SFR 1: Interview - Danny Walsh Helps Newbs Make Their First $1,000 Online

Steve Larsen:
All right everyone, hey. I'm super excited for this, this is going to be a treat and its very rare. There's a few people I go through and I interview, and they don't know much about ClickFunnels or the world that I live in, but that's not the case for this time. You guys have the special privilege of listening to Mr Danny Walsh, thank you so much for joining us.

Danny Walsh:
Thank you Stephen, thank you so much for having me on the show.

Steve Larsen:
I'm really pumped about this. Its funny, so I was interviewing Jenn Goodwin. I don't know when that was, it was a couple of weeks ago and after the show she kept messaging me. She's like, "You have got to interview this guy, Danny Walsh. He's the man, he's helped me with all my stuff," and so I've been really excited for this. She kept telling me, "I use him for building all this stuff." Do you mind telling us a little bit about what you're doing for Jenn?

Danny Walsh:
The work that I'm doing with Jenn and in general is about building a partnership between ourselves, so that we can better serve our audiences. This is a longer term arrangement I guess, so in the short term yes, I'm helping her with ClickFunnels, yes I'm helping her with some strategy stuff. That's not to say that she's not already well advanced in various parts of the internet, and she does have a lot of clients and she's working on some fantastic projects.

I'm helping and advising on funnel type stuff, but in terms of the partnership what we've realized is that we have a lot of similarities. By working together and putting some systems in place, we will be able to better serve more people. That's the angle we're coming at from that piece of work, and its going well so far. Big thanks and shout to Jenn, I guess.

Steve Larsen:
She's also very impressed. You're a ClickFunnels expert, that's obviously what she said and that's what you go out and do, is help people with ClickFunnels itself. How did you get started doing that first of all? You had said just previously to this that you were doing this all on WordPress, and that's awful for everyone.

Danny Walsh:
I've been working online since I was eighteen and I'm thirty five now, so that's quite some time. One of the first things I ever did online was create a music business, and this was before YouTube and Facebook, and the things that we're accustomed to these days. There was myself and a group of friends and we was into music, and underground music in particular in the UK. Lots of bass driven stuff and we wanted to get into raves effectively, and go and perform and DJ and rap, and do all of this cool stuff that we were into when we were sixteen, seventeen and eighteen. At that point when you're eighteen, as you know, you have a choice don't you? Your mom or your family or whoever says get a job, and society says get a job so you tend to find yourself in college or wherever.

I went to college for a week and I left, it wasn't for me. I'm eighteen, loving music, loving all these sorts of things. Recognizing that the internet was becoming very powerful and it was certainly catching my eye and my interest, and I'd done lots of computer stuff at school. Albeit these computers were ancient, the floppy disks and all this kind of stuff. From this music business, we've ended up having choice. You can either go on this course that the government has provided, or you can look to write a business plan, but they never expected anybody to write the business plan. I saw that as an opportunity when I was eighteen to actually not go on this course, and actually do the music. I was one of the only guys who came back after a few days with a big smile on my face, with a business plan.

The lady in the job center, she couldn't believe it but they put me forward into this scheme, where we managed to get £3,000 so, about four and a half thousand dollars worth of funding. This is me at eighteen and we set off on this journey, of running this website and doing events, and we quite quickly became the number one urban music website. People couldn't believe it and that starting point, and that wasn't even WordPress. That was actually coding this stuff in html and everything was so primitive, it took ages to upload anything. There was no such thing as camera phones, we were pretty much on our own playing Vinyl, do you know what I mean? From there, and learning WordPress and the DJ-ing evolved into teaching children and young people, and that set me on my journey if you would.

Steve Larsen:
Sure. That's incredible.

Danny Walsh:
That's just the beginning.

Steve Larsen:
Yeah, you were eighteen. I can't believe that, that's amazing. I almost got kicked out of high school because I kept selling all these random knick knacks in school, whatever it was. Little pens, they don't really like that kind of stuff.

Danny Walsh:
No, and obviously not conforming or you're not parts of the masses and what they want them to be like. If you're doing something slightly different, they'll try and make you fall back in line. That's where entrepreneurs are different.

Steve Larsen:
Yeah, just a little bit. I talk about pre ClickFunnels days like its the dark ages a little bit. It makes it so much faster now, I can't believe it. You've got this business, what's the website again? Just so everyone knows.

Danny Walsh:
I'm on dannywalsh.co.uk

Steve Larsen:
That's right. The biggest thing you do is you go help people with ClickFunnels issues. What are the kinds of issues that people run into that you see?

Danny Walsh:
This is the interesting thing. Since I've been doing the music days and from teaching children and young people how to DJ, and then from there working for the Council Writing Policy. All of these things I've done in my background, the problems that people have brought up in terms of promotion, marketing. The need to get people to come to an event or the need to get people to buy a ticket, or the need to get people to actually take action.

The problems have been similar all the way up until now, up until this morning when I was speaking to somebody on Skype. The similar problems just have new solutions and ClickFunnels is a new solution to age old problems, and literally does take hours and thousands of pounds or thousands of dollars out of the equation. Compared to what we was doing nearly twenty years ago, compared to what you can do now on ClickFunnels, its safe to say that the world has evolved for the better.

Some of the problems that people encounter come in on different levels. If you think about technology, the technology is always a learning curve for people. I've been fortunate that I've done this from young and always done it, so if you're just coming in and trying to get into this thing, there's a big barrier in peoples minds where they're afraid to press things. Does that make sense?

Steve Larsen:
Yeah.

Danny Walsh:
People will for example get ClickFunnels or but a WordPress theme, or whatever it may be. Something practical that they've got to do, Photoshop, whatever it is. They'll get this thing open in front of them and they'll have the training, and there still seems to be this mental block that presents them from pressing things. They always say to me things like, "I was afraid to screw things up," or, "I was afraid that I might do something wrong."

That is like well, there's nothing there to start with. Do something, and trying to get people over that mental barrier very, very broadly speaking. Yes we can talk about how to set up an email or how to set up a retargeting pixel, or how to set up Ationetics or whatever it may be. Specifically but on a very very broad level, you seem to get this theme that people are just afraid to get started. If I can help them to get started...