 Hello, everyone. How are you all doing? Look at that. No boring countdowns. I just came straight on into it. Great to see some of you here. I will just say hello to obviously all of you lovely people. Hey, Keeley. Great to see you and Rich, all the wonderful people are in today. Hi, Elaine. Great to see you too and moderator. Extraordinaire. Mr. Paul Duncan's here as well. And I'm glad some of you are here for the train wreck because it could well be just that. I was just going through looking at all of the things that I've added into the schedule because I've added a few more since that picture I posted. And yes, it could be a bit of a disaster, but there you go. So first of all, if you are new to the channel, hello, my name's Alec and I'm a little bit of a crazy person for this whole month. Or at least I will be by the end of it. So what is CEDA? This is Create Everyday in April, the brainchild of the wonderful people at Ecamm Live. Doing what they do best, being totally inclusive because there is Leader Live Everyday in April, there is Vader Video Everyday in April and there is things like Vlogmas and so on. Well, CEDA is basically about creation, content creation, whether you are a vlogger, a live streamer, a video producer, a photographer, an artist, a weaver, whatever it happens to be. It's just about creating every day in this month of April. So that's what it's all about and as I say, it's just all in conjunction with Ecamm Live. So if you're not familiar with Ecamm Live, go and check out the Facebook group, facebook.com. I'll leave a link in the description for that after the fact, I should have done it already, but there in the community, people are going to be all sharing their progress with this journey. So this is one of the things that I'm doing for it is this sort of daily content creation vlog and this isn't the kind of the thing that I'm doing. It's more a case of me documenting my process and progress as I go through the stuff that I'm actually creating in April because I've got a bit of a mountain to climb, to be honest with you. And it's all totally self-imposed and so it's going to be a bit of a challenge. But that is because when I started my YouTube channel on the 14th of May was my first live stream to nobody but myself, no subscribers, no viewers, just me talking to myself alone in my basement. Something I'd had quite a lot of practice at. So that was when it started and I set myself the goal of making 100 videos in my first 100 days on YouTube because a wise man, Mr. Doc Rock said, Don't try and analyze anything in your progress in your process and all that sort of stuff with YouTube until you've made your first 100 videos. So I figured, well, if I just get my first 100 videos over and done with, then I'll be able to start digging into it and doing a bit more analysis and that scene how I'm doing. So that was the way that I started off. And once I did get to my 100 days, my live stream on my 100th day was my 100th video. So I did achieve that goal and I kind of thought, well, I seem to be in the swing of it now. So why not just continue this out and keep going for the rest of the year, my first year on YouTube and do 365 videos. So that was kind of my extended goal that I set myself. I've talked about it at length on the channel before, but just in case you are new and haven't heard it. The process that I have for making my videos is they are all done in one take. Hence the name of the channel, Take One Tech. And I used to have this workflow where I'd wake up at three o'clock, have my morning coffee and meditation, and then four until six o'clock when my kids usually woke up, although they started waking up a bit later. So sort of stretches out till seven o'clock. That was kind of my content creation YouTube time. And then the rest of the day was focused on other work business interests that I've got going on. So this early morning hours was the time when I could create my videos. This was all working fine for the first 100 days and probably actually the first 120, 130 days. But then I started having some extra things that were creeping into my business life that were taking more of my time. And I was focusing more on those in those precious early morning hours. And so I was basically losing some of the time that I was allotting for content creation. And what that meant was if I missed a day, then I was kind of having to make it back up. And with only kind of two hours of content creation time. And my videos are average about 30 minutes for my tutorial style videos. But then, you know, you've obviously got to do a little bit of prep and a bit of post-production, well not post-production, but posting it to Facebook and all that sort of stuff, to YouTube and all that sort of stuff. So what it meant was, yeah, this lost time was more and more difficult to catch up on my videos that I was behind on. And the net result of this overall, a long story short, is now here we are. I'm now 43 days away from my anniversary of one year on YouTube and I'm 143 videos short of my target. So that means I've got to make 143 videos if I'm going to hit my self-imposed target of 365 videos in the year, which I intend to do. Now, you know, let's be clear about this. Nothing's going to happen if I don't do it. Nobody is holding me to account to this. I'm not contractually obliged or anything. But I don't like making a target or goal for myself and then not hitting it. So that's the reason for me to want to try to actually still maintain this and do it. So what I'm intending to do is actually make all of the videos within this month. So 143 videos this month, long-form videos for my channel. And so that is the little schedule that I sort of posted. So I'll come to that in a moment. I'll just quickly say hello because we've got a few more lovely people popped in. Hello, Valerie. Great to see you. And let me have a little look and Rabbi David Puskin. Hello, great to see you in here too. And also, Sammy Superstar. Well, it is always a pleasure to see you, my friend, Mr. Sammy. And yeah, live streaming to zero people is quite good because there's zero pressure, I suppose. So it was quite good, although it did feel a little bit odd. I've got to say the first live stream was just a little bit weird. It did just totally feel like I was talking to myself. And at that point, I didn't have anybody that I knew would be interested in watching at any point in the future. Whereas like as time has gone on with