The Ryan Hanley Show - RHS 158 - The Ultimate Inbound Video Marketing Strategy Breakdown
Episode Date: September 29, 2022Became a Master of the Close: https://masteroftheclose.comThis episode is a replay of a live webinar Ryan did for David Carothers and the Killing Commercial community, breaking down the step-by-step... method he's used over the last decade to drive consistent inbound leads into his agency using video marketing.This is a hyper-tactical episode, so sharpen your pencil and get ready to learn ALL the secrets of inbound video marketing.Don't miss this episode...Episode Highlights: Ryan explains that he repeated the 100 days, 100 videos commitment in 2020, using the same technique he used in 2018. (8:24) Ryan discusses how he searches for and creates his list of topics, which he then turns into a headline for videos that provide solutions. (11:31) According to Ryan, if the video has good audio and clean visuals, consumers will pay attention to it; but, if the video has a busy background, their attention will begin to dry up. (15:30) Ryan mentions the advantages of using the sun as the video's lighting setup and having crisp, clean audio. (19:07) Ryan shares that he doesn't use his costly camera equipment, but rather the cinematic mode on his iPhone, which performs the job very effectively. (22:47) Ryan believes that it is important to have a simple, clean, and repeatable video setup. (25:17) Ryan explains how he grabs his video from his iPhone and why his video templates are remarkably similar. (29:27) Ryan discusses the video formula he uses: beginning hook, middle build, and ending payoff. (31:26) Ryan mentions where he publishes his videos and why he distributes them where he does. (42:12) Ryan explains how referrals and people who contact you as a result of your video are not the same thing and should be handled differently. (46:08) Ryan describes what he does and how he handles phone calls from people in the internet space. (50:15) Key Quotes: “We use video every day in everything we do not just to do video to get some attention. We do it to drive business” - Ryan Hanley “Your consumers don't care. They absolutely, positively, without a doubt, do not give a crap about what equipment you use. Here's what they care about. They care that you are clear that they can see you and they care that they can hear you. And then after those two things, nothing else matters.” - Ryan Hanley “Doesn't matter how big the account is, solve the problem. Go back and round out the account.” - Ryan Hanley Resources Mentioned: David Carothers LinkedIn Killing Commercial SIAA Reach out to Ryan Hanley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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In a crude laboratory in the basement of his home.
Hello everyone and welcome back to the show.
We have a tremendous episode for you today.
It is actually a rebroadcast of a webinar that I did for David Crothers and the Killing
Commercial community.
That webinar took place a week or so ago and I just, you know, I was kind of on fire.
I was a little hungover and just really loved the way the content came through.
It was high energy.
I think it was high value. We talked specifically about the video strategy, the very tactical video strategy that I've used
twice now, once at the Murray Group and now at Rogue Risk in order to drive inbound bottom of
funnel leads into our agency. And then, and this is the important part,
the second half of the presentation, or in this case, this podcast is actually breaking down
how you handle inbound leads separately from referrals. There's obviously a lot of odd
contextual references and craziness that comes with doing a podcast at 7 a.m. on the West Coast
when you're an East Coaster and you're still jet lagged and, as I said, a little hungover.
But I do think that you will enjoy this episode. If you're taking notes, I think you'll learn a lot,
specifically if you're looking to implement video into your agency. This is a tremendously valuable in terms of just tactically rich content. I hope that you enjoy it. And as always, guys, I love you for
listening to this show. If you enjoy the show, if you enjoy the content, the best way to support
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Just helps more people learn what we're doing. It helps more people get access to the great
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more people engaging with the show is a very positive thing. And I appreciate you and I
appreciate any effort you have in helping grow the audience of the show is a very positive thing, and I appreciate you, and I appreciate any effort
you have in helping grow the audience of the show, as always. Been doing this for a long time,
and always enjoy finding new listeners and helping new people, as well as all of you who've been
listening forever, which I appreciate and love. Before we get there, I want to give a quick shout
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I also want to give a big shout out to David Crothers,
to the killing commercial community,
go to killing commercial.com and just there's ways to subscribe for free just
to be around. Like I think the newsletter and stuff that you get.
