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21 May 2025 · 34 min
Chris Koerner talks with Sam about using AI tools like ElevenLabs for voice cloning and generating video ads. They cover Facebook ad strategies, billboards, and scaling AI-generated content for monetization, with practical tactics for marketing and e-commerce.
Did you know that people are making money with ElevenLabs pretty passively?
I have zero doubt, tell me about it. I have videos right now that are indistinguishable from human. You might as well monetize it.
Facebook is probably paying them six figures.
I need an AI army of faces that I trust to actually go and say exactly what I need them to say when I need them to say it so I can go make these ads generating leads without my face or without a real human needing to shoot content. It's a no brainer.
Listen, get rich. We all want a silver bullet.
Yeah, but everyone wants to get rich, dude. Let's get rich together.
Welcome to the Kerner office. I'm back with Sam today, my good friend. He's been on about 12 or 15 times. And we caught up today about this Hummingbird Nectar e-commerce business that he launched in public. He's got thousands of dollars in sales the first few weeks. We didn't get to that to the end, but it's really, really interesting. We talked about video generation, we talked about HeyGen, content creation, making money by having your voice cloned with 11 labs and then licensing out your voice to others. Of course, we talked about Facebook ads, Billboard marketing, comparing the two, lots of gold nuggets in here. It's gonna be a two-parter, so come back a week from today for part two and share with a friend. Did you know that people are making.
Money with 11 Labs pretty passively?
I have zero doubt, tell me about it. They're basically licensing out the rights to their voice. Sick. They're uploading their voice and saying, this can be one of the voices that 11 Lab users choose from. They pay out a proportional rev share of that.
That's awesome. Isn't that cool? Yeah, so I actually noticed when I was picking voices yesterday, I was like, these feel user generated. Like they didn't all follow like the 11 Labs default voice vibe. It was like, it felt like actual everyday people that were like, yeah, I didn't know they had a monetization model on the back.
Yeah.
That's awesome. Honestly, like, and you don't have to have a killer voice to do that. I spend so much time on 11 Labs trying to find nonprofessional sounding voices.
Mmm.
Because like, I don't always want studio quality, like deep, I don't want Morgan Freeman reading my ads. Like, I want Sally from North Carolina in there, like, to run.
One of the commenters was saying, like, I have a really stupid voice, or I have a thick accent. Like, I'm an Indian American with a thick accent wouldn't work for me. And the original poster was like, this is the best for you. Like, you have like an outlier voice.
Yeah, a unique voice. That's people want it. It's a no brainer.
So for those listening, you want to make a few hundred bucks a month.
Go clone your voice on 11 labs. I might do that. I might get this voice all over the internet.
I want to do it, but I'm kind of scared. Are people going to copy my content even more perfectly?
True. They have my voice? True. I would. I'd be over here with an AI.
Version of you in two minutes, dude.
To be honest, it's not going to stop them. They just download all your podcasts, upload them all into 11 labs and clone your voice. Anyways, make a Yeah, you know what I mean?
That's the frustrating thing about that guy on Instagram that copies me is I can't file any copyright strikes because it's a different language. Like the algorithm doesn't care, it doesn't see it as the same thing at all.
Yeah, that's fair. But if you post it first in that language, then you can.
Absolutely.
Oh, I see what you're going. That's easy.
So what is this cloning business? How are you cloning people?
Basically, the problem that we've been running into is at scale content creation specifically for ads. Because when I'm testing ads, I want 15 variations of hooks, of headlines, of all of these different pieces, which gets hard when you're dealing with real human beings. and people are busy and it's just not on their priority list. And it slows me down from being able to generate ad groups and the ones that perform the best, like we use statics, don't get me wrong, but like the ones that perform the best generally have some degree of a video element going on. And so I was like, all right, like I need a, I need an AI army of faces that I trust to like, actually go and say exactly what I need them to say when I need them to say it so I can go make these ads. And so this week, I just decided that I'm just gonna solve it. I was like, I'm just gonna figure this thing out.
And when you say solve it, you mean get it from good to great.
