Hey, how's it going, guys?
Let me get a slide on Facebook.
Do you guys have a good New Year's?
I don't remember.
It's too long ago.
I don't remember.
We so appreciate your being faithful to help us.
And I apologize for being such a pest.
I just don't get.
Of course. No, we love helping you guys out.
So we, we did not have as fun a new year's as you'd probably did.
But we did have a lot of fun.
We had a lot of fun on a small team today.
And Hannah.
Sorry.
Send Hannah to me.
Why not?
Happily.
She's been great. Hannah's been a trooper.
So.
We have.
Monica is also jumping on now. So she's going to help.
With some questions and stuff as well.
Okay.
So I didn't actually see.
Any, I think there was one person that had.
I did.
The question. Yeah. You had a vid IQ question. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah. Let's jump into it.
And okay.
It just occurred to me last night.
Because.
I've got.
I don't know how to do that.
I don't know how to change anything.
In order to try to beef it up. And even when I added some things.
The numbers didn't change.
What.
If I can learn how to do that, but here's another aspect.
If there.
And the schedule part.
Can I go in and do it there before they're ever.
They ever go live.
Okay.
So you can.
So it'll all be done on the YouTube side.
And.
You can do it. You typically do it right after you.
Like after you upload, then that's when you would add it.
Okay.
I'll tell you maybe.
Of course I'm unique. I'm trouble.
But so I have this friend.
That.
I have this friend.
That I'm noticing. She doesn't change any of them.
The vid IQ.
Yeah.
So can I go in and do that?
Yeah, absolutely.
After it's uploaded.
But not before it goes live.
Yes.
Yeah, you can do it.
Anytime you want.
And vid IQ, you could do.
Yeah.
The best thing.
Have you watched the tutorial on that already?
Well,
Tell me where I find it.
I'm going to put a link right here.
Okay.
I've got a whole thing of your links.
Gotcha.
I'm going to drop it in the chat right now. So.
Cool. Yeah. I see a couple of people jumped on. So.
Hi, everyone.
So a lot of people know that we, I had COVID this weekend.
And then Lindsay had bad food poisoning last night.
So we're running off like a small.
Skeletal team today.
The good thing is.
We have a new person on our team who has jumped in to help.
Coaching. And so Monica who's here.
A lot of you guys know is was.
Has jumped in to help us.
She's been doing a lot of training and coaching and this is something
she's been doing for.
A long time, way before she found kingdom messengers, but we found.
We met her in January.
Of last year. So known her for almost a year now, which is crazy.
Never met in person. Just.
Just like you guys,
we just got an ad and we've become friends and she has a similar
heart and.
She's been doing a lot of coaching and coaching and coaching and
coaching.
And she's been doing a lot of YouTube training stuff.
The just getting your questions answered.
And probably every now and again,
she'll hop on and help us with some of these coaching calls.
So I'm going to be on the call, the whole call here today,
but I'm also going to Monica's going to jump in and help if needed.
So.
I'm going to.
Make you a co-host as well.
Awesome.
He had a good New Year's.
It's awesome.
Ready for 2022.
That's awesome.
Um,
I, this is Susie.
I have something to share that.
I don't know if it's appropriate right now.
I am so glad you got over COVID.
Um, last week I had short notice and that my old dear pastor was in the
hospital with COVID pneumonia and he went to be with Jesus the next day.
No, it's hard, but the family, you know, Lord is there with the family they're
growing, it's given me an opportunity to connect with their kids better.
But this is the first COVID death that I have experienced.
And, um, it's, it's surprising just how unreal it is.
And I, I so appreciate Amy and Lindsay talking a couple times ago about that.
Uh, you know, we, we grieve with hope.
And, um, I'm, I don't know, it just feels good to be with you guys
and just to put that out there.
Awesome.
I'm glad.
Uh, glad that you're in our community and we will definitely have thoughts
and prayers for, uh, family stuff.
That's if we had, yeah, it's, uh, it's been a crazy few years.
That's for sure.
Just, uh, figuring all this new, the new normal out.
Um, but, um, cool.
Well, I, um, I don't think there's anyone specific in order, but
if you guys have questions, just feel free to, you put up the link.
I'm looking for it now.
I can't talk and search for it at the same time, but I'll do it right now.
Okay.
I just didn't want you to forget.
Nope.
No, you got it.
And I will study it on my own.
I promise.
Yep.
Is it in the resources in the road map?
It is.
Um, yeah, there's, there's a specific video called, um, I'm
going to just drop it here.
I'll share my screen.
Um, is it here?
Okay.
I'm going to, I'll find it while we're talking here, but yeah, it's, it's
it's somewhere in the, uh, in the membership site.
Uh, I think it's keywords.
I sometimes forget what we title things.
So let me, yeah, here it is.
So I'll drop it in the chat for you.
There we are.
Yeah.
And it's just, um, it's this episode, this thing here, there's like a top, uh,
video up here and I think there's like, it goes through all the vid IQ stuff.
And then there's even some suggestions of which keywords to use.
Okay.
Thank you.
Lots of good stuff there.
Cool.
All right.
Um, let me see.
Well, if you, um, no one has questions, I would love to also hear like what, if
anyone has specific goals, maybe for the next, I'm not even going to say 2022,
which is like the next, you know, 90 days maybe for your channel, um, just
to kind of kick things off.
