and get us start streaming here.
Getting ready for our monthly coaching call.
So I think some of you guys have been hanging out.
We've got some people that have submitted questions.
I see Mark's here and Mary and Sandra.
How are you guys doing?
Hi everyone.
Good to see you.
It's good.
Awesome.
Lindsay's actually been out the last two weeks
because of COVID.
And so she's not even been on.
I'm feeling better.
She's not even been on our members group.
I sound like a frog, but I'm feeling better.
You guys get to have her back on here
in her first live open coaching.
So we love to start every call
with just a couple of quick wins.
So I'd love to just,
you feel free to like unmute yourself
and we'll just go through it.
We'll give people a chance to join,
but just any wins for any of your social accounts,
any testimonials.
Any testimonies.
You can unmute yourself.
I see Mary's unmuted.
Hey Mary.
Yeah, I can tell you I'm actually nervous.
I want to get all my questions answered.
I'm wondering, I don't even know if it's possible.
Well, let's hear some wins and some testimonies.
How's it been going?
I saw that you got a video that had 5,000 views.
Yeah, on an Instagram,
but I've been having trouble with Instagram
for the most part.
It's very rare that I can get one to upload
because it'll take days and it says it's,
it still says it's sending days later.
So I don't know what's going on,
but I've had a lot of trouble with that.
Okay, that might be a good place to start.
Yeah, we'll come back to that.
So yeah, any other wins?
Mark or Sandra, how are you guys doing?
Everything good.
Sandra's got her coffee or tea and she's good.
I got coffee.
I got my salad.
Hey guys, I'm doing good.
I kind of went down pretty hard myself.
I don't think it was COVID, but you can tell by my voice,
I'm still not back to normal.
I reposted two videos.
I had success with both of those.
Something that was really unique was,
I don't know if it was the first one I posted
or the second one I posted,
but it got to about 200 hits and then it stopped.
For a couple of weeks and then all of a sudden,
we picked up another 450 or so.
Wow.
Is this on TikTok?
Yeah, yeah, and that's the only thing
I've had a chance to do yet.
Which is fine, that's a great place to be.
That's a good place to start.
That's a great place to be if you can only do one thing,
yeah.
And then another one I reposted
and I got almost 1300 hits.
So I think I've got a pretty good audience
and I think I found that the best time
for me to release a video
is around between five and 5.30 in the afternoon.
Because a lot of folks are watching from Africa
and I've got Chechnya in there and Mongolia.
So it's kind of a global type thing.
So I'm just trying to, like you're saying,
feel out your tribe and all that kind of stuff.
So anyway, thanks for the support.
That's good.
I like that you're paying attention
to see kind of the analytics and what's working for you.
Because it's gonna be different for everyone.
Like, we get the question a lot,
like when's the best time to post?
And the right answer is when it's good for your tribe.
And so I know we've shared that before,
but it sounds like Mark,
you're, even though you can only do one thing right now,
you're in a good spot by being on TikTok.
And again, every time you're doing those videos,
you're getting those creative reps in.
So it's keeping up that consistency.
If you can only do so much,
continue to post on one channel and be consistent with it.
And that's gonna give you the most growth,
not just with your tribe, but for you as the creator.
Yeah, and we were talking about,
I think we shared in a different call this week,
we were talking about with these creative reps,
it's kind of like going to the gym, right?
Like you're going to work out a particular muscle,
but kind of like saying as well,
like as long as you're doing something
is better than doing nothing at all, right?
Like if you are at least posting to TikTok
a couple of times a week or whatever,
it's so much better than not doing anything that week.
Yeah, you're not going and doing some crazy gym,
two hour gym like routine,
but it's gonna be better for you in the long run
just to at least be doing something
and keeping those reps in,
because your brain and creativity
are just getting wired to kind of think through like,
okay, this could be a piece of content,
that could be a piece of content.
And it gets way easier the more you do it.
So same thing, like people sometimes
when you're doing things that are creative,
it's the same thing as like exercising.
If you haven't exercised or worked out
or done anything.
thing physical in a while.
And then all of a sudden you do, you're like sore for the next three, four days.
And you're like, that was terrible.
And then we, everybody waits like six more months and then we do it again.
Versus like, if you're just doing it every single day, you kind of ease your
body and those muscles are there and they're ready for that, carrying that weight.
So.
And something that I want to encourage all of you to do, even if you have down
seasons, like I've been sick the last two weeks.
So the temptation for me was to go switch back into that consumer mode when I'm on
social media and just scroll, scroll, scroll.
Cause I'm just resting.
I'm just hanging out.
But, um, I've really challenged myself to still remain a creator, even
if I'm not creating content.
That means commenting on somebody else's engaging with somebody else's post,
kind of sowing seeds of creativity and sowing seeds of engagement, other
people's channel, like how do I want people to engage with my stuff?
Well, let me go ahead and sow a seed into somebody else's.
It keeps me maintaining my creator mindset as I'm on social media and not
going back into that consumer mode, which it's easy to do, but it's really
hard to kind of make the switch again.
Once you're like better or once like the season has changed.
So I would encourage you guys, if you're in a season where you're like, well,
you know, I've lost my voice for instance, or I can't, I can't record an episode.
If you're going to be on social media at all, still remain a creator and
engage with other people's posts.
Um, because again, it's, it's such an important mindset shift.
You don't want to get out of that mode and start using social media for just
consuming, cause it's hard to get, it's hard to make the switch to get back in.
Yeah.
And that's, that's one of the things like we've been talking a lot about recently
is, is helping develop those, um, the habits, right.
Like to, to get into those habits of when I see a post or when I see something.
Not just scrolling on by, but either contributing to something or, you
know, posting your own content.
Um, it's, it's, if you're in the habit of posting and some, some of these
guys who were like, I was seeing someone's post the other day, uh, account
the other day, and they're, they're going live and doing, you know, Instagram's
like 10 or 12 times a day.
Like, it's just like that.
They're so in the routine of like, oh, I'm here.
I'm just going to like do a quick video.
