Digital Social Hour - Automation Mastery: David Omari Reveals the Truth about Winning on YouTube | Digital Social Hour #48

Episode Date: July 9, 2023

Buckle up, listeners! Prepare for a deep dive into the fascinating universe of YouTube automation with my amazing guest, the ever-enthusiastic David, our first YouTube guy! Have you ever dreamt of owning a YouTube empire where subscribers rain like summer afternoon showers? If yes, let this episode take you on an extraordinary odyssey where you learn firsthand about buying channels, creating popular scripts with AI, and making substantial profits with just a handful of uploads. You may be wondering, "How in the world does YouTube automation achieve such impressive profit margins?" Well, listen now as David breaks down his budget allocation for script writing, voiceover, video editing, and thumbnail creation with the precision of a seasoned strategist. Peek into his experiences, and learn how to build your team on freelancing platforms, vet potential hires, and keep the much-loved balance between quality and cost. Yes, I know, quality over quantity sounds cliché, but wait till you hear how this mantra led to substantial monthly earnings for David – an impressive feat; I assure you. Now, imagine, earning over $100k from a single channel...sounds too good to be true? Well then, brace yourself for a riveting tale of how an $8k video's profit transformed into 160 more videos. Follow David's journey from his sneaker videos to creating anonymous, automated video game content. Hear about his adventures in different niches, including anime and NBA content, and share in his quest for the coveted diamond play button – his ticket to achieving 10 million subscribers. Intrigued? But wait, there's more! We guarantee an eye-opening discussion about the potential of YouTube automation, equating it to the early stages of Bitcoin investment. And oh, the thrill of expanding into multiple languages, hiring voiceover artists, and scriptwriters to create international content! So, why should you listen to this episode? If the allure of delegating and seeing your enterprise grow while you sleep doesn't excite you, I'm not sure what will! As David puts it, once you master the art of delegation and automation, it's surreal! Moreover, let David explain why investing in self is the most rewarding investment, understand growth strategy, network amplification, and how to ride with the trend! This episode not only gives you a slice of David's successful YouTube journey but also lets you in on an exclusive five-day virtual event where you can learn the YouTube automation game from him! Buckle your seatbelts; it's time to embark on a life-changing journey to making your YouTube dreams come true. Hear and learn from the first-hand experiences of a pro; listen to this episode NOW! Trust me, you don't want to miss out! David Omari Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/davidomari/ David Website: http://www.ytachallenge.com/seankelly --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/digitalsocialhour/support Digital Social Hour works with participants in sponsored media and stays compliant with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations regarding sponsored media. #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

So subscribers don't even matter to you that much? Nah. I just bought a channel for like $80,000. If the channel's making like $5k a month, you can sell it for over six figures. It's literally digital real estate if you think about it. I got a whole anime channel. I can't tell, Sean Kelly. Here with my co-host, Wayne Lewis. What up, what up?

And our guest today, David Omari. What's going on, yo? What's going on? How's it going, man? Man, it's going good, man. I'm glad you got me, man. We've been connected for so long. It's about time we sat down and had a chat man absolutely i'm excited first youtube guy on here wow youtube automation guy i feel i feel automation yeah because there's a few you guys right yeah so it's a lot of people in the industry um i think i'm like the only one that look like me though so i'm kind of in my own lane got my own wave and kind of just like you know showing

showing our people like yeah what it's a cool thing to do yeah. So explain what YouTube automation is for people that don't know. So all YouTube automation is is just a passive way of doing YouTube where you never create a single video yourself or ever show your face on a camera. You outsource a team of freelancers from Fiverr. So you got a script writer, a voiceover artist, a video editor, and a thumbnail artist. They make the videos, and after that,

it's back in your ballpark to upload it and optimize it on a channel so there's so many different types of channels people already watch that they don't know is youtube automation so but for example all kind of different niches oh my goodness it's so many niches travel elon musk uh what's it called what's his name uh and Tate, right? Donald Trump. Like, there's so many different niches you can get into. It's like an unlimited source of topics you can make videos about without showing your face or making videos yourself.

Now, hiring that whole team of people, is that expensive? So, it can be. But I will say, for the most part, we actually just started a brand new channel in the year 2023 started in january uh first month it did like six hundred dollars in january second month it did 5k and so it's averaging five to seven thousand dollars a month and those videos only cost me 42 that's it each video yeah what my first viral video when i started doing youtube automation after i basically got spread thin doing the channels myself. And I outsourced the team. I spent $50 on a video and the video made $10,000. Wow.

Yeah. That's insane. Those margins are crazy. Yeah, that's not bad. Yeah, the profit margins are crazy. But that's each video though, right? You're going to spend about $40 to $50 per video. Per video.

