Turn Content Creation Into Your Most Powerful Tool for Business Growth | Marketing | YAPCreator Replay | E4

Young and profitors, welcome back to the YAPCREATOR Series Replay. We're all living in a time where opportunities to express yourself and build a real audience online are truly limitless. But I also know that it can feel really overwhelming, especially when you're just starting out.

Where do you even begin? How do you figure out what makes you different and why people should tune in to you over everyone else? Well, that's exactly what we're tackling today with the help of some all-time great YAPCES. We're going to break down how you can get your footing as a creator.

We'll get into the power of experimentation because content creation isn't about cracking one formula and then repeating it forever. It's about trying new things, learning as you go, and growing into your own voice over time. There's so much value packed into this one so sit back, take notes, and enjoy. Content creation is truly at the heart of being an entrepreneur today.

You may not have ever imagined yourself as a content creator, but to succeed in today's

“online marketplace, you need to be willing and able to market yourself and your business.”

Compiling content is a powerful tool to demonstrate value, connect with target audiences, and

differentiate yourself from competitors. And it's no longer an option quite frankly. It's a must-have. Here's Sean Cannell who built his massive YouTube channel from scratch explaining why it's so important to be in the content game, and why getting started is easier than you might expect.

Why is Gary Vaynerchuk and Grant Cardone and Layla Hermosie and Noah Kagan and Alex Hermosie investing so heavily in content? Why? When they have other businesses and other things to do, I think it's because they understand that personal brand is the most valuable asset you can possibly have.

And by building out in content, the wave of the creator economy itself, you tapping into being

a creator, publishing content, basically the next three years are going to be the best

three years in the creator economy. And Mr. Beast himself, the biggest independent YouTuber, also mentioned that YouTube's algorithm is one of the most generous algorithms as we speak. That new creators are being suggested on people's home pages and getting a shot and people suggested feeds that if you start a brand new channel right now and you make the right

video around the right topics with the right content, you can grow from scratch right now in 2024.

“So I think that when you think all the platform has aged out or whatever or it's just”

started saturated, saturations actually impossible by the dictionary definition, if it's still increasing, if the total addressable markets increasing, if consumption of content is increasing, which it is, if more users are appearing there, which they are, and if these users are more individual and unique, speak it to you finding your niche and your 1000 true fans, it's not saturated, it's not too late and the next three years are actually

going to be double of what's happened in the last 17. So we're actually in a crazy strategic time for YouTube. And so I think that's actually data backed good news for business owners listening to this right now for really tapping into the power and the wave that's happening. It's really good news that you're saying that we can all still grow on YouTube and I know

for myself when I started podcasting six years ago, everyone told me that it's too late, look at me now, I'm top of the charts podcast princess.

So it's never too late to start on your dreams.

So if somebody is looking to start a YouTube channel and you know, they're an entrepreneur which is most of my listeners, they've got to ask themselves some key questions. And before they start creating videos, what are the key questions and considerations people should think through before they actually start a YouTube channel for their business?

“Yeah, I think number one is why do you want to start a YouTube channel?”

And that answer to that might not be super obvious. It's a general good problem or a good question to ask is what are we solving for? We're solving for X. Do we need more revenue? Are we using it as lead gen and would you get into some granular questions?

What is the potential of YouTube for my particular business? Is there a good alignment there? And then also how much time do I have to invest and what am I trying to achieve? Another interesting question is to say, do you have any desire to create content that you're in yourself or how committed do you think you could be to creating content?

Because sometimes we get ahead of ourselves. If you've seen brands, this is an interesting opportunity where you could hire talent. It happens, moment lenses, did it, Kensington memory has Hirschberger, who is a solo influencer that also is like talent hired for the channel. So at the early stage, do you want to build your personal brand?

Do you want to have your own show? Are you interested in creating content? Who are five to ten YouTube channels that you may be watch and inspire you and would you like to have a YouTube channel like theirs?

some reconnaissance and research to see what else is out there in your niche.

