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HHBSO 135: Do You Follow Brands on Social Media? · He's Hot but Something's Off...

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Hello and welcome to He's hot, but something is off.
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We're up to like 130 something episodes.
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So every time, every time I edit one of these episodes and I make
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the YouTube thumbnail and for some reason I chose to put the
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episode number on the YouTube thumbnail in addition to when
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I'm typing up the title for each podcast, the episode number is
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right at the top 130 something episodes.
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Well, it didn't think we last that long.
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Anyways, Good Thursday to you. Welcome to the podcast and thank
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you for tuning in. I never thank anyone for tuning
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in. All 5 of you, it used to be 3 of
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you. Now we have 5 of you listening,
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which is great. I almost put a hat on for
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today's video podcast. It really depends, you know, if
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I'm wearing a hat that day, that means I try to put the
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headphones on without the hat. And then I checked myself in the
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selfie camera on my phone and it didn't look good.
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Therefore I reach for the hat. But or not today I thought I
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think I should probably put on a hat for the podcast today.
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And but before I did that, I checked myself in the mirror.
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I got a mirror behind me. Oh, by the way, I also have a a
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little gesturely travels logo in the back.
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We'll get that in a bit. But yeah, I was checking myself
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in the mirror. The one that I have, I've got
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this body length mirror by the door and what the hair looks OK.
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It looks OK today. It looks OK today.
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So therefore I'm not wearing the hat.
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But now that I'm wearing, I feel like the hair is a little out of
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control. Anyways, yeah, I am trying to
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spruce up the background of the video podcast a little bit.
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So if you're watching again, video version of all the podcast
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episodes are on my YouTube channel.
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Just Joey T across my left shoulder.
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So on the right side of your screen, you can probably just
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see the Just Joey Travels logo on my iPad.
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What I don't want to do is I do this podcast, but I also do a
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podcast for Just Joey Travels, which is the Gay Cruise and
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Travel podcast. When I do that for the podcast,
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I want there to be a bit more branding, more just Joey Travels
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branding in the video podcast itself.
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So I want the logo of just Joey Travels to be in the background
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somewhere. So I'm just testing this out on
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this podcast to see what would it look like if it had an iPad
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in the back just with that logo. I know it's going to be out of
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focus because it's like, I don't know, it's like 6 feet behind
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me, that shelf, so it's going to be a little blurry, but that's
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maybe one way to do it. I also want something where I
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can change, you know, maybe I'm talking about something else or
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if I want to do something about Magnet, which is a skin care
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line, I can change it to the magnet logo.
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So I could have something printed, just printed on to
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like, I don't know, some poster board or something.
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Oh, I also ordered some T-shirts for just to be travels couple of
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like sleeveless Tees or tank tops, and I'm going to start
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wearing those for some of the episodes of the Gay Cruise and
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travel podcast. So that's pretty exciting.
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I'm really getting more into the planning of the different
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businesses now. One thing I wanted to talk about
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that's related to that is I'm not, I've never been super duper
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into social media. That's not a problem when it's
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like, you know, when it's your personal personal social media
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for your personal life. It doesn't really matter if you
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do it or don't do it. I know lots of people that they
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don't even have any social media accounts.
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Maybe they technically have one from like years back, but they
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don't never post anything. They just don't.
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Maybe they have it just to use Messenger.
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You know, I had Facebook for I've had Facebook for a very
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long time, since I was in high school.
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And for a good part of it over like the last 6 or 8 or 10
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years, there was a good chunk of it where I didn't really use
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Facebook. I used Facebook Messenger, but
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that was like, that's an app on my phone.
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You know, the messenger app is separate.
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So to use Facebook Messenger, I don't need to go into Facebook.
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I don't need to load up the feed or post anything or do any of
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that jazz. But with the businesses now I
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kind of need in a way to go into social media.
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And so I just preconceived notion that, oh, if you're a
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brand and you want to use social media as part of your marketing,
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you got to be posting stuff all the time.
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And I've been doing that with Magnet, the skin care brand.
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But at some point recently, it just felt like, am I posting
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things just to post things like what's the real end goal here?
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So when social media is part of the marketing of a business,
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it's now treated very differently.