Yeah.
I have a question.
Um, just kind of waiting for everybody to pop in, but, um, so I'm just trying
to, I spent hours and hours, like up to two in the morning, a couple of nights
in a row, trying to get my first podcast out and I really wanted to do it.
And it was my goal to do it, but, um, you know, we're in Colorado.
We had those fires or came between eight miles of our home and it was very
disruptive.
Um, and every time I sit down to do this podcast, something happens.
Like my light went out one night and I don't know, we had a drive
by shooting another night.
It's just like, there's so much warfare around this.
And so I'm just having a team now gather and pray for me.
We're praying for each other and our creative endeavors.
The question I had Bruce for you was, um, where I was getting hung
up was on the teleprompter.
I finally decided to put out my, um, just to not use TP teleprompter pro.
And I found another one because it just, it wasn't sinking.
What was happening is I would write it all out.
I put all this, the, the, the, the font in the same font, and then it
still wouldn't populate at all.
And I had to type it in and then I couldn't, I would get it mirrored, but
then I couldn't get it in presenter mode.
It was just very, very confusing to me.
So I found this one called prompt smart.
Have you heard of prompt smart?
That's one of our, like, we definitely recommend that one as well.
Okay.
I wanted to know, and, and you probably recommend the plus because the
plus is the only one that mirrored.
Yes, that's correct.
Okay, so I'm going to invest in that and see if I can do that. It seemed a lot more intuitive to me.
Yeah.
Yeah, use whatever for any tool any tech like use the one, use the tool that makes the most sense. If one feels easier than the other like go with that one.
Both of those are great tools, they'll be able to do everything that you want it to do.
Okay.
Yeah, and I would just appreciate all your prayers because once I get the initial one out it's going to be probably 20 minutes or half hour. The rest will be 10 minutes.
And I think the 10 minute ones I've already got, I've got them in my head, it's going to go quickly once I get that initial one out but I have to set it up because people don't know why am I doing this and what is our approach and how, you
know, I have to get that initial one and then they can go back and listen to that.
Yeah.
Everybody's nodding I feel like that's a good approach. Hopefully, I don't know if any of you have all experienced that having to put out a longer one at the beginning, but I would put out a shorter one at the beginning, just so you can say that you've launched.
Hi, I'm Denise and I have a channel about this, stay tuned for my next episode.
Right, because here's why because almost no one will ever watch that first episode, so you may end up spending a lot of time on the episode that no one's going to see.
Because if you think about it like you're gonna you're gonna accumulate people following you as you go.
And like no one very rarely people are going to go back and watch your earlier content.
Unless you specifically like send that them that episode because it kind of gets buried after, you know, a few days or weeks on the internet.
And so I wouldn't overthink the, I wouldn't put too much work on the, these first episodes it's kind of counterintuitive because it's so much work because you're doing everything for the first time.
But, yeah, I would, and the other option as well if it sounds like you've got some ideas for the next few episodes is like maybe start with the second episode and record that.
Okay.
And then you can always go back and do a first one and it doesn't have to be quite as sequential, I guess, especially if you're talking about the same sort of topic.
You can just come at it from different angles and I wouldn't, you know, the episodes typically will stand on their own without needing to like reference other episodes, most of the time, but I don't know Monica if you have any thoughts on that as well.
I definitely agree with shorter is better. We live in a, in an environment right now where people are more used to seeing 15 second videos than anything else, right.
So, if you could start off with just a, this is who I am, this is what I represent. This is how I am here to serve you. And then from there, maybe even that 20 minute one you could break it up into two, or even smaller segments because there's also something
about giving people a win, even in the consumption of content. So, if I see you have one 20 minute video, or a few, you know, five minute videos or four minute videos, and I say well I have about 15 minutes maybe I could get through the first one and then they
finish it and then they're like, well, I have a few more minutes I could get through the second one and the third one, right. And so it's almost they call it gamification right of even the consumption of content so you would probably get so many more views because people are like,
Oh, I can get through this information it's so good and I want they just keep wanting more and more. So, kind of thinking about it in that way I think will be really helpful and easy to create too.
Oh okay and make it make them hungry rather than stuff them with a full meal that they can't really process the content anyway.
That makes sense. That makes sense you know it's funny because I listened to you guys, and then I go to my friends who are doing podcasts and they're all doing half hours they're all doing audio not video and they all have a great audience.
And so, but probably not as big as your audiences, and so I believe the way that you're telling us to do it Bruce is the right way I just have to get my head around it so that was very helpful Monica thank you for sharing that.
I think there's also a big difference between audio and video.
People will tend to just want in the in the video side of things, quick, to the point, give me what I need I'm ready to move on to the next, and people who, because you're sitting there actually looking at something.
If you're listening to something I can stick you in my pocket and walk around and vacuum and do laundry and do other things so I have to listen to you, but I don't have time to.
sit and watch you and stop everything else. That's the big difference between both.
Oh, okay. But don't people listen to these just audio, even if they're video sometimes through
anchor? They do. They do. But if you're looking to, you know, because some people, like you said,
will just have audio. And so they've gotten in the end, honestly, it's what, what expectation
you set up for your, for your assignments, right? I go, I call audience assignments.
