The Game with Alex Hormozi - Consistency Is The Key To Beating Your Competition | Ep 898

Episode Date: October 10, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:01 And like, I'm telling me, like, if you can unlock consistency, like, you can become an incredibly dangerous competitor. It's wildly underestimated. And so for those you were, like starting right now, like, start. Like, like start. You will not make less money by letting more people know back your stuff, period. Some of you guys may know this, but I'm committing fully to do more live streaming. And I want to do this so I could like make my content with you guys.
Starting point is 00:00:26 And so you can kind of see like behind the scenes what it actually is. So the plan for the day is that one, I'm going to talk about some content strategy stuff that I think will be beneficial. fish for you guys. And then I'll be taking live Q&As from y'all doing a little Hormosey hotline action. We got 32.7 million views on YouTube this month. Here's how. So I posted 35,000 pieces of content this year. We did a $100 billion dollar book launch for $100,000 money models in 72 hours or three days. We did $100 million in sales, 105. something or $6 million to be exact. And the issue that most people struggle with is that you're making not enough content number one. And the types of content that you're making are not attracting the types of customers you want.
Starting point is 00:01:05 And so the promise that I have view today is that I will show you a framework that I have called SPCL, like special if you want, but it's how to build influence rather than how to get as many views as possible or anything like that. All right, but it's a four-part framework, special as you can remember, SPCL. And I'll break down each of the four components for you so that you can think about how you want to approach making content, all right, and building a brand in general. And so I also share this because I am not somebody who naturally, like some people just naturally have that like taste and, you know, brand knowledge and like have cool factor for, like I, I am not that way.
Starting point is 00:01:42 Like I'm not naturally that way. I'm not artistic. I'm really not creative, but I will work hard. And so I'm going to show this stuff that I've learned so that you can, hopefully if you just have work ethic, you can model up. Okay. So SPCL, these are letters and hopefully overhead cam works all right. So S-P-C-L.
Starting point is 00:02:01 Okay, so what do these actually stand for? All right. So number one is status. And this is why you hear me talking about proof so much. But how do you define status from an operational perspective? For those you were doing the channel, I like to operationalize things, meaning like I like to look at objective reality
Starting point is 00:02:15 and describe how we would see with your eyes rather than try and put a whole bunch of like emotional words around stuff because these are like that type of language is what confused me for a very long time when I was coming up. And it was only after I started defining things by what I could see, what I could observe, did reality feel like sharper or more crisp to me and my ability to predict what was going to happen next increased by a lot. And so this is why I talk in this way. So how do I find status?
Starting point is 00:02:41 So status is someone who controls reinforcers in a given environment. So that's a little bit fancy word. But fundamentally, if you control the good stuff that people want, then you will have status, no matter what it is. Right. And so the simplest example I have is like, if you go to a bar and it's a busy bar and there's a bartender and you have to get the bartender attention in order to get a drink or booze, that guy in that moment has status. He controls a scarce resource, right? But if that guy walks out of the bar, no longer controlling that scarce resource, he does not have the same status or even close to it, right? Like outside of the bar, he's not getting tips every single five seconds when he like moves his hands a little bit and says something nice. Right. People aren't waving money at him as you walks to the street. Of course not, right?
Starting point is 00:03:21 is because he has status of one condition and he doesn't have another. Now, what's interesting about all four of these elements I'm going to break down, they all can work independently, but the idea is that you want all four to be stacked together. This is what gives you the most influence, right? So, like, any of these four on their own would give you influence. Like that bartender, if you just says that, you have some level of influence. And I'll give you a different example of this. If a kid inherits money, right, they're going to have status, right?
Starting point is 00:03:46 Like, if you have money, even if you didn't earn it, even if you didn't anything, If you have money, you will have some degree of status because you control something another people who want, period. That's how it works. All right. But would that kid who has money have the same status as a kid who has money who also gave you, you know, 10 different crypto coin picks that all popped off, right? Well, if he gave you 10 different picks and you followed them and they all popped off,
Starting point is 00:04:14 you would for sure, like think about, like how much more influence would that person have over them saying, hey, you should put money in this, or hey, you should, you know, give me money for XYZ or whatever it is. I'm just talking money because I'm a business person first. But like, think about how much more influence version two would have with just two of those things versus version one, right? That's the difference. But if you have all four, that's when we get, you become super sad. One of my classic examples, which leads us to P, right, which is power. So status is number one, so you control scarce resources. Power is number two. I would say if I had to only pick one, I would pick power and I'll explain why.
