Hello and welcome to the YouTube Success podcast.
Speaker:This is me, Matt Hughes, King of Video.
Speaker:I've still got a cough.
Speaker:It may appear.
Speaker:i'm still not very well, but It's the 3rd episode of this mini series
Speaker:of content that I'm doing that talks about the signature video,
Speaker:content repurposing framework and the content promotion framework.
Speaker:This is all about the content promotion framework.
Speaker:This is my little strategic view of how you will publish
Speaker:and promote your own content and the content promotion framework.
Speaker:I'm going to do something different in this episode.
Speaker:You know, I've promoted the content, uh, the creator meetup, thecreatormeetup.com
Speaker:is where you'll find it.
Speaker:I've promoted that a little bit to try and get you to come over
Speaker:there because I want more podcast listeners and YouTube viewers to come
Speaker:over and join us in that community.
Speaker:I'm going to put this framework in there as well.
Speaker:So it's another bit of content that I'm saying that you're going to get
Speaker:for coming over and joining us in that community, for those small amounts
Speaker:of money that it is and you'll realise when we're making evergreen content,
Speaker:we shouldn't say the values of stuff because the values often change.
Speaker:So I hope that the cost of the community is the same whenever
Speaker:you're listening to this.
Speaker:But what I'm going to do on this episode it's going to be a very visual episode.
Speaker:I'm going to try and describe it for you podcast listeners as well.
Speaker:This is the one time i'm going to encourage you to head over to my YouTube
Speaker:channel And watch this episode as a video because I'm going to share the
Speaker:Excel spreadsheet that I've got in the video and you'll be able to see it more.
Speaker:I will describe it as we're going through.
Speaker:But you will be able to see it.
Speaker:It's a little bit more visual.
Speaker:So we're going to go and do that.
Speaker:And so this being the 3rd part of the series of videos that we've
Speaker:got about content repurposing and really maximising the use of your
Speaker:video content, it's definitely worth listening to the other 2 episodes.
Speaker:That's the previous two episodes as well.
Speaker:So it's a mini series really.
Speaker:Now, let's just share this.
Speaker:As I'm sharing it, I will encourage you to head over to creatorday.co.uk
Speaker:and join our virtual summit, which is happening in a couple of weeks.
Speaker:And even if it's not happening then, there will be a waitlist for the next one.
Speaker:We're going to be doing that twice a year.
Speaker:So head over to creatorday.co.uk for that.
Speaker:Alright, I think that's promo.
Speaker:Look, we can do some promo, can't we?
Speaker:You know, most people have adverts and sponsors and all that kind
Speaker:of stuff before these episodes.
Speaker:I'm just doing promo for my own stuff.
Speaker:Why would I send other people to other places?
Speaker:You know, let's promo our own stuff.
Speaker:And we're talking about promo here for the content promotion framework.
Speaker:If you see me looking to the left on my screen, it's because I'm
Speaker:reading from the promotion framework.
Speaker:Maybe I can make Ecamm a little bit bigger.
Speaker:No, I can't.
Speaker:So I'm going to have to look over there.
Speaker:So apologies for that.
Speaker:So we're talking about the framework.
Speaker:If you think about the all the assets that we created from the previous
Speaker:video, previous podcast episode, you should hopefully be able to look at
Speaker:this and go, yeah, I know exactly where I've got to post all of this stuff.
Speaker:This all makes perfect sense to me, but I'm going to run through it anyway.
Speaker:I'll describe it for you on the podcast.
Speaker:The way it's split out is platform is on the left, distribution is in
Speaker:the middle, a concatenated version of that is there just in case you want to
Speaker:see, one column to describe it all.
Speaker:And then there's some notes on the right hand side as well.
Speaker:The notes are really there.
Speaker:Well, we create the notes section to help our social media manager understand
Speaker:exactly what we wanted to do, so there's not much in there, but at least
Speaker:the first three columns are filled in.
Speaker:So on the left hand side, I've got platforms and if I run down that list
Speaker:of platforms, we've got YouTube, email, blog, medium— Medium, the writing
Speaker:platform, reddit—I'll explain why Reddit is important later on— Facebook page,
Speaker:profile, groups, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, Stories, and
Speaker:then there's some optionals there.
Speaker:Facebook page, LinkedIn, and IGTV.
Speaker:I mean, I've not even got TikTok.
Speaker:This is how old this is.
Speaker:Like, we've been using this for a while now because it has IGTV in it.
Speaker:Does anyone remember that?
