Amy, Susie is on with us and people are jumping in.
We decided to go ahead and it's two minutes till three,
but we decided to just jump in.
We are in the halfway point, guys.
So this is exciting.
So what we want to do,
and you'll probably hear me repeat this
as more people join,
but the reason we wanted to just go ahead and jump in
is because we want to spend this week
checking in with each of you
and kind of doing this hot seat style,
like let's talk about what's going well,
where are you stuck, where can we help?
Because we want to make sure that we have that opportunity
and we wanted to do it with everyone
because sure enough, what Amy might be stuck on
is what Marion is also stuck on
and it always helps to hear that conversation.
So I'm going to just pray really quick
and then we'll just kind of jump in.
So Father, thank you for today.
Thank you for this week.
Thank you for the halfway point.
You have brought us this far.
We're so excited for the weeks ahead.
I just pray that we would have an abundance of wisdom today,
clarity, understanding, and knowledge.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Okay, so I see people are jumping on.
So we're just going to be checking in with each of you.
We're going to spend this week because Thursday and,
I mean, Tuesday and Thursday,
checking in with each of you,
kind of hot seat style, if you will.
Where are you stuck?
What's going well?
So listen in, even if you're not up yet,
because sure enough,
you'll hear something that someone else is stuck on
and it will help you.
So we're going to check in with you, Amy, first, because.
Put a timer on each person.
Yeah.
So we noticed, Amy,
I don't know if you got our message,
but we were checking in on everyone's account
and we noticed you have hit.
A new level of success.
A new level of celebrity status on TikTok
and that is you have a spam account.
You kind of hit yourself.
It was catchy on me, you did.
It's okay, we caught you off guard.
What on earth does that mean?
It was so funny.
Can I just say this?
I was just in impartation and, you know,
last night we had our prayer time
and the Lord was just like downloading patients
and we were talking about self-control.
And when I did see that message on my phone
and I mean, the emotions that let loose in me
and the barrage of lies that hit me,
I thought, I mean, now my body is just
settling down.
And I went to my weekly thing
and it says, like, there's no data.
On the dashboard?
Oh yes, that's a different problem.
That's another problem.
That's gonna be fixed in the next hour.
That's a universal problem right now,
but we're fixing the dashboard.
Okay, I can just check that one off my list.
Let's take that one off of you.
Yeah, okay, all right.
So, yeah, so what do I do?
Okay, so we're gonna walk you guys through.
Yeah, so let's just get everybody caught up
on the same page.
We didn't even say what's going on here.
So, well, I know, but I just wanted to, like,
visually show people.
Let's jump over to, I have so many people's accounts open.
No, she might have been.
Did you already have it up here?
Okay, we'll just grab this.
Here, you can find the, you can.
So I'm gonna show you what happens.
When you search for Amy Rye Byrne
and then you search, I think it's like.
It has an underscore at the end.
Yeah, if you search something like that,
of course, now it's not working at all.
Maybe it got pulled down already,
which would be amazing. We reported it, so.
Again?
Thank you.
Yeah, so I wanted to show everybody how to report it
if anyone sees this.
Let's see if we can find it.
It had, like.
If you do, it's Amy Rye Byrne, bound by love,
and then underscore was at the end.
Okay.
That was what it was.
Oh, that was the spam account?
Yes, this is your real account.
I have it.
I'm gonna just pull up the screenshot
from when I messaged to you.
So this is what it looked like.
So there's, this is, it's just kind of crazy
what people will do.
So there's, this is the real account here, 5,300 followers,
but your spam account has over 1,000 followers.
Now, here's the crazy thing.
You mean my Instagram account has 50?
This is TikTok.
Oh, TikTok.
Okay, gotcha, gotcha.
Yeah, so someone went in
and they literally copied your image
and they created this one,
and they had something about Forex trading,
which I don't think,
and this is about getting money, you know,
daily through this.
But what they did is they actually took your content,
like they downloaded your TikToks
and they re-uploaded the TikToks again, which is crazy.
And that's why I'm hoping I can like find it.
So I'm wondering if it got like spammed account,
like it already, let me just see if I can search for it.
Oh, here it is.
Yes.
Look at this.
This, this is crazy.
Want to like, okay, well, of course now TikTok's breaking.
So they literally like, I mean, it's, I know it's a little creepy, but they
like, they stole this girl's video too.
That's another TikTok someone else, but then they also have a
video here about joining their team.
So they kind of like mixed your content in with some new content.
Here's the very cool thing.
Everyone, these videos has 4,000 views, 1,700 views, 1,700 views,
2000 views and high engagement, which means these are being shown to Christians.
So the message is getting out there, probably not the way we wanted it to
go, but it is getting out there.
So, um, what you can all do is I'm going to link to this, um, to this, this here.
You guys can come here and if, and the more people that do that, do, uh, do
this, the better as you click up here, make sure it does have the underscore.
We don't want to flag the wrong account here.
Um, and the one that has, you know, this like stuff about Forex, you can
click up here and you can click report.
And then what you want to do is go down to, um, pretending to be someone.
And then it's not for you.
It is for celebrity, Amy Ryburn.
Um, you just use celebrity.
That's the, I know.
And then you just search for which account.
So it's Amy Ryburn like this, and you can hit search and then it's the
one that doesn't have the underscore.
So include the, uh, of who's being impersonated.
So that person's being impersonated and you click submit.
And so if everybody does this, um, it'll help just like, okay, red flag.
This is someone, because what we don't want is any of these people, these
thousand people to, um, be taken advantage of, right?
So, um, it's probably a bot that's doing it.
So it's probably not anything real, but what's on it's on.
This is actually on Tik TOK.
It's not, okay, but I would check your Instagram cause this happens as well on
Instagram and it could be that they, you know, did it on both.
But, um, I mean, again, this is, they didn't change the message of your videos.
It's exactly the same.
And they even hashtagged, you know, Christian Tik TOK and Christian girl.
So it got shown to Christians.
It's just that people are like, so what they're probably doing is like
trying to DM people and things like that.
So it happens to everyone.
Like it happens to Graham cook.
Like, this is just what spammers and criminals do online.
So it's good to be aware.
It's nothing to be discouraged about because it does happen to popular
accounts, but the way that you deal with it is you just report it and then ask,
you know, friends and stuff who are on Tik TOK to report it as well.
So the Instagram will get, I mean, Tik TOK or Instagram will get
those reports and take it down.
Yeah.
How did you find it?
I might've missed that.
I'm sorry.
We just happened to be searching for her account.
And then I noticed there were two.
Um, we didn't, we're not like actively checking it.
I just happened to, we were, we're doing, um, we're going to do like
check-ins with everybody today.
So we're pulling up as many people's accounts as we could.
And I went to search for Amy Ryburn and noticed there was two.
Yeah.
And I was like, at first I was like, Oh, did she accidentally create a second
account?
Cause it was your same picture.
And then I realized like, I know this is spam.
So, and you can always like search yourself on these to see if there's like
any, it's something you have to do like every single day or week, but just
every once in a while, um, you can do that.
Yeah.
So how do I do that on.
On Instagram, if I'm going to check my Instagram and Facebook.
Um, so you could do the same thing.
You can go to Instagram and we'll just search real quick.
Um, do you want to give everybody now that there's 12 people in here?
Yeah.
So if you're just joining what we decided to do for, cause we're at the
halfway point, this was week four.
So this week we're focusing on live check-ins with each of you.
We're just going to have a, almost kind of hot seat style, quick
conversation, pull up your account.
You know, tell us what's working, where you feel stuck.
Um, cause we just figured that would be like the most valuable spend of our
time this week before we jump into the second half of the week and making sure
that everyone's tracking, no one's staying stuck and we can help you
guys, you know, keep the momentum up.
Yeah.
Um, this is great.
Yeah.
I don't see anything in, this is the official like way to test it.
It's just a, um, I remember now that you're, it was under your ministry.
So you just start to type your username and you'll just see if anyone's
trying to impersonate that, like it'll come up next to it here.
So, um, anyway, I don't, and then you would, if you did find the same
thing where you just report, you can report it, Instagram works a little
bit differently and that they, like when you say celebrity on Instagram,
it's only people that have that blue check.
So you would, you would say someone I know that would be
the option versus a celebrity.
Or myself, if I'm the one that, yeah, that's an option.
Yeah.
If you're doing it.
Cool.
Okay.
Otherwise, well done, Amy.
Did you, um, drop a link for, uh,
be able to report it. Yeah, I dropped it in the chat in the zoom chat. So that takes you to the
to the spam account. So you could just click on it again, more people that do it, the better.
So it's just kind of like a, they use the social proof to determine like, is this really a spam
account? So but if like, 20 people all of a sudden say start reporting it, then it's gonna
put some red flags and they'll hide it and it'll just disappear. It'll go away.
Once they delete it, it's totally gone. You don't have to do anything.
