Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

#718 Lucy Bella Simkins Built a YouTube Channel with 10,000,000 Subscribers


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YouTube creator, English teacher, and CEO Lucy Bella Simkins joins Dan on the pod to share some of the behind-the-scenes challenges, strategies, and reflections on turning a passion project into one of the world’s largest language learning YouTube channels and a thriving 7-figure+ business. She also shares the challenges and pitfalls of building an operation of 15 team members capable of turning viewers into customers.

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Show Notes:

(00:00:00) Intro

(00:06:32) Nurturing your audience
(00:08:02) Growing a course business
(00:16:06) The turning point
(00:22:44) Maker vs manager
(00:43:07) The spreadsheet experiment

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  • DC Events
  • English with Lucy
  • Data Driven Marketing
  • Past guests on TMBA include Cal Newport, David Heinemeier Hannson, Seth Godin, Ricardo Semler, Noah Kagan, Rob Walling, Jay Clouse, Einar Vollset, Sam Dogan, Gino Wickam, James Clear, Jodie Cook, Mark Webster, Steph Smith, Taylor Pearson, Tommy Griffith, Justin Tan, Matt Gartland, Travis Jamison, Ayman Al-Abdullah, Tynan, Lucy Bella Simkins

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