Podcast appearances and mentions of gary vee

Welcome to the HyperFast Agent Podcast with Billion Dollar Real Estate Agents Dan Lesniak and Keri Shull, who are top sponsors at eXp Realty. Ready to become an eXp Realty agent with Keri and Dan? Go to https://whylibertas.com/dan or text Dan directly at 703-638-4393.   In his first year as a real estate agent, Dan Lesniak had a record year, selling over $22 million in total volume, with 37 transactions. That's the kind of successful year most real estate agents would enjoy having at any point in their career. Dan had a great start right out of the gates. Even though he did a lot of things right to lead to this success, he made a rookie move. He failed to research brokers before he made his decision of where to hang his license. That cost him over $60,000 in broker fees to Century 21. Most of the benefits of being part of this brokerage were not things he used to land all of those transactions and close those sales. In this episode of the HyperFast Agent podcast, Dan teaches you how to avoid his mistakes so you can keep more of what you earn. Join Host Dan Lesniak as he discusses… ∙ The STP philosophy he implemented to land 37 transactions and $22 million in sales in his first year ∙ Why narrowing your target market will help you focus you message and bring in more deals ∙ How to better research brokers so you can ensure the benefits they offer match your needs ∙ Why it's important to pick a place that will limit what you pay your brokerage QUOTES TO SHARE

Episode 500: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talks to Jason Yanowitz (https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz) founder of Blockworks, which covers crypto news, information and analytics. Jason shares the revenue numbers behind Blockworks, the secret to hosting profitable events, and why he would put 100% of his portfolio in crypto if his wife would let him.  Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Want MFM Merch? Check out our store here. Want to see the best clips from MFM? Subscribe to our clips channel here. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (1:45) Blockworks revenue and profitability (4:00) How to crush it with a conference (10:00) Conferences are really 3-day marketplaces (15:00) Jason's accidental MLM success story (23:00) The difference between MLMs and pyramid schemes (27:00) How Sam Ovens inspired Blockworks (30:00) The fallacy of founder origin stories (35:00) How Sam is optimizing his life (40:00) Business Idea: Beehiiv for Conferences (45:00) Business Idea: Hair transplants for the masses (48:00) Blockworks Research (55:00) Where is Jason putting his money? (1:00:00) How Sam thinks about crypto — Links: • Blockworks - https://blockworks.co/ • Blockworks Research - https://www.blockworksresearch.com/ • Blockworks Twitter - https://twitter.com/blockworks_ • Jason's Twitter - https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitz • Sam Ovens Consulting company - https://www.consulting.com/ • Peter Turchin - https://peterturchin.com/ • beehiiv - https://www.beehiiv.com/ • Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.com/ • Splash - https://splashthat.com/ • Hopin acquisition - https://tinyurl.com/2zn2kk3p • ‘Elon Musk,' by Walter Isaacson - https://tinyurl.com/bde53vpr • Jeff Bezo's Regret Minimization Framework - https://tinyurl.com/m34hmyfk Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

On today's episode of the podcast TEA WITH GARYVEE IS BACK! We talk about the power of being the bigger person in conflicts, the strategy behind narrowing down your content for a more specific audience, and the importance of sharing personal stories to inspire and help others. We discuss the downside of overvaluing others' opinions and the balance between creating content for algorithms versus genuine engagement. This is the perfect episode for those seeking to rise above negativity, refine their content strategy, and find strength in sharing personal stories. Enjoy!

To his fanatics, he's an inspiring businessman, marketing guru, tough-love motivational speaker, and blue-collar-masculine embodiment of the American Dream; but, to his critics, he's just a bro-y blowhard—a grandstanding motormouth whom Fortune Magazine once called a "snake oil salesman." We're talking about Gary Vaynerchuck, aka Gary Vee, a serial entrepreneur whose multi-pronged "empire" and cult of personality scream god complex... but is this guy dangerous, obnoxious, or actually kind of inspiring? These are the questions Amanda and Isa are aiming to answer on this week's episode of Sounds Like A Cult. Follow us on IG @soundslikeacultpod @isaamedinaa @amanda_montell To check out Amanda's new book, The Age of Magical Overthinking, click here! Thank you to our sponsors! Go to thefarmersdog.com/cult to get 50% off your first box. Go to BEISTRAVEL.com/CULT for 15% off your first purchase. Hatch is offering $20 off your purchase of a Hatch Restore 2 and free shipping at hatch.co/cult. Go to betterhelp.com/cult to get 10% off your first month.

Episode 499: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talks to Brett Adcock (https://twitter.com/adcock_brett) about how he nearly went bankrupt after his +$100m exit from Vettery (now Hired). How? Betting everything on the next big idea. And he's doing it again today with Figure.ai, a robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Want MFM Merch? Check out our store here. Want to see the best clips from MFM? Subscribe to our clips channel here. — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:00) How Brett self-funded Archer Aviation (13:00) Nearly going personally bankrupt (19:00) Street of Walls and being a self-taught finance expert (24:00) How to choose the right idea to work on (28:00) Why Future could be the biggest business in the world (32:00) Addressing objections to a robot workforce (35:00) Why hardware is actually easier than software (40:00) How big is Figure going to be in 5 years? — Links: • Brett Adcock's website - https://www.brettadcock.com/ • Figure (AI Robotics) - https://www.figure.ai/ • Archer Aviation - https://www.archer.com/ • Vettery (now Hired) - https://hired.com/ • Ikagai - https://tinyurl.com/3x9mytpb • Street of Walls - https://www.streetofwalls.com/ • The Fast Track: https://tinyurl.com/yeyz7j7p Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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Welcome to the HyperFast Agent Podcast with Billion Dollar Real Estate Agents Dan Lesniak and Keri Shull, who are top sponsors at eXp Realty. Ready to become an eXp Realty agent with Keri and Dan? Go to https://whylibertas.com/dan or text Dan directly at 703-638-4393.   This episode of the HyperFast Agent podcast features a conversation with Laura Griffin, a real estate agent in Northern Virginia. Earlier in her professional career, Lauren left the corporate world to be a stay at home mom. However, 10 years ago, she decided to go back into the workforce as a real estate agent. She took courses, joined a team, and later ventured out on her own. One of the ways she was able to do this was through the book of business she acquired in her days as a member of a team. But later, in 2017, she started a Facebook group dedicated to the interests of local moms in Northern Virginia. Today, the group has over 10,000 very engaged community members and has become the main source of lead generation for her real estate business, generating her $22 million in sales annually.  Join Host Dan Lesniak and guest Lauren Griffin as they discuss… ∙ Referrals and generating leads through Facebook groups ∙ The important role that joining a team can play when an agent is entering the real estate field ∙ How a Facebook group centered around an interest other than real estate is the key to earning trust ∙ How to properly plan out a content calendar for social media posts  QUOTES TO SHARE

Join Wes Tankersley on this episode as he gives insight on his thoughts from this week. He talks about the journey of his podcast; his successes and challenges.One person creates his own success. No one can do it for you. There has to be the belief that it's going to happen. Wes wants to be his own boss someday and not have to work for anybody else. He is working to make that happen by continuing this podcast. The haters are appearing on YouTube and other platforms. There was a hateful comment on YouTube recently on one of his shorts that said he doesn't need a studio because he gets no views. He used to let the mean comments bother him, and he would reply, but now he just deletes them. One thing to remember is the haters don't make sense and don't know him. In fact, Wes just got a notification that his YouTube channel has reached 175.000 views. Wes reflects on that number. That's 175.000 people he reached whether they like what he has to say or not.Wes has been doing this podcast for about four years. He reveals that he gets many emails from companies that want to sponsor him, but many are scams. He has never had anyone sponsor his podcast.  He comes across a few that seem legit. One recently caught his attention. They want him to try their product and talk about it in an episode. They also want him to do two interviews in person with the company. Since his studio isn't finished yet, he is working to figure out how to make that happen. He has a few friends he can talk to about using their studio. He is using his resources and connections to make it happen. Adam Carolla, Gary Vee, and Joe Rogan have a huge following, so they have millions of people watching and listening to their podcasts. As a result, the everyday regular person may believe if they start a podcast, they can make money right away and have tons of followers. The truth is it takes hard work and sacrifice to make a podcast successful. It takes time to create a following and to make money. Most people give up  three or four episodes in because they are not patient enough to keep going. If a person goes into podcasting for the purpose of making money only, he will be very disappointed. Wes reason for doing this podcast is to help people find their success. Signs come to him to keep moving forward when he feels like quitting. One example is running into his friend Matt at the hardware store. Matt has an awesome studio that potentially could be an interview space for the sponsorship for Wes. Karma is real. Wes believes and visualizes it will happen. Good things will happen when they're supposed to happen. One has to be patient and not give up too soon!  Giving up on dreams is not the answer. There will be bumps in the road, but how does a person deal with those bumps? Email: wes@westankersley.comPatreon: Patreon.com/Wes TankersleyLinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/westankersleyFacebook: facebook.com/westankersley Facebook.com/successwarriorcrewInstagram; instagram.com/wes.tankersleyTik Tok: TikTok.com/wes.tankersleySupport the showFor merchandise, podcast and youtube: westankersley.com Check out our sponsor The Warriors Collection for coffee, gear and more use code TANK at check out for a special Discount! https://warriorscollectionbrand.com/ Follow Shaping Success https://shapingsuccesspodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Email Wes@westankersley.com for guest ideas or to be on the show!

Welcome to the HyperFast Agent Podcast with Billion Dollar Real Estate Agents Dan Lesniak and Keri Shull, who are top sponsors at eXp Realty. Ready to become an eXp Realty agent with Keri and Dan? Go to https://whylibertas.com/dan or text Dan directly at 703-638-4393.   As eXp Realty continues to disrupt the real estate industry, the myths and naysayers continue to proliferate. On this episode of the HyperFast Agent podcast, host Dan Lesniak reviews and debunks the 3 biggest myths about eXp Realty. They include myths that eXp Realty is not for people that focus on sales, that it's too late to get into eXp Realty, and that the branding is terrible at eXp Realty. Dan goes item by item to show how these statements could not be further from the truth. He also takes on a surprise fourth myth relating to the fact that eXp is a cloud brokerage and that it doesn't provide real estate agents with office space. That myth is also debunked in this episode. Join Host Dan Lesniak as he discusses… ∙ Why some of the biggest sales teams are moving over to eXp Realty ∙ How less than 20% of agents at eXp Realty participate in the revenue share program ∙ Why eXp Realty continues to grow at a fast pace and has a lot of runway left to grow ∙ How eXp Realty gives agents branding freedom so they can brand themselves, not the brokerage QUOTES TO SHARE

Episode 498: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk about the coolest stuff they've seen this week—like why Nancy Pelosi may be out-investing Warren Buffet and how Cultural Tutor is winning Twitter by taking it more seriously than everybody else.  Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Want MFM Merch? Check out our store here. Want to see the best clips from MFM? Subscribe to our clips channel here. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:00) Bill Gurley exposes the grift of regulation (7:00) Deion Sanders on “60 Minutes”  (14:00) CFO Secrets on negotiating like an M&A master (21:00) The Cultural Tutor's obsession with writing one tweet — Links: • Bill Gurley's All-In Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cO3-MLHOM • Autopilot: https://www.joinautopilot.com/ • Deion Sanders “60 Minutes” interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8PSWeRLGXs • Deion Sanders Jr's YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_n7zvkh3y3PLBIUA1lHkjw • The Score Takes Care of Itself - https://tinyurl.com/jtspe367 • CFO Secrets - "Uncovering The Mystery of Working Capital in M&A" - https://www.cfosecrets.io/p/working-capital-adjustment-peg-m-a • The Cultural Tutor on David Perell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pBxikHRCXI • The Cultural Tutor twitter - https://twitter.com/culturaltutor • Vacation Sunscreen - https://www.vacation.inc/ — Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Episode 497: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) share 4 businesses that are crushing it — from airport security to Etsy store-owner's favorite machine to well-branded women's products. Plus, Shaan shares a dating app idea that‘s thoroughly OP. • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co • Copy That - https://copythat.com Other Cool Stuff: • MFM Clips Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ClipMFM • MFM Merch - https://store.mfmpod.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (0:30) Surprise 1: Merch! (5:05) Surprise 2: New YouTube Clips Channel! (8:15) Business breakdown 1: Clear ($3b) (19:33) Business breakdown 2: Cricut (25:20) The real story behind Native Deodorant (29:20) Business breakdown 3: Aunt Flow (32:52) iCracked (38:00) Business breakdown 5: Cloud Poker Night (45:30) Products that grow virally (not word-of-mouth) (47:20) Gamer Dating App — Links: • MFM Merch - https://store.mfmpod.com/ • MFM Clips Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@ClipMFM • Clear - https://www.clearme.com/ • Cricut - https://cricut.com/en-us/ • Etsy - https://www.etsy.com/ • Native Deodorant - https://www.nativecos.com/ • Aunt Flow - https://goauntflow.com/ • iCracked - https://www.youtube.com/c/icracked • Cloud Poker Night - https://cloudpokernight.com/ • Dil Mill - https://dilmil.co/ • Evolv - https://www.evolvtechnology.com/ • Farmers Only - https://www.farmersonly.com/ — Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Gary Vaynerchuk, the Chairman of VaynerX, Chief Executive Officer of VaynerMedia, and Serial Entrepreneur, adds his page to the Marketing Playbook. Hear how to focus on what's good, be accountable for the things you do and don't do, learn valuable lessons from your experiences, Gary's journey towards buying the New York Jets, and the lessons he learned from an early age thanks to selling trading cards and growing his family wine business. Connect with Gary on social media @GaryVee