Yeah, like actually where the hit rate, because that's the issue when you go on a Hey Jin out of the box and you like type in your script and whatever. your hit rate on, I don't have a term for it, but it's like, there's like, when you watch an AI generated video, there's things that like show you that it's AI generated, right? Like there's little tens. Yeah, like there's little pieces of it. Yeah, that just like they don't get the inflection on sentences, right? Or like one sentence doesn't flow into the next in the same way because it's all this AI stuff. And so it was just unreliable. And I decided that we're going to make it reliable at this point. And so we're getting pretty close. The stack is ChatGPT to generate the image asset that you're going to automate. It also can do the script writing and stuff. That's its own piece. But we generate the image that we're going to use. We take that image, we pop it into Photoshop. Because ChatGPT likes to, for the YouTube crowd that can see my face, ChatGPT likes to give you this much of the frame. But on an ad creative, you want to be able to layer in text and other elements. And so you go to Photoshop and use generative AI expand to fill in the gaps. To create the framing. Yeah. So that you have way more space. I found this other tool that does AI face swapping. I could take a photo of you and put it in the ChatGPT and say, hey, describe this person well enough so that you can replicate them in a photo. But they never get the face right. It'll get close enough. Then you go into an AI face swapping tool that actually mimics your face directly on that image. And it's just, it's way better.
We're just talking about still images right now.
Yeah, we'll get to the video part. So then you face swap. And so now you have an expanded frame with their face of them in, we've been doing a lot of like podcast style. And so it's very much like them sitting in front of a microphone because all of the AI voices are studio quality. And so like when you're listening to like what is a fake YouTube selfie video and it's podcast quality audio. It's a tell. It's one of those tells. And I'm like, all right, we can't mess with that. So it's all podcast right now. I'm going to get to the spot where it's better and I can do the other one. I know how to do it. I just haven't gotten it yet. So then you take all of that, you go to one of our favorites, 11 Labs. And what I realized is everybody's just being lazy with 11 Labs because they are doing Text to speech. Everyone's doing text to speech. Yeah. They're typing in their prompt or copy and pasting from ChatGPT and they're going text to speech, which is what causes those weird inflections and the unsmooth dialogue. And so what I'm doing is the voice cloning feature in ElevenLabs. I record myself saying the script.
Do you have to record yourself or can you just upload like a podcast if you talk?
You can upload a podcast for sure. But for something as specific as an ad where I have specific pauses and like how I want that, right? Like you want your hook to be like very emphasized. And so like when you record that, you can control that better than an AI. Uploading the podcast and stuff is gonna be the voice cloning of myself. Right? And so I'll have whoever is going to be the face of each of the things give me as much audio as possible so I can create the voice clone. But then also pop in there and record what I want them to say. So then I take the voice clone, which matches my inflection. So it's voice to voice. Take that output. Then you put that image, the face swapped expanded image, Into Hey Jin with their new avatar four model, which is.
Oh, is it a big leap?
Oh, it is way better.
Give me a scale. If 100% is a human talking, avatar three, what percentage was that? What percent is avatar four?
I relate that very much to like hit rate, right? And so like on avatar three, maybe 60, 60%. So six out of ten avatar four. I have videos right now that are indistinguishable from human. Okay, what are we doing? Show me.
Come on. Okay. You think I can wait for this?
Dude, I'm so down, bro. I'm so down. This is a good opportunity for our.
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Got to go on YouTube. And then what I'm also going to do is share the audio. And so hopefully that comes through on Riverside. So this is Ethan, our head of sales. Okay. at ServiceScaLers, but I'm going to show you this one. Unlimited content, writes and publishes daily SEO blog posts for your business. 100% done for you and optimized to rank. For only $399 a month, we'll handle everything from keywords to publishing so you can grow traffic, get more leads, and build authority without lifting a finger.
I don't know if I'm being too critical. It feels like it went from not opening your mouth enough to opening the mouth too much.
For sure. That one though, I've sent to people and they were like, wait, is this real? This one, and this is like, we're getting there. This is the Ethan one. Are you tired of sitting by the phone waiting for leads that never come? You work hard, you deliver a great service, but if no one's calling, your business can't grow.
And referrals alone don't cut it anymore.
That's where we come in. And this is of a real person. that's of Ethan. This is a fake human that just.
Okay.
ChatGPT came up with.
I feel like Ethan's better. Is it because it's a real person or is it just a. I don't know.
Yours get consistent. His messes up on this piece right here where it says high quality. Yeah. Is like yours. Get consistent high quality leads. It's really single.
It opens really wide.
Really wide. But it's like I actually started running these ones as ads.
Okay.
One of them, actually this one specifically, 'cause I do a bunch of headline testing, right? And so I'm testing all of them. This one specifically is getting me $10 booked calls, which is- Wow. Unheard of.
What's the show rate?