Starting point is 00:04:49 So power comes from something in the behavioral dynamic world called say-do correspondence. What that means is if I say something and then you do it and then a good thing occurs, a reinforcing event happens afterwards, you are more likely to comply with a following request, right? So say different. I give you the example of the guy who says, hey, here's 10 stock picks, you buy them and then a good thing happens, right? The thing goes up. Great. That person now has power. So that person has status and power, which is why they are more influential than the trust fund kid who just has money. Right. And so to the same degree, for many of you, we're trying to make content. One, it's like, okay, status, I want to demonstrate that I control a scarce resource that some people might want. Right. And so what makes this a little bit more muddy is that sometimes one event can check multiple boxes. And so I'll give you a simple example. When we launched the book, we did 100 million plus incentives, right?
Starting point is 00:05:44 That in and of itself, me having money from the event gives me status. Me saying, hey, you can launch stuff in this way. Give me credibility, right? Because I show that I have an event. I have something that has happened as a result of me doing it. They give me third card of credibility. There's something that you can observe with your eyes, right? The reason that my ads do well when I have my $10 million building behind me is like,
Starting point is 00:06:08 oh, well, that's hard to fake. And so you have credibility there. And so one event, like selling a company, can give you money, it can give you credibility. And then if I give people directions on how they can do things that are similar and then good things happen, then all of a sudden you get power. And then the last is likeness. I know I'm skipping around, but credibility is number three. And I'm going to go in more detail in all these, all right?
Starting point is 00:06:29 And then likeness. So what's likeness? So likeness is that you see some, this is some people say reliability. This can be both psychological in terms of you share similar values with this person. You like their vibe, whatever you want to say it, right? you like their behavior set in it. And that behavior set matches to people who have been positive in your life in the past. Or they literally just look like you.
Starting point is 00:06:47 Right. So like Layla and I could talk about the exact same stuff, but she's a girl. And so she's going to have more chicks who follow her than me. And so maybe it's because of the topic. But I would think, you know, at my onset, I think, oh, it's because I talk about money and I talk about business. That's why I have more male audience. But Layla, I think is like 54% female. And so, and she talks about almost exclusively money in business.
Starting point is 00:07:06 Obviously, she talks about some mindset stuff too. But I say this to say, okay, if we have these four, fix. And these are the things that create influence. And I would define influences high likelihood of compliance with requests. Okay. So what does that mean? So if I say, hey, you know, grab my new book, or I say, hey, come to this webinar. Hey, I'm going live. Like, come to work. Like, come to work out. Or, hey, you should come to a workshop, whatever it is, right? You make some sort of solicitation. It could be like or subscribe. It doesn't matter. Like, there's levels of how cool, big of an ass something is. And if anybody's played like a video game, it's like you have, like,
Starting point is 00:07:37 a role for like Dunson & Dragons. And it, like, depends on how, how carries matter. how much influence you have, how high of a role, or how low of a role, rather, you'd need in order to be successful with the request, right? And so if you want to stack that stack for you, right, then do you want to min-max your influence, if you will? Then you want to stack all four of these sticks. You're like, okay, I think I'm following with this. So how does this relate to content?