If they are used to you putting out the half hour, and they are just committed followers,
and they love your content, then they will go and watch it. If Bruce puts out a one hour long
techie tutorial, I'm going to be stuck on there because I like tech things,
right? Or if you put out something super inspirational, and Ben does too,
you know, super inspirational. And I know I need it. I don't care how long it is, you're serving,
you're meeting me at my point of need. So honestly, you know, we can all say,
this is the trend, or this is how things are going. But you know that God will put in you a
specific word for specific people. And you just feel free in doing that. Don't give yourself
limitations, just just do what, what he prompts you to do. If you can make things even at the
beginning a little bit shorter, so that people can start getting to know you. Right. And then,
and then they're like, Oh, yeah, I want more of this, then you can even start expanding it and
making it a little longer if you want. But at the very beginning, just make it easy for people to
consume what you have to give them. Okay, that's very helpful. Thanks, you guys.
Yeah, and that was awesome. I think the only thing I would add is, like I said, it is just
an introduction. So like when we do anything, we're meeting new people for the first time,
we only do like 15 to 60 seconds, little like video ads, that gets people to like a two or three
minute video. And then eventually people are hanging out, like Monica said, and for a whole
weekend with us doing a workshop, because they're like, we found the right people that are like all
in and want to listen to all our content. But those first, you kind of have to this is these
first episodes are really just helping introduce yourself and your content to the world.
Yeah. Okay, I'm going to take this in. And my goal is to get this out in the next week.
You got it. We believe in you. Okay, thank you.
And actually, Denise, if I can just jump in and say, I'm so grateful to hear you that you're
struggling with this, it, you know, gives me companionship. Like, okay, we can do this. And
yeah, and I think, for me, 15 minutes, just sounds like a great idea because or five, yeah,
five minutes or 15. Just to get so that we hear you. Yeah, you know, and that's the thing.
When, when Monica was saying, well, let them get to know you in just little bits, I think get to
know you, how they can get to know me if I only have five to 10 minutes, but then what she said
makes sense, because you don't want to overwhelm them. So you just because they don't want to
overwhelm you, you don't want to overwhelm them. So you don't want to overwhelm them.
Overwhelm them. So you just because they don't know you at all. So what they know in little
bits is much easier, and then they develop an interest. So that that made sense to me,
because I couldn't put the two of those together. Like, how do I be vulnerable and open up myself in
five minutes, you know? So thank you. And it's just like, even when you're putting
just a video together, you want to have at the very beginning of your video,
like just a sentence summarizing what you're going to be talking about, because those first few
seconds is the hook to get them in to watch the rest. So you can expand that a little bit,
just even in the rest of your content. So right now, this is the hook. You're basically saying,
hey, this is something new that can serve you and give them that little piece and then just keep
expanding it as time goes by. And that little piece is what we're about kind of thing.
Right. Okay. And then in most of these teleprompter apps, do you have the ability
to automatically start the camera? Because I found that I was starting the camera and I did some,
and then I'd have to go and sit in front of it. So then you have to edit off that first piece,
because you weren't there right when it started. You were getting the camera.
So do you have that automatic thing?
Yeah, I'll just, I mean, everybody kind of does it their own way. We always just record a few
seconds before. And so sometimes they will hit record and then she'll kind of hang, you know,
get ready, get to the right position, take a
breath and then start and then we do just trim it off when we're done so.
And you just use the the Mac software or whatever to trim it off or the app?
Yeah you can even I mean worst cases you can literally trim it in YouTube if you want.
Okay. There's a bunch of ways if you're just taking like
beginning piece off there's a lot of different ways you can even do it in QuickTime or like
setting YouTube will trim it just as easily. Okay great thanks.
Amy has her hand up.
Hi everybody. Bruce I'm just coming back from COVID myself. My husband and I well
I tested positive on Christmas Eve so literally today's the first day I've put
makeup on or really gotten dressed anything besides pajamas or sweatpants so
and kind of had a rough December just a lot going on and so I am trying to get my next
I didn't do an episode which is my first week to not do an episode since I started
and I'm beginning to question whether I will get one done this week. I have one written but
my brain was working really slow so I don't even know what my goals are except for is to get
get one done soon but my question has to do with Facebook advertising which I did
put up some ads several weeks ago I think it was probably mid-November
kind of I think Bruce you walked walked me through that and I got those up and going and
and I took I took some down or you know just stopped them not that long ago maybe a week ago
and and so on Facebook it will say boost your ad and I've done that I mean boost your
what your content and I've done that on the episodes that I've put up since then and those
will run the boost you know not not spending very much money those will go for you know a week to
you know 10 days however long you you do it and so my question is what's the difference between
you know putting up the ads like I did with I think three different audience groups you
know in different places and doing the boost yeah there's a so this really comes down to
like the difference between the goals I guess what you're trying to do the boost is great
and just just getting it in front of more eyeballs and getting more engagement more
comments more likes the well I think what we set up for you was to specifically get
page likes which are which are also a way of saying page followers so I would say if you're
gonna put money towards it I would focus on building that following not just getting
because it's very easy to just get engagements and views and comments it's actually very very
easy to get that but people won't stick around like we okay we've had a number of
Kingdom Messenger videos or posture episodes that easily have like 150 to 200,000 views and
hundreds and hundreds of comments and none of those people like are necessarily becoming followers
or ever seeing our stuff again so you end up spending money just to get it in front of someone
but if you can do it where they're becoming a follower it's a little bit of a longer term
investment so as then they can start to see more content kind of bring them into your world
but do you have your your laptop where you could look at the the dashboard you can just kind of
tell me what you think just based on the trend we can take a look at it yeah okay now somebody
you're gonna have to walk me through how to share my screen because I've never done it before
yeah there should be like a green share share it's like a green button kind of near
okay got it uh-huh and then you'll just okay so screen
Yeah, pick screen. Okay.
