How to deal with sucking at everything
If there’s anything I’ve learned over the last 10 years, adulting sucks. Everywhere you look, it seems like people just have everything together on their social media, with their picture-perfect everything. And no matter what you try to make or do for yourself, it seems like you’re just making mistake after mistake, in business, and in life. The weight of doing it all has you so uninspired and incredibly unmotivated, and you just don’t know what to do. Trust me. If anyone’s going to understand, it’s me. I get it. I have been falling on my face left and right in business, as a wife, as a mom, and life in general. And I figured it was time I needed to put this down onto paper to share with you because I’m pretty sure that you do not want to feel as crazy or as lonely as I did. Now, don’t worry. This is not a self-help book because I clearly have no idea what I am doing. But I have learned some things along the way that I think that you can really relate to and maybe even learn from, like setting boundaries between your kids and your family. Have you ever had this conversation? Kids: Mommy, Mommy, Mommy. Come out. You: Mommy’s still going potty. Kids: Mommy, Mommy, Mommy. Come out. Or maybe you’re trying to figure out what it takes to start a business, and you have absolutely no idea what in the world you’re doing, but you do hopefully want to supplement your family’s income or maybe even become the breadwinner. But you don’t have to take my word for it. Let’s see what these other hot messes have to say. “I wish when I had the vision to start creating a family history channel on YouTube that I had Desiree in my back pocket. It took me two years to get started because I thought I had to be perfect. Desiree teaches you, no, you don’t have to be perfect. You have to start. Grab Desiree’s book and start, suck, and get better.” – Devon L. “I am a hot mess mama, entrepreneur, business owner, trying to be successful, trying to hit those marks, be a good mom, be a good wife, be successful in your business. And you know, we fail at those things sometimes, and it’s okay. You literally have to start somewhere. Desiree’s book has just been absolutely amazing in my life, and apply those concepts and things. So Desiree, thanks for writing, Start. Suck. Get Better!, because that’s my life. As a former high school English teacher who entered the entrepreneurial world three or four years ago, Desiree’s book was so helpful. It helped me to see there is a journey in the whole entrepreneurial process. I laughed with her. I cried with her. It was a wonderful read as well as truly inspirational. Must read.” – Kiki Chatfield I want to be a part of your journey so that you never have to feel alone, overwhelmed, or lost ever again. I want to be a part of your journey so that you can start, suck, and get better with me, together. As always, YOU are impossibly amazing!
How to Streamyard: Using Streamyard Record Only Feature AND How To Go Live Later With Recording
There are so many great features available on Streamyard for all of your live streaming needs. But one of the features that a lot of people overlook is the record only feature on Streamyard. In this post, I’m going to break it down for you. Why you want to use the record only feature, how you use the record only feature, and how you can go live after you have prerecorded your video. Why Use the Recording Feature So why would you want to use the record only feature on a live streaming tool? Well, a lot of people had requested this from Streamyard when they were going through their initial setup and creation of the tool. To figure out how people were using it, I turned to the streamer community over on Facebook and asked how are they using it for the record only? And the answers I got back were so great. I had to share them with you here. Use Recording For Testing The most popular reason was for testing. One of the things that’s so uncertain about live-streaming is, is this going to work right? Is my new tech going to work? Is my internet going to work? And so many different things. So by testing out the record only, you can not only go through your live-stream as a demo, but you’re also going to be able to then play it back for yourself, like in a movie file or something and see what went wrong, what was working, what wasn’t and all that good stuff. That’s why Streamyard is so powerful; it’s not only setting you up for successful live-stream but also giving you ways for you to test it as well. Use Recording for Presentations A lot of people also like to use Streamyard for recording presentations, tutorials courses, all of those educational based things, because of one really cool feature: you can have your information on the screen, as well as your face on the side because Streamyard allows you to have different ways to layout who is on the screen and what it looks like, whether your face is big, your presentation is small or vice versa, or just the presentation or just your face. There are so many different ways that you can use the layout in Streamyard. It’s going to make it really fun and interactive for you to have a next-level presentation for whatever you’re trying to do. Why Pre-Recording is so Versatile Now, oftentimes when we are live-streaming, we don’t always have the option to go live. Maybe we have an interview that we really want to do, and the person just can’t make themselves available or maybe you’re going to have really spotty internet, or maybe you’re going on vacation and you just want to have the option to go live at a different time. Well, if you use the record only feature, you can sell all of the benefits and features that are available to you from stream yard. And then you can just kind of go live later. A lot of people also like using the record only tool for the podcast recording. Again, you can have guests on, you can do things on the screen, all of that really great stuff, or maybe you’re going to edit it later. So if you know that you’re gonna flub up or something happens like the dog barks, if you’ve got kids around, but you really have to get something recorded, record only allows for you to record those videos in a fun, interactive way. Again, using those Streamyard features that aren’t available to you when you’re just putting up a camera and hitting record. How to Record with Streamyard Okay, so when we’re getting started we’re going to go to Streamyard