Ariel Viera
Having Your Art Serve as Lead Gen
Episode Notes (by minute):
-2:00: How Ariel typically introduces himself at events
-2:30: How Ariel got into storytelling and social media videos
-4:00: How Ariel decide to follow his passion about the history of cities and digital videos and storytelling to create a Facebook page and company called Urbanist, right the time Facebook Lives were becoming popular.
-6:00: How Ariel thinks about telling stories on camera and the experiences behind it, and the skills he uses to tell compelling stories
-8:00: Where Ariel learned to compress long ideas into succinct stories while working on another job
-12:00: “Do what you love, or love what you do”
-15:30: How Urbanist is a two-part business: 1) the Urbanist Facebook and content with sponsors and 2) being a freelance filmmaker offering video services to organizations. His Urbanist videos are in his portfolio to share to prospective clients, complimenting each other.
-18:00: What Ariel learned from the book, The Seven Laws of Money
-21:00: How Ariel is using the same skill set to put in 10,000 hours of work to gain mastery, when his art could eventually become his main source of business and revenue, but not now
-24:00: How many companies also freemium type of services and this can easily apply to freelancers, career nomads, people with a Portfolio Career as well
-27:00: How Ariel eventually decided to offer merchandise to his audience because they wanted to further connect to him and his work. Ariel believes that trusting the process and learning through time and evolution helped him figure out what to do and when
(Note: these are quick notes and takeaways by David Nebinski. Please see the episode for more accurate information)