I would love to hear I know we we didn't really get to check in with anyone on Friday, Tuesday, because we had Graham we kind of want to just give as much time as possible, but would love to hear just any wins from the week, or if you have just any aha moments
from Tuesday.
Just feel free you can just unmute yourself we'll just share a bit, and then we'll jump into it, while people are hopping on.
I'm going to have someone else go first but I have an aha from Tuesday. Anyone else before I go.
Okay, I'm gonna go really quick. For me, it was the staying fresh. I think in this you know, especially as for those that might not be so techie, you know you might have some days where you're like frustrated about you know certain things and I loved
just mentioning about each and every day, we can remain fresh, even in the midst of the tech going wrong or this or that or the other so that was an aha for me.
Awesome.
Sweet.
Any other wins. Yeah, candy. I can go. I had the same aha.
I've been applying kind of what Graham cook was talking about, and just like going to bed and being like all right Lord. Is there anything about today that we need to, you know, be done with removing to tomorrow, and then waking up in the morning and just
my first thoughts are like he talked about that too. So, and the Lord's been using my first thoughts to kind of minister to me throughout the day so that was good. Also, I'm finally at a point where I'm posting my shorts every day.
So, at least on tik tok and Instagram so I finally feel like I'm getting the flow a flow with that so that's a big one for me. Awesome.
That's great. Very cool.
See like one or two more, and we'll jump into it.
See I see Walter jumped on Hey Marcella shows here Holly.
Probably awesome.
And I see Steve's on here.
Yeah, I had a bit of a win this morning I just wanted to just share it's kind of a simple one but
I woke up this morning, and didn't even really.
I was tired I just want to sleep in those I don't even know what to do a video on.
I didn't have any in the pipeline and just kind of woke up feeling blonde man.
And I was just sitting there thinking and I just started declaring God's Word over, over the day over my feelings over just everything that's going on.
And that took me to Romans 837, and that basically became my video.
So, I felt like the Lord tell me, you know, do this video and you'll do it in one day, and I did it and I did it in one day.
And it was, it was like one of my best videos I did.
And so that was just a big win for me.
Nice. Awesome.
Very cool.
Well, we'll jump into it today we're going to just like got two kind of things, I wanted to just talk briefly about some of the tick tock changes that have been happening.
Even in the last couple of weeks. And so just some ways to optimize for tick tock and then one thing I would love to see is I think I've been helping people, even just one on one with some of this and even just how we've done our own content.
We are kind of re editing videos I think we've talked about that a lot about how to like re edit bring a hook, you know, into a different place in the video or take something that you posted that worked really well just re edit it and post it again.
You can get a lot of leverage out of existing content so what I was going to do is I reached out on Facebook I think Joe was the only one who responded but if you have a video you'd like me to edit.
I would love to go over to cam TV, just to the eight week group, and just maybe upload the video file there just in the discussion tab. I'll try to do like one or two today.
Just to show you guys how it can how if, if I was posting your content, what like how I would edit it, which I think would be good just to show some examples.
Yeah, and Steve if you're looking for the raise the button there's like a reactions button, and you can.
You can also just unmute yourself because there's only 10 of us so and just jump in if you have something.
And I think. Yeah, good.
Awesome. So, first thing I want to talk about some of the tick tock algorithms and so this stuff changes all the time so this is just something that's kind of in the last couple weeks, I'm just using kind of recent.
Some recent things that I've seen from different people that I'm following. I just wanted to help break down.
your videos are taking longer to get views,
or maybe you're posting them
and you're only seeing like a few hundred views
and then that kind of just either dies away.
Whereas in previous months,
you could post something and just immediately
you could get to a few thousand views very quickly
within 24 hours.
What they're doing now
is TikTok is testing your content constantly.
So what it does is it like,
you post the video and it goes and grabs,
like I think, I don't know the exact numbers,
but it's a certain percentage of your audience.
They'll go show it to that many people
and they'll kind of see how those people respond to it.
And if those people watch all the content
and they like it and they comment and they engage,
then they'll show it to more.
And they test it with like,
so they do these different like concentric circles
of people closer and closer.
So they start with people that are either following you
or already are engaging with your content.
And they'll kind of test it with that to see like,
okay, this person already likes Holly's content.
So we'll show that person her content again
and just see if they like it
or if it doesn't really work with them.
So they're looking at a couple of metrics,
like how long is this viewer watching it first of all,
and what percentage of the video?
So if you do a short 15 second video,
like there's a good chance someone's gonna watch
80 or 90% of it.
If you do a three minute video or a,
and you can have some people,
you can even upload as much as a 10 minute video.
It's very difficult to get people to watch
kind of 80% of that,
cause it's just so much longer.
So these are just things to kind of be thinking about
as you are testing or experimenting
with different types of content.
Definitely experiment with some short content,
like under 30 seconds, under 15 seconds,
just to kind of reset the algorithm as well.
So the viewer time, the number of views is important,
but it's not the most important.
It's not just that many people saw it,
it's how long people actually watched the video.
And then also engagement always is a key metric.
Who's watching the video, liking and commenting.
And so one thing I would love to encourage
even our own community,
and I've been a little bit more aware of this,
is when I get on TikTok,
I actually see a lot of your guys' content all over TikTok.
So now when a video from Walter comes up or Joe,
sometimes I'm just like, oh, that's great.
I'm so encouraged.
I double tap it, like it,
and then I just like scroll to the next one.
Or if I've already seen it from you guys,
but now what I'll do is I'll actually sit there
and let it play.
And sometimes I'll just let it play through twice.
I'll just like, even if I put my phone down for a second,
because what that, it could actually hurt,
we can actually, even though we kind of see each other's
stuff and we know each other's content already,
or we've seen that video before,
sometimes you can just be like,
I'll just like it really quick
and I'll move to the next thing.
It could actually be more,
because it'll show that you watched it
for two or three seconds, liked it,
and then jumped off the video.
And that actually is less helpful
than if you didn't do anything with it.
So just a little something
that's not gonna make a huge difference,
but I have been more aware of it now.
So just letting videos play at least till that 80, 90%
before you jump to the next thing.
So that's the one thing was just that it's gonna be slower
and just kind of how they've changed this.
They also are doing a lot more emphasis on brand content.
So if you've seen like,
I'm getting more and more ads in TikTok.
And so they're trying to reach out to brands
and make sure that brands are really relevant.
And they're very much like pushing away from anything
to where it's like entertainment.
Because typically it was like,
TikTok started, it was like dance videos
and just funny memes and things like that.
It was just purely entertainment.
Now they're calling it like edutainment
or something like that.
So it's like educational entertainment.
But it's also very clear.
It's not necessarily just straight education.
Now this is just TikTok as a whole.
You can do whatever you want to
as far as what your content looks like.
I'm just kind of sharing like some of what their,
the shift has been away from
this sort of just purely entertainment
to they're very much like trying to value
like people that are actually educating.
And especially if you can make it entertaining
and educational, that's kind of the best of both.
So I don't think you guys need to go
like try to be a comedian or make it super funny
or anything like that.
But just something to think about
is kind of what they're looking for.
So that's good.