Yeah. And I think it's just worth mentioning, like, as a user of social media, no legitimate
ministry, organization, business, etc, will be asking for money on your DMS ever. If that's ever
happening, that's a scam immediately ignore it block that person. It's also good to check like
if you have someone that you followed, that's like a like celebrity, I'm using that status
lightly, but someone who has a blue checkmark on Instagram, for instance, or a large following,
like Graham Cooke, Sean Bowles, Bill Johnson, these people have a lot of people impersonating
them. And it's, you know, tricky because they use the same content. But you can always tell
by the profile name, like you notice with Amy, it had like an extra underscore. Sometimes there's
an extra dot or official if it's someone's, you know, their name, they'll misspell official.
So just be aware of those things. There's a good chance that those profiles like the actual person
is not going to follow you and start DMing you. Like Sean Bowles is not getting on Instagram and
DMing Lindsay and having conversations with her, right? So like, just that's just never that's just
not going to happen. So be aware of that. If you have a spam account, if you have an account,
you're like, oh, it's Bill Johnson, or oh, it's Bethel Church, or it's Hillsong or whatever.
Usually you can tell, and they're not usually following you. So that's how you can.
Yeah. Can I ask one more question before we move on? Yeah. What about DMs? Like, because I'm,
my Facebook account is, you know, I mean, it, it's sort of leveled off. But anyway,
but I'm getting a lot of DMs. And so, yeah, I focus my energy on comments, because that is,
first of all, it's in the light, right? It's out in the open. So it's, it's a safety measure. But
also, the platforms count that as engagement, when people are commenting, you're commenting
back, they're not counting your private messages as engagement. So if there's somebody that has
like, okay, so I kind of just skim through my DMS. Like, recently, I had someone that was like,
hey, do you have anything on fear? This is on Instagram. So that's like a legitimate question.
So I was able to direct them to my full episodes on YouTube. And then I made a story of it. Like,
I just crossed out their name. So it wasn't like, but then I'm use it as a story and said,
you know, hey, here's a link if you anyone wants to, you know, know more about how you know what
to do when you're afraid. And so that got a lot of engagement, because people were clicking on
the link. And so I just took it from the DMS, if it's something that's, and then, you know,
a couple times, I'll get people, young women who like, hey, can you pray for me, I'll send them a
scripture. But I don't have like, long back and forth with people in DMS. I just, it's not it's
not a good use of my time. And it also creates like a weird dependency for people like my hope
for them is that they're able to be encouraged. And then it brings them closer to the Lord and
wanting them to like, bring it back. So yeah, a DM is a direct message or private message.
That was a question. So that's what that's how I, I kind of skim because I get a lot of spam too.
And then I'll block anything that's nasty, negative, or obviously spam. I just block those
accounts. So you know, keeps things clean. You can see if there's a link to something,
it's probably spam. Yeah. And I don't like if anyone sends me a link, I don't click on it.
Um, that's just a general right for any social media. So that's good. I know we want to jump on
to it. We saw Amy saying so we and she was on one of the first people on so we'll jump there. We do
want to try to get to as many people as possible today, particularly anyone who's joined the
intensive in the last few weeks here in the recent in yeah, we'll get everyone. Yeah. So number
Yeah, so I was gonna have to call on people tonight. Yeah, follow up on with Amy's I thought,
okay, well, I'm thinking about I'm going to do what you just told me to do. I followed all the
things and it said, you know, put in the appropriate account. And I'm typing in Amy's account under
what's a celebrity one. And it says there's no results found. Okay. And it's spelled correctly.
I double checked it several times. And did you did you have to hit search though?
Like sometimes you type it in and then it asks you to search? Yeah, search the account. Yeah. Okay.
Well, it says, under report, reason, celebrity, please provide the account information of
the person being impersonated.
And so, and then it says search account, and I typed in Amy.
And you're in, are you on the TikTok app?
Yeah.
Okay, I think that's a little different.
Not sure exactly.
It's not super important, everybody has to do it, just as long as a few people did it.
So it could be that it's like catching on to it.
But I also, I think I just typed in Amy Ryburn and just searched that instead of the full
account name is how I did it.
No spaces.
I think I just typed Amy.
And it may just work better.
So and then I hit enter, and then it had the two options here.
So I'll just do it a third time.
Pretending to be someone else, and it says select a reason, me or celebrity.
So I put in celebrity.
And then it says type in the account information.
Yeah.
Hello, how you doing?
Oh, my goodness.
Sorry.
All these TikToks.
I'm not sure, Susie.
Yeah.
You could try it on your computer, maybe.
We're on our computers.
That might make a difference.
I just, I don't have it on my phone here where I could check that.
But let's, okay, thank you.
Cool, cool.
Let's go.
Who should we just pick up?
Let's go to Cindy.
Hey, Cindy.
Let's pull up her account.
How's it going?
Really behind.
Okay.
Well, let's pull up your account.
Where, where are you feeling stuck?
Well, it's a combination.
I got two posted.
Then the third day I was going to do one with my version of the Holy Spirit, and I got
totally stuck because he looks totally different in artwork than a white dove.
And I got really stuck and I didn't do it.
And then I think I told you when I interviewed you to join, my mother had fallen and she's
been in a hospital surgery rehab.
The last week and a half were just constant every day.
And I had to be there every day.
And then I had to fight for her to get to go home.
And she lives in a very nice assisted living place.
And she was literally losing all of her morale, her, her just joy, everything was gone.
And I needed to fight to get her back home.
So we got her back home.
God helped with the whole week.
But that literally took up all my time.
I have a business.
I'm a self employed bookkeeper.
I got behind on everything.
Okay.
So you bring up a good point, Cindy.
Yes.
And I want, I want to say this to everyone.
Your family gets the first fruit of your ministry always.
Okay.
Always.
You made the right choice.
Absolutely.
Your family gets the first fruit of your ministries always.
I want to pull up your account and show you some encouraging stats because from what you
have posted, you've got a great engagement rate.
So your average engagement rate, I don't know if you can see Bruce's, is 18%.
Anything over 15 is really great.
You've got...
How do you see that?
I've never seen that engagement rate.
I think you have to have the vidIQ and I use it for, but it, yeah, you can actually get
to it.
I think in the, in the analytics, if you go, of course, mine's not going to have it now.
Let's see.
I think you can go up here.
And of course it's not in here now.
Settings.
I think it's just, you go to TikTok slash analytics if you, oh my goodness, didn't spell
that right.
There we go.
Just TikTok.com slash analytics.
For some reason, I know someone said that, but like you can't get to certain things.
I think it's under business suite and then there, but they should have all kinds of information
about your videos.
I don't have anything recent.
Basically it's just saying, Hey, if we showed this in front of, you know, a thousand people
and you know, 200 people liked it, that would be like 20% engagement.
It's measuring like comments, likes, shares.
So anything over 15% is good.
Yeah.
And like you had 26 and then this one just like was crazy good.
And even though it's...
But look at the numbers of views.
That's okay though.
But that's okay.
Like again, think of the, it's just the math of it.
So like, I guess the 31 people were really engaged, but if you had like a thousand views
and like half a percent of engagement, right?
Like it's...
This means that the video, the tagging, what you did,
it's being shown to the right people
because they're liking it.
Okay.
So that's good.
And I think you only posted this like about two weeks ago.
And that's fine.
Like these can continue to get views
while you're doing other stuff,
while you're helping your mom,
while you're taking care of family stuff.
They're all out there.
So these are gonna continue to accumulate views.
So I did those two weeks ago,
but the other ones that are on there,
those are from February when I did your challenge.
Yeah.
And that's fine.
There's nothing wrong with that.
I don't think I've seen any numbers change there.
Yeah.
But I could tell,
I think what happened with the second one,
why it got less views than the first one
is because the title was really hard for people to know.
What it was about.
And I don't know if TikTok had a problem with the title
to know who to show it to.
So my husband and I were talking
about possibly reposting it.
Cause I've heard you guys talk about reposting
and give it a different title,
even though it would be the same video.
Yeah.
I would read, I would definitely try that.
You guys can all try that.
Take content that is already posted.
If it does really well in particular,
then go back and repost it.
Just change the music maybe behind it
or change the description somehow.
If you want to add different text on it
or even shorten it a little bit.
Different hashtags, you can do that.
And the other thing I haven't figured out
is I've done all the hashtags the same,
but I don't remember if there's any room
for writing a description.
Characters in the description also including the hashtags.
Yes.
It's all kind of one block of text.
So you first want to just write the description
of what it is.
And then from there, I'll just grab something here.
So you can see like Lee and Brendan that they had,
they wrote their text there.
And then just right after the text,
they just drop all their hashtags.
But how many characters can you have?
Just use as many as you can.
So typically one or two sentences
is like one sentence is fine here.
Okay.
At least a sentence.
And then you can just do as many hashtags
as you can fit in there.
Okay.
And does it let you know if it's too many?
It will tell you, yeah.
It will tell you that you're running out of characters?
Okay.
Awesome.
Really quick on Cindy's,
just a few other takeaways on your profile.
