The Secrets of Youtube Podcasting

JP Hightek is the undeniable GOAT of YouTube consulting. He shares some really awesome insights about how to optimize video and live streaming as a podcaster. He also shares some top notch idea on how to increase our presence on YouTube as a whole.

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Brunson Smith 0:00

You know, there's a lot of podcasts out there that have a ton of followers, but they don't make a ton of dollars. That's what we talked about today with JP high tech JV. High tech is a legendary branding master. He's also extremely good with anything to do with YouTube. And in this, we talked about a few different things. One of the big ones was YouTube podcasts. JP made some very interesting predictions about YouTube podcasts compared to Spotify. And understanding how customers interact with video and audio. Super interesting part to listen to, especially if you're wanting to go from the audio experience into video or vice versa. He has some really interesting nuggets on that. Another interesting thing we talk about is how to use live stream. JP said that live stream was one of the biggest things that transformed his business very much on the same thread. Of why it's so, of why YouTube podcasts might flop is in thread with how he uses live stream and how that's been able to really help him leverage and gear up his own brand. Another cool thing we talk about is how to really create a seamless customer experience. If you've always, if you've ever struggled with people going, Hey, how do you actually like, what do you actually do? This is the podcast for you. This is going to really help it make a lot more sense and help you be really intentional and clear about the customer experience and what your customers are going to be going through and how you can connect with them more deeply. So super excited. Let's jump in. This is JP high tech here on the reach podcast.

JP Hightek 2:07

YouTube podcast. Well, here's the thing, right? YouTube. Had the feature where you can, you know, kind of create a playlist on YouTube and then from there, you know, you identify that as a podcast, which will allow you to go on the YouTube music platform. Right? Think about that. When you go to YouTube, music dedicated, you know, the music app for YouTube where you can listen to the podcast there, right? In inherently we know that the the main. platform. YouTube is for video. And of course, the reason why YouTube based on the, you know, the story there that they decided to tap into podcasts is just to allow creators. A lot of creators that are on YouTube that are mostly podcasts, meaning audio based, right? Not necessarily video. And so YouTube noticed that there's an influx of creators that are posting videos that were initially recorded as an audio. You know, version and they're adding images animation to where they're trying to make it some sort of video to make that present on YouTube. And so they wanted to tap into that industry, understand that now podcasting is a billion dollar industry today, right? And so now YouTube why YouTube started to do, of course, it started to they gave creators that ability to convert playlists into audio podcasts where people can stream their audio podcasts on YouTube app. Now here's the thing. They have decided based on the latest news to take that away. Okay. So they want to take that feature away. And so far the information that I I have is, well they are trying to see what will be best for them because ultimately when you go on YouTube, be YouTube, you wanna watch videos, not listen to a podcast. So that hasn't been working that great. But they really wanna leverage their audio streaming, music streaming platform to push podcasts. So we're watching, observing, and see how they're gonna do that. But. The truth is this, right? Most people do not go on YouTube to listen to audio podcasts. That's just what it is. If you're on YouTube, you gotta have a video aspect to what you're creating. Is that simple, right? Whenever we're talking about audio streaming podcast, automatically people think about Apple podcast, which is number one, right? They'll think about Apple, Spotify, you know, Google podcast, which is different from, you know, the YouTube podcast. And also knowing that Google does have Google podcast. So you see, it's kind of like their own competition, right? They're creating their own competition there. So I believe, you know, Honestly, from a business standpoint, they're looking at that. Like, does it make a real sense? Because we have Google podcast now, YouTube podcast which is the audio. Why don't you just live? People have the video aspect of the podcast. And then, you know, in the. So I'm a software developer. That's my background for the folks that don't know me. I'm a global branding expert. What I do is help industry leaders, organization and small business owners build a premium brand leveraging technology. But my actual background, I started as a cinematographer this software developer, a graphic web designer, And then photography, which has allowed me to create my company. So my philosophy and my approach in regards to a lot of questions, if you listen to the podcast or watching it, we'll be from that aspect, right. From that point of view due to how I look at life and look at things. So it'll be a little different, but yeah, honestly, for me, right. My personal opinion, when it comes out to the YouTube, the ways is done right now, it's, it's going to be a flop, right. Simply because I mean, YouTube is primarily video. The other one is just. Testing the waters per se. Right. And see if they can capture some leads there and make some money leveraging the podcasters that are available out there. That's all from an industry and business standpoint for me, honestly, that's why YouTube is doing

Brunson Smith 5:33

Interesting. Okay, so you think that this may not, this may not crush it. And we also have Spotify, right? Which I actually watch a lot of Spotify video podcasts

JP Hightek 5:42

video.