So any, we'll just pause for a second.
I'd love to hear any thoughts or feedback from people
and then we'll jump into some of the editing
here in a minute.
Anything else that you guys have seen as well
even in your own accounts, I'd love to hear.
For me, I noticed the change in the views as well.
So it's interesting.
You're kind of shedding that light as to why it changed.
and, you know, to even it feels like a lesser amount of views.
So thank you for, you know, bringing that shedding that
light on that.
Yeah, that's what I was gonna say also, that I'm saying that,
at first, I would get 1000 at one moment, and now I'm down to
74.
What did I do wrong?
Yeah, so thank you.
Yeah, and again, it's something that you're doing wrong.
That's why I wanted to let people know, like, if you're
like, Oh, man, am I using the wrong hashtags? I know you guys
are experimenting with a lot of different things constantly.
Just one thing to be aware of that that's happening right now.
So cool.
Who's on here?
There you go. Go for it.
Okay, you know, I am. I've been watching it for quite a while
now. And of course, my videos are usually a minute and a half
or two minutes because I play I sing song and I talk a little
bit and I was getting a little discouraged after about six or
seven months. And you know, things were it was going down my
my things that usually would have brought in three or 4000
views were bringing in three or 400. And I started wondering,
what am I doing wrong? Or? And so then one day, I just prayed
to God, God, I don't mind being a one hit wonder. You know,
everybody complains about being one. I said, God, I'll be happy
if I'm a one hit wonder, just give me one hit. And not very
long after that, I had one go viral, you know, and I don't
know why it did. Or I bet it just, it popped. It is no
different than anything else I've done. Yeah. So I think it's
it's very hard to understand. I've stopped trying to
understand it. And that Bruce, I'll let Bruce understand it.
Yeah. And I was just gonna say, too, is that, um, well, first of
all, I've been really enjoying the content. And sometimes, you
know, you don't realize that among the kingdom messengers,
there's some super good stuff. And I, I've really enjoyed the
content. And I'm that one person. And that's what the Lord
when I first got more enthused, he's always been enthused about
this from the time I signed up with Bruce and Lindsay. And to
the point, I thought, geez, maybe I wasn't supposed to do
this. But he said, Yes, yes, you are. I'm like, Oh, I'm not doing
anything more. Okay, you're supposed to do it. And so the
numbers, Jesus said to me, he said, Bobby, do you want to hear
what my father told me? And I'm like, Yes, Lord, I do. And he
said he had very few followers. And that was just it. And so I
know sometimes, and this is how the enemy works. And he gets us
all all these numbers, numbers, numbers, numbers. And then now
you kind of see they're starting to come back. But I'm just
telling you, it's a blessing. And he keeps telling me, yes, we
can be creative with the numbers and the wisdom that you and
Bruce Lindsay have amazing. And we need to listen to that. But
it's just like when we pray for someone, he says, Bobby, don't
even look through results, just say what I say, and it is done.
And so I just say, I'm more excited with less numbers,
because I, I keep, I every time I get someone that even likes
it, I say, Lord, you got another like, or someone follows, I'm
like, Oh, Lord, someone else is following you. And so we can
just take ourselves out of the equation. And it's been so
sweet. So Steve, I appreciate your comment. And yeah, you
know, he always spoke to the one. And so even if we have a
million followers, or people on our channel, it might still just
speak to the one so it can be so deceptive, the numbers. So
yeah, no, that's, that's really good. I love that. And I think
part of it is like, I think what we're trying to figure out as
well as there are so many different aspects to how the
algorithm and how it works and stuff. So I just want to, while
we're in this sort of intensive in this experimentation, and
we're trying to post daily with all this, all on all these
platforms, it's just worth don't like pay attention to the
views, but don't pay, that's not the only thing to pay attention
to. Because you may see something where you're getting a
lot of not as many views, but like engagements very high. Or
maybe it was just a really good piece of content, but maybe like
your hook was in the wrong place, or hashtag
Views were wrong.
So it's things that did nothing to do with your content.
It's just more about how you delivered that content.
Um, and so what's great about, especially with Tik TOK is it's very, um, it's
kind of like a shotgun approach that you can just keep posting the same video
with different edited different ways and see if one of those takes and one of
those kind of, uh, you know, gets more views, but just be aware that it may
take a couple of days now to start to see that same amount of traffic coming in.
Whereas before you used to, you know, get a few hundred views in the first few
hours, and then maybe it's a thousand within the first 24 hours, they've really
slowed it down and they're kind of experimenting a little bit slower with
the content, um, is also, yeah, Marcella, I see you got your hand.
Yeah.
So I just, I did, you know, thank you for talking about that.
Um, I've been trying to be more consistent and I'm kind of just
getting out the gate really well.
Um, I think what I wanted to say was kind of what Bobby was saying.
I was kind of too praying about it because, you know, if I could,
you know, I'm just transparent.
I don't, I don't know any other way to be, but just talk about me.
So I have this competitive thing.
Like I'm not, I'm not a great, um, I love to play games, but
I'm not, I'm not a great loser.
So, you know, and I don't mean it in like I'm harsh or, you know, I act a nut or I'm
not that right.
I have some class about myself.
However, when we talk about numbers, you know, there's this thing, you know,
that, that, you know, clinical statistical stats, all that I'm into the numbers.
And so I had to, for me, I had to say, Marcella, this is not what you come to do.
And so, uh, for a minute, I'm just being honest, confession is good for the soul.
And so I didn't want to come on tech Tuesday because I know Bruce is all about
the numbers and I did not want to hear anything in regards to numbers.
So the last couple of weeks, I kind of, you know, stepped back and then I watched
the replay so that I could just not have all of that going on in my head and to
kind of just get, you know, again, you know, thank God for, you know, God bless
you all just the open door to Graham and just, this is a whole new world to me.
And that brought clarity.
And, um, I just said, Lord, I'm here as, as, um, not just obedience.
This is where he has said, you know, like he said, and I don't mean to go random,
but I just, I can hear it.
He gave me the scripture in Genesis about Abraham leaving his family, leaving his
kindred, leaving everything he knew behind to go where he was taking him.
You Bruce and Bruce and Lindsay, you know, I told you this before.
It is through you that God is leading me somewhere.
I have never been before.
I've never imagined being here.
So I am being careful in this moment to understand that.
Yes, numbers are important.
We need them.
They do give us good information, but for me, it is in this walk.
It is in this journey.
It is a becoming and being obedient to the tech and learning all
the things that you're giving us.
So I told myself, Marcella, it's great.
I've seen the numbers.
I said, the good thing is you got a number, you got a number.
Like if it's just one, like you got numbers.
So we, you know, I didn't want to, I had to release myself from the comparison thing.
I realized that was a trick of the enemy.
I am a part of this group that you all are my family.
You all have cared for me.
And so I want to represent well, it's not about speed.
It's not about competition.
So all of those things.
So I just wanted to say that, that, that it's important that my voice
represent what Jesus wants me to and represent kingdom in a good way.
So there I am.
No, thanks for sharing that.
Yeah, that's exciting.
I mean, it is, it is very much the becoming.
It is the journey of being a kingdom messenger.
