Both options require a huge investment of your time and effort… because they are both serious undertakings. To help you decide which one to pick, here’s the guidance that I can give.

You must not choose to be a vlogger if:

You’re too shy to talk in front of a camera

A lot of people might find the moment of being captured on camera to be a very pleasurable experience. But when the aim of it is for showing it to a lot of people… well, it’s a different story. Here’s another reality that you might find yourself agreeing with – some people including maybe yourself, are too ashamed to have their faces videoed.

If you choose to be a vlogger, you need to be camera-friendly. You need to face the device as if it’s a person or a group of audience. If you're too shy to overcome such an activity, let me be frank with you… you can never be a good vlogger.

You’re not good at public speaking

As a vlogger, you will be subjecting yourself to any or all of these acts: talking while making eye contact with the camera, talking while demonstrating something, talking while explaining something, talking while walking, and talking while talking to someone else.

Talking, talking, talking. That’s what you will do in high frequencies. How else can you make people be interested in your vlog channel if they don’t get to hear you explain and prove your point? In this regard, here’s one thing that you need to fully accept – an excellent vlogger is a good talker. If you’re not good at facing people and urging them to listen, you should choose not to vlog.

You can’t afford to buy vlogging equipment

Ask any successful vlogger on Youtube, and this will be one common advice that they will tell you: invest in a good camera and high-quality vlogging equipment. Sadly, achieving such stuff could be expensive. In order for viewers to take you seriously, you need to show that you are also serious about what it is that you do. You will not be taken too seriously if your video and sound quality is poor and unappealing.

If you are still incapable of buying a camera that’s good enough in capturing images and sound, then maybe you should consider setting aside your vlogging goals for future scenarios.

Please don’t think that I’m trying to discourage you, I’m just trying to make you grasp the realities of either blogging or vlogging.

But wait a minute, are those reasons that mainly focus on the negative enough to detach you from your vlogging goals? Let’s do some counterattacks on each of them.

Overcoming the difficulties of becoming a successful vlogger.

Vlogging hindrance 1: Know this, the attitude of being too shy is just a state of mind. Such a trait will not bring you too far in life! If you want to be successful in vlogging or in any life endeavor, you need to regulate that attitude.

From a psychological standpoint, shyness is just there in the first few tries, once you get into the habit of videoing yourself again and again, and by showing it to your friends or anybody else within your won neighborhood, that negative trait will vanish in no time.

By conditioning your mind into doing something that can really enhance your way of living, you can have the strength to conquer that hindrance that does nothing to help you at all.

Vlogging hindrance 2: While it’s true that you need to be a good public speaker in order to be an effective vlogger, you have to bear in mind that videoing yourself is not really a public act.

Here's another thing that you really must know: many great Youtubers have many failed attempts at vlogging because they launch a channel, delete it, launch another channel, but then delete it as well. Why? Because they thought they truly look ugly while speaking in front of a camera.

Eventually, though, they were able to convince themselves that they're not as bad-looking as they thought. Likewise, you have to consider capturing videos of yourself many times until your confidence is high enough already,

You can do it alone with nothing but your camera in the confines of your own room, or in the middle of a forest if you may! If you are incapable of speaking convincingly even in front of a camera, you can always do these 3 things: practice, practice, practice.

Vlogging hindrance 3: Let me reveal a very cool piece of information to you… many Youtubers actually start that hobby of theirs with nothing but just their phones! By utilizing proper angles so that natural light can help them show their faces properly, and by choosing a quiet place where they can video themselves, and of course, by talking about interesting topics that people can easily relate to, they became sought-after vloggers without using any expensive equipment!

Some successful vloggers who have no blogging experience might disagree, but once you have surpassed the only difficult phase of vlogging which is the acquisition of expensive equipment, the rest should just be fairly easy.

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