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Don’t Waste the Next 3 Years of Your Life. Damnit.

So here’s the thing that kept coming up for me as I was walking around the streets of San Francisco tonight after 2 glasses of wine and 3 cigarettes and listening to a few hours of Question the Rules audio on my iPhone while sending random texts to twitter and my BFFs.

I’ve been trying to write copy and promote the 3 Days to Video program and I keep saying that I’m getting stuck by various insane mindset problems and procrastination and blocks against self promotion …. but really that’s all a bunch of crap.

The hard part of me trying to explain why you should buy 3 Days to Video is that I didn’t buy it.

I learned how to create videos by making them.

Lots of them. At last count, 147 or so of them.

And some of them sucked.

Well, lots of them sucked.

(dude. look at the first few videos on my youtube page from back in 2007. they are freaking terrible.)

But after hundreds of hours of planning and shooting and editing and rendering and encoding and uploading and promoting …

… something happened.

The videos worked.

The weird thing is that I didn’t feel like I was doing anything.

I was just being myself.

Just talking about stuff that made me uncomfortable or embarrassed. Just showing how I’m an idiot and how my daughter left her dirty sippy cups in the backseat of my car and how I keep futzing with my bra strap.

Just talking about what pissed me off or how things should be changed or what I want to do with my life or what scares the crap out of me.

I was speaking my truth on video.

And people fell in love.

Now, I’m not saying that video works for everyone.

Some people are just not going to be able to speak their truth on video. If it’s hard for you to communicate your passion to a client face to face, if you can easily pass on your message via your writing, if you can’t commit to revealing yourself this way, video may not be for you.

But for some of you, video will be the conduit you need to speak your truth.

The method for you to communicate your passion. To bond to your audience. To create your tribe.

And I don’t want you to keep waiting.

I don’t want you to keep being scared or intimidated by video.

I don’t want you to have to spend hundreds of freaking hours to figure it out!!!

Damnit.

So instead of wasting the next 3 years of your life making all the mistakes I made, spending hundreds of hours learning everything you need to know, posting dozens of mediocre videos until you get the one that clicks, you have another choice.

You can learn how to make videos from me.

In 3 Days to Video I’m going to teach you everything I know about making videos. In a logical, easy to follow way. And you’re going to make your video as we go. So not only do you leave the workshop with one finished video, but you’ll know exactly how to do the next one.

And to get you off your butt and make sure you make a decision asap, I’m giving you a bonus for signing up asap.

If you sign up for 3 Days to Video by this Friday (May 7th) I will personally look at your new video and tell you everything that’s good and everything that needs to be fixed, so your next one will be awesomer.

We can do this live on the phone/skype or I can record a video capture of my recommendations. Whatever works for you.

So, if you want to speak your truth, if you want to bond with your tribe, if you want to take a risk and create a video is works for you, go to 3 Days to Video right now and buy it.

#thatisall

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  • http://twitter.com/DooneyPug Lori Finnigan

    I don't have a tribe like you or the need to do a video but I love this post, & I think your offer is rockin'! I will retweet this supertastic offer every time I see it. Best wishes!

  • http://allisonnazarian.com/ Allison Nazarian

    I love you and I love how you spell damnit. And I fell in love w you in person on the dance floor. For the record.
    xo ~ Alli

  • http://www.melodygranger.com Melody Granger

    My first few videos aren't perfect! It has a lot to do with my equipment, PC. Are you sharing recommendations on the technical end?

  • http://www.mikestenger.com Mike Stenger

    Awesome stuff Elizabeth. I can relate as far as videos absolutely sucking. Embarrassed myself just the other day as I was going through some old ones. Ughh.

  • http://awakenyoursoul.wordpress.com/ Peggie

    I love this – and it is the inspiration of my desire to create a montage of some sort of people talking about their purpose in their business. But a video montage. And yes, I'm going to tell people who are afraid of making a video for me and my blog (could happen) that they can learn how to do it easily — with you. I don't want to teach people any technology stuff. I just love it. I jump in. I see how it makes me sing in my heart to try something new. And I see how people are living their purpose in their work and their eyes light up when they tell me about it. So I want them to tell me about it on video. So I can tell other people about them. So. I guess this is a call to action peeps – -send me your videos (1- 3mins) about how your purpose is in your work and vice versa. no need to fine tune. Just do it. And yes, work with EPW to learn if you want. she rocks.

  • http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com ElizabethPW

    Yes, in the 3 Days to Video (and my other video tutorial programs) I'm teaching technical stuff, including equipment recommendations!

    (you can get the basics on my free tutorial at http://epw.me/quickstart )

  • http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com ElizabethPW

    thanks for the support Lori!

    btw, you don't need a tribe to do a video … video is how I *found* my tribe :)

  • http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com ElizabethPW

    yes. #metoo :)

  • http://elizabethpottsweinstein.com ElizabethPW

    have you ever checked out @garyvee's old videos?

    http://tv.winelibrary.com/2006/02/21/episode-1-…

  • http://www.mikestenger.com Mike Stenger

    Wow, very cool. Big difference between then and now andthat's how it is with just about everybody who gets into video. We warm up to it & get better as time goes on.

  • http://www.MavenDiary.com Wendy Maynard

    You know, I think your videos have gotten a lot better. But the videos from 2 years ago aren't that bad (I do wonder about the Enya music, though).

    This one is classic: http://www.youtube.com/elizabethpw#p/u/55/kFHmQ…

    “Bye-bye poop heads”

    You're both awesometastic!

    Wendy

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  • http://www.seoconsult.co.uk Jack

    I watched all your videos.You have done a fantastic job.
    Speaking the truth on the video is very hard and you did it.