Ep 1 How to consistently post on social media as an artist
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In this first episode, I talk about how to organize a schedule to make sure that you promote consistently your art on social media. Being able to make a living from your art is a question of communicating enough to the world so that they find out about you!

Welcome at making a living from your art. This is Elie Castonguay, and I am your host for this new brand new podcast that I've been postponing for a while. I've been coaching artists for couple of years now and through the pandemic and helping so many people, I always wanted to start this podcast, but I was never organized enough to start it. So I'm really happy to actually start this first episode in my car. Just read Russell Brunson expert secrets book. And this is where he talks about how he started it, his sorry, his own podcast during his commute to work. So I'm doing the same thing this morning. I don't know if the sun is good or not, but it's gonna be the first episode. And as he mentioned in his book, it doesn't have to be perfect. Actually. We don't want it to be perfect because this is a podcast real life in the making content, you know? So anyway, so good morning to you. I don't know if you're listening this to your in your car this morning or later or whatever date you're listening to. I'm glad that you're here and that you're listening to this making and living from your art podcast. So actually this morning, I, I wanted to talk about getting organized because this, this was my main problem. And it still is. I mean, nobody's perfect still, and this is still a, a, a problem for me. As I have so many things that I want to do as an entrepreneur and my, my main goal in life is to help millions of artists. Like this is my main purpose, helping artists, making a living from their art. So that's why I named this podcast that name. So, and this is like my main, main problem to be able to do all the stuff that I wanna do without being overwhelmed by all the stuff that I want to do. So, one thing that always helped me in the past was when I was making really good schedules personally, what works best for me is like schedules that come back every week that are the same, of course depending if you're an artist, gigs come and go and, and the, the timing is not always the same, but you don't work like 80 hours a week being on stage or, or, or painting or, or like you practice, you do promotion, you make sales, you do admin work. You know, you do social media, all of that jazz. So if you're able to use all these tasks that could be put in a schedule, like in a regular constant, like same time, same day schedule, that's what helped me get more done or things done. sorry. Sometimes I curse or I use bad words. My main language is French. So I, I love to use curse words in English. That's one of my hobbies. So anyway. So, you know, let's say that you wanna do social media and you don't, you're like, oh, I'm not good at this. I never follow true. And I'm like, oh, I should do more. And, and I know my friends told me that everyone, every, every time I post, they love it. They like it, whatever. So the best way of being able to do this is to first, don't put any time on the schedule, just give you a challenge, give yourself a challenge for two months straight, give yourself a challenge of posting something every day or two. Like it doesn't have to be perfect. You can even skip a day or two if you want, but the challenge to be consistent or constant during two months. So 60 days do this and you will be amazed at how many people will actually tell you. And it can be anything about your art. It can be all, it can even be like personal stuff if you want, but mainly like let's say 80% on your art, 20% personal stuff, like family travel, adventure, movie, whatever, whatever you wanna talk about can be pictures, videos posts, questions that you ask your, your followers and do this for 60 days.