So what I love is that even though
you're using your graphics,
you made sure your face was in there.
So that's great.
Keep up that,
because I definitely think it makes a difference.
Okay.
And this, where it says your display name is Spencer Pix,
I would use your actual name in that display name.
Oh.
Yeah.
And I would use a real photo,
just for your first time people.
And then you can have all your artwork
as part of the content,
but just you want people to know that,
hey, I'm not,
I don't know who Spencer Pix is,
but I do know, you know,
Like you can keep Spencer Pix as your handle,
like it is now.
But just as your profile display name,
make that your actual name.
How do I change that?
If you go to settings on your profile,
it'll let you change it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Awesome.
And I'm glad you guys picked me right now,
because I have to leave early
to actually go see my mom today.
Perfect.
So thank you so much.
But I do have one more question.
Yeah.
I did get stuck on the third video,
because I was going to do God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit,
and then kind of introduced all three,
and then start with all of my material for new believers.
But I really got stuck on introducing the Holy Spirit,
because he's so different.
So I just need some words of wisdom.
Yeah.
So my encouragement,
when you come to a place where you're stuck,
there's a couple different things that it can mean.
Just my sense of what it could mean
of where you are right now,
is there's still something that you're developing
in your definition of Holy Spirit.
And that needs to be something that you're developing.
So you can't rush that necessarily,
or push that or press that.
So I would,
because there's always two different dimensions.
I'm not saying that this is all there is,
but what's happening with you and the Lord
in your secret place,
and what you're sharing and ministering to.
And typically what you're ministering
is like the ripe fruit of your life.
It's the things you've walked through,
it's the things that you have a confidence in,
because it's what you've walked through,
it's what you've overcome,
or you have clarity, you have understanding in this area.
There is room for that to develop and evolve over time.
So hear what I'm saying.
But there's also things that are happening
in the secret place that are still between you and the Lord,
and it's something that still needs
to be between you and the Lord.
So there are things that I talk to the Lord about that my who, like you guys, aren't ready
to hear yet.
Because there's no mastery in my life of that, but it's between me and the Lord and that's
okay.
That's like the beauty of the secret place.
So I have to, and this is hard because what I'm talking with him about in the secret place
is super exciting stuff, but I know that it's not ready to be publicly displayed.
I just know that it's like a knowing.
And so I have to separate the two, which isn't always like fun because I want to talk about
the things that I'm talking with the Lord about, like it's really exciting, but it's
not ready yet.
So I have to kind of go back to things that are, that are previous and maybe not as profound
to me anymore, but they're real treasure and I have to, and it's good.
It's a refreshing for me and it's something that I can share and feed others with.
And so I would encourage you to put that on the shelf.
It's okay that it's not chronological, put that on the shelf and then just start with
what you feel confident in sharing that new, you know, helping new believers, like just
go to the next idea, the next episode, because that other video, the Holy Spirit will bring
it to your remembrance when it's time.
And he's actually been showing me things over the last week and a half, but it's not done
cooking yet.
Like you said, that that's true.
So I never thought about, cause I'm very methodical and analytical, kind of like, yeah, it's hard.
It's hard when I get stuck.
Yeah.
But you know, it's good for you to, it's a new stretching of like, and it's a, and it's,
it's a level of trust too with the Lord that, Hey, I trust you with this and I can do something
else besides what I feel like needs to be structured.
You have no idea how much that helped today.
Good.
And I would just say is the only two cents I would add to that is that think of like
those three videos that you just said as three, like a huge, um, kind of categories of content
you can be creating.
So this one, like you could have like 10 videos on just the Holy Spirit or how you see it
or your pictures.
Right.
It doesn't have to be, that's a great point.
It doesn't have to be just one all encompassing video.
Yeah.
It can just be like, when you're ready to share about the Holy Spirit is what we mean.
Like sometimes we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to like press all of it into one
episode and it doesn't spread it out.
Yeah.
Okay.
So basically I hear you saying I can go and do other videos until that other one is done
cooking and yes, absolutely.
Yeah.
It's all kind of random on Tik TOK.
It's not, it's not like a perfectly, it's not sequential on sequential at all.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I'm going to go ahead and, and I can post that one with Jesus with a different title
because the title does affect, um, Tik TOK knowing how to show it because they need to
know what the subject is about.
Correct.
Yeah.
The text, the tags, the hashtags you put on, um, you know, any of that's going to help
description.
Yeah, absolutely.
And sometimes guys, and this is what's hard to like wrap your head around with Tik TOK
especially like you don't always know why one video does great and the other doesn't.
Like I just had a video on Tik TOK that got like tens of thousands of views and the ones,
the three I posted before that were like not even over 10,000 and the two I posted after
that were like not over 10,000, but there was some, and I, I can't identify why that
one.
Yeah.
You know, but that's okay.
And then there's sometimes, so if there's one that's meaningful to you, like, Hey, this
is a really good one.
And I just did not get the engagement reviews.
Like definitely take that back and try to, I really liked the content in it and the people
liked it too.
Yep.
But you can tell you had a 47% engagement of the 62 people that did watch it.
Yeah.
That's shocking.
Cause I was thinking it's only 60 and the other one went like two days, it exploded,
you know, in two days.
So I've got to go and thank you so, so very much everybody for, and now I feel like I
can move forward again.
Awesome.
Perfect.
See you Cindy.
Okay.
We got Candy.
Hey, how are you doing?
Good.
How are you?
Good.
Okay.
So how, let's pull up your account.
How's it going?
Is there anything that's like glaring?
Like, Hey, I feel stuck here.
No, I'm not.
I'm not stuck.
It took me a couple of weeks to get started.
Cause I was waiting for like school to start.
I have four kids.
So I like, I have one.
I actually just posted my first few videos on the 28th and then I just recorded, I think
five different shorts today.
I just have to get them going.
Wait, but my first video, it wasn't what I was going to do,
but it was just an idea I had
because I was inspired by the date, VN 828.
So I posted a few videos on the same day
because they all had to do with the date.
I don't know, but that was just because it excited me.
But my plan, it's always a fluid plan
because I might get a harebrained idea,
but it's to do my exercises that I have
for the prophetic dance fitness and just break them down.
So I don't know how this is going to work
since there's like, you said it doesn't happen
in like an order that TikTok shows things or Instagram,
but I'm doing my, for now, my first exercise,
I'm doing a short video on body placement.
And then we do a showing of the exercise
along with the scripture.
And then the exercise using the scripture
as praise and thanksgiving.
And then exercise using the scripture
as a personalized prayer.
And then the exercise using the scripture
as an intercessory prayer.
So, I mean, it's, I guess it's a,
that's what I recorded today.
So I can't say with my,
I, of course, some questions came up
when I was doing everything, actually doing it.
So my process, I have my studio already.
So I record on my webcam and everything.
And what I've been doing is just,
I trim everything on my computer already
with the videos I do for Facebook.
So I already had that as part of my process,
but then I've been putting everything on Descript
and captioning there.
And that seemed to work good for me.
And then just transferring everything,
I put it on Google Drive, transfer it to my phone
and then get it on TikTok.
And so I got that far and then added the music.
And then it was like, ooh,
you want to share it to Instagram?
And I was like, well, heck yeah.
You know, so I just shared it.
I'm like, that's easy.
And I didn't know if that's how I should do it
or if I should upload it separately to Instagram.
The short answer is Instagram and Facebook are connected.
Like consider it a same platform
because Facebook owns Instagram.
So that's like the one exception where you can share
to each platform and it still is considered.
Yeah.
So the correct answer is there's not a wrong way to do it.
Like you can totally share it like that.
That's good.
If you want the highest impact though,
it's better to upload the original file again
and then edit it there.
That's best, but I have done it both ways.
And I do feel like when you do it,
when you just take the edited TikTok
and you share it straight to Instagram,
it may do okay, it may do fine.
But generally like the videos that we've seen do better
are the ones that we have done.
So what I was saying was like Facebook and Instagram
consider that one platform.
You can share, you can cross post through those
because it's considered the same,
but TikTok and YouTube keep those separate
as far as posting.
Okay.
So, cause well, what I did was I did the music
and everything on TikTok.
Then I shared that to Instagram
and from there shared that to Facebook.
So you're saying I should upload it fresh on Instagram?
Yeah.
And then just share that.
Edit it and then share.
Okay.
And then for YouTube, I have a channel there
but I didn't upload it
because is there like an easy way to do that?
Or do I just start over and upload onto the shorts?
You can, again, you can upload the same TikTok.
Here's what I want to tell people
is it's better to post the video at like something
to the video.
If you don't have time to sit there and edit it
and do all the editing again
and then post it again to YouTube,
just share the TikTok directly to YouTube.
Does the music ever get in trouble for that?
It can, but just take the risk.
Like it's not gonna, it's not, you know
it's not gonna mess up your account or anything.
So just if it's between like not posting anything
and posting the copy of the TikTok
I just want to make it really easy.
