Cory Miller you are a vlogger is it safe to say you consider yourself a
vlogger I okay well if we're gonna go straight in the terms so we're straight
into it I don't I feel like I'm someone who vlogs I don't know that I'm a
vlogger is that as the vlogger some of you vlogs well I mean I I don't think of
myself as a writer and I write over a million years and I guess that kind of
makes me a writer but write over a million years did I say a million years
that's how long it feels like it takes a million words a year is what I meant to
say I don't consider myself a writer so you've done what a hunt how many
hundreds are oh yeah 106 officially 167 video has the time of this recording
videos but there are more than that because there were some like I did in
two parts or I've done other like one-off videos and so I think I have
around somewhere like 180 I think total uploads well you can search YouTube for
Cory Miller or AK or able point to the top corner we'll put a little card up
there you can check out his channel there it is he's pointing to it click it
go ahead check out his channel youtube.com/corydhmiller there
you go okay so what is this about what are we talking about we're kind of doing
like a little hey I guess you could consider it like a coaching arrangement
we want to talk about I guess we should let people know you've got a vlog you've
got videos you know we can put up some examples of that for people to look at
you know they can see some of the stuff that you're doing you know you're
showing your family you're showing some of your work you just moved to Ireland
you know there's there's a lot of cool stories going on there you're sharing
your journey but along the way you've also learned a lot about vlogging itself
and you know people are asking questions and you're wanting to document what
you've learned along the way you know things that have held you back things
that kind of maybe distracted you or kept you from putting yourself out there
because you went through all of this stuff as well and there's people who
want to start vlogging and they're scared or they don't know
what to say or their life's not interesting and so in addition to doing
your regular vlog you also came up with this side project called vlog ology so
this is it vlog ology comm you've got a little website here I'm signed up you've
got you you you've got right now an email list which I thought was vlog
ology I thought vlog ology were just the awesome emails that I got with just
awesome encouraging messages you know honestly Cory to be totally Frank I
took a lot of inspiration from your writings and vlog ology to help me
overcome my fear of making videos and my procrastination and things that were
holding me back yeah that's really cold I think that's
really encouraging to hear actually yeah I mean we're we're treating this off
like people maybe who have been following the channel for a while
they've noticed it's kind of quiet maybe you remain subscribed thank you I
appreciate that let me know in the comments you know if you've been
sticking around if you're excited for us to be bringing back seanwes tv much
more full time we're going for 7 days a week now so again thank you have taking
a lot of inspiration from you but back on vlog ology just to set the stage for
what we're gonna be talking about you know you've got right now this email
newsletter that I that I'm on and I've received a lot of emails but you have
much much more planned for vlog ology almost like a you know I know you kind
of resist this word a little bit but just to kind of help people understand
the way I think that it's like a course but it's free and it's on the site and
you don't have to sign up for you and you don't have to buy it it's just boom
here's resources here's pages you could consider them pages or lessons but it's
like can you give people a sense of like what's covered in that and what you're
building here for people yeah actually can I share my screen of course is that
will that work cuz if I share my screen I'll show you actually what I have kind
of on see I'm gonna have this I gotta you you go ahead and do that while
you're getting set up I'll kind of people a little bit of an idea of what
we're doing today the reason we're doing this is Cory has this side project
called vlog ology helping people learn how to vlog how to get overcome the
hurdles you know the things that are keeping you from putting you feel weird
holding up a camera you know all that stuff he helps you with that but this
side project is something that you know to be honest I'm Cory Cory's gonna
share the stuff you know he and I have talked a lot
he's procrastinated on for good reason sometimes maybe not so good reasons
other times you know perfectionism all that stuff and so I thought hey you know
we've had our our conversations just quick little chats phone calls things
like that I try you know me trying to hear out Cory what are you trying to
accomplish help him get unstuck come up with a plan for launching you know
because I think if if we can share Cory this is something you wanted to have
launched sooner it's not quite ready yet yeah you want it to be good but you
don't want it to be so perfect it never ships and so we thought hey yeah let's
do a little like regular check-in kind of just a short little coaching call if
you will just to help you out with your side project but also we can put it on
