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3 Things I Did to Improve My Facebook Lives

The More Profitable Podcast with Stacey Harris

English - March 21, 2017 07:00 - 14 minutes - 9.99 MB - ★★★★★ - 50 ratings
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Welcome to episode 341 of Hit the Mic with The Stacey Harris.

Facebook Live. I love it. It's fantastic. Last week we talked about how I've been using going live to really improve my social media community, and the engagement, etc, etc. Really, we talked about two reasons you should never go live on social media, or at least the two reasons people give me and why they're just utter BS. It was only a little click baity you guys. It was only a little click baity.

Today I want to talk about three tips I have been using to improve my Facebook Lives. As I mentioned last week, I, you and I, we go live together on Facebook once per week, minimum. Generally speaking it's on Thursdays, I've gone live more than once a week a couple of times this year, but the Thursday show is pretty much the standard issue Facebook Live time for you and I to connect.

I want to talk about a few things I've done to, again, improve that, not only from a you guys getting a better show, but from a me seeing real results standpoint. Transparency, guys. Seeing results is important. Number one. I started using OBS. OBS allows me to stream from my desktop on my webcam, in fact, to you guys in the Facebook world. It also allows me to do things like smoothly transition from me onscreen to my desktop to, if I'm going to have guests or anything, I can stream more than one person, and flip back between the two of us, and do side by side stuff, and I'm able to do that really seamlessly. I have not done Facebook Lives with a guest yet, although it's something that I might do at some point. I just haven't yet.

Also, it allows me to do things like schedule an upcoming stream on Facebook, so I can actually let you guys know in advance, which is particularly helpful considering I don't go live at the same time. I go live around the same time, some time between nine and ten-thirty, usually on Thursdays when there's not a challenge or something happening. Also, when I have the challenges, I'm able to schedule when we're going to be live to do some video stuff, and then share a link to that live and the email before it happens, and say this is where we're going to connect. Just like I would a webinar link. That's been incredibly helpful and I'm able to do that through OBS.

One of the first things I would suggest if you're looking at up-leveling your Facebook Lives, you want to move up from just your iPhone or your smartphone or whatever, look at using OBS. That's a really great way to up-level. That's not to say that going live on your iPhone or Samsung or whatever smartphone device you have isn't cool. If that's where you're at to start, do it. Again, pointing to last weeks episode, if you haven't listened to it yet, go listen to it. It doesn't have to be fancy, it just has to get done.  If you want to up-level it, and you want to be able to do some cool stuff, check out OBS. That was a big game changer in not only up-leveling the value I was able to give, and up-leveling the environments and the kind of content I'm able to share, but also for me, it has a much more pro feel, and I'm much more likely to do it when I have it scheduled, and I've already told you guys I'm going to be live Thursday at ten am. That's an advantage for me.

Again, guys, transparency

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