All the cool stuff you’re going to get inside of Clickfunnels because of this month’s hack-a-thon.
On today’s episode Russell talks with a special guest, Steven Asketsos, who is here all the way from Australia for the hack-a-thon.
Here are a few fun things you’ll here in this episode:
So listen below to find out how Steven feels about the hack-a-thon and the Clickfunnels changes.
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Russell Brunson: Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson.
Steven Asketsos: And this is Steven Asketsos.
Russell: And we are here in an exciting Marketing in Your Car.
Russell: Hey everyone, so we have been in the middle of a hack-a-thon as you guys know. I’ve done some podcasts on the way home. I’m here today because one of our newest additions to Click Funnels, we flew him here from Australia and he’s been hanging out for his first hack-a-thon.
I want to get in his own words what it’s been like to be on the inside. Do you want to tell everyone what it’s been like?
Steven: Yes, it’s been pretty crazy. I flew up 32 hours to meet these guys and I don’t know what I was getting myself into but I got here in the end I think with four different airplane flights, went through five airports but I got here at midnight.
First day was awesome. We’re just smashing our work. Russell introduced me to the team. I met Dillon, Winter, Todd, Ryan - absolutely awesome team, finally get to see how Click Funnels has been so successful.
It’s been awesome to work with everyone, and we’ve been smashing it. We’ve been hustling it out till four AM every night and really putting the hard hours in. I think you guys are going to be really pumped to see what’s going to come out in the next few weeks. We got some really cool things planned.
Russell: Awesome. Talk about day two, what happened because we had a special guest come hang out with us.
Steven: Yes, that’s right. On day two, we had Mr. Neil Patell join us. I’m sure you guys are familiar with Neil with KISSmetrics and Crazy Egg, and Hello Bar, and I think there are a few other companies he’s founded with Quick Sprout and whatnot but oh gosh, I don’t know where we’re going.
Russell: We’re off-roading it.
Steven: Off-roading in a new car - only Russell would do this. Anyway, Neil came down and he shared some epic, epic takeaways with us from what he’s doing in his own companies, how we can grow our company. Yes, he’s been killing it on the content marketing side.
He just dropped absolutely golden nuggets. Hopefully you guys are going to see the awesome blog posts come and see some of the value that’s going to come onto the blog side of things as well.
Russell: Yes, it’s going to be awesome. Steven joined the team to help us with all the content stuff so we thought we should hire the man Neil Patel to come in and coach us on that so that we could do it right. It was good.
I think we were going in a good direction but he helped steer us, “This is the perfect way to do it.” It’s been fun to see what you’re able to do with this as your baby in the company now, some exciting stuff. The last five minutes before we just jumped in the car, basically Dillon got excited and wanted to launch everything he’s been working on for the last year, all in one month.
We filmed a video. You guys will probably see it on Facebook or through email or somewhere. We are basically launching pretty much everything, all the rest of the stuff in August. That means first off, there’s a brand new UI that’s amazing.
It looks like a whole new company. It’s simpler. It’s stripped out, all this kind of stuff. It’s awesome, a new homepage, the new site which I spent the whole week building which I think I’m proud of it.
Steven: Yes, it’s pretty good.
Russell: I’m not going to lie. That’s kind of cool. Then we’ve got Backpack is going live so everyone will have the affiliate program inside their accounts here in August. The dream car contest is going live so you can win the Corvette I’m driving in or whatever car you want.
Actionetics which I thought was going to be another two months before it’s coming out is now happening this month, and we got accounts yesterday. It’s nuts.
Steven: It’s crazy. People are going to be blown away.
Russell: Yes, I feel bad for every other auto responder company on planet earth literally. Yes, it’s amazing. Imagine editing emails in the Click Funnels email editor.
Steven: Oh, I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s actually like - I don’t want to swear but it is absolutely amazing. To do something so easily, I personally was telling Russell this earlier, about half an hour ago. I hate emails.
I hate making them, I hate sending them but as soon as I logged into this, it was pretty amazing. It felt like I was at home. It felt like I was finally able to just dive deep in and everything was just done for me the way I like it.
I think you can’t get much better than that. I think you guys are going to have a lot of fun creating emails, the same way that when you first jumped into Click Funnels and you started playing around with funnels, and you were just locked in there for three hours and you didn’t come out of your bedroom or you didn’t see your kids, or you didn’t see your wife and you got yelled at, you would be the same with your email editor.
It’s going to be a rollercoaster ride. I can’t wait to see it come out.
Russell: Anyway, you guys are going to love it. We just wanted to give you a quick update because the end of the hack-a-thon is here. It’s like two or three or four in the morning, dropping Steven off at the hotel and just wanted to say hey to everybody.
He has been listening to Marketing in Your Car since day one, and now he’s on officially Marketing in Your Car which is exciting. So I appreciate you guys, thanks for listening. Thank you for being here.
Steven: Thank you for listening guys and it’s been awesome, thanks Russell.
Russell: All right, we’ll talk to you guys soon.