep.
working more closely with entrepreneurs again.
It’s literally 2:00 AM right now as I’m writing this. Most
Anyway…each of those projects would give me a tem- mornings, I’m up at 5:00 AM, working on ideas that
porary sense of momentum while I was awaiting the have been reignited, as well as creating the new offers
launch of 2.0. to relaunch Magnetic Marketing and curating the best
content from 40 years of Dan into a new podcast,
But then I got the shot in the arm. updated courses, and more.
I wasn’t expecting it, but one day I got an email from a I feel like I’m back in momentum. And an entrepre-
friend, asking if I’d be interested in buying Dan Kennedy’s neur in motion is a very powerful thing.
company!!
As we are starting this new year, the word that I’m as-
I started learning from Dan almost 18 years ago, when signing to it is MOMENTUM.
my business had just barely broken the six-figure mark,
and I decided to write him a check for $18K (which It’s starting with our relaunch of Magnetic Marketing.
I didn’t have) to join his mastermind. What I learned Shortly behind that will be the launch of ClickFunnels 2.0.
from Dan helped me go from start-up entrepreneur to And after that… Well, I don’t want to ruin the surprise, but
building the company that I own today. And as a side I’ve been sitting in silence working on a plan that we’ll
“WHOEVER CAN I thought about this long and hard, and then shortly
SPEND THE MOST after Funnel Hacking LIVE, I realized that I had shared
MONEY TO ACQUIRE event.
one quote from Dan about a dozen times during the
And what’s crazy is that I’ve done such a good
A CUSTOMER WINS!” job indoctrinating that concept into the minds of my
Funnel Hackers, six of the other speakers also quoted it!
I want to share with you a secret that will serve you for
the rest of your life. When you’re negotiating a contract As I thought more about this quote, I realized that it’s
with anyone, always throw in one crazy thing that you the foundation of ALL funnel marketing! It was the
REALLY want but assume that they won’t do, and just see reason funnels were developed and why they are so
what they say. essential to master.
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Whoever can spend the most money
to acquire a customer wins.
When you start looking at any good company, you’ll notice there is an evolution over time that allows them to start
spending more money to acquire a customer. The phases look like this.
Most companies start with a product, and if it’s something that the market wants, then they will get some initial
traction and start making money. Over time, most products become commodities. If you’re the only chiropractor in
your town and your product is an adjustment, it’s likely that over time other chiropractors will move into town and
offer the same product. And then you are selling a commodity. Or if you’re selling supplements, or physical or informa-
tion products, as other people start selling similar products to yours, you start to become a commodity, meaning you’re
selling essentially the same thing as everyone else around you.
The biggest problem with commodities is that when an end consumer is looking for something to purchase, and all
of the products or services are the same, they will default to whoever has the cheapest one. Yes, that means the
way you win when you’re selling a commodity is to lower your prices and cut into your margins, giving you LESS
money to spend on acquiring a customer.
I once heard Dan Kennedy say, “There is no strategic advantage to being the second-lowest price leader in
town, but there is a huge strategic advantage to being the most expensive.” So if you can’t be Walmart, then
you want to increase your perceived value to become the most expensive.
How do you increase the perceived value so you can become the most expensive? You switch from just offering
a product or a commodity, which anyone can copy, to creating an actual offer that is unique to you. This will give
you the ability to charge more money for anything that you are selling.
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STEP #1: money-making information.” This irresistible offer is
converting at 5.7% (at the time of this writing), which
Create An Irresistible Offer isn’t too bad considering they are signing up for a $97
(Goal: To Get A High Conversion per month continuity program.
Rate On The Front End) While this is great, I don’t get that first $97 monthly
The first step was to create a NEW even MORE irresistible payment for 30 days. Plus, I’ve got to pay to ship out
offer to cut through the noise of the marketplace. a big kit in the mail and to print the books they get.
We created our new version of the MIFGE that you So right now, even though the offer is converting, I’m
probably saw at NoBSLetter.com. not able to actually spend a lot of money to acquire a
customer yet.
I always think of the order form bump like the gum, Tic Tacs, and National Enquirer you see at the grocery store as
you are checking out. They are quick impulse purchases that dramatically increase the revenue per customer. Here is an
example of an order form bump, and the feedback from one Funnel Hacker (Dean Holland) after he implemented it.
