 21 tips to grow your new business online in 2021. Now this is part two of two. If you haven't watched video one, you're gonna wanna go back to video one. You can watch this video first and then go back to video one but you do wanna watch both of them. It is so easy. It's so easy to grow your business now. People just start doing what they should be doing. Now in the first video, I went through one through 10 and this one I'm gonna go through 11 through 21. But man, oh man, there's so many ways of doing it. So let's start checking out some of these ways. Number 11 today is gonna be encourage user-generated content. User-generated content. So we always think about creating content for our business or our brand. And the thing is we miss out on the really obvious content and that's from our users. If we use content from our users, it's oftentimes much more believable. It's certainly much more interesting because they don't just hear from you all the time and it's original. It's from our users. It's people who use our product. People have said that when they see other individuals using a product, it makes them a lot more willing to buy that product and use that particular product. So we definitely want to encourage that. Now also I wanna encourage something else which I didn't mention is make sure you subscribe to this channel. Please do so. Hit that subscribe button down there. If it's red, click it, turn it gray. Don't forget to turn on bell notifications so that every single time I go live, you're gonna hear about that video. You're gonna see that video when I upload it. So make sure you turn on notifications. Now let's look at an example of user-generated content. All right, let's check out Live A Great Story right now. I think you're gonna find this very, very cool. Live A Great Story is a great example of a brand with user-generated content embedded into its brand. The whole point of buying one of their products is so that you can take a picture of yourself wearing the T-shirt, holding the flag or displaying the sticker and telling your version of how you're living a great story. So here's an example right here. I heard about you all from a sweet lady on a hike, my sister, and I were hiking different venues to find the perfect one for her wedding. The sweet lady and her husband happened to be at the top of the venue we chose for my sister's wedding and they asked us to take a picture of them while they held a Live A Great Story sign. So naturally that sign has me asking their story and of course about the sign. She gave me your link on Instagram and I'm hooked. So there's a really good example right there guys. And that is all from Live A Great Story. Number 12, use creative ad campaigns. Do something different, do something out of the box. You know, I think back to Dollar Shave Club. Dollar Shave Club, all of their ads were really different. They were funny, they were engaging. And let's face it, they're just selling a product that's been around for, I don't know, hundreds of years. You know, a razor to shave your face. But they were interesting. No wonder that Unilever paid $1 billion to buy that particular company. Number 13, use Instagram shopping. Now let's check out some posts here on Instagram. Using attractive images and videos of your products or services, you can add a button that takes a viewer directly to a shopping page and in the US, customers don't even have to leave the platform to complete their purchase. So that is a really creative way guys to actually sell your products on a platform like Instagram. Number 14, go live on Instagram or Facebook or YouTube. I go live a lot on YouTube because on YouTube I can actually connect with my audience. The consumers out there said that 82% of the time they would rather watch a live video than to see social posts. So are you going live? Are you doing this? Are you adding this to your arsenal? If not, why not? Number 15, become a great storyteller. Okay, behind every business there's a story. Let's face it. There's a reason why you start your business. There's a reason why you do what you do. There's something that motivates you every single day. And here's the interesting thing. People want to know your story. Are you sharing your story? Are you letting people know what started your business? Now you can not only talk about your brand but you can talk about your family. You can talk about your friends. You can talk about your interests. You can talk about where you went to eat. You can talk about a trip you went on. But people love, love, love stories. So you gotta really amp up your game there and talk about some stories. Number 16, start a podcast. Podcasts are unbelievably popular. You know, when they first came out, I thought, well, that's ridiculous. Who's gonna listen to somebody in their living room talking to somebody else? But you know, Joe Rogan proved us all wrong, didn't he? He sold his podcast for $100 million. There are interests in so many subjects from comedy to cooking to survival to you name it. Okay, you can do a podcast on just about any subject. So that's something I would suggest that you check out is do a podcast. They don't cost hardly anything to produce. You can do them very cheaply and it's a great way to connect with your audience. Number 17, invest in advertising or a sponsorship. I think so many people are afraid of advertising and you shouldn't be. There's a lot of companies out there that will help you with this. Some of the ones I recommend are Mediavine, Exotic or Ad Thrive. All of these companies are great companies that you can partner with and they understand the advertising part and all you have to do is get your message over to them and they can get it out to your audience and get it