BEING POPULAR IS EASY




MY NAME IS SAM
For the last ten years I’ve been making viral content for many different projects. It is actually very simple to do because I know the rules. When you know the rules you can engineer around them for any type of content.

    I DO SOCIAL MEDIA AND SHORT FORM CONTENT
      People tend to think that their media is at the whim of a mysterious and random algorithm, that you just hit POST and hope for the best. In reality, these algorithms were created by real people and they are knowable systems. When you know what to engineer your content around, you can free yourself to focus on the creative. Information = power = creative freedom. I am a content engineer and moreover I am an artist. I love making weird things with ambitious people. 




    below you will find: content highlights, client roster, services offered, & personal bio





    CONTENT I MADE and PRODUCED
    (this isnt everything)












    2. CLIENTS I’VE WORKED WITH






    Some of these people I still work with, some of them are from the past. I’ve also left a lot of clients off and will be adding them on as I figure out how to program more space for it in this part of the screen. 




    Kinneret

    https://www.tiktok.com/@k1nneret?_t=8pJFkIK8RjO&_r=1




    Her team found me after her success with the viral song “No Wind Resistance” thru my work with Jorge Elbrecht. Our goals were to find videos that would perform well and feel hyper authentic to her view of the world a few videos linked below. Some of these videos got millions of views and were direct promotion for the album she wanted help rolling out.




    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNEJ19jA/




    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNE1Xnbg/




    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNE1EGLu/




    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNE1THbD/




    Sugar Pit

    https://www.instagram.com/sugar___pit/

    I began working with Sugar Pit while he was on Atlantic Records and still work with him now that he’s indie. All of his album roll out has been shot and directed by me. This is very performance art heavy stuff and I also help him style the outfits. Below are some of our freaky little dreams of a video but if you scroll thru his profile you will see a lot more. 

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP4VRcUEkq2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPwvAYLkvLl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPPEnzTD0AA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO4B8q5kgM_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==






    Chris Deepspace / Cigar Cigarette / NIGHTSERVICE


    https://www.instagram.com/chrisdeepspace/


    I managed Chris for over six months and we produced some really cool videos around music production and engineering. He’s a 2x Grammy nominated producer and mixer whos worked with Kanye, Rhianna, Beyonce and a bunch of other incredible people. We packaged those skills into social media pieces and he gained thousands of followers because of it. Videos below include things like how to make a beat from a washing machine, how to sample drinks at dinner into a sick song, how to play a pan flute in a Greek castle and turn it into an 808. He did most of the editing, some videos I edited. I filmed some and strategized/ CDd most. 

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHtyPQny8F7/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

    https://www.tiktok.com/@chrisdeepspace/video/7417237097108573470?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7543357227769579021


    https://www.tiktok.com/@chrisdeepspace/video/7414263960146332959?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7543357227769579021

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLiOtgGCQKG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==






    Jorge Elbrecht 


    https://www.instagram.com/jorge_elbrecht?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==




    Jorge is a multi Grammy- nominated mixer, producer and musician. I ran his account for the period of about 7 months in the pandemic and then another set of 3 months for an album roll out in 2021. In that time he went from 5k to 15k.





    L’rain


    https://www.instagram.com/turrelljames?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

    I was hired by her management at her label to manage her socials about a year ago for a period of three months. The team’s main goal was to reach new audience members, we had +134% engagement from non-followers overall during our time together and her Album I Killed Your Dog saw a lot of media attention during that time. She reached out to me herself later to restart working together again because she hasn’t seen tones of growth since and struggles with activity, during our time together she made 13 posts and gained about 5K followers. 




    Twin Shadow


    https://www.instagram.com/thetwinshadow?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==




    I worked with him this year on a 3 month campaign roll out which lead to some of his highest total numbers for presaves and streams after a release. Our work was mainly in strategy and education. 





    Abby Saltzman (Abby Paradise)


    https://www.instagram.com/abby.saltzman?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==



    She was in the Netflix show Popstar Academy which formed the girl group KATSEYE. I was hired to run promotion for her 2 debut singles while the show was being released specifically to make the video go viral as they were investing a lot into it to gain the attention of a major label. On her first single we had over a million views in 2 weeks. The link to that is below. 




    https://youtu.be/jYOiF-BUxGg?si=YzF3h1Q5jjCfn_81





    Lucy Huxly




    She’s a full service sex worker in Berlin and for her I script sex info etc vids to get written up in publications. I’ve also worked with other people in the adult industry and have NDAs around that. I havent ever been a manager for Only Fans, but I do manage traditional socials for them, TT IG YT etc etc.