Brunson Smith 5:43

Like if I'm, if I, yeah, if I'm tuning into Joe Rogan I'll get trouble for saying this, but I turn on the auto drive on my car. And if, if I'm like in a, like a long stretch, I prop it up there in the dash and I just turn on the video feature of it. And as I'm driving, I'll kind of look over it. Cause occasionally they'll like, you know, they'll pull up a video or they'll show up clip from a fight or something. And so that Spotify has kind of done this, but in reverse, right. We're

JP Hightek 6:03

Right.

Brunson Smith 6:04

brand. That's now merging into, into video. Do you think Spotify is going to do well?

JP Hightek 6:08

See, yes. See, that's the thing. I love that you put it like that. Here's the thing. YouTube primarily is a video platform, right? That's a different audience. Spotify primarily is an audio streaming platform. different audience. Now here's the thing. Whenever somebody is a video first audience, right? Or, you know customer, They want to see visuals. They want to connect with you on a video standpoint, which means you got to leverage your video to tell a story to, you know create an emotion and people, they are expecting a video first production. Okay. It's harder for somebody that let's say, for example, you were to go to the theaters and they were to tell you that movie. We're doing something new. You're going to watch some images by primarily audio. Put your headphones on. People will be very disappointed

Brunson Smith 6:59

Hmm.

JP Hightek 7:00

because they're coming for an experience that only video, right? A cinematography can give them. But now let's flip the coin. Now let's go to the audio platform. I already got the audio. I already got all the production that the audio platform. So I'm not expecting too much from a video. So now the video aspect is a welcome bonus. See, and so now you don't have to do too much. To create video on Spotify, because the audience that's there, they just, they don't necessarily need to see you. They need to hear you. But if you add visuals to it, now, some folks that also appreciate video will start clicking on the video. But here's the thing, the underscore word there, the highlighted word is expectation. So that's where a lot of folks miss that at, what does that platform expect from you? If you offer what people are expecting, then they'll embrace you. Now, if you miss and you do not deliver based on the expectation from a customer standpoint, they're not going to want to come back for you or what, what you have to offer. So that's very important. And so, yes, as a matter of fact, Spotify is doing fantastic with the video podcast. And I always encourage a lot of my clients to tap into that and to create video podcasts because last year we were number five on podcast. So my podcast, the contact careers adversity was number five. For all video podcasts in the business category. And I was very, very happy to see that on Spotify. Yes. We're number five worldwide. Yeah. So that. was really amazing.

Brunson Smith 8:36

Congratulations.

JP Hightek 8:37

Oh, thank you. Appreciate that. Mm

Brunson Smith 8:39

Yeah, that's amazing. Okay, so this is kind of interesting. And this is, this kind of comes back to the e myth, right? You've read, you've read the e myth. When he has that analogy, he said, if you were to go to a barber, you know, go to your barber and he always had a glass of wine. And then one day it was a beer.

JP Hightek 8:54

hmm.

Brunson Smith 8:55

You just got, you got used to the wine. Yeah. And it's no longer the experience you were expecting. He's like, Oh, well, it's better. You know, maybe the opposite, right? A beer. And he's like, Oh no, but I got you a really fancy glass of wine. It's like, yeah, but I expected a beer. I came here for a beer and a haircut. And so I think that's also, and that's a great consideration. Like you can add, you can add bonuses, but you can't change the core experience if they were expecting, right. The visual and

JP Hightek 9:17

yeah, The second you do that,

Brunson Smith 9:18

that.

