#113: Austin Belcak – From zero job offers to attracting 1.3 million followers on LinkedIn
Austin Belcak is the founder of Cultivated Culture, which people how to land jobs they love without “traditional” experience and without applying online.
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Austin Belcak is the founder of Cultivated Culture, which people how to land jobs they love without “traditional” experience and without applying online.
Austin has 1.3 million followers on LinkedIn and his posts have been viewed hundreds of millions of times. He's recently started investing time into Twitter, where he already has more than 50,000 subscribers.
In this episode, we talk about Austin’s approach to content creation, what content is working on LinkedIn today, why good people give bad advice, and how being Data Driven helped him become one of the biggest accounts on LinkedIn.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:13 - LinkedIn is underrated
00:40 - Today’s guest
01:07 - The problem with our education system
02:03 - Applying to tech companies
03:34 - Is Austin LinkedIn’s TOP creator?
04:20 - What we learn today
04:58 - What do you want to be when you grow up?
05:42 - Austin’s early interest in entrepreneurship
06:29 - Good people give bad advice
08:45 - Learning the RIGHT way to get hired
11:09 - People project their own shortcomings onto you
14:32 - Sometimes your friends work against you
15:40 - Seeking approval from others is a bad idea
18:03 - You have to fail a lot
19:12 - Austin’s first piece of content
20:58 - Starting to create on LinkedIn
22:24 - Early struggles creating content
24:56 - Ways to remove anxiety from creating
25:35 - Developing habits
27:10 - Austin’s content posting cadence
32:09 - Importance of luck
32:59 - Importance of data
33:39 - Find a medium that gives you energy
34:21 - Analyzing your content to improve
37:13 - Why analyzing content is important
39:08 - New LinkedIn carousel strategy
41:24 - Longevity of LinkedIn content
43:00 - Austin on building genuine relationships
47:40 - Using a CRM to track relationships?
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