[Music]hi guys and welcome back to starvesubstance and welcome to a slightlydifferent video today as you can see I'mjoined by a lovely guest I'm gonna lethim introduce himself in a secondtoday is the first video in a seriesthat I'm doing talking to young blackmale entrepreneurs rising stars in theirfield about what they do and kind ofgiving you guys a little bit ofinspiration and just sharing somedifferent stories because you don't wantto be hearing from me all the time soI'm here with James today so I thoughtI'd get him on here to talk to you guysa little bit about what he does and Iwill hand over to him pretty much metell everybody who you are what you doand so I'm James James prosper is thefull nameI'm a digital marketer and entrepreneuras well so I've been in this space forabout they say six years since I startedin 2012 come from a legal background yesoh yes studied law yeah went to lawschool yeah well if you read prestigiouslaw firms about five years my early 20syeah and that was in risk and compliancein particular so it's like a reallycorporate job yeah nine to five as usualyeah but just under the table I wantedmore you know I wanted an extra income Iwanted to have a side hustle yes Istarted to Google and YouTube how tomake money on the internet and now I'vegot burned a couple of timesbought some courses that's a really badcontent I also had some really goodcontent and bought some really amazingcourses as well and I spent about onehundred and fifty thousand pounds on myagh laughs on my education to get it toget good but it's really frustratingjourney you know there's not a lot ofgood content out there for free so youalways have to invest in yourself to getto get to a certain level in thisbut you know other titles people call methey say performance market ouraffiliate marketer it's just aboutselling products yeah I mean today I'mall about just how to sell stuff and itcould either be a digital productbecause no products so what do you lovemost about what you do I love most aboutjust being a digital marketer being anentrepreneur he's been able to solveproblems and I know that the bestentrepreneurs they that help peoplesolve recent problems or a lot of peoplesolve small problems or a few peoplesolve big problems but they were justsolving problems and I encounterproblems every single day there'snothing less you know to to to good forme to be humble to and it's inside partthe journey to know there's a futurewhere I have fixed it there's nothingthat I see that can't be done calm downif I have moneyyeah and if I have the time and theexpertise to do it I think there's notliterally nothing that I can't do whatan examples are when people work for methey are safe something to do somethingabout Cody so it could be about awebsite that I need changing there's aguy that just the other day you know youlooked me in the eye and he saidwhatever you're asking me to do yeahcannot physically be done and itliterally took me three minutes onGoogle and destroyed Google search yeahto find the solution and they said ohyeah it seems like you can and this is aPhD IT expert yeahbut for me it's all about what I canconceptualize what I can bring outsideof my mind and just having that mindsethas really helped me to just get betterresults also intro just to giveeverybody like a pigof what typical day for James involvesname like three things that you might doon any given day that I like noconsulate so mine things are quite busyreally chance to start waking up a lotearlier in the day so if I wake up at5:00 or 6:00 in the morning and I saidshe'd get a longer day yeah so first upin the morning is I meditate I relax for20 minutes and just in silence put onsome music and just chill out and I'lltry and fit in some exercise but I'veactually I don't exercise as frequentlyas I as I should just because I'mthinking about business all the time andthen after that I just catch up on someemails because they're people from allof the wallah that's what I love aboutInternet as well its globalyeah so there are partners orconnections and networks that I've gotthere are people in Germany and Americaso I am either responding to queriesthat they have is there in differenttime zones or asking them to do certainthings for the company for for thebusiness and so then after that yeahI'll check social medias so I'll checkmy Instagram I'll check my Facebook alot of time on you Scott andspecifically for business because it'sjust it's just one of the moreprofessional um chat services there'sanother one called slack that I also usefor my employees but from talking tooutside networks I just check my skypeand then after that and it should getonto the campaign's and when I say thisword campaign elaboration break thatdown yes proper layman's terms yeseverybody is you're not sorry yes yes sowhen people sell stuff online and theyuse their new word now traffic sourcesit's essentially places where people areso if it's Google yeah if it's Facebookright or if it is YouTube you can seeads are is public ad at the bottom ofthis