Here’s a video for the newer members of Videosocials! How did our pros become pros? Through practice! Our co-founder, Mark Bullock explains how Videosocials is a perfect and safe place to hone your speaking skills on camera.
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So you’ve come to a Videosocials meeting. Maybe it’s your first time, maybe it’s your second time and you find yourself amongst a group of pros. Well, what are you gonna do now? Because you really don’t have any idea where to start, how to get this going and how to be on par with those that have got lots of experience ahead of you.
Hi, I’m Mark Bullock. I’m the Co-founder of Videosocials and of phoneBlogger.net . And if you’re new to Videosocials , this video is for you.
What am I, what am I talking about? I’m talking about — I just watched a session… a group of, for lack of a better term, our masters. And we’ve got somebody new and we’ve got somebody that’s relatively new and I can just sense the nervousness and concern over how the heck am I going to get on stage and perform using the camera amongst a bunch of masters.
So here’s my suggestion : realize that mastery comes with practice and it comes with effective practice. Videosocials gives you that place to have an effective practice because you’re getting feedback and you’re getting instruction. It is an experiential learning environment. What that means is you learn by doing. So you will get over the nerves. You will get good at it if you’re willing to practice and the best place to practice is with others that have already been down that path and are really, really good.
And just a note for our group today, this truly is our masters. So these guys are freaking awesome so they didn’t, they didn’t all start out that way and many of them came to Videosocials with a considerable amount of experience on video before they even came into Videosocials , but all have refined and improved dramatically over months, and in some cases a couple of years, literally since we started Videosocials.
So, be willing to flub up. Be willing to let it go. You’re not wearing what you think is ideal. Your background is not what you think is ideal, etc . All of that will get improved. The main thing is to practice and the more that you get those practices in, the better you’re going to get, the more comfortable you’re going to get, and you’ll start noticing your nerves start to float away.
I hope you found that valuable. Again, Mark with Videosocials.net and phoneBlogger.net and I encourage you to listen to other videos that I’ve done on similar topics in getting comfortable on the camera at Videosocials.net/academy. Have a great day.