- [Narrator] Why do you need a mentor?
Well they can help you avoid years
of mistakes on your success journey.
It's been said 200 to 500 books makes one good mentor.
You've probably heard people like
Tyler Lopez throwing this kind of advice around.
The second reason is that the worlds most successful
people had mentors, including billionaire Warren Buffet,
founder of Microsoft Bill Gates,
and Facebook founder Mar Zuckerberg, good old zucks.
So what on earth qualifies me to give
you a guide on mentorship?
Well not only do I have a mentor
but I also mentor other youtube creators
and I have people asking me to be their mentor.
So next up, who should be your mentor?
Well when you're looking for potential mentors
ask yourself, would I trade places with them?
If yes, great, if no, keep searching.
The next thing is to get their attention
otherwise they'll never know you exist right?
Now there are a million and one ways
to attract their attention, believe me.
One way is to send them a message
on the social media platform that they use most.
If you wanted Gary V as your mentor don't
send him an email or a youtube message,
send him a message on twitter dude, or Instagram.
Now if you've been paying attention these are the platforms
he's most likely to respond to you on.
Another way is to build something so valuable
that you naturally attract mentors.
For me this was my youtube channel.
After six months my video views
and subs were growing fast, entrepreneurs
in a Facebook group I was in began to notice me.
Now the next thing to do is to offer them value,
this is extremely important, please write this down.
Three effective ways to do this,
number one put them in front of eyeballs,
everybody loves attention.
Attention is a new currency so it's extremely valuable
if you can give your potential mentor
an opportunity to get in front of
your thousands of social media followers.
It takes a while to learn how to build
an audience but once you do, you realise
it's an invaluable asset that keeps on giving.
The benefits of a social media following warrant
a separate video because they're are too many to name.
Now if you're thinking oh Brandon I don't have
the time to build a social media following well
let me just say that you don't even need thousands
like I do, you know even hundreds if
they're hyper targeted individuals in a very niche
market then you may be able to get away
with that but again, I can't promise anything.
Anyway another thing to do is
to offer to work them for free.
Okay so a year ago I offered an influencer to run his
Facebook page for free, I really looked up to this guy.
Although he didn't accept he was pleased
that I wasn't part of the 99 percent of
the other leechers who were just thinking about themselves.
Anyway so now I'm on this dudes radar
and I keep hanging out in his Facebook group
and then one day out of nowhere, bam he invites
me to a google hangout at like two am in
the morning and the rest is history.
He is now my mentor to this day.
Another thing you can do is create something for them.
So a guy called Allen Palin created animated videos for
the comedian Bill Burr and ended up getting noticed by him.
He now works for Bill Burr.
So now that you got a mentor how do you keep them?
Well what you wanna do to treat your mentor
like they should be is execute on their advice.
This is extremely important, no mentor wants
a menty where they spend their precious time
giving you advice only to see you don't
fucking take any action on it, okay.
That is the worst thing you can do
to pay respect to your mentor.
No mentor wants to put their time
and energy into you only to see you don't do anything.
Now also understand that mentors aren't
there to hold your hand.
Let me repeat that, mentors are not there to hold your hand.
Don't blame your mentors for not getting results.
Don't expect them to be in touch with you every single day.
They act as a guide and you are the one
that is ultimately responsible for you success.
So ultimately if there was just one single thing
you took away from this video, it's that you just
need to simply understand that getting a mentor
is about offering value and building a relationship okay?
It's not, don't just email someone
and go can you be my mentor?
That is the equivalent of just going up to a girl
in the street and saying hey, can you be my girlfriend?
So I mean how do you think that's gonna turn out?
Thanks for watching and don't forget to sign
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The last thing I wanna say is due to some
pretty complex events that are happening in my life
right now I've had to push back the podcast,
I was hoping to get it out by July 31
so my apologies, we'll get the podcast out, it's coming.
Believe me it's coming and you're gonna love it.
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we'll get there, thanks guys and have an awesome day.
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