Marketing Secrets with Russell Brunson - From 10K to 10 Million Views: Brendan Kane’s Blueprint for Social Media Dominance

Episode Date: October 7, 2024

In this episode of the Marketing Secrets podcast, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Brendan Kane, a social media strategist, author, and expert in crafting viral content. Brendan has built a career helping brands and individuals achieve massive social media success. He’s the author of several books, including One Million Followers, Hook Point, and his latest work, The Guide to Going Viral. Brendan was in Boise to spend time with my team, helping us refine our social media strategy, so I took the opportunity to pick his brain and share his insights with you. During our conversation, Brendan shared his unique approach to social media strategy, which he’s used to generate over 60 billion views and 100 million followers across various platforms. We dive into the importance of choosing the right content format, understanding the contextual elements that drive engagement, and how to avoid the pitfalls that many people face when creating content for Instagram, YouTube, or other platforms. Whether you’re looking to get your first 10,000 followers or aiming for millions, the strategies Brendan shares can be applied at any level to enhance your social media presence. Key Highlights: Understanding Content Formats: Brendan explains how choosing and mastering the right format for your content is essential for consistent performance. Analyzing Performance Drivers: Learn the key factors that make some videos achieve millions of views while others get lost in the feed. Effective Use of Calls-to-Action: Discover when and how to incorporate calls-to-action within your content to increase conversions without sacrificing engagement. Adapting to Different Platforms: How to adjust your strategies for Instagram versus TikTok and YouTube for maximum impact. Maximizing Organic Reach: Tips on using paid promotion to extend the reach of your best-performing content. If you’re serious about taking your social media strategy to the next level, you won’t want to miss this deep dive with Brendan Kane. Tune in to learn how to break through the noise and build a truly engaging social media presence. Free Download - The Guide to Going Viral: https://hookpoint.com/russell Hook Point Website: https://goingviral.cc/russell Don't forget to check out this awesome deal from Mint Mobile! https://mintmobile.com/funnels And if you want to enjoy the Marketing Secrets Show ad-free, check out https://marketingsecrets.com/adfree Get 70% off on Welch Equities' retail price at wealthyconsultant.com/secrets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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the podcast and this is someone who I've been watching online for a long time. I read one of his books, I don't know, two or three years ago initially as I was trying to figure out the social media game. And we've been doing a lot of social media and I think, I feel like on our side we have ups and downs and peaks and valleys and we're still trying to master it. And he actually reached out to me and said, hey, we'd love to connect. And he decided to fly here and spend a day with my team, kind of going through helping with our social media strategy. And we used this morning to spend about an hour of me asking and picking his brain to kind of figure out what to do. But I'm excited. His name is Brandon Kane. He's someone, he wrote a bunch of different books.

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and welcome to the Marketing Secrets Podcast. All right, everyone, I'm here today with Brandon Cain and I'm pumped because you're here in Boise, Idaho for your first time, right? Yeah. Coming here and he's going to be spending time with our team today, helping us on our social media and a whole bunch of things like that. And so I thought before we get started to spend an hour with him doing a podcast interview, getting some private consulting. For those who don't know Brandon, he's read a lot of books. We've got Hookpoint, which is the first book I read, which I was first familiar with him. And then what's the order of these? So 1 million followers was the first, Hookpoint was a second. Okay. And the guide going viral is the latest one. Okay. So I'm curious,

I've written three books as well, and I have a favorite of my books. Do you have a favorite of your three books? Uh, probably the, the more recent one. Now we are just finishing an update on hook point, which will probably become the favorite, but the, the guy at the time, yeah,

I mean the guy to going viral is like six years of, of kind of information into one book. So, uh, that's very cool. So what year did you write the 1 million followers? So initially wrote it 2017 and then we've updated it like two or three times since then. Very cool. Um, all right. So for those who aren't familiar with you or your work yet,

I love to step back in time cause I know you and I are from different worlds. I'm very much the direct response. Uh, you know, a bunch of guys, our garage is trying to figure out how to make money. You're more, um, more of the professional side of things, but yet we're here in the middle meeting with similar concepts and interests and stuff like that. So I'm curious, will you tell us a little more about your background and how you got into this side of the world? Yeah. So I've been in social media since 2005. So I started way back when friends are in my space for predominant players. And how I got in is a little bit of an interesting story. So I initially wanted to be a film producer. So I went to film

school to learn the business side of the entertainment industry. I show up and I quickly realized they teach you nothing about business in film school. So I figured the best way to learn about business is to start your own. And the most cost efficient way at the time was to start online companies. So I started a few online companies while I was going to college just to learn and experiment of like what it takes to get something up and running and manage it. And then I moved to LA to pursue a career in 2005. And at that time, like anybody, you start at the bottom making coffee, copies, deliveries. And when anybody would ask me, like, especially the higher ups, because when you start in any industry, you want to connect with the heads of the company. In my case, it was the heads of the studios or directors or actors, things of that nature. When people ask,

well, why was I in LA? I would say I wanted to be a film producer and everybody's eyes would glaze over. I was just one of a million people. Another one of those. Yeah, another one of those. Exactly. So I had to take a step back and kind of understand like, well, how can I actually forge those connections? How can I provide the most value? And I would recognize I was working for a movie studio at the time, is every time we finished a film, there'd be a sense of anxiety and stress that would come over the office because we were spending tens of millions of dollars on a single piece of content. And then we were investing tens of millions of dollars to market that single piece of content. But it wasn't like any other industry where you

had years or decades to build a brand or awareness. You literally had months. Each movie is a new brand, right? Hundreds of millions of people around the world need to know about this new brand in a very short period of time. And so I noticed that at the time, this was 2005, we were using traditional medium like TV, print, radio, but nobody was really tapping into digital because it was relatively new. And, you know, people were starting to kind of look at it after the dot-com bust, but it wasn't, people weren't taking it seriously. So I just went to the head of the studio and I said, listen, we can tap into these online traffic sources for a fraction of the cost, in some cases, no cost at all.

