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Consistency Is The Key To Beating Your Competition | Ep 955

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Consistency Is The Key To Beating Your Competition | Ep 955

The speaker argues that consistency is a wildly underestimated competitive advantage. To build influence—defined as the likelihood someone will comply with your requests—they introduce the SPCL framework. Status involves controlling scarce resources people want (e.g., money, access). Power comes from "say-do correspondence": when you give advice, someone follows it, and a positive outcome occurs, they become more likely to follow future requests. Credibility is objective, third-party proof of your claims (e.g., verified sales records, Guinness World Records). Likeness is authenticity—being genuinely yourself rather than playing a predetermined archetype. The speaker illustrates how a single event, like a $100 million book launch, can check multiple boxes: it demonstrates status (controlling money), credibility (objective proof), and power (if others follow the method and succeed). They stress that these elements are not binary but continuous, and they stack to maximize influence. Most content creators fail by not producing enough content and by making content that doesn't attract the right audience. The speaker advocates for long-form, live, interactive content over polished, scripted videos, citing a conversation with Mr. Beast about the future of media. Ultimately, by understanding and applying SPCL in your content, you can systematically build real influence rather than just chasing views.

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Unlock Consistency to Become a Dangerous Competitor 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 of you who are like starting right now, like start, like like start, you will not make less money by letting more people know like your stuff, period. Some of you guys may know this, but I've, I'm committing fully to to do more live streaming and I want to do this so I could like make my contact with you guys 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 for you guys and then I'll be taking live Q&A's for me on doing a little hormones 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 million book launch for $100 money models in 72 hours or three days we did or $100 million in sales, 105 point 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. And so the promise that I have for you 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 specialist. I 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, I also share this because I am not somebody who naturally, like some people just naturally have that like taste and, you know, brands knowledge and like have cool factor for like I, I, I'm not that way. 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 the stuff that I've learned so that you can hopefully if you just have work ethic, you can model it. OK, so SPCL, these are letters and hopefully overhead Cam works. All right, so SPCL. How Controlling Scarce Resources Builds Your Status OK, So what are these actually stand for? All right, so number one is status and This is why you hear me talk about proof so much. But how do you define status from an operational perspective for those who are doing the channel? I like to operationalize things, meaning like I like to look at objective reality 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 the 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 finding things about what I could see, what I could observe, did reality feel like sharper, 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 I talk in this way. So how do I find status? So status is something 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 tension in order to get a drink or booze, that guy in that moment has status. He controls the 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 every single 5 seconds when he like moves his hands a little bit, like says something nice, right? People aren't waving money at him as you walk to the street. Of course not, right? It's because he has status of one condition and he doesn't have another. Now, what's interesting about all four of these albums, I'm going to breakdown. They all can work independently, but the idea is that you want all four of these stacked together and 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 he just says that he would 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 a status, right? Like if you, 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 other people 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 give 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, you would for sure like think about like how much more influence would that person have over them? Say, 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, I'm talking money because I'm, I'm a business person first. But like, think about how much more influence version 2 would have with just two of those things versus version 1, right? That's the difference. But if you have all four, that's when we get, you become super set. Defining Power, Credibility, and Likeness for Influence One of my classic examples of which leads us to P, right, which is power. So status of #1. So you control sphere's resources. Power is number 2. I would say if I had to only pick one, I would pick power, and I'll explain why. So power comes from something in the behavioral dynamics 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, OK, 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 and sounds right 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, I, I show that I have an event, I have something that has happened as a result of me doing it that give me third party credibility. There's something that you can observe with your eyes, right? The reason that my ads do well when I have my, my, you know, $10 million building behind me is like, oh, well, that's hard to fix, right? 