Hey guys, how's it going?
Welcome to our tech support hour.
Let me get us live here on Facebook.
Give me one second.
But today, we'll give everybody a minute here to join,
but we're going to just, again,
do a couple open coaching things,
and then I may teach on some stuff as we get into it.
I think we have a few people on here,
and particularly if you haven't run week 7,
if you've been posting every day and you haven't yet
crossed 500 or 1,000 people in your audience,
I'd love to start with you guys and just look really
deeply at your account and see if we can spot
anything that we can help you with as far as growing.
We'll jump into it. Let me take a second and get us
live doing a couple of things here.
Hey, everybody.
How's it going? Good.
Hi.
Did anyone have any wins you want to share
while we're just getting people in here?
Here we go.
Okay. I'm just getting this on Zoom and we're live.
There we go. Now we're streaming.
Yeah. Joe said, if there's anyone who's,
I'm not saying you haven't started posting yet,
but if you haven't crossed 500 across all platforms,
if you total all them up together,
if you're not getting over 500 or 1,000,
just any significant amount of people,
just any significant growth,
we definitely want to at least help you guys get to
1,000 in this time.
Then we'll definitely jump into
some other training and stuff as well.
You guys are welcome to put your hand up or we'll just
literally stop going top to bottom on who wants help.
We'll jump into that. I would love to hear from,
Joe, yeah, you commented.
If you want to unmute, let's jump into yours.
Hey, how are you doing?
Good.
Yeah. I'm over 500.
I think the last I checked,
it wasn't working the last time I checked for the numbers.
Let me go. Definitely under 1,000.
I think it was maybe around 600.
Yeah. I can pull up.
It's 51 today.
Yeah. Cool. We're 61.
It's growing. I mean, at times, it's growing.
I've been on Hashtag lately.
Just to kind of find what works best.
Okay. Yeah. That's good.
So a couple of things like-
You're talking in general. It's just been really strange because it's like-
Go ahead. Sorry.
Sorry. You're cutting in and out.
I don't know if that's me or it's on,
I don't know whose side that is.
But yeah, I think some of the recent ones you're doing here with
this more like wood background just feels more warm and
inviting than like the other ones with the white background.
So just generally like from an aesthetic standpoint,
it's probably nicer.
This one did pretty well.
Let's see.
Yeah. That one was funny. It started off slow and then kind of-
Yeah. So I think just again,
we talked on Tuesday as well,
like just those first five seconds,
I would spend like 90 percent of my time
figuring out what those first five seconds are going to be.
And just bring the, like for everybody,
this is like just try to go like over the top on the energy because you're
trying to interrupt someone as they're scrolling by your content.
So just getting them to watch the whole thing.
I would definitely, since these are all about a minute long,
I would post a couple, your next couple posts,
I would do as like 15 seconds or under 15 seconds if you can.
Because what has happened is you're just doing a lot of like one minute content.
And so every time you do that,
TikTok's just seeing that as that it's not getting watched fully potentially.
So then they're not showing it to as many people.
So that's where like this one's got 60 views.
So obviously it didn't do very well out the gate.
So it's not that they like penalize your account for that.
They just, it's just something to like help reset it if you want to just test it.
I would do one that's like 15.
seconds, or even I've seen anywhere from seven to 15 seconds work really well.
I haven't done a lot of those.
I did one that was 17 seconds.
I was thinking it was horrible on engagement.
I think it was like seven, 7% or something, but yeah.
You just want to throw them in there every now and again.
Um, just to see, um, but this is really good.
Like you had 400 views and this was how many days ago, two days ago.
Um,
yeah.
What was your ending?
Just try to like, I mean, you could even just reedit that one to a 15 second if
you could, um, and just make it really like punchy and, um, like by editing it
kind of a little bit more, a little tighter together.
Um, one, one editor I saw that was doing take talks is they say basically
take out all the breaths, right?
We, we typically talk, talk, talk, and then you breathe and then you talk,
talk, talk, and you breathe.
So if you could take those little gaps out, so it's just kind of like, you're
not taking a breath and it's 15 to 30 seconds or something short, it could be.
Um, it just keeps people kind of pulls them in and sucks them in to, um, get to
sort of the point of the video as fast as possible.
So what's funny is a lot of my videos are over, over a minute and I'm, I'm
using Descript pretty much for all of them because I'm taking
all breaths and extra stuff.
So I love Descript, but that's just to get it down to 50 seconds in a minute.
It's good.
I mean, this, this is great that you're even getting a few hundred views.
I mean, I think with, um, TikTok, um, Oh, the other thing I would do is
do two things for you to try is the first one is the 15 second thing.
And everybody should try that.
Like, that's a good thing.
If you're under like 10,000 people on TikTok, like definitely be trying
somebody shorter, um, 10,000 followers on TikTok, be trying the shorter
stuff just to, to reset it.
And the other thing you can do is post one video with just a single line of
texts on the description and no hashtags at all.
I know that's like the opposite of what we've like encouraged you to do.
Um, so just every now and again, just, just try it to see how well it does.
Uh, and, um, you know, we can just see how sometimes if just not posting a
hashtag, just letting TikTok try it on a bunch of different people, um, it can
sometimes work out really well because the, as far as the growth, like getting
this number, um, to a thousand and well over a thousand is really just going
to come from like a handful of posts.
So this one right here, this 3,900 views right here, that's awesome.
Um, that's where probably a good portion of your, and this one's got 2,500.
So anything where you're getting a few thousand, that's where your
followers are typically coming from.
Um, it's not like you're getting a couple of followers from every video.
It's like 80, 90% of them are going to be in a handful of these, um, uh, videos.
So you just want to keep trying them until you get one with a ton of views
that keeps getting promoted by TikTok.
Um, but something where it's around two or 300 basically, and it's been a while,
like TikTok may just stop promoting it.
And then that, that post is kind of dead.
So by downloading it again, editing it a different way and reposting it kind of
gives it new life and puts it at the top of the list for TikTok.
So it's a good way to reset, um, that.
So, but cool.
I mean, it's, it's, you're definitely doing a great job, um, keeping
consistent, the content looks good.
I mean, the engagement's really good.
We just need to get more, more people, um, that way.
Yeah, it was, uh, I mean, TikTok is somewhat steady.