So that's where I started building digital divisions for movie studios and kind of pioneering like the first influencer campaigns and influencer technologies to help get the word out. So you launched those on MySpace and Friendster? Because by the last time I got started, I was trying to figure out how to monetize Friendster, I remember, in college and MySpace. So very few people I know have gone back that far as well, which is cool. Yeah, so I built the first ever influencer technology platform on top of MySpace at the time and licensed it to MTV and Viacom,

but there was no such thing as an influencer. So the ceiling was capped pretty low. And then I did the first influencer campaign on YouTube in 2006, 2007 for a movie called Crank with Jason Statham. How did that work? There were a lot of YouTube influencers at that point popping up? There was no such thing as an influencer. I was just like, there's these young kids that are generating millions of views on videos. So I just made a list of the top like 50 or a hundred and I started direct messaging them. And I said, do you want to interview a movie star? So it just kind of

started off that way. Yeah. And it was, I mean, we didn't pay anything for it and people were very open and receptive because it's not like today where everybody's DMing everybody to get them to do something. So at the time, the time, these young content creators were all about that type of access, that type of interaction. You're giving them what they need, which is content and access to unique people. And they just had the views. Yeah. That's really cool. That was 2006.

Interesting. So after that, what happened next? What was the next part of the transition? So I started building technology platforms on top of social media, the influencer tech platform being one. Are you a developer or you worked with developers? No, I was more kind of product designer, kind of understanding the concept, and then I would hire developers to help create the code around it

and created several different partnerships with Viacom and MTV at the time. And those partnerships opened up the doors to kind of work with big mainstream celebrities or musicians like Taylor Swift and people like that of trying to understand at a very early stage of like, how do you turn social audience into commerce and convert that into meaningful revenue and meaningful kind of fan participation. So I did that for a few years and then I got heavily involved in the paid media space and helped build a firm from scratch that was optimizing the first wave of social media advertising. Like for example, like we were the biggest third party partner of YouTube's TrueView when it first

launched. So we grew that company to managing about $100 million a year in paid spend, but predominantly Fortune 500 and 100 companies. And through that experience, it's very different than direct response. And kind of that world, it's like, we're going to take traditional TV assets and traditional assets and put it through social media. And they're not really focused on direct response. They're more focused on big brand awareness and brand building. So I saw a lot of the missteps that they were taking in terms of the investments they were making

behind content that you could clearly see wasn't going to kind of translate. Because if you take like a television or traditional creative asset and put it on social media, it's a completely different communication mechanism. And when I would ask these companies, like, where's the data to support this creative decision? Because they were investing millions of dollars against a single piece of content. They didn't have a process or a model behind it. And that's where I left and started building the foundations of the models that we use today of really understanding how content performs and why content performs.

It's just as important why content doesn't perform and understanding those patterns and structures to allow companies or brands really effectively go and produce content for these new mediums. Because people don't realize social media is like still brand new. And even at the time when we were doing this, it was only around for like eight or nine years. Yeah. Interesting. What I love about you too, I was, uh, this morning I was on Instagram, uh, just preparing for this and I was, I was on your channel looking through and I watched probably on a 40 of your reels going through it. And I love it cause, um, you're very, at least it seems from the outside, maybe I'm wrong, but you're very, like for me, I'm very obsessed with like looking at the process. Like, but for me, my art is funnels, right? So I look at, I buy everyone's product, look every single funnel, look at the

sales messages, upsells, the downsells, the sequencing, the emails. And like, I geek out about that at a level I don't know anybody else on the planet that does. And by just watching your short form on Instagram today, I was just like, man, like you're doing the same thing on like every viral video. Like so many of those, like there's this video versus this video. They look almost identical. And like this one got 3 million views. This one got 48 million views. Here's the reason why. And like the analytical, like the, how deep you look into the reason why things are working is really fascinating. I'm curious, is that like, is that from your, your standpoint, that same, is that what you're geeking out on? Is that your favorite thing to

look at those kinds of things or what's your, how do you, how do you learn this stuff, I guess? Yeah. So we've built the foundation of our entire company based off that. So it's exactly what you said in terms of like analyzing every funnel and breaking it down and every single nuance of it. Because I think in your world, like you're looking at this at such a granular level, like you could see a specific headline or a word or a phrase or an order bump or an upsell making all the difference in terms of whether that funnel is successful or not successful. We're doing the exact same thing with social media. We're looking at a very granular level and you have to. Like the biggest

mistakes that people are making with organic social are two things. One, they are just looking at their own content views, click-throughs, engagements, any type of engagement, shares, likes, comments. That tells you if something works or doesn't work. But in terms of organic social, you need to look at the qualitative element of why things work. In the same way that you would dissect a funnel, you're looking at the qualitative elements that drive that success or detract from that success. So that's the lens that we're looking through social media. So we've assembled a team that over the past six years, we've done 10,000 hours of research of breaking down social content.

