A growing Twitter audience is an asset to any entrepreneur.

I've added 14,547 followers in just 10 weeks.

Here are the 4 very simple things I did:
1/ A "touch base" tweet each AM

Each morning, I touch base with my audience.

My simple goal?

Provide morning motivation to keep other entrepreneurs building.

It also puts my name and face in front of people on a regular basis.

2/ An educational tweet each PM

Each afternoon, I share a lesson from my entrepreneurial journey.

Topics include:

- Service businesses
- Building information products
- Using social media effectively

My only goal is to help ONE person keep growing.

3/ A step-by-step thread once weekly

Weekly threads power my growth.

I gain hundreds (or thousands) of followers by sharing detailed threads.

My goal is to walk someone step-by-step through something critical in entrepreneurship.

4/ Engage with 5 people in my niche each day

Each day, I meet great new people on Twitter.

Here are some impressive folks I've chatted with, just to see where it goes:

- @JamesonCamp
- @theandreboso
- @TheDanKoe
- @landforce
- @aaditsh

It's called social media for a reason.
And that's literally it.

No gimmickss.
No hacks.
No tricks.
No pods.

TL;DR

1/ A "touch base" tweet each AM
2/ An educational tweet each PM
3/ A step-by-step thread once weekly
4/ Engage with 5 people in my niche each day
That's it. Just a short one today.

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9 Dec
You don't need complicated funnels to sell info products.

Nearly everyone I've met who uses them works harder, spends more, and makes less on their products than I do.

Here's my simple formula to sell info products:

A mini 🧵👇🏻
1/ Continuous value in a niche

I spent a few years on LinkedIn talking about social media growth on the platform.

All of my best lessons already exist as content. They are all free.

The good news is people will pay for aggregation.
2/ 80% give, 20% ask

As you continue giving away valuable information, you earn the right to make an "ask".

Once per week, I ask my audience to buy a course.

I make about 15x the revenue each "ask day".

See @gumroad screenshot (a few more asks bc of Holiday sales)
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1/ Becoming an intrapreneur with @ShaanVP

If you're not ready to become an entrepreneur, start inside of your current company.

Shaan breaks down his 1-hour per week hack to building a brand inside of your 9 to 5.

2/ The benefit of finding a niche with @Nicolascole77

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When you capitalize on that niche?

The whole game changes.

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The greatest founders in the world all have something in common.

A "founder story" that's a massive marketing asset.

Follow this 7-step framework to create yours...

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1/ The Obstacle

To start, it's important that your audience can relate to your story.

And there's one critical thing that's relatable to anyone:

Overcoming an obstacle.

My example: I got fired 3 times by the time I was 28 and was basically a failure heading into 2010.
2/ The Internal Struggles

Internal struggles are how we feel inside because of the obstacle above.

Internal pain is captured with words like fearful, insecure, or worried.

My example: After getting fired 3x, I was worried that I was never going to be successful at anything.
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Back in late 2018, I had never written anything online.

Fast forward 3 years, and I passed 100M impressions.

What most people don’t know?

I use the same process to write every time.

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What’s the fastest way to come up with ideas?

Use systems.

I created my own content matrix in Notion.

- Choose a topic
- Match it to a style
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Much of writing is about systems.
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Struggling to format your writing?

There are so many tools out there to help.

I am loving @typeshare_co

They have beautiful templates built right in for inspiration.

No better way to get started.
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Thinking of creating your own community?

Here are my top 7 learnings:

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It's critical that everyone is focused on the same outcome.

I have 130k followers on LinkedIn, so some people applied just to hang out.

Those members don't engage as much because the outcomes we're working towards aren't why they joined.

Be thorough.
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We put people through a robust application process to deeply understand who they are.

We set expectations 3x on who should join and who shouldn't.

We emphasized the importance of creativity, participation, etc.

Our first 4 cohorts are amazing.
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(without knowing how to code)

A short 🧵
1/ Eliminate the "fallacy of expertise"

When you get started, you can't worry about "am I an expert?"

If you do, you'll never get started.

Instead, make a list of your accomplishments, big and small, over the last 2-3 years.

What skills did you learn during this period?
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Inside of the list you just created, will be things you loved doing and hated doing.

Sorry, but misery doesn't scale.

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