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Videosocials.net and phoneBlogger.net COO and Co-Founder Mark Bullock talks about when a recording doesn’t go as planned at a Videosocials meeting. Please don’t stop just because you made a mistake. Even if you think the video is not going to be usable, finish it to get the feedback on what worked. Get further insight into what didn’t work. And who knows? Maybe it will be usable because we are our own worst critics.
This video is part of an online course for Videosocials members. To view the complete course, click this link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ5YnGGnttM-NtL_c4cdgFn1E-jQ5KWts
Transcript:
So you came to a Videosocials meeting, and either you weren’t prepared or you got off to a bad start and it just didn’t work out today. But you went ahead and you presented whatever it was that you wanted to present and, but you just can’t help from feeling bad that, you know, ‘ah gee I’ve have wasted this 45 minutes.’
Hi, I’m Mark Bullock with Videosocials.net and phoneBlogger.net . And that happens sometimes. And it happens in life lots of times. We’re in a sales situation. We’re in a customer service situation. We’re in a relationship situation or our family, etcetera, and things just don’t go well.
Video socials is a safe place to practice and experiment, and we mean it from that perspective. Some of those practices over time are going to be great videos that you get to put out there and publish and promote. And sometimes it might take two or three times of the same topic before you kind of zone in on what works best for you, or you found your voice, etcetera.
So my point today — goal for this video, is to help encourage you to think about giving yourself a bit of a break — giving yourself a bit of a chance to get through those practices and to get through the nervousness, the uncomfortableness, the… you know, for a lot of new people coming in, they’re having a conversation with an audience because they have an audience on screen right below the camera, and it takes a little while before you really realize, I need to be talking to the camera because the people in the future that are watching this — going to be watching this video, they don’t have an audience. They don’t know that we’re looking at an audience below the camera. They’re thinking, ‘Oh, gee, you’re not looking at the camera. They’re not looking at me,’ right? So it’s a simple thing, but it’s something that comes with practice. Watch the camera because in it, watching the camera, you’re watching the audience.
But we’re not going to come in and hit a home run every time. Even after we’ve had lots of experience, sometimes we’re going to get stuck. Sometimes we can recover from that. Sometimes we don’t necessarily, but continue on for that particular presentation that you’re giving because then you get to have the practice and you get the feedback on what you did get across from your fellow members so that you can know how best to hone in on what the ultimate final video is going to be.
And all that’s aside from, and you know that I’ve said this many times, we’re our own worst critics. So many times that little bobble in the voice, that little place that you got stuck for a moment, that just makes it real for the viewer, which is authentic, which is attractive. We want to watch that.
All right guys. Again, Mark with Videosocials.net, phoneBlogger.net. Have a great day.