And then there should be like a blue Yep, it looks like you got it.
Okay, and then now I'm going to, am I going to pull up the my dashboard.
See.
Yeah, let me make sure I'm seeing it just yet.
May just be zoomed.
Yeah, did you hit there should be like a blue button as well.
A blue.
I do not see it.
So when you hit.
Share screen then you clicked on like one of the screens, then like at the bottom right I think there's like a blue button.
That will.
Okay, but I do push screen.
Yeah, okay.
And there's like a blue screen.
Yeah, this is saying, like, will be recorded.
Okay.
All I see is the blue zoom camera there's nothing else. Okay.
I am not sure that is typically you'll just pick like the top left zoom.
But alternatively, if you want to take a screenshot of your dashboard and some of the results.
I can you can post into the group and just tag me, and I will give you some thoughts on what to do.
Okay, improve the results.
Okay. Yeah. Okay.
Well, that makes sense. I won't spend my money doing that again I'll just take the time to just put different videos up on.
Yeah, and what you can do, I'll jump back here.
What you'll when you want to take a screenshot just pick the campaign that you're on, or that you want to show us, and then just go to the top right here, and under date just hit maximum.
And then it will just spit out a bunch of data and you can take a screenshot of that. And I can just see like, generally, if they're going well or not well.
Take a look.
Sorry your zoom is not working but we can definitely figure that out and get it to where we can.
Yeah, okay. I'll, I'll work on that. Well that's, that's helpful. Thank you.
Any other questions that you guys might have
video IQ thing, it didn't have a boost thing as well.
What can you tell me about that. That is a totally different thing.
It happens to be that that IQ has a payment plan called boost.
There's a probe level and there's like a boost plan I think the, it's like 50 bucks a month I think for that. And then you can actually like, it just gives you a little bit more help when you're trying to pick keywords.
I don't think it's necessarily.
You don't have to have that.
So anyway yeah totally different thing. But it just happens to be the plan. Yeah, yeah, I get it.
But I won't get it.
I know.
Then, did you get. I know you're kind of working on some audio things and we went back and forth on Facebook.
Any questions on that.
Thank you, Bruce. As you can see I got my, my arm here. It's super wiggly. I'm not sure if the audio is better or if you know me.
It sounds pretty good here but also on zoom, it can be a little misleading because zoom does compress it and do different things to it but I mean it doesn't sound bad.
Okay.
Yeah, I agree. It doesn't, it's bad but I thought I could get a little bit more full body or deeper sound, because this is kind of pretty light here in my opinion.
So I was wondering if you know if it makes sense to invest but I think I got you that right you think the microphone is okay and the sound is kind of okay to right.
Yeah, I think so. I mean if you, you can definitely spend some time like on Facebook.
OBS with filters to kind of tweak the sound just a little bit.
Um, generally with that stuff though, like less is more.
So just like a very simple, like EQ could be good.
Um, but I wouldn't like, I wouldn't add a ton of effects to it.
Yeah.
I almost have give up on OBS.
I, I can't make it work.
It's it's, I don't know what you should, I I'd like tech stuff, but
this software drives me crazy.
You know, for instance, I can't get this.
Uh, road microphone to work at all there.
It shows there it's it's I connected.
I can, you know, reconnect it and it's just, I can't get it to work.
Okay.
Yeah.
And what are you using to edit your video?
Well, I haven't really done big editing stuff.
I did a little bit.
I did use, um, come on the, um, like magic, um, DaVinci.
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, any of those, I mean, almost every video software is going to have some very
basic at, um, like at, uh, audio, uh, filters you can add.
And, and again, we, I can, we typically have two, two filters we add, which is, I
think there's like a D noise one that just kind of gets rid of any like kissing
or unnecessary noises.
And then, um, we have a very, very simple EQ that just kind of brightens
it up just a little bit.
And you can typically solve a lot of problems with very simple EQ.
Um, so that's what I would do.
And the good thing about that is you can record it and then just sort of keep just
sitting, um, you know, play with it in the editing until you get it right.
Once you find the setting, you just save and use that for all your videos.
Okay.
Sorry that I'm laughing.
I just saw some stealing, some robbery going on there in the back.
Um, so, um, is there any filters I can download somewhere or do I have to create
them?
Yeah.
Like this one, you're talking about the audio filters.
Um, uh, so no, they're just going to come as like, like if you're in DaVinci,
there's a filters in there that you can just use.
Um, they all are going to come with like, they'll, they'll have their own presets
that you can use as a starting point.