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I would love to hear what you guys think because a lot of you
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guys are probably on social media in some way, shape or
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form. I would love to hear from you
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what you expect brands to do with their social media
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accounts, but do you have some sort of preconceived notion or
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expectation that brands should be posting like 3 * a week every
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single week? What kind of content would a
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brand post that but make you stop and actually like look at
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that because a lot of times when people scroll through social
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media, it's a feed, right? Instagram, it's a feed TikTok,
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it's a feed like all, all. It's just like this endless feed
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of like of, I don't know, it just doesn't end.
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And a lot of the things I scroll past, it's most of it I scroll
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past. Honestly, it's like sometimes
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like the times when I stop scrolling on my feet to look at
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something, it's because it's someone I follow, therefore I
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follow them. That means I'm usually
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interested in something that they post, not on the time.
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It depends on what they're posting, but it's like an ad I,
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I'm kind of hardwired or I've developed the muscle memory
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almost to scroll past ads, especially when I'm through
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Instagram stories, when I'm like swiping left or right or tapping
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over things once I see, because an ad looks very different, even
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just within like the first split second that you see it, an ad
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looks very different than someone's personal post or story
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or video or whatever. So, and I've chained myself to
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like look in the top left corner when I'm going through Instagram
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stories to see, oh, who posted this?
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Like every time it swipes right to a new account or I tap on the
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right side and it goes to like the next account, the next set
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of stories, I'll like flick my eye up to the top left corner
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and see if it's like a company or a person.
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But if it's a person, it's going to be someone I follow.
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And if it's not a person I follow, it's going to be a
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company's ads. I don't really follow many
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companies. I think probably 9899% of the
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accounts I follow are like people, like actual people.
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And I don't know if it's like on the grand scheme of things
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popular for people to follow our brands, Instagram account, our
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brands, TikTok, our brands, whatever.
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So as I'm thinking about the strategy, the social media
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strategy, I'm like, OK, I've been posting 3, three times a
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week and at some point it just feels like I'm posting just to
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post. And like there's no real
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significant constructive end goal.
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I'm posting it just to do it because I think this what
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companies are supposed to do, which is not a great reason.
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It's like if you're going to spend time and effort doing
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something again, when it's your personal social media, it
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doesn't matter. There's no end goal to like
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posting stuff usually for most casual people, right?
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If you're trying to be like an influencer or whatever, like
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that's different. Like you're, you're, you're,
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there's a particular goal there, but you'd be just like a regular
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person just using social media for regular personal purposes.
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You're not trying to like become something then it doesn't
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matter. Post as much or as little as you
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want. It doesn't really matter.
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But you're literally it's not for any purpose than
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entertainment or to like maybe show your friends and family
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what you're up to. You're basically just doing it
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for fun. There's nothing on the line when
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it's a company though, and you're spending dollars and
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actual time and effort and resources to achieve a goal,
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which is to like increase your brand visibility and awareness
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of like increase your sales and gamer followers, like whatever
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that is. That's an actual goal.
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Now it's like, OK, I'm doing all this stuff.
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It doesn't seem to be moving the needle.
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So I'm doing some research and yeah, I, I would love to, while
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I'm trying to find out and I would love to hear from you
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guys. It's like, what do you expect?
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Like what are your, what do you expect companies to post?
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Do you even like following company social media accounts
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like a brand social media accounts.
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Sometimes when I see ads from brands on my Instagram, I
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occasionally sometimes am interested in that ad.
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So once in a great while, I do like tap on the ad to like check
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out that product that's featured in the ad.
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But that depends on the algorithm serving up the ad for
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a product that I already have a interest in, right, Or a type of
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a product. So the algorithms are getting
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pretty good, by the way. Yeah.
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But you know, for me, for the skin care thing, I'm thinking,
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yeah, I'm throwing all the we're spending time and effort.
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We're posting three times a week.
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We're not. I can't really see that we're
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getting the return on the investment and to sit down and
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create like 3 posts a week from like a business brand marketing
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point of view. It's not like I just took a
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selfie and posted it. That takes like 10 seconds or
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maybe like a couple minutes. If you want to do like a little
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touch up on that photo, put a filter in.
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OK, That's really fast to create one post for magnet.
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It maybe takes like 15 to 30 minutes.
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OK, so I already have a stock of photos.
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Let's say I just do like a regular photo and put some text
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on it. You know, that could take 15 to
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30 minutes because, you know, you got to make sure like it has
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to look professional, but it's coming from like a brand, a
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company. It's not like a random photo
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that you can just snap of your phone.
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It's a photo that I've already taken with a photographer.
