Hello, it's so good to see all your faces.
We got Denise, we got Jean, we got Sandra, but her name says John, but we know who you
are.
We got Sonia.
Awesome.
Mark.
Okay.
Alejandra.
Awesome, guys.
You guys are so on time, all sitting in the waiting room.
Let's see if we can get this stream in.
While we're waiting for Bruce to go on the stream, can one of you guys
unmute yourself and share about a win that you've had this past month?
Something you're celebrating, some breakthrough.
Are they able to unmute themselves?
Don't forget to unmute.
Go for it.
Denise, yeah.
Yeah.
This was really cool.
Three places.
Two of the people I didn't even know, but they told me they were listening to my podcast.
I was like, one lady, I knew her, she said, I've been listening to you.
I've been following you.
I didn't even know that.
It's like, wow.
That's just too cool.
It's happening, right?
Yeah.
I remember when I got my first comments from people, they weren't my mom or my grandma.
Yeah.
This is real people out there.
Well, my mom and my grandma are real people too, but they love me.
But knowing that I'm connecting with my who, that's very exciting.
Yeah.
And I've been running into it.
It just kind of, like I said, over the last month where people have said, oh, I'm following
you.
Did you post last week?
I'm like, I'm getting there.
I'm getting there.
They're keeping you accountable now.
Who's keeping you accountable?
Yeah.
Well, that's awesome.
We're celebrating with you.
How have you been feeling as far as being consistent with your content?
I have been doing life seriously.
I've been able to get up to weekly.
And my goal has been to do the Monday, but I mean, it does not fail that either the weekend
before I have to do something because I'm a pastor.
So I might have to do, I've done funerals and or hospital visits or whatever like that.
Or it'll be my time to minister and all those just kind of keep pouring like this.
And I'm like, so I've been able to do it weekly.
Right now it looks like Friday, Thursday, Friday is usually my better shot to get it in.
I have found that with the TikTok videos, Friday seems like they jump on those.
Like white on rice.
You know, but.
We'll talk more about that today because I feel like a lot of us are in that boat of like, hey, life is going on.
Like as I'm stepping out into the digital landscape, I'm trying to figure out.
It's like a whole new world, a whole nother life.
And so how does this incorporate with my schedule?
So we'll be sharing some wisdom about that today as well.
But Tamara, go ahead and kick us off with prayer.
And then we will jump in.
We got a lot of questions today.
So go for it, girl.
Amen.
Father, we thank you so much for bringing us all here today to be equipped, to be built up, to be edified, to be strengthened.
We welcome you in Holy Spirit into this session to come bring clarity, come bring courage, come, Lord, and just work out those things that we've been struggling with.
We thank you that you will bless both, both Bruce and Lindsay with being able to answer those questions and give that encouragement where needed.
And it's in Jesus name that we pray and give thanks.
Amen.
You guys have submitted questions.
So we're going to start there.
Start in the queue.
I'll let Bruce pull that up.
You guys were really on top of it.
And we'll go through anyone who submitted questions.
And then we'll just take some questions, just kind of open it up to the floor.
So anyone else who's got questions, we'll hang out.
And the goal is if you've got a question and you're on the call, we will get the question answered before we end this call.
Absolutely.
So I'm just looking at the dates here.
I think Sonia was actually the first person on March 5th who sent in a question to review an episode.
What can we help you with, Sonia, if you want to?
Hello.
Hey.
Hi, how are you all?
We're good.
Excited to be here.
First, how cool is that?
I just sent you all our channel.
We launched, I believe March 14th
and we are doing daily devotions.
Right.
And so just anything that you can tell me
that you can help me understand the stats
what are they saying to me
and what we can do better, basically.
Yeah.
Perfect.
Do you wanna, do you have your account?
Like, do you wanna share your screen
and we'll just take a look at it real quick?
Oh my gosh.
You want me to do something technical?
You got the wrong person.
We have faith for you.
We believe in it and we believe in you.
What?
Share my screen.
What is it that you want me to show you?
My actual account?
Your analytics.
So if we can pull up your YouTube channel
cause you're posting them on YouTube, right?
So we can look in.
I wasn't prepared.
That's not fair.
Hold on.
And we can come back to you if you wanna.
If you want.
Yeah, would you do that?
Sure.
And then I'll log into my account.
Yes.
Yeah.
So, and for anyone as well, if you want to
if you have something specific you wanna show
like feel free to share your screen.
Sometimes that's very quick
cause then we can like see exactly what you're saying
and we don't have to just give you kind of verbal advice.
We can sort of draw and point you in the right direction.
So, and there is a video.
I'm gonna drop it here as well.
We made a video on just some Zoom tips.
So if you like are confused, like how to share your screen
or how to do it correctly, I'm gonna drop a link here
to a little Zoom tutorial that you guys can check out later.
So, awesome.
Okay.
Let's see who was next.
Oh, there's notion.
So we'll put her in progress there
and then Jean.
Hey Jean, you were asking about an audit for your channel.
I think we discussed that last month.
Oh, okay.
Did I?
Did I have an audit?
Oh, that's true.
Yeah, there was probably, was it the beginning
of the month I've slept since then?
I think I'm really busy lambing.
So.
There was, you still had an, you had the
you did one on like the fifth you asked.
I think it was like, you sent us a video and said,
you said on Thursday, Bruce offered to help me
with videos that weren't displayed.
I tried for ages, couldn't figure it out.
I did that.
Did you figure that one out?
I did that.
We did that last on the last call you did.
Okay.
For some reason it came in on the fifth after the call,
but no problem.
Oh, okay.
I did, I did do it anyway.
I figured it out and I watched one of your videos,
I think, and then I thought I just messed around
for a while and then I thought, that's how you do it.
So I've got playlists.
We didn't have them on the front page.
Do you remember?
Yes.
Yeah, I know I remember that.
Yeah, you moved them to the featured
because there was no one on the homepage.
I mean, I haven't done much YouTube,
but I'm doing loads of Zoom, but at the moment,
as I say, for the last couple of weeks, three weeks,
especially the last couple of weeks, it's been mayhem here.
So I'm taking lots of videos
and I'm going to do something with them.
That's awesome.
Hopefully you're going to publish them, right?
I am, no, these are from the farm and the lambs.
I did, anyway, there we go.
Thanks.
Well, is there anything else we can help you with
since we're here and you already solved your own problems,
so is there something else we can help you with?
There was,
I know I set up my podcast,
but I've been having trouble with that,
how to get it onto Spotify.
Okay.
Making, taking the videos, putting it into,
have you set up an anchor account?
Yes.
Yeah.
Let's pull that up for you, let's see.
And did you submit the whole podcast for distribution?
Ooh, I've put, there's one, I've already got one up,
but I haven't done any for Donkeys.
So if we go, let's see here.
I'll try and pull the screen and then I'll,
I'm not, because you've already done it,
I'm not sure if we can get back to that screen,
but let me go share my screen here.
This is my account,
we're just showing you what the dashboard looks like.
Okay.
So when you're in here,
you can go to the top right up here,
and there's like a podcast availability.
So if you click on that, you'll actually see,
we have ours already is published.
So, but before you publish it,
there will be some buttons here to like publish it.
