Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)
Unlock Your Potential and Thrive as a Content Creator | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
Wed, 22 Jan 2025
When Hala started podcasting, everyone told her it was too late to enter the market. But today, she is known as the Podcast Princess. With creativity and great content, anyone can build a powerful brand and make an impact. While the endless opportunities to create and connect can feel overwhelming, there are proven strategies to help you get started and stand out from the crowd. In episode four of the YAPCreator Series presented by OpusClip, Hala shares inspiring stories and bold strategies from top creators like Gary Vaynerchuk, Jenna Kutcher, and Kelly Roach to help you navigate the creator economy and unlock your true potential as a content creator. In this episode, Hala will discuss: (00:00) Introduction (02:34) Getting Started with YouTube with Sean Cannell (05:09) Self-Discovery and Personal Branding (09:16) Jenna Kutcher on Experimentation and Authenticity (14:11) James Altucher’s “Idea Sex” for Creativity (22:13) Energy and Magnetism in Content Creation (26:48) The Impact of Content on Your Vibration (27:20) Finding Your Unique Value (27:41) Mastery and the 10,000 Hour Rule (32:17) The 10,000 Experiments Rule (34:42) Kelly Roach’s Conviction Marketing Pyramid (45:40) Streamlining Content Creation with OpusClip (47:02) GaryVee on The Best Time to Be a Content Creator (49:07) Closing Thoughts and Future Episodes Try OpusClip for FREE: Visit https://www.opus.pro/clipanything Resources Mentioned: YAP E278 with Sean Cannell: https://youngandprofiting.co/40GYZCy YAP E316 with Kat Norton: https://youngandprofiting.co/40I34q4 YAP E291 with Gary Vee: https://youngandprofiting.co/41DRxcd YAP E295 with Jenna Kutcher: https://youngandprofiting.co/40FzNw6 YAP E275 with James Altucher: https://youngandprofiting.co/4h2d2bG YAP E155 with Kelly Roach: https://youngandprofiting.co/4h1LfrD More About Young and Profiting Download Transcripts - youngandprofiting.com/episodes-new Get Sponsorship Deals - youngandprofiting.com/deals Leave a Review - ratethispodcast.com/yap Watch Videos - youtube.com/c/YoungandProfiting Follow Hala Taha LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/htaha/ Instagram - instagram.com/yapwithhala/ Twitter - twitter.com/yapwithhala Learn more about YAP Media's Services - yapmedia.com
Chapter 1: How do I start my journey as a content creator?
Hello, young and profiters. Welcome to episode four of the Yap Creator Series presented by OpusClip. In this series, we're diving deep into the art and science of content creation, how to create, connect, and thrive as a modern day creator. These days, the opportunities to express yourself and connect with others through online content seems truly limitless.
but it can also be incredibly overwhelming. Where do you begin? How do you identify the unique skills and insights that will set you apart from the crowd and resonate with others? Today, with an assist from some all-time great Yap guests like Gary Vaynerchuk, Jenna Kutcher, Kelly Roach, and James Altucher, I'm gonna help you get started.
Amongst other things, we'll cover the importance of experimentation in your creative process. Content creation is not just about finding a formula that works. It's about exploring new ideas, learning from your experiences, and evolving along the way. All right, let's dive in. 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. Compelling 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.
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Chapter 2: Why is experimentation important in content creation?
why is Gary Vaynerchuk and Grant Cardone and Laila Hermosi and Noah Kagan and Alex Hermosi 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. Kevin O'Leary, you know, the Sharks, all of these different personal brand. And
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 gonna 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 homepages and getting a shot in people's 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, or it's just already saturated saturation is actually impossible by the dictionary definition. If it's still increasing, if the total addressable market's 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.
speaking to you finding your niche and your 1,000 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.
Oh my God, you're getting me so excited because I feel it too. I feel like YouTube is just not primed for disruption, but it doesn't seem as competitive as I once thought it was. I just see this opportunity where I can kind of stand out, have in-person interviews, just understand the platform a little bit better. So 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.
And they've got to ask themselves some key questions even 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?