Starting point is 00:08:00 So first off, starting from the back, likeness, I think so much more of it is just like, just be you. I don't think, I don't think there's any, there's zero ROI in trying to be, or act in a way that is different than who you are. And it's a relatively trite message, but like, most people are MPCs. Most people say pre-recorded scripts,
Starting point is 00:08:23 they look at like the four different outfit combinations that exist for different kind of mental stereotypes. It's like, oh yeah, guy who loves barbecue and craft beers. Oh yeah, that's that archetype. I'm just going to be that archetype. Or you've got like hipster bro who likes hipster shit, Right? Or you've got, you know, like, just bro, right? You've got just like stir bro. And people, someone put me in that status, but I also like, for a few years, who's wearing like sandals that
Starting point is 00:08:51 looked like really weird. And I wore those and that was not bro-y at all, but I wore them because they were super comfortable and I didn't have to like wear socks, which is a big thing from. Anyways, the point is it's like, I think what makes you unique is that you actually lean into the, the nuances that make you you and actually have a way to defend why you do what you do. Because most people don't even think about why they do what they do. And if you do things and you don't know why. It's not, it's because you're following someone else's directions for your life rather than you're out. We're, like, real. And so, so much of us have been programmed by people earlier in our lives. And I say program as though we're like machines, but think about it like this. What person do you think
Starting point is 00:09:26 in your life has super high max status, power, credibility like this? I'll wait. Who do you think has the highest, has these, has these maxed out earlier on in your life? So parents, right? are parents. So think about all four of these elements. Status. Do your parents control scarce resources, things you want? They've got money and they've got toys that they can buy you. They've got food. They act like they control your shelter. They control what room you live in. They control if there's other people in the room. Like they have huge amounts of status in your life because they control all the scarcely resources, all the things you want. And also to the degree for each of these, SPCL, these are not biners. So I don't think like, oh, I have status. I don't have status. It's
Starting point is 00:10:08 To what degree do you have status? Right? Like, if somebody's got more money than you, they might have some status. If you got $1,000, somebody got $10,000, they got more status than you, right? But if someone's a billionaire, they have way more status than the guy who's $10,000, right?
Starting point is 00:10:21 Okay. So, again, think not in binaries yes or no, but thinking in continuums. So the next one is, think about your parents. Power. How many reinforcement cycles do you assume that your parents have from the time you were born? When I say reinforcement cycles,
Starting point is 00:10:36 it means like they said, do this, You did that thing and then a good thing happened. Now, you might be like, ah, I hate my dad or hate my mom or whatever your thing is. I don't really care. That doesn't matter for this purpose. The idea is that they probably said, don't go in the street or don't do that and you avoided a bad thing. Or do this and then a good thing happened, right?
Starting point is 00:10:53 You tied your shoes the first time. You put the two bunny ears together. You tied your shoes. A good thing happened. They followed their directions. Think about how many times a parent has given you directions and you followed them and a bad thing was avoided or good thing happened. Many.
Starting point is 00:11:05 And so it makes sense that not only they have a luck status, A lot of power. Okay, what else do they have? Credibility. Now, this is one where I think parents sometimes might lack compared to the other things. Now, if you have a parent who also has credibility in that specific, you know, realm or whatever it is that they're talking about, then you have even more influence on you, right? And then finally, for parents, are they like you?
Starting point is 00:11:28 Yeah, they literally look like you, right? And oftentimes, they share similar values to you, to a degree. Obviously, some people just go polar opposite from their parents. That's fine. and sweeping generalities for most people. Right. And so this should at least explain or break down, like why do parents have so much power over us?
Starting point is 00:11:48 How have they so much influence over our behaviors? Even when you don't even, here's the really kooky part about this. You might not even want to listen to your parents. You might even like your parents. But you can still feel that you have to like resist their requests because you are so programmed based on these elements of behavior. to comply with their requests, right? And so then the idea is, how do we take these four elements, right?
Starting point is 00:12:14 And then how do we reverse engineer these into the content that we have so that we can build out true influence? Like, and again, we're defining influence as the likelihood of a compliance with the request, right? And that likelihood will depend on the nature of the request and how much your SPCL is in relation to that thing, right? If I was giving out fashion tips, I probably don't have a lot of credibility for, for Fashion tips, right? I don't know if I control any scarce resources or have fashion. I have no fashion hookups. I probably haven't given anyone specific fashion tips. I have no third party anything
Starting point is 00:12:48 for credibility for it. And you probably don't look like me. And so I probably would have very low influence. And so these things are not, I mean, to some degree they can generalize as you go up and up and up, but you have more influence in domain specificity. Of course, there's some things that will generalize over time. This is why people go to their hairstylist and they'll listen to them relationship advice. It's like how does this person who cuts my hair have anything? Like, why when I trust them in any way on relationship device or on a stock pick? The thing is that there is some degree that generalizes, but it's obviously going to be way more to mean specific to whatever other thing is, right? So hopefully this is, this makes some, some sense for you guys.
