So, today we're just going to jump in this is going to be a shorter training just because we actually are officially starting, you know, our week one next week but this is just kind of help build some momentum.
We had the time blocked out so we thought I thought I would share some of the.
This is one of the tools that I use and Lindsay uses for all of our content management. So, this is one of the tools that we use to write ideas down to capture ideas to help schedule out which which content is going out on which day.
And all of that is, is going to be happening here. So I'll give people a few more minutes now that I'm actually live. You guys are welcome to unmute at any point but up your hand like just interrupt me if you've got questions.
This is going to be very very casual, definitely not a formal training.
So, let's do that so let me get my.
What I was going to show you up here.
Hey candy How's it going.
How's it going.
I see we got Janice joining as well. Hey Janice, good to see you.
Awesome guys.
So yeah, we're going to jump into talk about this one tool that will help you organize your content, and we'll go through it that way so feel free to unmute if you guys have questions interrupt me, and we're going to just kind of my main thing is just to help share
some of how we're doing our content management and hopefully that will help some of you guys out.
Okay, cool.
So, let me share my screen.
So today I'm going to be talking a little bit about notion. And so this is one of the tools that I can get to the right website that we use all the time so let me get signed I want to show you kind of everything.
Here that's a, that is made up of notion so notion is like very simple tool to essentially just track notes.
So you can put content in there you can add a video to it if you wanted to.
And it lets you just kind of organize your thoughts in one place so if you're using word docs or Google Docs or something like that to organize things, it can be a little bit crazy.
So before I get into like the whole digital stuff we use notion for our business, but for me personally, like paper notebook. So if you're more of a paper notebook person for ideas.
Keep doing that.
We do a little bit of each, so that we can help.
Sometimes, it's good to have a copy that can't get deleted or I can't lose this book and all my ideas right here and I lose it. This is more just for me to take down notes sketch out some things.
Remarkable is good. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, I love that. I also have like an iPad which I'll use from time to time.
Use whatever you're most comfortable with. And what I'll be sharing is kind of how we use a tool like notion you guys can apply that same thing to other apps, it doesn't have to be.
You don't have to use notion. We do have a notion template that that I'll share with you guys today. So you can, you can get it and let me get back into sharing it.
So, let me grab the link. First of all, and you don't have to do this.
You don't have to put your email and I'm just gonna send you the direct link.
So let me before I share it let me kind of tell you how notion actually works. We.
There's a lot of different ways to view so we've got kind of a content calendar here so we've got a title for the episode, it's gonna be more for YouTube, potentially, we, you know, she organizes into seasons.
You don't have to, to use seasons.
Each, it's kind of like a spreadsheet so it's like a table, but you can click open, and then it opens up a whole bunch of stuff for that for that one episode so you can then write your script you can put your notes you can put you know what scriptures
what your video description is going to be. So, that can all happen kind of in this one spot. And then there's different ways to view the same data so there's like you can look at it in a table but if I flip over to calendar.
I can actually drop particular contents if I wanted to do something on, you know, this date I can create something new here's let's just these this is an old templates let's just say like August 5.
This is, I'm not signed in yet so I can't start editing things that's why it's not working, let me just jump in.
Cool.
So, whoops.
Messengers content planning, there we go.
And you can see there's like a plus button here.
So if I wanted to plan out an episode for Monday, I could say like, you know,
Monday's, uh, episode, and then I can put all my notes in here.
And the cool thing about Notion that what I really like about it, is it, um, is
that it doesn't let you, uh, change the fonts and doesn't let you change really
any colors, like you can make things a title or a heading if you want, but
it's very, very minimalist.
So you're not going to get distracted and all your notes will kind of look
the same when you put them in.
So I do do like that.
Um, and so, uh, you know, you can then drag this to like a different date.
You can kind of plan out, you know, where that, where that is.
Um, it's just a, it's a great tool to kind of track everything and kind of like
a database, but, um, and it's on the cloud, so you can kind of use it.
Notion is a hundred percent free.
There's nothing you have to pay for that.
Um, so when I, um, if you use the link that's there in the comments and I'll
add this to the notes as well, for people who are watching the replay, um, you can,
there's a duplicate button at the top, right.
And you can copy this entire template right into your own, uh, Notion accounts.
And so you can kind of change it to make it look however you want.
So, um, for example, if we don't want to see, uh, we don't want to see this, uh,
season thing, there's a way to like hide the season column.
Um, this was for YouTube.
So we had the thumbnail text.
You don't have to worry about that if it's a tick tock.
Um, and so when you're ready, there's even templates.
So if you click the top right here and you click new it, um,
and you can click new episode.
It goes and grabs like a checklist for you.
So like member plan, produce, publish, promote, hopefully
that's sounding familiar now.
Um, you know, so the planning is like, Hey, focus on one big idea, quick intro,
keep it short, like end with a call to action.