In this episode we talk about the 2023 Bowman Chrome Superfractor that has a double, Chicago winning the 2026 National, a recap of the Pikes Peak Card Show and so much more! Check out the YouTube channel and come and holler at us in our socials!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rare_elements1/Twitter: https://twitter.com/RareElements1Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RareElements1Email: rareelements719@gmail.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCauxyzSvqah2WKouiOQPEkASupport the show

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If you don't know who Marc Scott is, you should. The VOpreneur is helping Voice Artists around the world navigate the nightmare that is marketing your Voice! This week, we have him on the show to talk about everything from emailing leads to the Red Socks... Find out more about him and his great services here: https://www.vopreneur.com/ A big shout out to our sponsors, Austrian Audio and Tri Booth. Both these companies are providers of QUALITY Audio Gear (we wouldn't partner with them unless they were), so please, if you're in the market for some new kit, do us a solid and check out their products, and be sure to tell em "Robbo, George, Robert, and AP sent you"... As a part of their generous support of our show, Tri Booth is offering $200 off a brand-new booth when you use the code TRIPAP200. So get onto their website now and secure your new booth... https://tribooth.com/ And if you're in the market for a new Mic or killer pair of headphones, check out Austrian Audio. 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Now, he helps other voiceover artists navigate their own marketing journey. Covering a range of topics from social media strategy, dealing with rejection, the power of micro habits, and avoiding distractions, Mark provides valuable insights on how to set yourself apart in a saturated market. He also emphasizes the importance of continually bringing in new prospects to maintain success. The episode also dives into his experimentation with affiliate marketing and his innovative use of national days for promotional sales. He shares his approach to gifting clients, stressing the importance of showing appreciation. The discussion also touches on techniques for enhancing creativity, a crucial skill for both voiceover work and marketing. #VoiceoverMarketingGuru #ProAudioSuitePodcast #MarketingInAudioIndustry    Timestamps [00:00:00] Pro Audio Suite Introduction [00:00:39] Guest Introduction - Marketing Guru Mark Scott [00:01:27] Mark Scott's Journey to Voiceover Marketing [00:03:21] The Challenge of Offline Marketing for Voiceover Artists [00:08:49] Pros and Cons of Social Media in Marketing [00:10:37] Cultural Influences in Marketing Strategies [00:11:42] The Power of 'No' in Building Relationships [00:13:55] The Impact of Micro Habits on Growth [00:17:05] Distraction - The Enemy of Marketing [00:20:56] Tailored Marketing Advice for Voiceover Artist Andrew [00:28:49] Mark's Recent Marketing Endeavors [00:31:48] The Danger of Complacency in Successful Businesses [00:33:04] The Art of Gifting in Business Relationships [00:34:27] Capitalizing on Unconventional Sales Opportunities [00:36:36] Sparking Creativity for Social Media Content [00:42:30] Pro Audio Suite Closing Remarks    Transcript Speaker A: Y'all ready be history.,Speaker B: Get started.,Speaker C: Welcome.,Speaker B: Hi. Hi.,: Hello, everyone, to the Pro Audio Suite. These guys are professional. They're motivated with tech.,Speaker C: To the Vo stars George Wittam, founder of Source Elements Robert Marshall, international audio engineer Darren Robbo Robertson and global voice Andrew Peters. Thanks to Triboo Austrian audio making passion heard. Source elements. George the tech. Wittam and robbo and AP's. International demo. To find out more about us, check thepro audiosuite.com line up.,Speaker B: Learner. Here we go.,Speaker C: And don't forget the code. Trip a P 200 to get $200 off your tribooth. This week we have a guest. He hasn't as many kids as Robbo, not as cute as Robert, not as smart as George, but he's one of us, and that counts for something. Would you please welcome the marketing guru, Mark Scott. How you doing?,Speaker B: Mark, I see what you did there. I totally caught what you did. Somebody's been listening to my podcast and playing off my opener.,Speaker A: Who would do that?,Speaker C: Exactly.,Speaker A: Really?,: Cheeky monkey.,Speaker B: Look at you guys doing your research.,Speaker A: I appreciate know we go out of our way. We do work hard.,Speaker C: We do indeed.,: Don't speak for yourself. I just show up.,Speaker C: Actually, I was lying before. I'm the same. Yeah. So the question I have to get the ball rolling. How did you sort of end up being like the voiceover marketing guru?,Speaker B: Because I needed to make money in voiceover, and I had to figure out how to do it. I'm one of those voice actors, show of hands, who's been ceremoniously, dumped from their radio career, right. And defaulted into voiceover. And I wasn't making any money when I first started in Voiceover, and I was like, I know I can do this. I know there's a way to make money. Casting sites will only take me so far. And so I started figuring out, at first by accident and then with a little bit greater intention, how to actually market myself. And I remember I read a book that Gary Vee wrote. Everybody knows Gary Vee in the marketing space and in that book, Gary Vee said, you should write a blog. And so I thought, all right, well, if Gary Vee says I should write a blog, I should write a blog. But I didn't know what to blog about. So I just started blogging about all of the marketing stuff that I was learning while I was on this journey. And I guess the end result of that was people thought that I was a marketing guru. And so I just roll with it.,Speaker A: Is that how you see yourself?,Speaker B: I mean, now I do see myself as a voice actor and a marketing coach for voice actors. And even though that was never the original intention, voiceover was obviously the original intention. The coaching thing was just one of those things where I guess you get to a point where the market kind of dictates it when you start getting a lot of people emailing you saying, can you help me with this? Or do you offer coaching? Or I got invited to speak at a couple of conferences and I was like, man, maybe there's something to this, maybe I should roll with this. And I think the best part of it is that it helps to keep me sharp. I can't get complacent because I'm helping other people and having to stay on top of what's going on and having to pay attention. And so that keeps me sharp too.,Speaker A: Because marketing yourself is a hell of a job, isn't it? It takes a lot of time.,Speaker B: It is.,Speaker A: Is that something that you sort of, as part of your coaching, you're teaching people, is how to best use their time as well, to fit all this stuff in, to run a database and to do prospecting and to send emails and are you sort of helping them with their time on that as well?,Speaker B: Well, I mean, the thing that I always joke about is people ask me, how many marketing emails should I be sending? And my response is what you're really asking me is what is the minimum amount of marketing that I can do and still get away with it? Because this is not what voice actors want to do. Right. They sign up to be in the booth and do the recording, but the reality is, if you're not in the booth and you're not doing the recording, it's probably because you're not doing the marketing. So it takes time. Yes, but for me, it's like, what else am I going to do if I'm not recording? I might as well be spending my day making new connections, getting in front of new people, so that I can open the door to do more recording down the road. Right?,: It's probably better than obsessing on whether you have the best microphone for voiceover.,Speaker B: Yeah, I think so.,: It's much better use of your time, I can tell you.,Speaker A: Yeah, because marketing is something that I mean, I'm basing my assumptions here on the Australian market, but 20 years ago, a voiceover artist marketing themselves was unheard of because you had an agent and they pretty much did all that for you. So it's only a sort of recent thing. Do you find that maybe that's part of the issue is that voiceover artists in general have only just recently been thrown into this situation and they're madly trying to figure it out without really anyone to sort of base their marketing strategy on or whatever. Do you find that maybe we're all a bit new to this?,Speaker B: It might be an oversimplification, but I think looking out at the macro level, I think there's probably three different classes of voice actors. There's the voiceover veterans who were around in the glory days of voiceover when it was all agents and in studio, and your agents did everything for you and they brought you in studio and obviously the industry still exists like that in certain areas, but not in a lot of areas anymore. Then there was a group of voice actors who kind of came in during what I call the glory days of online casting. And so for them it meant signing up for a Pay to Play membership, submitting auditions on Pay to Play and maybe they had an agent or two as well. And for voice actors that have come in, we'll say the COVID era voice actors, the glory days of online casting are over. It's not really a sustainable way to build a full time business. Obviously the agent model has shifted a ton and so I think those voice actors are more in tune with the fact that marketing is how this gets done. And I think that voice, like, I came in the glory days of online casting and I was in denial for a while, but when I started seeing things change on the Pay to Play, I knew, okay, I got to figure out a better way. And I don't happen to live in a New York or in La or a Chicago where the full agent model may still work for some people. And so I do think that for a lot of voice actors, they're creatives. They operate from the creative side of their brain. They want to be in the booth doing creative things. And marketing, I think, comes from the other side of the brain and so it's not a natural fit and that's why they don't think about it initially, it's why they don't necessarily want to do it. Can't blame them for that either. But it opened up the door for somebody like me to be able to come in and help them with it because I'm actually not a creative. So I operate from the business side of my brain first.,Speaker C: Yeah, it's interesting though, because winding the clock back, I remember when I like, you finished my radio career and moved to Melbourne 25 years ago. I got into voiceover, got an agent and I was sort of started working, but it was a slow thing. And I walked into a studio one day and I remember sitting and waiting to go in. They had no idea who I was, they just had a name on a piece of paper that I was coming in to do a voice. But I watched the way they communicated with the talent that was leaving and it was like, hey, see you Matt, blah, blah, blah, whatever. It was all like face to face. They knew each other, so I thought there's got to be a way of shortcutting this so I can actually become visible to them as opposed to just being a name on a piece of paper. So I went out and found a photographer and I got a whole bunch of shots taken. And the brief was there were certain colors that I wanted to do, but I wanted to make it look like I was releasing an album on a CD. And I was the singer, so I was the artist on the front cover, which I did. And so I produced all these videos, which in those days was VHS for on camera stuff. I did a bunch of CDs with this picture on it and it was an immediate shortcut because I just did every studio, went to every studio, dropped these kits off with my demo and all that kind of stuff, and it was amazing. When I walked in, they knew who I was because on their desk was my photograph on the CD and everybody else just had their name and a contact number.,Speaker B: Yeah, I was going to say at that point in time, probably nobody else was doing that. So it makes it so much easier for you to stand out. Right. That's how you get noticed.,Speaker C: Yeah. And it worked. It was like, it was an immediate shortcut. I probably saved about six months of traipsing around the studios.,Speaker B: Yeah, for sure.,Speaker A: Is there an online equivalent of that today, do you reckon, Mark, or is it just a slow slog?,Speaker B: I mean, social media is I wouldn't call it a shortcut. Can you get lucky on social media if you find the right audience or hit the right niche or do the right thing? Of course, I've seen many voice actors who have gone viral on TikTok or on YouTube or on Instagram, and that has led to opportunities. I wouldn't say that it's necessarily the norm for it to happen quickly, but I do think that if you use some of those tools consistently, over time, you start to build a following, you start to get recognition and people start to notice who you are and pay a little bit more attention.,: Yeah. I can tell you from someone who's started his business at the beginning of social media, it's been a very long slog because you do just spend time building up the brand and the name recognition and establishing yourself as an authority on the subject of something. So, yeah, it's a way to do it. It's definitely not the fastest, I would say.,Speaker B: Yeah, I would say now, I don't know that I would release the VHS, but I would say that there's a full circle coming around. Like I've had some success doing things like postcards because everybody else is doing email and inbox and social media and nobody's sending anything through the mail anymore. And so that's one of the ways that you stand out. So walking into a studio today and dropping off a package, nobody's doing that again now because everybody's doing email and social media, so there might be a full circle opportunity to kind of jump the line a little bit in that regard.,Speaker A: Will that be the next episode of your podcast, Mark?,Speaker B: Yeah, maybe I'll bring you guys on the show and we'll talk through that one.,Speaker C: As far as countries are concerned, do you find the attitude towards marketing changes depending on which country you're marketing yourself into?,Speaker B: I don't know if the attitude changes as much. I think maybe the platforms change a little bit. Like for example, I've got some clients in South America who don't do email at all. Everything happens on WhatsApp. And so if you're emailing them and they're not responding to you, that's why. Because they don't actually operate on their inbox, they operate out of WhatsApp. And so that's a little bit different. I think the whole North American 24/7 hustle culture, I don't think that necessarily plays the same way in certain European markets where they actually take time off and leave the office and end their workday. And so if you're dropping marketing emails in their inbox at eight or 09:00 at night or whatever, I don't know that that necessarily lands. So I think there's little things, little nuances maybe from country to country, region to region. But at the end of the day, we're all trying to accomplish the same thing. We want people to hear our voice and if our demos are great, then hopefully that does the selling for us.,Speaker A: Yeah, well, talking about email, I've heard you mention a couple of times that no hearing no is actually a good thing. Do you want to explain that to people who maybe haven't heard you talk about this before?,Speaker B: I think that when we're sending out our marketing emails, obviously we want everybody to say yes and we want everybody to hire us and we want every email that we send to be a potential opportunity. And so when we get that rejection, our natural instinct is to take it as know, I might not be any good or maybe my demos aren't good enough or maybe my studio stinks, I need to call George. Whatever. Right. We start to go into all of this negative spiral of everything that's wrong with us when the reality is maybe they don't use voice actors or maybe they've already got a full roster or maybe there's just nothing that fits your voice or whatever. Right. There's 1000 reasons why they don't need you. Only one of those reasons is they didn't like you. But by them just telling you no straight up now, you know, so you don't have to put any more effort into building a relationship with that person going forward. And so much of marketing is building relationships. I would rather devote my time, my effort, my energy to building relationships with people who are potentially going to hire me than spending it on somebody who was never going to hire me in the first place. So the sooner they tell me no, I'm not interested, the better it is for me in that regard because I can devote more time to better prospects.,: Yeah, kind of the same thing as like unsubscribes. Like whenever I send out an email campaign, there's a certain percentages of unsubscribes, maybe a half a percent, but I used to be like, oh man, people don't want to hear it. And it's like, no, that's good. Now you've weeded it down. Now the ones that are left are the ones that really do want to hear from you. And that lets you know people that's true from you, because they're telling you they don't want to hear from you. It's not a bad thing.,Speaker B: When I started building my email list, I took it so personal. Like, I wanted to call up every person who unsubscribed and be like, did I say something wrong? I'm so sorry. Right? You don't want that rejection, right? But now the unsubscribe is a gift in that sense, because now you know that's somebody who was never going to work with you anyway, so focus your attention somewhere else.,Speaker A: I want to take a bit of an off ramp here and head in a different direction, just for a second, because you and I have one thing in common that I know of and we're a bit of a fan of a book called Atomic Habits from a gentleman who I've been lucky enough to interview for an hour or so. A guy called James clear. And his book talks about how micro habits can actually change our lives. Just little things that we do every day that become a habit, can actually change our business, our family life, anything that you want to change, really. And I was wondering if you, in your time of reading James's book and sort of thinking about the things that he's spoken about, if you might have like three habits or so that a voiceover artist should get into in terms of their marketing if they want to become more successful.,Speaker B: One of the things that I talk about all the time with email marketing is send ten emails a day, which is not a big number when you break it down. Ten emails a day, that's not a big number. That's something that realistically, you could probably do in about an hour. It doesn't seem like a lot ultimately, but if you do that five days a week, you just sent 50 emails. And if you do that consistently for a year, that's 2500 emails. And if you get a ten or 15% response rate, that's 200 and 5275 prospects that are now in your database. After a year of just sending ten emails a day, like just focusing on one simple, small task that's an hour out of your day at most, but can create an exponential growth opportunity for you if you do it consistently for a year. And so I think the same applies to social media, though, too, right? Like if you post once a week or twice a week, but you just do it consistently, you get into that habit of doing it consistently, not sharing an update when you've got an update and then falling off for 30 days and then coming back. And now you got to start all over again with the algorithm, and you've got to retrain the algorithm, right? I think some of those simple little things that you can break down into daily tasks that you can accomplish in 10 minutes, 15 minutes, an hour to send those emails or whatever, it does make a big difference, and it's important. I work with voice actors. There's a group of voice actors that I coach for an entire year. Every year, I build out a mastermind group, and in December, we meet. I meet with each of one of them one on one, and we set the big goals for the entire year. Like, when I get to the end of the next year, these are the things that I want to accomplish. And then the next step from that is breaking it down into, okay, what does that look like over individual quarters? What does that look like over a month to month basis? And then, what does that look like on a day to day basis? So that you don't just focus on the great big overarching goal for the entire year, but you're breaking that down into more bite sized pieces, right? It's the whole idea of eating the elephant one bite at a time. And I think that's the concept, basically, of the micro habits. And that's why I love that book. I think everybody should read that book.,Speaker A: It's a ripper, isn't it?,Speaker B: It really is.,Speaker A: What do you think's the biggest enemy of doing? Easy to for me, it's so easy. If I'm getting on to do my socials, it's so easily to get distracted and go, oh, look what my mate Sean posted last week. And look at this, look at that. Do you reckon distraction is an enemy of our marketing?,Speaker B: 100%. There was a study that came out, and I know I'm going to get the numbers wrong, but it was something like, for every time that we allow ourselves to get taken off focus, it takes, like, 26 minutes to get back on track or something like that, right? And so one of the things that I say with social media, and I teach this to voice actors, like, okay, you're going to use LinkedIn because you think that that's a really good platform for you based on the type of work that you want to get. One of the things that you got to do on LinkedIn, if you really want to gain traction, is you've got to be consistent. Okay, what does that look like? And I say set a ten minute block in your calendar every morning and use an alarm. And when that alarm goes off after 10 minutes, get off. Because social media is designed for the endless scroll, right? Like, they've literally engineered these sites to keep us there as long as humanly possible. And so you have to be intentional about getting off and moving on to the next task. Otherwise it is 2 hours later and you're still flipping through reels on Instagram or whatever. And so I think you've got to be very careful about stuff like that.,: Yeah, I had to come up with a hack for me, I am one of those keep many tabs open in Chrome, people, all the things I use to run my business, all the different software websites, everything is like tabs, right? So what I do now is I check Facebook and then I close the just that one little thing keeps it from looking at me and taunting me to click on it because it's just not there. And that's my little hack.,Speaker A: James Clee would be proud of you mate. That's an atomic habit.,Speaker B: So often during the day my phone is not in my office because it's too easy, right? It's too easy. Apple lets you set up the custom focuses in the operating system and so I can set a custom focus that the only people that can text me or get a call through to me during certain times of the day. When I'm in that focus is like my wife and my kids, right? Everybody else can wait at that point because I don't want one ping on your phone. One notification is never just let me just check that one text or let me just answer that one email. It's always 25 minutes later and checked the weather and checked the stock market and went on Twitter and