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I Hacked Reddit To Build A $1M Business | Starter Story | YouTubeToText
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The core theme is how the author achieved entrepreneurial success by understanding and strategically leveraging "attention" as the primary currency, moving from initial failure to building a million-dollar business through unconventional methods.
this thing made me a millionaire no not
the dollar bill I'm talking about this
the eyeball or as I like to call it
attention nowadays with the click of a
few buttons you can capture millions of
eyeballs in minutes and with a few more
clicks you can turn those eyeballs into
money but there's a catch you need to
know what buttons to click I tried for
days months years to crack the code
failure after failure then I finally did
it one day I was a nobody and the next
day thousands of followers customers
users and of course
dollars this is the story of how I
business the story starts a few years
back in New York City 9 to5 six figure
salary parties profit but numb on the
inside I want something more no I need
something more in that moment I vowed to
myself to become an entrepreneur someone
who would never have to work a 9 to-5
ever again and that's when I came to the
idea to start a business the idea was
called starter story in my head I really
believe that this is the idea that will
set me free so I spend months working on
it I want it to be perfect the perfect
landing page The Perfect Design the
perfect font the perfect launch nights
weekends meticulously making everything
perfect I could see the end result in my
head thousands of users thousands of
dollars a new life finally it was ready
I put it out in the world I press [Music]
[Music]
publish then I sit there refreshing my
analytics I'm waiting for the success to
start happening
and sure enough nothing zilch NADA zero
users I keep refreshing just waiting for
the word of mouth the sharing the
millions of users to show up but they
never do and this this is when I
realized everything I was told about
startups and business was a lie nobody
gives a f about me or the thing that I
launched then I thought how do I make
them give a [ __ ] that night I got to
work I start studying other successful
businesses to see how they got traction
after a couple hours it all clicks the
smartest companies in the world started
by leveraging one thing and one thing
only attention and they did it using
free channels YouTube Instagram Tik Tok
Reddit they went to their customers
created content for them and in return
attracted millions of eyeballs and then
they turn those eyeballs into users AKA dollars
dollars
so I ask myself where do my customers
hang out then I look at my screen that's it
it
Reddit I post a link to my website it
starts getting a few upvotes I start
getting traffic 10 users 20 users 100
users holy sh I'm jumping around the
room I could see my future quitting my
job traveling the world a new life and
then boom
oh no your post has been removed
sincerely the
mods oh what the f sorry dude your post
Breaks the Rules of This subreddit how
stupid deleted gone all my hopes and
dreams ruined by some mod on a power
trip but I'm not giving up that easy
from that moment I had a new goal find a
way to break the rules rule number one
no link post
only self posts allowed and then it hits
me redditors hate the idea of you
spamming your website so what if I made
it feel like this wasn't spam at all I
won't post a direct link to my site I'll
just take all the content and put it in
its own post I'll keep it on platform
and then at the end of my post I'll put
a small link to my product if they want
more stuff like this I spend the next
few hours putting it all together doing
it meticulously ly making it perfect so
no moderator can say a thing and then
finally I press publish I sit there and
minutes it didn't
holy sh it
worked hundreds of up votes dozens of
comments thousands of people reading my
content I open up analytics thousands of
people are visiting my website right now
I've never felt anything like this
before the engagement was like crack to
me this is product Market fit before
nobody gave a sh about my website and
now people are begging me for more I
hacked the system one simple piece of
content and now I have thousands of
eyeballs on my product but there was
still a problem I need to turn these
dollars I knew one thing for certain
this hack was like a ticking Time Bomb
the mods were going to catch on to me
others would come and copy my strategy
stry I knew this wouldn't last forever I
needed to act and I needed to act fast
it was time to go all in initiate step
one of the plan more attention I posted
again and again and again and to my
amazement it kept working my stuff kept
hitting the front page hundreds of
thousands were visiting my website and
millions were reading my content but
attention was only one part of the
formula initiate step two of the plan
converting attention into money how
would I do it emails I knew I needed to
convert this attention into my own email
list an email list would allow me to own
my audience I could sell them whatever I
wanted whenever I wanted without reddits
so I optimized a signup box on my site
to collect emails from the millions of
visitors then the email sign ups started
flooding in 100 email subscribers 200
email subscribers 500 email subscribers
but time was running out then one day it
happened petition to ban starterstory.com
starterstory.com
posts this was the [Applause]
end well as they say all good things
must come to an end
the redditors formed a mob against me I
was dunzo but actually I was fine by
that point I built an email list to tens
of thousands of subscribers the formula
worked I captured that attention onto my
email list I had my own users and my own
product and my own business now and I
just quit my job to go all in on it and
as I look back I just remember how crazy
that whole thing was to launch something
and completely FL
and then one morning wake up to millions
of people using my product over the
years I've talked to thousands of
successful Founders they all have
stories like this they built something
nobody gave a and then they had to
figure out how to get in front of their
customers that's the secret sauce that
nobody talks about if I didn't focus on
that then I wouldn't be here today I'd
still be building things and hoping that
people would magically show up there are
thousands of opportunities like this
hacks and cracks in the algorithm that
you can build a million-dollar business
on top of all you need to do is find
them which is why I'm hosting a live
Workshop where I'll teach you my
framework for hacking attention in 2024
just like I did on Reddit and how you
can find a million-- dooll business idea
in the process if you're curious the
link is in the description I hope I got
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