Speaker:And there's no TikTok on here as well, but I definitely will update this to add in
Speaker:some TikTok on there and some Reels and stuff in as well, because I can see now
Speaker:that this is a little bit out of date.
Speaker:But let's just start then.
Speaker:So we've got some..
Speaker:And that is, by the way, if you look at that, that is 55 different
Speaker:places where we can take our one signature video and promote it.
Speaker:So imagine what that would do for your YouTube video if you take this
Speaker:strategy and use that content you've created and promote on these things.
Speaker:So we start with YouTube, so signature video, of course that goes to YouTube.
Speaker:So that's the first one, platform promotion, done.
Speaker:You can put it on there.
Speaker:You've got the second one, which is the YouTube thumbnail.
Speaker:And the thumbnail, of course, is added to that piece of content.
Speaker:And we already talked about how we use that thumbnail for the blog post, for
Speaker:the featured image, that kind of thing.
Speaker:So, although I don't mention that, later on when we talk about the
Speaker:blog, actually know that that's a piece of content that we use there.
Speaker:Then we've got the email.
Speaker:So in the previous episode, I've talked about the thumbnail
Speaker:being used for multiple things.
Speaker:Actually, this is where we can use it in the email.
Speaker:And I've got 2 emails listed in this promotion framework.
Speaker:One is the initial promo, but you can also, in a lot of email systems,
Speaker:send another email out to people that didn't read your email within 24 hours.
Speaker:So you can have a little automation that says, right, this is to
Speaker:promote my episode, my podcast episode, my YouTube video.
Speaker:And then after 24 hours, if they've not read the email, because it tracks the
Speaker:email's open rate, send them another email to say, "Hey, you may have missed it."
Speaker:"Here's what you missed."
Speaker:Or something like that.
Speaker:In that way, you give yourself the best chance of somebody going to
Speaker:watch or listen to your episode.
Speaker:And then we've got the blog post, so we obviously post the blog post.
Speaker:And I've got in the notes there, with the YouTube video embedded.
Speaker:Look, the reason why it's amazing to me that people create blog posts
Speaker:off the back of their content, but they don't embed their video.
Speaker:The reason why we do that is because of the way people learn.
Speaker:Some people like to learn by reading.
Speaker:Some people like to learn by watching.
Speaker:And that's the other reason why we create a blog post, because you
Speaker:might think, well, if we've got a video, why do we need a blog post?
Speaker:Imagine that I don't know where people are going to find me, whether they're
Speaker:going to find me on YouTube, whether they're going to find me via a blog
Speaker:post, by piece of social content, by clicking someone links in my profile.
Speaker:I don't know where they're going to come from but what I want to do is wherever
Speaker:they find me then and land, I want them to be able to see the other channels
Speaker:and the socials and be able to see this like connected ecosystem that I've got.
Speaker:So a blog post with a YouTube embedded video is a great way to do this.
Speaker:In the notes there, I've got the, we captioned that with Descript.
Speaker:We talked about Descript in the last episode.
Speaker:Then we've got medium.
Speaker:So I could take that blog post and I could put it on medium.
Speaker:I might change the content slightly.
Speaker:There's some great tools that you can use online that will...
Speaker:it's like re-spinning your content.
Speaker:So it changes like 20% of the content.
Speaker:You have to read it as well and just proofread it make sure it still makes
Speaker:sense, but then you could put it on medium rather than putting it a
Speaker:straight copy onto medium because it might see it as a non original piece
Speaker:of content, whereas if you spin the content, you could then put it on
Speaker:medium again with the video in there.
Speaker:And then I want to talk about this little hidden gem of a community called Reddit.
Speaker:Now Reddit really scares me cause I'm 40 years old.
Speaker:I feel like it's a platform that's not for people of my age.
Speaker:And they never really say that because of, you know, people say
Speaker:that about TikTok and I don't feel like that about TikTok at all, but I
Speaker:just don't quite understand Reddit.
Speaker:And I think when I was a teenager, we used to use forums
Speaker:and bulletin boards and stuff.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:And I was very like on the money.
Speaker:We, you know, when I speak to my kids, we were like, we created emojis.
Speaker:We created like that way of talking, you know, OMG and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker:We created that in forums.
Speaker:When I get to Reddit, I'm like, oh my God, I feel like what older people must
Speaker:have felt like when they hit those forums, because I just don't quite understand
Speaker:it, so it scares me a little bit.
Speaker:If you feel like that and you're watching this on YouTube, please
Speaker:let me know in the comments.
Speaker:But here's what I can do straight away that will add
Speaker:some SEO juice to my content.