had to look at Instagram or whatever, right? And so it's too easy to lose the time.,Speaker A: Is that a thing for you if you've got that set up on your phone? Does that mean that there's a time of the day, I guess given outside of voiceover sessions and stuff but is there a particular time of the day that you do this sort of work?,Speaker B: When it is available in my schedule because my days are very unpredictable but I try to leave certain parts. Like you can't schedule a session with me before 11:00 a.m. So the first couple of hours of the morning, that's time when I can really just focus on my business and you can't schedule a session with me after 04:00 in the afternoon and so there might be an hour or two after 04:00 where I'm focused and that's where I'm going to do my things. But then if I have spare time in a day where somebody hasn't booked me for whatever reason, phone goes into the focus and it lets me settle in to do whatever the task is that I need to do. 30 minutes of deep focused work is so much more productive than 2 hours of periodic distracted work in between checking socials and text messages and getting yourself into a.,Speaker A: So let's let's, let's get a little bit micro on know, let's take Andrew as an example. Andrew's got an agent here in Australia. He's got an agent in the States. He does work that he drums up himself out of Singapore and Dubai. What should a media strategy for someone like Andrew, and I'm not asking you to give him a freebie here, but in general terms, what sort of things should Andrew be thinking about if he's going to go out there now and market himself and drum up some more work?,Speaker B: What kind of work is Andrew looking for?,Speaker C: That's a very good question.,Speaker B: Probably particular genre.,Speaker C: I'm just kind of thinking the things that I probably do mainly, which is promo work, TV promos, radio imaging.,Speaker B: Then.,Speaker C: I do quite a lot of mainly commercials, long form stuff. So I do like everything really. But I guess the main thing is what I'm booked for is the imaging or promo and also the soft sell sort of luxury product kind of voice.,Speaker B: So one of the things that I think you could be doing is looking at you got a great voice, you got that you sound like a TV promo documentary.,Speaker A: God, don't strike his ego anymore, please.,Speaker C: Oh, come on, someone's got two.,Speaker B: You have the kind of voice that people will sit and listen to on TikTok. You do. And I think there's one of two things that you could do. I think that you could either just do it straight and record yourself reading promos imaging, stuff like that, make some videos in the studio of you doing that as just a way to demonstrate, but also give people the opportunity to hear your voice. Or I think there's an opportunity to go in a completely different direction. The person I'm thinking of in particular is Christopher Tester. He's a voice actor out of the UK who is a classically trained British RP theater actor. And he goes on TikTok and reads monologues know, plays and historic books, different things like that, right? And he's created this whole niche with videos that constantly are going viral, but then people are also constantly writing him and saying, hey, do this one next, or do this one next, which keeps the audience coming back, keeps them watching, keeps the videos going viral. But it was a demonstration of his acting ability and so people end up booking him for voiceover work specifically because of that, because they're seeing his acting abilities. So I think if you could come up with a fun way to do some social media content that highlights your voice but demonstrates your skill, I think that's one of the things that could be done in a relatively short amount of time every day, dedicate 30 minutes to it. Making videos for social media doesn't need to be a complex task anymore. If you've got an iPhone or whatever, you've already got a superior camera and you've got a studio, so you've got great audio, so that's really easy. And I think that would be one thing that I would be looking at. And then the other thing is, I would set a target for myself of I'm going to connect with whatever it is, five radio station program directors every day. And maybe that's going to be through LinkedIn, or maybe that's going to be through email, but it's just getting yourself in front of a few new people every day, and that number is going to change. Right. For a successful working, six figure talent who doesn't have a lot of time, right? They can contact 2025 people a week and just keep some new, fresh people in the pipeline. For the voice actor who doesn't have a whole lot of work right now and is still trying to build their business, you're going to contact ten or 20 people a day and work at filling up and creating that pipeline. But those are two things that I think that you could do to open up some opportunities for yourself. And that one's okay. That's okay. It's on the house.,Speaker A: There you go. And I'll be expecting to see the first video tomorrow. Andrew? Yes.,Speaker C: I wonder what I'll do on TikTok. I dread to think we're going to.,Speaker B: Premier it with the podcast episode.,Speaker A: So you know what's interesting in hearing you talk about that, Mark, is that how niched our marketing needs to get. Then? If we're aiming for a TikTok audience, do we really need to niche it down to, okay, I'm going to do it about acting, or I'm going to do it, or is there any scope anymore for just that I'm a voiceover actor and I can pretty much do everything? Or do we need to niche all our marketing down?,Speaker B: I think that it's possible to do a niche that has absolutely nothing to do with voiceover whatsoever. If it is a niche that you have a skill in or a passion in, and you can connect with an audience in. The best example of that is Stefan Johnson. So he's an American voice actor who does food reviews on TikTok, and they're hilarious, irreverent, fun. And the guy's got I don't even know at this point, he's probably got ten or 11 million followers on TikTok. Every video he does, I think, goes viral. That pretty much is the way it works. Now, he is not talking about voiceover. He's just talking about food and snacks and fast food and doing his reviews, who's got the best burger, who's got the best pizza, whatever. But because he reaches such a broad audience, so many people are watching his videos, it's inevitable that somewhere in that audience of millions of people are people who make buying decisions about voiceover for whatever, from the local video production company to the executive producer at a cable network or whatever. And so that has opened up a door for him for tons of voiceover opportunity. And so I think sometimes we limit ourselves by getting too focused on the voiceover box and thinking we have to. Be in the voiceover box. And so is there something that you can talk about, that you are passionate about, that you love, that you have a skill for, that you have an education for? Whatever? Is there a way that you could create content around that that highlights your voice still or highlights your narration skill or your acting skill or whatever? Doesn't specifically have to do with voiceover, but I think the two tie themselves together eventually.,Speaker A: Now people out there are going to go, it's all right for you, Mark, you've been doing this for a while now, you've got it down pat. I'm just a lowly little voiceover artist sitting in my home studio. I have no idea where to start. Would your advice be just bite the bullet and start?,Speaker B: Yeah. Because your first video is not going to be your best video. The first email that you send is not going to be the best email that you send. The first social media, a post that you create is not going to be the best, but you've got to get the first one out of the way to get to the next one, which is going to be a little better. And the one after that, it's going to be a little better. Honestly, if I go back to, let's say, 2008 910, somewhere in there, when I first started doing a little bit of email marketing, it is honestly an act of God that I ever booked a voiceover at all because I can go back and look at some of those early emails and be like, what the heck? I didn't have a clue what I.,Speaker C: Was doing, but I was just exactly.,Speaker B: Doing it and then learning as I went, getting incrementally better. And that's what opens up the door to more opportunity down the road. And so, yeah, I think it's really easy to get perfection paralysis, right? I've got to have everything lined up before I got to have the perfect camera, the perfect audio, the perfect studio, the perfect backdrop before I can make my first video. Or I've got to have the exact formula worked out for the ultimate marketing email before I can ever send the first marketing email. And we let that become a crutch or an excuse that keeps us from just doing the thing when the reality is it's just like voiceover. My guess is, and you guys could probably attest to this your first time in the booth and your hundredth time in the booth, I'm hoping on the hundredth time you were better, you get in your reps and you get better over time.,Speaker A: Yeah. So, George, I know you're deep in marketing. George, the tech at the moment, is there anything you reckon Mark could I'm.,: Writing virtual postcards on a website right now.,Speaker A: You're deeply engrossed in this interview then, George, I can see.,Speaker C: Yeah. But I'm thinking that that postcard idea is an absolute cracker.,: Yeah. I mean, I just received a postcard from a consultant who's doing some financial consulting for me, like a financial planner type person. And I was like, oh, I haven't gotten a handwritten thank you card in the mail in a really long time. In this case, it looks legitimately. Like, she legitimately handwrote this card and sent it to me.,Speaker B: Yes.,: And I thought, man, if she's got time to do that, I mean, we have time to do that now. My handwriting sucks. It just does. And I could pay my assistant to write these cards, which I might consider doing. And there's also these websites where you can do, quote unquote, handwritten postcards and send them out and they mail them for you and they print them and they do all that stuff. So it's something I'm considering trying in those postcards, having a little coupon code for a please come back. But I have been in absolute, hardcore, full court press marketing mode for the last three months. For George, the tech, you say when you're not working, you need to be marketing. And sales really slumped in the summer this year for us. And I was like, okay, I can either get really frustrated and figure out ways to just start cutting costs and slowing things down or really just go for it hardcore. With in my case, the thing I've been really ramping up is affiliate marketing. And that's been where I've been focusing my energy. And I've got some great advisors around me. I talk to my own marketing and strategist person almost every single week. And I need that accountability, someone to follow up with me, someone to tell me, hey, we had that meeting and I told you to do all this stuff, so go do it. Because it's an insane undertaking to run this business, keep everything functional still, keep my clients happy and on time and keep all the marketing and the biz dev all going. And that's what I've been doing the last few months, actually. I started to realize I'm actually kind of enjoying doing more biz dev. And the shift of my time, of my day is it's legitimately shifted. I don't do as much billable time as I used to, but we have other people doing more billable time and that's awesome.,Speaker B: It brings up a whole other point, though, that I think is important to consider, and that is there comes a point when you've been doing your marketing and it has paid off and business is going really well and you're busy and you're in the booth consistently or you're doing studio builds consistently, or whatever it is that your thing is that you're doing consistently. And what's the very first thing that often gets cut from the schedule? It's the marketing.,: Yeah, the marketing.,Speaker B: And then complacency sets in, right, complacency sets in because you've built a successful business. I've got a successful business, everything's running, firing on all cylinders. But one thing that this industry will teach you over and over again is that clients don't last forever. And so if you are not constantly bringing new people into the mix, then you don't have anyone to replace those clients that ultimately fall away. And so complacency is one of the most dangerous things for any voice actor or business owner for that matter, who's built a successful business. Because it's really easy to work to get there and then when you get there, to relax and enjoy it. And that doesn't mean that you can't relax and enjoy it. Obviously, I don't market the same way now that I did when I was building a full time business, but it's important that I never just stop, that there's always something new coming into the pipeline.,: Yeah, well, the thing that always happens at the end of the year is everybody wants to get out their holiday cards and all that stuff, right? And holiday gifts. And the problem with the holidays is it's too damn busy to do all that stuff, right. Like by the time you're thinking about it's time to be doing my holiday stuff. Now work is like firing all cylinders. You're really cooking. And that seems to happen almost every year for me. And how do you decide and again, not expecting extremely specific answer, but how do you decide about gifting? Because I know some folks and actors and myself included, some of your clients spent more with you than others this year or over the last five years. Is it a very simple mathematics? You just look and say, okay, someone spent more than X, I'm going to give them X? Is that kind of how you look at it?,Speaker B: Honestly, it's something that I don't do a ton of. And one of the reasons why is because there are so many potential pitfalls. And I mean, I guess it depends on where you're working. I do a lot of work for corporate, right? It's a lot of corporate and Elearning and stuff. So it's a lot of corporations. There's a lot of rules around gifting and you can actually get yourself into trouble doing that. And so it's not something that I do a lot of, but I do always make sure I make a point of sending thank you cards or letting them know that I appreciate them and all of that sort of stuff. I do think that there's something to be said for that. I was going to mention too, you got me thinking because you mentioned about the holidays and it's such a busy time and everybody's doing marketing over Christmas and New Year's or Cyber Monday, Black Friday, blah, blah, blah. One of the most successful sales that I ever ran for my coaching was on Groundhogs Day. I ran a Groundhogs Day sale because who the heck runs a Groundhogs Day sale? And so when every other voiceover organization is running a July 4 sale or a Labor Day sale or a Black Friday sale or whatever, I was like, I'm going to do a Groundhog Day sale and see how that goes. And I had no competition on that day. And so that's a little bit outside of the box when you're thinking about so can you look? There's a national day for everything. George and Uncle Roy post them every day. There's a national day for everything. You need to find a national day for something that is related to audio, sound, studio, microphone, whatever. And let that be your big marketing push day when nobody else is thinking about it or nobody else is doing it. Own that day instead of trying to compete with all the noise on a Black Friday or a Cyber Monday or whatever.,Speaker A: Don't talk about Uncle Roy around. AP. He's got huge marketing issues with Uncle Roy.,: But yeah, I mean that whole top of mind, that Uncle Roy thing, that whole top of mind thing that Uncle Roy does with that finding literally a reason to every single day post something, it's a smart idea, it's top of mind.,Speaker B: And now he's associated with it, right?,Speaker A: Yeah, he's that guy.,Speaker B: So you got to find your thing that you get associated with by default. Find that holiday, find that thing and make that the George the Tech day, the George the Tech event.,Speaker A: So we're sort of making our own Black Friday, is that the deal?,Speaker B: Yeah, I think that there's something to be said for that and it doesn't mean you ignore all of those other opportunities. But doing something special on a day that has some sort of relevance or significance but nobody else is doing it, it is one of the ways that you can potentially stand out.,: Love it.,Speaker A: So just quickly, just to sort of wind this up. Creativity is a big part of what we do in our work, obviously being voiceover artists and audio engineers and George doing what he does and that obviously needs to be reflected in our marketing. Is there any rituals or any sort of thing you do around creativity to sort of spark ideas in terms of what you might post on social media or what you might say in an email? Or do you just open up a blank email and hope the words come out?,Speaker B: Yeah, I spend ungodly amounts of time staring at a blank iPad pro with an Apple pencil in my hand waiting for the idea to hit so that I can write it down because it doesn't come. Believe it or not, that creative side doesn't always come naturally to me. But one of the things that I have gotten so much better at over the years and George, this could specifically apply to what you're doing. I am paying so much more attention to what my audience is talking about. So I have a Facebook group with 6000 plus voice actors in it. And the questions that they're asking in that group, the things that they're complaining about, the pain points that they're very obviously struggling with, every single one of those becomes a seed for a video, a podcast topic, a social media post, a course that I might eventually create. And so I've gotten to a point now and this is one of the perks of building that kind of network and that kind of following is that they don't realize it maybe necessarily, but they are feeding me my content ideas. And George, I know you could do the same thing. All you have to do is spend 5 minutes in a Facebook group and see there's a dozen people a day complaining about tech this, tech that, this problem that problem, whatever. Every one of those is a potential piece of content that you could create, whether it's a video, an audio piece of content, a Facebook post, a blog article, whatever. It's all content that is right there being handed to you specifically addressing the things that your audience is struggling with. And so that's one of the things that I do is just I survey my network a lot. What are you struggling with? Or if you could have one podcast interview that you would absolutely love to hear that would change your business, who would the guest be or what would the topic be? And I throw out surveys like that and that helps me to come up with ideas. And then when all else fails, I go sit in the backyard by the fire and enjoy the peace and quiet and hope that if I can clear my head enough and quiet myself enough, a brilliant idea will strike.,Speaker A: They do eventually though, don't they? That's the thing. It's true. I know there's some science behind this, but it actually is those moments when your brain's not actively thinking about the next email or the next social post that the ideas actually come.,Speaker B: Long walk always have a way to.,: Write things down or do a voice memo in the shower. In fact, I have an Amazon Echo Dot.,Speaker A: There's no camera in there that hangs.,: On the wall right over the doorway. And if I'm like in the shower, I can say hey yo Jimbo, remind me to do this while I'm in the middle of the shower because I.,Speaker B: Don'T want to miss. That so true.,Speaker A: Yep, yep, that's right. Well, I think it was AP will probably correct me on this, but I think it was either Start Me Up or Brown Sugar that Keith Richards wrote literally in his sleep. Keith Richards sleeps with a cassette deck next to his bed. And in the middle of the night, if he has an idea, he wakes up and he sings it into his tape recorder. But whichever song it was, it was one of their massive hits anyway, he woke up the next morning and he didn't remember waking up during the night, but he looked at this cassette deck and the cassette had been obviously played. It was halfway through the cassette and he played it back and it was Start Me Up, Brown Sugar. Whichever one it was, it was there. And so he literally wrote it in his sleep.,Speaker C: Yeah, I do remember the stories. I think it was a reel to reel and the tape running out woke him up.,Speaker A: Was it something like that?,Speaker C: Spooled off? Yeah. And he's sort of like, what the hell was that running for? I don't remember starting played it back.,Speaker A: And there was the song Crazy.,Speaker C: Just crazy.,Speaker A: Our brain is an amazing thing.,Speaker B: It's one of the reasons why I have so many issues with sleep, because, honestly, that is one of the few times in the day where my brain is completely quiet when I'm in bed at night. And so a lot of my best ideas hit about three or 330 in the morning, and I can't be upset about it because they're my best ideas, but at the same time, it's like.,: I wish this would come during the day.,Speaker A: Well, I've had a similar thing because AP and I have just started doing demos together and writing scripts for those falls to me. And, yeah, I'm sort of finding that I'll sort of jump into bed and I'll start dozing off to sleep, and then I'm awake and dashing out of the room with my iPhone and dictating a script idea that's just comes into my head, into the phone. So, yeah, I think we're all the same.,: Absolutely.,Speaker B: Yes.,Speaker A: Well, mate, this has been a whole lot of fun. Thank you so much for your time.,Speaker B: Yeah, for sure. It's been fun. Thank you.,Speaker A: If people want to find out more about you, and you've got some amazing courses and bits and pieces up for offer, and obviously the podcast as well, what's the best place for people to go? To find out more about the Mark Scott Experience, shall we call it?,Speaker B: Funnily enough, that was actually the name of an old radio show. Now it is Vopreneur.com. That old Mark Scott experience facebook page might still exist somewhere. I'm not sure if that ever came offline, but, yeah, the website is Vopepreneur.com.,Speaker A: As soon as we're done here, I'm going to Google that.,Speaker B: Shit.,Speaker A: I was going to say something and now it's gone out of my head.,Speaker C: It'll come to you at three in the morning?,Speaker A: Yeah, it'll come to me in the morning. I'll give you a call, let you know.,Speaker B: All right.,Speaker A: Best of luck with the Red Sox. I hope they get better for you, mate.,Speaker B: Well, I mean, there's nowhere to go when you're at the bottom but up, right?,Speaker C: This is true.,Speaker B: Well, that was fun. Is it over?,Speaker C: The Pro audio suite with thanks to Tribut and Austrian audio recorded using Source Connect, edited by Andrew Peters and mixed by Robbo Got your own audio issues? Just askrovo.com with tech support from George the tech Wittam. Don't forget to subscribe to the show and join in the conversation on our Facebook group. To leave a comment, suggest a topic or just say G'day. Drop us a note at our websiteproaudiosuite.com.     

