Make Your Business Impossible to Ignore: Day with Dan Kennedy (4 of 4) | #Marketing - Ep. 18
If you’ve ever asked yourself how industry titans like Steve Jobs, David Ogilvy, and Joe Rogan built unstoppable brands, this episode uncovers the repeatable blueprint behind their success. The reality? Becoming a true authority isn’t about playing it safe, it’s about challenging the status quo, embracing controversy, and strategically leveraging both support and opposition to your advantage.
Key Highlights:
Why all market leaders follow a formula - and how you can apply it
The critical role of books, media, and controversy in building industry authority
How opposition drives traffic and makes you impossible to ignore
The real reason most entrepreneurs fail to break through, and how to avoid their mistakes
Why staying “neutral” is the fastest path to irrelevance
How to strategically use media, podcast guests, and partnerships to amplify your brand
The biggest mistake entrepreneurs make? Trying to avoid criticism. The truth? Every industry leader, from Tony Robbins to Donald Trump, used controversy as fuel to grow. If you want to step into your man on the white horse position and become the recognized authority in your market, this episode is a masterclass in how it’s actually done. Don’t miss the conclusion of Day with Dan!
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What's up, everybody? This is Russell. Welcome back to the show.
And this is the exciting conclusion of our series with Dan Kennedy.
Speaker 1 And if you guys, again, if you don't know, Dan Kennedy was my first mentor. He's how I learned marketing and sales was originally all from Dan.
Speaker 1 And I'm so honored to have him this year's funnel hiking live. We had a whole VIP day with him, and I've been sharing with you guys my two-hour interview with him on stage.
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And what's cool is like, I don't talk a lot. I ask a question, I sit back, and I let Dan do the delivery.
And hopefully, you got a lot from this
Speaker 1 interview so far. Again, we're on part number four right now, and in today's episode, we're going to wrap up the final installment of the interview.
Speaker 1 Dan and I are going to deep dive into sales and marketing, the formulas behind market disruption, radical positioning, how to attract massive attention, whether positive or negative, and how to dominate your industry.
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Dan Kennedy. With that said, we're going to jump into the exciting conclusion of part number four of the day with Dan from Funnel Hacking Live 10.
I hope you guys enjoy this.
Speaker 1 And then next week, we'll get back to our normal podcast programming. Appreciate you all, and I hope you enjoy this episode with Dan Kennedy.
Speaker 1 Are Are there any other things that those of us who want to step into that and become the radical or the man of the white horse?
Speaker 1 Like any other things specifically you'd recommend people thinking about or doing as they're trying to step into that?
Speaker 2 Well, so there's a lot of models.
Speaker 2 So
Speaker 2 this is really pretty easy to model
Speaker 2 because it's pretty far to leak.
Speaker 2 So
Speaker 2 if you
Speaker 2 again, if you think about
Speaker 2 the MLM industry and you go look at Turner,
Speaker 2 if you think about the diet industry in the 60s and 70s and you go look at Atkins,
Speaker 2 if you look at the launch of Apple by Jobs,
Speaker 2 you know,
Speaker 2 and
Speaker 2 really the expansion of Apple,
Speaker 2 where they had to go get them and bring them back. back.
Speaker 2 So, on and on and on.
Speaker 2 There are a lot of models. So, if you pick a category, if your category is health, if you're in the health business,
Speaker 2 there's a lot of models, all the way back to the creator of chiropractic.
Speaker 2 And so, that history is all there, right? In finance,
Speaker 2 there are a lot of models,
Speaker 2 all the way back to the bookstore,
Speaker 2 Balman, that you and I were at, not at the same time, but we were there yesterday,
Speaker 2 the rare bookstore at the Venetian.
Speaker 2 There's a book.
Speaker 2 The stock market and you, something like that, right?
Speaker 2 And it's from 1930.
Speaker 2 And I'm not going to remember the author's name, but he was a big
Speaker 2 heretic at the time
Speaker 2 about investing.