And I don't, I don't think, you know, it's that we're just working together
in this kind of eight week intensive or however many months you guys have been in
here but it's not it's not something that like, this is a lifestyle, like we're
trying to build more of a lifestyle of, okay, I am a creator, I'm a kingdom
messenger and, and trying to change.
If you can just change your identity, this has been something that's very
powerful.
Anytime you're trying to introduce a new habit into your life, if you, if
you've read atomic habits, I know we quote that before, but they did a study
where like you said, the difference between someone changing their identity
first to say someone, I think the example they gave is like, if there's someone
who's.
who's smoking, he has a bad habit, who's trying to quit.
If someone says, oh, like, would you like a cigarette?
He says, oh no, you know, no, I'm trying to quit.
Like he tells the person I'm trying to quit.
And the other person says, oh no, I'm not a smoker.
Like, so he's changed his identity
and so it's easier to say no.
So it's the same, it's kind of a negative version of this.
But if you change your mindset to,
hey, I'm gonna be a kingdom messenger, I'm a creator,
it's actually changing your identity first.
And then you can do, because it could look on,
it looks be something on TikTok,
it could be a course you make,
it could be a book you write,
it could be a sermon you preach on a Sunday morning.
It's just something that shifts in your identity
so that when you do get on these platforms
or you're talking with someone one-on-one,
whatever the context is, you're kind of treating it like,
hey, I'm bringing kingdom to earth in this moment.
It may be a one-on-one coffee conversation.
It could be, you know, you could be writing a book,
you could be doing a TikTok.
It's so many different ways for you to communicate,
especially in today, there's just sort of an,
almost an infinite amount of ways
to get your message out there.
But it really just comes to being,
and even when you tackle it,
I think when the test for this for me
is like when things get difficult,
when I'm stuck with the tech,
when I'm trying to post the video
and it's not working at all,
and TikTok's not doing what it's supposed to do,
that's when you have to kind of shift that.
I'd be like, okay, this is something
that Lindsay and I say to each other all the time.
Like when things are tough or we're like,
hey, I was born for this.
Like we always say that, like I was born for this.
Like I was born to do this type of thing.
Like, yeah, it's a little crazy, it's a little whatever,
but like the Lord made me
so that we can do this type of thing,
whether it's like launching something new,
you know, putting something new out into the world,
or it's just a busy season
where we're doing a lot of different things
and, you know, juggling all that.
We're like, hey, we were actually born
to do all the things that Lord's called us to do right now.
And so if you know, like, hey,
I was born to be a kingdom messenger.
Like, so yeah, I may have some tech issues right now,
but I'm born to be a kingdom messenger.
So somehow Lord's gonna like teach me how to do this,
or I'm gonna get a supernatural download,
or I'll figure out the right question to ask,
you know, in the next coaching session.
But really that's good.
I think that's a huge thing.
So thanks for bringing that up, Marcella.
So I see Susie's got your hand raised.
I really appreciate that, Bruce.
And I think for me too,
it really helps me to say this wasn't my idea.
You know, this was not my idea.
Lord did this, and this is his thing,
and I'm gonna be doing it with him.
I also, Marcella, just to add on to you,
there have been a number of times
like getting my teaching credential,
and another time that comes to my mind,
when I had to say to myself,
I am not gonna do my best effort.
I'm gonna do, in fact,
oh, I had to do an evening program in a national park.
Woo-hoo.
I told my supervisor,
I was not going to do an excellent job.
I was going to do a mediate.
He said, you've got to do this evening slideshow.
I didn't know what to do.
I said, okay, but I'm doing a mediocre one.
And he knew me well enough to say,
okay, you do a mediocre one.
And it turned out to be really,
I've got compliments on it.
It was good, but I had to set out that way.
When I got my teaching credential,
I set out to get a B.
I got an A, but I had to set out to get a B.
And I'm finding that with these,
my problem is getting them posted every day.
And yes, a big part of that is
the Lord's doing a big download in me,
and it's got to be in me first for me to say it well.
And I'm just doing serious on that right now.
But I'm also realizing that I've got to,
I've got to post a mediocre TikTok every day
and trust the Lord for, you know, I did.
The one that got 4,000 views was a mediocre one
posted in the afternoon.
So that's up to God.
The other thing I would like to address is I drop off.
I mean, I have a serious drop
during that four second hook time.
And I'm wondering, okay, is it that I have a bad hook
or that I am presenting what I'm going to do
and most people aren't interested?
Because, you know, a lot of the one that,
anyway, a lot of them do stay pretty high retention
after that four second.
Awesome.
Yeah.
And if you have a video,
like I see some of these videos on yours
have about 28% engagement, but just a few hundred views.
So if there was one.
that you wanted to experiment with.
If you wanted to share that with us here,
I'd be happy to edit it as well.
We can try and get to that as well.
I'm gonna try to do it on the,
like do it live for you guys and see.
I haven't seen these before, so.
But I know there's one, like this one that you did
that said, let me just share my screen.
Here, God made us, this one here.
And that's only 25 seconds.
It's probably one of the reasons it did well,
but it has like a 28% engagement, which is really good.
And, but if there's one that you know that you posted,
like this one's got 4,300, that's awesome.
I would actually take this one.
And it's got 4,300, but only 11%.
So that's actually a good sign.
There's a lot of people that saw it,
but it doesn't, maybe didn't translate
to a lot of people engaging or sticking to the end.
Let's just see how, that's 52 minutes.
So we could try to edit this one
and I would try to repost it.
I would always go back to like your top content here.
Anything that's got over a thousand views here,
excuse me, like I would go back and repost and try that,
like edit it a little bit differently
and just see, or try a different hashtags.
There's nothing to lose with that
by just reposting your stuff.
So that one that had 1,028 with the scarf on,
that was my origin story.
So I spend a lot of time on that.
And that one had 33% people watching it at the end.
It was tight and good, you know, took longer.
But just, I'm five seconds into it
and I can already tell you the music's too loud.
Yeah, I think that was one of the first ones I posted.
Yeah.
So that's like, this could have,
so I would definitely post this one again
because, and just try it like with even just changing
the music to a different, something else,
or just making it much, much softer.
And then you could try like, you could try even re-editing.
So this one you could post,
if this, especially if this is your origin story
and Lindsey, if you guys haven't done your origin story,
she's gonna be talking about that next week,
next Thursday actually.
And so, but yeah, if this is your origin story,
like I would post it every couple of weeks, right?
Like just try it different ways
because it is like the core message.
It's kind of your testimony.
It's kind of why you're doing this.
It's like, it gives people a great idea
of what to expect from you if they follow you.
Okay.
So if you have like the original video for this handy,
I don't know, this may have been,
this was like two months ago.
You could put it in iCloud and share a link with me to it.
And then I can try to download it
and edit it for you on this call.
That's gonna challenge my tech abilities.
I will definitely do that.
Yeah, I'm gonna do Joe's here in a second.
If we get to it, if there's time, that'd be great.
Okay, so just a note, when we were first doing TikTok
and I was not comfortable with it at all,
I was doing, going out to the ocean,
saying I'm thanking God for,
and then saying, do you wanna join me
and leaving the rest of the time with just the ocean
for people to be quiet and thank God themselves.
