Podcast appearances and mentions of Nick Fitzgerald

Nick Fitzgerald put together two of the most dominating wins for Mississippi State in Egg Bowl history. Brian Hadad welcomes the SEC's all time leading rusher at quarterback to the podcast for a trip down memory lane that included two victorious stops at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Brian Hadad of SportsTalk Mississippi and Robbie Faulk of On3 give you the best insight into Mississippi State athletics. We cover the Bulldogs like no one else. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM

In this episode, Dr. Spencer Wayne sits down with Nick Fitzgerald, Director of Business Development for PIPESTONE for a great discussion on facilities. The pair delve into essential considerations for optimizing swine farming operations. From wean-to-finish construction to barn remodeling and the repurposing of sow units, explore strategies and innovative solutions to enhance productivity and efficiency on your farm. Gain valuable insights into ventilation systems, flooring types, and the importance of expert consultation for successful project execution. If you are considering retrofitting your facilities, don't miss out on this expert advice.

Bo and the crew talk about underrated former MSU and Ole Miss QB's, remaining games for teams in the state and the lines for games this weekend in the first hour of the show live in the BankPlus Studio. The guys look at how former MSU quarterback Nick Fitzgerald and former Ole Miss quarterback Bo Wallace were underappreciated during their college careers. Bo breaks down who Ole Miss can beat in the rest of the season and how important beating Auburn is for Zach Arnett and Mississippi State. In the SEC Insider Hit Bo and the crew talk about the physical freaks in the NFL, the biggest lines for SEC games this weekend and the big Mississippi games live in the BankPlus Studio. The guys look at Cleveland Browns edge rusher Myles Garret and other physical freaks that have changed what an athlete is in the NFL. The guys talk about how Mississippi Native and Colts QB Gardner Minshew played over the weekend and the type of energy he brings to the team. Bo breaks down what needs to happen for Mississippi State to beat Auburn and if Vanderbilt can score against Ole Miss. The guys talk about the biggest lines in the SEC for the weekend and how could possibly pull an upset. Out of Bounds is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/BOUNDS today to get 10% off your first month Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mississippi State insider Steve Robertson joins the show on the Farm Bureau guest line talking about what the Bulldogs need to fix heading into the weekend live in the BankPlus Studio. Steve talks about how bad the defense has been so far and how he expected more consistency under a Zach Arnett led team. Steve talks about at this point people would be happy if the defense was average and says that there has to be pass rushers that can get to the QB. Bo asks Steve about the lack of production from Jaden Crumedy and he says that Nathan Pickering might be the better defensive player so far this year. Steve talks about how safety Shawn Preston is better in the run game and his absence in the first half vs South Carolina was obvious with the weakness in the defense. Bo and Steve talk about how Will Rogers and Kevin Barbay showed off the deep ball against South Carolina and Steve thinks that seeing that style again will depend on the matchups each week. Steve says that Will Rogers is the most criticized MSU QB in recent years and Bo offers Nick Fitzgerald as a rebuttal. Steve talks about the struggles of the run game for the Bulldogs and how it probably won't get solved against Alabama's defense. Bo asks Steve about defensive lineman Trevion Williams still recovering from injury and Zavion Thomas still isn't at 100%. Steve gives a name that has probably been the biggest effect on defense and talks about how eh needs to show more than flashes to help the unit. Bo asks Steve what he thinks about people calling for Zach Arnett to be fired and Steve believes that the head coach will turn things around in the next one or two years. Out of Bounds is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/BOUNDS today to get 10% off your first month Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bo and the crew talk about who the difference makers are for Ole Miss and Mississippi State, Travis Kelce dating Taylor Swift and MSU football news in the third hour of the show live in the BankPlus Studio. The guys talk about if Ole Miss or MSU have any "dudes" that demand respect on either side of the ball and who you would give that title this far into the season. Bo and the crew break down the love affair between Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift and Jason talks about how if they break up there will be a brutal album released. Mississippi State insider Steve Robertson joins the show on the Farm Bureau guest line talking about what the Bulldogs need to fix heading into the weekend live in the BankPlus Studio. Steve talks about how bad the defense has been so far and how he expected more consistency under a Zach Arnett led team. Steve talks about at this point people would be happy if the defense was average and says that there has to be pass rushers that can get to the QB. Bo asks Steve about the lack of production from Jaden Crumedy and he says that Nathan Pickering might be the better defensive player so far this year. Steve talks about how safety Shawn Preston is better in the run game and his absence in the first half vs South Carolina was obvious with the weakness in the defense. Bo and Steve talk about how Will Rogers and Kevin Barbay showed off the deep ball against South Carolina and Steve thinks that seeing that style again will depend on the matchups each week. Steve says that Will Rogers is the most criticized MSU QB in recent years and Bo offers Nick Fitzgerald as a rebuttal. Steve talks about the struggles of the run game for the Bulldogs and how it probably won't get solved against Alabama's defense. Bo asks Steve about defensive lineman Trevion Williams still recovering from injury and Zavion Thomas still isn't at 100%. Steve gives a name that has probably been the biggest effect on defense and talks about how eh needs to show more than flashes to help the unit. Bo asks Steve what he thinks about people calling for Zach Arnett to be fired and Steve believes that the head coach will turn things around in the next one or two years. Out of Bounds is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/BOUNDS today to get 10% off your first month Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mississippi State insider Steve Robertson joins the show on the Farm Bureau guest line talking about what the Bulldogs need to fix heading into the weekend live in the BankPlus Studio. Bo and Steve talk about how Will Rogers and Kevin Barbay showed off the deep ball against South Carolina and Steve thinks that seeing that style again will depend on the matchups each week. Steve says that Will Rogers is the most criticized MSU QB in recent years and Bo offers Nick Fitzgerald as a rebuttal. Steve talks about the struggles of the run game for the Bulldogs and how it probably won't get solved against Alabama's defense. Out of Bounds is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/BOUNDS today to get 10% off your first month Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been six years since Mississippi State has been able to defend its home turf against the LSU Tigers, but that night in 2017 was one of the most dominating wins for the Bulldogs in the history of this series. Brian Hadad catches up with former Bulldog Nick Fitzgerald to remember a night at Davis Wade Stadium the Tigers would love to forget. Brian Hadad of SportsTalk Mississippi and Robbie Faulk of 24/7 give you the best insight into Mississippi State athletics. We cover the Bulldogs like no one else. This show is a production of SuperTalk Mississippi Media. Learn more at SuperTalk.FM Brought to you by... Strange Brew Coffeehouse - https://strangebrewcoffeehouse.myshopify.com/ College Corner - https://collegecornerstore.com/ Restaurant Tyler - https://www.eatlocalstarkville.com/restaurant-tyler Mississippi Beef Council - https://www.msbeef.org/ Two Brothers - https://www.twobrotherssmokedmeats.com/ Advantage Business Systems - https://www.absms.com/ PriorityOne Bank - https://priorityonebank.com/ Dolce Gelato Treats - https://www.facebook.com/dolcestarkville/

Bo and the crew talk about how Zach Arnett needs to beat Arizona, the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party and the teams to pick this weekend in the third hour of the show live in the BankPlus Studio. The guys talk about how Zach Arnett is coming in to coach behind a Hall of Fame coach in Mike Leach and how he needs to beat Arizona to let people know that the program is in good hands. Bo talks about going to the Georgia vs Florida game and how different the atmosphere is from any other game. The guys look at how both Nick Fitzgerald and Bo Wallace were underrated during their time at their schools and how they impacted the game. Dave Bartoo of the Colle Football Matrix joins the show on the Farm Bureau guest line talking about the biggest games this weekend live in the BankPlus Studio. Dave talks about the matchup between Mississippi State and Arizona and how the strength of the offenses will decide the game. Bo and Dave look at the talent of Jayden de Lura for Arizona and believes that Arizona's success runs through him. Dave thinks that this game isn't a do-or-die for Arnett and compares him to Mike Norvell's first seasons at Florida State when people wanted him gone. Dave looks at the Ole Miss vs Tulane game and talks about how the outcome relies on if Ole miss is taking Tulane seriously when they have a lot of hard SEC games to look at in the future. Dave talks about how the coaching staffs of both programs are pretty solid but Ole Miss recruits almost 50 spots higher than Tulane on average. Dave believes that the game line is for public perception and helps Vegas make more money off the bets. Dave and Bo talk about the Texas A&M and Miami game and look at who the best coach on the field will be. Texas heads to Tuscaloosa to play Alabama this weekend and how Steve Sarkisian has never outperformed his talent before. Dave tells Bo that Texas has the best trio of coaches in all of college football and how underperforming at head coach has held them back. Dave looks at Deion Sanders at Colorado and talks about how Colorado went from 9 point underdogs to Nebraska before week one to six point favorites after beating TCU. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today on The Arwen Lewis Show - Arwen welcomes Graham Palmer! Graham is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in the Santa Barbara area, and owner of Surprise Studio in Buellton, California.  Graham has performed with and/or recorded a wide variety of artists in his 20+ year career in the music business including Mad Caddies, Antonionian, Wil Ridge, Remy Morritt, Arwen Lewis, and others.  After spending over a decade as a touring bass player, Palmer settled down and built his studio in 2022, where he works as a composer and studio engineer for a multitude of projects in the music and film industries. Grahams Current Projects: Imbibe - A short film.  Music composed by Graham Palmer.  All sound recording, dialogue editing, and sound design by Graham Palmer.  Currently in post-production.  Song Club Radio Hour - A weekly show comprised of about 15 singer/songwriters/producers. Each week the participants are given a song title and 3 prompts (some musical, some not) and are tasked with writing, recording, and releasing the song 6 days later on the show's broadcast.  It airs live on Friday nights on the Song Club Radio Hour YouTube page as well as on KPTZ 91.9 in Washington.  Redacted Choir - An instrumental duo featuring Graham Palmer and Jordan Dalrymple.  2nd full-length LP is completed tracking and is currently being mixed by Grammy-winning mix engineer Cian Riordan (St. Vincent, Sleater-Kinney).  Logan Livermore Band - 6-piece alt-country project based in the Santa Ynez Valley.  The band features Logan Livermore, Graham Palmer, Sascha Lazor, Austin Beede, Nick Fitzgerald, and James Longoria.  Full-length LP in the works.  Kinothek - Solo project by Graham Palmer.  A new EP is very slowly being worked on when there's extra time between other projects.  Follow Graham on Instagram - @surprise__studio and @gpalme00 The Arwen Lewis Show Host | Arwen Lewis Executive Producer | Jeremiah D. Higgins Producer - Sound Engineer - Richard “Dr. D” Dugan https://arwenlewismusic.com/ On Instagram, Follow Arwen Lewis Here: @thearwenlewisshow @arwenlewis www.thejeremiahshow.com On Instagram @jeremiahdhiggins https://linktr.ee/jeremiahdhiggins

Bo and the crew talk about past Connerly Trophy winners, Will Rogers in a new offense, and Bo breaking bones in the first hour of the show live in the BankPlus studio. The guys talk about how Bo doesn't like valet parking and his history of breaking bones and hurting knees. Bo and the crew talk about Mississippi State linebacker Jett Johnson, how many years on the team and how he has an incredible football name. Bo talks about the SEC towns he has been to in the past weeks and notes that he hates travelling when football season actually starts. In the SEC Insider Hit, Bo and the crew talks about Will Rogers adapting to Kevin Barbay's new offense, Connerly trophy winners and favorites and Nick Fitzgerald getting snubbed for the award live in the BankPlus Studio. The guys talk about Will Rogers in his 4th year and how he can use his experience to adjust to a new offense. Bo and the crew talk about Quinshon Judkins winning the Connerly Trophy over Will Rogers last season and the guys break down the stats that qualified each player for nomination. Bo looks at the list of past winners and talks about how MSU hasn't had a player win in the past 3 years. The guys compare Nick Fitzgerald and Evan Engram's stats from the 2016 season and Bo believes the Bulldog QB got snubbed for the award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the SEC Insider Hit, Bo and the crew talks about Will Rogers adapting to Kevin Barbay's new offense, Connerly trophy winners and favorites and Nick Fitzgerald getting snubbed for the award live in the BankPlus Studio. The guys talk about Will Rogers in his 4th year and how he can use his experience to adjust to a new offense. Bo and the crew talk about Quinshon Judkins winning the Connerly Trophy over Will Rogers last season and the guys break down the stats that qualified each player for nomination. Bo looks at the list of past winners and talks about how MSU hasn't had a player win in the past 3 years. The guys compare Nick Fitzgerald and Evan Engram's stats from the 2016 season and Bo believes the Bulldog QB got snubbed for the award. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LIVE from Alpin Haus with a first look at the brand new showroom in Amsterdam. Giants and Saquon Barkley avoid franchise tag and potential holdout situation. Plus, Shohei Ohtani is reportedly off the trade market as the deadline approaches. Smart move by the Angels? And, a trio of guests: Phillies pitcher and Shaker grad Jeff Hoffman. The Office and Anchorman actor David Koechner. Capital Region Football HOF president Nick Fitzgerald.

Bo talks SEC quarterbacks of the 2000s in the third hour of the show live in the BankPlus Studio. Bo begins the hour with continuing the discussion from the day before about the top SEC quarterbacks from the 2000s. Bo breaks down the list for listeners and gives some detail on each player. Bo talks about the list and gives reasons on why he believes A.J. McCarron is too high and Nick Fitzgerald is too low. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bo talks SEC quarterbacks of the 2000s, and John Bond and Rob Fesmire join the show to celebrate the life of Johnie Cooks in the third hour of the show live in the BankPlus Studio. Bo begins the hour with continuing the discussion from the day before about the top SEC quarterbacks from the 2000s. Bo talks about the list and gives reasons on why he believes A.J. McCarron is too high and Nick Fitzgerald is too low. John Bond joins the show on the Farm Bureau guest line to talk about his time playing at Mississippi State with Johnie Cooks. John shares about the first time he met Johnie. John talks about being hit by Johnie in practice and how he learned Johnie was the real deal. John talks about the intensity that Johnie brought to the locker room. John wraps up the segment talking about beating Bear Bryant and how spectacular his defense was being lead by Cooks. Former Bulldog Rob Fesmire joins the show on the Farm Bureau guest line talking about his friend Johnie Cooks. Rob, a Nashville native, tells stories about playing at Mississippi State in the early 80s with Johnie. Rob shares his experience when MSU beat Bear Bryant in Jackson and how Johnie dared Alabama's sideline to go for it on fourth down. Rob talks about being close to Johnie and the adversity and homesickness that Johnie went through. Rob wraps up the hour sharing how great of a person and a friend that Cooks was to him and to everyone he met. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a stacked mid-March pod for y'all. Can UGA superstar Brock Bowers become the best tight end in college football history? Is he already among the all-time greats? The guys break that down. Former MSU quarterback Nick Fitzgerald joined the show to look back on his wild career. The guys close with some dad advice for Connor in #FiguringItOut.

Bo and Blake talk Ole Miss football and Alabama fans in the third hour of the show live in the BankPlus Studio. The guys start off talking about Ole Miss vs LSU and why it will not be a boring game. Bo and Blake discuss why, despite losing to Kentucky, Mississippi State is still a good team with a nasty schedule. The guys talk about why the game against LSU would be Lane Kiffin's biggest win at Ole Miss. Bo and Blake talk about how successful Will Rogers has been despite so many things stacked against him. The guys debate if Jaxson Dart is a better quarterback than Nick Fitzgerald. Bo and Blake talk about how Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss are an explosive play machine. The guys discuss Ole Miss special teams coordinator Marty Biagi and why they get a mafia style used care dealer vibe from him. Bo and Blake discuss the reaction from Alabama fans as they are beyond upset over the loss to Tennessee. The guys debate if they are sold on Tennessee head coach Josh Heupel. Bo and Blake discuss why it is unacceptable for Mississippi State to lose their composure they way they did against Kentucky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Johnny and BW are joined by MS State Bulldog great Nick Fitzgerald to preview this weeks game against the Aggies.Support the show

Nobody had more success against Texas A&M than Mississippi State's Nick Fitzgerald, getting three wins over the Aggies as a starter while piling up touchdowns on the ground and in the air. Brian Hadad talks to the former Bulldog signal caller about his memories in that rivalry and his thoughts on this year's Bulldog squad.

Nick Fitzgerald is the Head of the Rotorua Motel Association, he doesn’t have any emergency housing tenants in his place, but as the head of the association is in contact with those in the area who do. Tourism is returning to New Zealand after two years of closed borders and no tourists needing our motels. But as Today FM revealed 741 motels are being used as emergency motels. So what happens now? .. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Perth Glory goalscorer from weekend's loss joins the show to talk about the season that has really seen the Glory go through it.

Karl and Mark rip into the week and are joined by Jarrad Schofield, Trent Cooper and Nick Fitzgerald.

Nick Fitzgerald with Advance Trading joins Luke as they talk about some big picture things happening in our markets. They also breakdown why basis has been so strong and Nick provides 3 things to be thinking about as you wrap up 2021.

KBall and Nick Nisi sit down with Nick Fitzgerald to learn about running JavaScript on WebAssembly. They talk about almost instantaneous startup, running interpreted languages at the edge, and take a deep dive into the weeds of how Wasm based modules will change the future of application development.

KBall and Nick Nisi sit down with Nick Fitzgerald to learn about running JavaScript on WebAssembly. They talk about almost instantaneous startup, running interpreted languages at the edge, and take a deep dive into the weeds of how Wasm based modules will change the future of application development.

Johnny and BW are joined by former Mississippi State QB Nick Fitzgerald.  Nick talks about how he was recruited to State and what it was like to be a QB with Dan Mullen as his head coach.  He also shares a few of his favorite games and moments as a Bulldog and gives an update about what he is doing now.Check out our new shirts and other Johnny Packer merch here.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/Johnnypacker1181)

Nick Fitzgerald joined Zach Williams and Bruno Reagan on The Afternoon Stretch.

For Friday's episode of The Sports Scouting Report Podcast With Lee Brecheen, Lee catches up with legendary Mississippi State quarterback John Bond, who was the only quarterback in college football history to defeat LSU four times from 1980-1983. Bond also led the Bulldogs to one of the biggest victories in program history with a 6-3 victory over Paul "Bear" Bryant's Alabama Crimson Tide in 1980. Another incredible feat Bond accomplished was that his rushing total stood for a SEC record until the likes of Matt Jones (Arkansas), Tim Tebow (Florida), and Mississippi State's own Dak Prescott and Nick Fitzgerald broke his record. For today's episode, Bond talks about his greatest memories playing at Starkville, his thoughts on how head coach Mike Leach is doing with the current Mississippi State program, the new NCAA transfer rule, and finally, talks about being the head football coach at St. Joseph Catholic High School in Madison, Mississippi.

U.S. Army Veteran turned entrepreneur Nick Fitzgerald went from opening gyms to becoming an e-com genius, running an 8-figure business and working with some of the top influencer brands today. Looking to pay it forward and give back to those looking to reach financial freedom, Nick also has become an industry leader in financial services.Support the show (http://www.patreon.com/theparablespodcast.com)

What is the value of interviewing top leaders in your industry? If you're a smart podcast (and business) owner then you know they're one of the most useful and important assets out there. After interviewing Nick Fitzgerald he shared something with me, after blowing my brains with all the value he dropped of course, that I was one of his favorite podcast interviews simply because I respected his expertise. How are you treating your influencers? Are you establishing a relationship with them so both of you scale your audience and success or are you just recording a conversation?

episode 9. talking all things XFL our new segment Triple Play debuts. (Favorite Beers) Miss State legend & BattleHawks QB Nick Fitzgerald jumps on the podcast to talk about his Viral Video, XFL and college football!

In 2016, Nick Fitzgerald and Mississippi State ran over, around, and through Ole Miss en route to a blowout win in the Battle For the Golden Egg. This season, could it be Ole Miss who takes back the trophy behind possibly the best running quarterback in the SEC? Brian Hadad and Joel Coleman make the comparisons between those two games and looks to find where the Bulldogs have the upper hand against the Rebels.

The Jets had the bye in Round 1 of the A-League season, but their season will finally kick off in massive fashion against local rivals Central Coast Mariners. Winger Nick Fitzgerald explains his new role at the club and what to expect from the Novocastrians. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Looks who’s back! On today’s show, Identity Pro founder Scott Miller jumps back on for the first time this season to break down two of Round 2’s biggest games. Newcastle Jets forward Nick Fitzgerald checks in from the Hunter ahead of the F3 Derby, plus there’s the Eurosnob and heaps more. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

There's an old saying that goes, never be the guy who follows the guy. For Mississippi State head Joe Moorhead, that must feel like words of wisdom as criticism continues to pile on to him. Brian Hadad and Joel Coleman explain why he and former Bulldog quarterback Nick Fitzgerald have that problem in common, and how Moorhead can disarm his critics.