JP Hightek 9:19

the second you do that in business, you will start struggling. Right. And so I'm glad that YouTube or Spotify did not take away the foundational element, which is what people expect on the platform because they know if they do that, then now they're You're inviting a complete different audience. And so that may not necessarily work for you. And that's a huge lesson, right? If you're an entrepreneur, you're a small business owner, or you're a creator you know that want to grow your business. This is very important, right? Start by asking your question. What does my target audience expect from the type of product services that I'm there to deliver? What are they expected? Right. Am I delivering that because customers will come back for your, what you have to offer over and over again, based on the experience that they expect for you to deliver. And if you keep delivering that, if you have that consistency there, they'll always come. Now you may have additional bonuses or what I call multiplying your streams of income, right? So for example, if you look at the story of Amazon Jeff Bezos, why wouldn't they create Amazon? Initially it wasn't in his garage and he was selling books. Okay. Now, if we look at that, that experience of selling products online, still the same today, right? People still purchasing products, people still buying books and all of that. What did Amazon do? Amazon went further, right? And say, let me add some bonus products to this and see how people will react to it. Now they may embrace the whole thing wholeheartedly, right? And, or they may be like, okay, it's a gimmick. Right. But here's the thing. You never know how people will embrace it. So you want to keep that foundational element and then you want to start adding streams of income. All right. Which are different branches, right? You have a branch, you have that root, it grew and I have, you know, the different branches of your tree. Right. So now it's growing and you see how people will pick that up from, but if you turn away from the foundational element, which is what people are actually expecting you to deliver, right? Then you will start losing completely and you may, right. Go in the opposite direction to a different industry, right? So Amazon going out there, so they offered Amazon prime, right? And they're like, okay, with Amazon prime, you can get your product faster. The same products that we've always offered. Now, guess what? You can get that faster. You just pay a premium for this. And now on top of that, if you get the Amazon prime, guess what? You'll be able to stream movies. Here's the thing. There were none of the movies streaming industry, right? So they're like, you can stream movies. Let's see how people appreciate if we're to offer the movies. Once you do it. And you see that is, is a, is something that people embraced is welcome. You can now go full force on that. But yeah, that is something that we need to learn as entrepreneurs and know that that's how business actually works and it works all the time.

Brunson Smith 11:58

I love that great analogy with Amazon. Like, and that's, I mean, They found what they were good at and then yeah, they were able to slowly widen that circle So it's going back to kind of this idea of widening the circle then you are Probably one of the greats when it comes to live streaming right how to do it effectively how to do it. So it actually works Let's just say you're you're a podcaster. You've got a good show. You've got some things rolling How do how do we how do we pull in the live streaming effect to the audience? To, you know, widen our audience and actually convert better.

JP Hightek 12:31

Man, you're asking all the greatest questions today. Like I love the questions you're asking. Well, that's a great, great question. And live stream has transformed my business completely. Right? Completely. Let me say that again. Livestream transformed my business completely. Here's the thing. Video, of course, when I say livestream, I'm talking about video livestream, okay? Because you can do an audio only based livestream. But video livestream is what transformed my business. And here's why. Video, of course, is the best way to communicate a message, right? To spark an emotion in somebody's mind and heart. And of course, we know that people. Connect with people. And so when you have a brand, people will connect with you. Ultimately, they're connecting with your story and your story is what is, you know, sending that emotion into them so that they can connect with the. You know, pain point of the story you're telling. And so they can find themselves in what you're sharing. And from there you spark emotion in them and that leads into conversion. Okay. So here's the thing. Live stream is still a video video. Live stream is still a video, but now is a video that has something unique added to it. Now we're telling the same stories. We're creating the same emotion in a unique platform, which is we're having a live conversation that you can only get the experience of the live frame on the score. The word experience takes place in a specific defined timeframe, right? There's a specific time date that you go live. So you have some people that will want to connect with you, which is why a lot of folks, they want to watch their favorite TV show. Even though they may get that on demand later, they want to tune in live when they're streaming live on their favorite channel. Why? That's a very good question. Even though it will be available later on demand, they still want to watch it live. Why? People want to rush home, get off work and say, I have my favorite show that's airing at this time. Let's take the, you know, the Superbowl. People want to tune in live. Why can't they have the Superbowl on demand? Think about that for a second. What if they were now broadcasting the Superbowl live anymore? And they said, we'll record the same thing. You just have to enjoy the replay later. You're not gonna watch a lot. You will see a decline in the numbers because whenever people connect

Brunson Smith 14:54

the most crazy price ever.

JP Hightek 14:56

I know.