That didn't happen.
And so now what I'm doing,
now that you said do the short ones,
I'm like cheating and going back to those,
cutting off the silence.
And so now I've got short ones that I'm not preparing now.
I'm just doing those other ones.
Yeah, so, and again,
if you wanna show something like that,
I saw Marcella, actually, I just pulled up her account.
She did one where it was just her narrating over,
and then she just showed some sort of footage.
I think it was like, maybe it was a stock footage
or something of a scripture or a prayer.
But you could do something
where you just film some empty stuff
and then you could just read over it.
So if you do wanna make, but then that would be two posts.
It would be like one with you talking, that's short,
one with you talking, but you're not looking at you at all.
It's just something without that.
And maybe the text is just coming up on screen.
So you could present it again,
deliver it in a couple of different ways.
So that's all, that's great.
So I've got my original footage on my camera or my photos.
And okay, so I'm sharing it.
Who am I sharing it to, or how am I sharing it?
You could try to put it in iCloud, I think.
Or you could even try to like Facebook message it to me,
or you can go to KMTV and just upload it there
onto the, like into the discussion tab of the group.
I don't think I would know how, that would take some time.
problem. Can I send it in messages? Yeah, try that. We'll just see if that works. If not, I'll look.
Cool. Okay, that looks to me like it's not. Okay, I'll work on it. Yeah, just that's fine. So
what I was going to do for you guys, just to, Joe had this, and Joe, I just made a note in here,
but I don't know if you can send me the original one. This one actually has the music and text in
it. I'll use it for now, but it won't be really usable to do anything with it.
So I don't know if you have that handy. Yeah, let me grab it real quick.
And what you can do for this type of thing, we found actually the easiest way to
transfer stuff is just to go into the eight-week intensive here and just click this upload video.
You can just post it like Joe did here. For some reason, when you upload stuff to Facebook,
I guess they don't like you downloading things, so it makes it difficult, but
I can actually download the file from here, which is great. Okay, so I'm just going to do this in
Descript. You don't have to do this in Descript. I am just going to show it to this, because I
think for you guys who are watching on Zoom, it's going to be much more visual than me trying to do
it on my tiny iPhone if we were to do something like CapCut. So just something that we were doing
some edits even for some Kingdom Messenger content that we're doing. We've been actually
putting content on the Kingdom Messenger TikTok again this week, so we're doing a bunch of stuff
for September, and so there's a couple little tricks you can use to edit some things that I'll
kind of just show you guys here. So let's see here, let me, oh, and there's a quick question here from
Xavier. You can just post with, just test different hashtags. They don't have to be like totally
different hashtags, but most of the time it's going to be around your, the biggest thing you
can do to try something different is to take the hook of what's being said and move it actually
much higher up in the, earlier in the video, and maybe I'll even show some of what this looks like
other ways. So, but yeah, just sometimes you can take something like this. This, I'm not, this is
actually a prayer, but I'll try to take this and see if I can find something, if there's like a
good line here. We can actually, what's nice about Descript is we can take a section like this
and actually cut it and like paste it at the front of the video, so it actually, you can see
there, it just moved that section. I have no idea what that section is, but it just moves it from
that side there, so you can kind of take the coolest or the most interesting or most encouraging
part of your video and kind of, if you guys have some big build, it's kind of the, it's a
different way of sharing content because you kind of want to start with a single sentence that's
like, oh wait, like that's very controversial. Like for Kingdom Messengers, we had, Lindsay did a piece
earlier this week where it was like, it was just from one of our trainings, but she mentioned
in this like 60 second thing says, hey, you're not called to the whole world, you're only called to
your world, right? Like, so that's like people who are Christians hear that, you're like, you're not
called to the world, what are you talking about? Of course we're called to the world, and it's like,
it kind of just like, excites like, oh, what is she talking about? Like, she's wrong, like, and then
they, it kind of forces people to read, listen to the rest of it. Not saying you have to be
controversial like that, but if there's some statement that stops people, like, did you know
that healing is still possible in 2022, or did you know that this thing, it's just like a little
hook that gets people's attention, and sometimes a lot of you guys have that in your video because
you're kind of teaching to it, so you're teaching kind of up towards like this big moment of this
big thing you want to say that's going to really change people's lives, just, and you were not
moving it necessarily, it's not like we're taking it from the middle and putting it at the beginning,
you can actually copy it, so you can have the little like really cool hook, and then you can
just let it play, and then say the hook again when you get to that part of the video, that's fine
too, because people definitely need to hear it twice, but whatever that like, if they're only
going to listen to five seconds of your video, if there's a sentence or a statement that you have,
and maybe that's just something as you're writing your content as well, that's something that you
can just kind of craft as well, but anyway. Hey Bruce, I'm about to publish it now for you.
Oh thanks, okay cool, I'll grab it.
Let's see, what is the best volume to set for your background music? So
I think that adding background music is like adding salt to your food.
you just want to start with like a tiny bit of music and then just keep adding it until it's like,
okay, no more salt for this, right? Like this is, this is getting too salty. Typically it's
going to be around a five out of a hundred. That number, it doesn't mean it's always exact. Some
songs are really loud. Some songs are really quiet. So you kind of have to just do it to taste.
My thing is it's your, your attention has to be a hundred percent on the words that you're saying.
Um, so one thing, um, that I'll do, I'm going to pull this video in real quick.
Once it's here, just see you do this on cam TV. Is that right? I'm doing this. I think because
I'm on zoom, it's taking a little while. Okay, no problem. So one thing you can do,
um, I've got another video I can pull. Let me jump into this real quick.
So there it is. I just published it. I'll just kind of show you this as well,
because this is exactly how we, um, do this. So we'll take, uh, clips from, uh, from our session
and, um, I'll give a shout out to Tamara who has gone through all this content and cut all
these things up. Um, but what we'll do is we will take, um, something from like a 60 minute long
trainings. This is this whole thing right here is like one day. It's day one of the challenge.
And we're trying to find pieces of content that are really good. So what Tamara's done is like
listened through all of it and then highlighted, um, things that she thought were really good.
So in this highlighted script, um, hopefully we can find something that's really good. There we go.
So there's like a good little section here, which we're like, okay, that could be,
that could be turned into a TikTok. Um, so this is how we would process it all.
Um, and so if I kind of go down, uh, let's go to clip one here. So, um,
you can see, let me see if there's, is there one, let me grab one. That's like,
it's edited this one. I think this was the one. Um, so we have, uh, the fancy captions and I did
a whole thing on Descript. So I'm not going to really teach on Descript, but just kind of how we
made some of the cuts. So it feels very, um, fluid. Um, one of the things I just want to,
because this goes to the background music, um, in Descript, and you can actually, I think you
can do this in CapCut as well, but if you go to the settings here and I click into the audio,
um, I think if I go, if I select, I can select all the audio. Um, let me, yes.
