Episode 14

Evan Carmichael | How To Start A 6 Figure Consulting Business

Evan Carmichael is the man for thought leaders trying to grow on YouTube! This call turns into a personal coaching call on how to start a YouTube consulting business!

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Transcript
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If you're actually going after somebody, think about what you wanna be great

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at, Like, ideally, if you wanna get paid and actually do a great job, you

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want somebody who already is a personal brand who just sucks at YouTube and

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they have kicked ass in their business and their podcast and booking guests.

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, they're just missing this one piece that you happen to be a ninja at.

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And that's how we focus on welcome back to the branding of video podcast, where we

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help you to grow your podcast on YouTube, scale your business and make an impact.

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We have Evan Carmichael coming on today.

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If you're in the thought leadership space, you're trying to grow your

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audience as a thought leader, Evan's somebody that needs to be on your radar.

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Evan's new book is out, it's called Momentum.

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There's some incredible stuff in here.

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And he wrote this book in, like he said, two months or something crazy.

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So he's written several books.

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What, Well, I'm a big fan of getting people results, so it always starts with

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like, what are you trying to accomplish?

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Yeah.

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And then we reverse engineer what the strategy should be.

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So, At the end of the day, and this is hopefully valuable exercise,

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you know, in using you, Zach, as an example we can bring value to your

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audience and anybody watching too.

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And just, you know, before we dive in too, just shadow to you, I love the

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vibe, the energy the video that you did on me a month ago or two was awesome.

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Reached out.

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The level of care and intention and detail that you take into researching

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somebody before kind of having them come on is is awesome, is

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refreshing, and so I'm super excited.

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I'm early to come to this show cause I'm so excited to hang out with you.

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Cool.

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So if we're using it as an example, right, perfect.

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Zach's trying to grow his YouTube channel.

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Well, why, what ultimately, what are you trying to sell?

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What's the business that you wanna be doing outside of YouTube?

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I'd love to have a one hour coaching call Monday through Friday with those that

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are, you know, want to grow their YouTube, want to do thought leadership business.

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And so taking your advice, creating now coaching calls to put up

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that are 45 minutes to an hour.

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Amazing dude.

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I love it.

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So the first thing to think about then is if you wanna sell coaching

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services, we need to be thinking who's gonna be the right candidate?

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Who would be able to afford what you do?

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Yeah.

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Is there a niche?

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Is there, it's like thought leaders, Is that what you wanna hone in on?

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I've worked with a couple of channels, 300,000 subscribers on YouTube and that's

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what they did and I enjoyed that the most.

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Doing a lot of businesses that are creating content and not seeing results.

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It's kind of who I wanna work with cuz they're marketing instead of creating

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organic content that, that's providing value to bring those clients in.

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Things like that.

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Yeah.

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This is amazing . I'm so excited.

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Okay.

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So for any business, there's always gonna be a bunch of experts

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already out in the market, right?

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Yeah.

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And you're relatively new channel, you know, like, I haven't heard about

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you until a month or two ago or when you reached out or when you made that

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video and was like, I like this guy.

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I like his vibe.

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But you know, in the world of YouTube experts and consultants,

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I've never heard of you.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And it's cool.

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So you're breaking onto the scene.

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Awesome.

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And there's others who've been around, you know, for a long time.

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Yeah.

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Doing coaching their own businesses.

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They scaled and grown.

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I mean, my first two collabs of all time were Dare Leaves and

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Tim Schmoyer and I love them.

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And they're like the OGs of YouTube.

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Yeah.

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So you have two paths and you know, Zach has two paths, but

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everybody watching is trying to do something similar, has two paths.

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You either go generic and you're another YouTube consultant , and

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you take, you know, five years or a decade to build your brand.

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Yeah.

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And you slowly start to win and you're generic and you get

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clients and it's a slow path up.

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And it's awesome.

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The second one is you go sniper, hyper targeted.

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Like I'm, I am kick ass at this.

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Yeah.

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And this is who I help.

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And so, If it's thought leaders, cool.

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It could be thought leaders if it's you know, you had a, I saw a show you

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made on on YouTube podcast, Right?

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So like if Yeah.

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If you're gonna be the guy Yeah.

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To take people who are podcasting over to YouTube, and that's what your kick at.

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Then you start to build that reputation as that guy if you're trying to,

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if you wanna help entrepreneurs or local businesses sell their thing.

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Cool.

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Like, now how do I generate, how do I use YouTube to help me generate

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business for a local business?

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Right.

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I have, I own the largest salsa dancing school in Canada.

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Right.

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That's awesome.

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Could, what was someone like me hire you to help me drive

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business into my local business?

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Cuz I don't care about somebody from New York watching my video.

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I'm trying to get people in Toronto to watch my video.

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Right.

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Can you be the guy for eCommerce where I'm selling a bunch of products to the world?

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Can you be the guy for books?

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And then you're talking to authors, Right.

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And helping them sell, you know, you've got your copy there too.

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Right.

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But it's like, all of those are options and the problem with trying to be

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everything is then you're nothing.

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Yeah.

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You're not a sniper at anything.

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And then you get lumped in with everybody else and those the everybody

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else, those people are ahead of you.

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Yeah.

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And they've done more and they're probably better than you at this point.

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At that thing.

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Yeah.

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Cool.

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And that's not a, that's not a, that's not a slap.

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That's like, Hey, honest assessment where we're at.

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But for you to get kick ass at any of those things, you could do that

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in a relatively short amount of time.

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And then even if you're generic, YouTube knowledge may not be

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the best compared to others.

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You could be the best at this one thing and then start charging

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premium for all of your services.

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Yeah.

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So all of those could work.

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The best one is like, what do you actually feel the most connected to?

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Not necessarily what's worked so far.

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Okay.

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Because you may not have the biggest track record of things to say, Wow, that

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was, this has worked, but more, Yeah.

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Like where do you wanna go?

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Because who needs to be on YouTube?

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Everybody.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Like, who doesn't need to be on?

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So who then do you want to go and help the most?

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And then dedicate yourself to studying and learning, because with

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your learning style and how you dive in on things, It's impressive.

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I love it.

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Like it separates you already.

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I don't know you that well and already is like, Oh I love this guy Zach

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Right?

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Appreciate you could apply that to any industry and then relatively

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quickly become the expert and not just like you saying you're the

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expert but actually recognized as.

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The expert because you're gonna dive in and do the research and understand and

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have the examples and the case studies and the strategies where nobody else would.

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Yeah.

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So with all that being said, maybe I give you a little bit of time to think Yeah.

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You know, where do you wanna apply YouTube to?

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What niche industry?

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I think so I was sniped in on YouTube podcasting.

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I thought it was maybe too narrow and I didn't know quite who to direct to.

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Cuz thinking back like, the channel that I worked with that similar to

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you, we took their assets from 4,500 month to 12 K month, doubled their

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subscriber rate like in four months.

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Like, it was really fun.

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I had a lot of, I think it was fun cuz we got a lot of results fast

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cuz I was just having fun with it.

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But as far as.

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Who I work with and what kind of content I create.

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I love the video podcasting.

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Like I, I think it's YouTube is now has podcasts.

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LinkedIn is bringing them Twitter, like all of them are bringing video podcasts.

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And so if I can be the video podcast guy and be early on that, I'd much

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rather do that than try to compete with Darrell Eves or Tim Ware . Think any

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of the people that have been doing it long cause I can't compete with them.

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Like Edge can't.

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So, Well you can't yet, that's all.

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Yeah.

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You know, like you can't yet just ahead of you reputation client's history,

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but it's not that you can't Yeah.

