Okay.
Right.
Hey, Susie. Hey, Mary Alice.
Hey guys.
I'm just getting set up. Sorry.
We're just grateful you're here.
Sorry?
We're just grateful you're here.
Oh, yeah.
Of course. Did you have a good Christmas?
It comes, it goes so fast.
You know,
Can I show you something?
It's going to blow your mind.
So I'm test sitting.
And what was the surprise?
Just a minute.
I'm going to open the door so you can see.
I didn't know it included this.
Okay.
Can you see him?
Yep.
Oh, my.
I did this.
I get to go home today.
And I don't have anything like that at home.
I don't have anything like that.
So I got here and it's just, oh, let me show you something.
Surprise.
But we had a surprise. We had a snowstorm yesterday.
Which is pretty unusual when you're on the Southern Oregon coast.
Wow.
Did it stick?
I'm about a half an inch.
And it kind of melted off.
But yeah, it's kind of like surprising.
Yeah.
I mean,
my friend was in Montana with her family and he sent me pictures and
it was like out of a storybook.
Like just snow and slays and horse drawn slays and all kinds of stuff.
So we're not used to that here in Georgia, as you can imagine.
We did that for decades and we're not missing it too much.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
That is amazing. We had a great Christmas as well.
Yeah.
So we're just soaking it up.
We're soaking up the slowness of the week a little bit and.
Yeah.
Spending time with family and all that stuff.
So we're excited to jump on with you guys.
I saw that both of you guys actually have.
First of all,
thank you Susie for letting us know that the time is still,
is still 2 PM. We're going to fix that right now.
Just sit and catch that typo.
Yeah.
I know, but that's, that's important.
We don't want to confuse people.
Can we tell them?
I guess we can say, say we have some new people joining.
We'll make a bigger thing about that.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
We're going to have some new team members joining us.
We'll talk about that in January though.
Then they can make sure the time is correct.
Yeah.
And then.
We're going to have some new people joining us.
We'll talk about that in January.
Yeah.
I'm glad you were able to share your screen and show us what you're
looking at. Because when I went to Spotify, all your episodes were there.
Really?
Yeah.
And I was going to check in iTunes right now,
just to make sure it's the same in iTunes.
Because.
Like two weeks ago,
Bruce showed me all this list on anchor.
And the list was there, but it didn't seem to go anywhere.
It's the same.
I don't remember.
I think that the show is the very first thing.
Way back.
Member, but I don't see anything beyond that.
Okay.
And are you on your phone when you're checking this or on your
computer?
On your computer.
Are you able to share your screen and show us what you're looking at?
Well, I can.
You want me?
Okay. I'll share a screen, but you want me to go to Spotify or what?
I don't know.
I don't think I'm on Spotify yet, but I'm Spotify.
Let's see.
It's over two weeks ago. Let me.
Get a new page.
And go to Spotify.
I don't spend time there.
What's that.
Oh, that's pages. I don't want that.
Choose a template. Sorry.
Wait.
Okay.
New window.
I don't spend time on Spotify except it comes up every single.
Yeah.
Actually, I think there's a link to it. If you want to.
An anchor.
Yeah, I think you can just do.
But yeah, what can.
There.
You.
I'm looking in iTunes right now to see if it's an iTunes.
Do you mind clicking on like this tab that's back here,
the window behind this one?
I think it's like right there.
Oh, okay, yeah, I do.
Yeah, so if you click here and then if you go to,
I think it's like this link here.
And this is even showing December 20th,
whereas yesterday I put another one up on the 27th.
And this is a specific episode, okay.
Actually, let's click up here
on where it says settings in the top right.
Okay.
Yeah, there you go.
I know Zoom is always in the way.
And just say, I think you can, can you click up here?
I'm sorry.
Podcast availability.
Yeah, let me just, I'm pulling it up on mine
so I can get to the-
You know, for me, I put a lot of time into this
and I'm thinking it ought to go somewhere.
Yeah, it will.
If you go to, let me just try and get you to the right page.
So click on dashboard over there.
And then, there we go.
That's the, we just want to click on that view public site.
That was several weeks ago.
Yeah, and this should have a link to Spotify
just so we can check it.
View public?
Yeah, view public site.
And this here is a link that you can use
or people in your group can, if you want to share this,
because people can go from here to, you know, anywhere.
If you click listen on Spotify,
it should take you right into Spotify
and to your specific podcast.
There you go.
And I'm seeing like the 27th right there.
Okay, they are there.
That's funny, when I open up,
it only showed the one in November
and I got kind of tired of seeing that.
Yeah, I would, if you go back to the dashboard here,
it looked like you were on a specific episode page there,
but if you go to this tab here
and just anytime you want to check, like go to dashboard,
that'll sort of zoom out
and go to the whole podcast as a whole,
rather than looking at a specific episode there.
Dashboard will give me, and it shows us there.
Yeah, so it's definitely there.
So it's on Spotify, but it's not on iTunes.
Yes, there's those steps you'd have to go through.
Did you do that?
You said last time we were together, Mary Alice,
I think you said that you had submitted the iTunes one,
right?
Yes, I did that I did.
Do you know when you did that?
Oh, Bruce, I hardly know what I'm doing, let alone reading.
Oh, it's been like at least two weeks though, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
Okay, let's just click on here where it says settings.
Okay.
And just, that's where you can go to the availability there.
Oh, and that will show me where it's been sent to.
So we have Spotify is good, Anchor obviously works.
And then here, let's just drop down this.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, there.
And then this, if you click on,
did you do this where you went to like
this Apple Podcasts Connect?
I don't know what I did.
Okay.
I followed the yellow brick road
and I thought I completed everything.
Okay.