Okay.
I'm right here.
I'm going to show them somebody this, I want to say this, like they're
just doing it over and over again.
And, and like, um, I don't think anyone here should be posting 12
times for the record, but I'm just saying like, it gets so easy that
you don't even think about it.
It's honestly gets to the point where you're like picking up the
phone and just calling someone.
Like that's something that's very easy for us to do.
Yeah.
Um, you can also just pick up the phone and then, uh, and then just, uh, you
know, go straight into that.
So any type of encouragement or anything like that?
So it's not as it's, that doesn't have to be complicated.
Yeah.
So, and, uh, I was just trying to say some, yeah, that was good.
There was something we shared in the Embers group.
I was just trying to remember what it was, but I don't think you were there.
So I'm looking at you, but you weren't there.
Um, yeah.
Mark, you had your hand raised.
Uh, yeah.
Um, thanks for posting that question I had last month about the, uh, teleprompter.
Yeah, I forget the lady's name, but she posted a TikTok video
about a app called reveal.
Oh, uh, Monica.
Yeah.
I've been trying, I guess you got to have a membership
for that to actually work.
I thought, I don't know if there was a trial or whatever, so I'm
probably gonna do that now.
There is, um, there is a free one as well.
Um, if you just search for teleprompter, uh, let's see here.
Where was it?
Um, desktop there's prompts, smart approach, which is recommended.
That's not free, but, um, but then we also have, let's see here.
Um, I'll find it for you.
It's a teleprompter app store.
Well, the reveal app's not that expensive.
Um, it looks pretty user-friendly.
It's just, uh, I had the words flowing in it, but there's no video in there.
So I guess I'm going to try the, uh, I think it's a 72 hour trial membership
and then it's like 35 bucks a year.
Yeah.
I'm just pulling it up.
Um, what we got here, it's called.
I just want to find the icon.
Cause there's about 20 teleprompter apps.
Um, are you on a Mac or I mean, iPhone or Android?
iPhone.
Okay.
It'll work on both.
I'm pretty sure we found one.
Um, internet is just being very slow.
Let me find it for you.
Yeah, it's, um, I don't know if I'll be able to share this real quick,
but it's called tele it's called teleprompter.
Is that helpful?
It's literally what it's called.
I'm going to paste it in the chat here.
There you go.
So it's this one here.
Um, this is free and it does kind of like exactly what Monica's was doing.
Um,
And you can record a video, but you can put a script in your face in front of your face.
Here's the thing with with teleprompters like we always want. I can't say the word teleprompter without giving our like teleprompter disclaimer.
So, basically, I'm still we're years into creating content and I'm now considering I may start getting into using a teleprompter.
So, I would just, you know, give yourself like a.
Don't feel like you have to be using it. There's an illusion that when you see like oh I can see my face and I can see the words how easy is that I'll never make a mistake again.
That's not how teleprompters work, because as soon as you get used to using it like you have to actually practice and train with it quite a bit to make it sound very natural so I thought I was getting pretty good at it.
I showed Lindsay a clip of that and we and she was like you sound like a robot or like a, you know, it's like to robotic, and just to make it sound more natural.
And so you've found a way to master it but even with you writing it out word for word you're still doing, and this is 200 episodes and you're doing, you know, 30 takes or so it takes, it takes a lot of practice I just, I guess our caution is
don't let it be a stumbling block for you to get your content we have found.
We were doing this training earlier last year we mentioned that I use a teleprompter for my episodes and so then everyone felt like they had to use a teleprompter and it caused so much frustration and people they hated how they sounded they felt frustrated
and they felt like they couldn't do it without a teleprompter and just became a big stumbling block so don't let it be a stumbling block for getting your content out. Yeah, and it's pretty true of any equipment right it's easy to make an excuse to like
I'm not, I'm not a healthy person, because I don't have a treadmill or a peloton bike or an entity in our minds, the excusable when I have extra money and I spend thousands of dollars on this and I'll have that thing and then I'm going to get healthy.
Like you can go for a walk today you go for a run right like there's you can pick up your phone the equivalent is just pick up your phone record something quick.
So, just try and take the excuses away because we, we, I'm definitely like in that mindset because I'm, I love gear, like I love all the screens and monitors and all the lights and everything.
And it's very easy to say well we're not going to do this project until we have that camera or that microphone or that thing.
But that's not the way to do it because you because you need to build those muscles and stuff so that when you do get the nice camera, you already know how to use it and you're using it all the time so yeah yeah yeah.
I wish we had like some kind of formula but we don't like do X amount of episodes before you introduce any type of new equipment.
But yeah, yeah like if you're, I would say a good 30 days is of episode content.
Yeah, if you're like focus on just consistently getting something out and then you can add like a new piece of equipment, like whether it's a different camera or mic or for posture like we set up the same little spot, the same camera the same mic for the first three season,
which I think is about 100 episodes right yeah I think, but you didn't change stuff.
Even though I think I wanted to change stuff all the time. Yeah, but we kept it kind of the same I'm in the mindset of like, things can always be like a little better.
So I want to like keep tweaking stuff nothing's quite finished.
But it can really, it can really paralyze you if you're not careful. So, so that's our, that's our caution. That's on gear so if you're waiting for a camera or mic, this is this is your sign that you don't need to wait for it anymore.
You can just start using your phone and if you don't know what a teleprompter is don't worry about it. Yeah, don't even worry about it. Yeah.
Pedro go for you guys.
Say that again, what'd you say.
How's that event with Pedro go for you guys.
Oh, the challenge one, the challenge to crush it one. Oh yeah, it was good. I think, you know, it was a different audience.
It was, it was great because pages gave like a lot of high level overview of challenges and how they work. We had some really good conversation we invited all the kingdom messengers to just a conversation after each one which I think was really helpful.
I think we had about six or seven people, I can say like we, they did that event. And some people who were thinking about challenges are now actually doing a challenge we have three we have Walter did one last week that Susie doing one next week.
Yeah, there's there's like two.
