Beri.Media

Starting the week

by uploading a blog article. Good start I’d say. But to be honest, it also feels hard sometimes to get up so early and do what I do for Beri Media (writing articles, coding, organisational work, improving the fotoprints.shop, …). I doubt and wonder if this leads to anything. Yes, it is nice that I learn a lot, I am definitely not standing still, but for that, what I do, is a lot of work. I have no proclaimed goal in mind like: launch an app that make money or I want to be a Freelancer in Web Development. And what I have recognised in the last year is, that if you just start something it does not lead you anywhere. Just setting up a Fiverr Account for example. That does not make you a Freelancer instantaneously, does not make you any money whatsoever. You need to go the full way. Talking to people, sticking to it for a long time, slowly building a base. But in the Freelancer example, I did not do this. I moved on to land with app development with a friend right now. I am trying to go the full mile with  https://fotoprints.shop/, but it is a slow moving thing and I think I don’t I can sell photos for a living. This will forever stay a hobby. So on days like this it feels hard and I feel a little down and don’t know if I want to move forward. But what else would I do then? Just settling for going to work and doing my sports? Sounds also not appealing to me.

So I continue. With good music I added a “Poskarten” Variant to my shopify products and added one new one:

https://fotoprints.shop/product/date-auf-dem-jochberg

This makes me want to get my camera out more often again. But not being able to do this is also a sign of my new life. Not so much adventures with the campervan anymore. Not so much in nature. mhhh.. But I will try and shoot a new collection in the upcoming months.

TikTok that takes courage.

Seconds after I wrote the above things down, I just took my phone out and recorded a monologue about it. It felt good I have to say, but I am not yet sure if I want to post this video. But it feels right. I can explain what I want to explain better than in any cutted, polished video or blog post. I will probably post. Link is here:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdmuWKJA/

Since then I have posted 3 more videos in this format and I really like it. I will try to stick with it. I connected my mic (https://www.amazon.de/Samson-Q2U-Aufnahme-Podcasting-Paket-XLR-Mikrofon/dp/B001R747SG?th=1) to my phone and unburied my phone tripod. Little strange setup that would be easier with a bluetooth mic, but I don’t want to spend more money on this.

The best TikTok tips I heard lately - and my feed is full of creator tip videos - were:

• speak and explain to the camera as if you would talk to a friend.
• to post almost daily you don’t need these tips: create more content in one shoot, just stay consistent, yes it is hard but you have to do it, yada, yada. But: your videos do not have to be 100%. They don’t even have to be 80% good. 60% is already enough.
• and on top, if I now scroll TikTok I try to see the humans in front of the camera. Try to envision what they are struggling with. And that helps me to justify my struggles and why I am making videos.

aaand features for LifeUpdate

I actually added two features this week. For once when you create a group now you get prompted an invite code that you can copy and send to friends. They can then enter the invite code on their side and in that way join a group.

Furthermore, if someone adds you to a group you now already see the group in the group page, but have to accept or decline the invite first before you can interact with the group or it gets deleted.

See you next week! ✌🏽

Disclaimer: This blog is not AI polished. Not even corrected with ChatGPT. Raw from my techie brain trying to be artsy.