And so you can kind of check these things off if you want,
just for this one episode.
And then it says, okay, film it.
So let's go ahead and like film in a quiet place, do that, you know,
make sure the camera looks good, whatever.
Um, trim the beginning to eliminate any dead space at the beginning.
You know, if you have a, this is for YouTube.
If you have a title and description, um, if you want to do a thumbnail
in Canva for YouTube, you don't have thumbnails in Tik TOK.
Um, and then, you know, you can upload and schedule it to the
different platforms and so forth.
So it's got a little checklist.
So when this one episode goes up, you can just make sure, Hey, did I do
everything I was supposed to do for this episode or, you know, to skip something?
Um, just helpful to have that.
And then, um, that is all down there.
So if you want to customize this all you want, it is extremely flexible.
So you can change it to how, whatever you want.
Um, and we have our entire business like rolled into notion.
So every, uh, note about kingdom messengers, if we do a coaching call
with you, we have a, we can pull up your page in our database here.
And I can see that I'm talking to Hillary and, Oh, we had a
conversation two weeks ago and Hey, she needed help with this a few weeks ago.
Like, so we can, we track all of that in notion.
Um, it's very flexible.
And so, uh, this is kind of the tool.
I definitely want to, uh, take some time to like, um, here, if you guys have
questions, you know, definitely unmute yourself or jump in, uh, we can talk,
tell you what there's a, we could probably do like a multi-part masterclass.
Uh, on notion, but, um, maybe at a, at another, another time.
So, um, I'll tell you really quick, kind of how it's, how it's structured.
Um, so if you do, um, want to create an account, what I should have done
is create like a brand new account.
That's what we should have done.
Um, but I'll go in here.
I'm going to make a new page.
This will be my, so everything starts with a page.
So we'll say this is my, um, page here and you can obviously put text in, but
then what's cool, let me leave the sidebar open.
Let me just close everything in my world.
So we go to, um, new page.
You can actually make a page inside of this page.
I'll just make my like sub page here.
And so you can see like it it's infinitely now this one, you can put text
on and this one can have a sub page.
Right.
So now you've got like a page within a page, within a page.
And so this, if you're a creative, um, which we all are creative, uh, this
is something that it doesn't, you don't have to fit a template or
a formula for any of this stuff.
So if you just start like outlining randomly, like, okay, I'm doing, uh, my
TikTok and then I got all my stuff kind of down, or here's what I'm learning,
my notes, anything like that.
So you can keep just adding stuff to it.
Um, and then all that, this, this is the, uh, the template here is just a database.
You can either have a page or a database now, and database is just
a group of pages essentially.
So if I click on this episode, I have like, I can still make comments and.
And I can have pages within that so I don't want to get it's, there's a lot to it once you kind of get the, the idea for it. It's just very very flexible so you're not having to go to a very specific.
You need a Hillary says she needs a BA to go with notion well that that we can't help you with just yet.
So, yeah, I'd love to hear from you guys like is that helpful, I'd love to hear what systems you guys are using.
Let's start there.
Right now I throw everything in notes, and so it's just an unlimited series, I just keep opening note pages or Google Docs, and so like, it's everywhere.
So this would be pretty miraculous for me. Yeah.
The cool thing about digital, like I love my my analog notes because it's right here and I can just scribble down little quick things, but it is searchable like digital things are searchable so Lindsay does this and that's kind of the templates maybe
I can also show you what what it actually looks like when she's using it so she has a posture page. And so, this could be, this could kind of give you an idea of how you could set this up for your channel so she has things like links to her Facebook
page like just stuff that you need.
And then her scripts in here or her episodes I believe where episodes here posture episodes. So she has the same template here. It's just got like all like 200 or so videos, but you can see how powerful this would be like if she wants to see if she's
something before like Isaiah 26, she could actually search, like, Isaiah 26 and look others actually two episodes that like talked about that scripture so very very cool that you can like just check, you know, it have I talked about this already or like
do I need to, you know, change it or something that that's a good way to do it.
Have you ever used rocket book I Michael bought me a couple I just haven't like you actually write in it as a journal because I love to write, and you can upload what you write and then you can erase what you've written, so I, I don't, I haven't tried it
yet, because it's all learning curve I have to actually set it up and upload but I didn't know if if you had any experience with that.
I had I actually have played with it before yes I have, I have one.
I look we can talk about like productivity like tools like this for hours but I think just keeping it the simplest possible. I've tried like going with an iPad and more of a digital approach.
We've tried the analog we've tried variations of that where this is very digital as far as you're typing text and I've also tried iPad where you're like just scribbling down notes which be more like rocket book.
Look, you have to find like whatever works for you. I think part of what a piece like when, when I show like hey guys look at this cool tool you guys are like oh my gosh I want my stuff to look like that.