And we can go through that.
Like basically you would sign in with your,
you can click on that
and then you would go through your iTunes.
And let's just see, maybe it is in here.
I don't know if you know your Apple ID.
Apple ID, that I'm gonna say it's, let's guess.
Sure.
And then just click the little arrow there.
Okay.
It's probably correct.
Yeah, and then just click the arrow again.
Let's hope, because.
Okay.
I've reset enough passwords.
Yeah.
And then just click allow there.
And then it's very silly,
but this number that just popped up, 493333,
just click done there.
Okay, I thought it was showing my phone.
And it's just 493 and then 333.
49333.
Oops.
Yeah.
So skip this.
Just do it again.
49.
49, and then I think you had a,
you put a four there.
Three.
So three there.
It popped up by itself.
49 and then 333.
And three again.
Oh.
There we go, you're in.
Okay.
Don't you love all the security stuff?
Okay, so there's nothing in here now.
So this is where you'd hit add show.
And if anyone needs to do this as well,
you can say add with, so just hit the next button.
I probably should make a tutorial for this.
Yeah, for sure.
Then at this point, yeah, now you can go back here
to the anchor tab.
I'm sorry, this one here.
And if you scroll up, see where it says RSS right there,
just hit the copy, the purple copy button.
Copy that, now go back to iTunes right there.
And just paste it in here.
And then hit add.
This is so second nature to you.
It's okay, we've done it a few times.
It's gonna be second nature to you too soon.
Yeah, so technically it's like,
so it's gonna process these, check back later.
And then just, if you scroll down,
let's just make sure that you don't have to submit anything.
There's no save button, okay.
No, I did that once, I really do.
But I know I put an RSS feed in it.
But okay.
Yeah.
Google gave me fits with passwords
and all that kind of stuff.
Gotcha, and that's fine.
This is, if you get an iTunes, that's a great step.
And you can go through, like what you can do
is we'll leave you on the screen
if you wanna go through and fill out
like your name and phone number and.
No phone number.
Yeah, you can leave that off, it's all optional.
And then you can just say this show does not contain,
is that top one?
Oh yeah, okay.
And I think that's it.
There'll be a place for you to add a description
and things like that,
but it should be pretty much mostly brought in automatically.
You know what, I'll leave that number
cause it's not right.
Perfect.
I don't think, I think as you're typing here,
it's just gonna save stuff.
So what you could do is just leave this
and come back to it in a day or two
and see if it comes back,
but that should be all you need.
I'm gonna go through this video
and make notes of the steps.
Okay.
So that I can go back.
Yeah.
I'm gonna make a note for,
as to, we just need to make a video for this.
This is, what happened is we had a video for it
and then they changed the process.
We have to basically update it.
Yeah.
Can I ask you something really off, but technical?
So a long lost cousin of mine, who's brilliant,
let me know that there's an imposter Facebook for me.
And he showed me my URL and the other one ends in seven
and he reported it.
And I put on that, that this is imposter,
but I got 75 friends on there.
And I did get a reply from Facebook.
And when I called my cousin, I said,
what's this?
He said, they're just blowing you off.
They're not doing anything about it.
Yeah.
It's a very typical.
Yeah.
There's not much you can do.
There's not much you can do except for report it
and have like, if you want friends of yours to report it,
like happens to a lot of people.
And the only way to kind of get ahead of it
is like you have enough people report the fake account.
Okay.
Well, that's what I will do on that fake account.
I say, this is imposter.
Will several of you please report this?
Facebook isn't responding and giving me help.
Okay.
Yeah.
Because they're basically the way that they're monitoring
a lot of that is like automation.
So they're just kind of going off of,
they're getting a certain number of reports
and then they'll like kill the account.
Yeah.
Just, oh, okay.
Lots of reports.
Thank you.
I need it killed.
So with what Mary Alice was saying,
I was realizing, okay, there's that face.
I mean, there was that Zoom call that I was on with you
that you gave me lots of information,
but I don't know how to access that call.
And like Mary Alice was saying, okay,
I'm going to look back at this.
How do we look back at it?
She said to know the secret password.
We'll show you.
So if you go to home,
sorry, if you go to the group,
so Facebook group here.
The Facebook, the members group.
The members group.
Yeah, I know there's a lot of different groups,
but the members group,
one, they'll just be here.
So this, this one, like we're, this is, it's a little bit delayed, but that's the live call there. And so this just stays on Facebook forever. And if you kept scrolling back, like you could go back to that other call.
If I keep going, there's a lot of posts actually. Yeah, so, so there's the call from 21st.
And then you could, and then there's the whole this one was only 25 minutes. And then you so you can keep finding them there. And also I think we're putting them in guides so if you go to guides.
I think you can get to the.
Now you can't sorry we need to, this is going to get cleaned up in the next. So there's a hot seat group here will is all going to get reorganized because it's out of date but yeah it's in the discussion, pretty much.
Or you can look at this featured posts up here, like those are all the ones from me and Lindsay or anything kind of important is in is in there.
So typically we will like mark this as featured so it's at the top of everybody's list.
Like sure that one's in there too.
Okay, so it's just a really a matter of scrolling through it and remembering the date, the date yeah everything's they all look exactly the same except for the date.
Right. But there isn't any way that I could cut and paste it into something on my own.
Um, so basically they, we not right now but give us like, give us like a few more weeks, basically, we are all the sessions are being uploaded to our kingdom messenger TV, which is like our membership here and you'll see, like, there's the 16th.
There we go, whatever.
This is it there. This is, we haven't made this like public yet but this will be in the next few weeks will be replacing the Facebook group like basically adding this and kind of running them in parallel.
There is a kingdom messenger membership group in here, know what you guys don't have access to this just yet.
