 in this video, I'm very excited to be talking to you about channel memberships for this YouTube channel so that you can understand the benefits that you can get by becoming a channel member. So very clearly, this is a self promotional video just all about channel memberships for this channel. If it is something you're interested in, then stick around. If not, no hard feelings. But first of all, what am I talking about? Well, you may have noticed on all my videos now, there is the little join button that appears just down below. And that allows you to basically sign up to be a channel member right from within YouTube. I have had channel memberships available on Buy Me a Coffee actually for quite some time now. And indeed, you can still sign up there. The benefits that I'm going to go through are exactly the same whichever way you sign up. I think it probably works out better if you do it through Buy Me a Coffee to be honest from my point of view. But for you, it's by far simpler to just click the button down there. So totally appreciate whatever is convenient for you is I'm just pleased that you even considering it. So with that said, let's actually talk about the benefits of these different levels. So the first level is tip jar level. With this, you're going to get that warm fuzzy feeling knowing that you are supporting a creator. You're also going to get priority response to your comments on my YouTube videos. I'd love to say that I get around to answering every comment on every video within 24 hours. But I just don't frankly, with a kind of fire hose of communication on comments, social media, various other platforms, email, all of that kind of thing going on. It's not always possible to get back to answering because I don't like to just give, you know, short answers in any case, you know, sometimes there is some thought research and things like that that need to go into responding. So I do try and put some effort into my responses to comments. So with that said, at the tip jar level, you will get priority response and I'll respond within 24 hours to your comments because I will get those separately to the regular comments. And so I can be sure to, as I said, prioritize those. You'll also get a little badge next to your name in YouTube, real life pixels on your screen, I know. And what that's going to mean is when you are in a live stream chat, then I'll also see who the channel members are, as will everyone else of course. And that will mean that I'll be able to see as well who I should be prioritizing perhaps there if there are too many questions or comments coming in for me to get through them all. You'll also get access to a dedicated area on the Discord server. So in case you weren't aware, this is the place for the take one tech family is over on Discord. And if you would just like to join that, there's no pay wall up. You can just join that immediately at take one tech.io slash discord. And there you'll find lots of information, a place to chat about all these sort of tech things. So we've got the tech talk section. As I say, this is not behind a paywall. We can talk about all these different topics, the sorts of things that I cover on this channel. However, if you are a channel member, then it does open up this special members area just here. And specifically at the tip jar level, you get access to the special announcements for members. We have an area to welcome new members and also the members chat area as well. So that is the Discord server and the area that you'll get access to at the tip jar level. But also then we move on to the front row level. And at front row level, you get access to another couple of areas in the Discord, namely the early access channel and also the exclusive content channel. Sounds exciting. Well, the early access is because I've been up until relatively recently, I was basically making a video, I'd post it, I'd make another video, I'd post it, doing it like that, kind of one a day or one every few days, whatever it happened to be. Going forward though, and what I've started doing is actually batching my videos. So I'm actually recording a whole batch of videos, maybe a series on a particular topic, something like that, and then scheduling them to go out onto YouTube or to be made public on YouTube, I should say. So as a front row member though, you will get access to those videos as soon as they are uploaded. So if I've got a series of videos on whatever it happens to be, Stream Deck, Loop Deck, Keyboard Maestro, whatever that subject happens to be, you'll just get immediate access to all of them. So all of the links will be in that early access area on Discord. You'll be able to just go and watch the sort of private videos before they've switched over to public. You'll also get access to that exclusive content channel. And that is for more kind of behind the scenes videos, photos, things like that related to workflows, how I'm doing things. There'll be some videos in there that are specific to, again, a bit more behind the scenes stuff, but also answering some of the questions. So in that member's chat, if somebody asks a question, I'll quite likely be making videos specifically for members about those questions that have arisen in the context of that in that chat. So that is the front row level. The final level and the one that I'm really most passionate about and really delivering some massive value through this is the backstage pass level. That is obviously everything from tip chart and front row as well. So you get all of those things. But there's a couple of extra things. And first of all is you'll get access to all of my digital downloads. So you may be aware that I make icon packs. These are available for sale on my website. Take one tech.io slash store. You'll see my