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Before this video starts.

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I actually want to mention something about the audio quality of this video.

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The audio quality is not as good as in my other videos when I record the screen on my phone.

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So videos that have the screen recording of the phone, I'm not able to actually use a professional

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microphone.

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I'm only able to use the built in microphone of my phone.

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So there might be a little bit of extra noise problems, a little bit of extra outside noise.

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I'm sorry about that.

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I'll try to keep it to a minimum.

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Anyway, I just wanted to explain that now.

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Okay.

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Once you have your account created and once you have your screen name set, the next thing is you've

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got to import your friends because this is the first source of activity.

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So on the top left, you see a little man icon with the little plus.

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Let's click that and we're going to go into the settings where you find contacts and find your friends.

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So obviously, I don't want to show my contact lists because I don't know if those people want to be

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shown here.

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But you would go through that and you would literally go through all your contacts and invite them to

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be friends.

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Not to mention that you will also go directly go to your Facebook, to your Twitter and post, Hey guys,

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I just made a new account on TikTok at so-and-so and please follow me on TikTok.

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So importing your friends.

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You see, I haven't done that because I don't want to personally.

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I don't want to bother my friends with my music too much more than I already do in my business things

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because, you know, they're my friends and my business is my business.

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So I kind of want to keep it separate just because I don't want to annoy my friends.

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But if you are open to inviting your friends, that is a fantastic advantage because a lot of people

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these days, they have hundreds and hundreds of people on social media and you'll be surprised now a

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lot of your friends will be on TikTok.

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And guess what?

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A lot of them will be struggling to get followers and they'll be happy to follow you and you follow

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them.

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So they are going to be your initial source of likes, followers, all that.

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And when you post new videos, those videos are going to have initial life, which is going to show

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the TikTok algorithm to, hey, maybe promote you higher in the hashtags and so on and so on.

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So this is a way to start building up your audience literally from scratch, literally, not only on

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day one, but like on hour one.

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Just so this is one of the immediate things you should do right after you set up your account.