video now on the side or you knowbefore the video starts press the skipbutton yeah that would be where my adappears and to set that up on thoseplatforms I need to go into YouTube's adcap for more Google's ad couple moreFacebook's a platform they allow you tocreate campaigns to organize which adgoes where and does what and how muchyou spend on it and which audience youwant it to go to so when I say campaignthat's what I mean it's like it's likeyou're you're the the type ofadvertising you're trying to do and putin accounting and typical trafficsources that you would use to run yourcampaigns would be so and so like theforce of the Google yeah and Facebookand because they own Instagram and useof Google and YouTube and Facebook onInstagram those are definitely my go-totraffic sources and a further one isnative native traffic sources is thatword sounds weird as well but it'sessentially saying an ad that blends into the website Europe okay so if you'reon forbes.com and you've just finishedreading an article and you get to thebottom of the odds when you've got theseimages that look like there are otherarticles yeah but they've got a bitclickbait ewording and it says you know find outhow you can get slim online that how youcan you know make more money all thesetypesthere are a little bit salacious thosethat but you'll see them at the bottomand as soon as you click on one it willgo to another person's website or wouldgo to my website and from therethat's how I'll monetize that person bygiving them a solution to their problemor a way to help them enjoy theirpassions more and essentially that's themodel but I literally just do that everysimply yes this is fun are to you is youknow people talk about the internetdigital marketing why don't you displacea common myth about the industry yeah sothe biggest common myth is overnightsuccessI've heard this phrase so many timeshave seen adverts coming up about how Ican you know become a millionaire in onenight I can sip martinis on a beach andtravel and travel lives now you're neverreally gonna become an overnight successme and I'll tell you why so there'scertain people that today I'm broke yeahand the next day you're rich you can getrich very quickly but you don'tunderstand what they put into it it'snormally you like this pre-loaded yeahthey've already done the hard work aboutten years of hard grind ten years ofzeros ten years of investing in theireducation trying to get to the levelthat they need or you can save it up thefunds you know some people just don'thave the economic background to make itwork also you know certain people don'thave you know family members oreducation enough to get into a field dayit's actually quite competitive I'mcontentSimon there's no such thing as thatovernight success just because he saw mewhich today doesn't mean I've not beenyou know preparing for five yearsyou're very inspirational who would yousay is your likeso internet affiliate digital marketingso I've got some mentors so these areusually people that have either workedfor in the digital marketing space orjust books that I've read yeah but letme talk about the real person before soand when I officially quit law that wasquite you know it's a top conversationwith my mom yeah but I wanted to putmyself around people who are doing itevery day I didn't want to be doing itunder under the table or in my lunchbreak or at the gym and that I used toyeah in the Lord to try and teach myselfI needed to see making money every dayso I joined a couple of private forumsthere's lots for online forums whereonline marketers and digitalentrepreneurs they that's where theythat's what it's all yeah so I met thisguy on one of these private forums and Iput myself out this and I've beenadvertising for about a year or two onmy own made a little bit of moneyprobably lost more than I've made butI'm king keen to learn and I have alegal back yeah so the owner of theforum literally reached out to me andsaid hey would you like to come and workhere and see how this is done on a largescale he really really taught me how tooperate a large company quietly yeah youdidn't there are seven people andthey're you know a seven eight figure ayear company that's that's youand that was just a proof that I neededthe last kind of source of informationyeah there is books and I want to saybooks yeah I want to say bookscompletely but it's not just books it isessentially information so the thingsthat I can Google yeah things that I canwatch on YouTube things that I can youknow read on blog posts they kind ofgive me what I need either mentally orpractically yeah it looks like thinkrich Grow Rich Rich Dad Poor Dadeveryone's going to say that one andthose are my voltage sources but thenthey say for marketing I've got anotherbook called cash fertilizing and anotherbook by David Ogilvy I forget I forgetthe name but things like that yeah Ijust continually buy books and AmazonKindle whatever way I can digest it it'sjust information I mean as muchinformation as I can and those authorsthey become a yeah