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But then we got to think of, OK, what's the tech line?
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Like? What's the angle?
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What are we trying to sell? How are you know what what
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should that are we? Does it adhere to the brand
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voice? You know, like all the graphics
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and the logos need to be put in a certain rate because the
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branding visually has to be consistent across all the
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different posts and across our website and our online presence.
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It gets you have to think of all these things, right?
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You can't just throw a random selfie on there and then have it
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look good. But I'm actually rethinking the
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whole social media marketing strategy for Magnet and that's
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in the works. But I would obviously love to
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hear what you guys think about what your perceptions are of how
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brands present themselves on social media and things like
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things you've seen from brands, either ads or posts or videos or
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whatever on social media that'd be seen from brands.
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That was like, oh wow, that caught my eye.
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Because again, I'm sure a lot of you do this too.
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When I see an ad or something from a brand about a product,
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most of the time I scroll it past because I am not really
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there to see ads. This isn't about ads.
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These are what I'm talking about are just like the posts that you
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would a company would do, a brand would do just on their own
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social media account because you can.
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It's there's like, you know, Ford, a Honda or Amazon or I
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don't know, whatever. Like some company they have
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their social media account and these are just the posts that
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they're doing, doing ads is separate from them.
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So I'm not talking about the ads.
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I'm just thinking on the social media account.
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I feel like what I'm doing right now is just like what I think I
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should be doing and I'm going to change it.
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So I'd love to hear you guys feedback on that.
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Related to that though, So obviously I've got just Joey
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travels and for just Joey travels, it's a very different
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business. And I also see it as something
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like less serious, not that I don't take that business
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seriously, but you know, it's a travel company for like cruises
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for vacations. So the vibe is a much more like
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chill and relax vibe than a skin care company where like the vibe
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is, it's, it's not like a bank, you know, it's not that level of
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serious, but also running it behind the scenes.
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I know like the investment that has to go into a skin care
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company, the logistics and like the manufacturing and like the
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inventory that is so much more in terms of like the investment
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that it requires. And for me, it's like there's a
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lot more money on the line where it's like with the travel
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agency, it's like, I, I, I just want to get people on to great
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vacations. There's no inventory, there's no
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logistics, There's not like tons and tons of money I have to put
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down on the line. So it's a very different type of
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business. And I do take them both
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seriously, but the vibe that it gives off, at least for me
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running them is very, very different.
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So with the just where he travels, that Instagram account
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that is a much younger Instagram account and I've been doing that
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business is newer. If they're roughly launched at
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the same time that gets that's gotten way more followers.
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Obviously it's it's it's comparing like apples to oranges
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to such different businesses. But the end of the day, both are
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both of these things are things that have to market right.
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And I basically put a lot of snippets of the gay Christian
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travel podcast as reels and also Tik Toks too is also on the
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TikTok onto the account. And what I'm learning that, you
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know, within social media, like wheels and videos do a lot
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better. Carousels do a lot better if
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that's when you have multiple images on a post and just like a
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single image. So and also with gesture we
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travels like me, my face is in a lot of those wheels and
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apparently that's good too. So I just preconceived the
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notion that if you're selling a product, the you need to have
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like a nice professional photo of the product on a social media
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post and you put some sort of text on it to make it like
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markety, if that makes any sense.
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But I'm also discovering that, well, with everybody's doing
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that, your stuff looks the same as everyone else's, but every
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company is putting is having like a nice professionally taken
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photo of their product and then put in some text on it of some
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sort, right? Don't no matter what you're
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selling, it could be skin care, it could be like a vacuum
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cleaner, it could be, I don't know, a spray bottle.
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It could be like a car. Like it doesn't matter what it
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is. That's always like what is on
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like social media and also like the ads.
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So I'm thinking I'm going to do something a little different
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because if I don't do something different, I don't feel like I'm
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going to stand out. And the marketing is so
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important, especially for matinee, like the marketing is
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so important. So that's what I've been
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thinking about a lot. But it also got me thinking
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about the way I use social media because like I don't every time
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I'm thinking, well, every time I see an, an ad or like I see a
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product on a post, I just don't want to see it.
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So it's like, well, I, I'm also on the other side of that fence
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at the same time of I have stuff to sell.
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But if everyone else behaves like I do when they see a
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product, a photo of a product, doesn't matter if it's an ad or
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like an organic post and they just swipe it away, scroll right
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past it, like, OK, I'm, am I doomed for the start?
