 If you want to know how you can automate the cross posting of your YouTube content on to your other social media profiles Then stick around because I'm going to tell you in this video Hello, and welcome to take one tech. My name is Alec. They're so simple these introductions But I often do find myself falling over them. So apologies about that So this video is about one of my favorite topics, which is automation I try and use automation whenever I can in anything that I'm doing on the Mac whether it be for work or otherwise and So this is a great little way that you can use automation to actually cross post your videos on to your Twitter Facebook whichever platforms you want and I should say that if you have got multiple different social media platforms, it is obviously always good to try and curate a following on those platforms rather than Simply posting all of your videos there. However, if you are doing that already on the platforms Having some sort of automation to make sure your videos do go there automatically is a great idea so the Software that we're going to use or rather the service that we're going to use because it's entirely web-based is Something called zappia. So I'll just go straight over to it now rather than waffling on and show you exactly what it is And what it can do. I Use this extensively in my businesses I have other accounts that I do for that But I have actually set up a fresh account for this particular channel So that can show you how you can use it for free to do some basic cross-posting of your videos So what is zappia? Well, basically it is an automation Service and you can set up multiple different zaps as they call them Which are different automated processes and it can basically link in with all different kinds of Applications and services that you can imagine So if I just scroll down on their website, which is forget my little preview window out of the way That always seems to pop up at just the moment when I don't want it to We can go down and we can see what it can do and the sorts of applications that it can link with in fact If I just scroll down a little bit further because somewhere down here You'll find all of the apps that it works with so if I just pause on here for a moment And I'll just scroll through this app list what you'll see is it's got all of the major applications that you could possibly think with links with Things like Microsoft Office Google Docs, but then also external things Facebook pages and all sorts So anything that you can think about any application that you can think about They're probably in here. It has got a really good coverage Incidentally, this is somewhat similar to another service which you may have heard of called IFTTT which stands for if this then that and Yeah, it does a very similar thing But this does seem for me personally to have slightly deeper integration I was also an IFTTT user for over 10 years now whenever it first launched I started using that but then I sort of migrated over to Zapier when I wanted to do some slightly more complex things But don't worry. There's nothing complex about what we're going to do today It's actually very easy to set up the cross posting. I'm going to stop scrolling now as you can see I'm keep scrolling on and on and on and the list of Integrations is endless. Everybody has some form of integration with Zapier So what can it do? Well just underneath we've got a few examples So you can set up different things where basically you are linking these different applications or services together So here we've got type form, which is a blog blogging engine and we've got it linked to Google Sheets So it can collect type form responses and then add those as rows into a Google Sheet or this one here Facebook Linked with Gmail so send an email when a new lead comes in on Facebook So anything that you can think that where normally you would do something manually think about the process think about the Applications you use and often there's a way to just automate it with this is absolutely amazing I am going to make a much larger and deeper tutorial Where I go into some of the more advanced features of Zapier and all of the different because you can actually have multi-stage Zaps which hook to a whole chain of things But I won't complicate this particular demo at the moment I'll just go and show you how you can set up some simple cross posting because that's what I've done with this free demo account That I've set up to to show you So let me come into my account dashboard Basically if you want to link things the interface of it is pretty simple So here it says create a workflow know exactly what you want to build select the apps that you want to connect So I could sit come in here for example. I could say YouTube So I'd click on YouTube and then I want to send that to let's say Facebook So I could put in Facebook and there we go Facebook pages So it's already asking what I want to do what is the trigger So when I add a new video and then what do I want it to do? I want it to I don't want it to create a page photo. I want it to create a page video and Then that has actually created it now You will have to go in when you do this it will prompt you to set up your To actually link it with your YouTube channel and link it with your Facebook page and so on to give permissions to allow It to post and to allow it to see your videos and so on but that is as simple as that That is how you set up these these little automations Now if I come down here It will actually recommend because I've put in YouTube and Facebook it will recommend a whole series of sort of ready-made Actions that you can add in now. I'll show you exactly what I have got set up in here So if I come over to my zaps as I say the little actions that you create are called zaps So when this is loaded up, I've just got by the way with the free Free version of Zapier you actually get five zaps so a maximum of five that you can set up They can only be sort of single-action zaps so from one thing to another and also the number of times that they can run in any given In any given month is a total of a hundred of them So here at the bottom we can see with the free path plan You have minus run 58 times out of a hundred and the total number of zaps I've got is five When you go on to the paid plans, then you can obviously have more more zaps happening Every month falling over my words again And also you can have a lot more zaps and in fact you can go to unlimited number of zaps and in there and Tasks happening as well But if you just want simply to automate this process, then you can probably get by with a free plan to be honest Don't tell them I told you and So what I have here is I've got five different things set up I've got this one which creates a tweet from my new Instagram post So when I post something on Instagram, it automatically takes that picture and posts it to Instagram as a native picture to be honest, I've been neglecting my Instagram a little bit I did say at the beginning to start curating your social media profiles, but I've been a lax on that myself But there you go But it will actually do that it will take anything that I post to Instagram and repurpose it and put it out onto Twitter Then I've got the next one which is when I post to my blog on my website take one tech dot I oh, I've also got a blog on there so you can go to the blog up in the top menu and What that does is it actually posts that as a native post on Facebook as well So and then with a link back to the blog post I've also got it so that when I post to my blog then it posts a link to that out to Twitter as well And then finally I've got two for my YouTube channel which are when I post a video to YouTube It sends them to Facebook, but also sends them as a native post to a native post not a native post It sends it as a post with a clip of the title and then a link back to the video on YouTube so that is and those were all set up in that way that I showed you before where you simply add in the service Where you want it to go from and where you want it to go to and they usually just pop up These are things are so common that they're already sort of pre-populated and then you can go in and actually edit the the the zap and Change some of the details like exactly what's going to happen with it and so on So that is a very brief look at Zapier And as I say it's pretty easy to find your way around and to set things up So if it's something that you aren't doing already and you're only doing things on YouTube Or if you're already doing things on the other platforms But are doing the cross posting manually then definitely give Zapier a look and I'll leave a link to it down in the description As always if you found this useful do me a favor go and hit that like button And also why don't you go and subscribe and turn on notifications at the same time so that you get notified Whenever I make any new videos and speaking of new videos I've got plenty more content coming right up. 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