And is that the total cost? That's with the team? That's with the editing and everything? So I have this rule. I call it the 15-15-5 rule. I spend $15 on my script writer, $15 on my voice actor, $15 on my video editor, and then $5 on a thumbnail artist. The beautiful thing about the thumbnail is it's so oversaturated on Fiverr. Finding a thumbnail artist.

So literally, people are fending to have the cheapest price. So you're always going to be able to find a thumbnail artist. You can create thumbnails, too, on Runway. Yeah, you can create your own thumbnails. With AI. Yeah, with AI. Yeah, yeah you can create thumbnails, too, on Runway. Yeah, you can create your own thumbnails. With AI. Yeah, with AI. Yeah, yeah. And AI has been, man, game-changing.

Are you using it yet? Only for the scripting. Okay. But we don't rely on the scripting too much. But are you using chat? Yeah, so chat, GBT. I got this play that I say, you know, Quillbot where, and this is a play. So we go on YouTube.

We find a popular YouTube automation in the same topic. We grab the script from the video because you can get the transcript. We remove the clips of where they're like, maybe they have like a clip of a specific moment that happened that they're talking about in the video. We take that out and we take the script. We put it in an AI software called Quillbot, and Quillbot rewrites the entire script.

And usually what we do is we go to the most popular videos because we know that those topics work so we're just gonna take that script and i still have script writers look over them just to make sure you know it's no grammatic error or it doesn't sound correct because we want to have the ultimate best like performance so we just gotta make sure it's good that sounds so how many videos you putting out a day so technically we put out i would say like three videos per week oh you don't have to do you don't have to go i mean some people do go crazy but i'm a big this is just me personally i'm a big quality over quantity type of guy like i'm just huge on quality like i want to make sure the video is nice before i go put it out there and then just trying to start. Because I noticed when I do that, the videos tend

to get way more views than they typically would if I was just to spam upload. You know what I'm saying? And literally had a channel that was in this recap niche where only uploaded five videos a month. The channel was still making like 16K a month. That's not bad. Talk about a hell of a lot.

Yeah, so there's so many. You don't really got to go all in. And I think that's what's really holding people back from YouTube sometimes. You think you just got to go all in, drop a video every day. Or they're just doing the same kind of, you know, camera in the face. Hey, guys, doing prank videos and stuff like that. You kind of, it's innovation in a way. Right. Because it's like you're still giving content, but it's not you.

Yeah. It's in different niches. And that's what I always tell people, too. Like, a lot of people argue that YouTube is a saturated market now, but 98% of the platforms showing their face on camera and talking about their day-to-day life, it's only 2% of the platform that's doing YouTube automation. So, I mean, hey, it's like the Bitcoin of 2013.

Nobody knew about it. Nobody invested in it, and now it's worth thousands of dollars. So, you know, we're going to eat it all up, though. I like this model because it seems pretty cheap to start, and the growth seems crazy. Yeah, the ROI is insane. I mean, what you're doing, like, that's a $20,000 X return. Now, don't get me wrong.

I'd be crazy to say, like, every video I'm spending $50 on, I'm making, like, $10K. That's absolutely not the truth. I'm saying overall, though. Overall, though, yeah. Yeah, you spend about $500 500 a month and you make it about 16 on average and that's just off one channel right one channel bro so imagine if you got three of those wow and all different niches we got plenty of them yeah i'm sure i'm sure how many do you have so in my total career since because i've been doing it for about 10 years, I've probably had close to 30 channels. So one channel for over $100,000.

How many people do that? So it's a really good buyers and sellers market. It's very scarce, though, because typically people only sell channels when they're on a downward. They don't sell them when they're on an up. So it's really hard to find people that's going to be selling a channel that's doing well. I like that idea, though. I would buy a channel.

You don't want to do the groundwork. Yeah. Yeah. You got a base. So how much can you sell a channel for? Like, what's the average rates? It's actually crazy, bro. Like, oh, my goodness.

And we're now in the business of acquiring channels instead of just starting from scratch. So you guys are buying channels too? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I just bought a channel. I just bought a channel for like 80,000. 100,000 subscribers or more? Only 50,000. Only 50,000?

It's like, if the channel's making like 5K a month, you can sell it for over six figures. I know channels that barely made like half a mil and was selling for like $700K. Well, because you got to think, he says you're making that $60K a year. So it's worth it because you're going to make $60K this year, $60K next year. And that's not even including the brand deals. And growth and brand deals. It's worth it because you don't have to do the groundwork. It's literally digital real estate if you think about it. Like a digital asset. You know, you build it up.