Who's in Australia.
Let me tell you, because she did one. She didn't do any Facebook ads or anything she just posted to some of her friends and I think she got like 70 signups or something to do her challenge.
She's never done one before.
So I feel like a lot of kingdom messengers were inspired, let's put it that way. Yeah, but there was a lot of good content shared.
Because I'm struggling here, just getting into routine in doing the kingdom messenger roadmap thing, and between all the health issues I had between.
surgery and then being injured in a car accident and then having the worst cold I've had in
like 30 years, man, I'll tell you what, I just, you know, I've been in a parking spot
here for a while. And, you know, for me, I took it to the Lord and he said not this year.
It was very clear. You know, you can only do so much and you don't want to do it yourself,
which involves other people trying to support you. So that's why I didn't go this year.
I'm hoping to do it next year. Yeah, I want to grow and you know, Pedro's very good at
what he does. It's very obvious. What is it? 10 figure? Or what is it? 10 10 10 digits
or whatever. And he has all those. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the 10 the club. Yeah, that could things
there. Yeah. Welcome, you guys. Look, challenges are a great tool that are great. I think it's
a very specific marketing strategy. And so it is a great if you went through the tech
workshop, which is a free workshop, we still have it up on Kingdom Messenger TV that we
did like an end of April. We talked about like traffic, and I'll maybe just show this
real quick, because I taught on this yesterday with a group and I and I did let me just I
think it was day two. Oh, you can go back and watch it. But let me go to this. And there's
some worksheets here you can go check out. That's what it was. It was good. I'll let
me find it. I thought it was like right here. But basically, we came up with like three
columns. There's like a traffic column, there is a, there's a conversion column, and then
like a community column. And that's kind of how everything's working. And so it's good
to know kind of what you are focusing on right now. So this is the this is our, what we call
it the tribe tech blueprint. This is kind of a more, it's more advanced, but it's also
kind of a little more zoomed out of everything. So everything you guys are doing right now
is in this traffic column, you're just building audience, building audience, getting people
out there, let's let them know that you exist, and that, you know, you have something something
of value to share everything else, you know, challenges and sales funnels, and books and
community and all this stuff comes after that, like you need to generate traffic to send
people, you convert them, meaning they, you know, they go from being someone who's never
been given you their email to also they give you their email, or maybe they've never given
you $1, but now they bought a $7 ebook or $100 course. And then ultimately, you're trying
to get them into a community like you guys are in, in kingdom messengers, where we can
actually help each other and really grow everything else is just getting them into the community.
And at that point, that's where your community, obviously, your your tribe, that's where we,
you know, that's where all the real growth and movement come from. Because the goal of
challenges is not to like, make a bunch of progress and launch something or do something.
It's just really to waken people up to an opportunity. And you're just sharing, like,
why this thing is important and what it is. And that's pretty much the whole thing. A
challenge isn't really like a training or a workshop, necessarily, it's more just inviting
people into it something. So and to alleviate any pressure, I was in the traffic mode with
for almost a year or two years before we were doing any of the conversion and community
stuff. But you know, can you mess I was just working on posture and just building that
audience. So it's okay to take your time and doing that because you learn a lot along the way.
So don't feel like you have to rush into the next thing. If you feel like you have a piece
where you are right now. Exactly. Cool. Mary had a question. There's only a couple of us
here, obviously. So if you want to just unmute. Cool. I think you're still muted. There you go.
Yeah. It wouldn't let me unmute because I had that menu in the middle saying unmute. I finally
figured that out. But anyway, that might answer my one of my questions because I'm wanting to
do TikTok ads. And so I'm just doing it. I don't have I haven't got a course on it. But I've just
been going through and it came to the place where I'm supposed to decide whether I want a traffic ad
or what. What's there's a second one or conversion was the third one. But I guess I would want
traffic now. Right. So I get as many people as possible viewing my videos. Is that what that's
about? Yeah. There's a there's a video. There's a you're what you're talking about is different
objectives.
So I would recommend, yeah, just doing video views
or what they call is like a reach objective.
You're just trying to get it in front
of as many people as possible.
I would be, you always,
you don't wanna just run ads to run ads, right?
Like you wanna run ads for a purpose to a specific thing.
Are you trying to grow your followers?
Are you trying to, you know, get people to a landing page?
There's a number of reasons you can run ads
is to get their attention and send them somewhere.
So you don't wanna just run a random ad
because you'll end up suspending a lot of money aimlessly
and really wasting a lot of money.
But what was your objective?
Like, what is your goal?
I just think that really,
I wanna get as many people looking at my videos as possible.
So if I do a traffic,
that would be the right one to go with, I would think.
Is that right?
No, so traffic is gonna be for traffic to a website.
So it's a little different.
I don't have, I can see if I can pull TikTok up real quick,
but it's, you don't want traffic.
Let me, I can tell you what it is.
We don't really train honestly a lot on TikTok ads per se.
There's a whole course if you want it
that my mentor Chase Chappell has put together,
which is like line by line tells you every detail of it.
But that, and that is a, that's like people spending,
you know, it's quite a significant undertaking,
but let me see if I can get back into our account
and I'll try to show you if you're interested.
This is kind of a ask us anything session.
So.
He was one of the,
that was one of the bonuses when I was thinking
about doing the big jump into tribe social.
But anyway, I just feel like I want to do something more
with TikTok and I thought if I could.
Look, all these things are, you can experiment with.
The other thing I would recommend
just if you've got a little time,
like go on YouTube and just search for like
how to run your first TikTok ad.
And there'll be someone in there that will have like
a one hour training that's free.
And you can just go through it like line by line.
I have been teaching myself all kinds of tech stuff
the last few weeks, just with that.
Cause when I'm sitting down to like scroll social media,
I was like, instead of doing that,
let me like watch training and actually like educate myself
as for my, for, you know, downtime.
So go to YouTube.
I mean, I don't know a specific video to recommend,
but if you just search and honestly,
Chase has a ton of free resources on his channel on YouTube.
