So you probably noticed whenyou look at a verified profile it's got this blue checkmark ticked on the profile. But it's really not justfor vanity purposes. There's a ton of benefits thatcomes with being verified. Some of them is, number one, if you start building a following it's very very normal thatyou get a ton of imposters and scammers and peopletrying to do identity theft. So with the blue check, people understand that this is the official account.
On top of that if youhave a verified account, if you were to comment onsomebody else's Instagram post, your post togeth
er with allof the other verified accounts will always appear on top, soit gets you more visibility when you do so, whenyou engage other pages. Also if you are lookingat somebody else's story, they will also be able tosee that a verified account has actually seen their story. So the odds of somebodylooking at your profile and your visits to your profile will also dramatically increase.
er with allof the other verified accounts will always appear on top, soit gets you more visibility when you do so, whenyou engage other pages. Also if you are lookingat somebody else's story, they will also be able tosee that a verified account has actually seen their story. So the odds of somebodylooking at your profile and your visits to your profile will also dramatically increase.
Other perks include ifyour account gets hacked, if somehow the scammer or thehacker deletes all your stuff which happens all the time, if you have a verified account you'll be able to escalate thisto an actual support person. And they will be able tohelp your account back, and that is absolutely priceless. Okay so with that said the list goes on. We can talk about all ofthe perks of being verified. But let's talk about what isInstagram actually look at when it comes to gettingyour account verified. So the first one over hereis really authenticity.
What that means is theywanna see that your account is from an actual real authentic person. So that means that they'renot gonna verify some account if it's like a theme page, where it's just motivational quotes, or funny cat dog videos, orif it's just viral videos. So one of the things that yougotta constantly work towards is to make sure that whenyou submit your account for verification, whichwe'll talk about as well, they are actually seeingthat it's authentic. Now let's talk about, beforeI go to number two and three, which is gonna be way more important, let's talk about what theverification process is. If you were to go to Instagram, you'll see that on thetop right hand side, there is this three lines,which you wanna click on. There is settings.
Once you click onsettings, you will be able to go to your account, and you will be ableto notice that there is a option that says request verification. And you will notice that you'll be able to apply for Instagram verification. Now on this page here,you can apply for this once every 30 days, so if you don't get it you can apply after 30 days. But one of the things that you will notice is they ask you to put in your details, a category for your account,and they want to make sure, notice they want you toattach a photo of your I.D. And the reason for thatagain is to make sure that it is authentic,this is a real person. So this is pretty basic, but number two, the second thing they look at is to make sure that it is unique. So the second thing thatyou wanna constantly do is making sure that the stuff that you put on isn't just re-posting viral videos, but to have some sort of original stuff that isn't found anywhere else.
In order to secure thissecond requirement over here, it is having the balancebetween understanding what's proven to be viral,but not just straight off downloading a thing anduploading to your account. One of the things youwanna do is to value add. So if you take a lookat my Instagram account, I have a lot of different viral stuff but there's value added to that. So you take a look at mypost every single day, I've got these viral images. Guess what, these viralimages they are original which means they'reall actually hand drawn by somebody from my team, illustrated. But at the same time, they are modeling somethingthat is proven to work.
So for you, you think aboutwhat makes your thing unique. This could be videos of youthat you put up consistently. This could be images, thiscould be different quote cards. But at the same time havinga hint of originality that makes it totally unique. Now that's the second thing they look at, but the most important one of them all is actually number three. And number three is actually notability. They wanna make sure, and they wanna see if you are a notable person. And in their eyes notability really means whether you are well known, whether you are in news publications. And they have many different factors to determine whetheryou are notable or not. And right now I wannashow you this strategy where in their eyes youwill be 100% notable. I don't see anyone elsetalking about this. This is how I got dozens of mystudents and clients verified but let's talk about what they are. The most obvious way isto get yourself published on news outlets by doing P.R. Now this is tough and thisis the traditional way of how it gets done. So one of the things that people do is the old school wayis to get it publicist, and to get a publicist to getyou on CNBC, ABC, FOX News. Literally, that's what I didto get verified on Instagram by showing them and submitting to them all of the differentP.R. and press releases from my appearances on TV. But that's the first way tomake sure that your stuff is being published onother people's platforms.
