Mind Readings: My Content Creation Workflow, Part 4

Okay, this is the next part in our series on content workflow and content lifecycle or content value chain or whatever fancy consulting like term you want to use. Part one, we looked at capturing ideas. Part two, we looked at turning those ideas into short form content. Part three, we looked at how to turn it into video content by expanding on it using generative AI to increase the length of our short form content so that's suitable for a video. This is part four, which is turning into stuff like newsletter content.

Here's the thing. If you've gone and recorded a video uh and you've put it up on a site like YouTube, one of the things that YouTube gives us that is super helpful. Let me go ahead and go into my YouTube studio here. And inside YouTube Studio, I can look at my analytics and I can scroll down here and see look at my content tab. I can get a sense of how people are viewing my content.

I can get a sense of you know what what are the trends, uh, who are the new viewers, what content is getting the most views, um, what formats people like, impressions, views. So I can get some pretty decent ideas about the cut to the types of content people uh that really resonates with people. I can look at my audience behaviors when people are online, uh subscriber bell notification, watch times from subscribers, whether people are or not subscribed who are watching my videos, uh audience watch behavior, all that is super helpful. Let's go to advanced mode now, and in advanced mode, if we look at the content, uh we look at our content, let's look at what I've done is I've specified in the metrics, I want to see average percentage viewed. And if I now sort by that column, I can see the videos that get the uh percentage highest views, and this is the last 28 days, versus uh the videos that get the lowest views.

So let's see if we can actually get this thing to sort properly. Breakdowns by content, line chart. This is actually switch this to weekly. Oh, this is still sorted by views. Why can I not change this table to sort by?

It really doesn't want to let me do that, so that's fine. I will go do it in Google Sheets instead. That's nice. Go away. All right, so now somewhat why is that so screwed up?

My goodness. Average percentage viewed on a percentage basis. Yeah. The total, that's not helpful. Let's get rid of that row, and let's try sorting this column.

There we go. So now I can look at the videos and see what videos got the highest um view through rates for this period of time, and which ones just didn't. What I notice is there's a lot of the mind reading stuff in the the low watch section, and I see in the high watch section is a lot of the the weekly newsletter. So that tells me, in terms of my overall content strategy for part four of this, um the newsletters do the best for this, but I can also start looking through this thing to look at topics and see well, what topics um of the daily videos of my video content seem to resonate. Uh, and unsurprisingly, it's all generative AI.

A lot of the stuff that I've published on things like analytics and data science and stuff doesn't get the views people want AI content. So that tells me from my content workflow perspective, I need to figure out of the pieces of content that I've published about generative AI that I've turned into short form posts that I've then turned into videos. Which one of those in the last you know, three or four, or five weeks really is elevated and would be a good candidate for turning into newsletter, especially for things like US guy answer or mine meetings where each episode is individually contained. This particular uh series is a five-part series, so it's not as good a candidate for that. But if I go back to my spreadsheet and I look at the videos that have that are in like the mind readings, uh one that's gotten a almost a hundred percent uh view through rate is which generative AI model to use.

Guess what? That would be a great issue of the newsletter. Uh I have another one here. Um, let's see. Uh AI generation tools like vodka, yeah, which is they're all pretty much the same.

I don't know that I need to rehash that. Should I hire an AI expert? Popular one. Clearly, something that would make a good newsletter topic. So we want to use our video content that resonated based on our short form content to make our longer form content.

Because when I put together the almost timely newsletter, that's a two to three hour a week undertaking because I I do it manually. Uh it's not AI generated, so I want to make sure I'm doing something that that really lands for people, and and this is a way to figure out what those topics are. So we've gone from idea capture to short form content to video content. Now you create your longer form content, your newsletter content, something that's going to take you time. What do we do after that?

Stay tuned. We're gonna cover that in the last part. If you enjoyed this video, please hit the like button. Subscribe to my channel if you haven't already, and if you want to know when new videos are available, hit the bell button to be notified as soon as new content is live. If you're a human being, you can stop the video now and move on to the next one.

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