I launched them yesterday, so I don't know yet, but generally our show rate's been like 60% across all of the ads that are both of me and others.
Crazy.
And like this is 100% AI, this is a fake human being. The voice is fake, like the video is AI, like the whole system.
I wonder if you had something, I can't tell if I'm staring at the mouth because that's where the tell is or if I normally do that.
So, yeah, the other piece on this one, which might be helping, is the subtitles because it pulls your attention away from the mouth a little bit. I found that to work even on Avatar 3.
Mm-.
And so like that generally helps. It's getting there. Here's my barometer. They are converting on ads, right? Like are they good enough to actually support the use case that I want to, which is generating leads without my face or without a real human needing to shoot content? And that answer is yes. And so like that's what's exciting to me. There's gonna be more iterations of it for sure. But yeah, it's getting super close.
That's exciting. Like, oh geez, it's frightening. It's exciting. I want to share my screen. There's like five or six guys that copy me on Instagram.
Yeah, I remember. I remember you telling me about it.
Yeah, one of them is like not good at all. One of them is, I'm gonna show, let's see, I'm just gonna pick one at random. Yeah. In Dubai, there are mini burgers in stylish little boxes with different sauces. It's convenient, delicious, and visually striking. This idea can easily be implemented in existing food delivery services. Like his food delivery services. His mouth is hardly open. Cafes, delivery services, food trucks, or food court stalls.
What do you think? Is that obvious to you? Yeah, I think the other piece of it, though, is we stare at AI generated content all day trying to, and so we pay attention to it, but I don't think, obviously, it's working. Sure, you can nitpick it all we want and like, yeah, it will always continue to get better, but like, if people are liking it and commenting on it as if it's real, then I think it's passable.
Yeah, dude, this freaking guy right here, he takes, I'm just gonna show you. You know what? Hold on one sec. Let me show you this. Let me go here. Let me show you this. Here it is. All right. Spend half a million bucks on an ugly house that looks like this, when you can spend half a million bucks on a 3D printer that houses that look like this, and then build all your neighbors houses as well. The future belongs to the owners. All right, so there's that. And then this dude, he's in Canada, but he speaks in Hindi. He takes 100% of my videos, translates them verbatim to Hindi, changes not a word, and recycles all of them.
Wow, that's sick.
I hate it so much.
So it's like, you need to go launch. So you can do that in 11 Labs, the overdub. You should just launch. So Mr.
Beast does that. That's where I'm going with this. Just to wrap it up, there's this guy that's copying me in Hindi, and I'm going to beat him to the punch and publish everything in Hindi before he can. Yeah, using 11 Labs. I'm going to be big in Delhi, dude. That's it, dude.
My next t-shirt is going to say, the current office, big in Delhi, big in Hyderabad. It's like that meme of the guy standing in the corner of the room. And he's like, none of these people.
Know that I'm big on Twitter. It's like, none of these people Know.
I'm famous in indie, dude.
I felt like that in Nashville. We went to Nashville as a family and this guy in a random boot shop was like, oh my gosh, I follow you on Instagram. And I was like super embarrassed but flattered at the same time. And then for the rest of the trip, I was like, you guys don't even know this guy recognized me in a boot shop.
Whatever. You had any idea?
I don't even know. That's so funny, dude. The whole dream is to use this to just more video ads at scale.
Yeah, yeah. And I think there'll be a world where I'm using it specifically for the Facebook ads use case. Right. I think that there's a world where I can go and get to like AI influencer level in a very real way. I think a lot of people talk about it. I'm dude, I'm saying like I've been deep this week in like 15 different discords with all these nerds using all these different tools to achieve all sorts of stuff. I mean, there's even a few, I know we want to talk e-com a little bit. I'm getting there on UGC creatives as well.
User-generated content?
Yeah, for physical products. I'm getting there. And so very similar flow, but using a different tool.
Before we get to Hummingbirds, did you see what Icon, the company Icon that launched, they're all over Twitter, icon.com, Yeah. What do you think about that? So for those listening, icon.com is this new startup. They raised $24 million. They spent half of it on the domain name icon.com Half of people say their landing page is ugly and terrible and poorly optimized. The other half of people say it's genius. The point of the matter is people are talking about them. Anyway, what icon does is it they're just putting AI in the meta ads library. Like so you basically let AI run all of your ad campaigns so you can A/B test thousands of times. You can iterate the moment that it sees Something that needs to be iterated. What do you think about all this?