Do you want to build your business, leads and clients, or do you want to build your next business, aka maybe your personal brand? Because what you've already accomplished and built, you're thinking about speaking, writing, your name out there, getting your intellectual property, your frameworks, your processes, your teachings, captured, so you can make an impact in a difference that people's lives

as well as get booked to speak and invited places. And I could get granular on case studies and use cases for how you could use YouTube for all kinds of different niches of a friend of mine, just acquired a like real estate education business and then he bought a YouTube channel, which was owned by an exam YouTube channel 35,000 subscribers.

So he could start putting like these real estate exams and lead Jen over to his real estate education business. He won't be in videos. He can outsource these that can be AI. So I would say that YouTube is an asset no matter what we're talking about and there's

a way to do it, whether you're on camera, whether it's faceless, whether it's another talent. But these self-awareness questions are some really good foundational questions and usually the people who like come to our event and watch our stuff a lot of times say, okay, I want to create content. I want to create a video podcast.

I want to be a talking head on video. I maybe want to teach or do cooking. We get into the crater site, DIY or cooking, or we have auto repair shops. So the all kinds of business owners too, that use it. But where a lot of times clicks best is even thinking through, do you see yourself as a

“personality and do you want to put yourself out there?”

So like a auto repair and modification shop, the owner has got a big YouTube channel, part of our podcast community. But like he's discovered that he loves it. Now listening to this, you're not going to know if you get to discover that yet and I would encourage you why for you probably don't love it yet and you probably are intimidated a little

and you're probably a little bit nervous to get on camera, but I would challenge you. One of the best experiments you could ever do is start before you're ready, start messy, make 50 to 100 videos that I sound like a lot. But the reason, because it's going to transform you, I promise you it will improve your life. It'll just make you a better communicator, it'll help you grow.

But what you might uncover is you might uncover like I love this and I'm actually good at this. And it would be the wrong signal to think that day one, I'm not good on this. This must not be for them. No, we're all terrible day one.

So I sometimes it's like an uncovering and appealing away the layers of the onion, if you will, to kind of discover that. Like Sean said, we're all terrible on day one.

“You have to let go of the idea that you're going to be perfect or even good.”

Jenna Kutcher, one of the most successful podcasts in the world, was once a wedding photographer who had no idea how to present herself or her brand on social media. So she started experimenting and she quickly learned that sometimes what connects with other people is not at all what you expected. It all grew super organically until it didn't.

When I was a wedding photographer, I realized really quickly that there were a million

wedding photographers in my area that were really talented and the only thing that made me different was me because we were all delivering a very similar finished product. And so even in the early days, and I mean, this is like OG Instagram, we're talking here. Like when we used to use those weird like Valencia filters, I would just share my life. Like, and I would just share who I was and what I was struggling with, I would share

working from home with no makeup on, like this is the reality of it. And it was so interesting because when I first became wedding photographer, I just hid behind my work. It was like the safe spot. I figured, surely everyone only wants to see my work.

And I remember years and years and years ago, pulling my audience of like, what are your favorite posts?

“And it was all personal and I was like, what is this?”

And so fast forward a few years, we went to Hawaii and I wanted to do an experiment. And I love experimenting. And so I said, for 30 days, I'm going to only post me. And this is at a time when I've been hiding behind my work for years. And my engagement skyrocketed.

And my confidence in myself grew my connection to my audience grew. And I was like so fascinated by it because I was like, this seems like the least interesting thing of like what I'm doing. It was just sharing my life. And it really made me realize like, people need to connect with people.

And I never set out to be an influencer.

I really wanted to just like continue to grow and share. And I really have realized over the last few years of like, my dream is like, how women build businesses, they don't hate and build lives that they love. And I have been taking people on this journey, not as like, I have figured this out

But like, I am still learning.

I am still growing. I'm still figuring this out.

“And so when I started doing like social media collaborations and social media promotions”

and different things like that, it just felt so natural because I am the kind of person where I'm like, oh my God, have you tried this new lip gloss or like, this skin like cleanser is life changing? Like, I am naturally like when I go on a girl state with my girlfriends by the end of the day, I've dropped like 10 links of things that I'm just telling them about because I'm like,

if this works for me, this could work for you like I just love not gatekeeping, whether it's business or like beauty products or whatever that is. And so that was just such an interesting, like, facet for me to realize like, people care about the business. Yes, but they also care about like what's happening behind the business and like what's

fueling it. And so that was interesting. We did have a viral moment. So I grew very organically. I felt like I knew every single follower, like I just it felt that way and we had a moment

go viral and it was a photo of me and my husband on the beach in Hawaii and I was talking about body image.

