Troubleshooting with TJ

Hello and welcome. I'm TJ Walker. Thanks for joining me. It has been a fun filled day of troubleshooting on the technology front. I have been attempting to go live for the last couple of hours with Streamyard. We initially started today, everything was fine for about 45 minutes and then all of a sudden a massive freeze. The camera froze and after trying every permutation combination, restarting, reconfiguring, nothing really seemed to work. Hi, I'm T.J. walker. This is the T.J. walker Success Channel. This is the channel where we try to help you become more successful in all aspects of life by improving your communication skills and your confidence in your communication skills. So part of what really holds people back when it comes to communicating online through video is the technology. And I'm here to tell you I sympathize with that because I'm certainly not a sophisticated technology guru. I get flummoxed from time to time. Today I've spent hours trying to figure out the solution. Haven't quite figured it out yet. That's why I'm on my cell phone right now and just a little part of my studio. So we're not going to have the three camera shoot. I'm not going to be upstanding walking around. I have on a little tripod that has a bend on it. Now I see that some of you have joined me already, so I appreciate you stopping by. Please say hello in the comment section even if you don't have a question. But if you do have a question, please type it in. What I was attempting to do today was to have a massive question and answer session and then we got sidetracked with some of the technology problems. I want to make sure I think I got my settings on my. I'm not used to going live from my cell phone so I wanted to make sure that I've got my settings on right so I can actually see your comments. So I know we got cut off earlier. We were talking to Barb Tomlin, we were talking to Santiago, one of our top students. Khan is saying hello. Now Khan is joining us from Facebook. So, so happy you could join us. Khan, if you don't mind telling me, are you on our Udemy student Facebook page or the TJ Walker Success Facebook page? How are you finding this and are you in one of my courses already or do you simply have an interest in communication skills? Would love to hear from you. Part of what I'm trying to do with this channel is provide a working laboratory, a workshop for all of you. Because I know, some of you are perhaps even ahead of me. Some of you are right where I am and some of you are a couple steps behind. If you're a step or two behind, I'm hoping I can demonstrate how someone navigates through this whole process of creating content and creating online courses, creating content for YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, all the rest, and how to do it in a way that adds value to people, that isn't just hey, look at me, look at my new shoes or my Lambo, which is obviously not what I'm about. Khan says, I like the way you present a topic. Well, thanks Kahn. I'm not fishing for compliments, but I'm just trying to learn a little more about you and other participants in this community. What have you heard me talk about before and what, if anything, is memorable? Imran Omar writes in and says, hey, and looks like we have a number of people joining us from Facebook today, which is fantastic. I think I clicked the link so that this is streaming live on my YouTube channel as well. And what I did not do yet is post the link in my community tab to let you join and talk to me face to face. So those of you just joining, we've had a lot of technical difficulties today. This is not the usual studio setup. This is me talking to you on my cell phone. Not with the thousand dollar microphone, but with the, I think the $20 microphone. I hope it's still coming across better. Kat says, I'm enrolled in one of your Udemy courses. So thanks for, thanks for getting the course. Hope you're enjoying it. Please do me a favor and leave a review. Leave an honest review. But I sure hope it's a good review because that does help generate more interest on Udemy. It bumps it higher up in the algorithm and increases the possibility of sales. So I am glad that you're taking the course. Let me know which course you're taking. Always interesting. Some of the courses that I never would have dreamed would have attracted much of an audience have in fact become my best sellers. Other courses that I was just certain this is going to be a big hit, nobody bought them. So that's one of the things. One of the questions that came in earlier is tell me about your experience teaching on Udemy. And one of the things I have found is you can't just guess at what's going to work. Certainly you can do preparation, you can do a lot of things to increase your odds of being successful any one course. But a lot of what has made me successful on Udemy is Just massive experimentation, trying a lot of different things. And I see Imran has joined us. Imran says you are my true mentor and I've learned so much from you. I regularly take your courses and always wait for new courses. Imran, thanks so much. And Imran is perhaps the world's leading expert on Linux technology and is a fantastic online instructor in Linux and other technology spheres on Udemy. So check out his courses. Imran Afzel also, you should go ahead and subscribe to his YouTube channel as well. And Imran, since you're joining us, we're suffering massive, massive technology problems today. Typically when I'm coming live, I'm in my studio with three cameras on different angles. The fanciest of cameras couldn't make any of that work today. So today we're actually doing this from my cell phone and this is a tiny sliver of my studio because I didn't. Well, I'll just walk around. I didn't want to walk around and show I've actually turned the lights off because we gave up. But this is the whole studio. And so some of you could sort of see the behind the scenes. This is camera two, camera one, camera three. This is the Rising. Apologies if this is making you seasick. You see sort of the bright lights. I've turned off the fluorescent lights because they tend to make everyone look their worse. Here is the Sennheiser microphone that I normally use. That is expensive. You don't have to use that. What you're hearing me from right now is just a very simple, inexpensive mic that plugs in with a receiver to the back of this cell phone. And I'm just using my. I've got to position this the right way. And I'm just using my iPhone today, my iPhone 15 Pro Max to do this. Because sometimes you just can't get everything just right. One of the things I have found in creating video now for many decades is you can spend so much time and energy and effort trying to make a super fancy production. And sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Other times you can just do something quick and easy, down and dirty with your cell phone and that gets more views than anything. One video I did on an old YouTube channel probably 15 years ago, I was just at a barber. This is back when I still went to barber shops. Had a little bit more. I was at a barber shop and just gave quick tips for what I thought would be best practices for business executives. And it was really commentary for men, not women. It was specifically commentary on what are best practices for grooming your hair if you don't have a great head of hair. So simple tips and at the time, and I still think it's good advice, I advise people, you don't have a lot of hair, just cut it really short so that no one thinks you're trying to do a comb over and disguise things and trick people and fool people. That way people can focus on what you're saying and not be distracted by your hair. My point is that was a video I did spur of the moment, nothing scripted, nothing planned, no thumbnail, no interesting captions and boom. Got 40,000 views. So one of the things I do want to encourage you to do is experiment more. The number one mistake most people make when it comes to YouTube videos, when it comes to creating online courses, when it comes to going live on Facebook or LinkedIn or Twitter, any of these channels, the number one mistake most people make is never hitting go live or never hitting record. It's this sitting back, second guessing yourself. Because I'll be honest, I thought about not coming back live today because I've had so many technical problems. Restarted my computer a gazillion times. I've done testing on streamyard, which is what we're using now. I've done testing on WhatsApp, WebEx, Zoom, and it worked on every place except where I needed to. It worked everywhere except for Streamyard. So I'm trying to figure out what that solution is so that we can come back to you regularly. But we are in an experimental phase here. No one gets everything perfect. If you're with a huge, gigantic TV network. It's not uncommon for a talk show to perhaps have several weeks of dry run rehearsals, practicing, working out the kinks. I could have done that. But I need feedback from you because in any given day I might be the only one in the studio. So I don't have a giant team now. I do have colleagues who work with me from around the world and my wife is actually going to walk in in a few minutes and she's going to help me produce Amazon influencer videos. So if you're interested, we'll try to simulcast that. Not quite sure since we're technically having so many problems today, but we may give it a try. Nelson writes in a short but very useful conversation with TJ erased a huge part of my fears in communication skills. Your advice is being transferred to the members of my team. Thanks a lot. Well, Nelson, that warms my heart for you to say that. I'm glad that you're feeling much more confident in your communication, you are honest and sincere enough to mention something a lot of people are afraid to talk about. But it is such a reality when it comes to communication skills. You mentioned that magic word fear. Because there are a lot of things in life that really do require highly