Behind the scene’s access to a late night conversation with the two comma club coaching students. On this special episode Russell rants to his Two Comma Club X members about how to build a list and why it’s so important. Here are some of the super awesome nuggets you’ll be hearing about in this episode; Hear nearly a billion ways Russell has built his list over the years, and how you can use them as well. Find out why email lists are still the most important lists to build. And when creating a product, why listening to the market is key to giving them what they want. So listen here to to all Russell’s creative and genius ways to build your list in the market of your choice. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson. I hope you guys are doing amazing tonight. I want to welcome you back to the Marketing Secrets podcast. I just finished an hour long Facebook Live with my Two Comma Club X members and it was all about list building and I kind of went off on a rant. And it was a lot of fun. And as much as they all needed to hear it, my guess is that some of you guys need to hear this stuff as well. So with their permission, I’m going to be posting this here one the podcast so you guys can learn from it and hopefully start refocusing all your efforts on building your list. With that said, I’m gonna queue up the theme song, when we come back you guys will be jumping directly into my rant. What’s up everybody? This is Russell. I know it’s a late night. I’m sure I’m not going to get more than one or two of you guys on Live right now. But I’m hoping in the morning that you guys are all going to listen in on this and you’re going to freak out and then you are going to be focusing on one thing and one thing only, for the next year of your life. So there we go. So this whole conversation is starting out because, and I’m going to call him out a little bit because I love him, Nick Fitzgerald, he just did his launch this last week. And it did good, considering the percentage close rate and low in the fact that his list is really, really small. So he sold a ton of product to a really small list, which made not as much money as he wanted. Anyway, I was going back and I was re-listening, because I’ve done two special podcast episodes for him. One- two years ago, one-last year, so this is going to be the updated version for him and for you guys and it’s going to be going deep on list building. So if you haven’t listened to any of those episodes, if you go back to the marketing secrets podcast, I found them today, the first one was episode 18, it was July 19, 2017 and the episode was called, How to Make it Rain. So I highly, highly, highly recommend that you guys go back and watch that one. It’s me driving around Bear Lake telling Nick, this is before Nick knew anything about our world or Funnel Hackers or anything, and I was kind of just laying down the ground work of how people make money in this world, and it was really fun. So go listen to that one, number one. And then a year later he came to Funnel Hacking Live, joined Two Comma Club X and then at the Traffic Secrets event I pulled him onstage and had him tell his story. And then I did a second round, a second round of podcasts with him live, in front of everybody, which is really, really fun. And oh great, Nick’s on here. What’s up Nick? You’re going to have so much fun. Alright, so that one I posted, for some reason I stopped doing episode numbers, but….oh I remember why. ITunes didn’t like that for some reason. Anyway, November 21st there’s a podcast in Marketing Secrets podcast called My Conversation with the Friendly Giant part one of two. And then November 26th is part two of two. So go listen to those because Nick tells a story which is really, really cool. And then the second half is I gave him spot consulting right there, I think it must have been five or six things or whatever. What’s interesting is one of the things I talked about is the same thing I’m talking about tonight. So I must not have said it loud enough, so tonight I’m going to say it really, really loud, because I think my wife and everyone is asleep in the house, so I’m going, we’re going ranting. But it was talking about building a list. So that was a year ago. And now that he went through this experience of this launch and it didn’t do as well as he wanted. My heart broke for him and hurt for him, but then part of me is angry because a year ago I didn’t yell at him loud enough about this thing. So I’m yelling at everybody here inside this coaching program. I’ll probably turn this into a podcast episode as well, so I am yelling this for anyone who can hear the sound of my voice. This is the warning, are you guys ready for this? Until you own traffic, you don’t have a business. Until you own traffic you do not have a business. What does that mean? It doesn’t mean, I think a lot of times us entrepreneurs we think that the business is the product. Like, “I created this amazing product, and business.” The product is not the business. Your customer list is the business. That’s the only thing that actually matters. If you look at companies that are purchased, the only thing that matters in a valuation of company is customer list. Like if somebody was ever to buy Clickfunnels, they are not buying Clickfunnels. They couldn’t care less. They spend a couple million bucks on really good development, they could clone Clickfunnels. They would be buying Clickfunnels because of the customer list. That is the only tangible, valuable asset inside of my business, is my customers who are paying me for something awesome. It’s the customer list, it is the big, big secret. Does that make sense? I remember a few years ago, in fact, I’m writing the Traffic Secrets book and I have like a two chapter rant about this as well in that book. But when EBay bought Skype for, I think it was like 4.2 billion dollars. EBay at the time was the biggest company in the world, why’d they spend that much money for Skype? They literally could have cloned Skype in a weekend. They did it because Skype had 420 million users at the time. That was the asset they bought, the customer list. Why did Zuckerberg buy Instagram? He could have cloned Instagram in 35 seconds right. He did because he wanted the customer list, the subscribers. That is the only valuable, tangible asset in your business. So until you own traffic, until you have your own list, you do not have a business. You can have promotions, you can have some cash here and there, but until you have a list, you don’t have a business. Okay, so knowing that, our entire focus should be building a list, that should be it, that should the focus, that should be the thing we talk about, we think about, we eat, sleep, breath, drink, that should be the number one focal point. I know, somebody told me this a decade ago and I listened to it, and I tattooed it to my brain and I’m going to tell it to you guys all again. I want you all to get out a mental tattoo and tattoo this to your brain. Oh Nick started to repent right now. He’s saying, “I’m recording and creating freebee’s to build my list.” Good, we’re getting deep into that, but I’m going to go a couple of levels deeper than that tonight with you, if you’re okay with that. So list building, my friend told me, he said, “On average you should make one dollar per month, per name on your email list.” That’s what he told me. I remember taking that to heart. I was like, “Okay.” I don’t know what it is, I have this really weird problem where if somebody tells me something I just believe it. So I’m like, ‘Sweet okay, a dollar per person per list. How much money do I want to make. I want to make $100 grand a year.” Because that was my big thinking back then, so I’m like, “I need a list of ten thousand people. A list of 10,000 people is $10 grand a month, $120,000 a year. Boom, I’m in.” So that was goal, and that was the game plan. So I started running and started doing everything I could dream of, I was trying to be as creative as I could, how could I build a list? What can I do to build a list? Who has a list? How can I get that list? What do I need to do? And because that became the focal point, I started thinking about it right. And I remember in a very short period of time I got a list of 217 people, then it grew to a thousand and then to 5 thousand and then 10, and 15 to 20 then to 100 thousand and then to a million, and that became the focus. And it was interesting, it was 2 years before Clickfunnels hit, my business was stagnating and stalling. We were stuck at 2 ½- 3 million dollars a year for 3 or 4 years in a row. I think you guys have heard me tell this story before. I remember we were trying to figure out, what’s the big thing I gotta figure out. And I remember Daegan Smith, he asked me one day, “How many people join your list every single day?” and I was like, ‘What do you mean?” I was like, “Well my list is like ( I can’t remember) 130,000 people.” He’s like, “No, no, no. I didn’t ask how big your list is. How many people per day are joining your list?” And I was like, “I don’t even know.” And he’s like, “Well if you don’t know, that’s why your business is stalling. If you don’t know how many people joined your list today, it means you’re not focusing, which means it’s not happening, which means that’s the root problem of all…like the root of all evil is the fact that you have no idea how many people per day are joining your list.” Notice he said, “per day” wasn’t per week, per month, or per day. It was how many people per day. I remember I was in a mastermind group, this is back, this is going to date me a little bit for those SEO nerds out there. But there was a time when article writing was the secret to getting leads and all this stuff. And I remember this guy was in a mastermind group and he was talking about, he wasn’t getting traffic to his site and all these kind of things. And he was doing article marketing. And I asked him, “How many articles a day are you submitting?” and he’s like, “I can tell by the way you said that, that I’m doing it wrong.” I’m like, “What do you mean?” He’s like, ‘Well, I’ve submitted two articles so far, and you asked me how many per day I was submitting.” I was like, “Yeah, you’re doing it wrong.” So that was like ten years ago when article marketing was this thing. But fast forwarding to now, it’s like, if you’re like, “Oh my list 10,000 or 100,000 people.” That’s not the question. The question is how many people per day are joining your list? So Daegan told me that, and I was like, “I don’t even know.” So I remember logging into my software, and the software had the stats of how many people that day joined your list. So we started writing it on the whiteboard. I think at the time it was like 23 or something. It was like 23 that day and I was like, ugh. And the next day I looked at it and it was 20, and then 19, and these little numbers. But then I started looking at it. As soon as I started looking at that number it started making me so angry because I was like, “It’s so small, I need to make it bigger. How do I make this thing bigger?” So what’s interesting is when you track something it grows. It’s just, except for when you’re losing weight. When you track something it shrinks. But for most things, if you track it, it grows. So a number became the driving force. That was the metric for my business, how many people each day are joining my list? That’s all that mattered. We’re looking and focusing and that became the number. And so every single day we’d come in the office and that was the number. How many people joined the list yesterday? How many people joined the list yesterday? Every single day we came in, that was the number that was on the board. And it was crazy, we went from 20-30 a day to 50 a day, to 100 a day, to 200 a day, to 250, to 500, to a thousand. And I remember when we crossed a thousand a day and it was insane. If you would have asked me a year earlier, “Can you get a thousand a day?” I’m like, “That’s not possible.” But we got to the point where we were doing a thousand a day, new people joining our list. And guess what happened to our business? It all just kept growing. Because it’s the new fresh blood coming into your universe, your business is all about getting that fresh blood, the new people in all the time, consistently, focusing, focusing, focusing. And so I want you guys to understand, until you own the traffic you don’t have a business. So that’s got to be the key focus. Without me teaching the whole Traffic Secrets book right now, there’s three types of traffic. There’s traffic that you control. So Zuckerberg owns it, or Larry and Sergei over at Google, they own the traffic. So that’s why they’re so freaking rich and so powerful. I was talking to my dad today about how if you look at the entire internet, you’ve got Zuckerberg who owns Facebook and Instagram, you’ve got the Google guys who own Google and YouTube, that’s 90% of the internet owned by 3 dudes. It’s insane, they have all the power because why? They have all the customer list. They have everybody. So they own traffic. So if you go and buy ads, you don’t own that traffic. You can control it, so it’s good. And you should do that, controlling traffic is one way to build your list. I’m going to go buy ads to build my list, but I don’t own it. I can control it. I can buy an ad and say, “Point it to this landing page, and go there and give me your email address.” Number two is traffic that you earn. So that’s me going on a podcast, or me doing a FAcebook live on somebody else’s page, or me doing a summit, or me doing all these things trying to earn traffic and get into their mind. And then the third traffic, the third and best and most important, the only thing you should be focusing on is traffic that you own. That’s your list. That’s the big secret. When you have a list this game becomes super, super easy. I always tell people that internet marketing is pushing a boulder up a hill at first. Because you’re pushing and you’re pushing, and it’s hard. And at first you’re making no money. And you’re like, ‘I’m spending 80 hours a day and no money is coming in. No money’s coming.” And you’re pushing and pushing it. But as you’re pushing this boulder up a mountain, that rock is your list and it’s getting bigger…I guess the rock is not the list technically, but it’s picking up the list and the list is getting bigger and bigger. And there comes a point, this tipping point when the boulder gets on top of the hill and starts bouncing down the other side. And as soon as it starts bouncing down the other side, this game becomes really, really easy. For me that started happening about 30,000 people on my list. I was making, I was averaging about $30,000 a month. And it became easy. I could literally wake up in the middle of night and send an email to my list and be like, ‘Hey tomorrow I’m going to do a training on how to wake up happier. If you want to come to this training, pay me $10.” And I would wake up and there’d be $3,000 in my inbox. Insane, right? Any crazy idea I wanted to pull out my “bloop”, pull out of my whatever, I could make money with it because I had a list and it was simple right. So that’s what you gotta get. Like getting from zero to a hundred to a thousand to ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty, that’s the hard part. As soon as you get over the edge, then it becomes so, so, so easy. So that needs to become the focus point and the goal. How do I build a list? How do I grow this thing? And it’s going to be painful to a certain point. And as soon as I get it over the top, then it becomes easy. Because you have a list, now you have leverage. Now it’s like, you can go to somebody else and say, “Hey, promote my product and I’ll promote yours.” There’s reciprocity, right. When you have no list and you go to somebody like, ‘Hey, promote my product?” They’re like, “No. What’s in it for me?” I guarantee, as cool of a person as I think I am, if I were to call Tony Robbins a decade ago and be like, “Hey Tony, guess what? I’m a super fan. Can I come speak at your event in Fiji? Can I hang out? Do you want to be friends? You want to be business partners in the future? Do you want to promote my book?” He’d be like, “No.’ When I went to Tony, guess what I had? I had something that was of value to him. I had this thing it was called a list. And a list is a platform. I could say, “Hey Tony, man you’re amazing. I want to promote you to my list of 500,000 entrepreneurs, would you be interested?” and he’s like, “Yes, I will listen to you because you have a platform.” Your list opens up doors, it opens up any doors. I don’t think there’s a human being on this planet I couldn’t get to right now because of my customer list. That’s how powerful of a tool it is. It’s the key. And when you have a list, you have power. You can do swaps, you can promote other things, you can sell your products, sell somebody else’s product, you can have an idea, you can brainstorm, it becomes easier because you don’t have to, again, right now we’re creating products where we’re guessing, we’re hoping, we’re putting stuff out there and we try to sell it and it doesn’t buy. And we’re like, “oh, we spent all this money on traffic and it didn’t work.” Whereas if you have a list, you don’t even create the product. You’re like, ‘I’m going to send an email to my list and see if they buy.” They bought, “Sweet, I’m going to go out there and create the thing.” The other powerful thing, I think it was John Lennon, was it John Lennon or Paul McCartney, this was them writing, and I remember the story. They were sitting one day and they wanted a swimming pool. And he said, “I’m going to go write myself a swimming pool.” and he walked inside and he wrote, I think it was Yesterday. Boom, got the royalties and bought the swimming pool. He wrote himself a swimming pool. I remember Dan Kennedy, he, I love Dan. I’m a lot more, he calls his list his herd. Like, “Build a herd of people.” And I remember he used to always say, ‘If you want to buy something in your life, figure out what it is you want to buy,  a new car, a new house, whatever, then send the bill to the herd.’ That was what Kennedy used to always say to us all the time, back in his mastermind group. “Send the bill to the herd.” So it’s like, “I want to buy a new car, what’s it gonna cost? This one costs $150,000 for a new Tesla. Cool. Send the bill to the herd. Write an email, send it out, have them pay for it. Everything is free.” That’s the power of a list. You have to make that the focal point because that is your business. Everything else is good. Having a webinar is good, but the reason why it’s good is because it builds a list profitably. Having a book funnel is good, but why is it good? Because it builds a list profitably. Having a summit funnel is good. Why is it good? Because it builds a list. All those things, the only reason why they ever even matter at all, is because they build a list. That’s it. Every funnel I’ve ever created in the entire history of my life, is about one goal and one goal only, and it’s to build a list profitably. That’s it. If I have a list I can sell whatever I want. I can sell them software, coaching, supplements, underwater scuba lessons, I don’t even know. You can do whatever you want. That’s the magic. The list is the key. Alright, have I drilled that into everybody’s heads enough? I hope I have. If not, I will rant even more. So now you’re all like, “Sweet, I got a list. Now I get the thing, I need a list. But how do we get a list?” So a couple things. Number one, you need to make on your whiteboard a big thing that says, “How many people have joined my list today.” And you look at that number. And if it’s zero, you need to be angry. If it’s one, you gotta be angry. Start being angry because the anger is what’s going to get your mind to be like, “What’s the next thing? What’s the ideal? What’s the thing I gotta create or do to get somebody to get on my list?” Alright, so that’s number one, putting that number and making it front and center of your entire business. Looking at it over and over again so you see it, so you start thinking about it. That’s number one. Number two now, it’s like, “Okay, if I’m going to build a list, I’ve got to…” List building is basically, you’re trading. Like, give me something in exchange for your email address. So it’s like, I need to create something really, really cool. It doesn’t mean it has to be big, doesn’t have to be a book, doesn’t have to be a thing, but something cool that’s unique, that’s fun, that’s interesting that you can, that’s got a really good hook. It could be as simple as, this thing I’m yelling my rant right now, this could be very simple and easy a lead magnet to put on a squeeze page. I could be like, “One night I went to my coaching members and I ranted for 45 minutes on the power of list building and I showed them 5 or 6 of my most powerful ways to build a list. If you want to watch that video right now, go opt in right now.” That could be it, this could be me ranting. You could get on your phone and just rant for 15 minutes on the phone and that could be the lead magnet, that could be it. It doesn’t have to be something that’s huge and hard, it’s got to be something really, really cool. So you create that and then it’s like, you create that, you create a really basic landing page, squeeze page, and a thank you page where you give it away, and that’s phase one. That’s why when we started this round of two comma club x coaching, the very first training I did was a two hour training on lead funnels, how to build a list through lead funnels. And I apparently didn’t rant loud enough in that for everybody to hear. So I’m ranting loud now. If you haven’t gone, go back to that training. I show, I think I show 110 different examples of landing pages and lead funnels and how they work and how people, different opt ins people use, and different bribes and the layout and structure of the pages. So it’s all in there, so go check that out. So a squeeze page is good, but now it’s like, okay how do we get people to opt in. Because it’s like, traditional just Facebook ads, yeah, you can go buy Facebook ads, and you’re looking at anywhere from a buck to 5 bucks per lead. So especially when you start, that’s a heavy pill to swallow. So for me, Facebook ads are awesome and they’re great. I didn’t my very first Facebook, I didn’t buy my first paid ad for over a decade. So for the first decade I was like, ‘I gotta figure out other ways to build a list.” And what’s fascinating, back then we did not have Facebook, we did not have Myspace, Friendster wasn’t selling ads. Google slapped everybody, so it worked for like a week, you know when I got in, it worked for like a week or two and then it stopped working for everybody. So I didn’t have an advertising platform to build a list on. It wasn’t a thing. So I had to be creative. I gotta build a list, “How do you buy a list?” It wasn’t like go buy ads somewhere. It was like, you’ve got to be creative. How do you build a list? So pretend for a moment, I don’t have Facebook, I can’t pay for leads. How am I going to generate leads? I start looking, there’s other people that already have a list. So if they already have a list, how do I get access to…You have a list…. Do you guys remember the Wedding Singer when Adam Sandler goes to the bank with Kevin Nealon there, and he’s interviewing for a job and Kevin Nealon is like, “Why should I hire you?” and he’s like, “Well, you’ve got money. I need money. So I was hoping you could hire me and give me some of that money.” It’s the same thing. “You’ve got a list, I need a list, how do we do something together so that your list can join my list and I have a list too?” As dumb as that sounds, that literally is what went through my head all the time because I didn’t have a list and other people did, so I’m like, “How do I build the list?” A lot of it was going out and like, “Okay, how do I create something with this person? How do we do a partnership?” I did summits like crazy. I’ve been in more summits than you guys would ever believe. If you ever go back in the internet archives you can see a lot of them. But I did a lot of summits. I put on my own summits. Why did I put on my own summits? Because I knew that all the other people I was going to interview in the summit had a list and I didn’t. I didn’t even position myself as an expert initially. I just “okay, I’m going to do a summit. It’s called the Affiliate… in fact, it was Affiliate Boot Camp.” I think I’ve launched affiliate boot camp six times. But my very first one was Affiliate Boot Camp, and I just found six affiliates, excuse me, I think it was 12, I can’t remember it’s been a long time, a decade or so. A whole bunch of affiliates, I put them on a summit, and I was just the interviewer. I wasn’t teaching anything, I just interviewed people. And then I had everybody promote this summit, I interviewed all the people and I got a list. And it wasn’t a ton, I think I got 1500-2000 people to join my list. Now I had a list. And I leveraged that list. I went to someone else and said, “Hey, your product is really cool. I’ve got a list, it’s not huge but I’ll promote your product if you promote mine.” Someone’s like, “cool, I promote your product.” And all the sudden we did exchanges. They promoted mine, I promoted theirs. And what would happen is I’d make a little money, they’d make a little money, but I’d get people joining my list. Then I started thinking, okay, I know all these people that have lists, and a lot of them are affiliates, they promote other people’s products. So what if I created something really, really good and most people are paying them 50% commission on the product, what if I came back and paid them 100% commission? And at the time no one had ever heard of that before. So I go to people, “Hey I created this amazing product. Check it out.” And they’re like, “That product is really cool.” And I was like, “What if I pay you 100% commission to promote it?” and they’re like, “Why would you do that?” “I don’t know. Because I’m a nice guy and I feel like you should get all the money because you’re the one who built the list, and you spent the hard time, energy and effort, and you’re way cooler than me. So I’ll let you sell my product and keep 100% of the money.” And so many people said, “Dude, that’s an awesome deal.” So they would promote my product and they would keep 100% of the money, and guess what I would get? The list, their list would join my list. And all the sudden those people became my people. And the next thing I sold, I kept all the money from. That was the magic. I remember I had one friend, he did a really cool thing. He had these CDs that he used to sell for, I can’t remember, I think it was $300 for these CDs. And he was doing okay with it, but not killing it with these things. And he’s like, “You know what I’m going to do? I’m going to take my $300 things…” and back then he put them on CDs or DVDs, so it doesn’t work as good nowadays because people don’t really have DVD players, but back then it was a thing. And I remember he did this big Christmas promotion and he went to all these big, huge people’s lists and said, “Hey for Christmas, how would you like to give your list my $300 product for free?” and people were like, ‘That would be awesome.” He’s like, “It’s free, so you’re not going to make any money. But they get a cool gift and it’s coming from you and it’ll be awesome.” So he sent these pages for each person, and I didn’t do it, but it would have been like, it was called The Marketing Quickie, so it was like marketingquickies.com/Russell. So you go to Marketing Quickies and you see that the CDs are like $300, if you go to /Russell it was like, “Hey this is, (what was his name? Was it Andrew?) I did this partnership with Russell because you’re on the list, normally when you go to the homepage, you can go see it, it’s $300 for this product, but because you’re Russell’s subscriber, I’m going to ship you out a CD for free, all you gotta do is put your name and address down below and I’ll ship you a CD for free.” So he came to me and I don’t know, like 400 other people, he asked tons of people and most of them said no. But he had 30 or so people say, “Sure that sounds awesome. It would be a great gift for my audience.” They all sent emails to their list, they went to the page, filled out the form with the shipping address everything. He went and burned CDs all Christmas long and sent them out to people. And when all was said and done, he ended up with a list of 18000 people, boom, by giving away his product for free. “But Russell, now I’m not going to make any money.” Again, your business isn’t your product. Your business is your customer list. Now you got a customer list, now make another product, figure out the next thing they want to buy. I remember Tellman Knudsen, Tellman I remember I had just been building my list at the time. I thought I was a hot shot. I think I had, how much was it, I probably had 40-50,000 people on my list at that time. And he messaged me one day, I didn’t know who he was, some of you guys may not know Tellman, he’s not as big in our market as he used to be back in the day, but he’s more in the personal development, hypnosis market now. But he used to be in internet marketing, in fact, he owned listbuilding.com for a long time. But anyway, I digress. He came to me and said, “Hey Russell, I’m doing this really cool summit where everyone’s talking about how they built a list. And I want to see if you’ll promote this summit to my squeeze page, and then you can be on the summit?” And I was like, “No dude, that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.” And he’s like, “Why?” and I’m like, “I’m not going to email my list to your squeeze page, then half my list will go on your list, and what’s the benefit for me?” anyway, I told him no and hung up the phone. And then like 6 weeks later I see this big launch where every single person on planet earth is emailing their list to this brand new newbie’s squeeze page, Tellman. It was like, in fact, if you go to, I wonder if it’s still there. It used to be listcrusade.com I wonder if it’s still there. Crusade is a hard word to spell. I spelled it wrong. Anyway, I’m sure if you go back to the Wayback machine you can find. But it was just a page that was like, “Hey learn list building secrets from (and it had all the people’s names). Give me your email address and I’ll give you access to all these interviews.” And he did it, and like I said, 6 weeks later I saw all these people emailing. Boom, boom, boom. Person after person after person, all these big names. I was like, “What in the world.” And I remember, I watched his campaign and he built a list, I found out later, of over 100,000 people from this campaign. I remember messaging afterwards. I was like, “Dude, how did you pull that off? Because you asked me, I thought you were insane and I told you no.” and he’s like, “I know. Most people thought I was insane. I asked 70 people and all 70 of them told me no. Then I asked the 71st person,” and his name, I think it was the nitro guys, Matt and Kevin Wilkey, he them and they said yes. And he’s like, “Oh my gosh, I got my first yes.” So then he went to the 72nd person and said, “Hey I’m doing this project, these two guys just said yes. Do you want in on it?” and then that guy’s like, “Yes.” And he went to the next person. “Hey I’m doing this project, that person and that person said yes. Do you want in?” “Yes.” The next 40 people said yes afterwards. But he got 70 no’s in a row before he got his yeses. Is that crazy? And then boom, at the end of the campaign 100,000 subscribers. I think year one in his business he made $760,000 and all he did was email to those lists, all the other people’s products and sold their products. He didn’t even have his own product that first year. He just built a list from everybody else’s list and then sold other people’s products. Do you guys see this? It comes down to this creativity. How do we do this? How do we do it? It’s like how do I create cool things that I can somehow incentivize somebody else to promote? One of the things Nick said, and I’m going to tease him a little bit about this, but he said, “I thought that I had a bunch of friends who I assumed were going to help me promote the product.” Why would they help you promote the product, there’s no reason why someone would help you promote the product. I have to make a better offer to my affiliates than I do to my customers. People always think, “Well Russell, everyone promotes Clickfunnels.” Why do you think everyone promotes Clickfunnels? Number one, we pay 40% recurring commission for the lifetime of the customer. Higher than any other SAAS platform on this planet. Number two, I paid for a dream car for everybody. Number three, I bring them onstage and give them street cred. Number four, a lot of times we have 100% affiliate commissions on books, on offers, OFA. Number seven, book deals when we do the book launches we always do $20 to give away a free book. I work harder to get my affiliates to promote than I get my customers to buy. So you have to understand if you want somebody to promote for you, it’s not just like, “Oh promote me. You should promote me because we’re friends or because we know each other.”  