Speaker 2 So there's these models kind of in every category.
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 then there's the
Speaker 2 sort of the
Speaker 2 instruction manuals
Speaker 2 for the
Speaker 2 aftermath of it, the man on the white horse position,
Speaker 2 Eric Hoffer's book, The True Believer, is,
Speaker 2 you know, one of the basics, the fundamentals
Speaker 2 for people specifically, and the information,
Speaker 2 one way to make a living, the Lyman Wood book would be another one.
Speaker 2 So there's no shortage of
Speaker 2 things
Speaker 2 to
Speaker 2 look at,
Speaker 2 understand what each part was,
Speaker 2 and replicate it.
Speaker 2 Probably
Speaker 2 80%
Speaker 2 there's a book involved.
Speaker 2 Somebody did a book
Speaker 2 and they promoted a book.
Speaker 2 If you think about even in profession, in the advertising industry, right,
Speaker 2 The early
Speaker 2 disruptors
Speaker 2 of agency models
Speaker 2 and advertising strategies, Ogilvy would be one of them,
Speaker 2 they all wrote a book explaining themselves
Speaker 2 and their radical
Speaker 2 ideas.
Speaker 2 So Ogilvy on advertising is Ogilvy's explanation
Speaker 2 of what he believes, why he believes it, and at the time it was very contrary
Speaker 2 to traditional advertising. So what Ogilvy said, if you don't have a big idea, don't waste your money on advertising.
Speaker 2 Most advertising of the time had no big ideas.
Speaker 2 It was just basic brand
Speaker 2
advertising. You know, not much more than a logo and a picture of a building.
And we've been in business since 1936.
Speaker 2 There's your ad, right?
Speaker 2 So he was a pretty big heretic
Speaker 2 and very theatrical.
Speaker 2 Over
Speaker 2 most of the time in New York, he roamed around wearing a cape.
Speaker 2 And he drove a big-ass Rolls-Royce, killed himself to get the Rolls-Royce ad account, which he said was a terrible account to have. Very hard to advertise Rolls-Royces.
Speaker 2 He did come up with a great ad, of course, but so he used to park this thing right in front of his offices illegally every day, pay the tickets,
Speaker 2 and go to lunch wearing a great big velvet cape
Speaker 2 and a book. So you will almost 80% of the time, in any of the models you see, you're going to find a book.
Speaker 2 Now, only in the contemporary models are you going to find podcast,
Speaker 2 YouTube channel, right? You're going to find the new media as well as the book
Speaker 2 used in the same way.
Speaker 2 It allows people
Speaker 2 to find you,
Speaker 2 but to get them to go look, you have to stir up all this
Speaker 2 where they already
Speaker 2 are.
Speaker 2 So, like a lot of people have abandoned trade journal advertising in niches and they shouldn't have, because it's a great place to start this.
Speaker 2 The readership is still about 20% of an association, and the rates are cheap because people are abandoning print, you know, and so forth.
Speaker 2 Jay Abraham had
Speaker 2 an ad he used a number of times. It's really a great ad.
Speaker 2 I think Halbert wrote it, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 He used it in insurance and he used it in
Speaker 2 medical.
Speaker 2 The headline was,
Speaker 2 who is this man
Speaker 2 and why is he saying these terrible things about your profession? Or who is this man and why is he saying these terrible things about your business?
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 he would then play this game in the ad, right?
Speaker 2 And with a little time, of course, opposition arose
Speaker 2 and he would quote the ad, and now I add the opposition.
Speaker 2 to the ad, right?
Speaker 2 And it was a, they were great lean generation campaigns. Now, in today's world,
Speaker 2 an ad like that would be a lot more productive
Speaker 2 because there's a lot more ways for the curious to go find him
Speaker 2 and
Speaker 2 start
Speaker 2 to
Speaker 2 get cooked in his environment.
Speaker 2 That ad will drive people to Amazon, it will drive people to TikTok, it will drive people to LinkedIn, it will drive people, right?
