7 SUCCESS Secrets (Hint It's NOT College!)
Double Your Pay Without Degree [0:00:00]
Quick question for you.
How would you like to have your pay doubled or maybe make an extra thousand dollars this
weekend?
Guys, in today’s video, seven tips to becoming a high paid expert.
[Music] Now, real quick I want to be clear about what
I mean by the word expert.
An expert to me has put in the time, the effort, the work, and they are confident at what they
do.
And this really depends on what industry you’re going into.
If you want to be an expert doctor, understand that’s a thirty-year journey.
We’re talking ten years of study, then probably twenty years of practice.
But, we’re talking online marketing maybe sales, you could actually become an expert
in a very short amount of time if you put in the work and the effort.
Make sense?
Let’s get into the points.
Step number one in becoming a high paid expert.
Specialize in solving a burning problem.
If you don’t know the problem you’re solving, you don’t know the value you’re bringing
to the business that you’ve worked for five years.
Or if you’re a consulting you’re out there looking to get gigs, you don’t really know
the value that you could bring to that company.
You want to specialize, you want to zero in on becoming incredibly good, very competent
at a particular niche skill that brings huge value to that company.
Let me give an example.
So, customer service, well, you could say I specialize in customer service.
How about you specialize in preventing refunds, in fact, you’ve got a process that will
cut refunds in half within thirty days and then, within ninety days, you’re going to
get refunds down to 5% of what they were when you first started the process.
That right there, you become a lynchpin you become that part of the company that can,
you know, when they’re letting go of anyone else, they will not let go of you.
Or when it’s time to actually get a raise, you can go in and show the value very quickly
because you are someone that understands your value and you’re bringing it to the company.
Step two to becoming a high paid expert.
Never stop learning.
Gentlemen, it’s like a marathon, it’s not a sprint here.
And what’s funny is you go to college and you get all of these information and most
people treat it like a sprint and they stop learning.
And they just think that, okay, I can go out there now and do the work, I know as much
as I need to.
No.
You want to be open.
There are so many different options out there - physical books, audio books, e-books.
When it comes to courses, you’ve got online courses you’ve got offline courses.
You have so many options to be learning.
Again, guys, it’s a marathon, it’s not a sprint.
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They’ve got a wide range of classes out there.
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If want to learn about SEO, you want to become better you want to become that expert, then
you go take that class on SEO from Rand Fishkin and if you don’t know who that guy is, he’s
one of the top guys in SEO.
He owns the company Moz.
Or let’s say you want to become better at presenting because you want to be able to
go in and kill that presentation, you’ve got Simon Sinek who offers a course on presentation.
There are just so many different options out there, guys.
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high paid expert.
Step number three to becoming a high paid expert.
Put in the reps.
You’ve got to do the work, you’ve got to practice.
So, if you read all these books on riding a bike and you ride a bike.
No.
You’ve got to go out there and physically ride the bike.
And you’re going to fall down you’re going to hurt yourself you’re going to scrape
your knee.
That is part of the learning process.
So, go out there and hire yourself a coach, have someone that holds you accountable to
do what needs to be done.
You’ve got to put your head down you’ve got to do the work.
The knowledge is one part of the equation, but you’ve got to take action.
Step number four to becoming that high paid expert.
Choose the right niche.
And you’ve got to be honest with yourself.
Ask what do you want.
Do you want the money?
And there’s nothing wrong with that.
If that’s what you want, then choose a niche an area in which you’re closer to the money.
So, go into finance go into business to business type of things because there’s a lot more
money to be made there.
But maybe you want to spend more time with your kids with your family, maybe you want
to be outside with nature, you really want to go to remote locations and you love photography.
Well, become a fashion photographer who specializes in working with companies that want to do
shoots in very remote locations.
That could be your specialty and you understand what you do and what value you bring to the
table.
Step number five to becoming that high paid expert.
Don’t be afraid to share your information.
And, I’m a big fan of content marketing, so maybe you could write some articles maybe
you could put out a podcast, videos, so many things that you could do to share what you’re
doing.
It’s your online portfolio.
The person that’s going to pay a lot of money, they do want to see they want to reduce
risk and the best way to reduce the risk of someone that wants to come in and pay for
that service is to show them a portfolio so they know exactly what they’re going to
get.
[0:05:09] Step six to becoming that high paid expert.
Have a clean offer and stay focused.
When you specialize a niche down, one of the hardest things is that you’ve got to say
no to when people are offering you money for something that is outside of your expertise.
And when you say yes to that okay opportunity, you are saying no to amazing opportunities
that could be coming your way, you just got to wait for that.
So, say no to those okay and say yes to amazing.
Now, this next step to becoming a high paid expert, this trips up a lot of guys because
they’re right brain they’re engineers they’re IT experts they’re introverts
and they are afraid to connect.
They are afraid to go network.
In fact, it’s a bad word.
They don’t want to do this because it just requires so much energy it’s not something
they enjoy not something they’re good at.
Remember that saying, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
I don’t agree with that.
I think that they are two sides of the same coin and it’s about who you know and what
you know.
But so many people drop this here.
You’ve got to become better.
And for me, I’m an introvert and the way I have overcome this, the way I do these videos
the way I go to an event and I shake hands and I talk with people unabashed about what
I’m offering because I know what I’m offering is going to – is going to make their lives
better is going to solve problems in their company solve problems with what they’re
trying to do and get across and with conviction, I can talk about my message.
It’s about building real friendships and solving people’s problems.
Most companies if you can solve a burning enough problem, they are very happy to give
you money in exchange for solving that problem.
And that’s where you want to be.
If you can figure that, if you can knock through all of these, you are going to be able to
go out there and do very well and become that high paid expert.
All right, gents now it’s your turn.
I want to hear from you down in the comments.
What do you think of this video?
What did I miss?
What would you have added to make it better?
Let me know down in the comments.
And if you like this video, please like it, share it, pass it around.
I appreciate you, guys, introducing me to more men who could use this information.
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amazing teachers.
One of them I didn’t talk about, Gary Vaynerchuk.
If you haven’t heard of this guy, he is a force of nature when it comes to online
social media.
But, I love to follow everything he’s doing, but what’s cool Gary has thousands and thousands
and thousands of videos more than me, if you can imagine that.
And, the problem there is where do you start?
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So, invest in yourself that is the safest bet you could always make.
Sound good, guys?
Take care.
I will see you in the next video.
You guys want to hear a dirty secret?
So, I have no degree in fashion, in style.
Yes, I’ve learned under a number of people.
I’ve read tons of books.
I’ve taken classes online, but I have actually never gotten a certificate or a degree in
fashion.
Actually, I studied Origins of Behavior which is basically Evolutionary Biology.
I studied Philosophy and I have a Business degree.
I have no degree in, you know, fashion merchandising or men’s style, yet I have helped over – it’s
close I think two hundred million men have watched my videos.
So, guys, do not wait for success to come to you.
Go out there and grab it.
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