It's very interesting. I mean, obviously, like with creative OS, like I'm in that world. I haven't played with them as much lately just because I've been trying to figure out like more of the back end. It to me comes down to hit rate again, right? Like in that, that, like when I think about AI generated content, that is the metric that I'm paying attention to. is like you create ten versions of something. What percentage of them is good enough where like you trust that that output on a consistent basis is going to work. A lot of the out of the box tools, there's a bunch of them. Like I think makeugc.ai, there's like a handful of people that are stepping into this space and trying to move it. And I think that the hit rate is the piece that causes pause for me. on a bunch of those out of the box tools, which is why I've stayed away from them and gone to trying to build my own. I think that I need more control over it to limit the F-ups. But for people that aren't as technical or just want to move faster and are okay with spending the money for 10 videos, knowing only two of them are going to be good and knowing that you're getting charged a premium on all the models that they're using. 90% of these tools are using the same video generation models on the back. And so for me, I just decided to go straight to the source and I was like, I just trust it Direct, which is the tool that I've actually been using more is called Flora Fauna AI.
Ooh.
Yeah, very interesting. More control. Really like what they're doing, following a very similar flow. That's what I was doing for the podcast clips.
Okay. There's so much I want to say.
Say it all.
Have you heard of K-L-I-N-G?
That's the backend video engine. The 2.0 version, most expensive, takes the longest, but by far the best. You can get similar results from 1.6, but you have to be way better at prompting versus 2.0. You can just let it ride, dude. It's so nice.
Okay, so I still want to get to hummingbirds, but there's three things I want to talk about before that.
That's fine, dude. It's fine. It's all about YouTube retention, baby.
It's cool.
We're going to talk about hummingbirds to the end.
Everyone's dying to hear about hummingbirds. They're like, dude, what are they saying, dude? Hummingbirds. The weakest retention hack ever. It's this Facebook account that posts 100% AI-generated videos. They post like five to 10 a day, and it's, I swear it's just some click farm out of China. You could tell they're trying to look westernized. All right, Jacob and Friends, this popped up in my feed, and I'm not trying to offend any of our older listeners, but this is Boomer bait. I'm calling this Boomer bait. Okay, so look at these videos. You can tell before even clicking that they're age- I know what's good. Yep. Millions of views. I'm gonna click on this one that has Okay, here's one. All right, for those listening only, the thumbnail in this video is a man with a chainsaw to a tree. The tree is sitting on a white tiger, and he's like trying to free the tiger. So let's click on this. Oh, jeez. The tiger guy hit the face by the chainsaw like four times.
But it's totally fine.
Oh my gosh. Like, okay, it's AI, right? It is AI, right? But like, it's so realistic, is it?
Or am I just- There's another one. Oh, he's got one with the snow leopard underneath the log, dude.
Right here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tiger. Oh, that one too.
Oh, this one has blood on its mouth too. That guy looks real. his movements look real. Like this right here, this looks 100 real to me.
I know it does.
And then this. The one that. That popped up in my feed, it's always babies. There's always a baby in danger because they know that no one's gonna swipe. Look at this. Look at all these tree on animal videos.
The tree on animal. They work, dude.
There is tree on lion helicopter picking up giant turtle. Oh my gosh, okay, here we go. This is a baby floating in the water in a flood, and a German shepherd is in a car pulling the baby up out of the water. Okay, so what do we do with this? Is this just interesting? Can this be monetized? Like these guys are monetized. Facebook is probably paying them six figures.
And that's what it is. It's, I think that you're limited. In your monetization, right? Because you're just getting paid for impressions, really, at the end of the day. But that's not a bad business model. If you can get to the scale of content, let it run.
Do you know how to make videos like these that are this long?
Yeah, you put multiple scenes together. Yeah, scenes together.
Okay. You just keep adding onto it.
Yeah.
I just love that they found a format like, oh yeah, a tiger under a tree is going to work, so let's do a lion under tree. Oh, a baby and a flood's going to work.
Let's do a baby in a house fire, you know?
Yeah.
It's just wild. Yeah, it works, dude. There's a bunch of people that are doing similar, like micro movies. I'm trying to get to that spot with ads as well. Yeah, it's an interesting use case. Like these just look like they're like impression farming.
Right?
Like they're just trying to get as many views as humanly possible. All of these boomers are sending it to their friend, like, oh my gosh, look at how real this AI looks, right? Like the whole thing. And they're getting paid for that. And that's sick. Yeah. That's awesome.