And if you do want to pull this up.
like, sometime, doesn't have to be right now, but in the next, like, while we're on this call,
if you want to try and pull it up and see if you're seeing what we're seeing,
and we can maybe take a look at it and see, make sure you get that submitted, because it's actually
pretty quick. I'll have a check. I was probably trying to do it straight into Spotify. I need
to go through Anchor. Gotcha. Yes, yeah. So Anchor will, if you just, what's nice about Anchor is it
will distribute it for you. Yeah. Cool. Okay. Who's next? Awesome. I just make a quick comment.
Yeah. I love the lamb videos that you have, and I'm looking forward to more. It's so precious.
Thank you. Awesome. Let's see who's, who had a question, but is also on here. Is Lisa on here?
No. Do we, Denise, I think had a question. No, that's old. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm looking at the wrong,
okay. So Lisa, we had, I think, Lisa's, I don't see Lisa Swanson on here yet. So
we'll jump to Mark, and I saw Mark on here. Hey, Mark.
I guess since that's me, because I'm the only Mark on the video. That's you. You are the Mark.
Oh, I've been having so much fun getting all this stuff figured out. Let me tell you.
I'm making some progress today. I got the week four email today, and I think I just completed
week one. I got a couple of questions. I probably can wait till the end. I don't think other people,
they're kind of like technical questions. That's great. We can take them now.
Okay. You guys asked me to upload a video introducing myself on Facebook. I don't know
how to do that. Good question. Show you really quick. Yeah. So you can do it. It's easiest
from your phone. This is something we would love to have you guys, all of you guys do more,
more of. So let me just show you here. If I pull up our Facebook group real quick.
So if we're in, so I'm actually live right now in the group. So I don't know if it's going to let me
do this, but you would go to create post up here. If you want to do it from your computer and just
use your webcam, like you guys are all using your webcam now for Zoom. There's a little button here,
and you probably never even thought to look down here, but there's a little red button that says
live video, right? How did he get to create posts? Oh, so I just clicked. So if you go to
the very top, there's like a little section here with my picture and it says what's on your mind.
And I, I could click on that and I can actually write a post into the Facebook group. And so,
and you can use this as well. You guys can ask each other questions or post things
for the whole group to see. And then the other thing you can do is just, if you click live video
here, if you use your webcam and you can go live. Let's see. Cool. Does that answer your question?
I was taking notes. So yeah. What, what icon do you click on the live video? Yeah. The little red
one. Little red camera. Okay. Can you, how would you upload it there? So there's two ways to do it.
This is to do it live. So if you click on it, then you can just live kind of broadcast into
the group and that will create a video. Alternatively, you can like, you can click this,
this video and then just actually upload one from your computer. That's, that's, there's two ways to
do it. So sometimes the live is easy because you just hit record and you start talking.
You don't have to worry about it. All of these are going to be on the mobile app as well,
which I think is maybe a little easier on the mobile app, but you can do it on both sides.
And we would encourage all of you guys to utilize live in the group as much as you can, because it's
really good practice. We're speaking to a camera, kind of speaking off the cuff. And so this is a
safe space for practice. So anytime you're wanting to do a share, give an update on how you're doing,
like try going live. I know it can be really intimidating, but it's really good practice.
As a content creator online to like get used to being live.
Absolutely.
It's a great way for us to connect, kind of see your face and chat and get everybody to get to
know you. Then between these calls, right? So just a way to keep the conversation going.
Want to keep it short and sweet. And, you know, I want it to be, you know,
relevant for this type of forum. So I really didn't do a recorded video until I got.
I'm retired military, okay, so the only reason I had a Facebook account, so I was all around
the world.
I could kind of keep in touch with my kids and figure out what they were doing by what
they were doing on Facebook.
Which of course, kids are way smarter than doing anything you want to keep your parents
from knowing about on Facebook.
But anyway, so literally I had a Facebook account for 20 years and that's all I did
because the government monitors that stuff and I don't, I got enough stuff dealing with
at the level of clearance that I was in my past life, so that's why I didn't do it.
So I am completely ignorant.
I've never even been on Instagram or any of this stuff.
So the videos are good.
I will say the Instagram video went really, really fast and he touched on, I'm going to
go back over it now because I sent you guys the four links you were looking for.
I just got that done today.
So I sent that to you guys in there.
I will say I've done about, I did the first three videos back in January for that five
day thing that got me hooked with you guys.
And I've done about another five since, so I'm over 2000 hits and 110 followers and close
to 400 likes.
One of the followers is a four star army general, which kind of freaked me out, I'm like, crap,
I'm trying to get away from this stuff.
It's not funny, but it's humbling to know, you know, some of my first videos that I sent
talked about the generalist Jesus.
That's not something that I was exposed to.
I was raised in the church.
I wasn't exposed to the relational type Jesus that Graham Cooke exposes.
I was exposed to rules and regulations and going to church three times a week, missing
football games, missing Walt Disney World on Sunday night, which I really hated as a
kid.
But I've been listening to Graham now for over four years, and he uses the term consistent
threads.
And I don't know if any of you have heard of the mirror Bible translation by a guy named
Francois de Toit from South Africa.
If you've not heard of it, you really need to get it.
It's incomplete.
But this guy, he'll tell you, there's scriptures that were in there, and he won't translate
them because this was added by a scribe.
He won't even translate them, like the one on the unpardonable sin, he didn't even translate
that.
But he talks about throne room, or the phrase throne room realities, and Colossians 3, and
also in Ephesians.
And you know, my intro to this was going to YouTube and trying to create a YouTube name.
I couldn't do it.
So I just stopped and I said, so right now I have throne room realities, until I can
come up with something else.
I wanted to have a one word name like humans, you know, like posture, but they're all they're
all taken.
So I wasn't going to mimic anybody there.
Better to use your personal name?
Because I feel like if I were to do it again, I think I would have led more with my I've
now it's kind of grown, I'm using it, because I've already started using it.
But I think if I were to go back, I would use my personal name.
Because I think the more and more I'm on the digital landscape, I'm realizing people are
eager to connect with a person versus like a brand.
And that's why I've done what I can with posture to put my name in there and kind of put my
face you know, use that as profile picture, because people really like to connect with
other people.
Yeah, it makes it makes the truth that you're sharing approachable.
It makes it feel less, you know, because a lot of people are coming out of, you know,
like you said, Mark, like, just religion, more stoic faith, like things like that.
And so they're wanting that relationship and the best way to put your your relationship
with Christ on display is by you kind of being the face and you know, in sharing your stories
and sharing your testimonies versus it feeling like theory and stuff.
So I would encourage anyone if you guys are struggling with like, oh, I don't really know
what my ministry name should be or like really use your name, use your face because that's
what people want to connect with.
They want to connect with your story.
They want you putting your relationship with Christ on display is going to help people
I feel like way more than just teaching a bunch of theory.
Yeah, perfect.
That's great.
I keep a little notebook next to me at night in case I hear something from God or, or something
I forgot because I heard this phrase a long time ago, the shortest pencil is better than
the longest memory.
Yeah, good.
I like that.
I don't know about you guys, but I can walk from one room to another and forget why I
walked into the room in a matter of 15 seconds.
So, so, uh, but, um,
But all of the, I will say this being technical, you know, for the most part,
your, your, your videos are really good.
They're not long.
The direct, um, I mentioned the one with Instagram.
I, I, my eyeballs were swirling around the back of my head because
he was just going so fast.
