 hello you guys welcome to a new video so today I'm planning on showing you guys a day in my life as a quote-unquote influencer slash content creator I really do hate using the word influencer because I feel like anybody can be an influencer you just have to influence people to be an influencer like there's really no oh yeah you have to have this many people following you to be an influencer I feel like it's really broad and it doesn't really matter at the end of the day anything I just want to influence you guys in a positive way and that's what I consider me being an influencer is influencing you guys in a positive way and just hopefully making an impact in some of your guys's lives through my videos and at least putting a smile on your face or doing something providing you entertainment so yeah that word influencer that's how I like to see it but anyways I thought that I would show you guys like the ins and outs of what I do share some little secrets with you guys for this video and yeah it's gonna be a fun one so I was just answering like going through my emails and just kind of like planning out my day because I have to handle my day-to-day work nobody is telling me this is what you need to do at 10 a.m. this is what you need to do at 11 a.m. like no one's giving me structure so I have to give myself structure and sometimes I really don't and I just kind of let myself do what I want it just depends the day and it depends how many things I need to get done a lot of the times sponsorships will be planned very far in advance and therefore I need to kind of give myself more structure to make sure that I deliver the content on time and all of that stuff so it really just depends day-to-day in terms of how much structure I give myself but I do like to have give myself my nice morning routine and then flow into work for the day honestly there's some days where I plan to film and then that day comes and I'm like I'm just not feeling it today and you do have to be in the right mood for filming because sometimes I just don't want to look at myself from the camera I don't want to talk to a camera and that's fine I just take those days off of filming and do my editing work you know what I mean so I kind of don't like to necessarily really plan my day-to-day filming I do plan it to a certain extent but at the same time I'm very flexible with myself if I don't feel like doing something that day then I'll just kind of work around it but yeah so I've done one of these videos in the past but I'm gonna do it again because I love doing these and it kind of gives you more insight as to what I do behind the camera because there is a business side to this there's some tea so let's get into it okay one thing that is a must for me to keep me on track is making a to-do list for the day because if I don't do that then I'm kind of scattered and sitting down seeing what I have to get done for the day and writing it in a to-do list form first off makes me more motivated and second it just kind of gives me that structure slash schedule for the day if I don't end up getting a couple things done it's fine I can just move them to the next day but having that kind of list just so I know what I have to do since there's nobody really telling me that helps me so much and a lot of the time when my brain feels jumbled and I have too many thoughts running through it like oh I need to do this and you do that first thing I do is take a paper take my iPad take whatever I have and I write that shit down and it makes you feel so much more mentally clear so much better and it helps so much I swear by it making to-do lists and just like writing shit down that's what we're gonna do now I'm just gonna make it my to-do list for the day okay so on the to-do list I have to edit this Saturday's video so I just want to get that done and edited I want to post on Instagram real if you guys don't follow me on Instagram and TikTok go follow me because I've been trying to post more just because I've kind of neglected all other social media platforms but YouTube while trying to grow my YouTube so I'm trying to like post more I've gotten a couple DMs from you guys mean like post more on Instagram and like I want to and I'm trying okay like I am but it's tough honestly to balance all social media platforms but I'm trying my best because since I've put so much of my focus and energy on YouTube which I still want to do but I want to spread that out a little bit to other social media platforms now since I've like reached my goal with YouTube so I've been trying to post like reels on Instagram so if you don't already follow me go follow me and then I need to film this video that I'm filming right now and then I'm going to log in my sponsorships because I keep a tab of all the sponsorships that I do and the brands that I've received payments from the brands that I haven't received payments from everything goes to my manager and then she pays me if that makes sense but like I still keep track of it all just to make sure I'm getting paid correctly getting paid on time so we'll dive more to sponsorships and how that all works later in the video yeah so speaking about Instagram I've been wanting to post more feed posts and everything so I did take these pictures the other day and I'm gonna show you guys right now how I edit my photos okay so like I said I really want to start getting more into Instagram and taking more photos I need to be better at it I took a little mini photo shoot the other day that I'm gonna share the photos with you guys and we're gonna edit them together on this app called epic it is a photo editing app and when they reached out to me I was a really freaking excited because I've been wanting to get back into Instagram not back into but I've been wanting to actually post on Instagram because before this I didn't have my like a go-to editing app but after they reached out I've been using them and just kind of exploring their app and it actually has a lot of really cool features I don't even think I've looked at everything yet so we'll do that together but epic app is a 100% free app there's no charges or anything and there's also no in-app charge so it's not gonna be like oh pay 99 cents you get another filter it's literally all free okay so I'm gonna show you share my screen with you guys so you can see what I am doing let's go into the app start editing go into my favorites and as you guys see I had that little photo shoot so I'm gonna pick one of the ones that I favorited