And then obviously if you're looking to take your commercial insurance game to a whole another level, there's
all kinds of ways to get involved with the Killing Commercial Community both I think
as there's like a light membership and then there's like a full membership and all that
kind of stuff. Obviously, Rogue Risk is a member of Killing Commercial and we get our
new producers in the system because they just learn so much. So I highly recommend you engage
with the Killing Commercial community. I also want to give a big shout out to
Rogue's parent company, SIA. Some tremendous things coming down the pipe from SIA. The SIA
of today, the larger network, all the master agencies, it is not the same network that you
think of when you think of five years ago, which was of
incredible value in and of itself.
But Matt Massiello and the leadership team, which I have now become a part of and able
to engage with and learn from, the things that are coming down the pipe from this organization,
I think, are game-changing.
It's a big part of the reason why I was willing to sell Rogue Risk to SIA,
and I feel proud and honored that I get to be part of that leadership team and help drive
a very large organization, helping a lot of agencies into the future so that we all can
be better. I mean, I think it was IOA and Nick Ayers that coined the phrase,
better together in our industry. And I think
that transcends just that organization. In general, we as a community, regardless of what
network you're with, we're all better together. And if you choose SIA or one of the master agencies,
I don't think you're going to go wrong, guys. I'm just a big fan of what they're doing
and excited to be part of continuing to build the future of
that organization. You go to siaa.com or just Google SIA and you'll find a list of all the
master agencies in your area and the benefits and all that kind of stuff. Just highly recommend
that organization. All right. So with all that, let's get to this episode, guys. I think you're
going to laugh. I think you're going to learn. And I hope, as always, that with all that, let's get to this episode. Guys, I think you're gonna laugh. I think you're gonna learn.
And I hope, as always, that you are entertained,
educated, and inspired.
All right, let's do it.
All right, I don't know how we could have had
any better segue into Ryan Hanley than Marcus Sheridan,
who stole Ryan Hanley's idea
and made a lot of money off of it.
And I hate to take your line right before you
go on, man, but I know it's coming because you heard us talking about Marcus. And every single
time I hear us talk about Marcus, that's the same thing I hear. You know, you were doing this.
I think a lot of us kind of were to a certain degree, but you had taken it to another level
with your video content and how you were going to answer a hundred questions in a hundred days.
I think that at this point has become legendary. Now we have people who are just absolute savages
like Chris green who, you know, screw a hundred days. I'm going to do a hundred years worth of
content and he's going to do it in two and a half days. So anyhow, I don't need to introduce Ryan. Ryan's here to talk about video and get granular on how you can use video in your content creation.
Because I think the one thing that a lot of us miss out on is just some of the basics, man.
Some of the angles, some of the lighting things and all of that.
And it's not things that you need to run out and buy a bunch of expensive equipment for.
It's just you don't even know what you should be doing. So with that being said, it's my great pleasure to introduce my good friend,
founder of Rogue Risk, content creator extraordinaire, Mr. Ryan Hanley.
Dude, it's so good to be here. You know, it's funny coming in, coming in, we'll call it coming
in hot here. I'm out on the West Coast. And so if I sound a little scratchy,
it's because my allergies are like off the chain. So I apologize for that. I have my,
what's your boy Chris Voss talks about the late night FM DJ voice. I have my late night FM DJ
voice going. And so coming in and listening to you guys talk about Marcus Sheridan, talking about
video strategy, they ask, you answer.
You know, I always bust. So Marcus is like an all-time buddy of mine.
So when I say he stole my concept, that's 100% tongue-in-cheek.
But we were doing something at the same time, and we were talking about it.
And really, that's how we met each other.
And I'm not going to rehash the whole 100 Days story because they can go back and listen to a podcast that I've done with you where I've broken that down.
So if you're listening to this, just go back and listen to episodes that I've done on the Power Producers podcast and get that story.
What I want to talk about today is how I did it again and what you can do from what I'm doing today. Because when I talk about the 100 days,
100 videos and 100 days story,
some of the feedback that I'll get is,
well, Ryan, that was 2009, 2010,
and the internet was different,
and no one was doing it,
and there was no competition.
So obviously you came to the top.
Well, the funny thing about that is,
I literally just did it again in 2020, the same exact
strategy, nothing different, even less sophisticated.
And, you know, we have the most robust commercial lines, video content channel in the entire
world.
And we've had it.
We have it on YouTube.