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So that's just like, that's the longer term path that maybe you're

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the guy for all of, maybe you're the one hosting all the YouTube events

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and speaking on stage and all that.

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But in the short run it's like we're building a long term brand where maybe

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you are the face of YouTube for the world.

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Cool.

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Let's work towards that.

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And like in the next 12 months, let's get you paid.

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Yeah.

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So that you're making money from it.

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Because most people.

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In trying to build that big brand, then they end up going broke because it,

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you know, you have bills, the pay, you gotta sustainable bill team, et cetera.

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Yeah.

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Okay, so you have two options.

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The easiest one is, Find people who already have a kick ass podcast.

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Do you listen to podcasts yourself?

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. Yep.

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Okay.

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Cuz I don't, cuz I I'm a visual learner.

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Okay.

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I hate audio, so I listen, I'm on a whole bunch of podcasts, but yeah.

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I hate audio.

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So the fact I can see you now like helps cuz otherwise it'd be really be closing

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my eyes and really trying to listen.

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Alright.

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So I appreciate this is video.

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Yeah.

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You find a list of all the podcasts out there that are of a certain

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size, you know, that they have a budget that they're doing well.

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It's not some startup podcast.

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Okay.

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Because for anybody to be able to afford you to come in,

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they have to be making money.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Or if you're gonna take a bet on them in their growth, you can take a few wild

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shots if you want, but you wanna, and anybody, you're starting your business,

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you wanna start getting paid for the thing that you're helping them with.

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So the easiest path is people who already have a podcast, who are hopefully

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filming video and get them onto YouTube.

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And if not, then help them.

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Get onto YouTube.

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Okay.

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Help them get their set up and get their camera and film so that they

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have a big audience already and have just completely neglected YouTube.

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Okay.

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And there's lots of those people who have sizable podcasts.

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Yeah.

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Who've never gone to YouTube.

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They don't know how the, all the details, yada yada.

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Yeah.

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And you take a, you take either a fee for service or if you really believe in

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them, you take a piece of the channel.

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Okay.

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That anything like the sense revenue, you're taking a cut and anything on

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top, you're gonna help them promote their newsletter, their products or

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services, their coaching, their books, they're speaking tours, their on and on.

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But you take a cut so that there's a, there's an unlimited upside on you

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instead of just going in and saying, Hey, I charge 500 bucks an hour or

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whatever you're gonna charge Yeah.

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To do it.

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Okay.

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The second path is to go in and find people who already have podcasts

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and who are already doing it.

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and do it better.

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Okay.

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And tell them, Hey, what you guys are doing, this is not.

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And here's why.

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Okay?

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And I did a deep dive, and here's what you should do to make it better.

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Okay?

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And that may mean they fire maybe they're doing all themselves and like

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they want somebody else to do it.

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Maybe they have somebody internal who's doing it, but they're also managing a

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million other things, and they'd rather give it to somebody who's an expert at it,

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or they have some other agency or someone else like you who's called themselves

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a YouTube expert, but doesn't know what they're doing compared to you, who's the

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YouTube podcast expert, and they hire you to come in and replace that person, okay?

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You have to be better than, you know, whoever is currently doing it

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and have a, you know, high degree of You know, success with it.

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Okay.

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But that's definitely a model.

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You know, who wants to start a podcast?

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Tons of people.

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Yeah.

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But we don't wanna target the early stage people because

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they won't pay you anything.

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Yeah.

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And it'll take so long for them to get going before it turns into something.

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It's a people on the rise who again, ideally have a big podcast audience,

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but maybe not as much on video, or they're just making so many

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mistakes on video and you help them do that and you become that guy.

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Okay.

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Like that.

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Like that a lot.

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I think that's actually how I got my first couple of clients

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for YouTube consult things.

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I just use some tools, said, Hey, here's your scores, here's

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how we gonna improve 'em.

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Thought that came to mind is maybe do like a limb video for some of these people

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and say, Hey, here's a couple of tips.

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Hopefully this is helpful.

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Love to hop on a call.

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Is that strategy.

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So I partnered with and invested into there.

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There's two entrepreneurs who Who I love when I ended up partnering with their

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business where they have 75% and I have 25%, and I help make introductions to

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thought leaders and entrepreneurs and help coach and guide them in their business.

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And they're both mid to high six figure businesses now.

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And it's all basically exactly that.

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Okay.

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And Jeremy was the first one.

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He was a grocery store clerk, hated his job working minimum wage.

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Yeah.

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And I said, Okay.

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He offered to come.

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Mow my lawn and walk my dog and just wanted to be around, right?

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Yeah.

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And I said, I don't need someone to mow my lawn.

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You know, at the time I lived in the condo, I had no lawn . But

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how about I teach you YouTube?

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Yeah.

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And all, a lot of my friends need help and I don't wanna be the guy doing

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YouTube consulting, so I'll teach you how to do it and then you go off and

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do it and we'll split the business.

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You keep 75% and that became the deal now was like mid six figure business full up

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on clients, Doesn't want anymore business, like at 25 years old or something.

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Yeah.

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And the model became partly was me making introductions for him.

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So that helped, but also it was just come up with three big

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ideas that you could help this.

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And say, Hey, I'm Zach.

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I'm reaching out.

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I saw your YouTube channel.

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I've got three big ideas on how you can grow to X.

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Like what's the subscriber count that they need to get to?

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You know, if they're at 20,000, they wanna hit 50.

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If they're 51 a hundred.

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If they're at a hundred, they wanna hit two 50, right?

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Yeah.

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Something reasonable.

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Okay?

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I love to hop on a quick 20 minute call to share with you some of the ideas.

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Okay?

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And then you hop on a call and you blow them away with value.

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Like what are the three big ideas?

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And it's easy to get overwhelmed.

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It's easy.

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Sorry.

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It's easy to overwhelm them with all the things we could do.

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It's like keep it business talk, not tech talk.

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Cuz if they understood the tech, they wouldn't be talking

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to you in the first place.

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Yeah.

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So business results, okay?

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And what are the top three things that they need to focus on?

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And then, you know, you can help them with it or take it for free and run with it.

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Like this will really help you.

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I love your content.

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I wanna see you grow.

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Run with these three things.

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I can help you with it or do it internally and take all these

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ideas and just go with them.

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And that became the model of how Jeremy and then Drew both built

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mid six figure business and now they don't wanna grow anymore.

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Like, they don't wanna build a million dollar plus agent.

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Like they're happy with their, you know, them and a couple assistants overseas

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and now they've live in a good life.

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It's like, great.

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Now who do I send people to?

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Yeah.

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But that's definitely a workable model.

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Okay.

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And so then it changes your content.

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Like if that's what you wanna do, you may not even need to make any videos.

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Like, Okay, Jeremy makes no videos.

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Drew makes no videos.

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They have no YouTube channel, they don't have a sales page, a landing, nothing.

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It's just direct.

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It's just sales.

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It's just outreach when people hopping on calls and doing it.

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Okay.

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If you wanted to have some kind of inbound stuff coming to you, then it

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switches the focus of your content.

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Because now we're not talking about, So some of your content with

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respect is like all over the place.

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Yes.

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Inside of like, YouTube winning, right?

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Yep.

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Cool.

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Now as like on your banner, it says, We are video makers.

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Position yourself as the expert in your field.

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YouTube podcast and camera microphones, personal branding.

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Right.

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If you're actually going after somebody, like think about

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what you wanna be great at.

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Ok.

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Do you wanna be great at the person at being the personal branding guy?

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No.

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I need to remove that one.

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Right.

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And it's cool.