Brunson Smith 14:57

Yeah. You'd pay anything you'd pay anything. If you knew that all your buddies couldn't watch it for a day, but you were going to be the one that was there seeing it in the real

JP Hightek 15:04

Exactly. Right. So that is what it makes the viewer or the customer feel part of a world of something that's bigger than them, which means that is the definition of a community. Now your live stream is allowing you to build a community of ambassadors, people that love your product or service that you're talking about, love the topic that you know, in which you're, you're part of. And now they want to tune in to this major event that they know other like minded people are also part of. That is what changes the game and what that does if you do it right, if you structure again, the word structure, if you structure your live stream correctly, then your return on investment is unlimited because now you're tapping into something that you didn't have before. And you can convert so many people, right? Because of the way you're presenting your live frame. Right. If we watch the Super Bowl again, we know how much people pay just for their ad to be broadcasted within the Super Bowl, right? People pay millions of dollars for a 30 second ad. Why on earth will somebody do that? Because they know that the public that's here right now is an untapped public that just want to experience something unique and the communication, what you're telling them may or may not get them to grab their wallet and want to purchase your product right now. So it allows you to what? One promote. Two, establish yourself as an expert in the subject matter. Three, create and foster engagement, which is Listen, engagement is something that most companies are paying top dollar for today. everyone everyone is talking about engagement. I need people to engage with me. Of course, if you follow me, you know, when I said the word engagement, I mean, conversion, right? Conversion is engagement for me. Likes comments do not pay the bills. I always say that, right? So you want people to engage with your brand, meaning to take action, call to action, to click on it, to go to purchase your product or services. Well, here's the thing. Laughter me allows you to do that organically, right? Now you're building a community with it and it allows you to do something that is very important in the sales process. It allows you to convert. First of all, you qualify, then you convert the leads. The live stream will allow you to qualify that. How? Because whenever you're having a live conversation, only people that are truly interested in that conversation will tune in and be engaging with you. You've already qualified that person. Right. And now depending on your call to actions, depending on how you really emerge, submerge yourself and you position yourself, proving to them, I am the expert in the subject matter. Guess what? They will go ahead and wanna spend money with you. So you've qualified them. Now you are converting them directly and you've doing that organically. Understanding that a lot of industry will tell you to spend money to pay ads on social media in order to get people to actually purchase your product while you doing this on a consistent live streaming you know, a schedule without having to spend a dime if you've structured your live stream properly.

Brunson Smith 18:09

That's amazing. That's I, I think you might've just converted me in that one speech. Seriously. That's what it's, it's cool. Cause yeah, it's, it comes back to what we're talking about earlier. You can offer a great audio experience. Okay, let's widen a little further. Let's give them video. Okay, let's widen a little further. Let's make it live video and the white a little further. You can now engage and actually like participate in certain ways. I love it. That's, that's such an amazing way to approach it. It's funny as you were asking. I mean, I I recently, I haven't even watched it yet. Right. Because I missed it. But UFC two 98. I was just, I was biting my nails, man. But I'm like, ah, it's 130 bucks. I want to spend 100 to watch this show. I'm in Thailand. I was like, well, didn't end up doing it. But it's funny cause part of it, what it was is that, yeah, I missed all the, I missed the emotion. I missed the, I missed that. Like, you know, and it was a bummer because I saw right away, like, you know, I got on Reddit instantly saw, he knocked him out in the second round. I was like, ah, great. Like I'll bet there's a just a stellar fight and I missed it. And so yeah, there's something that there's something like we just want so badly to be part of that emotion. And I love that. I love that. It's absolutely amazing though. This, this isn't, this is something, you know, I'm going to kind of shift gears a little bit, but interesting thing I noticed when I looked at your YouTube channel and I kind of want to understand your perspective and how you approach your branding. You had videos on how to grow a brand and reviews on the latest Samsung on the same page. I wouldn't have expected that and I'm kind of curious what, how has that worked for you? What's the philosophy behind that? Is it okay to just mix and match a bunch into a single YouTube channel? What's your take on that?