We've built out our own. If you go to wiki, w i k i.rogrist.com,
we have a video library there as well that we,
that's on our own property and we use video every day and everything we do,
not just to, to, to do video or to get some attention.
We do it to do to write business. Like this is what, this is this,
the strategy that I'm about to walk you through is what, is basically how we stayed afloat during
the pandemic. Like I launched my agency Rogue Risk into the face of COVID, seven days before
COVID started. Like I was all dialed up to be a middle market producer. I was using the killing commercial process. I was going through all the,
all the strategies, all the resources, all the email campaigns,
all the outreach campaigns that David talks about and kill it commercial.
That was my whole thing. David can testify to this. Like I was ready.
I had the folders. I was ready to go.
Like this is what I was doing is I was going to be this digital middle market
producer. And seven days in COVID hits and the entire world shuts down. And, you know, I'm
basically like in tears. I've put, you know, $40,000 of my own money into rogue risk. And I
got no, I'm dead on arrival. I have nothing. I have, I have no, no way to reach out to the people
that I was going to target. So, you know, I did what anyone, what any good dummy does is I just went back to what I know.
And I just started creating video.
And I created a video for small business because they were the only things that were still open
because they were only things that, you know, the business owners still had to show up.
They had to make money for themselves.
And I just started creating video.
So what we're going to talk about is literally, it's exactly what I did to get Rogue to over
300 inbound organic leads a month.
We don't pay a dollar in PPC.
That's a lot.
We do do a little tiny bit of retargeting today, but that's mostly for brand value.
We do over 300 organic leads. People calling us, texting us, filling out
our web chat, or filling out a web form. We do over 300 inbound leads every single month. And
this month, we're going to crack $750,000 in premium. So we are a very legit agency today.
We've done it kind of slow burn with the exact strategy that I'm going to
describe to you. So, all right. So that's the preface. How do we do that? Well, we started
with the largest, second largest search engine in the world that also doubles with its big brother,
Google, as an excellent source of organic search. So what I wanted to do was answer,
you know, kind of they ask you answer, nothing,
and do it with video in a way that I could duplicate
over and over and over and over again
so that when someone has a problem, they find us.
All right, so there's gonna be two parts to this talk.
There's gonna be how do we actually create the video
and what does that look like?
Where do we put it, right?
Very tactically.
The second part of this talk is going to be, what do we do when they actually call us or contact us?
Because that's the piece that I think we're missing on as an industry. Now, I want to be clear,
this strategy works, whether you're targeting small business, whether you're targeting personal
lines, or whether you're targeting middle market. So I don't want you to think, well, Ryan, I don't do small business, so this doesn't work. Or we really only do middle
market manufacturing, light manufacturing. Okay. This strategy works, and I'll give you examples,
regardless of what you're going after, what you want, where it is, what the size of the account is, it works. Now, your numbers will vary based on
what your geographic region is, who you're targeting, all that. But every human uses the
internet to find solutions to their problems. And I want you to keep that concept in your head.
Your target market, if it's small business, if it's
middle market, if it's a specific industry, if it's a specific geographic region, all of them
use the internet to solve their problems. And that's what we're trying to be. When we create
video, we are trying to be solution providers. That is the whole crux of what we're doing.
So basically how we break it down is I use,
I use a couple of tools and I'll give you their names. You don't have to use these tools,
right? You can use a free things. I use a paid tool. So there's a paid tool called A-R-E-F-S,
A-H-R-E-F-S. Actually, I see Chris Langell's name on this. My man, Lan Gilley, is the one that introduced me to this
tool, but it's like 99 bucks a month. And what I do is I go in there and I start doing some searches
around, you know, say the keywords of what I want to target. So let's say I want to target,
I'm building, I'm currently building out this food truck campaign. So I go
in there and, and you can do this on Google too, and I'll explain it, but I, you type in food
trucks and then I'll type in food truck insurance. I'll type in how to start a food truck. And what
it does is it gives me all these variations on searches that people are doing on the internet.
You can search by what they're searching in YouTube. You can search by what they're searching in Google and Bing and whatever, DuckDuckGo.
Actually, I don't think they can do DuckDuckGo. And you basically come up with a list of topics.