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The Sounding Board is proudly supported by Drinkwise - if you're choosing to drink, choose to drinkwise. LIVE PODCAST AT CROWN MELBOURNE On Monday the 25th of September join us as we broadcast live from midday. We'll be broadcasting from the Audio hub in the Metropol Precinct (next to Forever New). Our McCafe Interview Series is supported by McCafe and Pearlier T-shirts for supporting the show. Head to getpearler.com.au for more details. Watch the full interview with Gary Vee on Youtube HERE. TIME CODES 0.0    – Hutchy's joining us from New York where he got door stopped in a bar.   4.30 - Aaron Rodgers injury   6.20 – Perth Wildcats played in Las Vegas in front of NBA scouts. Alex Sarr getting a lot of attention.   7.05 – Arm Rest Rodeo update. . .you must concede defeat in the US.   8.00 – Was Bailey Smith in New York?   8.20 – Source Attribution – John ‘Sly' Sylvester takes it to a new level.   11.40 – Mitch Cleary's Walk and Talk with BT   14.00 – Discussion of the MRP and Maynard / Brayshaw ruling last night.   24.00– The Chairman's Lounge. People are obsessed with upgrades    26.15 – JB's email to QANTAS   30.45 – Sky News Australia takes legal action against RMIT Fact Lab.   33.00 – Glass Jaw Nomination – Philip Lowe outgoing chairman of the Reserve Bank. Do we think Phil Lowe is a member of the QANTAS Chairman's Club   37.00 – The PAR – passive aggressive retweet   37.45 – Reverse taking out the trash   40.40 – Question of the Week for Drinkwise.  Send Hutchy and Damo a question anytime via email thesoundingboard@sen.com.au This podcast is was produced, engineered and edited by Jane Nield and Courtney Gabb for SEN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 495: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talk with Derek from More Plates More Dates (https://www.youtube.com/@MorePlatesMoreDates) about his origin story, +$100M business empire, investment portfolio, his thoughts on Bryan Johnson, how he sources his food and much more. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (7:15) Why Pickup artists are often great entrepreneurs (12:50) Derek's business empire (21:30) Degrees of difficulty with Derek's businesses (28:00) What are Derek's business goals? (39:25) Derek's investment portfolio (43:45) The origin story of More Plates More Dates (52:00) How Derek became a health science expert (54:20) Thoughts on Bryan Johnson (1:00:25) Taking TRT and other supplements (1:06:15) Where Derek buys his food — Links: • More Plates More Dates Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MorePlatesMoreDates • Derek's Twitter - https://twitter.com/Derek_Fitness • Gorilla Mind - https://gorillamind.com/ • Marek Health - https://marekhealth.com/ • Intelligent Elephant - https://intelligent.shop/ • Good Looking Loser - https://www.goodlookingloser.com/ • Chris's Twitter - https://twitter.com/goodlookinglosr • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

