Achieve YouTube Success With Pat Flynn

KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCASTPractice a “serve first” mentality. Serve first and you will be rewarded. Aim to help people. This should be first and foremost in your mind always.Pick the platform you’re most comfortable with FIRST. Work your way up and don’t start with everything all at once.If you’re going to post videos on YouTube, start by answering your audience’s questions. They are looking for answers!To make video and YouTube work for you, you must be consistent.YouTube’s algorithm makes consistency critical to your success. Over time, the platform will tell you what works and what doesn’t. Follow their lead.Create themes in your videos and give viewers the option to subscribe or watch another video. Only publish one video a month that involves a lead magnet or upsell for growing your email list instead of trying to do this with every video. This balance will ensure you’ll succeed and gain new leads.Plan ahead and batch process your videos. This is the key to staying on top of things on YouTube.You don’t want to be just like everyone else. Add your own style and stay true to yourself. Your vibe attracts your tribe. You can use influencers as inspiration, but don’t copy.Check and watch your analytics. Don’t compare yourself to others. Instead, compare yourself to your earlier self. Are you improving and growing?Don’t focus on being an overnight success. Social media and YouTube take time and hard work. Focus and keep going! It will pay off.THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE…Hit “record” and go. Forget all of the excuses you use to keep yourself from publishing. You must go through the bad to get to the good. Even if your first videos are terrible, they will still resonate with someone. Don’t focus on the failure; instead, focus on making it fun. Everything else will follow.HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN'T MISSPat Flynn’s jumpstart into entrepreneurship – 07:00A game-changing platform – 17:54Does Pat have a miracle morning? – 22:57All about YouTube success – 28:54Don’t worry about the numbers – 47:42One tip to rule them all – 49:00LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY'S EPISODEPat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income websiteSmart Passive Income PodcastAsk Pat PodcastPat’s YouTube ChannelAnswer the Public WebsiteMiracle Morning by Hal ElrodFacebookInstagramTranscript below Hello, and a really warm welcome to episode 28 of the Social Media Marketing Made Simple Podcast, and I am your host Teresa Heath-Wareing. I am so excited for today I can't tell you. I've been waiting some quite time to finally get around to interviewing people, which was intentional, because I wanted to work on the podcast on my own and know that I knew what I was doing, and that I got all the systems in place, and everything was working well before I went out to the world to ask people to come onto the podcast.And today is my first interview and it's so good, I mean, so good. I'm not saying that I'm a really good interviewer, by the way, this isn't some uber confidence thing, but the person who I've interviewed is such a good guest on the podcast that I am over the moon. The guy that I have interviewed for today's first ever interview podcast is normally at the top of people's interview lists, so this guy, you don't normally start with him, he's normally what you work up to.So today's episode I am interviewing the amazing Pat Flynn, I feel like there should be some kind of like, woo, applause, clap, clap, clap. I should get some sound effects in for future ones. I first met Pat back in Converted 16, which is a conference in Minneapolis, and I have to say at that point I didn't know a lot about Pat. I vaguely knew that he was this guy that helped people with online businesses, but I haven't seen him talk before, and I went a long to this conference in Minneapolis, and Pat was a keynote speaker, and he is so good at speaking, he makes you an instant fan, and immediately fall in love with his style and how he does things, and makes you want to follow him and consume as much of his content as you possibly can.Pat is a father, husband, and entrepreneur, who lives and works in very beautiful San Diego, for some reason lots of people in my industry all live in San Diego, which is crazy but that's just the way it is, so let me share a little bit about Pat with you, he is a keynote speaker and speaks all over the world, including during the closing keynote of Social Media Marketing World 2018, which I can only imagine that for people in my industry that has gotta be top of the bucket list type thing.He is the owner of two podcasts, in fact, he's had more than two, but two main podcasts, Smart Passive Income, and Ask Pat. I'm gonna link up to all these things in the show notes, which now have over 50 million downloads. As a fledgling podcaster I can only imagine the day when I can say I've had a million downloads, let alone 50 million downloads.He is a Wall Street Journal best selling author and has two books, Will It Fly?, and Let It Go. Will It Fly is a book I've read, it's really good if you have an idea and you want to see if it's going to succeed when you put it out into the marketplace, and his current focus is not on YouTube although he still does the other podcast as well, where he currently has over a 130,000 subscribers, and to top it off he is one of the nicest men you will ever met. In our industry he really is probably the nicest person of social media. He is a devoted husband and father, and often shares personal posts on his social media with him and his two delightful children.This year, at Podcast Movement Conference he even invited his son to come onstage with him and speak, that's right, I mean I couldn't imagine bringing my daughter onstage with me and hoping she says the right things, but his son came onstage and spoke with him, because they now have a podcast together. Now, all these things could be the reason why Pat has one of the loyalist followings ever. He has notes all the time from people who say thank you to him for sharing some of his knowledge, and for helping them with their business. People love Pat Flynn, and in this podcast he shares with us how he got to be the successful entrepreneur that he is, and what has made the biggest difference to him and his business.And then, on top of all that he gives his top tips on how you can kill it on YouTube, which I have to say I sat there with complete fascination, because YouTube is something that I am thinking about working on, so I was kinda taking in every single word he said, anyway, I feel like I have wound you up enough, so without further ado I would love to welcome you to the amazing Pat Flynn.Hey Pat.Hi, how are you?I am really good, thank you, and you?Great. Congratulations on your new show and you know I'm happy, and honoured, to be episode number one, and fun fact, I don't know if you know this, but for another very famous podcast called Entrepreneurs On Fire, I was also John Lee Dumas' first episode.That's amazing.So you know, this is the start of a good thing.Yeah, well if I can follow in his footsteps, then absolutely, so as I've said before I've never interviewed anybody before, you're my first, and I said in the intro that we sat down in San Diego a few months back, back in June, and I talked to you about how I wanted to get people on the podcast, and that I wanted to interview, and you very kindly said that you would be happy to be a guest, and how fitting it was that you would be my first guest.I'm happy to be here.I am so over the moon and for my listeners out there that are listening, if you don't know Pat, I am about introduce you into someone who is phenomenal, and I'm telling you now, you need to follow him. I know I've mentioned you so many times before, and I've talked about you all the time, so I know that they would've perhaps heard a bit about you, but they probably don't know your story, and your story's fascinating because you have this great saying that getting laid off was the best thing that ever happened to you, and really, that was kinda the start of your journey, so I would love it if you could just spend a minute or two kinda taking us through how you kinda got from there to here? That would be awesome. Pat Flynn’s jumpstart into entrepreneurship Yeah, I mean, getting laid off was great but I didn't know it at the time, at the time it felt like the worst thing to ever happen, this was back in June of 2008 I was told I was gonna be let go from my dream job, and I had my dream job for a number of years as an architect, or aspiring architect, I was quickly climbing the corporate ladder only to be thrown out with a lot of other people who were losing their job too around the same time. 2008 was a tough year for a lot of people, and to make this even worse I had just recently proposed to my girlfriend. We were planning a wedding and she's Filipino, I'm half Filipino, and so if you know any...