specialized skills. If I'm going to do advanced Python programming for Microsoft, it's not fear that's keeping me from getting that job. It's simply lack of knowledge. When it comes to most of us when we are speaking to people, larger groups, bosses, prospective employers, potential investors, it's not a lack of knowledge that's holding us back, it is raw fear. We are afraid of looking stupid, of looking nervous, looking uncomfortable, of saying the wrong thing, of moving our hands in ways that make us look stupid. We're afraid that we look like we have a double chin. All of these things just mean we're real human beings. But one of the things that I get so excited about when it comes to communication skills is knowing that it's relatively easy to help people dramatically improve their skills. Because if you can eliminate the fear, they already have the skills. I do not already have the skills to do Python programming. I do not already have the skills to be an artificial intelligence expert for Apple or Tesla. So if I somehow talked myself into getting hired for one of those jobs and I showed up the first day and they've already paid me a million dollar bonus and they say, okay, get to work. If I'm all of a sudden really afraid, oh no, I'm going to be discovered as a fraud, that's actually a rational fear. I should be afraid of being discovered as a fraud. If I have tried to sell myself as a Python programming expert or artificial intelligence expert, I don't have those skills. But when it comes to communication, every single one of you already have skills. If you've ever had one interesting conversation with one human being, then you already have shown you are a good communicator. So so much of what's involved with how I help people is getting them to not learn a completely new skill set. But to take what works well here and to do the same thing here. You've had a good one on one conversation with one friend. You can do the same thing in a job interview, even though that person interviewing you isn't your friend. The same skills work, being interesting, being conversational, focusing on one thing at a time, giving examples, stories, case studies, that's what makes communication interesting. That's what will make you successful as a communicator. Hey Nelson, I'm wondering. And again, I apologize if this seems like I'm fishing for compliments. I don't want to waste your time doing that. And hey, I'm a human being. I like compliments as much as the next person. But that's not why I'm asking. What piece of advice did I give you that you feel really helped you eliminate some of those fears you have and helped you get to the point where you were much more comfortable and confident and not only speaking more effectively yourself, but helping your teammates, your team members, communicate more effectively? I'd love to hear from you if you feel like sharing that. And I apologize in advance. I do typically like to invite anyone who's showing up the comments section to join me live right here on screen. Because the Streamyard program we use allows us with a click of a button to bring you on. And we can have, I think, up to 10 people at once and we can all have a conversation. Because really what I'm trying to do with this channel is create a community. So it's not just TJ the Guru. It's a community of people who come together to try to share ideas, share best practices, learn from each other, and test various things. One of the things I'm testing now is I see I didn't pull my curtain all the way, so I'm going to see if I can actually adjust this curtain because that's annoying me. So I'm adjusting that curtain there and something's not right with the light there, but at least we don't have the bright light coming out. I urge you, even though I'm not giving a performance here today that's going to generate Mr. Beast style numbers, I'm not going to have 10 billion people viewing this today, whether it's live or or on demand. I'm still glad I'm here because we've had about a dozen or so people come and go and watch this, which is obviously not tens of millions. But ask yourself this if you're in business, if you could talk to even one great prospect today and you didn't have to fly across the world or spend an hour or two in traffic, wouldn't you want to talk to them? Wouldn't you want to share your expertise? If you could build your brand and actually get in front of people where they see you, isn't that more meaningful than just another update on LinkedIn that's text based or tells people an additional experience you have, why not let them actually experience your expertise and give them a chance to ask you questions? There's something about live interaction that just makes any exchange more meaningful to people. And that's why typically I like to enable it so that people can come right on screen, talk to me, rather than typing in. But I didn't do that. You know what? I say that I'm making excuses. I'm going to go over to my computer. I'll continue talking to you, but here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go to my YouTube channel and I'm going to go to the community tab. And I see some of you are doing thumbs up. So thank you so much for doing that. By the way, someone wrote in last week saying, tj, you're missing the boat. You really, when you're doing these lives, you should be asking people for doing the Super Chat, where I think it gives you a dollar. Now, I don't want to be in this sort of seeming like a huckster saying, give me money, give me money, give me money. But it was nice that someone actually suggested that I could ask people for super. I think it's called Super Chat. You push a button and someone gives you a dollar. So no one's ever done that. You want to be the first? It's still wide open. Okay, enough shilling. I'm going to walk over to my laptop and I am going to type in the URL of the streamyard today so that you could join us. And that way, let me hit the guest button to make sure I can actually see it. Okay. And then if you want to join us, I can see you and I can hear you. So I'm going to walk right over to my laptop. So it's. It does look a little odd to see a live stream and see nothing but a curtain. And if I were trying to make things perfect, I wouldn't do that. But we're not trying to be perfect. We're simply trying to create value. And I'm trying to sort of show the process because I want you to see that creating online video can be messy. The only thing messier than creating video on a regular basis is creating live video. Because when you are trying to do things live, mistakes can happen. Gremlins can crawl into your computer. I realize that's not the most technologically sophisticated way of describing it, but that is essentially what happens. So I'm now going to my YouTube channel and I've got to make sure in the wrong browser. So I have different browsers for different Gmail accounts, which means that I have to sign into different browsers if I want to get into my YouTube channel. So I'm now going to go right into my community tab and I'm going to start the conversation. Join me live. And I've now hit paste and I've now hit post. Okay, so I am in there. I'm going to try to have a laptop open as well. This will be just joining me. I will be going back in front of the camera in just a moment. Also we will be. That's not the one. We will be mute. Okay. We will also gotta hit mute on something else too. That's going to be too complicated. So I'm going to exit my stream yard on my laptop. So what happened there is I was in two different accounts on streamyard and because of that we heard the echo because it was taking the audio from one, feeding it to a mic, going to the other and creating endless feedback loops which you don't want to do. So you want to be very quick to mute anytime you do that. It's also why I'm using an earpiece today. So if someone does call me or I have to play a video to share, the audio isn't coming out of a speaker and then going back into a microphone. That's why you see people wearing either headphones or earpieces. You get much better quality of video. So let me know if you have any other questions. I say today has been a day of. I prefer to think of it as learning and troubleshooting because it's one thing to say, oh, I'm not a techie. Let the techies handle it. These days it doesn't matter if you're a CEO billionaire, you could be on a vacation in Tahiti and you don't travel with full staff. And you really, really need to do some kind of emergency interview on CNN or the BBC. You need to know how to do this technology as much as possible. You need to know how to go live, especially in a crisis situation. Now, most of what we talk about here on the TJ Walker Success Channel is not about how to deal with the crisis because that's a relatively narrow slice of the world. I'm trying to reach a broader audience, but a lot of what I do is crisis communications for business leaders and political leaders. And in that case it is important. Crisis hits. Doesn't matter if you're on vacation the other side of the world, you need to speak to your key stakeholders in video. They need to see you and hear you. So that's why I think it is important for all of us to be techies these days and to be able to troubleshoot. Okay, we're going to switch gears now and I'm going to raise this up, give sort of a wider shot of what we're doing, bring in another camera, and I'm going to make Amazon influencer videos. My wife Joanne is nice enough to help me with this. She's just come in, Joanne, if you want to come over, we're going to set this up. And so I'm going to go wider shot here. And all of you will just sort of see as we do this, it's not going to be completely framed in the normal way. So, Joanne, let's have you. We don't have to worry about that camera now. So you could just stand in front of, really in front of that microphone. You could stand a little bit closer and you're not. You're not on camera here. Not that there's anything wrong with that. So let's just pick our first product.