the channel, then I've obviously got people that I'm sort of visualizing when I'm making videos. You know, often they are in responses to things people have said and so on. So yeah, it was a bit weird. But you're totally right, Sammy, of course. We do all start out with zero people. So it's a familiar path I know that we've all been on. So let me come over to this schedule because this is what I'm going to talk about today is sort of basically the plan as we go forward. These daily check-ins are basically my accountability. So it's a case of me doing these every day. I went and scheduled them for I actually scheduled the first two weeks. What I didn't do is I didn't make them private. So actually it was a case of when I came and looked on my iPad in my regular YouTube login. I just saw like 14 different thumbnails for me. I thought, oh, that was a bit of a mistake. So I've now changed them all to private and I'll just make them public day by day. But these are my check-ins basically of my progress towards my goal. So this is the sort of little planner that I've got. And again, this is just really for my benefit, the reason to create this. It isn't a case of, you know, look at me, look how many videos I'm making. And I posted it everywhere. And the reason for that was I want to make sure that this is out in the public so that then I've got the thing on my back that is saying, well, you've gone and told quite a lot of people you're going to do this now. So you better get your stuff together and do it. None of this has been created yet. So technically, I suppose doing this one because these live streams do count towards it. I've always counted my live streams in terms of the videos on YouTube. So yeah, here we are right now. I haven't created any of this yet. And so this is what I'm going to be doing going forward. But I am going to try and get ahead of myself with it in terms of creating some videos upfront so that I'm not like having to create the new videos every day. Because I've got some bigger plans that are going on that I'll come to in a moment as well. But basically, here we are. This is my YouTube schedule. So 9 a.m. my time. So it's 908 now right now here in Thailand. So this is the 9 a.m. slot every day. I'll be doing my vlog down here. But then I'll also have a video going out at 4 p.m. One at midnight and one at 5 a.m. And so I've sort of grouped these into different sections of different different themes if you like of videos. And then I've also got my regular weekly livestream on a Saturday morning for me, Friday evening for US. So I'm still going to do those just with a specific topic. These things that I'm doing right now, this content creation vlog is just going to be an update and things that I've learned and processes and progress and all that sort of stuff. So I've split these into themes. So we've got all these ones here, the midnight slot for me, midday for a lot of you, I guess, or thereabouts. These are all ECAM videos. So I've got a load of ECAM videos to build to make rather. And so obviously being an ECAM thing, I thought well let me get that content out there first of all. So I've got a whole load of video tutorials about ECAM live. I've got a whole load of Zoom tutorials coming down here as well. And then we've got this afternoon slot or early morning slot is I've got a load of TubeBuddy videos to make. So really I'm a big fan of TubeBuddy. It has helped me a lot with not just when I was starting to get used to, you know, this whole process of uploading things, but also when I eventually saw the light and switched to TubeBuddy Legend, it really helped me with the scheduling and split testing. And then also the finding replace has sort of paid for itself in terms of the time that it's saved me. Although you can get that on the lower level. It would be on Legend for that in fact. But yeah, so what I wanted to do was just create a load of content about all of the features that I do love about TubeBuddy. So that's what those in red are. Another focus of my channel has always been the sort of automation and things like that as well on, you know, in terms of keyboard maestro and stream deck and all those sorts of things. So I did do a shortcut beginners guide one to seven. There's actually 10 in that series, but I haven't made the other three. So I've got those to make. I also started a keyboard maestro beginners guide months ago. And I got as far as one. I had the rest planned out, but I never actually made them in terms of, you know, ideas of what I was going to cover. So I'll finish off that one as well. Then over here, we've got Discord. So this is now the 4pm slot. I've got a series of videos all about Discord because I have got a Discord server. So you can head over to that at takeonetech.io. And so I wanted to cover this on the channel in terms of just giving people an introduction to Discord, why they should be on there and some, you know, a little, there's one here that's basically, you know, explaining how to join a Discord server and all that sort of stuff to help people get over there. Obviously, there is a far better resource for all of this, which is Discord for creators. So I'll put a link to that in the description afterwards. And anybody who's in here who might know what the link is can drop it into the chat by all means. So, but I wanted to give a few videos just as an introduction to get people involved in it, really, into my server. But then obviously, and once you join there, once you join that server, then the introduction will also send you to Discord for creators as well. And that is basically your resource for all things Discord as a creator. So, but yeah, I did want to just cover that a little bit on my channel as well. Down here, we've got a load of Loop Deck and Stream Deck videos. The Stream Deck videos that I've got on my channel are the best performing. Like, if I look at the top performing videos on my channel, they're invariably Stream Deck. I've got more Ecamm Live videos on there, but obviously Stream Deck is a much larger audience. So some of those have got quite a lot of views on. However, I'm still keeping my main focus where it is. But I did want to just add in some more Stream Deck videos. I've also been a Loop Deck user now for, technically, I've been a Loop Deck user since mid-December. Although I didn't actually start really using it until relatively recently. So I am going to do a user guide on my, there we go, my Loop Deck. So I use