We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Mimi Erskine. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Mimi below.
Mimi, appreciate you joining us today. Do you think folks should manage their own social media or hire a professional? What do you do?
I manage my own social media. I edit, direct, and everything else for my videos. What I’ve learned is that you have to have money to make money and no one has given us money. We do it more as a side project because everyone wants to screw us over at every turn. This is not an industry that you can make a decent living off of, unless you’re already famous or can fund it yourself. There is an ocean of media traffic and even with a financial backing, sometimes your social media pages can still flop. They also pay nothing on places like Spotify, so it’s really hard to get paid.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
I’m most proud of the videos I make, but we don’t get amazing view counts. What fans? I have many more haters than I do fans.
Can you open up about how you funded your business?
I don’t have enough money to live and I certainly don’t have money to waste on my social media pages. If I want to film, I go to the local public access studio and film for free. Then I do all the editing and marketing myself. I haven’t made any money.
Let’s talk about resilience next – do you have a story you can share with us?
I just haven’t given up.
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