DM Outreach Grows Followers

Sam Parr shares how he discovered a talented social media manager through persistent DM outreach.

"There's this guy Diego who DM'd me. I get these DMs all the time where they're like 'I'm gonna make videos for you' and I'm usually like 'dude shut up.' But this guy just kept DMing me and I was like 'fine, just make clips for me, send me 10 of them' just to get him off my back.

Before the night was over, he sent me 10 clips and they were pretty good. I told him 'I don't want to post these, I'm gonna make you post it for me. Send me your driver's license, your social security card.' I even told him 'send me your girlfriend's driver's license too' - and he did it.

He kills it. I went from like 1,000 followers to 10,000 followers in a week, and now up to 50,000. I told him 'You're awesome, but here's the deal: you're gonna do this for me for free for a long time, and in exchange I'm gonna tell all my friends about you. Eventually once you prove it to my friends, I'm gonna tweet out that I think you're great.'

Within a month of him messaging me, we got him up to like $20,000 a month with a really good wage. He now has this thriving business, and I take a small percentage of the profits."