51 things I’ve got better at

1% for each item I keep track of everything I try to do 1% better each time I release a new YouTube video. I’m not going to start teaching how to do YouTube, but I did want to share just how many things can make a 1% difference. Stack them up over time and it makes a massive change. 1. Writing scripts 2. Making thumbnails before the video 3. Creating the title before the video 4. Hiring a thumbnail designer 5. Sharing my thumbnails with people to get feedback 6. Using photoshop to build thumbnails 7. Spending way more time researching what's working with thumbnails 8. Watching competitors videos 9. Learning what competitors are doing to get views 10. Trying to create videos around what my viewers want to watch, not what I want to share/say 11. Focusing on the juicy idea, then thumbnail, then title, then video 12. Not letting fear of judgement dictate what my video will be about 13. Focusing on stories not facts 14. Building the stakes before each point 15. Writing my intro over and over 16. Testing my intro and getting feedback 17. Writing a script and leaving it for a week 18. Using a teleprompter 19. Providing more feedback for editing 20. Sharing unfinished videos to be critiqued 21. Opening myself up to shock and story over fact and truth 22. Allowing thumbnails to take 95% of the time 23. Getting the idea to be as juicy and clickable/watchable as possible 24. Researching ideas and brainstorming 10 ideas and scraping them all 25. Deleting large sections of my scripts 26. Rewriting my scripts from scratch 27. Creating curiosity with my thumbnails 28. Leaning into people's more base desires and goals and feelings 29. Not trying to "rise above" people's wants and desires 30. Reducing the amount of information in my videos 31. Focusing on making the viewer feel smart 32. Removing my need to be seen as smart or hard working 33. Providing way more feedback for my thumbnails to my team 34. Taking more time to create the thumbnail 35. Using AI to mock a draft version of the thumbnail 36. Investing in communities and training for YouTube 37. Make sure the camera is not on the desk to prevent shaking 38. Using Loom to record a rough draft brain dump video first 39. Writing a script breakdown from that Loom 40. Spending more time writing stories and getting feedback on them 41. Giving feedback to more people's YouTube stuff to better my own work 42. Deleting 3 recorded videos and scripts and starting again 43. Spend more time on the photograph and less time on the graphic design 44. Pushing video titles to their extreme with bigger numbers, bigger claims, safer more tested ideas, new ideas, easy, fast and simple results 45. Sharing intros with the team 46. Sharing title thumbnails with the team 47. Forcing myself to share scripts, thumbnails and titles with my friends and team 48. Creating 4 different ideas per video 49. Make the photograph tell 90% of the story 50. Write an intro/hook first and base the thumbnail off that 51. Write an entire script and create a thumbnail from that, then redo the video if needed P.S. Here’s some more ways I can help your funnel business grow. 1. Claim your 30 day free trial of the most powerful marketing, sales and content platform on the planet PLUS get my training, funnels and automations [included here](. 2. Buy the book [Sell Futures, Not Features](. It'll help you turn your products and services into compelling “must buy” items 3. Subscribe to the [YouTube channel]( 4. Watch our free training on [how to do $10,000 a month]( in recurring revenue selling funnel and agency services Copyright © 2024 Sell Your Service, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: michael@sellyourservice.co.uk Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [unsubscribe from this list.](