First of all, take the microphone inside your phone first.

We got two microphones. So I have one microphone for my camera, which we're going to keep on. We also have the microphone for my wife's iPhone 14. Correct. We're that way I can have high quality video for. For that as well. Okay, and now we have two similar.

I see one right here.

Ah, there it is. Okay, so let me not step on this remote control. So just so you can see what we're doing. So this is a little receiver that goes into a phone. I have similar one to this right here. In the phone, I'm talking to you, and then there's a microphone which is just like this one. I will have two microphones on because we're doing this on two different phones at the moment. So the first thing I had to remember to do, go ahead and plug that in. Once that's plugged into my wife's phone, let me angle this up just a little bit. So again, is this perfect video productions today. No, it's not. It is a learning experience. Something beats nothing. If you wait until everything is 100% perfect, you will never make any video in your life. I promise you. Okay, so that's plugged in. I'm now going to hit this until I see a green light on it. So now we have this microphone on. So now I'm going to put it right. I'm not going to try not to drop it, but I, in fact did. So I'm going to clip it right onto my suit. Does it look a little bit odd? With Tuma it does, but that's, that's as good as we're going to get today. All right, so let's go into the first product. Oh boy. I didn't even realize this is what it is. But this is going to make Amazon very happy, but also make some people in the tech world unhappy. This is an Amazon Basics product. Okay. So the first thing we do with every Amazon Influencer ad product review we do is we take two pictures.

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Okay. And she's directing me around slightly different position. So I am. So she's going to take a. Do it like this. She's going to take a vertical picture. That's when your phone is just up and down and that's always the first photo. And what I do recommend, which she's doing right now, is you take a photo and it doesn't look good, just hit delete rather than trying to pick from 50 different photos. Now she's taking a second photo which is a horizontal photo because Amazon can use pictures in different places. These photos are will be linked to the product page where someone can buy it. If they buy it from after watching my video, then I will get a commission. That's how it works. And I see we have some comments coming in. How do you edit your videos? What tools do you leverage? Any other tips? That's from so on. So confession and I'm not proud of this. I've never learned how to edit. I don't edit these Amazon Influencer videos. We're not doing any editing. The videos you see of me on my YouTube channel, I have hired different editors from around the world. I would recommend you go to Fiverr and just type in editing if you don't want to do it yourself. But best practice is frankly to learn yourself 1, 1 software is as good as another. And Joanne, my wife, does editing. Do you use Adobe or what's that?

Adobe?

Adobe. Is it Adobe Premiere? Yeah. Adobe Premiere is a very popular brand and that is one my wife uses. Okay, so we've now done the, the two photos. We now want to do a, a 15 second video that's vertical that can be used for the Amazon Insp.

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This Amazon Basics. So we've had a lot of mess ups today and I want you to realize everybody makes mistakes. I try to do most of these things in one take but sometimes I mess up. I forgot the word tripod. So let's do it again. And Joanne's just going to delete that. We're not going to try to edit it.

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This Amazon basic tripod is, is very effective. It's light, it fits right in my briefcase. I travel all over the world with it. It works every time. Okay, just something simple. All I'm trying to do is give a personal reason why I think it's valuable that might be relevant for other people. Now we do a longer one. I'm going to try to go at least 30 seconds. This will be a horizontal video.

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This Amazon Basics tripod is a very effective little tool. Now, it comes up to about this high when it's fully extended, but it's light, it's simple, it's flexible. What I like about it is when it's fully compressed, it fits right into my computer bag so I don't have to have some big equipment, fancy equipment bag taking it. I put my video cameras and this and my laptop in one bag. I put it over my shoulder on the plane and it allows me to go anywhere in the world with tripod. Ready. Okay, so that was one where we're trying to go a little bit longer. Not the 15 second one, but try to hit at least 30 seconds. Now I'm going to do the longer one where I really just try to say anything I think might be useful or helpful to people that might make them want to purchase it. And I'm going to get some water first. Okay.

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This Amazon Basics little tripod is perhaps misnamed because it's not basic. It really does everything I need in a tripod. Hi, I'm TJ with the TJ Walker Success Channel. I have flown all over the world training people how to speak more effectively. This is an important tool because I had to video record people. What I like is it folds up, it's small, it's light, it goes right in my little briefcase bag next to the camera and laptop. Doesn't take up much space. And when I get to a destination, whether it's Egypt, whether it is Serbia, I just pull it out quickly, extend it. Now, I'm not putting a 500 pound camera on this. It is lightweight and it's designed to hold lightweight cameras, but it easily comes apart and it's quite flexible. Does everything you need to do in a tripod. Okay, so again, for those of you joining us for the first time, these are not scripted. That's what makes it easy. I'm simply sharing in impromptu way what I think is a good product. And I've gotten value from. I actually do think this is a good product. Now, would I put a $7,000 camera on this? No, I wouldn't. But I use by then I'm going to use one of the cameras or give a ad in just a moment on one of the cameras I put on this, which I have not checked to see if they actually. I gotta pause this. It's hard to do two things at once. I haven't even checked to see if it's still available on Amazon. I don't recommend you start making product reviews unless you see the product is still available for sale on Amazon. Otherwise it's probably a waste of time. Okay, now we're going to do the Sony condenser microphone. Okay. And I have this in the box. I have a couple of these. Careful, Joanna. These are very high quality condenser microphones that can be used a lavalier mic. Okay? Okay, so now we're going to take the picture. We're doing the vertical picture first. And now we're going to do the horizontal picture. Okay? So. And by the way, this may seem slow and tedious, but I remind you, we've only been doing this for a few minutes. And now I've now created seven separate ads. The first product, we did five separate ads, two pictures, three videos. Now we've done two pictures for the second one. And I'm a big believer in volume. You want to be able to scale things whether you're making an online course or being an influencer. So I'm trying to do as many of these as possible. I typically do batches of at least four products, five each. So I try to get 20 ads down in a. In a session, typically less than an hour. And I'm going to demonstrate in a few minutes how to actually upload it and label it and all of that. So someone writes, sir, can you share any memorable or particularly challenging experiences you've had while troubleshooting live streams? Well, this whole day has been memorable, at least so far, because it's been a massive headache. I've had so many problems with live streaming and it's because we had a little bit of this on Friday as well. It's because for whatever reason, streamyard is not seeing my camera feed, even though a lot of other applications are. And I put down all the applications, so it is frustrating. What I do recommend is if you're doing something where it's a high stakes meeting or high stakes presentation, make sure you've really tested it and have a backup plan. Like tomorrow I have a very important meeting with a United nations prospect in Geneva. I can't be apologizing or wondering about it. So I'm going to double check to have one camera, other cameras. I'm going to try to have my whole setup here, but if not, I'll be ready to quickly go just as I am today, talking to them live just through my cell phone. So I don't want to be worried about it. I'm giving a speech to a major law firm on Thursday this week. So again, I've got to make sure because they're paying me that I don't have any of these technical problems. And if I do, I can quickly go from Plan 8, Plan Plan B to plan C. And I see Barb. Well, Barb said it's not Streamyard, however, and Barb, I know you're a big fan of Streamyard and I'm obviously not a techie. All I can tell you is I have tested now on WhatsApp, on Zoom, on Microsoft Teams, on OBS, and everything is working perfectly and it's not being accepted by streamyard. So I'm certainly open to the proposition that I'm doing something wrong. But that's where we are right now. So we're going to try to get better at that. And someone says, what are your tips for maintaining professionalism and composure when facing technical difficulties during a live broadcast? You're good at this. Couple of different things. I'm actually sharing with you what I'm feeling because a part of the mission of this is to share the journey of being a content creator. But if you're standing up giving a speech on marketing to a bunch of executives watching worldwide, they don't care about your technical problems. My biggest piece of advice then is just do whatever you can to keep giving interesting information to those people. Don't apologize, don't say, I'm so embarrassed. Keep, just do whatever you can. And sometimes you have to reschedule. Don't dwell on the negative. Okay, we're going to continue with this. So now we're going to do the short 15 second vertical, sort of Amazon, Amazon inspired TikTok style video. And this is the Sony condenser microphone.

