Hi Rachel, I have watched SO MANY of your recent youtube videos. I have a whatnot for buyers account set up. I want to apply as a seller but I am stuck on many questions. Do you have a direct email I can send my questions and concerns to?
I was approved as a seller in 1 day. I mentioned an influencer. Not sure if it had anything to do with it but now I'm learning how to go live after 20 years on Ebay. Great Content in your videos. Thank you!❤
I have not tried to sell on whatnot.....scared I guess to try something new and yet want to but it seems still a little complicated....I saved this video to watch over if needed! Thank you for sharing!
This was very informative. However I would like to see the technical set. How do you start and end the auction while it is running? Hoow do you set the time for the item to accept bids?
You my dear are an angel. I'm going to go live soon and I'm so nervous. Even tho, I decided I'm not going to show my face I'm still so nervous mostly because I don't want to mess up not even once, I wanted to thank you bc your videos are absolutely by far the best I've found explaining so much about whatnot. You have made me feel a little less nervous but I'm still nervous. Either way thank you. I appreciate you girl. 😊
My first auction is scheduled next week and I hope it goes well. I can't wait to feel confident and excited like you are about it. I'm a nervous wreck lol. Thanks for the video.
I'm excited for you eve! Just focus on the one item you're running. I have loads more videos on here to get you prepped. The playlist is whatnot and whatnot course.
Love this tutorial! I have my first WhatNot show today and this info was definitely helpful. I feel much more prepared 😅 I can see how your a pageant queen, you speak so eloquently ❤
They NEED TO REPLACE THE VIDEO on WHATNOT with YOUR VIDEO!!! Seriously...Their tutorial is TRASH...This is GOLDEN!!! Thank you so much. You fixed my problem. I use OBS all the time but was lost...I was forgetting to activate the virtual cam!! You're amazing. Thank you.
I’m so happy I found you! I’m scheduling my first live and feeling like I didn’t get all the info I need to set up, so these videos will be great! Thank you
Hi there! My first sale is this Monday! I am setting up today. If you happen to be shopping 😉 I am Lemonsoda. 11/7 @ 7:30. Would love any feedback! Thanks
Hey the second option here you don't even have to be on camera, just your hands. Check it out and as you gain more confidence on camera you can choose something else if you'd like. You could do great!
Aww you girls are great,..I will think about it,..these estate sale clean outs are filling up our tack sheds,.. and I just don't have time to list alot on eBay,..and being new to it ,I take a while looking things up..but thank yous,yous are both awesome
Thank you thank you thank you for this video. It was super easy to understand your directions. This was super helpful. I think I got this now, lol. I'm going to try it out right now. 🤗
Woohoo! Congrats on almost reaching 8,000!! This video was so informative! Thank you 😊 I applied a week ago and I’m checking my email everyday for a response, lol 😆 My son and I thought it would be a fun way to sell some items together! Plus, I thought maybe it’ll boost my confidence to start posting some more RU-vid videos as well. I like the last set up because I will probably be selling mostly clothing, plus I think it’ll be a good way to have fun with the people watching by doing giveaways, etc. Just looking forward to giving it a try! When will your next auction be?
Got denied the first time 😮 It’s ok though... God has the perfect timing for everything! Working on building the inventory in my store, etc. and I’ll reapply again.
OHMMMGEEEE!! You are soo close to 8,000!! Let's gooo!! I love that you put this information out , it was so informative and I makes me excited to be on WhatNot one day :) (I am applying again today & using your code, thank you :) ) Thank you for always having great content ! Enjoy your summer :)
Hi Rachel, you have been the biggest help to me so far. This past Friday was my 4th show and I finally moved out of the train wreck faze. LOL I am trying to find your Spotify channel and have searched all different ways and just cannot find it. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you Rachel. WAIT...WHAT!!!!! this vlog came out 9 months ago and now you have 13.1 K subscribers. How totally amazing.
@@RachelStrickland thank you for your response. It is so confusing about the music. I am a rule follower so I won't play music however, 90% of the shows I go in are playing music. Thank you again.