It just looks so nice and organized but it's taken us like months and months of just like keep adding to it. So the worst thing you can do with any system or tool is to change it every few weeks right pretty like every few months because then you've
got like some stuff over in this system some over here. So we pick things like postures, you know, scripts are all in this one place.
So, Lindsay will write them, sometimes in a Google Doc just because she'll pull it up real quick she'll start to write something but then she'll bring it into here and she's just in the habit of like archiving it here so it's ready to go.
And then when I'm ready I'm editing it for her. I'll go in there and grab like the, well that's not a good example because that was our music one but I can go in here and grab like what is the text she wants on the thumbnail.
This is the title she wants on YouTube.
Here's all the scriptures she used so when I'm looking for my keywords or my hashtags for TikTok.
These are going to be a good place to start for the hashtags.
And so she had then she has her script so like every word that was said on the episode is also in here so that's cool.
Yeah, so that's, that's kind of system but, but if you, you know, over time if you start having a team or someone who's going to help you or you do get a virtual assistant to do some of these things.
You know we had things in here I think around like promotion, where like on TikTok.
We had that's not her password anymore.
But we had, you know, all the links and stuff for where, you know, her website is her style guide like we want to make sure we capitalize certain things.
And Lindsay had a thing where she like never wanted capitalize references to Satan so just like little style guide thing she notes all that. So we have someone on our team that that that does post her Tick Tocks for her.
And so he were able to use this specifically and these are the keywords we use on pretty much every YouTube video.
You know we had some tutorials I think that we had like when scheduling YouTube exporting a thumbnail like how does that all work so it just gave us like a place to put things and and like kind of the, it's like making a manual on how to how to do posture
stuff so we can that's just very helpful.
You know, we do a lot of systems and routines and helping people do various things so because your, your channels will grow you may have some people helping you in the future so just good and even if you're the only one who has to, you have to work
with yourself, it's worth staying organized right. Even if you're the one who has to like pick it up you're like okay I know where things go. This makes sense so
he does has used Trello before so let me show if you guys are Trello users and I love Trello as well I don't use it because notion does does all that for you so let me jump in here and just show you
how powerful this is so looking at a database here you can actually look at the same data, a number of different ways so I can actually create a new view here and one of the options is a board.
Now, I can organize the content and columns and I can kind of drag them around to different things now I don't really want to do it by season. So I could say like filter by something new so let me actually add a new thing here.
I thought we had a status here.
So I'll do status.
Sorry, select.
And so we'll have let's make some statuses that it's like idea.
You know, in progress draft mode maybe it's like a draft and tick tock, and then it's like, you know, published.
Now, if I made my columns, and you guys go back I know I'm kind of going fast but I'm happy to slow down and show you guys as I'm just going to group.
Sorry, I'm going to do this, and I'm going to group this by not the seasons
group by status. So now you can see these don't have statuses let's say these are all my ideas. I can put that an idea column.
I can have like in progress so you can see like okay here's my episode I'm going to work on these this week, so I go through I work on those.
And then I get them to a draft status, and that way they're like sitting in tick tock as a draft, and then come, you know, the when I actually want to post it I can then drag it over to publish and it kind of gets off my list.
So you can see like how quickly. You could create something like that and now I can look at it as a table, I can look at it on the calendar. I look at it as a board it's all the same document like there's episode one, and it has these different things
to it so I just wanted to show you how flexible it is so that if you don't like how one of these things look like you don't have to use it that way. I personally love the board.
Look, and in fact I'm going to make one more column here.
And as I'm changing this master template like when you guys copy you're going to get these new board so if you haven't duplicated it yet, wait till the end because I'm making it better as we go.
So we're gonna make a new group here called like a to do column.
So what's nice about this is you may have like 100 ideas like and all of us have ideas right, but you may not want to do anything with those ideas so what that means is you can actually say okay, this is a really good idea I'm going to actually put
that on my to do list now. And this one I really like and put that on my to do list, there's still a ton of ideas and I may never get to these I may may use them and may not, but it gives you the freedom to like just create space in your mind.
And so, a lot of times like when you're creative like, and sometimes we get a book and we you know we got this brand new book and all the pages are crispy and like everything just feels good so we don't want to waste the paper which is so silly, because
we just got this to keep all our ideas down but now we like, I don't want to waste papers I'm not going to like use this whole page just for one thing so this lets you just dump everything in there in the ideas you may, and it gives you the freedom to not and permission to never have to post those things.
So when you're, you know, out for a walk you get an idea you're at a heavy
and your quiet time, you get an idea for something,
throw it in there.
And then when you're sitting back at your computer
and you wanna like, okay, now I gotta record.
Now you can kind of look through your ideas list
so you don't have to sit there
and start coming up with things from thin air.
And the cool thing about Notion is there is an iPhone app,
there's an Android app, there's an iPad app,
there's a desktop app so you can have it on your computer
and all of that is free.