I mean, there's maybe one to five people a day joining their Instagram
and YouTube were really slow.
And then Instagram has actually started to pick up and pick up.
And this past week, my YouTube actually doubled.
I was at like 25 and it jumped to 53.
All that's great.
And I started to get more engagement there.
So, yeah, that's awesome.
Just see here.
Yeah, that's, that's really good.
And I'm sure I said a few, yeah, this one got a thousand views.
This one got 1300 views.
Um, so that's probably where it was.
And this is again, like kind of why you post it on all these platforms.
I mean, like the big picture is like, people are watching your stuff, right?
The views are really important.
Um, the followers are just nice.
Cause it's just another metric just to show that people are
kind of sticking around, right?
Um, so even just having a few of these where you get a few thousand views
is exciting because just a bunch of people saw it and heard
a really good message, right?
So it's not, it's all good, right?
Just keep perspective.
Um, so that's great.
Yeah.
I didn't like my video from today.
I just got an iPhone and I was practicing with a cinematic.
I didn't realize it was going to blur out my face as much as it does.
I'm just gonna blur the background, so.
Yeah.
Is this on this one of these?
The first one, that's the one I did today.
Not that one, but.
You feel like you're bad.
I see, yeah.
It's cool.
So did you switch phones somewhere in here?
No, this video from today is when I switched.
I just got my iPhone yesterday.
Okay, nice.
Sweet.
Did you get the 14?
Yeah, 14 Pro Max.
Oh, awesome.
That's on our list.
I sent that camera back that I told you I had got.
Oh, the DSLR.
In anticipation of this.
That's good.
I'm just gonna try and work it with this.
And it's got such a powerful camera on the back too, so.
Yeah, it is.
The iPhones are awesome, especially the new ones.
The cameras are fantastic, so awesome.
Well, try a couple of those things
and just like check in on the group
and let us know like how some of those things work.
I've seen a lot of different TikTokers
explaining this process of kind of having,
helping reset the algorithm a little bit.
It just short posts and then doing a couple of posts
without any hashtags.
So just see how it performs, yeah.
What do you think would be good like for a 15 second post?
I know this isn't a content day,
but would be like maybe a quick prayer
or just reading over a scripture or something like that.
Yeah, just a-
Encouraging word.
Even if you just said, as you go about your day today,
just remember this statement, you know,
just some kind of,
and you could probably go to any one of your videos
and pull out like one little, one line,
like just a single quote, like a line.
That was really good.
It could be a verse, it could be a prayer.
Yeah, and even doing some that are,
if you're doing a list of like,
here's three scriptures that will help you,
you could just point to them.
You don't have to read them out to be like,
here's three scriptures that will help you overcome anxiety
or overcome whatever their problem is.
And then you could just like have your phone on your,
take your camera and just kind of point to like
the two or three things listed out,
or you could point to them kind of in the air
and then just add the text later.
If it's like just verse, verse, verse, just the reference.
And that could be seven seconds, right?
So it could just say like,
hey, here's something to help you with it.
Here's three verses I use to overcome anxiety or fear
or whatever you're helping people with.
And make those things really specific, yeah.
And would it be beneficial to like take something like that?
Like, I mean, maybe I'm still doing the one minute
in the morning, but I do a 15 second in the afternoon
or some kind of posting twice a day.
Does that help at all?
You can definitely try that.
It's not necessarily like the more you post,
the more, you get to learn faster that way,
because you're trying two posts a day.
So you get two sets of results to test it against.
It's not like TikTok is,
on other platforms it's a little bit more like that,
that they see that you're posting,
you know, as long as it's at least weekly
or once or twice a week,
they kind of see that as consistent content creator.
But the fact that you do like five posts a day versus one,
the main thing is you're just getting five pieces
of content out there to test.
One of those should do very well, right?
One of those will do probably really well.
A couple do kind of average and then one may do terribly.
So at least you could take like what you would find out
between Monday and Friday
and you can find it all out on Monday, right?
And then try it again Tuesday.
So it's as much as you want to test all at once.
There's no, like you could post five in a day
and still be fine.
You could post one, it's just, it's not gonna hurt you
one way or the other on TikTok specifically.
Cool.
All right.
Okay, so I'd love to see,
and I can just start picking on some people
since we know where your accounts are,
but I'd love to specifically help anyone
who's like, or if anyone has other technical questions,
you can always jump in.
But specifically, I want to try and help people
get to what's kind of like holding you back
to another, the next milestone,
whether that's like breaking a thousand
or maybe it's breaking 10,000.
So as I say, 10,000, let's talk to Marion,
who I think is super close to 10,000.
Yeah, I'm around 9,000 right now.
Bruce, did you ever sort out the thing with Instagram
when you put music on it?
Instead you get this horrible background noise
and no music.
With the very loud music?
Any music.
It doesn't matter how I do the music.
I've never had a problem until about two weeks ago.
And now every time I put music on,
I just got this horrible hum in the background and no music.
Do you have any posts that you left up with that,
or did you just delete them?
I do.
I do have posts, yeah.
Okay, let me see if I can hear it and see,
on Instagram specifically?
No, it is Instagram, yes, you're right.
Just let me find it.
The latest ones I did without music.
I've had a salvation with fear and trembling.
No, that's not one.
I used to worry.
No, let me find one with the music on.
There are times, as we're growing in our country,
when we need other people to pray with.
Yeah.
And for me personally, when I was a young Christian,
I found somebody, I connected with them when we became.
That's right.
Let me, I'm gonna share this again
and share the sound so that everybody can hear,
and you make sure that it's actually the sound, but.
I found somebody, I connected with them
when we became prayer partners,
and we prayed almost every day.
That's really, really strange.
Yeah, a minute ago, it was really loud.
This sound right here.
So one thing you can do is always,
like I'm clicking on that sound.
So I'm just gonna go in here
and click on someone else's video.
It's amazing that you know what everyone needs.
It's not something you over.
So it's obviously not,
that sound is not breaking for that person,
is a good way to check it.
Like if, I just wanna make sure that it's still good.
Oh, I see.
Like maybe the artist may have pulled the song or.
Well, it's been, every time I've done it,
it's not just one.
And I haven't used the same song, I don't think.
Yeah, let's try this one.
Abraham was counted as righteous because of his faith.