We don't get to split test life right - so we can't see what it looks like if we take the job or start the business… or if we marry this person vs. this person… But the idea of picturing yourself at 90 years old is to me - the absolute best way to make decisions. Because it's you as you are at 90, versus what you could have been. It's the ultimate motivator to really figure out what fulfillment and success and happiness means to you- not what is considered the society norm or what your family or friend group think…  And the best part of this, at age 90, you won't care at all what anyone thinks. They're all 90 too and the question will be, did you do the best you could with what you had? Did you run life on autopilot for most of the time or did you really live life fully and take risks and enjoy the moments.   And risk is so much easier when you look at it this way.  You have the pain of taking the risk and doing the hard thing, or you have the pain of not knowing what could have been.  I'll take the first all day.  Decisions can be hard- both the big life decisions and the daily habits that we have… but I think if you position your decision making like you're 90 and looking back at the choices you made, I think you'll make the best decisions possible.  Because the things that we get caught up now, just won't matter if we pan out to the big picture.  This is a game of you vs. the potential you.   The best content that inspired this topic is from Gary Vee and Alex Hormozi.   Like most podcasts, I learn from reading and watching and these two are the best at this!  Gary Vee says - regret is poison. He says ask yourself... What will you regret least when you're 90?  I always think about the 90 year old version of myself.  Let's use that as our basis.  The more you think like this, the easier it gets.  As you practice making decisions based on your own standards, the easier it gets!!  Live the life you want. Wear what you want to wear, date who you want to date,  The freedom to fail is more fulfilling then walking through on autopilot - living under these standards that other people live by.  People say- I can't quit my job - no but you actually can. You just worry about what other people think of it.  Don't follow what most people do or you'll have what most people have. It feels safe but it's a bad decision. The sad reality is that most people are unhappy or unhealthy or unhappy in their relationship etc.  The best way to guarantee a life you don't want is to do what everyone else does. Unless you want what everyone else has which nobody does.  Think for yourself - it's hard at the beginning - this is how we've been sitting!! What our parents think, what your friends do… when you first do it, it feels so scary. But the reality is, all that matters is you vs. the potential you. You at 90 vs. you at 90 with what you could have been.  We put so much weight on what other people think is success or what they do - where they work etc.  Often when people are most proud of you - isn't when you're the happiest!! When you're in a good job that you hate.  I've done this so much - I just know what I want and it's done. The timeline is compressed.  The bigger the wall is, you can then use that as evidence for the next wall. Well that one worked, let's do what I want again, let's go.  The bigger the dragon is you have to slay, the more confidence you get from it. It will give you the reinforcement you need for the future ones.  Living in the present - be mindful of your relationships today. We focus so much on past and future, what about what is right in front of you.  This idea also helps you really slow down and soak in the moments  The so delish cup of warm coffee- get in your 10s!!  Like waves crashing on your feet and sand in your toes. Learn from your mistakes- see them as lessons - and move on. The whole thing is a way to help you life fully - by taking cation and pursue your passions and making decisions that align with what YOU actually want - not what standards other people have set.  It's about living fully and the best version of you - according to you.  Make the most out of each day, do the things you love with the people you love.  CHEERS to living fully so you wake up as a 90 year old one day, without regrets and knowing you lived your life to your fullest potential.

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Episode 494: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) talks with ex-CEO & co-founder of Twitch, Emmett Shear (https://twitter.com/eshear), about the potential of artificial intelligence, the importance of learning from the best, and the value of understanding the needs of users. He also shares insights on problem-solving, the power of seemingly small ideas that can have a huge impact and lessons he's directly learned from Silicon Valley greats like Paul Graham and Andy Jassey. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (4:30) Did you always have an insatiable curiosity? (8:30) How to solve any problem (13:23) The importance of understanding your customers / users needs (22:15) Emmett's favorite business ideas right now (41:00) Is AI going to kill us all? (56:50) Was Twitch luck or skill? Will Emmett try to build another unicorn? (59:00) Lessons from Paul Graham (1:09:00) What's the difference between people who are good vs. great? — Links: • Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv • Paul Graham - https://twitter.com/paulg • Patrick Collison - https://twitter.com/patrickc • Andy Jassey - https://twitter.com/ajassy • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

In this episode, I'm joined by the one and only Jordan Syatt. Jordan is one of the most well-known people in the fitness industry (he was Gary Vee's personal trainer for years... yeah, he's THAT known). He's also an elite powerlifter, author, and new(ish) father.We discuss topics ranging from how he balances fitness, parenting, and work, as well as sustainable weight loss, building a healthy relationship with food, kids nutrition, and more!Enjoy the episode! If you do, it would really help me if you leave a rating / review here :) - Follow Jordan on Instagram:Follow Jordan- Apply for 1-1 coaching:Apply Now- Book a FREE 30 min Strategy Call with me:Book Here- Download your FREE Body Recomp Transformation Guide:Download Now- Follow me on Instagram:Message Me- Email me with any questions:howellfitco@gmail.comThanks for listening!

Listening to Gary Vee and his guest, Wendy Sachs and their powerful conversation about how we need to own our journey.   Listen to it HERE and take some things with you from it.   Thanks for listening.  Please take a few moments to subscribe & share this with someone, also leave a 5 Star rating on Apple Podcasts and ITunes or other services where you find this show.  Find me on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/coachtoexpectsuccess/   on Twitter / “X”:  @coachtosuccess   and on Instagram at:  @coachjohndaly  - My YouTube Channel is at: Coach John Daly.   Email me at: CoachJohnDalyPodcast@gmail.com     You can also head on over to https://www.coachtoexpectsuccess.com/ and get in touch with me there on my homepage along with checking out my Top Book list too.  Other things there on my site are being worked on too.

Welcome to the HyperFast Agent Podcast with Billion Dollar Real Estate Agents Dan Lesniak and Keri Shull, who are top sponsors at eXp Realty. Ready to become an eXp Realty agent with Keri and Dan? Go to https://whylibertas.com/dan or text Dan directly at 703-638-4393.   Many people are familiar with how to make rental income from real estate, but not as many are familiar with how the revenue share model can generate additional income as well – and perhaps a lot more of it. In this episode of the HyperFast Agent podcast, host Dan Lesniak explores the differences and advises on what you might consider placing your energy towards. Like many of the agents he has previously had on this podcast, Dan has earned plenty of income over the years through rental income on real estate he owns. Since he joined eXp Realty in the past year, he has earned a significant amount of income through their innovative revenue share program and has seen many other agents do the same. The revenue share model comes with less liability and requires far fewer capital investment and expenses than rental income. Join Host Dan Lesniak as he discusses… ∙ How much rental income a real estate agents typically earns per property each month ∙ The liability, time, and work that you take on as a property manager ∙ Why revenue share is a better value proposition to invest your energy ∙ Why it's important to consider gaining income from both revenue share and rental income QUOTES TO SHARE