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 that credibility is number 3. And I'm going to go in more detail in all these. All right. And then like this. So what's likeness? So likeness is that you see some this is some people say relatability. This can be both psychological in terms of you share similar values with this person. You let you like their vibe. What everyone said it right? You like their behavior set in it. And that behavior set matches the people who have been positive in your life in the past or they literally just look like you, 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, it's because 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 a more male audience. But Layla I think is like 54% female. And so, and she talks about almost exclusive money in business. Obviously she talks about some mindset stuff too. But I I say this to say, OK, if we have these four fix and these are the things that create influence and I would find influence as high likelihood of compliance with requests. Be Your Authentic Self to Maximize Your Influence OK, So what does that mean? So if I say, hey, you know, grab my new book or I say, hey, come to this web or hey, I'm going live, like come check it 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 a role for like duns and Dragons. And it like depends on how how charismatic, 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 you want to min Max your influence, if you will, then you want to stack all four of these sticks and you're like, OK, I think I'm following with this. So how does this relate to concept? 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 that like it's, it's a relatively trite message. But like most people are NPCS. Most people say prerecorded scripts. They they look at like the four different outfit, you know, combinations that 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, 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, some will put me in that status, but I also like for a few years is wearing like sandals that look like really weird. And I wore those and that was not bro Y at all. But I go warm 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 It 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 your app. 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. Understanding Parental Influence and Content Application But think about like this. What person do you think in your life has super high Max status power, credibility like this? Oh, wait, who do you think has the highest? Has these his his maxed out earlier on in your life to parents, right to 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 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 scarcest resources, all the things you want. And also to the degree for each of these SPCL, these are not binaries. So they don't think like oh, I have status, I don't have status. It's to what degree do you have status, right? Like if somebody's got more money than you, they might have some status. If you've got $1.00, so we've got 10 grand, 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? OK, so again, think not in binaries, yes or no, but think in continuous. So the next one is they got your parents power. How many reinforcement cycles do you assume that your parents had from the time you were born? When I say reinforcement cycles, it means like they said, do this. You did that thing and then a good thing happened. Now you might be like 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? You tied your shoes the first time you put the two Bunny ears together, you tied your shoes. A good thing happened if you followed their directions. Think about how many times a parent has given you directions, you followed them and a bad thing was avoided or good thing happened many. And so it makes sense that not only do they have a lot of status, they want a power. OK, what else do they have? Credibility. Now this is 1 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 of whatever it is that they're talking about, then you have even more influence on you, right? And then finally for parent, are they like you? Yeah, they literally look like you, right? And often times they share similar values to you to a degree. Obviously some people just go polar opposite from their parents. That's fine. But I'm talking in sweeping generalities for most people, right? And so this should at least explain or breakdown like, why do parents have so much power over us? How how they have 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 won't even like your parents, but you can still feel that they, 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? And then how do we reverse engineer these into the content that we have so that we can build up 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 fashion tips, right? I don't know if I control any scarce resources around fashion. I have no, I have no fashion hookups. I probably haven't given anyone specific fashion tips. I have no third party anything for credibility for it. And you probably don't look like me. And so I, 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, right? So of course there's some things that will generalize over time. This is why people go to their hair stylist and they'll listen to them from relationship advice. It's like, how does this person who cuts my hair have anything? And like, why would I trust them in any way on relationship device or on a stock pick? The thing is, is that there is some degree that generalizes, but it's obviously going to be way more domain specific to whatever their thing is, right? So hopefully this is this makes some, some sense for you guys. Practical Ways to Demonstrate SPCL in Your Content OK, So if we know these are the four things that is 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 the very beginning, if you think about what the intro was, right? So I said we did, you know, 32.7 million views and we did over 100 and you know, 5 point something $1,000,000 in sales for the book launch in 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 breakdown 4 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 the future request. And so that means that they're not just going to watch your video, but they're going to be more likely to one, watch the 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 and pay 3 judges 24 hours to be on site was because I wanted to validate that the books that we did and the revenue that we generated was legit, right? So I had a, 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 to the video, status and credibility can seem similar, but because because so, so commonly the things are linked. 