SFR 26: Quizzes. Hated Them In School. Love 'em In Funnels…

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I found, printed, and compared the format of some of the internet's "top quizzes". Here's what I found…

I always want to yell whenever I start one of these. Whoo Hoo, Yeah, this is Steve Larsen, welcome to SalesFunnel Radio.

Welcome to SalesFunnel Radio, where you'll learn marketing strategies to grow your online business, using today's best internet sales funnels. Now here's your host, Steve Larsen.

All right you guys, hey thanks for dealing with my cheesiness. It's funny though, every time I go to start to hit the record button, I mix my own podcast.

I mix it, produce it, I now have an assistant, which is totally awesome.

I'll tell you about her later. Finally, I think it'll be more consistent with these due to her. She's amazing. I think that will be really good.

Anyway it's funny, every time I go hit the record button, I always get this cheesy grin on my face. Anyway, I get excited. I've met a lot of you guys now who listen to this, and this podcast, just so you know downloads wise is ramping up like crazy.

It's been fun to interact with a lot of you guys...

A lot of you guys have sent me personal messages. A lot of you told me, "Hey this has been helping." That keeps me going, I've got to tell you, because it is a ton of work to produce a single episode. It's nuts.

First I take the podcast, and then I go, I actually mix the thing. I had to make intro and outro, then I had to go get it transcribed, then I turn it into a blog post, then I actually put it in iTunes, and then I syndicate it out to twelve different platforms. The whole thing takes including everything, probably an hour and a half to two hours at least, and that's flying.

That's like on really, really, good day. Most of the time, honestly it probably could easily be three hours when you actually factor in everything.

Anyhoo, all right I just want to say thanks for that. I was thinking about you guys like crazy which was a little bit weird because I was thinking about you guys over Halloween. I was walking around the neighborhoods. I was with my little girl, she's going to be three here in December. Then I also have a one year old. They're both awesome. They're dressed up in their little costumes. Princess Sophias and whatever, it's fun being a dad. Totally awesome.

It's funny though because this is the first year we're going to walk around with our kids and they're starting to get it, you know what I mean? They're, "Hey, this is Halloween. You're going to say, "Trick or Treat. You say thank you at the end. They give you candy. This is the only time you can take candy from a strangers."

It's kind of weird when you think about it...

We're walking along and we go to this house and this woman sees me holding my one year old. We have two little pumpkin buckets and so they give candy to my little two year old, almost three, and then go to give candy to my one year, but my wife was holding it.

She looks up and I got sick to my stomach, I was like, "Are you kidding me? Are you joking?" She looked up and she did a double take. She's bending over and grabbing stuff down, the bucket was on the floor there and she looks up and it's almost like she was sneering.

She looked up and her eyes were squinting just a little bit and her eyebrows were together just a little bit and she's like, "Oh did you want one for the kid also, the one year old, I mean you guys?"  Okay, yeah. Clearly we're going to eat some of our kid's candy.

She's one, she's going to have maybe a single piece of that stuff. Okay yeah, you caught us. She was calling out my wife because she knew obviously we're going to have of our kid's candy. I call it the tax. The great dad tax. Anytime they have some piece of food, I'm like, "Okay I've got to tax that. This is the taxman."

This was what the hey is this? Anyways, I was a little bit pissed off about it to be honest, till they called us out. We keep walking along, keep walking along and I'm totally getting clued pictures of my kids underneath. I'm a show and tell dad. You just have to get over it.

Yes, I like my kids, they're awesome. I know some dads aren't that way or whatever. I'm a show and tell dad. I'm going to show you a picture. My kids in Halloween costumes are going to be in the blog post of this episode, I'm just letting you know.

We're walking around and the other crazy thing that happened while we're walking, this kid's running all over the place. It's fun, cool atmosphere. Some of the kids are dressed up all scary and it was confusing my little two year old because she had never seen anything like that before.

It's a little scary. She actually ended up running away from our house once because she got scared from that...

Anyway, we're walking around and we walk up to a door and I swear it looked like restaurant. She had listed on the door, hand written on a piece of paper and it was basically not duck taped but very neatly taped, you could tell someone spent a crap ton of time figuring out how to tape this thing to the door.

It had all of the allergy warning information that you'd expect in a restaurant. "This candy may contain or may have been produced in a facility where peanuts were there and soy, and lactose. Please advise if you need candy that does not have ... " It was so funny. It was so funny.

There're allergy warnings, there were glutton free options...

There's like, "What the heck is this? Oh my gosh this woman has gone to town." She opens this door up very proper. She's standing up and is elongating her neck a little bit, and very proper and bends over, "Why hello." I'm doing it right now.

I'm recording something audible. I'm doing it...

She bends over and is like, "Hello. Oh your costumes are just adorable." She's doing that kind of stuff. I was like, "Oh my gosh, I would kill myself if this woman was someone I had to hang around with at all at an actual restaurant." Which was funny because it reminded me of a restaurant. She was the hostess and she had all of these pieces out there and it looked like you were walking into a restaurant. I was like, "How interesting. How interesting is that? That patterns are pushed so far into what she's doing."

It led me along to start thinking more about this. How crazy is it, you have to follow me on this okay? How patterns really do follow and dictate a lot of things that we do in our own personal lives.

We walked away and went home and put our kids down. They ended up not going to sleep. It's the first time we've ever really given them sugar like that and they stayed up literally the entire night. It was nuts.

It stuck with me. I kept thinking about it over and over again. This woman who has, she's clearly obsessed about it, which is totally awesome...

I was moving along and I actually thought, "How cool it would be to keep funnelhacking more of the processes that we're being taken through that we don't know that we're being taken through. Much like that woman did. She was taking us through a process. She probably didn't even know she was modeling after what restaurants do with allergy warnings and stu...