this one and we're gonna edit it together I'm actually really excited so as you can see there's a lot of like portrait things that you can do you can put some makeup on yourself you can do add some eyelashes honestly that is kind of essential for me to do because I don't wear mascara whether wear mascara but fake eyelashes on it's the same thing as editing that it on because I just haven't worn mascara in a long time because like some of my eyelashes were falling out and I'm trying to regrow them anyways so I'm just gonna add some mascara here and look at how natural it is to oh my goodness that is like the best thing ever see there's even like super supernatural like that oh I kind of like that I'm gonna go with this one anyways so got that you can even do eyeliner oh my god that's actually so dope anyways I don't I think the lashes is as far as I'm gonna go because I am wearing makeup already in this photo there's also like face editing you can do I mean I personally don't do that but if it's your cup of tea then there you go they have so many filters you can even like create your own filter too they have so many filters okay I don't think I would ever use a filter like all the way just because I like my photos to be more natural but that's the beauty about being able to adjust it I'm really vibing with this filter there's a before there's the after kind of gives me more of like a goddess tan look actually really like that one's called sky one there's so many different vibes it really just depends what your vibe is in terms of what filter you're gonna choose if you want to put a filter also they have a bunch of effects as well like wow okay that's actually oh I haven't seen this one yet okay I really like that sometimes you want that blurry vibe to photo I am obsessed with that I'm not gonna do that for this photo but definitely gonna use that in the future okay whoa that's actually so cool and all these effects I can't like say this enough they're all free you can download the app completely for free with the link in my description whoa okay that's actually really freaking cool okay anyways those are so cool I haven't like explored the whole entire app yet there's so much you can add stickers on your thing as well like if you wanted to add like wings yourself you can do that you can add text there's so much you can do okay I'm just gonna go now under adjust and kind of adjust the coloring so I really love how it gives you this option because not all apps do where you can go in with your specific colors if you want them to be less like if I want yet less yellow tones in this photo I can bring the yellow down orange tones if I want less I can bring that down as well yeah I like that and then if you go into Luxe it kind of is an editing thing for you where it kind of will make it more sharp so I'm just gonna do a tiny bit of that and then I'm gonna put the contrast a little bit down and then sharpen it up a teeny tiny bit okay I'm gonna adjust the highlights just a bit I'm gonna put them down it gives you kind of more of like a darker feel here this app actually has everything and I'm not just saying this because it's sponsored but I'm genuinely going to be using this from now on for all my Instagram posts because it has everything in one app and usually you have to go to like 10 different apps to do all of this but that's why I like this one the most because it has everything you need in one app which is so cool okay anyways now I'm just gonna save that and that's literally so easy I love the way that it turned out I like editing my photos pretty natural so that's like perfect and you can do so much on there though like for a cool sky photo it would be cool to edit on there too yeah anyway so thank you to Epic app for sponsoring this video you guys should go check them out because I'm not even getting you they have everything in one app like it's so sick but yeah go click the link in the description to download it and yeah it's completely free so you're all set okay I'm just teasing you guys because I'm on my new bed and my new bedsheets and I have my new bed sheets I'm teasing you guys because my room transformation video is going to come out hopefully soon so anyways get excited for that in terms of the content that I like to make it's more like freestyle meaning I don't really plan I'll have like a general concept of the video that I'm going to film like okay today I'm gonna film a day in my life so I'm gonna bring the camera along with me we're going grocery shopping you guys know my usual videos and that's the kind of content that I prefer and I like making over more structured videos I kind of like just doing what flows with me for that day and I feel like it just those types of videos for me personally I find they come out more natural and I'm just my most authentic self and I can just talk about whatever I want because I don't give myself really any guidelines that are restrictive so personally that's how I like making my YouTube content and the thing is if you guys want to start a YouTube or do social media I know this sounds really cliche but my main tip is really to stay authentic to who you are and to just be yourself because if you put on a fake face every single time it's gonna get old and you're gonna get tired of it and people are gonna notice so my best advice is post what you want if you don't think it's gonna get views who cares post it because it's what you want to post and posting certain types of content that you truly align with may not do well at first view wise and everything but in the long run it's gonna be worth it and that's how you're gonna gain your community of people and what I've learned through doing this is that I can post this video a specific video which I know will do well views wise but it's like that really what I want to post no so therefore I've kind of adjusted my content to basically only posting what I want to post what feels truly right for me and that's how I get the best results and feedback from you guys honestly and those are the videos that you guys can relate to the most and love the most and those are the videos I love doing the most and so yeah that's how I personally like filming is just kind of doing it sporadically I like vlogging the most just because I have a lot of like random thoughts that go through my head every day and holding the camera talking to it is a way for me to kind of unleash that and it's very therapeutic for me and I've been doing it ever since I was younger