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 will 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. The credibility around the specific that I'm describing, which is like, how do you build influence inside of a video or personal brand? That's going to be that's that's the third, that's the kind of like the objective proof. Does that make sense? Hopefully that's I'm 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, right? And so that's why I'm actually super pumped in these live streams 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 on this. So if you guys are like, what's Alex's kind of like media strategy for the future, I'm focusing on 2 words. You can write this down live interactive. There's the two things that's that is describing the ACQ, you know, 3 point O or mostly media, 3 point O vision for what's going forward. Like that is what I'm focusing on. And I'll tell you a story of why, why I think this is so interesting. Why Long-Form and Live Content Builds Deep Influence So I had a conversation with a mega influencer, 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, 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 who had the most cool points, right? These are the A listers, OK. And so this is your typical kind of celebs from like movies and like 90s and 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 media presences 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 tik tokers or people who only make reels but like only short videos. OK, and so they had a little bit more applause on the O Plaza 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 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 along, right? They watch a couple a couple of shorts and then think, OK, this guy seems legit or this gal 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. I'm going to risk that. We get good with tournalists, right? And so shorts then need to lock. 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 watched 2/1 hour pieces of content for me, period, OK, 2/1 hour piece, it's 120 minutes for me to get that same level of exposure and kind of cycles of reinforcing with a prospect, right? And they were only consuming shorts, right? Let's say my average short, my do you want my average shortest life wise 15 seconds. Let's say 15 for Matt's say OK, 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 someone would have to watch 480 shorts to have the same level of exposure as watching 2 hours with me. And think about how 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 politics 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 3 hour plus podcast that he did with Rogan like a week or whatever it was before, before November. Is it November 4th? I think it was over 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. I just again, I think about this from marking persuasion, OK. And so because of that, audiences who are not sure got to spend 3 hours with the president of a candidate as a result, it just nudged some of them in the direction to ultimately vote. OK, now back to our little story. A listers have almost no applause. Shorts have slept applause longs have legit applause that the live streamers when the live streamers came out, it was like the entire auditorium or stadium or arena erupted. And when I heard that, it was such a visual example of just like, I mean, we have the saying, just like butts in seats. Some of you guys are watching this have have some level of of of fall away remake, some sort of concept, whatever. And some guys you who who don't like might as well be starter, right. But if you just make a bunch of like meme content, right, 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, as, as a result in their life as relates to whatever they care about. You're not demonstrating any kind of credibility. And maybe you have some element of likeness that way you might have some element of like this not come from from a meme sort of content, right? And So what happens is some of you guys are chasing views when 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 likelihood that occurs, right? The Power of Volume, Consistency, and Raw Content And so in, in looking at this thing, This is why I'm, I'm telling you like showing my cards. I'm going to be doing more live strips. 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 super curated, everything super polished, it's photoshopped, it's scripted, right? And as you move closer this way, it's raw or like you have a three hour podcast, like if they're not scripted right, or most of them are, right, streaming, it's like, yeah, then we're live, right? I can't do anything. We're live. And so this idea of how can we approximate the rawest reality of you, us hanging out, right? And actually going through this stuff, I think that is what will unlock the most influence as long as you are still including these SPCL elements into it. And I think that's the marriage, right? How do I do SPCL and do it as many times as I possibly can? That's the idea. And so why shouldn't we provide that that opportunity? Now let's also think about this real context of volume, right? So what do you like or not? Rogan, tremendous influence, like to the same degree, PVD tremendous influence. Dave Ramsey, tremendous influence. What is it that these guys have in common, right? What is the day have in common? They're putting out hours of content every single day. So you guys hear 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, you know, $1 million business and $2,000,000 businesses, things like that. They put out one piece of content a day, right? And there's nothing wrong with that. That's 360, sixty five pieces of content a year. And if you think about the size of our business is not common in terms of our revenue, right? Compared to somebody who's doing a one or $2,000,000 a year and they're doing a 365 piece of content, we're just quite literally doing 100 times more. That's it. Like we're literally just doing 100 times the volume and as a result of that 100 times the volume. What do you think's happening? We get 100 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. So like we just know those like one out of 10, you know, shorts is going to go, you know, it's going to be a true or 3X outlier. We just know what that math looks like. Same thing for logs, right? And 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. All right. So I'll give you one more nugget and then I'll I'll open up for discussion. 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, is, and he'll be the first day he's like, I'm, it's not like I'm Superman or I'm not like, you know, some rocket scientist here. 