Hey how's you?
"Thank You" for noticing my blog on hive, i'm excited to meet a lot of new people around here and I'm loving the potential this platform has.
My name is Clive Martin and I'm 44 born in the UK with a Jamaican father and an English mother. Until I was 18 I was raised in a gospel church and although I now don't label myself with any religion, i'm grateful for a lot of the morals I was taught and I really appreciate that from the age of 4, I was very musical.
I'm not going to go through all my history cos I really want to share a community idea that I have started to build. A lot of people who know me on other platforms know me as "The Saxtrepreneur" because of my passion for playing the saxophone and because I also do a bit of affiliate marketing and recently with this worldwide lockdown I have also started to learn how to trade crypto.
I ended up here partially because YouTube decided to give me a strike because of a video that was related to bitcoin, which I found crazy because about 6 months ago they gave me a strike for the same video and I appealed it successfully and the muppets decided to strike me for the same video that they reinstated.
Any hoooo we all kind of know what's going on there and yes I will continue to use it even though I know it will take some work to focus on the 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch hours, my youtube seo skills are very good now but it does take a lot of consistent focus and content and it definatly is not going happen overnight.
Now after 2 years of not using steemit or dtube, I was curious and yep, I came back right in the middle of a hard fork so I had to do lot's of reading around to find out what's been going on and I'll cut it short....
After 10 days of using hive and comparing a few things, I'm actually encouraged and thankful for the audience of people that have been engaging in my content at threespeak and I'm also very impressed at how hard people have worked to make all of this even possible in the first place.
So I dropped 5 videos of myself playing the saxophone at https://3speak.online/user/clivemartin
I did so much better than I had in the past and have had so much more upvotes than I even imagined at this stage that it's really inspired me. I'm not a blogger and I don't even know how to format this blog properly yet and maybe it will be a steep learning curve for me but I have the passion to learn and if it's going to be like eating an elephant then I'll eat it, piece by piece every day.
How ever I do love entertaining because I'm a saxophonist musician I sing I can find my way around a guitar and keyboard mainly because my ears are just so accustomed to been around music but sadly there hasn't been any audience to entertain cos the nightclubs are shut the weddings have been cancelled and I can't even get into the studio and that's like 70% of the money that I generate gone so you take a fall and find a way to get back on your feet and adapt.
So what i'm going to do is learn how to livestream on threespeak and do some virtual nightclub sessions once I have the PA system at my home and hopefully I can plug in an OBS key and use my green screen but I also thought it would be fun to create a community and label it..
"Hive's Got Talent". The hashtag is below and that banner design , that's just one of the images that i have been designing today and I'm on a serious mission to scout on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Reddit and invite some talent here.
I have created my hive referral link and got myself a free domain from https://www.freenom.com/
hence the http://www.hivewithclive.tk
I'm creating a few capture pages which allows me to take an email of my guests and follow them up with an automated email campaign so I can forward help videos and newsletters once I have learnt what i need to here so I'm definatly running around trying to find the most informative "How To" blogs so I can get on doing my own tutorial videos too
I'm loving the fact my name "Clive" rhymes with "Hive" and "jive, alive, five, strive and whole bunch of other words so its obviously meant to be so maybe my intro videos are gonna be like..
"Your Live with Clive on Hive, naturally of course.
I have always fancied myself as a bit of a Simon Cowell from X Factor and surprise surprise "Britain's got talent" so I'll be putting a panel of judges together or maybe you would like to audition. I'll do my best to develop this over the next couple of weeks so I'm really going be flying the flag for 3speak.online and hive and in the process my goal is to have fun inspire others to join and entertain.
Feel welcome to spread the word and anyone who entertains here lets hook up and get his show on the road. :)
