Myron Golden
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I have a cheat code. So my cheat code is I broadcast my live videos in front of a live audience. So I'm not talking to a camera. Like I'm terrible in front of a camera. I'm good in a conversation with a person. One of the things that I do when I'm creating a video is I'm like, big idea. What's the big idea of this video? Okay, what's the thumbnail title? What's the video title?
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But what's more remarkable than that is what she teaches, because she lives in France, okay? Do you know what she teaches? What? She teaches English to non-English speakers. Okay. That's her whole niche. Wow. Like, what are you talking about? It was mind-blowing. So the first question, if I'm looking at how can I build a YouTube channel, first question is this, how can I get people to click?
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So it's all thumbnail and title? All thumbnail. It's like 80% thumbnail and then maybe 20% title on click.
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Okay, a couple things. These components make a great thumbnail, in my opinion. Curiosity. And I'll tell you how I create that. It's very different than asking a question. Because asking questions doesn't create curiosity. It actually kills curiosity. So curiosity, contrast, conflict, controversy, or confusion. All the C's. Those are the five things. You can add conversation into that, but...
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But those five things that I named, if you can add any one of those elements, your thumbnail will convert better. That's just thumbnail, not title? That's not title. Okay. That's not title. We're not even on the title yet. Okay. So I've got to create, and I want to make sure that when I'm doing that, that I'm doing that with both the image and the words. Okay? And I definitely want to have words.
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Okay? And I'm going to show you how I do it here in a minute. So then the video title... must not ever be the same as the thumbnail title. Because if you do that, you're wasting real estate. So you want to make sure that the video title provides clarification for the curiosity, the confusion, the contrast, the controversy, the conflict that's created in the thumbnail title.
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So it promises to close that gap. That's what the video title does. Does that make sense? Yep. Yep. Okay. So how do I create curiosity in a thumbnail title?
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That's not my strategy. I'm not opposed to it, but if I put up a video and it doesn't get at least 24,000 views in 24 hours, it's not doing well.
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And if it doesn't have at least 100,000 views in a month, it's like, eh. Yeah. It's kind of a sleeper. No, it's not garbage. But it's kind of a sleeper. It's an underperformer. Right. Okay. So how I create curiosity is I make a statement with a question word. So I say, how... This, this, and this.
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Okay, my video for Monday is going to be... And are you dictating this or is your team... I create all my titles and all my thumbnail titles.
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Got it. So, like my video for Monday is... It's not this, but it could be. My video that I'm going to do Monday live is Stop Outsmarting Yourself. But I could make it How to Stop Outsmarting Yourself, but I'm putting how in the video title. So I'm mixing it up. So it's Stop Outsmarting Yourself. Thumbnail. Right. And then seven ways to...
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seven things to do to stop being too smart for your own good. Okay. So there is a tie with the smart. Right, exactly. And so, but I could make it how to stop outsmarting yourself, which in fact-
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It could be seven. It could be 15. It could be six. When you do lists, a list is an open loop until you get to the last point. Right. Does that make sense?
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Exactly. Right. So, so that's, that's one. It, that's how I create. So my, one of my best performing videos is why evil people are rich. Now, that creates confusion. Because some people think that I said why rich people are evil. They're like, oh, rich people aren't evil. Go read the title, bro. It didn't say rich people are evil. It said evil people are rich.
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And like, so if I say why evil people are rich, not only is that creating curiosity because of the why, but when I say evil people are rich, it's creating conflict. It's creating contrast between rich people and poor people and good people and evil people. Do you see what I'm saying?
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Well, what's getting me fired up right now is I just recently had a unique experience with regard to taxes. Because, you know, one of the biggest issues that high income earners have is that quarterly tax payment comes every week. It comes so fast. It's like, am I sending them hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions of dollars again this quarter? Right.
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So what I'm doing is I'm creating tension in the thumbnail title.
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Right. Exactly. And then there's a conflict between the rich people and the poor people. Yep. The rich versus us versus them. It has an us versus them element. So because it has all of those components in it, then it's like people... See, here's what I want to do. I want to create a thumbnail title that causes the person who reads it to ask themselves a question.
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If I ask you a question, you can ignore me. If you ask yourself a question, you must find the answer. So I'm forcing them to have a conversation in their head about my video. So I say, why evil people are rich. Some people's thought is going to be evil people aren't rich. Are evil people rich? Why are evil people rich?
