Best Dennis Yu Quotes

I'm all about demonstrating.

There's so many people talking about AI.

I want to show what we actually have done.

Use the AI to process real ingredients instead of to generate stuff out of thin air.

The AI is not smart or dumb.

It's a mirror reflecting who you are.

If you're really good at something, it's gonna multiply the output.

If you suck, it's gonna multiply the amount of suck you do.

Prompting is abracadabra.

I don't like prompting.

Tell it like a smart coworker.

Talk to it. Give it whatever it needs to know.

The reason why it's working when I do it is not because I'm good on camera, it's not because I'm well known, it's because the AI knows I've given it access to all of our YouTube videos.

I'm in ChatGPT Atlas, which is only available right now on Mac, but it's coming to Windows.

And I actually have it as the default browser instead of Chrome.

If you do not have any proof of doing good work, if you offer services, if you don't have any proof of your product or happy customers or clients, then this is not for you.

HVAC companies, you are losing business because you don't show the price on the website.

So people just leave.

98 percent of the people come to the website and they just leave.

The more HVAC companies stay and watch this, the more YouTube says let's show this to more HVAC companies.

If I pay for one view, I'll get another five or six views if the content's good.

It's not that you get penalized if you run ads, but if people don't stay and watch your video, then yeah, organic gets weaker.

If the content's good, organic gets stronger and stronger, even though we paid for the first view.

Dollar a day works on any of them, because they're all driven on an algorithm that's trying to feed people what they want in a feed.

Any kind of feed-driven thing where it's free to the user but it's ads for us.

It's the same dynamic.

Everything is automatically uploaded.

You can see I was at McDonald's and you could see that I made some videos in front of the Sphere.

And these are videos that are very simple.

This is just the raw video.

This is with all the ums and ahs and stuttering in here.

What's going on is that the AI, it's not my AI, it's YouTube's algorithm AI figuring out who's going to stay and watch this whole thing.

The very easy idea: you captured something on video. It was a Zoom call, a client said something good about you, you made a promo video, you interviewed people at a conference.

And then just like you had a professional video editor, professional website blogger, professional advertiser, professional social media marketer. you have a team of agents then turn it into stuff.

I'm literally making videos from the stage as I'm speaking.

I'm actually working right now, Navid.

People are like, how can Dennis do these webinars?

Guess what? I'm actually getting work done while we're talking.

So his goal is within 36 months to sell for 20 million.

I'm happy to give this away to anybody because it helps us, it helps you.

It's not like when you're successful, somehow it takes away from us in any way.

We force. force sounds bad. we highly encourage all of our team members to go from being workers to being managers.

I've spoken at 850 conferences all over the world.

When I go on stage, I don't do PowerPoint.

I literally open up my laptop and I'll take Q&A or I'll talk about examples that have just happened from the last few days.

It's not purchase links. This is not a bunch of links jammed in the footer.

These are real contextual in-body links that are relevant, that are helpful.

We like to create web pages on every single entity.

For anyone that does SEO, the idea of an entity is a person, a place, a thing.

The more important it is, then the more power you want to have on that object, the more connected you want it to be with other objects, the more connected with other people, other companies.

If you're a great networker and you're not a great programmer, you're in luck because this is actually networking.

This is not 802.11b Cisco networking. This is like building connections networking.