seanwes tv and maybe help some other people with their side projects yeah
yeah and wealth and first off thank you so yeah so vlog ology is was this idea
that I had because you know something that happens just kind of naturally I
think from when you put yourself out there and when you're you're making
content or you're making stuff even if it's even if it's not necessarily like
teaching you know you do that regularly and people start to wonder oftentimes
anyways how you do that and I was getting emails and I was getting you
know messages on my youtube channel and and and on Twitter and things like that
and people saying like hey what camera are you using what are you using to edit
like you know everything from you know just all that stuff I mean there's so
much more and I was like I could either you know just reply once to this one
person or I could make some thing that's kind of like this one
one-stop resource you know and so if if I can I'll share with you what I have
right now this is kind of like my staging site so I may have to have you
blur out the the URL but I'm gonna share this real fast so this is what I have
this is kind of like on the back end this is like my vision for what vlog
ology is going to be so this obviously is the homepage and it'll it'll have
some different stuff there's gonna be like a welcome video and all of that but
here on the left and the sidebar you've got these different parts of vlogging so
everything from you know getting started like first off the number one question
that I get when I talk to people about vlogging as they say why should I have a
vlog right so usually people when they're thinking about vlogging they're
already kind of there but they kind of need another little push and so like I
have this page that says why vlog and you know this is like kind of designed
and and it's it's kind of fun and there's gonna be some images and videos
and things would you be able to maybe zoom in a little bit and blow up the
page a little bit so we can read a little bit easier
sure perfect so I've zoomed in a little bit yeah hey look at that hey I love it
when things work like they're supposed to your girls even look at this so so
you've got everything from the start like the benefits of vlogging
misconceptions making a commitment talk it you know what's the end goal and then
you know if nothing else read this this is the too long didn't read version and
it is really short and and then we get into things like the story like what's
your greatest advantage I'm not interesting I've got this little
technique called the rubber duck technique no spoilers no spoilers but
there it is and then we get into gear everything from you know and some of
these like I'm gonna kind of grow on and expand on some of this is just
placeholder for right now but you know editing sharing getting a rhythm down
choosing a platform how much time is it gonna take how to get overnight results
that's a row that's gonna be real fun woo
and then they an index so you can go and browse topics and I'll have recommended
vlogs to go for you to get some inspiration and things like that so
that's kind of here stop sharing my screen that's cool is
that the the overview of what you want it to be it's not life yet but hey if
you're watching this in the future this particular episode of you know our side
projects show series whatever vlog all og comm go check it out it's a free
resource it's if you have a hard time remembering and just think like biology
which is like the study of life or study of study of buying right study of bio
writes the ology sets vlog ology since the study of loggin but but it's only
gonna be there if Cory finishes it yet well technically a lot of its supposed
to be done by tomorrow all right so let's let's talk about that how are
things going what's the status what are you working on yeah so so what I'm
trying to do right now is I have like the first two sections written so so
what I'm doing at this point is is writing primarily like it's all written
content like there's gonna be videos and and things like that's like kind of
splashed in there but I was originally planning on having this done in December
and I even had on the side it said you know shipping or launching December 2018
and then it was January and I said launching early 2018 and now it's April
and and the hard part about it has been I mean there's been a lot of things part
of its just been not discipline which is just my fault but there's been a couple
of things is I haven't had clear set deadlines that I'm accountable to and
secondly it's because it's a side project
there hasn't been like this overwhelming you know I have to get this done right
like if I was trying to build a business and I'm like okay roadmaps writer I mean
you know the what's it called when you've got a runway runway is running
out right like I've got you know a hundred thousand in the bank
and I'm I need to get more you know like I needed I don't have work or I would
you know if there was something more like that there would be more urgency
but because it's a side project it's like well if it doesn't get done
no one cares right and and and my problem has always been with like III
I'm interesting because my personality is I love the feeling of finishing but
the getting to the part where it's finished can be a struggle for me and
the main thing that held me back at least for the first few months of this
