We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Melissa Lee & Heidi Peterson. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Melissa Lee & Heidi Peterson below.
Heidi & Melissa, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. If you could go back in time do you wish you had started your creative career sooner or later?
Starting a Creator Business mid life has had it’s challenges. Learning the relevant skills, such as. Video camera use and video editing was a first for us as we had always shared our adventures with others via photography and stories. Establishing a goal and a plan to move forward in a field that mostly consists of younger creators was a huge decision. What will our challenges be, How to grow an audience, Will we have the time needed to hit our deadlines.
We both believe that it was the right decision, as our kids are grown and we now have time travel and explore more.
Heidi & Melissa, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
We are a female owned and operated company doing business in Texas, at this time. We plan to venture into other states in the near future. We travel to a specific destination for it’s history, stories and beauty. In order to share these locations with others we research, take a full video and pictures of each location. We want all to see the beauty in the historical, abandoned and forgotten places that this Great State of Texas has to offer. We are proud of our State and it shows in our work.
Keeping our audience engaged and interested in the stories is our main goal. We want our community to feel a part of our family.
Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?
Starting a Social Media Creator path takes patience and a lot of time. It takes time to build trust and rapport with other users. It takes years to build a solid, steady, engaged audience. So, my advice is to be very patient and keep moving in a positive direction. The key to success is to create quality content and keep your community engaged.
In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?
Your community can help in building your business by supporting, sharing and giving feedback. Listen to what your audience has to say and grow on that. If you are part of the creator community please support them by subscribing or follow them on their social media accounts, purchase merchandise that they sale, give feedback, join mailing list, share their content with others, watch their videos the hole way through, engage in the post and participate in their sponsorships and events.
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