And the way that we're looking at it is what we call a format. So in a sense, like the perfect analogy I could use is like there's different types of funnels. You know, there's like a book funnel. There's a VSL funnel, there's a webinar funnel, there's all these different types of funnels. And each funnel requires its own kind of nuance of how to execute on it. So we look at social media from a format perspective. So for example, like if you've seen me coming from the film industry, if you've watched a movie that's been made over the past 50 years, every movie follows the three act structure. That's the format that people use. And like you think about Steven Spielberg, one of the best storytellers of all time, he doesn't reinvent that three-act structure

every time he makes a movie. He masters that over decades. So in terms of like a format, a few examples, one's called Man on the Street that you've probably seen on TikTok or Instagram, where basically you interact with somebody on the street in some way and capture their reaction. So I have a friend that we've worked with named Alex Stemp that uses this as a photographer. So he approaches random strangers on the street, offers them a professional photo shoot, and shows the end result. So he's used that format over the course of years to amass an audience of 20 million followers. There's another one that uses it called School of Hard Knocks, which I'm sure you've probably seen where they interview successful people on the street.

So that's an example of a format. Another one is called Two Characters, One Lightbulb, where it's the same person that plays an expert and a novice, and they go back and forth and debunk a common myth or misconception about whether it's finance, nutrition, legal, any of those things. So the way that we look at social media is we look at it through that specific format and a specific platform, and then we go really deep in it. And the way that we go deep is a process that we call gold, silver, bronze. So we'll look at somebody using a specific format, for example, like School of Hard Knocks. On the surface level, it looks very simple, but there's a lot of depth to it. So what we would do is we would take a channel like that and pull 10 to 20 of the top performers, which is gold.

In that case, it's, you know, a few million views plus. Then we would take the average performers, which we call silver, 10 to 20 of those, and then 10 to 20 of the underperformers, which are bronze. So those are like less than 100,000. And what we're looking at is we're looking for something called performance drivers, which are contextual elements of how you express a specific format. So those can be things like pacing, tonality, what's happening in the first three seconds, captions, title cards, an example of man on the street, the reaction of the person that you're interacting with. So we have a library of like 200 of these performance

drivers. And what we're looking for is what's happening in those high performers that's not happening in those low performers. Again, not from a content perspective, but from a context perspective and really kind of measuring those elements. And through that process, you're learning a lot about what actually drives up your chances of using that format versus driving it down. Because most people will see a format like man on the street or any format out there and be like, oh, I see what they're doing. They're just interviewing a person on the street or any format out there and be like oh i see what they're doing they're just interviewing a person on the street i'm going to do that and 99 of people fail because they just they're not paying it for attention from the contextual element like i can funnel like i have a book funnel too but it's not working like i don't know why it looks similar why not well i mean i can attest to it is like i ran book funnels on click funnels for three years

and it took us a long time to figure that out. On the service level, it looks super easy. Oh, you just say you give away your book for free and charge shipping and handling. But there's so much nuance in kind of all those different elements. And we're looking at social media in the same way. Interesting. So there's the, what'd you call, you call, not frameworks, what'd you call the formats? Formats, yeah. Do you have, is there a known number of formats? There's just, there's infant number types of formats. So you guys have, these are the 20 that work the best. So we've done analysis on over like 220 and we have a team that

researches like three to five new ones every week. But there's like different levels, like man on the street, we've done 10 different research projects on that. So typically the way that we work with clients is there's kind of like beginner formats and advanced formats. So like there's 20 or 30 kind of beginner ones. And as a beginner, it's not about like the content. It's more like if you're just getting into social media and you're trying to master the nuances of, of communication, you may want to start there before going on um but it's also that there are specific formats to specific platforms it's not like one platform is going to succeed across every

single platform it's they're typically dialed in for different ones in one of your books you talk about the different formats like is there where's the best spot for them to learn like here's the ones you can look at uh the guide to going viral. So we break down our entire model that we spent the past six years building and invested several million dollars for that. And I'll actually, we're giving away that book for free. It's not even shipping and handling. If they go to hookpoint.com forward slash Russell,

they can download the PDF or Kindle version of it. But I break, so we have a model called the viral content model that includes that gold, silver, bronze. And we break down the entire model and process in that book. That's cool. So you have the formats

and then inside the formats, do you say there's 200 things you're looking for? Is that what the number was? Yeah, typically what we do when we break down a format, we distill it down to like three or five, but we kind of, cause you don't want to be looking, analyzing content at like a level of 200. It just becomes too messy. But we kind of look at, again, those high performers versus low performers,

the core things, those core, those core elements of it. Yeah. So when you work with somebody, is it better for somebody to like pick a format and you just double down and all your ones are mad in the street or all your ones, whatever, or is it, do you change things around? What's typically the best? So typically we say stick with one format, obviously pick the format that you think best represents the message you want to put out, but also format that you enjoy is like, that's the reason when we do so much analysis is I don't want to sit here and

say, oh, there's only three to five formats. You have to choose one whether you like it or not. But we typically say stick with one until you've mastered it and really understand that format. And then once you understand that, then you can make the choice, do I want to add another format into it? Because just that process of mastering one sets you up for success to master the next one. But if you try and do like two or three formats at the same time, then you're kind of losing that kind of learning opportunity. And it's one of the reasons that I really recommend people stay away from trends because trends obviously are very fleeting and you're kind of trying to learn each trend as you

go versus with a format, you're mastering the nuances of becoming a storyteller on a platform. And those learnings can be applied to either the next format or to the next platform that you go after. Very cool. What's up, everybody? This is Russell Brunson. I've got something really cool for you today from my friend Taylor Wells. And Taylor spoke at our last Funnel Hacking Live because I wanted him to share a really cool concept about what he calls the revolving pricing method. And today he decided to sponsor the podcast to give you guys more access to this super cool strategy that you are going to love. It's something we've been implementing into our high-end coaching program as well, and it is amazing.