year was I was planning on having a video and edited recorded all that video
on every single page basically summarizing what was on the page because
I was like it's a vlogging site and they're supposed to be video so and
because I didn't have I did what did make the time and I thought it was gonna
die I didn't you know I was like I don't know how long this is gonna take so I
didn't actually do anything and so that held me back but um
something something I've you know something that's um that I'm trying to
learn and get on top of is the idea of MVP and I'm and I'm having a hard time
finding the balance between like MVP Minimum Viable Product and MVP plus you
know and I don't know kind of kind of how it right and so so I guess I'm you
know what my first question is how can I be sure that my MVP is actually quality
that people are going to appreciate and learn from and share all right so uh
let's let's revisit an episode from way back in the day started Sean with TV in
2014 did a lot of episodes were coming back with some episodes but I did one on
side projects specifically 5 tips for completing side projects so let's see if
any of these resonate with you tell me what you think Cory so we've got first
of all focus on one at a time that's that's a tough one focus on one side
pride wanna decipher project at a time ok yeah that doesn't mean you can't have
a bunch you know over time but at a time focus on one so making sure the log
ology is your main side project that is in your focus the second thing would be
to set aside time we can't just say like oh you know I'll do it whenever it's
convenient because it's never going to be convenient so set aside time
repeatedly allocating time to it just have a block of time then we got the
limited limit the features right that's that's the tough part because there are
a lot of things you could do but you need to add constraints like what what
is the initial version of this project going to be and what can it do because
we're trying to complete it that's just just because it's completed doesn't mean
it can't be improved after that it just means it's out there people can
experience it people can appreciate it so the constraints enable you to finish
it and it seems like oh no I don't I don't
want constraints that's not good it's gonna limit me but it breeds creativity
right if you say I have to do it in this time and can only have these features
well how can I make it great because those constraints tell you the bounds
within which you can operate so without that it's really easy to get overwhelmed
so for anyone watching if you have a side project where you're feeling
overwhelmed it's probably because you need some more constraints which is a
little counterintuitive but when you have less options you know it's a little
easier set a deadline so this is something you experienced did you make a
public commitment in this case did you tell people publicly or it was kind of
implicit on the site down like near this the newsletter signup area it said
launching December 2018 but because I wasn't really promoting it and I wasn't
really driving traffic to it it was more like a word-of-mouth a few people knew
it was just kind of there but there wasn't like this on December 16th 2018
hey Twitter hold me accountable hey community you hold me accountable it it
wasn't I didn't have any of that and so I was kind of like I could probably do
this by then you know and then there was I think I bought the domain in I think
October I think September or October so I had I thought that I could do all this
stuff in two months and I guess I I didn't realize how big it was how how
much I was gonna like have to put out there well it sounds like you're you're
getting accountability now which is good you know having that
accountability and accountability partner which I know you're starting to
get this doing this call is a form of accountability and then the last thing
I've got here is just ship at ninety percent and what I mean is ninety
percent perfect because perfection is not attainable it's not going to be
perfect so you know you want to let go of that idea of perfection so what of
those resonates with you what of those do you feel like you want to kind of
dive in a little deeper on I think I know my 90 percent well okay let me so
here's here's this is fun I think I want to be a perfectionist but I'm not really
and and so I'm trying to like you know like I had mentioned earlier like it's
finding that balance between legitimately shippable and and something
more than that like MVP versus MVP plus you know like where where is it between
the ninety and the ninety five percent um I think sometimes I'm having a oh
that's kind of the part that I'm struggling with the most the focus is
fine I don't have any other side projects right now like we're I mean I
don't know if children are a side project but um you know so I mean I
don't have any other side projects right now setting aside time certainly has not
been is not something that I've meaningfully done and that's less of a
like how do I do that because I know how to do that
yeah because I do that for other things so I don't think that's necessarily
relevant here limiting the features actually I wrote down a question and
maybe you can help with this is am I the best person to create my own constraints