Starting point is 00:13:25 Okay. So if we know these are the four things, that has power credibility like this. Then for each of these things in our videos, right, we want to demonstrate that we control scarce resources. And so for me, like at the very beginning, if you think about what the intro was, right? So I said, we did 32.7 million views and we did over 100 and, you know, five point something million dollars in sales for the book launch and 72 hours. And so that's me demonstrating status. I have these things, right? Then power. So what I'm going to do in this video is I'm going to break down four things so you can follow. And if you follow these things, you're going to be more likely to get people who are going to comply with a future request. And so that means that they're not
Starting point is 00:14:06 just going to watch your video, but they're going to be more likely to one, watch a next video. And if you have any kind of call to action in the video, whatever level of call to action that is for you, whether it's subscribe or like or share or, you know, buy something that's small or, you know, set up or call or whatever it is that you sell, then this is going to be second, right? Like, that you'll have included that in your content. So that credibility is going to be the third party stuff. So the reason that I had at my launch, for example, I had to Guinness. I had to pay those judges. I'd pay three judges, 24 hours, to be on site was because I wanted to validate that the
Starting point is 00:14:40 books that we did and the revenue that we generated was legit. Right? So I had a third party that most people respect as like a legitimate corporation, that their entire business is based on trust that they validate and verify proof that these records are broken. And so that gives credibility. And then with respect to the video, status and codability can seem similar, but because because so so commonly the things are linked,
Starting point is 00:15:03 what I mean is like, if I say I just have money, I will have some status. But with relation to what this video is about, the credibility component would be more around the views that we're able to generate and the sales that we were able to generate from having content. And so money generically gives status,
Starting point is 00:15:19 the credibility around the specific that I'm describing, which is like, how do you build influence inside of a video or a personal brand? That's going to be, that's the third, that's kind of like the objective proof. Does that make sense? Hopefully that's a pump separating these for you. One is generic status. The other is going to be specific to whatever we're describing. All right. Now, the likeness piece, like I said earlier, is just you being you.
Starting point is 00:15:40 Right. And so that's why I'm actually super pumped in these lifetrooms because this is like, honestly way more fun for me. I honestly hate making YouTube videos. And what I mean that is like staring at a camera and having like, you know, prompts to, you know, solicit me to say stuff. Like, I will do it because I have a relatively high pain tolerance and I'll do what is required to get what I want. But like, I'm going. all in all in on this. So if you guys are like, what's Alex's kind of like media strategy for the future? I'm focusing on two words. You can write this down. Live, interactive. There's the two things that's describing the ACQ of 3.0 or Mozy Media 3.0 vision for what's going forward. Like that is what
Starting point is 00:16:15 I'm focusing on. And I'll tell you a story of why I think this is so interesting. So I had a conversation with a mega influence. I don't think you would mind with Mr. Beast a few weeks ago. And we were talking about kind of like the future of media and content. And so one of the things that he was talking about was the soccer game that came up that they do like UK versus US. And I've never watched the game, but you might have seen some like YouTube videos about it. So what ends up happening is that they have all these different celebrities or influencers from different platforms, right? And so starting from the lowest, the lowest people on this little totem pole, they would walk out in the stadium. And this became the kind of the de facto like measuring stick for who had the most
Starting point is 00:16:56 cool points, right? These are the A-listers, okay? And so this is your typical kind of celebs from like movies and like 90s in the 2000s or whatever, right? People like they recognize because they're celebs, but like they don't have like huge, I guess they have some of your presence as more like traditional media. The level of applause for these guys was almost nothing. Barely anyone cared. So then the next level that came up was the shorts, the shorts creators. So this is your like only TikTokers or people who only make reals, but only short videos. Okay?
Starting point is 00:17:28 And so they had a little bit more applause on the Oplaza meter compared to the A-listers. Then the long-form bass came out. And this is when the audience got way rowdier. All right. So this is your podcasters, your YouTubers, the people who make long-form pieces of content. And I'm going to pause here for a second
Starting point is 00:17:47 to kind of like highlight why I think this is. So I don't think there's anything wrong with shorts. We made tons of shorts. But I see the purpose of shorts as many times a way to get someone to watch a long, right? They watch a couple of shorts and then think, okay, this guy seems legit or this guy seems legit. I'm going to risk my time because that's the risk. They're making an investment, right? You're making an investment today.