Cause I think a lot of people are missing out
on a ton of views by not posting it
to these other platforms.
Yeah.
Bruce is very quick start and I'm very structured
but it's true.
What he's saying is true.
You'd rather have the exposure on the platform than not.
So do what you can as far as your process goes
best is natively, better is just getting it up there
from the TikTok account that you've already edited.
Well, and all I've really done did on TikTok to edit
my video was add music, like, cause I
I did all the editing separately, but I think that'd be okay.
Like if I have to separately bring it on the YouTube or whatever.
Okay.
So, and then to answer your question, I just don't want to miss out on this.
So you're going to have like pieces to like kind of one, you know, dance
exercise, so you always, you can do part one, part two, part three.
Cause if somebody finds part three, it's like, oh, this is part three of something.
So they'll go to your profile and find them all together.
So you kind of have the same title for each of those videos, but part one, part
two, part three, and that will connect them for people that find one video over
here and the other video over there.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's good to know.
Yay.
Okay.
I think, I don't think I have any more questions, but yeah.
And just to remind it, like, just go ahead and fill out the forms.
I noticed you weren't on our dashboard, so we didn't have your links to anything,
but now that you're posting videos, just go ahead.
Oh, I thought I did that.
Okay.
Just check in with Tamara.
Okay.
You guys can talk afterwards or yeah.
Okay.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Good luck.
Hey, Denise, I see your hand.
You can be up next.
Let me bring her.
I think.
Using spotlight, we can see you or else we can't find you guys.
There we go.
Let's pull up her account.
I'm pulling it up.
Let's see.
Is it a TikTok?
I'm a little bit lost.
Okay.
Finally getting ready to go on to video because I found a good teleprompter app
that's actually working.
So that's after a year I'm getting ready to go on video from my podcast, which I
filmed.
So this is my problem.
My husband and I both work almost 40 hours a week.
I'm a kinesthetic learner.
So I learned all these things in the coaching and then I can't, I don't have
time unless I don't want to pay my bills.
Don't want to eat.
Don't want to have my to actually go in and do any of it.
And neither does Bob.
So at some point in the future, we're going to, to semi-retire.
We'll have more days, but right now, is there a way to have the tech Thursday?
This is my question.
Be maybe every other week for beginners.
Cause sometimes when I come on, the content is too far beyond me and it doesn't help.
And so I just, I'm so lost in the beginning phases still of just even knowing how to
post something to YouTube, I still haven't, I figure it out.
I do it.
And then I forget how I did it.
And it's just, I don't know.
It's just, but anyway, and then I don't know how my quick comment on that.
So if you guys are ever stuck on anything, you can always, there's a couple of ways
you can get to like email us, like help at KMW support.com.
Just be like, Hey, Bruce.
Hey, Lindsay, whatever.
This is where I'm stuck.
Like I w because sometimes we can just link to, Hey, go watch this video, go
find this thing, or you're like, Hey, I don't know how to post on YouTube.
So I, my, me or Tamara or anyone can go in and we can find the resource for you
and just get that to you so you can go back.
Cause everybody on this call is in a little bit of a different place as far
as where they are and, and some people like you started with podcasts and
now you're going to video, a lot of people start with video, but they're
going to have a ton of podcast questions, maybe like in a few months
when they decide to launch podcast.
So it's, it's okay.
And the only way we do this, we just have a lot of
different resources we can get to.
So we never want you guys to be like, to be stuck.
I feel like you can't ask us so you can email us, obviously Facebook, you
know, just however you want to, you know, reach out to us, we'll,
we'll, we'll get an answer to you.
So yes, that, that was my first thing was just like,
and then the other thing is, you know, this eight weeks is intense.
So we realize that some of that we're cramming a lot in, but some of it is not
going to be relevant to you where you are right now and that's okay.
So you mentioned like, Hey, this tech is even beyond where I am and we recognize
that, so it doesn't mean that you have to do or even watch that text, you know,
that, that tech Thursday tutorial, if you're like, Hey, this is beyond me.
I'm just going to like edit in the app.
Like, I'm not going to use Descript.
Like you have to give yourself permission to not use like every
single, cause tech that is the, that is just the nature of tech is there's
so much you can do, but you don't have to do everything, but we don't want to
hold, because there are people that are a little bit further ahead in the tech
space that need that information.
So that's why we do it.
Also, you guys get lifetime access to the library, so you can always, even
after the eight weeks, go back and watch things when you feel like, Hey, now I
feel like I'm at a pace where I want to start doing Descript or I want to
start, you know, editing in Premiere.
So we had kind of set that up too, so that you can, yeah, to all the, all
the videos that we do, you guys have lifetime access to, right.
And if you don't, you do now, cause I just said you do.
Give yourself the permission, especially when we're talking tech stuff because I everyone's out of, you know, variety of scale there.
So that's the best way to filter the tech is just say, for me is it's not okay.
Well I was feeling pressure because I thought we're going to lose the videos if we, I don't know what's happening in the world for those of us who signed up a year ago I saw I was trying to get them all in.
Thank you for. Yeah, yeah. And then what.
My channel. Do you see anything there that needs help. Let's pull it up again actually don't think we even have. I don't think we have it here either.
Did you fill out the dashboard, Denise.
Different Denise there.
Yeah, pretty quick.
Or could you tell us what your username is we can just look it up.
Yeah, it's.
Yeah, yeah, it's bd McKenzie.
Mac.
Okay.
Bob D is in Denise.
Okay. And then I found you, seven, seven, three, three, just share your screen here. There we go.
So really quick just this is like not a make or break but put your full names in that display.
Okay, so it's just when you go to settings go to your profile and ask you what your name is like put Bob and Denise like you don't even maybe even have to your last name.
It just makes it feel a little bit more personal I love your profile picture by pictures great, you're smiling, and your bio is great we train people to build relational skills with God and others that increase enjoy that's a pro pro tip as well is to use the.
There's a new trick here if you go to edit profile so you can change your username.
You don't have to. So, well, I would make it something like I would call it like Bob and Denise, or something kind of written out verse the 732 unless that 732 is like super important to you guys.
That was just added when you registered. And then the name. What I would do is write like Bob and Denise, and then you can do this, this line and you can say like, you know, whatever actually Xavier does a great job.
Yeah, I'm saying, you know, whatever you guys are, you know, coaching relation.
Yeah, yeah. So something like that so you can do, and like that, I think, and you can do the plus sign let's see.
So you got to kind of play with it like you see what I'm doing.
So I can maybe like put the Bob and Denise together there we go that'll make it work so.
At the bottom of every video instead of it saying, BD McKenzie 732 it's going to say, Bob and Denise and their relational coaches that's cool what is that and then they can tap into it so it's just it's kind of like a little line there so very cool.
Engagement is good 28% average engagement, and all your videos there's, there's a couple there's one that's 810 10 but you've got like pretty high engagement 2538.
Yeah, this is good. 3963.
Great.
Okay, great. I just haven't done a whole lot though the one where I look pasty white is the only one I used a filter, so I won't do that again.
This one, I'm guessing you're just facing the sun, or facing a window. Yeah, it looks really good. That's great.
The other thing just for everyone else this is, I've seen a lot of people do this I'll just say it now.
Generally, like if I, so I'm looking at all your hashtags if I click on the word Jesus it's going to take me to a search. There are 66 billion views on the hashtag Jesus now it does tell people that hey this is, you know, probably Christian content.
So that's, that's very hard to compete general of a hashtag so and I see that you had like Jesus's life but I think because it didn't go together as one thing but you're always also going to be like way too broad, but Jesus joy is kind of interesting.
So that's only a that's perfect so you want to be sticking to those like 500 to 1000 500,000 to million views, because it's going to be a lot lower.
It's gonna be easier to kind of get into be a top video there. Now this video had 1000 views so I'm not you didn't do anything wrong it's it's just fine but as you add more than Bible Jesus God Bible study has a lot of people have been using like just to general of.
Christian Christian girls got 4 billion.
That's too big.
So just yeah you can definitely add it, and you can definitely hashtag your names like this is great as well because it'll kind of connect all your videos, but something that's different so God joy is kind of interesting but look at this when I look at God joy.
You're number four on the list.
Of everything, and there you are again and there you are again. And there's Bob, where do you.
Where do you see that God joy be number four.
clicked, you can and you can all do this. I just clicked on the on the hashtag here.
Oh, so God joy, I click on that. And then it just does a search on all videos platform.
And you just happen to be coming up not just once, but in a few places. Now, there's only
23,000 views, but it just shows you like the less views and traffic that's getting the easier it is
for you guys to be like top of the list for those hashtags. Okay, so that's those are all good
things. Okay, yeah. That sounds great. Cool. But it looks really good, though. You're doing a great
job. Okay, great. Just have to do more often as often as I can. Well, okay, we'll just do what
we can. Thank you. And then we'll just keep doing it slowly. But you know, slowly, we'll get there.