JP Hightek 19:44

Fantastic question. So that actually is there as a testimonial of my background, right? My story. So if you know my background, my story, you know that when I started YouTube, that's what I was doing. Right. I was talking about product, unboxing products, latest gadgets, latest phones, you know all the latest techs and all that. So I had a different YouTube channel, right, that I lost. If you know my story, that YouTube accidentally deleted when it reached 126, 000 subscribers. And from there it lost my world, lost everything and all that. Right. And so it came back. To YouTube started doing the same thing and I stopped and I'm like, you know what? I'm going to do things differently. And so I have a part of my community, which are people that identify with that. Again, going back to the same foundational elements that allow you to start at the beginning. So people identify, yeah, this is the guy that used to be the, one of the top guys in unboxing products. I used to partner with several brands, right? Apple, Samsung, and all of that where those I'll have products and I'll display and all of that. So that. Is my story. So AKA where I came from. And so when you look at that, you're like, huh? And of course, when you click on it, it shows you how long ago was the video, right? You know, that was four years ago, three years ago, two years ago, any video on YouTube, you can tell how long ago was that? And then, oh, this is what he's doing today. So now if you want to dive into you, like, okay, how does somebody like this is doing this today? Well, look at the conversations that I'm having today. Today, I have the context for university and I'm teaching people how to leverage technology. To grow their brain. Well, when you watch that, you know, the guy already knows technology because he used to be partners with all the top tech brands and everything. Right. And so instead of doing that, he went for the educational aspect, which instead of me just showing you tech, let me teach you how to leverage all of this to grow your own company and as a creator, grow your content. Right. And so that is the background there. So no. It's not just there because it's there because it tells a story that goes back to something that's very important when you're building YouTube. YouTube will determine what industry you're in based on the type of YouTube channel you have. So I would say YouTube channel has to be a product. Look at YouTube channel as a product. So what type of industry is your product part of? That's one. Second, There's something called suggested videos, right? YouTube has the recommended videos or channels that they want to send your way. So depending on the industry you're in, they may or may not recommend. What you're talking about. So if the industry that your channel is under is completely different from the conversations that you have, it wouldn't make sense. Let's say, for example, those videos were about me fishing, right? I'm fishing. I'm talking about life in the wild. And all of a sudden now I'm talking about tech that will cause a disconnect from my foundational element to my current target audience. Right? So I'll either have to completely delete all those videos, right? Cause they have nothing to do with the wildlife and start from scratch talking about technology and specifically leveraging the same thing. So if you watch the videos, I talk about cameras, phones, and all that. That's what I'm using today. Still using phones, cameras, and all of that today, but at an evolved state. Okay. Right now we're not just looking at them and buying them for fun. Now we're actually using them to make money. So how can you use the same stuff that I used to talk about before? Phones, laptop, tablet. How can we use all of that now to grow our businesses? Right? So still using the same element, but people identify with that. At least my target audience identifies with that and the algorithm, because remember as a software developer, I understand how softwares are built. And so the algorithm still says this guy or this channel still using the same technology. But in a different fashion. So now let me bring a different type of, you know let me bring more people to this channel, which are people that are looking to learn. Instead of just discover the latest tech. Now learn how to use the latest tech in order to do some more amazing things that you're doing. When you're looking at your YouTube channel, you, it's very important to stay true to the industry. One second, looking at how you can grow from there without disconnecting completely from what made, what allowed you to be where you're, what you're doing right now, unless. You really just want to make a shift in your business. Then there's a different strategy for that.

Brunson Smith 24:15

so here's a question if we were to take my my own life as an example I created a content on travel back in the day as, you know, and as we talked about earlier, I'm currently in Thailand, right? And I'm, I'm, I'm now, I think I'm now moving into this podcast, digital nomad kind of space. And I actually haven't seen a lot of that. So maybe there's going to be a spot there for me, but would it be wise of me to pull in, I mean, in between those two things, by the way, I did a lot of sales, direct consumer sales. So would it be possibly a good idea to say, okay, here's some videos that show my traveling routes, some old videos, here's some videos on sales and maybe kind of pull it into digital media, marketing, podcasting is, is that a viable idea or should, you know, how would you, how would you advise someone?