It was the funniest post because I just, I never expected to go viral.

“I think that's what happens with viral posts.”

And I was clapping back at someone who had said, how can a woman like you get a man like him? And my husband is very fit. He's very in shape. At the time, I was curvy or I had been going through miscarriages and lost my body.

I've been through so much and I was just angry and I was like, who are you to say this? Like, we have been together for a decade. He has loved me through every pound, every pimple, like everything. And that posts like blew up and overnight. We got hundreds of thousands of followers and blessing and a curse, right?

Double edged sword because wow, this is amazing. But also like, who are these people and why are they here? Ana is now one of the top female business influencers in the world. And to this day, she still shares details of her personal life, as well as her business tips with her devoted audience.

There are many ways to experiment when it comes to content creation. One of my favorites is a practice that was shared with me by James Altichert, a prolific writer and serial entrepreneur. And well, it's a little sexual in nature. So let's dig into this, coming up with good ideas or bad ideas.

I guess just like this idea, creativity, we talked about intersections a bit, but we didn't talk about something related, which you call purpose sex. Can you talk to us about that? I also call it ideas, I call it a couple of things. And the idea is you want to come up with two things that you're either interested in or

know about and explore what the intersection of those things are. For instance, Apple does this quite a bit. So they were a computer company for 30 years. And then suddenly they wanted to combine the radio with computers. And the idea sex that resulted was the iPod, the first iPod.

Oh, let's combine the iPod with phones. And the result was the smartphone, the iPhone. Hmm. Oh, let's combine computers with this flat surface we've been doing with our phones. Oh, so now they have the iPad.

So idea sex could create completely new industries. Let's say you're making a restaurant. Okay, there's a million Mexican restaurants on this street. But there's people who might in the next town over, there's a lot of sushi restaurants. So let's make the sushi rito restaurant.

We're going to make burritos of raw fish or whatever.

It might be a bad idea, but you always can combine two concepts to find something creative.

Let's say you love guitars and you love history. Well, how about looking at the history of the world in terms of the evolution of guitars, because obviously they went from very primitive guitars to all the way up to electric guitars. And in a weird way that describes the history of technology, the history of music,

the history of civilization as we know it. So idea sex is a very powerful tool when coming up with ideas. And something else that you have a whole chapter about is called idea calculus. And apparently, you can subtract, divide, multiply ideas that I'd love to get an overview of that.

“Well, let's say you have a podcast. What are ways to multiply this podcast?”

Well, by multiplying, it means kind of taking the podcast and scaling it in ways that you wouldn't be able to do individually. So you could start a podcast network, for instance, and you bring on other podcasts. And your job is now to place the ads and you get a cut of all those ads. So now you not only have the business of your podcast, but you have this network where

you already were placing ads on your podcast, but now you get to spread around to more podcasts and place those ads. You've not multiplied your podcast or here's another way. You do your podcast and you release it on all the platforms like Spotify, Apple, I heart radio, serious and on and on.

But what about putting your podcast on TikTok or YouTube or guess what? If you upload your podcast to Amazon Prime, your video version of your podcast to Amazon Prime, it would actually become an Apple Prime TV show and it'll be right next to all the

Most people don't realize that. So there's all sorts of things you can do, A with experimenting and B with this idea of manipulating, you know, the math of ideas. So ideas of traction, what if you had your podcast and, oh, for TikTok, they only allow 60 seconds, so let's take the concept of a podcast, figure out how to do an episode with

what's the most important thing in this episode with James.

Okay, we're going to make a TikTok 60 second podcast with James. So that's like idea, subtraction. So if you take one concept of podcast and apply all these different ideas to it, then you'll suddenly be everywhere and you'll have lots of different formats. One of them might hit and be super popular and earlier I said success requires luck.

“In order to have luck, you need to basically expand the area of luck in your life.”