So some of them may say like, sometimes they'll, they'll be like, like male
narrator and they'll like add some EQ that would be specific for that, um, you
know, application.
And then you can always tweak it from there.
Um, it's a whole science and we can get into all the audio stuff, but if you want
to get it to that point where you play with the filters, we could also, um, you
could, you know, we could, you could share your screen and we could tweak it.
Okay.
Yep.
So.
Yeah.
Thank you so much.
Um, um, cause I was just wondering if it was investing, you know, in, in, in a
switch or how you call this, this, this, um, audio, um, the inner, like an
interface interface or something like that.
If that's, but you know, if, if not, if it's not necessary, then it's great.
No, I don't think so.
Especially if you have that road, Mike, you should be good.
Okay.
Thank you so much for your help.
Really appreciate it.
Yep.
Thank you.
Okay.
If we're not doing anything, I'll ask.
Um, I was chatting with Monica.
I would like to organize my playlist on my YouTube and I realized what I need to
do is just Google, you know, help with playlists.
And then Monica said she'd be happy to help me, but, um, I don't want to take
time doing something so elemental in this coaching session, how, how do we.
No, we can look at it now if you want.
Yeah, let's do it.
I think, I think that'll be helpful.
We've not really done that, I think in any training before.
So I'll be worth doing.
Okay.
So I actually am very pleased with myself that I think I can, um, do this.
Hmm.
Uh, I just shrank the zoom.
Okay.
Now I can do this and, um, this.
Okay.
So we're seeing that.
So I, so I got onto playlist, but I'm not sure what to do.
I got like three categories.
Um, and they're called near and our, um, our inner purse are, you know,
interplace and then, um, sin as disconnection.
And I would like to organize future episodes into these categories.
I'm not even.
I'm not sure if that's possible.
Yeah, I don't know if Monica was gonna
want to get into that, if you guys.
One of the things I was going to say really quickly
is are these what the Bible has to say
about a place of knowing God,
are those the headings for your playlist?
Yeah, and I can show you my content might help too.
What I'm doing is just collecting verses
that have the same Greek word in them
in order to get a better understanding of that Greek word,
especially since Comforter and Helper
is actually called near, and what does that mean?
And since our core is referred to,
but it's always translated mine,
and where do we see that?
So, and there are other Greek words
that aren't translated the way I see them,
and so I want to get collect videos,
I mean, collect verses that show that connection.
Okay, so I might recommend then,
because do you see how it's cut off,
like the whole sentence isn't there?
Is the whole sentence there when you put it up on your,
maybe making it a little clearer?
Oh, that's just the episode name, okay.
What do you have as, can you click on playlist again?
What do you have as your?
Okay, it just changed.
I did something and I changed it.
So, yes, like this is the first one, I think I.
Did you go to your channel itself?
Let's see what it looks like.
Okay, do you mean content or you mean?
No, just like the actual, like if I was a YouTube,
someone on YouTube and I found your channel.
So. Yeah.
Where you were hovering over there a second ago.
It has a Greek word for our center, our deep.
Okay, so the other thing is,
my next thing I'm gonna do is an intro and outro.
So this is just starting right here.
And Bruce, I hope you'll be proud of me.
I started this on the beat.
And you. Awesome, that's great.
Our deep place.
And there are many related words.
So what I wanted to see,
if you go up to where your little icon is.
I know, I've been looking at groups.
On the top right, and then you just click,
go to your channel on the top of your face,
where you have your picture in the circle.
Okay, my picturing you guys, okay.
Yeah, if you click that, go to your channel.
And I wanna see what it says.
So Holy Spirit calls us near to engage.
I believe those titles are a little too long.
People aren't going to actually sit
and read the whole thing.
So if you could make it a little more concise,
like this right here, I can read clearly,
but this might be a little too much.
Remember, it's all about that first hook.
Why would I want to go into this playlist
in the first place?
This is more like of a description
of what would be inside of one of the videos, right?
But you want a general description
that's nice and short when it comes to the playlist.
Okay, so where it says the exercise of our core
or frame is freneo.
See, I had a hard time with that
because that's just Greek words
and who would be interested in that?
Well, why don't you say, for example,
the meaning of Greek words when it comes to,
so that it's like an explanation
of what it is you're going to be talking about
in the videos.
Okay, wouldn't that be like for the first episode?
Wouldn't that take up space
and not really give the information?
No, I'm just talking about the name of the playlist itself.
Okay, so this up here.
Yes, because I don't know what that means,
the exercise of our core.
To a new person, that would make no sense,
so I wouldn't want to click into it, right?
So instead, you would have something like,
okay, I still have COVID brain too right now,
so I'm trying to be creative,
but something where it's like the meaning of Greek words.
or diving deeper into the meaning of Greek words or when it comes to that topic, that type of thing.
Okay, so that's the title of the playlist. Of the playlist, yeah. So go back to each playlist title
and make it very succinct about what all those videos inside of that playlist are related to.
What is it about? Okay, so each, I've got, that's what my whole channel is about, is the Greek words.
So each playlist is going to be about Greek words with a focus.
Okay, so this focus in this playlist is what?