Speaker 2 And so as long as you're there, that ad now is infinitely more productive than it was pre-internet.
Speaker 2 You know, as I think you know, the
Speaker 2 you know, there's three media choices, right? There's there's online only, there's offline only, and there's integrated media.
Speaker 2 And the only sensible one is integrated, you know, is integrated media.
Speaker 2 Because
Speaker 2 each media always creates spin-off traffic
Speaker 2 to other media and if you aren't there to capture it you lose it when you have opposition to you being voiced
Speaker 2 that drives traffic
Speaker 2 Okay,
Speaker 2 and as long as you're there to get it
Speaker 2 and then
Speaker 2 carry that message forward, you benefit from
Speaker 2 all the opposition.
Speaker 2 It takes a lot longer
Speaker 2 than any
Speaker 2 market
Speaker 2 to get famous
Speaker 2 by getting famous
Speaker 2 than by getting famous and infamous.
Speaker 2 The infamy
Speaker 2 helps.
Speaker 2 The
Speaker 2 it's so early,
Speaker 2 when we ran the first personal power show, the first Tony show at Cuthbert Wanker.
Speaker 2 The psychiatric
Speaker 2 professional community
Speaker 2 and the psychologist professional community,
Speaker 2 the therapist professional community.
Speaker 2 Has that thing got traction?
Speaker 2 They all got pretty vocal
Speaker 2 in their criticism.
Speaker 2 Well, I mean, look,
Speaker 2 their argument was
Speaker 2 uncredentialed, right?
Speaker 2 Therefore risky,
Speaker 2 could really hurt some people. Same thing for Werner Earhart and AST, which preceded Tony.
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 he's insisting
Speaker 2 he can bring somebody up on stage and instantly cure
Speaker 2 some chronic phobia they've had
Speaker 2 for years
Speaker 2 that we treat for years.
Speaker 2 You know, Woody Allen's,
Speaker 2
if we have any in the audience, I'm sorry. But, you know, Woody Allen's line about therapists was always, I got the best one in New York.
I've had them, I've been going to him every week for 30 years.
Speaker 2 And like Tony's curing us like this.
Speaker 2 You know, that you I'm sure you saw the instant orgasm thing, right? From Tony? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's really funny.
Speaker 2 Good punch lie.
Speaker 2
Yeah, but she was due. Yeah.
Right. Okay.
Speaker 2 So
Speaker 2 there was a lot of
Speaker 2 griping, right?
Speaker 2 Well, so what did that do?
Speaker 2 It sent people
Speaker 2 the restless native,
Speaker 2 the patient
Speaker 2 who's in his seventh year and still has the same problem he had when he started.
Speaker 2 the professional who's questioning what he or she has been told about how to do the profession,
Speaker 2 it sent them to go
Speaker 2 investigate.
Speaker 2 And then the more places you are,
Speaker 2 because different people go different places, the more places you are, the more you benefit.
Speaker 2 And that's why this last time around,
Speaker 2
like Trump was everywhere. I I mean, everywhere.
You couldn't
Speaker 2 you couldn't avoid it.
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 people start,
Speaker 2 well,
Speaker 2 that actually makes sense.
Speaker 2 You know?
Speaker 2 The
Speaker 2 I do some pro bono work for a food bank.
Speaker 2 Not a lot, but we have philosophical conflicts, but still.
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 the executive director
Speaker 2 is another one of these.
Speaker 2 You can't tell anybody I told you this ever,
Speaker 2 ever,
Speaker 2 because we all hate the guy.
Speaker 2 But I voted for him
Speaker 2 because
Speaker 2 If I separate
Speaker 2 him
Speaker 2 from his policies,
Speaker 2 they all make sense to me,
Speaker 2 right?
Speaker 2 Well, how would that happen?
Speaker 2 She would have to consume some of him
Speaker 2 to get to that point, right?
Speaker 2 So I would, I'm sure,
Speaker 2 here's the media probably that she consumes all the time:
Speaker 2 NPR,
Speaker 2 right?
