How to Get Famous on Twitter and Other Listener Questions

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How To Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. It talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said, you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's podcast network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales. You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.
I'm gonna paraphrase, but this was asked a ton of times, which is, how would you start again from zero? I hate this question. I don't ever answer this question.
I'm like, that's an impossible thing to answer because you're just looking for like a spoon-fed thing, and you're just not gonna do whatever we say. I mean, if you're asking that question, you're probably not gonna do it.

**Shaan Puri** (1:27)
Okay, but still answer it. What, answer it the way you want, which is maybe you're not spoon-feeding a specific answer, but like, what does a guy like Sam do in a day and age like this? Let's put it differently.

**Sam Parr** (1:39)
Well, and I also don't like this question because the answer is, I would do exactly the same thing again.
Shaan Puri is doing what I did and how's it going? Is it working wonderfully?

**Shaan Puri** (1:49)
It's working amazing. It feels great to be Sam Parr at age 24, or however old you were when you started this, when you started hustle.
I would do the exact same thing.

**Sam Parr** (1:58)
It totally works if you pick the right niche.
But here's the thing is like, you care about this topic. I cared about my topic, which they were related, but not the same.
You don't mind writing every day. I didn't mind either. And so I would do the same thing. The only thing that you did differently was that you were already kind of famous and you had this huge Twitter following would definitely help. I had a 10,000 person email list from HustleCon. So I had a little bit of a base and we're both doing the exact same thing. You get, make sure you have content market fit. And so, which means you see if you can create a newsletter every single day, which both of us have done. You find a way to get traffic. In my case, it was by blogging. In your case, it's Twitter. And then once you realize that that works, and then you, I would buy ads, which you are now doing, I think, and I did do, and you scale, and you find out what your LTV is, and then you just figure out how much you want to spend, and then you go and get advertisers. You're already making like a lot of money every month doing this.
And you're like, four months in, it took me two years to get to where you are.

**Shaan Puri** (2:55)
Well, that's cause I saw the blueprint, right? Like I wouldn't have even known this could even make money. Like when you first told me, you're like, yeah, email newsletter, I think you make a bunch of money. And then I was like, by doing what?
Like emails free, what are you talking about? This was, there wasn't, like Substack didn't exist. There wasn't even, I didn't know of any paid newsletter. And I didn't even really realize there's like a newsletter advertising industry. And if you had told me that, I would be like, oh cool. Like might as well have said, you're gonna go sell buttons at a flea market. Like, it doesn't seem like that big of an idea. And then you were like, yeah, you can make, and I think you had told me at the time, $100 CPM, which I don't think turned out to be true, but like.