You know, it gains revenue over time. And the value, you know, it's like 10 minutes. I don't know why more people don't, like, utilize that concept. Because it's, it works. Because they just don't know, bro. Buy real estate. I mean, buy, I'm not saying buy real estate, y'all. Buy a YouTube channel.

Yeah. And then have that pay for the home versus buying a home. Right. I mean, not to say versus buying a home, but the YouTube channel is a YouTube channel. And then have that pay for the home versus buying a home. I mean, not to say versus buying a home, but the YouTube channel is a cash flow. Yeah, nah, that joint paid for my lifestyle. Right, right. Real talk, but nah, it's like, really people don't even understand, too, like there's a little play that I do when I do

acquire channels is I take the highest month and I times it by 12. And I say, that's what I'm going to buy the channel for because some people try to sell the channels for crazy amounts I'm like look realistically I don't know if this channel is gonna fall off the face of the earth tomorrow I don't know if YouTube could just clap this channel so this is the best deal I can give you um and then we you know we agree on that seems pretty fair I mean highest month times 12 a lot of people would do that right and so that

channel instantly is still making that money still making the money and we acquire the channel and the team so how do you transition in that case how do you transition or prepare the subs for the new content that you're going to be posting do you lose same content we don't you so the thing about youtube and i'm pretty sure just in business and social media you guys know this you can't change your niche right it's really hard to pivot and if you are pivoting it has to be very subtle it can't be your niche. It's really hard to pivot. And if you are pivoting, it has to be very subtle. It can't be like, yo, we're talking about basketball, let's start talking about PGA golf tours.

You know what I'm saying? It can't, it has to be on that same topic. So you stay in the same niche, but it's just, it's different content. So you go from being a guy in front of the camera to just doing basketball. Bro, I got a whole anime channel. I can't tell you one anime. Naruto is probably the only anime anime channel. I can't tell you one anime. Naruto is probably the only anime I know.

That's fire. Dragon Ball Z. That's fire. And it's making money. But it's because I have the brains behind the operation running it. Right, right. I'm to a point now in my YouTube automation business where I literally am just an overseer. I don't manage channels anymore. Wow.

That was in the beginning when I was like owner-operator. Now it's just like I'm overseeing this channel. I'm what it's doing um you know how can we make this better x y and z and i'm hiring management companies too like and just you know training them up to manage it and then what i'm doing now is instead of paying them a monthly you know earnings from the revenue i'm just giving equity in the channel when we sell it off so like this this anime channel when we sell it off we're gonna i'm gonna give the management company 10 of the channel smart yeah and so i pocket all of the you know i'm saying money so it's it's so many little intricates in the business it's just so many ways to make money with youtube that people

don't understand so are you building your team solely off Fiverr, too, or are you going to different places? In 2023, I solely focus on Fiverr and Upwork. I like Upwork because you can get a little more crafty when you're choosing your freelancers because you can make a script and actually tell them or a post and actually say, hey, I'm looking for somebody that I'm trying to pay X, Y, and Z for, opposed to going on Fiverr and it's like, okay, I got to pay what they tell me I got to pay. Right. You know what I'm saying?

So Upwork and Fiverr, but you got People Per Hour, Freelancer, Kappa99. It's just so many different freelance sites you can use. I think people even use PH.jobs to get freelancers, and they get some good results from it. So many different. Now, what's the trick to get the best freelancers? Because there's a lot of them that suck, to be honest. Right. And I'm glad you mentioned that. That's actually something that we really focus on heavy um and so

with that that's the only downfall to the business model is when you are going through freelancer after freelancer after freelancer so um something i do for my like my clients and my mentees and stuff is i put a freelance because i like document process. I have a whole freelancer list of freelancers I've used my whole entire career in an e-book form. And it's with clickable links. So that way they can just jump on a train and get it. But let's say they don't got that, right? You got to vet them out. Video editor, you tell the video editor, hey, I need a 30-second clip.

Show me you can edit, right? And so they tell us, they give us that 36 second sample. So we're not paying the money to edit a video. And then we get the video and we're like, okay, I need a million revisions, but we're,

we're firing them on the spot. If they're not who we think they are. Right. Even with thumbnails. Hey, give me a sample. Hey, script writer,

give me a sample voice actor and voice narrators. You, you, you kind of can hear it on the fiverr postings and everything like their voices are usually good you don't have to really like do a sample with yeah but um yeah man it it's a lot of ways to really get away from just getting away from the bad freelancers because there's a lot of them and typically you know what cheap work is but most people when they start they don't understand the difference between quality and cheap so it's just really breaking yeah plus you're getting the max the max amount of

