How To Make Money With Facebook Reels // Step By Step With Hairstylist, Chiquita Ward

What'S going on people this is shot here. So today is another uh YouTube, video, where I sit down with a uh, a Creator, uh entrepreneur, and we kind of talk about how did she do what she does so today I have Chiquita Chiquita and um today we're going to talk about. How does she make money using Facebook reels right right right so for the people that don't know you um? How long have you been doing here? Um I've been doing hair full time since 2015. About was that seven, almost eight years, okay, and how long have you been doing putting up videos on Facebook on Facebook, I would say: maybe I just really started this year - putting videos on Facebook. I would really start. I was talking to Facebook videos on Instagram. That was what I was doing initially. Okay, then I started putting them on Facebook here and there. So, okay, basically this year, okay, so all right! So what made you just to add some context to the conversation? What made you decide to start? You know switching over from Instagram to Facebook, the views and the likes, and the comments were way higher on Facebook. I was reaching way more people on Facebook than I was on Instagram and I've been on Instagram since Instagram started. Okay, I was like oh okay. Well, I'm doing better over here. So let me focus on this app more okay. Okay, so I guess the the the question that kind of really started. This off is not to be pocket watching, but I feel, like you said this already on um Facebook before, but how much money do you make up on the average per month? On average, I would say about 2500 2500. Okay, everyone on Facebook and on Instagram. I make about a hundred I made my couple hundred dollars on uh Instagram for, like I was doing something, so I definitely need to switch over okay so and how often do you post usually it's between I try to post every day, if I don't post every Day I'll try at least every other day and um. That'S not one post per day. It'S maybe three posts per day: okay, yeah, that's not confusing per day, but I may skip a day and then I'll post three posts the next day. So yes, all right. So so what is your process when you're like coming up with these videos, um post? What what I'm doing, how I'm doing it um, because usually there's a technique to like I may be showing different techniques so I'll show what client um this technique may work on. Um what products I'm using for that client. So I just record the whole process and during that process I may switch the video the recording. I may do just a regular recording. Then I may do a slow-mo part and then I may do time lapse so that um I try to make at least five videos per client and you recording every client every client. I record every client, but you should probably have more content than this. I do. I just don't post all of it. I have a lot of content, it's just sitting there like now. They they change the music. So I can't use certain songs, so I don't have to take that time and do a voiceover or find the music that Facebook provides to put over my phone. Isn'T that like industry, music, too um not really, and if you do so now, if you do use those songs that they put up there, that is industry music, they don't um, they use uh. They take a percentage of that money, oh really yeah. So I try not to use, because I want all my money, all your money, so yeah, so I don't use those songs that they put up there. Okay, so all right, so you're recording every client you're doing like at least five videos per client. Yes, so what are you using to actually film this content? Yeah, my phone? That'S it that's it and I have a ring light, but that's something that I've been doing since I've been doing hair, because I owe it to myself. I feel, like all stylists, have a ring light right now. Yeah you have to. I will never post a video without a ring light for people that be doing videos of hair and there's like no lights. It just looks it's horrible and Facebook is not gon na post they're, not gon na push that video really yeah. If it's dark or anything, they want quality videos, yeah yeah, oh yeah, okay. So so what was the moment where you realized that, like yo, I need to stay going on this path when that one of my videos got like 100 000 views on one day really yeah, and it was just me like showing how to curl some box. So if I go to Facebook and that maybe like the next month is when I started getting paid Facebook really okay, so before we cut on the camera, you said you get paid a couple different ways on Facebook: okay, uh break that down. For me, real quick um, so I get paid from real. That'S just posting the videos posting the reels that they have that um the videos on Facebook, and then I have the ads on reels. Where Facebook puts the ad you can't control it. You can say you don't want to do it, you can turn it off, but it's no point because it's just free money. On average of that I get about 700 a month, so it's just the ad that they put up there and people click on it. You get paid for it and then Stars. That'S when people uh send you money for to for you to just have for yourself. Do people actually do that yeah? They do how much money you made on stuff. I don't make a lot of money, but because it's only like because it's like a star, it's like 99 cent, but Facebook takes a lot of that wow and then I get paid on my business page for paid online events. So tomorrow, I'll do my first pay online event. Explain that what's that, so basically it's like you can do like, like I'm gon na, do a live video tomorrow. Basically talk about this and people pay you to view that live so you're getting into like courses. Almost yes, because I already have online courses that I provide, but some people don't want to sit and watch that they want to be able to talk to you and they may be out of the state. So they want