The exercise of our core. What does that mean if I was in fifth grade? That's right,
and this is why I'm doing this, is because most of us have engaged with God with our minds and
our hearts, and we don't even know that we have this core center place, except that we know we've
got it, but we don't know it's in the Bible. That's a great explanation there, but me as a
first-time user, I wouldn't click in. So here's my thing. We were told to have our who, our one person
that we know, that we're talking to, and so I can't do that, you know, sit down with a cup of coffee
with a friend who wants to hear this. I can't do that and reach everybody, you know, and because
it's like there's too much explaining me. Now, I think you can see my thumbnail, which is engaging
with God deeper than our mind, and so is that kind of what you're saying would be a better playlist
title? I think when you have a playlist title, yes, you have a specific who you're talking to,
but I believe if you had something that your average person would be like, oh what is this?
Because you can bring in other people who are not like masters at Greek words, right? People who are
interested in faith, but they want to dive in a little deeper. I think that if you had words
just on your playlist, you can be more specific in the videos themselves, but just on the playlist
heading something that's a little more common to understand, where people don't have to sit and
think about what they're reading. It's just very obvious to them from the get-go. So is this
engaging with God deeper than our mind too wordy, or would that be a good playlist title for this
whole thing? I want to make a suggestion. Yes. I love what you're doing, Susie, and I feel drawn
into that same mindset, only with the Hebrew words, because I kind of geek out on even the
ancient letters, and so what I see you're doing, you have a good focus that your whole channel is
going to be about explaining more of the Greek. I would just call your channel or somewhere in there
deeper into Greek or something like that, but then I see that your playlists are focusing on
one word, right? Phoneo, you have part one and part two, so I would say make the Greek word
then your playlist title, like I put in the chat. Wouldn't this playlist then really be
Phoneo, and you have part one and part two, then you'd have a different playlist on a different
word. Right. Just make that your short sound by the single word.
Yeah. So the actual, to me, the whole heading that I'm looking at is our core,
and then there's Phoneo, and then there's a bunch of other related,
it's frame, there are other related words to frame that I was going to try to put those all
into the same group instead of having a whole bunch of different groups. Is it possible to
have playlists within playlists? No, but the one thing you can do is videos can be in multiple
playlists as well, so you could do, I think what Rebecca said was great, just going in and
simplifying that to where this is just frame or it's just Phoneo, or it could be like,
they could title the playlist meaning of Phoneo or something like that. You can come up with a
phrase or something like that, because if people are searching for the word Phoneo, that's a good
indication, and you've got it in your title and other things. I think your videos would be tagged
well with that, but you could have another playlist called like,
called the exercise of our core, and then just have like 10 videos in there with all your, because all these are sort of connected I hear what you're saying.
I also like this is just a nice way to let people explore your content.
Most of the time.
Again, it's not going to hurt you to set it up.
But it's also not going to like totally change, like, and get tons of people to start subscribing because of this. So I would spend as much time as you want to on it.
It's, it's probably more if you can't feel if you don't feel like you can organize it the way that it's sort of in your brain, or the way that you're thinking about it, don't, don't get too caught up on that if you can't make it like in the exact hierarchy
that you have in your mind.
In YouTube, it's just a way to sort of group. I think what you've got here is there's like a part one and a part two, that's a great example of a playlist because you can add a part 345 later, and just have a title that sort of ties all those together.
And then just try and keep it as short as possible so I don't know if that helps.
So it sounds to me that I could do a playlist that addresses what Monica is saying of Greek words about our center and then another playlist that is just the Greek word.
So that's quick and short, and whoever's looking at it could find what they're looking at.
Okay.
So, I'm also, I'm just needing help with logistics, like, um, how do I set up the playlist.
The New Testament has a Greek word for our center, our deep place.
Um, I need to go back to here.
Sorry, just a second. I'm moving this.
I don't know if I made that just trying to get back to your channel. Yeah, I thought that I had it I guess I just went back and I lost it always just click up at the top right where your picture is probably behind zoom.
Yeah.
There's always a shortcut. Okay.
Okay, good. Whoo. That's better. Okay. So, um, what I was looking for was, how do I even set up doing the playlist, because okay so here's a playlist This is great review of the playlist.
I'm just looking here called near does that mean anything to anybody that's to me that's the whole point is that Holy Spirit is calling near, but what Reba was saying, how about just saying Greek words about, you know, the New Testament or something
else instead.
Thoughts about that.
The more clear you can make it without somebody having to try to process what that means and if it's for them, the better. So, just making it very clear.
So this is creative called near right is creative, but if someone isn't.
It's not super clear what called near means near to what right.
So, I like, I like the idea if it's all going to be centered around Greek words to have that in the title for sure. Okay.
So I'm thinking about, you know, Lindsay's title posture. And what does that mean. And, but it's quick and short and to the point.
And, but it doesn't look like there's like a place for a subtitle.
And I've thought about that, you know, yes, we are called near Holy Spirit is calling us near to engage with God in our center.
But that's a lot of words. And
you could do like a graph cover photo there.
If you wanted to add a tagline of some sort.
Okay, I'm sorry that didn't mean anything.
I understood the words I didn't understand the concept. So you're talking about the picture here.
No thumbnail. Yeah.
Let me pull it up.
So, I'm going to share my screen real quick.
Or Monica if you want to share her. That's fine too.
Well I can get out I can stop my share.
How about if I do that.
All right.