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Right, exactly. There are a whole bunch of different conversations somebody could start with themselves because I have that. Okay, so that's number one. And then, I don't remember what the video title was, but it provided some clarification for that.
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Well, it's YouTube's rule of thumb. And so I'll just give them what they want again. If you can keep 70% of your audience watching. 70% of clicks. 70% of the people who start watching the video, if they are still watching at the 30 second mark, the chances of that video doing well increase exponentially.
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Okay. So the most important part of the content of the video is the first 30 seconds. The video needs to be good. So it's 70% over 30 seconds. Got it. The video has to be good. Of course. But if the video is good and the first 30 seconds is bad, they're not watching it.
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Right. So I'm going to tell you what constitutes bad, like horrible, like on a video. First 30 seconds. Hi, guys. Myron here. Welcome back to my channel. Today I'm going. No, please make sure you subscribe. Make sure you like the video and comment. That's all that. You want to start the video with intensity and intention. I love it. And so what I do is, let's say I'm going to do a video on Monday.
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It's going to be how to stop outsmarting yourself. Did you know that... Having a high IQ doesn't necessarily guarantee a high income. In fact, some of the people with the highest IQs in the world make some of the least amount of money. And you have to ask yourself, well, if getting to a high IQ is not the key to success, why am I spending all this money on education?
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Why have I spent all this money on education? Why do I have all these college loans that are going to take me 20 years of my life to pay off? If indeed a high IQ doesn't equal high income. On this video, I'm going to show you seven things you can do to stop outsmarting yourself and being too smart for your own good.
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And so just really tapping into some tax strategies around investing in real estate that helps mitigate or even eliminate a lot of that tax liability.
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Well, how often? I'm going to answer two questions. Let me answer that. May I answer a better question first? Absolutely. How often should somebody watching me script out that first 30 seconds? Every time they do it for the first couple hundred videos. You need to be scripting. Right. How often do I do it? I don't ever script it out because I can remember faster than I can read. Right.
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And so that's how my brain works. That's not how everybody's brain works. In fact, that's not how most people's brain works. So scripting out anything for me is a train wreck in slow motion.
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I figure out what I'm going to say.
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Yeah, I don't ever do that. So when I'm outlining, so this is what I mean. I could literally, what I'm telling you right now, I could turn it into a YouTube course. I love it. Right, so- That's why I know that it's good because I know if somebody bought this from me and they went through it and they did it, they would get results.
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Right. So and I don't generally share this much, but I will tell you. So one of the things that I do when I'm creating a video is I'm like, big idea. What's the big idea of this video? OK, what's the thumbnail title? What's the video title? What's the opening 30 seconds? Those are the things. Now, a lot of people.
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That's how I plan a video. And then I create the outline. But usually I don't create the outline earlier than 24 hours before I'm gonna go live. Because I have frameworks that I communicate through as you already know. And so what I don't do is I don't wanna create an outline that I don't even remember and I'm attempting to remember it while I'm teaching it.
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So I like to create the outline no more than 24 hours before. And oftentimes not more than an hour before I go live. I sit down and I make myself outline the points. Now I've been thinking about it for weeks, but I put it down in bullet points Like an hour, if I write my outline an hour before I go live, that video is going to be hotter than a pack of firecrackers on the 4th of July.
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It's going to be hot. Because it's hot off the press for me. It's fresh to me. So it's not like I'm serving leftovers from three weeks ago.
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So I've studied inside and out.
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Almost all of them, unless I'm traveling like I am this week. Almost all my videos are live. Live videos for me outperform recorded videos. That's not gonna be true for everybody.
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Um, it depends on what your team is better set up for. Um, I think our team is better. Our team is better set up for live video because I'm better suited for live video. Um, but I have, I have a, um, I have a cheat code. So my cheat code is I do my live videos. I broadcast my live videos in front of a live audience. So I'm not talking to a camera. Like I'm terrible in front of a camera.
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I'm good in a conversation with a person. So even before we had a live audience in studio, because we have a studio in Tampa, even before we had a live audience in studio, I would have people on Zoom before I had people in the room. So I could see faces and get feedback energy from faces while I'm teaching.
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I've never thought of it like that. So I don't know if I would or not, but I think so. I just know that when you're communicating, you're communicating with your words and your energy. And people can lie with their words, but their energy always tells the truth.