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And like ideally if you wanna get paid and actually do a great job, you want somebody

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who already is a personal brand Yeah.

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Who just sucks at YouTube.

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Yep.

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And they have kicked ass in their business and their podcast and booking

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guests and all of the stuff that goes into making a podcast work.

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, they're just missing this one piece that you happen to be a ninja at.

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And that's how we focus on, So, you know, latest video that I see on the channel

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is like YouTube podcast studio in a bag.

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That's not our target audience.

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No.

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It's not like if you have to teach people how to create a podcast,

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they're not the people who are gonna be hiring you and paying you big dollars

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to come and solve their problem.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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So there's nothing wrong with having some content that then like serves

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the community and serves the world.

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And if you said I want to be the guy who.

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Everybody then launches their own podcast and I wanna sell a $49 course that's

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gonna serve everybody in the world.

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It's a different model if you wanna come in and sell coaching services,

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which is a much better short term plan to make serious dollars in trying

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to sell a, you know, $49 course.

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It starts to shift the content direction because you come across your brand right

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now as it is, like on this day, comes across as you're the beginner podcast guy.

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Yeah.

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And I don't, Or even like the beginner YouTube kind of podcast guy.

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If I'm a professional podcaster and I have a kick ass podcast that's doing well.

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, I don't need you to tell me what microphone to use.

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Yeah.

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Hopefully.

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Right?

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Like if you, if I have to tell, if you have to tell me what

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microphone to use, there's a problem if I'm a podcaster, Right.

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Without all with like, love and respect to you and what you're building and creating.

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Yeah.

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So it switches the direction.

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Of the content so that you can start attracting the right people to hire you.

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I never wanted to build an agency doing this, so I end up helping a

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lot of my friends in the business and I'd just give business to Jeremy

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and Drew when they want to grow.

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Yeah.

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But if I wanted to, that's what I would do.

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Like, I met Tom Bilio, I think I may have mentioned this.

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In the conversation with you earlier, but Tom Bilio, who started Impact

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Theory, I met him the first time because I did a review of his YouTube

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channel and I said, Here's all the things that's wrong with Tom Billy's

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YouTube channel in a loving way, but in a like direct, like, Hey, if I ran Tom

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Billy's channel, here's what I would do.

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I'd fix this and this and this.

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And the point is to make anybody look bad, like, Oh Tom, you

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suck like you're a billionaire.

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How come you're doing this?

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You know?

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Yeah.

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Cause that's entertaining and that can get a lot of views, but you're not

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gonna get a lot of clients from it.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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And it may not just be ethically aligned with who you wanna be and you know, Yeah.

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The nice guy vibes, the least that I get from you in every interaction I've

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had with you he watched that video.

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And he left the comment thanking me, and that's the number one comment

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still on the video right now that led to a relationship with Tom.

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Yeah.

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So if I'm you and I wanna be getting coaching clients, I would

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be doing a regular breakdown.

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So instead of doing breakdowns of like the latest microphone gear podcast in a box

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or what lighting to use, et cetera, Yeah.

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I'd be doing breakdowns of people's YouTube channels.

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Okay.

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Who are thought leaders who have podcasts?

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Not who are trying to do Minecraft videos or slime channels, or

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Princess Dress up or LinkedIn.

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Right?

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Does that count what LinkedIn lives?

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I see a lot of those where they don't have a podcast, where

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they do have a LinkedIn live.

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It's a potential niche.

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Okay.

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You just have to think, does this person, is there, are they an ideal client?

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Does this person have a budget to hire?

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If they're not willing to spend, what, I don't know what your entry point

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is, $2,000 a month to work with you.

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You're not coming in for a hundred bucks a month to work with, right?

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No, but it may not be 20,000 a month.

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So what's the number that you start to come in?

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You know?

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Okay, Jeremy and Drew both started at 2,500 a month.

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Okay.

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To come in, right?

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So yeah, as a starting point.

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And then it goes up, there's on services and whatever else

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that you're gonna be selling.

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So does somebody who's doing LinkedIn lives, are they taking it seriously?

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Do, are they generating business from it?

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Because if they're not generating business yet, then it's all nickel and dime on you.

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Like, well, okay, Zach, like, can we cut it down to this and you block that has

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to work right away as opposed to No it's an investment and it's totally different

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mindset, like when you're making money and then all of this is gonna basically

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be taken care of by you and your team, and I'm gonna make even more money and get

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even more exposure, then it makes sense.

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So I personally have not seen anybody big on LinkedIn live.

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Then go to YouTube and blow up.

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Okay.

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Maybe that's the new wave.

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I don't know.

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I just, I haven't seen anybody take LinkedIn live seriously enough

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the way that they take a podcast.

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Cause there are some major podcasters who suck at YouTube.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Other major LinkedIn live people who have team and investing heavily

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into it, but then suck on YouTube.

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I've met a couple, I don't know how, I haven't asked them those

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questions, but they've done LinkedIn lives consistently for years and they

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get clients from that and they're too busy because of all the clients

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they get to really focus on YouTube.

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So potentially, and we should call them and have those conversations,

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but it's worth the shot.

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Yeah.

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Podcasting for sure, like things, Do they already have team?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So for their LinkedIn Live, do they already have team helping them?

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Cause you're the first person on team, Not good idea.

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. It's just harder.

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Yeah.

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Like they're smaller.

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They'll be more on you.

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They may not know even how to manager work with a team.

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Yeah.

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And so it's, if you see a lot of upside, then maybe, But you're usually better

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off working with somebody who already has a team, who already has a budget, who

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understands how valuable this thing is and now they want to go all in on YouTube.

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Okay.

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Right.

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I like that.

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Podcast is easy.

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It's.

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At YouTube launched their podcast thing very recently,

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so it makes it a lot easier.

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Rogan blew up and set the wave for everybody to come on YouTube

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and start sharing their podcast.

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Logan Paul, you know, moving away from all of his blogs and everything

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to Impulsive and having a podcast.

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So as, and it's very different generations.

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So you've got the old school thought leaders getting the podcast and you've

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got the new school, Gen Z, you know, like let's go create podcasts now.

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Yeah.

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So it's super hot.

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So I would focus on ideally people who already have team, who already

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have budget that you think could win.

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And so I'd do a series of you breaking down people's channels.

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Okay.

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And take on whoever you think Gary V sucks.

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Like, and not sucks, but Yeah.

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Like what's he doing?

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What's Tom doing wrong?

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What's Lewis doing wrong?

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What's whoever, you know, whoever is a big podcaster, they may not

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be doing a million things wrong.

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You can highlight some of the things they're doing right?

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Yeah.

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But here's if you were working on their team, if you were working

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on Gary's team, what would you do to go in and make it better?

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Here's where he's dropping the ball a little bit.

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And then other people who have podcasts, like, here's where

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they're dropping the ball a lot.

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Okay.

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And would you make those long videos, like closer to an hour?

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Are those ones gonna be like, Cuz my, one of the problems I have is we

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have a lot of shorts people, cause the algorithms are finally talking.

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But if, My thought has always been even before watching your stuff,

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if you're gonna watch a 62nd video, you don't wanna watch a 20 minute

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video, let alone an hour or two.

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Is it better to do a five to 20 minute video?

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That's slower pace.

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Not quite as cuz I, I've, I have videos that I've edited for 30 hours.

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Like, I love creating content that's fun for me.

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. But that doesn't translate into listening to me for an hour cuz it's high-paced.

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It.

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It's different.

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It's a very different type of content.

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So is there, what would your strategy be for these links of

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videos and those breakdowns?

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Should they be longer or should they be kind of the middle range Again, it's

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like, what is the objective if we're going with this objective to clients.

