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Speaker 1:It's pretty incredible, and what they've created. But, I digress. You'll possibly hear in the background the vacuum going. It's a cleaning morning here and at Good Stuff headquarters north and which is why my door is locked, so I'm avoiding the cleaning issues. But I am here to talk to you a bit about just the Quickly, before I get to the work that I need to do today is, the launch of my Snapchat one zero one course, what I which I talked about in the previous episode.
Speaker 1:It went live today this morning 9AM and it's out in the world. So the the folks who pre ordered got an email with it. They've started watching it. They've, yeah. And I haven't gotten feedback already because I messed up one of the videos.
Speaker 1:Apparently, my video version or step 3.5 that was already a mess up because I'd forgotten a little piece on the the most one of the most important fun parts of Snapchat is the face filters. I'd forgotten to put a little video on that in there and so I to put an insert a video which I did last minute yesterday but in the process somehow I duplicated the step three video so they actually got two of those and so thanks to Todd for letting me know. I uploaded it this morning, fixed it, sent out a notification to everybody, and hopefully they're watching at some point today and I was like, I was really nervous this morning actually, probably more so than I actually realized before it went out because, I just had like this fear of like, what if I completely screwed this up? There's there's some like, there's friends and and and air quotes, important to people who I trust, who if I did a crap job, probably wouldn't recommend it to other people and not that I was hoping like I was honestly hoping for expecting a total of 10 sales like just that was just kinda like my don't be disappointed goal.
Speaker 1:Moderate success goal kind of thing. And there's been more than that. I'm not gonna talk sales numbers this episode. I'm gonna say that for when I can actually like flush it all out. I've been keep keeping good notes of sort of the process and stuff so that'll come yet.
Speaker 1:But I just wanna do it when I can actually sort of have a episode focused on the kind of recap of everything and you know, talk about this thing, mistakes I made and all that kind of stuff, and surprises and interesting things that happen and what I do different next time. But, was really nervous that I was sort of just screwed up. I actually went back quickly this morning and updated the a little the intro PDF that came with it just to explain why I'd I shot all the video in portrait format on the like what fits on an iPhone because that's what Snapchat's interface obviously will be is like your your phone or your Android device. And so but the at the last minute I like, what if people think I screwed up and didn't do it like letterbox video like they, you know, normally would see. I was worried that that was gonna be like an issue that somebody's, know, it's gonna they're gonna have like a MacBook Air, let's say, a smaller screen and it's not gonna fill the screen or it's gonna be too big for the screen and what are they gonna do and yeah.
Speaker 1:Just like dumb brain thoughts that in the morning that you think about. And then I was also just reminded last night when I was sort of I was talking with Sue about it and like in as much as the total amount is is, more money or whatever, the the amount each individual person paid for it, especially the pre orders was $5. So it's not like I've ripped them off in a huge way despite what some guy on Twitter was saying that thinking that I was like, you know, trying to rip people off by selling them a course on how to use Snapchat or something. As if it was some easy way to get a ton of money. It's definitely not a good way to get rich, that's for sure.
Speaker 1:But, yeah. Anyways, the it was I just kinda nervous. And so I updated the the PDF, the intro PDF quickly last minute with a bit more details. And I've got some good feedback from folks and, just got an email. Actually, just as I started recording that from Justin Jackson, if you're listening, thanks for this.
Speaker 1:He said, just read your read your introduction PDF and watch the first video. Well done. High quality. Great pacing. The pacing part actually, as I speed through my talk right now for some reason, the pacing part is something I was also really nervous about because it's as anybody who's taught anything knows, it's really hard to sort of gauge.
Speaker 1:It's hard enough in a room of a full of people who can give you feedback how you're doing. If you're going too fast, should I go more and more detail in this part or whatever. But when you're putting together a video series like this, I have no feedback until it's done and somebody walks through and they have questions and maybe they remember to ask the questions or maybe they don't. And so I was that was one thing I was really nervous about. Justin's done a ton of this kind of stuff, courses and teaching and and stuff like that and so I you know, really appreciate his feedback on that.
Speaker 1:And he's been a tremendous help in me asking him random dumb questions at 11:00 at night as I my lizard brain whatever thinks of stupid stuff to ask. So thanks Justin and, so I definitely caught a bit of the bug of this like creating stuff that you it's it's just a lot of fun to like create something that's exactly I'm completely involved in. Not that I wouldn't wanna work with people on it but like I have complete say over just like spending time on this part but not on the other part or whatever and choosing where to spend my time on it, what font to use, what you know, all that kind of stuff. And and then getting to release it into the world and see if people are willing to part with a bit of money for it. It's fun and it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1:It's not like the most cost effective way to or the most efficient way for me to make money right now. But we'll see where this goes I guess with it. I I don't think I'm gonna become one of those people who's just putting out podcasts to sell you stuff, so don't worry about that yet. You'll be able to smell that on me well in advance if that starts to happen. But it is fun and it's got me my brain going on other ideas of things I could do.
Speaker 1:Gumroad as a platform is has been a little bit frustrating just a little bit of sort of follow-up I guess because coincidentally Twitter has blocked links to Gumroad on twitter.com and and you know, any sort of tweets that contain a link to Gumroad get flagged as possible spam or issues which I I'm sure there's somebody out there who's abusing it. I've been tweeting like maybe a couple times a day trying to link to it. So it's definitely not like me abusing the system but, so I'm in the search for a couple other platforms to look at. One is called Teachable. Another one that Justin let me know about is called withcoach.com and so I'll be, you know, just investigating those two.
Speaker 1:Now that I have like an actual course that I can just upload and use a platform with, it's kind of fun to mess around with and try some of these things. So at any rates, if you have questions that you'd like me to answer about this thing, I'd love to hear them. [email protected] is my email address or on Twitter and also to categorize, catalog them all and and do one episode where I ask answer a bunch of questions. And, yeah. Thanks for buying it if you did.
Speaker 1:Thanks for preordering especially, and thanks for sharing it with friends if you do. The link is in the show notes to it if you wanna share it with friends, family, somebody who's curious about Snapchat. And, it's now gone up to $7 so a whole extra $2. I think I'll probably raise the price on it at some point like double it or something because really not just you but like if somebody's gonna spend $7, they're probably gonna spend 14 on a course like that. There's almost an hour of video footage in there.
Speaker 1:It took quite a while to put together, so I don't have a problem charging. I just wanted to kinda put a price that was low enough that wouldn't distract people from really worrying about it too much at this point for the first launch. Anyways, I'm getting into the recap and review stuff that I promised I wouldn't do. Thank you for listening. Hope you have a great weekend.
Speaker 1:See you on Snapchat. I'm I Chris three zero six on there. I Chris on Twitter and, something on Myspace. Bye.