yeah I'm just makingsure I can boost my skills on lowexpenditure yes that's a great skill butnow when you start to move into fivefigures a day I imagine you spend like a5k 10k every single day that is a lot ofmoney yeah and to make a mistake where Imean just like last week I lost 7,000pounds all right you know that in aboutI can use about two hours yeah thatwould that makes my I don't know herebut that would fall out yeah but becauseI'm dealing with such big numbers is nota big deal yeah but before if I had nomoney another 7,000 yeah yeah but it wasit was really a good eye-opener to sayhey lookthe same skills that you're using herecan just be multiplied just put no moneyinto it yeah and then it's like what Ineed more money no I don't need moneyit's not a money barrier to getting intothis industry you can do it on a smallamount every single day and I'll tellyou for free right now though the actualformula is get the right product infront of the right audience and use theright medium to do it that's it you allmake money if you do that yeah becausesometimes you know certain things don'tresonate certain products don't resonatewith the right audience and you're usingthe wrong channel to promote it so whenyou can work out a really really goodproduct show it to the right people inthe right place where those people areyou will definitely get money and alsothe final kind of secret is believe inthe data we've spoken about it's alreadybut believed in the data makedata-driven decisions don't makedecisions based on your opinion just trysomething tested yeah and look at whatthe results are and I know you know thiscan get really complicated and I can gointo a lot more detail now but you knowI've no doubt that much time so if youwanted to you know find out if you wantto find out more you can go to Jamesprosper calm that but loads and loads offreebies and now drop the socialstowards the end of the video but reallyreally powerful stuff you can just ifyou forget everything that I said todayyeah find the right product yeah give itto the right audience on the rightmedium all right well I don't want torinse this guy of all his knowledge asmuch as these don't worry really gonnagive it that work but I just want toclose off by saying thank you so muchfor coming on absolutely because it hasbeen and just so you guys knowfrom a credibility standpoint like I'vebeen working with James quite a bit onother things that I can be doing to addvalue to you guys so he's not just heretalking air like I am I am a live casestudy and you guys will you'll come tosee that this this and things come inbut he's got a lot of a wealth ofinformation that he's willing to shareso James where should people wherepeople come to find you everything bythe way there James mentions will belinked in the description box but justso they know what's the best place tocontact you find your resources findinformation that way as you do so themain place to finding will be my sitesthat James prosper comm literally that'swhat that's we need to do to get to ityou'll find lots of blog posts you'llfind some free content you'll find somesome free ebooks average there's also anemail newsletter so this is something soI always give things away stuff what thecore book authors seven seven deadlymistakes affiliate marketers need toknow for 2018 every other day I'll sendan email that talks about a particularmarketing principle or just a skill or Imight recommend other people's productsor I might recommend products outlookfor myself as well that's definitely thebest basic info James prosper calm butfor socials as well I'm always onInstagram love Instagram China and youknow boost that to find me on Instagramthat hack is at underscore James prosperunderscore and you'll find me there andI'm also on Facebook as well so if yousent you just type in James prosperyou'll find my Facebook page and you cansend direct messages you don'tian's on instagram but that's where I amthe most Instagram and Facebookand also yeah hope you find my eachaccount so yeah that that will be soonbut you'll get everything as possibleokayand that would be linked in thedescription box below but we're gonnaclose it off here I hope you guys haveenjoyed itJames hopefully we'll be back if youwill have me out of course and maybewe'll be talking about how he's helpedme to build my online brands and youknow extended far past YouTube but fornow we're gonna close off there makesure you subscribe for more videos likethis there will be a few more in theseries give the video a like give it athumbs up so James knows that you guysenjoyed and comment down below if youhave any questions what we'll do is whenthis goes up I will make sure that Jamesis there at least for the first hour butyes otherwise um do come back for thenext video I don't know when this isgonna go up but as you guys know I haveknown on a Wednesday and Sunday soeither one of those daysbe something new for you thanks forwatching and we'll see you next one seeya[Music]
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