Unless you want to share your screen looking at my screen.
Yeah, I was just going to say, we have just Kingdom Messenger
for this account.
And so you see how we have this big picture up here?
Oh, OK, that one.
Yeah, you can upload that.
And I think we just made a tutorial on that.
I think Monica actually made a tutorial on this, didn't you?
Yeah.
And on how to go make a great thumbnail up here.
But you can see we said launch to Kingdom Messenger.
And then we said, launch and grow your Kingdom channel
as sort of the tagline.
I know it's very, very small, but it's there.
And then it just gives you that context
if you're looking at this.
And then we just have our playlists and stuff
kind of down the left here.
And you would just go in here to Customize Channel
on that blue button.
And then under Branding, there's a place
where you can upload this.
But I'll see if I can find the link to that new training
that Monica did that'll kind of walk you
through how to make that in Canva.
Great.
Yeah, that'll definitely give people
a deeper idea of what it is.
So they'll be able to connect the image
or what other words there are there with the name as well.
And that'll be a double whammy there.
May I just, something came to me.
Draw near and then a tagline from a Greek perspective.
Ah.
Yeah.
I'm wondering what people would think
from a Greek perspective.
Are we talking about Greeks?
Are we talking about Greek words?
Or would people all know it?
And then there's that whole expression
of that's Greek to me.
But has that been too overused?
I don't know.
We've also said it could be called Near Drawing Deeper
Through Greek.
Oh, I like that.
Yeah.
And there's a part of me that's saying, oh, really?
Studying Greek words is really going to help you draw near.
And I think what I need to do is say, you guys are saying, yes.
This will.
Say it will.
And yes.
And not everybody's going to be interested.
Oh, well.
Oh, yeah.
And I would include, and again, this
just comes from doing a lot of episodes
and getting more and more clear of how you,
it's not that it's clear on the content.
It's more of like, how do you package
the content or your channel in a way for people
to quickly just get a sense of what's going on.
And I think that's a really good point.
And that could be something that you say after your intro.
So you could say, hey, today we're
talking about the word phreno and whatever.
And then you could say, hey, if we're
meeting for the first time, I'm Suzy Marvin.
And on this channel, I'm going to help you grow,
or I'm going to help you draw deeper through Greek
or something.
You know, you can say, hey, I'm Suzy Marvin.
And I'm going to help you draw deeper through Greek.
I'm going to help you draw deeper through Greek
or something.
You can include that tagline just like we had there
or whatever that phrase that you land on.
And that way people, within that first,
they're like, oh, this whole channel is about this one
thing.
And it kind of, you know, that just
helps solidify sort of what the point of your channel's about.
And then people can get it and then jump in and start
watching.
And that's normally the thing that helps people subscribe,
I would say.
So the people will watch content just
if they're looking up the word freneo.
They find you, they watch it, and they move on.
But when they find it, oh, wow, this person,
that's all they do is they're just
helping people with the Greek.
I'm actually, I'm really into the Greek meanings of things.
Like, I'm going to subscribe to this,
because this is all she does.
So that can be great.
And don't be afraid to be a little repetitive with it,
saying it in every single video.
So would that kind of be like the intro, then,
that kind of like make that intro piece?
Or would that just be the beginning of each episode?
Yeah, so think of it like there's
like an episode intro, which is, hey,
here's what I'm talking about this episode.
Then we always, we do that.
That's like one sentence.
Lindsay always says, today, we're
going to take on a posture of peace by learning how to rest.
It's in the Holy spirit or something.
And then it goes into what we call like the channel intro.
So then we go through and say, um, you know, you know, posture
is a podcast that helps you.
Um, I should have memorized this by now, but has her tagline.
And then, um, and, uh, and then it comes back to the content
of that episode essentially.
So there's sort of was like episode intro, then a channel intro, and then
you're jumping back into like the actual content and both, those are
like Monica was saying, it's creating two hooks, right?
Like you get that one hook of here's why you should stay.
Um, you know, stay to the, at least listen to the end of this F this video.
And then, but the quick, um, intro for the channel is like, Hey, this is maybe
a reason to either trust me or trust my channel as a content source, because
this is all I do is the Greek word.
So now like when we dive deep into this, like it's going to be, um, very thorough,
yeah.
Great.
Thank you.
And Susie, my boys and I are starting on Greek this semester.
So we will, uh, subscribe.
And then one of the questions that I would be, since you are kind of like
saying, Hey, if you don't have any knowledge of the Greek, consider it
because it can help you draw closer to Jesus, uh, maybe you want to have a
playlist where you have even just the alphabet and the real, real basic
basics so that people can go there and then they'll grow with you as you
share the individual devotional words.
You know what I mean?
So you could have a playlist that even includes other people's work too.
I don't know if Bruce and Lindsay would suggest that, but, but I mean, I, yeah.
So I'm going to subscribe.
So keep up the good work.
Yeah.
I know.
Yeah.
I think that's like anything you can do to create like a, um, a bridge for
people to, to connect with your content.
So someone who doesn't have any.
He's interested in Greek, but doesn't, has never studied any of it.
Just heard a few words, you know, in a sermon once the pastor referenced.