quality for as far as the cost goes low it's low cost so you're still benefiting from it on a large scale because you're not paying out of pocket that much exactly it's the roi is just it's crazy it's a match yeah these margins are yeah yeah and that video um that made 10 000 i took eight thousand dollars from that video i bought 160 more videos with that profit and it accumulated to like half a million 160 videos wow you pay with the eight thousand from the profit you just reinvested it that's how you do it it was a50 seed. I planted. Yeah. Most people would have probably went out and bought something. Went to the club. Yeah. That's what I'll be telling my like, my people will be like, yeah, what y'all gonna do with this money? They'd be like, I'm gonna go to the mall. I'm like, nah, throw it back into the videos. Because you got to think about it. At that time, I was working a nine to five, man. I was trying to get out. And I saw that first, you know, first you know bread came in i was like look i either got i got two choices i can stay here and be broke or i can do this again and see if it worked and like i said i wasn't making ten thousand dollars every video but on average i was making anywhere from two to three thousand twenty five hundred to thirty five hundred yeah not on every video but if you got 16 videos a month making $2,000, $3,000, I mean, do the math.

I'm back from a 30-day standpoint. You know what I'm saying? Because YouTube pay out what? Every what? Every month. Every month. So on the 21st, you get that check from Google. Yeah, you're not going to see your money until then.

So you got to just wait to the viewership. And that's the beautiful thing is once you get that first viral, it's just like, oh my goodness, once you get that first viral video, it's a domino effect because now YouTube's like, okay, let's recommend your new content

to those viewers, that same pile of people. And it's just the snowball effect is what we like to call it. That's what I noticed with us because we weren't getting any views

for the first two months and then one video went viral and then after that, snowball effect. Yeah, it's a blessing, bro. I love when that happens. Yeah. Dude, I'm excited about this business model like i want to start i was like i was like everyone's happy we're gonna have to sit down and talk about this afterwards oh yeah so what actually got you into youtube and then when

did you transition into youtube automation when did like how did you even think of that so i was uh coming out of high school, getting into YouTube. I was doing sneaker videos. Okay. But I've realized that that just wasn't sustainable. Like, if I wanted to make another video, I had to go and buy another Jordan. Right, right. And I'm like, okay, I can't build a business like that.

So then I said, you know what? I've been spending a lot of time playing video games, playing a lot of GTA. Right. Why not make content about that? I don't have to show my face. I still have to edit the video and use my voice, but at least I don't have to show my face anymore. And so I did that. First video got 100 views in a month, and I was like, yo, for a channel that got 100 views in a month with zero subscribers, that's pretty cool.

Let me try this again. Next video ended up getting half a million views. Video made $5,000, and from that day, I never stopped uploading. Then, you know, fast forward, my wife, she's pregnant with my son. And I'm like, yo, I got to figure out a way to get this money by tomorrow. Keep in mind, I'm doing pretty good. Like, I still got my nine to five. I still got my channels going and doing my thing.

But I'm like, I'm spreading myself thin. I can't even, like, I can't keep spreading myself thin. I got to figure out a way to automate this business and scale it. Because if I don't, I'm always going to be in this, you know, cycle of $7,000, $10,000 a month. It's never going to go up. And so I basically saw a really big opportunity in the gaming niche. Fortnite clips, Twitch streamers and stuff like that. First month ended up, I think we made like $60 or something crazy like that on that channel. And then the next month, made $68,000.

Made $68,000? The very next month? Wow. Just you by yourself or you had a team? Team. I mean, it's cheap, though. That was my first endeavor into YouTube automation. Gotcha.

And that channel ended up giving over a billion views in total. Gotcha. I've probably seen some of those clips. And then that's when you're like, okay, I figured yeah and then after that i jumped from that gaming i jumped in the top 10 um the anime stuff and all kind of different niches that i didn't jump into um we even started nba channel this this year it's moving a little slow it's getting the views but it's just getting the subscribers so how do you so when it when it comes to you use other people's clips right so the content is technically not yours.

Yeah, but it's transformed. Oh, it's transformed. So and a lot of people, you know, they have that worry like, yo, what if I get copyrighted? What if this person comes? Yeah, well, you too will. But you have to change it. Yeah. So like, let's just say, for example, somebody takes this clip right here and they put on their video.

If they have a type of voiceover and they use this as like more of like a background video playing as like b-roll content or whatever and they're talking over it with music and then they show the clip and they come back and it was like yeah sean and dave was talking about x y and z that's transformed so now it's considered fair use like it's covered under the fair use copyright law so you don't have to worry about you know your content getting copyright and that's the big thing that people always say like david how can we make nba videos if the nba owns that content are we going to get like huge copyright it's like no if you got a voice actor on there with music and you're adding you know transformative content and you're

making it more original youtube's not going to mess with you the nba is not going to mess with you you'll take it to the next level how How do you find trending niches? Because last night I was looking at the top viewed channels. I saw Omar was number seven, the guy from ESPN. That's crazy. Yeah, that Indian dude. So I was like, wow, basketball must be hot. But how do you find them? Social Blade is a really good tool.