JP Hightek 25:03

All right, folks, this is what, you know people pay for, and we're about to give it to you for free. I love those questions. Let's, let's dive into it. So you're a client, you are to come to me. You were to say exactly what you just said. I'll say a couple of things. One, your personal story needs to be known. Okay. So your background, your story needs to be told leveraging video, right? So there's a strategy for that. I'll tell you, you got to do that. All right. So if. You have a YouTube channel, regardless of what you talk about, people will connect with you as the person that's telling the story. Right? And so, because they're connecting with you, what's, who is Brunson? Who is he? Oh, yeah, he's, he's just a guy that does talks about you know a, b and T. No, who is he? Oh, okay. This is who he is. So you gotta be able to tell that story. That's very important because that's gonna allow you to be able to do certain things. Or not. Okay. So now we start from there. Second, if you're talking about, let's say wildlife or, you know, let's say you're talking about life, right. And you want to leverage your background as in sales to talk about it. Yes, you can definitely do that. Now, here's the thing. I also always talk about expectation. Now YouTube is the only platform that allows you to one, define your brand or redefine your brand, which is fantastic. It allows you to do that. Now, you need to set the proper expectation with your target audience, your followers. How do you do that? One of the ways you can do that is through the intro. If you were to go on let's say Apple podcast, Spotify, you were to listen to my podcast. You know, I have an intro on that. That intro tells you what you can look forward to be learning through the podcast. He also tells you who I am, what's my background expertise. So automatically, you know, okay, the host of this podcast is an expert in media tech and this, okay, he talks about this and in this podcast, he ultimately, we'll be talking about this. Now, here's the thing. When you create that, you're setting a certain expectation with the people that are going to listen to you. So they're not going to be completely disconnected because they know, all right, he already said that expectation to us. We know what to expect. That's very important. Versus just having an intro that say you were listening to this podcast with this person. It doesn't set any expectations. You're just telling me what I'm listening to, with who, who's the host. Maybe it's every day or every week, but he's not telling me what to expect. So what we're talking about being successful, creating content and telling the story, these are the, some of the elements you need to structure into your communication because everyone expects something and everyone will ask the same question, what can I expect from this podcast? What can I expect from this YouTube channel? What can I expect from these videos? Now on the same channel. You can have different series. Maybe you have a live stream series. That talks about something specific and then you have pre recorded videos that you release again once a week. So maybe every Thursday you go live. Then every Tuesday you release pre recorded videos that addresses something specific, but you've already set that expectation with people. And so they know what to expect and your channel represents who you are, right? Remember Bronson is a person. He came from somewhere, his background. And so as the expert, This is what he's offering people. So that's what I'll tell you as the expert, what are you offering people? That's very important because if you want to really make six figures, right? And I teach that as well, right? Like last year, my podcast made six figures in five months. And I, I started a new podcast and make six figures in five months. People are like, how are you doing that? Well, If you really want to make that money, this is the blueprint. Like this is how to establish your podcast. Cause if it doesn't truly make sense to your target audience, they're not going to spend the money. They're not going to want to partner with you. And ultimately you're going to lose because they don't understand you like you think they do. Right. I have a customer. That asked me this question and said, okay, but what if he made sense in my mind, like in his mind, I told him great, but remember people cannot read your mind. So always be your first customer and always ask yourself a question. Does it make sense to me as a first time customer, one thing that I always do at every single one of my podcasts that are released, I always introduce myself and I always tell them what I do and how I can help them. Somebody asked me, why do you do that at every single podcast? I tell them, because this podcast could be the very first podcast that a new visitor discovers. So every single time I introduce myself and every single time I tell them how I can help them and what I'm all about. So even though I have the intro, even though I have everything, I always set that expectation every single time that allows me to do a lot of things. First, I don't get a whole lot of questions. Second, it allows me to be very crystal clear to my target audience, what I'm all about, how I can help them and how they can help me. Continue to connect with me and grow. That is not a question that should be asking me because I made that crystal clear. And so whenever they're listening to me, they're not surprised at the conversations that we're having. Right. And that allows me to grow very rapidly. Again, growing for me is not having a million subscribers or a million views is having a million customers paying customers. There's a huge difference there because I know content creators that have 2 million subscribers that are barely making a million dollars a year. Then I know others that have 250, 000 subscribers that are making 30 million, 5 million, 10 million, 15 million. So which one do you want to be? I want to be the person that has the most customers. Because again, likes comment sharing doesn't pay me. And ultimately I would like to be paid because this requires a lot of work and investment

Brunson Smith 31:07

Totally. Well, and it's, I like, I like how you've had this such a deliberate approach. Not only do you want your customers to always know exactly what you can do for them, but it's, I mean, it's just, it's just every part of it. And that's what I like about talking to you. Everything's so intentional the way you dress. I know this, right? Like I was like,

JP Hightek 31:24

is intentional. Correct.

