How to Grow an Audience if You Have 0 Followers

How I got here…

21: Graduated Vanderbilt in 3 years Magna Cum Laude, and took a fancy consulting job.
23 yrs old: Left my fancy consulting job to start a business (a gym).
24 yrs old: Opened 5 gym locations.
26 yrs old: Closed down 6th gym. Lost everything.
26 yrs old: Got back to launching gyms (launched 33). Then, lost everything for a 2nd time.
26 yrs old: In desperation, started licensing model as a hail mary. It worked.
27 yrs old: "Gym Launch" does $3M profit the next 6 months. Then $17M profit next 12 months.
28 yrs old: Started Prestige Labs. $20M the first year.
29 yrs old: Launched ALAN, a software company for agencies to work leads for customers. Scaled to $1.7mmo within 6 months.
31 yrs old: Sold 75% of UseAlan to a strategic buyer in an all stock deal.
31 yrs old: Sold 66% of Gym Launch & Prestige Labs at $46.2M valuation in all-cash deal to American Pacific Group. (you can google it)
32 yrs old: Started making free content showing how we grow companies to make real business education accessible to everyone (and) to attract business owners to invest or scale their businesses.

Today: Our portfolio now does $200M/yr between 10 companies. The largest doing $100M/yr the smallest doing $5M per year. Our ownership varies between 20% and 100% ownership of the companies. Many of them we invested in early and helped grow (which is how we make our money - not youtube videos).

To all the gladiators in the arena, we’re all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit,

Alex

*FULL DISCLOSURE*
I make content to make money - just - on a longer time horizon than most. I want to build trust with business owners so we can find the best ones and help them scale. And if they’re awesome, write them a check and go all the way as partners.

[ChrisPieta]

This is it. Simple actions every day. It took me 8 months to gain 500 subscribers. It took me another 8 to gain 10, 000. Consistency wins and compounds

[LindaNystorm]

Being a YouTuber is very similar to running your own business. You should upload things people want to see, just like businessman should offer product/service that people need. And when the growth becomes real, you can consider hiring people to help you run your channel more efficiently. The most difficult part is starting and growing of course, but consistency and hard work (with a little bit of help from Fame -ster of course) will always pay off at the end.

[amit_arise]

1. Focus on the process not the outcome
2. Consistently is the key
3. Have patience
4. Goals doesn't make you unique, action does.
5. Focus on the doing

[ScorerL]

This 6 min 54 sec video changed my outlook on life for the better with the “your goal is not the outcome, your goal is to be consistent” outlook, thank you genuinely brother, may God bless you. ❤

[diondiamonds]

“Focus on the activities not the outcome.” That great advice I can use for anything… thanks definitely subbed

[kaymarella]

Pure commitment man. I appreciate your honesty. So organic, trustworthy, and candid.

[Bodyodyfitness]

Wow, just Wow…so many jewels in just one video and I’ve never been more inspired! Thank you so very much for taking the time to create and share this with us 🔥🙏🏽

[ThoughtfulResponse]

I love this perspective! It's so important to focus on the process and not the outcome. I think too often we get wrapped up in the end result and we forget to enjoy the journey.

[Chronoxidex]

I just want to spend a minute to comment that i'm super grateful that you share real stuff to the audience, extremely precise and straight to the point for people who are struggling. So many content creators out there just wanted to share a >15 minutes videos hanging the audience waiting for the key content.
Thank you so much for being so helpful. Sincerely.

[kylahoggard]

this is so good!!! I love it! Thank you for your honesty, your truth, your experience!

[weatherdastormentertainment]

Great advice Alex I’m just getting started and will keep everything you just stated in mind…Thanks!!!!

[marcusgrip]

never heard anyone explain it in that way and so simple. focus on actions, not goals. love that. shifted something profoundly in me. thank you!

[federicogiller]

Alex is so freaking clear on what he communicates - My Big Takeaway - The Goal is not the outcome. The goal is to do the thing!

[kylahoggard]

this is just pure gold! I really really really appreciate you!!

[TanyaAlizaTV]

Such a great video! Your perspective on prioritizing the process over the outcome is a game-changer. It's refreshing to hear someone emphasize the long-term nature of business success.

[KlaasVictor]

Thank you Alex for reminding us to think long term. I really needed this.

[eduardmostert]

First ever video I watch from you, and so many information in here I am hooked to your channel Alex. Thank you for committing to creating content that impacts.

[Cierasbeautifulmind]

Wow! You are preaching! This is really dope! I love this! I teach an after-school program and will show this to my students!

[Naqib]

I love when you say “as long as it takes”. Makes me motivated to keep going on my channel. Thank you for putting such a good content.

[dvoi.ce]

I love it that you are real and not trying to motivate us, rather you see telling how you got there and it's real to me, just subscribed 👌