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 of you who are like starting right now, like start, like, like start. You will not make less money by letting more people know like stuff, period. Shift to Interest Media: Quality Views Over Quantity Full stop. So you one 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. OK, 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. If I have a grandma public coming to do a running slap and just slaps me across the face, that video will probably get views. But does it get the grandma views? No. Does it get me any 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, if you're in business, whatever business, you have, e-commerce, SAS services, brick and mortar, doesn't matter if you sell services to anyone, you're likely going to be educator, not an entertainer. Meaning you're, you're, you're trying to provide valued people's change of behavior in some way and ideally change of behavior that gets them to walk closer to you and buy stuff. OK, So what do I mean by social versus interest? If you want to attract the right avatar, make concept for that avatar that sounds so obvious and simple. And The thing is that no one does it because here's the writer doubter. The content is the targeting, like the algorithm is so good now it knows what you're talking about it, it knows it could, it can literally judge your your background. It judges what you're wearing, it judges who you are and 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 fix pianos because you're a piano repenter guy, then you will have people who are trying to fix their pianos 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 make this type of content, you might be like, man, I'm only getting, you know, 1000 views of video. It's like, yeah, but the market of people who are buying pianos might be significantly smaller than the market of people who just want to be entertained or distracted. So it's not fair to to compare your views against Mr. Beast. Doesn't make any sense. Right. And so if I were to think of myself like I have a room of 1000 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 do I mean by that? If I look at video and then I get texts from business owners that I like and that I respect, be like, yo, that was fire. Then I'm like, OK, I'm on 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 cows, but basically it's me. There's a business owner that presents a little bit of the business and they come to the side and we talked about how like how to prove their business right. So let me know the comments if you like that style and if you do, let me know if you're a business owner or not. OK, so I like that style and I'm not a business owner. I like that style and I am a business owner or I don't like that style and I'm a business owner or I don't like that style and I'm a business owner or I don't like that style. I'm not a business owner. Here's the reality of it. Whenever people are here in person at our headquarters, right? You were like that style of your business. OK, great. Yes, OK, yes, exactly. So if if you are a business owner, what I have people who are here in IRL in real life in Vegas, right, Business centers who buy 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, 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. OK, so let's say this is 100%, all right? You get 100% of people who are interested. OK, 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 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, you know, a way to go start a business online in a in a low cost way, right, which you can do. It's 9 bucks a month after a 14 day trial. You guys can check it out. There's a bunch of like training and community and all that good stuff. All right, but you can go to school.com. I think forward slash promosi. I think it's below this video doesn't matter point bit 9% is what I'm competing for. OK, Now there's that means there's about 32 to 33 million business owners in the US, OK, 32,000,000 that's that's 100% of all business owners. Now within that 95% of that 9% is below $1 million in revenue 95%. So then then I've got 5% of that 9% that are over 1,000,000 if you want to get weird with it. What percent do you think is over 10 million.4%? One in 250.4% and then 100,000,009 figures is I think one in roughly 3000 depending on like your data source, one in 3000 businesses gets to 100 million year this bit. And so it would make sense then that we given these numbers, right? 9% is is 32,000,000. So out of 5% of that is going to be 1,000,000, 1/2 people, there's only 1,000,000 1/2 people who are business owners, you're over 1,000,000 based on the math that that, that this is sense of Bureau data. Maybe there's isn't correct, but that's the mix, 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 we got one and a half million views and 100% of them are business owners, 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. Beast's video with 100 million views and be like, oh, man, I suck. It's like, dude, we're, we're going after, we had different, we had different games, right? And so I'd encourage you to create accurate expectations of the size of the market that you're going after. And also think about the translation of these nerves into IRL real life. Because when I started out and I was making you 2, like I started 0 just like 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 where you get 10,000 views on the video? I remember saying, So I was like, dude, we're going to get 10,000 views in 24 hours. It's going to be sick. And that was because at that time I was getting like 1000 views in 24 hours, right? But that for me, I was like 1000. Like I worked in real life. I had brick and mortar. So for me to get 1000 people in a room, I was like, my God, I would do lunch and lunch with 15 people, right? So I got 15 views. I was like, hell yeah. I, 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 $1,000,000 a year with less than $5000. There's another business that's AB to B insurance company that, that I that I invested in that I don't want to show the numbers, but OK, I won't show. I'll just say many millions on like $10,000 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 too likely valuable for that following. All right, with that being said, we just went over SPCL status, power, credibility, 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 soon as possible. You want to make the topics of your content based on the things that those people find interesting, not based on like being social, but being interesting and you you make it interesting for them. They will keep watching it and then realistic about your exectations on how many views you can get based on your size of market.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. Consistency is massively underestimated and can make someone a dangerous competitor by building influence.
  2. The SPCL framework (Status, Power, Credibility, Likeness) creates influence, defined as high likelihood of compliance with requests.
  3. Status comes from controlling scarce resources; Power from "say-do correspondence" (saying something, you do it, good thing happens); Credibility from objective third-party proof; Likeness from being authentic and relatable.
  4. Most people fail by not making enough content and by making content that doesn't attract the right customers.
  5. Long-form, live, interactive content (like streaming) is the future for building deep influence over polished, scripted videos.
  6. Parents naturally max out all four SPCL elements, explaining their outsized influence.