For the new MIFGE offer, we decided to make Dan’s original Magnetic Marketing System the order form bump
at a HUGE discount of just $47.
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STEP #3:
One-Time Offer #1
For this first upsell, we decided to offer both a digital and physical version of Dan Kennedy’s Lifetime Of Work swipe
files. We priced the digital at $297 and the physical at $2,497. Notice how we structured the offer: the digital
version comes with five volumes, but the physical one comes with all seven! We structured it this way to try to push
people toward the more expensive offer.
If someone clicked on the “No Thanks” button for this, we had a pop-up that would offer them a downsell version
(without the bonuses) at $197.
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Are you starting to see how this game is played
when you have a funnel that is converting? At this
point, after OTO #1, we have the ability to pay
$252.73 to acquire a customer!
STEP #4:
ONE-TIME OFFER #2
In this step, we created another irresistible offer,
giving people access to three of Dan’s Renegade
Millionaire courses for the price of one!
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Now I want to emphasize a few things. Now there is one more phase to this customer jour-
ney that I wanted to touch upon, but I don’t have the
First, this behind-the-scenes glimpse of these space to go deep into it here. It’s the step after the
numbers is within the first few days after launch. The initial point-of-sale funnel. It’s all of the other things
numbers will go down over time as we move more that your customers will buy over time to increase
of our traffic to paid ads. But as of today, we are able their lifetime value (LTV).
to spend OVER $300 to acquire a free newsletter sub-
scriber! Do you know any other newsletter company Bill Glazer taught me the power and importance of
that can do that? ascension inside of a business. Inside the DotCom
Secrets book is where I first shared a graphic of what
“Whoever can spend the most money to acquire a I call the “value ladder.”
customer wins.” Building a funnel like this is how you
can outspend all of your customers! It is the secret of Each tier of the value ladder requires one funnel. Now
how you actually implement what Dan has been that people have joined the newsletter membership
telling us for so many years! at the Gold level, my next goal over time is to pro-
vide enough value that people will want to ascend
Over the next 12 months, we will use this funnel to higher levels. You will see other funnels and
to scale the newsletter to the point where it has campaigns designed to move people from Gold to
10,000+ members again! Diamond to Insiders’ Circle.
MAKE YOUR That way you can learn from our mistakes, apply
what’s working in our funnels to your own, and
by HEATH WILCOCK The first two ecomm projects Russell and I worked on
together were for Zuma Juice and Au Bon bone broth.
As I sit duct-taped to an office chair being whipped STEP 1: We established our “big idea” above
by Mr. Brunson to finish this entry for you (he’s not the fold to grab our customers’ attention and to
always smiling), I can’t help but recall what Dan help us stand out and cut through the noise of
Kennedy said about opportunities in his 2003 a saturated market.
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Whoever can spend the most money
to acquire a customer wins
When you start looking at any good company, you’ll
notice there is an evolution over time that allows them
to start spending more money to acquire a customer. The
phases look like this.
Most companies start with a product, and if it’s some-
thing that the market wants, then they will get some
initial traction and start making money. Over time, most
products become commodities. If you’re the only chiro-
practor in your town and your product is an adjustment,
it’s likely that over time other chiropractors will move
into town and offer the same product. And then you
are selling a commodity. Or if you’re selling supplements,
or physical or information products, as other people start
selling similar products to yours, you start to become a
commodity, meaning you’re selling essentially the same
thing as everyone else around you.
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STEP 3: Order Bump STEP 4: One-Time Offer #1
Now comes the backend... The most successful one-time offer for ecomm
products—specifically for upsell #1— is “more of the
same.”
Or…
Or…
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STEP 5: Downsell #1
So you logically work your way out of buying an
entire shelf of cookies, and you start putting them
back...but you keep one box.
But then...you realize your'e simply hungry and that For your second upsell, you want to offer some-
you probably should have eaten before you went thing that helps strengthen the customer's initial
grocery shopping... purchase.
Again, back to the grocery store analogy. When you pick up eggs, oftentimes you’ll also pick up butter,
cheese, or milk too, right?
So for our Zuma Greens Juice funnel, we are offering Zuma Red Juice, which is a very logical step for the customer.
But keep in mind, because we're introducing an entirely new product that isn't shown on the front end,
we need to spend some time introducing a new problem and offer the new solution.