No, I stopped doing that one.
Let me go back.
So often, we think that we've got.
This one sounds great.
So many people have thoughts.
I think I've been leaving the music off because of it.
Yeah, there's like quite a bit of sound difference
between these, and you're just.
Are you just editing these on your phone?
Like you're recording them on the phone?
I can, I edit them on the phone.
It's the quickest way to do it.
Yeah.
Okay, I was just trying to see
if there's anything else that, let's try this one.
If you have chosen to.
And this, you're on an Android as well?
Yes, I am.
Okay.
One thing you, I mean,
I don't think it's something with your actual mic.
So if you play it back on,
like if we played this video on TikTok, is it fine?
All of them are fine on TikTok.
It's not the video, it's these,
it's actually something to do with Instagram.
There are times as we're growing in our Christian faith.
Now that's got the music on and it's lovely.
Yeah.
But since I started getting that sound every time,
I've stopped using the music.
Okay.
It is a bit loud on TikTok though.
I would maybe make it softer.
It's a bit like, it's kind of overpowering.
Oh, this is TikTok, okay, yes.
This is TikTok, sorry, yeah, kind of jumped.
But I just wanted to compare the two side by side, so.
There are times.
So again, it's not actually so bad
but like I can't hear, I mean, it is irritating
and the fact that, but it's not like
you're getting zero views, but you see.
If you have.
There is some sound difference.
I'm just, that's why I was curious on your phone
because it sounds, sometimes it sounds like
there's almost like a copy of the audio on there.
And other times it sounds like, it sounds very clear.
Like this one over here sounded really.
So often.
At this one.
So many people have thoughts attacking.
There's a little bit of a sound.
There's like a.
Well, the difference there is very,
usually I use a little mic.
Okay.
And I may not have been using the mic in that one.
Okay, well, you weren't using the mic in this one,
the one that's bad.
I, you know, actually, I don't know.
Do you think that might have.
I think that may be an issue.
Cause there's definitely some change
between these different sounds, so.
But it wouldn't stop the music playing, would it?
Won't stop the music playing.
Now there's something else with that.
But I think what's happening is instead of the music
coming through, it is just bringing that static.
And I see, like Tamara said, she's had that too.
I don't know if anyone else has had that same experience.
Yeah, I think there were two other people
that posted that they had had the same thing,
but it's only been in the last few weeks.
Before that, it's been great.
Yeah, and I know Joe had some issues with hashtags.
She's having the same problem.
Right.
Yeah.
I'm just going to click on a few here and see if I can,
see if I can.
I don't know if you can post the original video for this, before you put it in TikTok,
like if you still have that on your phone somehow.
I do.
I always have them on my phone.
Okay.
I don't know if you can share that with me or just upload it to Facebook or somewhere
where I could see it.
I'd love to basically compare the files to each other.
Yeah.
I'm happy to look at it.
We don't have to do it.
Okay.
Which one was that?
That you were talking about?
This one says, I think it's Prayer Partners.
That one.
For a time.
It was.
Okay.
Seven days ago.
And again, it doesn't sound bad enough to where like, this is, I mean, it's something
we should, you should try to fix because it's annoying, but it's not so quiet or the music
is so loud that it's like actually distracting from the content.
Right.
So try to fix it, but don't sweat, sweat it too much.
Like it should be, it's not going to hurt you.
And again, it's...
It's for people to pray with.
And for me personally, when I was a young...
Yeah.
It sounds fine on TikTok.
Yeah.
And usually I do have the sound lower.
Okay.
Yeah.
So I'll post it on the site, that video, and then you can see that.
Yeah.
Gotcha.
And definitely, like, I mean, for everyone, even for yours as well, like, I don't know
if you've experimented with any short, just like 15 second content.
You know, I had one that I put up that was just this one, fear, false evidence appearing
real.
Okay.
I hardly got anybody watching it at all.
And like...
That's not true.
Susie watched it.
I'm just kidding.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm just joking.
Yeah.
It's been quite a while since I posted that too.
Okay.
Yeah.
824.
Yeah.
I see.
Yeah.
It may just be because it was the same thing on the screen the whole time.
Maybe.
Like if it was seven seconds where, like, you want to...
People would kind of wait to finish.
They may just see it and see that it's not moving and then they may move off of it.
Yeah.
Again, most...
The scenery was moving.
But they...
Right.
Yeah.
If it was like...
Even if it was fear and it said false evidence appears like that, then it'd be like, oh,
what does the R stand for?
Yeah.
Okay.
I mean, just because it keeps people to the end.
And all TikTok's caring about is like, what percentage of this video are people watching?
So if it's pretty static, meaning the text is just there, the imagery is nice, but yeah.
I would even try something even with...
Or even if you said, here's what I think about fear.
And then you showed this clip, that could work as well.
And you could just reuse this as well.
But if it was you on screen saying, here's how I chose to think about fear and then just
show it, right?
Okay.
Yeah.
That would be...
You just got to experiment with it a little bit to find it, so.
All right.
Yeah.
Great.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Good job.
I'm so excited to see what it's...
Yeah.
So you got just 900 people more to go.
So close.
Awesome.
Okay.
So, I would love to, especially some of the people who just joined in this intensive,
I know...
So Candy or Gloria, Milton, love to hear from you guys.
I haven't heard...
I can just start picking on people.
Or if you guys want to go in a particular order.
Let's...
Milton, if you're free, I'd love to just check in, say hi.
I haven't chatted with you in a minute.
If you're there, maybe you're doing something else.
No, I'm...
How are you doing?
I'm actually...
Wonderful.
I'm actually at the airport waiting for my wife to come back from Italy, so.
And you're talking to us?
Of course.
Yeah.
How's everything going on your side?
It's great.
First of all, I just want to say, this has been an amazing journey for me.
Almost a lifelong ambition to reach a million people for Christ, since I was a teenager,
that's been my objective.
Oh my goodness.
Hold on one second.
This might be the worst time.
Now she's calling.
Wait a minute.
Okay, no problem.
We can talk next time.
That's...
All right.
Thanks, man.
All right.
That's good.
And let me just note something here.
I was just pulling up his account.
I can just say something really quickly.
I haven't posted very much lately.
I've had so many other things I've had to do, so I can't really
give you much of an update right now.