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So that's something I am trying to figure out, but it just got
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me like, it just got me thinking like, OK, like I can't just do
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everything. I can't just do the same thing
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that everyone else is doing. But I don't think it just it's
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clearly not working. It's not working that well
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anyways. Let's not talk about business.
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Let's talk about something else. I work so much though, it's hard
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to think about anything else. My Patreon is still there by the
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way. I've gotten quite a few more
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sign ups for my Patreon. So thank you.
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Some of you, quite a few of you signed up in the last like 3 or
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4 weeks. So I think I'm doing maybe just
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like a slightly better job marketing the Patreon and I do
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want to make some slight change to the Patreon.
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Oh my God. I'm just looking at my notes
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here sometime. I do have notes for this, not an
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outline, but I sometimes have notes.
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There is a whole trip that I forgot to post a travel vlog for
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when I went to, I think it was my Taipei trip because I went to
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Taipei in the fall. So only like a few months ago.
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And in January, I was going through some of my, I was doing
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some file management, you know, with all the various video files
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that I have between like vlogging and podcasting and
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doing some of the cruise videos. And like the only fans I've got
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a lot of videos. I have a little file server in
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my little coat closet and the file server has I think we're up
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to 14 terabytes of storage on that.
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And I've been getting a warning that I'm running out of space of
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the 14 terabytes. And the vast majority of the
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files that's taking up that 14 terabytes of space are videos
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that I've taken over the years for content creation for all the
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different things. So when I record a video
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podcast, once the actual podcast video file and the audio file is
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produced, then I can delete the raw files and that's fine.
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But I do keep the final product, like the actual video podcast
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file that's been all edited that gets uploaded to YouTube and
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also the MP3 that's the audio that gets uploaded to like the
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podcast platforms. The final files I actually keep
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those. The raw files, which are much
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bigger, I delete for the podcast, for YouTube, for those,
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for the those after movies I do for cruises.
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I should keep all the original content, the original files from
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the cameras. I keep all of those at beside
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want the ability to sometimes go back and like do new versions or
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do new edit. So for example, the Harmony 2018
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cruise. I did a remaster, if you will.
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I talked about this like I think a couple months ago how like,
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oh, I had this new version of the Harmony 2018 cruise.
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I redid the edit basically, and that was because since 2018,
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technology has improved. The software has improved.
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My I've got a much better computer now and my editing
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skills are also much improved over like the last eight years
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that it's a much better version of that video that I can edit
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now. But it's the software and the
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hardware and my skills versus what I was able to do in 2018
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right after I took that cruise and I was able to do it in like
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a higher resolution. It's much sharper, like just the
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whole thing is just like much nicer and pleasing to look at in
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in my opinion. But I could only do that
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remastering and that re edit because I had the original
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footage and the original files from those cameras back then
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stored away. So when I do one of those, like
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after movies, when I go on a trip and I like have different
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cameras, you know, and I have the raw footage, I keep that raw
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footage. I've also been keeping the raw
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footage for everything I've been doing for Kian.
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So for however long I've do, we're doing we're up to I was do
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episode numbers for Kian. We're up to 430 something.
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So I've edited or I've produced 430 something unique videos for
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only fans. That's kind of crazy.
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Obviously some of them are just like solos and like little,
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little little clips, but some of them are like some of them were
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from collapse that were multiple hours long with multiple
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cameras. So yeah, I kept all of the
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original finish for everything and I need to like look at that.
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But yeah, I keep a lot. I keep a lot of the video files.
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I don't know how we started talking about my file management
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for videos when I was talking about the Patreon.
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Anyways, yeah, welcome to the Patreon.
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Oh, yeah. I was going to say I wanted to
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do something a little bit different for the Patreon.
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Oh, yeah. Then I talked about how I forgot
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to post the travel vlog from Taipei.
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And then so I'll talk about. Oh, yeah, that's where we got.
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OK, There is logic to how I think.
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OK, yeah, so I was doing my file management, but I have so many
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video files and I was going through it and I was just making
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sure everything was backed up because from my phone.
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Because if I vlog something on my phone, I make, I make doubly
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sure that I've transferred those files from my phone and backed
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it up to my computer or like my file server or somewhere else
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before I delete it off my phone to free up more space for like
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the next trip. And that's how I found out.