Loop Deck and Stream Deck together. So I've got the beginner's guide for Stream Deck, which is really popular. I'm going to do the same sort of thing for Loop Deck. And then some things like comparison videos and stuff like that in terms of how I use those together. So those are the videos there. I'm also going to do a whole series of videos on Kajabi. And Kajabi is the platform that I use to host my course, Ecamm Masterclass. Check that out, definitely. But that's where I'm hosting my course. And also I've moved my website over to there. When I started using Ecamm Live, the reason was because I was wanting to make course material for some of my other business ventures. And one of those was actually a whole course about teaching business owners how to use social media marketing and sales funnels to promote their businesses and make sales. So I've got a whole course about that. And I didn't actually ever really promote that on the channel because I always saw these as two separate things. This channel was more about my experimentation into the world of content creation. And I didn't just want it to come across at the beginning as a total pitch for something that really wasn't related to the channel. However, as time has gone on, and I've realized more about who my demographics and who my content is speaking to, a lot of people that I speak to on my coaching course, so incidentally, just having said I don't want to be too pitchy with things, if you have got any issues in your tech life, not how to plug it in and switch it on, but in terms of the sort of stuff I cover on my channel, then you can book a consultation with me this way. But one thing I've realized is the people that I'm having these consultations with, who my things are always coming down to this core audience, the people that I'm getting on calls with are generally business owners, half and half male and female, between 40 and 60 on average. And they're either business owners or business execs that are looking to improve their productivity on their Mac or their e-cam live presence and things like that. So all of these sorts of things are, what I'm finding my audience is the people that I'm actually speaking directly to are looking for. But because they are business owners, quite a few people are asking me about Kajabi. It's really weird. There's been like several people that I've been on calls with have just said like, oh, if you ever make any videos on Kajabi, I'd love to see them. So it's like kind of they are speaking to me and telling me. So since I moved my course and website over to Kajabi, I digressed a little bit, but the course that I made before on helping business owners promote their businesses with sales funnels was focused on Facebook advertising and also ClickFunnels. So ClickFunnels was the sort of platform that I was using for all of those sales funnels and things like that. So I've now seen the light and realized that Kajabi is kind of like an all-in-one. ClickFunnels is great too, but if you are going to be doing course material specifically, Kajabi is just, it's hands down just way better than ClickFunnels for courses. Although I have got courses on ClickFunnels as well. So yeah, I'm going to be doing a lot more on Kajabi. So this is kind of like the content schedule for what's going to go out in April. But as I say, I've got 143 videos to create and so I have actually sort of planned those ones out as well. So there is more to this, which is down here. So this is basically taking me up to the 14th of May, which is my 365 videos in a year live stream. So I'm hoping that on that live stream, I can say I did it. And so in order to do it, I need to actually make these other videos as well. And so here the Zoom one sort of continue, but then I've got a number of different gear reviews and things like that. I don't intend to do reviews on my channel as such, but I do get people asking me about the stuff that I use. So there are a few things in particular that I did want to cover. So I've got those down there. I'm also a big fan of SetApp. And so I've got a SetApp playlist on my channel. And I wanted to cover some more of the SetApp apps that I use. So I do cover those in my channel. Incidentally, if you don't know whoopsie daisy, I've changed to the wrong scene. There you go. What I meant to say was, and now I've gone into live demo mode. Look at that. Look at the state of my desktop or perhaps it looks organized. What I meant to do was this. I meant to say if you use a Mac, then SetApp is a great service where it's basically just one monthly subscription fee and you get access to over 200 great utility style apps for the Mac. And you can basically download them and offload them as you please. So it's great for those little tasks that you wouldn't want to go and buy the app for, but you could download it and use it and then offload the app again. So that's what I do with a number of these. But there's a whole load of them that are just constantly on my Mac all the time. And it's sort of replaced ones that I've been using for years anyway. And then rather than paying for an upgrade, if I see that it's on SetApp, then I just download it from SetApp. So you can get a free trial at that at takeonetech.io slash SetApp. Anyone can get a free trial anyway, even if you just go to setapp.com. The difference is if you use my link, then if you do decide to sign up after the free trial, you will get a free month and I will also get a free month added to my subscription. That is how their affiliate program works. So highly recommend it. It is a great service. And so I've got a number of videos on my channel in the playlist over there. So I want to really add in some more of those. So these that I'm going to be talking about in these videos are basically all SetApp videos that I do use myself. So I don't tend to do, I mean, there's some in there that I've looked at and I've thought I'm not really much for them or they don't really work for me. But I don't tend to show those ones. I don't tend to do sort of negative reviews of stuff that I feel doesn't work because it might be that it just doesn't work for me. So speaking of something not working, my pro mouse has just gone off. Never mind, you've got my big pointer there instead. So that is what these are basically the videos that I'm creating. And this actually comes to 145. But if I can get those all done in April, that means I'll have 143 done and then these two live streams. So I'll know