Speaker 2 PBS,
Speaker 2 MSNBC,
Speaker 2 she probably gets a bunch of stuff from
Speaker 2 like-minded people
Speaker 2 in social media.
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 what did all that do?
Speaker 2 Instead of keeping her away from Satan,
Speaker 2 it made her go take a look at Satan.
Speaker 2 Right?
Speaker 2 So the opposition
Speaker 2 is useful.
Speaker 2 And I've always gone out of my way to trigger it,
Speaker 2 to have an against
Speaker 2 position, to have a villain, all of that. If you take any
Speaker 2 Nobesque book,
Speaker 2 any of the titles,
Speaker 2 they all have
Speaker 2 this
Speaker 2 early in the book.
Speaker 2 There is
Speaker 2 an establishment
Speaker 2 archaic
Speaker 2 villain established
Speaker 2 and then
Speaker 2 attacked,
Speaker 2 and
Speaker 2 then the alternative
Speaker 2 system
Speaker 2 you know, is offered to you.
Speaker 2 And,
Speaker 2 like,
Speaker 2 the Ruthless Management book has gotten the most negative
Speaker 2 stuff,
Speaker 2 reviews, you know, all that.
Speaker 2 Mostly the people have read it. They just don't like the word ruthless.
Speaker 2 I'm deadly serious about that, by the way.
Speaker 2 But I'd almost rather have the negative reviews than the positive ones.
Speaker 2 Because I know what effect it has on people, right? It's like,
Speaker 2 well,
Speaker 2 I got to take a look at this guy, right?
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 a lot of people don't have the courage to play this game.
Speaker 2 But
Speaker 2 when you understand its architecture and then you start looking for it,
Speaker 2 you find it used
Speaker 2 again
Speaker 2 and again
Speaker 2 and again.
Speaker 1
I saw an ad the other day. You would loved it.
It's for this book that's coming out. It's like a mind control
Speaker 1
persuasion book. And the ad was basically, it was two Amazon reviews.
One was five stars. Like, this is the greatest book I've ever read on mind control.
Speaker 1 And the second one was, this book should be banned and burned. And the headline was, both of these are right.
Speaker 1 And it's like, like, I keep seeing that ad running around my man. I'm such a good ad.
Speaker 2 Perfect.
Speaker 2 Well,
Speaker 2 see, years ago,
Speaker 2 the Catholic Church used to ban movies.
Speaker 2 So they used to tell everybody,
Speaker 2 I know this because my first wife was Catholic.
Speaker 2 They used to... put out a list of movies
Speaker 2 that Catholics should not see.
Speaker 2 And I always thought,
Speaker 2 do you idiots know what you're doing?
Speaker 2 Say, because
Speaker 2 I can tell you right now
Speaker 2 that
Speaker 2 you're succeeding with some,
Speaker 2 but you're driving a whole bunch of people to the theater to see this movie who probably wouldn't have gone otherwise.
Speaker 2 They banned The Exorcist when it came out, the original movie, The Exorcist,
Speaker 2 which was basically a junk
Speaker 2 horror movie
Speaker 2 that my guess is would have died at the box office
Speaker 2 if the Catholic Church hadn't made such a big stink about it and told everybody, stay away from this thing.
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 I remember thinking,
Speaker 2 they're the greatest sales force for this movie ever. You can't beat this, right?
Speaker 2 I mean, this is like your parents telling you,
Speaker 2 you know, don't read this book.
Speaker 2 What are you going to do? You're all going to read the book, right?
Speaker 2 I mean,
Speaker 2 I was a little kid, and I don't know how old, but
Speaker 2 probably, let's see, 60. It was probably right around
Speaker 2
63 that the original Payton Place novel came out. It was a big deal.
You're even too young, probably.
Speaker 2 Scandalous, this book.