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the side-by-side comparison of, of videos, which is kind of like a very surface level introduction to, to our model. But now we're going to be getting into YouTube on kind of more in-depth explainer breakdowns and videos using the explainer format for that. Is it similar though? You're still going to be doing like showing the A and B split test and going deeper on it? Yeah. More context wrapped around it. It will be in it, but it'll be like five minutes of like a 20 to 30 minute video breakdown. Yeah. Very cool. Okay. So I'm going to, since you're here in Boise and

you're going to work with my team later, I'm going to use this time, hopefully selfishly for like a mini consult. So on my side, so what we're really good at, we're really good at funnels and paid ads. We're really good at building email lists and promoting through there. Social is where we, we have like peaks and valleys where we're like, do something and it's working and then it doesn't work and back and forth. Um, I think we've tried a lot of different formats some with some success but not consistency you know same thing like instagram there's a different strategy in youtube versus tiktok and i'm just curious like if you were working something to me from the very beginning um what would be what's the process like what's something if we're like okay russell

you've got stuff happening but we're starting over to make sure we're doing this correctly what would what does that look like if you walked in on a console day like that so the first place to start is what is the format that we're going after and you may have done the format in the past or you may not it may be something completely new uh but really sitting down determining what is the format that we can focus on mastering the nuances of um because we see this a lot and i understand why it happens is like a format doesn't work so we're like oh this isn't working i move on to the next one but when you don't have kind of a foundational model to to kind of use the creative process to produce that that format that's when it can kind of feel like oh this isn't this just isn't working

for me i'm going to move on to the next thing so or sometimes we create something that that does well uses a lot of views and no comments or views and comments but no one's clicking or like you know i mean it's like do we still do those things because there's there's brand equity potentially in there but then it's not driving the metric we're looking for of actual like this is how we make money in our business you know what i mean like those are the things i think we get stuck in and so for us we're like well we see it could be a trend or could be something like oh let's just try this type and it works for one of the metrics engagement but not for whatever you know it's like i think that's where we keep getting stuck on is just like not knowing the consistency of like this is the message just

what we're pushing to this is the goal you know what i mean so so it's a it's a great question and you know i experienced this a lot especially with people that have done really well with paid ads. So approaching organic is completely different than paid. So organic is all about how to get people to know, like, and trust you. It's not about how do we sell or push a conversion. So what we work with in our clients,

we're working with people that want to be the top 1% of social media. Like we're not the people you work with if you just want to hire a social media manager and like do okay and just kind of have content. Like we work with people to be that top 1%, the kind of the elite that are pushing millions, if not tens of millions or hundreds of millions of views through their channel. So the way that we look at organic is how do we build formats that really drive that performance, take you from, you know, 50 or 100,000 views, a video to a million views of video and look at the economies

of scale of how you're building that trust, that credibility with that audience. And once we have that dialed in, then we can look at how do we integrate calls to actions? Because if you start with call to actions in the beginning, you can't tell if your content is underperforming because of the call to action or it's underperforming because of something else. So the first goal is how do we just drive the massive economy of scale? So let's just say the person watching this on average, they generate 10,000 views of video. And of those 10,000 people watching that, maybe 50% are its core target audience. It'll never be 100%. It's the same thing with paid ads. It'll never be 100%. But let's say we can take them from 10,000 views of video to 500,000 views of video, and it's 10% of the core

target audience. So we went from a potential 5, a potential 5,000 to 50,000 people that can buy our products or service. And if you scale it even higher and higher, that's where the benefit organic comes in. And I'm not saying you can't layer in calls to action. You definitely can. Like you'll see it in our content. Like we do a call to action report for the free copy of the, of the book. Um, But we perfected that format before we layered in the call to action. So we know if a video underperforms, it's not that. But another element of the model that we do from an exercise standpoint is if you have used a format, like you said, and you have an extreme high performer, what you can start doing is using that high performer

on one side of the screen. So you pull up the high performer on one side and a low performer on the other side and you do a side-by-side comparison. And now you're doing an apples-to-apples comparison. You can see why that piece of content performed versus the underperformer and vice versa. If you have an underperforming video,

you play it side-by-side with the high performer and then you can start, you know, diving into the nuances of what the difference is in terms of how you executed that video. But if you're kind of going from trend to trend to trend or from format to format, that side by side comparison, it's like comparing apples to oranges. It just doesn't work. The same thing, I'm sure it's in funnels, is like you can't compare like a book funnel with like a VSL funnel. They're completely two different things. And that's where having that solid foundation of choosing a format and optimizing against that format really leads to not just incremental success, but breakthrough and consistent success. Because again, if anything ever underperforms, you just pull it up on one side of the screen versus a high performer and play them side by side.

Okay. So for me, let's talk about Instagram for a minute. So for what you know about me and my brand and what we do, what would you recommend? What format do you think would be the best for me to be consistent on Instagram? It's probably not Man on the Streak because that one makes me super anxious. No, you don't definitely need to do that. Interpreted Russell is like, I don't want to talk to people on the street. I think that there's probably not man on the streets that one makes me super super you don't definitely need to do that introverted russell's like i don't want to talk to people i think that there's there there's a few i think that the fact that you break down funnels could be extended for a wider audience where you could not just break down funnels but look at kind of some of the most successful websites or launches of brands or new brands, ads,

commercials, you know, even like break down Taylor Swift's e-commerce store, like how is her kind of language and things of that nature, I think could be really interesting. I think also the two characters, one light bulb of breaking down misconceptions about business, about marketing, could be an interesting one. I think that for you is, how do we take, you know, one of the performance drivers that we look at is called the generalist principle, is how do we take your core expertise and make it interesting to the widest possible audience while still not losing the subtext of the core audience that you're speaking at? So we really want to kind of look at it from that perspective. But, you know, as we're breaking down viral content, I think there's elements

that you can break down of what it means to make money online and kind of the specific elements of that. Yeah. When I was watching yours today, I kept thinking about similar. I was just like, man, I could do something. I mean, it wouldn't be like yours is very much AB this versus this, but ours, um, it potentially could. Do you remember that website back in the day that, that, and I don't know if it's still around, but the AB test website. Oh, uh, which test one.com.