No, don’t ever expect that. My best friends on the planet, I do not ever expect them to promote my stuff. I still go out of my way to sell the crap out of every one of those guys as well. I gotta make an offer for every single one. I don’t care if I’ve been friends with them for a decade and a half, for them to promote me, I still sell them on why they gotta promote me. And we make those offers insane. So when you thinking you want affiliates to promote you it’s like, “What do I give them? Do I give them 50%? Do I give them 100%?” I can’t tell you how many messages I get from people like, “Russell, I have an idea for a product, if you promote it, I’ll give you 50%.” I’m like, “Dude, really good affiliates don’t take 50%.” Especially for info products, they don’t want 70 or 80 or 100. We’ve got deals we’ve done in the past where we’d pay 150-200% commission on things. Why? Because we want the list. One of my very first mentors, his name was Mike Lipman. I remember seeing him onstage one time and he said, he was talking about doing these offers, they make these free DVDs. “We sell these free DVDs, somebody buys the DVD and we call them on the phone and we sell them coaching.” He said, “Guess how much money I spend to sell this free DVD?” And I was like, “I don’t know.” And he said, “$30. I pay an affiliate $30 to give away a free DVD.” I was like, “What? You’re going to be broke in like 13 DVDs. How does that work?” And he stopped and said, “Russell, you have to understand, amateurs focus on the front end. Amateurs focus on the front end. Professionals focus on the back end.” He’s like, ‘I spend $30 to give away a CD, but I average, if every CD I give away I average $200 in sales on the phone within 6 weeks.” So for you guys, start thinking about that.  How do I create something at such a good deal for the affiliates to promote, I give them so much up front….Why do you think we pay 100% on our OFA, One Funnel Away challenge? We pay 100% because right now we got, last month 6500 people joined OFA. 6500 buyers, guess how many leads came from that? A whole lot more than that. I think, yeah, a lot. And it cost me a ton. In fact, I lost money. I think we spent $70 per box, maybe $60. I might be misquoting, 60-70 dollars per box for the One Funnel Away Challenge. Plus 100% commission, so it cost me for every box I sell, I lose $50-60. But what happens? Amateurs focus on the front end. I focus on the backend. I get a customer, I bring them into the value ladder, I bring them to the things and they ascend and they get stuff, and all sorts of stuff like that. That’s what I want you guys to understand. It’s coming back down to how do we create something amazing? And if you’re nervous, again, it comes back to especially at the beginning when money is tighter, paying Facebook a dollar to 5 dollars per lead is scary. But it’s like, what if we come back and what if I took my $300 product and put it on CD and people pay $4…maybe not CD, maybe MP3 player, whatever, and pay $4 for me to ship it out to them. Or maybe it’s a book. Maybe I take my best presentation, my best Facebook live, my best whatever and I get it transcribed where it’s like a book, and I get affiliates to promote it and they give it away for free, and I’ll print it and ship it and send it out to people and they pay $5 for me to print it and ship it to them. And I get the lead and they get whatever. Or maybe it’s co-branding. I used to do this all the time, where I would find somebody who had a list, who was better than me. I’ll tell you if I can think of somebody off the top of my head. Mike Filsaime and I used to do this. We did it a couple of times, where we had both done a pre-launch, in fact, if you go back to the internet archives and you go to prelaunchsecrets.com, go to the wayback machine, you’ll see it. But basically he had done a bunch of pre-launched, I had done a bunch of pre-launches, we came together and created prelaunchsecrets.com and it was basically a telesummit where it was like, ‘hey come listen to the summit and you’ll hear Mike talk about his pre-launch, I’ll talk about my pre-launch. We’ll talk about what we both did and then you get it for free.” So Mike promoted it to his list, I promoted to my list, when leads came in, we both got the leads, so they joined both our lists when they came. So basically, he got some of my leads, I got some of his leads, we both got better. We gave away this really good training for free. And I think we had an upsell where you could buy, I can’t remember, something we put together for an upsell, to try and make a little money off it. But that was it. And then I did another one with Josh Anderson, and with Jeremy Burns, I’m trying to remember some of my old buddies from back in the day. It’s the same kind of thing. I would interview them, interview and we’d put together a thing, where it’s co-branded, we both create something together, we both promote it, we both split the leads, and boom, both of our lists got bigger. So it’s like looking at people who already have lists, looking at people who have a following. Co-branding and going into each of these different markets and doing that. The first part of your business, you guys have to understand, the first part of your business is all about getting land. It’s getting people. In fact, at a recent inner circle meeting, it was interesting, Brandon Poulin was there and he was talking about how the first half of your business is all about gaining ground. And th second half of your business is about protecting it. And hopefully none of you guys have to go through that part of the process, but we get to the spot when now it’s like, you know we have legal crap, and other stuff to protect your land. People throwing lawsuits at you all the sudden. That’s the part of the design that sucks. You guys are in the fun part of the business where you’re like gathering land. This is the great, if I could sit down in this range of how to get more land, it’d be the greatest thing in the world. But it’s thinking about that. This is the part of my business where I gotta gather land, I gotta get people as quick as I can. So it’s doing a little bit of a lot of things consistently, every day. Your full time job, this is your job, this is an 8 hour a day job, to hustle to build an audience. Until you have an audience, you don’t have a business. Until you have a list, you don’t have a business. So it’s going out there and buying ads, doing affiliate deals, you’re doing partnerships, you’re getting people to email, you’re doing summits, you’re doing podcasts, everything you can do to capture land. It’s just not one thing, it’s a whole bunch of things. Just trying thing after thing after thing, and if it doesn’t work, don’t freak out. Do the next thing and the next thing. It’s going to a potential dream partner who has got a list. “Okay, you’ve got a list. What can we create together?’ or coming to them with a plan. “Hey, I’ve got a really cool idea. I can, your audience is good at this, I’m good at this.” Like Noah St. John did this back in the day. At the time he had no, he was a personal development guy and his whole pitch is like, a lot of times he’s like, “Russell, you teach people the most amazing marketing stuff in the world. They’re sitting there, they got their foot on the gas because you gave them all the information, but they’re all freaked out, so the same time their foot is on the gas, the other foot is on the brake. So they’re spinning out and nothing is happening. Your product helps people put their foot on the gas, my product helps them take their foot off the brake. Let’s do a partnership where your people can come in and buy your product, and then they get my training. My training will help them take their foot off the gas.” And if I remember right, this was a decade ago that he first pitched me on this. He didn’t want money for it. He was like, “Just put this on your thank you pages and have people click the link, they go over and fill out a form and then boom, I’ll give them access to my course.” And when they filled out the form, guess what they did? They joined their list. One of my buddies, Joel Marion and Josh Mazoni, they launched biotrust which is a supplement company. If you look at how they did it, they didn’t go and buy a bunch of ads initially. What they did is they went to all the people who already had traffic right, they already had funnels. They went to the thank you page of every single person’s thing, and on the thank you page they’d have a button that said, “Thanks for buying my info product about how to get 6 pack abs. Click here to find out my number one recommended supplement.” They’d click there and go over to a squeeze page and put the name and email address in and then boom, they were put on Josh and Joel’s list, and then those guys emailed the list every single day selling protein and things like that. And as they were selling all those things, all those commissions were going, excuse me, all the commissions would go to the person who referred them over to the squeeze page and they just sold, they’d sell people like crazy and all the commissions went back to that person. Just like in Clickfunnels. When someone sells one of my books and we get them to buy Clickfunnels, that affiliate still gets them money.  So he just put a squeeze page on every one’s thank you page. So it’s looking at that kind of thing. How can I go to other people that I know in my market who maybe have a little bit bigger following than me, and how do we start partnering together and we tag team together and we create cool things together? I’m trying to give you guys as many different tactical ideas to jolt your brain as possible. What else, what else? One thing is I’m thinking more just tactical ideas, I remember when I first got started in this game, Ifirst got the gist of list building, and I remember I started looking who the list builders were. And if you don’t know how the list builders are in your market, that’s your number one homework assignment, that’s even before writing the number on your board of how many people joined today. Who are the list owners in your market? And I’m talking about email lists. There’s so many different types of lists, but emails still to this day, are still the most powerful. Getting on someone’s podcast is good, and it’s awesome, but getting them to send an email for you is better and it’s faster. It just still is. Someday it may not be, but as of today, it’s still the best. So I’m talking about email list builder. So who are the email list owners in your market? So I remember that was the first thing I learned about building a list. I’m like, “Cool, who are the list owners?” and I started listing them out. I remember the ones at the time were like Joe Vitale, Mike Gillespie, who are the other names? All the different names. So I was like, “Okay, I’m going to do a deal.” And I remember Joe Vitale was the first one, I thought he was so cool. And he is cool actually, but I remember at the time I was like, ‘Joe Vitale is the man. I wanna be the like, I want him to promote my thing.” And I built this whole thing up and I remember I built a whole, I remember studying his stuff and going through and learning stuff, and I was like, “okay, I have something I can provide his audience, it’s going to be a huge deal.” And then I emailed him and guess what I heard back? Nothing. Crickets. Crap. So I emailed him again, nothing. I emailed him again, nothing. I’m like, ‘What a punk. He should be responding back to me. Doesn’t he know that I spent all this time and energy learning about him and focusing on him?” I say that because I’m being vulnerable but, I guarantee that happens to me all the time. I get people hitting me on Instagram, on Facebook, all sorts of places and I don’t respond back to them because I can’t. I’m drowning. Looking back now I’m like, “Joe, I get it. So sorry. It totally makes sense why you didn’t.” But he didn’t right. And I was trying all these people that were at this level up here, I’m reaching out to them, and none of them respond back to me, and I was all angry and mad. And then I remember I was just like, “Man, this game sucks. No one’s out here for the little guy. I thought this was, everyone was here to help each other, and apparently not.” All the bitterness that I could possibly have was all there. And then I went to this forum at the time and I met a dozen guys, who were all about my level. We’re all doing that same kind of thing, and no one had a huge list. I think my list was 200 people at the time, Mike Filsaime was one of the guys in there. Mike I think had a list of like 5 or 6000 people. He had just come out with a product called Carbon Copy Marketing and he had them on CDs and he would burn the CDs. I remember that I think he was charging $5 or $10 for them, and it was like a $97 product and it was cheap, and he was using it to list build.  Looking back now it’s like, oh he was doing it to list build. He started building up this huge list. So that’s what he was doing. And I emailed Mike and sent him a copy of my product, he’s like, ‘This is really cool. I’m going to promote it.” He promoted it and then I was like, “Cool man, thanks for promoting it. Who else do you know?” and he’s like, “Oh, you should meet this guy, this guy, this guy.” And he told me two or three other people, who same thing, had a list about the size of mine, maybe a little bit more, kind of the same area. And we got to know each other, and had another one promote me, then another guy promote me, then I promoted this guy. And we started, it was interesting, all these guys were at this level down here. And I remember looking at all these guys up here, like the Joe Vitale, Steven Peirce, all these guys that were untouchable, and we were down here. And we start promoting and cross promoting and helping each other out. And what happened was interesting. At that level we started getting bigger and started getting better and our list started getting bigger, and they started responding more and they started getting more people. And then every single person we brought in knew three or four other people and we’d get them in and we’d get them in. And pretty soon I’d have this network of 30 or 40 people and we’re all helping each other and cross promoting each other and doing deals together and co-branding products together and we’d both promote the product. Do all this stuff, and soon, in about a year, year and a half time our list got to the same size, or bigger, than these people I was looking up to. I remember by that time I was doing a project and I was like, “Oh, it’d be cool to do this thing with Joe Vitale.” But I was like, “I can’t message him. He hasn’t responded to like 6 of my messages.” I’m sure I said something stupid in there. I don’t even know. I probably said something, I don’t know, probably something embarrassing. But I was like, “I’m just going to email him.” And I emailed him and Joe’s like, “Oh man, I see you everywhere right now. I’d love to do something with you.” Emails me back instantly. I was like, “Oh my gosh. I’m in. I’m in the cool kids club.” Then we started doing deals with people at this level. And guess what, all of us grew to the next level and kept growing and growing and growing and that’s how we started growing. So I think it’s a big thing for all of you guys. Look in your market. Start looking around, who are the list owners and then get to know them. Build partnerships, build friendships, take them to dinner, buy them a party. And then actively try to figure out things. A lot of times I see people doing the dream 100 and they send gifts and try to do nice stuff, but they never ask for something. Ask for stuff! You’re both trying to help each other. Get on the call and be like, “How can we help each other? I’m really good at this, this, and this and you’re good at this. What can we do? Can we do a summit together? Can we do a cross promo? Should we create a product together? You promote it to your audience, I promote to my audience, we cross pollinate. What can we do?” And then after that stuff be like, ‘Who else do you know that I can work with?” they introduce you to people and you introduce them to those three people that you knew and worked with in the past. You start building this network of people that becomes super, super powerful. In fact, I’ve actually just written this in my Traffic Secrets book. This is a lot of spoilers for you guys, for when the book comes out in the near future. Do you guys remember the movie, Never Been Kissed with Drew Barrymore in it? It’s one of those cheesy movies, that I don’t know why I watched it but I did. I’m sure my wife made me. But in the movie Drew Barrymore goes to high school, she’s a complete loser, and then she leaves high school and then she gets a job as a reporter. And then her boss wants her to do a story on all the cool kids in high school who are all into drugs and all the stuff. So she’s like, ‘I’m going to go back to high school.’ And she goes back to high school and instantly within 5 seconds she’s back in with the nerds. She’s in the chess club, the music, and all these things like that. And all the stories she’s bringing back to her boss, he’s like, ‘I want a story about the cool kids. I don’t care about chess club and things like that.” So she tried to get into the cool kids club, and just gets rejected every single time. So she goes back home to her brother who is David Arquette and tells him this whole thing. And he was like the cool kid in high school. He was like, “You’re so lucky to be back in high school. I want to be back in high school.” And she’s like, “No, it’s horrible. The kids are so mean.” And he’s like, ‘If I were back in high school, I’d be cool again.” And she makes fun of him like, ‘No, you couldn’t be it.’ So the next day at school, she goes back to school again and all the sudden she sees her brother come in and she’s like, ‘what are you doing?” and he’s like, “I just registered for high school.” And she’s like, “Whatever.” Anyway, he walks into the lunch room the very first day and he grabs a big old tub of coleslaw from the lunch lady, stands up on the table, and starts trying to eat the entire thing of coleslaw. So he eats this whole thing of coleslaw, and all the jocks, all the cool kids around him chanting and cheering and by the time he’s done he’s just covered in coleslaw. And they pick him up and carry him out of the lunchroom. I maybe exaggerated the story. I can’t remember perfectly, it’s been about a decade since I’ve seen it, but you know what I mean. All the sudden he becomes the cool kid. And Josie, who’s Drew Barrymore’s character, goes back to him later and is so mad at him and frustrated. And he said, ‘No, no, I want to show you something.” So he walks over and teaches this principle that’s so, so powerful. Again, I’m slaughtering the story, but conceptually hopefully this makes sense. So he goes over and he starts telling people, “Hey you see that girl Josie over there? We used to date but she broke up with me. She is so cool, she is so blah, blah, blah, whatever.” And the guy’s like, “Really? She’s that cool?” “Oh yeah, she’s amazing.” And then all the sudden he goes and tells someone else and tells three or four people and all the sudden, within a day or two, all these people come over to Drew Barrymore’s character and bring her into their thing, and all the sudden, that quick, she’s one of the cool kids. And David Arquette’s character says something that’s so powerful. He said, “If you want to get into the cool kids club, all you need to do is get one cool kid to think you’re cool.” Boom. Are you guys getting this? So for you, as you’re building your dream 100 looking at this thing and trying to figure out, how do I get in this network of people? You don’t have to get everyone to say yes, you have to find one cool kid to think you’re good and you’re in. That was the moral of Tellman’s story that I told you guys 20 minutes ago. Tellman called 70 people in a row. 70 people told him no, and then one cool kid said yes, and the next 40 said yes. All you need is to get one kid to think you’re cool and you’re in. So who is that in your market? And if you don’t have a list of 10, 20, 30 people that are in your market, these people right here have my customers, they’re on their list right now. If I can figure out a way to work with them, their list will become my list. This is what we’re talking about. I’ve been preaching dream 100 for a decade and for a decade and for some reason the majority of people never do it. And dream 100 does not mean sending out big packages in the mail, it means Facebook messaging someone saying, “Hey, what’s up. What do you do? How can I help you? I’ve got a product, you’ve got a product, let’s do a deal together. What can we figure out?” that’s what dream 100 is at its core essence. It’s getting in there and networking and trying to find out who’s the cool kid. Because you get in with one cool person and that person thinks you’re cool, it opens up all the other doors. Does that make sense? For me, my cool kid was Mike Filsaime. As soon as Mike Filsaime said I was cool. He did my first promo on ZipBrander, one of my very first products ever, he went out and he’s like, “Hey Gary Ambrose, hey so and so, he so and so, this guy’s named Russell, he’s really cool. You should do deals with him.” And I did deals with all three of those guys. And I asked them, “who else do you guys know. You guys are awesome. Do you know any other cool guys like you?” They’re like, “Yeah, you should meet him and him and her and her and that person.” And brought me in, and then within months my network grew very, very big. And then all of us started cross pollinating, cross promoting and all of us as a market grew to the next level, and grew to the next level, and grew to the next level. Alright, does that make sense you guys? There’s a million tactical ways to build a list, but it just comes down to thinking about it differently. Think about it like that is your business, that is the core thing. How do I do it? Who already has my customers on the list? How do I get to know them? How do I become friends with them? What can I create with them to get them to promote my thing and I can promote their thing? How do we do these kind of things? And maybe, let’s say, coming back to Nick specifically on this one. Nicks new course in on Facebook live. And it’s like, okay who are people in your market that have a big, like have a fan page with 30, 40, 50, 100,000 followers right now. And come to that people and say, “Let’s be live together to your fan page, and let’s talk about the power of Facebook live’s and at the end we’ll make a special offer. I’ll pay you 75% commission on every single one.” Boom, that fast you’re in front of their entire audience. There’s a reason why I launched my book I said, “Tony Robbins, can you interview me?’ He’s like, “Sure, I’d love to interview you.” I’m like, “But not on my page. My page has my fans. I want to be interviewed on your page.” He’s like, “What?” I’m like, “Yeah. Let’s do the interview on your page.” And he’s like, “I guess.” So we do the interview on his page and guess what? His 3.2 million fans saw the interview because it was on his page, and I got all his people to come and buy my book. And then I asked Tony, “can my team login to your ad account and buy ads? I’ll pay for the ads, you’ll get affiliate commissions on it.” I’m selling my partners harder than I’m selling my customers. “I will login to your ads, I will pay for the ad cost and I’ll pay you affiliate commission and we’ll keep pushing the interview.” He’s like, “Sure.” So we logged into his ad account for like 3 months after that. I was spending as much money as possible to show every one of Tony’s fans my interview with Tony on his page. And we ended up getting, I think that video had 3 or 4 million views on it during that time. So it’s that thing. Aaron said, “The first step is admitting that we’re not the cool kids yet.” Exactly, exactly. Toby said, “I’m building a list of agency owners and marketing freelance, I have about a thousand so far. DM me if any of you guys want in.” You know as much I think Gary Vaynerchuk’s a…I’ll leave it there because this may be public some day. As much as I love Gary Vaynerchuk, the best thing he said, “You guys know what business development is, business development is getting your phone out, going to instagram and going to your DM’s and DMing each person. Not copying and pasting. Literally DMing each person a personal message. Like, ‘Hey, you’re awesome. Hey, you’re awesome.” By the way, I’m going to geek out for a second because I got really excited about this. My favorite author right now is a guy named Ryan Holladay, he’s written some of the most amazing books ever. So many good ones. Trust Me, I’m Lying is insane. It will change the way you look at the news, Perennial Seller about how to create works of art that last for forever. Super powerful. Then he wrote, Ego is the Enemy, The Obstacle is the Way, a whole bunch of other ones. So I follow him on Instagram and he’s got a new book coming out and posted a manuscript. I commented, “Dude, I love your books. I cannot wait to read that.” And then he DM’s me, my favorite author on the planet DM’s me personally. I’m like, “Ah.” So I DM him back and we’re back and now we’re like friends, that fast. I’m talking about “How can I serve you? Can I help promote your book? Can a do a thing? What can I do to help serve you?” I’m not asking for anything. I’m just trying to legitimately help him and serve him, and I guarantee some day in the future, who knows, a year, 5 years, 10 years something cool will happen from it. But I’m reaching out. So Gary Vaynerchuk, business development is sitting on Instagram DMing the cool people and trying to get in the cool people’s club, and commenting and saying stuff and being active in their lives, so that you’re not just some dude who shows up one day on their news feed, in their DM and they’ve never heard of you. Anyway, just a thought. Anyway, alright. The last thing I’ll say, just within this community you guys, and I’m saying this right now inside the Two Comma Club X community, the same thing if you’re listening on the Clickfunnels community. We create these communities for a reason and obviously there’s a lot of, not in the Two Comma Club Community, but in the Clickfunnels community there’s a lot of people that come in there and try to poach people and try to get customers, but there are amazing people in there as well. It’s like, how do you go in there and start looking around. Who are the people that are legit? Who are the people commenting, giving good value? Those are the people you should get to know. If they are in the forums commenting and posting and stuff like that, they’re trying to create business, they’re trying to do good stuff, they’re trying to help people. Those are the kind of people you want. Go in there and comment on their post. Yeah, that is cool. And go back to their FAcebook page, follow them, send them a message, get to know people. That’s part of this game. Yeah, that’s how this whole game is played. So anyway, I hope that helps all of you guys. I hope that helps you Nick. I hope it helps everyone here in Two Comma Club, and again, if I post this as a podcast, I hope it helps everybody else as well. It’s just shifting your mindset and start focusing on that. Because as much as I love funnels and as much as I love coaching, as much as I love software, as much as I love all that stuff, the only thing that matters at the end of the day is your customer list. Every funnel is built so I can grow my list. That’s it. That’s the purpose and that’s the reason. So I don’t know how long we’ve been going for tonight? Anyone know, anyone timing this? Anyway, I hope this is valuable to all you guys. I hope that it just becomes the focal point. I think within our community here in the forums be posting how many people joined your list today. “We got 10 today. We got 50 today. Got 20.” As soon as you start focusing on it it will keep on growing. I can’t tell you how much, the times that business has stalled, that’s the number to look at. Right now inside of Clickfunnels, it’s interesting. If you look at the Clickfunnels, every morning we do what we call the daily pulse, and it’s all hands on deck Charfin style meeting, we all jump in. It’s a 7 minute long meeting and guess what the meeting is? The meeting is each department sharing their critical numbers. And the critical numbers are like our traffic, how many books did we sell today, how many Clickfunnels trials did we sell, and how many new are on our list. That’s the numbers. And we’re looking at it every single day because whatever you look at grows. If you don’t look at it, it shrinks. Focusing on that, focusing on it, focusing on it. Gene says we’re 46 minutes in. Sweet. That’s almost as long as the first one Nick. So for those that don’t know, this is part three of his podcast coaching episodes. So the first, I’ll re….I talked about this at the very beginning, but for those that jumped on late, the very first one I did July 19, 2017. If you go to the marketing Secrets podcast and go to episode number 18, it’s called How to Make it Rain. And then a year later we did two more on November 21st, it was called My Conversation with a Friendly Giant, part one of two. And then November 26th is My Conversation With a Friendly Giant, part two of two. All of that is in the Marketing Secrets archives, go back and check them out. This will be the third installment. So next year, Nick, the whole, my goal for you is at that point your list is going to be at least 50,000 people big, and money will be flowing like crazy. And the questions are going be like, “so where, how do we invest this money. What’s the next step? I want to make sure I’m protecting my family and my future.” Because that’s the best place to be. And one more thing I want to comment o