that I've definitely hit my target even if something else happens. So that is the videos that I'm planning out. But then I've also got some more because I've been a little bit lax of late with shorts. So there's another column over to the right hand side here, which is shorts. I want to start getting back into doing shorts because I did find that they were quite useful for the channel and I thought that as long as I am conscious about the way that I'm doing them and that they are in line with the channel, there is a place for them there. I think the mistake that I made when I first did them was I ended up putting out like five a day. So people just got sick of it. But putting out like a daily short or something like that is and where it's something similar to the channel, you know, like a quick tip or something like that. There is a place for them because there's lots of things that I can cover in a one minute video that you wouldn't do a full sort of 30 minutes on. So I do want to make some shorts as well. And what I'm thinking is I definitely want to make all the shorts for April and then it'd be good. As you can see, I've still got some more to fill out. It'd be good to make all the ones for May as well and possibly even June. So maybe 90 shorts. But at least if I did 60 of them for the next two months, then that would actually make over 200 videos. It would be 143 plus 60. So it'd be over 200 for the year. So another thing that I want to and incidentally, by the way, I do have a little tracker. So this this here is in my spreadsheet where I track my videos. So as well as obviously being able to see some stats in YouTube, there's a whole load of other columns here. I won't go into like my whole process here, but I've got a lot of the different things for making sure I've done various different things. So I know if I've got to go back and do something. So I track my videos in here and basically each of these has got my just see where my pro mouse has gone. Just one second. I quit it actually. Let me open it up. Maybe I'll come back now. There we go. So so here we've got the the dates down this side. And then here we've got the the title of the video and then the link. But also I track the the time, so the minutes and the seconds. And then what I've done is I've got a little formula going on here. That's basically first of all, it's doing accounts. It counts how many videos that I've got. So here you can see I've got 222 created of 143 left. Look at that spelling mistake in there. I've got to create correct that. I know it's not before terrible. I suppose it wasn't really being made public. But there you go. So if I come down here, these are all my videos. Now if I come to the bottom and I was to add another one in, you see it just as I add like today's. So this one is first of April. You see now that's gone to 223 and 142 remaining. So as I'm adding in stuff here, it updates. And as I add in times, it also updates things like here we got the average video length. So I'm aiming really when I set myself the target. It was I wanted to have like averaging like 30 minutes of video so it's not kind of like really short form content. Total arbitrary number doesn't really matter again. But so far my average length is 33 minutes. But here I've also got the total runtime, which is just something that amuses me actually and totally unnecessary. But here you can see so far if you were to go into my YouTube channel and watch my videos back to back, you'd be sitting there nonstop for five days, three hours, 50 minutes and 40 seconds. I just kind of like these sort of little spreadsheet things. So what I'm thinking is by the time I get to my target, I will have actually had like in my year on YouTube, one year or one week will be of just solid recorded back to back content. I don't know why that pleases me, but it does. The other little thing that would be interesting to see if I can hit this this month would be a 1,700 and something subscribers. It'd be interesting to see if I can just hit that 2,000 by the end of the month. But it can't be a goal because I've got no control over it really. It's just one of those things. So that is just my little spreadsheet. So that's where I can just track how many of these videos that I've done. So another thing that I'm doing in terms of actual content creation, which I don't know if you can call it content creation, but it's Twitter as well. So I've also got Twitter, which I tried to get into Twitter a little bit. To be honest, I did get into Twitter in 2007, around 2007. And if I'm honest, I got a little bit too into Twitter. It was a totally different thing back then, to be honest. And it seemed like quite a much smaller thing where Twitter's obviously massive now, isn't it? But I did get a bit too into it and it was taking up a bit too much of my time. But I did try and get back into it to a certain extent with Tweet 100 towards the end of last year. I got similarly distracted by that in the same, or from that I should say, as I did from my YouTube channel, just with some stuff that had come up in work and so on. So I didn't really end up doing that. So I want to be a bit more active on Twitter really, and not just posting, you know, scheduling posts and then not being there, but actually being a little bit more active on Twitter. So that's another little goal. I'm not like scheduled out a load of tweets, but I will be sort of marking down here if I'm actually doing something every day on Twitter. I've got another thing here, which is my blog. Now, I did have a blog on my website when I first started and the channel that is. And I never really kept it up. So I want to be a bit more conscious about that. I'm not necessarily going to blog every day, but I might try and write a post every day that can go out like maybe one or two a week or something like that. So and then I can I can actually just write those and schedule them so that I've got basically, you know, three months of content. That's that's kind of what I'm aiming for here really is I'd like to get three months worth of content. Incidentally, by the way, when I've finished my 365 videos in a year, I wasn't planning on doing a video continuing with a video a day. I was kind of thinking that I'd maybe stop go down to like two or three or something like that. But I'll see what I how I get on this month. If I can figure out because part of this is just an exercise in a new way of approaching the channel in terms