So yes, your podcast on Spotify could get lucky and go viral. But imagine if you also had a 60 second podcast on TikTok and a show on Amazon Prime that you uploaded yourself and a podcast network where you're just trying to make money, but one of the other podcasts becomes huge and viral and suddenly you're making great money now with the podcast concept by having a podcast network.

You've expanded basically the surface area of your luck and that often results in great success. So good. So let's say we come up with an idea that we think is great. How do we stress tested it to make sure that there's actually people who would want

this idea from us? Very important question because people often say ideas are dime a dozen execution is everything and this is just totally not true because execution doesn't mean one thing. You have to have execution ideas on how to execute.

“There are good execution ideas and bad execution ideas.”

So let's say you and I came up with a business idea and we said, oh, this is so good. We're going to make an AI that figures out whatever everybody should order in a restaurant. I don't know.

We're going to raise $2 million.

We're going to hire a bunch of programmers. We're going to program this up over the next year and then we're going to start selling it to restaurants, our new software package to restaurants. Well, that's a horrible execution idea. How about instead, you go, a friend of yours has a restaurant.

We go to that friend and say, listen, can we go from table to table this night and see if we can help everybody with their orders? And we'll see, oh, everybody already had their preferences even before they got to the restaurant. They knew what they wanted to order.

So this is a bad idea. So we shouldn't waste a year of our lives and $2 million of people's money and trying

to raise the money to do this idea, it's a bad idea.

So often when you try to break things down and do things manually, maybe it might not be the exact product, but you could usually test to people even want this. With hard things about businesses, people already know they've already filled up their 24 hours a day, you and I, and everybody listening, we already have things to do all 24 hours of the day.

When you start a new business, that means you're saying some people are going to do something new in part of those 24 hours. And that new includes a product that I create where service, I invent or whatever. And most people don't want anything new, they're fine with their 24 hours a day. I'm fine mostly with my 24 hours a day.

Do I really want the Apple Vision Pro to change my 24 hours? Maybe it's got to be great though.

“And so most ideas are pretty bad, that's why most ideas are pretty bad and won't work.”

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“You need to have the energy to execute them.”

When it comes to growing on social media and getting attention online, you've got to be ready to receive it, and you've got to bring the right energy.

First off, you need to believe in yourself as a person who is worthy of a following.

And second, you need to be consistent in the vibes that you put off and what people can expect from your account. Nobody knows this better than TikTok and Instagram influencer Katnorn aka Miss Excel. So how soon did things take off for you? Like, did you go viral right away? did it take months, years, like, what was it like for you?

So the whole thing happened pretty quickly. And I do attribute a lot of that to the energetics that happened behind the scene where I was able to actually show up fully authentically and what I wanted to create and was ready to receive the attention back, where normally I grew up with an anxiety disorder. I hated having any attention on me, like it had to do a lot of overhaulings get to a spot

where I wasn't going to subconsciously limit what was able to come into my field. So it was by the fourth video to that DMX song, X gone give it to you. I did the X lookup function and that one, it was so good. That one got 100,000 views right away and I was like, oh my gosh, because this at the time was my secret TikTok account because I saw a little corporate job.

I wasn't really sure what I was allowed to do. So for me, I wasn't like, hey everybody, you know, like my video, only my mother and my boyfriend knew about this secret account, Ms. Excel. So for me, when that video hit, it got shown to all these people I work with. It got shown to all these people, I know I'm getting all these messages like, is this

you? And I'm like, oh, maybe maybe it's me. Within three weeks of that, I had my first video go viral on TikTok and next thing you know, I looked down on my phone and within a couple of days, I had a hundred thousand followers.

Because everything was going on in the news two at this time. This was like June, July of 2020, that TikTok's getting thin, you know, all the things. So I was like, well, I got a hedge moment risk out here, I'm going to create an Instagram account. So I created an Instagram, started posting on there.

And then within a few months, both accounts had gone viral various times and we had a few hundred thousand followers across the different platforms.

That's so amazing, like it's so rare to have somebody who just kind of skyrockets on social

media right away, why don't we stick on why you think that happened? You just alluded to the fact that you came on with really good energy and energy is really magnetic. So can you talk to us about the importance of ensuring that you have the right type of energy when you go film your videos?