So if you just search for Chase Chapel on YouTube,
all that stuff's free.
And a lot of it, it'll get you a good ways down.
I've literally run one or two TikTok ads.
So I'm not gonna necessarily comment on how you,
with like a strategy, but I do know there's a,
but I do know traffic is gonna be the wrong one
for what you're trying to do.
That's getting people to a particular website.
Here we go.
I found the page.
It took me a second, but when you're in the ads manager,
you'll click create.
And here's all the, the options.
So you want to actually do this one on the left here
where it says reach.
Oh, reach.
Oh, okay.
That, okay.
Consideration is like just doing that
or that's just getting the maximum amount of people.
The other one you can try is this,
get a lot of video views.
Excuse me.
This'll just get a ton of views
and then try something with like five to $20 a day.
I know in some of Chase's training,
he says it's not worth doing TikTok ads
unless it's $20 a day or more,
but you can literally start off at five and see how it goes.
So that's how that works.
$20 a day would add up pretty fast.
Yeah, but it'll, you'll like, you'll put $20 in there
and then all of a sudden you'll have like 10,000 views
on your video.
Like it'll, it's super quick.
So you'll get a lot.
You don't have to run it for more than a few days,
but try it at five.
Look, test everything with marketing, like test everything.
See if it, here's what you wanna do is you wanna see,
like run it for a few days
and see if it like increases your followers.
Getting a bunch of video views is not worth anything.
I've got, I mean, we've got some people who've run ads
who have two videos on their TikTok account
and one of them has like 1.4 million views
and it's not worth anything because,
I mean, that doesn't mean anything.
It just means that they ran ads and got a bunch of views.
Could be the wrong people.
People aren't following.
They're not following you because of that.
They're not seeing more content from you.
So you wanna make sure that it's,
you're getting, starting to get, yeah.
Yes, make sure that you're getting a return, right,
on the investment.
Like views are important.
It's really not.
thing but it's like you want to make sure that you're able to like continue to connect with
those people which if you're if you're putting money in getting like followers out then yeah
i think that's worth it then of course the next question is well how much money am i putting in
and how many followers am i getting out right so those are things to consider um but with all these
marketing things like the same thing goes if you're like thinking like oh i want to run ads of some
kind start with just like boosting a video on you on facebook you've guys probably seen if you're
if you're signing on your facebook there'll sometimes be an option underneath a post that
you posted that says would you like to boost this post and you can give facebook five dollars or ten
dollars and they will do all the complex work for you and just push it out to more people so it's
kind of like a it's the easy button you just like spend five dollars and it sort of like takes care
of it um and i can show you guys how to do that if you're interested but um there is a whole section
of facebook ads in the roadmap that we updated recently so um that could be something else that
we that you could check out when you're there um cool do you get receipts when you fund advertising
do they like email you a receipt oh yeah yeah absolutely yep yeah we do it for our business
so we everything's tracked um every cent is tracked through their system
so um let me see if i can find
uh yeah like on you can go to posture i think that's yeah that's a good idea posture
cool and then we'll jump into some questions here in a minute i just wanted to
share some but yeah so if we go here so i'm signing on posture
um and so this is just the posture page if i scroll down um you'll see this like this blue
button just says post boost right so um you click on it here and you can just you can just hit boost
now if you really want to you can just hit the boost button and off it goes right there's no
um there's like literally no settings for it um you can uh so so that's something that's like a
quick way the other way you could do is you can change like the objective so you can say
i want to get more uh so i went to goal i hit change and i can change that to get more messages
so people who are like reaching out to you or direct messaging you on facebook you could get
more um video views just more people watching it uh more leads or more calls so these obviously
we aren't really dealing with but um video views would be a great one for you um and then you can
choose a um the the you're not a special ad category and if i just kind of scroll down
let's see here um in the audience here um it's basically guessing and this is the most random
um uh kind of selection of of stuff here but you can hit edit and um i could boost this to people
around atlanta i could boost it to like people who are interested in specific interests um and this
is just facebook kind of algorithm for trying to guess at what what these are so these i don't
really know what they're probably what facebook is probably doing is pulling from my existing
audience so people who like like who are interested in pencils i i don't know like why well because
people comment on my me holding my yeah that's funny but you could you can't search for anything
christian here that's the downside um or bands but like for example john they had john chris picked
in there who's a christian comedian like so that could be someone who's christian but you can also
search for things you used to be able to search for like graham cook you can't do that anymore
and that is completely gone that so you used to be able to search for like bethel and then it would
have bethel church writing and you can click on that anyone who's ever heard of bethel will hear
your stuff and like there's a good chance that like so you could just pick a church or a big
ministry that you liked all of that has been deleted and there's a whole training in module
five or six i think in the road map that we did we updated we updated all of that because all of
this used to be a lot easier and now it's a little bit more complicated because they are changed kind
of banning anything like faith-based um or political as far as yeah political or faith-based
targeting so cool yeah mark you
that might be his hand might be up from earlier oh i don't know
i'm here did you have a question
i think your hand was just up from earlier okay let's
Fine, I should have cleared it.
I'm trying to log into Kingdom Messenger on my cell phone
and I'm putting in my user ID and my password
and it's not recognizing me, it's not letting me in.
Okay, you said Kingdom Messenger TV.
I'm logged in to Kingdom Messenger Roadmap on my computer.
What's the website, KingdomMessengerRoadmap.com
or KingdomMessenger.tv?
KingdomMessenger.tv.
Okay, I see it here.
That with your Gmail account?
Yes.
Okay.
Yeah, it should be there.
You can always try to reset your password.
I have.
Okay, it should email you then.
I think it might not let me do it
because I'm logged in on my computer.
I don't know.
No, no, no, it's not that smart.
As the person who wrote it.
I'm probably trying to have a dozen different ways
of doing this and so far I'm flailing.
Okay, yeah, just making sure,
unless you didn't use like the sign in with Facebook option.
Okay, or sign in with Google.
Ooh, okay, cool.
All right.
