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Hi I’m Stefan
And I’m a professional photographer.
I’ve been involved in branding
For over 10 years.
I used to be the manager of several recording artists where I did everything besides make the music. (Untz untz) 🥁
Then I took my branding abilities
And started
Being a creator is hard.
You don't know if it's going to work out.
But trust me.
It's 1000 times better than driving back and forth to a job you hate for the next 45 years.
Your X profile converts traffic to followers.
How?
Smiling profile photo > builds trust
Clear Bio > how you can help them
Simplistic Website > establishes authority
Make people feel stupid for NOT following you.
Can't focus?
Your dopamine levels are off.
You can restore them with:
• Nature
• Walking
• Journaling
• Cold exposure
• Going for a run
• Social connections
Enhance your dopamine regulation.
Want to grow fast and make friends on 𝕏?
Turn on notifications for people you like
Support those people daily in public
Add value to those people's posts
Talk with those people in the DMs
Be real and show up for others.
This is the way.
Gained 100 followers in 12 days! 🔥
But the real win has been the new friends I’m making.
These conversations are making me rethink my beliefs.
Might drop my first lead magnet at 500 👀
I quit.
I quit almost everything I’ve ever started.
Is it a bad thing?
Nope.
Quitting is important.
1. Artist management - quit
2. Photojournalist - quit
3. Fashion photographer - quit
Quit the things that were not meant for you so you can do the things that are.
Struggling to gain followers?
Most people are.
I went from 100 → 900 followers in 3 months by doing these:
1. Making friends
2. Engaging for 15 minutes daily
3. Posting personalized solution-rich content (How I's)
DM me “LEGEND” if you want to become one.
15,000% on profile visits in 3 months 🔥
The
#1
reason is my profile photo.
Comment PHOTO if you want me
to teach you how to take a professional profile photo with your iPhone.
(I’m a professional photographer btw 😎)
Your X profile converts traffic to followers.
How?
Smiling profile photo > builds trust
Bio > how you can help them
Website > establishes authority
Make people feel stupid for NOT following you.
400 friends! 🔥
+50 followers in the last week
How’d I do it?
1. Consistency
2. Actionable advice
3. Connecting with new creators
Thanks for all your support!
600 followers! 🔥
Here’s a selfie from momma and me. (I’m a momma’s boy) 👦🏻
5 steps below for growing like me…
It’s been a wicked fast ride
A massive thank you for all your support.
I’ve loved learning from each of you.
Building this online personal brand alongside my 9-5
5 ways to guarantee failure on X:
1. Posting and not engaging
2. Having an unsustainable pace
3. Not using analytics to adjust your content strategy
4. Competing instead of collaborating with your peers
5. Having an AI profile photo
(Bookmark this or fail. Choice is yours.)
There's an old saying..
lose an hour in the morning, chase it all day.
Remember this tonight when you choose to stay up late.
You are ensuring to be chasing that hour all damn day.
The world's 1st billionaire once said,
A man has no right to occupy another man’s time unnecessarily.
That other man is your future self.
Get to work on what will move the needle.
Struggling to get traffic?
I went from 100 → 6000+ views per post in 1 week.
How?
I shared posts that are:
1. Easy to read
2. Full of actionable advice
3. Start with pain-point hooks
Bookmark this to increase your traffic.
There are environments that you continue to visit
that consistently push you away from the shores of your dreams.
How much longer will you be a visitor of these places?
Your entrepreneur success relies on your ability to learn from your past.
I learned that I perform in work and in life when...
I get outside for an early morning run.
What's one thing you do to perform at your best?
What strong people know that weak people don’t:
• It’s not what happens to you, it’s how you respond
• You aren’t born with resilience, you build it by walking through fire.
Thus, strength lies not in avoiding adversity, but in mastering it.
1,300 followers in 6 months.
I am proof you can hit these numbers while working a 9-5 job.
If you're under 1000 followers DON’T do these:
1. Paid engagement
2. Engagement farming
3. Commenting 100 times per day
DO these instead:
1. Make friends and add them to a list.
They lied to you.
They said going big would open doors.
Swing for fences.
Hit that homerun and the crowd goes WILD.
This is a lie.
No one is going to cheer for you.
Not for a very long time.
But when you finally get the cheer you will realize you became the person who
@SahilBloom
In the end…
it’s not about what you did, but how deeply you lived. Time to dive in.
Run that marathon
Date that girl
Book that flight to Tokyo
These are stories that you can tell your kids. and actions that you can instill in them as well
People have limited mental calories to burn daily.
Don’t push them away by increasing
That mental caloric burn with
Complex sentences and 10 dollar words.
Can’t focus?
You need to engineer your space.
4 ways I beat distractions:
1. Noise cancelling headphones (without music)
2. Isolated in a room with blinds down
3. Phone in another room
4. 90 min timer on smart watch
The secret is to minimize stimuli in your environment.
Is social media destroying your focus?
It was for me.
I legit had eye twitching from too much screen time
How did I improve my focus?
I decreased my time on X to
1 hour of dedicated engagement in the am.
Then I got outside for my morning walk.
Invisible work builds unimaginable worlds.
Work offline in order to build your empire online.
The first priority is your systems for daily and weekly repetitive work.
The second is your first offer.