How Pearl Gained 1 Million Subs In A Year
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Summary
In this episode of the Vegans Unfiltered Podcast, I sit down with a good friend of mine to talk about his journey to becoming a content creator, how he got to where he is today, and how he is making a living in Vegas.
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everyone was saying i bought subs it was so offensive i was like the people are so old i was
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like i'm so tired of these old people no offense like but like i don't understand how youtube works
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i'm like because i came from tiktok and i think shorts are the future yeah that's just my opinion
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i think they're gonna find a way to monetize shorts the same way like like when i was on
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tiktok people were making 200k a brand deal yeah so whenever advertisers come to youtube it is over
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they're not really here on the shorts game but i get 50 to 100 million views a month like a lot of
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those are shorts so i'm like whenever advertisers you know get a little thing in the corner it's
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over with that's crazy yeah it's wow so 20 a day on shorts yeah that's that's what i do yes do you
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have a tiktok now uh no i mean i have accounts like that they run that are just like reposting clips
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from the main um no they banned my fifth account so i i think i'll i think i'll get another one probably
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i lost my first one because i was posting a lot of stuff like lifestyle stuff me at bikini
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competitions stuff like that so the next one i just did um uh i just did podcast stuff i don't
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do anything with podcast stuff me on other podcasts and i clip it and i do that kind of
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stuff and um that one grew way faster than any of the other ones like like meaning youtube and um
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instagram but i i don't trust the views i'll be honest with you like because i run ads on all
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three platforms and instagram is 20 times better than the other two that's interesting because a lot
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of people come up to me and say they saw me on instagram almost more than tick tock and it's
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interesting because i think tick tock is grossly over inflating so you think so i got 38 million
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impressions last month yeah i'm nobody i got 38 million impressions last month that doesn't make
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any fucking sense and like where so like where's the conversion in my you know what i'm saying yeah
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well it's interesting because we don't really even post on instagram like that so then i get people all
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the time like i think it's because they pull my clips but just to let people know so i run ads
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on all three platforms okay on uh tick tock it's nothing i'm gonna get almost no interactions
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whatsoever on youtube i get about 30 return on investment so for every thousand dollars i spend
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i make thirteen hundred dollars from from selling my product program on instagram it is 26 to one
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every thousand dollars i put into instagram i get 26 000 back we scaled up my cut my company we're
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doing 50 000 a month we're doing we did last month we did 540 000 in revenue yeah a month yeah from
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instagram ads so that's what i found like i from this just from my standpoint as a content creator
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i feel like because i i don't make my money from adsense i make my money from selling a coaching
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program yeah so that's why it's different that's why i have a much more niche audience yeah and i
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don't try to do gotcha videos and i maybe at some point i'm probably gonna do reaction videos
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with spencer cornelia he and i are gonna start doing stuff together oh i like him i like i like his uh videos
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they're good yeah he and i go to we we go to uh i wish you were in town every tuesday all the content
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creators in vegas we all go to town go to dinner together oh no way that's so fun let's talk about
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this you discuss maybe moving to vegas it's impossible i i like it here more than i thought
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i did i i don't like the degeneracy okay you know so i was like i don't think i'll like it but
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um i like how much space there is lots of that yeah and i i do actually like the heat i think my
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would burn a lot but i do i hate cold um but yeah i'm november in london god bro it felt like alaska
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it's so it's this biting wet cold yeah that just gets in your clothes man it's i i actually hate
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london i i'm actually mad i ended up there because i because of the semi-pro stuff you were doing it
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was supposed to be a year and then i was offered a pro contract in the fall okay so i was actually
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supposed to move to like portugal or germany or something and i was ready to go and then the
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youtube stuff like you know and it's like what are you gonna what are you of course what are you
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gonna pick um and so yeah and then it was honestly like everything i was just hiring people so fast
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like so many people and everything just got so big so fast but it was there so you just stayed there
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correct yeah but my plan is i am moving um i'd like to keep an office though in london so i'd like
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to keep like um the talents that i signed there like working yeah yeah whatever so on behalf of
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the board of tourism let me give you a couple of pluses you will find that people in los angeles
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when they film their podcast often come to vegas to film their podcast they'll film several episodes
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and then they'll go back to los angeles los angeles it is so cost prohibitive to park to travel
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all the buildings are old and rotting la is garbage i won't be in la that's not even on the list
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in vegas you'll notice that everything here is newer there's not as much traffic there's not a
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humidity and the thing is like companies are moving here like there's 2 million about 2.6 million people
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that live here in the in the bowl like in las vegas literally means the meadows in spanish and and
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there's we're surrounded by mountains um next door to us is the ufc headquarters like there's a bunch
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of companies pepsi has a headquarters like right next door to what this building where we are right now
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it's just a cleaner environment with less traffic and when you have your like if you want big guests
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elon musk comes to vegas twice a year like it doesn't matter how big you want to get
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like joe rogan comes here for fights the biggest guest you could ever want they're gonna be they're
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gonna pay for themselves to come fly here but they're not necessarily going to do that in london
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and often they're not going to be able to come to where you are in los angeles as far as having
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guests on a podcast one of the reasons why i've been able to punch above my weight so much
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and get like bigger guests than somebody who has 50 000 subs is because i'm here that is the main reason
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you you when you came here drive up park wherever you want no traffic yeah come right on in podcast
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studio affordable price fucking full bar drinks everything like that that's the thing it's cheap
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here because we're looking at miami too and i'm like it is much cheaper here miami is a time like
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i love miami but it's a time and money suck you're stuck in traffic trying to go from midtown to downtown
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or midtown to brickle and then the other thing is like just the cost of doing things you'll notice like
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myron for those of you don't know that's myron's apartment that's where he films that that thing
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right the same thing with brian at uh in santa clara or santa barbara that's his apartment where
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he's filming that right we have a studio here and like my production team is going to give me a live
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edit right after this yeah these guys are the best here people come here say this is the best podcast
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studio they've ever been to in their life sticky pause just because the professionalism like we are all
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like a like a family here so i will tell you that that and then the last one there's no state income tax
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here that's nice yeah so you're paying if you make a million dollars a year you're paying 130 000
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less than if you lived in california yeah the cities are looking at um vegas um nashville nashville's
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good miami um and i might just live in chicago but have like the office somewhere else but because i'm
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like i don't know if i'd want the but we'll see i will tell you as far as getting guests to come in real
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life vegas will be number one over any city in the united states miami would be number two yes because
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people go to miami once a year everyone like kind of goes there for something or in that's true yeah
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but everyone this is the this is the tourism capital of earth 44 million people come here every year
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people it's like hey yeah i'm in vegas do you want to come by the trip is they'll write the trip off
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they'll entertain clients they'll do content they'll write everything off and they'll come out here
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i'm i'm again mayor goodman i'm doing this one for you uh this is the easiest city i've ever seen
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to throw a podcast it's just night and day because everyone comes here to visit everyone so that's why