because I don't I don't I don't know cuz maybe I don't know
am I the best person to create my own constraints do you feel overwhelmed no
and maybe that's the problem no well I don't think it's ever a
problem not to feel overwhelmed I don't think anyone wants to feel
you overwhelmed what's the struggle right now with where you're at right
this second is I told my accountability partner that I would have a bunch of
stuff published by tomorrow and let's talk about that what is that what was
that that is so what I'm gonna end up doing was I I wanted to wait until
everything was done you know get all of them written out get all of the
screencasts done make the videos and then ship everything all at once and I
don't think that that's actually I think that the ship all at once part is
actually what's hindering me because it's like well if I never get to that
point then I'll never ship right like I'll never launch it and so so what we
decided on through conversation with you and also with with my accountability
partner was what do I already have written which is basically the first - I
don't want to call the modules but you can call modules like the sections so
start and story I have those written they're not in pages yet so I haven't
you know I think half of them are so like there you can go and you know look
at them and stuff so it's I've got to take all of that copy convert it to HTML
make sure it looks good on the page and all of that stuff so I'm you know I'm
gonna launch I'm gonna publish the first two sections and then each week
following so starting next week I'll push another like the next the next page
in this series lesson or whatever I'll push that live and then on the other
pages I'm gonna have hey you know new lesson released every single week and
then I'll have the sign up form to say hey get this sent right to your inbox as
soon as it goes live and then another incentive there and so that's kind of
what needs to be done by tomorrow which includes finalizing the video which I
finished right before we got on our call and that video is not a video for every
lesson but just for the main page something at the top right it says hey
this is what vlog ology is kind of we've talked about it a little bit here
letting people know these are the lessons I'm gonna be adding one every
week so I'm sending those out if you want note
patience but just giving people an overview right right right exactly so
it's just kind of like a welcome it's like a minute and 30 seconds or so just
to kind of to kind of give that video feel and then also kind of show what I'm
capable of and what I know and be a little bit more friendly because people
like faces so there that video is done that video is done I just need to export
it and then I need to go in and I need well one of the pages needs to be
finished writ writing I need to sit and I just need to write it cuz there was I
guess I didn't finish it I have this thing right like I talk a lot and then
sometimes I just don't finish and then it's not done so so there's one of those
that needs to be done the rest of them just need to be converted to HTML and
then put into the page and then I need to like bring it from my staging site
over to my actual site and make sure that that works and that nothing's
broken and everything like that and I think and I'm gonna do some like
rearrangement of you know where the newsletter signup is and some of the
copy there so we have a plan yeah yeah I have a plan I have a plan but the more I
keep talking about all of these things it's just as more and more and I've
backed myself into a wall which actually is sometimes really good for me um not
good but like that's where I that where there's action yeah and what's nice
about the deadline for me is it's kind of like a faux deadline like the
deadline doesn't matter but I've made it matter and so it matters
um so it just feels like a lot what are you worried about right now what am I
worried about um I'm worried that people will go to the site in its unfinished
state and not come back and or not get the help that they need
that they needed right like for example if someone came to my site and they're
like oh hey you know I'm looking over here in the menu gear that's what I'm
really interested on the best camera they click on that and it's not there
and that that doesn't feel to me like a very good experience I can kind of
fiddle with that and that's and and I think that's okay but if Ike
it worked yeah when I imagine this if I were interested in gear and I go there
and it's it's made clear on the site that this is coming and the video tells
me and it says you know sign up for notifications this lesson is coming soon
something like that if it's clear what what you're considering to be a
frustrating experience I would consider more to be the building of excitement I
actually get excited that ooh that I want this and it's coming you know it's
it's almost like a tease right like it's it's I I actually think it's a positive
the fact that it's not all there and there's a promise of it being there I I
actually think it it results in the opposite of what you fear and that
people would come back because you're teasing something that they want that is
coming mmm that's a really good point I wrote that I'm taking notes so I mean
I feel you know okay about that don't don't worry about that like I don't
think especially by setting good expectations you got a video overview
