Here’s a cool case study of a band that performed a concert every single day for a year. Listen to this episode to find out what happened to them and how this relates to you.
Do you care about it enough to blog once a week about it? Do you care about if you're going to blog every day about it? Do you care about that every single day you're going to make something happen? Because if you do, if you are, then you get rewarded. Okay? There's a reason now that I'm still having so much success in my business, right? Despite the ups, and the downs, and all the things I have been doing this now for 18 years. 18 years I've been beating this drum over, and over, and over again.
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Hey everybody, this is Russell Brunson, welcome back to the
Marketing Seekers Podcast. I want to share with you guys what I
consider an insane case study that isn't necessarily from the
business world, but it's following a business principle that I
talked about all the time, and it happened for a little band.
So with that said I'm going to cue up the theme song. When I
come back I'm going to share with you guys the story about Jim and
Sam.
All right, so as you guys know I've been talking about
publishing for years about the power of it and why we should be
publishing daily, and I remember at one of our Two Comma Club X
events I made a statement, I said to everyone in the audience, "If
you will publish every single day for a year by the end of the year
I am convinced you'll be financially free," and I think a lot of
people looked at me and said, "Cool." Some people said there's no
way, and very few people actually did it.
People have and those people insanely enough are having a lot of
success right now. So anyways, I still stand by that. You pick
where you're going to publish at and do it every single day for a
year you should be successful because a couple things are going to
happen. Number one, it will give you a chance and give you time to
find your voice. And number two, it gives your audience enough time
to come and find you, right?
And so, that's kind of the reason behind it. And so, what's cool
is this morning Brandon Fisher who's one of the guys here on my
team that does our all our video stuff he sent me this trailer, and
I haven't watched the documentary of it. I watched the trailer this
morning, and it was amazing, so I highly recommend it. If you go to
wearejimandsam.com you can go and watch the trailer for this
documentary called After So Many Days.
And so, I didn't know why he sent it to me, so I clicked play,
and in this minute and 50 trailer for this documentary it tells a
story about a couple, newlyweds named Jim and Sam, who've been
trying for a decade to hit it with music. They were playing shows,
they were practicing, all sorts of stuff, and for 10 years had no
success, and they decided they needed to do something crazy, like
we need to figure out a way to make this thing successful.
And so, they decided that they were going to do a show every
single day for 365 days. Right? And again, I haven't seen the
documentary yet. I am so excited to go and watch it, but just from
the trailer you see what happens is they go out there and they
start doing a show, and some of the shows are next to these guys
cutting down trees because they're the only person that will listen
to them. Some of them are in these little bars, some of them are
just wherever they can find a place to perform a show in front of
humans, right?
And they start doing this, and they start doing this, and by the
end of the trailer they're performing in front of these audiences
of tens of thousands of people. And there's this quote at the end
of the trailer that was so powerful. In fact, I wrote it down. I
just wanted to share it with you. At the end of the trailer he
says, "So here we go, making something happen every single day,"
and then, boom, they start on this journey.
Anyway, I wanted to share it with you because, man, so many of
us have this dream. We have our art, right? For Jim and Sam it's
their band. For you it could be an offer, a product, a coaching
program, a book, a course, a CD, a physical product, a service you
do. It could be whatever, right? We have this vision, we have our
dream, and we go out there and we try to put it out there.
But the magic of this, and again, I cannot wait to watch the
documentary. It'll probably end up having 10 more episodes. I'm
going to be geeking out about this, but the concept of like, all
right, if we're going to be successful it's not just going out
there and dabbling, or going out there I'm going to read a book,
I'm going to go try to whatever. It's like, here we go, making
something happen every single day. What are you doing every single
day to make your dream come true, right? What is it? Right?
And for most of us if we're selling stuff online is publishing.
I know Nathan Barry who was the founder of ConvertKit, a great
software program, he said the same thing. He's like, "I'm going to
write a blog post every single day for a year," and he sat down and
he started doing it, and first it was really, really hard, right?
But then, he got into the habit of this every day I'm going to sit
down I'm going to write 1,000 words, write 1,000 words. Every
morning do 1,000 words, 1,000 words, and by the time a year had
come up his company had blown up, so many good things happened from
it.
And so, I think for all of us, man, they just serve as such a
good reminder. How do we publish something every single day, right?
And so, this is the rallying call, okay? As you guys are going to
commit to this and say, "Okay, I'm going to do this." The rallying
call is this, "So here we go, making something happen every single
day." So what is that for you? What is that level? What's the thing
that if you do every single day it's going to change everything for
you? You got to figure out exactly what that is and then focus on
it and do it consistently every single day for a year.
If you do that a couple things happen. Number one, you will find
your voice, okay? I guarantee that by the end of performing a show
every single day for a year, what happened? They got better. They
figure out if people like it, or if people didn't like it. They
mastered their craft, right?
And the second thing is they're going out and doing this over,
and over, and over again. The consistency gave their audience a
chance to find them. I talk about it in the Traffic Seekers book as
well. I shared one of Nathan Barry's thousand blog posts, or 100
blog, whatever, 365 blog posts he did that year. One of them is
called You Have to Endure Long Enough to Get Noticed.
And he talked about it, he said you know what's interesting? You
think about TV shows, or movies, or documentaries, like how many TV
shows did you find out about season four or five, right? So the
problem is there's so much content being created all the time that
the market, the world, waits to see what's good enough that's going
to rise to the top, right? And so, it's testing you. I think for
all of us it's like, okay, the universe, God, the market, whoever
is testing you to say, do you really want this? How bad do you want
it? How bad do you care about your message?
Do you care about it enough to blog once a week about it? Do you
care about if you're going to blog every day about it? Do you care
about that every single day you're going to make something happen?
Because if you do, if you are, then you get rewarded. Okay? There's
a reason now that I'm still having so much success in my business,
right? Despite the ups, and the downs, and all the things I have
been doing this now for 18 years. 18 years I've been beating this
drum over, and over, and over again.
I beat this drum when nobody was listening. I beat this drum
when people were angry. I beat this drum when clients were leaving
me. I beat this drum and I keep doing it, and doing it, and doing
it because I believed in it so much, because I cared about it so
much, because I knew the impact it could and would have if I just
kept doing it, and kept doing it, and kept doing it.
And now, 18 years later, and I'm still learning, I'm still
becoming better, I still make tons of stupid mistakes, right? But
18 years later I've found my voice, right? And my audience is
finding me, and it'll continue to hopefully continue to grow and
keep evolving, but that's definitely what's happening.
So hopefully I gave you guys some encouragement. I highly
recommend if you want to get motivated just go to
wearejimandsam.com and watch the trailer. Like I said, I'm totally
going to go watch this documentary. I'm pumped to see it. And
again, it's called After So Many Days. That's the name of the
documentary. And I'm going to end this podcast with the line that
ends the trailer, "So here we go, making something happen every
single day." What is that for you? Commit to it, do it, and if you
do that again two amazing blessings will come to you. Number one,
you'll find your voice, and number two, your audience will find
you.
Thanks again so much for listening. I appreciate you guys all
and I'll talk to you all soon. Bye everybody.
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