Um, but, uh, my, you know, some of my videos are still, I think it's been a few
days and, um, but yeah, so I'll have to get back into that.
Um, but I've had a lot of breakthroughs in other ways in my life.
So praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Victories, victories, victories.
So thank you, Lord.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Something I did read something that it just really hit me and it's for every one of us.
I was reading an article.
I'm sorry.
I didn't share it.
I just, I came across this, that people's attention spans, um, are
basically between 10 and 15 seconds.
And that they've shortened and it really spoke to me.
Um, I used to be in the sales industry and I used to be telemarketer and,
you know, things like this was like, okay, you have to, you have to, like,
I would call people and try to sell them.
And, you know, it was like the first five second was trying to keep these
people on the phone so that they could talk to me and, and, you know,
it's pretty much the same thing.
It's like just trying to get people to listen to what you have to say and how
sharp you have to be the first five to 10 seconds, actually five seconds.
And, um, but yeah, reading that, I just, um, it made me realize that, yes, um, I
really need to do shorter videos and, uh, you know, punches need to be, yeah, it's
just, uh, and at the same time though, you know, just trusting the Lord, we just
trust the Lord.
Um, but, um, but yeah, it was, it was a good information for me to, to, to come
across and yeah, confirm, you know, shorter videos are really key, really,
really key.
And the TikTok attention span is three to five seconds.
Um, that's kind of the study as well.
So it's like, that's why we keep, you know, being picky about those first five
seconds, but you're right.
Like people, especially for people are just getting introduced to you, like
keeping around that 15 seconds, um, can be really good just to put a few things
out there.
Um, cause you look like every piece of content you put out there is like an,
it's like a ad or a billboard essentially to kind of come to your online ministry.
So it's each little piece of content is potentially something that could lead
people over to your account to watch more videos, to connect with you in some way.
And so, um, it, whichever, if it's a, if it works for seven seconds or 15 seconds
or 30 seconds, like whatever the, the, the, uh, pieces we, we only really saw
significant exponential growth with Lindsay's account once we did the short
form, but we did all the long form first, which was a lot of work, um, putting out
three to five minute videos, um, edited and all that each, every single day.
Um, whereas then we, when we did the short form, we actually saw crazy grow.
That's why we're trying to help you guys start with short form, get the biggest
bang for your buck as far as like the time investment going in, in the beginning.
Um, and then once your audience starts building, then start to move into some
longer form content and bring those people who already know who you are.
And then you don't end up, you know, investing a lot of time and energy, um,
up front to a very small audience.
So awesome.
Yeah.
And sorry.
So short form as well, like any, we're saying less than 60 seconds is short
form, but I would say when you're like, even try some of those like short, short.
Videos of like under 15 seconds.
It's all, it's all short, right?
Like compared to a sermon, all, everything we're doing is short, right?
Like compared to a 45 minute or 60 minute sermon, um, you know, a
TikTok video, a YouTube video, it's all very, very short.
Um, but yeah, typically just, um, something, and when we say short form,
we're particularly talking about TikTok and Instagram reels, YouTube shorts.
So, um, but that's, that's good.
Yeah.
Well, thanks for that.
I see.
Um, Amy had a question about Facebook.
If you want to, um, do that, we can talk about that for a second.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
I don't know if you remember a few weeks ago, like I was so excited because my,
my Facebook count had just, you know, blossomed within the first few days of
whatever change they were making, you know, where they were really
beginning to promote the reels.
And since that day, I literally have not gotten any more followers, like maybe.
maybe two or three.
And so what can I do?
Let me find your account real quick
and then let me pull it up and see what we can see here.
And you still kept posting, is that right?
I did, and for a while what I was doing
that I learned differently from a meeting
but I was like doing a post,
you know, my short form with a post
and I've switched, I mean, I was doing post
and alternating with it with a reel
to see if one did better.
And then you said do reel, so now I'm doing all reels.
And I haven't posted any of my long form
and probably won't until October,
kind of taking a break.
So just looking, it's our 20th, so this is yesterday.
I mean, this is great that you're getting engagement.
I obviously can't see like the number of views
from this side.
Yeah, well, I can't either.
I mean, from either my phone or my iPad,
I haven't tried going on.
Yeah, so if you go to, let me find it real quick,
Career Studio, you should be able to get some stats
for the Facebook side of things.
If I go to, let's just go here, Insights.
So I'm in like the Creator Studio.
I'll drop this link in case anybody needs it.
And you can go to Pages.
Let me just, I got too many things selected.
There we go.
So then it'll show you like the reach here
as far as like, and then any net followers.
So it tracks like how many new followers to the page.
And then also how many people have like under 20,
people have like unfollowed you.
So 28 people have unfollowed,
and 214 are new followers just in the last week.
And then you'll see engagement, clicks, comments, shares.
And this is just the last week,
but I could probably go back.
Like I would typically,
I always look at typically at the last 30 days.
See, look how much of a better picture this shows.
Like who knows what happened on this one day,
we had 250 people.
So we'd go back and see,
was that one post that did that?
The engagement was just like insane on the 28th.
Yes, and it was that post they took down
because it kind of, one religious comment,
somebody that was like,
did not like me personally praying the word
over the audience.
And so anyway, and then while I was looking at it,
they took it down.
Okay.
Well, you could definitely try to post it again
because it was the comment, right?
That caused it.
Yes, and I think I did.
And I'll have to look at that.
There's so many cool,
I mean, there's an infinite amount of like,
but all these video views are gonna be also
including your reels now.
And you can see like,
it was just one minute viewers will see
like video performance and retention is really good
is what I would look at.
Cause it's just how long people,
so 47,000, three second views,
which is that's one, two, three.
And then someone's skipping over.
So that's not super exact.
15 second.
And, but then look at the,
it's only 72 watched a full minute, right?
So it's not that, not that.
Well, and most of mine are under a minute.
They're not a full minute watch.
These were probably like some of the long form.
So these are some other problems with like long form.
We are not posting reels right now to Facebook.
We need to start doing that for Lindsay,
but we're not doing it right now.
So yours may look a lot better than this.
Cause these are all for like five to 10 minute videos.
But we really have not pushed Facebook very hard at all.
But you can also jump over to Instagram
and then look just at,
let's just look at this one here.
This will obviously show you like
just a nice little table here.
