Augie Johnston is a 35 year old ex-YouTuber, former professional basketball player, and founder of VidChops. VidChops allows YouTubers to add an expert video editor to their team in just a few clicks so they never have to edit again.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Dan Norris author and founder of WP Curve
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Getting started wasn’t that hard but once I was started there is a lot different challenges that we faced. I was in way over my head trying to do this. And I remember at one point one of the biggest challenges just thinking back was we had a system to take all of these requests from our clients to get these videos edited. And one was we had them complete for so we just used a basic type form at that point… Is just a software web app you can use to collect data. And we would take that information from that form and then we would give it to our editor and our editor would edit the video for them. The problem was we just didn’t have any visibility on the whole process. We weren’t using a project management app so it was really hard for us to track our orders coming in from our clients. And due to that I feel like we just weren’t delivering the best services possible, we were missing deadlines and we lost a huge client”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Book by Gino Wickman
- The 7 Day Startup: You Don’t Learn Until You Launch Book by Dan Norris
Also mentioned:
- Content Machine: Use Content Marketing to Build a 7-figure Business With Zero Advertising Book by Dan Norris
Favourite Quote:
“how you do anything is how you do everything”
Recommended Online Resources:
- YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
Also mentioned:
- Google LLC – is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Just get started. Get started with an idea and soon you can hire people to help you. I would say your main goal is not to be profitable in the first few months. I would say invest some money so you can get it up launched and then start hiring people as soon as possible to help take the busywork off your hands. So that would be my best advice to build a team”…[Listen for More]
More About Augie Johnston:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Other Quotes From the Chat with Augie Johnston:
- “I don’t know if it’s something I didn’t know but something I didn’t do from the start of Vidchops was build an email list… We didn’t do that until about one year ago when we really started focusing more on list building… Whatever you are doing stop what you are doing and figure out some sort of mechanism… You need to create some sort of mechanism to capture email addresses ”
- “I think really the main secret, from what I have seen, to success is just consistency. Even with this whole YouTube game there is so many people that create content on YouTube for their business and they don’t see any results for the first year or the second year. But if they are consistent that year three and four normally always pays off and you will really start to see that growth. And that goes for so many things in business I think”
- “I am big on learning and reading so I am always listening to podcasts like yours, reading blog posts. Always trying to stay just one step ahead because we do know that change will happen and I just hope that when it does happen, we are able to pivot or modify what we are doing to keep up with it”
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