And then I look, I get to maybe like 20, 30 topics. And I start to think, okay,
there's some similarities here. And I try to break it down, this is just
the way I work, into 10 videos. All right, what are 10 videos based on potential traffic, which
is a number that it gives you, so potential searches, and similarities, things that I think
I can package into one video. And I come up with 10 videos. And then once I have those topics,
I turn them into headlines for video. So let's say,
what is food truck insurance? How much does food truck insurance cost? What is the best food truck
insurance? Let's say it's state specific, um, how to get food truck insurance in New York. Um,
uh, you know, commercial auto insurance for food trucks. I'm just, you know, I'm making these up
now, but so I come up with a list of 10 that I can hit and then I'm going to batch record them. So when we record videos, because the
recording part is where most people get stuck in the recording part is the easiest part of producing
video. Right. So one of them, all, when I do this live on stage, the most common questions,
the most frequent questions are around how to record
the video. Do I need a Sony a seven three or is can't, you know, or what kind of, what kind of
camera do I need? And you know, how do I, how do I set up a studio in my office? You don't need a
frigging studio in your office. You don't need a $3,000 camera with a thousand dollar lens on it.
Those things are nice. Don't get me wrong. And they make, they make the video look nice. Your, your, your consumers don't, don't care. They absolutely
positively without a doubt, do not give a crap about what equipment you use. Here's what they
care about. They care that you are clear that they can see you and they care that they can hear you.
And then after those two things, nothing else matters, right?
You want to have a decent backdrop, like the backdrop I have behind me is terrible. I wouldn't
use this one. I'd use something clean. You want to focus yourself, right? Like this, I'm at the
TROP, which is not a nice hotel. So mostly because all the techies at InsureTechConnect bought up all
the hotel rooms at the nice hotels. So I'm in this crappy hotel. But you want something clean. That's really the only thing that you want.
Clean. And the reason you want something clean as a backdrop, like I have this red curtain. If I
were doing this in here, I would think about using this red curtain. Now, the lighting isn't set up
properly. We're going to talk about that. But the reason I would think about using that, it's not
even red. It's like a gross orange. It probably was red at one time, but again,
I'm at the trap. The reason you want something clean is because that focuses their attention
on you. If you have a messy, if you have a busy background, then their attention starts to go.
What's in your backdrop. You want them focused on you. Like David's thing is super
cool, but like with the neon and all that, and I think it's dope for podcasts. And I think it's
cool for, for the content that he creates for the killing commercial community. But if he was
creating content for, um, Florida risk partners, I would tell him I would go with something simpler
just because you want all their attention focused on you. You want everything to
kind of frame in on you. So that would be my best. Exactly what I told them right before you came on.
If you ever look at any content that I film that I want people to pay attention to, I'm in front of
a plain gray screen, period. I don't want any distractions in the background or anything. So
100% on point, you just validated exactly what I told them about 20 minutes ago. Well, I, uh, I basically live to validate you, David. So, you know, that's,
that's kind of my purpose around here. So, um, so, so yeah, so you want something clean. Now
I've literally, if you watch my videos, if you go onto YouTube and you watch the videos that I've
done for real grits, you'll see, I use the same gray backdrop for almost every video.
I've done a couple of different backdrops, but basically I'd say 80 plus percent of my
videos are this plain gray backdrop.
That's it.
Nothing sexy about it.
It's just a plain gray backdrop.
You don't need to have go buy on Amazon a backdrop with paper.
I did that only because, you know, I'm a maniac and I, and I am a little
more advanced at this, but I'm telling you, you don't need it. Find something that is relatively
clean and simple stand in front of it. Okay. So that's backdrop for lighting. I'm going to teach
you guys how to be a lighting guru right now. Okay. We're going, we're going, we're, we're,
we're making things. No, no one else is probably going to move their computer while we talk
in a shitty hotel room.
So, okay, lighting.
Everyone talks about, do I need a ring light?
Do I need a lighting setup?
You don't need any of that crap.
Here's what you need.
You need to stand in front of the sun.
There's this big yellow ball that exists in the sky.
And even when the clouds are out, it still creates an awful lot of light.
So all I'm doing right now is standing in front of the window in my hotel and look how good I look. Now I'm a handsome dude, so I can't help
you if you're not as handsome as I am, but that was a joke too. You know, the thing here is look
at the lighting. The backdrop is darker, right? So even though this is a crappy hotel room backdrop,
look at, I'm lit. It is obvious that I
am the center of whatever this is in your eyes are immediately drawn to me because the light is,
is, is hitting me here, right? This is a terrible lighting job because you can't see me, right? This
is awful. So you don't, so basically find the sun and stand in front of it. That's the light.