It's a little easier than jumping around on the profile.
You can see all your likes
and you can even, I think, sort by that.
Let me just look at the last 28 days
and you can just see which ones were popular.
The insights tab has all kinds of stuff
around profile visits.
Really interesting to see that,
like how people actually going from the content
back to the profile.
And then you can even reach obviously
just how many people your content's in front of.
And then I think the audience,
it'll just kind of tell you men, woman split.
And then which days are your follows on Instagram.
Honestly, like that's pretty much not super interesting
cause they're all exactly the same.
So maybe it changes by like.
like two or 300 between days.
So, but we can also see like most of the people
are coming from the US and then India,
but almost half the people are from US.
So it's just kind of interesting
to look at some of those things.
This is not stuff you have to look at every day
or every week.
It's kind of like a once a month or every couple months,
just kind of like peek at it and see what's going on.
You can obviously schedule content out here
if you're not scheduling stuff here, you can create a video.
I don't know if you can put a reel through this yet though,
but it does show you like that a reel was put up
here on the 20th and I can jump to it,
kind of see it in this post view.
So that was probably like a lot more information
than you were asking for.
Well, no, all of it was very helpful.
Yeah, I mean, yeah.
So I haven't even known where to see
how many followers I have.
Because see here it says 1,000,
but anyway, that just helps me.
I'll get on my computer and take a look at it.
We are experimenting a little bit
with Kingdom Messengers this way.
Let me just kind of jump over there.
I'll just show you guys if you are doing Facebook.
When I'm looking at it as an admin,
you can click on Insights right here on the left sidebar
if you're an admin, and it will take you to a version
of kind of what I was looking at just on the Facebook level.
It's all kind of the same data,
it's just different ways to get to it.
So that's just one click there
on what they call Insights.
But just looking here, yeah, I think they have the growth.
Let me just check which is the one I was looking for.
So growth, that's right.
So followers, oh, nope, followers.
We can actually see, see this is kind of helpful
to see that just in that one day,
we grew by like 60 people in this one post.
But what's interesting is we've been kind of stagnant
for a long time, and then we just started posting the reels
and the growth has gone up significantly.
So look at, I mean, this is a great graph
of like when we started posting reels, right?
Like nothing was happening here,
and then all of a sudden, organic followers,
we also started running some ads,
but then at the same time, we got some unfollows.
So that's just kind of par for the course,
but yeah, you can kind of see
where people are following you as well.
So that's helpful.
Reels are still very new to Facebook,
so there's not a whole lot specific to reels on Facebook,
but it is in here, so, cool.
So, but yeah, I mean, it looks pretty good to me
as far as like you're getting like 60-ish likes and follows.
I would keep posting there and see what happens.
And I do see that like you were hovering around 400
just a couple of weeks ago, and now you're at 1,000.
Right?
Right.
On 1051, yeah.
So like on the 16th, like you had 407 on August 16th,
so 30 days ago, you added 600 people.
So whatever you're doing, I would keep doing that.
And yeah, you may just not see it.
Like we're posting them, but we're not seeing them.
Like we're posting them,
but we're kind of posting them blind right now.
But we actually have like almost,
we have 2,600 people following us,
but you're getting a lot more engagement.
Right?
So I'm seeing like five likes here, seven, 10.
Yours were like, had like 60-ish likes per video.
So I think your engagement's doing really well.
We have just not been very active on this page.
So we're kind of refiring this up the last month or so.
But yeah, I would keep, definitely keep doing it.
There's not a way right now to do ads,
to like push reels on Facebook just yet.
When that does happen,
we'll probably create some training around that.
It's very confusing because it says boost a post,
and then you could boost it to new people.
But then as soon as you, this loads,
it basically says like, this is not available for reels.
And I don't know why it takes so long
for this to load every time.
But see, then it says this post can't be boosted.
So not very helpful.
But at some point when they do that,
that would be very helpful
because you could then push and promote this
with $5 a day or something to push.
push it harder, so, anyway.
Okay, all right.
Okay, well, that's all very helpful, truly.
So, thank you.
Awesome.
Cool.
So, very good.
I would love to, let's see, I know Candy as well,
and we can speak to,
we can look at Bridget's account, i.e. mom.
If you guys have any questions.
See, Reva jumped on, Xavier.
Here's a welcome to, I see Bobby.
Yeah, let's go to Bobby.
And then we'll come.
Okay.
Oh, you're muted.
Okay, so both of you guys.
We can go to, yes.
You can look at mine, Bruce, if you want to.
I mean, I don't have a lot of activity.
Okay.
So, I've been sick the last week,
so I haven't posted anything,
but I think a lot of my questions have been answered.
I mean, it seems like it'll be the same thing.
The only, my question was, I had that one of 1,400 views.
That is the only three-minute one I've done,
and everything else has been, you know, pretty low.
Yeah, this one here.
Remember that.
It is interesting,
and there looks like quite a bit of good engagement.
Yeah.
Just people saying, thanks.
I would definitely try to,
the beginnings of it,
like I would just trim the beginning a little bit,
so you jump right to the you speaking part,
because there's still,
even with the one with the 1,400,
there's like a two or three-second gap
before you start speaking.
So, those are some like easy things to do.
I definitely would,
I don't think you're reposting them to Instagram.
No, I've only done TikTok.
Okay.
Because that's the only way I know.
That's fine, yeah.
I guess I can work on that.
Practice.
Yeah.
So, you could,
even if you just took the videos,
like that get exported from Facebook,
there's a great little video on the Kingdom Messenger site,
or if Tamara,
I don't know if you can grab that video
just to showing how to like cross post.
And we'll drop the link in the chat here.
Sure, sure, okay.
And then,
yes, she's going to grab it for you.
That's awesome.
And it just steps you through like
how to go and do the cross posting.
Cross posting, okay.
Sure.
Yeah.
And then.
Well, I'm encouraged.
I mean, to me,
I feel like there's 100 or 200 people more
that are listening to me
than if I was sitting at home doing nothing.
So, I'm not discouraged at all.
I think it's exciting,
but I would like to be more constant.
Hey, mommies and dads.
Yeah.
That's good.
And this is another Kingdom Messenger.
That's great.
Very good.
Yeah, I think that just the trimming stuff,
I would definitely try it on Instagram.