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No, I get it.

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But, so, and same thing that you would bring to your clients.

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What is your objective?

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Cuz if.

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If the client, all they want is subscribers and

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views shorts is the way to go.

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Okay.

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And then you become the agency that helps them make shorts and figure

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out the virality of shorts and the length and the pace and the music

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and the B-roll and captains and the repeats at the end and the loops

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and frequency and all that stuff.

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And like, you could be that is a business, you could be the guy who takes

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podcasts and turns them into shorts.

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Or turns any thought leadership content into shorts.

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Like that's a huge potential opportunity.

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The problem with shorts right now is it's the fastest way to

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get subscribers and views, but they don't translate to business.

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They don't translate the people watching long form content.

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And they don't translate to then people buying your thing as much,

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which is, which might be fine.

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For some thought leaders or experts, it's like, I don't need you to help sell

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my courses or my books or my speaking.

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I just need to get a million subscribers or 10 million subscribers

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because that means something to me.

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That gives me clout.

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That gives and cool.

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Okay, so you help them go off and do that.

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They're gonna make no money from those videos, but they get the subscriber number

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count, which might mean something to them.

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So I'm not judging people's goals.

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It's like you tell me your goal and I'll give you the strategy

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to help you accomplish your goal.

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Yeah.

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Most of the people I talk to, they wanna monetize.

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They wanna make money, they wanna sense revenue, and they wanna sell their stuff

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and they wanna get booked on places.

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And if that's your goal, then suggest it is a game that you need to be in,

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suggest it needs to be your number one.

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If not, search, not browse.

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Suggests where you need to play.

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And if you wanna win and suggested, then you need to be making long form videos.

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Ideally won the three hours.

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Especially in podcast world.

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Yeah.

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Like a 20 minute podcast sucks.

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So in terms of suggested, just getting it ranked.

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So one to three hours is where you wanna be playing.

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That's how Rogan blew up.

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It's a three hour long podcast.

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YouTube.

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And why?

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Cuz you, this is what you do will promote.

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Yeah.

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YouTube loves promoting long form content, and so the first

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minute of those shows will matter.

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And anything you learn from YouTube shorts and how to hold attention

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and hook it, cool, that matters.

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But after that, as long as you're decent asking questions, people will

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usually continue to watch the video.

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And if they're spending two hours with Zach instead of 20 seconds,

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they're much more likely to buy your stuff and wanna hire you.

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I wanna work with you.

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Dive deeper in your world, right?

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Yeah, this happens.

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And same thing for all of your clients.

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If they're thought leaders, authors, whatever, somebody's spending two hours

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with them instead of 20 seconds, they're gonna make a lot more sales, get a lot

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more email signups, get all of that.

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It's gonna, it's gonna grow like crazy because people

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are spending time with them.

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So I would do deep dives, you know, like if you want those videos to get

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ranked, I would do a deep dive, like, don't make it to our video because you

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don't, you're trying to fill it and like, Oh, so what else can I talk about?

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And you got, you're kinda stumbling, right?

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But whatever actually comes to mind.

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Order by importance and then go for as long as you can, breaking

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down that person's channel and giving as much feedback as you can.

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So if that means you stop at 20 minutes, cuz you, you have nothing else to.

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Cool.

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But if you have more to say, go 40, go 60, go 80, go two hours.

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Like if you've got a lot of con, like if you spend two hours breaking down

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somebody's channel one, if they saw it, they're like, Who is this guy?

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Right?

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Oh my God, this guy Zach is insane.

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I love it.

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Like, how do I hire him?

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And you don't need a million people to watch that video.

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You just need the right people to watch that video.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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So again, what are your goals?

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My, If your goal is to sell coaching services and get clients, then let's

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get the right people watching your videos instead of trying to build

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you a hundred thousand or a million subscriber base on your channel.

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Okay.

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And same thing for your clients.

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Like what is their goal?

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It's always a question like, what do you sell?

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How can we sell more of the thing that you're trying to sell?

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So those people watching you go for two hours, breaking down their

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channel, deep dive, you're gonna get business from it, either from

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them or from people who watch it.

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Who wanna be like Gary V and you're breaking down exactly what makes

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it work and where he could improve.

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Like, oh my gosh, I never even thought about all that stuff.

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How do I hire Zach?

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Like, who is this guy?

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Right?

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So that's an easy play.

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Like having guests come on like this doesn't help you as much in generating

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business apart from the biz dev.

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So the way to use this where you're bringing guests on is the

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relationship means something.

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Okay.

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That you're hoping that you knowing me now leads to relationship that

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maybe I pass you business on to something like, Hey, this is that guy.

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Maybe I should invest in Z's business.

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Maybe Zach should be my new guy.

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I have Jeremy J and now Zach, and let's give him some business.

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Yeah.

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And same thing with other people, right?

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Who you're you're bringing on yes.

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To learn from, but if you wanna make sales, you're the expert.

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For anybody who wants to make sales.

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Often having a podcast where you're having guests on is the worst

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because you're asking questions.

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. So you being a Larry King doesn't help you sell anything.

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Yeah.

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Are you showing your expertise?

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Like here I'm doing most of the talk and sharing my expertise, Right.

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That's part of the thing.

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Yeah.

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It'd be weird for you to come on and start, Why am I here if you're telling

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me about YouTube or whatever, right?

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Yeah.

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So for anybody who's hosting a show, , it usually doesn't lead to a lot of sales

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unless your goal is to be a host, right?

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Yeah.

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Like if your goal is to be an mc at events, your goal is to get paid to host

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round table discussions or fireside chats.

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Cool.

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Now we need to see you host in as much as possible, right?

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So again, like what's your goal and let's strategize towards it.

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So your best bet for using a podcast apart from like general interest and

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like, Hey, it's cool that I can have people that I like to come on my show.

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, your best bet is to think about who are potential partners for you.

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That if they knew who you were, they might pass you business.

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So you're using as biz dev, where normally they may not talk to you.

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Like the fact that this is a show increases a chance of

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somebody coming and talk to you.

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Yeah.

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Like I may not talk to you one on one if you said, Hey, you have half an

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hour to talk to me about my business.

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Like probably not.

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You know, like I get that.

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Maybe I get that all the time.

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Even for shows it's usually probably not cuz there's so many shows.

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But I like the vibe and the way you reached out.

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It's easier to get a yes, which then brings people into your world.

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Now they know you so.

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Those would be the two easiest points to start where you're doing breakdowns,

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deep dives, and you just share a screen and tear the channel apart.

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And then if you're having guests on, you're picking their brains.

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And the goal is for them to know you, not to get clients, but potentially

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to get clients from them that they might pass your name around.

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Okay.

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I don't like that a lot.

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Which then most of the content changes on your channel.

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Yeah, it does.

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Almost everything.

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Yes.

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I'm total rebranding after this call, , which is great, right?

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Like, Hey, let's get you, let's get you more sales, less towards the beginners,

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and here's the camera you need and here's the microphone that you need and here's

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the lighting set up and all of that stuff.

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And more towards the advanced growth strategy for the people who will hire.

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Okay.

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I like that.

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I was gonna say I love reviewing equipment, but my equipment's expensive.

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I added like, I want to do like a, my studio and I added it up

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yesterday and it's like 35 grand.

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Most of it's from working with brands, so it's free.

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So I'm not paying for it, but I'm like I don't like the cheaper stuff, so like,

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I have a hard time cuz I am, like you said, positioned more towards being.

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So I need to change that a little bit.

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So a couple of questions that I did have related, So you've answered video

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links, live streams on, on YouTube.