But you will. And, and there'll be all that to say, it'll be easier to download than trying to download it from Facebook.
That was a long way to say that Facebook doesn't give you an option to just download it.
But anyway, that's that'll be there. So, Bruce, if you see one, like she wanted to copy it, couldn't you just copy the URL.
And, yeah, this is goes to the zoom call. No, but if you click in this enlarge button, and then this link up this link up here will stay the same link forever to keep getting back and we're not going to delete anything from Facebook, just going to
leave it here, people can still get to it, but there's just little things that we don't like about Facebook that it doesn't let you download stuff.
Oops.
Okay, thank you for that.
Well, and then there's that frustrating thing of watching it, getting it understanding it forgetting it.
You know,
cycle.
And actually in teaching my instructor actually said, it's a strobe light, it's on, it's off, it's on a little bit longer, it's off. And, you know, teachers and students think that something's wrong with the student, but she said no that's just the way our
minds go. And so if we tell the students accepted ourselves and be prepared, then that helps a lot, because I would be despairing right now myself if I didn't realize that that's just.
There's some tasks as well that we like we have to, it's like, like this and setting up anchor with iTunes is a one time thing, you'll probably never have to do it we did it once in February of 2020 for Lindsay and I haven't signed in like we haven't other than
showing people how to do it. We just never had to do it again for posture. So, it's kind of like those are one time things and then there's sort of the routine things where you just need to kind of learn those habits learn those, and that just takes doing
it over and over again.
So, I don't know, we'll, we've got some ideas of how we're going to continue to make it a little bit easier to get to those resources because every time we have someone come on an open coaching session they have a specific question like Mary Alice just,
we just did the Spotify stuff so down the road I think we're going to have it to where we can chop that up as its own little video that's like seven minutes long and so if you're by yourself and you're like instead of waiting for us to jump on a call and show
like you could just search for that and watch that seven minute piece but it's just, there's actually so much content there's so much that has been recorded we're just trying to make sure we make the most of it.
So anyway, we're working on it.
Cool.
And Susie I saw that you had submitted review for episodes so I'll do that after this call. Just whenever. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely.
Hey, Reva, I see that you're on here as well.
Hi guys, thank you for all you're doing,
keeping us moving forward.
How's it going?
And Brett's here, how are you guys doing?
Good, we were just in the studio recording new songs,
and so we came up, wanted to make sure we caught you,
and said we are moving forward.
Yeah.
Today we'll probably record a video for our channel,
because we did, like we had talked about,
combined Reva and Brett James.
Still haven't heard back from CD Baby
on some of the logistics about overlap on YouTube,
but like our last album was posted
to Brett James Cornelius.
A different person, oh wow.
So, I don't know if that'll get worked out,
but you know, trying to keep moving forward
as we're managing cleanup of simplifying other things
that have already been posted.
But like you, I've talked about the management
of the site is a part of it too.
I have, I think an idea you can weigh in on
for the stretching into Jesus,
that I have been doing towards a 10 minute,
and I like all the teaching stuff,
but people are like,
yeah, we just really wanna get on there
and stretch with you.
Just do movement,
just do that soaking part and prayer
and less of the talking, talk less.
Women talk fewer words, simmer, marinade.
So I'm thinking of going two days a week
and splitting it up,
maybe recording it all on one day,
but then doing two five minute.
Sound good?
Yes.
Yeah, I think that's great
if you have the capacity to do it.
And it sounds like
if you're just doing it in the same recording session,
then it's not as much like added work,
but if that's the feedback you're getting,
then do that.
And then look back at the analytics
and look for view time,
see which one might be getting more
and then put your efforts towards what's working.
Yes.
Yeah, because we want the connection to be made.
And so whatever is helping people connect.
My son is actually connecting really well on Twitch.
He's streaming,
he's been streaming Fortnite for a year since lockdown.
How many followers do you have, child?
And today he said-
On Twitch I have 4,000.
Yes, 4,000 on Twitch followers.
No, he has 45,000 followers on Twitch.
On TikTok.
On TikTok, sorry.
On TikTok, anyway.
He just, as we're on this call,
he went to the door for lunch
because he was able to do door dash.
He ordered his own food from Chick-fil-A.
He said that made him feel like
he was a streamer for the first time.
That's pretty cool.
That is pretty cool.
Somebody donated it, so.
That's great.
That's a cool-
Any other questions for-
No, I'm flying again.
I had the wind knocked out of me about three weeks ago
and I was ready to just give up,
but now we're flying.
I was ignited by your comment
and you're seeing that we're getting
those 432 things posted.
So for me, I couldn't be more excited
and we're just playing a little bit of catch up,
but we're getting there.
That's awesome.
It's okay.
Everybody's, like I said,
we've got plenty of time.
No one's behind.
That's like the one thing we have to tell everybody
because-
Because it is a journey.
There's this imaginary perfect kingdom messenger
that I think we all have in mind
that has done all the videos,
they've watched everything.
They don't exist, I can tell you,
because every single person at some point is like,
I'm behind.
And you're like, of who?
Like, who are you behind?
Like, just keep making videos.
Like, it's fine.
Yeah.
That's good.
I'm excited to hear the,
I'm excited to hear the passion and the excitement.
Absolutely.
That's most important.
I love that you guys have combined efforts
and you're asking all the right questions
and you're looking at the right things.
Like the feedback you're getting, like, okay,
like I'm gonna, this is the feedback I'm getting.
I'm gonna do something about it.
I'm gonna switch up my mode of recording
and see if I can do it differently.
Like, that's what moves us forward, right?
When we're just taking one step at a time
versus being paralyzed.