Episode 493: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/thesamparr) cover everything from the power of charisma in politics to the allure of unconventional ventures and investments. Tune in as they dive into the significance of re-reading books + uncovering the stories embedded in our own lives and breakdown Paperscraper — a tool with big potential that can be copied and pasted in a number of industries. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (0:40) Scott Galloway's personal finances (2:45) Why big financial wins are rarely from your main thing (9:14) Crazy stories about Warren Buffet (18:10) Takeaways from listening to Founders podcast w/ David Senra (30:16) Why people prefer complexity over simplicity (35:21) Everyone's looking for a magic pill (42:50) Create a TV show to find our next president (1:06:11) Paperscrapper (1:11:29) Sam could've been a Youtuber — Links: • Tony Robbins vid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nONTbIlCtKM • Scott Galloway's Personal FInance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxQ4agvOvTI • Founders Podcast episode - https://tinyurl.com/zzc3d96f • Seth Bannon Tweet - https://twitter.com/sethbannon/status/1676683104986218502?s=20 • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Welcome to the HyperFast Agent Podcast with Billion Dollar Real Estate Agents Dan Lesniak and Keri Shull, who are top sponsors at eXp Realty. Ready to become an eXp Realty agent with Keri and Dan? Go to https://whylibertas.com/dan or text Dan directly at 703-638-4393.   On this episode of the HyperFast Agent podcast, host Dan Lesniak explores why some Compass agents stay at Compass. This question sits on the foundation of a fact: many agents are leaving Compass. In the first quarter of 2023, Compass experienced a net loss of more than 600 agents. Dan explores topics that include brick and mortar offices, branding, collaboration, technology, and financial considerations. He also digs deep into the topic of loss aversion and how this affects the mindset of agents that choose to stay at Compass. Join Host Dan Lesniak as he discusses… ∙ Consistent topics that come up in the conversations he has with agents who have left Compass ∙ Why coworking spaces might be better places for agents to work from than a brokerage office  ∙ How some agents do mental gymnastics to avoid making a move they see as risky ∙ The phenomenon of loss aversion and how it guides many people's behavior QUOTES TO SHARE

1:20 – Origin Story / Car Wash Story2:34 – Create an Opportunity3:36 – Street Marketing3:58 – College is not for Everyone5:16 – Teenage Era6:12 – Getting into College7:46 – Dad's Expectations9:09 – McDonald's Story11:08 – Early Life Lessons12:42 – Be Empathetic14:02 – Moment of Success16:20 – A Natural Leader18:01 – Turning down offers19:59 – Silicon Valley deal21:50 – Brand Influence23:03 -Birth and time of Extension25:17 – Business Growth and Systems26:40 – Consistency and Hiring / Identify Talent29:09 – Diversity of Opinions31:45 – PR Strategy32:54 – Biggest Mistake34:43 – Posner's Philosophy35:24 – Time to Bloom38:26 – BYOB40:34 – Getting into Franchise43:05 – Single Greatest Piece of Advice44:13 – Brian's North Star

In this episode we talk about the Cardporn possible scam, Panini paying 25 million to Wild Card, the Wild Card Tacofractor and so much more! Come and holler at us in our socials!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rare_elements1/Twitter: https://twitter.com/RareElements1Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RareElements1Email: rareelements719@gmail.com#TheHobby #SportsCards #CardLife #RareElements #NFL #NBA #MLB #Panini #Topps #UpperDeck #Fanatics #WhoDoYouCollectSupport the show