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This Sony condenser microphone is the one I've used to make thousands of videos over the last decade. It's powerful. It gives great clear audio every single time. How long was that, Joanne? That was, I'm guessing 11 seconds. Again, it's not important the exact amount of time. What is important is how long.

13 seconds.

That was 13 seconds. So a good guess. Now we want to do a horizontal video and I want to try to be at least 30 seconds. Because Amazon Influencer program they are much more likely to give you commission if someone watches at least 30 seconds of your video.

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This Sony condenser microphone is a powerful tool if you want to communicate on video. I've used this Sony microphone and others just like it for years and years. I made thousands of YouTube videos with it and it has helped me speak in a way that other people can hear clearly professionally. This is not just a built in microphone where you're hearing all sorts of echo. This is the real deal. It plugs in and you could. It comes with many clips where you plug it right on just as this one is. And you're going to get high quality audio every single time. If you're really looking to up your game, especially if you're doing sort of face to face podcasting, you want to mic each person. This is an excellent avenue for doing so.

I think I use a little bit.

Longer for this one and my wife is saying correctly, that's a little bit longer. But again, right now we don't have hard data on the perfect length. Amazon Influencer program lets you go up to 60 minutes. Certainly when we're finished.

What's that, 55 seconds? This one?

Oh, that one was 50. So why don't we. My wife pointed out it was 55 seconds. So why don't we make this one a shorter version. We're going to count that one as the longer one and we'll just try to do one that's more like 35 seconds. And truthfully, I don't think that last one was particularly great. What I'm after at this stage of my own influencer career is I'm doing volume. I want to get my first thousand, my first 5,000 product reviews out to see signals, to see patterns and then specialize and, and spend even more time figuring out the exact nuances of what works. Okay. And feel free to post comments. I'll still take your comments. I'll. I can't see it as easily at this distance, but I'm going to pop over to my phone. Okay, now we're going to try to do one a little bit shorter and sometimes I try to give the whole exact name, but electret condenser ECM77B is a bit of a mouthful. So I'm just going to say the Sony condenser microphone.

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This Sony condenser microphone is the one I've used for years and years for all of my YouTube videos. It gives clear Powerful audio. It is professional in every sense. Sony, of course, well known, well deserved reputation for electronic excellence. If you're looking to up your game, try the Sony condenser microphone today. Okay, so that is the, the third video for that product. So we've done two products. And Joanne, are you ready to take a break and do you want me to go ahead and upload those or should we do another one?

Okay, we have two items right here.