It's that analysis paralysis,
I think that we can get ourselves into.
I'm definitely guilty of that.
Where we just feel so overwhelmed by all the things,
so we don't do any of the things.
Yeah.
Yes, and I appreciate what Susie said too.
I feel like, you know, the,
like if I go to two videos,
this idea of managing that,
cause I tried by having like a shorter version
at the end of one.
Like, okay, if I boiled this into 60 seconds,
thinking of TikTok, cause I haven't done that yet.
And if I boil it down,
what would my little commercial for this 10 minutes be?
and it's segment B.
But then I didn't know how to post that
because it was like, well, this isn't an episode, right?
If I did a shorter one.
That's a valid question.
So when we want to do a YouTube short,
what makes that different?
What makes a short versus a full-length present post?
It's short.
And by short, we meaning like less than 60 seconds,
isn't it? Yes.
Yes, that's what it is.
You could have uploaded that as a short
and then what you can do
in the description is you can link to your full episode.
Yeah. Okay.
Or at the end of the short,
just say for the full episode, check out our present post.
Oh, that's good.
I like that.
But when I'm scrolling through and the shorts pop up,
something unique happens to the dimension.
It's like all the shorts, the faces go right here.
Yes. Yeah.
It's because it's all done in portrait.
So you want to literally just flip your phone vertical.
It's important.
And then I would take, again,
you can always keep layering those things on,
but if you take the time to make a short,
you can post it to YouTube shorts
and then you can take that same video and post it to TikTok.
And you can just ask your son to do that.
Hey!
We'll continue to feed you every night
and you just take care of TikTok.
You run our TikTok for us.
So you said YouTube shorts.
So that's something I need to find out about.
You wouldn't just post it up to YouTube
and it just happens to be short?
No, it's a separate.
Yeah.
If it's less than 60 seconds
and it's filmed in portrait vertically,
here's the hack for you guys.
Like if you're doing an episode each week,
record your episode, spend a few hours,
whatever, getting the take that you want.
Right when you're done, you're like, cool, I finished it.
I got the take I want.
Just pick up your phone, hold it,
look right into the camera and in 60 seconds,
just summarize what your episode's about, you know?
You don't have to edit it.
You don't have to do anything.
Just re-record it, but try to like,
as if it's like your elevator pitch
of what the episode was about.
And the only thing, the goal of that 60 second recording
is just to get people to go watch the full episode.
You can give them a couple, like, you know,
it's really interesting in this scripture,
talk about this and isn't it cool
that the Lord like does this for you?
You know, I just shared an episode on my channel.
If you're interested, check out the link below.
It could literally be that short.
Like it doesn't have to be,
and it doesn't have to be as long as 60 seconds.
It could be 15 seconds.
It can be 30 seconds.
So again, if you feel like you've got a good rhythm
where you're doing at least one episode a week,
then I would slowly start to add these other things in.
I would say for you guys, even before shorts,
I would go and work on the vidIQ stuff and get the tags.
Cause like this one that I pulled up, the soaking,
which is awesome.
I love this.
It's great to put on like while you're working.
If I scroll down here,
you can keep doing this after you post,
like for weeks after it's posted.
I saw you guys have some channel tags,
but this specific video doesn't have any tags.
And so you would just go,
and there's some videos on that.
I can drop a link here in the chat to that.
But for example, like if I click on some of these tags,
like the fact that it's a 432, I think it's like HR.
What is it?
Hertz.
If I search for 432.
Yeah.
So look at this.
I think I'm trying to look for the low.
So there's, but anyway,
there's 432 like soothing or relaxed stuff.
Let me just, sorry, I was trying to get to very high.
But even if he was like,
like if you do something like that
and then just search with the lowest competence.
So it's like, these are horrible examples
I should have done.
But anyway, you would just go find and go through
and find like low competition, but high search volume.
So some of the words that you guys are using,
like no one's just,
so you always want to tag like each of your names
because people want to search for it.
So each of the videos could have like Brett James in there
as a tag for that video.
And then you could, so all that way,
they just all connected.
But then I would go in and tag specific things like,
you know, this one hour, this 432 Hertz.
You can pull some of the things here.
Like you mentioned Isaiah nine.
So Isaiah nine would be a tag
because people could search for Isaiah nine.
And there is things like music for soaking music for,
and you could use that whole phrase,
like music for soaking or music for Bible study,
all of those are going to be sort of popular things.
The goal for that is while your video is out there
and this one already did, you can see here,
like your channel average is this purple line.
Let me zoom in.
Um, but this video is like way better, like it just skyrocket above sort of
the average for most of it of your episodes.
Yeah.
Um, so, but if you kept adding more tags, it helps you to know what this is about
and it's going to send more traffic to those videos.
Um, so this is not the cool thing about YouTube is it just keeps growing over time.
So this just helps it grow faster.
Um, like you could easily get this to a thousand views, I think by tagging
stuff and because it's kind of generic, there's no talking, it's just music.
I just, I feel like it's, it's like very easy, like low hanging fruit for you
guys to get a bunch of, um, views and subscribers, Bruce, can I ask you, are
you looking at that in YouTube or are you looking at it at IQ?
Yeah, this is YouTube and vid IQ is just like a Chrome extension that is sitting
here.
So all this stuff at the top here, um, and then everything down here on the
right is being added to the page.
Um, because I have the vid IQ plugin.
So the cool thing is, as you know, like I'm, I don't have access to your account,
but I can go to any YouTube video on YouTube and see all the information about it.
Wow.
So again, this is another, um, if you haven't talked to, um, uh, Michelle cuss,
she also doesn't have any tags.
I've also been bothering her to get, um, but same thing.
I can see all of their information and it gives you feedback.