to the right people. Invest in advertising. And you can also sponsor some type of particular product if you want. Get your name behind some product that you like and sponsor that product or that movement or that charity or whatever it is. But spend some money on your business. So many people are afraid to spend money on their business. Make sure you do that. Number 18, become a guest blogger. That's right, become a guest blogger. You don't have to always do the blog yourself. You can become that guest. You can contact a lot of these companies, a lot of these podcasts, a lot of these interviewers. They want to talk to somebody like you and when you contact them, let them know your story and you get your message out there. You can capitalize on their audience along with building your own audience at the same time. Number 19, publish a book. Now you may say, oh my gosh, JR, I could never write a book. It's not that hard to do. All you have to do is an outline of what you want to talk about. You can even hire somebody on something like Fiverr or Upwork or something along those lines to actually write some content for you. So writing a book is not that big of a deal. I have a couple books out and they've helped me tremendously. One of them is called The Great American Food Shortage. You ought to check that out on Amazon. I'll put a link below. But it talked about a world illness that could interrupt our food supply chain and cause prices to go off the charts. They thought I was crazy when I wrote that book, but guess what? That became very popular because it was true and it actually happened. Little did I know that it would actually happen, but they were my thoughts. So just put your thoughts out there. It's okay. Put your thoughts out there. And another thing it does too is when you write a book, it makes you an automatic expert. When you've written a book on something, you are the expert. Number 20, Network Online. Become part of the conversation, okay? Find other people out there that are associated with your niche and contact them. Talk to them, ask them, how can I help you? Could we do something together? Is there some synergy here? How often have you really done that? How often have you gone out there and contacted somebody you didn't even know and you said, hey, this is my business. This is what I do. It looks like it may line up with your business. If you're interested, we can talk more. Nowadays, you can jump on a Skype call or a Zoom call or whatever and you guys can talk it over. Maybe you could do an interview with each other. You know, I've done a lot of promotions where I will interview somebody and they will interview me. So we have two different videos that we can use for YouTube or Facebook or anything like that. So that's something else I would recommend to you is make sure you get out there and network with like niches. Super important that you do that. Number 21, super important, diversify your income streams. Okay, don't just have one form of income. Now, I started off selling survival food and I sell survival food to this day. Every single day I get sales on survival. And that's great that I sell all this survival food. However, I also have courses on how to make money online. I have courses on how to build websites. I have courses on how to do advertising. I have all kinds of different courses. I have memberships. I have inner circles. I have all kinds of different things that generate money for me every day. Heck, I have YouTube, right? I have YouTube and we have YouTube ads that run on my videos and I make money off those too. So make sure you diversify your income because what you're gonna find in your business online is whatever your product is, it's gonna be cyclical. It's gonna go up, it's gonna go down. It's gonna go up, it's gonna go down. And if you have other businesses, maybe you have merch, maybe you have t-shirts, maybe you have stickers, whatever. All these other things will help fill in those gaps. And a lot of these products can be dropships. You don't have to invest anything in inventory. T-shirts and caps and shower curtains and blankets and whatever you wanna sell. They can all be dropships. You don't really have to invest in inventory, but you can always have inventory available. So that's the end of this series. Two videos. If you haven't watched video one, you do wanna go back to video one and watch steps one through 10. This is 11 through 21 here. If you do these things, guys, no, I take it back. When you do these things, I have confidence in you. When you do these things, you're gonna get really good results and you're gonna come back and you're gonna thank me. As a matter of fact, here's how you can thank me is post below some of your results. Post below what happened. Let me know what's going on. And if you have a problem or an issue, post your question below. I love getting your questions. I get a lot of them. I try to answer each and every single one of them. I don't have anybody else answer my questions for me. I actually answer them. So post in there, become part of the conversation. What I found over the years is the people that become part of the conversation, the people that actually participate in these things actually do a lot better than the people who just sit back and never say anything and never participate. So make sure you participate. And the way you can participate right now is hit that subscribe button down there. If it's red, click it, turn it gray. Don't forget to what? Ring the bell, turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every single time I go live or I upload a video. Thank you so much for watching this video. I appreciate it. Give me a thumbs up if you don't mind. And I'll see you in the next video.