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🗓️ 6 June 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Posting all the time on social media isn’t actually a bad thing, especially when it builds your brand and makes you money. In this episode, Bedros Keuilian talks to social media influencer Amanda Bucci about using your social media profile to build your empire. Watch or listen now to discover how to use your posts to build personal relationships with your followers.
“It’s not about your looks or your age, it’s about the connection points you make with your audience.” - Bedros Keuilian
Here’s what you’ll discover:
8:46 - How to handle the social media backlash that comes with success.
11:43 - How to turn your social media audience into paying clients.
16:02 - Why a mentor can help you expand your entrepreneurial skill set.
18:35 - How to become a business-minded influencer on social media.
20:02 - How being vulnerable with your audience earns their trust .
“We’re living inauthentically if we spend 40 hours a week doing something we don’t love.” - Amanda Bucci
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0:00.0 | My first year, that year that I graduated college, I made like 50 grand, and then the next year I tripled that, |
0:05.4 | and the year after I tripled that. blew up my YouTube channel from 6,000 to 100,000 in six months. |
0:10.4 | All this is happening and you're what 22 23 years old at this time. Welcome to another episode of the Empire Podcast. My name is |
0:35.0 | Beidros Koolien and this is an inside look and today we have a very |
0:38.9 | special guest Amanda Bucci. Amanda, how are you? I'm doing good. Thanks for coming out kiddo. All right so |
0:44.8 | Amanda you are what many would consider an influencer, a social media influencer and |
0:51.1 | you have an online business. |
0:53.0 | First and foremost, why don't you kind of break down how you became an influencer, |
0:57.0 | how you got your following, and then how you converted that into a business? |
1:00.0 | Yeah, good. |
1:01.0 | So I call myself like an accidental entrepreneur because before I started being an |
1:05.4 | influence or being on Instagram or YouTube or anything, I come from a small town in Rhode Island. |
1:09.5 | So not a lot of people around me, you know, had online businesses, were entrepreneurs at all, people |
1:14.6 | didn't watch YouTube, it just wasn't a thing. |
1:17.1 | So when I first got started on Instagram, I just followed a couple people and that's where I got my |
1:21.4 | start and I was terrified to do it I was in |
1:23.7 | college I was like 2021 people around me were kind of making fun of me so I |
1:27.5 | I put my I created a new Instagram just for fitness because I was falling in love |
1:31.3 | with it I absolutely loved the gym. I was like |
1:33.2 | obsessed with it just learning everything. Found a couple of people on |
1:36.1 | YouTube that had info videos and I was diving in hard. Loved it but I was |
1:40.6 | scared because I know I'm in college kid. I was staying on Friday night stuff like that and people would make fun of me a little bit so I created a new |
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