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Today, we're reverse-engineering the biggest entrepreneurs on YouTube, Ryan Pinetta, Dave Ramsey, and Stephen Bartlett, to see how they actually make millions.

I found 3 things they all do, but there’s a 4th automatic trap that destroys most creators before they ever see a dime.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've been studying the biggest entrepreneurs on YouTube.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The ones actually making millions from their channels.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's what's interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not hiding it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're sharing their story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're open about the process.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I went in and reverse engineered what they're all doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I found three things, three things that show up every single time across different niches, different personalities, different audiences.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When I look at the entrepreneurs who are doing all three of those things and still not seeing millions in the bank, there's a fourth thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In this fourth thing, they're not even choosing to do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It just happens almost automatically and it's the reason everything they built doesn't pay off the way it should.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to show you all four, the three that build the foundation and the fourth that destroys it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is up everybody?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to another episode of the more than meets the iPodcast where we talk about what's behind a person A practice or a product, especially when it comes to marketing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Jerry Taylor, and I've got my coffee And I want to welcome you to JT visuals and that's spelled without the letter i because there's more than meets the i hence the show

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[SPEAKER_00]: today we're talking about what's behind a practice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've been on a routine and talking about what's behind a practice or study in these people as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's behind what they're doing to make millions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And before I get into it, here's why I feel like I can speak on this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not just watching these people from the outside.

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[SPEAKER_00]: At JT Visuals, we build and manage content systems for brands.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The businesses we work with are generating millions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We build their content systems.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not the one making the millions.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm the one building the content systems that run alongside businesses that are.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a different kind of education than just studying from the outside.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and what I kept seeing in the brands we work with in the creators I study in the data is the same pattern.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's get into it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And these are the three things and then we'll talk about the fourth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The one that breaks the whole thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: because understanding the three without understanding the fourth is only half the picture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just get on with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The first thing every million dollar YouTube entrepreneur is doing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're posting long-form video content consistently at minimum once a week and repurposing that content into short form for social media outreach.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not once a month, not twice a month weekly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the baseline.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to be specific about that because it matters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The difference between someone posting twice a month and someone posting weekly isn't just twice the content.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's exponentially more signal to the algorithm.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be four times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be 10 times more index content in search and more feedback to learn from.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Consistency compounds while inconsistency doesn't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, you could say it negatively compounds.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, look at Ryan Pignette.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's built multiple eight figure businesses and generated over one billion views on social media, a billion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's posting constantly, consistently, and repurposing everything across platforms.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He says on his own channel that he's generated over one billion views on social media.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not shy about the numbers, and the numbers are real.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that brings me to the bonus layer of this first thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They are not doing it alone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a team behind the consistency, and that's how the output stays high without the creator burning out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What looks like one person showing up every week is almost always a production operation, an editor, a producer, a social media manager, some version of a support system.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Dave Ramsey, he's the blueprint for this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He started the money game on one struggling local radio station in 1992 for no pay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Within two years, it was the top rated show in Nashville.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He was showing up consistently building a team around him and repurposing his content into books, courses, and speaking events.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And by the time most people found out who Dave Ramsey was, he'd been at it for years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The team made the consistency possible and the consistency made the authority real.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So when you see someone who's been showing up weekly for years, know that there's usually infrastructure behind that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not just willpower, willpower runs out, systems don't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In the second thing, every million dollar YouTube entrepreneur has at least one legitimate business that makes sales directly from the content that they're putting out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to be specific about what I mean by legitimate business because this is where a lot of people miss it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not just having an offer, it's having a system.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A system where no one who shows interest falls through the cracks, a system where someone watches the video, they raise their hand and they click a link and they send a DM and there is a process that catches them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not a hope, not sometimes a system.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And typically, that business falls into one of two models.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Either they have a high ticket offer, coaching consulting a premium program with a real sales process designed to close at that price point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: or they have a strong enough marketing to sell at low ticket to the majority, meaning they can convert a large volume of people at an accessible price point and make the math work that way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One or the other, but most of the people at the top have both.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ryan Pinetta, again, is a perfect example.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He has over $100 million in real estate investments, multiple seven and eight figure businesses, and every single one of them is fed by his content.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The YouTube channel isn't his business, it's the engine that fuels his business says, that's the distinction.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The channel earns attention, the business earns revenue.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you have attention and no business, you have a hobby.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you have a business and no attention, you have a hustle or a job.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The people making millions have both working together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Neil Dingra, a content strategist, was just on Ryan Pignetta's podcast as a guest.

