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Scared of Video? Go Live for 30 Days Straight. Here’s Why
If you're nervous when you fire up the camera, I'm going to share a piece of advice Dan Martell gave me three years ago that I absolutely did not want to hear: go live for 30 days in a row. I was terrified of video—I could write great scripts, set up the tech perfectly, get the lighting and mic just right, then hit record and completely blank. Stage fright. So when Dan told me to go live with no retakes, no edits, where if I look dumb I'm stuck with it? That was the LAST thing I wanted. But I did it anyway. And I credit that exercise for paving the way for the hundreds of videos I've created since—YouTube every week for two and a half years, LinkedIn, Instagram, webinars, VSLs, you name it. This episode breaks down why it works: (1) it eliminates excuses and procrastination—I couldn't waste time buying new lights or tweaking camera angles, I had to go live by end of day even if it was just my iPhone, (2) it's forced exposure therapy that builds tolerance to your fear, and (3) it compresses learning—30 videos in 30 days versus taking 60 weeks to publish 30 videos spreads that learning over a year. I was surprised how supportive people were, and I even got a client from it. But don't expect applause or followers—the real ROI is internal. Your only goal is to finish. Fire up a live right now, announce you're doing 30 days, and that's your first video done.
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Welcome to Repeatable Revenue, hosted by strategic growth advisor , Ray J. Green.
About Ray:
→ Former Managing Director of National Small & Midsize Business at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he doubled revenue per sale in fundraising, led the first increase in SMB membership, co-built a national Mid-Market sales channel, and more.
→ Former CEO operator for several investor groups where he led turnarounds of recently acquired small businesses.
→ Current founder of MSP Sales Partners, where we currently help IT companies scale sales: www.MSPSalesPartners.com
→ Current Sales & Sales Management Expert in Residence at the world’s largest IT business mastermind.
→ Current Managing Partner of Repeatable Revenue Ventures, where we scale B2B companies we have equity in: www.RayJGreen.com
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Transcript
If you're nervous when you fire up the camera and have trouble creating content, video content for social media or anything else really, then I'm going to share with you a piece of advice that Dan Martell gave me when I was consulting and, and doing some fractional work with him as, as we were building the, the sales team at SaaS Academy. And his piece of advice was: go live for 30 days in a row. Now, let me tell you, this is the last piece of advice that I wanted at the time. Because three years ago, I was really scared of, of video content and I, it's, it's hard to put in words but I would, I could write a good script, I, you know, I had good content ideas, I'd get all the tech set up, I'd get, you know, everything just right. I'd get the lighting right, the mic right and buy new shit and try to engineer everything perfectly. And then I would hit record and I would just blank. It's like the person that wrote the script that's sitting in front of me is gone and I now have less IQ. And it was just nerves. It was like stage fright.