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Is there, because you're saying one to three hours is the best and that's where

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I'm starting to see the best results.

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And I have a lot of ideas after you talking to us.

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Does live streams on YouTube play into this at all?

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Unless, like, if I'm trying to sell something, I can kinda get that, but is

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there any other reason I would do that?

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Or is it, do I just wanna do these?

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One to three hour videos really showing my expertise as a thought leader.

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Okay?

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So again, you know, like we reverse engineer the goal and live streams have

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their purpose a very narrow purpose.

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Okay?

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That should not be the default strategy for most people, but

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live streams are great for getting immediate eyeballs on something.

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Okay?

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And uploaded videos however long are great for the ongoing win.

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Okay?

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The ongoing attention.

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So the biggest value of a YouTube instead of a TikTok or an

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Instagram or any other platform, is that the content list forever.

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So the videos that you post in a week, in a month and a year and two

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years will still be getting you views, attention, subscribers, money, et cetera.

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Where at TikTok, nobody cares what you posted a week ago, you know, let alone

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a year ago Instagram, it's instant.

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It's like, what did you post today?

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Nobody's going back a month on your Instagram.

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It's crazy, right?

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And so if you think of it from that perspective the biggest benefit of

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YouTube is that it lives forever.

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And if you're doing it live streams you're kneecapping the most valuable benefit.

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Live streams suck ongoing, it's instant attention, and then it's gone.

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Okay?

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It sucks.

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Ongoing live streams don't rank, almost never in browse and

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suggested in search after the fact.

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So knowing that, how can you design a strategy around live streams?

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We're gonna get a lot of eyeballs on something and it's gonna go away.

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Cool.

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Can we use that in our business?

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There might be some use cases, right?

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It's like, let's just use the best use cases to help us achieve our goal.

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So where could it be valuable?

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Well, you mentioned selling, so if you're selling something that be real helpful.

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If I wanted to push my new book momentums, like I gotta hit the

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list, I gotta push this hard.

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Yeah.

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Then I would do a whole bunch of YouTube live streams talking about the book.

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Okay.

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And I try to generate a lot of sales while we're live and say,

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Hey guys, if you buy 10 copies right now, I'm gonna get you blank.

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Right.

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But it's gotta be right now, once this video is over, it's done.

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Right.

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And I don't need that video to live on.

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That video's dead after I'm, I've finished recording.

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I don't need it to live on though.

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Cause it accomplished it's objective.

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Yeah.

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If you're doing any of the challenges really coming outta new challenges,

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people are doing 3, 5, 7 day challenges and they'll do it on YouTube.

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I did it as well.

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We'd live streaming, set our Facebook group and also re

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streamed it to the YouTube channel.

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And so people are joining me for a couple hours a day doing a live challenge.

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But if they wanna participate and be involved, it's not the chat

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on YouTube, they have to join the challenge and gets it into the Facebook

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group, which then leads to movement makers, which is one of my programs.

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So we're gonna, we're giving a lot of value for free.

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Through a live challenge, but I don't need that video to live on afterwards.

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It serves its purpose cuz we're all coming together for this

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live event for us to be here.

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This hasn't been done as much, but people used to do a lot of, if you have a really

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big video that's about to go live and you wanna get some eyeballs on, you go

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live on your channel 20 minutes before.

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Okay.

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So everybody gets notified that you just went live Yeah.

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And you're promoting the video.

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Oh, okay.

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So if I'm gonna, if like, if I get Zack on my channel and like this is

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the biggest interview of my life.

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Yeah.

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And I want everybody to see this z interview.

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I can go live 20 minutes before on my own channel and say, Guys,

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I got I an insane interview coming up, whether I wanna drop who it is

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or not and chat with my audience.

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And then once it goes live, I can tell everybody who's watching me.

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Okay, go watch the video right now.

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We're gonna go all, go watch it together, whether it's a premier or you just

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launch video and you're taking your live audience and you're going to that new

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video that just came up on your channel.

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Okay?

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But again, I don't care.

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I don't need my preamble video to go and do anything.

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People will do alive when they are crossing a m.

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You're about to hit a million subs or a hundred thousand subs

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or 10,000 subs or whatever.

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Yeah.

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And you do a live stream to kind of celebrate and you know, be

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with your community and like, Thank you guys, we did it.

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Hey Huray.

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It's like community building.

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But again, that video will suck ongoing, but I don't need it to.

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So if there's a bunch of those kinds of use cases, but we're basically assuming

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that after we're done, that video is dead.

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I don't need it to live on.

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And if that's the assumption, then cool.

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What use cases can we come up with?

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But you're handicapping the best part of YouTube, which

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that your content looks forever.

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Like if this video was a live stream to YouTube, you're just gonna get a lot

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fewer, you get a lot more day one views.

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Yeah.

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But a lot less lifetime views, which is usually the goal of

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people making YouTube channels.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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No, that makes a lot of sense.

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So I mean, everything I'm getting from you is, well, what's your goal?

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Does it serve your purpose and go with it?

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You hear a lot of people, and I'm gonna do some breakdowns like

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you suggested of this, but a lot of people say, be it everywhere.

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My thought right now for what I'm doing, LinkedIn and YouTube,

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two places most important.

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Yeah.

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Like, you could build a mid six figure business without even having a channel.

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So like, what are you trying to accomplish?

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And I started, I've started asking that question to everybody because I remember.

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I come from the business world.

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That wasn't a, like, YouTube wasn't my first business.

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I built and sold the company, went into venture capital, then got into creating

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content on websites and then YouTube.

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And so my mindset is always business first.

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And I remember being blown away at one of the first YouTube events that I went to.

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Like, Oh, I guess I'm a YouTuber now.

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I have a hundred thousand subscribers.

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Whatever.

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Let's go meet these big YouTubers and see what they're doing.

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And it was like had a, I met a guy who was in a millions of subscribers

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and it was still him working full-time with a part-time assistant cuz

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that's how he could afford from his multimillion subscriber channel.

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Like, how are you not, I'm making money on my hundred thousand, so how are you not?

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And so it's just because it was never a plan, There was never a

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business mindset like this was his first company that he ever started.

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Yeah.

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And he never thought, And so it's, I want to help people get.

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Goal, right?

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So a lot of people are creating content and spending a lot of

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time and it just doesn't help them accomplish the thing that they want.

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So, you know, your long term objective may be, I want everybody to feel

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comfortable making a YouTube video and starting their own podcast.

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Cool.

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And like, let's get you paid in the meantime.

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Cuz building that brand's gonna take so long.

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And I don't want you struggling on the way up to get there.

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Like, let's go build you a mid six figure business, doing what

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you love, consulting with people and then you do whatever you want.

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You know, go start a marijuana video company.

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Go start a NetSuite, whatever, right?

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It's like, then it becomes whatever you wanna do, but that feed your soul.

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And maybe the NetSuite thing is like not interesting anymore and

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you wanna go do something else and sell your own podcast due in a box.

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Like whatever.

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All of it can work, but.

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I love the path.

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It's like, let's go, like building that consulting business is great.

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It's hard to scale to multimillion dollars.

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, even if you had people under you, like a service based business

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like that is hard to turn into a multimillion dollar company.

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But to make it a mid six figure business is not that difficult if

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you're decently good at what you're doing, so how do you get there?

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You don't even need content to do it.

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Like this is, you can, That's marketing that's magnet.

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So like people will come to you and find you.

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The easy thing to do is just do outreach.

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You find all the podcasts that do not have a U YouTube channel that are by category,

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like go to every podcast category.

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Find the database.

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Like find the top hundred podcast in every category.