Okay, so now what I'm going to do is show you the actual step by step. And Joanne, I took the chair out. If you want to pull one back or if you want to just relax in the conference room, we can do that. So I sometimes would make these videos just by myself using the stand that we're broadcasting from right here. But it is harder, it takes more time than pulling it in and out and sometimes it shakes. So I do find it is faster if I have, in this case, my wife or really anyone, sometimes my daughter might do it and we do it that way. So now I'm going to walk through the actual process of how you put this up on Amazon. Now, I can't show you my page because Amazon's terms of service does not allow you to show anything that isn't completely public. And if it's a private page that only I can see, then it obviously does not fit the bill for that. So I don't want to do anything to get in trouble with Amazon. It's their baby. They get to do what they want. And they do in fact kick people off from time to time. So I've gone to my page again. I won't show it, but I'm going to hit the button that says create content. I'm going to hit post. I'm going to go to Photo Library. I'm going to hit the video. I'm going to hit Choose. Now, I do think that if I'm not mistaken, that was a Sony microphone that I bought from B and H Photo. Those of you who bought any kind of electronic equipments are familiar with that store. It's a gigantic, gigantic store in midtown Manhattan. But I'm just going to check because most of the product reviews I do are products that I actually bought on Amazon. And that is one of the requirements. Not that you bought it on Amazon, but that you have the product to show now something I don't know about. And Barb, if you're still with us, maybe you know, can you do a product review of like a Kindle book where there's nothing to show that proves you actually bought it because you could just show an image of a book. I don't know. I have done one product review of Ali Abdaal's book, but I had the physical book as well. So I don't quite know how that works. So I'm going to go to my product, my order list of things I've actually ordered from Amazon and I'm going to type in actually I'm going to try to be more efficient with my time and dictate Sony condenser microphone. Okay, so as I thought, it didn't show up in mine. So now I'm going to search in another place. I'm going to hit the browse history which lets you search anything on Amazon. So I'm going to try to get this exactly right. I'm going to dictate Sony condenser microphone ECM77B. And let's see if that shows up. It does in fact show up. So I tagged the product, I hit done. Now I'm going to title it Sony is top quality audio. You know, I think that's the first time I've done this when I'm doing these live with you. I really don't like what came out of my mouth there. So I'm just going to back up, delete. This is a high quality microphone that will make you and your guests sound great. I typically. Oh, that one. I went a little too long so I'm going to just back off and make you. That will as 43 characters out of 60. Perfectly okay, so that was 59 out of 60 characters. So I don't typically worry about the exact length. Now I hit submit post so that video is submitted. And so I'm writes in May I inquire about motivating factors that inspire your remarkable consistency and content creation despite the comparatively lower viewership, your dedication is truly admirable. Well, so thanks so much. This whole YouTube thing is a relatively recent experiment. I have been quite pleased that if you look at all the views across YouTube, Facebook, Facebook, TikTok, we have been getting sometimes as many as half a million total views in a month. So even though at this particular moment we might not have a massive audience streaming, when you aggregate the audiences, you do reach a lot of people if you are consistent. And that's what I'm trying to do. Practice here and demonstrate. So now let me go to the next one. Create content. I try to do these quickly. So I don't forget. Did I just do that one or that one? What was the product so I'm going to go to the photo library. I'm going to hit the next video in line. I hit choose. It is compressing the video. And as you heard me mention last week, for some reason it does it much faster on my wife's phone than mine. I'm not quite sure why. Sony condenser microphone. So I'm going to the product. Well, this one is a very specific one. Let me go. Let me do that again. I do want to be as accurate as possible. Sony condenser microphone ECM77B hit. Done. Now I'm going to hit search. This is typically much faster when. It's one that you bought because then it pulls up exactly what you have. And I'm not seeing this exact model now and I could have sworn I did a moment ago. So here's one that's very similar. They do. They don't seem to mind when you tag a product that's very, very similar and the features are the same. So I'm going to hit done. Quality microphone for your quality production. Titled it, submitted it, go to storefront, create content, post video, video library. And now I do the third and final video. This is the. And I can show you this because this is on my phone. This is the third and final video for this one product. I choose it. I go to browse history because I want to tag it. Sony condenser microphone. I still not sure if I picked the perfect one here. Here it is. That's the one. Okay. It's a 200 and it's a basically $280 product. Highest quality microphone, exclamation point. And I hit submit. Now I go storefront. Now I'm going to go. And I realized this is a bit tedious. Guess what? All video production is tedious. Other than when you're just doing something live and you got a whole gigantic teams doing everything else for you. The most tedious thing you could ever imagine is being on a movie set or making a movie and spending a year on something that ends up being 90 minutes long. Unfortunately, that's the only way of making it good. Now, this is not a super highly edited, high quality in the sense of it being like a theatrical production. I do try to make it as good as possible, but it does take some tedious work, which is why most people don't ever succeed. It's why they don't make money at this or online courses or YouTube channels, is because people want to do something quick. Get instant feedback, positively get instant rewards, instant praise. Thousands of views, thousands of dollars in sales, and there's really nothing that does that. There are a lot of gurus who will tell you that, hey, buy my program for $5,000 and you'll be rich by the weekend. But that's what they're selling is a fantasy. They're not selling reality. What I'm trying to do here on this channel is to show you reality, warts and all, mistakes and all. And I've made plenty of mistakes just today. So now I'm going to do the browse history, Sony condenser microphone, ECM77B search. Now I'm tagging the product. This again is the photo. I'm doing. Small but powerful microphone for your quality video recordings. Done Submit post, go to store. Because I have one more video. Excuse me, one more photo to post. Now I hit post. I got a photo library. I go to the last one. I hit choose. I do browse history, Sony condenser microphone, ECM 77B. And that time the dictation jumbled something, but it still got it right. You have to be careful about the dictation. You can sometimes get something wrong. You really have to double check if you're doing it for the captions or the titles. Up the quality of your video production with this fantastic Sony condenser microphone. Hit. Done Submit post, go to storefront. Okay, so we finished with this product. Was that a little bit tedious? Yeah, but not that difficult. And it doesn't take that long. But not the glamorous part. It's not me here having witty repartee with famous guests and famous politicians. That's the fun part. That's the glamorous part of making video and podcasting and being an influencer posing in front of your Lamborghini. But that's not what is real for most people. I don't think that is where the greatest opportunity is for you or for me. If you're just joining us, hi, I'm T.J. walker. This is the T.J. walker Success Channel. And. And I'm doing sort of a live workshop demonstration on exactly how I make Amazon influencer videos. So we're going to create content. Just a few moments ago, we shot a number of videos and took pictures. I hit post. I go to photo library. I now hit the video of the tripod that I did. I'm going to hit choose. It's compressing the video. It's uploading the video. And this will take just a couple of seconds. For some reason, it's much faster on this phone than mine. Now I'm going to go to your orders. Amazon Basics video tripod. I think I messed up by saying video because you could put a regular camera on that. So that didn't show up. I'm going to try that again. I'm going to go to your orders. I know I got that on Amazon because it literally says Amazon on it. Amazon Basics tripod. That time I hit Wow. I don't know why that's not showing up, but I'm just going to go back and hit tripod. And see what shows up because I have bought a number of tripods. I use this one for training as I travel around the world, but it's not the one that I'm putting the very fancy cameras I have in my studio now. So let me go in and I bought. Wow. I bought a bunch of tripods in the last number of years. Okay, here we go. Amazon Basics 50 inch lightweight camera mount. Guess. Well, is that the mount or is that the actual. I'm going to click on it. Style 50 inch tripod. Okay. They're calling it a camera mount. Okay. All right, so I'm going to tag the product. I'm going to hit done. Now I go to title a simple comma lightweight tripod that is easy to travel with. That sums it all up. The reason you heard me hesitate there at the end as I was saying, oh, I don't want to go past the 60 characters. So I was kind of looking as I did it to see if I was going to be too long. Now I'm going to hit create content. I like to do these all at once, otherwise I'll forget what did I do, what didn't I do? I don't want to leave any out, but I also don't want to do duplicates. So I hit photo. Hit photo library. That was the first video I did, Joanne, of that one. The try. I believe that was the first one. Okay, now I'm going to the second one I hit choose. Yeah, it was obviously the first because I couldn't figure out when I was doing the search order. Now I'm going to go to your orders. Amazon Basics video mount. Oh, I think I stuck in video again when I didn't really want to. Yep. So let me try that again. Amazon Basics camera mount there. What I did. Typically, those of you have been with us the last few weeks, notice this part was relatively quick, but it's just an odd name in that it's clearly a tripod for video cameras and cameras, and it's just not showing Up Amazon Basic video mount tripod. That time I did it in the search button. That wasn't for my products because I can't imagine that it wouldn't show up. And it does show up. It's called The Amazon Basics 50 inch lightweight camera mount. So now I've hit tag, I've tagged it. I'm going to title it Sturdy Little tripod, Great for travel. Submit post, done. Now I go to storefront, create content. I hit vote post. I go to photo library. Now I do the third and final video. I hit choose. I do browse history, Amazon Basics camera mount tripod. That time it showed up right away. I'm tagging the product. I hit done. I go to title quick comma, easy comma tripod for all travel uses. And I hit submit post. I go to storefront. Now I'm going to post the pictures. And I see Vais has joined us. Vayas, so good to see you and thank you for saying good morning wherever you're, whatever location you're in. It's now in the afternoon here in South Florida where we are today. So I'm going to hit create content. I'm going to hit post video post. Now I take the picture that we've already shot. I hit choose. Now I'm going to do the browse history, Amazon Basics. If you're going to dictate, it's best not to stammer, as I just did. But it's still much faster than me typing basics camera mount tripod. So with that, it shows up. I tagged the product. I hit done caption. Strong and sturdy tripod, comma, ideal for lightweight cameras. Yeah, I do want to stress I would not put a heavy camera or a wildly expensive camera on that tripod. But for my uses, when I'm training around the world, whether it's with the UN or government officials, if light, it's easy. It's easy for me to pick up. I mean, there's. These are all things I could have and should have said in the video, but we already had them. Now for the last one, we're going to do the photo photo library. I'm tagging the last picture. This is the horizontal picture. Excuse me, the vertical picture. I hit choose again. I go to browse history, Amazon Basics camera mount tripod. I search, I see it. I type product. I hit done. I write a caption. This sturdy, lightweight tripod is great for travel and daily use. That one I did have a typo. It changed it to daily is rather than daily use. So you do need to if you're going to dictate, as I do, double check because I, I'm sure there's an easy way of doing it. I have not found an easy way of editing these Amazon Influencer product reviews, the titles, the tags, all that I'm sure it can be done to, but I've tried a bunch of times and didn't figure it out. So that's why I try to get it right the first time. It also just makes you look unprofessional if you have typos, things that don't make sense. Okay, so what have we done? We've now done 10 advertisements, 10 product reviews, only two products, but for each one I'm doing two photos and three videos of varying lengths and horizontal and vertical. So I've got 10 different ads that I've created. Am I going to become a billionaire from any of these? Probably not. Will there be some of these that I never make a penny from? Probably. But when I look at it from the long term, as I create more and more ads and spend comparatively little time, I'm looking for just the occasion. Whether it's the, it's the 8020 principle of 20, 20% will make all the revenue for me or some other proportion, I am convinced that a certain percentage of these product reviews videos are going to resonate and will generate revenue. That's what I'm trying to do. So it's a part of an experiment. This is not a brand new thing. It's been around for several years, but it really seems to have captured a lot of attention recently and a lot of people are making some, depending on how you define it, some good money. So that's why I decided I wanted to experiment with this, to in part share with you the journey and to give you a sense of how it can be done. The pitfalls, the easy ways, the hard way of doing it. Okay, Joanne, let's make some more. Let me hand you back your phone. Those of you just joining us, my wife has joined us and is doing this, so a couple more comments have come in. When you're speaking in public or having a conversation, how do you choose the right tone of voice? How do you make sure it matches what you're trying to say and connects well with your listeners? Salm, My biggest recommendation on voice is don't try to do anything artificial. Try to use your natural voice. What I'm saying right here is pretty much. And how I sound. It's pretty much how I sound anytime and every time. Last night when I'm watching the super bowl with friends. This is how I sound. So I'd be very careful about trying to make your voice serious or deeper or resonant. It's going to sound phony, it's going to sound fake. The number one problem most people have with their voice is when they're giving a speech or talking on video, they tighten up. Their volume gets too low and they become monotone. And they're kind of like this. And they're thinking. Sound like they're trying to think about what they're going to say next. That makes you flat and boring. You want to use a full range of your voice. That's what you want. You want a good example? Watch the comedian Jim Gafgan. He's a big, burly guy and he's not afraid to use high, almost squeaking sounds and deep range. It's the variation in your voice which make you interesting and memorable. BS Writes, how can we sound confident in front of people? By doing what I'm doing right now, which is speak on video regularly, try to go live, do it more frequently. So you get to the point where you don't even have the luxury of being nervous. I'm not nervous now. Not because I have any more inborn confidence than you. I'm not nervous because I've done this thousands of times. Bias. Thanks so much for the question. Let's do another product review. Let's see what we've got here. Stanley staple gum. I'm pretty sure we got on Amazon. Okay, so first thing we're going to do is take a picture of it. So we've taken a vertical picture. Now my wife Joanne is taking a horizontal picture. Now we're going to do a short vertical, 15 second or less video of this product. And, you know, it occurs to me I was trying to conserve things, but I might have, since I'm with all of you now, might as well at least turn some of the lights on. Just try to make things seem there. We got a little light there for you. Okay, now we're going to do the short form vertical video.