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Chapter 3: What strategies can I use to stand out on YouTube?
has Tersha Hershberger, 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 10 YouTube channels that you maybe watch and inspire you? And would you like to have a YouTube channel like theirs? If you haven't
Spent some time on YouTube. I would encourage that to be a first step. Do some reconnaissance and research to see what else is out there in your niche. Because if you would say, and then, yeah, 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, getting your name out there, getting your intellectual property, your frameworks, your processes, your teachings captured so you can make an impact and a difference in people's lives, as well as get booked to speak in 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. A friend of mine just acquired a real estate education business, and then he bought a YouTube channel, which was owned by like a, an exam YouTube channel, 35,000 subscribers. So he can start putting like these real estate exams and lead gen over to his.
Uh, real estate education business. He won't be in videos. He can outsource these. They could be AI. They could be void. So. 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 wanna create content. I wanna create a video podcast. I wanna be a talking head on video. I maybe want to teach or do cooking. We get into the creator side, DIY or cooking, or we have auto repair shops, 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 the 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 gonna know if you could discover that yet.
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Chapter 4: What is the impact of personal branding?
And I would encourage you why, 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 might sound like a lot, but the reason, because it's gonna 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 something Like, I love this and I'm actually good at this. And it would be the wrong signal to think that day one, oh, I'm not good on this. This must not be for that. No, we're all terrible day one.
So 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 podcasters 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. So 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, oh, gee, 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 began wedding photographer, I just hid behind my work. It was like this safe spot. I figured surely everyone only wants to see my work. And I remember years and years and years ago, polling my audience of like, what are your favorite posts? And it was all personal. And I was like, what is this? And so I
Fast forward a few years, we went to Hawaii and I wanted to do an experiment and I love experimenting. I am like a huge experimenter. 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. My confidence in myself grew. My connection to my audience grew.
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Chapter 5: How do successful content creators leverage their energy?
Chapter 6: What are the key questions to ask before starting a YouTube channel?
And I was so fascinated by it because I was like, this seems like the least interesting thing of what I'm doing. I was just sharing my life. And it really made me realize people need to connect with people. And I never set out to be an influencer. I really wanted to just continue to grow and share.
And I really have realized over the last few years of my dream is to help 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 all 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's date 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 facet for me to realize people care about the business, yes, but they also care about what's happening behind the business and 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. 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. And it was the funniest post because I never expected it 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 curvier, I had been going through miscarriages and loss. My body had 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 post 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?
Jenna 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 Altucher, a prolific writer and serial entrepreneur.
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Chapter 7: How can I effectively test my content ideas?
And this is, you know, a lot of people are doing their pointing and their dancing and, you know, their lip syncing and all of 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, Hala, 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 did we just do? Bring out emotions. Exactly. So the people that are experiencing this show are going to say, you know what? I've only been working at that goal for a year.
I think I can keep going. Kelly kept going. Paula kept going. They both won these wildly successful companies now. 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 to something. And this is why, of course, podcasting is so powerful.
It's such an amazing medium for hope marketing. So hope marketing is the biggest chunk of your pyramid. 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 an authority figure. You are my friend. You are my confidant. 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 through now. And you cross the bridge to the other side. So hope marketing is really about reaching down, grabbing your audience and 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 step of the way. I've been there.
You can get there too. And hope marketing is really what's going to keep people coming. I call it like the speediness factor 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, that has emotion, that's been through some things, right? Does that make sense?
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 up, asking 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 seal the deal.
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Chapter 8: What role does mindset play in content creation success?
Yeah. 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 stuff. So talk to us about that.
Amen. And I'll do that all the time. 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, right? There's so many people that it's like their entire brand is just sloth. And it's like, what do you even do? Like, what?
Why are we even, like, get out of my feet. Like, why are you even here? Like, what is this? I don't understand what the context of this soft, like, just fluff is all the time. So I completely agree with you. Like, there has to be an intelligence to your brand. Like, what is it that you 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. 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, that's a problem. So again, the pyramid is about, 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. So I'm really happy you Totally.
One more thing about how-to marketing that I think is important. 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-tos 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 goes back to what we were talking about, you know, at the beginning of the show where this lack of patience is the number one saboteur for small business owners. I mean, I see so many businesses that one day they're marketing this and then the next day you see them marketing something that has nothing to do with that other thing and you're like,
Now you're 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 conviction, 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 anchors of your brand.
Of course, that's going to create a confused mind and a confused mind always says no, right? Yes, that's a great point.
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