I've always been talking to a camera whether I have been posting it on YouTube or not it's just been something I've been doing since I was younger is talking to a camera yeah so that's my video style and that's my tips honestly and honestly you do not need to stick to one thing like do what you want it's your channel and it's your channel for a reason nobody can tell you what to do and that's the beauty of it is that it's yours you control it and so okay so I just finished editing the video that I needed to finish but I think that there's going to be a sponsorship in this video I just haven't gotten the product yet so it's gonna be super less minute I'm gonna need to film it and then insert it into the video and then upload the video but at least I have the video edited I'm still gonna need to edit the sponsorship into it but that'll not take me too long so now I got like the core edited so yeah sometimes with sponsorships it's like you'll have a sponsorship plan but then you don't actually get the product until a couple days before you have to post and then it's super last minute I honestly hate when that happens because I like to not feel rushed especially with my sponsorships and I like to plan those out in advance but the T on sponsorships is I don't know if you guys even know this but some brands make you give them a view guaranteed so what if you guaranteed is is means is that the brand is gonna be like okay so I'll give you this much money if you give me this many views and if you don't give them that many views then you need to do a make nice video which basically means you need to do another sponsorship in another video but for free so that it makes up for those views that you didn't get until you reach that you count I don't know I never knew that before going into this is that some brands absolutely require that view guaranteed and I've done it before thankfully it's been smooth sailing but those videos are the most stressful and I hate I don't hate taking them because some of the offers are really good and some of the brands I generally want to really work with but it just puts that extra amount of stress on it because the way that a video performs is kind of out of your control I know a couple video titles that are gonna get more views like for example morning routine we all know those are gonna get a bit extra more views than my regular videos or anybody else's regular videos just because those are really heavily searched for but staying true to my channel and just true authentically to who I am I'm not gonna go and make up a video that I know it's gonna give you that I don't want to do at the same time so that's why I could be a little bit stressful when you give them a view guaranteed and you agree to that and then you're just kind of refreshing like please hit this amount of views so I can reach it but you have to manifest it and I've been trying to manifest it every time I agree I don't really do those often just because of the extra kind of stress it puts on you because once a video like there's been videos where I posted where I'm like oh this is gonna do well and it doesn't do as well as I thought that it would and that's fine but that just happened sometimes so that's why if you guarantee can be stressful especially if you're going over your average views and by the way also if you thought if you think that you get paid based on the subscribers you have it's not like that you'll probably get more PR the more subscribers you have in terms of like free stuff but in terms of actual the money that you make from sponsorships is all directly correlated to your average view count so if somebody has a million subscribers but they have the same average view count as me then we're gonna be making the exact same amount of money in sponsorships it's just how it works because the brands don't really care how many followers you have they care about your engagement engagement is key so that's why back to what I said before it's good to have an audience that likes you for you and you build that community around people that are watching your videos because you posted it not because of what the title of the video is you know what I mean so that's why it's also so important to build that community of people because if you just have one viral video you may get a lot of subscribers but I bet you your engagement is not going to be that high because they're subscribing because you did a trendy video not for your everyday videos if that even makes sense so yeah that's something interesting if you guys didn't know also adsense I make everybody makes their adsense based on their views not on their subscribers in terms of getting paid it really has to do with your engagement and at the end of the day that's what brands want is high engagement sometimes with sponsorships brands don't pay you for like a month even two months maybe even three months so a lot of my payments are very backed up so I am still constantly getting money in every month but like they're backed up payments if you know what I mean so that's also a thing too is a lot of the times brands don't pay you immediately after posting some brands do which is great but a lot of them don't that's why the income with this can be like this thankfully I've been kind of getting a consistent income with YouTube now each month and I can I know the ballpark with that I'm in and what I have to work with so it's not really drastically going like this for me it's more kind of going like this if that makes sense there's some better months or some worse month once but it stays within the same range so in terms of their being stability for me I feel very stable honestly just because I have I have been getting a lot of good consistent income so I feel stable but it's not the exact same every month which is great because some months I make way more than I expected but some months I make a little bit less than I expected which is fine but in the end it all evens out and the possibilities are infinite which is also something really cool that it's like you don't have one salary paid salary that you get every month yeah that's stability and that's a great too but yeah for me I just find it does even out at the end of the day so and in terms of my ratio of adsense and sponsorships I get paid so much more in sponsorships than adsense adsense is probably I want to say maybe like 20% I don't know if I'm doing the math right but as sense is definitely a smaller portion sponsorships are very important