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This Stanley Stapler is the real deal. When you're trying to really connect something and you don't want it to fall out or fall off, the Stanley stapler is a powerhouse. Now we're going to do. We did the short form vertical. Now we're going to do the horizontal.

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The Stanley Stapler is powerful. I mean, don't point it at anyone when you use this, whatever you're stapling is going to stick. Just make sure you don't get it to stick to the table by accident. It's a powerful, powerful stapler. My family, we use it around our home. I use it in my office. It is effective. Okay, now we're going to do a slightly longer one. I'm going to alert Joanne. I'm going to have to move here because I want to demonstrate. This is actually, this is no joke. This is actually how I got these plants to finally stay on the wall as I stapled them. And they're fake plants obviously. So I'm going to need you to follow me to do that and get ready. So we don't want it to be out of frame.

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This Stanley stapler is powerful. It's better than glue, it's better than tape. In fact, recently I was trying to install these plants for my TV set and two sided tape would work really well for a day, then it would fall down and finally I said, what the heck? And I took the stapler and I just stapled it right on. This is a powerful tool. It sticks in all sorts of things. When you absolutely want something to stick and you're tired of wasting time with glue and tape, try the Stanley stapler. Okay, so again, for those of you joining me, I didn't buy these thinking, wow, this is a hot product. Look how well it's selling. Let me latch onto this and make a bunch of money. That's not what I did. I just went through my own home, my own office and I looked at products that I actually like, I actually use, that I have recommended to other people. I'm doing that for the whole first wave. Once I get through that, and I don't really know if that's going to be a thousand products or five thousand, we bought a lot of stuff. Then I might get more sophisticated and look at trending thing. What's trending on wire cutter in the New York Times? What are the hottest products on Amazon? If I really figure out a systematic way of doing this. So I'm not telling you, go out and make product reviews of staplers. Maybe I never make any money from it, but what I am doing is I'm learning about how to get even more comfortable in this particular type of presentation. This is a product review, positive review, kind of a soft sell. So it's not completely different from other types of speaking I've done, but it's a little bit different. And that's how I think you can, you can benefit from it. So Vias also writes Please do video on different speech reviews. I'm not quite sure I know what you mean, but something we do here in something I'm hoping to do as a regular segment is to review speeches from prominent individuals in the world of business, art, sport and others. So if you have a video you'd like me to review, my recommendation is go to the Community tab on my YouTube channel and post that as a comment on any one of my comments there. And I will read it because I'm looking for ideas. Bias says, how can I connect with you? Well, Bias, you're doing it right now. And in fact, if you want to come on live with us, I've posted the link to this video where you can join us on streamyard and it's in my Community tab right now. It's the most recent community tab. So if you want to join us live now, you can. The only consideration is I'm doing this on my cell phone. I'm not sure I'll see you pop up, but if Barbara or any of my other colleagues are in the room and see it, they can add you as well. But if I ask you can, you can contact me in a lot of different ways because if you go to the about section on my YouTube channel, you'll see my link to every single social media platform there is. Certainly I'm on LinkedIn. If you search for TJ Walker success just on Google, you're going to see a ton of different places where you can reach me. You can always reach me on my main corporate website, mediatrainingworldwide.com or tjwalker.com so I'm pretty easy to reach. Bias says, I have a lot of questions about public speaking. Well, you've come to the right place. We're going to continue doing product reviews right now. My wife is nice enough to take time out of her busy day to be the producer and the camera director for this. But I'll come back and if I don't get to your questions today, we're going to be here tomorrow and the next day and the next day because this is the number one source in the world for answering questions about public speaking and communication skills. So. And I see you have other questions about uhs and ums. We'll be talking about that. And Vaias says he's connected already on Twitter. That's a great place. So thank you so much for connecting. Please, if you post a question here, don't get to it today. Not because I don't want to answer the question. It just got lost in the shuffle. So come back daily. Post your questions on any of the social media platforms and I will come back to you and answer it live right here. Okay, so, Joanne, let's go to the next product. Let's see what we have. Okay, so this one I'm going to go out on a limb on. I don't know if this is still sold, but I love this camera. I've bought dozens of them, dozens of them even, or at least half a dozen stolen. Get into that right now. But this is now probably 10, 15 years old. But I'm going to talk about it nicely anyway. And if it doesn't work, what have I really lost? Three minutes. Okay. Okay, so the first thing we're going to do is take a picture. This is the vertical picture. Now we're going to take a horizontal picture. Now we're going to do a short form 15 second or less video that could be used for the Amazon Inspire app.

