Hey friends, Kris Krohn here.Today with Self Made, and today I'm going to share my story
on why I got started on YouTube.How it's brought me success and why I'm doing Self Made with
Grant Thompson.
So few years ago, a man that I knew of a little bit named Nate Woodbury, came in to my life
and he said, "you know Kris, YouTube is like the best kept secret on how to take content
and really share with the world."
And he sat down and he wanted to convince me he said, "okay Kris listen, this is the
strategy on YouTube, this is the trends that I'm seeing, check out some of this examples
of what other people are doing."
And he would make me this videos and he just wouln't go away.
Until finally, I stopped and said, "let's have a meeting."
And we sat down and I started taking a look at what he was doing, and I started quickly
realizing that my mission with my business was to reach many people as possible with
the content that I believed in.
But the problem is this I was always sharing my content in my backyard with backyard people.
And there was a huge limiter there.
Like how loud could my voice really get, I mean I have been on TV, I've been on the airwaves,
radio.
I tried so many different things.
But I wasn't really connecting with my ideal customer.
I wasn't connecting with the people that are part of my tribe.
And at that time my really big focus in life was real estate investing.
It's something that I've had great success and I retired at the age of 26.
I've gone on with my company and did do nearly a billion dollars worth of real estate.
And have just, I've been on this incredible ride, and yet I didn't have a megaphone big
enough to actually share with to people.
So when Nate sat down with me and said, "you know what Kris, you're really limiting yourself.
What if you actually took the knowledge that's in your head, and the passion that you feel
in your heart and you start sharing it to YouTube."
I said , "you know what, let's do an experiment."
And I made a commitment that I was going to jump out there and do it.
And quickly, with the system, this done for you, both video system that Nate had created,
he's coming over to my house once a month.
We're shooting in one day all those content.
And frankly use to do all the work and that had a huge appeal for me.
Because I wanted to focus on building my business other ways.
And I didn't want YouTube to become a distraction because I didn't really know what it was going
to produce for me.
So basically Nate would show up once a month, it's cost very small amount of money to basically
get the entire thing out the door.
And within a matter of time, all these organic subscribers, people started finding me.
Nate was putting together keyword research, I was shooting video something that I cared
about.
And basically my message started getting out there.
I started getting comments and people start finding me and got like, I got so excited
like, "wow this is like the most impressive marketing that I've ever done in my life.
In just a short period of time.
I am making more of the right kind of people than I am just through my local business efforts
in the geography, in the location where I live.
Well if I fast forward a little bit.
A time came when I got really serious about YouTube and once I started putting out more
videos on a weekly basis, we saw a huge spike in my channel engagement.
We stared having a spike in people coming and subscribing.
And all of a sudden, I have this idea you know, in my normal business when I'm done
putting on a live event or seminar, or a sit down to engage people, I let them what's the
options are working with me.
I should do that from my friends on YouTube too.
And so what I ended up doing is I started asking how will you as a YouTuber friend of
fan want to actually engage with me and I thought well, I don't know where you're at
in the world, so it's probably going to be some digital information, kind of like we're
enjoying each other right now.
And I also put on live events so I guess I could invite them to come and get live with
me.
I also have a nationwide service where it doesn't matter you live.
I can help you invest.
And so I decided to put a website together.
And I took all of my marketing, and business strategies that I've learned over the years
and put out a simple website.
And remember the day that I turn it on.
Because it has 3 simple options.It's like, "hey you could take like my ultimate digital
course or you could do my done for you real estate services or you could get live with
me."
And the moment you flip the switch and turn that on, oh my my gosh, boom, boom, boom!
People starts getting in my inbox saying, "I want more, tell me more Kris Krohn", how
can I get with you."
And then I started texting these people like, "hey, I got your request through the website,
yeah it's Kris here."
And some people like, bullblank, bullcrap! there's no way that that's Kris Krohn.
And I take a selfie of myself.
and there's this one guy, he totally doubted that it's actually me.
So he said, "take a picture with you with a spoon in your mouth!"
So I went to my kitchen and like snapped a picture and it came back with all these like,
"no way!" then he sent a picture of him with a spoon on his mouth.
And ever since we've been spoon brothers.