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"Our approach is that we want to go out and we want to put up the best performance we can possibly put up on the day and that is all we are thinking about, what other people are doing is out of our control,” Meath football manager Andy McEntee is looking forward to Sunday's Leinster SFC final. On this week's Talk A Good Game podcast we bring you exclusive interviews with Meath manager Andy McEntee, selector Finian Muratgh and players James McEntee and Ben Brennan ahead of Sunday's Leinster SFC final clash with Dublin. We also caught up with Meath hurling boss Nick Fitzgerald, captain Sean Geraghty and influential full-back Darragh Kelly as they look forward to Saturday's Christy Ring Cup final against Down. Fergal Lynch reflects on Meath's comfortable victory over Wicklow in the Ladies Leinster IFC semi-final, while Jimmy Geoghegan talks about Meath going so close to recording a first ever win in the All-Ireland Senior Camogie championship against Dublin last week. We also have a quick look at how the A FLs finished up and see who is promoted, relegated and who will will contest the respective finals. It's jam-packed on Talk a Good Game this week, so sit back, relax and soak it all in, right here.

"Our approach is that we want to go out and we want to put up the best performance we can possibly put up on the day and that is all we are thinking about, what other people are doing is out of our control,” Meath football manager Andy McEntee is looking forward to Sunday's Leinster SFC final. On this week's Talk A Good Game podcast we bring you exclusive interviews with Meath manager Andy McEntee, selector Finian Muratgh and players James McEntee and Ben Brennan ahead of Sunday's Leinster SFC final clash with Dublin. We also caught up with Meath hurling boss Nick Fitzgerald, captain Sean Geraghty and influential full-back Darragh Kelly as they look forward to Saturday's Christy Ring Cup final against Down. Fergal Lynch reflects on Meath's comfortable victory over Wicklow in the Ladies Leinster IFC semi-final, while Jimmy Geoghegan talks about Meath going so close to recording a first ever win in the All-Ireland Senior Camogie championship against Dublin last week. We also have a quick look at how the A FLs finished up and see who is promoted, relegated and who will will contest the respective finals. It's jam-packed on Talk a Good Game this week, so sit back, relax and soak it all in, right here.

Only one place to start on this week's Talk A Good Game podcast as Meath booked their place in the Leinster SFC final for the first time since 2014 with a resounding 3-13 to 0-11 semi-final win over Laois at Croke Park last Sunday. After Sunday's match Meath boss Andy McEntee spoke to the assembled media, while Fergal Lynch caught up with Ronan Ryan and Jimmy Geoghegan spoke to Bryan McMahon deep in the belly of the Cusack Stand. Meath will now face Dublin in the provincial decider on what will be a busy weekend for the county in Croke Park. On Saturday 22nd June Meath will take on Down in the Christy Ring Cup and after last Saturday's semi-final victory over Derry Jimmy Geoghegan caught up with the Royals boss Nick Fitzgerald who was delighted to savour the moment with his son Evan and the rest of his players. Also on this week's show Conall Collier spoke to Davy Nelson as the Meath juniors earned their place in the Leinster JFC final against Kildare and he is now looking forward to a return to Croke Park on Sunday 23rd June. It all adds up to another jam-packed Talk A Good Game podcast and it's available here.

On this week's Talk A Good Game podcast Jimmy Geoghegan caught up with Meath hurling boss Nick Fitzgerald following the Ring Cup victory over Roscommon and the manager had strong words to say urging the Co Board to look at next weekend's fixtures ahead of the Ring Cup semi-final against Derry in Armagh on Saturday. Fergal Lynch spoke to Meath goalkeeper Andy Colgan about overcoming adversity, making progress and the challenges his side can expect to face against Laois in next Sunday's Leinster SFC semi-final in Croke Park. While Meath minor football manager Conor O'Donoghue also gives Conall Collier his reaction to his sides dramatic Leinster MFC quarter-final exit at the hands of Westmeath last Saturday. Fergal and Jimmy look ahead to next weekends massive games for both the hurlers and footballers and they also take a quick look at how the respective A FLs stand with just a round or two of games remaining. We also look back at Meath Ladies' impressive Leinster IFC win over Laois. All that and much, much more on this week's edition of Talk A Good Game right here

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My good friend Nick Fitzgerald joins me on today's show! He's an expert in eCommerce, and truly is a 1%er. What I really wanted him to share with you was his crazy experience in the army leading him to his latest accomplishment in business. Can you believe he became a medic in the army by 19 years old!? Even with all that going on, he always had a hustler mentality. In today's podcast Nick shares his work ethic and how the discipline he's acquired over the years has helped to shape him into the savvy businessman he is today! From being in the army, working in the fitness industry, competing in shows, running an insurance business, to eventually dominating eCommerce. His biggest key to success? Knowing that no one is going to do the work for you. He knew in order to be the best you need to be relentless and strategic in every move you make to be efficient. He also shares exactly how to get started in eCommerce and drop shipping, he believes it's a rising hit in business and easy to do if you're willing to give 110% effort. You don't want to miss out on this great interview with the eCommerce master, Nick Fitzgerald! ________________________________________ Thank you for watching this video, please share it and get the word out! What part of this video resonated with you the most? Comment below! SUBSCRIBE TO SAM'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW

"No disrespect to the two teams we have beaten, but they are probably the poorest London team that I've seen and definitely the poorest Kildare team that I've seen." Meath hurling manager Nick Fitzgerald wasn't getting carried away with his side's Christy Ring Cup hammering of Kildare and he is hoping his players can push on and win the competition. Also on this week's show Fergal Lynch and Jimmy Geoghegan reflect on the minor hurlers win over Antrim, while also looking ahead to Saturday evening's Leinster SFC quarter-final between Meath and Carlow in Portlaoise. As the A FLs reach their concluding stages Fergal and Jimmy also assess the main runners and riders still in contention for honours and also who the likely fallers will be. It's another jam-packed Talk a Good Game sports podcast from the Meath Chronicle team and you can listen to it here and now.

On this episode of the Future Leaders Podcast I had the Pleasure of Interviewing Nick Fitzgerald! If you got any value from this episode all we ask is that you subscribe and leave a review down below! Nick's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nickfitz/ My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vovatess/

A quick coaching session for Justin Guarini from American Idol, which will hopefully help you as well. On today’s episode Russell gives some advice to the members of 2CCX about how to fix a funnel if it’s not converting with paid ads. Here are some of the the helpful hints you will hear in this episode: How to keep the momentum going even when paid ads aren’t working. Why people who listen to podcasts are the best buyers. And how hitting the podcast circuit made Russell change the title of Expert Secrets. So listen here to find out what kind of advice Russell has if you’re feeling frustrated by your paid ads not converting. ---Transcript--- What's up everybody? This is Russell Brunson. Welcome to the Marketing Seekers Podcast. I got a special treat for you guys today. So, I found my 2 Comma Club X group, we've got some amazing entrepreneurs. One of the people who signed up this year was Justin Guarini, who is the dude who was on the first season of American Idol. He took second place to Kelly Clarkson, and then he was in the movie Justin and Kelly... I guess it was called. Then now he's the Dr. Pepper spokesman, a bunch of other cool things. He's a super awesome guy. He jumped into our community recently and then came for Lucky Live and joined the coaching program. He just launched his very first funnel. Anyway, it's fun watching him geek out, and it's super cool. Today he posted his funnel of live, actually a couple days ago, his funnel was live. Today he posted basically his ads aren't working yet and he's not sure what to do, and a little frustrated. Super positive still, but just kind of like, “It's not working yet.” Today I just really did a quick Facebook live into 2 Comma Club X groups, specifically to him, but to everybody. I thought it was really good, and some really important things for you guys as well. I'm going to just post the Facebook live here so you guys can listen to it. It's about 20 minutes long and the whole theme of it is what do you do while you're waiting for your paid ads to work. If you've been ever stuck in that situation, hopefully this episode will help you out a lot. Thanks so much and I'll keep the theme song. When we come back, I'll go directly into that Facebook live. Thanks everybody. Hey, what's up everybody? This is Russell again. Hope you guys are doing amazing. I know this is me going live twice in six hours, but when I'm on a roll, I'm on a roll, right? No, I'm just kidding. Last night, I went live and talked to you about some of the cool things I'm planning and thinking about for 2 CCX. And then, this morning I woke up, and I was going through my feed, and I saw the post that Justin made about his funnel going live, and the ads not working yet, and him being frustrated, and his post is really good. Hopefully you guys all had a chance to read it. I started sitting here this morning as I was taking my kids to the office, and I was like, “Okay, if Justin was sitting here, and he came to my office, what would I tell him? What would be the very first thing?” I had an idea and I thought it was really cool. I want to share with you guys, so I hope you don't mind. Is it okay if I just go live real quick today? My inner circle meetings start here in 30 minutes, so thought I would just take a moment out and insure it was, because I think it would be helpful for a lot of you guys, especially in a lot of you guys who are in this coaching program. You're here, you're on a budget and you're trying to figure things out. You spend all the time and the effort, the energy, going in, creating the funnel and the offer and getting it live and then you do all the work behind that. Which takes time, especially the very first time out the gate. The very first time you go and you do all the work and the effort to create it, and so you spend the time, the energy, the effort, you get the offer done, the hook, the story of the copy, all this stuff, the funnel. You're like, "Okay, now it has to work," and you're nervous, what if it doesn't work? And you put everything into it and then you go and you put a Facebook ads and Facebook ads are the greatest and the worst thing at all, because you go write the ad and then you go get submitted and approved and put your money and all kinds of stuff. Then you wait and then something happens, the day the ad gets approved or you spend $100 and nobody buys anything. Or you spend $1000 nobody buys a thing and you're like, "Ah." And you're like, "I don't even know what to do now. Do I stop the ad? Do I change the funnel? Do I change the offer? Was the offer bad? Did I screw the whole thing up?" And all this fear starts coming. That's where a lot of use get to, and then you're like, "I don't know what to do." And then you're like, I'm out, or I'm going to bail, or I'm going to want to lean in like girls keeps saying, but I don't know what to lean into. What do I do? Where do I shift? That's where a lot of you guys are at. And that's what Justin posted yesterday or maybe it was this morning. First of all know that I feel for you, I know that pain and that frustration and that fear and all the things that go into it and you're like, "Man, I spent three months building this. I don't even know what to change or what to write." Then there's that fear. I wanted to step back and give you guys some, some advice and hopefully some hope and belief because it's definitely the pieces needed right here in the journey. What I would say is, first off, it's interesting now this funnel, I have a to funnel hacking live as you know my keynote intro presentation, I talked about the different phases of business, from going zero to a million, million to 10, 10 to 100. The whole thing between going from zero to a million is by far the hardest phase, I think. It's also the most exciting, I love the startup phase. That's why I love the coaching, I love that piece of it. But what's interesting is going from zero to million, the biggest things you have to figure out, there's two questions to figure out. The number ones is what am I selling? It's not what do I want to sell? It's what does the market actually want? That's the first thing. The second thing is, how do I sell it? So the what in the how? I was talking about what am I selling it? How am I selling them? Part of the what is initially, it's a guess like, "Okay, I'm guessing this is it, maybe this is it." And you put out there and you just hope that it's the thing and sometimes you know about the hands, boom, the market is like, "That's what I want," and they freak out and is really good. Other times you put it out there and the market, doesn't really want it or not very many people and that's okay. Don't get discouraged. For me it took a whole bunch of what's before I hit click funnels. 14 years of what's, but what's cool about it is each of these different what's you're putting out there, can increment a lot of success where you're growing your list, customers are buying, more people get to know you. You create the next thing and the next thing and they all build upon each other to like boom, something hits. Don't freak out. The very first thing you put out there doesn't have to be a million dollar winners. Just the act of getting out there, because the very first thing you put out is the hardest because you have to learn all the steps. I had to learn how to build a funnel and drive copy and do a hook and an offer and create a product and do an E-cover and put it. All the things, and I always tell people, my very first product I ever created was a software product called Zip brander. Looking at Zip brander as a whole was a complete failure. I think I've probably sold 200 copies Max, but at the same time it was the biggest success that I've had because it was the first time I did the whole process from a to z, where I bought the domain, got graphics design wrote copies, created a product, start a driving traffic, made a few sales, and even though it wasn't my million dollar thing it was like I did the process once and the second time I was like, "Oh, this is easy." I already know who I'm getting for copies, doing design. The next part became really easy. Every funnel after that, I kept doing funnel after funnel until I started having some big successes. First thing is just the fact that you got the first thing done. That's huge, that's the what, the second is how, what am I selling and how am I selling it? That's the second question is how do I sell them? Ideally the the end goal is I want that Facebook ad, I can scale, I can just spend $1,000 a day and then make 5,000 a day. It's just rolling. That's where we're all trying to get to, but the reality is, and I want to step back for a minute because the reality is paid ads. Well that's the holy grail. That's what we're trying to get to. It's not always the first thing, in fact, I didn't do paid ads in my business for the first decade, which is crazy. 10 years of my business before I ever paid for that. It's interesting because nowadays we always leave, go to paid ads. The reason why is because as soon as you can get paid ads to work, it's the holy grill and life becomes super easy. But it's not always the easiest thing at first, especially right now where you create the ad, you put the time and effort and energy in and then like, "Oh, are you going to pay for the ad?" And then like "It didn't work" and then like, "Oh, what do I do?" And you tweaks the ad in then you wait again another day. Especially for us entrepreneurs who our momentum driven, we're trying, we're moving, the momentum is what gets us going. Running Facebook ads when they're not working at first it's the opposite of momentum. It's like you hit this brick wall, I put it behind me. If you hit a brick wall and like, oh, and then you change the ad and you try it again. It's like, oh, I hit a brick wall. And it's like you lose this momentum. It's this huge let down. Right. Justin I felt that I was reading your post stages just like, "Oh, I did the work, the effort and the ads aren't working and I need the momentum to keep me excited and motivated but the momentum's gone because the ad's not working and I don't know, do I change the offer [inaudible] pages to the add." All these things. So what I want to do is I want to step back because, if I was looking at traffic strategies, if I was starting a new business, the first thing I probably wouldn't do is Facebook and I shouldn't say that. I would start Facebook ads initially because I want to get that working as fast as possible. I wouldn't give up on that. I would keep doing that, making the tweaks and the changes. During that process where you're waiting for your ads to hit, where your waiting for it to work, while you're waiting for the slowness of initial grind, while you're waiting for things to hit, you don't want to stop momentum, you want to keep the momentum going, otherwise you're it's going to be frustrating. For me, it's, what would I do if I was starting over from it right now? Let's say I put together a book or an offer or a landing page or whatever I need. I need traffic coming. Waiting for Facebook ads to work, what would I do right now? For me, what I would be doing right now is I would be going old school. In fact, it's funny, I'm writing the traffic secrets book right now and literally last week worked on this chapter. It all comes down to the dream 100. What's the concept of the dream 100? Dream 100 are, who are the hundred people that already have your dream clients all in? Who are those people? Then how do I get from their audiences for free? In the book I talk about this two ways to get into the dream 100. Number 1 is you buy your way in, and number two, is you work your way in. If I was to do this today is I would start with podcasts. Poddcasts is the channel I would choose initially. I'm going to say a couple things. I'll wrap it into a bowl that will make more sense. I would start with a channel of podcasting, because obviously we have Facebook, we have Instagram, we have youtube, we have all these things, but podcasting is by far the channel I would lead with. The reason why is podcast listeners are the best buyers. These are my dream audience. They are the reason why I run my own podcast. The reason why I go on other people's podcasts, podcast listeners are the best buyers by far. I read a study and I'm going to script the numbers, but it was the average human who listens to the radio makes $30,000 a year, and the average human who listened to podcasts makes over $100,000 a year. Just by the fact that they have the podcast app on their phone and they are listening to content, makes them a better, how do I say that it's rude to say, but it doesn't make them a better human. You can be a good human and listen to music all day, but they make them a better buyer, better consumer. They make more money on average and they're into development, there into learning anyway. They're your dream customers. I'd do is I'd say, okay, I'm going to focus on the podcast channel and you think about any movie. Like when Avengers Endgame came out, which by the way, was the most insane movie of all time, so good. What happened? Watch the rollout. What happened is that they were basically they build the dream 100 for them it was TV shows, So it's like, "Okay, who are all the shows?" And that obviously marvel studios was buying ads, they were on Facebook, they were on youtube, they were on TV, they were buying ads for their show. Then they sent all of they're attractive characters out to go and work their way in. They were on Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and The Today show and Good Morning America. They were out there doing the circuit, getting the free traffic. They're not doing the free stuff while marvel is doing the paid ads. While you're training your paid ads to work, you should do the same thing as going out there and working your way in, getting into the circuit. I would go to the iTunes directory and any podcast directory, I would go look through the top 100 in every category. Of all these different podcasts who are the people that already my dream customers listening to this podcast. It doesn't have to be like... For me I wouldn't say just people in the business category. I would look at business, personal development. I would look at different categories. Because again, podcast listeners are all, if they're listening to podcasts, they're into personal development, which means they're into all sorts stuff. I would go and I'd make my dream 100 lists of here's the top 100 podcasts I want to get on. Then I was thinking, now my job, my goal is to get on all these podcasts. What's going to happen is while you're on these podcasts is a couple of things. Number one, this is free traffic, you're not paying to be on these podcasts, you're getting on to be interviewed, so number one, it's not costing you money. Number two is something you can be doing every single day so it's continuing momentum as opposed to buying an ad. You're writing out in the city, I can waiting and like nervously tapping your fingers, waiting for the thing to happen. There's something active you can be doing to move forward. Number two is that you're going to have a chance as you're on these podcasts to be interviewed, to start listening to what are the phrase that people ask? What the questions they're asking? What are people responding to? What are they not responding to? I was talking to Nick Fitzgerald yesterday and he did an event right before funnel or before on the 2 Comma X event and he said it was interesting. Today as I was going through my content. He's like, some things he is like, I felt it, I felt that I could just hit it, landed people connected with it. I was like, that's something that most people miss when they're just doing paid ads. What are the things people connect with? When you have this live platform, it's fascinating how quickly you find out, what are the things they hit? What are the things that don't hit? Even if you're just one on one, in an interview with somebody, by you just sharing your message over and over again, you start finding and refining like, "Oh man, that's the thing that the host, like his ears perked up" or I felt as I was delivering that I can feel the energy of that statement or that phrase that got people excited. You start learning those things really quickly. If you go out and you do a podcast, five podcasts, 10 podcasts, 30 podcasts, 50 podcasts, by doing that, you will learn your what so much better. What does it that I'm actually selling? What does the market actually want? So many times I've had a product that I tried to sell, like the expert secrets book for example. You may not know this, but the first thing I did is Extra Secrets Book came out is I did the podcast circuit. I went into the dream 100, pulled out every single podcast owner I could find. And I started going out there. And what's funny is if you bought one of the first 5,000 copies of The Expert Secrets Book, the title of the book was The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Mass Movement Online. Because I was like that was the title, that was the what and as I started in the interviews, I really quickly within the first three, four years, I realized that that subtitle did not connect with people. No one wanted to build a mass movement. I was like, oh. And every time I brought that up, it was just like, okay, but it was just, it didn't feel right. I don't know how to explain it other than that. It was wrong. I've learned that very quickly in podcasts and I literally, after like six podcasts, I messaged the publisher, I'm like, before the next printing we're changing the sub title. He was like, 'You can't do that." I'm like, "We are freaking doing that." Because I found out from the market that is not what they want. They do not want to build a mass movement. The book can stay the same, but the hook initially has to change. We changed it from Expert Secrets, The Underground Play book to building a mass movement, people who will pay you for your advice. That was the old subtitle to the new one, which is the Underground Playbook to find your message, build a tribe and change the world. In fact, I know who was my top, I think I came to just five or 10,000 copies of the first run. I know whenever people share on Instagram or Facebook, "I am reading Russell's book." I know when they bought in the cycle because we literally change the title of the book after hitting the podcast circuits. Because I found out that the messaging was wrong and I wish I would've done that before I wrote the book because the first 10,000 copies of the cover has a different subtitle. You guys probably didn't know that. I found out that that was the message that resonated. People wanted to find their message. They want to build a tribe and they want to change the world. That was the messaging that for the rest of the launch and has been going on for the last two years now. I didn't know that until I hit the podcast circuits. We've sold tens of thousands of copies of books through the podcast circuit. A couple other things on podcast. Number one is Facebook is like if you're the DOTCOM secrets book, I talk about cold traffic, warm traffic and hot traffic. Hot traffic is your own buyers. That's the people that are the best, they start moving down the spectrum. I would say the next best buyers after your own traffic are podcasts listeners, because they may not be your hot traffic, but they are definitely more than warm. They're listening to somebody talk about something every single day. Plugging into the ears, podcast listeners are amazing because they're listening during the most intimate times of your life. While I'm on the treadmill while I'm driving. You have different access to somebody's mind in a podcast that any other format. It is by far, I think the best delivery mechanism is podcasts. The hot traffic is your own customers. Next is podcast traffic and then it goes down to whatever. Like Facebook ads are warm to cold. Because you're targeting based of interests. Like, "oh I know they're interested in Tony Robbins and business, now, they're going to see my ad." But those are just warn people. They don't know who I am, they don't have an intimate connection with Tony Robins specifically. Maybe they liked his page and so because they're seeing the ad, whereas podcasts, listeners, you know that they subscribe, they listen, they plug in for 15, 20, 30 an hour a day to listen to the content. That is like... And you know that just the fact that listening to podcasts, the average podcast listener makes over $100,000 a year. So you know, they actually have money and you have a format where you don't have five seconds of the ad try captures attention, you have a longer 15, 30, 60 minute time to build the relationship with that audience before you push them to go to your free plus shipping or your book offer or your Webinar or things like that. Again, there's so many channels and dream 100 we'll go deeper throughout this year and as you guys get The Traffic Secrets Book, things like that, we're build June 100 channels like crazy. If I was you guys right now, especially just in listening to you, but anybody like this message is for him, but it's for everybody right now. I would say, "Okay, while I'm waiting for my ads to work, the next things I'm hitting the circuits just like I would if I was launching a movie, I'd be on Jimmy Fallon, Good Morning America, Today Show" all kinds of stuff. For you the equivalent of that is the podcast circuits. So it's going to iTunes, going to any podcast directory, going through the top 100 top 200 top 300 of all these different channels and going into there and you may think I like, "Oh, I'm not going to get on top 10 po... You don't have to get on top 10 list of the podcast. Right now, my podcast gets anywhere from 10 to 30,000 downloads per episode. I'm not in the top 250, I have enough listens to, but for some reason iTunes hates me. I don't know why they used to love me. I was in the top 10 lists for two years and then they slapped me and they won't even listen to the directory and that sucks. But my podcasts still gets insane amounts of downloads. Even if you get into a podcast, it's like 250 or 500 or maybe something listed. It does not matter. It just matters that you're getting out there. You're going to find your voice, you're going to find your message and find the hooks, the angles, this is your time to learn and present and be able to figure out what it is you're selling, how to sell all those intricacies of your message will be learned during this podcast circuit. Then like I said, even if you're in smaller podcasts, they may have 500 people or so, if you have some of those 500 people are their best buyers, their best listeners, people are connected. If I was starting over from scratch, that's what I would do. In fact, if you watched the launch for mastermind.com with, with Dean and Tony. Dean literally did 60 podcasts interviews to launch that thing. That's how we launched initially. First steps 60 podcasts interviews. When a Tony Robbins launch Money Master the game. 220 interviews in podcasts, radio ad TV before any paid ads. When traffic secrets books comes out, guess what I'll be doing first? The podcast circuits, it is where I would begin with so while you are buying ads and trying to figure that out because again the ad part is going to be frustrated and you're going to lose momentum if it doesn't hit initially and I do not want, I need you guys lose the momentum. You need to be running as fast as you can. Every one of you guys. What you need to be doing right now is going into the podcast directories, building your dream 100 and contact him saying, "Hey" and don't mass email them all. "Hey everyone put me into podcast." Listen to each of their podcasts and then put in the time and the effort. I listen to a ton of podcasts because I want to make sure that when I get on the show with the podcast host I don't look like an idiot. I be like, "Hey dude, I listen to your podcast is awesome. My favorite episode, when you interviewed so and so. That was super cool." Hey, by the way, I've got a really cool message. If you want, I love to be on the podcast, I could talk about this, this and this. Those are the ones people returned your calls. There you go. Podcast is it. It's like the secret nest of the best buyers on the Internet are all sitting there, plugged in listening to stuff every single day. The best thing about podcast hosts, almost all of them are craving content. They're looking for people to interview. It's not hard to get on their shows. You just got to have an interesting story and then pitch the story to them. Even if I was trying to get on TV, I'd be like, "Hey, put me on the news tonight." Like why? Because I can tell you three things about how to blah, blah. Justin for you, you've got so much street credit already. Just be like, "Hey, I'm going to show you guys how to land auditions, the struggles I had, I'm going to tell you guys behind the scenes of how I got an American idol and then how I got the Dr Pepper commercial." That's an interesting interview. Anyone would be like, "Oh my gosh, that'd be amazing." It wouldn't just be... There's so many categories that would fit underneath. It's not just one category in iTunes. There's so many categories and you can be on 30, 50 interviews and next 30 days if you just went out there, start hitting the circuits, contacting them, listening to them, listen to part of someones podcasts, message them directly. "Hey, love your podcast. I love the interview. I think I would love to do a show with you if you'd be interested. Here's some things I can bring the table, the stories I can tell." Like I said, most of these people are craving content and your story, it would be amazing. There you go. Hope that helps you guys. I got to jump. I got an inner circle happening right now. I just wanted to message just before I got started today because I saw justice message. I know he's not the only one struggling with this. A lot of you guys are, and hopefully this gives you as a shortcut, even if you don't have an offer done yet, go hit the podcast circuits. If all you have is a landing page with the opt in form, go and hit the podcast circuits. They are the secret honeypot of buyers. They're sitting there waiting for you. While you're waiting, again Facebook ads, Google ads, YouTube ads, that's the holy grail. It's what we're working towards, we want to get that because we can set, because that's when you guys sit back and like these things running and then making sales for you all day, every single day. Right now, while you're waiting for that to hit, now's the time to do the circuits. I appreciate you guys. Hope it helps. Have an amazing day. And like I said, next week I'm going to start dropping some cool stuff in here for you guys. I'll let you eavesdrop into all the Comma training, so appreciate you, excuse me, all my internal training with my team, so appreciate you guys, have amazing day and we'll talk to you all guys soon. Bye everybody.