Yeah.
And that one, I think that wasn't actually, that was the one we just pulled
from YouTube for that particular one.
So good to know, though, probably get back and do something for that.
But, um, yeah, awesome.
Uh, I'm going to share my screen here.
Um, there's a share screen button.
Okay.
So let me find the anchor thing, which of course it's probably not up there anymore.
No, I won't do that.
Instead.
I'll go to Instagram.
Um, let me pull up my profile.
Edit profile, share screen.
Okay.
I hit share screen and I hear what desktop one.
Yeah, that's fine.
So I went to system preferences and what do I do now?
Oh, you have to, you may have to get permission to share your screen.
So if you're on a Mac, you have to go through and, um, I'm doing it right now.
It will, uh, then it's going to ask you to quit zoom and open zoom again.
So we can, uh, it's just the only way to do it is you have to get, once you approve
it, it's going to like ask you to quit zoom and come back, but we can come back
to you when you're on, when you got that back up, we have Sonia back on.
Yeah.
I see Sonia's got her hand.
Um, awesome.
Yeah.
He's got, yeah, let's go to Sonia and well, while he's coming, he's coming back.
Can you hear me?
Um, oh, okay.
So I'm going to have to do the same thing that he did in order to share my screen.
So I hit share and then what do I do actually hit the screen that I want to share.
Yep.
And then there should be a blue button that says start sharing.
Okay.
There we go.
We can see it.
What really amazing magic.
Let's see.
So can you see my YouTube analytics?
Yeah, yes.
Perfect.
Is that what you're supposed to be seeing?
Yeah, this is awesome.
I love it.
This is awesome.
Okay.
So this is amazing.
This is really good.
This is amazing.
Like amazing.
You started in March.
Our channel didn't do this well.
Not as quickly now.
So maybe people just know who you are and you have a good following already.
Are you famous?
My husband is a pastor and he's been yeah, he's been he's been preaching for 20 years.
So he is known a little bit.
Okay, this is awesome.
So just be encouraged.
Yeah.
Because so one of the hardest things to do on YouTube is break 100 subscribers.
And it took us like three months to do that with posture.
Yeah.
Okay.
The next 100 maybe longer than the next 100 was like a couple weeks.
Like we broke to 200 very quickly.
But there's something about that hundred threshold.
So the faster you can get over that great.
So as far as like a month here, and so I'm looking as well.
If you want to change the thing up here, I can also draw on your screen.
So just if you click up to where that says lifetime, and if you click there, yeah, and
then you can just say like last 28 days, we'll just kind of take a look at that.
That'll kind of zoom in here a bit.
So we can see you guys have been an incredibly consistent with your videos.
So every one of these little gray squares is a new video going in.
So that's probably what has caused a lot of the growth here.
Your watch hours is really good.
People are actually consuming the content.
So that's 381 hours of someone just sitting and watching your content.
Wow.
You know, I looked at those numbers and I just didn't believe it.
Like the 3.7K.
Is that really 3.7K views?
Yes.
Yeah.
Wow.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, it's real.
Well, you're getting, look at this, you're getting like 163, you're getting about
almost 150, 200 views a day right now.
This is really good.
So you should be really encouraged.
Like the fact that you did this in the last 28 days is really, really good.
So.
You can see, and you're up to 171 there.
That's great.
I'm just looking at some other numbers.
Yeah, that's really good.
I mean, what I would want to do is,
I think you can scroll down a little bit where it says
See More.
Here's Top Video.
So here's this one.
This Genesis 1.2 is getting 407 views.
And so if you want to click on that video, that Genesis 1,
This was the very first video, and in my opinion, the worst,
because it's the first video.
The first video is always your worst video.
Worst.
You want me to click this?
You can, yeah.
So I'll use this as an example.
But you can see what happened here is we had,
so you got 17 subscribers from this video.
You can do this for each video.
Just kind of take your time after this,
and you can kind of click around.
And just interesting to see some of your videos
are going to be causing a lot of the subscribers,
and others may not have caused anyone to actually subscribe.
Not really have anything you have to do.
And you can see this is the ramp up.
So after five days, you were already at 350-something views
here, and then it kind of just plateaued.
After 15, it's just kind of held that 450,
and no one else is really coming to watch that one video.
Because it's your first one, that totally makes sense.
No one's scrolling to the very bottom of your list
and jumping into that video.
So yeah.
But if you saw a video do this, and you're like, hey,
I really want to get more eyeballs on this,
I feel like it's really good content,
you could go into that video and start
thinking about optimization.
Yeah, so that was my next thing is,
if you want to click onto the Details tab on the left here,
this will kind of switch from, you're probably
used to this screen.
So this is like, you're putting your title in here
and your description, you're uploading your thumbnail,
all that good stuff.
So if you scroll down a little bit,
I'm going to bet that you did not.
Always keep scrolling down.
Let's get all the way down to where it has like.
Show more.
Click Show More.
Yeah.
OK.
Keep going down.
OK, so you put some tags.
So well done.
There's a video in the roadmap just about keywords
and how to do this piece really well.
So what this will help you do is,
because what's going to happen if you are going
to like a congregation or a lot of people
that have been following you, it's
going to, you're eventually going
to have all your friends, all your family,
and all the congregation that will have followed you.
And then you want it to keep growing, right?
We need to keep expanding the reach.
So what this section does, this is
extremely important for everybody
who's doing YouTube is getting these tags in place.
So Bible study is a great tag.
Church, God, and Christian are not.
And here's why.
That's probably a little shocking.
But unless it's a very specific teaching about the church
and you're using the word church a lot,
it's just that there's millions and millions
of people searching for the word church or for God or Christian.
So your stuff is going to be 10,000 down on the list.
No one's going to ever find it because of that.
So what you want to do is things that are really unique to you.
So I would look at just looking at your title, Genesis 1.1.
I would make that a hashtag because there's
probably 5,000 people a month looking for Genesis 1.1
content.
They search for it.
Your video shows up.
YouTube sees that your content is answering people's questions.
And then it helps promote it a little bit for you.
I'm kind of abridging a much longer master class.
But I will pull it up for you guys and drop a link to it
real quick here.
If I can explain to you why you do that, what we're doing,
we're doing a daily devotional Monday through Thursday.
And then Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,
we're doing sermon clips, just clips of past sermons.
And so, yeah.
So if you go back, and I want to show you the TikTok account,
too, when you get a chance.
OK.
Yeah, we can take a look at it.
But I will drop a link here.
For some reason, this is just our hosting here.
We'll fix that.
But I'll drop a link here.
And we'll get this.
Drop a link in chat.
If you just want to bookmark that link in the chat,
you can come back and watch that later.
But that'll have a whole video just
on optimizing these keywords.
And that would be my only homework for you
to do for next time.
And you can go back to all of your previous videos.
one of those main like weekly posts,
not the, you don't have to do the sermon clips as much.
You're welcome to,
but I would start with the main longer pieces first
and just go into all those things, so.
Oh, so I can even add keywords
to the previously posted video.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Absolutely, yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
Okay, great, great, great.
I had a question about getting the personalized
URL for YouTube.
Am I able to do that?
I think you are because you have over a hundred now.
Okay.
How you would get there would be going to,
if you click up here to the top right
and go to,
we're in creative,
so I think you can just go to settings down here.