Yeah, I mean, you're doing it because you've got videos on there. So whatever, like whatever it
took you to get to that point, continue to do that and refine that process before changing it into
like something completely different. Yeah, like learning the chick the YouTube Yeah, like making
the pod, you know, taking clips from the podcast or like, don't even worry about that. Just do
what you're doing to get keep up that video momentum. Well, thanks. You guys are so encouraging.
I never feel bad. I'm behind you're amazing.
It's like, I want to take that out of your vocabulary. There's no behind. There's no behind.
Awesome. Okay, let's pull up. Hey, Holly. Holly, how you doing? Hi, I'm doing well. I'm on a
unique growth path as well. Okay, tell us about it. Yeah, I don't feel stuck or anything. I feel
pretty good because I've had so much extra stuff going on. And I've managed to post every day for
the last three weeks. That's amazing before. So not even I can say that guys just to be real.
That's awesome. I just haven't done fresh stuff, which you've been fresh stuff. That's awesome.
Well, I did fresh up stuff up until Sunday night, then I had to just like pull a random video because
I realized I didn't have anything. But even my mom called and she said, Have you been making a
video every day? I don't know how you're doing that. But yeah, we started school too. I have
four kids too. And my high schoolers started this last week. My youngest one is a freshman. So she's
just fresh into high school. And it's a big I mean, it's a big ordeal. One school starts. It's
like an avalanche just collects more and more and it starts going and there's no stopping it.
And then we moved my one of them to college over the weekend. We left on Thursday and threw in a
birthday as well because the other one had a birthday at the same time and it was just super
busy and I may I was able to batch I can't I haven't been able to batch all seven but I can
do like three at a time. With all that they were sick too. So like I had to get out of the house
because they were supposed to be in school and they were home and there was no no even space to
go. So I went to my office and as I was walking in my office I get a call and my youngest daughter
that was supposed to be in her first week of high school said I just threw up all over your floor.
I mean this is like what was going on and then my car broke down my dishwasher backed up and flooded
the kitchen like all this stuff. I mean it was a lot of stuff but I did it. And so things are
going to change because school has started. We got her to college my other one to South Africa.
So there's going to be a new flow which will be a lot more calm I think. But I guess I mean I don't
I haven't gotten a lot of views. I've been posting videos and I will say these aren't videos that I
am super proud of only because I have not been able to go through and like
plan a hook and a sentence and a closing line. I literally just have to talk because my windows
are so short to record. And so what happens is a lot of times it'll be like one minute seven
seconds and I just like can't get it down and I have to go. I have to go to my next thing and that
was it. So I got to post that and he just has to cut me off at the end and I tried to do Descript.
It didn't work. Nothing worked. So I have to just post these videos that I don't really like but
I'm just doing it just to get them out there. So I get around I don't know two to four hundred views
but that's it. Yeah okay that's that's good. I think I mean so some of the good stuff like obviously
consistency is good. You know we looked at I looked at some of your hashtags it's really
you're really good. You've definitely kind of found some of the hashtags that aren't
billions of views but they're they're like maybe millions of views which is good. So you're
targeting the right size hashtags and I'm sure like as you go into the world on TikTok of quantum
healing and
And what I see the energy, everything is energy.
Like I can't even imagine what other content is on TikTok
that you're competing with.
So that's awesome.
I just love that your videos are getting like put into that
as to give some kingdom perspective.
So one thing I think on TikTok,
it is around about a minute is generally
what the cutoff is.
There is a way to go to two or three minutes as well.
Now on Instagram and YouTube,
you cannot go over that 60 seconds.
So it's a good rule of thumb to keep with the 60.
I would try to change things up.
This could be for you,
this could be for anyone else as well.
If you find that you're getting stagnant,
like you're posting the same things,
you're getting the same amount of views,
it's not really changing.
There's two different technical things you could do.
One is you could do one or two just very short videos,
like one could be like,
I know this would be hard,
but like 15 seconds that would be like,
what is quantum healing?
And it could just be like two sentences and then it ends.
So it's like a really short one.
Cause you kind of want to change up the algorithm a little.
So if you do a lot of short ones,
what happens is it's very easy for people
to get a lot of views on that.
And I've seen people do this with like,
yeah and I've seen people do like a seven second video
that's like, just remember that this, this and this, boom.
Like it's just seven seconds and it ends.
Cause it's so short that people will generally watch
the whole thing, which TikTok sees as a good thing
that people are watching your whole video.
They just look at, did they watch your whole video?
If that video is 60 seconds,
it's very unlikely that everybody's watching
to the last second.
But if it's seven to 15 seconds,
again, I don't think you're gonna change it,
but it's more to kind of disrupt the algorithm a little bit
to change it up with a different format.
That's the one thing.
And the other thing you can do
is with one or two of those videos,
just drop something with just a sentence
and not one hashtag.
It's kind of like a reset.
I've seen this work on a few people.
Don't do it all the time, but every now and again,
just kind of like throw one in there with no hashtag at all
and let TikTok just put it in front of whoever they think.
Like an example of this would be,
you would just get on and you would say
quantum healing is for Christians too.
That's like seven seconds.
That's good.
That's what you would say.
Or like someone needs to hear this,
Christian or something like that.
Like if you want to take up seven seconds.
Right, if you want it to be not too short.
Yeah. But that's what it would be.
It would just be, it would be kind of a,
not, it doesn't have to be like super controversial,
but like something that's just like,
this is what they're gonna get
when they come to your channel.
Like it's like a bio line, but it's your video.
Yeah.
And that's a good way to think about it is the bio line.
Just to reuse that.
Yeah, for sure.
Is it, I was thinking you want to have hashtags
that have a lot of views.
Do you want to have a mixture?
You do want to do a mixture.
There's this, so even what we're telling you guys
from January to now, like it's shifted.
So some of the things, you know, about like,
oh, use the biggest hashtags ever.
Okay, now use small ones.
There's so many different strategies going around.
So we're trying to just give you guys a few general ideas.
I would like for newer accounts
where that you're under a thousand followers
or even under 10,000 followers,
I would say like the smaller the hashtag, the better.
So just keep adding to it.
So if it says quantum healing, you know,
try like Christian quantum healing as like one hashtag
and see if that brings it down.
You can still do quantum healing,
but then maybe do also hashtag Christian quantum healing
like next to each other,
just so you could try different things like that.
So it's about positioning and it's about,
especially for those newer accounts,
it's about positioning you in certain categories.
So people who are searching for those categories
are actually like matching your content to that
and saying like, oh, this is answering that question
or whatever.
Like, I wanted to find out more
about Christian quantum healing.
And I came across your video and I watched it.
And you're like, that's helping the algorithm.
The cool thing, this is encouraging.
If you search for Christian quantum healing,
all these videos come up from this person.
Wow.
So you're showing up,
like TikTok knows what your stuff's about,
which is really good.
And all of these are from you, these top like.
Now there may only be like 10,000 people
looking for this every,
but that was just like Christian energy healing.
I mean, even that,
if you look at that like Christian energy healing,
like you're on the top here.
So that should be a little bit encouraging for sure.
Let's just, I think you can go.
So I'm gonna jump back to your account.
Do quantum healing.
I think you could do like, I'm kind of hacking it a little bit
to get, yeah, so this is exactly what I wanted to show.
It's only got 6,000 views.
I said 10,000, so 6,000 views.
Yes, you're like killing it on the,
like you're the only one using that hashtag.
So that's good and it's bad.
Like you're the only one using the hashtag right now.
So you're not really competing with anyone,
but there's only 6,000.
So you kind of want to link it to things
that people are searching for.
So that's just one.
But if you did, what was it?
Energy.
Useful energy.
Yeah.
Energy healing or?
Yeah, try energy healing first.
That's probably big.
Yeah, so it's not a billion yet.
But I just wanted to see if there was anything showing up.
But if you did like Christian energy healing.
So hopefully this is, if everybody else is watching,
like this should be helpful for you.
Just that, so this again, 500 views.
I would never use this hashtag ever.
Yeah, it's too low.
Yeah.
So this should give you guys some ideas.
If you go to tiktok.com, you can go slash tag
and then just put whatever hashtag you want in the top here.
So that's all I'm doing.
I'm going, I'll copy this down here.
So there are also, you know,
So also be thinking about topics that are similar,
but maybe not the same sentence.
So like, OK, when I think about quantum healing, mysticism,
like you might want to start searching for some things
around that, Holly, because you will find people
that are within that, like searching for similar things.
So it might not be the exact like quantum healing
or energy healing, but it might be something
that's like, you know, like, you know,
like, you know, like, you know, like,
it might not be the exact like quantum healing
or energy healing, but think about like realms
that are kind of similar topics around that.
This is for anyone.
So what Lindsay is saying as well,
is you would just come up and this works very well
on the desktop, on the website.
So if you looked up quantum healing, just hit enter,
what you would do is just kind of go around here.
Like this one's got a hundred thousand views,
a hundred thousand views, 77.
This one's got half a million views.
Now this must be the, like,
this could be like the worst information ever.
