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#27 · Cold Calling In 2025 Is Silly (+ Alternatives)

youtube ↗Client Acquisition

What is the ideal customer for an AI automation agency that repurposes and distributes content, and how can I find them besides LinkedIn and Upwork?

Ideal customers are creators who are just starting to standardize their content, have around 10K–100K followers, are at the early stage of exponential growth, and are looking to outsource or work with a team to reduce costs. You can serve them by using a transcript to automatically generate posts for ten social platforms—either fully automated or with a person handling it. To find these leads, scrape Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube for channels in that follower range. For example, use a YouTube scraper with about fifty search terms to get roughly a thousand videos for $5, which corresponds to about six hundred creators. Take the top ten percent (about fifty to a hundred channels), sort them by subscriber count, and then use a YouTube channel scraper to pull contact details from video descriptions—Instagram, website, etc.—giving you Instagram, Facebook, X/Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles. With those contacts, take one of their long‑form YouTube videos and use your system to create customized content for each platform at a marginal cost of just a few cents. Finally, run personalized outreach based on the video or another asset, ensuring each message includes some level of customization.

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youtube ↗Marketing

How do I convert Instagram followers to YouTube viewers?

I can approach it with three main content pillars. First, awareness content that covers the latest AI news—anything new, free, or just launched. Second, implementation content that shows how to actually use AI tools, like deep‑seek tutorials, so it’s not just dry theory. Third, no‑code content that demonstrates using AI via APIs with platforms such as n8n or Make.com. I’ll also add a fourth pillar focused on "AI money"—showing how to monetize the tools rather than just how they work. Each piece will include a clear CTA back to my YouTube channel for detailed guides, and I’ll sprinkle short YouTube clips or intro snippets to keep interest high and drive cross‑platform traffic.

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youtube ↗Marketing

Do you have any tactical advice for growing an audience and finding the right topics?

I'm about to publish a video on my main channel covering this topic. I can see you're just starting with about five videos, experimenting with thumbnail templates and using AI for images—pretty accurate. Keep doing what you're doing; if you scaled up to 100 videos or 25 times your current output, you'd easily surpass 3,000 subscribers. I'll soon release a video detailing exactly how I approach this in the automation agency space, because lots of people want to replicate my growth. I've noticed channels copying my Instagram content outright, so I might as well share my secret sauce and monetize it.

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youtube ↗AI & Automation

As a content creator offering repurposing and scheduling services, what pain points could automation solve for me?

The biggest pain point is content ideas. AI can help by researching what others are doing, finding unique angles, and creating a summary bot that compiles summaries into a Google Sheet, saving you daily research. It can also generate titles based on high‑performing templates, though you should still add your own human touch because titles and thumbnails are the highest‑leverage elements for virality. Another major pain point is repurposing. Repurposing long‑form content into short‑form, text, and distributing across platforms is valuable, especially when you take content from creators in adjacent niches — like video editors or personal trainers — who use AI terms. By scraping their reels, you get domain‑specific experts recommending AI tools, letting you create content that funnels their audience into your automation niche. Finally, AI can help generate outlines for content using deep research, allowing you to produce large amounts of content quickly.

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youtube ↗Marketing

Could you break down where you started with your social media profiles, whether you were running them all at the same time and cross‑posting, what specific strategy you use for each platform, and what advice you’d give a beginner making $5‑$10k/month on which organic strategy to grow and monetize that traffic through school?

He runs one of the largest school communities generating about $300,000 per month while working roughly 90 minutes a day himself. He tracks brand growth across major social platforms on a page. He started YouTube on February 1 2024 growing from about 100 subscribers to over 45,900 by February 1 2025. He launched Instagram in early 2025 and LinkedIn a couple of weeks before the video. His daily updates channel began about 194 days prior. His four main content methods are YouTube (oldest highest value) daily updates Instagram and LinkedIn (experimenting). He does not manage LinkedIn himself; a helper creates content based on YouTube videos following a waterfall approach where YouTube is the core platform and other platforms repurpose its content. He does not run all platforms simultaneously; he started with YouTube then added Instagram then LinkedIn. For beginners he advises that YouTube remains criminally undervalued. The key metric is total minutes of content watched: YouTube averages about five minutes per view (≈300 seconds) while Instagram averages around five seconds giving YouTube a roughly 60× advantage in monetizability per view. Consequently his YouTube channel drives the overwhelming majority of school signups with Instagram contributing only about 2–3% and LinkedIn similar to Instagram due to higher consumption time. He also shares that after recovering from a shoulder injury his confidence and gym performance improved dramatically making his life fantastic.

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