Like, Hey, the title's too long.
There's no tags, you know, there's some suggestions on what to do.
So, um, I've been in vid IQ, but I haven't seen it like that format.
So I'll have to see if I can, yeah.
And what will happen again, I'll, I'll send you the link to it.
Cause there's, there's some steps to it, but you'll go into
like edit a specific video.
Um, so if I grab one of these, um, and then vid IQ, if it's installed,
we'll add all this other stuff here for you.
Um, so you'll see like, um, these little like icons here.
So if I click on like kingdom messenger, it goes and runs a search and says, Hey,
there is 4,000 people you searching for, or there's apparently 2,700 people a
month searching for the phrase kingdom messenger workshop, which is cool.
Um, but the competition's medium.
So I can also try here.
Like, um, I don't know, Christian communicator.
Yeah.
So there's, there's other things.
I think we do like, um, start a Christian podcast.
Like I didn't come up with that.
I just found out that there was 3,200 people a month searching
for it and low competition.
Um, so that means that it's very easy to get placed up at the top and you'll see
that, um, the, where it has the ranking, like this blue number, that means that
it's ranked, which means that if you search for kingdom messenger workshop,
this will be the 21st video that shows up will be this specific one.
And, and we're probably competing with ourselves on that reason.
It's down the list, but, um, I'll drop the link here to that video.
Cause it kind of steps it through a little bit more specifically.
I kind of flew through it.
Can we go back to prior weeks and look at our vid IQ and tweak it?
Yeah, I definitely would.
We like typically once a month, I'll just skim through the
most popular episodes.
Um, and you get a vid IQ score.
So sometimes like if it's at 42 out of 50, I'll try and like tweak a few things
and try and get it to like 50 out of 50.
Um, it does take time to sort of care, but I definitely would go back and tweak it.
Um, The goal for all these videos is if you can get ranked where YouTube knows
that if someone searches for this, this topic, and you're one of the first
things to show up, um, then you're just going to on demand.
Like you're going to get all this free traffic to it.
Um, every, uh, every day.
Um, and so I could probably show some better examples, but yeah,
absolutely.
Go back to your old stuff.
And secondly, um, I think Susie might like this question.
Um, where do we go to do a YouTube short say we have the courage to
just start talking.
What do, what do we do with it?
Um, yes, the easiest way to do it is to actually download the
YouTube app on your phone.
Um, and there is a button, um, where like a big plus button and the bottom of the
YouTube app and you just hit the plus, and then it just, there's a button that
says create a short and you can just go straight into that and, and it'll ask
you for access to your camera.
So very similar to how you would go live on Facebook from your phone.
Um, same thing for YouTube.
Um, and then there's a way to hit record.
Um, and you can do either a 15 second or a 60 second one.
Okay.
And those we don't schedule.
I mean, because.
we're kind of just just put it yeah just publish when you're done okay thank you
cool
hey monica i see you on here too hey guys
yes we all got covid
yes we had a great christmas we all got
oh my god thankfully super mild is like a regular yeah so good yes so now we have the antibodies
yay yes absolutely but i had one recommendation for um reba and brett you were talking about
having the five minutes in the five minutes right that you're trying to filter out the the talking
what if you thought about your talk points for those five minutes and you use that information
kind of as your social media content uh to then promote going and kind of how bruce had said
seeing the video so for example let's say you had five points in those five minutes that you wanted
you could do um you could do a story with one of them you or you could do a short with one of them
or you could make it a uh just an image and then with a caption or you could so each one of those
is basically creating all the content you need throughout the week and then your call to action
at the end is pointing to the video so that people can just like relish and just relax in that but
you're giving them tons of value because the talking part is the value right in terms of just
you're feeding them information um that's really valuable to them so that might be one way to not
to not have to feel you have to make a whole five minute video but to use all of that great
information that people need and just spread it out and it just seems like you're just pumping
out content right and left but it would have just been those five minutes right so that's one way to
do it awesome great idea i love it i love that idea that's something that i'm thinking through
for 2022 taking doing graphics doing short stories things like that because right now i'm just doing
the weekly video but there's there like we say consistency is key and the more you're posting
you're going to get more eyeballs on yeah yes for me it was easier to do the graphics first so like
on our splash studios facebook page i would do just the scriptures of what was on my heart for
the week uh so i did do some of that but monica you're right being more consistent that the
scripture that's specific for this one every time you post it also has a scripture with a picture on
it um is good yeah or you could even uh create a reels i don't know if you're on instagram or not
but if you want some major views that will also be something clickable you know if you add a link to it
or something um that would be our prayer request as we go into instagram and tiktok right because
our kids are there so you know they're like uh yeah maybe not they're like okay all right so we're
gonna have to share our teen hangout space i know that's not the way it is but i i think that's the
conversations we've had and giving me that opinion um that we would be consistent with that because i
know that's an area where especially consistency tick tock that consistency of every day maybe or
every other day i feel like is maybe more important there than in facebook book or youtube land i'm not
sure but to be fair this is a 60 hour a week position if you really want to hit a grand slam
right this is not 20 hours 12 hours if you really want it's like the whole world whatever you put
your mind to do it's are you all in everyone at my former employee they want you all in and that's
how they wanted me to work so that at the end of the day when i came home after 14 years i was
shredded there wasn't anything left to give and this this is a demanding thing we're trying to
climb a mountain here in my opinion and i know that you all resonate with that or i think that
you probably do understand it yeah and 100 oh good good i was just gonna say i think it's more a matter
of perspective because you can with your 10 beautiful minutes that you have once a week
you can create and repurpose more than enough content for the whole week so it's just a matter
of planning and understanding what it is that your assignments want um and then
and provide that to them, but in very small snippets.