Hey girl. Been so busy. So excited about your new ride. I do my whatnot shows on Saturday at 6pm every week and use the same set up with my phone and control everything with my laptop. Whatnot is sponsoring a sale July 7-10. It's an estate sale Extravaganza. There are 50 sellers and we are doing 17 hours a day. My spot is Friday July 8th at 6pm. It was an invite thing. Hope you can hop on and say hi. Would love to do a shared screen sometime and have you pop on my show. Thanks for all the great content
Did you have to download a software to stream from your laptop? My first show today was a failure the screen doesn’t even look the same no one can hear me
Awesome information. you provided more instruction than any other video. i plan to start selling but it is intimidating. i did not understand what that square white sheet was that you called a light source.
Thank you. The white sheet was actually a light box with a soft filter over it. You don't need anything professional like that, any light source or source of light will suffice.
Great tips! May have to try that last set up where it shows us on camera with the items …it would be fun to use that fir like a Friday night or Saturday night sale! Kind of a more fun party type vibe. 😄
I'm bitting my nails. Not normally a person who gets anxious over stuff like this, but I am. First show this week and will be getting set up for it tomorrow. Probably will have the auction on Wednesday we shall see. Wish me luck 👩🌾
@@RachelStrickland FarmGurlScavengerr and probably a combination of the last two. Phone and laptop also will be doing hard goods as well as vintage clothes 👩🌾
Great video! We just got approved to sell on Whatnot. My wife is e. Item to do this with me. We hope it will help bring traffic to our RU-vid channel! Plus move products
Here's an exact link to mine. It's Vivitar Vivitar Pistol Grip Portable Mini Tabletop Tripod for Video Vlog Stream Photography with Slip Resistant Grip www.walmart.com/ip/498725263
Do you have a whatnot auction selling clothes video I can see because that’s what I’m doing tonight for the first time and I really appreciate you and your videos and I can’t believe you don’t have a 100,000 subscribers
Rachel Thank you for showing these tips and tricks. I’ve been approved and this was one of my biggest hurdles. Now when I’m really to go I will review your vids. How about a pre picture vids on what your going to sell?
Congratulations! Do you mean the I you or promo vid? You will set that up when you create the auction. You just use your phone and create a short 10 second or so video yo tell about your auction. Or maybe you meant the pictures of items you will be selling... I never take those.
I just tried to do test mode and it went live on me 😭. I didn't realize it because my baby was crying and I was yelling for my oldest to help with her so I could test it. Then I came back and saw people had joined so I hit end and it deleted store that was loaded for tomorrow
You should be able to go into the stream and clone items when that happens. I have a video about cloning this week and I'll do one on how to run a test show so this never has to happen to someone again.
Thank you for having this. You do talk fast and I was trying to keep up. That one screen set up you showed...do you hang up your clothes and long dresses on it or just hold it up wit that screen in the background. I just found out you can have a practice show to get all set up with no one seeing you....will have to try it...just slow at understanding it all. I already have over a thousand followers by just buying and being in so many shows...now that daughter is healing more...I hope I can try to actually sell on the site soon.
If you have long clothing items, just ensure you step back from enough folks can see the entire item. Then come back for close ups of details. Remember that the chat covers a good portion of the screen . I see a lot of new sellers showing the item far down on the screen with the chat covering it. You'll be great at it. Just go live and have fun. Try to sell one thing. Some shows are better than others
You. Can run the entire show from your phone. If you have a second device at all, you can use it (tablet etc) the main reason is, otherwise you will have to select the items to run from the device you're streaming on. Not hard, just going to be Shakey on screen
Thank you for your advice and I'm definitely going to have a lot of questions. I am actually going to start on whatnot I think I have a little over 2,000 subs on RU-vid
RU-vid has a partnership bw itself, creators and advertisers in which you agree not to infringe on copyrights. I have heard that you may no longer be able to play copyright music on whatnot now but others say it's fine. I've been erring on the side of caution and not playing it.
Of course, my friend. $7 Vivitar Pistol Grip Portable Mini Tabletop Tripod for Video Vlog Stream Photography with Slip Resistant Grip www.walmart.com/ip/498725263
I’m watching this again I was using the third option I had my first live today on what not and it was an epic fail no one can hear me I was using my chrome book as my second device not sure if a chrome book can be use for live streaming
If you're using your phone for the video and your laptop to control the auction, how do you set that up? Do you start your "go live" on your phone or your laptop? And how do you connect the phone and the laptop once you've gone live? I ended up doing my first livestream with just my phone because I couldn't get my laptop to join in... so it was pretty nerve racking and I hated the experience.