Starting point is 00:18:08 I'm a risk that we get good with journalists, right? And so shorts then need the long. But let me show you the difference from an influence perspective. How many reinforcing cycles do you think you can have in 30 seconds compared to two hours? it's like not even close, right? And so if someone watch two one hour pieces of content for me, period. Okay, two, one hourpieces, it's 120 minutes. For me to get that same level of exposure and kind of cycles of reinforcing with a prospect, right?
Starting point is 00:18:34 And they were only consuming shorts, right? Let's say my average short. Do what my average short is, lifewise, 15 seconds? Let's say 15 for math say. Okay, so let's say it's 15 seconds. So that means it's four shorts per minute. So if I have 120 minutes for longs, I have to do it. someone would have to watch 480 shorts to have the same level of exposure as watching two hours
Starting point is 00:18:56 with me. And think about how important this is. Like, what were the things that people said, like, this was the quote podcast election, right? This one that just happened. Trump went on, and I don't care about the policies behind it, but I do care about influence and persuasion. And so, like, why is it that the two podcasts that I think really nudged this election, my opinion, is the Trump three-hour-class podcast that he did with Rogan like a week or whatever it was before November, is it number fourth? I think it's number four before. I think Elon getting on Tucker Carlson and doing that interview. I think those two interviews were some of the interviews that really nudged the election. And again, I don't care who you voted for. It doesn't matter to me.
Starting point is 00:19:35 I just, again, I think about this for marking persuasion. Okay. And so because of that, audiences who were not sure got to spend three hours with the president of a candidate as a result, it just nudge some of them in the direction to ultimately vote. Okay? Now, back to our little story. A-listers have almost no applause, shorts have, sleet applause, longs have a legit applause, then the live streamers. When the live church came out, it was like the entire auditorium or stadium or arena erupted.
Starting point is 00:20:02 And when I heard that, it was such a visual example of just like, I mean, we have the saying just like butts and seats. Some of you guys were watching this have some level of. of follow, you make some sort of content, whatever. And some guys who don't, like, might as well be stalker, right? But if you just make a bunch of, like, meme content, right?
Starting point is 00:20:21 You demonstrate almost none of these things, right? You demonstrate no status. You give no people any directions on what to do, so they get no positive results as a result in their life, as it relates to whatever they're doing they care about. You're not demonstrating any kind of credibility. And maybe you have some element of like this. That way you might have some element of light
Starting point is 00:20:39 that's not come from from a meme sort of content, right? And so what happens is some of you guys are chasing views when what I think you want is you want to have prospects who are more likely to comply with a future request. Right. And so we need to change our behavior to maximize the likely that occurs. Right. And so in looking at this thing, this is why I'm telling you like showing my cards, I'm going to be doing moral life trips. And I think it's also, and this is me like outside of SPCL, but I think like meta themes overall is that I think that the internet will always move towards truth. And so I think the A-listers, everything's super curated, everything's super polished, it's photoshopped, it's scripted, right?
Starting point is 00:21:19 And as you move closer this way, it's raw, like you have a three-hour podcast, like they're not scripted, right? Or most of them are, right? Streaming, it's like, yeah, we're live, right? I can't do anything, even, we're alive. And so this idea of how can we approximate the rawest reality of us hanging out, right, and actually going through this stuff, I think that is what will unlock the most. as long as you are still including these SPCL elements into it. And I think that's the marriage. Right.
Starting point is 00:21:48 How do I do SPCL and do it as many times as I possibly can't? That's the idea. And so why shouldn't provide that opportunity? Now, let's also think about this context of volume, right? So whether you like or not, Rogan, tremendous influence, right? To the same degree, PVD, tremendous influence. Dave Ramsey, tremendous influence. What is it that these guys have in common?
Starting point is 00:22:10 Right? What is that they have in common? They're putting out hours of content every single day. So you guys are hearing something a little bit, my boy. So I said earlier that we had 35,000 pieces of content, right? Now, I hear plenty of times, there's tons of $1 million businesses, things like that. They put out one piece of content a day, right?
Starting point is 00:22:30 And there's nothing wrong with that. That's 365 pieces of content a year. And if you think about the size of that business.com and something for our revenue, right, compared to somebody who's doing one or $2 million a year, and they're doing a 365 piece of content, we're just quite literally doing a hundred times more. That's it.