Let's catch up with Eugene Wong, an accomplished 8-figure Amazon and 7-figure Walmart seller, as he shares the latest developments in his thriving e-commerce empire. Eugene not only walks us through the intricacies of managing his expanding businesses but also reveals his secrets to maintaining a healthy work-life balance, turning personal hobbies into profitable business ventures, and exploring new income streams.  Join us as Eugene discusses his journey into the world of TikTok Shop, where he has successfully launched products. Plus, get a sneak peek into the brands incubated by his dedicated employees and learn about the innovative system changes and automation he's implementing in his business systems. This episode is a goldmine of entrepreneurial wisdom for anyone looking to diversify their income streams outside E-commerce selling and thrive in the ever-evolving online seller landscape. In episode 489 of the Serious Sellers Podcast, Bradley and Eugene discuss: 02:52 – Eugene Shares Updates On His Business 03:44 – His Healthy Habits And Habits Outside The Amazon Grind 06:13 – Let's Talk About Sports Cards From Hobby To Business 09:13 – Problems, Balance, & Boundaries For The Main And Side Businesses 13:54 – “You Need To Think Of What Your Hobbies Are” 15:43 – Diversifying Your Income Streams 18:00 – Launching Brands Incubated By His Employees 20:54 – Let's Talk About TikTok Shop 24:32 – Browsing Eugene's TikTok Shop 28:03 – TikTok Is Banning Amazon Links? 29:49 – Business System Changes He Is Implementing 33:03 – Eugene's 60-Second Tip ► Instagram: instagram.com/serioussellerspodcast ► Free Amazon Seller Chrome Extension: https://h10.me/extension ► Sign Up For Helium 10: https://h10.me/signup  (Use SSP10 To Save 10% For Life) ► Learn How To Sell on Amazon: https://h10.me/ft ► Watch The Podcasts On Youtube: youtube.com/@Helium10/videos Transcript Bradley Sutton: Today we've got an eight-figure Amazon seller slash seven-figure Walmart seller back on the show, who's gonna have a little bit different kind of episode. We're gonna talk a lot about how, as entrepreneurs, maybe we can take a hobby of ours and turn it into an alternate income stream, as well as how he's launched on TikTok shop. How cool is that? Pretty cool I think. Bradley Sutton: Are you browsing a Shopify, Walmart, Etsy, Alibaba, or Pinterest page? And maybe you see a cool product that you wanna get some more data on? Well, while you are on those pages, you can actually use the Helium 10 Chrome extension Demand Analyzer to get instant data about what's happening on Amazon for those keywords on these other websites. Or maybe you wanna then follow up and get an actual supplier quote from a company on alibaba.com in order to see if you can get this product produced. You can do that also with the Helium 10 Demand Analyzer. Both of these are part of the Helium 10 Chrome extension, which you can download for free at h10.me/extension. Hello everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Serious Sellers Podcast by Helium 10. I'm your host, Bradley Sutton, and this is the show that's a completely BS free, unscripted and unrehearsed organic conversation about serious strategies for serious sellers of any level in the e-commerce world. And we've got back on the show for the second time, a very, very serious seller here Eugene. Eugene, how's it going, man? Eugene: Hi, what's up Bradley? Doing very well. Glad to be back. Bradley Sutton: Alright, so, so guys, you, Eugene has sold multiple eight figures on Amazon, seven figures on Walmart. If you want to get his full backstory you're gonna want to go to episode 306. All right. So h10.me/306 to get a lot of how he grew up and what his parents wanted them to do, and then the kind of direction that he went to. Quite an interesting story. We're not gonna go too much there, but you know, that, that was almost a couple years ago. Now it's like pulling teeth to get Eugene to come on podcast. He's so humble and he doesn't like I don't have much to say. I'm like, dude, you sold a hundred million dollars, few, $300 million online. Anything you say is interesting. So finally we got him back after two years at Eugene on the show. Welcome back and how, how are things been going with you? Eugene: Things are good, and happy to be back. Lots of changes to update you on. Bradley Sutton: Cool, cool. Now, right off the bat, Let's just talk about on the business side of things, numbers, just raw numbers, 2021, we are still kind of in Covid and things. And 2023 at the end here. Things have changed, better, worse, whatever the case is. How are your numbers on Amazon and Walmart compared to a couple of years ago? Eugene: So, I think last time when we first last spoke on the episode I projected, I think 18 million, and we were pretty much right there at the end of the year. So it wasn't surprising. Like we kind, kind of forecasted 18 to 20 and we fell into the lower tier of that. But we hit our target, so we were happy with that, we hit it. Bradley Sutton: Okay, cool. Would you say Walmart and Amazon have grown or stayed around the same amount, or have both been increasing in a similar way, different ways? How's the trajectory been? Eugene: Well, actually, Walmart got worse for us. Amazon is the one that increased Walmart to spread got even wider, which were, I mean, it's, it's something that we continue to batch our heads over, and we're trying to still crack the code, but it went down. Yeah. Which stinks. Bradley Sutton: And now we're gonna get maybe into some strategies that you can share with us that you or your team is doing on the business side. But I want to take a step back and go outside completely outside of the business side. Right now this wasn't a big focus of mine when I had you on the podcast two years ago, but if you've listened to the podcast anytime in the last year, you'll see that I, I ask almost every guest, like, Hey, what do you do to take yourself out of the business as far as for you know, hobbies and as far as health routine and et cetera. So let's start, I know a lot of what your hobbies are, so let me start on the part that I don't know about. What are you doing to stay physically fit, healthy? You know, like, you seem like you're a pretty fit person when I see you, so you you're not just sitting in front of a computer eating junk food all day. Do you do the gym or do you walk, or what are you doing to stay fit? Eugene: Unfortunately, or admittedly, I don't really do too much physical activity right now because of, because of my hobbies and the work, right? I mean, obviously eat eating healthy well try to. But there's not much like I don't go to the gym too much anymore. I do help out with my kids' sports that they're in, football and soccer. So that keeps me pretty active, I guess that's probably my main source of exercise. Bradley Sutton: And what else are you doing? You know for hobbies you like, like, I know, I know you're big on Lego and stuff the family, like, you still doing projects like that, or what else? Eugene: Lego, actually if you wanna buy some, I have a lot for sale, but, Lego, I didn't fully quit, but, but I'm downsizing that because I just don't have time for it. I do a lot of surprisingly, I mentioned this also when I was at Sell and Scale sports cards, right? I had my eyes on that, that business model. And good or bad for me, whenever I get involved with something, I always look for the business angle, right? Not, not about money per se. It just, it just like finding the passion in it and sports cards. Not sports cards. Bradley Sutton: Hold that thought. I'm gonna share my screen of something that I was involved in yesterday here. Oh, no. Now, now just explain like, kind of like what's going on. These are your hands we're looking at in this video right here. And you're opening up these pack of cards. I see your name right here. Eugene: You drips my name. Bradley Sutton: So this was a live Facebook. Explain like you're doing commentary on what's going on here, explain what we are looking at right here. Oh Eugene: My gosh, I can't believe clip that. I'm turning red right now. Yeah, so, so that's that's, that's part of the sports cards part. It's pretty much, that's called braking. So, pretty much nowadays, this is not like your, your childhood sports cards. Nowadays, boxes can cost 500,000, even $10,000. It's sickening. But a cheaper way to jump in is, is you can get your team. So let's say you like the Philadelphia Eagles, and instead of buying the whole box and ripping every single pack yourself and paying the full price, you can just buy one team and you get all the cards for the Eagles. If you're a fan of the Eagles or if you want to gamble, which is kind of one of the elements to it. So I've I've evolved from, from being a pure hobbyist into kind of like collecting and ripping product and opening basketball and football stuff to evolving into breaking, because I saw the business side of it, and it's very fun. Eugene: It gets me outta my element. It's actually a very stress reliever for the Amazon side of business. In fact, I need it. Like, I need an outlet like that. It's very creative outlet, because I have to first of all sell and engage an audience which is complete against my, my my personality. Like, I'm a super introvert, like, being on here, you had to rich, you twist my arm, but, yep. But I dunno, something about the sports cards. I'm just very comfortable with it. I'm very knowledgeable with it, and I like helping people most importantly. Bradley Sutton: You started as a, on the hobby side, like, you would go into Facebook groups and like join the breaks as a person who would buy like a certain player or a certain team. Is that correct? Or did you start immediately on the flip side where like, I'm gonna make this a business from day one? Eugene: No, no, no. I definitely wasn't the business from day one. I was basically gambling, right. I was, I was opening the packs myself and, and, and paying in other people's breaks, but it wasn't sustainable. Yeah. I knew that entertainment was not a sustainable form of–. Bradley Sutton: But it was like a rush, right? Like it's a rush. Like, guys, let me tell you, you from experience, like I've been doing this for years too, and it's fun. Like for those who aren't into sports cards maybe it's kind of hard to describe what we are talking about here, but it's super fun. But what I like about this is that you took something that was an escape on the side like a little hobby. And then you're like, wait a minute, I could actually turn this into maybe even a side business where you're still doing your hobby, but now instead of the money just going out and you paying it, it's almost like maybe you're breaking even now. So you still get that rush and that escape from your Amazon business, but you're almost able to turn it into a side business. Because the way it works is this, this is not easy work, first of all, to organize this break, collect payment from like 20 strangers to, and then later organize the cards to different teams. But, but that's kind of like built into the, built into the price, right? So are you kind of like breaking even on this now, but you're still able to get that rush that you did when you were just a pure hobbyist? Eugene: I mean, in the beginning when you first start out, when you don't have any, you don't have reputation, no one knows you. Yeah. You, you might be losing money or breaking even, but I mean, again, I'm humble, but it's hard for me to say this, but like, I built quite a following and, you know what I mean? I snap fill my, or I'm using the wrong terminology. I fill my pretty quickly. And usually a lot of people struggle. And I'm in a group that has a hundred thousand people and I'm probably one of the larger ones. And the stuff fails 'cause people trust me, my reputation's there. I'm not one of these like, shady guys and I know what I'm doing. So reputation's everything in this industry, just like Amazon as a brand, you know what I mean? Like one big mistake or, or one, like one shady element will take you down. And this literally is the most sensitive hobby where it will, you will, your name will be tarnished forever if you, if you mess up in a shady way. Bradley Sutton: You slip a good card out or something, something like that. Now how much time a week are you spending on this I guess we could call it side business/hobby. Eugene: Probably too much time. And, and I think this, this is a good, good blend of the Amazon and, and what we like the business aspect. It's one of those things where, where I struggle with balance and boundaries, right? So I know I'm sitting on a gold mine with my hobby that turned into something. Now the problem is the scaling and hiring of people and hiring talent that goes live as well as capital to source product and stuff like that. So it, it's a very similar business problem to the Amazon side, but of course I'm more passionate about it. But also it let, let's, let's be honest, it's not gonna generate the profit that it does on the, for the Amazon business, right? Sure, sure. So I have to be realistic and real, real things in. Bradley Sutton: Do you have employees for this endeavor then as well? Eugene: I'm interviewing right now. Bradley Sutton: Okay. But right now, until now, you've kind of just done it all on your own. Eugene: Yeah, yeah. Okay. For, it's been a year over, a little over a year and a month. Bradley Sutton: But then, but then we talking 20 hours a week, 10 hours a week, 30 hours a week. How much would you say you're spending on the baseball cards or sports cards? Eugene: Maybe 20. Okay. Bradley Sutton: All right. Now, when that happened, does that mean that you, it was 20 hours less on the Amazon side? Or is it a mixture since this it's kind of not like to me, when, when I do sports card stuff, and, and I, I'm very similar to you. I was in the sports card. I'm actually flying to Japan in a few days. 'cause I'm setting up at a card show to sell some of the stuff that, that, that I have over here and over there. So I get it. To me it's, it's work. It makes money just like you're profitable on this, but it's also fun. It's also an escape. So, so did, did you decrease your Amazon workload by 20 hours? Or is it kind of a mixture? You maybe only took away 10 hours or something because this is kind of like a hobby as opposed to just business for you? Eugene: I don't think the 20 hours replaced 20 hours of Amazon. I mean, I guess the balance definitely took away some from the Amazon. And, and of course my guys are, are solid, and I know they kept things going. But of course, there's some things that fell by the wayside, right? It's, I normally don't miss, and I admittedly like, this is why I need to balance, this is not the golden goose right now. It can be. But I need to find a way to develop it without hurting the main golden goose, right? So, so that, that's, I'm, I'm living through it right now and trying to balance that out. It's just that I, I can't, I don't wanna give it up because it took almost a year to build this up into this thing. And now, now I know there's another level to climb, but, but I'm not at the stage where I can say, Hey, I'm 100% all in still on that because I can't give up the Amazon side. Bradley Sutton: Wait a minute. Are you the one who also had a huge eBay account where you're also selling the cards on eBay? Eugene: Yeah. Bradley Sutton: Y you were the one who made all those listings, or Eugene: No, that was, alright, now you're gonna make me give away the secrets here. That account was, we used to sell very heavy on eBay. Okay. So we, we sold, this is before like, we got heavy into apparel. We were selling electronics and, and, Bradley Sutton: Okay, okay. Eugene: Yeah. So Bradley Sutton: When you say we, this is like your, your, your main conglomeration the, the same business that you've been doing for 15 years. This wasn't as okay. Now it's starting to, to come into picture a little bit more. Now you Eugene: Gave this Yeah it looks like that. It looks like it, like 500,000 sports card sales, but it, it's not, yeah. But I'm starting to, because assignment model is potentially in the works as well too, but that's a whole another infrastructure. Bradley Sutton: Okay. Yeah. So guys, I mean, the reason why I brought this up wasn't just because I think this is cool that, that he does sports cards like me there's a few people in the industry like Brandon Young and Mitul Patel, and a bunch of people of us are all in like this group where we, we talk about sports cards and stuff like that, but it's the fact that think about what your hobbies are. And you can't apply this to everything, but there's a lot of you out there who might have a hobby, and this is kinda like the Gary Vee mentality actually, where it's like, can you actually monetize the hobby where it's not just a complete dream? Like if my hobby is swimming or something like that like if I'm, if you hobby was swimming and you're like, I'm gonna start swimming for 20 hours a week, it's kind of, it might be hard to monetize that per se but for the rest of you guys out there, actually I'm, I'm sure I could come up with something like maybe I become a swimming influencer or something. Bradley Sutton: Something like live streamer, I'm sure there's, but, but, but that's my point. Like a lot of it, even if it, even if it seems extreme guys, is there's ways where you can turn some of your side side hobbies or, or things into almost like a side business where you are getting that escape from your day-to-day. Amazon, which is what I've been preaching for the last year, guys you have to have hobbies and things that take you away from the daily grind you know, resets your mind and, and just puts you in a different space. But at the same time, you gotta be careful that if you're just like like one of my hobbies is Korean, Korean dramas. Like I just watch Korean dramas all day. I could if I had the time, but that there's no monetization for me on that, that means it's literally just taking away time from, from my, my, my Amazon businesses if I just go deep into it. Bradley Sutton: So you've gotta have the balance, but then think about it like, is part of, of this hobby is there a way to monetize it where not only would you break even, but now all of a sudden you've got another profitable business like Eugene has here with a sports card. So I, to me, it's fascinating what you've been able to do, but again, you would not have been able to get to the point where you could even do this if you did not build up your team in a good way and be able to delegate so much of your Amazon business to your team. Eugene: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think my, my role had had evolved, and this is probably the past couple years, is that you gotta let the team do their thing, right? And my role now has become, okay, how do I make sure the team has a secure future? I have to branch out and go outside of the box and do different things, right? I've, I think there's, there's been other failed attempts at things whether, whether it's an Amazon type of type of business or outside of completely outside separate from e-commerce type of business. And you know what I mean I'm always looking for new ways to generate income, right? And that's more in general to diversify, which is very important I think not only within Amazon, but even outside of having Amazon as a business and then having, I don't know, own something else, going to real estate, anything else, right? Sports cards, whatever. And that's another way to protect my family, not not only my like personal life, but like more, like I said, the guys here that, that they deserve. They're running the day-to-day, they deserve something to take home at the end of their whatever tenure or yearly bonuses and things like that. So that, that's very important to have that opportunity. Bradley Sutton: Alright, let's switch back from, from hobby back to business now. How many brands overall do, are you currently running? Eugene: We only have three brands, right? And it's all under the same account we have. Bradley Sutton: So let's say like these three brands are selling on Walmart, you're selling on Amazon and maybe have some.com websites or something for them. Eugene: Yeah, they're not all on the same marketplaces. Some have their own website. Some are on multi-platform, some are just on single platform. Okay. Bradley Sutton: Yeah. Alright. Any, anything, like, have you launched any new brands or have any new things in the pipeline or that you've done lately? Eugene: Yeah, we something that, and again, this is a a situation from one of our employees. It was kind of incubated by them, which I loved. And basically a pitch came across my desk with one of my employees. I'm like, Hey, like, what do you wanna talk about? And they had this great idea, the conceptual it was and they have like anxiety and ADHD, which which they struggle with. And they had a, a concept, a product concept that would help with that. And the mission statement, the vision, it resonated with me. Obviously required an investment. There was a risk there because this was not our lane. This is definitely not apparel or electronics that we were used to. Eugene: This is like basically it's a weighted, weighted lap pad, right? But it was, it's really made for kids. The ones on market just were not, were not as good, right? The quality or, or, or the way the, the, the weights are shifting inside and stuff like that. So internally we developed a better way to do it a better weight system. We also have ones that are custom. We have like a dog as well too. This is, this is a dog, and you can fill this with whatever you want. Rice or, or glass bees. We have a, we have a unicorn. So like, that's the new brand that we're, we're trying to invest in slowly. We're not trying to sink all our chips in that, because that can really hurt us long term, right? Eugene: So we're trying to play that out, that just launched this year. And it wasn't, it's not one of those like products that we're used to where we're used to selling, let's say like five, 10, 20,000 units of it a year, and then okay, wins and repeat. This is a definitely a lot smaller niche, but this was a passion project by someone internally that I committed to these guys. Like, look guys, if you have passion projects, let's let's discuss it. Let's talk about it. Right? I can't say yes to everything. However, there's certain ones that we can't bring aboard. This is one of them that passed the initial phase, and now it's all the way through. And this is kind of one of our first brands that we really made like full effort of full branding, not how we, like, HD is like a, was like a mix of stuff. Eugene: And while it's getting better now, it's really focused on apparel. It didn't start that way. This was our first clean brand that was fully immersed into this concept. And we have a, a future plans for sensory types of items for it as well too. We have workbooks we have influencers. It's more of a lifestyle brand. But it's one of those that it's gonna be capped it. I don't think it's gonna be ever one of those $20 million a year things, at least I don't think, but of course there's, there's future plans. We wanna do trade shows and, and pension get on shelves, Walmart well target probably more, more so. But but that's, yeah, that's one of the exciting things that we have in the pipeline is just, it just we gotta be patient and drive it the right way. Because you can burn through resources, especially PPC, PPC is if you don't do it right, you can really hurt yourselves. And, and we, we've been in that boat a couple times already this year. Bradley Sutton: Okay, I'll very unique. I never heard about I mean, I'm sure people, people have it, but I haven't had a guess that, that have said, Hey, we had a internal kind of where the employees could, could come up with ideas. You know, you have employees who, who have been with you five, 10 years, they know the business. All the ideas for new products doesn't have to come from the owner you. So that's cool to open up ideas and be open that to that who knows how much stuff your employees out there might have might have some ideas about some new products. Okay. TikTok shop is something that I think has grown exponentially as far as buzz around it. We've had other Helium 10 Elite members like Elizabeth talk about some of their some of her amazing success in TikTok shop. Are have you taken any of your brands in TikTok shop? Are you utilizing that or just influencers at all in TikTok? Eugene: Yeah, we we actually just started we we're really late to the game, I think, well, I think we're late to the game obviously in China. I mean, they have factories that are just going li like live factories, literally. Like, there's cubicles of people going live which is crazy, and the amount of money that brings in is disgusting. So we finally made the leap in using our HD clothing brand to jump onto TikTok shop or TikTok live and TikTok shop. That's how it evolved. So so the minute that opened to us, we didn't get invited to the first round of it during the beta but as soon as it opened up to us, we gave it a trial. We put some listings up and right away we got some sales, which is cool. Eugene: And when we stocked out on TikTok shop, the sales went to our website as well too. So, so we got double wham, we got bonus sales on our website, which we never really get, like our website just to have a website, to be honest with you. We don't focus on it. But we got sales there and TikTok shop. And then when we went, when we did more TikTok lives, we connected with more, more creators. And that went viral as well too on a couple posts, and we sold out a lot of our stuff. Now, the, the bad part is we were not prepared at all for the inventory. Like, we're prepared for inventory for Walmart, Amazon, and that's really it, right? And then now with TikTok in the mix, those sales are very unpredictable. We can't say that, hey, just because that, that influencer posted that content that it's gonna sell a hundred dresses in two days, we don't know that. Eugene: So, like, I don't even know how the heck to order for that. So it's a problem we're trying to figure out right now without like blowing the budget on, on over ordering inventory for a chance. So we usually pretty tight with inventory. We don't like taking too many chances, especially with apparel. Apparel, you get stuck with it, you're in trouble. So, so it's a good and bad problem to have. So, so we're also just like peace pets. We're, we're not taking a, a gung-ho approach where we're just gonna throw everything at it. We just gotta take our time and learn some of the, the growing pains. And of course, TikTok shop has growing pains. I'm not an expert at it, but like, I've heard enough horror stories that there's a lot of I think internal things that, that are not just like when I say Walmart or Amazon when they first started, there's a lot of things that don't go right. Eugene: For, for both the seller and the buyer. Things can be abused and manipulated. So so there's a lot of that stuff that, that, that happens still, but but it's definitely gonna be the future for sure. And, and I, I'm investing in that more and more each day. Obviously I think all brands should go on there. Clothing I think is actually a very easier thing because we just have a model that talks about it and wears it and walks around in it, right? And demonstrates it. That's pretty easy. Bradley Sutton: Alright, so I'm here looking at your TikTok channel here. ShopHDE I see you've got a few videos here. Lemme just pull up one, enhance performance and style. Okay, so I see here, there's a, a shop button. I'm gonna hit this. I'm gonna hit this shop button, and let's see where it takes me to, ah, okay. So it just takes me like, I can just instantly I add it to the cart and then have this. It's kind weird looking leopard skin shorts here shipped to me. That's that easy as that. This is like my first time looking at, at TikTok shop, and then I can actually go click here directly to your shop and I can see all of your products, I'm assuming. Okay. And I can see best sellers. Looks like your tennis outfit is the top sellers here. Actually, it's all women's clothes, like your men's. That just shows you that, that I guess more women are using TikTok shop, perhaps, because none of your men's products are, are on this bestseller list here. That's interesting. Eugene: Yeah, men don't like to shop on TikTok. Apparently. We found that out early on. Bradley Sutton: Interesting. Okay. So now all of this this is your channel here. These, these aren't your employees, like, are like, are these influencers here who have done all are these, like, what do you call it? Is this UGC or are some of these your actual employees or people you have hired to do videos? What are we looking at here? Eugene: It's a mix of, I mean, we, one should be one of our employees. It's a mix of influencers as well as our, our our models in China that makes some of the videos and photos for us. So it's a collaboration. Bradley Sutton: Now here, I just happen to see this 8,000 views. Like is this a, a, a video that you boosted somehow, or just randomly? It went kind of maybe mini viral or something? This particular one right here, 8,000 views. That's pretty good for this. Maybe that's why I don't, this is one of the top sellers. Eugene: I know. I didn't think it was that one, but we had an influencer that blew, blew a couple up and their, their audience just went crazy and they stocked us out. We had to cancel orders and everything like that, so that was a mess. But, but yeah, a couple videos went viral from the, from the creators, which is kinda like, that's for us, that's one that was one of the secrets. We, we don't need to create everything on our own, and we don't have the expertise or the skillset to necessarily create every single one on our own. So we might as well leverage that, give up some of the commission and utilize their, their following their audience to make our stuff go viral. And then like I said, the inventory is, I don't know how to solve that fully yet. Maybe some other gurus out there know how to, but without spending both loads of money on over ordering inventory, I we're trying to figure that out. So that keeps me up at night. Bradley Sutton: Okay. Interesting. Interesting. So like, what, what kind of numbers are you doing overall? Like monthly or weekly on TikTok? Eugene: End of June is when we started on getting onto the TikTok shop. And then I think July was our first month of full month of sales. I think it equated to probably like like 300 some more to think, which is not for us, that's not a lot. But from a new platform like that, we were excited and we, again, we love creating nothing from something. And that was one of the things. And, and yeah, so we want to keep it, keep it going. We wanna invest harder into it. And that was I don't wanna say our person didn't try, but that was like, that was like such early stage and we're able to get traction like that. Bradley Sutton: Just imagine in the beginning, you actually don't even get big commissions right? From TikTok. Don't they give it to you free commission or something like that? Do you know? Eugene: I know there's a lot of perks that TikTok gave to onboard you. And, and they'll, they'll reimburse you on shipping. They'll give sellers like a 30% off coupon that we don't take to hit on they TikTok takes to hit on it. So there's a lot of those special deals behind the scenes. Bradley Sutton: Okay. Well, this is cool, guys. You know, like, like some, like he just said they just got on there here a couple months ago and are already doing like over 10 orders a day. Less fees than Amazon. But we talked about this on the weekly buzz recently, guys that TikTok is trying to move to send everybody instead of allowing potentially this, this is just a rumor for, for right now, but you know, TikTok, people have been saying that TikTok is gonna like, stop allowing influencers maybe to send links to Amazon. They want people just buying on the TikTok platform. So if you haven't got set up with TikTok shop, this might be something to look into and then get, get to some kind of cadence here. Like obviously Eugene's team here is, is posting on a regular basis, and we saw just one random video got six, I see one with 6,000 views here. Bradley Sutton: Here's another one with, with 8,000. So it can sometimes, you know people pick up on this and, and they can definitely boost your, your sales and for at least the, the time being, even if TikTok shop is out of stock, like he said, what people are gonna do is they're gonna go look for his website or maybe go look for his Amazon store and find their product. So, so there's residual benefits, not just the, the traffic that TikTok shop brings, but it's also gonna boost your dot com sales and your, your Amazon sales. Pretty cool. One thing you mentioned before was that you having your own warehouse and, and having a big business, you, you've got your own internal systems in place, but you were making like, some big systems change over something at your company. Eugene: Yeah, I mean, long story short is we, we had to, we had some personnel changes more from the, like the developer side, which is like we've had our internal like systems that run our warehouse management systems, our our data harvesting, our like just customized data that we pull down from Amazon API and, and manipulate into usable chunks that, that help us internally as, as a team. So I've kind of, in a way lost a big chunk of that as far as like being, have that flexibility to be able to kind of create whatever you want on the fly. I still have it, but it's not as workable and or, or more so the employee is not as, as available. So it's one of those things that I hadn't planned for very well over the course of, of building the businesses is just kind of not rely on, on that system so much. Eugene: And we've been trying to break away slowly, but I think it's one of those things you get lost in the comfort, and, and that's a major mistake. And that's definitely one of the teaching tools that, that I would tell anybody is, is like yeah, don't, don't, don't pigeon your hole yourself in and get locked into a situation like that. Really it's like, it, there's other, there's enough services right now compared to when we started that deal with forecasting inventory data management, data harvesting that can that maybe the basic Amazon report is not enough for people. Like, I know it's not enough for us. It's too basic and it's it takes too time consuming to drill down to what we really need it for. So we need to have scripts that run behind the scenes that pull down big data sets to formulate into this grouping or these triggers for us for the different departments that focus on the specialties to make them, Hey, I know this happened, so I gotta look at this and do this, right? Eugene: Without that, it can get messy and you're gonna miss a lot of things. Yeah. So, so we're in the process of trying to find how to blend these worlds together now where, alright, we can't go fully customized. We can do a little customization, but who are we gonna partner with? Who are we going to, I guess, park our business with to be able to kind of fill a lot of those gaps? And then the ones that we can't fill we'll need to figure out how to restructure that process internally and, and find out how we make do without, without having that. So, so it's a little, little bit of a turmoil for that. It just definitely, you can still get it done raw with like raw data and, and spreadsheets, but at, at this stage maybe if you have like selling fry products, you can do that, but our clothing is, we have so many skews, so many new, new styles that come in, new PCs because of clothing, t's almost impossible to manage. So so we need systems and efficient data systems to be able to run the business properly. So yeah, Bradley Sutton: That's one of the reasons why I was like, man, apparel is like crazy. It's like one, you have one item, but it could have 25 variations. If it has like five colors and five sizes each, it would be a nightmare to try and manage. Alright, well, just like with your first episode we always close these with asking for your TST your 30-second or 60-second tip. What kind of strategy do you have for our listeners today? Eugene: You get the right people in the right seats and you get the hell out of their way. I think as simple as that, we used to micromanage, we used to try to lay this corporate structure down and, and that was just suffocating and it just didn't work, right? Like, like we're, we thought we were from running from our business classes. Oh, this is how you run a business. No. You can do it that way, but, but employee satisfaction, I think it can be really bad. So we, we really just kind of give them the tools that they need, give the training that they need. Some, sometimes there's not a lot of training that we have to pay for training to get them to the, to that level to build those core competencies. And then from there, just get outta their way. Eugene: They'll need you, they'll, they'll reach out to you when they need you. Because if you step in, like right now, if I step into every decision, like, oh, I don't like that color, I don't like that pattern, I don't like that dress. Well, they did the data. They have multiple people that did the research data behind the scenes already to validate that, hey, we make decisions based on data. That was a data driven decision. It wasn't like, oh, I like that purple color, it looks cool, right? That that doesn't go anywhere. Right? So, so I try not to step in anything now, I do step in for any legal copyright things. I mean, that's where my eye is trained. Like, hey, I think we're violating that looks too close to that type of situation. Let's stay away from that. Eugene: Like, that's where I step in. But other than that, they gotta have that greater freedom. And, and of course there's gonna be certain levels of spend where, where I, I do need to step in, but like, other than that, like, it's not, let, let them roam free, but, but you gotta let them run and exercise their creative freedom. If they're not very creative people and there's certain ticks that, that that drive them, I mean, you focus on that, allow them to do those things, and it's definitely a form of respect at that point. Right? Of course. You gotta develop that trust. It's not like day one you hire someone in their seat and, oh, do whatever you want, right? It's not like that. It's over time you do that. But that's kinda like the biggest things I've learned is just get out of their way because you're gonna slow them down if you try to baby them or micromanage them too much. I think it's pretty simple. Bradley Sutton: Okay. Alright, Eugene, thanks for coming on here. Again, we really appreciate the knowledge and a little bit different. I wanted to do a little bit different podcast today with a little bit different vibe. And so you bring a unique viewpoint to things. If you guys want to know more about what, what Eugene and I are into all these baseball card stuff, you can check what's your Instagram for the the baseball card stuff? Eugene: it's @eugerips like my first name, @eugerips Bradley Sutton: Alright, so take a look maybe we'll, we'll add some more Amazon sellers to this sports card phenomenon. So Eugene, look forward to seeing you maybe at one of these conferences coming up and wish you the best of success. Eugene: Likewise. Thank you Bradley.

