How She Grew 3M+ Followers on TikTok, IG & Youtube in Less Than 2 Years! (Ft. Vanessa Chen) | S2 E17

Full-Time Influencer Podcast

Tina Lee

Education, Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, How To

5 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Now, more than ever, is the best time to become a creator thanks to short-form content, enthusiastic viewers, and the reach of multiple different platforms.

Chances are if you have not heard of Vanessa, AKA @vivacious.honey, you would definitely recognize her content. She has been killing it across the likes of Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for the past two years with no apparent signs of slowing down. In this episode, she shares her social media origin story, what it is like working with a management team, and her tips for success.

Welcome to the Full-Time Influencer Podcast. I'm your host Tina Lee (@ofleatherandlace) I'm sharing some of my expertise and industry information, to help you decode social media, and create content that helps aspiring creatives like you become full-time influencers so you can also do what you love for a living!

CHECK OUT THE SHOW NOTES FOR THIS EPISODE: https://www.fulltimeinfluencer.co/blog/season-2-episode-18

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Timestamps:

(1:03) - Online empire and how she started her influencer journey

(9:05) Calculating rates and tips for quality reels

(16:39) - The backend work of an influencer & choosing gigs

(23:49) - Effects of negative comments online

(28:13) - Create backlog of ideas, transitions, revamp old videos

(31:34) - Future plans & creating a brand that supersedes her

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0:00.0	So many creators burn out, right? I always joke that I feel like I'm going to burn out in a couple years even though I just started.
0:05.6	It's so tiring, coming up with new ideas every single day. But one tip that I have is create like a little backlog of different ideas, transitions, whatever.
0:18.1	Go visit your videos for months ago and try to revamp them, redo them. And then at that
0:23.3	point, if you cycle through all the while adding new content as well, you're going to have like an
0:28.7	endless supply of ideas.
0:35.7	Welcome to the full-time influencer podcast.
0:38.3	I'm your host, Tina Lee, and I'll be sharing industry knowledge and social media tips through weekly interviews with established creators and Q&A sessions.
0:45.3	Our goal is to help you decode social media, become a full-time influencer, and do what you love for a living.
0:51.3	Let's dive in.
0:53.3	Today we have a very, very talented guest, Vanessa
1:00.5	from Vervacious Honey, and I'm so excited to chat with her about how she built her entire
1:05.7	online empire. So could you maybe stop with like a couple sentences of what you do and what your niche is?
1:12.4	Sure. Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to have a little
1:16.8	conversation with you today. A little bit about me. My name is Vanessa. I also go by Babacious
1:23.0	Honey. I typically post fashion content and my main platforms are TikTok, Instagram, and I'm kind of, you know, treading into YouTube, which is like a new category for me.
1:34.4	I think it's funny how you said you're treading into YouTube, but you have like 700,000 subscribers on YouTube, right?
1:41.1	That's crazy.
1:41.8	Yes, but I primarily post shorts.
1:45.0	So whenever I create like a short form video, I just, you know, copy, paste on all three
1:51.0	platforms.
1:52.0	So with YouTube in particular, I'm trying to kind of get into long form content, which is like
1:58.0	a little bit different for me.
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