WeeklySteps: "Learning French with Life Questions"

🙏🏾Sorry for the delay! I kind of lost track of time... My bad.
So this two weeks were based on a new environment, a new house and a lot of new tutoring lessons.

This is so hard to keep the routine when the environment change. That affect me every time I move. And I don't like. I feel less focus, less productive, less motivated to exercise and my energy start going down.
The first week was very cool but now I feel that I just let my laziness take over.

✅ Online course: I've finished to watch the course on Udemy (that was not very good for the creation part of building an online course) .
I also decided that the first online course will focus only on physical and mental health.
I've start to outline my course on WorkFlowy: which subtopic I want to talk about, how many chapters, some notes, ideas...
So this is where I am now and the next step is at least to record the presentation video!

✅ Tutoring: I get a lot of ne tutoring session theses pasts weeks thanks to the new platform. So very happy, the money is coming in, but that mean also less time to work outside the tutoring, for the marketing on social media and creating the online course.

✅ Post: I try sometimes to create more creative post, simple and that people can engage with. I would like to really take more time to learn deeply on how work the algorithm of each platform. Sometime I think "this post is very good" and doesn't work at all and sometime the opposite happen too.
Watching analytics help but it's not enough.

🚀Let's try to make this new week amazing!🎉

A little bit late. 🙈 But I stay kind with myself!

So this week, a lot of little tasks, small progress.
First I changed apartment and these kinds of changes affect me and I lose time because of a lack of focusing.

✅ Regarding posting on social media, I wasn't very punctual. I missed some days = laziness and a little bit of fatigue.
I want to come back to be very on time with posting because I know that the algorithm likes to receive content every day, to have better engagement, and maybe get some students from outside.

✅ I've read a lot of books this week with a new app "blinkist": https://www.blinkist.com/en/nc/books

This app gives a resume of each book so that you get the main important ideas or advice of the author.
You can read a full book in 12 min. I love it.

Books I've read this week:
-Jab, Jab, Jab Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk
-The 100$ Startup by Chris Guillebeau
-Launch by Jeff Walker
-Side Hustle by Chris Guillebeau

✅ I get a new awesome comment on youtube for my French Series:
Kaylyn Emeline
"Great vids, looking forward to more uploads. This deserves more views, I think you should use promos to rank your videos!"

→Thank you Kaylyn!!🙏🏾

✅ Regarding the tutoring platform, I get accepted by two new platforms so I have my french tutor profile on 3 tutoring platforms now!
I am very happy! 🎉
I really feel that I have more students this week just on my old platform because summer is over, so I feel better regarding money anxiety!
Hopefully, the two new platforms will provide me also new students! 💶💶💶

✅ Regarding my online course project:
We brainstormed some ideas with my friend regarding the topic of the course. So for my first online course, I would like to speak about "re-organizing life" focusing on different topics such as health, relationships, and work.
Now let's WOOOORK!!

I would love to get that project almost done or at least going in a good direction for the end of September!

That's it for this week! And for the month of August 2021!
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Let's make September even better!!!🎉🎊

Hey community!

Here I am sharing what I've accomplished this week!
First, motivation came back.
After some questions I asked myself, a good book, and new inputs from my good friend and co-worker @andrecasal, I see the path clearer and the energy comes back! Halleluja! 🙏🏾

✅ I've started to listen to the audiobook "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill and follow this new mental model:
-Desiring wealth
-Making a plan
-Following the plan

And here some steps to create the plan:
1- Fix inside your mind the exact amount of money you desire
2- Determine exactly what you want to give for that money
3- Set a date when you want to have this money
4- Define a clear plan which will help to realize this desire
5- Write down all these steps in a notebook(or on your computer)
6- Read this list twice a day, in the morning when you take your coffee and at night before going to sleep

👆These steps helped me so much and give me my motivation back!

✅ I started to launch the Season 02 of my Series "Learning French with Life Questions" that you can follow here: https://youtu.be/TgYmt_JA40c
This new season is about Relationships and I am really happy to discuss this topic with my students! They are learning so well and I love to listen to their point of view! So interesting and so much fun👨‍👧‍👦

✅ I've designed a new thumbnail for Instagram's Posts of Season 02.

