I probably should share this secret more, because it’s the KEY to how I got started… On this episode Russell talks about creating software using scriptlance and how freeing it was. Here are some of the important pieces of advice to look for in this episode: Find out how Russell discovered he didn’t have to learn how to code to make software. See what Russell’s first software product was and how he saved almost $5000 getting it created. And see what products are still available to help you when it comes to getting started on your business. So listen here to find out how Russell got started and learned that he didn’t have to learn how to code to make software. ---Transcript--- What’s up everybody? This is Russell Brunson, welcome back to the Marketing Secrets podcast. I want to give you a gift that will simplify your life so much. Alright so I want to tell you guys a quick story of how I got story, some of you may have heard this story. My very first idea, even pre-potato gun was an idea for a product called Zipbrander. If you go back to the way back machine and search zipbrander you can see the old sales letter and stuff. But I was super proud of it, it was a software, and I remember I didn’t know how to code software. And my first kind of mentor, the first person I was watching at the time was a guy named Armand Morin and Armand had a whole bunch of software products. I was like I want to make software like Armand. So I bought the domain name Zipbrander, I knew what the software was going to be, and I was like, “Okay, I have to learn how to code.” So I literally went to my school and I changed my major from I don’t even know, communications to like computer information systems. I’m like, “I’m going to learn how to code, Zipbrander is going to be the greatest thing in the world, I’m going to become a billionaire from it.” I knew it was the thing. And so I started doing that and after like the third or fourth day of coding class I was like, “I am not smart enough to become a coder. I’m screwed. I need to figure out a different path.” So then I remember reading a bunch of stuff that Armand was putting out. I was listening to all these tele-seminars back in the day. In fact, it was funny, I was hanging out with, at an event this weekend that I was speaking out, this little local Doterra event, and one of the people there was, she’s actually married to one of the wrestlers from my college wrestling team. And she came up to me and she was telling me this story like, “My husband Casey.” And I’m like, “Oh I know Casey. Of course.” And she’s like, “He told me stories. He said that when you were back in college you guys would go on these wrestling trips. You guys would go and drive the vans that have like 10, 15, 20 hour drives to the wrestling tournaments and you’d be in the back with your headphones on, with your CD player, with the light glowing on your face.” She’s like, “He said you looked like a serial killer.” which is so funny. Anyway, but that was me, I burned CDs of tele-seminars. It was pre-webinars, pre-videos. I burned CDs of Armand Morin, and Alex Mandosian, all these people back in the day. And I’d drive in my car and listen to these CDs in the back of the car like, “This is amazing listening to all this stuff.” And I don’t remember if it was a CD or if it was an article, but I remember Armand basically said that, “I don’t code my own software.” I was like, “Wait, what? I’m going to school to learn to code my own software.  I thought Armand was coding his own software.” And he’s like, “Nope. I went to this site.” The site he went to at the time is no longer here but it was Scriptlance.com. So I was like, as soon as I got to a computer I went to scriptlance.com and it was this program, this site where you’d hire programmers. And I remember I was like, “Oh my gosh, this is amazing.” And in fact, let me step back. It was right before I learned that. I was like, “I’m not going to become a programmer. I know that now.  I nee