Um, there we go. Come on. Okay. Okay. That's all the audio. Um, one of the things you can do,
if I can find it here, um,
is I think you can say add an effect and I think you can say, um, there's this little feature
right here, which is kind of cool. I think it's audio studio file. Um, I'm gonna let it play and
see if that actually works the way I was hoping it would, but basically what it does is it
essentially makes it sound like you can take something from an iPhone and it makes it sound
like you had a mic, like right. Um, you know, it sounds like you're in a studio. Um, so I'm
going to try to play this back and hopefully you guys can hear it. Let me make sure that I'm
sharing my sound. Yeah. Um, this may take a minute. Okay. Let's like, um, let's jump back to Joe's
option here. There we go. Okay.
Okay. Next drive back to Joe.
Okay. It's downloading right now, but, um, this is a very long clip, so I probably wasn't that good,
uh, for kingdom messengers, but give me one second to let this download.
Okay. So here's the original video. It's going to transcribe it here in a second
and I'm going to try to do it on this one. Let's try to do studio.
Um, I think this is it. There was a checkbox here before, and now it's not there. So hopefully this
is the one, but, um, uh, so the first thing we would do, like if I was editing this for Joe,
um, is this is, there's a, there's half a second here, almost a full second of dead space.
So the first thing we want to do is like crunch this right to the front here.
Oh, what software is this?
This is Descript.
And then, yeah, so there's a whole like training we did a while back, two weeks ago or so.
And then you can kind of just look here.
I'm just going to play it.
And hopefully you can hear me too.
You know, so many times there's, you know, groups around us or people.
Hopefully you guys can hear that, so.
You know, so many.
Whose image are you conforming to?
There's just a little bit of a breath right there.
So I'm just going to, all you have to do is grab the word you and just drag it in closer here.
So let's just see how.
You know, so many times.
Okay.
I don't know if you guys can hear the sound.
Did you hear that sound change?
Many times there's.
Okay.
Hopefully this is coming through in Zoom.
Image are you conforming.
This is before.
You know, so many times there's, you know, groups around us.
And then if I enable the studio sound.
You know, so many times there's.
So it sounds like it literally was shot like with a different mic.
So it's, I don't know how they do that.
It's it's magic.
But all of a sudden, this type of thing was really helpful because if you're.
If you're starting volumes, very quiet.
And then you start to add music. Now it's like, especially if you're outside,
or if you're in a noisy space, or even if you're in a very reflective room.
Where there's a lot of reflective surfaces that sounds kind of bouncing
around some little echoey.
This could help just make it really punch. You can still add music underneath this,
but now your voice is like, so up and out of the mix.
And when people are scrolling through Tik TOK as well, like there,
you just want to be able to be so clear and in there.
I don't know if you can see it in the face, but just the,
it needs to be really clear if it's a little muffled and a little hard to
hear that people are going to jump.
And I say all this and I don't mean to pick on Joe because he's already got
some amazing results with some of his content,
but these are the things that honestly,
like they don't matter at all as far as like getting the message out.
But at the same time,
they could be like silly things that get in your way that are like keeping
people from watching your content. So.
I'm just going to keep editing this.
So I'm not even listening to his words.
I can just look at the thing here and I can see there's 11 seconds there
and it goes all the way to 12.
So there's like a full second of space right there.
I'm just moving all these words in.
Nice and tight.
It's funny that you're finding like the breaths in that,
because it's one of the things sometimes I've noticed where I took a
breath and it was louder than I realized.
So you could actually hear it.
Yeah.
Yeah. I know. Yeah. It's, and it's fine. I, I,
I'm putting you kind of on the spot cause and if you looked at some of our
videos, especially the long training, 60 minute training,
the amount of words we have to take out where we say like, you know,
like, like, you know, you know, like when this thing, you know, this,
so it's very painful when you're reading it in like this, because it's,
it's difficult to see even, you know,
You know, you just put all these filler words in. So, so here you said,
but you could say, I would just say, but the Bible tells us,
we don't need to say, you know, okay.
So we can just say, and we may not even need the word,
but let me say that we have to meet with the Bible tells us in Romans.
They see how that's just like, but the Bible tells us this it's not,
but you know, the Bible tells us it's just, you kind of lose people.
It doesn't really matter except if you're just having a coffee with someone
and you have lots of time, but you don't have a whole lot of time.
You want to just share this very, very it needs to be really crisp is
probably a good word. So I'm just going in here,
dragging it in here and I'm going to,
I'm going to give this to you when you're done and I would love for you to,
if you want to, you can change more of it if you want, and then post it.
Let's see how it does. So I'm just, again,
we can actually probably cut off about five to 10 seconds here.
Just
this just makes it very easy. It's unlike any other like editing tool.
This is a free tool as well. So there's a paid version, I think,
but mostly free us through the renewing.
So that he could transform us through the renewing of our minds.
Okay. So there's a little bit, this has got like the most,
I'm going to back this sound off a little bit through the renewing of our
minds and where we renew our minds through the word, through prayer,
through thinking about Jesus. So I invite you today,
renew your mind and let God transform you into his image.
Okay. And then just, if you were going to caption this, like Descript,
obviously isn't saved yet, but we're hoping it does get saved.
You can capitalize.
