# Creating Your Perfect Listener Or Customer Avatar

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In my 15 years of doing business, I’ve never heard this critical business concept
explained so perfectly.

On this episode of Marketing Secrets Russell lets you listen to how John Lee Dumas
describes his ideal and perfect customer. Here are some cool things you will hear:

 * Why you need to be able to describe your ideal customer in detail in order to
   appeal to them.
 * Why it’s a good idea to make decisions based on what your ideal customer would
   like.
 * And why creating a few calls to action based on your customers needs will be 
   beneficial.

So listen here to find out what John Lee Dumas’s perfect customer is like, and how
you can nail yours down as well.

—Transcript—

What’s up everybody, this is Russell Brunson. Welcome to the Marketing Secrets podcast.
Today I’ll take you behind the scenes of our recent affiliate mastermind talking
about building out your customer avatar.

Alright everyone, so this last week we did an affiliate event for my top 20 affiliates
for the Expert Secrets book, which was really cool. We had them all fly out here
to Boise, we hung out, shared ideas, talked and it was really, really cool. In fact,
the next few episodes of the podcast, I’m actually going to do right here in my 
home office. I’m here right now and I’ve got my notebook with a whole bunch of cool
stuff and there are a whole bunch of really good takeaways that I think were valuable
enough to share with you.

We also happened to film the event, so I’m going to get Brandon on my team to grab
some of those clips and plug them into here so you can actually see some of the 
footage and some of the ideas and concepts, I think are really, really important.
I know the last few podcasts I’ve done have been some long ones. Some an hour long,
90 minutes, so I’m going to get back to a shorter form to share some of the really
cool things.

So first I want to talk about JLD, John Lee Dumas from Entrepreneur On Fire, who
is I think the number one Clickfunnels affiliate right now. He’s going to be the
first affiliate in Clickfunnels to make a million dollars himself, that’s his goal
and he’s killing it. He’s also probably one of the lowest maintenance, if not the
lowest maintenance affiliates I’ve ever had and partners. He’s just an awesome dude,
and I love him and love working with him and it’s awesome.

So he was at the event and what was cool was that we had him do some Q&A with the
group and somebody asked him, “I’m building a podcast,” and the first thing JLD 
asked was “Who’s it for?” and they’re like, “It’s for this kind of person, this 
kind of person, and this kind of person.” He’s like, “There’s your problem, you 
need to be able to identify exactly who your person is.” And then he went into this
state where he shared exactly who his dream customer, his dream client was. I’ve
never in the history of me doing this business, which is now 14 or 15 years heard
someone more perfectly explain their customer avatar than JLD did in that moment.
And I’m so glad we got it on film. I’m going to play that clip for you right now
so you can see exactly what he said.

And as you’re listening to this I want you thinking through that because that is
how clear you have to be on exactly who your customer is, and that way you create
your product, your podcast, whatever it is you’re doing, you match it to your customer
and that is the secret. So let me show you that clip right now.

JLD: So who’s you’re perfect listener?

Audience member: Our perfect listener would be a business owner, or an entrepreneur,
or a real estate investor.

JLD: So that’s really vague. Perfect listener should just be that one individual
that you see as that perfect, ideal client. Because once you’ve made that step and
that decision as a podcast host, everything changes. So for me, when I was trying
to figure out what I wanted Entrepreneur On Fire to be I was overwhelmed because
it was hard for me to find what the path that I wanted to take my listeners on.

When I really sat down and said okay, my listener, or my avatar is Jimmy. He’s 37
years old, he has a wife and two kids ages three to five. He drives by himself to
work every single day, it’s a 25 minute commute to work. He gets to a cubical at
a job he hates for 9 hours. He gets done with his job, drives home, it’s a 35 minute
commute home. He gets stuck in a little bit of traffic. He gets home and hangs out
with his kids, has dinner with his family, puts his kids to bed, hangs out with 
his wife and then he has a little Jimmy pity party at the end of every single night
because he’s sitting on the couch saying ‘Why do I spend 90% of my waking hours 
doing things that I don’t enjoy doing? Commuting to a job I don’t like, being at
a job I don’t like, commuting home and only 10% of my waking hours doing things 
that I love. Like spending time with my kids and my family.’

