Hi, my name is Chris ,I’m from South Africa but living in Ireland the last 20 years , my creative business/ service is Music Production . I want to get these things from Asterisk Create: 1. I would like my content to covert to payed clients 2. Become more confident to sell my skill set 3. Get honest feedback and make cool art /content with interesting people For fun, I like to: 1. Illustrate ,Draw ,Sculpt, Build 2. Learn about growing plants and food 3. Cook and hang with my family

I can barely believe it but... trial reels are in fact, overpowered lol I've been absolutely buried in work for the past 3 weeks straight and I've barely had time to take in how well posting the original video did. I did, however, have time to put together a few of these shorter, simpler "POV -> Real piece" fakeouts daily on trial reels. One of them (Linked here) got over 10K views this morning, and was giving me a consistent stream of followers, so I put it on my main grid and now that video officially has more views and interactions than the original one 😂 Ya'll, I had like 930 followers last week. And the best part is, a TON of these are not only real people, but actual working professional videographers, photographers, venues, and DJs, and I've already gotten a couple promising leads from it. Today has been crazy cause every time I open the app I get like a couple more followers and I still cannot believe it lol It also bears mentioning 2 things: I finally bought into the blue checkmark. I figured since I'm taking this seriously, spending money on it can only fuel wanting to get returns from it. I know this does help my reach inorganically in a way, but I actually suspect it also has more of a psychological effect (ie. this person is fr about their socials). I also have to point out that the videos that do best are the ones I export straight out of the IG edits app, which has been confirmed to boost traffic for now. Either way, I'll keep posting variations of these, I have some other ideas on the way, but in general, this lil experiment has worked much, much better than I anticipated. I'll keep you posted!

just wanted to shout out @Sarah Khorbtli who joined our program back in June. I think about a month and a half ago, she posted a pics of content that completely changed the trajectory of her growth, and she just passed 100,000 followers on Instagram! so shout out to you Sarah super proud of you super impressed and inspired as well!