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What's the opening 30 seconds? Those are the things. Now, a lot of people- That's how you plan a video. That's how I plan a video. And then I create the outline. I sit down and I make myself outline the points. I've been thinking about it for weeks, but I put it down in bullet points.
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The tax code is an incentive program.
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If you're communicating with your words and your energy, it's like listening to a song with music in the background, with a band in the background. If you communicate without your energy, without that people energy, it's like singing acapella in a hallway with no carpet. So you no longer create content without a crowd? Oh, I don't remember the last time I did.
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I've only attempted it twice and it was terrible both times and we never released the videos. And when you say crowd, is it a virtual crowd or is it in person? We used to have a virtual crowd, but we have an in-person crowd. We have people in studio every Monday and every Thursday when we go live.
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Is it part of like a membership? Nope. Their payment is giving me somebody to talk to. I love it.
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No, no, no, no. We don't broadcast it, no. So we allow people who have bought something from us in the past who email us and say they'd like to come to come. There you go. That makes a whole lot more sense. Yeah, because everybody doesn't love Myron.
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Oh, just any content you create. If your content's not getting any haters, your content doesn't matter. The objective of creating content and having a message in the marketplace is to repel the wrong people as much as it is to attract the right people. I think as much about who I don't want to sell to, who I don't want to serve.
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I think about the people I want to leave me alone, and I make sure that while my message is attracting, quote, my ideal avatar, it's repelling everybody else. Absolutely. So people who don't like the Bible, for instance. because I teach business based on biblical principles. And so I make sure I lead with that so people who don't like the Bible leave me alone. Right. I love business.
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Yes. So we're going to dive in the deep end of multifamily real estate. I've got a mentor who owns tens of thousands of units of apartment buildings. Love it. And he's crushing the game. I own just a few million dollars worth of real estate, nothing big right now. But the real estate that I own got me a tax refund last year for the first time since the 1990s.
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I love teaching people how to make money. So people who think that that wealth is wickedness and poverty is piety. I don't want to like good go enjoy that with somebody else. Like I don't I have no desire in teaching you anything because you you already know. Right. So I'm my people who.
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what I call freeple people, people who only want stuff for free, cheaple people, people who only want stuff if it's cheap. Like those, that's not my ideal avatar. I mean, I've got coaching programs that are $375,000 and a million dollars a year, right? $55,000 a year, $27,000 a year. Like my coaching programs are not cheap. What does it look like to work with Myron for a million bucks a year?
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Okay, so you get four VIP days. So one VIP day is $375,000. So you do a VIP day. What does that mean? It's VIP day plus. That means, number one, you get one eight-hour day or two four-hour sessions with me looking at your numbers and your business and one-on-one telling you what levers to push because we charge $40,000 an hour for coaching.
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Okay. which we're probably going to raise here soon. So anyway, but that's what it is. So there's that. Then, so you get four VIP days or you'd get eight four-hour sessions. Right.
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It requires a lot of energy and tension, but most importantly, it requires a lot of time. Right. Every minute I'm spending with you is a minute I'm not spending with my wife. I'm not spending with my kids. I'm not spending with my granddaughter. I'm not spending on the golf course. I'm not spending it doing something for me. Exactly. So you're getting a part of my life that I'll never get back.
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And if you want that, you just have to pay.
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Last year, we only sold three, but- Yeah. That's fine. If we don't sell any, I'm okay with that. Right.
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I don't need the money. So I'm good either way. So you get four VIP days. Plus you get interviewed on my YouTube channel twice. Nice. Okay. And you can promote whatever you want to promote on my YouTube channel. So what happens is when I interview people on my YouTube channel, usually those two interviews will more than pay for the program. If they've already got a business up and running.
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And if they don't, they're not going to pay me a million dollars. So I'm tailoring this to the right people. Does that make sense?
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Somebody who's stuck at $500,000 to $2 million a month. in their business and they're making a lot of money.
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Yeah, it doesn't matter. And they're still, even though they're making like nice revenue, like a decent amount of revenue, they're still smart enough to know they're stuck. So, and then I'll let them interview me twice on their YouTube channel. And then we have Masterminds in the Sky, which means when I'm going somewhere to do something for business, I invite those clients to go with me.
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VIP clients and the Royal Family clients. So the VIP, you get one VIP day, two hours. But with the Royal Family program, which is the million-dollar program, you get four VIP days, two interviews on my channel, two interviews on your channel. With the VIP day, you get one interview on my channel, no interviews of me on your channel. It's just eight hours and Masterminds in the Sky.
