My Repurposing Strategy to Eliminate Recruiting Content Creation Overwhelm

Hi Coach,

A lot of coaches come to me overwhelmed by the thought of having to create content for recruits via emails, texts, social, letters to attract and sell the recruits they are after month by month.

It can be hard to consistently create good content to sell your program when you just use 1-2 of these methods.  If you are trying to do all of those every single month, it can be pretty overwhelming.

I was overwhelmed too until I learned this one simple strategy.

Here is the strategy.

I believe every serious recruiter who wants to attract recruits who will be an amazing fit for their program, but doesn’t want to get overwhelmed with creating the content, should create and release one new video per week and then repurpose the content in multiple ways.

You don’t have to do it every week, but that’s how you’ll get the most momentum.

For video ideas, I always go back to paying attention to the question’s recruits are asking you.  You can make a video answering one of the questions that they have.

Once you’ve shot the week’s video, you’ll repurpose it all over the place. Here are the steps I go through every week:

1.  Shoot a 3-5 minute video. Name the video using terms you think your recruit searches for or will be interested in. Yes, your video can be shorter or longer—it’s totally up to you.

2.  Upload the video into a Dropbox folder that you and your team can access. Always include your programs name, episode number, topic, and your name in the title (e.g. “BusyCoach-37-HowToGetOrganized-MandyGreen.mp4”).

3.  Capture 3 thumbnails/stills from the video that you can use for posting later. Save different sizes of each thumbnail including 400px wide (for email use), 600px wide (for Facebook use), 720px or full size (for YouTube), and for Instragram. Put text over the thumbnail with the topic of the video (e.g. “How to Get Organized”) or a quote from the video (“Get it out of your head and down onto paper”).

4.  Send the video Dropbox link to a transcriptionist (I use Rev.com).  Put the transcript into your Dropbox folder for that episode and use the same naming convention (e.g. “BusyCoach-37-HowToGetOrganized-MandyGreen.mp4”).

5.   Now upload your video to YouTube. Follow these instructions:

• Publish it as Public.
• Add tag names relevant to video, your brand (your school), and your target market.
• Include your social media links in the top of the description so recruits or their parents can follow you.
• Include a summary with keywords in the video description.    Add annotations and a call-to-action overlay to the video. Link people to your social media pages.

6.  Use the transcription to create emails that you can send out to your recruits.

7.  On your Facebook page(s), post the blog link with the embedded video and 500 word summary right after you make the YouTube video public.

8.  Create 7 quote images from (or inspired by) the video. Post one image per day, along with its text, on your social media sites (FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat etc) and include a link to the YouTube video page.

9.  At the end of the week, take note of:

A.  Which quote images from the video were liked/shared the most. Put them in a special Dropbox folder called “Most Popular” so that you can repost the popular images again. (I recommend putting all popular quotes in recurring rotation).

B.  Which Social Media posts/links were liked/shared the most?

Use this information to make improvements to next months posts.

10.  Repeat every week.  If it seems like a lot of work, remember all these efforts are ultimately driving people to trust, like, and engage more with your program.

The purpose of all of this is to create conversations with recruits.  You need to figure out if what you have is what they are looking for.

Using the checklist has helped me work through each step faster and by using it, I never forget anything. I am a few weeks into working this way through my social media so I will keep you updated to how it is going (if you are interested).

Hope you had a great weekend.

If you want me to walk you through how to get all of the tasks you do as a coach organized, email me at [email protected] and we can set up a call.

Have a productive week,

Mandy

Have a productive week.

Mandy Green

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