😎 Am I A Real YouTuber Now?

or nah?

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Shawna Newman
May 26, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

If you recall, I started my weekly YouTube video commitment as a way to drive more leads to Growth Cupid.

That’s been going well and I’m now up to two new clients from YouTube.

Oddly enough, both came from the poorly received Reddit for Local SEO video from a month ago.

Guess it’s still reaching the right audience, even if it’s not my usual audience.

Now that you’re up to speed on that…

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Something Interesting Happened

I got outreached by a company interested in sponsoring a video.

Honestly, this wasn’t even something on my radar since my goal was lead generation.

So, that’s the first one of those to come through and I’m still under 1,000 subs.

Not sure yet if it will work out, but it actually is for something that is relevant to my audience and something that I think I could actually use in real life.

I may try to see if I can get a year of free use of the tool in exchange for the video. That value would be ~$600 in monthly fees…though I’m sure their true cost is much less.

Anyways, today’s Poorly Drawn Lines comic seems like a fitting end to today’s email…

It’s probably my fave web comic. You can click the image above to check out more. Hope you enjoy ‘em!

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Coming up…

More on what I’m working on and how it’s going.

Stay awesome,

Shawna

P.S. If you’re looking for high level discussions or tips on things like local SEO and Rank & Rent, I highly recommend Jacky Chou’s Advise community. I’ve been in it for over a year now (I think?) and there’s tons of value in it, including a SOP for local SEO.

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