Build Your Thing – The Podcast For Content Creators

Matt Giaro
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Are You Looking to Build a Business With Your Content? Then You’re in the Right Place. Matt Giaro and His Guests Are Here to Help You Achieve That.This Show Helps You to Become a Better Content Creator by Finding Your Passion, Build an Audience, and Monetize It On Your Terms!

  1. 3d ago

    How To Find $1M Ideas (With Billion-Dollar Copywriter David Deutsch)

    How To Find $1M Ideas With Billion-Dollar Copywriter David Deutsch AI can write faster than you. It can mimic your voice. It can spit out 100 headlines before you've finished your coffee. But there's one problem: AI is an averaging machine. And when everyone has access to the same machine, good writing becomes cheap. Good ideas become insanely valuable. That's what I wanted to unpack with legendary copywriter David Deutsch. David believes ideas are becoming the real currency of the AI age. The words themselves matter less when anyone can generate them in seconds. What separates great content, products, advertisements, and promotions is the idea underneath them. So I asked him the million-dollar question: How do you consistently come up with ideas that make people stop, pay attention, and eventually BUY? And David didn't give me the usual "be creative" garbage. He broke down how professional idea people actually think. Inside this conversation, you'll discover: Why your first idea is usually the one you should throw away The "100 ideas" approach David uses to dig past the obvious A simple question that can instantly produce more unusual ideas: "What would the opposite look like?" Why research often produces better ideas than brainstorming How legendary copywriters found their biggest advertising concepts Why AI usually produces average ideas... and how David still uses it The difference between letting AI think for you and using it as a thinking partner How David uses AI as a devil's advocate before publishing something The "premortem" technique for figuring out why an idea might fail BEFORE you launch it Why struggling with a problem yourself can make you dramatically better at solving it How to train your brain to start spotting content ideas everywhere David's unusual way of using AI-generated ideas that are completely wrong... but still incredibly useful One of my favorite ideas from the conversation: Don't ask AI to do the thinking you're uniquely qualified to do. Let it handle the parts where your judgment doesn't add much value. Then bring your brain back in where taste, experience, curiosity, and discernment actually matter. Because the future probably doesn't belong to whoever can generate the most content. It belongs to the people who can generate ideas worth amplifying. If you create content, write emails, sell digital products, or make a living from your expertise, this episode will change the way you think about ideas. Listen to the full conversation with David Deutsch. David's work and free resources: speakingofwriting.com.

  2. 10/27/2024

    How to Write Mini-Books in 7 Days (And Turn Them Into Best-Sellers) With Chris Stanley

    My guest today is Chris Stanley. Chris is a mini book coach, 26x author, and 16x Amazon best-seller. He Runs a $800k a year simple online business from his sailboat or skoolie bus full time with his wife and 3 kids ✍️ SHOWNOTES: Chris Stanley's website: http://www.minibookpublishing.com/ Matt Giaro's daily emails: https://mattgiaro.com/private-emails?source=podcast-2024-10-27 🤩 ENJOYED THIS EPISODE? ⚡ Leave a 5-star review here: https://mattgiaro.com/itunes ⚡ SUBSCRIBE so that you don't miss the next one! Thank You!

  3. 10/09/2024

    How to Start Writing Part-Time With Derek Hughes

    This is an interview with Derek Hughes who started writing online part-time and is making $2,500 a month. ✍️ SHOWNOTES: Derek's free 5-day email course: https://www.derekhughes.biz Derek's Substack: https://derekhughes.substack.com Derek's templates & writing tools: https://derekhughes.thrivecart.com/resourcebank/ Matt Giaro's daily emails: https://mattgiaro.com/private-emails?source=podcast-2024-10-09 🤩 DID YOU ENJOY THIS EPISODE? ⚡ Leave a 5-star review here: https://mattgiaro.com/itunes ⚡ SUBSCRIBE so that you don't miss the next one! Thank You!

