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Hey, what's going on everyone? This is Steve Larsen and you're listening to Sales Funnel Radio.
Welcome to Sales Funnel Radio. Where you'll learn marketing strategies to grow your online business using today's best internet sales funnels. And now, here's your host, Steve Larsen.
You know it's funny when I record these now, after I do my little intro and I put my intro music in there, I tend to in my mind go, "DeeneeneeneeDee LeDenDenDeDenLenee De". And I start singing along with the actual, even though I haven't even put it in yet. It's just what's in my head.
Hey guys, hopefully the mic quality is okay here for you. I just barely got a boom mic which is crazy. I got my desk set up in my home office. I've got whiteboards all over the place. I finally have ... when I was growing up, I had, uhm, and I'm trying to bring this back ... but when I was growing up, anytime, there was like a quote or something inspiring, or something like cool nugget, even in high school I did this, I would write it down on a piece of paper and I would thumbtack it to the wall.
And I did this for a really, really long time. And there would be anything from business quotes to religious stuff to just inspirational things. It was all about like success-driven quotes, you know, from really cool successful people.
And my wall was littered with it, almost to the point where there was no gaps. There were some gaps, but it was so, so close, you barely could see any wall. And I kind of set up my home office up the same way a little bit. I've got two bookshelves. I'm still finding all the books in our boxes as we've been moving in this new house which has been awesome.
I've got the sweet desk which is super cool.
I've got whiteboards, like I said, all over the place. But what I did is I left this huge area in front of me and to the sides of me, totally open, because I really want to bring back my quotes on the wall.
I enjoy doing that a lot. And it was a cool because I kept things top of mine. Like one of them I've got right here. I think I've talked about this one on the podcast, but this is a cool one, it's from a book called, How The World Sees Me.
Number one, "The world doesn't change for people who sort of care." Number two, You don't know learn how to be fascinating. You unlearn boring. You don't know what I mean. We're already fascinating by, by," ... Anyway, just tons of quotes all over the place.
"To become successful don't change who you are, become more of who you are." "And highlight your differences," ... and things like that.
I put stuff like that all over my walls, and I love it. So, I've got a ton of room here. I'm super excited to jump out and keep filling my walls all over the place.
What's kind of weird for me right now is usually I'm podcasting either into my phone or into my mic or whatever it is, and right now I'm look at a wall. So I'm going to have to get used to this.
You guys, I want to say a cool little success story out here. So when this podcast first started, I was super nervous. You guys may not believe that, but I was actually legitimately scared. I was nervous to get out there and put my voice out there.
I was like, "Do I know enough?"
"Have I done enough things in my life?"
Is anyone actually going to listen to this thing?" And huge fears, and I remember, I think I was kind of distracting myself, preparing lots of podcasts, or putting things together, or thinking that the logo was super important, or thinking ... you know what I mean?
And I was distracting myself.
I finally got to this point where I was, "Okay, I got to launch this thing, right. All right, I just got to do this."
And I launched it. And when I first launched the podcast, there was, I don't know, maybe like fifty people who saw the first episode. And I was emailing the list that I had at the time. It wasn't small, but it was a new channel.
And it was just fifty people that saw the first one, and then there was like eleven hundred downloads the first month. I was like, "Cool!" Eleven hundred downloads the first month of the podcast, I was like, that's really awesome.
Second month I think was fourteen hundred. Third month I think broke two thousand. And it kind of just started scaling. Guys, there has been four thousand episodes, I just looked at the stats, four thousand downloads in the last two days. Okay. This podcast is getting ranked like crazy, and I just wanted to thank you guys for being listeners. I appreciate it.
I even met a handful of you guys again today. Pretty much every day, either a listener is reaching out, or I'm getting to meet you, or whatever it is. I just wanted to thank you guys. I think it's really really cool. I had no idea that it would get this big.
As a has-been, you know respectively, I was through this way bigger podcast than that, but it's just really fun to see that and hear stories of people saying, "I did what you said on the podcast and it's been so freaking cool!" "And I went out there and I did it and it changed my life.".
Like those stories, gosh, it just gets me so excited. I know that a lot of people probably think that I'm crazy what I'm doing here, but whatever, I don't care.
My whole goal this podcast is to share with you cool Sales Funnel stories, and strategies and tactics, and little tips and tricks, and things like that. The things that I'm doing is as I move down my Sales Funnel path as well. And I'm just really thankful for you guys.
Anyways, didn't mean to take five minutes on that, but I just wanted to say that. So, hey, I just had a pretty cool experience. So I began, you guys know I got my start with the online business, doing door-to-door sales, which actually might surprise a lot of you.
As you guys know, for those of you, who I guess, haven't heard that story. Go back and listen to it. If you just start from the beginning I kind of tell that story. But I started noticing, right, that there were these people who are already planning on spending money on pest control, that's what I was selling door-to-door, and I did that for two summers.
First was security, and then I did pest control after that. There were people who already wanted it, right. They were calling billboards. They were calling ads. They were seeking for information.
And I was out there and I trying to convince people who were not planning on not spending money to try and spend money. And I was like, oh my gosh, this is so much harder, right.
So, I laughed a little bit because, what was it, like two days ago, you know we've been doing a whole bunch of yard work, we've been getting the house set up, it's been a whole lot of fun, we're totally playing house, it's been awesome. You know we were in an apartment for five and a half years, and now we're finally getting to move into this house, and it's been great.
But, there was a ring on our doorbell. I looked through the little viewfinder that we have there, which is supercool to have that. I don't know how that thing works. It's like a picture. Anywa...
