40-Month Growth Metrics
📌 The creator achieved significant growth across platforms in 40 months: 2.23 million YouTube subscribers, 2.5 million Instagram followers, 324,000 LinkedIn followers, 856,000 TikTok followers, 617,000 X (Twitter) followers, 25,000 Facebook followers, 25 million podcast downloads, and 700,000 email subscribers.
📈 This resulted in a grand total of 2 billion Impressions and 7.8 million new subscribers, leading to one million copies sold of their book.
📝 The foundational plan for this growth involved three steps: creating good content, posting it everywhere, and continuous learning.
💰 This journey involved $4 million in expenses (team, equipment, software) and 35,000 pieces of content.

Six Key Strategy Changes Observed
📌 The six major observed changes that drove growth and revenue are:
1. Going from Edutainment to Education.
2. Shifting focus from "For Us" to "For You".
3. Moving Wide to Narrow in topic focus.
4. Tracking Views to Revenue.
5. Transitioning from Shorts to Longs emphasis.
6. Adopting Assume More to Assume Nothing approach.

Strategy 1: Edutainment to Education
➡️ The creator is focusing entirely on education because all views are not created equal; entertainment viewers tend to seek more entertainment, not educational business content which drives book sales and applications.
➡️ The goal of educational content is to change the audience's behavior, whereas entertainment content only aims for consumption.
➡️ Personal preference aligns with this shift, as the creator enjoys discussing business, which is what their ideal customers value.

Strategy 2: "For Us" to "For You" (Audience Alignment)
📌 Tactical changes for serving the target audience (business owners) include adjustments in five areas:
1. Packaging (Vague to Clear): Thumbnails and headlines must clearly state the video's content to increase the likelihood of delivering what the viewer expected.
2. Introductions (Confirming to Proof): Educational content intros must feature Proof, Promise, Plan (P-P-P) to establish authority and clearly state the value proposition, unlike entertainment which confirms sensationalism.
3. Meat (Vlog/Razzle to List/Story): The meat of the content should emphasize language and message over high production value or "razzle" for educational topics.
4. Visuals (Overproduction to Effective Production): Visuals should enhance learning (e.g., visualizing data, charts) rather than distract from the core educational objective.
5. Pre-work (Postproduction to Pre-search): Spending four times more time on research and planning upfront eliminates up to 95% of post-edit work, leading to increased, higher-quality output.
🔑 Actionable Insight: "An ounce of pre-work is worth a pound of post."

Strategy 3: Wide to Narrow
📌 The focus is narrowing down topics specifically to business, business models, business leverage, and selling in a business, moving away from general lifestyle, college, or relationship content.
➡️ This aligns with the data showing that audiences who consume specific content (e.g., relationship content) primarily seek more of that niche content.

Strategy 4: Views to Revenue Tracking
📌 The primary metric has shifted from Views to Ad Revenue (RPMs - Revenue Per Mille) because it serves as a leading performance indicator that incorporates audience quality.
➡️ High RPMs indicate attracting the highest spending power audience (business owners), correlating with increased book sales and applications, even if total views are lower.
➡️ An experiment showed that content catering to the broader audience tripled views but halved Ad Revenue, confirming the wrong audience was being targeted.

Strategy 5: Shorts to Longs Emphasis
➡️ Data suggests that Shorts viewers watch more Shorts, and Longs viewers watch more Longs; Long-form content drives significantly more conversions (book sales, opt-ins, applications).
➡️ The strategy is to double down on Longs focused on business topics while maintaining short-form volume but ensuring it focuses more on business.

Strategy 6: Assume More to Assume Nothing
📌 To attract new viewers, the creator is adopting an "Assume Nothing" mindset, which requires:
1. Introducing yourself every time, stating what you do and why people should listen.
2. Fully explaining references and inside jokes to welcome new audiences.
3. Acting as though you are always talking to a stranger.
🔑 Actionable Insight: Re-post your #1 piece of content from last year; new audience members haven't seen it, and existing followers benefit from the reminder.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ Execute Something: Anything works better than nothing; entrepreneurs must start doing something, identify what works better, and maximize that activity until it slows down.
➡️ Content Funnel Reversal: In this creator's experience, content consumption flows more linearly: entertainment seekers watch more entertainment, and education seekers watch more education; they do not readily cross over.
➡️ Resource Allocation: The goal is to become more efficient with inputs (time, money, energy) to maximize the number of the right people who find your content.
➡️ Free Resources: For beginners, practice is available at school.com/games; for those further along, free courses on offers, advertising, and leads are available at ac.is.com/training.

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