all that you're giving them some it's like coming soon you know however you
say it I don't think that's a bad experience I think that's involving
people in the journey instead you know like say as much right hey let me just
be honest like I have so much here I wanted to hold it all back I wanted to
just give it to you and have everything here but I realized I was just
overthinking it and I was getting stuck and overwhelmed and I thought hey I'm
just gonna put out what I have and make a commitment to you to continue putting
out an issue at a time a lesson at a time and send it out to you and get your
feedback so I can I can iterate on it you know so like rather than just here
it is here's everything this now is able to be more of an open dialogue so I
dropped next week's lesson you reply to the email and I'm gonna reply back I'm
gonna talk to you you know I'm gonna I'm gonna help you if this lesson wasn't
clear you know I'm gonna improve it and so I just thought it would be better to
involve you in the journey and release it instead of you know waiting till next
year six months from now I'm gonna give you each piece
as soon as it's available that makes me excited huh
yeah that helps that helps actually um
yeah it was really nice um I found myself I texted my accountability
partner earlier and this was after I mean I had you know it was kind of a
wasn't like a long day but there was just a lot of stuff today and I knew
that I needed to get things done today and I texted and I was like I literally
want to procrastinate right now and I think that admission was enough to kick
me in the butt and go okay really Cory like really you know but just it was
interesting that I had this moment of yeah I know I need to get it done but
but I could go breed or just rest or get off my feet or play a video game or
whatever and I don't know I I know it needs to get done and I want to get it
done but it just it's it's um does it feel like too much to do by tomorrow it
feels like too much to get done by tomorrow in the amount of time that it
is going to take or at the amount of my time that it would take for me to get to
bed at the time that I want to get to bed by 8:00 right but the only the only
person expecting that is your accountability partner with whom you've
made a commitment to this arbitrary deadline you set for yourself you're not
publicly for everyone else yeah so and in this case I would give yourself some
grace I would recognize the purpose of the deadline which is to get you moving
which is to keep you from procrastinating and you know there's a
Parkinson's law which says I'm gonna summarize here but things will take as
long as the amount of time you give them if you say I'm going to write a book in
a year it will take you a year and you'll perk
fascinating along the way and maybe not even finish it in a year if you say I'll
write a book in a month you'll write a book in a month or if you do like I did
and I said I'll write three books in a month and I ended up combining them and
I write one book in 14 days it's just how much time do you give yourself and
so it's good that you're compressing it and you're saying I'm gonna get this
done by Friday and now here we are we're recording this on a Thursday I don't
know what David of the week will publish this but it's the day before and you're
realizing oh man if I worked all night like maybe but it's it's kind of crazy
at this point what the deadlines you set for yourself did and that you made
yourself accountable to a partner did is it made you take it seriously and it
made you do the work as much as you could and not procrastinate and not play
a video game and not just just rest but like I'm gonna get this done now that
you're this close the good news is you didn't say I'll give myself two more
months because it would take that long so you've got 90 percent of the work
done right before the deadline if you give yourself this is up to you right
like you get to decide but you give yourself through the weekend or until
Monday and you treat it seriously then you actually got it done like the
deadline did its job it's an internal deadline right there's a little bit of a
difference between an internal and a public-facing deadline it did its job of
getting you to take it seriously get the bulk of the work done now it's like okay
it's not realistic for me to kill myself working all night on this like I need
right I need to take it seriously but I've reached this point and I realize
it's not really practically possible so I'm gonna give myself some grace I still
take it seriously I'm gonna extend this through the weekend and get it done and
update your accountability partners I
I'm worried that I feel like I know the answer to this but I'm gonna ask it
anyways oftentimes when it comes to other deadlines or getting things done I
have found at times when I give my when I when it's necessary to give myself
some grace in that so I don't beat myself up and and kill myself
because I'm you know working so hard and you know up till 5 in the morning
there have been times where I've given myself that grace and it makes me
procrastinate because I'm like well I could work really hard but I should just
give myself some grace and just not so do you have any ideas or advice on how
to prevent giving myself a break from making me just not doing the work yes so
