I Gained 5,000,000+ Followers with this Secret Method

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

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[RayAndre]

Alex is just high IQ, focused, and works really hard… dangerous combo

[TylerByars]

I swear Alex is the only person on the internet that makes clickbait headlines...and then actually delivers on the promise of the clickbait

[scottmckenna]

Great video. One thing that’s important to note is that Alex’s content is extremely valuable because the stuff he talks about is high IQ with tons of experience, and what he says works. Even if you spend $5, 000 per month on an agency, if you don’t have good stuff to talk about, and value to add to people watching, you won’t grow any channel. In the same way that even if Alex didn’t spend $15K per month, he’d still get views and subs because the content itself is valuable. He scaled to 5 million fast because what he teaches works, and he’s extremely smart. Well done Alex.

[GhostShipMusic]

Just do exactly what he says here. This is the best advice I’ve ever heard on content creating.

[sahilaapan]

As a YouTube agency owner, I was facing many issues with pricing and what services to offer (phase 1 or phase 2). Alex's this video in particular is going to make it much easier for Entrepreneurs/Creators to find the perfect partner, and for us to explain and offer the right services. This is a real game-changer - thank you so much!

[JoeGannon]

I own a done-for-you content agency for big creators and from that side of the table, I particularly respect the emphasis on upfront transparency here.

It's a win-win if you become a successful case study and everything is amicable. Simply means the agency have done their job and referalls will extend their LTV so to speak.

Respect!

[ayyubali]

I'm 16 and have been running my web design agency to get business more customers/clients and I literally get most of my knowledge from Alex now, it's crazy 🤣

[tylertanzhijian]

As an agency owner myself, this is really true. I've parted ways with clients that grew past my capacity to deliver and onboarded new clients that are below our level.

[sarahstaub]

This is interesting. I run a small agency and this is what I’m seeing even in B2B. They have smaller, sometimes one person marketing departments. But when they work with us, they want us to help build their internal team and eventually hand the reigns to them. There’s pluses and minuses to agencies in this model. But ultimately seeing other people grow their skills is the ultimate reward.

[SpeedToLead-io]

I never really thought about using agencies strategically, but now I see the game plan. Thanks for sharing this under-the-radar wisdom!

[vladusa]

As a six-figure marketing agency owner and software engineer, the only tough output overhead is editing. And if a client doesn’t pay enough, we can’t allocate any time to the client.

[wonthangsoop]

Dang I didn't even notice when you popped off, haven't watched in a while. I guess leverage really is the answer. These editors are killing it. The channel is unrecognizable from when you had 70k subs.

[Markitmonk]

00:05 Learn a rarely used method to grow your audience by 5 million people in under 24 months.
01:12 Using an agency can help you with advertising and content creation
02:23 Learn from experts and implement changes gradually
03:28 Committing to six months with payment even after the engagement is over.
04:31 Renting fractional labor with expertise is beneficial for businesses
05:34 Consider changing team members if they are not performing well
06:34 Working with a premium agency helped massively scale output on short content.
07:44 Using an agency requires money or time.

[IAmRonelAaron]

This video is INSANELY valuable. This is a method nobody's ever talked about. Need to add this to the arsenal of things to do to build my YouTube following!

[asperoa]

very true, when my clients actually understand what makes their content good or bad, they can start to improve their side of the process (framing, lighting, voice, script etc) which exponentially improves the outcome, since fancy editing isn't going to be the soul contributor to what makes a video great...

[aydenguyenn]

Wow really valuable stuff here alex. Definitely going to use it to up my solar agency game and my personal branding goals in the future.

[aedyncook]

I run a short form content agency and this gave me a lot of clarity on what not to do as an agency. Thank you!

[zacksizov]

Wow what an awesome video. Please keep posting. Will be back for the next vid! Best!

[PerspicaciousMindset]

Pro tip - Alex explains this in big details in chapter "agencies" in his book

[fabianandrochelle]

Alex is just a pure gift. Never have I received so much life changing info by a single person on the internet for free. Real Generous 👏