of just batching things and getting things getting things done. I've been asked that many times, why do I just limit it to saying, Well, I'm only recording in the morning rather than just if I did batch it. I mean, Rich, I know you've told asked me this or told me this several times that, you know, it would be a more sensible way of doing it. And it totally would to actually just, you know, say, right, today I'm just going to create a week's worth of content. And if I did that, then I could potentially just get a little bit further ahead of myself and have stuff scheduled. So I might see if I can get to the point where I've got everything scheduled for a couple of months out on a sort of daily video schedule. But we'll see how that goes. So that is in terms of the actual main content that I want to create. But I also want to bring up to date. Obviously, with all of those, there's the, you know, the thumbnails, the descriptions and all that sort of stuff to create for them as well. So it's a part of the process, isn't it? But what I want to do is I want to revisit some of the other content that I've got on my channel because I would like to sort of refresh it. I have updated the way that my channel looks. And I watched a really great live stream from Daniel Botol a couple of days ago, three days ago, something like that. I will go and find a link and put that into the description afterwards as well because I found it really useful. It was where he was doing kind of channel appraisals, I suppose, or channel surgery, whatever you want to call it, where people would say, here's my channel. And then he'd go and look at it and tell them what he thought they were maybe could improve on, what they were doing right, what they were doing wrong, that sort of stuff, just on first impressions. And there were some common things that came up in this. And I realized that I was doing a lot of these things as well. And one of them was in the header image. So the header image that I had on my channel before, first of all, it had my logo in it. Well, my logo is down here anyway. So my logo is part of the channel. So I don't need to have a header image that has got my logo in it as well because it's totally just duplicating the thing that people are seeing. So no need for it, get rid of it. So that's what I did. I also had written out in text on the header image links. They weren't clickable. It just had like my website address, my Twitter handle, my all these other things. Well, pointless because they weren't even links. But also his point was if people are coming to this particular page, chances are it's because they don't know you yet. You know, they're not just watching, you're not a subscriber that's watching stuff in their feed, but rather they are just, you know, they've maybe seen some of a video and they're clicking on here to find out more or they found your channel and they're coming to look at it this way. So treating this more like, you know, this storefront if you like for people who are new to come in. Well, you don't want to be sending them off to other locations when you haven't even given them any sort of value or anything like that yet. So there's no point having those links there to try and, you know, people are just coming in. You want them to watch your videos, but you're already telling them to go somewhere else. Same goes for the little links that you can have here on the YouTube. You've got the option to add in up to five different links. And so I had like my Buy Me a Coffee link, my website link, my Instagram and all that, which were actually clickable. And it's exactly the same with that. You don't want to be sending people away from what you're, you know, your channel basically at this point. There's other ways to do that. And obviously the links all come in like the about section. You'll find like links and stuff like that. So that was one thing that I changed. I changed my header image. I've also had this, I also had a consistent look with like my profile picture basically that I use everywhere on every single, you know, on all my social things, on everything. But for some reason on this channel, I'd use something completely different. And so I've actually just changed it to be the same so that the face that people see and the profile picture in, because when I go into groups and things like that, I don't go in as take one tech. I go in as my regular Facebook profile, Alec Johnson. So that's perhaps a mistake. I'm missing an opportunity there to go in and, you know, be speaking as, you know, the channel. But I just always prefer to do it with my own name really. So but having that profile picture matching just is just adding that little bit of consistency. It's also what I'm using on my website as well. So that was part of the sort of redesign of the header. And also the header now matches with like the little strip that we've got at the bottom here and the background image and all that sort of stuff. So it's just a little bit more consistent. The other thing that Daniel Battelle talked about was playlists. On your front page, you have the option to show playlists and people often don't think about the names of their playlists. And I was certainly one of those. I had... So when you came here first, it would say shorts. There'd be another one there that just said uploads. Then even the playlist that I had named myself, like I'd have Ecamm Live, Stream Deck, Mac Productivity or something like that, that was the name of the playlist. And I guess it tells them a little bit about what's inside. But his point was make your playlist titles descriptive. Treat them as, you know, as you would a video title as well. And the other thing that was, I didn't have any descriptions in any of my playlists. So here you can see that I've added in a more descriptive title to my Ecamm playlist now says, learn how to use Ecamm Live for recording, live streaming and business. And then everything you need to know about all the features of Ecamm Live and Ecamm Live Beta. Ecamm Live is more than just live streaming software. It's full featured video production and so on. So the description just goes on. So when people are looking, they can actually see what it is. And it's one of those things that when somebody hasn't pointed it out to you, you don't realize because you don't necessarily come and look at this page so much yourself. And the way that I would add playlists before was, I didn't really go and do a huge amount