SPI 896: If I Had to Start Over Again

All right, quick update, just got back from Seattle and hosted a major event there for the Pokemon community. We had about 6,000 people show up from vendors, attendees, sponsors, everything. And it was a massive success. Just super grateful for the experience to be able to do this. And if you don't know what this is, there's a number of episodes in the backlog that talk about how in 2021 I started a Pokemon channel on YouTube and it

grew to 100,000 subs within a year. We are now approaching 2 million subscribers after five and a half years and it's turned into this large event called Card Party. It's turned into an additional income stream. It's turned into opportunities. I even have a relationship with Pokemon now and they invite me to events and fly me out and I didn't know anything about Pokemon.

five years ago. And I recently received a question. It was ac actually at this event, card party, where I was doing a meet and greet and there was somebody who was trying to get into business. They came up to me, had me sign their Diglet card and also took a picture and said, Pat, if you can give me one quick piece of advice, if you were starting over, what would you do, like right now? How would you begin to build an audience and to build a business today?

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