Starting point is 00:22:47 Like, we're literally just doing a hundred times the volume. And as a result of that hundred times the value, what do you think's happening? We get a hundred times the prospect. And so a lot, like, people want to try and, like, outsmart themselves and thinking that they can, like, not do the work that's required. But it's actually far more linger than you would expect.
Starting point is 00:23:06 So, like, we just know those, like, one out of ten, you know, shorts is going to go, you know, is going to be a true or three X outlier. We just know that math looks like, same thing for logs, right? So it's like, how do I just jam as much into that input output machine as I possibly can? And as long as I'm checking these boxes, like I'm making the right kind of content, then you're going to get the right kind of prospects, right? So I'll give you one more nugget and then I'll open up for discussion.
Starting point is 00:23:29 I don't care who you are. You have to respect that man's level of effort. Like, he's been doing this for, under, 40 years, 40 years. He's been putting out three hours a day of content. It's like, I don't care what you think about him. Like, the guy works and he's consistent. And the thing is, and he'll be the first day. He's like, it's not like I'm Superman or I'm not like, you know, some rocket scientist here.
Starting point is 00:23:53 He's like, but the guy's consistent. And like, I'm telling you, like, if you can unlock consistency, like, you can become an incredibly dangerous competitor. It's wildly underestimated. And so for those you were like starting right now, like start. Like start. You will not make less money by letting more people know back to stop. Period. Full stop.
Starting point is 00:24:10 So you want more nugget, like I said. which is that some of you guys may have heard this. And it's a concept of social media is now turning into interest media. Okay, so what does this mean? Let's unpack this for a second. So if you make content and you judge it by views, I think that's dumb and I'll explain why.
Starting point is 00:24:31 If I have a grandmom public come and do a running slap and just slap to me across the face, that video will probably get views. but does it get the grandma views? No. Does it get me any more people who now believe more in my stuff? No. But what it will do is it will show it to people who are interested in humor, which is a lot of people, right? But those might not be your customers, and they probably aren't. So assuming you're not an entertainer and you are somebody who's a business person, and if you're in business, whatever business you have, e-commerce, SaaS, services, brick and mortar, doesn't matter. If you sell services to anyone, you're likely going to be an educator, not. an entertainer, meaning you're trying to provide that people's change their behavior in some way. And ideally, change the behavior that gets into a wall closer to you and buy stuff. Okay? So, what do I mean by social versus interest?
Starting point is 00:25:20 If you want to attract the right avatar, make content for that avatar. That sounds so obvious and simple. And the thing is that no one does it. Because here's the right or doubt. The content is the targeting. Like, the algorithm is so good now. It knows what you're talking about it. It knows it can literally judge your background.
Starting point is 00:25:40 It judges what you're wearing. It judges who you are. And it will display it to the people that they know have a history of watching content that is similar to that, that people find valuable. And so if you're making stuff about how to you fix pianos, because you're a piano repinner guy, then you will have people who are trying to fix their pianets, right, where they're making, or maybe they're making a purchasing decision relative to pianos. Maybe they want to see which ones break the leash or whatever. But if you're making that type of content, you might be like, man, I'm only getting, you know,
Starting point is 00:26:07 a thousand views of video. It's like, yeah, but the market of people who are buying canoes might be significantly smaller than the market of people who just want to be entertained or distracted. So it's not fair to compare your views against Mr. Beast. It doesn't make any sense, right? And so if I were to think of myself, like, I have a room of a thousand people that are going to watch this and all of them are only interested in fixing pianos, that's a hell of an opportunity. I care so much more about IRL responses. So what I mean by that. If I look at video and that I get texts from business owners that I like and that I respect being like, yo, that was fire.
Starting point is 00:26:41 Then I'm like, okay, I'm all the right track. And so some of you guys, let me know the comments you guys have seen a format that we talked about. We call cash gals, but basically it's me. There's a business owner that presents a little bit of their business. And they come by this side and we talk about how to preserve business. Right. So let me know the comments if you like that style.
Starting point is 00:26:57 And if you do, let me know if you're a business owner or not. Okay. So I like that style and I'm not a business center. I like that style and I have a business center. or I don't like that style and I'm a business owner or I don't like that style and I'm not a business owner. Here's the reality of it. Whenever people are here in person at our headquarters, right?