Yeah. It's gone now. Yeah. Yeah. I tried to buy it from him back in the day. Cause I, I tried to buy ads on their site for a, for split testing book we had, and then they went, then I tried to buy the company and then they shut down. So yeah, I mean, people are actually really cool.

People had to guess like this one or this one. And that was kind of the test. test i mean people are enamored by comparisons and breaks down breakdowns of things it's interesting we have thousands i mean we're running split tests every funnel every single day so we have thousands of like just our own data but i i think kind of broadening it out to maybe not using the word funnel but using like landing or like website or something like more general language to bring people into the ecosystem and introduce them to the concept of funnel. Yeah. Interesting. So if we decide that was the direction,

would you say 100% then of posts of reels on Instagram or all folks in that, would you still rotate through other things? Like do you bring family and do you bring extracurricular videos in to try to build rapport or do you focus on i feel like with you you guys just focus on the one format style i mean if it was me i would say focus on one thing i'm not going to tell you never to post other stuff if you don't want i just don't want to lose the core focus of we're trying to perfect this format if you want to post family stuff or other things, you can. But I think that there's just a real learning curve in terms of focusing on one format, mastering it going on.

And I'm sure you probably give that advice with funnels is if you're working on your first funnel or trying to really scale your business, focus on one funnel first before you introduce other funnels into your business. Cool. Okay. Anything else on the Instagram side

that you would do or would say that we should be aware of outside of the focusing on the one content type? I mean, we do it. I mean, Instagram, I think, is having a major resurgence in terms of lead gen. You see a lot of people doing this. We do it, I mean, Instagram, I think is having a major resurgence in terms of lead gen. You know, you see a lot of people doing this. We do it of like comment to, you know, get some type of free

opt-in or opt into something you can generate. I mean, we're, our business is generating like three or 4,000 leads a month through that. So that is a massive, like, if you're thinking about like, what's the difference between choosing TikTok or Instagram reels, like there's a massive upside to Instagram right now. But I just kind of stress that like, that's just a tool that can only be integrated once you've mastered the art of communicating because just because you use it doesn't mean you're going to generate leads for your business. You need to wrap your organic strategy around that and master those communication elements towards that. But again, like any platform, Instagram included, it's really choosing that format and layering in kind of the qualitative elements of really understanding

what drives that. And again, nine times out of 10, it's not the content of what you're talking about that's driving the performance, it's the context of how you wrap it. And I'll kind of break down another mistake that people make with short form video, Instagram included, is those first three seconds are critically important in terms of getting somebody to stop the scroll because there's two core metrics that drive virality. It's stopping the scroll and kind of the retention of how long you're holding that audience for. And most people are messing up those first three seconds because they have too much going on. They have like a caption or they have a title card captions and somebody speaking at the same time. So there's three different things that somebody has to focus

on in those first three seconds. And once the subconscious feels like it's getting left behind, it's just going to move on to the next video. So be very clear on what your visual hierarchy is in those first three seconds. And it does not have to be you speaking. It could be focusing on a caption or a caption at the bottom or a title card at the top. So that's a big kind of element to really understand as you're going into this. And then with Instagram or any other platform is really understanding what drives performance, what causes you to break through versus causes you to suppress. And that's the algorithms. And the algorithms are really, there's a lot of misinformation and frustration about them. One

being that they suppress your reach on purpose to get you to pay for reach, which you and I know they don't make money off of you getting you to boost your posts. They get money off of like the best direct response and biggest brand spending millions or tens of millions of dollars a month. The algorithms are designed to do one thing, and that's keep people on the platforms longer. So the longer they're watching your videos, the more ads they can serve, the more profit they generate. So this isn't like Netflix where they invest billions of dollars in original content to

keep you on their platform. They rely on us as content creators to be the fuel that runs them. So they want to see us succeed. They want to partner with us. And the way the algorithms work is a high-level analogy is like you'll post something, and let's say they seed it to 100 people, and they'll measure how effective you are in terms of stopping the scroll and retaining that audience.

And if it's successful, then they'll do another audience. And if it's successful, then I'll do another hundred. And if it's successful there, they'll keep extending out, out, out, out there. But if with those first hundred people or at any of those benchmarks, it's not effective in stopping the scroll, um, and holding attention, they'll cut the reach right there because they're just going to favor other content. So they'll just suppress your reach. And that's oftentimes where you see people with a large audience that have low number of views or engagement. It's just because that piece of content's not holding up to the standards. In the world that we live in today, there's no free wins with social media. It's not like back 10 years ago where just because you had a certain audience size,

you're automatically going to reach 30 to 50% of that. And the reason is we've gone from a world when I started with a few million people on social media, now there's close to 5 billion people on social media. And every time any one of us opens up our favorite app, there's probably at least 150,000 pieces of content that can see to us based upon the people that we follow, the content that we've engaged with. So they're looking for that content that's going to grab and hold attention as long as possible. So it's critically important to understand these variables about how the algorithm works. It's not out to get you. It's just telling you that the way that you're

trying to contextualize your message is not breaking through. And another big thing that I always implore to people is any subject matter can go viral. So some people come to me sometimes and say, my subject matter is not sexy. It's not interesting. Taxes go viral. Insurance goes viral. Real estate, you know, nutrition. We've worked in all these industries or sectors and we have research to prove that any subject matter can go viral it's just the way that you're contextualizing it and bringing it to the world interesting um yeah i'm not glad somebody that frustrates me when i see some of the content that goes viral that i'm just like man frustrating like um in different industries and weird things and then mine i'm like sometimes i'm pushing so hard i'm like i don't understand like why you know like i'm better communicator our videos are better

