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The Benefits of Going Live On Social Media
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In this podcast episode, Nic Torres explores the impact of live streaming on enhancing one's pottery business and craft. Sharing his personal experiences with broadcasting on YouTube, Nic reveals how the immediacy of live interaction fosters creativity, community engagement, and potential sales without the hard sell. He discusses how live streaming forces him to problem-solve in real-time, resulting in innovative designs and deep connections with viewers. By likening the process to being a good listener for a friend in need, Nic encourages artists to embrace the live platform, despite initial challenges, for its ability to spur on-the-spot creativity and to invite community contributions that can shape their artistic work in exciting new directions.
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Introduction to Live Streaming Benefits
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If you're struggling to come up with a new idea for your pottery, try going live on Instagram or YouTube.
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What is up Shape Nation this is Nick Torres here and on this episode I'm going to be talking about the benefits of going live on YouTube, Facebook, or Instagram or even TikTok if you choose that matter.
Selling Pottery Through Live Streaming
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Very recently I came up with the idea because one of the things I want to achieve this year is that I want to be able to sell my pottery more often. Not just more often but I also want to be able to sell it
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I want to be able to sell it out, you know, because that's the dream of something I've always wanted, is I want to be able to sell out my own pottery because then I know that I'm heading in the right direction with everything.
Engaging Audience with YouTube Live
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But why am I saying to go live on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook or any social media platform? Well, one of the ways I'm trying to sell out my pottery is I'm trying to master YouTube.
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And what I'm trying to do here is I'm trying to get it to where people start asking me about my own pottery, where I don't have to really necessarily sell it to them. They just ask, oh, is this available or is this, you know, where can I find one of these? That's one of my goals. And the reason why I'm doing YouTube is because YouTube has a little bit of a better community building in it if you were able to master a little bit. So that's what I'm trying to do.
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And one of the things I've been experimenting with is I've been going live on YouTube. I've done it twice now. And here is what I have learned from these two live sessions on YouTube.
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So my goal with going live right now isn't to necessarily have a bunch of viewers on my work.
Improvisation and Creative Outcomes
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Right now is just to kind of get comfortable going live, be live so that I can just be in that zone, take one step at a time, one step at a time, and eventually, hopefully, it will snowball into something beautiful.
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And as I'm going live here, a lot of times I have a plan with my pottery. Let's say the last one I did was I had a base and I cut in half and the plan was to make it look like a final boss fight where the boss was looking down onto the main character.
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And the main character just busted in through the door and in he came and he was ready for that fight. That was the attention I had for that one. But my base was too narrow, so I couldn't create that idea that I had.
Processing Ideas Aloud
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And because I was doing it live, I had to come up with something on the spot in order to like, even if like, although nobody was listening or like looking at the video,
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I started coming up with something live because live videos will stay there afterwards. I had to come up with something on the spot. And so what I came up with after literally shred of having a conversation with myself and trying to make the live interesting was a person looking over the cliff and somebody climbing up the cliff and it kind of looks like he's looking down on it. And that ended up being way better than my first idea. But that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't live. I would have pondered that for a long while.
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I probably would have either gotten up, maybe gotten some food, walked it off, whatever, and it would have took me a lot longer if I wasn't doing it live.
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So I'll think
Encouragement from Viewer Interaction
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of it like this. Have you ever had a conversation with someone? Maybe it's, you know, like a family member or a friend and they're having a really rough time. You know, something just happened to them. Maybe their girlfriend or boyfriend broke up with them and they are ranting to you about it. They're just ranting you and they start asking questions like, have you ever felt this way? Like, you know, have you ever felt alone? Have you ever just rammed on about it to you? And they don't really give you a chance to speak.
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but you listen anyways, you listen anyways. And by the time they're done talking, they feel so much better. They didn't need somebody to answer the questions. They needed somebody to listen. And it's the same thing if you try to go live and you like stuck on an idea, go live because what this is gonna do is gonna force you to talk out the conversation in your head and to talk out the idea in your head, you know, because now you're on the spot.
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You're on the spot and everything is going to be going like just kind of flowing into you. And you're trying to make it interesting, but you're also trying to come up with a good idea. So you're coming up on the spot with a new idea, new form. And that's why I think if you're having a little bit of a struggle with coming up with new ideas, try going live on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, wherever it is, you do social media.
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This is just something I have noticed from my first two lives, but I think it can really help you out if you are somebody that wants to push an idea even further.
Embracing Failures to Grow Skills
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Not only that, if you already have a good following, going live could actually get you new ideas from outside people. You know, you could ask me, what should I do for this piece? And then they'll give you their input. And then if you like it, then you could do it.
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That's why I think we should all at least be trying to get out of our comfort zone and try to go live. Don't, the first couple of times you're going live, you're going to go, you're going to suck. And it's true. Cause I still suck right now at going live on YouTube, but that's okay.
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The more you suck, the better you'll get eventually. The more you do it, the better you'll get. So don't think of it as like trying to try to, you know, get a bunch of listeners in all at once. What you want to do is try to just set it up and just do it and try to improve your pottery.
Finding Your Pottery Voice
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So that is just my take and it's just something I have learned recently. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. I'll see you guys in the next one.
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Thanks for listening to this episode of Shaping Your Pottery with Nick Torres. If you want to start discovering your own unique voice, you must first start with the right questions. That's why I put together a free 15 question booklet for you to start discovering your own unique pottery voice. All you have to do is go to shapingyourpottery.com forward slash questions to get this free booklet.