How can an average person grow an instagram account nowadays?

A lot of people refuse to start their instagram accounts or get their business a presence online. The main excuse they use is that it’s too saturated or it’s too difficult to grow their accounts.

There are also people who blame the lack of growth on the algorithm or the competition. The blame game is one you can’t win. You aren’t fixing the problem and you are just making excuses to stay where you are.

If you just make excuses you will never improve, next time you think the algorithm is holding you back ask yourself, how can you use the algorithm in your favor? The competition is too difficult? What can you learn from them?

In this podcast episode Josue tells you how to leverage your strengths and cover for your weaknesses so you can make it and grow your accounts on IG. Take these tips and keep pushing forward!

In this episode Josue explains to us the blueprint he used to go from a broke dominican who wanted to become a pro soccer player to an Instagram market expert and millionaire at 25.

One of his most important keys to success was focusing on his skills and his network. That became the foundation for his business.

First of all is his skills. Josue focused on marketing and on the social media itself. Studying Instagram instead of just consuming it makes you different from the vast majority of users and lets you understand and use it to make money. He became an expert and as such he had a skill he could sell.

Networking is just as important. That’s the extra step from being somebody who knows his business and an expert who is known and sought after. Now instead of just knowing how to use Instagram you can become an Instagram marketer.

This is a longer episode than usual but make sure you pay attention and take notes, the value bombs you can find in this episode are through the roof and will put you one step ahead of the competition!

Jon Talarico is a well connected man, a master of networking who has built his empire twice over on the back of his networking skills and his mindset of not giving up.

In this podcast episode John shares his secrets to marketing with millionaires and even billionaires. This comes from a great man who can attract even billionaires. Yes, you read that right, BILLIONAIRES with a B.

Jon also shares with us his tips on having a winning mindset. How he went from being an introvert to being connected with celebrities like Akon. 

So make sure you pay attention so you can learn how to network with millionaires and possibly even billionaires.

Social Media definitely has its negatives, here Josue mentions some of them so that you know what to watch out for.

Social media is addictive, it consumes your time if you let it. Be mindful of how you spend your time on it and you should be fine, just don’t let it take over your life.

The negativity! This one is much harder to control. There’s so much negativity online, from the haters to the exposures to all the bad things that are going on in the world. You can’t really stop it all from happening to you, people share what they want to share. What you can definitely do is block the people who are just trying to mess with you and frequent more places with less negative content to balance it out.

But don’t worry, it’s not all bad, there is so much good that outweighs the bad.

It builds your credibility

If you are a business owner you can reach out to your customers and engage with them. Even better, people actually search for you!

You can create brand loyalty by creating good content consistently.

You can use it for business and earn some money through interaction with your customers worldwide. 

And many more advantages for you to discover on the podcast!

Back in 2017 Josue offered the chance to win $100 by pitching him good or services he may be interested in.

In this podcast episode he goes over the pitches he received, what they did right or wrong and how they can be improved.

Reviewing these pitches can be a chance to learn how to avoid common mistakes and make the perfect pitch for getting sales.

Some common mistakes to avoid when pitching.

Make sure what your pitch is for. A sales pitch is very different from a pitch to an investor.

Be realistic. A pitch that’s too good to be true probably is, don’t make excessive claims or you may lose the chance.

Make sure you are pitching the right thing to the right person. Selling an experience in a different city from where your prospect lives is hard, offering something the prospect has no interest in is the same. 

Also, don’t sell sand in the middle of the desert. If you pitch marketing to a marketer you will only get a weird look, they can do the job themselves and if they can’t they wouldn’t be in business

In today’s podcast episode Josue talks about making a very important choice.

The choice is between longevity and vanity, how they can affect you and how you can identify them.

Vanity means not focusing on the right things and having meaningless relationships.

There are people who try their best to improve their appearance to trick others into liking them. The problem is when you don’t actually create the foundations for a solid relationship.

Deceiving others into thinking you are something you are not leads you nowhere and creates weak relationships. It is way better to be real and focus on yourself instead of a fake image made for people who don’t really care about you.

Longevity is all about investing, not taking.

This is the way to go. If you work on your relationships and on yourself you will create stronger bonds with people. This applies for personal and professional relationships.

Invest your time in people and they will invest back into you. Meaningful relationships can accompany you for life, fake relationships based on vanity break apart the moment you can’t maintain the illusion.