You see the comments, oh amazing. Wow. Thank you, dog, for saving the baby. Great work. Well done. Yeah. Seriously, someone stood by and filmed this? Oh my gosh.
It's so funny, dude.
I want to show you that. Let me show you one more thing. So did I tell you my billboard test to grow the podcast in Houston? So I spent all morning trying to see if that has actually been working or not. Because it's been one month to the day that my billboard has been there. And so I'm going to share my screen and I'm going to show you these numbers. And I want you to break it down for me. So, all right. Okay, so what you're looking at here is basically my last 30 episodes, not on a per day basis, but on a per episode basis. So episode 140, 141, yada yada. The blue line, this is basically when the billboard started.
Okay?
Now these yellow rows is when I was running Facebook ads with pictures of 30 different variations of the billboard to find the winning one. in the same Houston area to people that did not follow me because the people that drive by aren't going to follow me, right?
Right, right, right.
And so here's what's very interesting about this. This number right here in column I, this is the percentage of people in the Houston area, the greater Houston area that listen to my podcast. Before any Facebook ads, before anything, it was consistently one and a half percent. Okay? While I was running Facebook ads, it was About 2.5%. Okay. But here's the kicker. I only ran ads for two days, the 27th, which was like right here and the 28th. And so most of the downloads came after those two days because people subscribed, but then they started listening.
And then they saw the next one. Yeah.
And so here's the thing. I spent $260 a day for two days to get these downloads. So basically I increased my downloads. These are the raw numbers. an average of 74%.
I mean, you almost, I was gonna say you almost doubled, not quite, but yeah. Oh, average was 74. I got you. I mean, that 37 one was, if you take out the outlier on 37.
Yep. So call it like 50% growth in the Houston area by spending $250 a day. Yeah. Okay. Now for the billboard in the Houston, it's just one billboard in like kind of rural outskirts of Houston, but it gets 20,000 cars driving by a day. My averages, now granted, my podcast as a whole has grown 30% and my podcast in the area have grown 60%. So basically, I can't double the growth rate.
Yeah.
Double the growth rate. And so here, I'm spending $20 a day for the billboard and getting almost as many new downloads.
That's sick.
So on one hand, like a lot of the people on Twitter when I posted about this were like, dude, just use Facebook ads. It's like people don't use Facebook ads to grow podcasts. Either that's because no one's ever tried, which I doubt it, or because they don't work. And so I used them. I had a link to the podcast. So I wasn't just getting data for the billboard, but I was leading people to the podcast and it worked. But it worked 10x worse than the billboard does.
Right.
What do you think about that? Break it down for me.
Yeah, I vibe on it. I think the big piece on it, On the even the comment where like Facebook ads don't work for growing podcasts, I think that's more of like a cash conversion cycle issue for most podcast creators than it is a like doesn't work. I hear that all the time. People love to say Facebook ads don't work and it's like, no, no, like your cash conversion cycle on that media spend is actually what's making it not work. You can't afford to have $1,000 a day of cash sitting out there for 30 days. Since you don't have direct monetization on that subscriber, you're paying CAC to LTV, payback period, game. Two, I think that that's awesome. The most interesting to me is like, okay, how do you scale that? How do you identify where those billboards need to be? Have you ever looked at blipbillboards.com? Yeah.
Yep. Yeah. Where you can like that for a day or like- yeah, yeah. Six ads for every hour.
Yeah, it's all the digital billboards. I haven't had a use case for it, but it's one of those, like, you know me, I'm a big fan of obviously Facebook ads, but like non- testing marketing. Yeah, like non-traditional advertising, which like hilarious that we're saying that about billboards. That was like historically one of the most traditional ways to advertise. I think that most people in the digital age, like aren't thinking about it like that. And it again just comes down to like potentially slower growth, but also like your lift per dollar spend is significantly better because you went through all of the steps to go and do that.
Here's what's really interesting is the billboard actually went live on the 14th right here. This is kind of an outlier right here, this green, but really no bump for the first month. Then my account manager slash friend, David, he drove by it in person. He lived like an hour away. And he's like, we actually have a billboard 300 yards away, same side of the street, same street. But your billboard, it appears as you come around a corner, and this other one, you've got a full frontal of it for 30 seconds as you approach it. He's like, this one's a little more expensive, but we'll move it for free and I'll keep the price the same because I think you're gonna have a better experience. And I was like, Do I have anything to lose? He's like, Not really. This is objectively a better billboard. I was like, okay. So on the 21st right here is.