Absolutely because it's one of those things where I view content as simply an energy exchange. My energy is coming through to you on your phone or vice versa and you are the recipient of that energy, right? So my job as a creator is I want my energy through the roof.

“I want it and it's most heightened sparkly magnetic state because one, that's what's going”

to stop someone, right? Like, think about a bunch of people walking down the street.

If there is someone that is magnetic and like fully just, you know, pure joy and like happiness

and that was something I worked on myself, too, to get myself to that place where like that's the type of person in NASA type of energy where you're going to stop and be like, whoa, what's that person doing? Like, oh, why do I feel like attracted to them, not in a sexual way, but in like a, you know, like an energetic way, it's magnetism.

And that's something I was learning early on as practices I can do behind the scenes and a lot of that was where the Kundalini yoga came into play doing like different yogic technologies and breath work and things where my, or I would become bigger, my energy would become bigger. And that way it would kind of stop you on the phone.

So whether it was like the polarity of the video like I'm looking at Excel and a girl dancing at once, what is this or just the energy behind it, right? Like, if I looked really bored or like I was having a bad time, I wouldn't want to hang out. It's kind of like creating a little room with someone when you're watching a piece of content and you're like entering their room.

It's like, do I want to go in that person's room, like, you know, you want to make sure of the energies there you're inviting and you're actually providing value. So that was something too where I'd spend a lot of time researching the tips and tricks, making sure that one people were learning, but two also that we were having that entertainment factor because each video too can bring someone's energy up or down.

So if you're watching dark things that are going to bring down your frequency, bring down your vibration, that's something that's, you know, going to create more negative feelings and body. My job is, I'm trying to lift that up on the planet, right? Like, I want to make you smile, I want to make you laugh, I want to brighten your day in any possible way that I can.

So that's where, with my content, I need to make sure that I'm in a good spot before I go and actually make that piece because that energy translates every single time. Of course, the tricky thing is figuring out the areas where you can add the most value. Body like Kat Norton had a clear expertise that she could share, her knowledge of Excel. But what if you don't already have such a large storehouse of knowledge on a particular

topic or subject area? How much time and effort are actually required to develop meaningful competence in a field? Well, the road to mastery is not as long and hard as you may think, and it certainly doesn't take 10,000 hours. Here's James Alcitor again explaining why.

What does it mean to master something and to get good at something?

“Well, a lot of people think you have to be the best in the world or you have to be rich”

in famous at what you're doing to say that you've mastered it. So yes, I'm not a top 10 comedian or a top 10 chess player. And I think that's very hard to do. That's where the whole 10,000 hours or whatever comes in. But whatever I like to pursue, I like to think that I get into the top 1%.

So I'll just use chess as an example.

There's 600 million people around the world who know the rules to chess.

The top 1% means you have to be in the top 6 million of those. Arguably, I'm in the top 1 million of those or even better. But I consider myself not so good because looking at it for my perspective, there's a lot of people I know who are much better. Same things with business, with investing, with everything I've pursued.

But I do think it's relatively easy to get into the top 1% of what you pursue. And there's a lot of benefits to that. One is every area of life worth pursuing has a strong and fun subculture. So you get to experiment being in all these different subcultures. There's like a comedy subculture, a writing subculture, a TV subculture, investing subculture.

You get to kind of communicate with different people across the spectrum of all your rear interests. And you get some status in those subcultures if you're in the top 1%.

“So I think it is relatively easy. And this is what I wrote.”

The book skipped a line about is that it's not like cheating, but there are learning techniques

To be in the top 1% of cooking, I mean, a billion people around the world are more.

Know how to cook.

“To be in the top 1% means to be in the top 10 million of those.”

That's very easy to do. It's not trivial. You have to work at it. But if you just use these methods, you can do it. Totally, this book skipped a line gives so many great gems for entrepreneurs of how

they can skip this line and get to the top 1% of their field. And one of the first things that you talk about is you debunk the 10,000 hour rule. Now, all of us listening to this podcast, you've probably heard this rule a million times. It's from Malcolm Gladwell, but for those of us who maybe don't know about it, what is the 10,000 hour rule and why don't you like it?

Sure, 10,000 hour rule is this idea, it originally comes from this guy Andres Erickson, who was a professor who did all the research for it.