And so, if you can look at it that way,
I think it'll relieve the pressure of,
I always have to be all in.
You don't.
You have to be all in for the 10 minutes, right?
And then repurpose that.
Maybe it might take you another half an hour, maybe,
to repurpose the rest.
And then you just relax for the rest of the week.
Schedule it and forget it.
Schedule it and all that stuff.
That's the thing, because otherwise, it's
an infinite game.
And I think a lot of content creators make a big mistake,
because they think it has to be fresh and new.
But to Monica's point, I don't think
people utilize their one piece of content enough.
And so, there's a lot of ways to just repurpose
the one piece of content before you even go
on to a new piece of content.
And the core of it is that one episode a week.
Like I said, everything else is just pointing to that.
TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts.
And for the record, TikTok, YouTube,
all the same video.
You're just posting it in three different places.
So just when you say Reels, TikTok, it's all the same.
We do the same piece of content on all of them.
And I mean, really, like I said,
it is an infinite game, right?
So whether you're just started,
whether you're spending maybe,
I'd say all your time in the week,
maybe three, four hours,
because you're writing the episode
and then recording it, typically in the same day.
And that's all you do the whole week, like for the podcast.
It's not like, and again,
we can easily go add like more graphics.
We can go add, oh, we need to be on Pinterest now.
And part of it is because we had some success in YouTube,
we're getting a little bit of cashflow
coming in from YouTube ads.
And so, we actually just take that
and we pay someone to do all our TikToks.
So it's kind of running itself.
So every single day, TikToks, Reels, Instagram,
YouTube shorts are all, there's a new post every day.
And that just covers it for us, which is great.
So it can, you can, it's just,
it's a matter of just doing it at the right time, right?
Not doing everything at once.
Yeah.
And knowing which like,
just being consistent is obviously huge
and taking that one episode,
cause you spend so much time putting into that one episode.
And that's why I think we could get even more leverage
out of every one of Lindsay's episodes,
cause there's graphics that can be created,
there's shorts that can be created,
there's, and so just keeping to that theme,
don't try and be like,
well, I spent all this time doing this one episode,
now I've got to sit down and be so creative
and come up with like three totally different graphics
that have nothing to do with that episode.
Like, keep it really simple, focus it and.
And don't be afraid to be repetitive
across different platforms,
because not everyone that follows me on Instagram
follows me on Facebook or TikTok, you know,
it's usually people have kind of their favorite platform
that they gravitate towards.
So don't be concerned if,
hey, I posted this on TikTok,
you can also post it on Instagram,
you can also post it on YouTube shorts,
because there's a good chance
people aren't going to see it twice.
And if they do, they do.
It just keeps scaling.
Cause you know, if you're Graham Cook
and you have a whole staff of people that are like,
there's people that are just cutting up content
and posting and editing 24, like all 40 hours a week.
And that happens, but it's just,
but what is the 40, 50 years into it?
Yeah.
So it builds momentum.
So you don't always have to be like content.
It's more just, that's why in this stage,
it's just all that automation,
anything where you can simplify
and keep it to where it's manageable.
Cause the worst thing you could do is try
and work more than what's sustainable.
Yes.
And then you'll lose motivation
and then you just won't be consistent.
And then it just all sort of spirals down.
I mean, that's why I had to not do, not do.
You were doing day, I mean, daily.
I don't do that anymore.
Yeah.
Well, we appreciate you guys pioneering,
going ahead and then sharing, being willing to share.
I think the phrase that keeps coming up in my mind,
Monica, after you shared that too,
is use the whole Buffalo.
I think it was a behind the scenes on some Pixar movie
that they were saying that that's what was in their shop
as a big heading, use the whole Buffalo.
And we've had that with our remodel on our home,
like, hey, we're going to repurpose this.
Don't, you know, because there are so many things
that people haven't seen yet and concerning the content.
And you're right.
Like you helped me get out of the mindset
that YouTube is where I should send everyone.
So when you said, no, post the video on Facebook,
I was like, I don't know that I want to share
with Facebook, my YouTube videos.
I don't know.
I had that mentality.
And then when you're like, yeah, put it on Anchor.
And then it's going to be a podcast.
The same thing, the same Buffalo is now going to be
pieced out to all of these different platforms.
And that is how you get the kingdom message,
you know, exponentially.
they sent out and then multiplying the kingdom that way.
Yeah.
I think we're beginning to eliminate distractions too.
Our hands are getting more full
doing exactly what we're supposed to be doing.
Yeah.
And then it's easier to say no to all of life's distractions.
We're switching from being content consumers to creators
and it's an exciting wave.
Yes.
Yeah. I love it.
You guys are doing it.
I mean, you're putting the episodes out
which is the best thing.
Yay.
That's the fastest way to learn anything
is just keep doing it and consistently.
So that's awesome.
That's great.
Cool.
Just to be a whiner with Lindsay's
you're three or four hours a week.
I'm assuming that's your content and you're filming
but the things like, oh man, I have to do an intro
and doing the texting.
I'm assuming that's Bruce's thing.
Yeah.
Well, we template it though.
So Bruce.
It takes me seven minutes to edit her episodes every week.
Because I record it in one take for him.
So he's not chopping things up.
And we have that template that we can definitely share.
No, there's lots of videos on training.
Yep.
Where we just put it in and then he exports it.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
We're just still on that learning curve.
Like I'm putting text into it and I'm learning
I did figure out how to do the subtitles on YouTube
and I'm really excited about it.
I could edit the subtitles on the YouTube.
That's great.
But I did something with my finished movie
and I can't find it now.
Thankfully it's on YouTube, but it's not on any of my stuff.