I feel like a lot of your Who is going to be on Instagram.
Oh, really?
Not TikTok?
Okay.
Yeah, just because it's a lot of young moms.
Young moms and dads, yeah.
Right.
Okay.
I mean, I think they're on TikTok too,
but I think you may be able to find them a lot.
I mean, just some of your other ones have done very well
that were posted a long time ago.
I think that might've been, yeah, okay.
Yeah, either way, it's on your account.
And so, it may just be good to go.
And you can go back and every one of these,
you can go and repost on TikTok.
I mean, on Instagram.
And then you said I can just read from my book.
Also, it'd be pretty easy.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, but again, I think a lot of like yours
and Holly, I think are kind of similar.
Yes.
But as far as the content,
but if you can speak very specifically
to the problem that people are having.
So if you say, you know,
here's what to do in this like problem situation
with your child, or here's how to, you know,
when your child is doing this, here's what I recommend.
Here's the kingdom perspective of what that looks,
you know, or solution for that.
But start with the, so not the negative,
but start with the problem.
Like, oh yes, this is a problem for me right now.
I can't get my kids to sleep.
I can't get them to listen to me.
I can't get them to stop, you know, whatever.
You know, I can't even sit still during dinner.
Like be very specific about the little problem.
You may be keep sharing the same solution,
you know, the same thing,
but then just do a different problem
and then tie it back to the same solution
and like a different problem.
And then, you know, it may be kind of a few themes.
Try not to like generalize like a whole principle
and expect them to apply it in their lives to,
oh, well that may apply to this part of it
or this part of this part.
Just be really blunt and specific and say,
hey, are you struggling with this thing?
Here's the, you know, solution.
solution for that. And that's an easy little template you can use for people.
And then again, you kind of help them with that one problem.
And then you may have other things that they get from that.
Again, you probably have way too much content.
You and Bobby and a few other authors in here.
You guys have a ton of content.
It's just it's the editing is the issues.
Like, how do you get it?
How do you basically put that hook in the front?
And that tension.
Right.
And Amy is saying as well, many of my who are moms with kids and they're mostly
on Instagram, so that's interesting, like as far as timing and effort,
I would just almost pause starting on TikTok and posting on TikTok
and then go and watch this video that I'm not sorry.
Yeah, I got the link. Thank you.
Yeah, and I think
in here real quick.
So I think it's also on.
You guys should all have access to this
on demand challenge, but I think it's under.
Oh, I don't think it's in here. Yeah, no, you're right.
Tamara was right here, leveraging short form.
Yes, so it's it's on
it's on this video, I think, is the main one
how to like post on Instagram.
That's ten minutes.
And this will kind of walk you through step by step.
Post it.
And so just just that would be so you don't even need to necessarily go film any
more content. I would just take one of these videos.
If you go to the photos app on your phone, you'll see all of the finished TikTok.
You'll see the little TikTok logo on it.
For now, you can just go ahead and repost those as is
to you don't even have to edit them.
You don't have to add music.
You don't have to put text on them.
Just take them from TikTok and just put them straight on.
OK, one after the other, each day.
Yeah. One a day or something like that.
And just see how that does that.
So spend all the effort basically on
reposting everything you've done today and then kind of see which one's working.
You may end up finding that you only do Instagram and stop.
Pause on TikTok.
Yeah, that's very helpful.
Thank you. OK, awesome.
Sounds good.
And then we'll go.
I think Bobby had her hand raised.
Yes, there we go.
I just have a few technical things.
You reviewed my last time and that was helpful.
I'm working on the suggestions that you and Lindsay made, but
for TikTok, I keep getting a like a little flash
that says, can we look at your contacts?
Should I open my contacts up to them or no?
I don't think that you need to
your social media.
So for Facebook or Instagram or TikTok,
they're all going to ask for that because they're trying to help
bring you into the platform so that they know your friends with, you know,
Lindsay and they see that in that person in your contact.
They may try to suggest that you should follow Lindsay, for example,
or they may show some of her content to you to try to get you to follow her.
So they're just trying to learn more about you.
So as much as you want to share, I normally don't share that.
OK, I know you're on your iPhone.
You just go to your settings
and you can pull it up quick.
And we'll go here.
So your screen.
So in your settings, you can go down to privacy and security
and then under contacts, you can actually choose
all of the apps that you want to share there.
So I have like any, you know,
it's like social media stuff.
You can just uncheck it.
I don't have any social media.
I just don't have any social media stuff on here.
Yeah. OK, thank you so much.
And then
I'm notion.
Is there any way I'm scrolling, scrolling, scrolling?
Can I make the bottom actually the top on notion?
So my.
Let my.
Previous ones would be at the bottom.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And you can just text me something or not
text me, but I mean, if you don't want to take time now to go on there,
I'm going to find real quick for you.
I haven't done enough.
It's a huge problem.
But when you start having a lot more posts, I can think I'll be scrolling a lot.
Yeah, it's so quick.
So basically.
But when you open it, like this is the Notion template,
I think you're, you started with.
So if you go to the very top here,
there's an option here called sort.
Okay.
This is just, if you click sort,
and then right now it's saying go by publish date
with it as ascending.
So it's basically going from the oldest to the newest.
So if you just switch this to descending,
now like the most recent one is going to be on the top
and the oldest one will be on the bottom.
Okay.
I thought I did that, but.
And then what you need to do is just go to the very top here
and it says save for everyone, just so that it does save.
That's the next time if you go away and then come back,
then it's going to reload it that way as well.
Okay.
That's good.
And then should we,
should we all of us be identifying
because we are kingdom messengers,
but is there a way like, should we have a,
should it be hashtag kingdom messengers
or should we, so like, you know what I'm saying?
We don't have to, but I'm just,
I wonder if I missed something if,
cause that would make sense down the road if,
you know, you guys have millions of kingdom messengers,
like.
Right.
Don't.
Prophesy it.
Like of course.
Well, I see it.
So I, that's what made me think of it to ask for,
cause it's manageable now,
but eventually you'd want a way to,
I don't know if the hashtag would be the hashtag or,
I don't know.
I just, just.
I think you could.
So I think a lot of people I see are using the hashtag
kingdom, like, and I know that kingdom parenting,
kingdom marriage, you know?