Bucs QB Nick Fitzgerald talked to the media on Saturday before the team's rookie mini-camp practice.

Happy opening day! After a montage of classic baseball calls, I breakdown the three things I'm looking for this season in the MLB. Also on the show, why Nick Fitzgerald should be used differently by NFL teams than Taysom Hill.

World backup day is on March 31. Andy chats to Nick FitzGerald, senior research fellow at ESET about protecting yourself against data loss and the role the Internet security software plays.

Nick Fitzgerald will perform in front of a flock of NFL scouts today at Mississippi State's annual Pro Day. Prior to that, he joined SportsTalk Mississippi to talk about his preparation for that and the NFL Combine, and what he has planned to help Blair E. Batson Children's Hospital via his throwing arm. Photo courtesy of Mississippi State athletics

Borkey needs advice - Nick Fitzgerald joins the show - Mike Anderson was fired - Kendall Rodgers of D1 Baseball joins - Attendance is WAY down in CFB - and more

SEC Mike Bratton asks his cousin Shane for his reaction to Tennessee's loss in Nahsville (1:00), Johnny Manziel lands with Memphis AAF team (2:30), Around the League: Tua on what stands out from last year's disappointing end to the season (5:00), Gus Malzahn opens spring practice and discusses the team's QB competition (10:00), Mississippi State QB Keytaon Thompson on what Nick Fitzgerald said to him entering the spring (20:30), Nick Starkel won't wear Razorback gear until he earns it (23:00), Coach Sinclair on his second job down in Athens (25:30), Florida spring practice hype reel and announce 2019's homecoming game (31:30), Tennessee spring practice hype reel (34:30), Jeremy Pruitt on Aubrey Solomon's practice debut (36:30), Thomas Brown having a great time during his first spring at South Carolina (41:00), Big Kat Drill is back at LSU (44:00), Ed Orgeron about to land an extension (48:30), SEC exploring potential change to division scheduling & overtime rules (50:00) Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-sec-football-podcast/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SEC Mike Bratton asks his cousin Shane for his reaction to Tennessee's loss in Nahsville (1:00), Johnny Manziel lands with Memphis AAF team (2:30), Around the League: Tua on what stands out from last year’s disappointing end to the season (5:00), Gus Malzahn opens spring practice and discusses the team’s QB competition (10:00), Mississippi State QB Keytaon Thompson on what Nick Fitzgerald said to him entering the spring (20:30), Nick Starkel won’t wear Razorback gear until he earns it (23:00), Coach Sinclair on his second job down in Athens (25:30), Florida spring practice hype reel and announce 2019’s homecoming game (31:30), Tennessee spring practice hype reel (34:30), Jeremy Pruitt on Aubrey Solomon’s practice debut (36:30), Thomas Brown having a great time during his first spring at South Carolina (41:00), Big Kat Drill is back at LSU (44:00), Ed Orgeron about to land an extension (48:30), SEC exploring potential change to division scheduling & overtime rules (50:00)

Gary and Chris reconvene for a little football talk for the first show together in March. The two discuss the following topics: - Florida vs Miami might be moved to Aug 24th - Nick Starkel is transferring from Texas A&M to Arkansas to compete with SMU grad transfer Ben Hicks - North Carolina QB Nathan Elliot is leaving UNC for Arkansas St... to be a graduate assistant coach. - NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel meets on April 17th to go over 4 different rule change proposals - Bruce Feldman and Stewart Mandel released their 2019 list of the top 25 college football coaces - If Kliff Kingsbury is successful in the NFL in year 1, does Mike Leach's stock rise? - Trace McSorley and Nick Fitzgerald were asked to workout at different positions than QB at the NFL Combine - Johnny Manziel was cut & kicked out of the CFL. Is he ever going to be on an NFL Roster again? - How much is Antonio Brown hurting his value? What is his next team and what can the Steelers get for him? Come hang out with us for the NCAA Tournament at Sam's Town Casino in Tunica, MS on Thurs, March 21 and Fri, March 22nd! Live show 2x each day! www.facebook.com/events/1192888844224231/ ---------- ► Find out more about Tunica, MS sports books! www.tunicatravel.com/sports-books?u…Landing%20Page ► Get today's picks here: www.winningcureseverything.com/gambling-picks ► Site: www.winningcureseverything.com ► YouTube: www.youtube.com/winningcureseverything ► Store: www.winningcureseverything.com/store/ ► Podcasts: www.winningcureseverything.com/podcasts ► Facebook: www.facebook.com/winningcureseverything ► Twitter: www.twitter.com/winningcures ► Gary's twitter: www.twitter.com/garywce ► Chris's twitter: www.twitter.com/chrisbgiannini #WinningCuresEverything

Listen to part two of my private coaching session with Nic Fitzgerald. The lessons I shared with him here are the same ones I would share with you if we could meet face to face. On today’s episode Russell continues his chat with Nick Fitzgerald and gives him a list of seven things he can do to help his business grow. Here are some of the awesome things to look forward to in this episode: What a few things that Nick got close to doing totally right, but missed a few key elements. How Nick can collaborate with others in the Two Comma Club X to be able to grow his customer list. And how Russell went from being a nobody, to having Tony Robbins call him to ask for help and how Nick can use that advice to advance his own business. So listen here to find out what the 7 things are that Nick and anyone else can do to grow a business. ---Transcript--- Hey everybody, welcome to Marketing Secrets podcast. I’m so excited, I’m here on stage right now at the Two Comma Club X event with Mr. Nick Fitzgerald onstage. A year ago I gave a podcast to him about how to make it rain and this is section number two. Now those of you who don’t know, in the last 12 months since I did that podcast he’s been making it rain and he’s been changing his life, his family’s lives, but more importantly, other people’s lives as well. And it’s been really cool, so that’s what we’re going to cover today during this episode of the podcast. So welcome back you guys. I’m here on stage with Nick Fitzgerald, so excited. So I made a list of seven things that if I was to sit in a room with him in front of a whole bunch of people I’d be like, “Hey Nick, you’re doing awesome, but here’s some things to look at that I think will help you a lot with what you’re doing.” So number one, when Nick first kind of started into this movement that he’s trying to create, I don’t know when it was, if you created this before or after. When did you create the Star Wars video? Nick: This was, we talked in July, it was September/October. So a few months later. Russell: How many of you guys have seen his Star Wars video? Okay, I’m so glad. For those who are listening, about 10% of the room raised their hand, the other 90% who are friends and followers and fans of Nick have never seen the Star Wars video. His Star Wars video is his origin story and it is one of the best videos I have ever, by far the best video I’ve seen him do, it is insanely good. It comes, do you want to talk about what happened in the video? It’s insanely good. Nick: So I told the story of, I’m a huge Star Wars nerd, so if you didn’t know that, now you do. When I was young my grandma who lived in the same neighborhood as me, she took me to go see Return of the Jedi in the movie theater and I was such a Star Wars nerd, even at a young age, that when I was playing at the neighbors house, and you know, it’s the 80s, so mom and dad are like, “Nick, come home for dinner.” That kind of thing, I would ignore them. I would not come home until they called me “Luke”. No lie. I would make them call me Luke, or I would ignore them. I would not hear them. Russell: Had I known this in high school I would have teased him relentlessly. Nick: So my grandma took me and I remember going and it was so fun because we took the bus, it was just a fun thing. And we went and I just remember walking in and handing my ticket to the ticket person. And then popcorn and just the smells of everything. And again, this is the 80s so walking in the movie theater; I almost lost a shoe in the sticky soda, {sound effects} going on. I just remember how my feet stuck to the floor and all that stuff. And then just being so excited to see my heroes on the big screen and Dark Vader, I just remember watching it. This is such a silly thing to get emotional about, but you know I remember the emperor and Darth Vader dying and all that stuff. It was just like, ah. It was a perfect day. Sorry sound dude. But it was just a perfect day with my grandma who has always been dear to me. So the purpose of that video, I’d put it off for a long time. I knew I needed to tell my own story if I’m going to be helping somebody else tell theirs. And I put it off for a long time, because working through things, I was afraid that if it sucked, if the story was terrible, if the visuals were crappy, that was a reflection on me and my skills. I had worked on a bazillion Hallmark Christmas movies, you know how they put out like 17 trillion Christmas movies every year, if one of those sucks, no offense, they’re not riveting television. Russell: They all suck. Nick: That wasn’t a reflection on me, I was just doing the lighting or the camera work. I didn’t write the story, it wasn’t my story. But this was me, so I put it off for a long time because I knew if I didn’t execute how I envisioned it, that it would reflect poorly on me, and it would be like I was a fraud. So the purpose of the video, there were three purposes. One to tell a story and get people to connect with me on a personal level. As I told that story here, how many of you remembered your feet sticking to the floor of a movie theater? How many of you, when I talk about the smell of popcorn and that sound, you felt and heard and smelled that. So it was one thing, I wanted people to connect with me and just see that I was just like you. Then I wanted to show that I could make a pretty picture. So I had that and I used my family members as the actors. And then I went and talked about how…and then I wanted to use it to build credibility. I’ve worked on 13 feature films and two television series and shot news for the NBC affiliate and worked in tons of commercials. So I’ve learned from master story tellers and now I want to help other people find and tell their story. And then I showed clips of stories that I tell throughout the years. So that was, I just remember specifically when I finally went and made it live, I made a list of about 20 people, my Dream 100 I guess you could say. I just wanted to send them and be like, “Hey, I made this video. I would love for you to watch it.” And Russell’s on that list. So I sent that out and made it live and then it was just kind of funny, it didn’t go viral, I got like 5000 views in a day, and it was like “whoa!” kind of thing. But it was just one of those things that I knew I needed to tell my story and if I wanted to have any credibility as a story teller, not as a videographer, but as a story teller, being able to help people connect, and connect hearts and build relationships with their audience, I had to knock it out of the park. So that was my attempt at doing that. Russell: And the video’s amazing, for the 10% of the room who saw it, it is amazing. Now my point here for Nick, but also for everyone here, I wrote down, is tell your story too much. Only 10% of the room has ever seen that video or ever heard it. How many of you guys have heard my potato gun story more than a dozen times? Almost the entire room, for those that are listening. Tell your story to the point where you are so sick and tired of telling the story and hearing it, that you just want to kill yourself, and then tell it again. And then tell it again. And then tell it again, because it is amazing. The video is amazing, the story is amazing. How many of you guys feel more connected to him after hearing that story right now? It’s amazing. Tell t he story too much. All of us are going to be like, “I don’t want to hear the story. I don’t want to tell the story again.” You should be telling that story over and over and over again. That video should be showing it. At least once a week you should be following everyone, retargeting ads of that video. That video should be, everyone should see it. You’ve got 5,000 views which is amazing, you should get 5,000 views a day, consistently telling that story, telling that story. Because you’re right, it’s beautiful, it’s amazing and people see that and they’re like, “Oh my gosh, I need that for my business. I need to be able to tell my story the way he told that story, because the connection is flawless.” And I think my biggest thing for you right now, is tell your story more. Tell that thing. You’re telling good stories, but that story, that’s like your linchpin, that’s the thing that if you can tell that, it’s going to keep people connected to you for forever. Anyone who’s seen that video, you have a different level of connection. It’s amazing, it’s shot beautifully. You see his kids looking at the movies, with lights flashing, it’s beautiful. So telling your story more, that’d be the biggest thing. It’s just like, all the time telling that story over and over and over again. That’s number one. Alright, number two, this one’s not so much for you as much for most of everybody else in here, but number two is that energy matters a lot. I’m not talking about, I’m tired during the day. I’m talking about when you are live, or you are talking in front of people, your energy matters a lot. I was hanging out with Dana Derricks, how many of you guys know Dana, our resident goat farmer? By the way, he’s asked every time I mention his name is please not send him anymore goats. He’s gotten like 2 or 3 goats in the last month from all of our friends and family members here in the community. Please stop sending him goats. He loves them but he doesn’t want any more. Anyway, what’s interesting, I was talking to Dana, and he’s like, “Do you know the biggest thing I’ve learned from you?” and I’m like, “No. what?” and I thought it was going to be like dream 100 and things like that. No, the biggest thing that Dana learned from me, he told me, was that energy matters a lot. He’s like, “When I hang out with you, you’re kind of like blah, but when you get on stage you’re like, baaahh!” and I started telling him, the reason why is when I first started this career, in fact, I have my brother right now pulling all the video clips of me from like 12 or 13 years ago, when I had a shaved head and I was awkward like, “Hi, my name is Russell Brunson.” And we’re trying to make this montage of me over 15 years of doing this and how awkward and weird I was, and how it took 8-10 years until I was normal and started growing my hair out. But I’m trying to show that whole montage, but if you look at it like, I was going through that process and the biggest thing I learned is that if I talked to people like this, when you’re on video you sound like this. The very first, I think I’d have an idea and then I’d just do stupid things. So I saw an infomercial, so I’m like I should do an infomercial. So I hired this company to make an infomercial and next thing I know two weeks later I’m in Florida and there’s this host on this show and he’s like the cheesiest cheese ball ever. I’m so embarrassed. He asked me a question and I’m like, “Well, um, you know, duh, duh…” and he’s like, “Whoa, cut, cut, cut.” He’s like, “Dude, holy crap. You have no energy.” I’m like, “No, I feel really good. I have a lot of energy right now.” He’s like, “No, no you don’t understand. When you’re on tv, you have to talk like this to sound normal. If you just talk normal, you sound like you’re asleep.” I’m like, “I don’t know.” So we did this whole infomercial and he’s like all over the top and I’m just like, trying to go a little bit higher and it was awkward. I went back and watched it later, and he sounded completely normal and I looked like I was dead on the road. It was weird. Brandon Fischer, I don’t know if he’s still in the audience, but we did…Brandon’s back here. So four years ago when Clickfunnels first came out we made these videos that when you first signed up we gave away a free t-shirt. How many of you guys remember seeing those videos? I made those videos and then they lasted for like four years, and then we just reshot them last week because it’s like, “Oh wow, the demo video when we’re showing CLickfunnels does not look like Clickfunnels anymore. It’s completely changed in four years.” So Todd’s like, “You have to make a new video.” I’m like, “I don’t want to make a video.’ So finally we made the new videos, recorded them and got them up there and we posted them online, and before we posted them on, I went and watched the old ones, and I watched the old ones and I was like, “Oh my gosh, this is just four years ago, I am so depressing. How did anybody watch this video?” It was bad, right Brandon. It was like painfully bad. I was like, “oh my gosh.” That was just four years ago. Imagine six years ago, or ten years. It was really, really bad. And when I notice the more energy you have, the more energy everyone else has. It seems weird at first, but always stretch more than you feel comfortable, and it seems normal, and then you’ll feel better with it and better with it. But what’s interesting about humans is we are attracted to energy. I used to hate people talking energy talk, because I thought it was like the nerdy woo-woo crap. But it’s so weird and real actually. I notice this in all aspects of my life. When I come home at night, usually I am beat up and tired and worn out. I get up early in the morning, and then I work super hard, I get home and I get out of the car and I come to the door and before I open the door, I’m always like, Okay if I come in like, ugh, my whole family is going to be depressed with me.” They’ll all lower to my energy level. So I sit there and I get into state and I’m like, okay, whew. I open the door and I’m like, “What’s up guys!! I’m home!” and all the sudden my kids are like, “Oh dad’s home!” and they start running in, it’s this huge thing, it’s crazy, and then the tone is set, everyone’s energy is high and the rest of the night’s amazing. When I come in the office, I walk in and realize I’m the leader of this office and if I come in like, “Hey guys, what’s up? Hey Nick, what’s up?” Then everyone’s going to be like {sound effect}. So I’m like, okay when I come in I have to come in here, otherwise everyone is going to be down on a normal level. I have to bring people up. So we walk in the office now and I’m like, “What’s up everybody, how’s it going?” and I’m excited and they’re like, “Oh.” And everyone’s energy rises and the whole company grows together. So l love when Dave walks through the door, have you guys ever noticed this? When Dave walks through the door, I’m at a 10, Dave’s like at a 32 and it’s just like, he wakes up and comes over to my  house at 4:30 in the morning to lift weights. I sleep in an hour later, and I come in at 5:45 or something, and I walk in and I’m just like, “I want to die.” And I walk in and he’s like, “Hey how’s it going?.” I’m like, “Really good man. You’ve been here for an hour.” And all the sudden I’m like, oh my gosh I feel better. Instantly raised up. It’s kind of like tuning forks. Have you noticed this? If you get two tuning forks at different things and you wack one, and you wack the other one, and you bring them close together, what will happen is the waves will increase and they end up going at the exact same level. So energy matters. The higher your energy, the higher everyone else around you will be, on video, on audio, on face…everything, energy matters a lot. So that’s number two, when you’re making videos, thinking about that. Alright number three, okay this, you were like 90% there and I watched the whole thing and I was so excited and then you missed the last piece and I was like, “Oh it was so good.” So a year after that Facebook message came, you did a Facebook live one year later to the day, and he told that story on Facebook live. And I was like, “Oh my gosh this is amazing.” And he told that story, and he was talking about it, and I was emotional, going through the whole thing again. This is so cool, this is so cool. And he told the story about the podcast, and this podcast was an hour long, and the thing and his life changed and all this stuff… And I know that me and a whole bunch of you guys, a whole bunch of entrepreneurs listened to this story and they’re at bated breath, “This is amazing, this is amazing.” And he gets to the very end, “Alright guys, see you tomorrow.” Boom, clicks off. And I was like, “Aaahhh!” How can you leave me in that state?  I need something, I need something. So the note here is I said, make offers for everything. Think about this, at the end when you ended, and everyone’s thinking, I want to hear that episode, where is that? How would it be? Now imagine you take the opportunity at the very end that says, “How many of you guys would like to hear that episode where Russell actually made me a personal podcast? And how many of you guys would actually like if I gave you my commentary about what  I learned and why it was actually important to me? All you gotta do right now is post down below and write ‘I’m in.’ and I’ll add you to my messenger list and I’ll send you that podcast along with the recording where I actually told you what this meant to me.” Boom, now all those people listening are now on his list. Or they can even go opt in somewhere. But all you did was tell the story and everything and we were all sitting with bated breath and I was just like, at the end make the offer. You guys want the stuff I talked about, you want the thing? You want the thing? And then you send them somewhere and now you captured them and consider them longer term and you can do more things with them. It was like, hook, story, dude where’s my offer? Give me something. But it was awesome. How many of you guys felt that way when you listened to that thing and you’re just like, “I don’t even know where to find that episode. Russell’s got eight thousand episodes everywhere, I don’t even know where to look for it.” You could have been like, here’s the link. Just the link….if you guys can’t figure out how to make an offer, go listen to a whole bunch of stuff, find something amazing and be like, “oh my gosh you guys, I was listening to this Tim Ferris podcast, he did like 800 episodes, every one is like 18 hours long, they’re really hard to listen to, but I found this one from 3 ½-4 years ago where he taught this concept and it was insane. It was amazing; I learned this and this. How many of you want to know what that is? Okay, I have the link, if you message me down below I’ll send you the link to exactly where to find that episode.” Everyone will give it to you. You’ll be like, “But it’s free on the internet Russell.” It doesn’t matter. You know where it’s at and they don’t. They will give you their contact information in exchange for you giving them a direct link to the link. Back before I had anything to give away for opt ins, guess what I used to do. I used to go to YouTube and I would find cool videos from famous people. One of my favorite ones we did was I went and typed in YouTube, “Robert Kiyosaki” because he was one of my big mentors at the time. And there was all these amazing Robert Kiyosaki videos on YouTube for free. Tons of them. Hour long training from Robert Kiyosaki. Four hour long event from Robert Kiyosaki. All this stuff for free listed in YouTube. So I made a little Clickfunnels membership site, I got all the free videos and put them inside a members area and just like, “Tab one, Robert Kiyosaki talking about investing, Robert kiyosaki talking about stocks, Robert Kiyosaki talking….” And I just put all the videos in there and made a squeeze page like, “Hey, who wants a whole bunch of free, my favorite Robert Kiyosaki videos?” and I made a little landing page, people opt in, I give them access to the membership site, and then I went and targeted Robert Kiyosaki’s audience and built a huge list off his people. Dream 100. Imagine with Dream 100 instead of doing just one campaign to all the people, if each person in your dream 100 you made a customized membership site with the free content right now, be like, “Hey, you’ve listened to a lot of Grant Cardone, he’s got four podcasts, 5000 episodes, there’s only four that are actually really, really good. Do you guys wan tto know what they are? Opt in here, I’ll give you the four best episodes of all. I currated all these for you to give you the four best.” And target Grant’s audience with that, now you got all his buyers coming into your world. Is that alright, is that good. Alright number four ties along with this. Number four, start building a list ASAP. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you do a call to action to get a list anywhere, have I? After today’s session you’re …..just build a list. If you got nothing from this event at all, every time you do a hook and story, put them somewhere to build a list, because that’s the longevity. Because that’s where if Zuckerberg snaps his finger and you lose all your fans and followings and friends, and all the sudden you’re trying to build over somewhere else, it won’t matter because you’ll have those people somewhere external and now you can message them and bring them back into whatever world you need them to be at. But that’s how you build stability in business. It’s also how you sell this time, you want to sell it the next time and the next time, the list is the key. Funnel Hacking Live, the first Funnel Hacking Live it was a lot of work and we sold out 600 people in the room, and we kept growing the list and growing the list, the next year we did 1200. Then we did 1500, last year was 3000, this year we’re going to be at 5000. We’re building up the list and building up pressure and excitement and then when you release it, it gives you the ability to blow things up really, really fast.  Okay, that was number four. Okay number five, I wrote down integration marketing, adding to other’s offers to build a buyer list. So this is a little sneaky tactic we used to back in the day when I didn’t have my own list, but I had a couple of skills and talents which you do happen to have, which is nice. If you have no skills this won’t work, but if you have skills you’re lucky. So Frank Kern used to do this as well. Frank is sneaky. He used to do this all the time and I saw him doing it and I’m like, “Oh my gosh, he’s brilliant.” So Frank did a one hour presentation somewhere and he called it Mind Control, it wasn’t Mass Control, but it was something like about how to control the minds of your prospects through manipulation and something sneaky. And the title alone was amazing. It was a one hour presentation he gave somewhere. And he put it on these DVDs and what he did, he went to like Dan Kennedy and he’s like, “Hey Dan, you have all of your buyer and you send them this newsletter every single month,” at the time they had 13000 active members, these were their best buyers. He’s like, “This DVD I sell for like a thousand bucks. Do you want to give it to all your people for free?” And Dan’s like, “sure.” And all the sudden the next month, Franks got his best CD with his best stuff in the mailbox of the 13000 best customers, every single person that Dan Kennedy’s been collecting for the last 15 years. So think about this. With your skill set, look at the other people in the market, all the dream 100 who are doing things and how do you create something you can plug into their offers, and every single time one of those people sell a product, your face is popping up as well. It’s called integration marketing, my first mentor Mark Joyner wrote a book called Integration Marketing, it’s a really fast read. You can read it in an hour, but it will get your mind set thinking about it. How can I integrate with what other people are always doing? Because I can go and make a sell, and make another sell, but I was like, when we launched Clickfunnels I was like, “How can I figure out other people’s sales processes that are already happening and somehow inject myself into all these other sales processes?” That way every single time Steven Larsen sells something or someone else sells something, or all these people are selling something, it always somehow gets flown back to me. I want every product, every course, everything happening in the internet marketing world to somehow have people saying my name. That’s my goal. How many of you guy have been to other people’s events and I’m not there and they say my name? It makes me so happy. I get the instagrams from some of you guys, “Hey so and so just said your name.” I’m like, that’s so good. How have I done that? I spent a lot of my life integrating into everybody’s offers. Initially when I first got started, every single person who had a product, I was an interview in everyone’s product. I was like, looking at people launching a product, specific product launches coming, I’d contact them. Product launch is coming up, “Hey man, is there any way I could do a cool thing for your people? I could create this and give it to you and you could plug it into your product?” and everyone’s like, ‘Sure, that’d be awesome.” And all the sudden, boom, they get 5000 new buyers came in and every single one of them got my thing. They’re hearing my name, hearing my voice and it’s just constant integration. I think about how I met Joe Vitale, I talked about that earlier with the greatest showman. He was in an interview in a course I bought from Mark Joyner, I listened to it, fell in love with Joe Vitale, bought his stuff, given him tons of money over the years, a whole bunch of good stuff because he was integrated in that. So looking at other ways to integrate, the skill set that you already have into other people’s marketing channels because then you’re leveraging anytime any of these partners make a sell, you’re getting customers coming through that flow as well. Cool? Nick: Yeah. Russell: That was number five. Number six, I call this one rainmaker projects, because we talked about rainmaker during the first podcast interview. So rainmaker projects are, and again when I first started my career I did tons of these, where it’s like, I was really good at one piece. For you, you’re really good at video and story telling. And I look out here and be like, okay who is someone else here that is awesome? So and so is really good at making a product on Facebook ads. “You’re really good at Facebook ads, so I’ll do the video for this course, you do the Facebook, you do the actual ads for us.” And then, you’re awesome at doing the traffic and you bring in four or five people, like this little avenger team, and you create a cobranded product together and you launch it and everyone makes a bunch of money, split all the money, 50/50/50/50, that makes more than 100,but you know what I’m talking about, everyone splits the money, everyone splits the customer list and all the sudden you’ve all pulled your efforts, your energy, your talents together and everyone leaves with some cash, and you also leave with the customer list, and that’s when you start growing really, really rapidly. When I started I didn’t have a customer list, I had a very small one. But I had a couple of skill sets so that’s why I did tons of these things. That’s like, if you guys know any of my old friends like Mike Filsaime, Gary Ambrose, I could list off all the old partners we had back in the day, and that’s what we did all the time, these little rainmaker projects. We didn’t call them that back in the day, but that’s what it was. It was just like, we all knew what our skill sets were, and it’s like, let’s come together, let’s make a project. This isn’t going to be how we change the world, it’s not going to be something we’re going to scale and grow, but it’s like, it’s going to be a project, we put it together, we launch it, make some money, get some customers, get our name out in the market, and then we step away from it and then we all go back to our own businesses. It’s not like, that’s why it’s funny because a lot of times people are scared of these. Like, “Well, how do we set up the business structure? Who’s going to be the owner? Who’s the boss?” No, none of that. This is an in and out project where all the rainmakers come together and you create something amazing for a short period of time, you split the money and you go back home with the money and the customers. But it gave you a bump in status, a big bump in customer lists, a big bump in cash and then all those things kind of rise and if you do enough of those your status keeps growing and growing and growing, and it’s a really fast easy way to continue to grow. How many of you guys want to do a rainmaker project with Nick right now? Alright, very, very cool. Alright, and then I got one last, this is number seven. This kind of ties back to dream 100. The last thing I talked about was, and again this is kind of for everyone in the group, is the levels of the dream 100. I remember when I first started this process, I first got the concept and I didn’t know it was the dream 100 back then, but I was looking at all the different people that would have been on my dream 100 list. It was Mark Joyner, Joe Vitale, all these people that for me were top tier. Tony Robbins, Richard Branson, and I was like, oh, and I started trying to figure out how to get in those spots. And the more I tried, it was so hard to get through the gatekeeper, it was impossible to get through all these gatekeepers, these people. I was like, “Man don’t people care about me. I’m just a young guy trying to figure this stuff out and they won’t even respond to my calls or my emails. I can’t even get through, I thought these people really cared.” Now to be on the flip side of that, I didn’t realize what life is actually like for that, for people like that. For me, I understand that now at a whole other level. We’ve got a million and a half people on our subscriber list. We have 68000 customers, we’ve got coaching programs, got family, got friends. We have to put up barriers to protect yourself or it’s impossible. I felt, I can’t even tell you how bad I feel having Brent this morning, “Can you tell everyone to not do pictures with me.” It’s not that I don’t want to, but do you want me to tell you what actually happens typically? This is why we have to put barriers around ourselves. Here’s my phone, I’ll be in a room, like Funnel Hacking Live and there will be 3000 people in the room, and I’m walking through and someone’s like, “Real quick, real quick, can I get a picture?” I’m like, “I gotta go.” And they’re like, “It’ll take one second.” And I’m like, ahh, “Okay, fine, quick.” And they’re like, “Hold on.” And they get their phone out and they’re like, “Uh, uh, okay, uh, alright got it. Crap it’s flipped around. Okay, actually can you hold this, my arms not long enough can you hold it? Actually, hey you come here real quick, can you hold this so we can get a picture? Okay ready, one two three cheese.” And they grab the camera and they’re off. And for them it took one second. And that person leaves, and guess what’s behind them? A line of like 500 people. And then for the next like 8 hours, the first Funnel Hacking Live, was anyone here at the first Funnel Hacking Live? I spent 3 ½ hours up front doing pictures with everybody and I almost died afterwards. I’m like, I can’t…but I didn’t know how to say no, it was super, super hard. So I realize now, to protect your sanity, people up there have all sorts of gatekeepers and it’s hard. So the way you get through is not being more annoying, and trying to get through people. The way you get to them is by understanding the levels of that. So I tried a whole bunch of times, and I couldn’t get in so I was like, “Crap, screw those guys. They don’t like me anyway, they must be jerks, I’m sure they’re just avoiding me and I’m on a blacklist….” All the thoughts that go through your head. And at that time, I started looking around me. I started looking around and I was like, “hey, there’s some really cool people here.” And that’s when I met, I remember Mike Filsaime, Mike Filsaime at the time had just created a product he launched and he had like a list of, I don’t know, maybe 3 or 4 thousand people. And I remember I created my first product, Zipbrander, and I was all scared and I’m like ,”Hey Mike, I created this thing Zipbrander.” And he messaged back, “Dude that’s the coolest thing in the world.” A couple of things, Mike didn’t have a gatekeeper, it was just him. He got my email, he saw it, and he was like, “This is actually cool.” I’m like, “Cool, do you want to promote it?” and he’s like, “Yes, I would love to promote it.” I’m like, oh my gosh. I had never made a sale online at this point, by the way, other than a couple of little things that fell apart. I never actually made a sale of my own product. Zipbrander was my very first, my own product that I ever created. So Mike was that cool, he sent an email to his list, his 5000 person list, they came over, I had this little pop up that came to the site and bounced around, back in the day. I had 270 people opt in to my list from Mike’s email to it, and I think we made like 8 or 10 sales, which wasn’t a lot, but 67 that’s $670, they gave me half, I made $350 on an email and gained 300 people on my list. I’m like, oh my gosh this is amazing. And I asked Mike, “Who are the other people you hang out with? I don’t know very many people.” And he’s like, “Oh dude, you gotta meet this guy, he’s awesome.” And he brought me to someone else, and I’m like, “Oh this is cool. “ and Mike’s like, “Dude, I promoted Zipbrander, it was awesome, you should promote it.” And then he’s like, “Oh cool.” And he promoted Zipbrander. I’m like, oh my gosh, I got another 30-40 people on my list and there were a couple more sales. And then I asked him, “Who do you know?” and there was someone else, and we stared doing this thing and all the sudden there were 8 or 10 of us who were all at this level and we all started masterminding, networking, figuring things out, cross promote each other and what happened, what’s interesting is that all of our little brands that were small at the time started growing, and they started growing, and they started growing. All the sudden we were at the next tier. And when we got to the next tier all the sudden all these new people started being aware of us and started answering our calls and doing things, and Mike’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, I met this guy who used to be untouchable.” And he brought him in and brought them in and all the sudden we’re at the next level. And we started growing again and growing again. And the next thing we know, four years later I get a phone call from Tony Robbins assistant, they’re like, “Hey I’m sitting in a room and I got Mike Filsaime, Frank Kern, Jeff Walker, all these guys are sitting in a room with Tony Robbins and he thinks that you guys are the biggest internet nerds in the world, he’s obsessed with it and he wants to know if he can meet you in Salt Lake in like an hour.” What? Tony Robbins? I’ve emailed him 8000 times, he’s never responded even once, I thought he hated me. Not that he hated me, it’s that he had so many gatekeepers, he had no idea who I was. But eventually you start getting value and you collectively as a level of the dream 100 becomes more and more powerful. Eventually people notice you because you become the bigger people. And each tier gets bigger and bigger and bigger. So my biggest advice for you and for everybody is understanding that. Yes, it’s good to have these huge dreams and big people, but start looking around. There are so many partnerships to be had just inside this room. How many deals have you done with people in this room so far? Nick: Quite a few. Russell: More than one, right. Nick: Yeah, more than one. Russell: Start looking around you guys. Don’t always look up, up, up and try to get this thing. Look around and realize collectively, man, start doing the crossings because that’s how everyone starts growing together and there will be a time where I’ll be coming to you guys begging, “Can you please look at my stuff you guys, I have this thing called CLickfunnels. You may have heard of it. Can you please help me promote it?” And that’s what’s going to happen, okay. So the level of the dream 100 is the last thing, just don’t discount that. Because so many people are like swinging for the fence and just hoping for this homerun like I was, and it’s funny because I remember eventually people would respond to me, that I was trying for before, and they’d contact me. And I was like, oh my gosh. I realized, I thought this person hated me, I thought I was on a black list. I was assuming they were getting these emails and like, “oh, I hate this. Russell’s a scammer.” In my head right. They never saw any of them. Until they saw me, and they reached out to me and the whole dynamic shifted. So realizing that, kind of looking around and start building your dream 100 list, even within this room, within the communities that you’re in, because there’s power in that. And as you grow collectively, as a group, everyone will grow together, and that’s the magic. So that was number seven. So to recap the seven really quick. Number one, tell your story way too much, to the point where you’re so annoyed and so sick and tired of hearing it that everybody comes to you, and then keep telling it even some more. Number two, in everything you’re doing, energy matters a lot. To the point, even above what you think you’re comfortable with and do that all the time. Number three, make offers for everything. Hook, story, don’t leave them hanging, give them an offer because they’ll go and they will feel more completed afterwards. Number four, start building a list, it ties back to the first thing. Make an offer, get them to build your list, start growing your list because your list is your actual business. Number five, integration marketing. Look for other people’s marketing channels and how you can weave what you do into those channels, so you can get free traffic from all the people who are doing stuff. Number five, create rainmaker projects, find really cool things and bring four or five people together and make something amazing. Share the cash, share the customer list, elevate your status, elevate your brand, and it’s really fun to do because you get to know a whole bunch of people. And Number seven, understanding the levels of the dream 100. Find the people at your level and start growing with them together collectively as you do that, and in a year, two years, three years, five years Tony Robbins will be calling you, asking you to make his video and it will be amazing. Does that sound good? Awesome.