It could be trash content.
Honestly, it doesn't even matter.
Like, but go in and look at this stuff,
because what you'll do is you'll immediately feel like,
oh, but that's wrong.
Oh, but this like, whatever.
So then make a video with, and all you do is like,
let's say this person has 20,000 views.
I'm not going to play it
because I have no idea what this is about,
but you can see the text here.
And then what hashtags that person's using
and what sound they're using even.
So you could kind of link a video similar to it,
same hashtags, same sound.
And then that way you're kind of competing in that space.
I think Holly somehow left.
That's okay, this was recorded.
So for any of you guys, like this is a way to research,
like your area of expertise, your area of focus.
Like, you know, if it's prophetic dance
or if it's dance in the arts, like candy,
or if it's like peace and anxiety,
like sometimes I'm like,
search for something similar to that.
See what hashtags people are using,
see what language people are using
because you can make videos for popular videos,
not just any videos.
It might be triggering.
Like when I do, when I search that,
I without a doubt always find people
who are talking about how Jesus doesn't always cure anxiety
and you have to learn how to manage it.
And it like, it's triggering.
Cause I'm just like, this is false,
but I know that I, there's people there that need the truth.
So I'm not like getting in their comments and like,
no, I'm not even addressing that.
I'm just making videos and using similar hashtags
and things like that.
So that it's showing up in the same realm.
Yeah. And there's Holly.
So we, I don't know, I think you left,
like maybe got like kicked out and came back in,
but we did record that.
If you want to go back and watch,
we were just kept sharing it.
I didn't even notice you were gone.
Thank you.
My computer just went black.
The battery was charged.
It literally just went black.
No problem.
So the only other thing I wanted to mention
with you, Holly, that I see on everyone's,
almost everyone's accounts is jump straight
into the content.
Like don't pause, like jump straight in.
No lead in, no lead up.
No lead up.
And even like things I'm having to catch myself too.
Like instead of saying like, okay.
And then starting talking, just not even that,
just start talking straight into the content
because that's valuable time that people are scrolling.
On it, like if you're going to get,
I would put 90% of my effort.
And if, you know, as we're creating content,
it's going to take 90% of your time
just to get that first sentence mailed.
And so just look at like,
even if you have a little script
or even your bullet points,
like what's the most interesting thing
you want to share about this?
Try to put that as the first sentence
and then just say that thing.
And then you can backfill and like explain
what you mean by that.
Okay. Okay.
Yeah.
Thank you.
That's really good.
Thank you.
Okay so I know that we're running out of time and this is why we wanted to also use Thursday because
Cool.
we're going to be doing very similar stuff on Thursday. We just want to make sure everyone gets
a check-in with us. So Marion, I don't want to cut you short. I have a hard stop at four.
So if you're willing, do you want to just have Bruce take it or do you want both of us? We can
save you to be first. I could talk to Bruce just one is a techie thing. No problem. All right I'll
see you guys later. Yeah okay. On Thursday. So Bruce, one thing. YouTube shorts. It's lovely
but the music, I cannot, when I get the music to play it cuts off my voice. Okay. How do you do
this? It's too loud or it doesn't? No my voice disappears completely. Okay gotcha. One thing at
a time. Let me bring YouTube up real quick. I'll try to do it real quick.
Okay let me grab.
Okay my phone is deciding to upgrade YouTube so give it just a second.
Yeah there's a couple ways to to add it. Again you can always do the same thing where you take
the TikTok edited version. If again if you get stuck or you don't think you can,
it's being difficult, like just post the TikTok version for now. Well I've posted it because
at least you can write on it. You can do all of that. You just put the music on easily. Yeah so
if I go here I'm going to do a create a short. Yeah. Hey there's me. So let's do this video of
Hannah. It's our demo. Let's go to done and then I'll click add sound and I'll just grab anything.
It's random. Yeah. Hit the blue button. Now there is, it is a little confusing I think
where you get to the sound. Well it doesn't tell you how to lower the sound. It tells you how to
adjust it but I figured out how long it's going to. So okay one thing I would pay attention to
is this little arrow right like the sound the uh 15 seconds. Yeah. So that puts it as a 15 second
or a 60 second. So it will cut you off after 15 seconds if you're if it thinks you're trying to
do a 15 second video. So you just tap on it once and it will switch between those two modes. Yes.
That's one thing and then let's see if I can find. How do you lower the sound? Yeah let's I
think you go I'm going to find it for you. It's still in a record mode. Let's go next. Okay so
that that's it there. So I was I was kind of in a record mode here. I hit the the check mark on
the bottom right and now I'm in. What was how did you get the record mode? That's just I just when I
started to post it. So if I go back. Oh I've never had that happen. Yeah so if I pick a video. Let's
just pick a video here. Yes. And I go to the little white check mark on the bottom right.
Yeah and then it buffers. It's like buff it has a little circle. Yeah. In a circle till it's filled
it in but I don't get that bit you've got at the bottom. Yeah so this is where you would actually
change that like that's if you wanted to swap it. I think you can
hit adjust. You can change the sound. Yeah and you can cut it. Let me just see. I don't know
where the volume is. I will find it timeline. You can do your editing and sorry if I
and I do believe I think I got the very latest version of this but there'll be some sort of
okay I will find out for you on this. A hundred percent you can change the sound. I've done it
on all the other ones. I think yes but then what happens is when I click done
I post it and it plays the music all the way through but my voice has disappeared. Okay yeah
it's just we have to get to the volume setting somehow. Well it's not even the volume because
my voice just. It's the same thing though like there's going to be like a sound editing
thing I have to get to. I'll make you a video right after this. I don't want to spend 10 minutes
just figuring out how to how they've where they've put the button now but it's probably
going to be changed recently. Yeah thank you. So okay. And I also have the same problem with
Instagram. I cannot get sound on it.
Well, I think it's just that I click on the, I click on the music and I click back to the
video on it.
The music isn't there.
Yeah, I'd have to see it.
And maybe if you want to, like, it'd be helpful if I could see what you're seeing.
So if you even, it doesn't have to be now, but maybe Thursday, if you want to have your
phone plugged into your computer, you can actually share your iPhone screen on Zoom.
Yeah.
And then I can see exactly what you're seeing and maybe we can troubleshoot it there.
The YouTube thing, I think I can, I'll find the place for that and see if that's the issue.
But Instagram as well should be pretty straightforward.
Yeah.
And I'll talk to, I'll talk to Lindsay about my channel because I've noticed since I've
been posting every day, my numbers have gone way down.
Okay.
I've only gone up 50 in a whole week.
Yeah.
I mean, your engagement numbers are so-
The engagement is not bad, but-
Not bad.
Yeah.
My, I'm just not getting the numbers anymore.
Yeah.
Looking here.
This is good.
You could experiment with the hashtag, like the smaller hashtags.
Yes.
That's one thing.
Spiritual growth has 127 million.
It's huge.
I'm sure prayer-
Oh, is it?
Okay.
Prayer has a huge one.
Again, these aren't, this isn't like, oh, we'll just change this one thing and it will
fix it.
It's just, this is one other thing to test, like prayer has 8 billion views.
Yeah.
And that, you know, that's a lot of different stuff.
Okay.
But try, so like you did, oh, you did Niyama 8.
Let's look at this.
Yeah.
So that's about a thousand views, 10,000 views.
Yeah.
That was, that was my better one.
So then it's the hashtag that did that.
Yeah.
Okay.
But it's only-
I noticed when I have a scripture, it seems to do better.
Be strong is going to be very generic as well.
Right.
I would say like be strong in the Lord or something like just niche it down a little
bit more than just be strong.
Cause that could be anything with any topic.
Okay.
So these are just things you could, so you could say we're in Christ.
That's got 13,000 still not great.
Be strong in the Lord.
There you go.
Perfect.
Be strong in the Lord.
Between 500 and a million views.
This is nicely stacked right in there.
I would totally switch it to this one.
Be strong in the Lord.
Okay.
Yeah.
So cool.
Just experiment with that.
I would also do what we suggested to Holly as well.
Like do one or two videos where you don't do any hashtags.
Yes.
And maybe then experiment with one or two videos that are very short,
like seven to 15 seconds.
Yeah.
Just to see, cause sometimes it just resets it.
And it kind of gets in a groove.
That's just one thing we've seen do well.
Yeah.
Okay. Thank you.
Really quick. Like the,
this is our little experiment account I'm doing with my brother.
While we're testing things out.
This video got every other videos, a few hundred,
this one got 30,000 views.
And.
The, you can see what happened here.
I don't know what happened on his phone or how this worked, but.
All the, the letters are like off by one. So it's like,
it's got like this T between it. And anyway,
I think the hashtag is basically got messed up.
And so.
Instead of saying notion, it's like notion T notion tips T.
I don't know why it has all this formatting in there, but anyway,
I think just because we did a reset and we,
and it was only 15 seconds long.
It was a short clip.
And basically that the hashtags are basically broken. It didn't.