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See what they're doing on YouTube.

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Most of them will not be there.

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Or they will be there and will suck.

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Like there's very few who are top hundred who then crush on YouTube as well and work

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out a deal to work with a couple of them.

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And if you get, you know, three or four clients out of that who are paying you

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five to $15,000 a month you're done.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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That's outreach.

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Like, you don't need to make video as much as I'm the video guy, telling Zach

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to shut down his channel, but like, that should at least be a part of what you're.

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Because that's the fastest way to get clients is as much as you can make a

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video and turn it into a YouTube video.

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If you only wanted to make YouTube content, then that's the play

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is you make the big breakdowns.

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But even better is you do a loom or you do an unlisted

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YouTube video directly at them.

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Like, can you think of somebody right now who you'd love to work with,

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who should have a YouTube channel on who's like, awesome podcast?

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What sucks on YouTube?

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Oh, but there are a few podcasts that I don't actually know if they're

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on YouTube, so I need to go check.

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Cause I haven't even, I haven't done that.

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I know I need to go do that just becomes the game, right?

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Like if you're gonna be the podcast guy on YouTube, you should know the

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podcast that aren't on YouTube, right?

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Yeah.

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And listen, that's not to make you feel bad.

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You could do that tonight, right?

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Like to find a list that's a couple hours of research to make a list for me.

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like tomorrow you have your listing and you're doing outreach like this is.

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Very easy.

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Yeah.

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But, you know, I don't know enough podcast.

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I don't have any examples cuz I don't know, podcast.

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But you know who, what's, who's your favorite sports, Who's your

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favorite athlete of all time?

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Pro a Dimitri Ov.

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Dimitri Ov Clo k Kof.

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Okay.

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I'll just say . Dimitri.

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So, Dimitri, let's say Dimitri.

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Is he American?

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Probably not right.

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Freshen Russian.

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Okay.

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Let's say Dimitri was American, had, you know, perfect English and

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he wanted to start his podcast.

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Okay.

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He has a podcast actually, but he sucks on YouTube.

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Cool.

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So you're gonna reach out to Dimitri and offer to be his guy on YouTube.

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And so you make a 20 minute video outlining his podcast.

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Why it's so great, why you love it, why you're a fan.

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Like all the stuff that you actually do.

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Like you're actually a fan.

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You actually care.

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You're not, it's not just some sales call.

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You're passion about Dimitri.

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Like, I love body building, I wanna help you get message out to the world.

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YouTube is the place like that energy and excitement that I felt when.

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Did the video on me.

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For him and that you're offering to help him you'd be happy to hop

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on a call, like, here's some value.

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Here's 20 minutes of what you could be doing.

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Not like you have to talk to me to get any of the goods.

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Like you give it away.

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Cuz they can't, they're not gonna do it.

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Right?

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And so that's when they would hire you to do it.

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And so if you did that, You had your VA make a list and the ones that you

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actually connected with that you like and you believe in their mission and

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what they're doing, just like you love these people and then you spent

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the next three weeks just making 20 minute video after 20 minute video.

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After 20 minute, you just need three to 10 clients.

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You pay five to 15 K a month and you've got your business.

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Yeah.

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You never have to make another YouTube video again unless you want to.

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Right.

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Which is cool, but now it's not like it has to deliver or like I just wanna

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see you make money and like everybody can follow this process as well.

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Yeah.

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I mean, that's how you're done.

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You have your, like to build a three to $500,000 business, you're done.

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That's how you do it.

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Yeah.

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That doesn't take you to 5 million.

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No, but three to 500.

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Yeah.

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That's a good business.

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And for a lot of people, like they're, they would, the amount of struggle,

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the amount of struggle I went through in my first business to even make it

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to like a hundred thousand was insane.

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And now it's, you know, so easy to come in.

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And just because you're good at what you do.

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Yeah.

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And because it's really valuable and this is a skillset that's

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missing for a lot of people.

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Yeah.

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Now, so like now if you, that's how you just win on business.

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But if you wanna take it to the content side, right?

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Yeah.

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Now you're thinking, who do I need to have on my guess on my show?

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To that build relationships with, and then doing more bigger channel

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breakdowns with people explaining what's good, what's wrong, what

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you would fix, what you respect.

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You know, you could do my channel and say, I love Evan for this, and listen,

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Evan sucks at these four things and here's what you know, Go and break it down.

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Yeah, that's the starting point, man.

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Like there's so much opportunity there for you.

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Oh, I appreciate that.

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I love this.

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Now I'm thinking agencies, I like creating content to get clients.

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Do you want to, And I think the problem is they want me to create

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YouTube content cuz I have this setup.

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I like making the videos, but I'm on an expert on NetSuite or scaling your

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business if someone's selling services.

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Yeah.

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Are they gonna want to create those videos or does 10 to 20 minute videos still a

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place to get clients and, Well, customer things depends on your goal, right?

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So for you, Zach, we've just laid out the model for you to build a quarter million,

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half million, the business without making any videos, unless you want to.

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For NetSuite, it's a different goal, like NetSuite.

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How much is NetSuite?

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Entry level minimum, like 30 K a year.

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So you wanna be like 5 million a year business at minimum?

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Probably.

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Okay.

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And it's a giant company.

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, But you need to, in the coaching you're trying to get, you know,

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15 to $5,000 or $15,000 a.

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Kind of clients gonna be 3000, 2000, but it's not like a hundred

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bucks a month kind of thing.

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Yeah.

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My clients are gonna pay you.

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But there's a cap, right?

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Like this, That's a path to maybe a million dollar business.

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Yeah, that's, we a million dollars is nothing like, they don't

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want million dollar, like what?

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They're laughing you outta the room if you say you can help them

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get a million dollars in revenue.

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Right.

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So you like what?

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I'll take a, This is great.

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Let's go.

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I'll take that all day long.

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I'll worry about the rest afterwards.

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So for NetSuite, a lot of times the thing is about humanizing the brand.

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So, I had a three year deal with Sage.

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I don't know if you know Sage, They accounting software company.

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Okay.

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And kind of like QuickBooks, but, Well, based on like QuickBook.

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But not as expensive as, you know, NetSuite.

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Okay.

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I think they'll start at like 10 or $20 a month for their accounting stuff.

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Maybe a little more.

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Okay.

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But they're meant to be designed for small business owners.

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So once a month I would sit down with the CEO of Sage.

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His name was Steven Kelly.

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He was in the uk.

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I was in Toronto and we did a q and a session with my audience.

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Okay.

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So people would come on to ask us questions and we would both answer.

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Yeah.

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And then I released that as a video.

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So we did, you know, 30 plus videos of a q and a with me and him, and they

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paid me on a three year deal to, to do that content, to humanize the brand.

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They wanted to be seen as a friend of small business that they care

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about, small cuz everybody says they care about small business and nobody

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actually cares about small business.

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And so here's Evan with the CEO talking about small business and almost

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never even talking about the product.

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Yeah.

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Cause who wants to talk about accounting software?

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Yeah.

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It's like the most boring thing of all time.

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Yeah.

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What matters is like, ask entrepreneurs what do you hate

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the most in your business?

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And it's gonna be like accounting and legal, you know, like Yeah.

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People hate it.

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It's the worst.

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Yeah.

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So making a channel about accounting is, nobody's gonna wanna watch that.

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Yeah.

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But everybody needs it.

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So how do you pick one company over the.

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It's the brand.

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Okay.

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You know, and if, and I use it in my company, so like I'm actually using it and

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here's the CEO who seems like a nice guy and honestly carries with entrepreneurs.

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So like, what are you trying to accomplish?