And it's just all of that learning.
I mean, guys, there's still times
where I'll record an entire take
and then I'll go back to watch it and the mic wasn't on.
I mean, there's just, there's days where there's gonna be-
And a lot of times where it wasn't your fault
that the mic wasn't on.
There's gonna be unnecessary frustrations.
What it is, is what do you do with that place
in that place of frustration?
And that's where we build ourselves up stronger
and become very powerful kingdom messengers
as we don't let ourselves,
we don't give ourselves to the frustration.
And that's just something you have to learn over time.
And there's still, I mean, there's still like
I think the last time that happened
was like only two episodes ago.
I was like recording for, it felt like hours.
And the other thing is like, you did one
when we were not in the studio, we were traveling
and you did an episode.
That was the one, when we were on the road.
And like, we set everything up just right.
And then Lindsay had record
and then the sun came out or something.
And this was like after multiple hours of recording
and she was like, this is great.
And I like opened it and I was like,
yeah, this isn't gonna work.
And eventually we just, it was like late at night
at that point, we're like, it's gonna go out.
So you can, I mean, you can go find it on the channel.
It's just, the colors are really weird.
And they just, and we're like, but there's the episode.
Like people saw one of the content and guess what?
Not one person commented on the fact
that the colors were wrong and blah, blah.
You know, that was the first thing I saw.
But we just, sometimes we're just like,
hey, that's what we got this week.
We can't go back and record it.
It's not, we don't, it's not a defeatist mentality,
but there's, you know, we have to keep the main thing
the main thing.
So we always say, obviously the content is key.
Content is king, consistency is key.
It's more important that I have an episode this week
and that the content is good.
And that was good, but the packaging was weird.
And, you know, you think that after 180 something episodes
that wouldn't be an issue, but sometimes it is.
So it's like, what are you going to do
in that place of frustration?
Don't give yourself over to it.
Keep moving ahead.
And there's things that I'm learning.
I did use to edit my own episodes, by the way.
I used to do that, but in this newer,
kind of coming out of maternity leave,
Bruce has graciously done that for me.
So I'm grateful for that.
We are a team of two.
I don't deny that, but there were seasons
where I was doing my own editing
and I understand the frustrations for sure.
Are you going to show it?
I don't need to show it.
This isn't like, it's not, it's fine.
This is the worst thing.
No, it's actually not terrible now that I look at it.
It would look terrible.
It was terrible at midnight.
It was terrible when it was late at night and we were tired.
Like this is the worst thing ever.
So anyway.
Yeah, I think that's good.
And keeping it just simplified everywhere you can,
especially for anything on the shorts,
reels, TikToks, that stuff,
it's actually very, very raw what goes out.
Like it's not edited.
There's no intro.
There's, you know, it's just edited in the TikTok app
or the, like, we just add the music,
we trim it in there and we publish it
straight out of the app.
And there's tutorials.
We show how we do that.
Yeah.
And we try to find like the best line
where stuff looks really good,
but also it's extremely easy.
So we'll spend time making one intro
and we'll use that intro for the whole season.
And the last two seasons, we've used the same intro
because we didn't have time.
Like we swapped out the music and we're like.
kept the video the same. And it was like, I guess we'll fix it on the next one. We didn't overthink
it. Um, but we, the templates and stuff that you can set up, um, that way you just duplicate last
week's episode, swap out the content, edit a few things where you need to, and just hit publish.
Um, you know, that does make it really fast. It does take from when you finish an episode to
everything's edited, uploaded and scheduled, I think is like 25 minutes. And I know that some
of you guys are editing your text in like Susie, I know that you put, you take the time to put your
scriptures in the video, which I think is super helpful from a viewer standpoint, but you'll
notice that I don't do that in my videos. Cause like we just, we're not there right now. So the
best I can do the second best thing than putting it like up near me or on a lower third in the
video is I put it in the description. I put the key scriptures in there so people can find it
easily, but it's not up while they're watching the video. And that's just what I'm able to do
right now. And if we get someone who's going to come in and edit each week, then we'll, then we'll
be really picky about, yeah, we actually do want scriptures come up, but we're just, we just,
that's not what we're able to do. And that's okay. So that's too, you gotta, there's an ebb and flow
to like, what am I able to do capacity wise where I don't feel shredded at the end of this process
and this week and something I feel like I consistently can keep up and, and, and invite
the Lord to be creative with you. So that's what we, I think the first episodes I did, I didn't
even think to put the scriptures in the description. And then I, I think I saw it might've
been a kingdom messenger, might've been Jennifer Miller. I saw that she had put them in her lower
third. It was in lower third. So it would come up on, on a screen when she would share. I thought,
man, that's so helpful. I don't have time to do that and edit those in my videos, but I'll go
ahead and put it in the description. So that's how I got the idea. Yeah. And we've been we've been
reading that atomic habits book. If you haven't read that's by James clear and it's all about
this. And his whole thing is like, just get 1% better every day, which I think is like such a
great eat. Like, oh, okay. 1%, like it's barely noticeable, but it's a little bit better. And
that's, you know, that's a great way to think about it. Just keep moving forward. Keep getting
the habit of every Monday I record every Tuesday, edit blah, blah, blah. Just keep it, keep a good
consistency. And I'm literally reorganizing my kitchen now one drawer at a time. Cause I don't
have the time right now to do it all at once. So the one time I'm like, you know what, I'm just
going to do it one drawer a day or one cabinet a day, depending on what I do. And it creates,
cause what is built momentum. So every time you open that drawer, you're like, oh, this looks so
good now. Like I can't wait. I'm gonna do the next one. And then now you've got a whole wall
of stuff that's done that you can kind of move on. So it's easy, but cool. I have a super quick
question. Oh, go ahead. But I want to ask what you spoke about. I don't, nothing pops in my
mind with understanding when you talk about using a graphic. I think Lucy and Lindsay have seen
tons of graphics that I've put on Facebook, but I don't know what you're talking about.