So you can do all the things we're talking about for free.
So, cool.
Any questions about that that I can answer?
Thoughts?
Cool, I'm gonna keep making this better.
Let's show the publish date.
So I can put the dates on there as well.
And maybe I'll show, that's good,
we don't need season or anything.
So this can show like, okay,
that one I'm thinking of doing it on the 25th
and I could click on this
and I could change that publish date,
like actually no, let's move this to like next Wednesday.
And then this one, these are just really old.
So let me just make them more relevant.
That one's gonna be the next Wednesday.
And then if I flip to my calendar,
you can see it's already updated.
This one's going on the 10th, that's going on the 17th.
And I can still be on the calendar and click on it
and get right back to this pop-up
with all the things for that episode.
So it's just different ways to look at the exact same data.
So it's kind of like Trello and Google Docs, but in 3D,
like you can do a lot of different things with it.
So does this seem helpful?
Let's take a couple, like,
let's have you guys share or just ask any questions.
Yeah, this seems amazing to me, Bruce.
I'm just like, I used to do Salesforce
and at first it was just so overwhelming
because you have that learning curve,
but then I became really good at it.
But is this the same way?
Like when you say, we'll give you a template,
I don't even know how to go about that.
Cause everything where I worked,
I had an assistant and she did all of everything for me.
So I'm totally, well, yeah, but I don't work that,
you know what I'm saying?
I'm kind of more retired now.
So it's like, I mean, so how,
will you do like a little class on this
if everyone kind of wants to go this way or?
Yeah, I mean, this is a great time if you've got,
if there's something I can show you,
let me back out of this account
and let me just kind of show you like from scratch
how to set it up in case,
cause I think like maybe feel like I said.
Should we do that in our phones like right now?
Cause I'm on the computer right now.
So should we download it?
Yeah, I would do it on the computer.
So if you, so I'm not signed in now,
so I'm going to do like, I'll do a totally new account here.
So we'll, I'm going to click on the link
that's in the description.
That's kind of a magic starting point is using that link.
And so anyone in the world who clicks that link
is going to get this template kind of pulled up.
And then now it's just viewable.
You can't like, if I click into this,
I can't actually edit it.
It's kind of locked right now.
So what we want to do is basically create
our own Notion account and then duplicate
this template into that.
So you can go to the top right here and click duplicate.
And then the first thing it's going to ask you to do
is either create an account
or you can use your Google account if you want.
I'll go ahead and create a new one here.
So I'm going to say Bruce plus, you know,
kingdom messengers.
I know you obviously put your real email
and this is a fake email and you say, continue with email.
So do we go into that?
I'm sorry to interrupt, but I mean, I know I just decided
I don't care if I sound stupid or not.
I'm just going to ask,
do I go into your link right now?
You can, yeah.
If you want to follow along,
you guys are welcome to do this exercise.
It's typically when you start doing the thing,
then you're going to have 10 times more questions
once you start moving forward.
Okay, so I see the duplicate now.
Yeah.
So there's a duplicate.
When you click that,
it's going to ask you to create an account.
And that's where you'll be on the screen
that I'm on right here.
Yeah, Joe, you don't have to,
don't worry too much about hiring anyone.
we don't have anyone for most of our stuff. We only have one person who helps with TikTok,
just because he's a friend and super helpful. He just does that. But yeah, it's more just
putting things in one place, I think, is more the habit. Google Docs and things like that are hard
to create links between a random Google Doc and then another Google Doc. And then you go to your
calendar and they're just not linked in any way. This just kind of puts it all in one place. And
you can use Notion just for this database, and then you can add to it later. So that's kind of
cool. It doesn't have to be everything all at once. We've been using Notion probably for about
two years. So we just use it every single day. And then, did you get to this screen, Bobby?
Yes, they gave me a little code that wants me to do it on my phone, but I'm going to do it right
here. I'm on the computer right now. Okay. Yeah, so let's see.
If you guys want to go along with us, you're welcome to click that link and kind of create
the account and stuff as well. It says, what should we call you? Yeah, so just put your name.
I'm going to say Bruce, and I'm going to make up a password.
Did you say we want to choose to set up with Google? You can use Google if you want,
or you can just put your own email there at the bottom.
What do you recommend? If like our calendar is on Google? Yeah, if you're using, if you're a Google,
we are. Mine is tied to my Google account. Any of those are going to do the same thing.
One less password to remember. Let's put it that way. So if you just use your Google,
you can use your Google account. So cool. And once you get through this,
you can answer questions if you want. I'll just say skip. And you can just say like,
you can try this for free, but I would flip it over to free for myself
because you're only going to be using it for you. And this actually is free forever
for one person. So if you move over to this one, you can only try it for free.
But anyway, that's the ones that take me to Notion.
