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Meet Kevin은 FTX 사태 관련 피해에 사과하며, 외부 스폰서·외부 제휴 링크를 전면 중단하고 강의 홍보는 영상당 한 번으로 제한하겠다고 발표. 대신 자신의 강좌 제휴 프로그램(35% 수수료)을 도입. 12월 9일 뉴욕증시 종소리 행사 계획도 언급. 영상은 주식·코인 가격 예측이나 종목 추천을 포함하지 않음.
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I'm pissed like shit, I'm pissed, really frustrated. In this video I have three announcements. I guarantee you that none of those three announcements have to do with the coupon code expiring tomorrow, or the bunch of new lectures coming out over the next 30 days, including the Elite Hustle drop tomorrow. None of them. Yes, I know the big sale ends tomorrow, and that's still happening, but these announcements don't have to do with a coupon code. They have to do with reality, and reality starts by going back into my past a little bit.
See, I used to play RuneScape a lot, but I also played World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike, Splinter Cell, and Rust. I was a gamer, and I always found, whether it was in gaming, in life, or in business, that if you want it done right, you do it yourself. You want the group project done right, you do it yourself. You want construction done right, you hire your own construction staff so they do it your way. And expand on that: you want to do real estate investing correctly, you do it yourself. You manage your own properties. That's what I did. You want to do large-scale investing in real estate correctly, I don't invest with somebody else. I invest in house hacks, because that's going to be done the Meet Kevin way. Nobody else does wedge deals like I do, in my opinion, for long-term rentals or short-term rentals. I purposefully bring everything under my control, because I truly believe if you want it done right, you do it yourself. It's that simple. It's a jaded outlook, but it's always been that way.
When I was a real estate agent, I got my own broker's license because I wanted to do marketing my way. You can look on YouTube, "Meet Kevin TV commercial," and you'll see my first TV commercial ever. You want lending done right? I was frustrated with lending, so what did I do? I got my own lending license. Want photography done right? What did I start doing? I became my own version of an expert real estate photographer. I learned, I studied how to do it so I could do it myself.
It went so deep that I was pissed off at the people who would install the real estate "for sale" signs and hang your sign on it. I'm like, your signs look gross, they look old, you're putting them in the wrong place. I was never satisfied. It had to be perfect, it had to be the Kevin way, and it took too long to get the sign guys out. So what did I do? I hooked a trailer to my Prius, a little 4x6, and on top I put my own real estate "for sale" sign posts and arms, and the signs were in the car. So when I signed a listing, I could walk out to my wrapped car with my face on it, hammer the stake in the ground, stick the sign in, and the sellers would come out and go, "Dude, we just signed the listing thirty seconds ago and there's already a sign in our yard!" And I'm like, that's because that's how it should be.
Oh man, it's true, though. People like Kevin, you need an editor. I'm like, I edit my own stuff. I can't handle it. Okay, so anyway, that's not to say you can't have employees. I've got some wonderful employees that I honor and love so much, and I'm so thankful for them, especially here on Thanksgiving. But I've got to get to these announcements. I just wanted you to know this background about me.
So, a little more background: I have two sons. One of them is Jack, and this is actually important to the story. He's seven. The other is Max, he's four. He made me realize something very, very important that pissed me off, and quite frankly, this has to stop.
He was watching YouTube like you are right now, except he's really in control. When he watches YouTube, it's not just playing in the background. He's got the controller in his hand, and he's ready for something else to tempt him. So he sits there watching one of his favorite YouTubers, like Lanky Box or Unspeakable. This kid saves up money just to go buy Lanky Box boxes, or the little Unspeakable green character. All right, that's awesome.
He sits there controlling the remote. He's done this before, but he just did it again, and I'm like, oh wow, okay. We're six minutes into a twenty-minute video, I'm making a cup of coffee, and Jack goes, watching Lanky Box, all of a sudden Lanky Box, or whichever one it was, has something effective, and now, "For a quick message from our sponsor..." Click. Jack switches the YouTube channel. I'm like, "Jack, you're not going to finish the video!" I hate sponsors. But you could have just hit the forward button a few times and fast-forwarded. No sponsors. I'm like, "Dude, you're seven. No sponsors."
And so it made me reflect a little on his jadedness, which made me reflect on my own jadedness, which was: do it yourself if you want it right. When I started my YouTube career about nine months ago, I launched a course. It was zero to a million in a real estate course, and it was really, really good. It was my entire career of experience in real estate investing. And I always said that I prefer pitching my own products because I have control over them. If somebody says, "Hey Kevin, I wish there were a lecture on this," I can add that. If somebody says, "Hey Kevin, I don't like how you said this, or I don't understand this," I can fix it. I have control. It's my product.
