The Level Up Podcast w/ Paul Alex
Visa to Verified: How Diana Marks Became a Luxury Influencer Boss
Sat, 29 Mar 2025
🚀 Welcome to The Level Up Podcast with your host, Paul Alex! In this episode, we sit down with Diana Marks, a digital entrepreneur, branding strategist, and social media expert who has built a highly successful career in the online space. With years of experience in personal branding and digital marketing, Diana has worked with top global brands, amassed a significant online following, and helped countless entrepreneurs establish their digital presence.Diana opens up about her journey—starting from a traditional career path to becoming a sought-after branding consultant. She shares the challenges she faced in breaking into the digital space, the mindset shifts that fueled her success, and the key strategies she used to build a thriving personal brand. She also dives into the importance of social media, how to stand out in a saturated market, and what it really takes to grow an online business in today’s world.🔥 In This Episode, We Cover:✔ Diana Marks’ transition into digital entrepreneurship and branding✔ The biggest challenges she faced & how she overcame them✔ How she built a strong online presence & worked with global brands✔ Social media growth strategies that actually work✔ Lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs & content creatorsCHECK OUT DIANA:https://www.instagram.com/dianamarksofficial/https://www.instagram.com/luxdigitalmedia/“Your Network is your NETWORTH!”Make sure to add me on all SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS:Instagram: https://jo.my/paulalex2024Facebook: https://jo.my/fbpaulalex2024Youtube: https://jo.my/ytpaulalex2024Linkedin: https://jo.my/inpaulalex2024Looking for a secondary source of income or want to become an entrepreneur?Check out one of my companies below to see if we can help you:www.ATMTogether.comwww.CashSwipe.comFREE Copy of my book “Blue to Digital Gold - The New American Dream”www.officialPaulAlex.com
Chapter 1: How did Diana Marks start her journey as an influencer?
My mindset was, okay, so they told me it's practically impossible. What do I have to do? I'm gonna write and apply for 200 internships. I'm like, impossible, 200 sounds about right. Like, I'm just gonna start applying and see what happens, right? So, I mean, I'm not losing anything. I'm literally just trying, right? So, I kid you not, like, I sent 10 applications. The 10th responds to me.
They invite me to an interview, and my very first experience in America was interviewing celebrities on red carpet events.
That's insane.
Hey guys, and welcome back to another episode of The Level Up with Paul Alex. Guys, we have a phenomenal guest today. She goes by the name of Diana Marks. She's one of the top influencers that has been in the influencing game since 2012, guys. She was based out of Los Angeles. Now she's based out of Miami. And guys... What she's about to tell you will blow your mind.
Do you ever wish that you can work with McLaren? Do you wish that you can work with Tesla or any of these other car brands? Or maybe your favorite airline? Or maybe even your favorite luxury brand? Well, she is the go-to person with over 2 million followers on all social media platforms, guys. Diana Marks, welcome to the show.
Hi, Paul. Thanks for having me.
No, absolutely. Diana. So it's been a while. It's been like a little bit over six months. You know, I feel like you deserted me after you were like, oh, yeah, you know, let's let's connect and have a session with digital marketing and. you know, your agency started doing, like, started blowing up, started doing numbers. And then all of a sudden, you know, I'm like, what happened to Diana?
She used to be here every week at the office in Miami. No, I'm just kidding, guys. If you guys don't know, I mean, obviously you guys know I'm the host of the Level Up podcast, but then also I do digital marketing for several of my companies, but I also help other consultants in the space blow up their brands. And essentially that's how me and Diana met. But this is not about that.
Let's talk about Diana. So Diana, okay, let's get to it. Question numero uno. How did you get into influencing? Because typically when people say, I'm an influencer, sometimes people don't take it serious. They're just like, what? You have a social media brand? What is that? So what would you say if somebody was to ask you, how did you get into that?
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Chapter 2: What was Diana Marks' first experience in America?
Then nobody can go to the local coffee shop unless they're based locally. Right. So that's where, first of all, my viewership went up. Right. So, and second of all, I'm like, okay, so I'm going to double down that because that works obviously in terms of the viewership engagement engagement back then was comments on the blog post.
And then I started researching more about how to work with brands, how to do all that stuff. And eventually, my very first campaign with a brand was two months later, which was a campaign with Tony and Guy. It's a shampoo brand, actually. It wasn't a fashion brand. And they were inviting bloggers at that time to shoot a commercial. And I was one of the three bloggers that they invited.
And these girls were doing this. That was the biggest campaign for them. And they were doing this for two or three years prior to getting that campaign. Wow. And I was kind of like, I call it a beginner's luck, you know? So I kind of like started with a big time campaign already where I'm not just creating a sponsored blog post, I'm actually like in a commercial for a hair brand, right?
So that's where obviously that was kind of a green light for me. In mentorship, you call it your first win.
you know so you're like your mind completely switches you're like oh my god this is possible and i got paid for it and i'm like i can't believe this like i just literally got paid to have fun to pose you know and to post about it you know so that kind of like completely unlocked the whole the whole concept of a career for me so limiting belief out the door would you say being based out of los angeles you had an advantage over other influencers
That is a very good question, actually.
So- Well, this is the level up, I'm just saying.
Yeah, it's like you're going in there, like straight to the core. Yes and no. So- Break it down. So yes, because I was exposed to a little bit more of the industry, the brands are based there, you know, there's a lot of headquarters that are based there. So yes, the industry pretty much started in big cities, which would be New York, LA, possibly Miami. Right. So this is an advantage.
But right now, I wouldn't say it would have mattered as much, you know. So back then, because the industry was so new, you know, that helped me a lot. But nowadays, I think it really doesn't matter. As a matter of fact, I think nowadays, if you're based in a smaller city, it's actually advantageous because you're pretty much taking over the local market there. Right.
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Chapter 3: How did Diana Marks become a successful influencer?
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And then Diana, one motivational quote to have influencers and anyone else who wants to be an influencer level up in 2025. What do you got?
uh once you learn how to do something you cannot unlearn it you know so that's knowledge is power for sure you know so take me right and my story on how i got my internship completely not related to business at all right so to completely not related to anything it was just the concept of 200 companies that i'll write to and then eventually one hopefully will open the door right so it's the same like once you learn
how to apply a certain skill anywhere. You can just apply it in every part of your business. By the way, speaking of your business, Paul, for your influencer career, if we apply our business acquisition system on how to get brand deals, you can actually replicate that process on how to get your own clients for your three companies as well. So that is the beauty of it all, right?
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