Okay.
And then you can go to channel.
Okay.
And I think it's under, is it advanced?
And, oh, actually I wonder,
I think it's actually in a different spot.
It's kind of confusing.
If you hit the close button there,
let's just go to,
I think you can go up at the top right again
and go to your channel.
Yep, that your channel.
And then where it says customized channel right there.
And then I think it's under branding here.
And then if you scroll down,
I hope it's there,
basic info, let's try that one.
Okay.
Sorry.
There we go.
I know it's kind of hidden.
Set custom URL for your channel.
If you click on that,
you should be able to type in something.
Okay.
And this is something you can do right after you get a hundred
and then what it'll be is you can go to your channel
and you can go to your channel
and then what it'll be is it'll,
you can go to youtube.com slash Pastor Bob Rice.
You know, it can be something simple.
So like whatever your name is,
you can make it that,
but yeah, you would just click on this link
and then you could write in what you want.
Okay.
I guess there's,
are these suggestions down here?
So these are your links,
which you did a great job.
You, and these are showing up on your banner
as like other links people could find you at.
Okay.
I don't know what that was.
Okay.
That's great.
Yes.
Whatever you did down here,
you set it up right.
So maybe you were watching another tutorial.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's the only way I knew how to do anything.
Watching you all.
Let me see if I can get to the TikTok.
Can you see that?
Great.
Yeah, got it.
Okay.
So tell me what these,
and are these,
these are the views, right?
Yeah.
Those are the views.
Okay.
Yeah.
The analytics are not as often as good
on the website version,
but on the mobile app,
you'll get a lot more analytics
as far as like watch time
and likes and links and stuff.
But overall it's,
it's looking good.
Are you, maybe click into one of these
that's doing well,
like the 300.
Yeah.
I was a little bit disappointed.
I'm sorry,
because I didn't realize that,
I guess I didn't realize,
I thought that I was able to do a 10 minute video
on TikTok and I'm not,
I'm only,
and so they're just cut.
They're originally longer videos
and they've just been cut to whatever.
So it's not exactly what I wanted it to be.
So I got to figure out how to be able
to post a 10 minute video.
Yeah.
You won't be able to do 10 minute videos on TikTok.
You can only do 60 second clips.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's just,
it's a kind of a different thing altogether.
So you have long for content,
which is going to YouTube,
what you're doing on Facebook, Instagram,
and then your short form is going to be TikTok.
Those are 60 seconds or less.
And here's what I think would be super effective
for you is having you,
you and your husband,
your husband,
you can kind of mix it up,
just grabbing your phone
and recording an encouragement for 60 seconds on there.
Okay.
It could be a summary of,
you know,
a sermon.
It could be a scripture.
It could be something you shared
during one of your daily devotionals,
but it's going to be more of those sound bites,
but it is so much more effective,
especially thinking visually,
people are scrolling through.
They're way more likely to stop
if they just see like your face
and it looks like you're talking to the camera
versus somebody talking on a stage.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's just more personal.
Yeah.
And it makes you guys really accessible.
Yeah.
But the other thing is you are just posting on here.
So that's,
that's great.
You, you know,
you've got a bunch of stuff on here anyway.
The only thing,
if you close the,
hit the X at the top left there.
So you see how like all of these are like black,
they're just like all.
So when you are saving the video,
you can actually scroll, you can set the thumbnail.
So kind of like you can do on YouTube,
but you just want to scroll to somewhere
where there's like obviously a person on the screen
or else like, this is what people are gonna see
before they click on the video.
And so it's less enticing than like, you know,
someone where you can see his face on there.
Sure, okay.
And this is great.
Like these clips down here,
where you're just talking to the camera,
those can work well too.
Okay.
So.
Okay.
Great, yeah, I think you guys are off to a great start.
I mean, you're doing TikTok
and you're doing YouTube all at the same time.
So you're doing all the things at the same time.
Well, we're actually, I'm actually doing the other ones too.
And I'm wondering if I should focus
on maybe YouTube and TikTok.
We're not getting a lot.
I think this is the Instagram.
Yeah.
And like I said, before this,
my husband or myself didn't even have an Instagram account.
So this is all brand new.
But it looks like Instagram is a lot different
because we're not getting any views here.
So I guess you gotta do something else with Instagram.
Is that correct?
So we would recommend like, so two things.
One, you can take your weekly, you know,
17 minute devotional and just post that
as an Instagram video to Instagram.
So you can do up to 60 minutes on Instagram that way.
And so I would at least post those once a week.
So you get like that full episode.
The daily ones that you're doing,
the Monday through Thursday.
You can do that too, yeah.
Okay.
And the daily videos are those short
or how are those long?
They are up to about 20 minutes.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
So that's a lot of content.
So what I would do is like for daily stuff as well,
I'm just trying to like,
you could use that short form content
that you're putting on TikTok.
Absolutely less than 60 seconds.
And then I would just also post it as a reel.
So actually I noticed here,
you don't have any reels posting there
and you can go back and watch the TikTok course.
And we go through a lot of detail
of like how to what we call like cross posts.
So post a video to TikTok
and then take the same video
and post it over to Instagram.
And so you may find that you could do like one long form
kind of anchor piece of content a week on those devotionals
and then do a lot of little short clips
kind of throughout the week.
Maybe a lot easier for you
than trying to do like a bunch,
like seven, 20 minute videos, right?
Like just to get edited and uploaded and all that stuff.
Just for now,
you can definitely change that as the following increases.
But right now,
like you're gonna do a lot of work in the beginning
just for these like very dedicated six followers
that you have on Instagram.
So, you know what I'm saying?
Like just only don't kill yourself like yet.
Like, so just kind of phase it in slowly.
Don't go, this is something we did wrong.
To simplify and for anyone listening,
I think this is helpful
because we're starting, we have, you know,
you're starting to, as you guys have been consistent,
you have this content library now.
So it's like, what do I do?
What do I focus on?
A way to think about the algorithms on each platform
like simply is that they're rewarding consistency
and engagement.
Are you consistently showing up and posting?
And then are people engaging with you?
Are they watching through?
And so kind of a way to,
I don't know what the word is,
but kind of participate in that algorithm
is what we've realized is there's so much power
in the short form content,
especially when people are just meeting you
for the first time, which is what's happening
as all of us are building our channel.
So you'll notice with posture on Instagram
and on Facebook and on YouTube,
I have one kind of anchor piece of content every week
that's a longer format,
but then daily on Instagram and YouTube shorts and TikTok,
I'm posting daily shorter clips
because people are more likely
to watch those shorter clips through.
So the algorithm is like,
hey, people are engaging, they're watching
and they see that I'm posting consistently.
So I'm not like burning myself out
by doing long format content
that new people are gonna give you 60 seconds
before they give you 60 minutes.
So that's why we encourage you guys
to do utilize short form content daily
and then longer form content maybe once a week
because you'll have kind of a base
of this anchor longer format content
that as people start to get to know you,
they can watch more of,
but you're gonna continue to gather new people
with the shorter form content.
And the platforms are gonna see that,
hey, you are a consistent content creator
and people are liking your stuff.
We're gonna continue to rank you, highlight you,
put you in front of more people.
Awesome.
Thank you guys.
That's great.
You guys are doing a great job.
I feel really good about your YouTube stats.
It's amazing.