Episode 492: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/thesamparr) are back with a classic business brainstorm episode. They share 9 business ideas — everything from Dribble for X, to capitalizing on the Ozempic mega-trend, to building an AI-enabled marketplace for teachers. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:55) Klout 2.0 (13:00) Dribbble for X (24:50) Private Elementary School (35:20) Sam's telemarketer days (45:00) Yelp for investors (46:50) Teacher's Pet (49:10) 1-800-Ozempic (54:00) Recruiting Elite Nerds (1:00:20) Failed churches — Links: • Klout - https://khoros.com/platform/klout • Dribbble - https://dribbble.com/ • The Hamlin School - https://hamlin.org/ • Towerview Ventures - https://www.av.vc/funds/towerview • Teachers Pay Teachers - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/ • Mind Sport Olympiad - https://mindsportsolympiad.com/ • Niagra Consulting - https://www.niagaraconsulting.net/ • Church house - http://tinyurl.com/y33rfmbr • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Episode 491: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) talks with Samir Chaudry (https://twitter.com/samirchaudry) — Youtuber and co-host of the Colin and Samir. You'll hear Samir share how he prepares for interviews with folks like Tim Ferriss, MKBHD and Dream, where he thinks the creator economy puck is heading, what he's learned from working with MrBeast, which Youtubers are building billion-dollar empires, and much more. Subscribe to Samir's newsletter → https://www.thepublishpress.com/ Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (2:00) High stakes interviews (5:15) How Samir preps for big interviews (11:45) Learnings from Tim Ferriss interview (19:45) The next wave of creators (26:00) The future of the creator economy (34:30) AI tools Samir uses (37:30) What's MrBeast actually like? (44:00) If Samir was advising MrBeast… (49:00) Why Samir made a newspaper (56:00) Creating scared (1:05:30) Hiring a collaborator (1:07:45) Most interesting creator businesses (1:18:55) Which Youtubers are building billion-dollar empires? (1:39:30) How long does it take to “make it” on Youtube? (1:44:10) Dabblers vs. Masters — Links: • Publish Press - https://www.thepublishpress.com/ • Autopod - https://www.autopod.fm/ • Dude Perfect - https://tinyurl.com/4jdpsbkj • Cody Ko - https://www.youtube.com/c/codyko • Chicken Shop Date - https://tinyurl.com/2wbfu9xc • Deestroying - https://www.youtube.com/@Deestroying • Paul Rabil - https://www.youtube.com/c/paulrabil • PPL - https://premierlacrosseleague.com/ • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More