Starting point is 00:27:12 You were like that style and your business owner. Okay, great. Yes. Okay, yes, exactly. So if you are a business owner, what I have people who are here in person, IRL, in real life in Vegas, right? This soon as you fly out, I ask, I say, what is your favorite type of content? Dollars to donuts, that's their favorite type of content. And so I make more of that, even though,
Starting point is 00:27:33 and it would make sense. Like, it would make sense that there's fewer of those people, right? Because just think about math. So let's say that 100% of people, like this represents 100%, let's just use USA because I already know all the numbers for USA.
Starting point is 00:27:48 Okay, so let's say this is 100%. All right, you get 100% of people who are interested. Okay. Well, right now, only 9% of people even own a business. Like, 90%. So right off the bat, I'm going to have a huge percentage of people
Starting point is 00:28:01 that aren't my ideal audience. Now, of course, I do have people who are business interested, and that's why I'm a co-founder of school, and we give people a way to go start a business online in a low-cost way, right? Which you can do, it's nine by some month after a 14-day trial. You can check it out.
Starting point is 00:28:15 There's a bunch of training and community and all like good stuff. All right, but you can go to school.com, I think, forward slash promosy. I think it's below this video. Doesn't matter. Point me, 9% is what I'm competing for, okay? Now, there's, that means this, there's about 32 to 33 million business owners in the U.S., okay?
Starting point is 00:28:32 32 million. That's 100% of all business owners. Now, within that, 95% of that 9% is below $1 million in revenue. 95%. So then I've got 5% of that 9% that are over a million. If you want to get weird with it, what percent do you think is over 10 million? 0.4%. 1% 1 in short of 50.0.4%. And then 100,000. And then 100,000. nine figures is I think one in roughly 3,000, depending on like your data source. One in three thousand businesses gets to 100 million year, this bit. And so it would make sense then that we given these numbers, right? 9% is 32 million. So out of 5% of that is going to be a million and a half people. There's only a million and a half people who are business owners or a million based on the math that this is sensitive period data. Maybe there's this incorrect, but that's the
Starting point is 00:29:28 it, right? And so if we're looking at that's the market, then it would make sense that I'm not going to get all 100% of them to watch my video, right? If I got one and a half million views and 100% of them were business orders, that'd be insane, right? And so it would make sense that like, if I get 100,000 views on a video that has, that's really made for that level business owner, then I'm crushing it, right? And it doesn't make sense to look at, you know, Mr. Reese's video with 100 million views and be like, oh man, I suck. It's like, dude, we're going after, we had different games, right? And so it didn't include. I encourage you to create accurate expectations of the size of the market that you're going after.
Starting point is 00:30:03 And also, think about the translation of these numbers into IRA, real life. Because when I started out, and I was making YouTube permanent, I started zero to say, everybody else did. And I remember saying, like, I was like, can you believe, like, can you imagine there's going to be a time we get 10,000 views on the video? I remember saying this. I was like, dude, we're going to get 10,000 views in 25. It's going to be sick. And that was because at that time, I was getting like 1,000 in 24 hours. Right?
Starting point is 00:30:25 But for me, I was like, 1,000? like I worked in real life. I had brick and mortar. So for me to get a thousand people in a room, I was like, my God, I would do lunch alerts with 15 people. Right. So I got 15 views. I was like, hey, I mean, I would do this in person. And this is just being convenient for them. So it's at home. Right. And so I bring this up so that you don't judge, one, the number of views. It's way more important to have quality of views. I have two businesses that I looked at in the last year that we're doing over a million dollars a year with less than $5,000. followers. There's another business that's a B-to-B insurance company that I, that I, that I, uh, that I invested in that I don't want to show the numbers, but okay,
Starting point is 00:30:59 I won't show it. I'll just say many millions on like 10,000 followers. Also, leave it there. All right. And so like, you absolutely can make plenty of money with a very small following, as long as you make content that's directly valuable for that following. All right. With that being said, we just went over SPCL, status, power credibility, and likeness. What do you want to include in videos? Why I'm going all in on live stream and why the whole point is You want to get as much time with your prospects as you only possible. You want to make the topics of your content based on the things that those people find interesting, not based on being social, but being interesting.
Starting point is 00:31:30 If you make it interesting for them, they will keep watching it. And then being realistic about your expectations on how many views you can get based on your size of the market.

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