And now it should bring in that template, which it did. And you can see it's got a bunch of
templates in here. You can see it made a little message like, hey, here are some templates to
help you get started. And so I like, I'll go ahead and I guess I'll leave them in there. But
you know, people are using it like, hey, here's a reading list I want, here's my journal,
here's a list of tasks I want to do, and so forth. I'm just going to go ahead and clear this.
And so it'll delete all those template ones. And then there's my Kingdom Messenger content
planning on my sidebar. So can I ask a quick question? Yeah. I went to go do this and it said,
hey, do you want to join your Taste and See members? So it looks like Michael,
I was just doing my Hillary Minnis, and it looks like he set one up. So would that,
if I press the one he set up, would that turn it into the paid version?
I think so. If he already has one set up, it may just be taking you into that. I'm happy to look
at your screen if that. Oh, yeah. So it says I can't hear I'll just do a quick. I okay. Someone
else may run into this too. So. So yeah, join your team. And so it says Taste and See or create
a new workspace. So it looks like he's. Yeah, so I would just say join right there.
So this will eliminate this won't change the fact that it's one person.
It looks like you already have one that's got two people. So you may already be
paying for it. Yeah, that's kind of I don't think most people are gonna see that.
You can just hit skip. These are just updates that they're letting you know about.
And if you went back, if you clicked now that you're logged in, if you click on the link
that is in the Zoom chat, it'll. Oh, so I have it. So I would click on it now because I already had
it. Okay. If you just click on it again, it'll take you. It'll kind of bring.
it back up. It just probably was because you weren't signed in the first time. Okay.
See, this is all the catch.
Okay, so now just hit duplicate up there.
This sounds crazy. How do I get back to like I was in, I was in Google and I had pulled up Norton
but now when I go down I can only see the Zoom icons at the bottom and I don't know how, I know
that sounds crazy, but I don't know how to get back to what I was working on. The browser? Yeah.
Yeah. If you're on a PC or a Mac you can do like, if you're on a Mac you can do command tab and just
kind of jump between the apps. It's probably got Zoom full screen, I'm guessing, and then
yeah, so you've got it there, Hillary, just to close that thought and then we'll help.
Okay, so is it, did it already, is it already in my thing? Yeah, so you can see on the top left
says taste and see. Oh, perfect. And then under private you've got Kingdom Messenger content
planning. Now you can go rename that to like Hillary's content and now anything you change
here is on your own version so you can do whatever you want to to it. Thank you so much. Wow, that was
easy. There you go. Again, these are just, with every tool it's kind of like we're going to present
a tool to you. I'm going to mention this more tomorrow, in next week's training, but we're
going to present a tool. You can decide to use that tool or don't use that tool. Like if it
starts to get in the way of being productive and getting content out, then don't, then stop using
the tool. So it's kind of like you're trying to build a house and we're just saying, hey, here's a,
here's a saw, like here's a, whatever. You can use whatever tool you want. Sometimes it's be faster.
There's normally a lot of different tools like this. Like I said, some people like to keep the
notes in their notebook. Some people like to keep it, you know, notes on their phone, but we like
this. So I'm just showing you what we, what we use. So I don't see duplicate. Yeah, do you want
to share your screen? How do I do that? There's a green share button. Okay. So now I'm in Google.
I need to get that back. Hold on. So there's a green share button. Here we go. And then
am I, am I sharing with you? Let's see. No, don't think so. Okay. You may have to share it. It's
like you click the green share button and there'll be a blue share button as well. And while Bobby's
bringing that up, if you guys have not created your TikTok account or YouTube or any of that
just yet, Hilary, not Hilary, Tamara, I just saw Hilary's face there. Tamara is going to reach out
to you guys to do just a quick onboarding. Not even quick, just 30 minutes to an hour. There's
no time constraints. I just asked her if she would take like 30 minutes to an hour with you
guys and just help you get all everything set up. So if you need to create your TikTok account,
you need to create your YouTube, whatever thing you need to do. She's just going to like literally
walk you through that step-by-step. If you've created some things, but not all things, she's
just going to go through and make sure you've got everything you need to get going for next week.
So if you see that email from her, just know that's, that's, that's something we're adding.
It's like a, a one-on-one onboarding call, Zoom call with, for you guys. So just, just respond to
her and she can, she'll set up a time for you to do that. So cool. Were you able to share? Oh,
there you are. You are sharing it. Good. I'm sharing. Got it. Yeah. So it's actually, you
already did it. You don't even have to duplicate it. So if you look up here, like there's your
Notion account, and then here's the kingdom messenger stuff right there. So there's your
template. So if you start changing any of this, you can delete these like test posts out if you
want, um, sort of adding your own content. Okay. And then I know that what you just did a minute
ago, um, I can do later, but when you had ideas and those types of things and you built that on
here, right? So yeah, just click on board. It's actually in here already for you. Um, Oh Lord.