have you done this before this exact type of project in the past
what you're doing I guess no is the right answer so so what I would say to
that is when I when I advise someone on how long to allocate for a project that
is a new thing they have never done it's triple the amount of time you think
it will take and what most people hear is expect it to take longer that's not
what I'm saying I said bring me all the bacon and eggs you have like I am saying
triple the amount of time and and almost nobody does this and so they run into
this time crunch thing they're like I'm gonna get it done by Friday I'm gonna
write my book in seven days like more power to you but unless you've written
over 10,000 words in a day which I've done you can't say I'm gonna write a
book in seven days maybe I could do it if I didn't sleep and did literally
nothing but write over 10,000 words a day and all of it was perfect and I
ended up with a 70,000 word book in seven days but unless you've done that
before it's not realistic you can't and so that's why I say tripled the amount
of time but most people don't they haven't heard that advice they go into a
side project they set a deadline and then it's like a frustration and like
they beat themselves up and so the place you're in right now is like if I extend
it maybe I'm gonna procrastinate I try to give myself grace but I might not get
it done here's here's the the what happens in the white space here you
haven't done this type of project before so this is a pilot journey you are
figuring out what it takes and how long it takes to launch something like this
that's where you're allowed to give yourself grace and by setting an
arbitrary deadline I think that was a good idea because it made you get things
done and the reality is you made it you finished 90% of it a day before it's
gonna take a few more days to finish that last bit of work like that's just
the reality of it you learn that I think that's where you're allowed to give
yourself grace that's where you're allowed to adjust that deadline but
right now we're we're so close we can see the finish line we know how much
work is left and we know you can get it done in a couple days maybe a few days
at the most so if you procrastinate beyond that then I would see that as a
problem but in the meantime until you've done this before since you didn't triple
the time I think it is appropriate to extend that deadline okay
follow-up question what if I set the deadline with my accountability partner
and said hold me to this this is the thing this is what I'm going to do I'm
going to do this don't let me not then I would still say the same thing I just
said because I think what's what's good and what's right and what we want to
hold on to is that ambition that drive that commitment right that's really good
but I think it was it for lack of a better word it was misguided and that's
just you know the best word I can come up with it's like it's as misguided as
writing your first book and saying I'll do it in seven days I told my
accountability partner hold me to it don't let me not do it like you're
coming from the right place but but it's okay you've got most of the work done
you're really close it's an internal deadline you're going to finish it let's
adjust that to be reasonable so you don't you know sacrifice your personal
health and hey by Monday you're gonna have something up I want to have
something up by the time this video goes out anyway well they can check it out
hmm okay
yeah I think I think what I was doing with at least with the deadline and with
having an accountability partner was I was kind of using that as the as the
fuel as the payoff I guess we're like if the side project was I'm doing the side
project because I need to make money or I want to make money or I want it to be
you know financially viable and all of this stuff that in and of itself is a
drive like I make no money until the thing is launched but because this is
something where I'm still working on what / if I want to you know if I even
want to monetize it and to what that would look like and I think I do but you
know I'm just trying I'm just that's kind of not the main focus at this point
and I think I think that oh good by the way like yeah don't even worry about
that just focus on audience and like you're good right right yeah and so but
I think the drive - I think the inherent aspect of making money provides a kind
of drive where if you're just kind of making something it's just like it can
be kind of whatever and so having that deadline and having that accountability
partner and feeling like I don't want to be that guy again that that doesn't
follow through that was kind of I mean that was certainly a motivation for me
to actually do the stuff like because I wouldn't have done the video today if it
didn't need to be done you know what I mean and I do um
like I went and dug through a bunch of old videos to kind of put together some
b-roll and stuff and I was like what am i doing and I was like ah we're getting
it done so that's super helpful though um how are you feeling about it right
now I'm feeling good I honestly I think a big part of it is I think I might be
overthinking it probably like I actually might even be overthinking the amount of
time it's going to take because even as we were talking I realized that I don't
you know I have enough I have the ability to like if a page is empty to