Just if you get ran into more issues with that,
just email Tamera can help you out.
The help at KMW support will get to her.
You can also, you can also text us.
Like if you guys want to use this,
you can not test but text.
That's our phone number for our kingdom messengers.
So you can text that number.
If you guys have questions ever,
if you just want a much like a quicker response,
that goes direct to Tamera and me.
So we can always get you help,
but also help at KMW support.com is good too.
But let's jump into some questions
and then use our last 30 minutes.
So Mary, you had a question
cause you're struggling to get your Instagram videos loaded.
Yeah.
Here we go.
I unmuted again.
I unmuted, is that what I'm supposed to?
That's fine.
So it sounds like the videos
that you're trying to load on Instagram
are just taking a really long time.
It's happening repeatedly.
I mean, it's been like four or five.
I quit, I quit even trying
because every time I send a upload a video to Instagram,
it would say sending,
and then it was just stayed in that mode even days later.
Is this a video you filmed on your computer
or on your phone?
I don't know.
I don't have any trouble uploading to TikTok
and I can upload to TikTok
and then I can do add my music and all that stuff.
And it goes right off and I could take it.
I mean, I thought about,
well, originally I had,
I was just using the TikTok app to record,
but then it has that TikTok logo on it.
And I didn't really want to upload that to Instagram.
So I started doing them on my phone
and then uploading to both apps separately.
So you uploading to TikTok from your phone,
but you're uploading to Instagram from your phone as well?
Yeah.
Okay.
It should be the same.
And you can definitely use the same video from TikTok.
Just try to simplify it.
It's not best practices,
but it's not gonna be terrible.
It's not the worst thing in the world.
And at least get the video up.
Yeah, I don't know.
Either way, I'm uploading it from my phone.
It's not going straight from TikTok to Instagram.
Yeah, I mean, it could be a number of reasons,
but it doesn't sound like your internet is the issue
if you're having it working with TikTok.
Always make sure that you have the latest version
of Instagram as well.
So you could delete Instagram off your phone,
go to the app store, download.
Are you on a iPhone or an Android?
I'm on an iPhone.
Okay.
So you could go to the app store
and you could just delete Instagram
off your phone completely,
then go over to the app store
and download Instagram again fresh.
That'll get the latest version.
That'll just make sure you have the latest.
And-
I just installed it.
I mean, I installed Instagram
since you did the TikTok challenge.
So that's how recent it is.
It could be, yeah.
Sometimes there's updates potentially.
I don't have it on my phone,
but it's, just try to make sure that you're,
the other thing you can do is watch.
I'll link, I'll drop a link here,
but Creator Studio.
Where are you putting it?
Yeah, I'll show you how to upload.
I'll put it in the chat.
This is for Mary.
So,
there's a help sorry that's the wrong link don't click on that it won't work um i don't know why
okay that's another question how will i get it if i want to get it later after this call
um so tamera writes um notes for everything so if you go um i'll show you here
if you go to kingdom messenger tv um and you click over to roadmap on the left
then if you go to content um all of our monthly coaching right here if you open that up you can
see there's may 5 may 7 april 7th you can click on last weeks and then watch the video last month
and then if you scroll down all the links and anything that we talked about gets like
written out in long form so you actually have you don't even have to take notes on these calls like
tamera goes back and does this for you um so every link or anything valuable that we share
gets put into these nice little bullet points for every call yeah i noticed that you did that so i'm
glad you can thank tamera for it because i don't do any of that so that's all her um awesome so
okay go ahead yeah sorry so the link that i shared with you there
um is actually going to take you to um a training that we did like just it's just
not even a training it's just a seven minute video that shows you how to upload
videos from your computer and and send them to instagram so that could be another thing to try
just to get familiar with but that may be the first thing i would try would be reloading yeah
yeah because it sounds like it might just be an instagram glitch that would be fixed by
resetting it yeah because at first i wasn't having any trouble at all i uploaded a whole
bunch of in fact that's how i got the one up there that got 5 000 views and that was within two or
three hours of posting it so i mean i was amazed but um at any rate so that but then after that i
that's one of the last ones i got there and i i think i've gotten one up since but that's that's
it but also i got i was trying to do the youtube and you know do youtube shorts i have a couple
questions there one of them is i think you mentioned that on youtube it's better to do
use uh landscape rather than portrait but on tiktok and instagram it's set up to do portrait
but what about youtube shorts so youtube shorts is portrait um just think of it's all the same
thing so like okay that's reals and yeah youtube shorts are all vertical uh portrait um but yeah
typically for the long form content where you're doing five ten minutes or whatever that then you
want to landscape yep okay and then um i got locked i don't know how i did it but i was trying
to get to youtube and i got to a page i couldn't log out and i couldn't log in i couldn't do
anything i mean i was just like go to um um i'll send you a link here i think it's like this nope
there's a magic link here we go um
so if you're gonna be safer i'll just stay on instagram and tiktok and not worry about youtube
for a while so um when you click on that link uh what will is that i put in the chat and again
we can get it later but um or you can just go to youtube.com slash account i think we'll if you
just type it in it will get you there oh not even as good but you can go to uh that it's it's channel
i think switcher like that but you can see like it kind of zooms out for a second and i can see
um all the accounts i have access to here and i can jump into any particular one and then go work
on that one and if you're not signed out signed in then it will have an option to do that on this
page but it's a way to sort of reset and then i can go back into like a particular account that i'm
i use so it looks it looks easy i don't know what i did wrong but i got on something that
i couldn't go either way gotcha and i i have a youtube channel from years ago yeah and i still
i still show the videos from it the best advice we can give you and for anyone on the call like
when it comes to tech support things like youtube is going to be your friend that's when it's a good
time to be a consumer or at least a learner a learner but you go over to youtube i've searched
for pretty much every tech problem or any problem in my life in general i go and look on youtube
right like we're trying to fix a dishwasher we're trying to do whatever like we just search on
youtube like how to and just trying to ask the question in kind of a long
format, like, like how, like, I'm locked out of YouTube, or I'm
locked out of, you know, something, or my YouTube
account, Instagram videos, not uploading, like, that would be a
great search on YouTube. And they'll have tons of people that
will take it like step by step, like, here's three or four
things to try. And you can just try a few of those, you can even
comment on some of those videos, a lot of the creators will
respond. I do that, at least for a lot of our comments, like
people have tech questions in the comments, and I'll just
respond. But those are great. I just want to make sure you guys
have something that when you're by yourself at 2am. Yeah, to I
was gonna say 2am. And I thought like 10am or 10pm or something
late at night. And you want to just try and solve a problem.