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This little Sony webcam is efficient, it is light, and it gets the job done. I've used a dozen of these for years. I can't live without them. So again, I realized, okay, so what do you need that for? You've got a cell phone. If I'm doing a training and being I like to be able to mount it, I like having a big viewfinder that switches. There's just a lot of utility. And I should be talking about this in the video. Okay.

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This canon camcorder is still useful. I love being able to use this in a training. I can flip the viewfinder around. I love being able to attach it so easily. Light battery. It really is a very flexible camera that still has a lot of utility in the modern world. Now, that was probably a little shorter than I really wanted. That was 20 seconds. But you know what, as I understand it with Amazon, if someone watches your entire video and then buys the product, they still reward you. So it doesn't have to be 30 seconds. But if they watch at least 30 seconds and then buy the product, you do get credited with the affiliate commission. So that's why you generally try to do it 30 seconds, unless you're going after the short one. But I'm not going to worry about it for now because again, I don't know if this product is even still sold. This Canon camera is light, it's easy to use, and it's quite durable. Hi, I'm TJ with the TJ Walker Success Channel. And I have used this camera all over the world. I've traveled to 45 nations around the globe, training UN officials, political leaders, business leaders. And I love using this for training because it's got a viewfinder that flips around. It's big enough to look like a real camera and scare people a little bit, which is what I want in my line of work. And it's just attachable, the battery. Everything works really well and it's not too fragile. This has gone through an awful lot on planes, trains and automobiles around the world, and it keeps on working. Okay, so that's one. I do like what I said there, and I do believe it. Am I going to make any money from this? I don't really know, but even if I don't, this might be something that goes to. Oh, I did say Canon and not Sony. I didn't call it a Sony, did I? We had to double check. I knew.

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Okay. I mean, I've had dozens of Canon cameras now. I now use Sony cameras, too. But you never know when one of these Amazon Influencer videos might make nothing for you from the Amazon Influencer program, but it can open doors to a larger brand partnership or advertising sponsorship. So that's part of why I'm doing that. Okay, so we've done the three videos for this and the two pictures. So we're making progress here. This here. Oh, we're gonna do one. We've done a total of four today, correct? Four products reviews. I'm. I'm asking my wife, because once you get into this, I can forget what I'm doing. Yeah, I want to do at least one more. And this may seem, frankly, almost silly. A simple hanger. Can we even make this interesting? We'll find out. So we'll start off. So we're doing a vertical picture now we're going to take a horizontal picture. And let me step back and say, this is, I think, probably not a good idea. Because who really needs to watch a video before making a decision to buy an inexpensive hanger? I can't imagine this is going to make a lot. What I'm after is a systematic process where I go through my house, I go through my office, and I ask, is this a product I bought? Do I like it? I can say yes to both of those. I'm going to invest 2, 3 minutes making some ads if it never makes anything. If nothing else, I'm building to my library, my database, my credibility, and my skill base of being able to talk comfortably about products. So that's why I'm doing it. But I'm sure you can find if you go to the typical Amazon influencer expert and say, this guy TJ Walker said, do videos on hangers, I think they'll probably say, well, this guy doesn't know anything. That's a horrible waste of time. I recognize that there are larger strategic reasons why I'm doing this.