of playlist management in the YouTube studio. What it would be is I'd be uploading a video and then I'd think, oh, I need a playlist for that. And I'd actually add the playlist at the time of uploading the video in YouTube studio itself in the sort of video uploader. And so that's why they all had these one word things like, oh, this is the Ecamm Live playlist or the Stream Deck playlist. And so yeah, this video from Daniel, I'll definitely add the thing in after the link to it because it's worth watching. It's got so much great advice in there. And so yeah, that's what I did. I went through and updated my descriptions of the, added the descriptions of the playlist and updated the titles. So now when people look here, it's a little bit more sort of curated and yeah, they've got some more of a home page or channel page that's got some more description to it. And it also helps with SEO, obviously, finding your audience being able to find what you're creating. The other thing that is part of what I'm going to be doing for CEDA or just for April is you'll notice that here everything's now starting to have this consistent look and feel with the title. It's matching the actual videos themselves and then it's matching the thumbnails. But as we come down, you can see that some of my older videos here still got this old style thumbnail, which the more I look at it, the more I just think this was a terrible idea. I mean, I've got some design experience. So why I thought that white on a yellow background was ever a good idea. I've got no idea. I mean, you can see it yourself. These titles sort of pop out, but these ones that are just white on the yellow, it's just a ridiculous idea. And I don't know why. I mean, the whole point of the channel was, you know, I call myself a recovering perfectionist was a case of just let's get the content out and don't sweat the details too much. But on the other hand, you know, that was a bit of an error of judgment at the best of times. So I do want to go through and actually update all of my thumbnails as well so that everything's got a consistent look and feel. Now I have done some split testing on this and my live, my regular weekly live stream last week on about TubeBuddy. I was talking about this and how sometimes you think that something looks better, but it still doesn't actually perform better. So for example, this short MV7 video that I did here, I did update the thumbnail for that and it is split test, but this one still outperformed it by a considerable margin. So I need to go and look at, you know, I don't want to go crazy and update something that just for the sake of it, if the test proves that it doesn't work. But I am going to go through and create split test for, you know, some of my better performing videos, shall we say. So some of that I've got like very few views and that don't get much traffic. I won't bother. But the ones that are doing quite well to see if I can improve upon those. And then some of the ones that aren't doing well, it'd be interesting to just try the thumbnail to see if that does indeed improve it. So I'll be doing that as well. I feel like we're about throwing the throat. So that's something else that I'm going to be doing in this month. Typical. It sounds like I'm just losing my voice just in time to make 200 videos. If I haven't already, I probably will have by the end of it. So yeah, we're doing the, not just going in and blanket changing them, but I will be creating the thumbnails for them and then doing the split tests. The other thing that I want to do is actually split test my titles. My titles always used to be 70 characters, 70 characters long because in TubeBuddy, it says, you know, your title should be between something and 70. And I was used to, you know, make it my little thing of trying to make them exactly 70 long thinking, well, that's the optimum because it's the longest that it can be. And I realized that that is total nonsense because that was the maximum. It wasn't saying you should aim to hit that. It was between 20 and 60, 20 and 70 or something like that. So I'm going to do some split testing on my titles as well. And my titles were always used to be like the writing that I had on the thumbnail would be almost exactly the same as the writing that I had in the title. And so I need to just revisit that and maybe come up with some slightly more creative titles and thumbnails for all of these things. So I'm going to be doing that in April as well and trying to really by the end of April and certainly by, you know, May the 14th, my one year anniversary, I want to feel like I've got my channel where I'm a lot more comfortable with it in terms of the way that it looks, the way that it's working, and I've got things like Tweet. I'm learning so much obviously from Doc Rock and being part of the community over there and all the wonderful people in his Discord server. And then, you know, just from other creators like, you know, watching Daniel Batal and people like that and learning more about how to sort of optimize my channel. And it came as well because I had a coaching call with Doc, I suppose about two months ago. And I felt like I was in a little bit of a rut with the channel where I was still making stuff. I was still working towards my goal and stuff like that. And he says, you got to really decide like what it is you're actually doing this for. And are you just doing the same thing? Like just going to keep doing it? Or do you want to actually make something, you know, make something more of it and give it more of a focus? And that's when I decided to actually give it a focus. And so, I mean, creating the Ecamm Live Masterclass, that was part of it. I want to start creating, you know, giving people a more structured approach to the sort of content that creates. So, there's the Ecamm Live Masterclass. One of the things that we'll be doing this month is it's any day now, the Zoom Masterclass. So, I'm going to share with you the process for that because most of the videos are done, but I've still got all of the stuff like actually creating the core structure in Kajabi, making all the thumbnails for that. And there's over 150 videos on that channel as well. And sorry, on that course, I've got to make all the thumbnails for that and so on. So, yeah, I'll be getting all of that done now as well. But, yeah, so having this sort of more of a focus on the channel and deciding, right, I need to just sort of dedicate a little