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[SPEAKER_00]: said he generated $4 million and top-lying revenue for his education and consulting business with only 30,000 YouTube subscribers, not $3 million, $30,000.

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[SPEAKER_00]: His point, it's not about reach, it's about reaching the right people with the right offer behind it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A highly targeted audience and a clean business system will outperform a massive passive following with nothing to send people to every single time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dave Ramsey did the same thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He launched the radio show and simultaneously wrote financial peace, his first book, and sold it from the trunk of his car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The book fed the show, the show sold the book.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They compounded each other, he built financial peace university on top of that, then live events, then more books, each business fed the next.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The content was always the front door.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Alright, quick break.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and this one is actually relevant to what we're talking about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the problem most people run into.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You book a podcast appearance, you show up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The setup is a spare bedroom with a ring light and a laptop.

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[SPEAKER_00]: your ideas are solid, the packaging isn't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And in a world where authority is visual before its verbal, that matters.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So the VIP paid guest experience puts you in a studio environment, full production, broadcast quality audio, professional lighting, so when you show up as a guest, you look like the authority you already are, not the authority you're trying to become.

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[SPEAKER_00]: the one you are right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is for the person who understands that how you show up is part of the message.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The link is in the description.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If that's right for you, go check it out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So here we are on the third thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And this one surprises people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's proof.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And specifically, it's written proof.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Almost every million dollar YouTube entrepreneur has written a book.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not as a vanity project, as a business asset.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A book that can make a sale anywhere in the world.

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[SPEAKER_00]: 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Someone on the other side of the planet finds them on YouTube, trust what they're saying, and buys the book.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That person is now in the ecosystem.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They've spent money, they're a buyer, and buyers buy again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Ryan Pinietta wrote flip your future in 2018, before most people knew who he was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That book established him as the authority in his space.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It preceded his full channel explosion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He also wrote The Wealthy Way, which awesome title, by the way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: These aren't content plays, their credibility anchors.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Another example, Steven Bartlett of Diary of the CEO wrote Happy Sexy Millionaire in 2021, which became a Sunday Times Best Seller.

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[SPEAKER_00]: then the Diary of CEO 33 laws of business and life in 2023, which topped the UK charts for 18 consecutive weeks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He started the podcast in 2017 as what he called a passion project with just me and my laptop and a microphone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: By August of 2021, he publicly stated that the podcast was generating $1.2 million a year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A book, a system, consistent content, and a team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dave Ramsey wrote financial peace in 1992.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The same year he started the radio show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He sold it from the trunk of his car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That book is still for sale today, more than 30 years later.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is still making sales.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That is a different kind of asset than a YouTube video that peaks in week one and fades.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And alongside the book, testimonials, reviews, case studies, documented results from real people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The credibility isn't just claimed it is shown, specific numbers, before and after, named clients the transformation is concrete, not vague.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's why this matters so much for authority brands specifically.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As some point, the viewer is going to decide whether or not to trust you with their money, and when they go looking for reasons to trust you, what do they find?

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[SPEAKER_00]: A YouTube channel is a start, but a published book and a library of documented results, that's a different level of conviction.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, three things, weekly long-form content with a team behind it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: a real business with a system that catches every interested buyer and documented proof of book testimonials written credibility that lives beyond any single video.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're doing all three of those things, you should be seeing the results, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So why aren't some people?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because the fourth thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to be really clear about this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They are not choosing to do the fourth thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't happen by decision.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It happens by default, almost without them even realizing it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The fourth thing is this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: not doing it long enough.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the fourth thing not doing it long enough to see what they built actually pay off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Most people are two years in fully expecting to have the same results as the people they're studying and they stop.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not making a decision to quit, they're just tired.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The results haven't shown up on the timeline that they imagined.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The compound interest of consistency hasn't paid out yet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they interpret that as evidence that it isn't working.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Steven Bartlett started Diary of CEO in 2017 as a one-off experiment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: he had a full team by the time it became a billion stream podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't see that $1.2 million from the podcast until 2021.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's four years of showing up before the first major public milestone, and he had already built a successful business before the podcast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't waiting on it to survive

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Dave Ramsay started a 92 on one local radio station.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For no pay, he'd been at it for years before the national syndication happened.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He'd already written the book, already built the counseling business, already had the proof.