Searching for it on YouTube and just taking a few minutes to try
to find a good resource is good. That's why when you guys are
asking a question, I'm just thinking of a few quick things
you can kind of off the top of my head. But there's some like
really great experts on YouTube that can will give you like,
well, here's the four things to do to make sure your Instagram
videos upload, right? So that's a great option. But
did you see my Canva question?
We did. Yeah, I didn't know. I just want to make sure that did
just so let's just we'll come back in one second. So I don't
know if Sandra had a question. Did you have anything? I didn't
see it anything submitted, but anything we can help you with?
So make sure each person gets a little second.
Yeah, um, no, I just wanted to come, you know, hop on and get
some motivation going. We've had we've been through a lot of
stuff, death in the family and, and as well as some, some
definite illnesses to deal with. So. So I haven't been really
doing much but want to. Yeah.
Well, I'm so sorry for your loss. I know it's very difficult
to continue to create when we have those seasons of grief that
we have to walk through. Yeah. So my prayers are with you,
Sandra. Thank you. I'm glad you're here. Thank you. I did
have a probably a very basic question like, with tik tok,
Instagram, any of them. Do you follow your the people that
follow you like you have to follow them? Yeah, I just asked
us this. Yeah, you can. I don't do that. Just because it's not
necessarily expected. It's not like it's an etiquette thing.
You're there as a creator, people are connecting with you
because you're adding valuable content. Some people that are
following you aren't even active on their own account,
right? They're just Yeah. So yeah, you don't have to follow.
I think Lindsay's following like six people on you can be
strategic if you'd like to be on who you follow as additional
resources for people because some people might see like, Hey,
I enjoy stuff from Sandra. I'm curious to see who she's
following. And then maybe you just follow people that are
pouring into you like similar topics, similar topics, or you
know, some people can kind of use it as like a here's some
other profiles to follow with similar content or resources.
Okay, thank you. Yeah. Okay.
Yeah, it is a good question. Also, you know, there used to be
a whole like growth strategy. This was years ago, but on
Twitter, and particularly you could go and just follow like 1000
people and then all of a sudden these people would just
automatically follow you back because it was just so new and
that people would grow an Instagram, a tick tock account
very Twitter account. We don't really talk about Twitter at
all. It's not really relevant for this this niche, but that's
how people would grow Twitter. And so that does not work really
on any other platform. So it's just something like, I think
it's good thing if it if your ministry channel account is
related to something specific, then yeah, follow it. But don't
you just don't want people like, if you just don't, you
know, following random people, because you don't know who on
earth is like, anyone can be following you. Yeah.
And I think sometimes it can also be tempting if people are
like, really engaged with you to like want to also be engaged
with a ton of people, but you only have so much time in the
day. So don't feel like there's no obligation for you to, I
would say focus on what you can as far as like if people are
commenting, like engage back with them, but don't feel like
you have to like now log in. And, you know, engage on
everyone else's post is too much. So what I do just as like
a rule of thumb is, I just, like, if I'm going to log in
kind of the first two to three posts that I see, I'll like
maybe, you know, because like, there's friends that follow you
and they might have life updates and things like that you want to
comment on but
I, I kind of stopped after three, because otherwise I could be on there for hours just looking through people's content. And so it's okay you don't have to like engage with every single person's post.
Gotcha. Awesome.
And then yeah, we can come back to if you want to pulling up your canva question to see if I could
I'm trying to get my hands to where I can use it. Let's see.
Let's see if this will work I don't know if it'll work. Oh.
Use, let me share my screen.
Are you talking about this graphic things what you sent us.
Okay.
I wanted to squeeze the, the, oh, of not that way so that it would fit into the niche into looks like a circle.
Looks more like a circle than a oval.
You want it to look more like a circle than an. Yeah, do I need I wondered if I need to upgrade to pro in order to get.
Nope.
It's just what it is is like it's using a letter, I can just see it right there like it's using a letter. Oh, rather than a circle so I would actually it's not using a shape it's using like a letter it's kind of the difference so what I would be the Oh, I mean I want it to be the letter.
You don't have to use a letter though if you could, if you want it to but that's the font that is basically stretching it look like that.
I will see here. Let me just try and find something real quick. Photoshop I could switch it up but I can't all I could do was I could. Yeah.
What I would do is go up here to the C so select that Oh, and your thing, and then just go to the top left here, and just try like a bunch of different fonts you see how I went from that when it now when a bunch.
It went a lot more circular I don't have all those, I couldn't find those fonts. Yeah, they're in there. They're in there.
You have pro.
I do but there's about there's, that's not what's getting me that see the only the ones with the little crown are pro everything else is heard that's doesn't have a crown is is is free.
Okay, I tried to get to my thoughts I couldn't find them. Yeah, you just have to see how it's not. There's no way to get to them right here but if you click into the text, and then I double click and like highlight the text, then at the top left there's a little
button, see up here. Right, yeah I saw that.
So you just kind of just, and there's no fast way to do this you just have to kind of look through one so that one's like very circular.
So I can get to a bunch of fonts like that then I'll be fine. Yeah, there's, you definitely don't need pro for that.
You just have to make sure that the text is highlighted and it will pop up. Yeah. So if I put my cursor in the text and click there.
You have to double click as well to get into it.
Potentially, to put the fonts up there.
Yes, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah. All right, I'll work on that. It's good. What do you think that, I mean I'm was thinking of using that as a logo.
