And So Tik Tok Has Begun!

well, what do you know; I’m on Tik Tok – After having talked about and talked about it, well, it’s now done! So where do we go from here? I guess to the next video! And the next and the next!

I have to be honest, it probably took me about 20 takes before I was able to have a video of something remotely good enough to show! LOL! But it’s out there and I think I’m proud of myself! After all these years of finding an excuse, I finally took my courage with my two hands and went out there. So let’s see what we can do with this and how can we make it grow.

I’m sure that there’s a few errors, (quite a few if you ask me), but one thing is for sure: can’t go backwards!

Thinking about it now, I’m baffled with the fact that I was so “scared” to go online and promote myself via video. Like Dean mentioned: “I don’t want to disappoint you or flatten your ego Marc, but you’re a nobody out there – no-one knows who you are…” And it’s so true; when you think about it, apart from my friends and a few supporters, there’s no-one out there that can really do anything else but either tell me that my videos are bad (to not use another word) or congratulate me for my effort and willingness to open up to other possibilities.

Too Close For Comfort

because, let’s face it, if we want to make it in this Affiliate Marketing world, we’ll have to get outside – way outside – our comfort zone! Why not do it while we’re unknown??!?!

It’s so funny that when we start a new job, we’re willing to do everything possible to make the boss happy! And yet, when we start a business – our own business – we’re so hesitant to go out there and make it happen.

With todays technology, the internet easily available wherever we go – around the world no less – we still find ways to either find an excuse or sacrifice our possible financial future because of a silly phrase like: “what will they think?”.

If we’d only look at it as if the rent, bills and everything depended on its success, I’m sure that we wouldn’t hesitate one bit. We’d probably spend so much more time driving it and learning how to become better at it – spending any and all team needed to become better.

Practice Makes Perfect

I’m fully aware that my 1st Tik Tok video isn’t the best I could have done; heck, I even spent too much time working on this one, trying to make it as “nice” as possible… I also know that I have all the tools, time and patience to become so much better at getting these done, it’s actually scary.

I remember when I started doing voice-over work, the gentleman who I was using the recording studio to record my work was telling me how it would be so much cheaper for me to record, edit & produce my work – if only I could do that myself. Well it didn’t take too long that I was behind the microphone, behind the recording console – that had 41 tracks, (look up a Yamaha O2R; they’re quite impressive), and within one month, I was not only doing my own recording & producing, I was also doing the same for other clients.

Again, when you stop and think about it, we all know that practice makes perfect – whatever you want to become better at, you need to practice. My next plan to help me relax is to learn how to play the guitar; I plan to at least give it 15 minutes and like a friend of mine who’s a professional guitar player said: “if you practice your chords, and become good at playing them, you can play anything”.

I’m sure it’s the same thing with Social Media; imagine being able to make videos for Tik Tok and being able to transfer those over to YouTube and Facebook? I’m sure that once I get good at it for one, I’ll be able to run over to another – but that’s for later, no worries!

So with that said, I’m happy this week provided this big “humpf” to my Affiliate Marketing self-esteem, time to work on my 2nd video!

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