Speaker:And that is, I post the video onto my Reddit profile.
Speaker:So rather than going to put it in a Subreddit somewhere, I go
Speaker:and post it just to my profile.
Speaker:So nobody else really gets to see it necessarily, but
Speaker:my profile is public, right?
Speaker:And then what happens is, for some reason, Google is indexing Reddit,
Speaker:like, by the minute it feels like.
Speaker:So I post it there, and within a couple of hours, if I search for that
Speaker:piece of content, one of the first places it appears is Reddit in Google.
Speaker:So it's indexing that piece of content.
Speaker:That's got to do something for the SEO ecosystem, right?
Speaker:I really feel like it must do.
Speaker:So Reddit's one of those little hidden gems that you can use to do that.
Speaker:And if you if you're worried like me, you just post it to your own profile
Speaker:Then there's the face of Facebook page.
Speaker:So I've got 5 different ways and and I'm going to say this for all
Speaker:of these now, so I'm going to talk about the 5 different ways in which
Speaker:we post to each of these platforms.
Speaker:Just so you know, so there's share of the YouTube video direct.
Speaker:So whenever I'm talking about these platforms, how can we do it?
Speaker:Let's do it this way.
Speaker:So I'll say, this is the same for Facebook profile, Facebook groups, Twitter (X),
Speaker:Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn and then on Stories on those platforms.
Speaker:And we do the same 5 things on all of those.
Speaker:For some reason, I've only got 4 of those things on Pinterest, but
Speaker:I'll look at that in a second.
Speaker:So we do the same 5 things.
Speaker:So we share the YouTube video directly.
Speaker:So this is just taking a video, posting it on the platform.
Speaker:And letting it go.
Speaker:A lot of people talk about the fact that we can't do, we shouldn't do that
Speaker:on these platforms because they don't like sending traffic to other platforms.
Speaker:I've not found that to be true.
Speaker:If I post a YouTube video, I still get comments on it.
Speaker:On Facebook for example, I still get comments on it.
Speaker:People still click on it.
Speaker:I still see the traffic coming from Facebook So whilst they might not
Speaker:like it, they still do promote it.
Speaker:It's still a piece of content, you could do on that.
Speaker:I've never been shadow banned for doing that.
Speaker:Doing it once a week is not going to be a big issue, I don't think.
Speaker:You can share your teaser video.
Speaker:So a teaser video is one of the snippets.
Speaker:And when you think about podcast episodes, YouTube videos, a lot of
Speaker:people now are doing these little teasers at the start of the videos.
Speaker:You could create one of those snippets as a teaser, something that's
Speaker:interesting, a bit of juicy content, something that creates curiosity.
Speaker:You can post that onto your profile and then away you
Speaker:go on all of those platforms.
Speaker:Teaser video with a link back to the YouTube video and it could be a
Speaker:link in the comments, you know.
Speaker:It doesn't have to be a direct link, but it's a teaser video,
Speaker:something that gets them a bit juicy.
Speaker:Share a quote from the video.
Speaker:So the next one is share a quote from the video.
Speaker:So a teaser video could be multiple quotes, it could be a
Speaker:bunch of those different ones.
Speaker:A direct quote could be just one of those.
Speaker:So I'm still thinking about the snippet videos in that same way.
Speaker:Share the thumbnail from the video.
Speaker:So if you want to change up the way in which you're sharing it,
Speaker:and I said about the direct link to YouTube, just share the thumbnail.
Speaker:This is again why this thumbnail becomes really really useful, because the
Speaker:thumbnail in itself should be enough to gather some kind of curiosity, make
Speaker:them think this is the kind of video that I want to watch, add in the caption
Speaker:or the bit of content that you've got in aligned to that thumbnail and that
Speaker:should be enough to then move them on and then again, link in the comments to
Speaker:be able to send them to where they've got to go And you could share the
Speaker:blog post with the video and this is a link directly to your website.
Speaker:So again, you can take rather than a direct link to YouTube for the video.
Speaker:You could share a link to the blog post, which then has the video embedded.
Speaker:And then you're sending people to your website if I was going to do any of these
Speaker:things, and it was just one of those things out of all of them, it's sharing
Speaker:the blog posts, which is probably the most important, because you're moving people
Speaker:to your own website, which means that you're gathering that traffic, you can
Speaker:pixel them, Facebook pixel them, you can track them in Google Ads using Google
Speaker:Analytics, and you're taking them to your website so you could have a pop up or
Speaker:you could use something like ConvertBox.