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Oh, I vlogged doing Taipei and I didn't post it and I don't fully
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remember why, but I think when I was in Taipei, I have to double
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check. I was just doing the file
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management. So I didn't have time to like
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stop and contact switch and like double check whether like what
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happened or like if I made a decision or whatever.
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But I, I just wanted to stay focused.
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OK, we need, just need to like back up these files right now.
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We have to put a pin and come back to like what happened to
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the the Taipei blog? I think I was vlogging it.
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I remember when I was vlogging it when I was in Taipei and I
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was thinking, I don't think this is very interesting.
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Maybe we won't post this. So I should have to like, but
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sometimes I will record things and then make a decision not to
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post something because either as I'm doing it, I'm let you know
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what, this is not going to be good.
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Or I've gone the raw footage I've filmed and vlogged the
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thing and then when I'm reviewing the footage, I'm like,
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this isn't going to be good. So there are occasionally times
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where for YouTube videos for like the cruise videos, also for
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like logging in for Patreon and also for key in.
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When you produce enough content for something, eventually you
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will get to a point where like you record something that's not
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good, that's not going to be posted either.
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You need to redo it. I've redone stuff a few times,
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not a lot. It's rare, but sometimes you
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have to rerecord because the original, it was the first time
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you did it, it just wasn't good. And in those cases, the first
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time you did it, you just treat it as practice, OK, You've done
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it once, you got the kinks worked out basically, and you
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have some experience doing it once.
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So like just treat it as a dry run and let's re record it and
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have it be much better. But there have been times where
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I've recorded things where it's like, yeah, like while I'm
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recording, I'm like, I don't think this is going to be good
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enough to go up. Or when I'm looking at the raw
24:04
content afterwards, I'm like, this isn't good enough to go up.
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So I think with this one, with the Taipei, it's like I did
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remember thinking at one point, I'm just here for four days to
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do collapse. I'm literally just doing
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collapse. It's the weather has was not
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good. It was raining outside.
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I couldn't show you guys any of like what it was like outside in
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Taipei because it was just raining and drizzly the whole
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time and I was just in my hotel the entire time.
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I just hosted Collapse. Those are still going up, by the
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way. But yeah, I'll double check.
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That other travel vlog that is going up that I know is good
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enough to go up, don't worry, is from the cruise that we just
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went on the Symphony in February.
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So that was only a few weeks ago.
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So that vlog is going to come out sometime in March.
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So I'm excited to have travel vlogs kind of making a comeback.
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Obviously, you know, in we did, I did a short Vancouver one in
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December, but you know, January didn't do any travel.
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You know, November, I think the Taipei in October, November
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didn't travel. But there's going to be at least
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the Symphony 1 coming up very soon.
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And then I'm going to do probably the two cruises I
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mentioned on my Patreon. And someone asked about this.
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So I've got the Atlantis LA my school cruise in mid-april.
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Definitely will have a vlog on that for sure, 100%.
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And I am, I'm going to make a decision sometime next week or
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over this weekend as to whether to like fully commit to that
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inaugural cruise on the Virgin ship that is going to have its
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first sailing at the beginning of April.
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So the same ship that Atlanta is going to sail from airway down
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to Mexico, the brilliant lady that is just launching its first
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inaugural commercial sailing is 2 weeks before the Atlantis
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sailing on the exact same ship. So my plan was to go on the
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inaugural and check it out basically.
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And it would be just be like a work trip.
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It would be a content trip. It would be a work trip.
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I'll be kind of reporting and posting live from on board that
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cruise as well. And obviously there will
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probably be some sort of vlog about that as well.
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I don't have any plans for I don't know what's going to
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happen in May. I have EDC tickets, but I don't
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think I don't think I can. I don't think I should be
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spending money on that. Ed CS quite expensive.
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So and I went to EDC last year. I love going to EDC.
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It's so much fun. I love, love, love going to it.
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I just don't think it's a smart financial move this year given
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that I went last year and I also wanted to do this additional
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inaugural Virgin cruise before the Atlantis 1.
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And I have to pay for them. I don't get them free.
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So. And in June, I did just buy
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tickets and the hotels for Circuit Festival Asia and
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Pattaya. But that's not that expensive to
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do because I am able to get so much cheap flights to get over
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to Bangkok. The event itself was not that
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expensive was like just it was like about $250 for VIP tickets
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for like the whole 3 days of the festival and the hotel was not
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that expensive. I mean, just in, in Thailand,
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things are not as expensive, so they'll be travel vlog from that
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as well. So there you go more travel
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vlogs coming up eventually. Make sure you subscribe to the
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Patreon. And I, I, I just have to plug
27:39
the Patreon by the way, But I, I think when creators plug
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Patreons, there's always like you have to pay.