bit more time to it and just get it all running smoothly and feeling like it is all one cohesive thing. So, I'll be doing that. I've also got some other videos to make because speaking of the Ecamm Live Masterclass, I was talking with Katie about it and asking for feedback from Katie and the fine folks at Ecamm in terms of the content that was on there and they've given me very positive feedback. But they mentioned about, you know, asking the folks in the Ecamm support, you know, to give their feedback on it as well, which was really great. And then it occurred to me that I didn't really have like a troubleshooting section in it. So, this is the Ecamm Live Masterclass. And once you go in, there's basically 126 videos, there will be 150 in there by the end of this month. So, that's because I've got like a course introduction. I've got stuff covering the basics, live streaming with Ecamm Live, using Ecamm Live with meeting software like Teams, Zoom, all that sort of stuff and advanced use. But one thing that I didn't have in there was like a troubleshooting section. So, I've been and asked from the folks at Ecamm like some common questions that people have and common, you know, issues that people come up against. And then also just searching in the Ecamm Facebook group as well. You do find, I'm sure, you know, a lot of you in the Ecamm community, in fact, I think almost every person in this list that I'm seeing now on my comments. And oh, just nice to say hello to a few more people. Hey, Carly, great to see you here. Let's have a little look. And Mr. Dale, great to see you too. Brother Phil. I think I am slightly mad. I've always had that inclination that I'm mad or idea that I'm mad. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Healy. Appreciate that. Oh, that's Daniel Patel's channel checkup. Yeah, that was that was great. Yeah, if I've got any spare videos, I'll send them your way, Valerie. And oh, hello, Doc. I was just talking about you. You've done a Sylvia and appeared as I mentioned your name. It was all good, I promise. So I've just totally digressed there. Oh, yeah. So I was saying that in the ECAM group as well, there are obviously these questions that come up time and time again from people. And some people will respond and say, oh, you just need to search the answers being answered here in Facebook, you know, time and time again. But I mean, that's part of the problem with Facebook groups, really, isn't it? You know, that is a case of it's not always easy to find the answer in a Facebook group, even if you do a search. So yeah, the sooner things move over to Discord, the better. But yeah, so I'm going to record a whole series of videos that are basically kind of troubleshooting style videos so that people who are new to ECAM and have come to the master class will have that there as a resource. And I'm always updating this, by the way, as well. So I'll be constantly adding in new videos with obviously all of the updates. I watched the Q&A this morning with Ken and Glenn. If you haven't seen that already, then definitely head over to the ECAM Live YouTube channel and watch the Q&A, some exciting things coming in version 4. So basically, whenever ECAM releases a new version, then I will be adding in those videos covering those features. So this ECAM Live master class is basically a sort of lifetime access to all future updates and everything that I'll be adding in there. And that goes for this section with the common issues and stuff. So by the way, if there is one of these that you know of, then feel free to drop it in the chat or in the comments where I'll get back to it and add that in as well. So anything that you feel is something that keeps coming up time and time again. I want to just make this as comprehensive a course as possible. So that is pretty much what my plan is for April. There is one other thing actually that I forgot to mention, which is to do with my existing content, I was talking about what I wanted to do to change my existing content or update it. So doing the thumbnails and things like that. There's one little thing that's being just playing on my mind. And that is for my first, I don't know, was it 180 videos or something like that? I always had my little intro scene, which was, you know, I'd do my little video intro saying this video is for you if X, Y or Z. And then I'd have this little title sequence of this thing. And that thing is serving nobody. And what I figured was I could just go and actually remove it. So if I've got 180 videos obviously sitting down to do this all in one go would be quite a big task. But if I just thought, right, well, every day, if I just remove that title sequence from, you know, two or three videos over the next few months, I could have them all free from titles because there definitely is a drop-off that you see from something like that. You've just told people what value you're just about to deliver to them. And then you're immediately breaking for some stupid little intro scene that isn't helping anybody. So I'm going to take those out. And what I'll do is obviously I'll do the testing. And I'll just see for that video, you know, what the fall-off rate, the retention rate is in those first, you know, 20 seconds or whatever it is, where that title features and look at it historically. And then I'll go and remove those. And then, you know, for like 10 videos, 20 videos or 30 or whatever. And then, you know, a week or a month later, I'll go and review and see how much of a difference has it made because my instinct tells me that, yeah, of course, it's going to make a difference because it's not helping anybody. So that is another thing that I am going to be doing for CEDA. It's trying to actually make a little bit of progress with all of that sort of stuff. So, oh, and I've also I've also got another couple of courses in the pipeline as well in terms of planning them all out. So depending on how I get on, if I manage to get cleared a, you know, a massive load of videos done upfront, I may start diverting a bit of attention to creating some videos for these other courses. So I'm going to make a course on Mac productivity using things like keyboard, maestro and automation and all that sort of stuff. That's what I'm doing. The Kajabi element I'm going to be doing as part of the revamp of this course that I did about, you know, social media marketing and advertising on Facebook to send people to sales funnels and all the sales funnel