So I think the word kingdom is probably there.
Yeah.
I think, I mean, definitely you could use hashtags there.
I've seen, you know, who's done some really fun stuff.
I saw Reva who's here and she just jumped in.
She did like,
like a, it's called a duet.
So she did,
she took like a video of something we posted on our account
for kingdom messengers.
And she did a duet where it's basically her next to it,
giving a reaction or just pointing to it.
So basically kind of links her account and our account a
little bit together.
And you guys could do that if you, you know,
we have a lot of people saying a lot of awesome stuff here
to just kind of basically boost and encourage other people
that you, you like, right?
Cause there's a, if people like your content,
they may like other people in this group,
their content as well.
So by you kind of sharing it with a duet,
that's a good way to do it.
Okay.
I could find that.
And then the last thing is for YouTube,
I've been doing shorts.
I think that's what they're called,
but they don't appear on my channel.
Like with some of the longer form stuff,
like my God appointments channel.
So where do they go?
Or does,
or do I have to do something to get them in that library or?
Yeah.
Well, for some reason I don't,
have you done your set up your dashboard with us?
I did for Instagram and,
cause I only started those with this group.
And then I don't think I've done my YouTube
or my Facebook, I think.
We'll, we'll check on that.
Cause for some reason I'm not seeing any of your links
in here, but we'll make sure that we add that.
Cause I don't have like a quick link
where I could just jump to it from the dashboard.
Okay.
Basically for the YouTube stuff,
it's not gonna by default show it on your accounts.
Let me just jump to YouTube.
So if I go to my channel,
the videos that are down,
do you want to harness the power?
Sorry.
The videos down here are not going to automatically show,
it's actually not going to show anything
unless you start to set up what you want to see down here.
So you do that by going to customize channel.
And then in here,
you can actually go to these like featured sections
and you can set up each of those there.
So we have some stuff that's live.
We have like our, we have a playlist for tech Tuesday.
We just set up a bunch of different streams.
You don't have to do all of this,
but just having one that at least if you hit add section,
you can say, add the shorts right there.
So I could do a, I could do a row
just of all the shorts if I wanted to.
And then I could hit add section, popular videos.
I could just find that.
So that could work.
I was going to just see, what is your, is it?
My, well, my.
Channel used to be Got Appointments.
Obviously, yeah, there it is right there.
How'd you find that under my name?
Yeah, so that's longer form.
That's from a long time ago, but so I would go up to...
Gotcha, so, but either way,
that little customized channel here,
you would add a few things here and just add the shorts.
And then when you go to the top right here, hit publish.
Again, it says just like more for your own.
If someone does click on your channel, they'll see that.
No one is finding your content by going to your channel
and then finding your shorts.
They're just scrolling in their shorts on YouTube
and yours just may happen to come into their feed, so.
And I've only did a very few, so, okay, that's wonderful.
Yep, that's it.
Cool. Thank you so much.
No problem, cool.
And I think Reva was on here.
You had a question about your solo,
your link in Instagram.
Yeah, so I linked the YouTube channel to the TikTok.
And so that's up there right away,
but I noticed a lot of people have like a linked tree
or like we haven't built our web, well, we had a webpage,
but we let that go because it was with Splash Studios.
We haven't built a new one,
but I saw how maybe what we want to do is a Splash page
where it has like my TikTok,
Brad's TikTok or Instagrams,
and then all of the socials with the YouTube at the top.
Yeah.
So I just thought I would ask you
about what your recommendation would be
for having a Splash page or, you know.
Yes, so let me,
so let's go here.
So what we do is we use solo.
So think of exactly link tree,
but when you click on this,
it just goes to a list of links
that we are promoting different things right now.
So it can go, yeah,
I could say like watch Brett and Reva on YouTube,
like watch Reva on TikTok, like, you know,
so you can kind of send
to all your different stuff from there.
And I would, sorry, this is just for you
and maybe Paul or someone who's doing the musicians,
but I would definitely set up like a kit.co,
thing of all the gear,
like I'm sure Brett can geek out about that,
but you can, you go to kit.co and you set up like,
anyone who's a creator,
who's using like a lot of musical instruments
or tech or software stuff,
like you can go in here, you sign up,
it's all free and you can put in,
you just search for different things
and it essentially creates,
it creates like affiliate links.
So people click on it,
then it can basically,
Amazon will pay you essentially a 5%
of whatever someone buys.
So a lot of times for musicians,
you guys will have a cool piano sound
and they wanna go and like look up
and see how you made that piano sound, right?
So just a little side,
so we do that over here just because people do ask like,
hey, how do I, you know, do this?
So we have a little page on,
these are all the lights
and the stuff that we use to record posture.
So that's all there.
So yeah, solo.to,
there's a link that Tamara just dropped in here
that you can click on and there's a link you can,
it's just a free tool.
And this little tutorial will show you like,
show you how to set all that up.
And then what you'll do is it'll give you a link
when you're done and you just drop that here at the top.
So you do have to have over a thousand
and I did when I was pulling this up,
I saw Marian has definitely over a thousand
but she doesn't have any,
didn't have a link there.
So I don't know if there's any,
I would definitely add a link on here.
So this is not bad, like going to YouTube,
but just having that link there,
it's just one link you put in on all your platforms
and Brett could put the same link in as well.
Yeah.
And then you could,
it just kind of connects all of your stuff
and all of his stuff kind of into one page.
And honestly, like, this is probably all you need.
You don't need a website.
Yeah.
Connect all the different pieces
as people can find you different places.
Do you guys have a blog that you recommend?
Yeah.
I mean, like blogs or something.
It started on a WordPress, right?
So I abandoned that a while ago.
It's not bad.
WordPress is definitely one of the fine ones.
I would not put any effort honestly into blogging in 2022.
Right?
Right.
Just say it on a video.
If it was 2002, like I would be like going all in
and blogging because it's just,
but there's just so much saturation now,
but video is kind of helps you cut,
you know, past all that and having to do SEO and,
you know, trying to get traffic to your site.
It's just a whole different thing with video.
When going to these other platforms, you're essentially going to where all
the traffic is and you're just putting up content, um, where a lot of those
blog posts things, uh, you're having to go to a separate domain and you're
trying to drive a bunch of traffic.
That's not going anywhere, um, at the moment to try to get
them to go to your site.