    https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeEBGtcN/




    https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeEBsdRa/







    Global Down Syndrome Foundation



    https://www.instagram.com/globaldownsyndrome?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==




    During my time here i also worked socials on some Celeb EPK teams, like for the cast of Grey’s Anatomy, Jamie Foxx, Quincy Jones, sports teams, etc. I was the sole team member for managing their socials and creating every post and their numbers skyrocketed during my time there. Below is a year end report on that. they recieved 6.5 million impressions that year which lead to them being able to do a lot of good work in the real world. 

    https://sproutsocial.com/year-in-social/?yis_audience=6648&yis_engagement=927887&yis_published=3146&yis_impressions=6547945&yis_account=Global%20Down%20Syndrome%20Foundation&yis_industry=Non%20Profit&mkt_tok=NTAxLVBUVy05MzgAAAGJPD5xOY0_OLIYddepO9F1HB-S-ZCG4K-UEfL51Vvp5LC7o0-Cb6nGISjyWsHIuCViKH8F2mCVNR6QFSHlNjlZrZML1JV0unONMH_qW8tKGQ





    Celeste 




    https://www.tiktok.com/@celeste.aria_?_t=8pJDDNphRrn&_r=1




    When Celeste and i started working together she had 0 followers on Tik tok and about 1500 on instagram. In the period of about 3 months we grew them to over 35k on IG and 34k on Tik Tok. Her main goal was to build a reliable online brand around herself in the fashion and music community and through scripting these videos we found she also loved giving informative advice content. The videos that we scripted together were featured in publications like Forbes, People, daily mail, etc. some of them are linked below. 




    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNEJ5s2P/




    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNEJSHLJ/




    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNEJNTve/




    https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNEJk9oX/





    Demi Yoko

    https://www.instagram.com/demisante?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==




    No Joy

    https://www.instagram.com/nojoy68jk69?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==



    Kai Kai




    https://www.instagram.com/kaikaic_?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==




    Donzii




    https://www.instagram.com/_donzii?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==




    Me!!!!!

    https://www.tiktok.com/@portaldog


    This is one of my personal accounts and if you look thru you will note that all videos have at least 10k views and I gained like 30k follwers in the first month or two of posting, this isnt because I remove under-performing videos, it’s because I just know how to engineer a video around the necessary rules. I’ve had a variety of pages that have done well (and better than this one) that you can read about below in my personal bio. The page I linked you to is about being a social media manager and about model scouting, which I do only because I’ve managed high fashion models thru their agencies and the agencies like me and let me send potential candidates their way. Anyways, hard to know what to say about yourself. 





    I have represented others who I signed an NDA to work for. They are mainly big models. The modeling industry is kind of funny about social media and it’s a bit taboo to talk about sometimes. 
     



    3. SERVICES OFFERED

    me
                       
                                  you

    I’ve been doing this for a long time so I know how to do most things. Here’s a list of things I can do: 

    Creative direction, content strategy, irl direction, production, production design, editing and actually shooting the footage with either an iPhone or camera. I also cast actors for the videos when needed and can style them.


    I have done projects with budgets pushing 100k and I have also done projects for under $50. If I like it I do it and I usually have the same amount of fun. I really like to teach my clients about all the stuff I know so they can understand why I’m suggesting the things I am and so they can do it on thier own. I think it’s bad karma to gatekeep things that help people find success. I want to have fun and do honest work.
    5. PERSONAL BIO





    I will make this brief because I think being a little mysterious is chic and also this isnt about me. 




    When I was a teenager I was moderately popular on the internet. I received many strange and creepy DMs and took a personal step back but continued to help friends launch their personal pages and business ideas. I made and helped out on meme pages that did well and it was fun to make weird jokes and have success that had nothing to do with my appearance. Around 2021 I became the social media manager at the Global Down Syndrome Foundation and they paid for me to become formalized in my social media education; conferences, trainings, certifications, etc. I continued helping people by word of mouth on the side and eventually this work got better and gained the attention of some record labels and modeling agencies. This branch of work made more money than I was making at my desk job so I transitioned to full time freelance. I keep my knowledge updated today by taking more trainings independently. I primarily work with modeling agencies and musicians, either on a label or indie. I also do ads and work with companies if I think I am a good fit. Sometimes I’m not a good fit and I will tell you if I think that’s the case because if I don’t my soul will wither away.


    Thanks for reading x





    My Tik Tok is @PORTALDOG 
    My email is Samanthabenjamin0@gmail.com (just text me if you can)
    My number is 323 636 8344



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