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Benny Lewis

Jakarta, Indonesia

I run the hugely successful blog "Fluent in 3 Months" (~1 million unique visitors per month), which I grew organically through viral blogging strategies, very engaging stories, and by dominating the language learning niche with a unique message.

I speak 11 languages at varying levels and can help you prepare for a travel abroad experience to get you more immersed. I've been nomadic for 22 years.

Happy to help you learn what you need to help your blog/YouTube audience expand, or help you travel and learn languages better!

For more instant booking, please see https://calendly.com/bennylewis/30-min

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Language Learning

I run the hugely successful world's biggest language learning blog, Fluent in 3 Months. If speaking other languages is at the core of what your business requires, or understanding foreign cultures is an issue you face, talk to someone who has been pretty much everywhere (13 years on the road), and who can encourage even the most hopeless drop-out to become a successful language learner. My international talks on language learning have standing room only - get your own one-on-one.

Inbox Zero Twice a Day With 2,000+ Daily Emails

I run a huge blog in which I essentially dominate the niche of language learning, and this means that I get over 2,000 emails per day from people who see me as the leader to answering their questions, both about language learning AND about my business.

I have developed a very complex, but extremely simple to use system of implementing various tools, to make sure that I process all emails in a particular way (NEVER ignoring) such that I can clear my inbox every morning and every evening.

I've seen blog posts on sites like Lifehacker that try to cover this, but they stop short of many other things you can do. A large part of this includes being skilled at outsourcing many of those emails and figuring out how to do that properly. Only I log in and have full access.

If you are suffering from email overload, talk to someone who knows what it's like and has dominated it!

Personality Growth of a Niche Community

In just a few years, Fluent in 3 Months' blog has reached ~1 million visitors per month. It has lead to an international best selling book, a series of courses with a prominent publisher, 2 TEDx talks, guest posts on huge blogs like zenhabits.net, fourhourworkweek, and having my content syndicated regularly on Business Insider. My brand is so huge that I get recognized in the street regularly by random readers, completely outside of conference environments!

I would like to help you grow your blog or business in a similar fashion, by focusing on user engagement and how to have a very personal brand. My advice is more appropriate to people looking to start a movement than to businesses looking for pure logistical advice.

How to Work Abroad & Travel for Life

I have been on the road for *13 years straight* and even won the title of National Geographic's Traveler of the year. For several years, everything I owned in the world weighed 50lbs. I know many ways to make a living, both online and offline, but most importantly I am an extremely experienced traveler and can tell you all the logistics of living abroad.

I've also been doing more travel hacking since getting residency in the US and have 1K status with United, and Gold status with SPG, Marriott, Hilton & Carlson hotels.

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Benny Lewis answered

What are best practices to get verified on twitter?

I'm a verified twitter user. I hope my advice helps!
What do you mean when you say you engage? There are many ways to do this, and how you use it will influence how they see your activity on the platform.
You should reach out to people in your niche and retweet and contact them, and do so in a way that is almost never about promoting your brand (that would be spammy).
But even if you are the best twitter user around, ultimately the purpose of verification is because you have some form of celebrity, where people imitating you is a genuine concern. So if you have come across accounts that claim to be you, or websites that use your face (a problem I was facing), then that is important to use, as the whole point is that the tick mark shows that you are the real you compared to any potential fakers.
For the question of losing followers, that's troubling, and even if you never paid for them if they are leaving in those amounts it may also be a case where your account is randomly followed by fake accounts to make them seem real and other people will pay them to get a follow (so they don't exist to follow one accont, which would be more suspicious). If twitter sees that a lot of people are unfollowing you, even if it's not your fault, then that will hurt your chances. You may want to contact their support separately to their verification department and see what's going on there and solve that problem first and foremost.
If you have further questions about maintaining authority online, which will help the verification process immensely, feel free to give me a call!

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How do I include existing LinkedIn recommendations on my clarity profile?

Go to 'verifications' in your profile settings and click 'connect' to connect your LinkedIn profile. The site should automatically include your LinkedIn reviews (although I'm not sure of what it's import limit is). Good luck!

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Great conversation, to the point and I walked away with what I needed. Thanks, Benny!

Harvey Kaplan Source: Clarity

I'm a startup founder based in Silicon Valley who is working on education experiences for virtual reality. We were interested in a multidisciplinary strategy for people to learn languages in VR in a practical and results oriented way. Benny was able to help us with key insights on language learning strategies. Not only this, he enabled me to think about what's possible in VR education in a range of disciplines and perspectives I previously had not considered. 100% worth the time and money.

Michael Park Source: Clarity

Great advice, very specific to my situation and backed by personal experience.

Hugh Kimura Source: Clarity

I just had an awesome call with Benny!
I was surprised to see Benny on Clarity since I read his blog posts, his book 'Fluent in 3 Months', and watched his videos. It was great to have a call with him since I really admire his work and lifestyle.
He provided me great advice and tips on effective ways to travel and make income, networking with influential people, and learning Mandarin language.
I highly recommend booking a call with Benny if you want to improve your lifestyle to the next level!

Andrew Shin Source: Clarity

During our common internship I learned a lot from Brendan both culturally and professionally. It was a real pleasure working with Brendan at all levels. I helped him with business and he helped me with technical awareness. Very enriching collaboration....

Matthieu Borie Source: LinkedIn

Brendan's open culture, language skills and technical expertise have been very valuable for Telisma. He has always shown commitment and enthusiasm to his work. Eventually he is a fast learner and demonstrated high adaptation skills which proved to be useful on numerous occasions.

François Chaffard Source: LinkedIn

Brendan established a great relationship with Global LT's clients. He did a fantastic job and our clients had nothing but good things to say about him. You can trust Brendan to get the job done successfully with little or no supervision.

Laura Kozub, PHR Source: LinkedIn

Member since July 2014