Social Blade is good. But typically I start with the search engine. I search up my topic. When I find my topic, I look for the channel with the lowest amount of search up my topic when i find my topic i look for the channel with the lowest amount of subscribers in the highest view so the lowest subscriber ratio to the higher views ratio because that typically says this channel is doing something really well because they're getting way more views than they have subscribers now typically a good number is if a channel has like five ten thousand subscribers 10,000 subscribers, 100,000 subscribers, and they got a video with a million views.

Right. This topic is hot. We got to jump on that. And then what you do from there is if that video is doing well, you go and analyze that channel. And you go and look through all the other videos that are doing well on that channel. And you take the most recent ones with the most views. And then you take inspiration from it and remake it and make it better. Typically, when you see an idea go off on YouTube, you want to make it better.

If you make it better and you add quality to it, it's going to take off. Gotcha. Wow. Yeah. I literally showed some people the other day, I was like, look at this roller coaster video, okay? They posted it. It was like five and seven years ago, right? But the seven-year one, it was like a roller coaster, like top ten scariest roller coasters in the world.

It's a roller coaster going down like a water park, right? And then, so that was a seven-year-old video, right? 7.5 million views. The same video on the same channel posted, right, two years later. So it was five years ago. Almost 8 million views. Same roller coaster, but now it's five years ago, almost eight million views. Same roller coaster, but now it's a skyscraper thumbnail, the same exact video.

Wow. It's they transformed it up a little bit. So it didn't, you know, come up as, you know, reused. But just like that, like history on YouTube repeats itself. If it worked before, it could work. You don't have to reinvent the wheel. You don't got to be, you know, right. So subscribers don't even matter to you that much. No. I mean, yeah, building a community is always going to be great because at the end of the day like when you build an audience it it can really become a huge snowball because how youtube finds viewers to watch your channel is solely based on the people that watch your channel yeah so if you have a strong subscriber fan base of people and they're always tapping into your videos it's always going to push it out to that right audience that's exactly like the people that's already

subscribed to you and that's how you just growing bigger and better yeah because it was a i mean i think a while back it was more emphasis on your sub numbers because the plaques people care a lot about it's all about the viewership yeah that plaque hunt that plaque hunt is crazy though how many plaques you got i have four four 100K plaques, one million plaque, and then I'm about to, after this anime channel, I'm about to have another 100K plaque. I want another million plaque from that channel, too. It's just going crazy.

We got to get one one day, bro. Oh, y'all going to get one. I mean, bro. We're going to make sure before I leave today. We're going to drop a game. I think we just hit like 20K. Oh, yeah. Y'all growing fast. Strain rate, february actually yeah trust you're gonna get those

days i heard the first like 10k is the hardest yeah after that yeah and that's typically when i tell people like um because a lot of people like when is it a good time to make another channel like because people like to make multiple channels like get your first 10k and you know start mentioning that you have another channel and see if they mess with it. And kind of build a little sub-niche on another channel over there. So 10K is really a great milestone. Once you're past that, you're a smooth seller from there. That's what I heard.

So what's the end goal with this? Do you want to do this for a while? I want a diamond play button so bad. Is that $100 million? $10 million. $10 million? It's a lot of work. That's just for one channel right yeah yeah that'd be dope if they did a collective i wish you had 10 channels and they equaled up to a certain amount you still i feel like you still

should get a plaque but i i wish i get it there's overlap so that's yeah i get it that but that is ingo um of course building up this. You get 10 million sales, bro. That's a lot of people. You kicking your feet up at that point. How many people you think hit that? Like under 1,000? I think under 100. Because on IG, I'm about to hit 10 mil.

And on Social Blade, you can see the ranking. And I'm like 1,700. So there's not that many people at 10 mil on IG. Mr. Beast is probably the. But YouTube's got to be the best. The thing about Mr. Beast, I had linked YouTube's got even less think about it Mr. Beast had like LinkedIn

which is over it's over yeah that dude could get you a million overnight literally he has channels that's literally like

oh he has multiple channels bro did you see what he did with the languages yeah bro that's genius oh he had channels in different languages

yes bro he was showing Graham Steven like channels he hasn't uploaded on in like months and it was still pulling like 50K a month.

Like crazy. He's just going to random channels. It's like 20K a month, 50K. I'm just like, bro, this man's crazy. He has like 20 different languages. Yeah. It's so smart, because now he gets recognized worldwide. Bro, that dude is different.