edited all kind of stuff it's like nothing versus some other ones and it's just like those little those little things that um yeah it's just it's pure context just to show you kind of the nuance to it so uh earlier i mentioned um a friend and somebody that we work with Alex Stemp that does the Man on the Street photography shoot at one point we did a breakdown of his most viewed video which is 100 million views on TikTok versus another video that was 5

million views and the retention graph on the 100 million view video meaning the length of time people spent watching it was 27 seconds versus the 5 million view one was 21 seconds. So we're talking about a six second differential that represented 95 million views in performance. And I'm sure you see similar things with funnels, like just this slight tweak, the slight word or the slight placement of this in different areas in the background. Yeah. Dumb

stuff. Yeah. So that's, that's, it's's nine times out of ten it is not about the content it's it's just the way that you're contextualizing that content the qualitative elements of how you're delivering it that is causing it to not perform compared to what you see out there in the market one of the ones watch say that you did it was like this this really cool looking thing of cement it had two different videos right and one of them the guy put cement put on a really thin, a thin piece of wood. It was on a thick piece of wood.

And like, because it was on thin piece of wood, people have the anxiety. Like what if it falls off? Like as little as that thing was. And one, I can't remember when it was like, you know,

a hundred thousand, when it was like 40 million. And it was just like that little thing that, so I'm curious, like as you guys are creating the content, are you thinking, are you thinking are you thinking those kind of things or in post looking back like oh we should have there's not enough curiosity here it wasn't enough you know what i mean like how much prep work are you doing ahead of time

to create the piece to know that you're going to hit as many of those things as possible uh it's both it's it's pre and post Cause you want to set the hypothesis of what you're doing, like for certain clients. Um, and we'll probably do this with your team eventually is we, when we choose a format, we'll create a script template. And sometimes people actually want like written out scripts. It doesn't have to be that it can be kind of like a story structured one where we break down the format based upon the key elements of it so that you kind of have the reference on one side in your you know script or what you're going to say on the other side so that you're hitting those specific performance drivers and those elements in it so that you know going

into it that i've done enough prep based upon the research if we understand what's going on but if it doesn't perform we never look at it like, oh my God, that's the end of the world. It didn't perform. Again, our model accounts for that so that if it didn't perform, we just go back and we just have an open conversation. Okay, what did we miss? And typically, it's we just forgot to do something completely or there was a performance driver element that just didn't click. And that's where, again, if you have a high performer in that format, you can do a side-by-side comparison, which is always the best. But as you're starting

out, you may have to use a reference of somebody else doing that format. And it may be somebody from a completely different industry, because again, it's not about the content, it's about the context. But you want to set the stage both in the beginning and at the end. Like with that format that you're talking about, we've done it quite a few times and we just know at this point that it's the clips that we choose that drive the performance. So we just had a conversation with our team internally where we're having our team spend two hours of research per video instead of one hour to make sure that we're finding the right video that we're going to be reacting to.

That's awesome. Okay. I'm excited to see the work you do with my team to figure out some of those things. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get an ice rink on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice?

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would you just come a completely different strategy in tiktok like are those two similar enough that you just replicate the clips or how do you? So they seem similar, but they're very different in terms of the interaction user interface. So the way that we would look at it is, does that format, has it been proven to work? So let's just say we're focused on Instagram reels. We get that format dialed in. Then we look at TikTok and we see, does that format prove to work on that platform? And if it does, what are the kind of subtle nuances between it working on TikTok versus Instagram? Because it's very rarely are you ever going to just say, take it from Instagram Reels, put it on TikTok and it's going to perform the same or vice versa. So there's certain formats where it may

perform as well on TikTok, but we just need to do a slight different edit. Maybe it's like the first three seconds or just a slight variation of it. In most cases, if we really want to excel at that level, we'll typically choose a different format. But what I say with most people I work with is like, if you just master like Instagram reels and you, you blow it out of the water and you're generating millions of views of video, like you're going to have more business, you know what to do with just off of that, then you can make that determination. Maybe I'm just okay with average performance of reposting it, or I want to tackle that next challenge and find a format that can can drive growth on that platform as well for you guys um and i'm on a tiktoker so i don't even have the app so i don't know i haven't seen do you are you on tiktok

doing the same kind of stuff or do you have something a different strategy there we are i mean we're kind of in that boat of like we're just focused on instagram and instagram reels and we're just reposting to tiktok by not expecting kind of massive performance. More of my effort right now, and our team's effort is just going to be investing in long form on YouTube. And that's obviously different formats. That's the next direction I want to go. Because I'm saying Instagram, I think is one of our sweet spots in YouTube. Those are the two that we focus primarily on. So that's my next question. So we've picked a format type on Instagram that's working. As you transition now to YouTube, are you using something similar or is it a completely different strategy? Or what does that look like?