For the Zuma upsell #2, our new problem is "slow metabolism" and our new solution is Zuma Reds.
Same goes for Au Bon Bone Broth. We're introducing a new problem ("late-night food cravings") and we're
offering them a new solution we know they will love, which is chocolate or vanilla bone broth powder that
tastes amazing and works great to curb food cravings at night.
Take a look...
As you can see, we don't give them just one- or three-box options like we did with OTO #1.
Since we are introducing a new product to the customer—almost as if they are seeing a brand-new sales
page for the very first time—we wanted to have the same package deal layout as we did on the front end
(one, three, and six boxes).
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STEP 7: Downsell #2
For our downsell #2, we simply did a rinse and repeat of downsell #1, where we offer “add one more to
your order” with a one-time 50% discount.
I just took you on a journey through two of our funnels to show you how we’re stacking our offers to make
them “new” and increase our AOV.
Now it’s your turn. Take a look at your ecomm funnel(s) and see how you’re stacking your offers.
Are you offering free e-guides as “companion pieces” to your product? (It can be as simple as a “5-Day
Challenge Checklist” to get people to USE your offer.)
Are your upsells congruent and in-line with your initial front-end offer?
As long as you slap something together that follow our stack and upsell/downsell flow, you'll be making
more dough while at the same time increasing your customers' lifetime value.
Okay, this is getting too long and Russell is now pacing the office, shirtless and holding a potato gun,
asking for me to “come out and play...”
Heath Wilcock
SPOTLIGHT:
Away Challenge. That led us to our first Funnel Hacking
LIVE event in early 2019.
DREW AND I attended solo because Recia was at home about to de-
liver baby #3 in a matter of days from my scheduled return
RECIA DAVIS home! Talk about an emotional time... And while it wasn’t
planned going into the event, the event was so power-
ful that we solidified our decision to shift and lean in to
Hi! My name is Drew Davis. My wife Recia and I have becoming experts with valuable information to serve the
been a part of the Two Comma Club X (2CCX) coaching world. So in 2019, we enrolled in the 2CCX coaching pro-
program for about three years now, and what a ride it has gram. We knew that it had the leadership and educational
been! But first, let me give you a little bit of backstory on training we needed to help us grow our business quickly.
who we are and how we found ourselves in this amazing
program. In the next two years, we were able to scale our software
services business significantly, find our voice, and replace
Recia and I are full-time real estate entrepreneurs today, our active real estate income. During this time, we grew
but it didn’t always look like this. You see, our entire ca- tremendously in terms of our knowledge of business and
reer has not been associated with real estate. Once upon our knowledge of ourselves, and we continue to grow as a
a time, both of us had “respectable, good-paying W-2 part of this tribe.
jobs,” and everything was going fine from the standpoint
of “working on a career.” Earlier this year, we had our fourth child. And through the
growth process, we decided to shift our business once again
However, in 2009, we were first introduced to the world to achieve greater impact and fulfillment. As a result,
of real estate investing, and we took a sip of the proverbial we’ve relaunched new offers in 2021 and recommit-
purple Kool-Aid that really began our educational ted to accessing the full breadth of value available in
process. While at first, it seemed slow, Recia left her first the 2CCX coaching program. We’ve also made good
job after our first child was born, which brought some big on a promise to align for better traction, momentum,
ahas into our world at that time. Once this leap of faith growth, joy, and fulfillment. We’ve had incredible sup-
led to additional successes, I was able to leave my job two port and developed great relationships while in this
short years later, after we had another child. program, and are super excited about the upcoming
year because we believe that the sky’s truly the limit.
Shortly after, we were both all-in, to the land of the
business. We realized that we were real estate investors We also hope that for anyone reading about this
and really needed to expand our business education to sample from our personal experience, you also
evolve into true entrepreneurs. realize what is possible for you when you lean in and
go to work and put yourself on the right track to run on.
We were introduced to this person named Russell That track is well laid out for us in this coaching program.
Brunson in 2016, through a real estate webinar (of all We wish you the best of success in tapping into your true
things!) with the one and only “Rich Dad.” This was potential and pursuing your dreams. Thanks!
one of our key introductions to internet marketing and
funnelology. After a short period of time, we developed a – DREW AND RECIA DAVIS
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MAGNETIC
These people often never expand their busi-
nesses, continuing to do the same job they were
MARKETING
doing, behaving as workers—certainly not as
entrepreneurs. In short, self-employment is not
necessarily entrepreneurship.