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 it was about a small town, and everybody in it had secrets
Speaker 2 and a lot of sexual overtones
Speaker 2 and
Speaker 2 fiction, but
Speaker 2 based on real people. In fact, a bunch of people sued.
Speaker 2 And so it was the
Speaker 2 housewife's hidden book of the year, right?
Speaker 2 They all had it, and they all hid it somewhere,
Speaker 2 and they all read it.
Speaker 2 A contemporary
Speaker 2 phenomenon might have been Fifty Shades of gray for the first six months or so, right?
Speaker 2 Which is a very funny book.
Speaker 2 I don't know that they meant it for comedy, but,
Speaker 2 you know,
Speaker 2 you go,
Speaker 2 most wives go ask the husband to
Speaker 2 tire up in bed. He will,
Speaker 2
and then he'll go get a sandwich and watch the game in peace. That's what's going to happen, you know.
I mean, it's not.
Speaker 2 Oh,
Speaker 2 be careful what you wish for.
Speaker 2 So anyway, this book was, you know,
Speaker 2 hidden
Speaker 2 and
Speaker 2 not for minors
Speaker 2 and, you know, and all that.
Speaker 2 It took me about a day to find it, but I found it.
Speaker 2 And it turns out pretty much every kid I knew had found his mother's book
Speaker 2 and was reading some of it and putting it back and reading some of it and putting it back.
Speaker 2 And that's great amortizing, right?
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 this is the opposite of being
Speaker 2 dominated by disapproval.
Speaker 2 You actually create disapproval to use disapproval.
Speaker 2 I think that about
Speaker 2 a third of Trump
Speaker 2 is doing these things,
Speaker 2 mostly little ones,
Speaker 2 mostly to entertain himself
Speaker 2 and to create another blast of this kind of
Speaker 2 conversation.
Speaker 2 And it's amazing to me how the media always bites.
Speaker 2 It's just incredible.
Speaker 2 So a couple days ago, I guess he was asked,
Speaker 2 because there's some rumors about Prince Harry
Speaker 2 having lied on his visa application about ever using drugs or something.
Speaker 2 So somebody asked Trump at one of his
Speaker 2 he answers questions pretty much all the time. Somebody asked him
Speaker 2 if it turned out that that was true, if he would deport Prince Harry.
Speaker 2 Now, there's any number of ways you could normally, if you were a normal person, you would handle
Speaker 2 that question.
Speaker 2 He says, No,
Speaker 2 he's got enough trouble with that wife of his. She's terrible.
Speaker 2 Now,
Speaker 2 this is really not worth
Speaker 2 being remarked upon,
Speaker 2 but
Speaker 2 hours of media time.
Speaker 2 How dare he? And, you know, the relationship between America and England will be forever severed. And, you know, they're on fire about this.
Speaker 2 And I just wanted to answer, when it goes to his head,
Speaker 2 Does he say to himself, this will be fun,
Speaker 2 right?
Speaker 2 I'll just throw this out there. Or does it not even, is there no edit mechanism at all?
Speaker 2 I don't know. I'd love to ask him.
Speaker 2 Because there's a lot of it, right?
Speaker 2 And it accumulates,
Speaker 2 and it's actually
Speaker 2 magnetic.
Speaker 2 People sort of,
Speaker 2 well, maybe I'll start paying attention to this guy, right?
Speaker 2 Because
Speaker 2 that was funny, right? I wonder what else he's going to say today.
Speaker 2 But
Speaker 2 you just have to not care
Speaker 2 about the disapproval.
Speaker 2 And that's so contrary.
Speaker 2 It's why you see this model. This model is not,
Speaker 2 I didn't make it up.
Speaker 2 So you see this model over and over and over again, but you don't see it
Speaker 2 commonly used
Speaker 2 because if everybody used it, it would, you know, would disintegrate, it would have no power.
Speaker 2 Because most people,
Speaker 2 business people,
Speaker 2 are hypersensitive
Speaker 2 to any disapproval.
Speaker 2 And they are
Speaker 2 in an exercise of futility,
Speaker 2 they are seeking
Speaker 2 no disapproval.
