From 0 to 2M followers by teaching online

Stan Prokopenko, Proko

Joining me is a Mixergy fan who started teaching on YouTube back in 2012. Since then he has grown his audience to over 2 million followers and a $1.8 million dollar business.

Stan Prokopenko is the founder of Proko.com which teaches artists how to draw and paint.

In this interview I want to find out how he improved from his first video which was so bad he didn’t even publish it to now having a team of 11 full-time employees.

Stan Prokopenko

Proko

Stan Prokopenko is the founder of Proko.com which teaches artists how to draw and paint.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs. Joining me is a Mixergy fan who put up this YouTube video that I think your first one just went right viral. Am I right?

Stan: It was viral for me. Cause I mean, it was, yeah, my first video and in a few days it had several thousand views at that point. Yeah.

Andrew: And it just kept going and going and going.

PROKO panko is the creator of the PROKO YouTube channel that has got, what 2.2 million subscribers am I right about that? Killer strong. What he does is he teaches people how to draw online. And he talks to, and studies people who are fantastic artists. And he’s built up this business where in addition to doing it on YouTube, he’s teaching it on his site.

He’s got people taking his courses and now he’s about to launch. I just saw how good it is. I almost don’t want people stand to go check...

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