A special conversation I had on stage at the Traffic Secrets event with a friend and a student Nic Fitzgerald. On this episode Russell talks to his childhood friend, Nick Fitzgerald about helping him go from being in a technician position to being in an entrepreneurial position. Here are some of the inspiring thing in this episode: Find out how Russell found out his childhood friend was in desperate need of help and what he offered to do for him. How Nick was able to make to Funnel Hacking Live via credit card, and then spent $1800 on a program without telling his wife. And why being on the program helped Nick be able to ask a client for $25,000 on a project, when that was his previous yearly income. So listen here to find out how Russell was able to help Nick achieve his entrepreneurial dreams. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson and I want to welcome you to the Marketing Secrets podcast. The next two episodes are a really special one. For our Two Comma club X members and our inner circle members I did an event recently, some of you guys heard me talk about it. It was a traffic secrets event, where I’m getting all the material ready for the book, and start teaching this stuff. Anyway, it was really, really fun and as I was doing the presentations, the night before when I was doing all the prep work I had this thought. I was like, I want to bring up somebody on stage and it’s somebody who was a friend I grew up with in elementary school, and junior high, and high school, someone who was down on their luck, who was really, really struggling. About a year ago I saw him post something on Facebook and I reached out, and this interview is happening about a year later. During the process he tells his story about what happened and the transformation and the change that’s happened by being involved inside our Clickfunnels, Funnel Hacker community. So I wanted to share that with you as part of the event, so this first half is going to be Nick kind of telling his story and it’s going to be the story from the bottom of the barrel where they were, they literally made $25,000 a year for 3 years in a row and then the transformation to this year, they’ll do well over six figures. And that’s going to be this first podcast. And the second podcast episode is, I’m actually going to be doing, I did a live coaching session with him on stage, and I want to share that with you as well because I think there’s a lot of things for you specifically that you can get from this episode too. So the next few episodes are going to be sharing this really fun conversation that happened late night at the Traffic Secrets event with my friend Nick Fitzgerald, and if you think that name sounds familiar, I have talked about him before on this podcast. In fact, a little over a year ago I did a podcast episode called being a rainmaker that was a personalized podcast that I sent to Nick specifically to help him with what he was struggling with at the time. So anyway, I wanted to share this with you because it will take you full circle to show you kind of the progress and the momentum and things that are happening in his life, and I think it will be encouraging for you to hear the story because no matter where you are in your journey right now, if you are struggling, doing well, or if you’re somewhere in between, there are parts of this story that will resonate with you. And in the second episode where I coach Nick I think will help everybody as well. So with that said, let’s jump right in and have some fun. I want to introduce you to my friend Nick Fitzgerald. Alright so I want to set the tone for the next hour or so of what the game plan is. So I have a first initial question that I’m curious about with everyone here. I’m curious, who since they joined the Two Comma Club X program has had some kind of experience with Mr. Nick Fitzgerald? That’s powerful, I’m going to talk about why in a little bit, but very, very cool. So some of the back story behind this, and then we’re going to introduce him up, and when he comes up I want you guys to go crazy and scream and cheer and clap, because it will be good, and then I want him to sit down so we’ll be the same height, which will be good, it’ll be fun. So some of the back story, I actually met Nick the very first time in elementary school, and even in elementary school he was a foot and a half taller than me, which is amazing. He was like 6 ft 2 in like third grade, it was amazing. But we knew each other when we were dorky little kids and going up through elementary school we were both doing our things, and we didn’t have a care in the world and everything’s happening. And as we got older he kept getting taller, I stopped growing. And then we got into high school and he kept growing and he joined the basketball team. I didn’t keep growing so I went downstairs in the basement, literally, at our high school in the basement they call it the rubber room, and it’s this room that smells like, I don’t even know, but it’s under the gym. So he would go upstairs and fans would show up and people would cheer for them, and scream at their games. And all the girls would come to the games. And we’d go down in the rubber room by ourselves and cut weight and put on our sweats and lose weight and we’d jump rope and sweat like crazy. And we’d sit there, and I remember one day after working out for two hours pouring in sweat, I had my plastic gear on and my sweats on top of that, my hoodie and my hoods and we got the wrestling mats, and literally rolled ourselves up in the wrestling mats to keep the heat in, and we laid there and we were so hot. And I could hear the basketball players in the gym up above having so much fun and people cheering for them. And all the girls were there. And I was like, “Why are we not playing basketball?” It doesn’t make any sense. But during that time, obviously we were in two different kind of worlds, and we didn’t really connect that much, and then we left our separate ways. And I didn’t hear from him for years and years and years. And then do you guys remember Facebook when it first came out? The first time you got it and you log in and you’re like, “Oh my gosh, I can connect with people.” And you start searching the friends you know and then you find their friends and you spend a day and a half connecting with every person you’ve ever remembered seeing in your entire life? Do you guys remember that? So I did that one night, I connected with everybody. Everyone in high school, everyone in junior high, or elementary, everyone in every stage of my life, as many as I could think of. And then I was like, I think that’s everybody. Okay, I’ve connected with everybody. And one of those people that night was Nick. And then, but I didn’t say hi, I just friend requested and he requested back and I’m like, cool we’re connected. And then after that I got kind of bored with Facebook for like a year or so. Then a little while later I found out you can buy ads on it and I was like, what, this is amazing. So we started buying ads and everything is happening. And it’s crazy. And then what happened next, I actually want Nick onstage to tell you this story because I want you to hear it from both his perspective and my perspective, I think it’d be kind of interesting. Yeah, I want him to come up first. So let’s do this real quick. As you guys know Nick has been a super valuable part of this community since he came in. I’m going to tell the story about how he got here and some of the craziness of how he signed up when he probably shouldn’t have and what’s been happening since then, because I know that you guys have all been part of that journey and been supporting him. How many of you guys are going to his event that’s happening later this week? He just keeps giving and serving, he’s doing all the right things, he’s telling his story, he’s doing some amazing stuff. So my plan now is I want to talk about the rest of the story. I want to tell you guys what I told him a year ago and then I want to tell you guys my advice for him moving forward, because I feel like it’s almost in proxy. I wish I could do that with every one of you guys. Just sit down here and coach you. But I feel like he’s at a stage where some of you guys aren’t to where he’s at yet and some of you are past that, and some of you guys are right where he’s at, and I feel like the advice that I really want to give him, will help you guys at all different levels. So that’s kind of the game plan. So with that said, let’s stand up and point our hands together for Mr. Nick Fitzgerald. Alright, this has some good music. That was like music from high school. Look how tall I am. I feel like….okay, so I had him find this post because I wanted to actually share a little piece of it. So this, I’m going to share a piece of it, I want to step back to where you were at that time in your life. So this was July 7, 2017, so what was that a year and a half ago, ish? So July 7, 2017 there was a post that said, “Long post disclaimer. I hate posting this, blah, blah, blah.” So at the time my family was about to go on a family vacation. We’re packing up the bags and everything, and you know how it is, you do a bunch of work and then you stop for a second and your wife and kids are gone and you’re like, pull out the phone, swap through the dream 100 and see what’s happening.  And somehow this post pops up in my feed and I see it, I see Nick my buddy from 20+ years ago and I’m reading this thing and my heart sinks for him. Some of the things he says, “I hate posting things like this, but I felt like need to for a while. Being poor stinks. For those friends of mine who are ultra conservative and look down consciously or not, on people like me, I can honestly tell you that I’m not a lazy free loader who wants something for nothing. I’m not a deadbeat who wants Obama or whoever to blame now, to buy me a phone. I’m not a lowlife trying to get the government to pay for my liposuction. I’m not a druggie who eats steak and lobster for dinner with my food stamps. I’m a father of four, a husband, someone who lost everything financially, including our home when the time came to have your healthcare in place or to get fined, I went through the process. “Based on my family size and income, we were referred to the state to apply for those programs. We couldn’t get coverage for ourselves to the exchange in other places, we qualified for Medicaid. After the process was complete, the state worker suggested we try to get some other help, some food stamps.” It kind of goes on and on and on and he says, “In 2016 I made $25000. $25,000 plus our tax returns for the previous year. So a family of 6 living on $25,000 a year is being audited for receiving too much help, too much assistance.” And it kind of goes on and on and on with that. He says, “I’ve never abused drugs or alcohol, I’ve never even tried them. I’m just a guy trying to live the American dream and provide for his family. It’s unfortunate that we look down on those who are trying to better our lives, even if it leaves them from receiving help from assistance in place to help them. Look down on me if you want, I don’t care. I know the truth. My family is healthy and sheltered and that’s all that matters. I don’t wish these trials on anyone else…” and it kind of goes on from there. So I want to take you back to that moment, what was, talk about what you were experiencing and what you were going through during that time. Nick: I didn’t expect this. I’m a friendly giant, but I’m a big boob too. Back at that time, I had started what I thought was, I started my entrepreneurial journey. I was working in film full time, working 12, 14, 16 hour days making $200 a day, just killing myself for my family. Going through the process of, I’d lost my job because I wasn’t going to hit my sales, I was a financial advisor, and I wasn’t going to hit my sales numbers. So you know, my ticket was stamped. So I said okay, I’m going to do my own thing. And in the course of all that, it was time to get your health insurance and those things, and I went through the proper channels, like I felt like I should. And I was referred to the government for the programs, based on the numbers. And as a provider, a father, an athlete competitor, I felt like a failure. We’ve all, when you have to rely on somebody else , or somebody else tells you, “Hey, we don’t think you can do this on your own, come over here and we’ll take care of you.” That’s basically what I was told. So it was hard to accept that and to live with that reality. So we did, and I worked hard and it was a blessing really, to not have to worry about how much health care costs or have some of the things to supplement to feed our family and stuff. So it was great and it was wonderful. But then I got the email from the state saying, “Hey, you’re being audited. We’re just looking at things and we’re not sure. You’ve been getting too much help.” So at that point I’m just sitting there frustrated because I’m working my butt off, just trying to make things happen, become someone involved in the film community in Utah. And I was, and everyone knew me, and I had a reputation, but I still was a nobody in the eyes of the government. So I went to Facebook to whine, looking for what I wanted, which was a pat on the back, “There, there Nick, you’re doing…we know you’re a good dude and you’re working hard.” That kind of thing, and I did… Russell: I was reading the comments last night. “Oh you’re doing a good job man. Good luck.” Everyone like babying him about how tough life can be. Nick: So I got what I wanted, but it still didn’t change anything. I still had to submit my last two years of tax returns and all of the pay that I’d got and everything like that, so they could look at our case number, not Nick, Leisle, Cloe,Ewen, Alek, William. So it was just one of those things. I got what I wanted, then comes Russell to give me what I needed, which was…. Russell: I saw that and I’m like packing the kids bags and everything and I was like, “ah, do I say something?” I don’t want to be that guy like, “Hey, 20 years ago…” and I was like, ah, I kept feeling this. Finally I was like, “hey man, I know we haven’t talked in over 20 years…” This was on Facebook messenger, “we hadn’t talked in like 20 years. I saw your post today and it sucks. And I know what’s wrong, and I can help. But at the same time, I don’t want to be that guy and I don’t want to step on any toes. I know we haven’t talked in 20 years, I have no idea if this is even appropriate. But I know what’s wrong, I can help you. And no, this is not some cheesy MLM I’m trying to pitch you on. But if you’re interested in some coaching, I know what’s wrong.” And I kind of waited and then I started packing the bags again and stuff like that. I’m curious of your thoughts initially as you saw that. Nick: It’s funny because my phone was kind of blowing up with the comments. So I would hear the little ding and I would check. And then I saw that it was a message from Russell, and we had said like, “Hey, what’s up.” And had a few tiny little small talk conversations, but nothing in depth personal. So I saw that he sent a message, so I’m like, “Sweet.” So I look at it, and I was half expecting, because I knew he was successful, I didn’t know about Clickfunnels per se. I knew he had something going on that was awesome, but I didn’t know what it was. So I was wondering, “I wonder what he’s going to say, what he has to say about things?” But I read it and it was funny because when you said, “I don’t want to overstep my bounds. It’s been a long time, I don’t want to step on toes.” Kind of thing, Russell, we all know his athletic accolades and stuff. I was a great basketball player too, I was in the top 200 players in the country my senior year and stuff like that. So I’ve been coachable and played at high levels and been coached by high level guys. So when I read it and he said, “I know what’s wrong and I can help you.” I was just like, “Yes.” That was my reaction. I just did the little, um, fist pump, let’s do this. So I replied back and I thanked him for reaching out and stuff, and I just said, I think I even said, “I’m coachable. I will accept any guidance.” And things like that. Because up until that point in my life, especially in sports, if a coach showed me something, I would do it the way he did, and I would kick the other dude’s butt. I didn’t care. I played against guys who made millions of dollars in the NBA. I dunked, I posterized on Shawn Marion when he was at UNLV my freshman year of college. I started as a freshman in a division one school in college. So I would take, I’ve always been that kind of, I would get that guidance, that direction, I can put it to work. So I was just like, “Dude, Mr. Miyagi me.” I’m 8 days older than him, so I’m like, “young grasshopper, yes you can teach me.” That kind of thing. So I welcomed it and I was excited. I had no idea, because again I didn’t know what he did. I just knew he had a level of success that I didn’t have. And if he was willing to give me some ideas, I was going to hear him out for sure. Russell: It was fun, because then I messaged him back. I’m packing the car and Collette’s like, “We gotta go, we gotta go.” I was like, ah, so I get the thing out and I was like, “This is the deal. I’m driving to Bear Lake, it’s like a six hour drive. I’m going to give you an assignment and if you do it, then I’ll give you the next piece. But most people never do it, so if you don’t that’s cool and I’ll just know it’s not worth your time. But if it’s really worth your time, do this thing. I need you to go back and listen to my podcast from episode one and listen to as many episodes as possible, and if you do that I’ll make you a customized episode just for you telling you exactly what’s wrong and how to fix it. But you have to do that first. “And I’m not telling you this because I’m on some ego trip, but just trust me. The problem is not your skill set, you  have mad skills, you’re good at everything. It’s all a problem between your ears. If we can shift that, we can shift everything else.” Then I jumped in my car and took off and started driving for six hours. And then the next day, or a day later you’re like, “I’m 14 episodes in.” he was still listening to the crappy one’s, according to Steven Larsen. The Marketing In Your Car, he was probably thinking, “This is the worst thing I’ve ever heard, ever.” But he did it. I said do it, he did it. And he kept doing it and doing it, and so two days into my family vacation I had Norah, you guys all know Norah right. She’s the coolest. But she won’t go to bed at night, she’s a nightmare. Don’t let that cute face trick you, she’s evil. So I’m like, I can’t go to sleep, so finally I was like, I’m going to plug her in the car and drive around the lake until she falls asleep. So I plug her in the car, strap her in and I start driving. And I’m like, this could be a long, long thing. She’s just smiling back here. I was like ugh. I’m like you know what, I’m going to do my episode for Nick. So I got my phone out, I clicked record and for probably almost an hour, it was an hour. I’m driving around the lake and I explain to him what I see. Did anyone here listen to that episode? I’m curious. I’m going to map out really quick, the core concept. Because some of you guys may be stuck in this, and the goal of this, what I want to do is I want to map this out, and then what’s funny is last year at Bear Lake, so a year later we had this thing where I was like, we should do a second round where I do a year later, this is the advice now. And I wrote a whole outline for it and I totally never did it. So I’m going to go through that outline now, and kind of show him the next phase. So you cool if I show kind of what I talked about? Nick: For sure. Russell: Alright, so those who missed the podcast episode, who haven’t been binge listening, you’ve all failed the test, now you must go back to episode number one, listen to the cheesy jingle and get to episode, I don’t know what it was. Okay, I’ve said this before, if you look at any business, any organization, there’s three core people. The first one is the person at the top who is the entrepreneur. The cool thing about the entrepreneur is the entrepreneur is the person who makes the most amount of money. They’re the head and they get the most amount of money. The problem with the entrepreneur is they also have the most risk, so they’re most likely to lose everything. I’ve lost everything multiple times because I’m the guy risking everything. But the nice thing is entrepreneurs that write their own paychecks, there’s no ceilings. So they can make as much as they want. They can make a million, ten million, a hundred million, they can do whatever they want because there’s no ceiling. So that’s the first personality type. The second personality type over here is what we call the technicians. The technicians are the people who actually do the work. And what’s funny, if you look at this, people who go to college are the technicians. What do they do, they look down on entrepreneurs, they look down on sales people. “Oh you’re in sales. What are you a doctor?” For crying out loud in the night. But they look down on people like us. Because “I’m a doctor. I went to 45 years of school.” What’s interesting, there’s technicians in all sorts of different spots right. I actually feel bad, I shouldn’t say this out loud, but at the airport here I saw one of my friends who is an amazing doctor and him and his wife were leaving on a trip and we were talking and he said, “This is the first trip my wife and I have been on in 25 years, together by ourselves.” I’m like, “What?” and he’s like, ‘Well, we had medical school and then we had kids and then we had to pay off medical school and all these things. Now the kids are gone and now we finally have a chance to leave.” I was like, wow. Our whole lives we’ve heard that medical school, becoming a doctor is the…..anyway that’s a rant for another day. But I was like, there’s technicians. And what’s interesting about technicians, they don’t have any risk. So there’s no risk whatsoever, but they do have, there’s a price ceiling on every single person that’s a technician, right. And depending on what job you have your price ceiling is different. So doctors, the price ceiling is, I have no idea what doctor’s make, $500 grand a year is like the price ceiling, that’s amazing but they can’t go above that. And different tasks, different roles, different position all have different price ceilings. But there’s like, this role as a technician makes this much, and this one makes this much and you’re all kind of these things. I said the problem with you right now, you have these amazing skill sets, but you are stuck as a technician in a role where they’re capping you out, where the only thing you can make is $25k a year. Remember I asked you, “What have you been doing?” and you’re like, “Oh, I’ve been networking, I’ve been learning, I’ve been getting my skills up, getting amazing.” I’m like, “That’s amazing, you’re skills are awesome, but your ceiling is $25k a year. No matter how good you get you are stuck because you’re in a technician role right now.” I said, “you’ve got a couple of options. One is go become an entrepreneur, which is scary because you’ve got four kids at home and you don’t have money anyway.” I am so eternally grateful that when I started this game, my wife, first off, we didn’t have kids yet, my wife was working, we didn’t have any money but I didn’t have to have any money at that time, and I’m so grateful I was able to sometimes, I was able to risk things that nowadays is hard. For you to come jump out on your own initially and just be like, “Boom, I’m an entrepreneur and I’m selling this stuff.” That’s scary right, because you’ve got all this risk. So I was like, that’s the thing, but it’s going to be really, really hard. I said, “there’s good news, there’s one more spot in this ecosystem. And the cool thing about that spot it’s that it’s just like the entrepreneur, there’s no ceiling, now the third spot over here is what we call the rainmakers. The rainmakers are the people who come into a business and they know how to make it rain. This is