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[SPEAKER_00]: By the time most people found out who he was, he had already been doing this for nearly a decade.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's something I realized that was interesting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The people who make it are not necessarily more talented.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not necessarily better on camera.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not necessarily luckier with timing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The defining variable is almost always time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I want to give you something more than just keep going.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to just say keep on keeping on here as the staff, because that by itself is not a useful advice.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's three specific reasons by staying in long enough, actually changes the outcome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The first reason, when you stay consistent long enough, trends eventually come back to you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: instead of you constantly chasing them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Think about fashion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right now, people are wearing 90s clothes again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The thing that was cool when you were in high school, the thing that fell embarrassing by the time you had your first kid is cool again now that your kid is older.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Trends cycle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What feels dated comes back around.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What felt ahead of its time eventually becomes

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[SPEAKER_00]: The same thing happens in content.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A topic that feels over-saturated right now will have a dry spell.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when it comes back around, the people who stayed consistent in that space, who kept building the library, kept showing up, are positioned as the established authority.

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[SPEAKER_00]: when the wave returns.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So here's the secret.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to predict the trend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You just have to still be standing when it comes back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The creators who chase trends are always playing ketchup.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The creators who stay consistent in their lane eventually become the trend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The second reason, the longer you stay in it, the better the feedback gets.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And feedback is what sharpens the content into something that actually converts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The comment section that most creators avoid, or scroll past looking for compliments, is actually one of the most valuable data sources available to you for free in real time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: From people who don't know you, have no reason to flatter you and are telling you exactly what's landing and what isn't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The key, though, is knowing how to use it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not looking for criticism to take personally.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're looking for signal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When you talk about a certain topic in the comments fill up with, I needed this, or can you do more on this?

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a signal.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When you make a video in the comments are quiet,

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a signal too, take the constructive feedback in the positive responses and let those be the guiding light for where you go next.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are still in control, it's still your channel, but you're building with real information instead of guessing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The creators who have been doing this for years have been paying attention to that signal the whole time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The result is content that feels impossibly dialed in because it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a product of hundreds of videos and thousands of comments worth of live market research.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the third reason is the most important one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Trust takes time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: and trust is the only thing that converts at scale.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There are three ways trust builds over time and all three require you to still be in the game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And if this feels like conception with three things that has a secret fourth thing within that fourth thing is three other things and the third thing of those three things is another three things just hanging there and following me here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: First, someone buys your book.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then they come back, they leave a review, they recommend you to someone else.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They become a testimonial.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't happen in two months, that takes a full cycle, sometimes a year or more of someone implementing and seeing results before they're ready to speak publicly on your behalf.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Secondly, people have had time to try what you're teaching, not just hear it, and they've

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[SPEAKER_00]: Results testimonials show up after people have done the work.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The bigger your library of content, the more people have had time to test it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And more of them are out there vouching for you without you even knowing it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And the third thing are the deep cut, this is the one most people skip.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If what your teaching sounds almost too good to be true, local presence closes the gap when subscriber count can't yet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When you have a small audience and you're making bold claims, even if those claims are completely legitimate, it's hard for a stranger to trust it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The shortcut is showing up in person, local events, community rooms, industry gatherings when someone has seen you in a room.

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[SPEAKER_00]: looked you in the eye and had a conversation, and then later sees your YouTube video, the trust transfers immediately.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They have a reference point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And as the channel grows, that third layer becomes less necessary, because the subscriber count itself becomes the social proof.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're talking about something people want to believe, and they can see that thousands

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're more likely to trust it, social proof compounds, but it takes time to accumulate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, here's the full picture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The million dollar YouTube entrepreneurs are doing three things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're showing up weekly with long-form content and a team that keeps them consistent.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They have a real business with a system behind it, one that catches every interested buyer and doesn't let attention go to waste.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they have documented proof, like a book, testimonials, written credibility, that compounds over time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then that thing that breaks it, the fourth thing is not given enough time to pay out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not because the foundation was wrong, not because the content was bad, just because the gap between planting and harvest is longer than the, is longer than most people expect.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The creators you study right now,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bartlett, Ramsey, Penyetta, and many more, they are not outliers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They are the result of a system, held together over time, the system isn't complicated.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's actually exactly what I just described, but simple is not the same as easy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: In the hardest part of simple is just doing it long enough to see what it builds.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The question isn't whether you can do these things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The question is, which of these four things is the gap in what you're currently doing?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And what's it going to take to close that gap?

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you want to go deeper on the content system behind all of this, how to actually build it, how to stay consistent without burning out, how to structure the business that the channel feeds, then subscribe to this channel.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's exactly what this channel is all about.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for your time.