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In the past 30 days, I 100x the number

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of users on my app from zero users to

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over 10,000 users signed up and using

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the app. And I also went from zero

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dollars of revenue to over $4,000 of

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revenue in one month. And in this video,

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I'm going to break down everything that

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I did to achieve this really monumental

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growth in my app. But before we even get

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into me telling you exactly what I did,

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just to make sure there's no haters in

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the comments that are like, "Bro, this

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is fake. Show us the proof." Let me show

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you the proof first. The app that I'm

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building is called Yorby, and it's a

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social media marketing platform that has

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two main goals right now, and that is to

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help you find and get inspiration to

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make viral marketing content to market

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your business faster. And then we also

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help you create viral marketing content

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to market your business faster. So,

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we're trying to make marketing content

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inspo and creation a lot easier. And the

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main premise of how it all works is that

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number one, we have this viral content

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database, which is a whole database of

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different types of viral formats that

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other businesses have used, strictly

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what other businesses have used to

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market their business on social media

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and what's worked. And then from there,

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you can actually remix these videos

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within our content studio. For example,

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let's say we see this video. And when

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you click on the content studio button,

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you're going to then be opened up into

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our content studio right here. And from

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here, you can remix this content to fit

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whatever niche that your business is in.

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This original video looks like some type

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of health and wellness brand. But let's

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say I want to remake this same exact

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video with for a dating app, like a

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fictional dating app right here. Then

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you can just send this chat message and

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then we use our AI. will then transform

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this entire script to fit your niche,

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your brand, whatever you're trying to

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market, while still maintaining that

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same original viral format and viral

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soul that that video had. So that's the

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main premise of our app. And in terms of

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the growth right here, you can see that

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we went from, let's see, January 1st,

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what, zero, literally nothing on January

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1st. And then we've steadily grown and

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right now we have over 10,000 signed up

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users. And then in terms of revenue, if

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you look at the gross volume, you can

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see that in the past four weeks, in the

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past month, we have made over $4,000 of

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revenue in the past month. And literally

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before that there was literally nothing

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going on. If you go over here, I'll do

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the whole uh let's see all time. And you

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can see right here, basically nothing

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happened. And then in December, things

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start to pick up. We started getting our

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first couple of users and things just

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started going crazy afterwards. So

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that's all the proof. Let's actually get

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into what exactly we did to achieve this

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crazy growth. So the number one biggest

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lever and honestly our only marketing

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channel that we've really done in the

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past 30 days is social media marketing

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content. So, in terms of the different

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marketing strategies that we tried to

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achieve this exponential growth, really

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the only thing that we've done is

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organic social media marketing content.

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Kind of like how Yorby, the app that I'm

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building, is all about helping you find

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and make really good, high performing

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social media marketing content. We

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literally use Yorby to help make the

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videos that we created to market our app

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on social media like Tik Tok and

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Instagram. You know, something about

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getting high on your own supply,

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practicing what you preach. So, we can

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confirm that Yorby works cuz it's

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literally what we use to run our whole

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marketing department. And also, to be

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very clear, I am not the marketing

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person. I'm the technical co-founder. I

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do have a co-founder who goes by Mangm

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Doug on social media. He is the main

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business and growth guy. He has handled

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the entire social media marketing

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process. So, I am going to speak on

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behalf of what he has done. But if you

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guys are interested in hearing it

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straight from the source, let me know

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and I can get him on the channel and we

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can do a joint video together or

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something. Leave a comment down below if

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you want a video like that. So, really

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the biggest glove growth lever that we

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have had is using AI generated social

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media marketing content. Honestly, the

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formats are pretty simple. It's what we

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call a hook and demo format.

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Essentially, in the very beginning, we

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just created this like AI person where

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they are like looking really excited in

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the camera. I'll include video B-roll

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right here so you can see it, but

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basically they're looking like, "Oh my

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god, what?" And then we present a very

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juicy hook in the beginning. And that's

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what we primarily have used Yori for.

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Within Yorby, we dumped up all of the

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knowledge that he has and I have about

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making viral social media marketing

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content. And we use it as our

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brainstorming partner, our co-working

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partner to help us brainstorm really

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juicy, high performing hooks that's

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trained on our entire database of

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content. And then from there, from this

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really juicy hook, we make sure this

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hook presents some type of problems.

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Like an example hook would be POV, you

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finally understand why creators stopped

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using chat GPT. It's like, wo, what? It

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sparks curiosity in the user. And then

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the following clip we insert after this

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hook is a demo of the product that we're

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building, which is Yorby. And this video

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demo then shows the solution to that

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initial problem we created and showed in

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the hook. So that's why we call it a

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hook and demo format. And that is

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literally all that we did. And it's

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honestly kind of crazy because going

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into this, this was in the month of

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December when this all happened. And

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both my partner and I, we were both

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traveling kind of just on holiday

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vacation with our family, right? And we

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accepted the fact that, hey, chances

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that people are going to be in the

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holidays and wanting to purchase product

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probably pretty slim. We're not going to

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be home at our home based on our laptops

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all that often. So, let's just forget

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about growth. Let's just be heads down

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and focus on building a really good

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product. And then come January in the

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new year, that's when we can focus on

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getting a lot of growth instead. And

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that's what we originally agreed on. But

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then kind of out of nowhere, my

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co-founder is like, "Hey, I'm going to

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start posting some content, get the

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account warmed up and let's just see how

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it goes." All right, sure. No worries.