and click create a broadcast. You have all of the different destinations that you’ve created, but we want to skip the destinations and click record only. This is where we’re going to put in what we’re going to do. So, I have a presentation that I need to record for a podcast summit that I’m participating in. So I’m going to enter my broadcast and I also want to add in my presentation. So what I’m going to do at the bottom is hit screen share, and I’m going to pick the tab I want to be able to show on the screen. It will automatically pop me over to the place I want to screen share from, and I don’t want to do that. So I’m going to click back onto Streamyard. I’m going to add myself to this stream. And once you are here you can change the layout, make yourself bigger or smaller, make the presentation bigger or smaller, have just yourself or just the presentation. I can change out my branding to match what I am doing. Let’s say I’ve done my full presentation. I’ve played with all the things, added all of my overlays and I hit end broadcast. Now what I need to do is download the recording. So I hit links and I download my recording and I can do my recording only, or my audio-only, I’m going to do the recording and then it’s just going to download it. Streamyard saves your recordings for up to 15 days, I recommend downloading them once they are done so that you have them natively on your computer. And as you can see, to make computers. So, here’s my video that I did with my live-stream. What to do with Your Recorded Video So now that you have recorded your video and it’s all set to go, you want to go live with that video, but you can’t because it’s prerecorded. So how do you do that? Well, that’s where today’s sponsor Live Pigeon comes in. Live Pigeon allows for you to live-stream your prerecorded content, to Facebook and YouTube So incredibly easy. I literally use this tool
Why You Should Go Live On YouTube Premier vs Live – Which Should You Do
I love YouTube! I think it’s a great way to connect with people, solve problems, and be entertained on a regular basis. But, as a YouTube creator, I run into a lot of questions that I’m asking myself. Things like, “Should I be using Premiere?” “Should I just be pre-recording stuff?” “What am I supposed to be doing with this whole live-streaming thing?” And let’s not even go into how analytics are just a whole mess to try and figure out. It definitely takes a lot of work. But in this post, I really want to dive into, why you should be live-streaming versus using Premiere or even just posting out pre-recorded videos. Let’s Dive into Live Pigeon Now, recently I was introduced to this really wonderful, awesome, amazing, tool called, LIVE pigeon. You’re going to want to use LIVE pigeon because it’s going to let you live-stream, pre-recorded videos to your YouTube Channel. Can we just take a minute to let that marinate about how awesome that actually is? Oh, you don’t know why? Okay, so let’s dive into this. So I’ve been getting asked a lot, why should I live-stream these pre-recorded videos versus just doing a Premiere? Well, the thing is, is that YouTube does things in their own unique way. And every feature has a special way of putting things out into the Universe. So, with the Premiere feature, it allows you to take your pre-recorded, beautifully put together video content and watch it with your audience. You can schedule this out. You get this little like video schedule thing that goes up on your YouTube interface and you’re able to see like, “Hey, this person has a video coming out at this time!” And you guys can watch it together. And just like a live-stream, you have a chat that happens at the same time. There are a lot of really great benefits like you can get Super Chats and you can do your Memberships, and all of that great stuff for additional revenue options, when it comes to YouTube. However, the Premiere feature notification system is kind of limiting, in my opinion. 30 minutes prior to your video going live through the Premiere, and when it actually goes live through the Premiere, YouTube pushes the notification to your bell subscribers that this video is happening, and hopefully, it pulls them in to watch with you. And then you can have the chat and watch the video together. This is a really nice idea, but if you want to increase people watching your video when it happens, you’re going to want to do it as a live-stream. Live Stream on Youtube Live-stream on YouTube is very similar to Premiere. You can schedule it out, you put the notifications up, you can fill in your titles and your thumbnails, and all of the things. But the promotional system is very different for live-streams versus Premieres. So not only are you going to get the usual bell notifications and all that kinda jazz that come with new videos going up. So when your video is live, you’re more likely to get people who have never been apart of your YouTube journey or who have subscribed to you, maybe haven’t visited your channel in a while, and they’re gonna be like, “Oh, yeah, I’m gonna go watch that video, because that looks really interesting.” I personally have seen a gigantic increase in my initial views and my day one views by doing pre-recorded live videos versus using Premiere, which I was also using very adamantly as well. So with live-stream, we’re going to be able to schedule those pre-recorded live videos so that you can do all of the same things that Premiere, but get the benefit that YouTube has for you with Live. Now, if you just wanna live-stream, go for it, go nuts. In fact, I would encourage you to use a third-party tool, like StreamYard, which allows you to go live, interact, engage, answer questions, and go for long amounts of time to your heart’s desire. But, if you have a channel kinda like mine, where you’re resource-driven and you put a lot of time and energy and research into what you’re going to do to share and connect with your audience, especially when it comes to respecting their time, definitely check out LIVE pigeon. And until next time, I’ll see you soon.
SHARING MY YOUTUBE SECRETS: Small Hacks You Can Make For Better Performing Videos
Sharing my Youtube secrets from my years of experience on how I make my Youtube videos perform better not just in the algorithm, but also for my brand. You won’t find most of these Youtube secrets with BIG Youtubers, so you are definitely going to want to watch until the end.