It's on my banner page on my Facebook page and I mean I know it's, it's bigger and more elaborate than a lot of logos so do you have a comment about that.
There are some great logos in Canva. If you, if you're one, you don't need a logo to do any channel or any content so I wouldn't, it's not something we, I would recommend spending time on.
So what I would do is, is kind of look for the word, you know, logo, and just do something extremely simple.
Just like really just your name so the first time I've heard my first year and a half, it was just postures the word posture. Yeah, it was so basic. It wasn't anything fancy like what you're seeing on the screen here.
Well, the thing is, I don't know that I really want a logo I just wanted something, maybe I do, but I was wanting something that I could use.
Like I know I want the not to not thing, because that's what it's about going from frustration.
So, but see I just searched for the word not logo not and like you could easily pick something like this.
And there's like some sort of not and you could just write that in underneath and then you'd be done.
I wouldn't try to get too creative with it very clean. Yeah, let me read it this way like I wouldn't.
design my own logo.
We'd like, we have people that we would pay for
to like we did for posture and kingdom messengers.
Logo design is like a very fine skill,
like a very refined skill.
So when we have to do it ourselves, we just do text.
Just straight, simple text.
Yeah, like not even this, just literal,
like Lindsay's one was just this for a while
for the first hundred episodes we just did.
It was actually like a light font like that.
It almost looked exactly like that.
It was literally what it was.
That was the whole logo.
And so you could just keep it super, super simple.
It just, it's one of those things
that's kind of like the teleprompter.
It just eats away at a lot of time
and you don't quite get what you actually want
because again, you're not necessarily a graphic designer.
And so that's why we say, if you have to do it yourself
keep it simple, keep it clean text
and then focus on what you do best
which is the content piece.
Yeah, no one's gonna follow you because of your logo.
Now, what about, did you look at my Facebook page
by any chance?
Because my banner is like super, super simple
and I want it to have more in it.
I want it to be more of a picture.
Is it under your name?
It's Frustration Knot.
Yeah, I think you could just find it Frustration Knot
but it is under Mary L. Gordon.
It's one of my pages under Mary L. Gordon.
Yeah, I clicked on the link from your,
I can't share my screen so I'm pretty sure you'll find it.
There it is.
Is that you?
Yes.
Okay, so a couple of things.
I don't think that's you, but yes.
I would put your picture in the profile
cause there's favor on the face
and people are connecting with you.
And then,
Your picture, your face.
On the profile.
Yeah, on the profile picture.
And then put the two kids pictures somewhere else.
I mean, that's part of it.
I would do that on the cover.
You can do that in the cover if you wanted.
When you say cover, you're talking about the banner?
Sorry, the banner at the top here, yeah.
Yeah.
But you can see like,
see how we put like, this is Lindsay's posture page.
So we put her picture there.
So people know who this is.
Cause really she's doing all the content,
which is what you're doing as well.
And then,
everything else like,
this is just a fun, creative space at the top
to put something that you like.
That could be a photo, could be text.
It could be the text.
Cause the text kind of helps.
I honestly, Mary, would keep the text that you have
because it tells people what it is
that your channel's about.
Yeah.
Well, I'm good.
I'm planning to keep that,
but I could do a background.
I mean, I'm very, pretty much a wiz at Photoshop.
So I could-
Yeah, can I give you some friendly advice?
I would let Canva do the designing.
I wouldn't open Photoshop, honestly.
It's very time consuming.
I don't open Photoshop for anything.
Go to Canva, search for Facebook cover,
and just pick one and just try to be like super-
Cause it also sizes it.
So if you search for cover like this
and I just find something,
like you could just find something,
change the text out to what you want,
and then upload that directly,
and then just move on to something else.
Cause I wouldn't even open Photoshop
cause it's just not worth your time to mess with it.
And honestly, it's gonna just look way better to have Canva
cause they have graphic artists
that have like put things together
that it's high contrast, it's easy to read.
And it's the exact size you need.
That's exact size.
Cause like yours isn't the right size right here.
It's like getting cut off
or something on the left and right here.
If you look at it on the phone, yeah, it's cut off.
Yeah.
So you can't actually,
you can't even read the text on the phone, right?
So what if I really want the picture of those kids in there
and also what I've been trying to design
with the frustration in Canva, then not to not.
Yeah. So you can pick any, pick something simple.
I'm trying to find something super simple here,
but let's say we clicked on something like this.
So this is like a real estate thing.
So obviously that's not your niche.
So you can put, you can click on the image here
and go to uploads and you could upload,
like, let's say I wanted to do Lindsey's picture.
I think I can even drag this into there.
So you see how I swapped it now and I can crop it.
So you can put the kid's picture just like that.
And then up here, I can just say like, posture podcast.
And this is already so much better.
More than we ever did for posture.
See, I just deleted the stuff I didn't want.
I would, that'd be great.
Like they're done.
Just keep it really simple.
That could be your kid's picture.
And then here you could say like, you're like from, you know, not to what it was.
Frustration.
I'm typing.
Not T a K.
Yeah.
To frustration has to be two lines.
I'm sorry.
Mike, my screen just froze like that.
Well, I'm okay.
So if I want to drag that thing that I did design onto my, onto this banner
thing, but don't I have to flatten it?
No, I mean, right now it's layers.
You're making it like so much more hard on yourself.
So much more difficult.
Um, I would, I would just, uh, don't worry about flattening or any, any of that.
Um, all you do is like when you come in here, but you can bring your, the
kid's picture, like directly in here.
I had it pulled up over here so you can actually copy this.
I just right click and copy it.
And I go in here and hit paste.
See, at this point, I'm just going to give this to you and we're done.
And then you're going to have it done.
So you can make this bigger, smaller.
Um, you can put like, there's different filters and stuff.
I won't mess with it too much right now, but you could, you know, make it, um, put
like a little something here just so that this is in the, you know, so there's some
color on it, but you could do something like that and then, and you could maybe,
um, find an easier to read font, but, um, so I know I can just share this with you
when you're done so you can actually like take it and keep working on it
without, after we're done here.