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Then out of nowhere, literally while we

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are just abroad traveling, video goes

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viral. Multiple videos go viral back to

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back to back to back and next thing you

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know, our app is exploding. Our database

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is failing because it is way too weak

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and small and not optimized to handle

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over 10,000 users. It was only built to

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handle like 20 users and it was just so

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stressful. But it was a good type of

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problem to have. And honestly, that's a

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whole another video topic on its own

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about how to scale the app and all the

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pain and the headaches that we went

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through. But a lot of juicy stuff there.

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I will talk about that in a follow-up

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video. And if you want to see that

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video, make sure to subscribe to the

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channel cuz then you'll get alerted when

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that video comes out. When my app

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unexpectedly grew from zero to 10,000

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users in 30 days, one of the most

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critical things I did immediately was

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gather everybody's contact information

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like their email. Even though the growth

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was so rapid, I knew that email

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marketing is one of the best ways of

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marketing and communicating with your

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users. So although I wasn't doing any

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active email marketing at the time, I

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still made sure to capture the email

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information on signup so I can use it

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later on. And there are so many

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different email marketing providers out

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there, but the one that I find myself

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coming back to year-over-year is called

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Brevo, which also happens to be the

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sponsor of today's video. What I liked

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in particular about Brevo is the fact

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that they have great developer support,

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which makes it really easy to capture

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user information and contact them later

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on. But they also have a really nice

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graphical interface to create email

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marketing campaigns and to just manage

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your users in general. Don't get me

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wrong, I love being code. I love in

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terminal, but we made graphical user

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interfaces for a reason. They also have

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the ability to create email flows and

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various marketing automations, as well

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as contacting your users via SMS and

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WhatsApp. And now that the [music]

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growth has settled out a little bit, I'm

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finally finding some time to use Brevo

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and start my email marketing campaigns

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to get more users to convert [music] and

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use my tool. I personally am a big fan

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of their pricing model as well because

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unlike a lot of other email providers

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out there that charge you based on how

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many contacts you're managing, Brevo

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primarily charges you based on how many

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emails you're actually sending, which

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makes way more sense. If you're looking

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for an email and marketing solution

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that's easier for both developers and

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non-developers, then definitely check

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out Brevo right here using this link.

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And once again, thanks to Brevo for

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sponsoring this segment of the video.

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And that AI video format is literally

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all that we did. It's one of those

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things where when you find something

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that works, you just got to double and

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triple down on it. And that is exactly

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what we have been doing up until this

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point. But while doing that, while we

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have been doubling down on this proven

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format that we know works, this AI hook

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and demo format, we also wanted to test

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out human content as well. And we

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started hiring other human UGC creators

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to literally just recreate the same

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exact video that we created with AI or

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make their own types of videos as well.

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And I know something you might be

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wondering is, wait, if AI content's

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already working, why are you bothering

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hiring humans to make the same content

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as well? That's a really good question

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and the honest answer to it all is the

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fact that hiring humans versus just

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making the AI content yourself. It's all

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about leveraging time versus money.

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Because yes, AI content, we could

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theoretically just do it all of

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ourselves, but it takes a lot of time to

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make that content, believe it or not.

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And when you're just hiring somebody

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else to do it, you're hiring this like

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real human creator to make that content.

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We were just leveraging our newfound

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revenue and money that we were making

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from Yorby and paying essentially other

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marketers to help us grow our app. But

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the thing is with any type of social

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media content that you post to market

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your app, it's really more of like a

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venture capital play. It's really one of

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those businesses where like if you get

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10 people to make content, 10 different

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accounts to post content to market your

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product, you're going to most likely

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nine out of 10 of those accounts are

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probably going to fail or not do all

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that well. But then that one account out

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of the 10 is going to be one outstanding

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winner that's going to drive like the

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vast majority of your growth for your

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business because that one account just

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continuously gets picked up by the

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algorithm and will push your product out

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to other people. So that's why we still

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hired humans even though we did know

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that the AI content did work. And at the

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end of the day when we internally

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discuss the idea of AI content versus

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human content, what's the future?