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 first of all, it can't be done.
Speaker 2 So you can't do it even if you try,
Speaker 2
you know. I mean, there are people who don't like vanilla ice cream.
I mean,
Speaker 2 I think it's hard to be opposed to it, but
Speaker 2 there are people who will give you a 30-minute lecture on live vanilla ice cream as you have a tear.
Speaker 2 And there's people that don't like
Speaker 2 anything else, right?
Speaker 2 So you can't get to 100%,
Speaker 2
you can't even get to 100% neutrality, 100% ambivalence. You can't even get to, let alone 100% approval.
So you're not going to get there no matter what you do.
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 you're never going to be
Speaker 2 the talk of the town
Speaker 2 because of that.
Speaker 2 If that worked,
Speaker 2 in 2016, Jeb Bush would have been president.
Speaker 2 Well, because that's what he is, and that's what he fashioned himself to be.
Speaker 2 Nothing to object to,
Speaker 2 but
Speaker 2 nothing
Speaker 2 period either,
Speaker 2 right?
Speaker 2 Nothing to really get excited about one way or the other.
Speaker 2 I think, like the NFL has figured this out with halftime shows. I think they're deliberately doing shows
Speaker 2 that a lot of people talk about has the worst one ever.
Speaker 2 And people are tuning in to see how bad and offensive it can possibly be.
Speaker 2 And then they like complaining about it for three or four days, right?
Speaker 2 Because otherwise, you wouldn't do what they've done the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 So,
Speaker 2 this is contrary to sort of
Speaker 2 the way we
Speaker 2 are taught to behave
Speaker 2 really from childhood on up, right?
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 but like nobody drives 50 miles to get vanilla ice cream either, right?
Speaker 2 It's just not a big thing.
Speaker 2 And so if you're vanilla,
Speaker 2 and if you try and do it all
Speaker 2 positive,
Speaker 2 so if you look at media,
Speaker 2 for a time,
Speaker 2 the two highest-paying highest-paid broadcasters
Speaker 2 ever
Speaker 2 were Limbaugh and Howard Stern.
Speaker 2 And then, when Howard went to satellite, that ended that. But
Speaker 2 when they were both on AM radio,
Speaker 2 they had the two biggest audiences.
Speaker 2 And obviously, not a lot in common
Speaker 2 other than the fact
Speaker 2 that they said
Speaker 2 triggering
Speaker 2 controversial things
Speaker 2 that then got multiplied out into other media
Speaker 2 and then caused people
Speaker 2 to be curious
Speaker 2 and go take a look
Speaker 2 and
Speaker 2 highly disapproved of,
Speaker 2 right,
Speaker 2 in both cases.
Speaker 2 Howard had has
Speaker 2 some women fans, but you know, not a lot.
Speaker 2 It's pretty much a guys,
Speaker 2 you know, a guys' club.
Speaker 2 And Limbaugh, he didn't have any liberal fans. He had liberals who listened to get mad.
Speaker 2 But
Speaker 2 so Howard had and has a lot of women who
Speaker 2 have very negative reactions to him,
Speaker 2 and the ones that listen complain
Speaker 2 amongst their friends. And the same was true of Limbaugh.
Speaker 2 So, again, if you're looking for a model,
Speaker 2 you're looking at not the
Speaker 2 pleasant
Speaker 2 morning a.m. radio host
Speaker 2 who there's three of them on the show, kind of the today show of radio.
Speaker 2
And they do the weather and they do the traffic and they talk about local community events. And here's what we know about those people.
They're never going to get rich.
Speaker 2 They're never going to move up the media ladder. They're going to be in local media their entire lives.
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 most people, from one week to the next, don't even know they exist.
Speaker 2 As they age in their careers, the most common question asked amongst people in their community is: Are they still alive? I didn't think that guy was still alive. Is he still alive?
Speaker 2 I thought he was dead.
