Brandon T. Adams on Personal Brand and Growing your Influence
Always on the GROW with Manny Vargas
Release Date: 02/22/2024
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info_outlineBrandon T Adams is the Host and Producer of three T.V. Shows on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Facebook Watch etc. He is a 2X Emmy Award-Winning Producer, T.V. Host, and Media Expert.
But, in his young days he was so different. He had speech impediment and could not speak like everybody else. So, he got bullied. He just did not fit in.
So he would speak and practice in front of the mirror to get better.
Now, he gets invited to speak at conferences and universities. He speaks there to help people get way far than he did in a shorter period of time.
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He had always wanted to prove something to somebody, to show that he was worthy of making money. So, he’s done a lot of work on himself and got a lot better.
He had a career in crowdfunding and went on to launch the 5th largest crowdfunding campaign in history for a book.
He’s now 34. But at 29, he lost everything literally. All the money he’d hard earned.
And when he was younger he found it hard to make money.
But, because he wasn’t just starting out, he started over.
He used the connections, his knowledge, and his brand. This time he was able to make money a lot quicker.
Today, He’s still following his own disciplined path: making money, helping people, doing the right things and not cutting corners.
He became an investor and an advisor. He collaboratively raised over $85 Million for companies.
He is an advisor/owner of over 20 companies, 4 of them with a $100 Million Valuation
He Co-Founded ‘Rise and Record’, an annual event for storytelling through video marketing.
In this episode you will take away many promising insights:
-What will be the fastest path today to get some fame— to become an influencer, to build a personal brand?
-Process of personal branding
-What if people want to be known for something but which does not have any business sense: they do not know how to sell, make products. Is there a value in that?
-Journey of Adam from an investing standpoint?
-How does Brandon keep pushing the goal post forward? How does he intend to keep solving potential challenges while not compromising the goal post?
-On what topics does Brandon speak when he’s invited to speak at universities and other places
-How can anyone get on the show ‘Shark Tank’?
Quotes:
-Most people over estimate what they can do in 1 - 2 years and underestimate what they can do in 5 – 10 years
-You just need to stay focused and disciplined every single day
-It gets easier to make money as you get older and more timed on the path
-People look at influencers out there and compare themselves. But you need to look at yourself and ask ‘How can I be me every day? How can I be the best being?’
-You can buy followers, you can buy likes, buy views. There are influencers with a lot of followers that make no money, they don’t know how to monetize it
-You just need the right followers, you need the right offer – the right value to give. Talk about things that you like, provide value
-Ask yourself what do you want to be known for and who do you want to be known to and then speak to those people
-People don’t look at the sacrifices influencers make along their way
-If you stick with something long enough and start becoming known for something, you don’t need a million followers, you could have a couple of hundred
-You just need the right people to watch, you need to have a unique value and niche
-The more you can acquire likeness and trust now, the more money you’ll make in the future
-Now is the best time to create a lot of content.
-If you put the work in, enjoy doing it, try to master it and stick with it; something will come out of it
-Whatever your brand, what you want to be known for, who do you want to be known to are the 2 questions you ask yourself before you create content.
-Find somebody who’s already achieved what you want to achieve, get them as mentor and figure out how to get in business with them
-When you see a lot of wins behind you, you learn and you’re bound to succeed
-Some of the successful people are never satisfied, that’s why they keep going
-Why to focus on all the negative things some people say when there is always at least one person who says how valuable and good you are
-I love my fans and pray for my haters
-I invest not only in companies but also in people; when I make those big investments, it also helps me grow
-Some people go on these extravagant vacations and some buy nice new cars, but I make investments
-You can get creative on utilizing capital, even if it’s not your own capital to get the things that you want
-How can you structure deals and give value to multiple parties, where everybody gets a win out of the situation
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