side of stuff. So I'm probably going to remake part of that to include the Kajabi stuff and then also stream deck and loop deck have long since had plans for for a long time had plans rather of making a little sort of mini course if you like specifically on those. So that one is definitely on the list of things to do as well. So there we are. That is where I'm at with Cedar and we're right at the beginning of it. So today the idea is that I'm going to make obviously I've got a video that goes out at four o'clock today my time and it's 9 a.m. I've cleared off quite a lot of time in April. One of the mistakes I made with leader which was live every day in August. I didn't realize the amount of time that was involved in it and I basically I think I did most of them. I think I missed two or three days but this one I've actually cleared a little bit more time in my schedule to make sure that I can actually have a good a good attempt at this. So the idea is that I might try and today make this e-cam live video here obviously but then just make a batch of e-cam live video so maybe make you know six or seven of them and then tomorrow I've got my weekly live stream in the morning and then I might make these try and make these batch of you know five discord videos for example. So what I want to do is as I'm going through the month I'm going to try and just be like stacking up these so that as we come towards the end of the month hopefully you know in the final week I will have actually created the most you know the majority of the content already and then like you know I'll sit down and if I know I'm going to make the all these videos then I'll just like batch make all the thumbnails for example and things like that so that's the that's the plan and the plan for these particular daily vlogs is they probably won't be quite as long as this one this one's 45 minutes already so probably won't be quite as long as this going forward but I'll go sort of give an update of where I'm up to and then things that I've encountered and like as I start doing things like split testing and all that sort of stuff then I'll be sharing the process and the progress with that as well and any other little things that I find out along the way so that is just about all but obviously if you are an Ecamm user then I've got to say one more time don't forget to check out the Ecamm Live Masterclass there is going to be plenty of Ecamm Live content coming up in the coming days as you can see though and then I'll be shifting my focus to zoom and you'll notice that there is a bit of a timing thing here which is the first couple of weeks are Ecamm focused and then there's a big focus on zoom and that's because my course will be my course will be ready by then so that that can sort of feed into that as well that's my idea but obviously all of this giving great information and content if you feel like there's any videos missing that needed to be added to the mix in fact I added a video today I haven't added it in here I'll just mention this and I saw as well that Rich mentioned this in the in a Discord server somewhere in the internet before I say too much but I saw Rich and mentioned this somewhere which was about the Amazon Affiliates Program or Amazon Associates Program it used to be that you used to have to set up with Amazon Affiliates in or Amazon Associates in all the different countries and then you could link them but you had to have a separate account in each country whereas this morning I woke up and saw that they had now allowed you to basically just add in the other territories to your existing Amazon Affiliate account so I had an Amazon UK sorry Amazon US account that was the one that I was promoting on my channel but I linked it to my like a UK account a European account in different countries and those ones actually all got terminated because you go for a period of however many months it is if you don't have enough sales on those individual territories then your Amazon Associates account gets closed down and so that's what happened with me basically so I only ever maintained the US one but now just being able to add these different locations into your single account wherever it is means that people who click on your links will be directed to their own local regional Amazon site so you will potentially be getting Amazon Affiliate and I think that's a much better way of doing it saves you the hassle of having to actually set up multiple different affiliate associate accounts so I'm going to make a little video about that actually because it's something useful to know about I basically just told you all there is to know about it but I did take some screenshots of the process as well so I'll stick that video in it might be a short but that is all for today it's been great to see some lovely faces in here I haven't missed anything oh thanks Paul for dropping the monthly live stream let's have a look you're starting to revamp your live stream I'm missing what ROS is there actually including after months dropping my intro timer because that drop off is yeah so I'm now with my live streams I mean this one obviously didn't have an intro but I have been just chopping the beginning off of the chat but I figured oh run of show of course there you go there you go I don't know the lingo yeah I'm still just a noob so yeah I've started just cutting that off I did find that I did have that drop off at the beginning of my live stream replays and since 10 times more people watch the live stream replay than actually on it live I figured it was better to um yes it's actually happening now this is this is all content I could actually split this into three videos but I don't know I still have not got the re-purposing so we'll have to we'll have to see anyway that's all for me today but thank you all for popping down thanks Paul for dropping the links in the chat as well there's nothing to cut off this live stream so the chat will be here all the time so I appreciate all the links going in thanks a lot I shall see you all uh at some point soon on the internet somewhere else and let me know what you're all doing for Cedar by the way we'd love to come along and support and cheer you all on cheer you all on thanks a lot everyone I will see you all later I've still got this massive head syndrome I need to just reduce it slightly I keep saying that and then every time I come back it's still massive there you go miss my opportunity have a great day everyone