During these events, we spend a few days in a small group working together to build your mass movement, create your stories, build your presentation, and launch your funnels. If you’d be interested in coming to our next Funnel Hack-a-Thon, you can get more information at www.FunnelHackAThon.com.
After you apply there, someone on my team will contact you. If you’re a good fit, we could be meeting at my office later this month. I’m a big believer that money follows speed. Don’t let this opportunity pass you by—let’s get your message out to the world.
I also invite you to join our private Facebook group of fellow Funnel Hackers like yourself. You can meet others who are using this process and can share their stories with you. Join us at www.ProjectClickFunnels.com.
Now that we’re wrapping up Expert Secrets, I want to end where we started. Throughout our lives, we go through different stages. For most of us in this expert space, there was a time when we focused on growth. We studied books, learned and tested things, and became the people we felt we needed to become. We each followed our own path.
And no matter how much time we focused on growth, after a while it got old. We started to wonder, Is there anything else? There’s got to be more. We get to that stagnation point, because growth is just half of what we need to have true fulfillment in life.
The second half of fulfillment comes from contribution.
I want to congratulate you for taking that next step—moving beyond mere personal growth and deciding to use your life lessons to contribute and help others. I know that as you do that, you’ll become more and more fulfilled. This is one of the wonderful benefits of launching an expert-based business and selling products and programs.
Throughout this book, I’ve talked a lot about conversion rates and how to make the most money from the least amount of ad spend. And that’s great. It’s important. But what it all comes down to—what matters the most—is not how much money you make. It’s how many lives you impact. The money is just a cool way to keep track of what’s happening.
Getting people to give you money is also one of the best ways you can hold them accountable to their goals. I struggled with my business for almost two years because I was so scared of investing in myself. I was never able to ask other people to invest in the products and services I created either. It wasn’t until I started making financial commitments with different coaches and mentors that I was finally able to become congruent. Because I was investing in myself, I was able to go out and ask others to invest in themselves with my products and services.
I know selling may not be your favorite activity. But when people pay you, it gives them the transformation they need to change their lives. It’s a cool cycle that we have a chance to go through—you get to create something, test it out and, if it works, you get paid. The more you focus on that cycle, the more lives you will be able to change.
The Expert Secrets process focuses on one core funnel, the Perfect Webinar—getting you into the habit of producing a live event every single week. Consistency pays! And if you spend any time inside my ClickFunnels or Funnel Hacker communities, you know there are lots of other ways to monetize your knowledge, provide value to your customers, and make money. You can just keep stacking funnel upon funnel based on what your audience needs and wants.
I want to invite you to hang out with me and the other amazing people in my world. Spend time in our Facebook groups, watch our videos, come to our events, and make friends with other people like you. They may be in a different market and have a different message, but they have the same mission. They’re trying to change the world in their own little way. That’s been my driving force for the last decade, and I just feel so blessed to have a chance to work with entrepreneurs like you who are doing the exact same thing.
With that said, I encourage you to master the skills in this book. Become a master storyteller. Really become the vehicle for change that I know you can be. After you’ve done that, I encourage you to go deeper. Spend more time with us and figure out how to take your company, your business, and your customers’ lives to the next level.
Thanks for spending this time with me. I’ll talk to you soon.
Russell Brunson
PS: Remember, you’re just one funnel away…
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Table of Contents
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
What Is Expert Secrets?
Introduction
The Two Types of Expert Businesses
SECTION ONE: CREATING YOUR MASS MOVEMENT
Secret #1 The Charismatic Leader / Attractive Character
Secret #2 The Cause
Secret #3 The New Opportunity
Secret #4 The Opportunity Switch
SECTION TWO: CREATING BELIEF
Secret #5 The Big Domino
Secret #6 The Epiphany Bridge
Secret #7 The Hero’s Two Journeys
Secret #8 The Epiphany Bridge Script
Secret #9 False Belief Patterns
Secret #10 The 3 Secrets
SECTIO
N THREE: YOUR MORAL OBLIGATION
Secret #11 The Stack Slide
Secret #12 The Perfect Webinar
Secret #13 The One Thing
Secret #14 Breaking and Rebuilding Belief Patterns
Secret #15 The Stack
Secret #16 Trial Closes
SECTION FOUR: THE FUNNELS
Secret #17 The Perfect Webinar Model
Secret #18 The 4-Question Close (For High-Ticket Offers)
Secret #19 The Perfect Webinar Hack
Secret #20 Email Epiphany Funnels
Secret #21 Epiphany Product Launch Funnels
SECTION FIVE: WHAT’S NEXT?
Secret #22 Fill Your Funnel
Conclusion:Your Invitation
References
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