DAN KENNEDY may enter business with bigger goals and are typi-
cally quicker and more eager to have employees
doing the ground-level work while they focus on
Republished from his “Renegade Millionaire Idea Of the marketing and management of the business.
The Month.” However, imagine you meet this person and ask
them what they do, and they say, “I own a jewelry
Actually, the hierarchy of business ownership has three A high-end custom jewelry business
main tiers. A diamond brokerage
At the bottom—in terms of size, income, wealth, and They might even be selling a week-long trip to South
opportunity—are the be-your-own-boss business Africa for $25,000 per person, where they pick out
owners. These are people who start or buy businesses their own diamonds at the mines. Unlike the business
in order to give themselves a good job without an owner, this entrepreneur has a broad, wide-open
annoying boss. Often this is someone who has been vision, thinks bigger, and avoids defining themselves
working in an identical or similar business. too narrowly.
SECRETS OF
higher-priced products. Price and margin restrictions
lifted.
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relationships struggled—everything was put on the to continue to do the routines I had set up in the past,
back burner so I could achieve success with my #1 so those things that mattered to me wouldn’t be lost
priority at that time. during this season. I was still able to work out, I still had
time blocked in my calendar for my wife and kids, but
The same was true with my wife. When I met Collette, I all excess time, every other waking moment, went into
didn’t just spend a few hours a week with her. To create radical focus on this goal. When the goal was accom-
something lasting and great, I radically shifted what I plished, I could then leave behind the routines I needed
was doing to spend the majority of my time with her. to continue to grow ClickFunnels, but I was able to snap
We needed that focus to be able to build the founda- back and give time back to the other areas of my life so
tion for the relationship that we have today. When our that it felt more balanced.
kids came, we had to radically shift our focus from each
other, to our kids. Each season of our lives has caused One of my mentors, Keith Giddens, once told me that
us to radically shift where our focus goes. each of us is similar to a rubber band. I remember see-
ing him hold one up and then tell us, “By itself, this rub-
The same was true inside of my business. When ber band is useless, but if we stretch it to its capacity, it
we were launching ClickFunnels, my cofounder and can do amazing things. Stretched, it can bind things to-
partner Todd Dickerson and I were spending 18+ hours gether and help organize things. But, if you stretch it too
a day to get our vision off the ground and make it a far, it will snap and break. We need to make sure that
reality. I remember starting working each day around we’re stretching ourselves, but not to the point where
9:00 AM Mountain Time and going to bed at 3:00 AM. we break.” One of my favorite songs, "Turn! Turn! Turn!"
Todd, living on the East Coast, would be waking up at by The Byrds, was written from the scripture found in
5:00 AM, about the same time I was going to bed. We’d Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. It says:
talk for a few minutes, I’d pass the torch on to him, and
he’d start running while I passed out for a few hours. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every
Everything else in my life had to take a back seat for a purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time
season, so that we could create something great. to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is
planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break
After ClickFunnels was live, I was able to shift back to down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time
a more balanced state because it didn’t require 18+ to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to
hours a day from me anymore. cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a
time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A
The goal initially is not to find balance. Everything time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time
great in my life came from times of radical imbal- to cast away; A time to mend, and a time to sew; a time
ance. I want you to realize that you can’t actively to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a
pursue all of your goals at once. You need to pick time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
one, and focus all of your efforts on it, until you have
gained a certain level of mastery with it. Then it will What season of your life are you in right now? Many people
run on autopilot in the background as you shift to think they want to focus on their mission, and so they radi-
the next goal that you want to conquer. cally shift their focus to that. But they haven’t developed
When I was building ClickFunnels, although the major- any level of self-mastery, or relationship mastery needed
ity of my time was focused there, the habits and rou- to actually create a company, and so they fail. Not because
tines I had built in the past for myself, and my relation- they don’t have a good goal and and guide to get them
ships (my wife and kids) were still in place. I was able there, but because they aren’t worthy of it yet.
So, what season of life are you in right now? I want you
to highlight that goal as the #1 focus of your life. It
won’t be forever, but it will be for a season. This
season may be a few weeks, it could be a few months,
or it could be a few years, depending on how hard you
work at it. Now attack that goal with radical imbalance
and achieve something great!
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