He's killing it, bro. Mr. B. Shout out to Mr. B's bro. He always hats off, and we all look up to him, man. He's killing it. Do you stick with English, or do you do multiple languages? I have never did a different language channel. That may be something I look into because it really does work.

But how do you set it up? You just go, how do you set the different language up? Just hiring the voiceover artist that can do it and the script writer that can, you know. And then I'm pretty sure there are translating companies or something like that that do it for you yeah i haven't looked i know ai has a program where you can do everything i saw that everything in different languages yeah it's just clicks but the cpms in the in the english countries are probably the highest yeah yeah yeah they're always gonna be higher because it's just the audience is they got more money but yeah i think ingo really getting that play button,

the diamond play button, and then just my whole portfolio of YouTube channels, eventually just, you know, selling them off. I think that's going to be like, you know, the out. I love what I do, though. I'm really addicted to this YouTube thing, this YouTube automation thing. It's just something that, you know, I could never see myself not doing.

You don't have to do any really real work, so why would you go away from it people say passive income isn't real but this seems pretty it seems pretty passive that's what i mean you got to put some work in when people think of passive income as no work yeah but you got to put work in anything you do that's how you create passive income i mean it's it's it's it has a passive aspect yeah i'd say that. Typically... How many hours a day are you putting in? There you go. I'm talking. Not anymore, bro. Back in the day, we were sitting in front of that computer.

So while you're here, work is being done? Yeah, bro. Automation. It's because when you delegate and you put people in position, you don't got to do nothing. I have so many businesses that's just running right now.

Running. Phone keep buzzing. That's why I keep touching my pockets. It's just going off. But it's just like automation, delegation. Once you master that, it's doing its thing. So what's your reinvestment strategy? Say you make $100K.

Are you putting that all back in like Mr. Beast, or are you keeping some? No, he's winning part of yours. So I definitely leverage the income from the YouTube channels to consistently keep building up more YouTube channels. But I don't really take that money and spend it for real. What do you actually spend your money on? Do you buy cars and things like that? I got a Lambo, G-Wagon. Me and my boy Benny just bought a 60-unit

building in Decatur. We're closing on the 19th. You're getting into real estate. Yeah, just diversifying as much as I can. I'm really big on investing into me, investing in the personal development. I think I'm about to jump in another mastermind for like 50K on the 23rd. Which one? I think it's like jason flattland and nehemiah davis

yeah bro just learning more and just you know reinvesting into myself i think that's the best investment you can make absolutely investing into yourself and just getting to that next level because there's so much knowledge out here there's so many roadmaps that people already have laid out it's like why spend another decade trying to learn it when it's already done for you? You can literally have somebody turn a decade into days for you just from investing your money. Best investment is yourself.

How did you grow your network? Because I see you chilling with some heavy hitters, bro. It's weird, bro. So, I lived in LA for the majority of my life, and then I moved to Atlanta. Keep in mind of my life, and then I moved to Atlanta. Keep in mind, I had no friends when I moved to Atlanta. I just was doing my thing.

I ran into one entrepreneur at the mall, tapped in with him, we followed each other. I had already kind of met Neo through, like, you know, my brother was at the mall one time and ran into another entrepreneur. They ended up putting us both on FaceTime, so I had met Neo like that. And so Neo had already knew about me. and so he kind of brought me into his network i joined his mastermind and then after that like i kind of just really blew up like my educational business and people just started knowing about it and so um yeah like my network kind of just blew up from that people just tapping in like getting dms from like you know crazy like all kind of people i think the biggest person that follows me right now is, like, Pete Diddy, bro.

And I'm like, but I have not messaged him or nothing. Like, I'm like, bro, I don't even know what to say to this man, bro. Because I know that if I ever do come or go that route, it got to be something that's like, if I'm going at Diddy with something, it got to be like. Nah, but honestly, Diddy, I've been around him, bro. He just like having that young energy around him. It ain't even about what you can do. It's about how you can help him in a sense.

He'll use you to help him because he like that young energy around him, bro. And I think what happened, though, crazy story is like, you remember that party was like Jay-Z, Jermaine Dupri, Diddy. I don't know. I think I had a post going viral on like Spiritual Word or Shade Room or something. And Jermaine Dupri and Diddy followed me. And I was just like, I didn't know Pete Diddy followed me. It was weird.

It was like months that went by. And I had just clicked on his page and it said follow back. And I'm like, bro, when is this? And then I had Pete. I'm like, because, you know, you could filter by verification. by verification I'm like oh they must have been talking about me at that party because Jermaine Dupri followed me too but he had tapped in like we locked in like got on the phone everything I'm helping to monetize his channel and everything like we locked in yeah so I'm just like bro it's just the network well what would you say, how can an artist, a musician, from a music standpoint, get into automation using their own?

