Joel Ong – The Secret of Success: There’s No Shortcut You Have to Do the Work

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelongvideo/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Joel Ong</strong></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is the creator of the</span> <a href= "https://tapeyourtime.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Expert to Authority</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">coaching program for business owners to use their smartphones to make videos work for their business in 90 days (without having to hire a professional costing thousands of dollars).</span></p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>“We have more processing power in our mobile devices than what Armstrong had in his spacecraft the first time he went to the moon.”</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joel Ong</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <h2><strong>Worst investment ever</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Fueling his Instagram influencer dream</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joel wanted to be like the travel influencers on Instagram and wealthy business owners that he saw traveling the world first class. However, he didn’t have the money or the influence to do it. He just didn’t have the confidence to be an influencer of any sort.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But, Joel truly wanted this life, so he thought of all the ways he could achieve this. He figured that he could pick up the camera and influence from behind it instead of in front of the camera like the other Instagram influencer. This started Joel’s journey into travel videography.</span></p> <h3><strong>A humble beginning</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joel started with a very cheap imitation of a GoPro camera that he borrowed from a friend in China. Slowly he started living his dream to be a travel influencer by collaborating with models and travel photographers.</span></p> <h3><strong>Doing it as the stars do</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Joel interacted with famous influencers in the industry, the pressure to get soph