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5 Things That Are Stopping Business Owners From Creating Better Video Content

Honestly, I don’t think most business owners struggle with content because they’re bad at it. I think a lot of people are just making it way harder for themselves than it needs to be. There’s so much pressure to constantly be original, post perfectly, say the right thing, keep up with trends, and somehow magically …

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Testimonial Thursday: Dr. Bill Thatcher

The energy that she brings to every project is just INSPIRING.

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Don’t do THIS with your Social Media Videos

I see this mistake made with business's social media video posts.
And their photo and text posts too. Don't do this!

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Video Marketing and Efficiency

Construction Wisdom I learned a very valuable lesson while working for my dad’s swimming pool company. While the muscles I gained picking up 94 pound bags of Portland cement gave me feelings of confidence, and the tolerance for being sweaty/dirty/hot gave me a “get ‘er done” attitude, if you’d asked me what’s the biggest lesson …

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Canva: Your New Marketing Best Friend (VIDEO)

I used to be overwhelmed with all the software and know-how I needed to run the visual content of my business. Enter Canva. I hardly open Photoshop anymore because of this app/website and I feel like my business has a much more defined brand now, even as I’m still exploring and figuring things out. With …

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I thought the stripes were fun

How-To Link your Instagram Account to your Facebook Business Page

As a business owner I like to save time and consolidate where I can. I’m sure you can relate. Unless you have a giant marketing team, you have to do it all yourself, from making the content specific for each platform to tagging, describing and posting it. It’s overwhelming! Of course there are tools out …

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There are so many places to put videos nowadays...

4 Ways to Post Videos to Instagram and How To Do Them (video)

I got asked a question about posting videos to Instagram. It was about that vague- I mean, there are FOUR main ways to post videos to Instagram, which way did they mean?   In true Katie-style, when the choice is “big” or “home” we choose big. SO. Here are the four ways to post videos …

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Isn't it pretty??

Video Marketing Inspiration: Create a space you love

“I don’t want to do a video, my space is a mess” I get this a lot. And I get it! I look back on old videos where I “Just did it” because I was being pressured  (Hi Sandi. 😉 ) and while it was good to get the video out there, I cringe at …

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How-to add captions to Facebook videos THE EASY WAY (video)

  In 2016, Digiday reported that 85% of Facebook video is watched without sound. Insert captions!   You’ve watched plenty of videos with captions. Some of them you can choose to put on, some of them are a part of the video file itself, and some of them automatically appear like when you are scrolling …

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PLEASE DEAR GOD choose “Custom Thumbnail”

A few (several?) weeks ago I posted a blog called “5 Things to consider while uploading your video”. And I cannot believe myself that I forgot to talk about Custom Thumbnails. D’OH! I think it’s okay, because “custom thumbnails” really should have its own blog anyway. So there. A thumbnail is the image you see …

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Feeling grateful to those who made days like this possible. (shoot for @michiganvideo )
Apparently, still ends up taking videos 😅 I know Apparently, still ends up taking videos 😅

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Have I already used this song? I don’t know. Singing it to him makes me cry every time.  #mothersday #firstmothersday
If you slowed down your content this year, what do If you slowed down your content this year, what do you think would actually improve?
No one talks about how editing is basically just “ No one talks about how editing is basically just “move this 0.2 seconds earlier” for 2 hours straight 😅 But somehow that’s exactly what makes the whole video hit.
 
If you don’t feel like arguing with clips all day… we do that for a living 😂
 
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