Is this business model viable in the French market despite language limitations?
Yes, the business model is absolutely viable in France. In fact, it's a competitive advantage because you have an intrinsic understanding of the market and the language. You can take the English email templates I've developed and run the exact same campaign in French instead of English. By doing so, you will get significantly higher response rates on all your campaigns because the market is far less saturated—there are far fewer people doing this in France compared to the English market. So you should definitely jump on this, especially if you're a forward thinker willing to experiment. My recommendation: set up a campaign to pitch to French people. You can copy one of my campaigns, but don't just use Google Translate; sit down and translate the concepts and ideas, paying attention to tone of voice and cultural differences. Then launch it and report back—let me know when you book meetings, for example. There are already many people doing this in French, as well as in Dutch and German. After that, I shift to discussing brand stats and brainstorming. I note that we've had a rough day with slow growth, likely sub‑1K subscribers now, and the massive boost we received is declining. I wonder if I'm no longer ranking for certain terms or if my current strategy is causing stagnation—I'm still gaining watch time and revenue, but audience growth feels limited. I feel the need to create new content that pushes further than most people think. I also mention being called smart and sexy, looking at automation tools, checking out Jay in my community, exploring YouTube automation videos, noting the prevalence of sponsored posts, and observing that YouTube automation is popping off. I consider making more YouTube automation videos, eliminating shorts from my feed, and looking into AI automation. I comment on competitors like Liam Molly crushing it with high views, and note that getting a 19x return is rare for a channel this size. I also browse other creators, see thumbnail styles, and conclude that I should make some YouTube automation videos, perhaps revisiting an early Redditology channel that scraped Reddit and used AI voiceovers. I think YouTube automation could be a tangential side niche alongside general automation. I also mention agents—while I don't yet believe in agents, I acknowledge others are crushing it with agent videos and maybe we should explore that. Finally, I decide to stop brainstorming because it's getting boring and the lights are coming off, wishing everyone a lovely rest of the day.
Focus on an automation pain point that resonates with your target market. Since you’re French, you can still target English‑speaking markets; translating your successful French campaign takes about 20 minutes. Try copying the exact same campaign, translate it to a comfortable fluency level, and send it out. I’ve seen similar campaigns generate eight positive responses out of 300 contacts. For niche ideas, check out the three best AI automation agency niches for 2025 and pick one with willing‑to‑pay problems.
Regarding Timo's Instagram question: it's not surprising that a large portion of your audience is in India and the EU given global population distribution; posting in English from Germany reaches a global audience, and your viewership roughly matches world averages—about 40‑50% from the United States, 5% from Canada, roughly 15% from India (about one‑eighth of your viewers), the rest spread across Spanish‑speaking Latin America, with German‑speaking viewers around 3‑5% and French‑speaking viewers a similar share. This pattern is simply a reflection of where people live. If you're concerned about the Indian audience because of lower purchasing power, that's a valid business consideration—you may not be able to sell a high‑ticket product to viewers who can't afford it—but remember that a view is a view, and your content still gains traction; initially about 40% of your Instagram views came from India, and even with that mix you still achieved 100,000 views per video, which attracted followers who assumed you were doing something right. As for what you should do, clarify whether your primary aim is to build a personal brand or to monetize, because those are distinct objectives. You don't need to monetize through a personal brand; many brands accumulate massive view counts yet have weak monetization. I won't prescribe a path, but I'll share my own approach: I entered social media not to become a social media personality but to lower my cost per booked meetings. When I sent cold emails, my cost per booked meeting was X, and I experimented to see if I could reduce it. The videos I create serve as a sales tool—I'm technically selling you while you watch, building trust through humor and a low‑ticket, money‑back‑guaranteed offer, which lets prospects decide to buy without me having to jump on a call. Now hundreds of thousands can watch and think, 'That makes sense; I'll give it a try.' My sole goal is to reduce cost per booked meeting; I never aimed for a half‑million‑subscriber channel, I arrived here by decreasing that cost. So ask yourself what the real purpose of all this effort is. On a lighter note, I've been looking at a puppy and decided to check out the Beyond 2 VR headset—it's the highest‑quality headset currently available, gorgeous, and extremely high quality; they scan your face with an iPhone and 3D‑print a perfect frame, which is insane. The headset also includes optional audio; I use the simple strap, but I previously owned a VR headset and played ping‑pong with my business partner, which was awesome. VR technology has advanced rapidly, and Bigscreen has been doing impressive work. I'm not interested in using VR for gaming; instead I see it as a portable workstation where I could bring a small keyboard, run AI agents or write on screen while I'm elsewhere. I also just enjoy VR, so I'm likely to buy it—having the money makes it an easy 'why not?' purchase, and I can earn enough for it in about half an hour. Beyond the headset, I've been developing a set of mega‑course topics—each four hours or longer—that I'm considering producing. For my own sanity I'm not sharing them yet, but you'll eventually see them on the big‑screen VR setup or later on YouTube as finished courses. I'm committing to ultra‑long‑form content because I believe it's the best way to demonstrate my work ethic and make a noticeable impact on YouTube; competitors can't easily match my speed and consistent quality. I've also innovated on a few formats, which makes me a formidable presence. I look forward to creating many of these mega courses and establishing a pipeline to release one or two every few days—imagine a four‑hour Nick course every day, which would be intense to consume. Separately, YouTube recently altered its view‑counting algorithm. The change caused a noticeable rise in views: after the update on the 25th, views on the 26th and 27th jumped, giving us over 10,000 views per day on the Stack channel and, when I checked my own Nick's Surf analytics, a dip on the 26th followed by a surge to 40,000 views on the 27th, as if someone turned a
Honestly, probably yes — I've actually considered brushing up my own Bulgarian (currently conversational, kid-level) and going all-in on that market myself, since it's light years behind what everyone else is doing content-wise. But realistically it doesn't make nearly as much money as the American market where I already have a foothold, which is why I haven't. For you, I think it's worth trying — just make sure you're already making money through outbound first, before focusing on inbound/content, since inbound takes a while to scale, potentially months before you see a dollar even if you post daily from day one. Outbound is a lot more consistent in the meantime.
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You clearly have an extremely valuable set of skills; your question is how to take this valuable set of skills to market. Very few people can get 300 million views in two years—you could genuinely change the course of the global economy with this skill, and millions of politicians would be interested in achieving 300 million views in two years organically on a super broke budget. So this sounds pretty good. The thing is you need distribution to begin with; you could show your current audience how to do that. That’s reasonable. But you should also leverage the systems you already have that enable you to do it—this is just your bottleneck. Six to eight hours to make a video is tough; you could bring that down to three or four hours, allowing you to make two videos for two approaches. In six months you’d have a solid base to sell—maybe a fitness channel program or something similar. That’s probably what I’d do.