SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Even when you’re young, it’s a damned stupid idea. Business professor Scott Galloway has a great video talking about this:
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Even when you’re young, it’s a damned stupid idea. Business professor Scott Galloway has a great video talking about this:
KLB
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Just more excuses.
Fixtur
Dunning-Kruger Expert
Irony? Yes, irony.
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Oh, I said it specifically because he always says it about me despite the fact that he embodies it.
zmiller4
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This thread got weird and judgey somehow.
I have a feeling that none of us know what the actual economics of being an “influencer” are, aside from some anecdotes where we know that a friend or acquaintance is doing well or not.
So that being said, I’ll throw my anecdote out there. I have a relative who was sort of an influencer well before instagram or TikTok. She has an extremely outgoing personality and is also an expert skier, and gradually leveraged those skills into social media positions with one of the most prominent ski resort companies in the world…essentially evolving from getting paid to make videos of people having fun on the mountain to graphics and editing to marketing strategies.
And she’s leveraged that experience into a successful marketing/communications career. I have no idea how much she makes, but she lives comfortably in one of the awesomest towns in the world and skis like 90 days a year.
Social media based marketing is huge now and is only going to grow. I have no doubt that someone who approaches it intelligently and diligently can make at the least a living and maybe a crap ton of money.
I have a feeling that none of us know what the actual economics of being an “influencer” are, aside from some anecdotes where we know that a friend or acquaintance is doing well or not.
So that being said, I’ll throw my anecdote out there. I have a relative who was sort of an influencer well before instagram or TikTok. She has an extremely outgoing personality and is also an expert skier, and gradually leveraged those skills into social media positions with one of the most prominent ski resort companies in the world…essentially evolving from getting paid to make videos of people having fun on the mountain to graphics and editing to marketing strategies.
And she’s leveraged that experience into a successful marketing/communications career. I have no idea how much she makes, but she lives comfortably in one of the awesomest towns in the world and skis like 90 days a year.
Social media based marketing is huge now and is only going to grow. I have no doubt that someone who approaches it intelligently and diligently can make at the least a living and maybe a crap ton of money.
KLB
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You provide no evidence of anything you say. I can atleast back up my beliefs. You do not.
KLB
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That's all that I was trying say!
Cherokee_Cruiser
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“Matthew Mcconaughey wasn’t some nepo baby in LA who had everything handed to him on a plate. No, he was just a nobody from Uvalde, Texas. And he got his start in advertisement!”
The mental gymnastics you are going through - without realizing - is kinda astounding.
This just isn’t happening for an OVERWHELMING majority of your average American. Stop pointing to that one in a [absurdly high number] that makes it to say yea, anyone can do this - and it’s. A viable path.
No, not everyone can, and no, it is not a long term job.
Why do you assume you know what a high-quality life looks like for him?
Cherokee_Cruiser
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Cherokee_Cruiser
Bronteroc
I suppose that depends on how you define what high-quality is. Sit down with a financial planner and see where one is at. He listed off some legitimate jobs. Any of those would have been good for 32.
KLB
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Do you know Chasen? Do you know his attributes. Do you know his personality? I do!
SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Because he told us. He wants to fly. That means he either needs to fly professionally (this won’t lead to it) or make a crap ton of money so he can do it privately (this almost certainly won’t lead to it).
Yes, I do.
Autothrust Blue
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There’s actual work to be done in this business to make it better, and most of them aren’t doing any of it.
zmiller4
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You have a history of crediting women’s success to their looks or “sleeping their way to the top”.
It’s a massively childish and douchey thing to say.
My relative busted her ass and didn’t take a ton of money from her parents to support two careers.
KLB
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SlumTodd_Millionaire
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SlumTodd_Millionaire
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Pretending that looks aren’t an enormous part of “influencer” success is one of the dumbest claims you’ve made. And that’s saying something.
zmiller4
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Assuming it with no knowledge of the situation whatsoever is incredibly on brand for both of you two man children.
And I never said looks don’t frequently play a role…yet another instance of you putting words in people’s mouth, you disingenuous tool.
KLB
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Show me where he specifically said that he wasn't doing that? He just said that he'd use his extroverted personality to be an influencer because that where he feels that he fits.