It's a completely different strategy. You can find adjacent kind of subject matter. Obviously, the subject matter you want to be the same, but adjacent kind of like similar type formats in the way that you're going after it but the strategy strategy if i'm going to create long form content and cut it down into bite-sized clips and use those for my short form content strategy is not a recipe for reaching the top one percent but would you use the same format like if you're doing the this you know your a b split test that kind of thing would the youtube video be the same principles or it'd be a different storytelling type it's completely different storytelling like in terms of the direction that we're going and for there will be an element of it but it'll be like

three to five minutes of like a 20 minute video so there's a lot more kind of long form storytelling a lot more build up and explanation of going into kind of those breakdowns that can occur. Yeah. Okay. Interesting. So we have similar thing on YouTube where we keep testing different formats. Some with, you know, we're still kind of bouncing around trying to figure out the right format. If it's me talking to camera versus, you know, event footage, we have more event footage than anyone on the planet. So it's like we're pulling those in. We're in the spot, we're testing a lot of things. With other clients you've worked with what's the what's the core as you're moving into youtube what's the core um foundational principles you're you're focusing on with them it's the same exact principle so um you know in terms of like my advice to you

would be is like select the format that you really want to do and just don't waver from it. Because if you really want to do it and you follow kind of the model that we've outlined today, you will master, especially somebody with your skill set of understanding kind of the nuance of storytelling. I think that people give up on formats too easily. And especially in YouTube, where it takes a lot more of an investment from a long form perspective. But really start with that core format. Find a key reference. Again, the reference does not have to be, obviously there's nobody like you, so that

reference is probably going to be in a separate kind of subject matter industry. And study that reference from the high performers to the low performers to really layer into kind of how you're going to tackle and go after long form. Okay. Okay. Next questions are the way that you and your clients are moving people from social to the other things, right? Because as much fun as it is getting a million views or 10 million views on a video, it doesn't pay the bills for anybody. So I'm curious, like what you're, what's the core focus? I'll lead with like one of the biggest problems I've had in the past that we're trying to like remedy is I have so many funnels that when I come out and it's like,

we do a piece of content, it focuses here or this one here, different places that like it waters it all down. And so we're trying to figure out the right strategy. And I'm just curious, what is the right strategy to move people from social to, to the next step? So I'll give you an example. So again, the way that we perceive organic is how do we leverage it to get people to know, like, and trust us to the point where they just want to ultimately take that next step. This is the reason that big brands spend billions of dollars engaging celebrities, athletes, influencers, things of that nature, because people know, like, and trust them. And if that person says, you know, go buy this or just automatically, if they're associated with it, they sell a lot of product. So, um, we

worked, uh, with a, uh, a very niche industry, a leather craftsman, um, that had very little to no experience in social media was stuck at 2000 followers. And he was stuck there because he was creating commercials of his products because he sells like leather wallets, handbags, purses, briefcases, things of that nature. So he was just approaching social media the way most people do is like, I'm going to create an ad and use it for organic content. So we followed this model in this process to help him develop a format called Is It Worth It? Where he'll take like a $500 Chanel handbag and deconstruct it on screen and tell you whether it's worth the money that you paid for it. So in his content, there's no calls to action.

But he used this format to build an audience of 2.5 million followers across his social media channels. And he's generated like 200 or 300 million organic views at this point. And the format is so successful, people getting to know him, his expertise, they trust him. He just has a link in his bio. And through that, he sells out his most expensive inventory because he's built so much trust into that. Now, I'm not saying you don't have calls to action in your videos. Like I said, you have them once you've mastered that. But as you know, when you're reaching that level of organic lift, the retargeting element, the retargeting audience that you can build through that is massive, and it brings down your effective cost per action.

So understanding your ability to retarget these audiences with your specific ads. Long form is a little bit easier to layer in kind of more organic CTAs of, especially with you, of having different funnels, you can layer it in and just say, click the link below that video. But the way that we're kind of using it with organic, as I mentioned earlier, is specifically with Instagram, which you're focused on is, okay, let's master the format, get that format performance up. And then that CTA can be super subtle. And with that CTA, you can change kind of what you're giving away with it. And I'll actually, now that I think about it, another kind of tip that I can give in terms of CTAs specifically on Instagram that we found is don't have the CTA at the end of the video, have the CTA about three fourths of the way into the video. So, you know, if you'll see in my videos, we'll be breaking down, you know, like four elements of why this, you know, video did 10 million views versus 100,000 views. And after like the third point, I'll be like, and if you're enjoying this video, you know,

comment below to get your free guide to going viral. And then I go, and finally, let's break down the last element of why this video went viral, because it kind of gives people a reason to stick around versus if you put it directly at the end of the video, it cuts off automatically. Yeah. So at a high level, it's understanding like organic. If you reach that top 1%, the numbers will be so big that you'll have a massive retargeting audience. The numbers will be so big that you'll just have people that ultimately want to take that next step. And then once you've mastered that element, then you can start layering in CTAs on a kind of an authentic level that fits into the content yeah very cool with yours um the ones i watched today they're all pushing towards this guide right here what's the cta for this

guide right here guide to going viral they want to get a free copy how do they get it uh hookpoint.com forward slash russell oh yeah um okay so i'm gonna walk through strategy so you're doing the viral not every time but but strategically three-fours of the way you're putting a link or putting a message for them to go download this. And what's kind of a funnel guys. What's the rest of the funnel? What's it look like afterwards? I'm curious on that side. Um, so we have an outbound team so that we'll, we'll reach out to them and then we put them in our, our email cadence. We're thinking, and I'd love to pick your brain, but trying to reverse the book funnel from instead of book funnel, free shipping, like free book, and then

into something. But we haven't mastered that yet because we get so many leads from the organic because the organic works so well. And another tip that you can do is on the organic side is if you have a video that is working, once it plateaus, don't be afraid to put paid behind it. Because there's a lot of people who think, oh, if you put paid behind organic, they're automatically going to suppress your reach. So you have to pay for organic or you have to pay for views or reach each time. It doesn't work that way. We've proven it time and time again. So if you start getting into this and you have like an Instagram reel that's doing well and has a CTA in it, and it's, let's just say it hit a million

views, but it kind of plateaued. Don't be afraid to put paid behind it and kind of keep pushing it because that will a kind of push. We've seen the cost for acquisition of a strategy call for our team just completely decreased using this model. But also you can get organic lift off of putting paid behind content as well. Yeah. Very cool. Interesting. Yeah. I'm curious. I'm gonna have to go through the whole funnel now and see exactly what you guys are doing. It's interesting because we're seeing, you asked really about the free plus shipping book funnels, like transitioning from a free book person into a high ticket client. Do you, my question, sorry, I'm flipping this around now.

