Undercover Marketing Secrets #105: My First Facebook Live!
By: Wendy Susan Richmond
Tags: Podcasting, Small Business, Small Business Marketing, Facebook Marketing, Entrepreneurship

Here is my first Facebook Live! It is pretty funny.

Hey, everybody is Wendy Susan Richmond from the Undercover Marketing Secrets. And this is kind of exciting day for me. Because this is basically my first livestream, as a for the Undercover Marketing Secrets and I’m just kind of testing things out. And so if anybody ends up watching this and you see it, feedback would be cool, you know, and I’m trying to get all my lighting set up in my studio and trying to make sure that, that everything is just right. So I’m just going to kind of talk a little bit today and kind of work out some kinks and then hopefully we, uh, you know, as we move forward, we’ll be going over some really cool, uh, undercover marketing secrets and learning some cool stuff and, and, uh, see what other people are doing out there as far as their marketing goes and, and how that can help you when it comes to your own business.

All right. So first off, welcome. I’m Wendy’s is in Richmond and I will give you a little bit of my kind of backstory in just a minute or two a, but I wanted to just make sure that, uh, you know, everything, I’m kind of looking around and I’m wearing my glasses, you know, I take my glasses off. Hello. Glasses on. Glasses off. What do you think you, I think about glasses off is that, uh, when I look at the camera, uh, it’s a little blurry, so if I ever have to read anything, um, I’m going to have to put these, these bad boys back on. So, uh, then of course, you know, you have to do, the hair’s gotta be just right and, uh, it’s opposite. So when you’re on camera it’s opposite. So it’s a little, a little weird and, you know, just want to kind of make sure I look presentable.

I might not look, look like this all the time. I am. So let me just kind of go back. First off to why I’m starting to do live streams. Um, you know, back last year, oh gosh, in probably march or April of 20, what is it, 2018 I was doing live streams and I was actually doing them in my car as I was driving, uh, and getting to one of my clients and then I do a live stream on some kind of marketing and then I would, uh, you know, just Debbie it cause I, you know, I’d always heard that doing a video is great and doing livestreams is great and getting used to being on camera, all those kinds of things. Those are all great ways to, to practice is when you’re actually on online, you know, or on the, you know, just getting in front of the camera and doing something.

So I, you know, I was doing them regularly and you know, turns out it was kind of off the cuff. So trying to come up with what I was going to talk about every day is a little challenging. And after a while, you know, I felt that nobody was watching and they probably weren’t, which is a good thing sometimes, especially when you’re starting out. And so I, you know, I stopped and then I, I went through the process. Uh, he’s a great guy and he has a, um, he has some trainings that he does. He’s the owner of clickfunnels and, uh, I’m a big fan and so I went through one of his is called one funnel away challenge. Um, and I’ll, I’ll ask, I’ll talk about it more as we go along so you can learn about that cause it’s really a cool thing if you’re looking to do, you know, start an online business or, or take your offline business and put it online.

What you’re going to do. He’s got some great programs and I’ll talk about those, you know, coming up in some later episodes when out. Um, so when I actually, uh, uh, took this training, you know, one of the big things that he talks about was a publishing. You got to publish, you got to publish, publish, publish, publish. And if you publish for a, what is it, 365 days in, you do it, commit to doing it every single day that you, uh, you know, your money troubles about troubles. But you’ll, you’ll, the money will start to flow because you’ve actually published and you get known and you actually put your stuff up there and put yourself out there and your content and all those kinds of things. So with that being said, I, I thought, Oh man, I just did those live streams and they were like, so, so I’m not sure.

And, uh, so what am I going to do now? So I started thinking about it and take off those glasses for now. Um, and so I thought about it and I was like, okay, well how can I actually really do this? How can I make this work? And what I did was I, you know, I know that off the cuff is a little tough for me, right? Even now I’m a little more, a little more nervous, a little more, you know, not quite sure what I’m going to say. Uh, so off the cuff is a little more challenging for me. And so what I did was I started a, uh, a started a blog. And one of the things that he talks about doing when it comes to a blogs is instead of going on your own website, which unless you have a lot of traffic to your own website, is it’s you want to get out in front of people.

And so there’s a platform out there called medium.com, I believe it is. And uh, you can go there and you can start a blog. It doesn’t cost anything and you just start, you know, just put it all together and you just start. So I did that. And, um, I called it the undercover marketing secrets and, uh, and I, I knew that if I could just sit and think and just type out what I wanted to say, that I would, it would be better. So at least I knew if I committed every day that I was going to just type up something and get it out there, uh, then at least I would start with the blog. Now, uh, I wanted to kind of, do, you know, when he talks about, he talks about doing it, just, you know, do, uh, just pick one platform whenever you’re, whenever you’re comfortable with and you know, something like, I’m not comfortable on camera, you know, I mean, I’m okay.

