Biaheza - Winning Friends and Influencers
Have you learned how to win friends and influence people? Instagram theme page pundit and YouTube dropshipping sensation Biaheza has. As a matter of fact, he recommends the quintessential guide which was written by Dale Carnegie over eighty-five years ago. Biaheza even tells a funny story of how he thinks the title is ‘sus’ and how he would sneak reading a few pages in highschool, having to inconspicuously pull the book out of his backpack and flip the cover open quickly laying it on his desktop to avoid any of his classmates catching on to what subject matter he was perusing. I too found this book enlightening at a young age. Although I proudly displayed the cover with a smirk much to the wariness of my peers.
Biaheza admits this book had a profound effect on his mental modeling which ultimately led to the success of his social media endeavours. He explains that the truth about winning friends and influencing is nothing nefarious but it’s primarily about active listening; deeply understanding those you interact with and what they truly want or need. Biaheza certainly took Carnegie’s message to heart but I wonder if he realized that the trajectory of his own career would so closely parallel a twenty-first century version in the tracing of footprints Dale Carnegie left us to follow.
Dale Carnegie found his love for public speaking at the age of sixteen in 1904 through participating in his highschool debate team. Although this isn’t too unconventional, Biaheza in comparability found an outlet for his extroversion through creating an Instagram page as a teenager and featuring skateboarding videos of him and his friends. Both men had a propensity for public discourse which led them to a quick success in sales. Carnegie found fast fortune in sales shortly after high school in the most personal medium of his time by going door to door. Biaheza on the other hand leveraged the most common ‘front-door” approach of today, by building a successful series of Instagram page-feed accounts similar to travelgram and cloth.ing - with the lessons learned from running a skateboarding focused page and managing a moderate following.
That moderate following would grow to a multi-million dollar business within a few years by first selling shout outs for the pages which fit into the several themes he curated through his accounts. This led to him leveraging his influence and experience he gained to build a thriving drop shipping business. He also gained skill in buying and selling theme accounts which is a highly viable business in today’s app culture. And, as the following article explains - theme pages are a kind of currency in curation which actually drives content creators’ followings:
Carnegie only took three years to transform his success in sales to a personal brand as a mentor and coach in public speaking. By the age of 22, Dale quit sales altogether and honed his skills in public speaking through formal training in acting while selling his own success courses in public speaking. Once again Biaheza’s path parallels this timely transition. Biaheza took his success into the spotlight and tells all his greatest secrets and inspiration through a quickly growing Youtube channel and sells a successful dropshipping course.
Other Books Biaheza Recommends
“How to Win Friends and Influence People” isn’t the only book Biaheza recommends. In the video at the top Biaheza says 4 other books that shaped his entrepreneurial career are “Influence” by Robert Cialdini, “The Third Door” by Alex Banayan, “The Millionaire Next Door” by Thomas J. Stanley, and “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki.
“Rich Dad, Poor Dad” is another book I can speak to, and I’m interested in checking out the other three Biaheza recommended. “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” is in many ways a contrast to “How to Win Friends…” in that the focus is on the self rather than others, and although the two guides overlap in context Carnegie’s book is primarily about communication whereas Kiyosaki’s book is more about personal finance and having a successful mindset. I can see how Biaheza projects these two avatars and I’m interested to see where he may go if he were to delve into the avenue of authorship. Perhaps, he’s actually more inline with the path of a modern day author? (straight to video) - Well we’ll see… I think it’s good for the mind to read once in a while and so does Biaheza.