display a certain kind of content in WordPress I can code a thing where it's
like if there's nothing on this page show this right so I I won't have to go
I can just code that one time and take a little bit of time but it would
literally it would take less time to code that then it would be to go to
every single page sure put it together do all that so I would say even thinking
of that stuff is that piece that piece I wouldn't even consider that within what's
mandatory to ship I think it's very good I think it's something you can you can
add but I would recommend this give yourself until end of day Sunday and I
recommend putting a time on it like 5 p.m. a p.m. so you don't go well into
the night you know end of day Sunday and you make it like a secondary goal for
yourself to really get most of it done by Saturday and then you spend Sunday
doing the extra like bonus kind of polished user experience stuff ok do you
think it would be better like so as an example right now if you know there's
start story gear recording edit sharing time and index those are kind of the
sidebar navigation type things do you think that my my vision was so if I
publish it you can see all of it and access any of the pages but it just
those ones won't have content on the ones with content will have it do you
think it's better to do that so people kind of know what to expect or should it
just only show what's available no no hundred percent show all of it
show all of it and show it as as coming soon ok ok that's good
looking through my questions that I wrote down so I have this I have another
question I mean I wrote that a bunch of questions but this is just kind of the
next one so for the most part I want this site to exist and to be a resource
like I'm not I'm not planning on adding a blog or anything that's like ongoing
content marketing type of a thing for this site but I am planning on
continuing the newsletter on an ongoing basis so that's something that I'm gonna
be adding to and it's gonna be a supplement it's gonna be
great I do a weekly vlog that's something that's just part of my life
that's something I'm gonna be making and I'm gonna continue to make and and
that's what I'm gonna be kind of that's what I'm gonna use to push people
towards vlog ology primarily it's like that's gonna be the primary the main
source of traffic and I just want to make sure like I feel like I'm missing
something I'd like it not to be like this major
thing in life because it's a side project where I'm kind of going I have
to always go but I want to make sure the right people get it you know what I mean
so like am I missing anything there should I just allow it to be something
that I push for in my in the vlog itself and even in my automated newsletter I
asked for you know after a period of time I actually asked people like hey if
this has been helpful for you forward this email or forward the site to
somebody who you think that this could benefit from and I've had a lot of
really great engagement for the people who have actually signed up on the list
because it's so niched yeah that it's not just random people it's people who
are really interested in that thing so I feel like I'm comfortable with that but
I'm just there's I feels like kind of there's something on the tip of my
tongue that I might be missing so then maybe I'm not there's more potential for
this than simply pushing your vlog audience to it well the the truth to
that question is there is I just don't know that I want to be rude
I don't know that I want it to be this thing that I have to always upkeep I
guess in a sense like the site itself you know or like the marketing for the
site like no honestly yeah I think of this as a book like my book over that
book I mean it is also available with you know online access with our
membership right or people can just buy the book but there it is you know
there's all the sections all the chapters you can read it and it's
designed to help someone who's stuck someone who wants to start a job I'm
sorry start a business while working a full-time job so it's again very very
niche down so it's oh hey I know someone who feels stuck in
a soul-sucking day job and they really want to start their thing but they don't
know what that transition looks like they recommend the book and we ship them
out every day we just have stacks of blue boxes all over you know because
it's just it's a resource and it's it's there and when you finish this
it will be done it will be a thing and you don't have to upkeep it and I
totally agree with you there is a tremendous amount of possibility for
this beyond just your audience but I think especially now I mean you you
could really you could look into other options later for how to spread to other
people how to market it or whatever but it's gonna spread via word of mouth like
promote promote it to people in your audience and they're gonna share it with
others they're gonna they're gonna spread it around they're gonna give it
to someone else it's not something you have to go back and update and add to
and all of that focus on your vlog and put it put a link in the description of
each vlog and every time you put up a new episode it's gonna promote this
resource yeah it's a really good point yeah I think and I think I'm comfortable
with that like if it and if it's there it's like hey by the way if you are