Summary:

The speaker argues that consistency is a wildly underestimated competitive advantage. To build influence—defined as the likelihood someone will comply with your requests—they introduce the SPCL framework. Status involves controlling scarce resources people want (e.g., money, access). Power comes from "say-do correspondence": when you give advice, someone follows it, and a positive outcome occurs, they become more likely to follow future requests. Credibility is objective, third-party proof of your claims (e.g., verified sales records, Guinness World Records). Likeness is authenticity—being genuinely yourself rather than playing a predetermined archetype.

The speaker illustrates how a single event, like a $100 million book launch, can check multiple boxes: it demonstrates status (controlling money), credibility (objective proof), and power (if others follow the method and succeed). They stress that these elements are not binary but continuous, and they stack to maximize influence. Most content creators fail by not producing enough content and by making content that doesn't attract the right audience. The speaker advocates for long-form, live, interactive content over polished, scripted videos, citing a conversation with Mr. Beast about the future of media. Ultimately, by understanding and applying SPCL in your content, you can systematically build real influence rather than just chasing views.

FAQs

Say-do correspondence means when you say something, someone does it, and a positive outcome occurs, making them more likely to comply with future requests. This builds power through repeated reinforcement cycles.

Yes, launching a book that made $100 million+ gives you status (via money), credibility (via third-party proof like revenue figures), and power (if you share advice that works for others). The same event can serve all three.

In content, you demonstrate status by sharing results like views or sales, power by giving actionable advice that leads to good outcomes, credibility via third-party validation (e.g., awards), and likeness by being authentically yourself.

Because influence can generalize beyond a specific domain to some degree. If a stylist has built enough overall SPCL, people may comply with requests outside their expertise due to accumulated trust and authority.

Status comes from controlling scarce resources like money, while credibility requires third-party proof that others can observe, such as verified revenue, awards, or physical assets. They can overlap but are distinct concepts.

Just be your true self, including unique nuances and reasons for your actions. Avoid fitting archetypes like 'barbecue bro' or 'hipster,' as that yields zero ROI. Authenticity builds likeness better than any scripted persona.

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