And basically, he says with 10,000 hours of what he calls deliberate practice, you could

be the best among the best in the world at anything. And he describes like how the Beatles had their 10,000 hours and he describes various experiments. He don't Malcolm Gladwell wrote about this afterwards. And Andres Erickson wrote a book called Peak that I highly recommend. But my view is that he's just, so deliberate practice means do something, then study it.

What did you do wrong and then repeat? Do study repeat, do study repeat, and you just do that for 10,000 hours. So that's really good for repetitive tasks, like maybe a golf swing or memorizing lists of numbers or very repetitive to some extent music, musical performance, not that you perform the same way every time.

But if you're playing the piano, you play the same notes for the Moonlight Sonata every single time. You don't change. So that's the 10,000 hour rule, but I'm much prefer what I call the 10,000 experiments rule, but it's really more like a hundred or 200 experiments.

“And the whole point is that you should try to think of ways almost every day to experiment”

in your life. You know, I mentioned one, which was the, you know, running for president. The question was, can anyone run for president? The theory was, yes, and the proof is that I was able to do it. So that's like a scientific experiment.

You have your curious what's up with you, come up with a theory, and then you test that theory. All the time I'm doing experiments. When I was doing comedy, I would experiment all the time on the stage different things I can do to get people to laugh.

In business, you want to be able to experiment. Well, a lot of times you go into business, you think you're going to make money a certain way. And if we, you know, charged as a service instead of as a product or as a product instead of a service, there's all sorts of things you can do to experiment in business to find

the right combination of things that will make you a lot of money.

So I view as experiments of really quick and valuable way to learn incredible amounts

of information relatively quickly. It's so true what James had to say about mastery. And again, the importance of experimentation. You may not have to spend 10,000 hours to become a content expert, but you do need to spend some serious time experimenting with different ideas to figure out what actually works.

Of course, it's one thing to be an expert, and it's a whole other thing to know how to deliver that expertise to your potential audience. Catnor and went viral, not just because she could provide useful Excel tips, but also because she figured out how to get her audience attention and keep it. And this is where good marketing comes in.

Kelly Roach, the world class performance coach, changed my whole approach to marketing when she shared with me her framework for building a conviction-based content brand. Let's move into your pyramid, if you would have mind, because I feel like it's a good place to talk about it. So your pyramid is made up of three levels.

The first level is how to marketing, and then it's hope marketing and conviction marketing. So for my understanding, the how to marketing is really the foundational piece that you got to start with to commend credibility and authority. Talk to us about this how to marketing and how to do it effectively. Yeah, absolutely.

So how to marketing is the most basic element of marketing, and it's typically the way that people enter your ecosystem. It's simple, it's easy to do, anyone can do it, cost you nothing, record a click video in your iPhone, pop it on your stories, pop it on your page, share it across different profiles filled.

You're doing how to marketing. This is literally a transfer of knowledge. It's where I'm showing you. Hey, Hala, I know how to do something that I know you're interested in doing. I'm going to be your teacher.

So all of a sudden, and Hala watches my video, she spent two minutes with me. She's like, damn, I like this girl. She just taught me how to do something I didn't know how to do. All of a sudden, she's like, cool, okay, this is someone that I like. This is someone I trust, you know, whatever the case.

“So how to marketing serves a really important purpose, because when people are scanning”

the airways, and when they're looking for new accounts to follow, and they're looking for new people to learn from, they want to take digestible incentives.

Now, the problem with this is just like people are scanning the airways looking for a quick, easy, actionable tip. They're doing that all day every day. It's called escape as right as way people go online and scroll and scroll and scroll. It's escape as well.

So it's kind of like, you got the girl. She said, yes, the day to now you're like, cool, I already had a date with that girl. Let me see, oh, she's really chained over there, right? And then someone who's right, so the problem with how to marketing is it's a great way to get people in your ecosystem?

It's not a great way to keep that.

“And we have to remember, what's the purpose of marketing?”

The purpose of marketing is to attract so that you can nurture and finally convert people into paying customers.

Well, if you miss this middle section of nurture, they never make it over here to conversion.