Okay. Oh gosh. Okay. That's good. And then normally is this where I would work from normally or.
Yeah. Um, I'll point out as well, like down at the bottom here, there is a, um, an app you can
download, um, just so it's on your computer. It's a little easier to get to than having to go to a
website. Um,
So you're welcome to download the app. It's all the same thing. It's all in sync,
but sometimes that's a little easier to open the application on your computer.
And then you can also download the app on your phone as well. I would recommend that as well.
Because sometimes you're not in front of your computer when you get really good ideas.
So, cool. Does that answer your question? Yeah, I'll stop sharing now.
Yeah, and you can just drag like all of these and delete them if you want.
Or you can see where the little three dots are. So let me go down a little bit,
like on the card there. Yeah, if you click those three dots, you can delete it or duplicate
something. Okay, that's good. I can do that on my own then. Okay, thank you so much.
Let me see now. Did you stop sharing me? Yeah, I did. Yeah, there we go. Thank you.
And so I'll show you a few other things. That's what we were doing. You can like reorder these.
So if you actually really like this board view, you could do that and just kind of drag these
around. It's however your brain works. I'm very visual and I love the like columns of where things
are. And I can visually see there's more things here to do than there are ideas. Like it just
visually, you know, it kind of lets you see stuff like that. And then, yeah, you can just select,
like I can select all of these together and just hit delete. Just hit delete. And you can see,
I can just to create something new, you can hit the new button or hit the little drop down and
say new episode. Or I can just click the new, there's a new button on each of these. So I can
quickly just say like cool video about John 3.16, enter, new, and then we like video to encourage
people video. And so now see, I just like created three quick ideas there and you can just hit enter.
And now I can click into this and say, okay, what do I want to talk about here? Well, first,
let me, you know, I'm going to, you know, read, you know, a scripture or I need a really good
hook. So let's like, let's brainstorm some hooks, you know, let's do one that's like,
you probably never knew this about John 3.16. Or I can just create a bunch of variations here,
like this scripture will change your life. So that could be like my hook. And then I can say,
okay, I'm going to read the verse, I'm going to do this. And then my ending, like, you know,
call to action, or my, you know, thing at the end is going to be like, so, you know,
be encouraged today, as you, you know, think about this verse or whatever. Okay, that was like,
totally off the top of my head. But you can see, so now I just threw that idea down. But now it
like turned it from just a little card into like a document. And I can actually open it and have
all my other thoughts there. And so that's just, you know, as and so you can kind of build out
these ideas. And like, as you're thinking about stuff, just throw more ideas in there. And then,
you know, when you're getting ready for the week to plan out your content, you just say, okay,
this one is great. I love that. Let's do that one. Let's do this one. Let's do this one. So
now I'm going to go focus on getting all three of these, like through the different phases. Cool.
So awesome. Now, Bruce one. Okay, so you have things and ideas, and you can click on those.
And then once it's in the to do, when you will, or let me see. What I'm trying to ask you is,
then eventually this will be a completed. And then where is that at when everything's completed?
And do you have like the scriptures and everything that was built into that? And then also the
episode? Is that I thought? Yeah. Oh, yeah. So you can just I just made it like a kind of a blank
one here just to quickly get an idea down. If you click new up here, and you say new episode,
you know, then what it'll do is it'll create a new document, but it'll also put a bunch of stuff in
there for you. This is what you were talking about. Yeah. Okay. So you just and that's in
your template as well. All of you guys have that. So I'll show you one more like thing here is if
you do click on the top left here, you can click new episode. But if you want to, you can click the
little three dots here and actually edit the template yourself.
So let's say like, you probably don't want to send people to posture.
I mean, you're welcome to, but you probably want to send them to your own stuff, but
this is something we put on the bottom of all of our YouTube videos, for example.
Um, so we just, you could go ahead and put all your links in there.
So when you comes, comes time to post it or share it, you just highlight all that.
Copy, paste it over into YouTube and you're good to go.
So you could change these things at a, at a higher level.
And that way, every time you create a new episode, it's going to be
on the bottom of every, everything.
That's good.
Okay.
Yeah.
So I just show you that so that if you're like watching this again in a few weeks or
months, you can come back and make it even better.
Um, is it possible to take two sacks unless it's really simple?
Cause I just, I just downloaded it.
So it just says meeting notes and I'm like, okay, where do I go from here?
Is that easy once I get used to it?
Or is this, yeah, um, it probably looks like this.
You just want to hit the top left.
There's going to be like a little sidebar here on the top left.
And then that should get you to your list of all your stuff.
Oh yeah, there it is.
Yep.
And then you can get to kingdom messengers.
Um, so this view may not be like ideal for a phone, um, just because it's smaller
screen, so you can click the little dropdown here and get back to like the
table view, for example, that's just a long list of stuff.
