Episodes
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Today I talk to Kevon Cheung. Kevon ran a startup during COVID. He had to pivot multiple times but it failed anyway.
That was the moment he started building in public. He created a lot of free courses before he finally started charging money.
In this episode, you’ll learn how you can build in public and get your first products out quickly.
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Today I talk to Kieran Drew. Kieran started his career as a dentist but actually hated it. He thought if he worked hard he would get rich and have the life he always dreamed of.
Just before starting a new job at a dental practice he got the break he wanted. They called him to say they needed more time to open the practice. That was the moment he decided to go a different route.
He started writing online and building an audience.
In this episode, you’ll learn how to make your first internet Dollar and what you should talk about to build an audience and build your own brand.
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Jay might be just another teenager but he has tens of thousands of followers on Twitter and Instagram. When he was 15, he started posting self-help quotes and fast-forward a few years, building a nice little empire for himself.
In this episode, you’ll learn how you too, can build an audience on social media without overthinking it and with the help of a few systems.
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Today I talk to Chase Curtis. Chase has been on the pod before. He laid low on Twitter for a while but now he’s back in action in a hot domain. AI.
In this episode, you’ll learn how you can get good at a totally new subject and go viral every other day.
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Alex was an illustrator when he reached out to other illustrators and designers. He wanted to coach them, and he made sure they got more clients.
Fast forward to today, and Alex helps other entrepreneurs stand out online and build their own brand.
In this episode, you’ll learn how you yourself can stand out and build your own powerful personal brand.
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Erica was an English teacher who didn’t want to go back to a day job so she started as a freelance copywriter.
She applied to 80 jobs per day on Upwork when she first got started.
One client stood out, and Erica took a job there. Her boss challenged Erica to build a personal brand. Her first post was on LinkedIn and immediately went viral.
In this episode, we talk about how Erica finally found her voice on Twitter and you’ll learn how you can find it too.
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Dagobert is the Twitter meme king in our little Startup and Founder scene. But not only that, he's a Master at creating visibility for himself and his tweets in the timeline.
In this episode, you'll learn how to get the same results as Dagobert. He reveals his biggest secrets from the Twitter Growth course he recently released. Even I learned a lot from him!
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Pauline has done what most Twitter noobs envy: she built a ghostwriting business without having thousands of followers.
In this episode, we discuss how you can attract customers when the odds are not in your favor. Listen to this episode to find out how to get inbound ghostwriting clients without having thousands of followers and testimonials from previous clients.
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Niharika found out that ordinary people can also build a writing business. You don't need to be famous. She started writing on Medium and wrote hundreds of articles.
She's built systems for her content creation that are ideal for lazy people. In this episode, we'll discuss her journey and how you can create a thriving writing business and grow a large LinkedIn audience.
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Shreya caught a lucky break by meeting (the now former) LinkedIn's CEO Reid Jeff Weiner and wrote about that experience on LinkedIn.
The post blew up and went instantly viral. Most people will think the meeting with the CEO was the reason, but Shreya was writing all her life. The story about meeting the CEO was just the vessel of the story. She would've made it anyway.
In this episode, we talk about tactics you can get your writing career off the ground and how you can build a content marketing agency a.k.a. a ghostwriting business.
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Sohaib is an aviation engineer who works at ICAO as a marketer. He raised his hand while he was still an engineer, and they hired him as a marketer.
These days he's on fire on Twitter, and in this episode, we discuss exactly how he grew his Twitter audience quickly and how you can do the same.
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Janis’s life changed when he read the 4-hour workweek by Tim Ferris. He started experimenting with different side businesses and knew he needed to rearrange his work-life balance.
About a year ago his wife actually told him they had enough money from him to quit his job. He never looked back.
In this episode, you’ll learn how to create a different type of content. With different angles besides logic and knowledge. Janis also talks about a great way to think about keeping your audience’s attention. That’s especially useful when you don’t have any credibility yet.
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Insha wasn’t even on Twitter a year ago and now she has over 50.000 followers. She started being vocal on LinkedIn until one of her coworkers mentioned she should start a Twitter account as well.
In this episode, we talk about how you can get started sharing content as a developer and how you can grow your audience on Twitter.
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Alex started a social media agency straight out of college. He used his experience promoting his self-made gym equipment to market other brands. When the pandemic hit it was a moment where he could reflect on things and he decided to apply for a job at the Hustle. He got hired of course.
In this episode, you’ll learn how to scale your newsletter and what kind of tests you can do to know what resonates with your audience. You’ll also learn a great trick how you can get 1% better at marketing every day.
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Dickie committed himself to publish one newsletter every week for a year. After dozens of published editions, he barely had any subscribers.
It was time for him to pivot. That’s when he started writing on Twitter and everything changed.
In this episode, you’ll learn about the power of consistency and writing daily. You’ll also hear insights on how to collect ideas and churn out more content because your first tweet might be shit but your 100th tweet will be infinitely better.
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Carl started as a simple financial planner in Nevada and ended up working for the New York times for a decade and publishing multiple books.
In this episode, we’ll go through the surprisingly simple steps to becoming a content creator. You don’t need a big set of tools. Just set up a couple of smart things and you can rock and roll.
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Alex was fired from his job during the pandemic. He knew he had to do something to make a living. Luckily he had a little bit of savings and found Twitter.
In this episode, you’ll learn how to differentiate yourself on Twitter to grow your following faster and how to make money without advertising your business.
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Zon has a Twitter following at the time of this recording of about 165k followers. His engagement stats are off the chart. So I wanted to know how he did it.
In this episode, you’ll learn some amazing new angles to grow your account. It’s not as straightforward an episode as normally and I kinda like that. You’ll hear that Zon brings a different energy to it. And that’s one of the reasons I loved recording this episode because it helps you see a different perspective where you thought there was none.
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Wes had the honor and pleasure to work with Seth Godin where she developed the AltMBA. Probably one of the more well-known cohort-based courses out there. She’s currently heading Maven which is a platform where teachers can host their CBC’s.
In this episode, you’ll learn what acquisition channels work great to onboard new students into your courses. We also talk about how you can become successful as a cohort-based teacher.
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A lot of people overcomplicate success. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to talk to Donvesh. He’s a 17-year-old kid who basically one day decided he was going to try something and make some money. In a matter of days, Donvesh created an agency and is now making a ton of money with it.
In this episode, we break down what Donvesh’s system was to starting his cold outreach agency and how you can do it too. He didn’t want to mention it on the podcast but he is making some serious cash in a Red Sea. Many people would think there are no more opportunities to start a lead gen agency. I think you couldn’t be more wrong.
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