And that's what's happening to a lot of marketers. They pump out this how-to marketing, and this is, you know, a lot of people are doing their pointing, and they're dancing, and, you know, they're lip-singing, and all those things. And that's fine, do you have a way to then bring them through that process and finally get them to convert?

Okay? So how to get some in? It doesn't keep them there. We want you to not just do how to, but we want to elevate from, okay? I see you as a credible teacher.

I see you as an authority, wonderful. Now let's elevate. Let's figure out how are we going to get people to keep coming back? Well, if you notice, in the conversation that we're having here today, we talked a lot about stories, right?

We talked a lot about experiences that I had experiences that you had ways that we resonate with each other. We talked about failure. We talked about setbacks. We talked about patience and sacrifice.

What do we just do? Bring out a mode. Exactly.

“So the people that are experiencing this show are going to say, you know what?”

I've only done working at that goal for a year. I think I try and keep going. Kelly Gepgun, Paula Kepgun, they both won these wildly successful companies out. Maybe there's nothing wrong with me that I wasn't an overnight success in six months. Maybe if I stick with it, I am going to achieve my goals after all.

Okay, now we're on this something.

And this is why, of course, podcasting is so powerful, it's such an amazing medium for

home market. So, hope marketing is the biggest chunk of your parent. And this is where you really connect with your audience in an emotional and a sensitive way where people are like, you're not just a teacher. You're not just a authority that you're your my friend.

You're my commentant. You are my cheerleader. You are the person that has been in my shoes. You understand everything that I've gone through, you understand everything I'm going to now and you cross the bridge the other side.

So hope marketing is really about reaching down, grabbing your audience of like wrapping your arms around them and saying like, no, you're not quitting. You're coming with me on this journey. I'm going to support you every set of the way I'm been there. You can get there too.

And hope marketing is really what's going to keep people coming. I call it like the inspector of your brand. It's the thing that really makes people feel deeply connected to you as a person, not just as a marketer that can give instruction, but as a human being that has feelings, as a motion that's been through some things.

Oh my gosh, totally makes sense and I can attest to this. I mean, when I go on a podcast, for example, and share my story, that's when I get all these people like, you know, hitting me out, basking to do business with me and things like that because they feel so emotionally connected. They could see any sort of PowerPoint slides about my results or whatever, but that wouldn't

feel the deal. It's about liking the person and feeling connected with the person that you want to work with, which is so key. So what are some other actionable ways that we can bring this emotion to our branding aside from the obvious ones, which is like social media posts and, you know, having a podcast

where you tell your personal stories. For me, a lot of times, even when I do like Instagram stories or Facebook stories, I'm literally just getting like encouragement. It's encouragement. It's, you know, it's sharing mistakes.

It's sharing setbacks that you work through.

“I think one of the things that's most enduring when you're a teacher that, you know, once”

people want to work with you is not when you just show your highlight, real of all of your greatness and all of your wonderful accomplishments, but instead when you say, "Listen, I fell to this and I fell to this and I fell to this and this is what I learned from it and this is who I became and this is why I'm successful today." And these are all the things that you can skip over that you don't have to go through

because I did and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do instead. So I think it can be in podcasts. It can be in live streams. It can be in videos. It can be in emails.

It can be in posts on social media, stories, right? It can be from the stage. It can be from behind the microphone, anywhere that you connect with your audience.

But the bottom line is it's going from transaction, which is non-emotional and it doesn't

have staying power to relational. Which now is what once creates that desire, that stickiness factor and then ran for people

And then I think there's another mistake that people make in all this is just focusing on

hope marketing alone and not doing any of the informational how to style. Amen.

“And that's why I wanted to actually give the illustration and the exercise in the book about”

the pyramid because it's not about swinging the pendulum from one side to the other. It's about understanding how these things work together. There's so many people that it's like their entire brand is just law. And what do you even do? Like get out of my feet, like why are you even a yard?

Like what is this? I don't understand what the context of this soft, like, just fluff is all this time. So I agree with you, like there has to be an intelligence to your brand. Like what is it that new teach? What is it that you do?

There's a lot of people that go so deep in the wrong direction that literally you don't even know what their business is, right? If I go to your social media and I don't even understand what your offer is, what your business is, what it is that you do, like, that's a problem.