Jimmy is my avatar, he’s the person that, as he’s driving to work, should be listening
to Entrepreneur On Fire so that when my guest is sharing their worst entrepreneurial
moments he can understand that it’s okay to fail. That you can learn lessons from
failure. And that when he’s driving home and my guest talks about their aha moment,
he can talk about how you take an aha moment and turn it into success. And then 
instead of having that pity party at night by himself on a couch, he can listen 
to the lightning round where my guest is sharing their best advice they’ve ever 
had, their favorite book, their favorite resource, so he can start to put together
the pieces of the puzzle.

So for me, whenever I come up to any question I have above the direction of my podcast,
I go to my avatar and I say, “WWJD, what would Jimmy do?”  And I know from that 
one answer that that’s the way I gotta go. So if you sit down and really say hey,
this really is the one perfect listener of my podcast, then you’re going to know
that person inside and out. You’re going to know where  that person hangs out, what
Facebook groups they’re in, what LinkedIn groups they’re in. How to advertize to
them, what lead or ad is going to be appealing to them on Facebook, that’s going
to get them to download it and be promoted to your show.

And again, this is you ideal, perfect client. You can probably picture right now,
this person that whenever he sits down in front of you, you’re just like, “Dude,
you’re like my favorite client.” And he’s like, “I know I’m your favorite client.”
That’s the person that you want to be drawing in. So if you sit down and really 
just figure out who your perfect one ideal listener is, everything changes from 
that point forward and all the decisions you make are based off of that. So every
piece of content you make for your podcast is speaking to that avatar, that one 
person. Every call to action you give, every intro, and every call to action, and
every outro is for a specific purpose.

So for instance, in my podcast, Entrepreneur On Fire, you’ll hear me, I have seven
rotating calls to action on my intro’s and outro’s. One’s going to say, “Hey this
John Lee Dumas of Entrepreneur On Fire where I interview the world’s most successful
entrepreneurs 7 days a week. By the way if you’re struggling with a goal right now,
you should check out the Freedom Journal, because I teach you how to accomplish 
your number one goal in 100 days, so visit thefreedomjournal.com” And that will 
be one call to action that will bring people down one specific funnel that will 
result in them purchasing my journal, the Freedom Journal, for $39.

And then I have the call to action in my outro that says, “Hey guys, I hope you 
enjoyed the chat with Russell today. He rocked the mic as always. Oh, by the way,
if you’re thinking about creating your own course, your own podcast, I have a free
course called Free Podcast course, it’ll teach you how to create, grow and monetize
your own podcast in 15 days.

So then they’ll go to that URL, they’ll sign up for the free podcasting course, 
which lead them to my free master class, which I do every two weeks live. And then
the master class will lead to me pitching them Podcaster’s Paradise, which is what
we have for our premium podcasting community. So every single call to action I have
is for Jimmy to take him into one of my 7 or 8 functioning funnels that I have to
result in some kind of revenue being generated at the end.

So I think the steps you can and should take is really nail your avatar, understand
who that person is as an individual, and then start creating one, two, three calls
to action that you’re using in your intros and your outros that are getting them
into a beginning part of a funnel, that’s going to result in your ideal action, 
which might be a phone call. Which might be, whatever, you know, investigating their
first dollar with your company. Whatever that result is, that’s the funnel you’re
taking them in. Does that make sense?

 I hope you guys loved that. As he was talking I was trying to take notes. I’m like,
oh good we got a video. It’s pretty powerful and I want to make sure you guys all
know your customer avatar that clear as well. If not, it’s time to do your homework,
stop the podcast and go think through that. Because as soon as it becomes that tangible,
where you know who they, everything else becomes easier. With that said, thanks 
you guys so much for listening and we’ll see you on next week’s episode of the Marketing
Secret’s podcast.