Thank you.
If you guys have questions as well,
like take a screenshot of what you're seeing,
you know, and post it into the Facebook group.
It's a great way to just get feedback from.
Like what would my analytics mean this week?
I'm looking at this video and yeah,
we can look at that.
Awesome.
Is Mark back with his screen?
Let's see.
He's on here.
Yeah.
Bruce, you're talking about.
You know, as soon as you, we do that.
Cut you off.
And make you log back in.
And while you were saying those very words, I was just moving.
I hit the thing.
You're gone.
We knew what happened.
We didn't think you were raptured or anything.
Yeah.
I'm like,
I don't really read the book of revelation.
Cause it's only a partial book.
So I don't know about you, but.
Were you wanting to show us your Instagram?
I had a question on.
Okay.
Let me go share screen.
Desktop one.
Okay. Yeah, we can see it.
You see where it has web, my website.
Yeah.
What it, what goes there?
So you can actually just,
I think you can just select that and leave it blank.
For now.
You have one.
Okay.
Another option.
Yeah.
Let me just real quick.
I go to YouTube here.
Oh, it's actually.
Let me unshare my screen.
You're good. You can stay there.
I'm going to just drop a link in the chat.
So after this, like you can go and watch.
I'm going to drop a link in the chat.
Which is just, it'll it's called solo.
Two is like a little site that will create a little,
like a bunch of little links for you.
So if you do want to have, like, you don't have a website yet,
but you just want to have a place where you can send people to a
bunch, like to your YouTube page.
Your Instagram, Instagram, all that.
I'm going to drop the link here.
So you and anyone can do this.
We'd recommend you guys setting this up. We just did this for Lindsay.
And then you can just paste that, you know, where it says, you know,
your bio link or right here where it says website.
And that way when people click on it,
it's just going to give you like a list of links.
All that say, just if you wanted to do that,
if you did want to have a website, you can use a solo link there.
Just to send people. So.
Anyway, there's a link there. You guys can check, check that out.
Later.
Yeah.
My next question was, is down here.
Yeah.
Your custom URL.
What.
Is that HTTPS.
Colon forward slash forward slash www.anchor.fm.
Forward slash. And then.
Yeah.
Yeah, Mark said it'd just be your name and that's okay.
Yeah.
For now.
And if you want to,
I think if you change the display name at the top, like at the very top,
it may change that for you.
If you scroll down a little bit, let's see.
It was right.
Keep going down.
Let's see.
Just.
Yeah, right here. Account settings. So like display name.
I think if you, if you wanted to add the word podcast there.
Yeah.
It's the same.
But.
How you've got it set up here. Looks, looks pretty good.
Was there anything that it was not letting you do that you want to do?
I'm making that change real quick.
Because I mean,
I'm doing my best to just.
Yeah.
Once the viewership starts increasing and the familiar familiarity starts
coming.
I'll have that. I'll have those bases already done.
And then it's just a matter of.
Learning.
Particular idiosyncrasies or various platforms.
Right.
Yeah.
And the best way to learn the platforms is to start posting the content
because then you'll start to hit like the.
I've been doing this for two years and I'm still learning things
because platforms will change or add features.
So you kind of learn on the job as you continue to post content.
Yeah.
But this question on Instagram.
See, there it says website and bio.
Is that something I can put in later?
Yeah, that's you can, you can always update that later.
Yeah.
Pretty much everything, your name on all platforms can be
edited later from your YouTube channel name to all that stuff.
So if you don't feel like.
Mark at the username, see if take out 2022 and put podcast after your name
and see if that's available under username.
Yeah.
Cause that's going to be the.
It should be, I can't imagine why it would be taken.
Nope.
Let's go back there.
Just type it in.
I changed that today, Lindsey.
So it's, it's not letting me do anything.
Okay.
Oh, it's not.
Yeah.
But I'll try it later though.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's not a big deal, but well, just because if you want to keep
the consistent, something to look at.
You'd be surprised how many Zanellas there are.
Oh yeah.
I'm sure you find out how common your name is when you start looking for
domains and usernames and all that stuff.
All I can say, there's a company out there that is another brand slacks.
If you, if you want to get a pair of pants for under $500, don't, don't buy
them from that store because they're, and I'm not related to them, but they're
expensive, um, I've been getting emails from Facebook because I have a business
account with all these suggestions.
I'm basically ignoring them.
Um, yes, that's fine.
That's good.
Yeah.
Cause I'm just kind of relying on the mentoring and the
suggestions that you guys have.
Yeah.
So, um, this might, I want to, I'll at some point, I want to show you guys
kind of, um, the, like, like some new con like our new membership site,
which is on kingdom messenger TV.
Um, I'll show that to you guys in a minute, but really we, we would
recommend kind of focusing on the short form content first.
So tick tock, Instagram reels, YouTube shorts is where we
would focus most of our time.
We only reason we even mention all the setup of Facebook and
anchor and all those things.
It's just so you can go secure your name everywhere and then you
don't have to go post anything yet.
So Facebook obviously is like wanting you to use Facebook for everything.
And so they're going to send you a lot of suggestions.
Um, and you can definitely like take a screenshot of one.
If you're unsure posted in the group, I'm sure someone in the
we'll, we'll comment on it and just give you some feedback.
But, um, generally speaking, like I just consider all of that spam.
Uh, tick tock video that I want to rename and repost it.
Um, I think it would get better viewership with a, with a, with a
different name, how do I do that?
Um, so you can't, you can only delete a video.
You can't really edit one that's already posted.
So what you can do is, um, just delete it off your account and then just add it
again, or even better, just add it again and leave the old one on there.
Yeah.
If you delete too many videos on Tik TOK, Tik TOK kind of doesn't like that.
Well, you showed me how to hide it.
So I don't know how to do that.
Unfortunately, I don't have the original video.
I thought I did it.
So I may just have to redo it, but, um, yeah, I would redo it.
And there's also a cool tool that I think Monica is, is it snap tick is
Monica, I think Monica is still here.
Yes.
It's snap tick snap.
Is it?
Yeah, it's, it's a website or an app.
Um, sorry.
It's an app that will basically help you download a video from
Tik TOK so you can post it on Instagram reels or something.
Yeah.
You can grab it on your mobile phone or also on desktop as well.
Okay.
I'll just redo it.
And, um, thank you.
I think that's, that's it for now.
I spent, I spent about two hours before the session started trying
to get my questions formulated.
Um, cause I, I really, I had a lot of them and I really don't want
to take any more than each time.
So thank you very much.
Appreciate you all helping me out.
You guys are all welcome to use that, the Facebook group, right?
Like between stuff.
Um, Lindsay and I aren't always in the, that roadmap Facebook group,
but, um, Monica is in there as well.
And she's, I, I'm, I love offering Monica's expertise to just help you guys.
That's great.
No, it's awesome.
She's an awesome expert and I'm more than happy to help. Yeah it's awesome. Let me show you guys
really quick just something that you guys will get an email about this in a little bit so don't
feel like you have to track us. It's just more of a teaser tell you what's coming. We have been
working to reorganize our... sorry let me just... I gotta mute here. I'll zoom.
There we go. Okay we have been working to create basically a version two of the road map. So you
guys have everybody who's ever come through road map is on one and you can keep going through one.