Brunson Smith 31:26

branded. Yeah. Because you stand out everyone in the room when we went into that conference, noticed who you were. It's like, well, who's this guy? You just stood out. You were just different. Right. And then it was so quick that everyone was like, Oh, he's the branding expert. And it was just so interesting how everyone kind of knew that about you. And so I liked that, that whole journey. And I mean, if I'm understanding correctly, first, it's make sure people know where your roots are so they can connect with you as a human being, and then make sure they always know what you're really offering them. And they're not surprised that this is going to turn into a transaction of some kind, like if, and that's, I think that's such a big thing that not, you know, Only have I in the past missed a lot, but most podcasters and it comes back to this, right? It, there are some huge podcasts who can barely keep the bread on the table and they've got, they've got tons of followers and you're going, how on earth, like what's going on here? And it's because they're just aimlessly creating content and they get lots of clicks. But if you're not creating a path for the customer, then it's like, oh, okay, great hobby. But, you know, is this a career?

JP Hightek 32:30

Yeah. That's the thing I love. They talk about, you know, the sales aspect of it because ultimately trust me. I do not know any podcaster that will tell you they don't care about making money. They just want to share stories. None. Let's be real. And people know me, right? I'm very, very honest. I've never sat down across the table with any creator, any podcaster, large or small, that will tell you they don't care about making any money. My thing is, if you want to make money, you got to give people a reason. They're not going to spend money with you if you're not giving them a reason, well, they're not going to think about it. Let's go back again to the Super Bowl. Everybody knows the Super Bowl, but the Super Bowl is not shy about commercials and asking for you to spend money with them, duh. But guess what? They are one of the largest. That's one of the largest events in the world, but they still clearly Unapologetically will tell you here's the product. Here's where to go sign up today right So if the largest brands right and you can name apple you name the largest brands still run ads Still spend the time to really reach their audience, even though they're the largest what makes you think? That as a small creator You can escape that and hope to make money. He doesn't work like that. Why? Because people, their subconscious have to be reminded of things. My wife, she's a college professor, and she told me one thing that I never forgot, right? That people need to be reminded at least seven times of something before they take action. And when I researched it, I discovered that people need to see you, Or your offer at least seven times before the make a decision to take action or engagement with it That means that at a very minimal Your offering you should repeat that seven times or in seven different podcasts for somebody to be like, oh, you know what? I've heard this quite a few times And in sev seven different occasions, he's really convinced me, right, that he's really the man for the job. So because of the way he's talking about it, because he's really the expert in the subject matter because he knows what he's talking about after listening to seven of his episodes or having seen this at seven times. Guess what? I'm convinced I'm going to go ahead and spend the money and now it's not over. Whenever the go now to your funnel or to the platform, you have a line, you need to design an experience that's going to make them go over the hump, make them spend the money. So it's the whole process. If you miss one aspect of it, you're not going to make money. You can talk about in your podcast, then you did not, you did not have any design infrastructure any element to truly capture that lead. So whenever the land on your website. They see information, information, and information. You did not design any experience to encourage them to spend the money. That's also an aspect that's going to make you lose money. So what does that mean? It means before you even start your podcast, make sure that the offer, the product and the funnel, the experience, customer experience is already set in stone design to really maximize whenever somebody lands on your page. That's the first thing to do. Then you do your podcast. Then you intentional about the structuring of your podcast. Then you want to make sure that you talk about your product and services. Everybody knows. I even have people that commented on my podcast like, yo, when JP starts, just know that the first five to 10 minute on his live stream, he's going to give you news and talk about some product services. It doesn't bother me. I asked some people, why do they, does it bother you guys? Right. Or you're, you're shy. To tell people, if you want to work with me, go here. These are the type of services that I have to offer. And I would love to help you just like I've helped millions of other people. Why are you shy to talk about that? People want to hear that. People that love you, respect you. They don't mind hearing that. Why do you think it's bothering them that you talk about that every single. Time when you go live or you, you release something, you just had to set the expectation. That's what I do. As you guys know, this is what I do. As you guys know, every single podcast, we take the first five, 10 minutes to talk about the news. And after that, we jump into the conversation. So we do have sponsors on my podcast partners. We give them a shout out because they allow us to keep the lights on. To keep producing and releasing things for you guys. So let's go and talk about that. And then we jumped into this conversation. People know they respect it and they appreciate it. It's that simple and keep it moving. Really. I want to help folks, but if you don't do it, if you're shy, it's not going to work. And you have to sell, you have to encourage people to spend the money, and you have to tell them what you have to offer them. And trust me. They will, they will spend the money.