the people who know how to bring people into a company. Leads, they bring leads in. They know all this traffic stuff they’re talking about. These are the people who know how to sell to leads and actually get money out of peoples wallets and put it into the hands of the entrepreneurs. These people right here, the rainmakers don’t  have ceilings. In fact, companies who give the rainmaker the ceiling are the stupidest people in the world, because the rainmaker will hit the ceiling and then they’ll stop. If you’re smart and you have a company, and you have rainmakers, people driving traffic, people doing sales, if you have a ceiling they will hit and they will stop. If you get rid of the ceiling and then all the sudden they have as much as they want, they have less risk than the entrepreneur, but they have the ability to make unlimited amount of money. I said, “Your skill set over here as a technician is worth 25k a year, but if you take your skill set and shift it over here and say, “I come into a company and I’m a rainmaker. I create videos, I create stories, they’ll sell more products, more things.” Suddenly you’re not worth 25,000, now you’re worth $100,000, you’re worth $500,000. You’re worth whatever you’re able to do, because there’s no ceiling anymore. And that was the point of the podcast. I got done sending it, then I sent it to him and I sent it to my brother to edit it. And I have no idea what you thought about it at that point, because we didn’t talk for a while after that. But I’m curious where you went from there. Nick: So the first thing, you know, being told I was really only worth $25,000 in the eyes of the people who were hiring me, that was a punch in the gut. That sucked to hear. Thanks man. It was just like, I literally was working 12, 14, 16 hour days, lifting heavy stuff, I did a lot with lighting and camera work, not necessarily the story writing stuff, but you know, for him to put it so perfectly, that I was a technician. I thought going in, when I failed as an advisor and I started my own company, or started doing videos for people, and being so scared to charge somebody $250 for a video, being like, “they’re going to say no.” That kind of thing, and now I wouldn’t blink my eyes for that. But you know, it’s one of those things for him to tell it to me that way, just straight forward being like, “You are, you’re learning great skills and you’re meeting amazing people.” I worked with Oscar winners and Emmy winners and stuff in the movies and shows that I worked on, but again, I was only worth that much, they had a finite amount of money, and I was a small part of it, so I got a small piece. So listening to all of that, and then hearing the entrepreneur, the risk and stuff. I’m really tall, I’m 6’9” if you didn’t know. I’m a sink or swim guy, but because I’m tall I can reach the bottom of the pool a lot easier. When I jumped in, we had lost, as a financial advisor we had lost our home and we lost all these things. So I was like, I have nothing left to lose. Worst case scenario, and I had never heard that mindset before. We were renting a basement from a family members, our cars were paid off. Worst case scenario is we stayed there and get food stamps and that kind of thing. There was nowhere to go but up from there. So for me, I was just so excited. I’m like, I want to be a rainmaker, I want to be an entrepreneur, but I didn’t know where to find the people that I could do that for. So I was in this thing where I was still getting lots of calls to work as a technician, but I didn’t want to do that anymore. I didn’t want to put myself, my body, my family through me being gone and then when I’m home I’m just a bump on a log because I’m so wiped out, all that kind of stuff. So that was my biggest first thing, the action point for me. I started thinking, okay how do I transition out of this? How do I get myself out and start meeting the right people, the right kinds of clients who do have budgets and things like that, and how do I make it rain for them. That’s when I made that shift from working as a technician. I told myself I’m not going to do it anymore. The last time I technically worked as a technician was about 9 months ago. It was for a friend. So I made that shift and it was just amazing. Like Russell was talking about earlier, when you start to track it or when it’s part of your mindset, things start to show up and happen. You meet the right people and stuff. So those things just started, just by listening to that one hour long thing, I started changing and then the black box I got, Expert Secrets and Dotcom Secrets and started going through that as well. And it was just like, you see in the Funnel Hacker TV, that moment where the guy goes, “RAAAAA” that’s what happened with me. It was like a whole new world, Aladdin was singing. He was Aladdin and I was Jasmine, with a beard. Russell: I can show you the world. Nick: Exactly. But that’s what really, literally happened with me. Russell: That’s cool. Alright this is like summertime, he’s going through this process now, figuring things, changing things, shifting things, he’s changing his mindset. We go through the summer, we go through Christmas and then last year’s Funnel Hacking Live, were we in February or March last year? March, and so before Funnel Hacking Live we kind of just touched base every once in a while, seeing how things are going. He’s like, “Things are going good. I’m figuring things out.”  And then Funnel Hacking Live was coming, and I remember because we’re sitting there, and I think he messaged me or something, “Funnel Hacking looks awesome I wish I could make it.” I was like, “Why don’t you come?” And you’re like, “I just can’t make it yet.” I was like, “How about this man, I guarantee you if you show up it’ll change your life forever. I’m not going to pay for your flights or your hotel, but if you can figure out how to get there, I’ll give you a free ticket.” And that’s I said, “if you can come let Melanie know, and that’s it.” And I didn’t really know much, because you guys know in the middle of Funnel Hacking Live my life is chaos trying to figure out and how to juggle and all that stuff. So the next thing I know at Funnel Hacking Live, we’re sitting there and during the session I’m looking out and I see Nick standing there in the audience. And I was like, ‘I have no idea how he got there, but he’s there. Freaking good for him.” And I have no idea, how did you get there? That wasn’t probably an easy process for you was it? Nick: No. Credit cards. It was one of those things, I looked at flights. As soon as we had that conversation, it was funny because I was, I can’t remember what was going on, but it was a day or two before I responded back to his invitation. And I was like, I’d be stupid to say no. I have no idea how I’m going to get there. I think I even said, “I’ll hitch hike if I have to, to get there.” Can you imagine this giant sasquatch on route 66 trying to get to Florida. But I told my wife about it, and this is where Russell might have this in common. My wife is incredible and super supportive and she let me go. And we didn’t have the money in the bank so I said, “I’m going to put this on the credit card, and as soon as I get back I’m going to go to work and I’ll pay it off. I’ll get a couple clients and it will be fine.” So I booked the hotel, luckily I was able to get somebody who wasn’t able to go at the last minute and I got their hotel room, and I got the lfight and I came in and I was in the tornado warnings, like circling the airport for 5 hours, like the rest of you were. So I got there and I just remember I was just so excited. Walking in the room the very first day, the doors open and you all know what it’s like. I don’t have to relive this story. I remember I walked in and the hair on my arms, it was just like {whistling}. It was incredible, just the energy and the feeling. And I was like, t his is so cool. And then the very first speech, I was like that was worth every penny to get here. If I left right now it would have all been worth it. And you all know because you’re sitting here, you’ve felt that too. So that was my, getting there was like, “Honey, I know we don’t have the money, we have space on the credit card, and when I get home I swear I will work hard and it will be okay.” And she’s like, “Okay, go.” So I did. Russell: So now I want to talk about, not day one, or day two, but on day three at Funnel Hacking Live. How many of you guys remember what happened on day three? Russell sneak attacked all you guys. I was like, if I start going “Secret one, Secret two, Secret three” you guys will be like, “Here it is.” Sitting back. I was like, how do I do the Perfect webinar without people knowing it’s the perfect webinar? And I’m figuring this whole thing out, trying to figure that out. And we built a nice presentation, create an amazing offer for this program you guys are all in. And as you know, all you guys got excited and ran to the back to sign up and now you’re here. But you told me this personally, I hope you’re willing to share. But I thought it was amazing because you didn’t sign up that night. And I would love to hear what happened from then to the next day, and kind of go through that process. Nick: So this is my first Clickfunnels, I was all new to this whole thing. I was so excited when the 12 month millionaire presentation came up and I was like, “This is awesome.” Then I see it in the stack and I’m like, “I’m seeing the wizard,  I can see the wizard doing his thing.” And I was just so excited, and then the price. And it was a punch in a gut to me, because I was so, listening to it I was like, ‘This is what I need. This is what I want, this is what I need. It’s going to be amazing.” And then the price came and seriously, the rest of the night I was just like…. The rest of the presentation and everything after that I was just kind of zoned out. I just didn’t know what to do. Because I knew I needed it so badly and I’m like, that’s almost twice what we’re paying in rent right now. You know, it was just like, how am I going to justify this when I’m on food stamps and Medicaid and all this kind of stuff. You know, “yes, I’m on that but I dropped this money on a coaching program.” Russell: “From this internet coach.” Nick: Right. And so I’m having this mental battle and get back home to my room that night and I didn’t go hang out with people. I just was not feeling it. And I remember texting my wife on the walk back to the room. And I took the long way around the pond, just slowly depressedly meandering back to my room. And I’m texting her and I’m telling her how amazing it was and what the program would do and all that kind of stuff, and she’s like, “That sounds great.” And I’m purposely not saying how much it’s going to cost, just to get her excited about it, so I can maybe do a stack with her right. “For this and this….” See if I could try it. I didn’t, I failed when it came to doing that. I told her the price and she’s like, “That’s a lot of money. How are you going to pay for it.” And I’m like, “I don’t know.” And I’m like, “The only thing I can do, because I have to sign up while I’m here, and pay for it while I’m here. I can put it on the credit card and then we will figure it out.” So we talked a lot and I talked to my dad and it was the same thing. He was like, “Man, that’s a lot.” Just the scarcity mindset that a lot of us have with our family members and support system who aren’t, don’t think, who aren’t the crazy ones. So I went to bed and I got emotional, and I slept so so bad. Just didn’t sleep well that whole night. And again, I talked to my wife again the next morning, and I just, we just said, “It would be awesome. But I can’t do it, so I’m just going to work hard and figure something out and then if it ever opens up again, then I’ll be in a position to do it.” So I left my room that morning with that in my mind. I made the mistake of keeping my wallet in my pocket though, because I’m here. I again made the long walk back and kind of gave myself a pep talk like, “Don’t worry about that kind of stuff. Just more value out of it, meet more people.” So that’s when I left my room that morning, that’s where my mind was. Russell: What happened next? Nick: I walked into the room and Kevin Hansen, who I had, it’s funny, he does a lot of editing for Clickfunnels, and he and I had actually met independent of Clickfunnels before. It was one of those things like, “Oh you do, oh my gosh.” and it was like 2 months after we’d met. So I was talking to him, just chitchatting, and I just had right then in my mind, it was like, “Walk over to the table and sign up. If you don’t do it now, you’re never going to do it.” And it was just one of those things, because I’d given myself that speech, that whole five minute walk across the property. So I finished up talking with him and I just said, “I’ll be right back.” And I walked straight over to the table, got out the credit card, wrote it all down, and I’m like, I don’t even know what my limit is, so I hope whenever they run this that it goes through. I don’t know what’s going to happen. So I did and I got that little silver ribbon that we all got. And again, {whistling} chills. Like I was like, holy crap, this is amazing. I put it on my little lanyard thing and I was just like, I couldn’t believe it. The adrenaline and all that stuff of, “I’m doing it. And my wife is going to kill me when I get back home.” So that’s, then I went and got my seat and I was just floating, you know. I was so amped, I could have “Steven Larsened” it and screamed over the noise of everybody else and it would have been very, you would have heard it. So that’s what I did that morning. I was like, ‘Not going to do it, not going to do it, not going to do it.” I walked in, 60 seconds done. You have my money. Russell: So I’m curious, when did you tell your wife? This is like a marriage counseling session, huh? Nick: yeah, do you have a couch I can lay down on? Russell: A big couch. Nick: yeah, really. So I got home and I didn’t tell her, at all. I didn’t. I said, the clock is ticking. I have 30 days until that hits, or 20 days until the credit card statement comes and she’s like, “Wait, why is there an extra $2000 bucks on here?” So I just, I said, I’ve got some time because my wife, she’s 5’3”, she’s dainty, little petite lady, but she’s not scary I guess. But this is the first time I was really scared to tell her something in our marriage. So I just said, I’m just going to hit the road hard and see what I can come up with to cover at least the $1800 and the hotel, for what I racked up at Funnel Hacking Live, and then that will get me another 30 days to figure something out. So I went and I never told her until the credit card statement came and she saw it. She’s like, “What’s this?” But what happened before that, I don’t know, do you have something after that or do you want me to go to the next part? Okay, so me going to work and being like, “I gotta find it.” and it’s funny that night at Funnel Hacking Live, I went on Facebook and I created some half thought through offer where it was like, “Hey if I can get like 5 people locally where I’m at to do a monthly low number where I create a couple of videos for a monthly retainer, that will cover it and I can figure it. But nobody nibbled on it. So I got home and I started just trying to figure stuff out. And I had met another lady who had a company and she uses Clickfunnels for her course. And it was funny, I talked to her before I went to Funnel Hacking Live, and we were talking and she was like, “Do you know Clickfunnels?” And I was like, “That’s so crazy. I do.” Because I’d never met anybody else that had. So I got home and I shot a little video with her, it was a test to do some modules for her course and she loved it and it was great. So we were talking about, she had like 20 videos she wanted to do and we were talking about budget, and I just said, “you know what, for that much, for that many videos and all this kind of stuff, it’s going to be $25,000.” And she didn’t even blink. She’s like, “Perfect, that’s great.” Thank you, you guys. You’re going to make me cry. Thank you.  And that was like maybe two weeks after I got home that that happened. And I left her house and I tried my hardest not to do a jump heel click going down her driveway, out to my car, and I got around the corner and I messaged Russell like, “dude, you’ll never guess. I just closed my first 5 figure deal and this is what it was…” and he was like, “That’s so cool.” You know. But it was the whole plata o plomo thing, I would never have the guts to ask for something like that, I know that I should and that my skills and what I can do are worth that and more, and it’s been proven to me again and again since then, but to ask the first time, that first time you have a big ask and you’re just throwing yourself out there, and if she would have said no…Now what am I going to do? Because I had actually done another pitch where I did like a webinar pitch where I  had a stack and slides and stuff because it was for a Chamber of Commerce, and I wanted to charge them 2500 a month to do like 4 videos a year. And I did the whole thing like, “If you do it, it’s $2500 a month, or if you do it all right now it’s this…” that whole you know, and they passed on it. I was like, ugh. So it was just one of those things where being around y’all, that was my first experience being around entrepreneurs, really. I have friends who have had businesses, but I felt weird for wanting to create my own thing or being selfish because I have four kids. Like why don’t you go get a real job? All those conversations that you hear and have with yourself, especially when things aren’t going great. But it was like okay, I have to get it done or I have to drop out. And I just, even in that short amount of time I received so much value from the people I was beginning to meet, and then as the content started coming out I was like, “There’s no way I could live without this after having a taste of it.” So that was my, I had to get it done and it worked out. Russell: Amazing, I love that story. So coo. Alright, so since then, how many of you guys have watched his….are you daily or almost daily Facebook Lives? Nick: Pretty much, almost daily. I’ll miss some… Russell: How many of you guys have watched his daily Facebook lives, he’s doing what we’re saying right. He’s doing it. He’s doing it. I see it, I see it coming in my feed. It pops in my feed over and over. He’s doing what we’re talking about. He’s attracting people, he’s telling stories. All the stuff we’re talking about, he’s been doing it. But part of it, he had to have that emotion, that plata o plomo moment and then he hit it and it’s just like, he’s been running and running and running and running. And it’s been so insanely fun to watch the progress and the growth. Some of you guys know he put out an event that’s coming up this weekend and sold out in 5 seconds. He’s like, “I sold out, should I make it bigger?” and I’m like, “No people should have responded to you faster, it’s their fault. Sell it out because next time it will be easier to sell it out again and easier to sell out again.” But he did it by giving tons of value. Telling stories, telling stories, telling stories, providing more value to you guys, to other entrepreneurs, other people in the community and people are noticing. All the stuff we talked about today, he’s doing it. Consistently, consistently, consistently doing it. That was so cool. I don’t even know where to go from here. Alright I know where to go from here. Before I move into this, was it scary? Nick: All of it scary? Well, this is what, back to my competitive days, I don’t care who, I’d played against the best players in the country at high levels. And I didn’t care if you were going to the NBA, being recruited by Duke, once we got into the lines I didn’t care who you were, I was going to make you look silly. I would hold, you wouldn’t score a point on me, or I would just like out work you and if you wanted to get anywhere I was in your face the whole time. And so this was a whole different game for me. I remember Myron talking about in his speech at Funnel Hacking Live, you have to stay in the game long enough to learn the game, and I was new to this game. Like brand new, less than 12 months when I went to Funnel Hacking Live. And it was terrifying because, not necessarily because I didn’t think I could do it, I was just worried when, how long it would take. Like am I going to go and just spin my wheels and it’s going to be 15 years, 2099 and I’m wheeling up across to get my reward from him in his wheelchair, just like, “Hey buddy.” You know, that kind of thing. I just didn’t know how to make it happen quick. That kind of stuff. So I was definitely scared, not necessarily of failing, because I had failed before, I was just scared how long it was going to take. Russell: one of the best moments for me was this summer, him and his family were driving home from, I can’t remember where, they were driving through Boise, and he’s like, “Can we swing by and say hi? My kids want to meet you, my wife wants to meet you.” That’s always scary when you haven’t met someone’s wife or kids and you’re like, what if they hate me. And I remember I started thinking, oh my gosh. He spent all his money coming out here, and then he bought the thing, she might legitimately want to kill me. I have no idea. I was a little bit nervous. And I came and met them and the kids, it was super cool. I remember the coolest thing, your wife just looked at me and she said, “Thank you.” And I was like, how cool is that? Just the coolest thing. Thank you for convincing, persuading, whatever the things are to do this thing. I think sometimes as entrepreneurs we feel the guilt or the nervousness of, “Should I sell somebody something? Is it right, is it wrong?” You have to understand when you’re doing it, it’s not a selfish thing for you. It’s like, how do I get this person to take the action they need to do. Because most people won’t do it until they make an investment. It’s just human nature. They’ll keep dinking around and dinking around, whatever it is until they have a commitment, until they make that covenant, like Myron talked about earlier, people don’t change. So in any aspect of life, you want someone to make a change, there’s got to be something that causes enough pain to cause the change, which is why we have the program. We could have priced the program really, really cheap but I was like, “No we won’t.” We legitimately wanted to make a plata o plomo moment for everybody. You’ll notice, when the program signup, not everybody who signed up is here today. Some people fell away, some of them left, things happen and I totally understand, but I wanted to make it painful enough that we get people to move. And there are people in this room, I’ve joked about, Nick probably shouldn’t have bought that. If he would have asked I would’ve been like, “No dude, don’t. What are you thinking? Why would you do that?” as a friend this is weird, but I’m so grateful. Are you grateful you did? Nick: Absolutely. Russell: Where’s Marie Larsen, is she still in here? I talked about this in the podcast. She was in the same situation, she should not have signed up for it, it’s insane. I saw this text she sent Steven, she’s like, how much did you have in your bank account when you signed up for it? $70 in the bank account, $1800 a month bill she signed up for. And then it started happening and she was freaking out how it’s going, if you guys haven’t listened to the podcast, Lean In, yet I told the whole story. But it got nervous month one, then month two happened and she’s like, “Oh my gosh, I need to leave. I can’t afford this.” And she’s talking with Steven and Steven’s like, “Well, you could leave and walk away, or you could lean in.” so she decided, “Okay, I’m going to lean in.” So she leaned in, and I’ve watched as her business over the last 3, 4, 5, 6 months is growing and it’s growing and it’s growing because she leaned in. Tough times will come, every single time it comes, but those who lean in are the ones who make it through that, and who grow and who build huge businesses.