It's not going to change. That whole website's going to stay there. The emails everything will
stay the same. If you would like to use the newest version or if you're just in the first
couple weeks of road map one you could switch very easily to road map two. We're upgrading
everybody for free. There's no cost. This isn't a sales pitch or anything but you will get an email
that will have a video. It'll tell you where to go. I'm just letting you guys know to be on the
lookout for it and I will show you as well what this looks like. You'll actually go to
kingdommessenger.tv and you can jump into the road map here and it kind of looks a little bit
like Facebook. You go over to content and then you'll see all of the weeks listed out here.
It's a little bit easier. We try to make it as easy as possible to do this but you would click
on week one and then you can see all of the little check boxes here. You can actually mark things
like when you first open it it'll look kind of like that and you can go through and check off
things. If you feel like you want to make progress and track your progress this is one thing we
couldn't do on the old version. We would give you guys check boxes on the site but you couldn't
actually click on them. I don't know if anyone ever tried to click on them. That just bothered
me. Now you can click on it. It'll store your progress and if you click on one of these videos
if I click like how to choose a Facebook template it takes me to that video. I'm not
sure why our searchy account is still broken but if I click on a video here you'll see the
video plays up here and I can actually watch it and then I can go back and mark that one as completed.
You guys will see as well we've kind of shuffled some things around. All of the new
TikTok stuff is in here. If you did the TikTok challenge with us in January you guys have already
completed all of week two and all week three. That's basically you just took two weeks here
to walk through everything we walked through in that master class and then we've just reorganized
all the content moving forward. The good thing about this is it's all in this site. If you get
lost if you're like I need help with analytics you just come over here to the top and you're
just going to type the word analytics and hit enter. There's a whole video for me talking
about basically what I was showing Sonia a minute ago. There's like a 45 minute video
on analytics. Hopefully it's really really easy for you guys. You can just type
and search and it will search all the videos on the entire site that you have access to.
I just want to let you guys know that's coming soon. You will get an email you'll get
all that but just thought in case anyone doesn't know what that is that's what's
going to happen. Improving the user experience a little each time. The content is all the same.
Just clarify that and if you are in like week six or seven it's okay you can just go over to
version two and just check all the things that you know you've already done and just see what's
missing. So anyway that is something else. So I think that actually gets through everybody who
had submitted a question and then we'll just open it up to anyone who has other questions
who's on the call. If you want to you can raise your zoom hand by going down to the reactions
and clicking the little raise hand icon or you can raise your physical hand and just get our
attention. You can just unmute and start talking to us. I don't know whatever you want to do.
I saw someone had their hand raised a minute ago. Oh yeah let's um
and I did want to ask um who did I see? We talked to oh you were talking to Denise in the beginning.
Did you want to? Yeah Denise did you have questions? Because we started chat. Oh there she just raised her hand so
oh wait let's get you on unmuted. Oh you're still muted yeah.
There we go. There you go. All right um as I've been posting like Instagram um
the reels all those. I've been had I've added the the hashtags um especially when YouTube and in
TikTok where you had told us you were talking about that in the in the chat. So I'm going to
I'm going to pause that just in case you had questions but we're going to be
part where it's a description for the TikTok,
rather than putting down like a lengthy description,
use your hashtags.
Now, with Instagram, I run into the same thing
moving along.
where they want a description of the video or the post.
Should I do it there as well,
or do I write out a description and put hashtags,
or do I just do a general description?
Yeah, I would definitely do,
Instagram is less limited than TikTok,
so you have more room to do a description on Instagram.
So definitely do, just like you would do on YouTube,
like do a description for Instagram.
And if you're struggling to write what,
think of what needs to go in that description,
just imagine that you're about to send that video
to a friend and you're in a text message,
you're just explaining, hey, I have this video
and it talks about this,
and I really like this scripture or whatever.
So it's just like a little few sentences
that explains what you told people in the videos,
that's all it is.
Okay, now would you put a hashtag behind that?
You can on Instagram for posts and reels,
it works a little different,
so you don't wanna just copy all your hashtags from TikTok
and just paste them in,
they're gonna be a little different,
like especially the for you, the FYP,
all that stuff is very TikTok specific,
but you can definitely add hashtags
and I would just put them all
at the bottom of your description.
Monica, have you used hashtags
on any of your Instagram content?
Yes, I have.
And there's actually a really easy way
to kind of organize that.
I don't know, did I do that here, Bruce,
or did I do that, I don't remember
where I was talking about the Facebook,
the Meta Business Suite,
where you're able to easily post those.
Yeah, yeah.
And so that is one easy way
to get all of your hashtags in one place,
it saves them for you,
so you can choose depending on the topic of your post.
Also, oh, I want this one, this one,
and you just click it
and it will add it to the end of it.
So I would definitely, like Lindsay said,
and Bruce also, do a description.
People like to read on Instagram as well,
so a description of what the post is about
and then at the end, you can add those on
and schedule them too through the Meta.
Yeah, okay, cool.
So that's what I was like trying to figure out.
Should I just go straight hashtag
or is it okay for this part
to actually do the description?
So you're saying do the description,
add hashtags, probably the best way is through MetaSuite
and post and go on to the next one.
Okay, all right, cool, thank you.
Monica, I don't know where,
I watched the video that you're talking about.
I just don't know, it was at a YouTube,
maybe it's a Tech Tuesday.
It's a Tech Tuesday.
Okay, well, at least you've watched it.
I did watch it at one point.
We're just having a hard time finding it.
Was it in the changes to Instagram?
Maybe that's why the 2022.
No, I think it was its own, it was its own video.
We'll find it, but yeah, I just was curious
because I didn't seem to find it on King Messenger TV.
So we'll make sure it's in there.
Okay.
And Denise, when we were talking to you earlier,
you're talking about finding time
in the midst of life, real life, right?
Of when to create content.
And so I wanted to share, not just for you,
but maybe for anyone's listening that's having the same,
this has been my constant point of resistance
is how do I fit in what I'm doing online
with my offline life?
And so just a wisdom point is,
and maybe you guys can do this
while you're on the call today.
Bruce and I really believe in the concept of deep work,
at least a session of work, at least 90 minutes long
because it's giving your brain the time
to actually dive into the work
versus like we use the example of,
hey, if you're trying to sleep
and you get woken up every five minutes,
you're gonna not be rested
after two hour nap or whatever.
It's the same with work.
There's so much distractions
and especially when it's online work
because it's not as,
what's happening online is not always as,
have a strong enough pull as our real life stuff, right?
Things that are happening in real life, real time,
like we have to address that,
but sometimes we can put off
like what we need to do on the screen.
And so I schedule an appointment with myself
during the week for at least a 90 minute block,
try to do that twice a week,
if you can starting off,
like maybe it's Tuesday, Thursday
or whenever it works for your schedule
and try for it to be at a time
where you feel mentally fresh.
So some people love working in the morning,
some people like working in the afternoon.
or noon, some people, you know, it's not a big deal for them to work at night
because they feel like, Hey, the world is quiet and I'm not tired yet.
And I can do that.
So, you know, when that is for you, but schedule that at least twice a week, a
90 minute appointment with yourself and keep that appointment as if it's a meeting
with someone from your church or with a friend that, you know, you were
not going to like let them down.
This was something that Bruce really challenged me on even this week,
because often we're just waiting for the, the, the motivation, right?