I just the whole getting myself older. No, uh, you know, that was something that I was like, ah, let’s take a break, you know? And so I started the blog and then I actually read the blog. Okay. So that gave me an opportunity to do a podcast as well, but I read it into a software called audacity, and you can get that free download. I’ll put some links in, in, uh, you know, here today. I’ll put some links in there for you. So you want to check these things out. Uh, but audacity is a great easy software that you can, uh, record, uh, actually, sorry, back up. You don’t need all destiny. You go right into what is called anchor.fm And that’s a free platform for podcasting. And, uh, so let’s get that hair go on the right way.

Oh Man. See, look it, it’s like, ah, live. You gotta Love Lie. Right. Okay. There you go. You got put spray next time. So I’m learning, I’m learning. So we do this and the spray. Okay. So, um, so I, uh, I go in on an anchor.fm and you can set up your own podcast and I just basically read, you can, you can record right through that platform and it actually links to, I believe there’s like 10 or 12 other platforms that it will automatically put your podcast on and submit to. And you now have, you know, 10, 12 platforms, uh, off of one platform when you’re podcasting. Um, so with that being said, I did that as well. So I just read the blog post into the podcasting software and I didn’t have a, uh, uh, an image, you know, for my, uh, you know, you got to put some kind of image up there.

So I, they have some free ones that you can utilize, uh, that are part of their platform. And I just took that, put the name of my, you know, undercover marketing secrets. The next thing you know, uh, I’ve got a podcast going and so now I’ve got a, uh, I’ve got the blog post and now I’ve got a podcast all from like one time of writing it. And I did that for, oh gosh, now it’s been since November, probably about four months now, maybe five months. And I, um, it’s been great. I mean, I’ve got a, um, I’ve got a lot of different people, uh, watching or, or excuse me, listening to the podcast, reading the blog. And I then took it and I turned them into videos and I put them up on my youtube channel. So I now have you two videos of filling my, oh my gosh. She looks this. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yay. Oh my gosh. Um, yeah, I gotta do something about that next time. It’s always good when you do this, you practice and then you see what kinds of things. And it’s good, you know, at the very beginning when you’re starting these things. I mean, everybody wants an audience, but let me tell you, it’s best sometimes when you don’t have an audience. So then, okay, yeah, work out all the kinks before everybody starts to see you and you know, so anyway, I’m glad you know, we’ll see how people actually want genus. But um, and so, so let’s get back to this. So I then made videos of it, then I finally had my graphic designer create a, uh, both, uh, uh, the art for art for, for the podcast and for the blog. And I have, they’re a little bit different but the, but similar and uh, I have those now.

I now have over what does it 103 different episodes at or different blog posts. And I have those all, uh, you know, out there circulating. So they’re there. I post them on my Facebook to my friends and family and people are actually on the platforms are actually listening and people I have over in at this time, yeah. Over 13 years or listens to my podcast, which is awesome. And, uh, you know, growing up and yet people just get to know Ami and, uh, you know, okay story of how all this stuff is working and you know, how I might be able to help somebody someday. So it’s, it’s pretty cool. So now though, told that it is tough. I am to livestream, get back out there, you know, get my face out there and be seen by a video. And, uh, so that’s what I’m doing and I’m kind of checking it out and I see now that I really need to work on a hair.

That’s kind of one thing. I’m working on the, um, the lighting and making sure the lighting is okay. I get my background, you know, so all this stuff I got, I think I have all the pieces. I just gotta, you know, made the play with them a little bit better and um, um, then go from there. So anyway, it’s my very first one, so, so excited. So what have you see this in the future? All right. Yeah, be kind. Okay. Be Kind. At least it’s a try. Right? Sunshine. So next time we’re going to talk about and kind of digging into some marketing stuff and um, um, and I’m very excited too. You doing that? Yes. And I hope you can enjoy, you can no, my process and being on my journey and seeing how this stuff work. So if you aren’t doing it yet, you know, there’s a reason why you can’t do it, cause I’m just, I just do it.

You just do it just out there and you just do it. So I’ll put some links to the different resources in the comments. This is Wendy, Susan Richmond. Thank you very much for being here. I hope it’s been helpful in some way or at least entertaining for a minute and a, you know, remember, make it a great day. I mean, this is something that I always say and I always, I really firmly believe this is make it a great day. You have a choice of how you make your day. So make it a great day and I look forward to talking with you next time.