Part 1 - How I Gained 7.8 Million Followers In 40 Months | Ep 769
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How did I gain 7.8 million followers in 40 months?
So you guys wanna hear something absolutely insane? Well, in the last 40 months, My YouTube grew from 0 to 2.23 million subscribers. My Instagram grew from 7,000 to 2.5 million subscribers, followers. You get the idea. My LinkedIn went from 0 to 324,000 followers. My TikTok went from 0 to 856,000 followers. My Twitter slash X, the artist formerly known as Twitter, went from 0 to 617,000 followers. My Facebook, which we just started, went from zero to 25,000. There we go. Going in big, Facebook. My podcast went from 3,000 downloads to 25 million downloads. And my email subscribers went from zero to 700,000 for a grand total of 2 billion impressions over that time period and 7.8 million new subscribers.
And for a grand total of a million copies sold of my book, For those of you who are like, well, what does that mean? And I'll get to that in a second. So in 40-ish months, all of that happened. And I show all of this as proof to start this to show one thing, is that this actually works. And you can build a brand without babes, without stunts, or kittens. And I start this proof because lots of people talk about stuff that they haven't done. and teach a lot of sucky fluff as a result. And so, before we got the 2 billion impressions and the 7.8 million subscribers, it wasn't like this. Because 40 months ago, I started with zero subscribers and a big, quote, fancy plan. And my fancy plan had three steps.
Step one, make as much good stuff as I could. Step two, post it everywhere I could. And step three, learn as much as I could. And after, 40-ish months, $4 million in team, equipment, vendors, studios, and software, 1,000 hours of me on-camera recording, and 35,000 pieces of content. Let me say that again. 35,000, as in count to 1,000, and then do that 35 times in a row. I learned a lot of what not to do. but I did learn things that made money and grew my brand that you can use today. Now, what I'd like to do is, for the remainder of the presentation, save you the three and a half years and four million dollars so you can just get the lessons without the scars. So that little box is our box of six lessons.
Cool? All right, let's rock. So here are the changes that we observed over the last four 40ish months that actually worked. So let's start with the first one, edutainment to education. So I see content in three buckets. On one extreme, you've got entertainment, which is the entire point of entertainment, just to define the term, is to get people to watch. The only point of the entertainment is to just get people to consume it. That's it. If it accomplishes that, it has succeeded. On the other side, you have education. where the point of education is to get someone to change what they do. If you try and teach someone how to answer a phone, and then in the same situation, the phone rings and they don't do something, and then after they watch you do something, they then change what they do and the phone rings the second time, they have learned.
So the point is to change their behavior. If the video or the content does that, then you've succeeded at educating them. And lastly, you have edutainment, which has the point of both trying to teach and entertaining at the same time. And to be clear, it's less that you make entertaining content or that you make educational content. It's more that you make content and people are either entertained or educated as a result. And so you can mix one thing that entertains some people and then that same thing educates other people. And so I just want to make this very clear that you don't control the audience. You make something, and then education or entertainment occurs. But for our purposes, I'll define the content category as the most common outcome of your content.
And so if a lot of people are entertained, then you've made entertaining content for the purpose of this presentation, even if one or two people learn something. So for example, some creators might learn stuff from MrBeast's videos. Wow, I learned how to make videos. But the vast majority of people are entertained.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How did I gain 7.8 million followers in 40 months?
0:00–7:24
2
What are the three steps to building a brand without gimmicks?
7:24–11:19
3
What is the difference between entertainment and education in content?
11:19–14:37
4
Why is edutainment important for content creators?
14:37–21:55
5
How can creators effectively engage their audience?
21:55–24:05