Yeah.
Something like that.
I mean, I'm just getting you like started.
Um, um, anyone, but the link can edit copy link.
So if I, I'm going to paste that to you, um, if you want to click on that from the
chat, it'll just load it into your browser and then you can just keep editing it.
However you want.
Wait, what do I click on in the chat?
Um, I keep losing the chat.
Okay.
So, um, I'm going to click on it and it'll just load it into your browser.
Okay.
So this, oh yeah, there, if I clicked on that, then, oh, um, it says I'm leading
zoom.
Yeah, you can, um, that's okay.
I came back.
I didn't, I did not proceed.
Just, so just check the notes that, um, Tamara will put in, you'll be there as well.
Um, cool.
Uh, can I get, can I get my rope?
Not thing that I designed.
Can I get that on the banner also by, yeah, it's already in Canva, so it'll
be in your Canva account and you can pull it in.
Yeah.
Okay.
But it's not flattened so I can still pull it in, not flattened.
That's what I don't understand.
It's just, yeah, I would just like, so you go to the, um, the graphics here and
what you're going to do, like the easiest way to do it is to literally look for
like a not graphic, find one in here.
Cause if you find one, you like it.
That's how I found that one.
You just drag it in and drop it and you're in ready to go.
So, I mean, I'll let you play with it.
So I did, um, in the comments of this video on Facebook, if you go, I tagged you.
Do you see that on the right here?
It'll say at Mary Gordon.
So you, it'll have you in here.
Um,
Wait, wait, you lost me.
What?
Just, just wait for the email from Tamara.
I don't want to confuse you anymore.
Cool.
So we got a couple more minutes.
I just wanna make sure that Mark or Sandra had questions and then
we'll kind of wrap up real quick.
I'm good y'all.
Thank you.
Awesome.
I have a question for Mark.
Yeah, go.
I'm just curious how you got, um, cause missions is really my thing.
Like they're reaching different countries.
Um, so I'm just, I'm just curious how you managed to reach people
from these different countries.
That's just fascinating for me.
Any ideas?
If I had an answer for that, I might be able to be much further along in my.
a social media profile. Um, that's just, uh, kingdom of God
thing. Um, fantastic. I put a lot of effort into my, uh, things
to me, it's about the message. It's not about the number of
hits going out there. And I got leveled. I got leveled back in
2016 with a tragedy in my family. And I'm still, you know,
my flesh is still got stuff that's, it doesn't want to let
go of. Yeah. I'm just, and I've learned, I learned a lot. I
tell you, I don't know if you ever heard of them, the mirror
translation by a guy named Francois.
I've heard the man translation, but I don't know who it's by.
Francois do toy D U T O I T the mirror translation. And in
there in Philippians four, eight, he talks about having the
same opinion of yourself that the father does. And, um, you
know, people that want Philippians versus four, six
and seven, but they don't learn the verses four or five and
eight. And verse eight is where it tells you to think on these
things. And so, um, in my, uh, tick tock thing, I just, you
know, in the profile, you only have like 80 characters or
something like basically having, maintaining a general rhythm of
relationship with the father. That's where I'm at. You know,
I'm retired military, you know, my life has not been gentle.
It's been performance based. It's been crisis mode. It's
been crazy. And, um, that's what I'm out there because there's a
lot of people out there without Jesus they're lost.
And what, you know, as far as like, that's the fascinating
thing about digital, like about tick talk about these platforms
is like, you, you have no idea like who your message is going
to reach. And so by adding a couple of hashtags, you know,
and, and putting some text in there and even the words that
you're saying, um, tick tocks actually doing all the work for
you. They're going to go and find people on their platform
that they think would like to watch your content. And the more
content you give them, the more they see that you're
contributing and the more they promote you. And so they, you
know, because they'll see that someone watched potentially like
a missionary watched a video about this scripture, and then
you make a video about that scripture and they may show your
video to that person now, because they know that, that you
both watched the same thing. So it's, it's doing all this, but
it's, you know, a thousand times a second, you know, trying to
get you just the right video because they want to keep you on
the platform. They just want you on the platform. They don't
really care if, um, you know, how, uh, like what content it
is, as long as it keeps you there. So we're just kind of
leveraging it, right. All the ways to just get it out there
and leverage that tech. Um, cause yeah, you'll have crazy
testimonies, people at two in the morning or three in the
morning commenting and saying, Hey, this is exactly what the
encouragement I needed to hear. And you'll start getting those
testimonies. And those are real people like sitting at, you
know, on the other side of their screen without having to get on
a plane and travel to the country. Yeah. So that's our
dream for you guys is to, to be able to leverage that and grow
your own ministries and leave legacy, leave like whatever's in
your heart, whatever breakthrough and things you've
learned through your walk of the Lord to share that online. Um,
so I had a really weird experience. Um, I got a, uh,
copyright violation hit on one of my videos and that's the one
that I reposted. Yeah. On Tik TOK. Yeah. And I guess it was
the song, um, the one by, uh, Brian Johnson's wife.
I, all my life will, or I forget what it is, but that's, I got
that song from the list in, in, in Tik TOK. Oh, yeah. Well, did
you, but did you, um, and you added it through the Tik TOK
app? Yeah. Yeah. That's weird.
You would get a copyright if you had like downloaded the video
with the song still on it and then tried to upload it with the
song playing because Tik TOK wouldn't recognize that you were
adding it from their app. Yeah. That makes sense. Cause it just,
but if you, if you did it again, I created that video just like
I've created all my other ones. It was, yeah. You can always
like reach out to their support and just normally with
copyright, you can always, um, dispute it on almost all things,
but unfortunately we've got to go grab Hannah from babysitter
here, but we'll catch you guys on the Facebook group. If you
guys have questions, if you have any admin things, you can always
grab us.
on email, but we look forward to seeing you guys soon and have a great rest of your Thursday.
And I'm going to be praying for all of you guys. Bye-bye.
See ya. Bye.