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Honestly, for us, it really doesn't

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matter. And I think that's what the

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algorithm will say as well. The

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algorithm does not care how the content

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was made. Did you make it? Did you pay

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someone else to make it? Did you use AI

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to make it? They don't care. I think all

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that they care about is is the content

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good or is the content spam. And then if

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the algorithm detects that the content

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is really spammy and lowv value content,

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they're not going to push it out no

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matter what. At the end of the day, I

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would not stress out too much about, oh

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my god, should I do AI content, human

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content? What's the future? Do it all,

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do one, doesn't matter. Just you just

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need to focus on making good content or

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what the algorithm deems as good

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content. So, posting short form social

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media marketing videos definitely

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accounted for probably over 80% of our

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growth. And the other 20% of our growth

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has largely been through LinkedIn. Once

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again, this is not me. This is my

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partner, my co-founder. He's the one

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that does the whole LinkedIn stuff. But

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really, I think what LinkedIn does is

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really targeting kind of a different

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customer base. Whereas with social

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media, I think we've been getting a lot

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of solo plans, like solo players, like

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solo creators who want to do this all.

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We also offer a team plan that lets

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users add up to 10 different team

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members into their team to collaborate

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with one another. And I believe if I had

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to take a guess and just from really

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short anecdotes here and there, LinkedIn

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has been a better marketing avenue to

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hit those team-based people as well. So,

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while LinkedIn is definitely

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significantly less conversionoriented

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compared to posting on Tik Tok or

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Instagram, we still think it's really

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important because it really targets and

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attracts a fundamentally different type

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of audience to come over to us.

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Potentially, more enterprise clients,

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more team-based clients, bigger teams

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that have longer sales cycles. So, right

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now, we haven't had nearly as many sales

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on due to LinkedIn compared to Tik Tok

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and Instagram, but it's still a platform

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we want to continue to invest in because

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we think it's going to pay a lot of

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dividends in the future. So, that is

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basically how we achieved all the growth

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on our app. Now, in terms of future

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plans on what we plan to continue to do

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moving forward is number one, we still

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plan to go hard on posting a lot of

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short form marketing content, Tik Tok

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and Instagram, make more accounts, hire

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more people, AI content and human

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content, everything. And what's really

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interesting is the fact that we've

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noticed with going viral on Tik Tok and

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Instagram, we have gotten so much

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inbound and interest from other

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creators, like other UGC creators that

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want to make videos on our behalf. So,

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it almost has solved that sourcing

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problem for us. We're not finding

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ourselves having to reach out to other

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people to convince them and asking them

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to make content for us. We're getting a

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lot of inbound. So, that's actually been

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a really pleasant surprise. We're still

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really strong believers in short form

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videos on Tik Tok, Instagram, and like

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YouTube shorts as well to being a strong

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growth lever for us moving forward. But

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other things that we do maybe

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potentially play with in the future in

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the near future is paid ads. Obviously,

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everyone knows what paid ads are. We'll

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probably more interested in going on

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meta paid ads than Google search paid

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ads. We'll see. But right now, my

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co-founder and I, both of our plates are

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so full, it's going to be hard for

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either one of us to do it. So, if we

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were to do this, we would probably hire

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an agency or someone to work with to run

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our paid ads for us. But that is still

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like second tier in priority, whereas

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still just going hard on organic social

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media marketing content on Tik Tok and

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Instagram is still the number one

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priority. The third tier thing that we

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are interested in is SEO, search engine

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optimization. That one really early

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stages. We have a potential SEO strategy

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we have in mind, but it's still way too

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early. We haven't done the work at all

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for it, but it's something we do want to

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tackle, especially as we do our product

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development. And with this whole SEO

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strategy, I think that's going to be

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something that I'm going to lead a

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little bit more on because I think with

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SEO, you can do stuff like programmatic

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search engine optimization or just

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clever search engine optimization tricks

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and websites that you build with like a

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coding background. So, that's kind of

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where I think I will probably come in

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using my coding background, my

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programming background as marketing.

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But, we'll see. That's a little bit

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further out in our timeline just because

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we have a lot of other things we want to

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build. Those are our future plans for

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how we continue to plan to grow our appe

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in the meantime. But that is all I got

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for today. That is everything that we've

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done to 100x ourr users on our app in

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the past 30 days. And it has been a

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crazy crazy 30 days. Very very exciting.

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And hopefully in the next coming weeks I

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can make more videos and we have more

11:50

exciting landmarks that I can share with

11:51

you. And if you are interested in that

11:52

type of content, once again make sure to

11:53

hit that subscribe button so you get

11:55

alerted whenever those videos comes out.

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That's all I got for today. Thanks for

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watching. I'll see you in the next one.

11:59

Peace.

Interactive Summary

The speaker details how their app, Yorby, achieved monumental growth, going from zero to over 10,000 users and $4,000 in revenue within 30 days. Yorby is a social media marketing platform designed to help businesses find inspiration and create viral content using a database of successful formats and an AI-powered content studio. The primary driver of this growth was organic social media marketing through a "hook and demo" video format, which involves an exciting AI persona, a problem-posing hook, and a product demo. This success, largely driven by the co-founder, was unexpected during a holiday period and caused database scaling issues. While leveraging AI content, they also hired human UGC creators, noting that the algorithm values good content regardless of its origin. LinkedIn contributed a smaller but strategically important portion of growth by attracting team-based and enterprise clients. Future plans include continued investment in short-form content, exploring paid ads, and SEO.

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