Practical growth talk for working entrepreneurs.
Social Media Entrepreneurs is a practical marketing and entrepreneurship show led by Derek Vidal. Episodes move between platform strategy, cold outreach, income growth, and the personal pressure that comes with building a business in public.
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Social Media Entrepreneurs sits at the intersection of social media marketing, sales channels, and the inner mechanics of entrepreneurship. Derek Vidal frames online platforms as tools for building a real business rather than places to chase vague visibility. The episodes are tactical, fast-moving, and often built around a single practical tension. Growth matters. Wasted motion does not. In the 2026 social media discussion, the show argues for doing less of the wrong work: less scrolling, less time wasting, less leaning on strategies that have not worked for a given business, and more attention to personal performance data. That thread gives the show a useful skepticism about generic advice. It acknowledges that short-form vertical video across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube can work, while still warning that not every business should keep forcing a channel that has not produced results. The guest episode with AJ Quesada expands the toolkit beyond posting. Cold email and LinkedIn outreach are treated as sales channels with rules, risks, and technical details, including deliverability, spam filters, burner domains, and reputation protection. The show also spends real time on money. One episode uses a conversation with an architect to challenge the assumption that earning more depends only on promotion, a bigger portfolio, or permission from a firm. Another turns toward the emotional side of entrepreneurship. Vidal talks about ambition, social distance, criticism, online backlash, and the strange loneliness that can arrive as someone becomes more serious about business. These moments make the show more than a platform-update feed. It is still tactical in spirit, but it is also concerned with the person trying to keep moving when the path gets awkward. The register is casual and energetic, with occasional repetition and a strong coaching cadence. It suits listeners who prefer direct talk over polished corporate analysis. The best episodes translate scattered online-marketing noise into decisions: what to post, what to stop doing, what channel to test next, and what mindset may be quietly limiting the business.
Made for: For business owners, solo operators, marketers, and aspiring entrepreneurs who want social media, outreach, and sales tactics tied to revenue. It also fits listeners wrestling with ambition, self-doubt, and the social cost of building independently.
What sets it apart: The show pairs platform-specific marketing advice with blunt founder psychology. It moves from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, cold email, and LinkedIn tactics into the harder questions of focus, money, criticism, and entrepreneurial identity.
Ever feel like social media is wasting your business's time? Well, let's fix that! The online marketing world is ever changing, so allow me to stay on top of these changes and how to respond to them for you. This show will give you your social media marketing news as well as your plan of action. We'll mostly focus on how to grow on Instagram, but also cover Facebook Ads, YouTube, TikTok, and any emerging social media platforms as well. To hear social media updates first, watch out for my Instagram stories @derekvidell then look to this podcast for a detailed explanation on what to do. For additional free and paid growth resources, go to https://www.socialbamboo.com. You can also check out my…
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A candid episode on how entrepreneurial growth can reshape friendships, family ties, and the need for approval.
Derek Vidal takes on a lonely, often under-discussed cost of entrepreneurship: the way success can change the room around someone. The episode is most effective when it stays close to everyday restraint, from muting excitement about new clients or ambitious plans to sensing that…
Sharper words for business builders.
Paid social updates with account-level judgment.
Derek Vidal discusses the often-overlooked loneliness that accompanies entrepreneurial success, claiming it leads to losing over 90% of friends.
The host discusses how to make more money immediately by leveraging skills and pursuing opportunities, using a conversation with an architect as an example.
The Social Media Entrepreneurs episode defines vibe coding as building applications, landing pages, and websites through plain-English instructions, using the host's Replit redesign of social-bamboo.com as the main example.
The host discusses a counterintuitive strategy for growing a business on social media in 2026, emphasizing doing less to achieve more.
Derek Vidal interviews Anthony Blattner, founder of SpeedWorksSocial.com, about LinkedIn’s thought leader ads, which boost personal posts instead of company-page posts.
Derek Vidal interviews AJ Quesada, founder of Revenue Boost, about using cold email and LinkedIn outreach without sounding "salesy." AJ recommends starting e-commerce outreach with warm prospects such as social followers, website visitors, and CRM contacts, then pursuing wholesale and influencer partnerships.
A free gift should be something over 90% of customers would actually buy.
Kyle Anthony Trautman presents energy literacy as a framework connecting identity, mitochondrial function, metabolism, and entrepreneurial performance.