Finding Your Message, Building a Tribe, Changing the World

Russell Brunson, Expert Secrets, Bootstrapping, Customer Acquisition, Failure

When I first planned to do this interview, it was about today’s guest’s book and I said, “Great, another bullshit book by a software entrepreneur.”

So I read this book within five minutes to prepare and I said, “Andrew, you made a big mistake. This is maybe the greatest, most powerful nonfiction book I read since Robert Cialdini’s book.”

Here’s the title of the book, “Expert Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Finding Your Message, Building a Tribe, and Changing the World.”

The guest is Russell Brunson, the founder of ClickFunnels. ClickFunnels helps you create pages that take someone who’s never heard of your business, get their e-mail address and convert them into a sale. And it’s all done without any coding.

Russell Brunson

Expert Secrets

Russell Brunson is the founder of ClickFunnels, which provides an easy way to market, sell or deliver products online.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner, I’m the Founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs for an audience of real entrepreneurs, people who are actually building their businesses. And I’ve got to be honest with you that when I first planned to do this interview, it was about today’s guest’s book and I said, “Great, another bullshit book by a software entrepreneur. I’m going to humor him by telling him that we’re going to have him on here for his book, I’ll talk to him about the book for a couple of minutes, but in reality all I care about is his massively successful software company.”

And my plan was to do what I always do, spend like 10 minutes before the interview, actually it takes me like 20 minutes to half an hour to read a book solidly cover to cover and be prepared. So I sat out there and I read this fucking book and within five minutes I said, “Andrew, you made a big mistake. This is...

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