So.
Cool.
Thank you.
Pretty helpful.
Um, very like minimalist tool.
Um, we, yeah.
Um, we use this very heavily in our, in our business and, and all things.
Um, we, we have a, we have a business, uh, account like this.
And then we also have like Lindsay and I share a personal one as well
that has things like prophetic words.
And so like, you know, so you can make like a database like this, but imagine
having like, Oh, I won't bring it up and share it with you obviously.
But like, basically you can click on it and there's just like a table like
this of every word we've ever received.
And if people, you know, if we're, if we're in a meeting or someone and
someone like starts to share prophetic where we record the audio, you can
like drag that audio into this.
And so you just have it like all in one place.
So, um, it's just one of those things like being a little bit organized.
You don't have to do a lot.
You don't have to have this, this being organized, be your full-time job.
You can just do a few little things like this to build systems so that when you
look up, you're like a year or two goes by and you're like, Oh wow, this is like
all, you know, all there.
So, um, we have a document in our, uh, personal one, like when people stay at
our house, if we're out of town or we have guests at our house, I share this
document to them and it's got like how to turn on the TV and like how to use
the coffee machine, like all the things.
Right.
So I just, I got tired of like writing it out in a text every time.
So I just like, Hey, here's our, here's our manual on how to be at our house.
So, um, anyway, you can use it for all kinds of fun stuff.
Um, so I had a question.
Yeah.
Um, and you may have already said this.
I may have missed it, but in notion, would you recommend that we take the
time to watch the videos in the getting started area, or should we just start
with the template that you gave us and go, um, yeah, so this, this, you can
use all of the getting started stuff.
There's, there's a hundred things to, um, to, uh, to, you can do with notion.
So like, this is one thing you can keep your Tik TOK ideas like in
here for your, your, your, uh, content.
You could keep like a document.
That's just like all my notes about my who, like who my who is, or, you know,
if Lindsay's going to talk in the, in the eight weeks about your origin story.
So when you finally write out your origin story, this would be a place
you could make a document in there for it.
Like, so you just, it's just kind of like everything to do with your channel.
So, um, you're saying there was like getting started for, uh, like, Oh yeah,
I see what there's like some videos here.
So yeah.
Watch all their stuff.
Like they're very good.
They've kept trying to keep it very simple.
These are like one minute, four minutes, two minutes.
So, um, and this is what, uh, she's referring to, like, if you click getting
started, there's some videos, um, definitely, um, they want you to learn
the software more than I want you to learn it because then you'll keep using it.
Um, and so they have a ton of other tutorials, but they have a tutorial
here on how to create a database.
And all we did was I created a database here called, um,
kingdom messenger content.
And that's, that's all we did.
So this is nothing special about.
this, you could recreate it, you can change it, all you would do say like you wanted to do like your origin story to do that you could have a bunch of text in there.
And then let's say you had.
I don't know something else like.
Let's say you did your origin story but now like I want to
see if I can find an example.
Videos.
Like let's say I actually recorded my origin story so I can actually drag this video, I'm in a free plan, but I guess you have to be in a paid plan to have that, but you could drag a document or something into this maybe a PDF would be would work.
So like if I had a PDF here I could drag that PDF in. And now when I click on it like I can go straight to that, and so forth so and then I can take this and just drag it in underneath the origin story and so now these all kind of open and
close, and it gives you like a nice little outline, depending on what you're working on so same thing like there's your board table calendar, like there's board table calendar for example.
So, that was a very long answer to your question like should we watch this yes watch it, but there's like a lot else you can do.
I say we probably could take eight weeks and like go all just on like how to use notion but it's, this will just get you started. And it gives you a place just to start to be organized.
And I would say like, unless you have a system that you just absolutely love. And you're like this works for me I always know where stuff is and I'm like super organized to keep that system.
But if you don't have a system like copy someone else's system until you kind of get your own worked out so you're welcome to steal as much of these ideas as you want.
Don't feel like if you have something working that you know you need to change it also.
Good.
Awesome.
No problem. Okay. Well any other questions you guys have, like, I'm happy to answer any questions about notion or show you more examples. We have a little bit time left.
Cool.
Play with it, check it out. We'll be back on Tuesday with like some content strategy stuff and, you know, just start getting ideas for videos together so the more ideas you can have wherever you decide to write them down.
Tuesday next week when he's going to start talking about content planning and strategy and diving into depth but this will just get you sort of a intro to notion, and just one of the tools you can use and then she's going to be talking more strategy type stuff
of like how to
write a batch of content all at once and kind of organize it so awesome.
Cool.
Some of the bullet points and the.
And again I know this is so simple for some people but one of the checkpoints was like all of our channels so we decided, because I feel like if I could just focus on one thing I feel like that would be great but I know right now it's very good just
because I didn't learn a lot of things so I want to learn all of it and then at some point, you know, maybe have helpers but like it said a checkpoint was just like all the channel names into that and I was even thinking like okay.