None of the hashtags did anything. So that was something we've seen.
I've seen a lot of other Tik TOK.
Yeah.
Just experiment with it and see.
Thank you.
Cool. Cool.
Is there any other like tech things I'm happy to stay on?
If you guys have some tech questions, Lindsay,
we'll be back with us on Thursday. We'll both be on again.
We're going to anyone we didn't get to today. We'll,
we'll go through your stuff.
Since you'll have a little bit of a heads up,
you can definitely bring specific questions.
If you have them.
I see a Bobby. Yeah. You had a question.
Just real quick on the tip top.
It says turn on profile and I didn't want to turn something on and it
was something like.
There's a little.
Icon guy up there.
It says people can view, or you can view, or on TikTok.
On the app, or on the website, or?
When I'm actually in the app.
I'm so sorry, I should have had it pulled up.
That's fine.
Let me see.
Was it making it a public profile?
You know, I don't know.
Gosh, see, I'm so, I can't even.
OK, so it's, maybe it's when I push the buttons.
Let me see here.
Geez, I can't find it now.
But before, when I would click on it, it would be like, let me see.
Oh, this is it right here, Bruce.
I'm sorry.
Can you see that?
Hang on, let me make you really big.
Turn on profile view history.
Yeah, I would turn that on.
What it's going to do, that's a great question.
So if you see the profile view, you can actually
see who is visiting your TikTok page.
And so it does, it basically tracks the history
of anyone who comes to your page.
It doesn't, you can't really do anything with it,
but it's interesting to see that, oh, 10 people saw my profile,
or 100 people saw the profile.
Because getting people to your profile page
is one of the calls to action, I guess, for TikTok.
Like, yes, you want views.
Yes, you want people to comment and like and be encouraged.
But you really want them to obviously follow you.
But especially if you can get them to your profile
and see all of your content, then they go to another video of yours.
That's a great spot.
Or go from your profile to the link that you'll have.
Once you pass 1,000 followers, you can add a link
to go to YouTube or to some other place.
Because TikTok's a great gathering place,
but you do need to send them somewhere.
So those profile views, it's just another stat
that they'll track so you can kind of see who's watching,
who's coming to your profile.
OK, and then I know on Instagram, we put episodes.
Is it OK on the description part, just for our own use,
if we do keep the episodes on the first part, or do you want?
Because I think I did that wrong.
And I think I've got the hashtag messed up, too.
So I'm going to work on that.
And then I also messed up, I would say,
reading from my book, Arranged Marriage.
So I cut that out now.
And I'm just writing that somewhere else.
But so I have a lot of things that I already know I need to change.
But what do you think about the episode thing?
Is that OK just for my own organization or no?
Yeah, I think so.
I'll bring up your account here.
Yeah, so the only thing I would do is instead of putting it,
because I'm sure this Instagram is the same,
but instead of putting it as the first thing,
you have such a small space to try and get people, get their attention.
Just start with the cure.
And then what you can do is at the end, like in a or you could just
you could do like at the end, you could do in parentheses just EPS
or something, you know, six.
So it's like people just kind of see that it's episode six.
If it's just for you, like I would just move it further down.
But the most the first things on the page are going to be the most important.
The first text you put is going to be the most important.
It sort of dies away after that.
I would also change your OK, you did.
You've got Bobby's. That's perfect.
I think my thing is really give God's breath away, but it wouldn't fit.
And yeah, it's too much.
Yeah, this season is really I'm just reading through little clips of.
You know, my book, so OK, and then do you have time for one more short question?
Sure. And I just want to point this out, if anyone does have a book,
I know we have a couple authors and this is I saw this.
I was like, that's very creative.
And I just wanted to point it out.
It's particular some of them.
You place the book just very well, so you could see that cover there
and you could it's very obvious that you're like reading from a book.
So this was very creative.
And if you guys are doing books, this is a great
concept. So I would say you should copy.
Copy what Bobby's doing.
Yeah. And Holy Spirit gave me that idea.
So you can get that little standard see through on Amazon.
If there is anyone else who'd like to maybe use that same format.
Yeah, that was great.
Awesome. That was good because that really gave me peace.
And along with notion, Bruce, thank you so much that
that really notion helped me because I it just.
did. And I thank you for that. I mean, it was really good. And
then the only other thing is, I take my Instagram, and I just
push the link, and then I put it on my Facebook page. But that
just doesn't really go anywhere. But I haven't used that page. I,
my first book was got appointment. So it was more
active way back then. And then I just, I just kind of went away
for a while. So is there anything? I mean, it's like 12
views, three views. So I got is the page dead, or I don't really
want it on my regular Facebook. But I don't know how it would
get in the mix. If it's just on my page.
I'll, um, I want to show how to do this. I don't have the the
Instagram app here in front of me. But basically you want you
Facebook, you can now upload reels directly to Facebook. So
the video you're posting to Instagram, you can actually post
the video directly to Facebook. So instead of sharing a link to
the post on Instagram, you can actually take the real as is on
Instagram and just share that directly to the Facebook page.
You just need to make sure that your Instagram account and your
Facebook page are connected. So I don't know if you have that
connected or not.
I did, but when it asked me an Instagram, if I want to share it
on my God appointments page, I when I do, yes, it won't let me
transfer it with no audio. So it's only like, it's like lip
syncing. It's not, there's no music, no voice, nothing. So I
didn't know, but you don't have to spend time on it. Now.
That's fine.
Yeah, I'll try to, I know, that's gonna be a question. So
Facebook was kind of a throw, like, we just didn't even talk
about it in previous intensives. It was just for like uploading
long form. And so now, like, since then, it's kind of shifted
to where Facebook pages have actually gotten a lot more
traction, and they're doing a lot to kind of revive Facebook
pages using reels. So we probably need to do like a whole
training on that. But it sounds like you have them connected,
which is good. If you have a specific, like, if you get to
that screen, where it's like, you said the music is going away.
If you go to the Facebook app, and I think I can show this to
you here, actually, I do have this. So if I go to pages, let
me just try to find one that I can just test real quick. And
you go to the, this is the Facebook app on my phone. Just
go to Kingdom Messenger. And so you'll see over here, there's
actually a reel button. Oops, we get back to it. Yeah, so
there's a reel tag right here. I'm doing two things that let's
go. It doesn't matter where.
I'm gonna go to Minecraft.
Yeah, so let me get back to, I just tapped out of it. There we
go in Kingdom Messenger. And then there's the reel. So if I
tap on reel, I'm going to get kind of a similar editor like I
can on Instagram. So if I went to a video, so I'm just going to
grab like a random video, this is the one of the day. Now I can
just add the audio again, here. And I can mix it, I can add
different music, whatever I want to do here can be added there.
So no one, no one saw anything I just did, because they're just
looking at Hannah. The point is, they go to Facebook page,
you can go to, you can hit the reel button. And then just the
same way you would build it and then post it to Instagram, you
can read edit it again and post it into your Facebook page.
Okay, and with that, what would be the difference just real
quick, because I found it super easy to hit the little buttons
and then just hit copy link, then I just go right into my
page and under post, I just post it. But that's, I'm not
really doing it through their system. And right, so it's not
getting traction or something.
It's out. So try it both ways, like try it, uploading the video
directly, it is very nice to go from Instagram, you can, I don't
know why it's not set up quite yet for you, you should be able
to just share it immediately. And it just goes when you do
Instagram, it shares it to Facebook. If it the audio is
getting messed up, whatever reason, just post it again.
Should be should be fine. Just test it and see which one gets
more views for you. And then go with that plan.
Yeah, because I don't even see real on my, well, we can look at
this later. I don't mind this.
Are you on your Facebook page? Or are you on a Facebook like
personal? I'm on the page, but I might not be doing something correctly. It almost looks like
I need to do something. I'm not sure. But we can, I can, I'll just keep messing around with it. I
don't see Reels or anything on mine. So you can, can you click create a post? Yes, like,
um, okay, I'm on my home page. I don't know if you probably can't see that. If I get,
I have to hit post. So at the very top, this should be like a place where you can post
as the page. And it should have like, that's where I'm seeing photo create story or a reel.
Yeah, it says home post videos, photos about maybe mine's something old. I don't know.
Yeah, it could be. Sometimes they're just a little different, but yeah,
you should see something kind of like this, um, like right under, so you have that little
like horizontally scroll home groups, jobs, events, whatever photos. Um, then there should
be something like this that lets you like post it. Mine just says write something. It doesn't
really give me those. I it's mine is maybe mine's just so old. I mean, I've had this as like 2009,
this page, and I haven't done it. It's probably not the page could be like, you can make sure
you're on the latest version of the Facebook app as well. Um, but we can take a look at it. Yeah.
If you want to have it on Thursday, we could take a look at it. Um, just so we can see your screen.
I used to be no maintenance, but I turned into very high maintenance.
All that happens is when you start posting, that's when everybody gets questions. Everything's fine.