um and sometimes it does things like this like transformed and it's putting a capital and so
now it's supposed to be like transformed from you into today renew your mind and let god transform
you into his image i think the word into his image you somehow disappeared there but i'll
come back to it i'll just drag this in here
and what i would really encourage you guys to do even if you we even tell people this even if you
are hiring an editor or something sitting and doing this for your own content it's it's actually
so much easier to do this to someone else's is very painful if i were editing my own thing
which is maybe that's what i should have done for the demo but um you just are so much more
critical you're like oh why did i say that like why am i breathing this way why am i looking this
way why am i and you you'll you'll kind of correct a lot of things so when you get ready to film the
next one you'll auto correct it and you'll kind of work those little bugs out of it when you record
that way when you sit down to edit it's actually pretty clean oh how did we enable the studio mic
so what we did is we just selected um all the clips here and on the right there's a thing called
add effect and then one of them it's not going to show it now because i've already got it added
but one of them says studio sound and um and then it just you can toggle it on and off here
formed to this world but to be true and we can even push the volume up a hair transformed by
the renewing of our minds that we could prove that okay the next thing i want to do is a little
jump cut edit this is all very like next level stuff so if you guys are like just hoping just
wanting to get your content out and posted i totally understand like get this is just sort
of a next level if you want to experiment with how to edit things differently so if this says
whose image are you conforming to so i love that it's actually a pretty good hook um so what we'll
do is i'm going to click on this clip here so if i click on just this clip and then i can actually
resize this and if i drag the one side like this it's going to make him skinny or really wide we
don't want that so if you hold down shift it um it will make him it'll kind of scale it up like that
and so um now if you want to be fancy you can hold down alt as well and it will keep it
centered and just go up and down like this so now what we'll do is we'll cut in so it goes
whose image are you conforming to you know so many times that so you see how it just like comes
back um i may even like pushing in like two times the the zoom on the kind of the one thing you want
people to know just a little visual like bump in bump out whose image are you conforming to you
know so many times there's you know groups around this i hope you make it so much more dynamic
yeah and and again just again you don't have to spend a lot of time going this type of editing
for the rest of it it's like if you could spend all your time on these first five seconds
and what i really like about this is you can see on the timeline and this is any editing software
but we can see how what you're saying you know who images i mean so this time this says you know so
many so first off we don't need the words you know uh and this is like whose image are you
confirming to question mark then it says so many times and in descript you can hit the enter key
just to make it a little bit more uh readable here so so many times there's
groups around us friends family trying to conform there i feel like a spaceship
meet okay great um so i'll even take the word butt out here because this is like a
it's a jump a one word and then a jump so i typically try to avoid that
and we'll just start with it saying the bible
uh if i can come on
okay let's just hear all this whose image are you conforming to so many times there's
now just the way that it was recorded um oh this is because bruce made a mistake not joe
sorry i need to make this all like nine i was wondering why the first one was so loud and then
the other one wasn't it's because i adjusted it but i hadn't selected all of the clips
so what you're seeing on the right is just for whatever clip you're suggest you're selecting
so if i click on this and i change the volume way down a way up so you can see how it gets
really quiet and it gets really loud um it's just for that one clip so that's what was happening it
was whose image are you conforming to so many times there's now just the way that it was recorded
mean to so many times there's groups around us or people friends family and we're trying to conform
to a certain image because we either want to be liked or we want to be accepted or or we feel
like there's it and there's two ors right there so we'll just a double word um did or or we just
and since we're doing a cut right there anyway we'll just start it with we we feel like be accepted
or we feel like there's expectation now because um i'll actually do it the other way we can do it
with like accepted or we feel like there's expectations that we have or we feel like
there's expectations that we have to so because he started the phrase with or we feel like it was
weird to have the other or on the first phrase so that was a natural jump because he's listing the
next thing and one little like another little trick here is to always cut on the right side
so cut it to where if there's a cut um you don't want to have it um oops
uh there we go you want to take the cut as far to the the next word that's coming in so where it
says and um it's gonna so if family and we're trying to conform to a certain image because
we either want to be liked or we want to be accepted or cool people friends family and we're
trying to conform to a certain image because we either want to be liked or we want to be accepted
or we feel like there's expectations and also when you have that and it feels like it's a little
jumpy just pushing in the zoom here so it goes those are people friends family and we're trying
to conform to a certain image because we either want to be liked we want to be accepted or we
feel like there's expectations yeah it's just like coming at you now it's it's we've cut the
time down but also it's just kind of pulling you in more and more and more more content so
these are this is just something um again you can you can kind of experiment with but um very cool
okay thanks let's see image are you conforming to so many times there's okay so at this point we
could go through um and the only other thing i would probably do like we do with all things is
just add the captions and you can add um fancy captions and i'll just give this in like some
other color i would definitely recommend putting the text uh kind of under your face right first
like above your head um just it's just better because it's closer to your
icon do you want people kind of looking over your head i guess um let me grab this
and then just for i don't know why they do this but you have to just drag the fancy captions to
the very end okay so this is getting close to being done let's just do it to two lines there
um and we could keep going back and forth but really like if you're going to spend 80 90 of
your time on the editing it should be focused right in here these first few seconds like having
the text on the screen having this little zoom in for the part now it may say it may say um
hey christian moms and then you could cut into like here's something that here's a prayer that
you can pray today to i don't know keep the peace in your home so that little like that hook there
you can start out like kind of wide and then you can cut in for the part that you really want to
emphasize and then cut back it just gives people's attention and what you're trying to do a lot of the
times is people are scrolling you're trying to interrupt the it's a pattern interrupt of people
are scrolling scrolling scrolling if there's a video then it cuts to you then it cuts back it
just kind of interrupts the what everybody else is seeing and it kind of grabs their attention
and so um yeah so that that's good i think that's good for now and i'll just um i'll share this with
you joe so you can like actually open it in descript and then export it uh and then we'll
go from there but cool is any questions about that or i know i went through it really quick
because we kept on descript before but um and also just kind of think you can see some of the
edits that i'm doing here as far as how tight it is like if you don't you feel like wow this looks
really complicated you can just record it a few times on your phone and what if you like lindsey
did this on one of her like she said you know here's a prayer that i want to pray for you today
or here's what i pray you know when i don't know what to pray and then and then she said something
like then she kind of zoomed the the camera the phone in closer to her face and she said something
like and i don't always know what to pray or something like that and then she pulled it back
like that's editing right like that's the most primitive form of of an edit um some of that
could just be practice uh and and kind of recording it playing it back like making yourself listen to
in its entirety.
A great way, as always, when you're doing this type of stuff
is to do this with, you don't have to do this for every clip,
but just do it every now and again to your content
because you'll notice all these little things
that you're doing, filler words,
the spaces you're leaving,
kind of the cadence of how you're talking.
Are you getting really fast and getting really,
you know, then starting to talk really slow?
Are you leaving pauses?
Lindsay and I, I feel, especially when we're coaching,
like have a very hard time just pausing
and leaving space in the,
like, we just want to fill all the words.
And then we just, especially if we get excited
and we're like so passionate,
we go faster and faster and faster.
And I have all these sticky notes that I leave
or Lindsay will give to me.
And it's like, slow down, slow down,
like whoever's talking.
So we've just learned these things.
And that's the only way you're going to fix it
is just by you kind of auto-correct it by watching yourself
because you are going to be your biggest critic with that.
But easy way to do this is you record it on your phone,
on the default camera app,
play it back and just, you know, listen to it.
You can watch it.
Remember those like three ways of kind of editing yourself
is you can listen to it.
So take the phone, like put it face down
and just listen to how it's coming across
and make notes of what you're hearing
from an audio standpoint.
You know, are there words that you're saying
or is there background noise, whatever?
Then play it back where you turn the sound off on your phone
and just watch it and just try to watch it
without hearing it.
And then the last thing is to do something
kind of like this, like get it transcribed
and just try to read it out loud from end to end
and just see how it is.
And again, between those three different areas,
you'll clean up 80, 90% of things
that you could do to a little better.
And the teaching for Descript, Walter,
I think there, I was literally gonna say,
hey, maybe Tamara can grab it.
There it is, link for you right there.
So that's great, awesome.
I'm gonna share this with you.
And I think I can actually just share this link there.
I believe that will work, Joe.
So you can just click on the link in the chat
and it should open.
Technically, anyone else can open it as well
if you wanna duplicate it and pull it from there.
So we'll see if we have,
so any other questions that you have or do you have anything?
I just clicked on that link that Tamara sent
and it's sending me to a screen to sign in or sign up.
It's not just going straight to it.
Okay, yeah, you may just need to sign into the CAM TV.
Okay, but then, yeah, I'm having a hard time.
I don't know why I've ever,
I've never had a hard time doing that before, okay.
Okay, just let us know.
We can always help you out with that.
Cool.
Yeah, you can always email us if you're having trouble with that.
Yeah, Joe, were you saying something?
I think you and Susie started speaking at the same time.
No, I was just gonna say that, yeah,
this is gonna be kind of my best friend
because I started using CapCut
just because I like how I can add dynamic stuff,
but adding key frames and that kind of stuff
is a lot harder on the phone trying to manipulate all that.