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And I charter yachts. Like when we do our masterminds in Tampa, like my VIPs come in a day early and we'll do a mastermind on a yacht or we'll pick some really nice location in Tampa and we'll have a special event for them where it's, yeah. So that's, that's what the VIP looks like.
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And that tax refund was more than all the other tax refunds I've gotten my whole life. It was like three quarters of a million dollars more than all the other tax refunds I've gotten my entire life. And so once I... Wait, wait, wait, what? So making a lot of money is a great...
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And I've got people who've been on six, eight, 10 masterminds in the sky and the stuff we talk about up there, it just doesn't replicate anywhere else. For sure.
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And I teach my clients who are VIPs, I teach them the exact same strategy that I use to get paid to fly private.
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Oh, my family, obviously, first and foremost. Like this year will be my wife and I's 40th anniversary. So when is this going to air? We're going to do a really epic vacation. I'll say it like that. She doesn't know exactly what all it is. So I don't want to say that. So probably air in three or four weeks. Three or four weeks.
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So I'm not going to say what it is because our anniversary is not too long. We're going to have a really epic vacation to celebrate our 40 years together. So that's going to be fun. Last year, My wife, my daughter, my son-in-law, my granddaughter and I, we went to San Diego. We spent 10 days in San Diego. We rented this big mansion in La Jolla overlooking this golf course.
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And me and my son-in-law are golf rivals. So that's a lot of fun. learning music theory, learning to play the guitar at a high level. So like everywhere I go, like my guitar's in my bedroom here at the hotel. Everywhere I go, my guitar's with me. I practice every day. So I'm really passionate about that. Golf, I love golf. Love reading, love writing, love studying, love thinking of ideas.
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In the last 12 to 24 months, I don't know that I have any new hobbies.
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More of that, yeah.
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I enjoy traveling everywhere. With my wife and with my family for vacation. I love that.
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Oh, I have a whole bunch of specific places I love. Unfortunately, all the places I love, my family doesn't love. Because it has to have great golf courses.
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I don't want to go to a ski resort. I don't ski. I don't like snow. So I don't want to go to a ski resort. But I love the DR because they've got some of the most epic golf courses in the world. Um, we played golf in Southern California. That was beautiful. Um, Hawaii obviously is magnificent. The Bahamas, the, the, the, uh, the Virgin islands, all of that, the Caribbean, all of that's fantastic.
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I love all of that. Um, I played some golf in Europe. I played golf in, in, in London before in England before. Um, The places I like to go that are not golf-related, though, are historic. My wife and I took a biblical Greek. We did a biblical tour of Greece, which is epic. Awesome. We took a couple of biblical tours of Israel, which were mind-blowing. Those were the best vacations of my life.
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But it's on a level that is unparalleled. The history... I've been studying the Bible since I was 17. And so to go to places you've read about your whole life and to be standing on the same... And really understand where you are. And feeling it. You're standing...
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at the base of the mountain these rock mountains where David hid from Saul and you can see all these holes in the rocks or you're on the Sea of Galilee and like sunshine and then all of a sudden a storm comes like out of nowhere and then a few minutes later the storm's gone and there's this big rainbow and it's like what? Where am I? That's so cool.
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Right. Yeah.
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Cool. Yeah, that sounds like fun. I mean, my wife and I have been to Hawaii probably 12 times. Yeah. So we've been a bunch of times. We've never been to the Big Island, though. We've been to Maui, we've been to Oahu, we've been to Kauai, but we've never been to the Big Island.
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Wow.
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Well, I'm sure well, I think so the real Like I'll just give you one little component that I think like if if somebody really gets it will change everything for them If you really want to grow your YouTube channel you want people to watch longer the first 30 seconds is important But the rest of the video is important too. So how can you make people stay on longer be more interesting and
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Now, how do you mean? Right, so how do you become more interesting is the question. And the way to become more interesting in any aspect of life is to stop trying to be interesting and focus on becoming more interested. Only interested people are interesting. When I say interested, first of all, you're interested in solving a problem. You're interested in learning something you didn't know.
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You're interested in a unique perspective. You're interested in knowledge that existed apart from you that when you find out, you wonder how you ever lived apart from it, right? And so when you share that with somebody, they're like, oh, I didn't know, right? It makes their brain melt.