interested I got this question or whatever like go check out the log ology
it's right there boom it's right in the description or you know here's the
website or something like that can I just say it is so great after years of
effort to just say overlap book com it's just like I solved that yeah oh you want
you want to wake up early you want to increase your focus you have too many
passions your family isn't on board you're not sure where to start with
making money or a diversified income stream it's like it's done I made the
thing over that book and you just get to say that and you just focus and then
anything and everything else you do this content right here promoted overlap and
I don't even have to think about it it's just if it fits in very naturally here
and and vlog ology will fit into anything you're doing like man I just
didn't I don't even want to take out my camera today you know and I skipped a
few days this week in the vlog and you know I just got me thinking like I need
to take my own advice what I talked about in vlog ology of the you know
whatever and there's like bueno there you go no I actually had a video like
that recently and some of the comments were hey I learned from vlog ology that
you'd this is a vlog anyways and you should put it out anyway so a good job
for shipping is going yeah it's taking their own medicine oh like in the here
we go see see watch what's happening in in the audience building course audience
building course calm the free course we give away at seanwes one of the things
I talk about in helping you build your audience's hey you gotta make content
you've got to put out content regularly weekly is awesome you're gonna stay
relevant daily you're gonna be top of mine that's that's the sweet spot it's
also super super hard and what you want to do when you're super pumped up I'm
gonna put out a daily content like Casey Neistat and Gary Vee you know it you
don't want to do Casey and I stat shoot the day before
edit all night till 4:00 a.m. don't sleep and publish at 8 a.m. you don't
want it yeah I did that it wasn't great you you tried the daily vlogging with
the day before it for 77 or 78 days I think 77 or 78 days I did the first that
many and and I was like I think something needs to change
so what I teach an audience building course is create an editorial calendar
and you need to create a Content buffer and what is a Content buffer it's a
collection of finished pieces of work ready to go they're done they're
rendered their written they're edited they're proofed whatever the media is
it's done it's scheduled it's going to go out you need four to six of those
done ready scheduled going to go out if you're doing weekly content if you're
doing daily content you need 10 to 14 this is what I put in the audience
building course so here we are I'm like all right Cory let's plan out the
seanwes tv editorial calendar we're gonna go hard at this we're doing seven days a
week here we go and I'm all excited I want I want to put this stuff out you
know we're recording this well before you see it I'm excited I want you to see
it I want to share this and I can't I gotta take
my own medicine like you're talking about me right what I learned in vlog
ology you know people are like what I learned an audience building course it
it's like man I gotta be disciplined I gotta take my own advice we're gonna
create two weeks of a Content buffer because we're doing daily it's done it's
scheduled it's ready to go but man taking your own advice that stuff it's
the worst but I mean but it's good then cuz then all I have is all I have to
blame is myself and and if I really actually believe the things that I say I
know that that's the best way to do it so yeah alright um do you feel okay
about this session what you need to do yeah all of that yeah i'm i have other
questions but i feel like they would be like that we can we can save that for
another time i think well i feel good on this good news Cory this is an ongoing
series which which is named you wouldn't come up with the name with me beforehand
so this is where we do it something with side projects it could be called that
what do you think something with side projects you know i can't say that i
love it no it's terrible yeah I was thinking
don't finish your side projects side project finish your side project
extravaganza I feel like it's a side project to come up with the name for
this why did no no don't don't you wheeze a lot of this what if are you
ready for this go ahead what if its side projects don't
think it it can be whatever she can be whatever let's say whatever be whatever
we don't we're not getting side projects calm or something that's what we're
calling this show yeah I don't like to it's just even do it it's a conversation
it's just a call for you and I but for people watching it's the show it's a
series yeah we'll do it weekly we'll check in so I pray I'm into it I'm
into it I like projects with Sean and Cory I have so many of them my good deal
so you got you got more questions you got some homework for this week
we'll check back in next week we'll be able to show the progress that
you actually did it yes oh yeah oh yeah it's public
accountability now oh well all right cool good good show check out for e will
put this channel here click through watch this blog check out below ecology
and we'll see you next week thanks Sean
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