Okay.
I feel, I'm feeling motivated now to like write the episode or record the episode
and motivation, though it's helpful, gives us a boost is not a very good driver.
Because it's, it's not consistent, right?
We don't always consistently feel motivated to do the hard
thing or to do the work.
We might feel motivated to do other things.
And so I don't, I don't wait for my motivation anymore.
I don't wait for that, for that feeling of like, okay, I have time where I can
do this because it just never comes.
So I just keep my, I keep the meeting with myself, you know, like the Tuesday
at X time, I'm scheduling this 90 minute block and nothing, it doesn't get moved.
And Bruce really challenged me on this because I was like, Hey, I just like,
there's so many other things I'd rather be doing than sitting at my computer
and like writing this, but he said, you know, if it was a client, it was one of
you guys that had scheduled an appointment with me to meet for 90 minutes to talk
about your channel, perhaps to coach, I would not cancel that.
And he's like, don't cancel on yourself where we understand this for other people.
Like, Hey, I'm not going to let them down.
I'm not going to like miss that appointment for them, but
like, don't, don't let yourself down.
Like, this is important.
What you're doing online is important.
It's important for what's even happening.
You not just for the breakthrough, you're bringing other people, but the
breakthrough that the Lord is doing with you, the work he's doing with you as a
content creator, as a kingdom messenger online, like this is
between you and the Lord as well.
So I just want to encourage everyone, like keep the appointment.
Schedule the appointment.
Like maybe bring up your calendar right now on your phone, make it a reoccurring,
whatever the day and time is every Wednesday at 4 PM or every, every Friday
at 10 AM, I'm, I have at least a 90 minute block where I'm going to sit.
And, and if you're there, this is what, this is the kind of the discipline
is we get 15 minutes in and we get frustrated with ourselves because
we're like, I don't have anything where I'm bored, where I'm not feeling
motivated, but stay there, stay in that place.
And there has been times when I've sat there for 60 minutes, a whole hour.
I'm like, man, this is such a waste of time.
Like nothing's coming to me, but I stay, I stay, I, you know, I, I know
the Lord is there with me, right?
Like if it's nothing else, it's going to be me and him hanging out together.
And all, every time, like even in the life, even if there's only 30 minutes
left, like something accelerates and it begins to flow out of that place of
just deep work, being still and having the expectation that there's going to
be something, there's going to be something that flows from this time.
So it's never wasted time.
It's never wasted space, but I would encourage all of you, if you're having
a struggle of like, Hey, cause I get it.
Life is really busy.
Like there's no, there's, there's no, um, changing that for many of us, right?
Like life is busy.
We've got things, but yeah, what you're doing is important.
And so like, keep the appointment.
Yeah.
Cool.
Yeah.
Oh boy.
I needed that.
It's like, that was really helpful and also very annoying.
I'm preaching to myself, literally this week, literally this week.
And it was so, you know, it is frustrating at the beginning, but you're like, no,
like this is, this is what we need to do.
That's because we, we're, we're doing our own coaching programs that we're
part of where we're getting mentored.
And I had that, what you just said there, like I had that earlier this week
and one of our mentors said something and it was like a ton of bricks just hit me.
And I was like, that was, that's going to take me a few weeks to process.
It was good.
No, it was great.
Cause you, well, right now I'm spending a lot of time just, you know, I mean, for
me, the tech is like the bell curve was like, uh, what did you say?
Not horizontal, vertical, straight up.
Yeah.
It's a steep learning curve.
Yeah.
And I go back over different videos.
I will go and check and see what Monica said.
Then I'll come back and look at this and try to do that.
And then I was like, God, you have got to be in this because if you are not just
like, and I, and I hope that you like remember 1% better each video.
Right.
Cause there's so many things you could be doing.
There's so many things, but like just 1% each time and that kind of helps us
focus into on, okay, what is the thing I'm going to, and it might be several
videos in like this optimization piece.
Like you have to do it.
It's remember we've got creative reps going, so it's going to take some time
to like, okay, I'm going to go back and I'm going to start optimizing now.
I'm going to start adding keywords.
And like, it's not going to be easy the first couple of videos,
but you'll be able to get the hang of it.
The habits will build because you're doing those reps over and over.
It's just like going with a gym.
You get stronger each time you do it.
But often what a lot of us do, especially when we're distracted in our work,
not doing the deep work, but we're doing distracted work
as we're doing 15 minutes here, five minutes over here, 10 minutes over here.
We're not giving ourselves time to go deep.
And then once we're in that deep place, we're not.
We're we're we have to kind of stay in the zone
and really focus on the one thing, not all the things. Right. Yeah.
So you have to decide what that one thing is for the day.
Like, hey, today, it's keywords.
And I'm not worrying about anything else. It's this.
I'm just using that as an example.
Whatever it is for you.
Sometimes it's content creation.
Sometimes it's a tech issue.
If you're if you're going to, we always say it's like you're going
to the creative gym every day.
Essentially, like you don't just go on day one and like a pick up
the heaviest weights and you're like hurt yourself because you're like
trying to pick up too many things at once.
And I did that already.
Now I know. But like so you want to ease into it.
So so you're going to start with just that's why we kind of restructured
to focus on tick tock first.
It's actually a lot easier to do those reps over and over.
There's less editing. It's less technical to it.
So that's a great place to start, because you'll build that muscle
until it gets so easy.
You're like, oh, this is easy.
I can easily add something now next week.
And you don't go like zero to 60, like all in one week.
You're just going to slowly increase those different tasks each week.
And then over time, you'll be like, oh, wow,
I really know how to do all these different things.
But you just slowly week by week, added them on piece at a time.
So I'm getting there, guys.
You're doing right. You're really doing good.
And it can be it can be difficult sometimes when we're on a group call,
because everyone's on their own journey.
And that's why we love using the road map like as a like metaphor as well
as like, hey, you be where you are, be fully present in that place.
People might be behind you.
They might be ahead of you, but you're on your own journey.
And that's OK.
There's a lot of there's a lot of like spiritual truth in that as well.
As far as like our relationship with the Lord,
like we didn't have to compare where other people are.
There's no elitism in the kingdom.
It's just you are where you are.
So be fully there and celebrate that.
And don't let where you want to be
steal the joy of where you are now, because you've come a long way.
Like you just said, hey, there's people who like I don't know that are like,
that's awesome.
So, OK, well, I'm looking forward to number fifty two.
You got it. You've got it, girl.
Yeah. OK, Sandra, I see your hand.
And then we'll come back to Mark's. Yeah, let's go, Sandra.
Yeah, I just I have a lot of I'm still working on the tech.
I totally get that challenging.
But I have a lot of photos like still photos that I would.
I'm just wondering, could I post a photo and then talk over it,
like tell the story of that
even for Tick-Tock or any any platform, really?
And how do you do that?
So it can be done if you do it.
I would really encourage you to just do it for short form content,
because you don't want to keep people's attention
and people aren't going to sit there and look at a photo for five minutes
while you talk, necessarily.
So utilize it for the short form content and then a way to.
So, yeah, just practically like you can go if you're in Tick-Tock, for example,
instead of recording a video and talk, you can import a video.
But as well as importing video, you can import an image
and then there's a way to do a voiceover in there.
So I don't think we have like a training exactly on that,
but potentially we could we could do that.