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And then you're interested to the point of being obsessed over solving a problem that a big, large number of people have. So that when you show up and start talking about the problem, they're like, I got that problem. And then you talk about the solution. Well, if they understand the problem that much and they found a solution for them, then they probably found a solution for me.
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Climate change in Sri Lanka. That's $59,000.
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And now they're locked and loaded. So be more interested, number one, in solving a problem and then be more interested in serving the people. If you can become more interested in solving the problem, more interested in serving the people, as opposed to like most people approach YouTube from the standpoint, I want to get something from YouTube. I want more subscribers. I want more views.
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I want more watch time hours and I want more money. But what if they came to YouTube? I'm going to figure out how I can give YouTube everything they desire. And YouTube wants to give their audience everything they desire. So I'm going to give YouTube and YouTube's audience everything they desire. And then I'm going to let that do what only that can do. Does that make sense?
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Not to the same level of intensity. I have no desire to retire. I'm having so much fun right now. What am I going to do? Play more golf? Play my guitar for 16 hours a day? No. I think people, I think we've been programmed to believe that we have to live a painful life until we can afford not to.
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And so what people do is while they're like grinding their way through this painful existence called life, they anesthetize themselves with distractions because they feel like it's never going to end until they retire.
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What are y'all doing? Right. With our money. Right.
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It's being very intentional. And I'm hyper-intentional now. And like when I was in my 50s, I worked way longer and way harder than I do now. And when I was in my 40s, I worked harder and longer than I did in my 50s. When I was in my 30s, it was like, I didn't care if I worked 24 hours a day. And I'm sure...
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My team would probably attest that like when we're at a conference like this and all we really need to do is go to the conference. I speak a couple of times like that could be a pretty chill thing. But I'm fairly intense when I'm not at home because I figure I might as well get the most bang for my buck. And I'm sure they're exhausted.
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So they're going to enjoy getting back home and having some time to relax. But it's like it's like this is the second podcast I've done since I've been here or third. This is the third, I don't remember, second or third. And I got another podcast this afternoon that I'm going to do.
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And then I'm speaking at our church tonight, and I'm speaking two times tomorrow, and then I'm getting on a jet and flying back home. because I love what I do. And while I'm not at home and I can't spend time with my family, I might as well get the most bang for my buck out of the work that I'm doing while I'm gone, which is why I go, go, go.
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But I end pretty early in the evening, but my day usually starts at five o'clock.
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They don't think their life is working, so I might as well watch somebody else live. Because I'm not living, I'm just existing.
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There's no there there.
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Yes. And then put as many experiences in every day that you're going to love to remember. Yes. As you can. Amen.
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Oh, looking forward to the deets. Dude, that will be a game changer for you.
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Not to mention the cash flow and cash flow. And then you can borrow the equity out of it tax free and then. Oh, yeah. The tenants pay off the note. Oh, yeah.
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If I write my outline an hour before I go live, that video is going to be hotter than a pack of firecrackers on the 4th of July. It's going to be hotter.
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Wow. People think wealth is measured in money, but it's not. Wealth is measured in time. Because if you make a million dollars over 40 years, you're still not rich. If you make it over 40 minutes now, you're probably doing pretty good.
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It'd be a very long trip.
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Right.
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So in my, what they call value ladder, at the very base is what I call my community service content. So I create content. I disseminated on different platforms, predominantly YouTube long form video, but YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, we post on all of those, but YouTube is our primary channel.
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And I think one of the keys to the success we've had on YouTube over the last couple of years is I never post a video on YouTube that I could not have sold and had people been happy that they bought it. So I make sure any content that I give away as community service content, which I like that for that terminology better than free because it's not really free.
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It's not free for me because I've got to pay my team in order for us to create it. And it's not free for the people who consume it because they've got to pay with their time and time's more valuable than money. So it's not free content. But it's community service content. And so I want to make sure that I put out at least two pieces of community service content a week on YouTube.
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So I have a Bible study channel and I have a business channel.
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They're separate. Now, when I started, I just had one channel. But, like, I could, somebody, a friend, one of my clients, actually, her VP of operations said to me, Myron, have you ever thought about separating your Bible study channel from your business channel? I said, no, I never thought about that. Why do you ask?