So it's, it's very, um, competitive.
But what we do for now is we, um, set up Lindsey's, uh, we have used
a tribe site for all of her stuff.
So that's kind of her website right now.
And it's just all of her YouTube videos put into one place.
So it's not really a blog post, but we do use a WordPress site.
Um, we pay absolutely no attention to it.
Um, in fact, like the videos are probably like six months old as
far as stuff isn't on there.
Um, but there are people and there's people at kingdom messengers.
We've talked to who are doing a mate, like they're getting 10, 20,000
people a month hitting their blog.
Like, yes, keep doing that.
But to start a brand new blog on a brand new domain is quite a bit
of work, um, to do just from scratch.
To get, it's a long, it's a very long game.
Um, so, um, yeah, we're getting maybe 200 visitors a month to
Lindsey's site, which 200 people tell us the devotionals, not it's
way more fun to have her tell it.
Yeah.
And that's the thing is like, it's really the difference between
video and written content is the battle.
It's not so much blog versus tick tock or WordPress versus tick tock.
It's that people are, they really do want to just watch
someone tell them the information.
Um, they don't want to read the information anymore.
So that's why, especially if you've got a book, like some of the authors
here, putting all this into video form actually makes it digestible
and they can get peace now.
They still will go read your book.
Even if you, you know, gave the whole thing to them.
Um, but, uh, it's just one of those things where people like they're just
people, I don't want to say they're lazy.
It's just that people have gotten accustomed to just sort of flipping
channels and scrolling infinitely, uh, which is great if you can get their
attention, um, anyway, yeah.
So that's good.
Good discussion.
Yeah.
Awesome.
Cool.
Um, and let me just, since I had your account up, I think you did do that.
Here time is now, this is kind of what this looks like if anyone was wondering.
Uh, so you go to a video and then there's a button on it
that says do at this video.
So then we've just recorded herself.
And then the other, our tech talk that we posted from our
account is on the right.
And her video is being recorded on the left.
So she can kind of respond to it or whatever.
Um, definitely cool.
And it will tag, see it tags like do it with kingdom messenger.
And then it tags all these things.
So if you clicked on kingdom messenger, you'd be over
into our account watching it.
Um, so that's a cool idea.
Definitely.
If you guys are, uh, looking for content and you need an easy content
day and you don't have time to make something new, just borrow someone
else's content and kingdom messengers, make it, you know, just kind of, it's
kind of like sharing someone else's content, but it comes through your
account, so it still gives your account some traffic sharing is caring.
That's right.
Awesome.
You have another question?
I didn't have a question, but you're mentioning, uh, SEO reminded, you've
asked about anyone had victories, uh, in the beginning and I had forgotten
completely about this till you said that, but I was on Google and I did a quick
search on overwhelmingly conquered.
I was looking for something else completely.
And when I clicked enter and I saw the results at first, I didn't realize
that my face was staring back at me.
But the fourth result was actually one of my videos on that.
I posted on YouTube about overwhelmingly conquering.
And so I thought that was really cool.
I think you might be muted.
I can't hear you.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Uh, so overwhelmingly late conquering is always said
overwhelmingly conquer.
Oh, um, yeah, that's awesome.
Yeah.
Uh, so because YouTube and TikTok and YouTube and TikTok has also got
amazing SEO now, but YouTube obviously is owned by Google.
If you search for keywords, a lot of, um, YouTube, uh, things
will show up as results there.
So you actually, your videos on YouTube are now competing with
someone else's blog posts, right?
So you actually could see like Joe's video, someone's blog posts, like kind
of all in a row on the results on Google.
Um, so by putting your keywords in, you're doing all that SEO
stuff kind of behind the scenes.
Um, but because it's video just naturally is pushed much further up the list.
So very cool.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Good job.
Awesome, guys, any other questions, technical things we can help with?
I'm happy to hang on for a minute or two and help anyone else.
I don't want you guys leaving with any questions unanswered.
Oh, I just saw something Reba posted that she has her Kingdom Messenger stuff
on her playlist on what, on your YouTube.
So we can do that, huh?
You can, yeah.
So you can create a play, your playlists don't have to just be your content on YouTube.
And again, it could be other people, doesn't have to be Kingdom Messengers,
but it could be other people's stuff.
But if you go to playlists or actually if you're on any video that's out here on YouTube,
let's just grab something.
So this is from Posture, but I'm on the Kingdom Messenger account, so I can actually go.
Here, and it may be a little confusing because I'm on two different accounts the way,
but you can, I know you can do it on the, where am I missing it here?
Anyway, you can add it to a playlist from in here, I think.
Oh, I can't find it right this very second, but.
Or if you're in the studio, you can go to playlists this way and hit new playlists
and say like, awesome content and hit create.
And then in here, you can just go in and like add anyone's content.
It doesn't have to be your own to this.
So, yeah, and it can be a public playlist.
And then you could add it to that home screen as well, sure.
Thank you.
Cool. No problem.
Yeah, if you guys have any, I see Reba's got questions about Kingdom Messenger TV,
definitely make sure you can get into that because everything we do now is happening inside
Kingdom Messenger TV.
We can easily reset your password pretty quickly.
So I'll make sure you guys can get in.
Awesome.
Okay, cool.
Well, we'll be back on Tuesday to start week eight.
So next week is kind of wrapping up September.
We're wrapping up this intensive.
We will have some information over the next week or so coming to you guys.
Lindsay and I have been working even this morning on kind of what the next intensive is going to be.
We are going to be doing another intensive is the short version starting in October.
It's not going to be about short form.
It's going to be about something different.
We've got a couple of really cool ideas of what you'd like to go into next.
And so we're definitely not going to leave you guys hanging.
And we'll have that.
We have quite a bit of different people who have come.
Some people have been here for months.
Some people just joined in August.
So you'll each get an email.
There'll be a video.
You can kind of explain.
We're not going to take time during our coaching time to talk about that just because we want to honor your guys time and actually get into content and help you guys with real problems.
So we'll do that.
And then if you have any questions, we can always chat with you guys next week.
So just a little heads up that that's coming.
All good stuff, though.
Cool. Great.
OK, guys, have a great weekend.
We'll see you on Tuesday or Monday for prayer night.
That's Monday night.
See you then.