In this episode, Josue breaks down how today's actions will reflect later down the line.

Everything that has happened in your life chances is because of the decisions that you have made, and you have to take responsibility for them. 

Something that you do today will reflect later down the line.

A student signed up for a program, and in 3 days he made 15k in profit. Before he became a student, we started to build a business relationship over the 7-8 months. He decided to take the next step and join our highest program, which shows the actions that I made earlier reflected on this person becoming a student who has changed his life.

Make sure that you do your research before you invest in anything, once you have done your research, make sure that you follow through to make sure you get the results that you are looking to obtain.

Don't join a program expecting something magical is going to happen. You have to make sure you are consistent for the next 6 to 12 months so that you don't end up complaining and move on to something else.

There is a saying that says, "the only thing that goes to waste is that which we let it go to waste."

Don't point fingers if you purchased a program, and it didn't work out for you. Remember, they have proven results, and you did your research, and you went through it and didn't apply what they thought, then that is your fault.

Some people quit before they complete because they feel overwhelmed.

Don't take shortcuts or make modifications to a proven process.

Make sure you follow the process and see the people that are there just like you and see their results before you give up. 

At the end of the day, it is your responsibility.

Fall in Love with the process!

This podcast will be talking about our fathers and leaders. How they teach us lessons early in life that shape us into the persons we become. 

It’s very important that we make sure that if you see your children with anger issues make sure that you helped them with those issues early so that they don’t become aggressive people later in life.

I was bullied a lot early in life and I would always fight back, which was not good at an early age and fortunate for me my father was able to teach me self control.

Fathers are leaders and they lead by example. You take those positive lessons and you make sure that you do the same in life in order to make a positive impact in your life and in your family's life as well.

An example that is not good would be, a personal trainer telling you that if you don’t eat healthy you will have complications and yet they are eating fast food every single day. That just doesn’t make any sense.

Remember that you lead by example and the people that look up to you not only follow you by what you are telling them but your whole life. So you need to lead in all aspects of your life such as marriage, how you treat your kids, spouse, family, business, and employees. It’s not about making more money, but it’s about living a fulfilled life.

There are situations that are out of our control such as the Corona Virus but we still have to push through.

Remember that self-control and discipline can make a big difference at a very young age.

Life teaches us many lessons and those lessons are meant for us to grow if you take the lesson.

Stay on the right mindset.

So much Fire in this Podcast that you don’t want to miss out!

What COVID can teach us about our business

In this episode, COVID introduces new challenges to our businesses, but the businesses that planted the right seed 3 months ago are seeing money in the bank.

You have to do the right things today in order to get the correct results tomorrow. Just like in life if you do the wrong thing there is a delay in consequences.

You not only need to work hard, but you need to work smart, what I mean by working smart is doing the right things.

You need to work hard and smart in order to see those results you want to see as a result of that smart work.

Planting the right seed in the right place, the same as doing the right things at the right time.

Made $11,000.00 in 24 hours

Build your expertise and skillset to build your audience, if you have taken the right steps you will see the results and if you haven’t made the results that you wanted, make the necessary changes.

Let go of your fears, an empire is not built overnight.

Here are questions that you can ask yourself today to help you change and push forward towards your goal.

Every morning when you wake up write 5-10 things that you are grateful for.

Where did I win Yesterday?

Where do you feel uncomfortable?

What are your top 3 things to do for today?

Start focusing on what you can control

Plant seeds every day!

Message the word Podcast on my Instagram.com/pena and I will send you a free gift.

The Algorithm changed and I lost all my followers what do I do now

There is so much noise that is going on. How do we bypass all that noise, if you have a small following no matter the platform to monetize and grow it as well.

You need to work on your mindset or the way you think.

People who pivot or make changes are going to win.

Content has become more relevant and important.

You can’t take the risk of posting any type of content. Build real relationships and that will make a difference in your business. Think beyond money.

I also suggest you create custom graphics, use socialpotato.com to post content. Create custom cartoons similar to infographics, those are different and Engaging.

You can hire us to create content since we also create content. 

Just message me the word “content” on Instagram.

What if you have to start from scratch? Invest in paid traffic and have a high ticket offer.

Yes the algorithm changes, Pro tip, have the people turn ON notifications that way if anything changes those followers will continue to receive your content.

Let’s do this!