Avoid These 4 common Audience-Building Tips like the Plague
Good insights from Katelyn Bourgoin.
Common audience-building advice to avoid and what to do instead.
Audience First
The 8-Figure Media Company Business Model Part 1
Empire Flippers is starting a new series about how the media company business model works.
Big Idea: Audience is better than profit – Audience allows you to have traffic and revenue diversity.
Big Idea: Audience is better than profit – Audience allows you to have traffic and revenue diversity.
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How to Grow a YouTube Channel
DoYouEvenBlog.com has a massive post on how to build an audience on YouTube. There is detailed advice on keyword research, finding topics to post about, and strategically managing all the content you are creating. The YouTube training is solid, but there is also a lot to learn about SEO and online businesses. Sites like DoYouEvenBlog, TheBlogStarter, StartaBlog, Ryob, can earn tens of thousands of dollars per month with long-form, optimized content that ranks in search engines. Website hosting companies can pay up to $250 for a new referral so “start a blog” topics are very popular and competitive. Are you creating comprehensive content and building backlinks for your niche? Do some searches around the key pages on sites like DoYouEvenBlog.com to see the business model for yourself.
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Bootstrapping To $640k MRR With Omar Zenhom of WebinarNinja
Omar Zenhom of the $100 MBA is a great example of an audience-first approach to building a startup. Omar and Nicole Baldinu deliberately chose to build an audience with the $100 MBA daily podcast that they started 6 years ago.
Omar discovered the opportunity to create a better webinar solution from his own frustrations doing webinars.
Webinar Ninja was a great match for the $100MBA audience and it had a built-in viral loop in that webinars done through the platform help more people discover the product.
Omar discovered the opportunity to create a better webinar solution from his own frustrations doing webinars.
Webinar Ninja was a great match for the $100MBA audience and it had a built-in viral loop in that webinars done through the platform help more people discover the product.
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Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano on Building An Audience-First Empire
Business success is inevitable with a large audience, that is why many entrepreneurs like Anthony Pompliano have focused on growing their subscribers and followers first.
Anthony has $388k followers on Twitter, 188k subscribers on YouTube, his investment newsletter reaches 80k people per day, and he has a popular podcast. While not many will work as hard as “The Pomp”, there is some great insight here.
He shares advice on how to grow your audience, why you should focus on one platform at a time, and offers his insights on monetizing content in the future.
Anthony has $388k followers on Twitter, 188k subscribers on YouTube, his investment newsletter reaches 80k people per day, and he has a popular podcast. While not many will work as hard as “The Pomp”, there is some great insight here.
He shares advice on how to grow your audience, why you should focus on one platform at a time, and offers his insights on monetizing content in the future.
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The Creator Lifecycle: How can you turn your audience into an empire?
“There are no limits to what creators can achieve with an audience. Audiences are the wind of the Internet Ocean. Leverage them, and you can sail anywhere.”
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Audience-First Products – David Perell
“My method of “Audience-First Products” is still experimental, but I believe it’s repeatable. It’s a new way to test the feasibility of a business idea. It stands in stark contrast to the “old guard” model of attending job fairs, working mindless jobs to learn professional skills, and raising money before you start a business. “
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How to Build an Audience of 1000 True Fans in a Noisy World
“Building an audience for your work is easier and harder than it’s ever been. It’s easier because we have the tools and resources to create our work, and the distribution channels to spread that work.”
“It’s harder than ever to build an audience because there’s a scarcity of attention. Most people spend a few minutes on dozens of web sites instead of several days reading the books of one author. With such a scarcity of attention, the only viable strategy to build an an audience for your work is to focus on mastery instead of metrics.”
“It’s harder than ever to build an audience because there’s a scarcity of attention. Most people spend a few minutes on dozens of web sites instead of several days reading the books of one author. With such a scarcity of attention, the only viable strategy to build an an audience for your work is to focus on mastery instead of metrics.”
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The Golden Age of Creators with Barrett Brooks
“Barrett Brooks, COO of ConvertKit, goes into depth on how to own the relationship between your audience independently of social media and other platforms. By creating your own website, and using open technologies like email marketing, SMS, podcasting or RSS you can drive traffic to your work and get out of the “Walled Garden” that large social media platforms create.”
“Why the creator economy is the obvious path forward for humanity.
We are reaching the edge of our natural resource use. It’s just true. We can’t make as much physical product as we have been per person in developed countries across the world. It’s just not going to work
So where do you turn when that happens? Where you turn is online. You turn to digital goods. Where the limitation is computer processing power basically. Which is way more efficient in terms of resources than creating more physical products.”
“Why the creator economy is the obvious path forward for humanity.
We are reaching the edge of our natural resource use. It’s just true. We can’t make as much physical product as we have been per person in developed countries across the world. It’s just not going to work
So where do you turn when that happens? Where you turn is online. You turn to digital goods. Where the limitation is computer processing power basically. Which is way more efficient in terms of resources than creating more physical products.”
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8 Ways A Virtual Summit Can Grow Your Online Business
“In this episode, you’ll discover eight proven ways virtual summits can grow your online business. These repeatable results have been proven time and again.”
Big Idea: Online interview summits are a great way to build an audience and establish yourself as an expert in a niche. They can also be lucrative if done right.
Big Idea: Online interview summits are a great way to build an audience and establish yourself as an expert in a niche. They can also be lucrative if done right.