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It's a simple hanger, but it feels good. It almost smells good. It's so much better than a simple wire hanger. Okay, I have no idea if that even makes sense. I don't know if it really. I try to really stick to the facts, but that just smells good, popped in my head and doesn't smell bad. So we're going to keep on going and do more. Life is too short to be surrounded by unpleasant things, ugly things. And I put the simple wire hanger in that category. That's why I love this hanger. It's got something that feels like velvet. It's soft, and when I put clothes on it, it just makes my clothes seem a little more special. So I do. My wife is laughing at me. Maybe that sounds a little cheesy, but I do like this much better than the feel of a wire hanger. Okay, It's a simple hanger, yes, but it's covered with something that feels like velvet. It's soft to the touch, and I don't know why, but I just feel better about putting my clothes on a hanger like this. I just don't like the feel of the traditional metal hanger. This is soft, it's smooth, a little bit fuzzy, and it feels good to use it. So again, am I going to make millions from that? No. Is there a chance I make nothing? Absolutely, yes. But that is why I am trying this, because I'm looking to get a larger database of product ads out there. I do think that just like with books, with movies, with art, quite often the most prolific people are the ones who get the most attention and do well. Picasso was a great artist, yes, but people forget he also made 50,000 pieces of art throughout his career. He made a lot more art than anyone else. I'm not saying I have Picasso, but one of the reasons I've been much more successful than most people on the online platform Udemy is I've made 220 courses and most people don't do any. And very few people make more than five. So there is something about quantity creates more quality, too. It's not just quality versus quantity. Okay, did we. Did we take three? We did three and we took two pictures. So my count is correct. We've done 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 total products today, 5 times, 5 for each one. So we've now created 25 separate ads, but we haven't uploaded all of them. We've only uploaded the first 10. So now there's the tedious part. Let me see if I missed any comments and vias. I appreciate you being with us and everyone else because again, I realize this is not must see tv. This is not the super bowl, which those of you not in the United States might not even know what I'm talking about. But here in the US we have this thing we call football. No one else in the world calls it football, but it's a bunch of men tackling each other and causing a lot of pain. And they sit around in committee meetings a lot. And that's what Americans like to watch. And I watched it last night. That gets the highest ratings when it comes to TV video consumption in the United States. I realized this is not going to make anyone at the NFL nervous. So now in order to be polite to my wife, do you want to just come back in 20 minutes when I've done this or you're welcome to just stay here and relax. Okay. All right. So you know, I'm going to do one of these. You'll get the picture and then I will do it the rest without taking up your time. So we're going to go through. I'm going to again go to pull up a browser, go to my store and everybody has basically the same address on Amazon. It's Amazon.comshop the name of your channel. And for me, the name of my channel is TJ Walker Success. And by the way, if you want to check out the store, you can do so. And if you can't remember that long URL because I can't remember long URLs like that, then all you have to do is go to my YouTube page and you'll see in the bio there, the very last link is my Amazon page. So I'm going to hit create content. I'm going to hit post video library. I'm going to post that, choose that video. It's compressing, it's uploading. I'm now going to go to your orders hanger. Wow, a bunch of different. I'm going to. I should be more specific. Type in clothes hanger. Search dictate. I spoke before I hit it clothes hanger. And it's not showing it. So that does happen from time to time. Sometimes what Amazon calls something is different from what I would use Common vernacular. So I'm going to try it again because I know that I bought it on Amazon in part because I'm too lazy to go to Walmart somewhere just to buy hanger. So I don't know where else, frankly, I would have gotten it. So I'm going to hit now I'm going to hit browse. I'm going to hit close hanger. And it's pulling things not from what I bought, but just from everything on Amazon. And now I see it. It's the Amazon Basics Velvet non. I said it felt like velvet. It actually was velvet, apparently. Apparently. And they're $19 and you get a big pack of them. So I tag, I hit done, I hit title. These hangers are elegant and durable. Submit post, go to storefront, hit create content, go to photo library, go to the next hanger, choose. It's compressing, it's uploading. I go to browse History. Amazon Basics Velvet Clothes Hanger. That one seems a bit different, but it's close. It's close enough. Okay. Amazon Basics Velvet suit hangers. That's not a suit hanger. It looks like it's just for a regular shirt. Okay, a tag hit, done. A simple comma. Great hanger for your clothes. So, again, I do want to be realistic and stress. I don't really know why anyone would want to watch a video on what hanger to buy when it comes to something relatively complex, a video camera that I do get. But I'm doing this just more out of a principle for my own development as an Amazon influencer, as a creator of products. Some of them writes, do not want to sound rude, but if you feel comfortable, can you share how much you earn or range from affiliate marketing? So it's absolutely fine to ask that and it is absolutely nothing wrong with asking any question like that. I'd be happy to tell you to the penny how much I make. The problem is Amazon says you're not supposed to reveal any information that isn't public and how much you make is in your own private account. So I can't tell you. I can tell you that in my first six weeks, it's not a lot of money. I was not expecting a lot of money. What I'm looking for are trend lines. What I'm looking for is signals from the marketplace. So I have basically no expectations. I can tell you that I make sales. I can tell you there are people who make significant sum. There are other people who talk about making six figures, not a month, but a year. And there are people out there who market themselves as experts who make five figures, $10,000 a month. I'm not telling you that I'm that person, but I can tell you they are marketers who claim they are. I would take it with a grain of salt. I don't think most people make that much, but most people don't make much money from anything. Most people don't make much money with online courses, but there are people who make millions and millions and millions of dollars making online courses. So do not, I do feel comfortable advising you, do not start this. If you're thinking, wow, I need a quick $5,000 in the next two weeks, I would not start this. Is it possible for someone to do that and get lucky? Maybe I would start this as a long term play. For me personally, I'm looking at it for strategic reasons because I'm looking to build partnerships with major brands to sponsor my YouTube channel, my podcast and other significant media properties I'm developing. And this is sort of the the minor leagues or the triple able into that. That's why I'm doing it. Okay, before I forget, let's see where we are with that. I think I did two videos. Let me do the last video. This is the short form vertical one and I'm going to hit Browse history Amazon Basics Velvet hanger. And slip tag. Done. A simple and comfortable hanger for your clothes can I want to. I want to try to read it without spending a lot of time. I want to read it and make sure, especially since I'm dictating, that the wrong word wasn't transcribed. Go to storefront Create content I want to thank you for staying with me. Those of you who are with me, I do appreciate it. Photo Library Now I'm doing the first picture Choose Browse History Search Amazon Basics Velvet Clothes hanger. I hit done too soon. It had not transcribed it and it messed it up so that's why I had to go back and redo it. There. Hit Done. Elegant and affordable hanger to make your clothes happy. Done. Submit go to store. I think that was the second to last one. Part of the danger of me doing this live and multitasking is there is a danger I might either forget one or do one twice. I don't really want to do that, so let me do the I think this is the last one. Hit choose and I will double check when I'm done to make sure I didn't do a duplicate. Browse History Amazon Basics Velvet Clothes hanger then take product. Done. Caption A hanger to make your clothes proud. Done. Submit. Okay, so you've actually seen me, with the help of my wife, produce. Let's step back. I don't want to overstate this, but I also don't want to understate this because I. There is a danger. I see people who want to overcomplicate this and say, well, I got to wait till I have the perfect setting or I need to have curtain and lights like tj. No, you don't. I got to invest in Sony cameras and thousand dollar microphone. No, you don't. Just doing this on a cell phone. Even though I've got the fancier lights and microphones, this just makes it so much faster. So what have we done today? We have reviewed five products, but we've done five separate ads for each one. So we've created 25Amazon influencer product review affiliate ads. So we've selected the products. I have produced the ad. I've essentially written the ad, doing it in my brain in real time. I have shot the videos of the ads. I have, through the help of my wife, shot the photos for these. We've done editing in the sense that we deleted the mess up here and there. We have uploaded these into Amazon. We've tagged them all, we have written summaries or captions for all of them, and we have submitted those to the store. Now you see me go all the way through the process for 15. I'm going to do the final two products offline because I think you get it at this point, and frankly, I want to sit down. It's not that complicated. I urge you, if you are someone trying to get into the influencer game, or trying to make a little extra money, or trying to build your public speaking skills, why not try this? So much of getting more confident speaking, as several of you have written about just today, is doing it more. So one of the beauties of this Amazon Influencer program is even if you never make a penny, you can build confidence in your speaking skills and your ability to speak on camera. Because if you're doing it, especially if you're doing it every day, even if it's just one video a day, I guarantee you, at the end of a year or even six months, you're going to be so much more confident and skilled in your presentation abilities, especially presenting on camera. So for no other reason, you get a big payday just for that. Okay, a couple more comments and then we're going to sign off for the day. Do you ever find it daunting to share your entire creative process and reveal insider tips or secrets. Well, there's an old expression, I think Zig Ziglar started it which is the more you share, the more comes back to you. There is a school of thought that says keep every secret hidden to yourself, don't tell anyone. Especially 70s, 80s and 90s there was a sense of oh, everything is private. Unless you're my paid client and you've signed confidentiality agreements, I'll never even speak to the media. The problem is you can't grow beyond a certain level. I have found the more you share for free, the more money comes back to you. Frankly, the biggest problem most businesses face these days is nobody knows who you are. And if you're not willing to share your ideas, people are not going to become attracted to you. Because here's the thing, information is free. There's virtually nothing I've said today that you couldn't get for free somewhere. The reason someone hires me or buys my course is me taking you through that specific process, threading the needle, saving you time, helping you go from this place right here to the final destination you want. And for some of you, the vast majority of you just getting information from me, free is all you want, all you need. And that's fine. That's fine with me. A certain subset of you will want more to more structured way. We'll take one of my inexpensive online courses on Udemy. Some of you will want even more more hand holding and may take one of my more expensive online courses on my own website@media trainingworldwide.com Some of you want even in fact I'm meeting tonight with an old client of mine is ready for me to train a CEO and they want private one on one training for a day and that's typically going to be around $10,000, sometimes $20,000. So believe me, it all comes back. The more you share, the more it will come back to you. So I would not worry about keeping it all bottled up. So I'm right and we're going to have to go from this in a minute. And Melanie says hello. Hi Melanie, hope you're doing okay. Yeah, give you to me another try if you want to. Soam says so how do you know Navigate the balance between transparency and preserving your unique approach or competitive advantage. What's unique about me frankly is not any one piece of knowledge. It's how I can thread that needle. Take someone on the path they want to, get them to where they want to go. The reason a CEO spends 10 or $20,000 for a day with me is I have the ability to figure out exactly what their strengths and weaknesses are instantly and how I can get them from here to here in the shortest amount of time possible. And for someone like that, every day is so valuable, they would spend almost anything. So it's your ability to go through the process. It's like a surgeon. If you have a heart defect, the knowledge about any one piece that needs to be removed you could probably find on Wikipedia or YouTube video video. But you may pay $10,000 to that surgeon because they know exactly what to do and they've operated on thousands of other people. And some made it, some didn't. That experience is what you're paying for. And that's what people pay me for as well. Hey, we gotta go. Thanks so much for spending time. Apologies for all the technical difficulties, but we hope to get those straightened out and get even better for you for tomorrow. I'm TJ Walker. Please like this video, share it, tell your friends, leave comments, it really helps. Thanks. See you next time.