 Well, hi hello and welcome to this video where I'm going to share with you five ways to build your confidence on Facebook Live video, specifically when you are like this, you know, face to camera. Now I know the idea of going live on camera is probably terrifying right now and you're watching this video thinking, I'm not doing this, all right, this is not for me. I'm happy to hold the camera up and pan it around my space but I'm not putting my face on the camera. Just wait a minute before you make that decision and let me kind of enroll you into why doing video is a great idea for you. In case you hadn't noticed the social media world is video-based, all right. Even Instagram has gone out declaring it's no longer a picture-sharing platform, it's really wanting video. Everywhere we go, video is dominant. Now I'm not saying every single time you need to be live but we want to be looking at different ways to serve up video for our audience. We know that majority of audiences really like to watch video, they feel a sense of connection with you, they feel sometimes like they're stepping into your space and they can get a little bit of your creative world. It's the best way to build trust and connection with that audience and so if that means getting over that uncomfortable knees, feeling the fear and doing it anyway, and of course learning some tips to build your confidence, then I'm going to suggest it's something you really do want to look at. Now if you haven't watched my previous video, get started with Facebook live video, then I suggest you do that after this one because it kind of gives you the bigger picture for getting into the video world, the live video world. But today specifically we want to look at building your confidence because if you feel more confident you are more likely to show up live. Now if you're new to this channel, a warm welcome, my name is Sophie Mahia and I help female artists to make a living from their art or creativity by building a stable profitable business doing what you love. Now I post videos on all things art business related to. That's why you're here which I guess you are. Don't forget to check out in the description below some suggested videos that you might like to watch next. Alright let's go ahead and dive into today's topic building confidence on camera. Let's look at those five ways that you can feel really good about your Facebook live video. Alright tip number one it is of course planning. I did mention it also briefly in the other video but let's take a little bit of a further look. What do I actually mean by planning? Right planning is going to be the preparation that's going to stop you from just pressing live launching opening your mouth and letting something fall out. Not a good experience for yourself or your viewer. Alright you want to make sure that you just take some time to think through some topics. What am I going to be talking about? And not just the one you're about to do but actually you could plan out a whole lot of topics. So for example I actually have my YouTube videos planned well right now at the time of filming for the rest of the year. So each topic, each week I have a topic and they all kind of lead on and link to each other. And when I used to regularly do Facebook live videos I did the same thing. Now I'm not suggesting you have to plan out a year but I would plan out a month, two months, three months. What are you going to talk about? How can they kind of connect? Always ask yourself why is somebody going to watch this? What is my audience? What are they actually going to take away from my video? So plan out some video ideas, you do it on a Word doc or in a notebook, something that's easy to refer to. And then use maybe this this structure of three five or seven ways tips or an easy way for you to remember. And then what I like to do is write down bullets. And then when I first started out going live I used to stick my piece of paper on the tripod underneath where I was filming so that if I got a little lost for one moment I could at least zoom back and think oh yeah wait a minute I'm talking about bullet number two out of five and I would just literally work my way through that. The other way I like to suggest preparing videos is thinking of a beginning, a middle and an end. So when you do all of that it helps you build your confidence. All right you go on knowing what you're going to be talking about. All right tip number two and that's preparing your area preparation. All right you want to make sure that you're going to go live at the time of day when perhaps the light is good. You want to make sure that you know where you're going to position your camera or your laptop so that you have the best light. Now for example I'll let you know into a tip. I normally shoot my videos in my studio not in my little home office space which is a little bit dark. It's kind of okay for you know live streaming to my own audience or clients. They like that kind of warm orange look but for doing this I like to have natural light. I clear my studio. I move stuff out of the way. I bring the lights in if I needed. I move the table out of the way. I put position the stall so that I'm sitting at the right place. I do the preparation. All right so that's what you need to be doing as well to feel more confident. You need to know that when you go live you haven't got something sticking out of your head behind you. All right you've positioned yourself. You've cleared the bin out of the way. You've I don't know moved a plant so that it's nicely in the shot etc etc. So do a little bit of planning and preparation. So don't forget in the preparation you can also stick the bullets to your tripod and you can also let anyone know that might be around. You could just ask them to go quiet because you're just gonna do a live video. Tip number three practice. Practice practice practice practice practice. All right you want to do a few trial runs. Use your video or even just put the thing up and don't even use it and go just pretend that it's live. So you can pretend to touch the button. You can pretend you're going live. Hi hello. It's usually the first sentence. That's when we normally have to retake. So by practicing and practicing. Hi hello my name is and today I'm in the studio and today I'm going to talk about this. Practice practice practice practice practice before you hit the live button. Tip number four. All right energy. Your energy doesn't always translate through the video so you need to up your energy and you need to speak a bit louder and you need to come across a bit more energetic. If somebody was standing in the room from you across the room from you they might think oh my goodness me this person's a bit much but I promise you when you've got to translate through that through the media of camera or laptop if you're speaking a little bit like this and you're a bit quiet and a bit slow people will switch off all right you just need to up your energy a little bit. So if that means you need to jump up and down skip hop jump go outside stretch you know put a bit of music on beforehand you just need to get yourself in a higher energy state for your live video and last but not least tip number five you still want to be yourself all right now you might say to me myself is super quiet and introverted and this isn't me at all that's not what I mean right you do need to put some of that on in order to communicate through the camera but be yourself in terms of who you are on the camera you know if you're funny be funny if you're someone who likes to share facts share facts if you use certain language use the language like be yourself don't try and be someone else maybe you've you've watched somebody else's videos and you think oh I should sit on the floor the way they do and and you know get up close to camera the way they do if that's not you don't do it all right find a way of being you on your camera right so I I'm very much just me and it's become more like that as I go along right I feel very comfortable on the camera feel comfortable on a live if something happens I'm just going to go with the flow I'm not changing who I am the way I communicate etc so that's what I want for you just to be you and show up as you on the camera which one are you going to focus on because I know that I've given you five tips to building your confidence live on camera you're going to go oh my goodness me I don't know where to start you can start from the top and work your way down but maybe you're just going to focus on one of them maybe you need to focus on raising your energy or maybe you need to do a better job of preparing or maybe you need to do a better job of planning which ones it going to be share below the video what you are going to do and any hurdles you perhaps have or any questions you have about going live on video because I love love love to answer all your questions now I promise you confidence does not build with having the right equipment of course it helps but please don't allow that to become a procrastination strategy I haven't got a microphone therefore I can't go live yet I haven't got the best light therefore I can't do it I'll put it off I'll put it off please don't do it just start with what you've got and you can always add as you go along confidence comes with you connecting with your audience alright it also comes with repetition doing it over and over and over again so if you start out and you start regularly going live you're going to bumble on the first one you're going to make mistakes you're going to say things you might regret you want to get those ones out of the way so that with time you start communicating a little bit more clearly and you're a bit happier with the end results now if you've loved this video don't forget to give my channel a thumbs up if you've loved this video don't forget to give the video a thumbs up because that really helps me build my channel and of course subscribe as well and hit the bell to get notified every time I post a new video thank you so much for watching we love to have you here really really grateful for your attendance and I'll see you on the next one