The Beginning
A Digital Trip
The Beginning •
Series One
That’s my small business journey compressed into IG Reels for my audience and community to get a chance to see what it’s been like building my first business and building a name for myself from scratch online.
Below this Reel are the 15 individual Reels that together make this Mega-Reel. It wasn’t the easiest thing for me to do and engineer in-a-way that felt authentic.
Building a genuine community and finding support for my small business dream on social has been the-most difficult journey of my existence. People will support memes and puppies over a small business owner.
People usually don’t support small businesses as much as they’d have you believe. I did waste the first few months of my business journey asking people on social if they’d support it. You really have to pay for it all, build it first and then promote it.
The interesting thing about persistence is that it almost always equates into results. I’ve never met anyone that put their absolute heart and soul into something and didn’t at least come out a better version of themselves.
I’d love to find more people that want similar things in life through social, at this stage of my career I’d physically fly to Egypt if I met someone that shared the same energy. I’d equally pay for a billboard as close to my haters homes if enough of them live in a general vicinity.
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Ideally, when I die I hope I’m forgotten over the things I leave behind. That would mean that there was genius to everything that I did.
Hopefully with more supporters I can start my small business up for longevity.
I’ll be going LIVE tonight on IG at 6pm EST to give my followers a chance to join and find supporters.
Most won’t, I’m well aware. For the twenty no’s there’s one yes. Which is also why I chuck lurkers & leaches at will.
Thanks for following.
For those that watched some-or-all of ‘A Digital. Trip’, let me know which episode you found the most value in.
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Song paired with video but not included:
Eiffel 65 • I’m Blue (Da Ba Dee)
I do not own the rights to this music.