When he- is when they switched to that one.
And then look at that. So for those just listening, it went from the ratio, which higher is better in this case, went from 65% to 95 to 120% after moving at 300 yards down the road, same side of the road.
Do you think that that tapers off in terms of performance? And I think it depends on placement. There's a nuance there of you said 20,000 cars a day. Sick. What percentage of those cars are the same cars? Because like when I think about it from a Facebook ads perspective, right? Just because there's like very quantifiable metrics across Facebook ads.
Your repeat rate, right?
Yeah, frequency, right? Like, okay, cool. Does that taper off over time where you kind of max out that audience? If it, let's just say that it's like a major commuting highway with 20,000 cars going. Do you only spend that money for three months?
That's how long my contract is. It's funny you would say three months.
Yeah. So the three month piece to me, I go like, you probably hit kind of your max on people that are actually going to download it, right?
Yeah. I think there's two things at play. I think with any marketing, you would agree you need repetition. You've got to see that thing five to 20 times before you click, right?
No doubt.
So that works in my favor.
Yep.
The longer it's there, the more people are likely to click. Another thing that works in my favor is the fact that every day a unique person will drive by that will never drive by again.
Right?
That will never change. Maybe it's 1% of the drivers, maybe 50%, I don't know. But then what works against me is the fact that probably 70 to 80% of those drivers are gonna see that thing hundreds of times. And if they didn't click at time 10 or 20, they're never gonna click. And they're wasting ad spend on them. Right.
Which you're also dealing with finite amount of ad spend. So it's like, it's okay. It all comes back to like, what's the math of it all, right? Where it's like you sat there and you were like 20,000 people, X percentage of them are probably interested in business. Cool. Three months, they probably drive by at X number of times with this conversion rate. It's a little less. The reason I always talk about Facebook ads is because you get such quantifiable data from it to help you like make decisions, something like that. You had to go and build all these spreadsheets and do a bunch of back-end math to work your way into that. But the math is still the same. It's impressions times viewers times unique times conversion rate. It's all the same metrics, the same stuff.
Can you see that?
Yeah, that's awesome.
That's the billboard. So that one out of 20 different Really all of the pictures look the same, but the phrase, and for those listening, it was get rich. That one won, and I tested it a number of different ways. So it just speaks to what we all want, which is like a silver bullet.
Yeah, that everyone wants to get rich, dude. Yeah. That's why they're listening to us right now.
That's right. That's why we get rich together.
I know, dude.
We're no different, right?
No, I just want to get rich.
I think the billboard accounts for like 30, extra downloads per episode. The question is, what is that going to look like once the billboard's down? How many loyal lifetime listeners am I going to get?
That's all I care about. And that's CACTO LTV, all of those pieces. It's probably a little bit more challenging to track that with that channel, but it doesn't mean that that channel doesn't work. It's similar. I mean, when we run ads, it's the same. There's downriver stuff of LTV. We close a client. What's the close rate? How long are they a client? What's their average spend per month? What's our, like all of the numbers behind it all. I've just been telling people a lot more like entrepreneurship is two things to build like a very solid business. You have to have a really good understanding of people. Like you have to be super empathetic both to like your customers, your employees, right? Like your vendors, like you need to understand people really well. and you have to understand math, tracking metrics, tracking the right metrics, understanding what levers you can pull to create results. Like, it's been the thing that I've been super focused on this year is like, all right, this is a math, like business is a math equation at the end of the day. Like, how do we get the equation to work the way we need it to? It'll be interesting on that to see like how many loyal people come out of it for what price point, how you monetize them on an average of like, was that ROI positive? at the end of the day.
Yep.
Not to mention, I've noticed this too. You get, because of the media side, you get secondary ROI from doing that. Because your tweet about doing that also attracted people on- True. Right?
Like- It's a flywheel.
Yeah. And so it's like, for some people, I think it can happen very much in a vacuum. But I've noticed that even with the community, me tweeting about hummingbirds has caused people to join the community, which I'm monetizing. And so it's like, even though hummingbirds isn't necessarily super profitable, I'm still picking up secondary benefit on the other side. And so it's interesting when you play that game, especially with the media piece of the personal brand is just do interesting things because you'll get the secondary benefit, even if the thing independently isn't profitable.
Yeah, agreed. All right, what'd you think? Come back a week from today for part two conversation with Sam, and we'll see you next time.