So, start the stream from your phone and then completely separately, "open stream" from your laptop in whatnot. They do not need to be connected at all. Hope this helps.
I love the simplicity of it. Question how would I be able to stream from my phone and use my tablet for the chat. While also using my laptop to pin anything or edit anything
Hi, thanks for this video!! May I ask, on the 2nd option to sell, to not show myself, lol, what size is the ring light? 10"? Also, if it's behind phone and I'm sitting in the chair can I reach around that size light ok to show products? One more question if you dont mind, when you connect laptop doe it automatically connect to the app livestream? Thanks so much for your help. 🥰
This was so helpful thank u! My first Whatnot live was a mess lol , will probably use the 2nd set up but get in front of the camera some , my first live I tried to use just laptop 💻 and the mirror thing was really frustrating. Just to double check the device I want to film with (which is my phone ) I push start streaming, and the second device I want to use to control (my laptop) I push open stream correct? Thanks 🙏 for your Help GOD BLESS!
Great video. I just got approved yesterday and have my onboarding next week. With the second setup you showed, phone and laptop, during the auction can you flip the camera to front and back at any time? I don’t want to be on camera the whole time but would like to at least show my face a couple times but not look like an idiot doing it. 😂😂 Thanks!
This was such a great informative video. I am new and am starting my first stream this week. I was setting up option #1 (OBS), but just realized I cannot multicast to my YT channel using this method. With your option #2, I can start the stream from my phone, but manage chat and items via PC? This means I can multicast since I am starting the stream via my iPhone. Is this correct? Thanks for sharing this!
Yes, this has been helpful. I see you use the OBS for the first set up with your Webcam. For the second set up with phone and laptop are you using OBS, AS WELL?? OR OBS IS NOT NECESSAY FOR THIS SECOND SET UP?
Rachel, you are a live saver. I have my first live stream on Whatnot tomorrow (9/15) and I was a nervous wreck trying to figure out the best way to do the video and control the stream at the same time. I wasn't sure if I could use my phone for video and then use my computer to control the auctions, but it looks like I can. How do I go into test mode on Whatnot? I would like to do a test run for a few minutes to make sure my setup is going to work, before actually going live.
I created a seperate stream called test and then there's an option to "toggle test mode" on the stream set up on the computer. That's a great question I feel like I should make a video on that. Just don't "test" the stream your actually going to use. Create a seperate one. Does that make sense?
@@RachelStrickland Thank you again. I was able to figure out the test mode, but I still think a video would be great showing how to get into test mode.
I am trying to get my phone, lap top and ring light working so that I can have my first whatnot show. I do not dare to set a date untill I no for sure I have everything working ? So what would be my very first step ?
when i link the obs camera whatnot has the picture zoomed in alot and is blurry , only on whatnot if i stream twitch or anything else its fine . the zoom is all the way out but on whatnot the is no adjusting that makes a difference .
Did the onboarding a few days ago, waiting to get my approval to sell and this was super helpful!!! I do have the same camera (G7x) have you ever used that??
So we had the issue of camera flipping, and having to use the camera phone to text as well. Do you log into your account , and start the stream on the camera/phone and then log into your laptop and log into that stream again to answer questions and setup next item and such
Video was great BUT............(lol) what kind of web cam did you use with OBS that first time? I'm really looking for a cam to stream with and am super interested in what you used
Love watching you - question your opinion please-should I or shouldn’t I put things from Poshmark and EBay in my Buy it now???I have my posh closet on what not Marketplace…..How does What Not notify you if you’ve made a sale in Marketplace? Thanks in Advance!
Hi, Thank you for the video - it finally clicks for me after much frustration. What about the Audio? If I am using the phone as the camera and my laptop as my controller, I mute the laptop because of the screeching feedback. When I speak is the phone picking up the audio? I can not tell since my computer is muted. Thank you for being generous with your knowledge
How do you keep track of items sold? Can you rewarch your livestream to review? I see some people move super fast and i cannot figure out how they keep track.
After the show, whatnot shows you every buyer and the items they bought on the shipping page. You can also use post its or put buyers items in stacks to help but always double check the shipping page.
@RachelStrickland so you have to preset all the items before the show? Some of the auctions look like they grab random items, pick a weight and it miraculously shows up on the screen. I assume someone is behind the scenes putting up the item with a number as they go?