Because content is key, and a lot of them don't really take advantage of it. In a sense, they're really just focusing on streaming. How can music artists do the Amazon FBA. The YouTube automation. The YouTube automation. I mean, I've never really personally seen an artist. And don't get me wrong. I've had deals on the table where people were trying to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to run their whole music network with all their artists. And I'm just like, bro, I don't have that kind of expertise.

I don't know nothing. I mean, I'll try to be a rapper but that didn't work so i can't help you but i think you know just i wouldn't say really i don't think they necessarily need the whole automation business model i just think they need a team that's really going to focus on putting their music out there and automating that process for them so they're not constantly like oh i gotta make this song and you know streaming on here streaming on here like just getting a team and that's just really the answer to that so i don't know i can't see how you could really automate what that because it demands so much of the artist you know creating the actual content itself and then maybe placing the songs on certain like yeah yeah yeah that too yeah yeah oh yeah leveraging their own music exactly oh yeah yeah for sure yeah for sure do you have a mentor through all

this or just solo through youtube automation yeah self-taught wow yeah so you haven't you haven't had no mentors your whole life because like i literally no no i have i have a mentor entrepreneur mentorship like for sure that's like yeah i got a i got a ton of mentors but Because, like, I literally, no, no, I have a mentor. Entrepreneur mentorship. For sure. That's like, I got a ton of mentors. But as far as the YouTube thing, man, like, just I have this mentality, like, throw me in a pool. And it's a sink or swim mentality. And I just decide to swim. Like, that's just really what I do with a lot of my, you know what I'm saying, my stuff.

And I saw success from it. So not to say I don't need a YouTube mentor because I look up to a lot of people in the industry and I learn a lot from them. A lot of the platforms like vidIQ too, buddy, shout out to them. They got some awesome techniques and awesome AI technology and stuff that really helps blow the channels up. But yeah, man, nah, like I never really invested into somebody in the YouTube automation space because I started so early on before it really was a thing and I really even knew what it was. And then it kind of just became this thing. I feel that. What's the best way to use vidIQ?

I just got that last week. Oh, my goodness. It's worth it? Everything, bro. Really? Tags, descriptions, titles, competitive research, finding really great topics that have super high search volumes. It's I mean, it's designed to boost your growth and your views, man. I mean, shoot.

I mean, I did. I feel like I've played around with it. Yeah. Vid IQ is solid. And it tells you like the amount of views your videos are getting per hour. It tells you like the videos that are for you. It literally shows you a breakdown of when the video went viral it's super intricate it breaks it breaks down the intricacies of like

why things are why like why they catch and you know what's it's catered to your research so you know how you always study and stuff yeah both are but for vid iq it breaks down everything else as to why it goes so smart yeah Yeah, I like to study the trending shorts and stuff. What do you think about shorts? Oh, that's a play. Shout out to this channel, Love Live Serve. Noah Boat, my guys. They took their channel, I think they said they had

like 3 or 5 million subs, all the way up to 10 million just off shorts alone. Them shorts are crazy, bro. Especially when they first came out. But you got to understand social media, whenever they drop some type of new metric or some type of new, abuse it because they're pushing it. They really want everybody to use a tool or use the new thing.

So in the beginning, it was crazy. I think it's still really good. It's still something that you should definitely be implementing. I feel like me personally, this is kind of biased i like long form content because number one it makes more money but it's just it i feel like it has a longer lifespan on the platform and then shorts is just like a quick but everybody attention span is getting shorter but we got seven seconds now lower it's lower it's bad it's really, bro. It's bad. It's really bad, bro. So that's why you see all these YouTubers have like 10 clips in five seconds because it's like you got to keep the viewer engaged.

So you're not clipping up your long form at all and turning them into shorts? Yeah, I do. Like podcasts and stuff. But I do with the NBA channel as well. We clip it up. But I feel like my automation channels, we really just don't focus on shorts as much as we should. Because, like I said, we see so much good results and success.

And there's been this kind of thing that people say, like, yo, shorts kind of gets favored sometimes. If you have long form and shorts. And sometimes your long form content dies out if you're like doing too much. It's this weird myth. I'm pretty sure it's just a myth. But I've seen automation channels like fumble because their shorts start taking off and their long form just dies. So it's just like I don't like to really play with it. And the long form money is so good and it's so evergreen. It's always, you know, garnishing views and getting passive income.