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She said, I think the algorithm might be, like, you might be confusing the algorithm. Like, they want to send stuff to people, but they don't know exactly who to send it to. I'm like, that makes sense. So, I did it, and... The Bible study channel, we launched July of last year. This is what, February? Yeah. We're at 80,000 subscribers on that channel.
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And it's just around Bible study. Just teaching biblical principles. And then the business channel, which we started. So here's what's crazy about that. I launched my business YouTube channel March 15, 2007. Wow. I was on YouTube for 14 years before I knew that they paid people for having videos on YouTube. I did not know that until 2021. Sounds crazy.
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So just very- Yeah, just very, just plodding along. I posted a video- Not intentional. There was no intention in it whatsoever. It was just- Something to do if I thought about it. Right. And then we became intentional April 1st, 2022. By that time, because of a podcast interview that I had in 2021, we were at 10,500 subscribers.
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Just off one podcast interview.
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Who's that with? David Chance. Okay. Social proof podcast.
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Yeah, fairly early. It was when I still sold it as a one-off actually, which I don't do anymore.
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Yeah.
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So we had 10,500 subscribers April 1st when I decided I am going to post one video a week on YouTube every week for the next 10 years. And I don't care what happens. I don't care if we don't get any subscribers. I don't care if we don't get any followers. I don't care if we don't make any money. I don't care. We're just gonna do one video a week and we're gonna be consistent.
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It's gonna come out the same day every week. And we started doing that in April of 2022. And then we ramped it up to two and it got bigger. And then we ramped it up to four videos a week we were doing at one point. And then we backed it down. Once we started a Bible study channel, we do one on the Bible study channel, one on the business channel every week.
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And it's just like, it's hockey sticking right now. We're up 1.2 million views in the last 28 days over normal.
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Right now we're at 3.3 million views every 28 days.
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Previously, we were at 1.6, 1.7. Now, that might pop up to 2.1. That's remarkable.
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But enterprise?
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100%. A personal brand will outperform a business brand Eight days a week and twice on Sunday. Steve Jobs' brand is bigger than Apple, and Steve Jobs has been dead since 2011. You're not wrong. Elon Musk's brand is bigger than Tesla's and bigger than SpaceX, bigger than SpaceX and Tesla put together.
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I'm not opposed to having two channels. but I would definitely have a personally branded channel. But you can grow a business branded channel if you do the right things. Now, I don't know what all those things are, but I have tested, I have done more tests in the last three years on different, ways to make YouTube's algorithm and audience love my content without compromising who I am to do it.
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So if you think about it, so YouTube wants two things. They want people to click on videos and they want people to watch videos. So then if that's what YouTube wants- And then they don't want you to leave. Right. Then they want you to stay. They want you to click on videos and watch videos for as long as possible.
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If that's what YouTube wants, if I give them what they want, they'll give me what I want. Whether it's more customers, whether it's more ad revenue, whether it's more exposure or whatever, I give them what they want. So how can I get people to click on my thumbnails better? So because that's the purpose of thumbnail. How can I get people to watch longer? So it's really an incremental exponent.
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And what I mean by that is there are a couple of things you can do incrementally that will cause an exponential growth in your ability to grow on YouTube. I'm not at this conference, who chased me down yesterday to show me on the elevator. She said, I followed your advice because she was in my challenge. She said, I followed your advice on your challenge and my YouTube has grown.
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I'm like, what do you mean? I've got over 2 million subscribers on all platforms. What are you talking about? And she said she came to my challenge four months ago. I'm like, what are you talking about? 2 million in four months? Right. So she has over a million on TikTok. Okay. Yeah. She had 637,000 on YouTube.
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I said, so how many did you have when you started doing the stuff that I told you to do, whatever that was, because I don't even remember what telling her anything. She said, 100. I said, oh, 100,000 subscribers? She said, no, 100. What? And I said, show me. Like, I'm not even believing you. She showed it to me, 637,000 subscribers.
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on YouTube and... So what was the big thing that she implemented from you? So I'm going to tell you what I believe all of the things are, not just the big thing. But here's what's fascinating. We love the community service. Yeah, that's the whole point. See, I believe too many people... One of the things that keeps you from reaping a harvest... is thinking that all seasons are harvest season.
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It's not always fall. Sometimes it's spring. You've got to sow seeds. And so the community service content is, all right, that's the seeds that we sow. Those are the seeds that we sow in the ground of the marketplace. And it's going to eventually yield something. And so, but this woman's story was really remarkable.