icon packs over there for stream deck and loop deck. I've got a whole list of other icon packs that I'm in the works that are either part made or not quite finished yet or on the list to start. And basically as a backstage pass member, you'll get access to the whole back catalog, but also any new digital downloads that I create. There's also a couple of ebooks and things like that that I'm working on as well. So those are included. So any new icon pack that I released to the store will just immediately be available to backstage pass members free of charge. It's just included in the in the backstage pass. The other thing that I'm really excited about with backstage pass and then let me come back over to the discord. So here you can see we've got the early access and exclusive content channels backstage perks. This is where you'll get all of those digital downloads. But then we've got this channel here, which is on air backstage. Now this is a voice channel or a video channel. And everyone who is at the the backstage pass level will get access to this. And what I'm doing in here is when I go live on for a live stream before I actually go live to whichever platform it happens to be. So whether it is the whether it is YouTube linked in live or Amazon live, which I'm starting to do more on there as well. I'm basically going to just start by opening up the channel in discord. And if you are a backstage pass member, we'll be able to just sort of hang out a little bit of a chat there, a sort of pre show if you like before the the live stream starts. When I hit the go live button to go live to whichever platform, the stream will just continue as it was in the discord as well. So that means that you can actually watch from there. I still encourage you to be involved in the sort of chat that's going on YouTube or whichever other platform it is as well. But critically, I'll be able to hear everything that's going on in the discord as well. It won't be coming on to the live stream, but I'll be able to hear everything that's going on in there. It means if you've got a specific question during the the live stream, you can literally just ask it. Or if you type a question into the chat, then as I'm going through and I come to the questions, then I can literally ask you as I answered your question. Because so often what I find with live streaming is it feels like there's a connection, but there's a real disjoint there as well. Because when you see some comment come up or a question come up in the comments, you've often sort of gone past the point when it was asked. And the context is the context is I can get my words out the context is lost sometimes. And quite often I find myself sort of scratching my head and trying to figure out because I've I'm the one that sort of lost my thread a little bit during a live stream. Whereas if I know that it's from a channel member in a backstage past member in the the literally in the discord, I can just ask the question has that has the answer to your question, you know, what did you mean by that? And we can actually have a proper conversation with it. And I think it's going to mean for it's going to make for much more engaging live streams, I believe. And also with interview shows that I'm doing for LinkedIn live, and also for Amazon live as well. It's going to mean that when guests come on, not only will we have that sort of pre show with them as well. But also, we'll have the opportunity to, you know, bring up backstage past members to ask their questions. It might be just audio, a bit like a sort of radio phone in or something like that. Or we can also just bring in members on video as well, if they're comfortable to do that. But then also once the live stream has ended, then it doesn't end in discord. I just press the end and it stops the stream on YouTube or wherever it happens to be. But then in the discord, it's still continuing. And it just, we just go back to it being more like a more like a zoom call or something like that. So we can have a proper kind of after show, after show party, a debrief or whatever it happens to be. And also any extra questions or things like that that have come about of, you know, things that were covered in the live stream, but maybe we didn't get time to cover them off. Then those can all be asked in the after party in the discord as well. So I'm really excited about that as just a technology. And it's really the roadcaster pro that sort of opened this up as a possibility with this audio routing that we can do now. So it really can be kind of a total back channel going on. So I'm really excited about that. One final benefit of the backstage pass that may or may not be of benefit to you is that I do offer consultations. So if anyone's interested, you can always book a consultation through my website techonetech.io slash consultation. And there I can help with any sort of tech issues related to ecome live, zoom, productivity, automation or any of the sorts of things that I cover on my YouTube channel. Well, as a backstage pass member, you also get a discount on those consultation calls if that is something that is of interest. But in any case, that is a sort of rundown of those three different levels. It is a very unusually promotional video that this is where I don't normally like to do really heavy promotional videos on my channel. But hopefully if you've got to this point, then maybe channel membership is something that you were considering. And as I've said, you can always just click the button that is right down below to join. So thank you very much for taking this time. And I look forward to seeing you in another video very soon or perhaps even in the discord server. And incidentally, I'll leave a link to some videos about discord over on the right hand side.