Hey guys, my name is Aubrey and I am a 26 year old based in Dallas, Texas. I wasn’t going to create a progress thread about this because I have a thread I recently commented on in the INSIDERS section and I didn’t want to duplicate the info – but after thinking about it I decided I would create a new progress thread on the outside documenting my newest venture – creating a YouTube channel and a YouTube community.
I have been a part of this forum since I was 20 years old – over the years I have made dozens of threads talking about ideas I had, ventures I wanted to pursue, dreams I had…etc.
I’ve learned an absolute ton over the last 6 years, and have had some good times and some really bad times as well.
I will give you the summary here:
In high school, I made $100k in the stock market by investing in American Airlines stock during their bankruptcy. I then used that money to buy a franchise at 21 years old – when I bought my franchise I was featured in news outlets like Entrepreneur.com, CNBC, Franchise Times..etc.
When I was 25 (November 2018) the franchise ended up closing due to a fire and I decided not to reopen. I then had to figure out what the hell I was going to do for the rest of my life.
Before the fire, I had started working with a franchise-consulting firm and I had a few cars on the car rental app Turo – but those two ventures alone weren’t enough to go off of for a life plan.
I had purchased @Andy Black AdWords course a while earlier, so I used what I had learned about Google Advertising and my past experience with Facebook Marketing and I started doing freelance digital marketing - which I had success with!
So, in 2019 I went from losing my business before the beginning of the year to using digital marketing and consulting as a way to fund my Turo business – by the end of 2019, I had 10 cars on the Turo platform. Between Turo, Consulting, and Freelancing for the first time in my life I was able to make over $100,000 in one year which was huge for me.
Now, I have decided to narrow my focus on projects that I want to pursue and ones I feel like could have some long-term potential.
As I write this I am still doing consulting, and I have 12 active cars on the Turo platform – But, I stopped freelancing in order to focus on Youtube, Turo, and Consulting only.
My goal is to create a YouTube channel surrounding what I have learned over the last 6 years as well as take the subscribers along with me as I grow. I want to get into real estate, expand my investment portfolio and grow my Turo fleet to 20+ cars and I want the channel to follow that journey.
So, this thread will be a place where I will track my subscriber growth, talk about what I am doing and of course listen to feedback from y’all.
Currently, I have been making videos since January 2020 and I have 195 subs. The goal is to get to 500 subscribers by the end of Q2 of this year.
If anyone wants to check out the channel you can find it HERE
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to comment below!
I have been a part of this forum since I was 20 years old – over the years I have made dozens of threads talking about ideas I had, ventures I wanted to pursue, dreams I had…etc.
I’ve learned an absolute ton over the last 6 years, and have had some good times and some really bad times as well.
I will give you the summary here:
In high school, I made $100k in the stock market by investing in American Airlines stock during their bankruptcy. I then used that money to buy a franchise at 21 years old – when I bought my franchise I was featured in news outlets like Entrepreneur.com, CNBC, Franchise Times..etc.
When I was 25 (November 2018) the franchise ended up closing due to a fire and I decided not to reopen. I then had to figure out what the hell I was going to do for the rest of my life.
Before the fire, I had started working with a franchise-consulting firm and I had a few cars on the car rental app Turo – but those two ventures alone weren’t enough to go off of for a life plan.
I had purchased @Andy Black AdWords course a while earlier, so I used what I had learned about Google Advertising and my past experience with Facebook Marketing and I started doing freelance digital marketing - which I had success with!
So, in 2019 I went from losing my business before the beginning of the year to using digital marketing and consulting as a way to fund my Turo business – by the end of 2019, I had 10 cars on the Turo platform. Between Turo, Consulting, and Freelancing for the first time in my life I was able to make over $100,000 in one year which was huge for me.
Now, I have decided to narrow my focus on projects that I want to pursue and ones I feel like could have some long-term potential.
As I write this I am still doing consulting, and I have 12 active cars on the Turo platform – But, I stopped freelancing in order to focus on Youtube, Turo, and Consulting only.
My goal is to create a YouTube channel surrounding what I have learned over the last 6 years as well as take the subscribers along with me as I grow. I want to get into real estate, expand my investment portfolio and grow my Turo fleet to 20+ cars and I want the channel to follow that journey.
So, this thread will be a place where I will track my subscriber growth, talk about what I am doing and of course listen to feedback from y’all.
Currently, I have been making videos since January 2020 and I have 195 subs. The goal is to get to 500 subscribers by the end of Q2 of this year.
If anyone wants to check out the channel you can find it HERE
If you have any questions or comments, feel free to comment below!
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