- Good morning, happy Monday.
I am getting ready for a pretty exciting week,
and so I thought I would just vlog what's happening here
at Vlog Boss Studios slash After Mark headquarters.
I'm actually alone, other than a beagle,
of course, in the apartment.
The After Mark team, Vin, Blake, and Yarby,
are all in New York at the Ad Week event,
so essentially, we have a client that's doing
some cool stuff for Ad Week,
and they're out there filming it.
I'm super bummed 'cause this would've been
my first opportunity to go to Ad Week,
and I can't go because I'm super excited
I'm speaking tomorrow in Cincinnati,
and so I'm going on my own little road trip.
Today is really a focus of getting some videos done.
I also have some just little errands I need to go on,
and then tomorrow, going to Cincinnati to speak,
and then Wednesday, probably more videos
before I drive to Connecticut on Thursday
for some fam-bam time with Vin and his people,
the Italians, the family.
So I am gonna start filming tomorrow's video right now.
Unfortunately, I have to use this camera,
otherwise, I might give you some sort of behind the scenes.
I have to use this camera 'cause they have
all the other Sony gear in New York.
Yeah, balancing all the videos
happening on one camera.
First world vlogger problems, I suppose.
(electronic music) What's up, socials?
Welcome back to my channel.
Wardrobe change, yeah.
I have to film one more video,
so I needed to change my clothes.
Lady vlogger problems, I know.
It's starting to get really bad.
Like, I'm shopping way too much
just to have something else to wear in a video.
That's my life right now.
Also, it's fall.
It's not actually fall.
It's just fall in the stores.
But I have one more to record.
There's another one that's gonna take me
a little bit longer, I'm trying to figure out
if I have time today, or if I'm gonna film it
on Wednesday when I get back,
but this one I have to do now is a little bit chattier,
so don't need to do a whole lot of moving and shaking,
just pretty much set the camera up and talk.
If I have any overlays, they'll probably be
pulled from someplace else, so yeah,
so that should be pretty easy,
and then I just have to figure out
if I'm still gonna have time for that lengthy one.
I don't think I'm going to,
but I have lots of errands to run today,
so if I could do that before traffic starts.
The only downside of living downtown is,
when you want to get done with work,
so does everybody else,
so you really do not want to be trying
to leave downtown at the same time as everyone else
when you actually control your own schedule.
No, that's a dumb idea.
(electronic music) Okay, let's go film.
What's up, socials?
Welcome back to my channel.
It's been a very busy day, but productive,
especially this evening, really productive.
I had quite a few thank you notes to get done
from our wedding that has to go out today,
preferably yesterday.
Making sure that my presentation is game
for my speaking engagement tomorrow in Cincinnati,
and I also just finished editing a video for tomorrow,
so yeah, time for bed.
(people chatter)
Okay, I'm in Cincinnati.
It was a total rush this morning because
there was an error in my video, so I had to fix it,
and I was running out the door,
but I finally made it to Cincinnati,
and I'm about to go speak to a bunch
of amazing Ohio realtors.
(people chatter)
- Hello, everyone.
It's a little loud.
Wanted to thank everybody for coming to lunch today.
I want to thank our sponsor, Opa,
for sponsoring the convention.
We have Amy Schmittauer from Columbus, Ohio.
She is known as the Vlog Boss,
so I'd like to have everybody welcome her,
and I will get this started.
(crowd claps)
- Thank you very much.
Hello.
- [Crowd] Hello.
- Oh, we're feeling good,
'cause that was some good food, right?
Props, props.
Anybody in here making video yet in their business?
Fabulous.
Anyone scared to death of it?
Awesome, even better.
To kick it off, I'd like to tell you a story.
This other girl, she got pregnant,
she's not gonna fit into the dress.
(crowd laughs)
If you could just step in.
So I thought, "What could you do
"to make someone feel even more special
"on the most special day of their life?"
They found a television
that had a DVD player attached to it,
and they wheeled it into the rehearsal dinner,
and we popped my DVD in, and pressed play.
And that was it.
That was the moment that changed the rest of my life.
How do we stand out when it's such a busy world
of social, and video, and content marketing?
Well, here are the four things that we're gonna go over.
Okay, I'm done.
(sighs)
I kind of, like, got a little frazzled.
I guess nobody could tell,
but I got a little frazzled because
one of my slides was wrong, and (sighs)
that bums me out, I hate that.
I hate it when it's not perfect,
but anyway, it was fine.
I guess they liked it.
They liked it.
I think they liked it.
It was good.
I think it was good.
Sold some books too.
Okay, I'm not gonna get home in time
to publish my video when I really wanted to.
It's 3:30.
I usually publish at four o'clock on Tuesdays,
but because this video today is, like,
could go either way, good for the kids after school,
good for the parents after work,
but also good for people who are working right now
and might be doing research, I just thought,
I kinda want to hit east coast
before they're checking out completely for the day,
so I'm gonna fire up my hotspot, get this puppy out.
I still have to add YouTube cards.
(clicks tongue)
But I'm really excited about this one.
It's very chatty.
It's very chatty, but it's a really fun video.
Hopefully, you've already watched it,
because I just posted it two days ago
from when you're watching this.
This is what you do.
This is what you do when you gotta get the vlog out.
You stop at the rest stop.
Save, okay.
Two cards I have to add, and then we're good.
- [Amy On Video] What's up, socials?
Welcome back to my channel.
- Good to be back, Amy.
Good to be back.
I do wish it was a little bit easier to go ...
Come on.
I wish it was a little bit easier
to search your archives in the YouTube cards thing.
Apparently, if you have too many videos,
they don't want to give you that many,
so I gotta go search for URLs a lot of the time.
Come on, YouTube, I'm trying to backlink to some oldies.
I love that I'm making a followup
to a video a year after I did it.
(chuckles)
I just think that that's funny timing.
- [Amy On Video] And so, in frustration, I made a video
about this time last year called
"Why I'm Not Following You on Twitter."
When people actually said ...
Been on Twitter a very long time.
Back in the days when people actually said
what they were up to rather than just
sharing a bunch of links to their blog post.
- Preach, girl.
Preach.
We're live.
Okay, I gotta go now.
Up bright and early again today.
I have a board meeting for the transit authority
that I sit on, and yeah, actually,
last night, I went to the sort of
going away reception for the CEO, who is retiring.
(crowd claps)
So I think, today, there's gonna be
a lot of that going on as well
since his last days are upon us, so kind of sad.
I'm really bummed.
I really enjoyed working with him,
but you know, onto the next chapter,
as always, with any company,
so that's what I'm doing this morning.
So much to do to get ready
before I leave for Connecticut tomorrow,
especially since we have to give the Kia back.
The Kia is ending its time with us as well,
and I'm like, "Oh, I should probably
"go run those errands I definitely need a car for
"before there's no more car."
Back to the car-free lifestyle, that's what's going on.