Today we’d like to introduce you to Marc Langlois
Hi Marc, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Growing up I have always had a love for playing cards and magic, I was never very good at magic but I had always loved things to do with cards. Card games, looking at different decks of cards to see the art on them, watching card magic etc. I as well love art of all different kinds. A couple of years ago I found out about card collecting and was introduced to Art of Play who is a Company owned by Dan and Dave who are brothers that started whats known today as cardistry, they also were very instrumental in starting and popularizing more extravagant decks of cards. Anyway, I kept getting more and more into card collecting, and cardistry, which is basically doing cool moves, fans, and different things with cards, that are not magic. Its very hard to explain, but I encourage people to look it up! I love watching YouTube videos and the more I got into card collecting I would look up reviews on YouTube to see videos of people opening certain decks, and I noticed that they weren’t a ton of people do card reviews as I call it. I also realized that the way people did the card reviews were not very personable. I thought that there could be a market for what I wanted to do, and I had always thought about making a youtube channel, I just didn’t know what I would do. So with out thinking to much about it, I made my first video, no editing, just me reviewing a deck of cards, I was very nervous but I loved it, and I continued to make more videos, and along the way gradually learned how to edit, make intros and outros, make a logo, etc. Right now my channel @marcscards has 135 subscribers and I am continuing to grow, with subscribers and getting better at my reviews. I have been sent decks of cards to review by Bicycle, Art of Play, kings wild project, and tons of other brands. I have had so much fun along the way, Ive been able to do giveaways for my subscribers with the help of brands like Kings Wild Project. My plan is to continue this channel for a very long time, and I feel like I finally found my calling!:)
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
I would say the journey has been fairly smooth. I feel like it is just a learn as you go sort of thing. Honestly there haven’t been any challenges that were that hard, if you look at my first upload, vs my most recent video, yes the quality and differences are emence. But that change didn’t happen all at once, I just kinda improved a little bit, or one thing at a time. For instance I would go back and see this is something I’m doing wrong, or notice that the sound quality is bad, and in the next video that thing would be better. My videos are my practice and no video will ever be perfect, but my goal is to improve as much as I can and make the quality of each video better than the previous one. There is always something to improve, so yes when you look at it all at once, it may seem difficult, but when you just take it one problem at a time,it really isn’t that difficult.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I do currently work a normal job, but Ik thats not what you guys are interested in. As for as my youtube channel I would love to have it be my full time job at some point and even make a deck of cards at some point. What I am most proud of and what I think sets me apart from other channels is that I make my videos more personable. Most card reviewers usually just show the cards and there hands. Its taken me a while (its harder than it sounds) but to be able to show my face and all of the cards in a horizontal video. My main goal is that people like my personality and I think that helps with showing my face, but my goal is that people click on my video my because of the deck of cards, but because they know it will be an enjoyable and fun video. In my opinion most other review channels videos are only clicked on by a person when its a deck of cards they really want to see, and that really narrows down the amount of people that watch any given video.
The crisis has affected us all in different ways. How has it affected you and any important lessons or epiphanies you can share with us?
I would say that I learned the same thing most people have which is that you shouldn’t take life for granted and appreciate the time you have, and to make the most of it! Well I didn’t start my channel during Covid, like I know a lot of people did, I think that time without having anything to do made me realize I wanted to do something with YouTube, I just had to wait a couple of years after the beginning of Covid to find something I was enthusiastic enough about to be able to find something I could put this much energy and time into. But like I said, I think I speak for a lot of people when I say, Covid changed my perspective in that, you never know when the world could change, or that something catastrophic could happen. My take away from that is, if you have a passion for something, go out and do it. We only have a finite amount of time left. So go out and do what you want to do, and make the most of the time you have, and don’t have any regrets!
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcl0124?igsh=YnRoZmliZnFyZjVo
- Youtube: https://youtube.com/@marcscards?si=nM8XYzJIXIgfOfTF
Image Credits
pc. myself, and first picture pc Stacy Langlois
