So...What is Periscope & How Can it Benefit Me as a Business Owner??

Hey guys!  Thanks for checking out my blog., SO!  There's this relatively new app call periscope (and its totally addicting I might add).  The app allows you to broadcast video's LIVE.  The app keeps your video available for replay for 24 hours.  After 24 hours....its gone.  Unless you have the app to automatically save your broadcasts (which I do), or you can sign up for something called "Katch."  Katch automatically saves your broadcast to it's cloud and allows you and other to view the replay forever.  

How can this benefit me as a business owner, you ask.  Well.  Periscope is pretty awesome for business owners because you can chat LIVE with your followers.  Its a raw look at you, the person they are following.  Not only is it raw, but they get to interact with you via a chat onscreen during your broadcast.  Your followers can also tap the screen to give you hearts.  The can give you 3 hearts or 300 hearts.  Another great thing about the 24 hour time limit is people will be more on their game to check you out.  If their phone notifies them that you are live, they are more likely to go ahead and push watch because they can't (if you choose not to use Katch or upload to youtube) view your video, say, in 25 hours.  

Are you a nutritionalist, gamer, scrapbooker, beachbody coach, fationista, pastor, bible journaler (hey hey!), it works rep, younique rep, monat rep? ....you get the point.  Anyone who is looking up to you on your team can benefit from what you have to say or what you have to show them.  They WANT direction,  But, you don't want to get on video and just be blabbing about anything.  You want to make sure you have quality to give your followers.

And one more thing.  Whatever you point the screen at when you hit "Start Broadcast" will be your thumbnail for that video.  So, choose something nice, like your face or a picture you look up on google images.....anything but your feet :)  And, for the sake of your replay followers go ahead and start the video when you hit start, other wise you will have many people waiting for 1-3 minutes (or not waiting) while you allow people to enter the room with you.  You can wait, say, 20 or 30 seconds... but I would not recommend waiting any longer.  Follow your followers back. Watch them and give them hearts.  And have fun and be yourself!!!

Thanks everybody, Blessings!

Amber