On this week's episode, Sachit (@sachitgupta) sits down with Brian Moran (@brianmoran13) to discuss what digital creators must do to successfully build, operate, scale, and monetize their online businesses.
Brian is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at SamCart, an e-commerce platform for creators. SamCart helps you create beautiful sites that showcase your products, convert more visitors into customers, and increase the value of each purchase.
Tune in to hear Brian reveal what it takes to make millions from a small audience, how to maximize the lifetime value of your customer, ways to become extremely good at creating content, and much more. You won't want to miss this.
Quotes
- “When you’re selling a $10 product, you can suck at sales and make sales.” - Brian Moran
- “Most creators make the mistake of trying to sell an expensive product to a brand new person.” - Brian Moran
- “You can’t control how fast Google, Instagram, of YouTube gives you an audience. But you can control how much money you spend on their platforms.” - Brian Moran
- “Many people think you need 10,000 followers before you can start monetizing. But you can start monetizing the second you have one follower.” - Brian Moran
- “When you start getting customers, 10, 20% of them will want everything that you have no matter what the price is. So have something for them.” - Brian Moran.
- “If you have any customers, create another product and market it to them. That’s the fastest money you’ll ever make.” - Brian Moran
- “Nobody cares how long your product is. They don’t care how good it looks. They don’t care how long it took you to make it. They only care about the results they’ll get after going through it.” - Brian Moran
- “Every creator needs to focus on becoming a master of sales. Not a master of social media.” - Brian Moran
- “Greatness is about subtraction, not addition. You don’t need to do too much to become great.” - Sachit Gupta
What You’ll Learn:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:38) What the More Successful Creators Do Differently
(03:43) Is It Possible to Make a Lot of Money From a Small Audience?
(07:15) How Unique Businesses Make Money from Small Audiences
(11:16) Ways to Build and Monetize Your Audience Fast
(14:20) The High Versus Low Pricing Strategy
(16:16) The Most Effective Strategies in SamCart VIP
(17:48) The 5 Things $25K Creators Do Differently
(22:43) How to Maximize the Lifetime Value of Your Customer
(24:53) Niches That Don't Require a Large Audience to Drive Revenue
(27:59) The Mindset of Making Money
(31:05) How to Sell Anything - For Beginners
(37:29) There’s Nothing Wrong in Becoming an Expert Content Creator
Links and Resources:
Samcart.com
Creatoru.com
Brian's LinkedIn
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