Speaker 2 The model is Limbaugh. The model is
Speaker 2 Stern.
Speaker 2 And you would go back
Speaker 2 to Limbaugh day one
Speaker 2 forward howard day one
Speaker 2 forward
Speaker 2 in order to see what they had done if you wanted
Speaker 2 to become a top 10
Speaker 2 you know radio personality um
Speaker 2 or now podcast personality right
Speaker 2 I mean, Rogan's model,
Speaker 2 all the secrets are visible,
Speaker 2 right?
Speaker 2 Now, you've got to go all the way back to Rogan day one
Speaker 2 and follow the model all the way to forward,
Speaker 2 but
Speaker 2 there's nothing hidden,
Speaker 2 right?
Speaker 2 All of his secrets are visible.
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 one of the things he does
Speaker 2 is
Speaker 2 he says controversial things
Speaker 2 and he has people on who who are greatly disapproved of,
Speaker 2 and then that gets multiplied out through the media, right?
Speaker 2 A lot of
Speaker 2 symbiosis going on, right?
Speaker 2 So,
Speaker 2 yeah,
Speaker 2 he really helped Trump, but Trump really helped him.
Speaker 2 whole new audience, you know, in both directions. So, what does that tell you? So that tells you
Speaker 2 if you are using
Speaker 2 a podcast as part of your media,
Speaker 2 make sure you have some people on it
Speaker 2 who offend a bunch of people.
Speaker 2 No, I'm deadly serious.
Speaker 2 No, no, no, I'm not kidding.
Speaker 2 There's no point in having somebody on
Speaker 2 that everybody's going to forget
Speaker 2 after
Speaker 2 the vanilla ice cream is gone.
Speaker 2 And they're not going to multiply out through other media. What's the point?
Speaker 2 No. Have somebody on that a lot of people
Speaker 2 disagree with and disapprove of
Speaker 2 who can hold their own for two or three hours, preferably have an audience they bring, but
Speaker 2 even if they don't,
Speaker 2 because
Speaker 2 having that happen
Speaker 2 will bring more attention to you
Speaker 2 than having the approved of
Speaker 2 person on will bring attention to you.
Speaker 2 Association,
Speaker 2 we'll talk later about cast of characters, but but one of the one of the things about this model in association is
Speaker 2 radical with radical, heretic with heretic,
Speaker 2 and
Speaker 2 not
Speaker 2 just
Speaker 2 positive, but also negative, because you want noise.
Speaker 2 You want
Speaker 2 to be
Speaker 2 talked about in a multiplied way almost no matter how you are
Speaker 2 talked about.
Speaker 2 When Halbert was,
Speaker 2 it was, he never actually got on, but
Speaker 2 Johnny talked about his
Speaker 2 Family Crest letter
Speaker 2 and
Speaker 2 about Halbert
Speaker 2 as
Speaker 2 a guy who claims to be the world's greatest copywriter. and
Speaker 2
that this letter has been mailed more than any other letter and it gives you your family crest. And so I answered it.
I got the family crest, and it's a complete scam and it's rip-off and it's silly.
Speaker 2 And
Speaker 2 Halbert said, you can't get better press.
Speaker 2 He said, it's just terrific. He said, I'm the only copywriter ever mentioned on the Tonight Show in the history of the entire Tonight Show.
Speaker 2 Direct marketers, companies who would touch me before are calling wanting me to to write copy.
Speaker 2 Because Carson says,
Speaker 2 I wrote copy so good, I could steal money from anybody.
Speaker 2 Well, the phone's written off the hook, right?
Speaker 2 Now, if it had been nice,
Speaker 2 wouldn't have had near the impact.
Speaker 2 So
Speaker 2
when we started, you ask about fear. And most of the reason people won't use this model is that they're afraid of it.
And what they're really afraid of is
Speaker 2 vocal and visible disapproval. Yeah.
Speaker 1 Well, I think we're at the end of the session, and that was easy.
Speaker 2 Should we all give Dan a huge round of applause?
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