It's just like, why? Why fix it if it ain't broke? Facts. What are some tricks to get longer viewer duration on long form videos? views and getting passive income it's just like why why fix it if it ain't broke facts what are some tricks to get longer viewer duration on long form videos so super easy take the most highlighted piece or the most controversial moment in your video make it the intro and after that you go into your intro make it short 5 10 15 second intro explaining who you are what you do and what the video is about and get straight into it or because they're waiting for that viral right or the first five seconds of

your video answer the question that the viewer is already asking or the viewer is already curious about so for example um i don't know how to sports bet that just came to my mind how to sports bet in the first five seconds you need to tell them so i'm downloading this app today and i'm going to teach you exactly how to sports bet x y and z and then boom you jump into the video and then say hey my name is so and so i'm an expert in sports betting and in today's video i'm going to break down the basic you know fundamentals of sports betting and then you go right into the video wow that was a great intro thanks for watching our channel you know what i'm saying like it's just you gotta because the viewers already like number one you have to spark curiosity with the title and the thumbnail the thumbnail has to kind

of like play off of that title a little bit and so it just gets people curious to click on it and then once they click on it you know i'm saying it's your job to keep them you know viewing for longer but when you put that highlighted moment in the beginning to add to that, you want to make sure it's at least at the 40 to 60% mark. Because typically the best videos that I've seen do really good have a 40% watch time duration or average viewer duration. It's like 40% is like a sweet spot for me personally. I know some people say 50 60 is better um because you get better results but typically if a video gets 40 duration i know video number one is going to have a longer lifespan it's going to get pushed out more and it's probably going to perform better

than most videos so that's really like you know just understanding giving the viewer what they came for don't clickbait them you know you can do a little bit of clickbait on the thumbnail but i used to now like when i was younger bro i was like what clickbait king bro but i learned a lesson from that i i got i got a really bad taste i got put really bad taste in people's mouth they didn't like it um you know i'm saying i i've learned so many things to not do right we used to do giveaways uh on on youtube in the very beginning right learn not to do that because people just subscribe to the giveaway and they don't even care about your channel.

Just so many little things that you learn along the way. So, yeah, nah, we don't clickbait no more. We give them right what they want. There's this one clickbaiter in the Fortnite community. I forget his name. He got canceled because he would just clickbait, bro. Oh, my goodness. So bad.

It's crazy, bro. He used to get millions of views, but. Not anymore. Not anymore Not anymore The clickbait was too bad dude Yeah Because How do you clickbait yourself today

He be capping bro People and the kids grow up bro Yeah When the kids grow up There goes your following Yeah Done Pack it up

Yeah Feel that Man that was a great episode David what's next for you Man so You know I'm still heavy in the YouTube automation game But I've been getting a lot of DM's A lot of people hitting me up so, you know, I'm still heavy in the YouTube automation game,

but I've been getting a lot of DMs. A lot of people hitting me up trying to learn. Yeah. So I'm going to be doing something that I've never done before. I'm doing a five-day virtual event where basically people can come and learn the YouTube automation, you know, game day one to five. You literally spend time with me on a Zoom call face-to-face, me coaching you through it, teaching you how to build that dream team, right, that's going to help you, you you know garnish views and make passive income

teaching how to monetize your channel with the best strategies and techniques right teaching you just literally how to blow up a youtube automation channel in that five days so it's the youtube automation five-day challenge if you want to tap in it's ytachallenge.com um you know i'm pretty sure my boys gonna be there tapping into because too because they're trying to get Some action Is it free? It is paid I'm pretty sure Sean's going to put it in the description below It's a few ways you can get in I suggest going platinum

Because those people are going to get to spend more time With me and secrets out guys I'm actually going to have a secret Group chat for the people that go platinum And we're going to be in there dropping plays throughout the whole thing bro I'm really over delivering on this I've never done this before usually I do like a free class they get an hour out of me

and that's it but now it's like I'm trying to impact how long does this chat last is it ongoing are you gonna just build on a chat or I'm gonna be on the chat for the five days those chats are solid bro so it's gonna be in telegram but No, I'm going to be on the chat for the five days. Okay, for sure. Those chats are solid, bro. So it's going to be in Telegram.

Oh, in Telegram. Like I said, there's three ways. It's a platinum ticket, a VIP ticket, and a general admission. I personally would suggest general admission because it's just going to be live stream on Facebook. You're not going to be able to meet me face-to-face, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of spending five days with me. So, I mean, if that's what you got to do, you do it. Just get in the room some way, how. Go platinum, man, because that's where we go.

They're going to get the best results because they're going to be like hands on. It's going to be crazy. I'm a fan of those chats with heavy hitters. Good things always happen. That's what I'm saying. Network and network. Wayne. Thank you guys for watching Digital Social Hour.

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