Speaker:I know a lot of this stuff I'm saying might not be, you might not be okay
Speaker:with it, but they're just all these extra marketing things that you can do
Speaker:in order to bring that traffic, to make use of that traffic more importantly.
Speaker:So sharing the blog post is a really great way to move people over.
Speaker:And then they will discover your YouTube channel, you know.
Speaker:They'll discover your socials.
Speaker:They'll go and follow you if you've got links to those things from your website.
Speaker:But you're bringing that traffic to your website.
Speaker:And again thinking about this as the series of videos that we talked about
Speaker:in the signature video, I said you're being strategic with your content.
Speaker:This is how we use strategic promotion of our content to bring
Speaker:more people to our website, to get more sales, to get more leads.
Speaker:And then I've got in there Facebook page secret source share link place
Speaker:across multiple groups of interest.
Speaker:So you could, just as another one for groups, is that you could share
Speaker:the posting groups where people might find that thing interesting.
Speaker:So if you're doing a video like I am about content repurposing, I might go
Speaker:to some groups where there's business owners or people that would be interested
Speaker:in content repurposing and say I've seen this new video and this is really good.
Speaker:A lot of groups have kicked you out for that stuff, but I'm prepared to
Speaker:just try it out and see what happens.
Speaker:You've got to give these things a go.
Speaker:There might be days where you can promote this stuff as well.
Speaker:So you could just hook on those days of the week, where they
Speaker:say "it's Sunday share day" or "Saturday share day", whatever.
Speaker:So if you look down that list, we've got the same sort of thing for Twitter.
Speaker:Pretty much all of those is repeated.
Speaker:The same for Pinterest, Instagram.
Speaker:Like Pinterest I've heard is a bit of a hidden gem as well,
Speaker:because you can share videos.
Speaker:And the last time I looked, when you shared a YouTube video into
Speaker:Pinterest, they had a play button.
Speaker:So anyone that was in Pinterest, they could just press play and start
Speaker:watching the video straight away.
Speaker:And then the other thing that I saw really really useful as well is to
Speaker:share the blog post into Pinterest.
Speaker:So it uses your featured image, your graphic, and then people get moved
Speaker:over from Pinterest to your website.
Speaker:You know, you don't have to do all of these things and if you're starting
Speaker:out, you know maybe it's a bit overwhelming to do all of these things.
Speaker:So just pick a couple of the things together, you know,
Speaker:you're doing more than nothing.
Speaker:You're always going to do you're always going to get better results if
Speaker:you're doing something consistently and it's more than nothing.
Speaker:LinkedIn is the same.
Speaker:I've seen the reach on LinkedIn go down a little bit over the last few years.
Speaker:Yeah, last few years probably, maybe last 12 months even more so.
Speaker:But again, you can still use this as a platform.
Speaker:If it's a platform you're not using very much, you might not get a lot
Speaker:of reach by posting this stuff once a week on there, but it might just
Speaker:be a few extra people that you don't see, that you wouldn't normally
Speaker:have got into this piece of content.
Speaker:You know, the success of YouTube, yes, we want to be on search and
Speaker:we want to be on recommended, but actually, if you're a business owner
Speaker:and you're trying to convert clients into prospects, into clients, into
Speaker:leads, into sales, it might just be the thing that tips them over the edge.
Speaker:They're seeing you posting this regular content every week on LinkedIn.
Speaker:They're seeing you posting this regular content every week on Instagram and
Speaker:eventually they go, yeah, you know what?
Speaker:This is the person I trust.
Speaker:I need this thing now.
Speaker:This is a person I trust I see I'm posting about it all the time.
Speaker:So posting those things is going to be helpful.
Speaker:And then of course I've got Stories, but that could be converted into
Speaker:Reels and TikToks and stuff as well.
Speaker:I will update this spreadsheet to add some of that content in there.
Speaker:And I think we'll find that there's a lot more we can do with this
Speaker:content as things go forward.
Speaker:All right, so I think that's the Content Promotion Framework.
Speaker:Let me know on YouTube in the comments if you watch this and you find this helpful.
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Speaker:We are going to be around forever.
Speaker:I am going to be talking about it forever.
Speaker:It is there for business owners, entrepreneurs, creators, whether you're
Speaker:a new creator, whether you're thinking about becoming a creator, whether you
Speaker:want to create more content, whether you're an existing creator with a big
Speaker:audience, we've got a whole variety of people in that community already.
Speaker:And I'd love to see you over there.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:My name is Matt Hughes, King of Video.
Speaker:Thanks so much for listening or watching and I'll see you next time.
Speaker:Bye bye.