  4. 09/08/2024

    How to Get 1 Million Views on Medium With Scott Stockdale

    This is an interview with viral Medium writer Scott Stockdale. ✍️ SHOWNOTES: Guest’s Website: https://www.scottstockdale.co.uk/ Matt Giaro's daily emails: https://mattgiaro.com/private-emails?source=podcast-2024-09-08 Links mentioned: https://medium.com/hello-love/i-met-a-medium-writer-after-11-months-of-dating-her-b9a4dd4c9ed2 https://www.scottstockdale.co.uk/blog/you-likely-have-1000-on-your-google-drive-if-not-more https://medium.com/swlh/youre-wasting-your-time-trying-to-build-an-audience-a5efe17ddd5c https://medium.com/swlh/reddits-had-a-facelift-and-its-now-a-goldmine-for-writers-48af037c9bc9 https://medium.com/swlh/how-pieter-levels-makes-at-least-210k-a-month-from-his-laptop-with-zero-employees-47d8046f43cd 🤩 ENJOYED THIS EPISODE? ⚡ Leave a 5-star review here: https://mattgiaro.com/itunes ⚡ SUBSCRIBE so that you don't miss the next one! Thank You!

  5. 07/27/2024

    The 5-Step Formula to Turn Subscribers Into Sales

    ✍️ SHOWNOTES: Andrew Gould on X: https://x.com/AndrewWriteCopy Matt Giaro's daily emails: https://mattgiaro.com/private-emails?source=podcast-2024-07-27 🤩 ENJOYED THIS EPISODE? ⚡ Leave a 5-star review here: https://mattgiaro.com/itunes ⚡ SUBSCRIBE so that you don't miss the next one! Thank You!

  6. 07/20/2024

    How to Send Daily Emails That Make Money Without Selling (With John Bejakovic)

    This is an interview with John Bejakovic. John writes a daily email newsletter about influence, persuasion, and marketing that's read by a lot of big-name business owners and marketers. He's also the author of the book 10 Commandments of A-List Copywriters. You've probably already heard that the more emails you send… the more money you’ll make. But here’s the question: How do you write daily emails that make money… without annoying your audience and sounding like a used car salesman? This is where John comes into play... ✍️ SHOWNOTES: John's newsletter & website: https://bejakovic.com John's book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08JZGM43S Matt Giaro's daily emails: https://mattgiaro.com/private-emails?source=podcast-2024-07-20 🤩 ENJOY THIS EPISODE? ⚡ Leave a 5-star review here: https://mattgiaro.com/itunes ⚡ SUBSCRIBE so that you don't miss the next one! Thank You!

  7. 03/24/2024

    How Storytelling Can Help You Go Viral & Make 6 Figures With Parker Worth

    This is an interview with Parker Worth about how to use storytelling to create content. Parker went from getting arrested 3 times before 18 to building a wildly successful online business using the power of stories and social media.   ✍️ SHOWNOTES: - Matt Giaro's daily emails: https://mattgiaro.com/private-emails?source=podcast-2024-03-24 - Parker on X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/worth_parker - Parker on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-worth-120380270/ - Parker's email list (get a free course): https://parkerworth.com?ref=mattgiaro    🤩 ENJOYED THIS EPISODE?   ⚡ Leave a 5-star review here: https://mattgiaro.com/itunes ⚡ SUBSCRIBE so that you don't miss the next one!   Thank You!

  8. 11/07/2023

    Web3 and the Future of the Creator Economy With Allen Taylor

    What is Web3, and why should creators care about it? This is exactly what I'll be discussing in this episode with Allen Taylor. ✍️ SHOWNOTES: Allen's book: https://www.amazon.com/Web3-Social-Creators-Changing-World/dp/B0BW3BJYRQ Allen on Paragraph: https://paragraph.xyz/@tayloredcontent Matt Giaro's daily emails: https://mattgiaro.com/private-emails?source=podcast-2023-11-07 🤩 ENJOYED THIS EPISODE? ⚡ Leave a 5-star review here: https://mattgiaro.com/itunes ⚡ SUBSCRIBE so that you don't miss the next one! Thank You!

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Are You Looking to Build a Business With Your Content? Then You’re in the Right Place. Matt Giaro and His Guests Are Here to Help You Achieve That.This Show Helps You to Become a Better Content Creator by Finding Your Passion, Build an Audience, and Monetize It On Your Terms!

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