Yeah, yeah, it definitely is.
We'll try it and see, and you can definitely go in there
and change anything I did.
That's why I gave you that link
just so you can take the captions out if you want
or whatever, just experiment with it.
So, cool.
I see, Bobby, you have your hand raised?
Is there one that you think is easier
because what you just did looked really hard for me
at this point, but is the other one,
the CapCut or whatever that's called,
is that a little more friendly or?
Yeah, one of the weeks,
we did go through and do a CapCut tutorial.
So, the only way that I would say,
so, each of these editing, any editing software,
it's a tool, so you can do a lot with that tool
or you can do very minimalist editing with that tool.
So, you can do very easy editing on CapCut
and you can do very easy editing on Descript.
Really, if you know what you're trying to do,
you can pretty much use any tool to get the job done.
Just, I would find one that feels comfortable for you
that when you try it, you're like,
oh, this actually feels very easy.
A lot of people like Descript
because they're very used to editing a Word document.
And so, this is, they try to take it
so that you're just editing the text that's on the Word,
like, as if you're.
you're editing a Word document.
And while you're deleting words and sentences,
it's actually doing the editing for you underneath.
So I was going through it really quick.
And so-
I'll look at the video.
I'll look at that video too that you did,
cause I-
Yeah, and here's what I'd recommend you guys
taking one episode or one TikTok post through Descript.
I'll do another one through CapCut
and another one just editing it in TikTok
and see which one you like.
Forcing yourself to go through the whole process once
will be good.
Yeah, using iMovie, definitely you can use iMovie.
They all do this kind of the same things.
We have Adobe Premiere is kind of our go-to
for actual video editing.
That's what we used for Lindsey's posture
as far as her YouTube video, her longer form content goes.
Premiere is great, but you kind of just,
you're picking the right tool for the job, essentially.
If I have a video that I just need
like two little sections cut out
because I said the wrong date,
could I do that in just when I'm editing on Instagram
or do I need to go into these kinds of programs first?
No, you can take it out in TikTok or Instagram.
Okay, cool.
Yeah, you can, yeah.
And I'll just figure out how to do that, but okay.
So, Ling, so just a couple of things on Facebook.
When I was trying, so right now I've just been copying
Instagram and putting it on my page, but now I updated it.
Now there is a real thing.
So would I just take my TikTok
and just put it into that real
because on Facebook, when I try to do a real,
if I go back to Notion to try to copy anything,
you lose the whole thing.
Like I just gave up again last night.
So, so far I've only done the two Instagram
because YouTube, same with YouTube,
the music cuts off in 15.
I mean, it's just crazy.
I couldn't adjust the cover
but it could be just operator error, but has anyone else?
I'm trying to do each one separate.
So I'm learning like you guys put my reps in,
but eventually in order to keep up the pace
with my lifestyle too, I'll have to,
eventually after the eight weeks,
I'm going to try to get a little bit more efficient,
but now I'm just doing the reps, but.
Yeah, so I think what I would do
to keep it simple to where you can get the content out.
Yes, you can definitely just take the edited TikTok
and just post it directly to Instagram.
That's like, at least make sure you're doing that.
If you have more time,
you could definitely edit it in Instagram as well.
Part of what's nice about doing it in CapCut
or a different tool that's not Instagram or TikTok
is that you can edit it just to get the content
exactly how you want.
And then all you're doing in TikTok and Instagram
is you're just adding music and adding,
a big text block over it and you're posting it.
So that's, you're not sitting there
and like then trying to like cut it up in every app.
So we're doing that in one app
and then we're taking that edited version
and putting it to all the apps.
And I'm, right now I'm doing Instagram on its own,
TikTok on its own.
And then I copy the link in Instagram
and put that on my Facebook page.
But what I did try in addition to that now,
cause that's really just kind of localized.
I tried to do a reel from the beginning.
And what I was saying is when I tried to go over
to the notion to copy some of the things, you lose it.
It just goes away.
Like you have to start over and then I thought,
oh my gosh, how am I gonna?
Yeah.
That makes sense or maybe I'm doing something wrong.
No, we could definitely look at that,
try and see what exactly is happening.
I may have to see it to give you some really good feedback.
I would say just kind of what from what I'm hearing
is I would try the CapCut option.
You can watch the little tutorial.
I think it was week three.
I think Tamara dropped a link there.
We're just gonna walk through it in a lot of smaller pieces
and then try to take that and put it in each platform,
YouTube and Instagram and TikTok from there.
So you kind of like, think of it like you're pre-editing it
and then you're just gonna like do some minimal editing
in those apps and post it.
So cool.
Awesome, awesome.
Okay.
Any other like tech?
things. We'll see if we can maybe help Susie. I'm going to try to get her video, but if any other
tech questions I got, I know coming up on it's four o'clock or it's already past four o'clock,
but anything, so if you guys need to go, I know some of you guys are at work and jumping, you know,
taking a break, so it's always good to have you guys and connect. If you guys have questions,
you can always drop them in Facebook, the Facebook group, or email us anytime,
and then we'll definitely take a few more tech questions, but cool, but yeah, you guys are all
going to go if you need to, but we'll jump over to Marianne with some other. Okay, just quickly,
the Instagram has changed the way they do the hashtags, and it's really hard to find any
that are worth putting on there because they all come up as either under 100 or over a billion.
It's just hard to find what you're saying. What happened? Changed all the way they do hashtags?
They did. There are some other tools. I'm going to try to find one that is good.
So, what were some of the hashtags you were trying, do you know?
Well, for a while, I was using spiritual growth. Now, that one is not good anymore. It comes very
low. Yeah. No condemnation. I don't know, it seemed with some of them, I ended up with about
three, and I'm working on it for ages, and all of them came up with huge numbers, or not enough.
Because you have to have over 1,000, or you don't get the views, right?
Right. Yeah. So, spiritual growth, there's different ways. So, sometimes those searches
aren't very accurate. So, if I did hashtag spiritual growth.
Spiritual growth there, it gives you a lot, but in mine, it was coming up with very small numbers
It does. I know exactly what you're talking about, because it is very strange at how
small. I was looking here, there's some other tools you can use.
So, this is a separate tool called keyword tool. I actually have never used this before, but
it does give you some options that are around that, and it just shows you spiritual growth
journey. Maybe better... Is this another one that you have to pay for?
No, this is just something I just was Googling. There's lots of little tools like this.
Yeah. That would be a good one to try,
because I'm finding vidIQ isn't even showing up on my Instagram anymore, and I'm paying for it.
So, I think I'm going to cancel it, because I'm finding it not very good.
Yeah. Does it even have... I don't even know it worked on Instagram.
It was doing for quite a while, or TikTok, it was working on there.
Okay. Not anymore.
Interesting. Yeah, most of the time, I'm just using it for YouTube and then TikTok, but
yeah, I'd have to get into it a little more to see exactly how it's set up.
So, let's just go... Yeah, I would say you can always use hashtags that you feel are very
relevant. So, if you were thinking... Well, I've been trying that, and some of them,
you can find a lot, but most of them, I just can't come up with anything that fits.