So this is where the three big announcements come in. This is a bit of a fall on the sword, but I deserve to fall on this sword. In part, this has to do with the famed FTX letters, but it's not just that, because it's extending. I was on a cruise ship, and I want you to know this about my personality. Just last week, I was on a cruise ship, and I took thirty minutes away from Lauren to talk to a Wall Street Journal author. Hopefully I didn't get billed cruise ship rates, although now that I'm thinking about it, I may have. Anyway, for thirty minutes, about an article she was writing about somebody who signed up for FTX and had $800 stuck in FTX, because I had suggested the platform as a sponsor. I felt so miserable. I'm like, I will give you as much time as you need to make sure the world knows about this, because I am so sorry, and I feel like the best thing I can do is make sure people know and that it never happens again.
There's still talk, by the way, that if you are stuck in FTX in the US, maybe through bankruptcy, customers will be able to actually get their assets back. I have doubts about that, but let's see where all these cards fall long-term. This is not an FTX video. I've already made multiple FTX videos. I just want you to know about my personality: whether it's good news or bad news, I will talk to you. I've gone on haters' channels before. To be as transparent as possible, I will do whatever I can to make sure people have all the perspective they can.
Anyway, following up on Jack's jadedness about no more sponsors, combined with this disaster, which I'm terribly sorry for, I want you to know that on Thanksgiving I'm thankful for you, not for the fraudsters who should be in prison. I'm thankful for you for even watching this. I started the video by saying I'm pissed, and you're still here watching. I owe you the following. So here are the three announcements. These are promises, these are announcements, and I don't expect to flip-flop.
**Number one: no more external sponsors.** I'm done. No more of this, where you have to scroll through ninety seconds of ads. No more external sponsors from now on. I don't care what company it is. Anyone who emails us, or even anyone we have a contract with right now, we are putting in our cancellation notice. I'm done here on YouTube. I exist to provide value. I love nothing more than waking up, digging into banking, finance, real estate research, and putting together valuable content for YouTube. If it doesn't do well on YouTube because it's too niche or too specific, like tax benefit strategies for the end of the year, I'll make a course lecture on it. But that's what gives me satisfaction, the feeling of providing value to people, not sponsorships. So, number one: no external sponsors. We're done. The only link would be to the, you know, the C-word. I said I wouldn't say it again, but obviously, my course.
**Number two: no external affiliates.** These are big changes. These make up a substantial portion of people's revenue on YouTube, and I'm just over it. I'm done, I'm out. Let other people pitch them. I don't even care what other people do. I'm just going to focus on Meet Kevin and providing value.
This is sort of a side note, but I recognize that sometimes in one video I mention the courses and the C-word too much. I recognize this because of you, and thank you for that. So what I'm also going to do, and this is still part of the second announcement, not a third, is make sure I only mention the courses once. Maybe that's two or three minutes in, a twenty-second plug, and that's it. That way, if it's a ten-minute video, it's a twenty-second plug. It's my own thing, not some external crap. It's mine, and it's just one time. That's it. No more life insurance, no more Weeble or whatever. We're done. No more sponsorships, no more external affiliates. Done.
**Number three: this one's a win-win.** If you go to meetkevin.com/affiliate, you can sign up to be an affiliate for my courses, and you'll get 35%. So if a friend of yours signs up, you'll get 35%. What's cool about that is it's a win-win, because in my opinion it's a way of giving back to you. A lot of you who sign up for the courses recommend them to friends and family, and I want to give back to you. Hopefully that will more than offset, and I'm just being transparent here, the revenue I'm losing from not doing external affiliates and not doing sponsorship deals. So I'm also trying to be a transparent businessperson. I think that's reasonable. If you don't want to be an affiliate, that's fine. Don't go to meetkevin.com/affiliate. But if you're an ardent course supporter and you love this, three referrals could make your money back. Since the price goes up over time, you might only need two referrals, because maybe you bought when prices were lower.
Those are my three big announcements, but I want to be crystal clear: I am so thankful for you. Ideally, I'd like to meet all of you in New York City on December 9th. I will be ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. I'm trying to get a giant banner that I could put on the New York Stock Exchange, so I can say I put myself on the New York Stock Exchange. But I want that event to be our event. I want to share it with you. So, December 9th, closing bell: if you're a course member, 125 of you will be invited inside. If you're not a course member, we'll probably have to set up a sign-up form for the outside. If you want to meet me, we'll take pictures or whatever outside. We'll actually do it in the secured area at the front of the New York Stock Exchange, so you get a feeling of being in that air, in the stock exchange area, where the public can't go. So even if you can't go inside the building and you're not one of those 125, I still want to get you inside the external area, just as a way of giving back. I don't have that sign-up set up yet, so stay tuned for a future video, and we'll talk about it then.
That's it. Thank you to Jack, and thank you for watching the channel. This is it. I'm scared to post this. It's a big moment, but I'm done. This is how you learn and adapt. You make a mistake, you learn and adapt, and you change. No more external sponsors, no external affiliate links. It's the right thing to do. Thanks for watching.
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