“So again, the pyramid is about, you know, think about it, like, Maslow's hierarchy of”

needs. You work your way through the pyramid. You don't say, oh, I'm going to pull out this one piece of the pyramid and that's going to make me happy and fulfilled. No, each of the pieces of the pyramid go together.

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“If you're going to do how to marketing, isn't it true that you should really focus on a couple”

things and not just do like how to's about everything in your industry because then nobody's going to know what you're really about. Yeah, thank you for bringing that up. I mean, this lack of patience is the number one sabotaur or small business owners. I see so many businesses that one day they're marketing this and then the next say you see them marketing something that has nothing to do with that other thing and you're like, you're now your expert of nothing. You're literally expert of nothing.

The more that you keep changing your messaging over and over and over again, we'll talk about this also with the condition, the top of the pyramid, but you keep changing what you're talking about all the time and you're doing how to marketing on things that have nothing to do with the core angers of your brand. Of course, that's going to create a confused mind and a confused mind,

it always says no. Kelly Roach emphasized the importance of emotion when it comes to creating

content that resonates with an audience. Now, not every part of your content is going to evoke

“an emotional reaction and that's totally okay. The key is to find those moments that”

naturally hold an emotional pull. This might be a story about a challenging faced, a moment of vulnerability or even a small victory. At App, some of our best performing clips are the ones that highlight these emotionally charged moments, whether I share or my guest share something deeply personal. These are moments that stick with people and prompt them to engage. So how can we get better at identifying these key emotional moments in our content? Well,

you can start by looking for universal human experiences within your content. The challenges, the personal victories, the authentic struggles, sometimes it's not even the words themselves, but the ways that these words are expressed. A genuine laugh, a reflective pause, a sigh, a tear. These seemingly small cues can carry a lot of emotional weight. There's signals to your audience that they're witnessing something real. One exercise to help identify these moments is to

watch your content without sound or read the transcript without any preconceived notions. Look for parts that convey genuine emotion, pay attention to body language, facial expressions, or tone shifts. These are often the unscripted real moments that connect most deeply with your audience. All right, guys, for almost at the end of another YAP Creator episode, so far we've talked about how experimentation, energy and the right tools can help you establish your expertise

and launch yourself as a content creator and online presence. But I wanted to leave you on an even higher note, which I hope will light a fire under you to get started, and here it is. You're living at one of the best moments in history to be an entrepreneur and a content creator. New technologies and platforms have completely democratized content creation and distribution as

never before, allowing individuals and small businesses to build powerful online

presence and without a massive corporate budget. Well, I'll get off my soapbox and let Gary Vee take it from here. In terms of entrepreneurs and your marketing advertising framework or day-treating

“attention, how can they use this to compete with the big dogs of Fortune 500 companies?”

It's the first time we can. Because for the first time ever, the creative is the variable of the reach, and that's marketing jargon, so let me say it again. For the first time ever, how good your picture of video is can lead to millions of people seeing it that never existed before. In the history of time, you'd have to be on television. We're on the biggest magazine or newspaper to ever get a million people in America or the world to know anything, and you'd have to spend millions of

dollars for that. Now, every day, we all know, every day that happens to somebody. Now, what we've also learned is just because you go viral once doesn't mean you're going to be a billionaire. It usually means that you're going to have this moment that you refer to your whole life, and you're actually actually be sad six months later because you weren't able to capitalize it. That goes into being

a real entrepreneur. But for the first time ever, entrepreneurs, you have a fighting chance.

Amber Chamberlain's coffee can compete with soldiers, Charlie DiMilio's popcorn can compete. Logan Paul and KSI's energy drink is really competing. Mr. Bees' chocolate is really competing, and they're the preview, not the anomaly. I started a wine brand and sold it to consolation for tens and tens of millions of dollars because I made organic content on the internet about wine and then started a wine brand. That will be a very normal occurrence for a long time.

Now, if that doesn't get you fired up about content creation, I don't know what well. Thanks for joining me for episode four of the Yap Creator series, and I hope you found some useful tips to apply to your own content journey. And I can't wait for episode five where we continue to

Princess signing off.