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Well, the goal is to build a brand inside of entrepreneurship.

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So for NetSuite, similarly, what's the goal to help them?

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The goal is not to get them a million dollars in revenue.

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We need to build something much bigger for them.

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Yeah.

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Is the goal then, is it a technical sale or is it a brand sale mostly for them?

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Are people buying because of what NetSuite is in the brand

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and how I feel about the company?

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Or is it much more technical that oh, it does this one

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feature and I really need that.

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I don't know if you know the answer to that question, but Yeah, I think you

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guess, so NetSuite is owned by Oracle.

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That's that stands by itself.

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Like you don't need to speak for Oracle and actually, but how, who

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integrates it for you and who takes care of it for you is essentially

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agency you pick, which is us.

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So I think it's a, it's more of a brand sale of we know the product that

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already has the reputation and so.

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The idea I'm getting from you is doing Q and As on helping them with marketing

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or helping them with some other problem that helps 'em to trust us that we

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know what we're doing is that Got it.

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Fair.

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So that, So if I understand what you're saying properly, people already

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know they wanna buy NetSuite and they're trying to figure out what's

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agency to help them integrate it.

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Not whether to buy NetSuite or not.

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Yep.

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And your agency that you partnered with is one of those companies

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that does the NetSuite integration.

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Yep.

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And specialize in e-commerce, which helps cause I'm e-commerce.

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So here's the thing, So now your agency has zero brand.

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With respect, like, you know, it's not like the, And most of those agencies who

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do the integrations, nobody knows who they are cuz they're technical geeks and they

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just don't know how to brand themselves.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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And so here's, that's great because now it's easy for you to stand out cuz you're

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the only one with any kind of brand.

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Yeah.

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So now it's who is the person making the decision to hire you?

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Is it the ceo?

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Is it the cto?

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Is the cmo?

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Like who's hiring you from your ideal clients?

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That it's really, it depends on how big the business is.

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It could be any of those.

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So who's your ideal market?

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Ideal market e-commerce business is doing like 20 to 30 million a year.

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You have, again, two paths.

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You know, Like you've got a sales path.

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Yeah.

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Which again, could just be as easy as you find fast growing.

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Like who's gonna buy you some, Who's gonna hire you to help?

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Either somebody who's like so pissed off and frustrated with their

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current thing that doesn't work.

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Yeah.

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And they need some help, right?

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So now you're replacing a current vendor or somebody who's growing so quickly and

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never built the right thing in the first place and hodgepodged it together with a

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bunch of tools and tried to make it work.

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And like their cousin Julie helped them And now it's like it's time to get

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serious and put on the pants, right?

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Yeah.

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Instead of like wearing the diaper.

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Right?

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Like those are usually the better clients because they're growing because they have

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capital as opposed to the legacy people who are just super frustrated but may not

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have a lot of money to be able to pay you.

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So, okay, this is what I did when I was in venture capital.

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Who's an ideal client for venture capital?

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Who needs venture capital.

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Everybody wants venture capital.

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It's like, Hey, I want half a million dollars for my company.

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Sure, why not?

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Yeah.

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But most businesses don't have a good enough business plan or operational

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excellence or team in place, et cetera, to actually get it right.

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Yeah.

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People would love it, but most people can't actually qualify for it.

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So who are the best people who would get venture capital?

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Well, it's high growing companies who need money to expand.

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No VC wants to fund the pure startup company.

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Yeah.

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They wanna fund the expansion cuz the startup is the riskiest part.

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They wanna find your research and development and get

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you first prototype out.

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That's what angels are for.

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They wanna fund the expansion, show me that it worked and now here's $10

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million to go off and blow it up.

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That's what a VC really wants to invest into.

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Right?

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Ok.

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It doesn't have to necessarily be profitable, but it's high growth.

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Then you see the path.

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You've already made some sales So what I did was I looked at the list I'm in

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Canada, so we had a list, it's called the profit list, but it's basically the list.

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So the fastest growing companies, it's, it is a profit list in Canada, but there's

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a list that's even bigger in the US Okay.

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Of like, I think it goes to 5,000 or 10,000 deep of the fastest

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growing companies in the country.

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Okay.

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Now, depends on your business, like you look at yours, could you, does

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it have to be local or could you integrate anywhere in the US Anywhere?

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Yeah.

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Perfect.

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So that, what I did was I reached out to all the profit, the fastest

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grown companies in Canada, and I said, Hey I'm a vc, you need money.

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And I, and like, Oh my God, we're struggling.

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Like, we're grown so quickly, we don't know what to do.

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We've grown 8000% in one year and like, it's why I'm on quicksand.

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I don't know what I'm, but like it's a great potential business.

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But then they.

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They need the capital and they need the expertise.

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And so that's where you can come in and help.

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So same thing for you guys.

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This is an easy direct sales play where you look at these fastest 5,000

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companies in the US and how they're growing and look for different industries

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like what's e-commerce versus like a manufacturing company or whatever.

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And I don't, Can you help manufacturing companies?

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Or software companies or can but It's more not ideal.

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Yeah.

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Manufacturing companies wouldn't be top growing companies typically anyway.

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But software might or biotech might or, Yeah, right.

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But you look at the eCommerce ones, there's gonna be a certain percentage

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and you just hit them up and you can apply the same content strategy

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where you do a 20 minute video.

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You look at their system, you make it, I don't know how much you can tell about

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what their backend might be based off of their website and their shopping

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card and all that kind of stuff.

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You may not know everything, but you can make a guess that

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some of the things are doing.

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Say, Hey, what you're doing here, like this is actually super inefficient.

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And then you spend 20 minutes breaking it down.

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Not a sales pitch, but just in, in giving them free value.

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Yeah.

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Oh my god, who's this, that guy?

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This is insane.

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This is amazing.

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How do I work with him?

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And so for your agency, like if you brought an extra million

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dollars in business to your agency, how much is the difference?

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Does that make huge , so like your agency business is the

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same business as the Z business.

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Yeah.

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So the easiest model is not even content public on YouTube.

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It's content in outreach to, to find 200 e-commerce companies

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that are growing like crazy.

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You spend, you know, two hours on each company diving deep, making a

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20 minute video and emailing them, and you'll get five sales from it.

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And if each sale is worth x, like that starts to add up and

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make a lot of money for you.

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Yeah, that really does.

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It's not that you can't do YouTube.

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Yeah.

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I'm not the YouTube guy.

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I love YouTube.

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But like for your specific case, a lot of times the content to make is just

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the direct outreach, cuz it's gonna mean so much for the company now.

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Yeah.

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If you wanted to bring in a hundred million, like you're not gonna do that

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effectively through just the outreach.

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Yeah.

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So like that could be public content.

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Yeah.

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You could break down e-commerce stores and do a deep dive and

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say, here's what they're doing.

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Right.

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Here's what they're doing wrong.

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Give a breakdown.

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You could also have guests coming on who might be potential

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partners for you, for the agency.

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And you're doing biz dev, that's why they're on the

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show with you doing bis dev.

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That channel will suck in terms of subscribers.

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Yeah.

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Where like, who's gonna subscribe to a eCommerce integr?

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Like not many people.

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Yeah.

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But the right people.

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Okay.

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What?

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You have a million subscribers in a channel, but you sell nothing

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versus having 200 subscribers.

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or people maybe not even subscribe because they just wanna work

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with somebody and get it done.

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They're just looking at the how to content and don't wanna know all

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the details cuz they want Zach and his team to do all the details.

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Yeah.

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But it leads to business.

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It's it's more evergreen and it'll generate deal flow for you, but it's

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slower compared to just messaging.