Now this doesn't necessarilyneed to be traditional TV because that could be expensive, not to mention time consuming. But this could also be being featured on other platforms like Medium. There are a lot ofdifferent press releases, submissions, that's the first method. Now the second method that is going to be a whole lot cheaper, thatwill 100% get you verified. Are you ready, do you know what it is? So this is by being a published author. And this is the thing that is going to give you the unfair advantage. I have many clients who did this strategy and they got verified in like two weeks. Let me share with you how this works.
Now if you think about thehierarchy of professions, at the lowest is probablylike salespeople. At the highest levelin the Asian community, if you are not a doctor or an engineer, or a lawyer, then you're a failure. But what if I told thatan author is up there if not above all those other professions in the eyes of society. For some weird reason, ifyou are a published author then all of a sudden it looksas though you've made it and you're some sort ofcelebrity in the eyes of many. Instagram, even Facebook,it's the same thing. If you wanna show them thatyou are a notable person and it can prove to them youare a best selling author, you will get your account approved 100%. So the question now is how doyou become a published author? Inexpensively, how do you actually get a book published on Amazon,submit it to Instagram to show them that you area best selling author? Okay so first of all,let's talk about Amazon. So Amazon has got aprint on demand service. So what that means is thatunlike traditional publishing, you don't have to order 10,000 books, or commit to 10,000 books where your house endsup being a warehouse. They have this platformcalled CreateSpace.com, which is their publishing arm, where you could literallyupload a Microsoft Word doc, slap on a graphic image andwhenever somebody orders a copy, Amazon will literally print out one copy, ship it to that one personand it's print on demand. So there's no minimum order. If you get three sales the entire month, Amazon will print out three books, ship it to them, dealwith the warehousing, shipping fulfillment, all kind of stuff, and at the end of eachmonth pay you royalty. One of the things you can dois get a very simple book.
You could speak yourbook if you wanted to. So the thing that stopspeople from ever releasing their first book ever,even though they feel they got a book within themis they're always saying "Oh I'm waiting for inspiration," "I'm waiting for the right moment." Look it's never gonna be the right moment. What does that even mean? You gotta have the motion first, in order to get the emotion. Most people have it the other way around. They're waiting for the emotion first. They're waiting for the feeling, the feeling of excitement,the feeling of being inspired in order to have motion. That's not how the real world works. You go through the motion first. You do the work even whenyou don't feel like doing it in order to have the emotion. Guess what, even when youdon't feel like doing it, just get the table of contents out, you could speak your book, do a video like this onefor 30 minutes, an hour. Get it transcribed, get aprofessional proofreader to do it for you. There are many different sites that will do it really inexpensively. You get this book up on Create Space. You get it published on Amazon. So now it's on Amazon, but it'snot yet a bestselling book. Here's the thing about bestselling books that most people don't know. Best selling books todaymeans absolutely nothing. Many times people say "Oh,I am a bestselling author." And the truth is, evenon my Instagram profile I am a bestselling author.
In fact, I have been anumber one Amazon bestseller when my book came out. However, it's important to understand that when you submit to Instagram, what they wanna see is yourbook being actually listed and published, and to seeif you're a bestseller. There's no such thingas a bestselling author. There's such thing as a number one New York Times bestselling author. But there's no such thingas bestselling author. Like what does that even mean? So here's what most people do. They put it on Amazon, ifyou wanna get verified, on the same day if youcan get your friends to go and support you and buy this book. By the way, you can listif for 99 cents on Kindle. Get a couple of friends to support you. And you put it in some obscure listing that you know will get you on the top ten. So what some people dois they put it on Amazon and they put it at some weird combination.
They put it like hobbies forwomen over 40, under knitting, or something like that, right? So it's like three categoriesdown and guess what? It takes like ten sales tobe a number one that day. You can take this screenshot of you, your book being number one,submit it to Instagram. Now understand something. The person that is going throughthis verification process, they're not marketers. They look it as like "Hey,this person has a book." Therefore, this person must be notable.
So all you need to do issubmit that and get verified. Now understand thatthis is a marketing tool in order to get verified,the method that I used was through the press releases, being on TV the traditional way. But we have done thisfor dozen of students, and I guarantee you when you do this, you will get verified as well. Hey, let me know in the comments what your biggest takeawayis from the video, but this is literally howyou get verified, guaranteed. And as always if you love this video, hit the subscribe button and I will see you in future videos.
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