 So there's been something that I've been struggling with as I think about growing this channel And I want to share that with you today because it is going to affect what types of videos that I'm putting out here the types of content that I'm creating and I just want to give you some direction into where I'm thinking about taking this channel and how I'm planning on growing it moving forward so I've been thinking about this for a while and It really became apparent to me in the last week that I need to make some changes here If I want to continue growing and if I want to accelerate that growth and grow faster So I'm gonna jump right into it. I was at dinner and I was with Jackie Who is my girlfriend of 12 years and she's my fiancee. We're supposed to get married last year, but COVID hit so we were talking at dinner and she had watched one of my recent videos and She made a comment. She said Your videos look your videos are a little different and I was like, what do you mean by that? And she said it seems you have a YouTube voice and I was like a YouTube voice. What do you mean? She's like it sounds Professional it sounds like a presentation almost like a commercial and she wasn't she wasn't saying it as an insult She was just making an observation So she was just watching a couple of my recent videos which are edited Which do you have more of a commercial feel and she said it doesn't sound like it doesn't sound like you There's no conversational element in there. It's just it's more of a presentation And again, she wasn't saying it in a bad way, but she was just noticing the recent videos So that really struck a chord with me because it's always tough for me to get into filming mode I am naturally an introvert. I like to be alone I like to gather my thoughts and when I have to get into high-energy Film videos on YouTube mode. It's tough for me. So I've always wanted to make videos that weren't so stiff I wanted to make it more more real and authentic and personal and More than just tutorials and guides on online business, which I'm passionate about online business I love online business and entrepreneurship But I've been wanting to make videos outside of just tutorials and how-tos for a while And I've been thinking about how to change that up So I have a few ideas now that I want to share with you today But first I want to go into to my story if you don't already know me and if you are coming here for the first time This will probably be the main video on my channel if you're new if you're a new viewer My story is I worked nine to five as a project manager for three years after I graduated college I'm 30 years old down I graduated in 2013 and I graduated with 60 K about about 60 K in student loan debt But was able to pay that down in two and a half years just by being aggressive with my payments And also I was able to build an online e-commerce business that gave me a second income So I was able to pay down $60,000 in student loan debt in about two and a half years in 2016 I was able to quit my corporate job After my econ business started making a lot more than my day job and from there I built up that econ business to multiple seven figures a year I was able to sell it in 2018 and from then I created two other online businesses one was called growth response and That was a services company where we ran legion services and cold email services for other businesses And I also have an online education company called productized profits Where I teach people the skills that I've learned that allowed me to build my online businesses and make a full-time income online So there's nothing I enjoy more than just sharing what I know and teaching people what I learned From being able to build multiple businesses online to the to the multiple six to seven figure level And I love helping people develop these skills that allowed me to quit my job make a full-time income online Have the freedom to travel whenever I want to wherever I want and be able to invest and do things that interest me And I'm gonna continue doing that. I'm still gonna teach. I'm still gonna share what I know But one thing that I've realized about YouTube It's not just about education a lot of it is to do with entertainment And a lot of it is to do with having some kind of personal touch and giving people a reason to come back to your channel Right something authentic something raw something that shows more about you as a person because people come for you Right, they stay for you and they come back for more and more because it's you so that's what I've been thinking about and What does that mean for you? Well a few things future content here is is gonna be a little different I'm still gonna do tutorials and guides and and teaching you skills about online business and creating internet income That's still the core theme of this channel. I don't plan on changing that But what I do plan on changing is adding more styles of content around other things that interest me. So It could be things around personal finance Investing it could be trending topics that I'm curious about things like crypto, right? I wasn't I tried to get back into crypto earlier this year. I initially got in 2017 and it stressed me out because it wasn't just business related But to me that's that's really interesting to me especially right now as we're seeing crypto start to rise and gain popularity again So I want to be able to talk about these topics and other things that interest me And if it fits into the theme of internet income, I'm gonna do my best to tie it in if it doesn't I'm still gonna do my best to tie it in that's still gonna be the core theme of this channel is creating internet income and Developing the skills needed to make a full-time income online But I want to be able to talk about these other things that interest me That would be beneficial to you as well personal finance investing things like crypto trending topics Maybe just my personal opinions on things that are happening in the world So that's what I plan on doing with the content moving forward now My favorite follows here are people who keep it real anyway people like Alex Becker like tech lead like Olier Like there's a guy named Joshua flute that I recently found. I love their content because it's authentic. It's real It's not commercialized. So I'm gonna start creating more content like that And Hopefully you stick around if you don't I understand because I've created just mostly how-to style content so far But I plan on still doing that, but there's gonna be a mix of other things in here So I wanted to share that with you. That's the direction. I'm planning on taking this channel moving forward I think it's gonna help me grow and also help you learn a lot more from me in my Experiences and be more versatile and learn more about things that that you might not be thinking of right things outside of just online business and Just tutorials around marketing. So just want to drop this video to let you know where I plan on taking this channel moving forward I'm excited for this. I hope you're excited as well I think there's gonna be a lot of cool things coming down in terms of content I have a lot of ideas moving forward now that I can kind of branch out a bit So I hope you stick around I understand if you don't but I think it's gonna be a lot of fun So that's it for this video and in the next one. We're gonna get this kicked off I have a how to get started with crypto guide coming soon where I I'm starting to invest 10k and seeing how that goes So that's coming next week. I'm looking forward to sharing that with you and talk to you soon. Take care