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The Russell Brunson Show

Marketing Lessons From a $150,000 First Edition “Book of Mormon” | #Marketing - Ep. 75

The Russell Brunson Show

Russell Brunson

Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Russell Brunson Show, I take you inside the vault to share the story behind the very first book in my rare book collection… A first edition Book of Mormon. I paid $150,000 for it, but for me, the value goes way beyond money. This was the book that started my obsession with collecting, but even more than that, it taught me a foundational business principle that I still live by today. If you’ve ever wanted to build a movement, create a following, or lead a community, then you need to understand this: almost every mass movement in history (religious or otherwise) started with a book. A message…. Some sort of doctrine or manifesto. I break down how this truth applies to you, your business, and your calling. Whether you're a coach, an entrepreneur, or just someone with a message to share, this episode will give you clarity on how to put your stake in the ground. Key Highlights: ◼️ Why the Book of Mormon was the first book I ever bought for my collection (and what it’s worth today) ◼️ The connection between religious texts and modern marketing movements ◼️ How books like Dotcom Secrets created the Clickfunnels community ◼️ Why your “heretic message” is what your people are waiting for ◼️ How to start writing your book or manifesto (even if you’re not a writer) This isn’t about converting you to any religion, haha! It’s about understanding the power of putting your beliefs into a book, and how that act alone can change the trajectory of your business and your life. Want to see my favorite verses about Christ from the Book of Mormon? Grab them in the show notes below. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://russellbrunson.com/notes⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ◼️ If you’ve got a product, offer, service… or idea… I’ll show you how to sell it (the RIGHT way)  Register for my next event →⁠⁠ https://sellingonline.com/podcast⁠⁠ ◼️ Still don’t have a funnel? ClickFunnels gives you the exact tools (and templates) to launch TODAY → ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://clickfunnels.com/podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Do you have a funnel, but it's not converting? The problem 99.9% of the time is that your funnel

0:05.0

is good, but you suck at selling. If you want to learn how to sell so your funnels will actually

0:09.3

convert, then get a ticket to my next selling online event by going to sellingonline.com slash podcast.

0:14.7

That's selling online.com slash podcast. This is the Russell Brunson show.

0:21.6

This is Russell. Welcome back to The Vault. Today I'm going to show you guys one of my favorite books. In fact, this is the book that started my entire book collection. This is a religious book. I know some of you guys are out here for religion, which is cool. I'm going to tell you more stories about this book and how it relates back to you and your business. But this is one

0:37.7

for me that started at all. This is the first edition book of Mormon. This book cost me $150,000,

0:43.5

about four years ago. And right now, I could resell this for about $225,000. That's how much the rare

0:49.7

book market is in the LDS world. In fact, an interesting stat for those who collect old books

0:55.0

like me. Right now, rare Mormon books beat the stock market 20x. And so that's how fast

1:00.1

books appreciate. It's a great investment, but also this is the one I wanted forever that kind

1:04.6

of got me into the whole book collecting world. So this is a clamshell. And if I open up,

1:08.5

you can see the actual book here inside. This book was published back in 1830.

1:13.6

There were 5,000 copies printed the very first printing.

1:17.2

And there's about 350 known copies that are still on Earth.

1:20.4

And it's only few that are really, really good quality.

1:22.4

And this is one of the 350.

1:23.9

And this one is probably one of the top 10 copies on the planet.

1:27.1

As far as still all there, it's beautiful. It's my favorite. All right. Now, real quick, don't worry. I'm not here to try to convert you yet. No, just kidding. I'm not here to try to convert you. But I want to tell you because there is a very powerful business lesson behind this book that I think will be very useful for everybody. Okay. A lot of you guys know, I wrote this book called Expert Secrets, which is about how to create a movement of people. And one of the things that, as I was doing the study and research that book, I realized that basically every mass movement throughout time, every mass movement began with a book, right? A book that shares like, here's the beliefs, here's the doctrines, here's the dogma, whatever you wantma whatever you want to call it for this movement right i start thinking back about when i launched click

2:05.4

funnels back in day i remember we launched the very first version of click funnels and it did okay

2:08.7

people were signing up they're trying to use the software but it wasn't until um and it's probably

2:13.0

five or six months after we launched click funnels is when I finished the dot com secrets book right

2:17.9

and it was the book they explained the original like philosophies and doctrine or dogma whatever you

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