Yeah. I'm talking about the same thing. So it would be an image that would reflect whatever
idea it is that you want to put out. So I asked Ruth and Lindsay once, can I put a graphic
like at the bottom of my YouTube? No, you can't. And so I'm talking about other social media
platforms like Facebook or Instagram. Like I'm on your account right now, Mary, and you do that.
You do scripture graphics and quote graphics and yeah. Yeah. That's what you're already doing.
Okay. But they're not, I can't put them on YouTube. Okay. I was wondering what I was
supposed to do with them. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. I have a super quick question,
just since you're talking about podcasting. So I have like 450 episodes from 2020 when I went
all out. And about maybe at 150, I ended up switching because I got my brainwashed by people
who like to do things harder. It wasn't you guys because you guys motivated me to want to switch
back. So I started off in Anchor, but then I moved to Simplecast. And so there are like 300
and something episodes there, but I would love to move back to Anchor, but Anchor doesn't let me
import back all those episodes. And so I'm like, I wonder what would the best way would be to be
able, is it worth it to download each one and re-upload it to Anchor again? Or is it better
to just bite the bullet and just say it is what it is and then just continue on where I left off?
Yeah. And if I would look, there's no noticeable difference from a user standpoint on Anchor or
Simplecast. Simplecast is a great tool as well. So if you don't...
absolutely hate using it and think it's the worst thing in the world then I would just
actually do it the other way and like move some stuff from Anchor into Simplecast. I think they
do have like an import feature or you can backdate episodes at least if you didn't want to load them
in. It yeah just having it all in one place it is nice especially it just feels like it's it's
all complete. So is it like the last year is in Simplecast and maybe like everything before that?
Right. Again you can load it in.
That's it is yeah you can load it in it's just that almost no one will see it right like other
than just for your own like peace of mind it will be in one place. It's just going to be it's going
to be 300 you know episodes deep on like at the bottom of the list. So I mean you could definitely
do it. I would just do whatever whichever has the like a bulk import option. I know Anchor doesn't
and so that is one thing I've always been nervous about like if we do ever miss one or how do we
like backdate an episode. But it's I think they have that on Simplecast. Yeah they're a little
fancier. I think I pay like $35 a month. Yeah and they have analytics and all kinds of stuff. I mean
again like from your user standpoint no one is going to be able to tell that it's from Anchor
or from wherever. We just used Anchor because it's like a very easy thing to start with.
Yeah there's definitely better tools out there but not necessarily and it's free it's just been
a an upside. So yeah okay. Yeah and I was gonna say like maybe you can also add we've been
repurposing a lot of old content in the Shorts Reels TikTok conversation. Like all of those
episodes have nothing to do with Lindsay's episode for the week. In fact most of them
are like from six months ago. Yeah I've been noticing. Yeah we're utilizing them to get
people to like go to the you know profile not a particular episode. Like it's like unresponsible
how little like in like guidance we've given the person running the TikTok channel. Like we
probably should like. Well that sounds very bad. But I'm saying like they know more about TikTok
than we do. So what we did was we said utilize your. But we knew that that your content like
this episode is solid and we trust the content that's in there. And so they're just going and
pulling like interesting clips from that. But all that to say like they just started using old
episodes and they it's crazy like we should probably have Isaac come on and like teach on
that again. But they he was just telling us like interesting things like oh yeah when Lindsay has
her hair up the episode does better. Or like like weird stuff like or if she's in the living room
versus our office it does better in the living room. Like just statistically like and it was like
weird things that you're like. Like visual things that because we know we would say I think we've
shown you guys our screen for saying like hey this one got 5,000 views. This one only got 500.
We really don't know why. But you think about TikTok being such a like scrollable more than any
other thing because you're just kind of scrolling through that things that are visually catch your
eye first people will stop the scroll before they're listening for their hearing on TikTok.
So he was just saying like visually there's some things that like if your hair is up or if you're
in a different room or the coloring is different it's getting better views. And yeah I just wouldn't
worry too much about this the sequence of it that these ones are old. The one I did this last
week is new. If it's good content it doesn't matter when it was shot and published. So you
can just keep repurposing that for sure. Yeah there's I think we all have tons of content
that's been unused. Yeah oh yeah so much. Yep yeah yeah it's time to time to upcycle the content.
Yeah I told Lindsay once I was like you could literally just start at the beginning again like
pull up your old script and re-record from episode one through and it would be awesome.
Like and people would be like this is amazing. Well just because there's people who are just
starting to follow me that aren't necessarily going back and watching episode two three or four
right. So yeah like going back to those scripts and pulling out stuff and then writing a new
script with it. It's so interesting that you're saying this because just yesterday I went to
YouTube scrolled down well over a year ago and I thought I'm going to redo that. I'm going to redo
that one. That would take a lot of pressure off the girl. Yeah and just change the title and it's
publish it as a new episode and no one will know. Yeah I don't have a teleprompter and I have to look
whatever but you know at this point I just say I'm comfortable not being spit polished.
yeah because you know I'm just me and he's asked me to do this and I'll get
more savvy as I go along but absolutely I can't I can't do it all at once no one
thing at a time and honestly the best content that does that I think what
people connect with the most is the people who are just showing up and
being themselves and not being super overly produced anyway so guys I have to
go I've got to go release the sitter but this is good well have a great New
Year's we'll see you guys and Susie I'll look at your episode later today
we'll see you guys on it in this group in 2022