In this episode there is a very strange crackle-y noise that occurs randomly but consistently, and we have no idea what it is. I suggested to Melanie at one point that it was castanets, but clearly I was being sarcastic because as you all know we only play our castanets during the summer months. I don't even know what that means. Anyway, if you can will yourself to hang in there during all the clicking / crackling, you'll hear us talk about the Mississippi State / A&M game, one of my most confident parenting moments, and Melanie's new beauty routine that involves cloth surgical tape.  Y'all have no idea. It DELIGHTS me. Hope you enjoy! - Nick Fitzgerald's last touchdown against A&M - Sam Edelman Camellia boots (Melanie's jubilee!) - Syla sleep band - cloth surgical tape - Aveeno Positively Radiant Overnight Hydrating Facial Moisturizer - QB1: Beyond the Lights - Closing Song Sponsors: - FabFitFun (promo code BIGBOO for $10 off your first subscription box - and the fall box really is FAB) - Prep Dish (promo code BIGBOO for 2 weeks free) - Simple Contacts (promo code BIGBOO20 for $20 off your contacts)

Week 9 of The Numbers Game presents us with an introduction to superhuman Lynn Bowden Jr of Kentucky. He made plays all day, including the punt return to give Kentucky a chance, and that's impressive. Along with that, Jake Fromm and Nick Fitzgerald have good days, while Drew Lock and Feliepe Franks don't. How does that affect their positions on statistical leaderboards? Tune in to find out! Or Google it yourself.

Nick Fitzgerald is having a bad season. Is it his fault? Was he always a bad QB, like message board folks like to say? Or, I dunno, is running the ball also a decent way to win football games?

Paul is joined by special guest, Pete Lawrence (@_petelaw) of Dynasty League Football and NumberFire. In the NFL Draft Report, Paul and Pete discuss the 2019 Quarterback, Running Back, Wide Receiver, and Tight End class as a whole. Some of the prospects discussed in detail include Justin Herbert, Dwayne Haskins, Nate Stanley, Drew Lock, Ryan Finley, Brian Lewerke, Nick Fitzgerald, Rodney Anderson, Miles Sanders, Bryce Love, Myles Gaskin, A.J. Brown, N'Keal Harry, Stanley Morgan Jr., KJ Hill, Noah Fant, Irv Smith Jr. and many more. In the Devy Slant segment, the guys discuss some of the top prospects from the 2020 and 2021 classes including Tua Tagovailoa, JT Daniels, Dorian Thompson Robinson, Cam Akers, JK Dobbins, Travis Etienne, Jerry Juedy and many more. Pete also discusses some under the radar names that have not been getting as much as attention as they should. In the Tape of the Tape segment, they discuss some of the top prospects they are looking forward to watch this upcoming weekend. Some new names discussed include Jalen Hurd, Zach Moss, Deondre Francois, Trace McSorley, Riley Ridley, Kelvin Harmon and more. In the final segment of the episode, the guys deliver the NFL Rookie Report for Week 7. They discuss their thoughts on many of the rookies from each of the positions and who would be some players they would be targeting and looking to buy low on right now in Dynasty Leagues. To purchase the S2s Premium Notebooks for $9.99 or to read the full descriptions of what is in each notebooks, click here. Sponsors: TheQuantEdge- if you use the code S2SEdge, you can get 10% off your season long membership  Scouting Academy Hosts: Matt Caraccio (@matty_S2S) Paul Perdichizzi (@paulie23ny) Editor: David Nakano (@kawikaNakano) Website: Saturday2SundayFootball (@s2sfootball)

NCAA Football7:00 PM ESTRotation #403-404Mississippi State +6.5 over LSULSU at night is almost a guaranteed loss for any team coming in. I am really shocked Vegas kept this line just under a touchdown. I think the wagering action will be all over LSU, but the public fails to remember this Mississippi State team dominated them last year and have all the tools to keep this game close. This staff for the Bulldogs is going to do great things in the next few years. I love how Mississippi State is playing in the trenches on both sides of the football and Nick Fitzgerald is a great at moving the chains with his feet. This team is tough. LSU has injuries on both sides of their offensive and defensive line and I believe this game could really send the Bulldogs on their way as a legit program in college football. This is going to be a great game. Take Mississippi State.

It's Week 8 of the college football season … and it finally feels like football weather. (And for one of us, that's true both inside the house as well as outside. Gotta love furnaces!) We begin by recapping the insanity that was Week 7, including Florida's offensive inconsistencies, a poorly timed trip to the nacho line, and anxiety over October performances. Then, AJ explains the cause of his heartburn in this week's #Pac12AfterDark report. And finally, we break down the rest of this week's action. Michigan at Michigan State (12 ET, FOX): The two Teams Up North roll into this rivalry game on high notes. Michigan dominated Wisconsin last week; Sparty stunned Penn State at Beaver Stadium. (Yep, one of us is still bitter about that. You can probably guess who.) Can Michigan State pull off two big wins in a row? Is Michigan as improved as they look? Should be a great one in East Lansing. NC State at Clemson (3:30 ET, ESPN): So, the Wolfpack has very quietly worked its way into an undefeated season and national ranking. (Who knew?) But the Tigers are quite the test … and the first one that NC State has seen all year. Ryan Finley (who must be a 12th-year senior at this point) faces his toughest test of the season against a top-5 Clemson defense. Mississippi State at LSU (7 ET, ESPN): Yes, we're talking about LSU yet again … but can you blame us after the performance the Tigers had against Georgia last week? LSU needs to be careful that this isn't a letdown game (because, you know, Alabama looms); Mississippi State is hoping that Nick Fitzgerald can just run the ball for a zillion yards again. We'll see how that plays out against an LSU defense that baffled Jake Fromm last weekend. So, grab your parka and your fuzzy hat … find yourself a hot chocolate vendor … and settle in for a great Week 8.

It's The Numbers Game, a weekly look into the raw statistics and lack of opinion that make sports GREAT. Nick Fitzgerald ran the ball a lot, Alabama receivers caught the ball a lot, and Ole Miss scored the touchdowns a lot. How does any of this affect the conference? Little, but it's worth looking at!

While the cowbells were deafening at times throughout the night, the sound that most will remember from Florida's gritty win over Mississippi State is the thud generated when Donovan Stiner exploded through the line to sack Nick Fitzgerald on 4th down. On today's show, host Adam Schick discusses the keys to the upset and looks ahead to a massive game against LSU with FloridaGators.com senior writers Scott Carter and Chris Harry (1:15). Plus, Adam talks to sophomore Kadarius Toney about his versatile role on the squad and which teammate he would surprisingly fear in a foot race (24:14). Please leave a review if you like what you hear and for more information, visit FloridaGators.com/GatorTales.

Veteran Kentucky radio personality Curtis Burch and long time Kentucky beat writer Tucker do an extensive preview of Kentucky's game against Mississippi State including looking at all the key players on both sides including Nick Fitzgerald. We also do their weekly over/unders and then pick who will win the game.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Veteran Kentucky radio personality Curtis Burch and long time Kentucky beat writer Tucker do an extensive preview of Kentucky's game against Mississippi State including looking at all the key players on both sides including Nick Fitzgerald.  We also do their weekly over/unders and then pick who will win the game.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The key to Mississippi State's game at Kansas State - and the rest of the season - is how far along Nick Fitzgerald is with MSU's new offense.

Matty A and Matty C both agree on the starting QB's for both Alabama and Auburn. Do the Tiger's and Tide both win on "neutral' turf? One says one thing......the other? What did Nick Fitzgerald do to get suspended? JSU kicker Cade Stinnett is already Matty A's hero while Matty C thinks Tide fans need to be concerned about Bobby Petrino's offense against an untested secondary. 

Saturday Down South's Connor O'Gara and Chris Marler talked about the flurry of SEC quarterback announcements (3:27), as well as Nick Fitzgerald's suspension (21:10). They also broke down their SEC/national predictions for 2018 (25:23), and discussed Week 1 SEC lines from My Bookie (44:28). Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl CEO Gary Stokan joined the show to talk about how the Auburn-Washington matchup happened and why Pac-12 teams are suddenly willing to come to Atlanta (49:53). The guys wrapped up with Family Feud (1:08:22) and #ItMightMeanTooMuch.

Chris Cotter, David Pollack and Greg McElroy discuss Ohio State without Urban Meyer, new starting QBs being named today and the Nick Fitzgerald suspension.

So there's plenty of football talk in this edition of More Cowbell. We talk Nick Fitzgerald, Joe Moorhead and all that. But we also talk about the shark mascot. Because, dammit, it's too ridiculous to ignore.

It's the PAPN Whitesnake hour! Let's talk about Florida, LSU, Auburn, existential dread, a changed Ed Orgeron, Nick Fitzgerald, grading Gus Malzahn without talking about Bama, the FSU-LSU series that is NOT A HOME-AND-DAMN-HOME, and ... stop talking, Will Muschamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Fitzgerald is back and hopes are high in Starkville for 2018. between2fans@gmail.com

There’s big expectations for Joe Moorhead in Starkville this season. What will this defense look like under Bob Shoop? Where does Nick Fitzgerald rank among the SEC’s QBs? Will MSU be better at WR in 2018? Alex, Holt, and JB answer those questions as well as give their favorite (and least favorite) places to eat in Starkville.

1. Jeremy Pruitt responds to criticism 2. Florida players discuss UGA rivalry 3. Alabama at Media Days 4. Nick Fitzgerald is 100% 5. Chad Morris speaks 6. Pruitt updates Trey Smith’s status 7. CeCe Jefferson wishes he could’ve played in Athens 8. Tom Herman wants UT-A&M rivalry renewal 9. Mullen meets with reporters 10. Missouri at Media Days Champion of Life: Phil Mickelson pulls off crazy trick shot

Another episode of the Maroon and White Audible is here to break down Nick Fitzgerald's Heisman chances, Vic Schaefer's contract extension, and people doubting Mississippi State football in 2018. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mississippi State football has never produced a Heisman trophy winner. Can Nick Fitzgerald be the first in 2018? What are his chances like this season? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mississippi State football has never produced a Heisman trophy winner. Can Nick Fitzgerald be the first in 2018? What are his chances like this season?

Sports Illustrated published an article recently about Nick Fitzgerald's return from injury, and the article revealed a few interesting nuggets of information. We dive into that and more on the final More Cowbell for SEC Country.

It's Quarterback preview time for the Draft class of 2019 and that means discussion on whether Oregon's Justin Herbert, West Virginia's Will Grier, Ohio State's Dwayne Haskins, Mississippi State's Nick Fitzgerald, Missouri's Drew Lock, North Dakota State's Easton Stick, and Washington's Jake Browning are really NFL prospects. Plus, bring back NCAA Football, ideal 5-man Dodge Ball Teams comprised of the 2018 draft class, and the reason why Matt's jackin' Mello's "baller on a budget" style!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(0:00) BUTCH JONES TO ALABAMA AT PRO DAY -Nick Saban wouldn’t confirm it. -If you could have three wishes granted for Butch Jones’ time in Tuscaloosa, what would they be? 
 (11:00) ED ORGERON SAYS LSU DOESN’T HAVE A FIRST-TEAM QUARTERBACK -Uhhhhh…duh  -Myles Brennan and Lowell Narcisse competing for the starting job -Fun LSU QB stats -The last time an LSU QB… -Threw for 20 touchdown passes… -Threw for 3,000 yards… -The last time LSU scored 25 points against Alabama… 
 (17:47) KYLE SHURMUR THE NEXT JAY CUTLER? -Cutler working with the Vanderbilt QB this spring -Shurmur actually had a comparable 2017 to Cutler’s final season at Vandy -Shurmur said he’s not focused on the NFL yet, knows he has to win games to make that happen -No you don’t -Cutler never even led Vandy to a bowl game -Cutler 6-3, 231 pounds; Shurmur 6-4, 227 pounds (24:33) SEC INJURY UPDATES FOR NCAA TOURNAMENT -Kentucky’s Jarred Vanderbilt wants to play on an injured ankle, Calipari not so sure -Alabama’s Donta Hall, concussion in SEC Tourney, 50-50 for VT in opener Thursday -Mizzou’s Jordan Barnett…DWI arrest, will not play on Friday vs. Florida State -Do these change your opinions of how far these teams can go? 
 (32:18) LOL -Peter Burns puts Nick Fitzgerald at No. 7 on SEC QB draft rankings -Crying laughing emoji 9 times -Put Jarrett Stidham at No. 1 -I know why people still hate on Nick Fitzgerald -Jalen Hurts throws on an Auburn jersey, turns around, national championship trophy in backpack -Video after losing bet with Charles Barkley 
 (41:00) IT MIGHT MEAN TOO MUCH (the NCAA keeping the SEC down, that is)

It’s a surprisingly busy week in SEC football news, as the guys break down some coaching changes, including Jim McElwain joining Jim Harbaugh at Michigan (00:46), and Alabama picking up the legendary Coach Cool (Craig Kuligowski) of Mizzou fame (9:11). Speaking of people changing jobs, former Alabama QB AJ McCarron is now free from the Bengals’ pit of misery and he can finally get a chance to start (16:20). For some reason, Connor decided to celebrate this by writing him a poem, so…enjoy that (19:42). The big “can’t unhear” moment of the weekend was Fergie’s National Anthem at the NBA All-Star game (26:31). It that moment was so bad it caused the guys to reflect on when they had Fergied something, in hilarious fashion. The Mets GM has hinted that Tim Tebow could see time in the Majors this season, should fans be excited or enraged? Chris is certainly enraged (36:32). Also, the SDS Twitter account’s mentions have been in shambles over Will Ogburn’s article suggesting that Nick Fitzgerald could finish his career as the best rushing QB in SEC history (43:39). But what would it mean if Fitz broke the record? Finally, former FSU assistant Tim Brewster has brought his trolling ways to the SEC as he suggested that the Big 12 has lost its luster with Texas recruits (43:39). Here’s to hopefully many more years of SEC Twitter fingers to come!

Paul is joined by special guest, Kyle Francis (@FranchiseKF) of Dynasty Football Factory. The two of them recap all of the big games and storylines from this past weekend with a detailed discussion on many of the top prospects in college football. The games discussed include Ole Miss vs Mississippi State, Miami vs Pittsburgh, South Florida vs UCF, FSU vs Florida, Missouri vs Arkansas, Georgia vs Georgia Tech, Ohio State vs Michigan, Alabama vs Auburn, Notre Dame vs Stanford and Washington St vs Washington. Some of the prospects discussed in detail include A.J. Brown, D.K. Metcalf, Mark Walton, Akrum Wadley, Myles Gaskin, Quinton Flowers, Nick Chubb, Sony Michel, DeAndre Swift, Cam Ackers, Auden Tate, J.K. Dobbins, Mike Weber, Damien Harris, Bo Scarbrough, Kerryon Johnson, Calvin Ridley, Drew Locke, J'Mon Moore, Bryce Love, Equanimeous St. Brown, Nick Fitzgerald and more. Following the recap, they discuss the latest College Football Playoff Rankings and Preview Championship week. They discuss what games, prospects they are most looking forward to watching and predict how the final rankings may look for the playoff. In the final segment, they deliver the NFL Rookie Report for Week 12 with a discussion on Alvin Kamara, Joe Mixon, Kareem Hunt, Cooper Kupp, and many more.

The Brothers team up after Thanksgiving to chop it up about the Journalism, Mississippi State Football, Net Neutrality, and host of other random topics. Someone tell Mase to Pray for Nick Fitzgerald!

Justin Strawn, manager of For Whom the Cowbell Tolls, SB Nation's Mississippi State site, joins the pod to talk all things Maroon and White leading up to the Bulldogs' battle with Alabama this weekend. Defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons might have come to Mississippi State under controversial circumstances, but he's already lived up to his 5-star billing. On the other side of the ball, what's different about quarterback Nick Fitzgerald from last year to this year? Additionally, coach Dan Mullen's name is being thrown around at places like Florida and Tennessee. Is he a threat to leave Starkville?

Ok Dawg Fans...this is a big game. First SEC tilt...In Athens. Big game vs Miss St, the mongrel dogs from Starkville. Im in Seattle, using a tin can and a string to get this show done, but we've got Isaiah's dad checking in and we talk all about Nick Fitzgerald and Jeffrey Simmons

What's up CBC family? We're here with the Miss. St. preview. We take our customary look at the stats that have powered #clanga and Nick Fitzgerald, talk about the narratives going into this game, and makes some predictions. All that, and Nathan has a horrible flashback to the Prayer at Jordan Hare. If you want to get in touch with us, you can find our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or website by searching for Chapel Bell Curve on your app of choice. If you like what you heard today, please give us a rating and review on itunes. We can't tell you how much that helps us! We'll see you Saturday in the Classic City, but until then, GO DAWGS!

In this week's edition of the Red Zone Sports Report we'll recap a week in college football that was supposed to be quiet. LSU goes into Starkville as a 7.5 favorite and lays an egg against Mississippi St. Clemson takes care of business on the road and easily defeats Lamar Jackson and the Louisville Cardinals. A wild ending to the Tennessee / Florida game and Southern Cal barely slips by Texas at home. In NFL action, we'll racap week 2 qction and preview week 3. Tom Brady proves, yet again, that he is, well, Tom Brady. The Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons probably had the most impressive wins of week 2, easily defeating their respective opponents, both of whom were playoff teams last year. What is wrong with the Seahawks offense? New York Giants Offense? Saints Defense? Is it Mitch Trubisky time in Chicago? We'll cover all this and end, as always, with winners and losers in the world of sports!

Russ is back and is bringing the fire for epsisode 35 of Cover 1 | The Podcast! He jumps into more of the 2018 NFL Draft with a discussion on Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. He mentions Josh Rosen, Sam Darnold and Mason Rudolph. Then he has beef with those that don't like Matthew Stafford. All that and more! 

Russ is back and is bringing the fire for epsisode 35 of Cover 1 | The Podcast! He jumps into more of the 2018 NFL Draft with a discussion on Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. He mentions Josh Rosen, Sam Darnold and Mason Rudolph. Then he has beef with those that don't like Matthew Stafford. All that and more! 

Matt Hayes welcomes Mississippi State quarterback Nick Fitzgerald to discuss his progression under Dan Mullen, the quarterbacks he likes to watch and whether or not dual threat quarterbacks get a bad rap in the SEC. Later, Hayes discusses the quarterback situation across the league and gives some quick thoughts on the marquee week one matchups.

On today's episode, we discuss the conclusion of baseball season, Brent Rooker's triple-crown, and review the latest football and basketball news such as the Mario Kegler trasnfer and the draft stock of Nick Fitzgerald. We also unveil the first round matchups of our bracket: The Most Beautiful People in the World. 

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Androids pre-installed with malware - can the supply chain be trusted? Will WikiLeaks help vendors get zero-days fixed? And what on earth has the Kaspersky marketing department dreamt up this time? Graham Cluley, Carole Theriault and special guest Nick FitzGerald discuss the latest news from the world of computer security. SHOW NOTES: Preinstalled Malware Targeting Mobile Users - CheckPoint Chinese Android smartphone comes with malware pre-installed - Graham Cluley WikiLeaks says it will work with software vendors to fix CIA zero-day exploits... but when? - Graham Cluley Kaspersky launches a range of perfumes to, er, defend your odour - The Register Toilet hackers could snoop on your poop, steal data of a "personal nature" - Graham Cluley Beauty blogger Scarlett London launches Threat de Toilette in bid to stop youngsters oversharing online - The Sun Jackie Chan and Eugene Kaspersky - YouTube Packin' the K music video - YouTube   This episode of Smashing Security is made possible by the generous support of Recorded Future — the real-time threat intelligence company whose patented machine learning technology continuously analyzes technical, open, and dark web sources to give organizations unmatched insight into emerging threats. Sign up for free daily threat intelligence updates at recordedfuture.com/intel Thanks to Recorded Future for their support. Follow the show on Twitter at @SmashinSecurity, or visit our website for more episodes. Remember: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, or your favourite podcast app, to catch all of the episodes as they go live. Thanks for listening! Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language. Special Guest: Nick FitzGerald.

Ethan Lee and Daniel Black discuss Mississippi State's huge win over rival Ole Miss in the Egg Bowl. The Bulldogs were led by Nick Fitzgerald and Aeris Williams as they went on to win big in Oxford, Mississippi on Saturday.  For Whom the Podcast Tolls is the official podcast of SB Nation's For Whom the Cowbell Tolls, a community oriented toward providing the best news, opinions, and satire for Bulldog fans. 

#165: Today I had the pleasure of talking with Nick FitzGerald, a eCommerce Pro. In this episode, Nick discusses  eCommerce, building and leveraging your credit, and building out a team. By the end of this episode you will have a good understanding on how you can scale your businesses with credit card rewards and a strong team. Enjoy! Follow Nick on Instagram -- @nickfitz Find Nick on YouTube --   https://www.youtube.com/nickfitz  Want to learn how to start your own podcast? I created a free training to get you started! --> www.AppleCrider.com/podcast The 16 strategies I use to generate 6 figures from my podcast --> www.AppleCrider.com/cheatsheet Follow me on Instagram --> www.Instagram.com/applecriderofficial For 350+ videos subscribe to my YouTube channel --> YouTube.com/AppleCrider For $20 all-in-one podcast editing check out www.podblade.com P.S Don't forget to subscribe and leave a 5-star review if you enjoyed the show! Want to advertise on this podcast? Go to https://redcircle.com/brands and sign up.