Okay. So, I never used to have a problem.
Yeah. I'm looking specifically.
You did hashtags.
I've hardly got any there.
Yeah.
Because I couldn't find any.
Yeah. I mean, I would... So, instead of... This isn't bad, this 55. I guess something to stay
away from is making up your own hashtags when no one's using them, obviously.
Well, that was one I was doing, yes.
But this is good, like, No Condemnation and Life in the Spirit. I mean, there's 5,000 posts on that,
and No Condemnation, I'm sure, has some good...
The No Condemnation was not that great.
Okay. Well, there's... I mean, 20,000 posts is still pretty good.
Well, that's really good, but that wasn't what I was getting coming up.
Yeah. So, when you are on the website and when you're on the app, it just has, like,
fewer than 1,000 or fewer than 100 or zero or, like, 2 million.
Yeah.
So, the website is different, then.
Yeah. And you can't...
really close from in here.
So I'm not telling you to do it in here,
but I'm just saying like,
basically it could be a bug on their side,
that's the short version.
Okay, okay, then I won't worry about it.
But I think I'm gonna get rid of vidIQ.
What was the other one you mentioned?
That was, well, there was another one.
I was just testing this keyword tool,
but I know nothing about this tool.
I just literally Googled it.
Okay.
There's a lot of Instagram hashtag,
I could probably look for one,
but there's one called besthashtags.com.
These should all be free.
Yeah.
And you can sometimes, I don't know,
there's, I've seen a few,
I can go dig and find a good one,
but you can just type in a few words
and it will kind of give you, help you,
you'll suggest a bunch of ideas for things.
So you don't have to send them all.
But these are doing very well, obviously,
like 8,843.
Yeah, for a few weeks, I've hardly done anything.
And then all of a sudden.
Yeah, I see it's like 100, 100, and then 4,000.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thank you, Bruce.
That's good.
Cool.
Awesome.
Yeah, exactly.
Whatever Xavier's saying about my movie is good.
Yeah, cool.
We'll see you Holly, if you have to go.
Awesome guys.
Cool, cool.
Marcella, did you have your hand raised?
Yeah, just a quick question.
So I hadn't really posted lately on my YouTube channel.
So with the shorts, just a quick reminder,
are we putting hashtags in the YouTube for the shorts?
Am I doing that when I go to upload it?
I just wanna make sure,
because I didn't write that down.
You can.
Yeah, on the YouTube app, when you post it on,
you can definitely add similar hashtags.
Okay.
Yeah, and I would always add a sentence, right?
For all these, they're all the same.
So you typically write a sentence
of what the content's about.
So like just a one sentence intro,
and then you can do all your hashtags behind that.
And so the only reason you do all that
is to tell the platform what this video is about
and to try to give them some sense of some keywords.
So the sentence you write before,
if it has some of those keywords.
So if you're doing hashtag no condemnation,
like Marion was doing,
having a sentence that includes the phrase,
no condemnation would be very powerful
because it says, oh, there's a sentence about this
and she's doing the hashtag about it.
And then she says it verbally in the video.
But if you're talking about Roman seven,
and then you mentioned Roman seven,
and then you have,
these are the three keys I found in Roman seven
as your sentence.
So you do it in all three places
if that's really the foundation of your.
I'm just trying to remember that.
So for the same thing, right?
Cause I couldn't remember,
I've only had one short on YouTube.
So I know we were doing it for the longer content,
but I wanted to put some of the videos up there.
Okay.
Yeah, that's all I had.
Yeah, and you can always get back on YouTube as easy.
You can edit it after you've posted it.
So don't stress out with that one.
Instagram's, you can't,
and TikTok is pretty much whatever it is
when you get out there.
But yeah, just to, I have Marian's pulled up,
but she did a good, is a great example,
like get rid of offense and keep your joy.
So hashtag be joyful.
And she said, keep your joy.
Like these are, the algorithm will see that
as similar things.
And she said, you know, hashtag offense
and get rid of offense.
So now we've like doubled up already on some of those.
And she has Romans 14, 17 as the sticker on there,
like some texts there.
And she's hashtag Roman.
So you're doing a lot of duplication like that
to really kind of drive it home
about what this video is about.
So that's great.
This is actually a good example.
I would add thumbnails, Marian.
Even on one minute videos?
Yeah, not with Canva, but just in Instagram.
But how, okay.
But you mean a special picture on the outside?
Yeah, so I think you can add the,
it's called like, they call it a cover.
And I was doing that originally,
and then I didn't, I stopped
because I thought people can tell more from the video
with all the bits on it than they can from a cover.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
But something just like this,
you see it says like, when God speaks,
run to Jesus, power of Jesus.
Yeah.
It can be simple and minimal.
list like this, uh, but you've got, you've got to take a special picture each time though, right?
Oh, no, no, no, sorry. So you just edit this in, um, so once you've got, uh,
your post, you could, right before you send it, let me see if I can pull, uh, I won't be able to
share this iPad with you guys. Let's see. Well, it tells you to pick out a picture for your cover.
Yes. And you can just pick one of the frames of the video. And that's what I've been doing.
Okay. But then on top of that, you can also add text at that point.
So no, no, I didn't find that. I didn't notice that it gave me, um, okay, let's see.
So let me just video, um,
um, next. So yeah, it has edit cover and, but it doesn't give you the ability to write on it.
Does it? Yeah. You may have to add it to the first frame of your, like, maybe that just needs to be
what's on screen when you first put up your video and you add all the bits that shouldn't it be on
the first screen? Um, in theory, yes. But, um, what I'm saying is like, I think what yours,
let me just see if I can watch this. Yes. Your text is coming up. What you may just have to do
is when you hit edit cover, it gives you the option to kind of at the bottom to scroll left
and right to find the exact clip. So you just make sure that you find something where the text.
So if I get one with the text on, it'll still start at the beginning of the video, right?
Oh, yes. Okay. I didn't realize that Bruce. And then you, you can get a good, like,
facial expression as well. So you don't have to, well, this is Lindsay's pet peeve. Like she,
every time we get this, like she hates all the pictures. I mean, it's fine. Um,
okay. If you just do like a few frames before or after, sometimes it's better, but, um, yeah.
All right. Thank you. Awesome. Okay. Guys, anything else? Let's see.
Um, yeah, I wasn't able to download your video from Facebook. Um,
Susie, but if you want to upload it to cam TV, you can probably look at it, um, as well later.
I wasn't able to upload it to cam TV, but I, we transfer to help.
Okay. That's great. That'll work. Oh, I can take a look at it there for you. Awesome. Yeah. I guess
I need to learn how to upload it. I tried posting it and it, it wouldn't post. Um, gotcha. Okay.
Keep working at it. No problem. All right, guys, I'm going to run and go take over for Hannah. Um,
and so we'll, uh, we'll, uh, see you guys next. So next Tuesday is going to be tech Tuesday.
And then Thursday is going to be content. We're flip-flopping them because Hannah has a doctor's
appointment. And so Lindsay has to take her on Tuesday. So we're flipping them, but we'll let
you know in an email or something. So hope you guys have a great weekend and we'll talk to you
guys soon. Bye then.