to ask you questions while you're actually doing it, so I charge a fee and then I'll show them. What I'm doing and they'll be able to ask me a question: okay, yeah! So do a lot of stylists actually reach out to you in regards to how to make money using Facebook um. Not really. I say once I start posting how much money I was making then yes, yeah people, you know, like you said people want to see it. First yeah yeah, because you can talk about it and people are like okay, whatever okay yeah, I was thinking about posting like a check or something just so people can really believe it, but I'm like okay so because you never know who's watching, but um yeah. Okay, I have people signed up for my class tomorrow: okay, okay, all right, so just a couple more questions before we wrap this up um. So when you uh so all right, so you do put out a lot of videos. What like? How do you know if a video is gon na go go off? I would say now with me doing voiceovers. They definitely do um better than me just putting them songs up there really, because some people say they like the sound of my voice. I hate the sound of my boys um, but I I explain everything that I'm doing in the video and people just want to know. What'S going on all right, so when you say you're doing voiceovers, are you like breaking down the process or whatever you're doing yeah yeah? So I just go to and I'm like, hey this client came in. She had this going on um. I hadn't seen her about four months. Um we've watched her. We used this shampoo and then we did this. I don't want the dryer did that so I'm each step I recorded, and I put that in the video - and I do a whistle over it. Okay, so, like I said right before this, I was going through your video, seeing you know what was what what she was doing pretty much. So I see that a lot of your videos are just like one camera angle of one thing. So do you ever like? Take you know one client and I guess you do different angles and put that all together into like one video or you just kind of keep it sometimes a lot of times. You don't want their face to be shown because they know a lot of my clients know that yeah, my posts are going to be seen by a lot of people, so they don't want their face on camera, which is fine, and then I do a lot of Lock, extensions and people don't want people to know they have weave in their hair, so they don't want any facing. They want to say. This is all my hair yeah I show their face. They'Ll know that it's not over here there, I'm okay with it. Okay, yeah. So it's really just one shot, one angle that you're doing yeah cause I ain't as good as you, so I just do it. I mean images that basic, it's not it's, not anything like you, don't have to be sophisticated, photographer or videographer for that. Okay, okay and uh last question for anybody that wants to get into this. What are some uh? I guess tips and tricks of you know quick videos, anything like that that you, probably you know, learned just from putting up a whole bunch of videos. I would say: stick to one one thing that you're doing um - I don't. If you go to my page and you go to my reels. You can see that I do Locks yeah you're not confused about what's going on, but that's all that you do anyway right. Yeah, but there are some people that may do they may when they say oh you're, getting paid for reals they try to post as much as they can to try to get those views up yeah. So you don't want to post okay. Today, I'm a comedian. Today, I'm doing Lots yeah tomorrow, here's me shopping, you have to stick to one thing: yeah, they say I mean if you do hair and you do Locks and you do sew-ins and all that you can put all of that in it right. But you don't want to be all over the place with your videos yeah. I would definitely say that um, because I go to some people page and it's Everything is Everything. So Facebook doesn't know where to put you right so um so have a niche. Basically, half an inch um and what else um also commenting on like when someone comments on your post reply back, okay, you may not be able to like so some of my posts. I have like 5 000 comments, so I can't reply back to everybody and some of them are just rude yeah. I don't um but reply back, because that definitely helps okay, yeah and um. I also copy I copy the URL from my Facebook um reels and I'll post it on my Instagram story. So then people will click on my Instagram story and then click to my Facebook reel. Do you actually post the same reels on Facebook that you have on Instagram, or vice versa? Um? Not all the time now? Oh okay, yeah um, depending on, if I'm using, if I'm on Facebook, if I'm on Instagram I'll, probably use the music on Instagram, because you can use the music yeah, but on Facebook you can't use that music um. You can use the music, but you just won't get monetized as much for it, so you don't want to get keep getting flagged for using that music. So right, I just do voiceovers. Oh, I do the original audio that they provide on Facebook, Okay, okay, so any other things that you want to provide for the audience um. I would say record everything I feel like if you in my field, everything that I do can be content so record. Your client coming in record your client leaving out um. I record me eating sometimes in between my clients, because people don't think this will take a break, so I can be confident about real realizing that your stylist is a human. So we have to take breaks and we have to eat support and deaf content, um, so just record everything and then have good lighting great life. Definitely because your videos will not do numbers if they, if it's horrible lighting, nobody wants to watch that right. So if you don't have um, I don't know about the iPhone and all that difference, but I mean I use an iPhone and it works good for me. So um a good phone good lighting and iPhone stand is what I use the iPhone iPhone tripod and that's it.