Brunson Smith 37:18

Love it. I'm gonna, I'm gonna put a shameless plug in here for everyone listening. If you want your brand to blow up, JP's the guy. So for those that are trying to get ahold of you, they want you to be the guy that coaches them how to really make a brand that actually converts to dollars, not just likes. the best way for them to get in touch with you?

JP Hightek 37:37

Great, great, great thing. I actually have my private community. I call it the private circle, right? So I have a mentorship program. And so if you're looking for me to mentor you, right, you can just go to my website, JP had tech. com. For a slash mentorship. Okay. JP high tech, high tech is H I G H T E K. com for slash mentorship. Go ahead and join the private circle. And we talk about everything that you need to learn in order to take your brand to the next level and truly, truly make, make an impact and make true money, because that's the thing you got to make money. If you can make a clear return on investment, you need to stop today, or you need to partner with somebody that's going to tell you what you're missing. Here's the thing. If you are playing the game. You don't see everything you're missing. You need a coach. You need somebody that's standing on the sideline. They have done it before to understand the rules of the game. That's looking at you play the game after the game. Tell you, you know what you missed. These are the things that are missing in the way you're playing the game. Then you can implement those things and you're a winner, right? You can never know if you're too busy actually playing. That's the thing. And so that's what I do for people. But ultimately for the folks that are like, I just want to network, connect with JP, I have other things. Well, same website, JP high tech. com. J P H I G H T E K dot com. Go there, go to the booking page and jump on my calendar. Let's see how we can help you and your organization grow. Of course, I have a, you know, studio here. I'm in the state of Tennessee. So for the folks that are like, yo, I want to, I need help with my branding. Well, we create that, right? I have a studio. I have me and my team will shoot your, you know, professional images, right? Your branded images. Cause there's a difference between a photographer our photography session and a branding session, right? So we do your branding session that will allow you to leverage those images, both, you know, steel and even and videos to create that experience, right? People love the behind the scenes and, and, and different stuff. And, and so we help you do that. We have a cameras, cinema cameras and all that to build a unique experience, we'll help you do that. Then we can go for further into your online presence, helping you build a premium podcast. Helping you structure that, helping you you know, brand that because that's very important. You have to brand that properly. And, and then we'll help you get on TV. I have my own mobile application. I have my TV application. My team of developers will do that. So I'm talking the whole nine yard of branding. If you need help with that, Let's connect. All right. Largest, small, we, we've been doing this for a while. I've been doing this for over 15 years and we can definitely take care of you. So let's work together. Let's connect.

Brunson Smith 40:13

Awesome. JP, thanks for, you know, just not holding back, giving out some of those awesome nuggets. I mean, that's, yeah, you guys got a, probably a sample of how he operates and how he's able to really take people and just navigate them. So yeah, I, the reason I say this and he's JP, are you paying me to say this right now?

JP Hightek 40:29

No, no, not at all. Actually. I didn't even know you were going to say that.

Brunson Smith 40:33

well, and the reason is because the people I know that are the smartest podcasters all said, if you want to know how to be like, Legendarily good at YouTube and branding like JP's the guy. And I was like, Oh, well, the smart line, I'll say that. So that's, yeah, that's where, that's where this, that, that plug is coming from. That's not me trying to, you know, do some kind of pay promotion. That's just a very genuine

JP Hightek 40:51

I appreciate that. And Branson.

Brunson Smith 40:53

show. Yeah.

JP Hightek 40:55

let me add one thing. If, if you allow me I talk a lot about strategy and like I say, one of the main strategies is what I talk about in my book. If I may, I'll talk to them about it because I know it's going to help the live stream blueprint, right? Get this book family is the number one Amazon bestseller for a reason. And it's because I've, I really shared a lot. If you want to understand it, My main strategy, right, is live stream and how to effectively live stream or leverage live streaming to grow your business. Well, the subtitle of this book is starting a skill in your business with live video, go get it today. You can go to the live stream, blueprint. com, get your copy today. And hopefully this blesses somebody out there.

Brunson Smith 41:38

Awesome. JP, thanks for coming on.

JP Hightek 41:41

My pleasure.