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Yeah.

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Send, make a 20 minute video.

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Like it's a fantastic combination of sales plus content creation.

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Okay.

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And you don't have to be the most charismatic person.

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Like, not that you aren't, but like you just get in front of camera.

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Hey, I'm Zach.

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I love your company.

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I see a few mistakes that you're making on the e-commerce side and I made a quick

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video to explain how you might fix it.

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Here it is.

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And then you screen share and just go through everything.

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I like that.

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And then you go on LinkedIn and you find the CMO and CTO and.

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See, whatever, Or director of whatever.

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Yeah.

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And you send it to them.

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Okay.

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And from 200 people, you'll get five to 10 clients.

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Yeah, I like that a lot.

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I wanna figure what a good YouTube strategy is for you though, cuz all,

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everything has turned into you just making videos of send to people.

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But I think the, I'm still gonna do the video podcast right now.

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What I do is I have guests on like you, and then I do a solo episode where I'm

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sharing my advice and my stuff, and part of that's gonna turn into me coaching

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people and sharing like videos that way.

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But I think I, I was on a podcast a couple of years ago and the owner or

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the host shared some information with me, which I thought was very generous.

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But he had a company reach out to him and offer him 180 grand to

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sponsor that season of the podcast.

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He only had 10,000 listeners, but they were very, they were business listeners.

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They were very targeted.

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And so for the.

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Video podcast more the one with NetSuite where we're having guests on.

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And that one, it's not gonna be about integration, it's gonna be like the

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story of the business and how they overcame struggles, how they scaled, like

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hopefully more relatable content that way.

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But finding sponsors for video podcasts do you have any thoughts around that or is

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that just not even, not worth the time and effort to try to get sponsored that way?

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And I should focus more on outreach and I don't that way, like for where

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you're at, I think you should go.

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I think like, honestly, if I'm you, I pick between the coaching

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business and a NetSuite business and what are you more passionate about?

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And go do that first and then decide if you even wanna do the other one.

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Okay.

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Maybe you love the podcasting thing so much and you work with some of

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your heroes and know you're making $400,000 a year from the coaching that

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you don't wanna do the NetSuite thing.

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Yeah, maybe, I don't know.

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I hope maybe your partner's listening to this is like, I wanna

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strangle Evan carer right now.

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don't leave.

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But maybe like, it's great when you have options that this is something

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that you're doing because you genuinely deeply, like, passionately love this

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as opposed to, I kind of like it and it's a pretty kick ass opportunity.

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And so you're chasing the opportunity as opposed to actually chasing the joy.

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Yeah.

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You know, I think the bigger discussion for you would be, what is the

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thing, if you're gonna make your own content, what is the thing that would,

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what do you wanna be for America?

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You know, like, what is the message you wanna give?

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Cause you don't, if you didn't need to make money, cause you don't need

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to make money from this yet, right?

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Like, this is the path to building.

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The empire.

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The multimillion dollar Zack Empire.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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What do you wanna be for America?

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Do you want to be the guy who teaches podcasting?

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Do you want everybody to start their own YouTube show?

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Do you like what do you wanna be for America?

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I would love to be the YouTube podcasting guy.

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Like, I, for a while I was the YouTube guy, but I kind of felt imposter

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syndrome when I'd watch other channels, but video or YouTube podcasting.

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I feel like I could kill that and help people make money and

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Cause I love video podcasting.

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I love getting paid to make content.

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So that's what they love.

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I would love to help them to get paid to do that cuz I can't do

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work that I hate and I don't want people to have to do that either.

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Yeah.

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So like, this is a patience game and it's really just picking

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which path you wanna go down.

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So the fastest way to get your clients is what we talked about, you know?

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Yeah.

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A couple times now, right?

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, you just make those videos, you reach out and you have your five.

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Like, that would be my top priority, right?

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I don't know your financial situation, how much you need to make, if you

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have a number, you know, where you're comfortable, where you're, you know,

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not buying Lambos, but you're like, you're good and you're happy and you're

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serving and you're not stressing.

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Like, to not stress every month over how much is coming in is a very freeing

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and very, you know, amazing feeling.

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So whatever that number is for you I'm assuming somewhere in the mid, you know,

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six figures that if it's, No, I need 8 million before I'm comfortable , Wow.

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All that gear does cost a lot there.

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How's that?

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Ease?

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Yeah.

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, But you know, what is that number that you need to be at?

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And then go get your clients and do the outreach and get there in the next three

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to six months to then allow this channel to be the long term brand play for you

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of what you want to give the world.

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Okay.

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And then almost reverse in my advice at the beginning of like what

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camera to buy and what gears to buy.

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Cuz that's the message for the world, but it doesn't lead you to making any money.

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, especially in the short run.

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Okay.

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You know, if you have a, if you have a couple million subscribers

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you're banging out tons of views.

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Yeah.

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You could start making some good sense money.

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You get hired to do speaking deals.

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Maybe you launch your own book, you sell your own mini course and stuff like that.

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But like startup creators, they just don't have any money.

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Yeah.

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So you're not getting paid from them.

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But it's a, if you have a lot of them, then that starts to pay

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off, but to wait to get there.

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Zach's gonna be spending years making tons of content before anything falls

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into his bank account, already doing it.

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This is my third YouTube channel, I think.

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Yeah, I think it's just too easy, you know, like it's, it sounds terrible

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to say, but there's so many podcasts, we just don't have a YouTube channel.

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Yeah.

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And if you generally just do what you do, like you have a magic skill of being

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able to deep dive on people and learn about them and just show up and care.

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That's some secret sauce, man.

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And you can, you could take, whether you take a percentage of their

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channel on YouTube or you take a fee for service and make the goal

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to play in the five to 15 k a.

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Range and go get your five to 10 clients and then this channel

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becomes whatever you want it to be.

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That's passion.

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Like the Yeah.

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You're pumped to make and you release yourself off the expectations of like

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that this channel has to do anything for your business in the next five years.

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Yeah.

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And you're just doing it cuz you love it and you're making videos that you

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love when you bring on guests that you love and if you wanna still do

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microphone reviews and whatever.

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Cool.

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You know, knowing that like this isn't gonna, you can make some affiliate

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revenue and whatever, but like the business, like if you don't have to make

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money off of Amazon affiliate revenue on the microphones, I just freeze.

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You have to be so much more creative and have so much more fun.

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Yeah.

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In the creation and then this becomes something really special.

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In five years.

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Yeah, I like that long term play, not short term.

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You've been the literally this, I'm gonna watch this probably 10 times, so

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that I think this will change my life.

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Like, thank you so much.

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This has been super valid for me.

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Those listening, I hope it has for them as well, but if not, you've changed

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at least one life with the other hour.

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So really appreciate that.

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Really good.

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Cool man.

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Well, I'm, I hope, I'm glad that it helped.

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The hope this helps the audience too.

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And super excited to see what you create, man.

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Like, I think it's gonna be really special.

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We'll be able to look back.

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You know, two years, three years, four years later.

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It's like, remember that conversation we had back in 2022 where we

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laid out the business plan?

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Like, look at this.

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It's crazy.

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Well, I hope you enjoyed today's show.

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If you haven't already listened to some of the past episodes, I'm here are a couple

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of guest episodes that you might like.

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On episode five, we learned how Chris Doe grew to 2 million subscribers and what he

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would do if he were starting over in 2022.

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Episode seven is how an 18 year old built a five figure a month business on TikTok.

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An episode nine is How to Grow and Monetize Your Podcast.

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I hope one of those sounded interesting to you.

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If they did, I'll see you in the next episode.

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