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The James Altucher Show

740 - Finding the Next Exploding Topics with Brian Dean

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Society & Culture, Talk Radio, Writer, Philosophy, Comedy, Chess, How To, Entrepreneurship, Jay, James, The James Altucher Show, Altucher, Author, Jay Yow, Education, Jay The Engineer, Business, James Altucher

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

I have been obsessed with newsletters, generally, they're accessible, and nowadays, they're tens of thousands of different newsletters with different topics out there. However, this particular newsletter, Exploding Topics, caught my eyes, and I have been reading it every time it hit my inbox! In this episode, I have the writer and co-founder of Exploding Topics, Brian Dean, comes on to talk about the popular and the next trend in the world. We also talked about how to build new businesses and even start a new side hustle with the new trends! I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to “The James Altucher Show” and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook Linkedin

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.4

This is the James Altiger show.

0:14.0

Brian, have we met before? I looked through my emails and I have an email from a Brian Dean from like way back from like a OTCPix.com.

0:21.0

I wasn't me back then. Now it's a different Brian Dean.

0:24.0

How many Brian Dean out there?

0:27.0

I went to school with a Brian Dean too. I was curious if you were Persian.

0:30.0

There's a few out there. There's like a famous Australian rules rugby player that I had to outrank for a while.

0:37.0

When I first started, he was number one in Google for all the stuff and I've slowly looked at him.

0:41.0

There's some math professor at Clemson, I've also kind of destroyed.

0:45.0

So now I'm like dominate the first page, but there used to be a lot and now as far as Google's concerned, there's only one.

0:51.0

You always do. You should have an exploding topic article about Brian Dean.

0:54.0

Oh yeah, he's blowing up that.

0:57.0

How searches for you have gone up, you know, 300% over the past five years.

1:00.0

And here's what's next. Brian Dean is going to have a promo for his high end newsletter that I'm totally going to last two weeks.

1:07.0

So you might as well get it now because he's exploding.

1:10.0

Exactly.

1:11.0

I just wrote marketing copy for you.

1:13.0

Yeah, thank you. So I'll say something to invoice after our after the episode.

1:17.0

So Brian, I've been reading your newsletter, exploding topics and it's so fascinating every day.

1:23.0

I get this new newsletter with the chart and the chart always starts off in 2017.

1:29.0

Something was really small and now in 2021, it's huge and maybe in 2022 is going to be even bigger.

1:36.0

So for instance, snail mucin as a 233% increase, you know, since 2018 or because people are following the this K-pop beauty trend Korean cosmetic exports have grown an average of 26 per year since 2017.

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