But my question is, do you have like a, do you have a virtual event that you ever do to sell 100% of everything happening from the phones? Everything's 100% through the phones. We're going to try and figure out how to do a virtual event. We've never done one. Okay. going to try and figure out how to do a virtual event. We've never done one. I have like a 45-minute masterclass that's kind of like evergreen, but it's not set up like a live event. We're seeing really well right now. A couple of our high-end clients too,

they're coming in, pushing a free book offer, and then the rest of the funnel is like pushing into a paid challenge to get somebody to show up. Now you've got a three-day period of time to send them to hire a ticket or things like that because it is harder to go straight from a book to like, hey, register for a strategy call or come give me $20,000 or $25,000.

There's such a gap between like, I got a free thing to $25,000. Anyway, that's kind of it. Does it matter between three or five days for the challenge? It doesn't matter. Different strategies. There's like, yeah, no just it doesn't matter different strategies there's there's like uh yeah no it doesn't really matter as long as all as long as you're hitting same thing as long as you get all the beats yeah uh you know there's there's core thing there's there's five core

things you got to hit and it can be in a 90-minute webinar it could be in a three-day could be in a five-day could be in a yeah as long as you hit all the the core beats you got to do to break false beliefs and move somebody into the next level so anyway um so fun um cool so outside of outside of short form and long form with your clients is is 100% what you do and focus on is video or do you guys do any of the the other like facebook and the other ones or i don't know about, we've struggled with Facebook over the last couple of years, getting anything to go past, you know, like getting any kind of organic viral growth out of anything. Is that just the use case for us? Are you seeing success there with, with your people?

Um, we see success there when you focus on it. Uh, it's just, again, it's, there's different formats that work well for Facebook and you have to just dial those in. But I think for your business and kind of where you're at, Instagram and YouTube is a really good focus. Facebook still has a lot of legs. I think they have like 3 or 4 billion users at this point. A big percentage is international, but it still can work.

In terms of 90% of our work is video-based, just because from a retention standpoint, the albums want to serve that more. Our model works for anything. It can work for text, for images, things of that nature. There's so much talked about slideshows. The one thing that kind of drives me me crazy is like, you know, like these videos that say, oh, if you use this trending song, you're going to go viral. And 99% of people

use it, don't go viral because they don't understand the context. Same thing with the slideshows is like, well, if you use a slideshow, you'll go viral. It's like, it's not, it's not the, the, the slideshow itself. It's the expression of it. It's the same thing with formats is like, just because you're using a format doesn't mean you're going to succeed and go viral with it. So I think in any platform that you focus on any format, whether it be text or image or any of those things is just make sure to kind of do the research and understand what's the difference between, you know, high performer and a low performer. Yeah. It's funny. Cause I, you're saying that reminds me in the funnel world, I was talking about, cause I mean, people like, I have a funnel.

Why isn't it working? And for me, it's like, there's always an art and a science. I'm like, the science is the structure. It's the, the pages, the, like all the sequence. That's the, that's the science of it. Right. But then the art is your message, your story, your offer, your, and that's the harder thing to teach people through. Cause it's just like, you have to like, you had to put your message into it correctly you know what i mean uh because the science part's easy it's like oh yeah there's a page here and there's gonna be an order form

bump then an upsell down you know this is what it looks like i think the same thing you know someone picks a format like there's the science of it but then you got to weave your art into it to make it actually actually work right it's 100 correct it's just because you have a funnel doesn't mean it's going to work yeah and I think it's a little bit more frustrating on our end because of social media, anybody can pull out their phone, press record and post something. I'm a superstar. So it's like, it's a blessing because it's truly democratized communication. But the downside is, is everybody thinks it should just be that easy because you can pull out a phone and just record and post something. But it's, it just really comes down to

the nuances of mastering these skill sets. Yeah. Very cool. Well, man, I'm first off, thank you again for coming to Boise and hanging out, being on the podcast. I really appreciate that and working with my team, which is going to be a really, really cool as well. For those who are in my whole world, we're all trying to figure out, uh, either paid organic or both. Everyone's thinking about that. Where's the best spot? Should they go to get the guide going viral first? Should they read something else first? My people are book readers too. So what's the best place for them to start following you and doing all the things? Yeah. So if the book breaks down our model, they can go to hookpoint.com

forward slash Russell to get it. If they just want to kind of reach out to us and see how we can help them, go to hookpoint.com. And you mentioned some of the breakdowns and stuff. They can go to my Instagram, Brendan Cain, and get a sense of kind of what we were talking about as the breakdowns. Yeah. That's cool. And you guys, you're not an agency. You don't do done-for-you work.

You guys do coach and consult and teach people the processes, right? Yeah, so we develop the strategy. So we have a team of researchers that will do the research for companies, break it down. And we also train teams or individuals in the model. And we work with people with like no social media experience all the way up to like multi-billion dollar corporations. Like it doesn't matter to us because the model has been proven across. Like the model has been used to generate 60 billion views, 100 million followers and a billion in revenue at this point. We've proven against every skill level in industry or sector. Yeah. So cool.

Well, I'm pumped, man. I'm excited to see how ours evolves and changes after this day with you and hanging out with you. And I really appreciate you doing it. So everyone go to hookpoint.com slash Russell, R-U-S-S-E-L-L, double L's and, uh, and go get a free copy of the guide to going viral and appreciate you hanging out, man. And being part of the podcast. Thanks Russell. Appreciate it. Thank you.