And any way, I just started finding that it is so fun to engage on a much more connected
and deeper level, with all of my YouTube friends and fans.
So you know, it's been really beautiful because what's it's done is it allowed me to say,
"hey I got all these free videos out there that you can join me on with YouTube."
But I've also figured out, I really cracked the code on how to monetize YouTube in an
entirely different way.
And I remember when I met Grant Thompson, we decided to put Self Made together.
Because we had gotten to know each other really well.
He would actually come to one of my personal events.
I put on every month this life changing seminars on personal empowerment.
It's actually one of my greatest and deepest passions in life.
So I got my real estate going on, I got my personal development.
And I got hooked up Grant.
He went out to my event with his wife, had such a powerful experience and we started
exploring, woah he had always want to take his YouTube knowledge and bring it to the
seminar stage, And it was like a match made in heaven so, the more we got to know each
other, the more we start of realizing that he would become really vulnerable and show
me the money he was making on YouTube and I could you not, this is impressive, it's
real.
Like he'll show me his back office and what his income looks like, sponsorships.
And Grant's doing well.
He's making millions of dollars through YouTube.
And then I showed them like eeny bitty tiny little channel, 50,000 subscribers at that
time.
And I showed them money I was making, and he's like, "oh my gosh!"
Like we were comparing worlds, and Grant's crushing, and I'm crushing it but in two totally
different ways.
And we've decided to team up and say, "hey Kris why don't you be part of the monetization
team.
I'll help show people how to do YouTube, you share how you do YouTube between you and your
team and your bulk filming approach."
But then we really need to show people how to monetize YouTube.
Because you know this adsense thing for the average creators, it's really ridiculous.
You can spend years, trying to get anywhere on YouTube, when the reality is in the future
short months, you can actually start making money on YouTube, if you know how to monetize
your channel.
So we've partnered up, I know how to put on these events, and you might have been invited
out to one of our events or maybe you've actually gone to the website and realized, "woah, there
some really cool different ways that I can consult with this guys, I can have them show
me how to get launch and started, I can have do that for you, this entire system.
We will launch your YouTube channel for you, you can become a part of our private mastermind
where we will actually sponsor you and work with you with your channel as invested partners.
Or you could come out and just join us on our live event.
And so Self Made has now become this beautiful brandnew entity, a brand new extension of
the fact that, "hey, I want you to listen to this part, of all the business that I've
ever done, YouTube truly has been the simplest and easy of all of them.
Like I'll look at the time and effort that it tales into meeting people and putting on
live events, and doing these things, and I do it because I love it.
That's my purpose is but hands down.
YouTube it's simpler, it's easier, and it really jazz with my lifestyle because it's
total flexibility.
It's like a wonderland for entrepreneurs and it really is one of the best kept secret.
So I feel super fortunate to be a part of Self Made, you know Grant is a big collaboration.
If you will and looking at what we've been able to do.
And I know that on the flipside, he loves having this entire done for you system in
place where I'm his back office that gets to run the entire business.
And he gets to be the talent between the two of us.
We're two very very different people, and yet, coming together, what a powerful synergy.
And there might even a little nugget for you on that is you're thinking, "wow what if I
could tag team with someone and have one plus one equals - eleven, right?
Ultimately have it mean more than what we are individually in with ourselves.
Self Made is, it's a brand that I super excited on and passionate about it.
There's a message behind it bigger than YouTube which says that you can become a self made
success.
A self made woman, a self made man, and ultimately it's our responsibility to rise up and make
life happen.
And if this connecting with you and if you want to hang out with some amazing creators,
if you want to get my support, and Grant's support.
If you want to help launching your channel, monetizing your channel, turn it out and take
your ideas and turn it into a product, then that's my gem, that's what I bring to the
table.
And that's what I love doing.
and so come and play with Grant and me and let's see what we could do together as far
as helping you have this much success as you possibly can have.
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what this is my jam, I resonate with you guys, it's time to get serious."
Then go ahead and engage us and find the right product with our consultants and our team
that can really help you get rolling out the gate as fast as possible.
You know Grant and I, we care about a lot of our reputation which means if we're going
to help you, we're going to do right by you in helping you have as much success as possible.
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