✅ Regarding social media I stay more focus on understanding Twitter for now because this is the one (at least for now) where I have the most engagement.
So what I did this week is to check other French teacher's accounts, and interact with their work and their followers to make their followers know about me and my work.
And it's working I think, I get 4 more followers with my interactions.
I think I should take 10' every day to do so, just 10' to interact with new people and content. 🔎

✅ I also learned a little bit about 'memes' to post on Twitter and post my first two memes this week:

I enjoy reading memes but to create them it's really not easy for me and took me emotional energy, to be honest. I have the strong belief that I am not a person that can make laugh people with words or speaking. So I had to force myself and shut up my ego to start retweeting people and post the first meme.
But it's done, and I am still alive! So I will just continue! Hahha 🥴

✅ I've recorded a new presentation video and registered for two new tutoring platforms to reach more students because even with my very good profile on the current platform I use, I really miss students and 💰💰💰 this month!
One of these two platforms already accepts my application and I should start these days! 💪

‼️ Little comment: I just realize now writing, that I've done so much this week my god! 🤯🤩 So proud!

✅ And finally:
I've started to work on creating my first online course.
I've checked some existing courses on Udemy and Skillshare to get a better idea of courses and try to find out what strategies to take to create something valuable and that people will love to buy.
So today I brainstormed a little bit and I've applied and started the Udemy process to create my course by following a Udemy online course that explains 'how to create an online course'! 😂

And that's all for this week!
💪💪💪

Good night! 🌔

Where am I right now?

Well, one week had passed and I just don't feel I've moved my business forward so much.

This is what I've done:
-I've edited 2 more videos and launched them on Youtube

-Learned some tips on how to create engagement on LinkedIn with Megan Grant: https://youtu.be/Mryt63PTpjo
And learned the following:

✅Do not redirect people toward another platform, if you want to put a link video for Youtube, just upload the video on LinkedIn directly!
✅Write longer pieces of content that teach people something
and add subtitles (most people watch the video with the sound turn off)
✅Hashtags (3 to 6 #)
Use popular hashtags but also ones that are less popular so you have less competitivity

And that's pretty much... This is a little bit disappointing 🙈

As always, I've posted every day on social networks, and yesterday I've posted my last episode of Season 01 of LFLQ Series.
And now, I feel completely lost.
I had my routine of posting everything, that was kind of easy and that I really enjoyed doing.
But now, I don't know which strategy to implement to start releasing season 02.

Should I:
❓Start directly posting tomorrow the first new episode?
(Knowing that I still miss two students to record)
❓Or let some days pass and post every day a countdown timer -to launch the first episode like in 4/5 days?

I think that I think too much! 🤯

Hey guys,

I know my plan was to write a daily review of the steps I've done to reach my milestone but after thinking about it deeply, I think it will be more complet and understandable to write a weekly review.
Also because there is some day that the task done is not really tremendous to talk about it.

So here I am!

First, I would like to share my monthly goal :
"BEING GOOD IN SOCIAL MEDIA": LEARN AND APPLY.

How I said in the previous post, I started to post everyday in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. Now this step is something that is automatic everyday, is taking me like 20 min to do it, and I really enjoy doing that: this is inside my morning routine now, drinking my coffee while posting my new episode!💪

But now I would like to learn how to really create engagement in this platforms to reach more people and make them interact with my posts.
So I started learning about Twitter, reading the following article: https://adespresso.com/blog/23-strategies-increase-twitter-engagement/

I've learned how to efficiently use the hashtag and I try to implement everyday a little change in the new post. I still have to spend some hour on it! I hope that this week-end I will at least finish to read this article and move on to learn how to create engagement in an other social media.

More than that I've recording an other student but also editing and uploading new episodes on Youtube.
Now I reached the point that my post match with the post: that's mean that the episode I talk about on my daily post is actually released the same day of the post. 💪

🍾🍾Finally, I would like to share that this week, after working almost 3 month on this "series", the Season 01 (Health) of "Learning French with Life Questions" is completely done: recorded, edited and uploaded!!!!! 🎊🎊🎊

Today: 31/07/2021
I am in my Milestone 3: "Sell online courses"

Till now, for this milestone, I've created the idea of this series and think deeply on how I want this product look like:
https://www.indiehackers.com/product/learning-french-with-life-questions

I've thought and write questions for the season 01 (health) and season 02 (relationships) of my series " Learning French with Life Questions".
I've record and edit most of the season 01 (health) and starting recording season 02 (Relationships).
The questions of season 03 (Professionnal Life) are almost done.

I've created social media accounts on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram

I've created a thumbnail and cover image for social media with Canva

I've wrote an amazing article on medium that I used for my Youtube description. And I want to say that I am very proud of it.

I've already launch on Youtube most of the season 1

Everyday I post on each social media the video that has been released in Youtube, with a colourful photo and a description.

And here I am! I am in a moment right night that I do the same work and steps everyday, with the feeling that I am not moving forward.

Tomorrow what I should do is recap which videos I have and that I still need to edit.
Edit them and upload them on Youtube directly.
Start recording Season 03 next week and writing questions season 04, and don't stop!!

I need to plan next week day per day! That method was helping me last month, I have to come back one it!