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I get it. But you can follow me for free
27:50
on Patreon. So one of the things I want to
27:52
do more on Patreon is have a bit more content for the free
27:57
members. I've already started doing some
27:59
free posts, so once in a while there'll be a free post, which
28:02
means anyone that visits my Patreon, even if you don't like
28:06
follow for free, you just you've never been on Patreon before.
28:10
You just go to my Patreon page without being a free follower or
28:14
anything, you're going to start to see some free post once in a
28:18
while. Obviously most of the content
28:19
will be reserved for the paying members because the people that
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subscribe to the Patreon of money are like really the people
28:26
that they've chosen to spend some of their hard earned
28:29
dollars to support me in my content creation, which I'm so
28:33
super thankful for. So obviously I have to give the
28:36
people that pay, like, the best content, the most content.
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Yeah. But even if you just like a
28:42
casual fan of mine, you want to just like, follow for free or
28:46
just like, look at a Patreon page, I'm going to have
28:49
occasional content because you know what, for example, I just
28:52
took a selfie. Sometimes I take selfies, not
28:54
all the time, not as much as some people or a lot of people.
28:58
And I think the average default person will post it on their
29:02
Instagram. It's like the obvious place to
29:05
post a selfie right on Instagram.
29:07
You know what my default intuition is to post it on
29:10
Patreon. Like I'm not lying.
29:11
I'm not saying it just to get you to subscribe, but I will
29:14
sometimes post selfies on you can go to my Instagram and see
29:19
like how many selfies I posted, how often.
29:21
Like it's not like I'm posting a selfie there every week.
29:24
It's not as often. Again, most of my time spent on
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social media is on the brand accounts.
29:31
It's for just Joey Travels and it's going to be for Magnet.
29:36
It's not really for posting things on just Joey T.
29:41
So I post videos and photos like way more often.
29:45
The last, I'm pretty sure the last like 3 or 4 selfies I
29:48
posted were on Patreon. It's just the default place I
29:52
post because I don't know, it's just nicer to post something
29:56
onto Patreon where it's like people that want to follow me
30:00
even if it's for free. Then on Instagram where like
30:03
it's just out on the Internet and there's like all sorts of
30:05
people. Even on my own personal Islam
30:07
accounts, sometimes I get those like hate comments and I've
30:09
talked about comments before and it given a choice to post a
30:14
selfie to maybe like I've got about maybe like 100 something
30:18
total followers, including a lot of free followers on Patreon.
30:24
The people that have taken the effort to go all the way to my
30:26
Patreon, I know they're not haters.
30:28
I know they appreciate when I post things and they like me.
30:32
I would much rather post it to like 100 people there than post
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to like However, maybe I'll get a 10,000 views or like 100,000
30:39
views onto my Instagram if I take my put my selfie there.
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But it's like for, for like, I don't know, just because 100,000
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people view my selfie, does that mean anything?
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No. Does it matter to me to get
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like, I don't know, 1000 likes on my selfie on Instagram?
30:58
Not really. I'd rather post it onto my
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Patreon. But these like the people that
31:03
actually care to go all the way to my Patreon, even their free
31:05
followers. And I get like the best comments
31:08
from my paid subscribers. Honestly, we actually have
31:11
actual conversations and they ask me like good questions when
31:15
like postings or like ask questions and things like that
31:18
have topics of discussion on my Patreon.
31:19
So there you go. The Patreon, if you want to just
31:21
go there and follow for free without paying any money, do
31:24
that. But I've already started posting
31:26
some free content. I kind of want to keep it up
31:28
because before I was very concentrated on the people that
31:31
were paying and then I noticed, you know, like 80% of my
31:34
followers are free followers. I want to give them something
31:36
too, but I'm so used to just posting on Patreon before or
31:40
anything else. So there you go, a little plug
31:42
for my Patreon, especially for those of you that don't want to
31:44
spend some money. And I know things are expensive,
31:47
people have lots of subscriptions, but I still want
31:49
to give my free followers something as well on Patreon.
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That will wrap it up for today and until next time, bye y'all.