Actually, if you go if you go through the Tick-Tock training,
you know, we kind of showed you how to do that.
And I think in that video, Isaac, like pulled a video
that we had recorded on our phone into it.
So you can kind of see that process.
But yeah, I'm just not remembering that, I guess. Yeah.
OK, great. Also, what Lindsay's done in the past as well is post a image
like on Instagram just as a post.
And then you can write like a nice long caption, a description,
which could even be like a blog post, the length. Right.
It can't be like super long. It can be like.
Yeah, but I think it's like 5,000 paragraphs.
Yeah, you can do some pretty lengthy.
Yeah. If you want to experiment with different.
Yeah. See if you get engagement on that.
Yeah. Video is still going to get probably from an algorithm perspective.
Especially with your voice.
Like if you're reading something on there, it'd be great video.
But you could try with some still graphics, too.
And I would turn the captions on as well for the Tick-Tock.
So basically, we'll bring the words up as you're speaking.
You can't do that for a short like you can't do that for the whole 60 seconds.
Right. The captions, you can.
You can. OK.
I ran into problems with that, so it only did a certain.
little segment and was kind of like so I stayed away from it because of that. Okay so on TikTok
that works maybe I was on I don't remember which platform I was on when I was trying that but
that's correct right. You're on Instagram more than I am. I think so yeah.
No the caption should be the whole time. Yeah yeah.
It's just I've got a lot of cool stories in Africa and without a picture it doesn't I think
it's harder for people to understand without seeing what what I'm talking about so that's
why I'm wondering about using photos. One thing I would recommend sorry one thing I would recommend
for you if you're wanting to do it inside of TikTok you can use the green screen feature
where you have the image behind you and then your your face your body is actually there and you're
you can point to it like this person you know did this and this is me here and you're it's almost
like you're narrating it but people can see you speaking but also look at the picture at the same
time and that's very engaging. That's fantastic so use because I haven't used the green screen
so using I put a tutorial on that it's very easy to just effects area and you choose the
little green screen button but I can do a little video for you guys on how to do that. Yeah I just
think it works a lot better with with that background so they know what I'm talking about
to you know help them to get engaged yeah or to understand because people don't understand from
the west what what it's like in Africa so it's kind of like okay that's very helpful yeah thank you.
Awesome I was thinking if I could yeah we can we'll look at that but yeah it's that's a great
idea for the green team because then people get to see your face still. And then yeah should I
mention carousels and Instagram for stills carousels we don't have a we don't have about
that I wouldn't yeah that's gonna be okay we don't want to confuse you so we'll we'll maybe
work on a tutorial for another thing but did you have any more questions Andrew is that it?
She's muted puns but um use the uh yeah drop questions in the Facebook group as well if you
guys have stuff also if you guys want to send through questions before the call like to the
to these um if they're quick simple things that we can just help you with or we can make a quick
video between myself and Monica we can get you guys answered your questions answered we'll
sometimes make a new resource in Kingdom Messenger TV and then just link you to that
new resource and say hey this will answer your question you know um awesome. So is it possible
Monica to like ask you a question I'm obviously I've had some holdups in in uh being able to get
things going so I'm just what is it possible to chat with you on Facebook like the Facebook group
or where do I find you? Yeah you can definitely just go into the Facebook group and then just tag
me write my name out and it'll it'll highlight and then I'll get the notification that you have
a question. Yeah the only reason we say just do it inside the group because it's amazing when you
ask a question there's probably a few other people that are like oh I had that question but that
helps me as well so if we all kind of do it together um that's helpful so okay awesome.
Cool and then yeah to see Mark you had your hand raised I know I think um Angela and maybe one or
two people that left we should have checked them I think they didn't have questions. Yeah
all right thanks um I was tooling around your website and I actually came across that Tech
Tuesday site there that Monica was doing do you guys still do Tech Tuesday videos? Yeah pretty
much every Tuesday um yesterday this week was um Lindsay and I actually went live instead
and we shared um something but yeah every week there's a new Tech Tuesday there
on the especially on it may not be on Kingdom Messenger TV just yet
but it's always on the YouTube channel.
Because it's on YouTube channel okay because you have so many websites. Yeah that's why we're
moving it all everything is going to be on Kingdom Messenger TV it's all you got to worry about.
That video link search tab that you you have in that intro video I'm not able to get that thing
to populate on um on my computer I don't know what I'm doing wrong because video search but
yeah you're saying that you can put in a keyword and it will pull up the video and it'll give you
a right to time hack on it. Um yeah I think something's wrong with searchy which is that
tool we use for that search.
I'm going to go look and I don't know what is going on with our account there but I'll go take a look at that.
Because I wanted to try and use that on how to post a Facebook video but I couldn't, I couldn't find the search tab to put in my question.
And you guys mentioned earlier about one of the things that Monica did on kind of like how to have a central repository of hashtag type things to pick and choose.
I bookmark all of the ones that I found for those tech Tuesday ones.
Which one was that.
That should have been one that was talking about the business week but I'll go look for it, and I'll, I'll tag you in the group with it.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Those are the two questions I had.
Awesome.
Is there anything else you want to share like, if you, if you haven't watched the live that we did on Tuesday I'd really encourage you just a good mindset reminder of, especially when you guys are coming up against resistance like I know there's
tech issues maybe you're feeling writers block maybe you're feeling like life is busy.
It comes down to like what are we believing and specifically what are we believing about our identity, and what are we doing about the identity of God and our identity so if you haven't seen that yet it's in the group from Tuesday just watch it I think you'll be encouraged
by it and it will be a great something for you to keep in mind as you're going out into the digital landscape this month and if you face any backup music so it's like, obviously really good because now it's really, now it's really great as a background music.
We really feel like there's something on April, because like there's something on this month that the Lord is inviting us into deeper levels of abundance as kingdom messengers so be on the lookout.
And so, again, I won't like say the whole video but there's three things to keep in mind and that's identity expectations and actions, who do I believe I am.
What am I expecting based on that belief and then what actions am I taking to back that up and so encourage you to watch that video and step into this month of April with expectations for abundance when it comes to your ministry, when it comes to not just
the breakthrough that you're bringing other people but what the breakthrough to the Lord is doing within yourself. We cannot wait to get jump back on with you guys next month, and hear the testimonies from that because we really, we feel like there's
like this.
There's something in April that we feel like the Lord is like breaking through like what we've said is breaking in breaking through and breaking out so we're believing that for each of us we're praying into you guys as part of our kingdom messenger family.
And, and one thing I'll say as well like you guys are here in roadmap we're meeting once a month.
So if you guys are feeling like this is amazing I'm getting good value and you're like, I just need more time with us. The kingdom messenger membership is also available we've extended that for 12 months as well.
So now like if you guys want to move from this to the other we have a way where we can just basically pay the difference so if you're interested in that you can just email us.
And we're in the Facebook group like throughout the week to give you feedback on stuff so if it's something where you're like, you know, you just like, hey, I need to go faster.
That's all the reason only reason you would want to do that. So that's, I'm just gonna leave that out there you can just email us at help at kmw support.com and we'll, we'll reach out and coordinate something but just want to make that as an option in case you guys are like, this is awesome but I need to go faster.
So, that's a good option. So, all right guys bless you have a great rest of your day and we will see you next month.
Awesome guys see you so much.