Social Genius brought to you by Drunk On Social-These 5 Things Grew Austin Armstrong’s YouTube Channel to 350K followers in 30 days- EP 82

These 5 Things Grew Austin Armstrong's YouTube Channel to 350K followers in 30 days.

Can you imagine growing a Tik Tok Following to over 600,000 followers and 5 million likes and then you wake up one day and you have been banned from Tik Tok? What would you do? That is Austin Armstrong’s story and he joins the podcast today with Jeff. He started as a Google SEO guru and now he has massive growth on YouTube.

Episode Highlights:

•  Austin talks about where he started and when he went all in on his agency.
•  SEO can be complicated and boring and Austin went all in on Tik Tok with explaining that in 2019.
• Austin talks about vertical videos beginning and how he embraced it. 
• Jeff talks about how this topic is so relevant to the audience-the power to build influence for your business.
• Jeff asks Austin, “Did you buy some followers?” Austin says he has never spent a dollar on ad spend.
•  Austin offers advice about how to know what works for you and continue doing it.
• When he started with SEO, the videos were very specific and then he expanded from there is something everybody may want to know.
• What about consistency? What is the right number of posts for your account? 
• A lot of people have been getting hacked on Tik Tok. Do you have 2 factor verification? What else can you do to ensure you don’t lose all of your stuff? Jeff reviews what they do.
•  Austin’s full time job is figuring out algorithms, analytics, etc. What about for agents who don’t feel like they have time to incorporate an effective and efficient social media strategy?
•  Imagine what it would be like to have 10,000 followers on your social media platforms. 
• Make sure to check out Socialty Pro on Instagram, Tik Tok, and YouTube. Check out Austin’s style and ability to repurpose content.
• It took Austin over 600 uploads and 3 years to get 5,000 subscribers. He shares the story and how he grew from there.
•  Do you have a coach? Austin says it is essential and the best you can ever do to invest in yourself.
•  How does monetization vary?
• Jeff asks Austin about what he is doing about repurposing.
• Austin talks about videos with the same titles that have continued to bring success.
• How important are keywords for success?
• Are you leveraging SEO for TikTok? Austin explains. He also says, “Every Social Media platform is a search engine, people are just searching for information differently.”
• Jeff talks about he has niched down to Lake of The Ozarks and about the 4 million views he has received in the last 60 days.
• What about location based feed?
• You need to clearly define what your goals are to know if you’re making the reach you intend to.
• There are only so many ways that innovation can be done. What could one of the big platforms do innovate rather than copy? They all have to continue to evolve to survive.
• People love a sense of community. You have the opportunity to build a personal strategy on that.

Resources Mentioned:

• Business Video School: https://www.bizvideoschool.com/

• Drunk on Social Website: www.drunkonsocial.com

• Drunk on Social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/136264191062786/ 

• Drunkon Social Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/groups/136264191062786/ 

• Jeff Pfitzer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffpfitzer/ 

• Jeff Pfizer TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jeffpfitzer?lang=en 

• Tristan Ahumada Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/labcoatagents 

• TristanAhumadaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ6o6B5JPEBP57hu9VdzT4Q
• Lab Coat Agents Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/labcoatagentsR
• Lab Coat Agents Twitter: https://twitter.com/LabCoatAgents
• Lab Coat Agents Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/labcoatagents/ 

 

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