I know once I do it it's like oh my god that's so simple but it just everything seems like it's some shoes so I say that to say, if I only wanted to just do, to start out and just stay off Facebook altogether.
Because I don't have to do what are those things called where you have the picture and like I did canvas when we first started but I had so many other things going on it's just like it was just, I know it's there but it just seems like the time it
takes for me to do something, at least now where I'm at but I got to get over that I know.
What would your advice be as a counselor, I would keep it simple don't don't feel overwhelmed like you can leave whichever channels you want blank. That's the first thing so if you just want to do tick tock just paste your link to tick tock.
It's just for your dashboard to track it so it's just easier for us to grab like all your links at once, then we can add it to the dashboard and that way, three weeks from now or three months from now you start doing YouTube.
It's already being tracked in your dashboard you don't have to send it to us, you know, three months from now.
now. But if you don't have an account, you haven't set any of that up, just put in the ones that you
do have, and that's what we'll start tracking. So that's totally fine. I would recommend TikTok
and then Instagram, because we will, and honestly, we'll probably be doing YouTube,
but you can leave Facebook off. So that would be the optional one. Because the TikTok, you're
going to create one piece of content for TikTok, and then we're going to post it on YouTube shorts
as well. And we're also going to post it on Instagram reels as well. So I would do those
three, the TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, if you can. But if you just want to do one,
then TikTok's the one to do. Yeah. And I have those, so I'll know now to post those. And then,
so if someone wanted to, could they just post on the TikTok, and then later when you feel,
because it seems so simple for that. And then for me, I could do that, but then I get stuck with,
oh, I've got to do that thumbnail and all that. And it's probably a lot simpler than I'm making
it. I get that. Yeah. Could you just use your old ones? Let's say you did 20.
Could you just then, once you, oh, now I know how to do these templates. It's simple.
Could I take those and put them in, or is it? Yes. So are you asking, can I just start doing
on TikTok, and then later, a few weeks from now, I could start reposting those. Yeah. Post the same
ones. Like when I learn how to do a thumbnail, or is it going to be easier than I'm making it out?
Yeah. So the reason we do this short form is there's no thumbnails like what you were doing
on YouTube. It's going to be the same way you do kind of, it's called a thumbnail on TikTok,
but it's really just a still frame from your video with some text over it. So before, if you're doing
YouTube and you're doing longer form content, then you do want a very nice thumbnail in Canva,
and it needs to look good and all that. For the shorts, it's very raw. It's very simple.
So there's no graphic design parts to anything we're going to do the next eight weeks.
We're trying to keep it like really simple. So we want to show you less tools that, I know you've
done it before with us. So we're going to, this is going to be even like a little bit more
streamlined to get you the most views fast. And then we're going to go back and we'll add stuff
at the end to make it look pretty and stuff. Oh, that's wonderful. Okay. I'm good then.
Thank you. That's great. Anyone else have any tech questions? It doesn't have to be notion related.
You guys started posting, you ran into anything. This is the tech support time. So if you guys
have anything, it doesn't have to be notion related or anything we talked about. Joe, what's
that meant? It's Joe. I did have a quick question. Hey, I was wondering about, I don't know if the
cameras, I told you I've got no camera and I was curious and I looked it up, but I've not seen
some on here. Do you know if those, the cameras can be set up to do portrait? I know normally
they do landscape, do videos in portrait. Yeah. So yeah, in a simple form, you just take the camera
to turn it vertically. Most tripods, if you have a little tripod, will have like a little
something and it will let you flip it 90 degrees. So I would actually film like that. I would film
it vertically. What will happen is when you get it on your computer, it will be sideways.
So you'll just need to like take it and flip it, the other way 90 degrees. So it's now like
portrait, but yeah, you could definitely use that camera and any camera will do that.
So yeah, by default, it's kind of in horizontal mode,
but you'll just need to kind of flip it on its side with a tripod.
Cool. Hopefully that answered your question.
And for anyone else, keep using your phone only because Joe already has a camera that I told him
we'll help him set up. No one should be buying any equipment the next eight weeks. We're going
to do like a, I promise to not buy any more gear for the next eight weeks. No more subscriptions,
like you don't need to spend any more money to get your 10,000 people. So awesome. Good. Awesome
guys. Well, if there's no other questions we can wrap up and hope you all have a good weekend.
And you can always get us, I know Joe's been using some stuff, but go to the Facebook group,
tag me and Lindsay. Were you saying something Hillary? You're just muted. Okay. It looked like
you were.
Cool. Yeah, use Facebook all throughout the weekend, just post stuff, we'll comment on it there if we have questions, but cool. We'll see you guys on Tuesday.
Bye.