No one's got questions until you're like doing the work. Then you're like, I have a million
questions. Um, I see Susie's got her hand. We'll go quick and then we'll.
Yeah, I'm, um, on my tick tock, and I'm trying to see how can I post, um, what a link or whatever
when I go when I do post and I've got it on camera to the right, it just says upload. And when I put
upload, that just gives me my photos. It doesn't mean like, yeah, a link. Oh, what do you mean by
a link? Well, um, okay. If I put it on Descript, wouldn't Descript then give me what the URL or
something, whatever that is. So you'd have to export the video from Descript to, to be a video
file. Okay. And then you'll probably need to move that to for you to be for, to iCloud. And then
iCloud, you would open it. You do need to then save the, go to the files app on your phone,
find the video and then save it to your, what they call like your camera roll,
or save it from there. Um, then it should show up in that where all your photos are.
Okay. So I don't actually have like an address or link or something. It goes to photos.
Yeah. It's going to go to the photos. It's going to show all the photos and videos on your phone.
So you basically have to get the edited video from Descript all the way through into that,
that screen. Um, what that would look like is there's an app called files. So this is like
a video from Lindsay and we would just hit this bottom left little arrow. And then there's a thing
here that says save video. Okay. So right here I would hit save. And now if I went over to TikTok
or I went to YouTube or wherever, and I, it would show me, I'll do YouTube for example,
since we had that. Oh, there I am. Uh, let's get out of here. Short.
Um, should be in here now. It's probably going to put it in order of like by date,
but that's, and I won't go through all my photos right now, but that's where it would go.
Your ad is on the left-hand side and I don't have that. I just have upload on the right-hand
side at the bottom. Are you in the video? Did you open the video?
Um, no, I, I, okay. If I do it too, I hit plus. And so I assume that's where I'm making a new one.
Are you on TikTok or? TikTok. Okay. So you're in the cloud drive.
Yeah. So first you just need to get your video saved to your camera. It sounds like. Okay. I
would find the video somehow there. You'll have to open it like this to where it's,
it's like you can hit the play button. Um, and then from there you should have the little thing
on the bottom left to save it.
Okay, and what I'm looking, I can't really see what I'm looking at there on your camera.
That's my photos section.
This is the file.
So if you search, there's an app on your files, yeah, called files.
You click files, and then that's where you would get to that, all those videos.
So that's just getting it from Descript, you'd have to save it to iCloud, and you have to
go to files here, open it from there.
So it definitely adds complexity to add Descript.
So if this is like, overly complicated, then I would just edit it on your phone.
Okay.
But that's kind of it sounds like that's what the problem is, it's it's the files are sitting
on iCloud, but they're not in your camera roll just yet.
Right?
Okay.
So meanwhile, I'll just keep doing TikTok until I'm doing it regularly, and then we'll
do this.
Okay, great.
Thank you.
No problem.
And when it works, like you should see all of your photos, like it should all those videos
are going to be showing up in your photos app.
So they'll get to them from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, you'll be able to get to them from
any of those apps.
Okay.
Cool.
Okay.
So anyone else that had like a quick tech question or anything, we got a few more minutes,
I'm happy to hang out for a second.
So I want you guys to leave if you had problems, as we're Yeah, Amy, you had a quick question.
Oh, sorry, I tried to unmute.
If I am searching for hashtags on TikTok, doing a search for those, because I think
I fall into that category where I'm not doing, I'm not being strategic with my hashtags.
And so how do I search that?
Can I do that from my app on the phone?
Or
you can do it on the phone, there's a search option, you can just search for that.
What I like about computer option here, and you're just going to go to TikTok.com slash
tag slash and then you write whatever tag you want.
So you can say like, Christian podcast, and then it will tell you how many views you're
getting for that.
And then you can also look and see, there's just a lot of information here, which I feel
like you can't see as much information on the on the TikTok app.
But I can quickly see how many views they've had, and what the engagement's been like.
And so if there's something that's related to my niche, I could click into it and see
what, you know, I can actually go watch that video and see what other hashtags that person's
using.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah.
So I'll just, I'll get on my computer and do that.
Yeah.
And you'd have to do this every time you post, but it's just, it's something, it's kind of
like a research project to go and see what gives you some ideas of which hashtags use
once you kind of find your hashtags, you can just keep using those over and over again.
But definitely something to do every so often, just check in again, see which hashtags are
working.
Well, I feel like I, because what I do is I'll do my, my title, you know, in my, in
my notes, and in my hashtags, and then I'll, then I just copy and paste.
And so basically, I'm using the same hashtags, and maybe I need to more individualized for
the different platforms, do you think?
Yeah.
So yes, I would do them.
Generally, you want to kind of do the hashtags for whichever platform, like, kind of go to
the same process on each, generally, yes, it's going to be the same one.
Here's things I would avoid, like, so what's cool, here's, I can also just tap on this
hashtag, and it does a quick search for me.
And you're the only video that has this hashtag.
So I would not use that.
Yeah.
Because that's, you're not basically, you're just, it's doesn't, it's not doing anything
for you.
But good decisions, you know, 14 million, it's not too bad.
Maybe like God decisions would be, would be interesting to see if that is different, or
so I could go up to the top here and just change it instead of good, I could do God
and do a search here.
Okay, there's only 600 views.
So that's quickly can tell you don't use that hashtag either.
So, again, I'm just taking guesses at stuff, but like, more than you could ask or imagine,
same, same problem there.
Be filled with God's love.
Yeah, same thing.
Um, yeah, so a lot of these, you could probably, but daily devotional 28 million.
I think there's one called Bible study, which has like a few billion.
I thought someone else using, um, I would try without this text.
They don't really like you putting links in a description.
Um, I don't know how that got in there.
Okay.
Yeah.
It could have just been copied from somewhere, but, um, God's love will
change you.
Yeah.
You just clicked on that one.
Um, so basically what you're doing is you have a lot of hashtags that only you
are using, so it's not, yeah, I'm not good.
Yeah.
So this one, even like, so let me just, let me just use an example
because everybody's using scriptures.
So instead of Ephesians V 19, let's try like just Ephesians three.
I know that's like a specific verse, but at least this has
a hundred thousand views on this one.
It's not as specific, but generally like probably going to be fine.
Or was it nine 19?
What was it?
Yes, I think so.
19.
Yeah.
So just take the V out, I think would work.
So 319 1500 views, so not that much better, but, um, just kind of
experimented with it like this.
So typically a chapter is where I'm getting to is a chapter is better.
It's a book chapter to take the verse off.
At least we're in a bunch of other content that's getting traction and it
will help you rather than hurt you.
Um, cause you, you want to give TicTac the best chance at getting
people, uh, getting views for you.
Um, and if you do something that only you're hashtagging, they don't
feel like they can be successful because they're like, oh, but she's
the only one who's talking about this one very niche topic.
So then they get stuck and they don't know who to show your content
to, since you're the only one.
But if you use a hashtag and there's like, oh, there's, you know, 100,000
people are using that hashtag.
It now has a hundred thousand people of, you can, it basically a niche
down to get you a bunch of new people.
Um, so it makes a huge difference, these little tweaks.
Okay.
I mean, that helps me cause it's not something that I've known how to
look into or research or anything.
So this helps.
I will do that before I put up any more videos.
No, it's, it's, it's good.
And I mean, again, you have a good size following, so it's working.
So, you know, uh, which is like, how do we keep growing it bigger and bigger?
So you're not like you're doing anything wrong.
It's just that there's probably some, um, some new ways to get
even more views and scale it up.
And I've seen my views kind of flatten out a little bit and lower since I, I
mean, if I went back since I started doing the copy paste, uh, and all the
same hashtags on everything.
Okay.
Um, and I think, you know, that's probably explains a little bit.
It could, yeah, it could be, um, that it, but it could be that you're using
a, like if you were copying, pasting a batch of hashtags that no one was really
using, you were just making the problem exponentially worse.
But that's good.
These are little, these are small things to change.
And I would try, if you have a video that you feel really good about, like this
one's got 3,500 views, maybe one of these that has like 400 or, you know, some are
lower, like just repost it with different hashtags, um, with the higher views.
You mean?
Yeah, sorry.
So this one, I was just kind of comparing them.
Like this one's very low, 395 in comparison to others.
So I would just repost this if you want and just try a bunch of hashtags on it.
Um, and just see if that helps with like the same thing, Isaiah 43 V2.
Okay.
That does have some, um, but you kind of go through it, like check all your
hashtags, repost it, and just see if you get a bunch of more views the second time.
Okay.
That's so helpful.
Yeah, I'll do it.
Good.
You don't have to go film anything.
You could literally just edit it and send it out again.
Yes.
Okay.
Thank you.
No problem.
Okay guys.
Um, we'll, we'll be back on Thursday.
We'll do more of this kind of check-in stuff.
I think it's helpful, especially you see other people kind of what we're talking
about, um, and hopefully you guys are starting to see some patterns and stuff.
All right.
Okay, cool.
We'll talk to you guys on Thursday.
See ya.