Um, so I think having, and even having a video that says like
understanding the Greek alphabet or, and then it could just, it could be really,
and it could be something you could probably just hit record and just do
kind of on this, you know, without really any script or planning, but just
a few of those little very, very basic kind of one-on-one stuff, um, that way.
And you can keep layering it in.
So people may use that to, to find and get context and then everything else
that you're teaching kind of links to that.
Um, it's just, there's probably some easy episodes in there.
Um, so yeah, you can definitely link to other people's playlists,
uh, to other people's content.
I, if you have time, I would look at what other people are doing and what's
popular and kind of create your own version of it and just put up your own
video because again, it's an easy way to do content.
Um, and it kind of helps it just be, you know, all from the same people.
So, yep.
So I was, I asked a friend I've got, um, logos, which I inherited anyway,
that, that is much more expensive than most people would want to spend,
but there is E sword.
I asked a friend there's E sword, which has a Greek words, um, and
an inner linear kind of a setup also.
So I'm thinking, I was thinking about just addressing E sword and
how to find these words.
Yeah.
I'd make a video on logos and another video on E sword, two separate videos.
Okay.
And it could be like, you know, how to study the Greek meaning using a
E sword or how to study the Greek meaning of words, like using logos.
You know, people, they don't know how to do stuff.
Like most of those, especially that software is typically very,
it's not very intuitive.
Um, you know, like a premier and all those other tools are super intuitive.
Right.
Um, but I, I've tried some of those tools.
I know Lindsey has some, and I was like, I don't know who designed it, but it
doesn't like nothing seems to be in the right place, but, um, so I think that
kind of step-by-step thing where you sort of teach people your process as
well is very, that's content right there.
So, um, showing people sort of the behind the scenes and how you get to
that as it's actually not just giving them the knowledge, but it's teaching
them how to go find it themselves, which is a whole nother level of,
um, kind of, uh, discipleship, I guess.
That's good.
Yeah.
Let me just comment on what I like about the suggestions of, um, building the ABCs
of the Greek, because I immediately saw that like putting out a bookshelf.
Now I have a place to put what she's saying because somebody totally
unfamiliar and maybe not all that interested in the Greek.
Now you're drawing them in, in a simple way to want to go deeper.
Kind of the ironic thing to me about this all is that these are ideas that our minds
have a hard time grasping.
And that's why this deep thing when my mind says, what, you know, there's a part of me
that can say yes.
And the Greek actually, to me, isn't the most important thing is like, to me, it's almost
like being able to spell really well.
You know, that's nice.
But the point is, oh, God, the Holy Spirit's always calling us near, oh, we have a deep
place.
Oh, um, it when it says, you know, be anxious for nothing, that word is actually don't be
distracted.
And what do we do with these things?
And so to me, the Greek and the Greek itself is really nice, but it's not as important
to me, as somebody who has been in my head all my life.
And right now, if I'm saying, okay, how do I live in God's presence?
How do I read the Bible, with an awareness of connecting with God's presence, instead
of just memorize and acquiring information?
That's the way I've always done it.
So I don't know how that ties in with everything that you're saying, but there's a part of
me that does not want to be academic and intellectual.
I've done that.
And you know, I want to help people to follow along, but I'm not sure I want to teach Greek,
you know, that I want to teach people, you can know God in your deepest part.
And oh, and the Greek, there's biblical support for it.
I think that's it.
There's biblical support for what we always thought was kind of woo woo.
Good.
Yeah, I think, I think you have to just keep saying what you just said in the last few
minutes there, over and over again, until it comes out in two sentences, right?
And that just takes time.
I mean, it's, it's easy to explain it in five minutes, it's really hard to say it in two
sentences to try and have just the same impact, but I think you're on the right track as far
as like something that's very unique.
And I think you can weave that into all kinds of topics.
Because yeah, and I totally get your heart like to is for to see people to have that
breakthrough, not just learn a language, right?
That's not the point.
It's to like, and there's probably something I don't know.
It's like, it's asking people to, you're inviting them into a relationship, not to
learn a language, something like that, like is, is there's probably some a phrase there
that you could use where it that's kind of what I heard is you're two different things.
It's not just a language, but it's a relationship.
And that that's something that would differentiate you from other people just teaching Greek
because there's probably, there's probably plenty of that on YouTube.
So that's good.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Just, I think, I think you should just keep going with it.
I think you're on the right track.
Awesome.
Okay.
Good.
Well, I know we're kind of coming up on time, but did anyone else have any other questions
before we jumped off today?
Cool.
All good.
Well, thanks, Monica, for helping us out today.
We'll have, you'll be on some more for sure.
And thanks guys for being kind of flexible today.
We'll, we'll be back to our regular schedule and everything next week.
We've got a lot of cool stuff planned coming for January and February, and we're going
to sort of start to announce a lot of that stuff soon.
And yeah, we'll, I don't want to give away too much now because we're at the end of our
time, but, and no one's going to come and watch the last few minutes of this video anyway.
So we will, an in-person retreat.
I love your faith for it.
As soon as we find, you may have to talk to Lindsay about that.
We've joked about it, but that, that see, that tends to be a lot of work.
We'll let's do it.
We'll have an awesome week guys will just let us know if you have any questions in Facebook
and we'll see you next Tuesday.
Awesome.
Bye guys.
Bye.
Thank you.