Now, if you want to get a light, that's cool.
You know, like if you're using this curtain,
I could turn on, say, this light over here, right?
So now if I were doing a video
and I frame this a little better, right?
You can kind of get the idea.
There's a light in front of me here.
I have this simple backdrop.
I'm now the setup.
Now this light is awful and the backdrop is a curtain,, but you know, this is the idea for lighting.
Now here's the very last piece, very last piece is audio. Now, again, I'm on the road. I'm at a
hotel room. I'm using my, my Mac. So my, my audio isn't exactly on point. I'm sure Jenkins audio
sounded amazing with his deep voice.
And he's got some high five crazy microphone, which is, which is super,
but all you don't just don't have an echo.
That's all you just don't have an echo. If you have an echo,
do not produce the video. I see so many of you guys, the lighting looks great.
You look great. The backdrop is perfect. You say awesome, important,
valuable things. And then it sounds like this is, and I can't, I'm like, it immediately turns me off.
And I'm not the only one I've watched this in YouTube, actual YouTube traffic results.
When you have an echo in your video and there's, and there's studies that you can go just Google
echo and video or whatever. You don't need to, it sounds awful and people leave. No one wants to hear you sit in an echoey room that, that they can't, they're the whole time
they're trying to figure out what you're saying because it's echoey and it's distracting and it
keeps them have a crisp, clean audio. And all you need for a crisp, clean audio is a room that
doesn't have an echo, right? So I'm talking into this, this curtain, this curtain is actually
behind the screen on purpose to a certain extent, because what it's doing is knocking down my audio
and making it. So this room is an echo. It may be a little bit, but it's, it's not too bad.
It, they used wallpaper for some reason here. So that kind of knocks down, that kind of knocks
down the echo as well, which I didn't know we were still doing wallpaper, but I guess we are.
But this wallpaper is probably the wallpaper when Frank Sinatra stayed in this room. That could be the case.
So just don't have an Echo. So have a clean, crisp background, have lighting, light in front of you,
and don't have an Echo. That's all you need. And you can get all of it right here on your iPhone.
Please, please, please do not, if you do not have an expensive
camera, do not go out and buy an expensive camera until you've done 20, 30, 50 videos on this thing,
on this thing right here. You, I, guys, the new cinematic mode that they have on these,
on these phones, if you have an iPhone 13, let's see, it's called cinematic mode. You probably see it right
there. I don't use my, I haven't taken my Sony out in months, months and months. I use this for all
my videos in cinematic mode, my iPhone. I don't, I don't use a Sony anymore. I have a $3,000 camera
with a $1,500 lens that I bought, you know, years ago. And it's amazing. And I can take dope ass video with it.
And I haven't taken it out in probably six months
because the cinematic mode on my camera
does just as good a job.
And what's crazy about it
is when I first started doing videos
with a cinematic mode,
some people were sending me messages like,
yo bro, you get a new lens.
Those videos look dope.
And I'm like, yes, I did.
It was the new every two Verizon upgrade on my iPhone 13.
And I don't take out the $5,000 in video camera equipment
that I have in my bag.
I just use my iPhone now with a $100 tripod.
So you don't need it, okay?
Have the lighting in front of you,
have good crisp, clean audio,
which really just means being in a room that's not echoey
and have a decent backdrop. Now you're ready to produce video. The talking part
should be easy for you. You're an insurance professional. You do this for a living.
If you say, I don't like being on video, what I hear is I don't like selling shit and I'm a wuss.
That's what I hear. Like your excuse for you not
being on camera is like, uh, you're an adult, suck it up, get it done. Like that. That's really my
opinion. And these days I used to be like, Oh, I get it guys. Like being on camera is tough. And
yeah, you know, Nope. You're a wuss. I would use stronger language if I didn't want it. If I,
if this wasn't like a recorded thing, do the freaking
video. No one likes being on camera. I don't love being on camera. I can say something right now
that could get me in trouble. And I probably will. I don't like being on camera, but I do it because
it drives business into my agency. That's why I do it. I don't do video because I love taking time
out of my life to talk about insurance concepts into a freaking phone.
I do it because it helps us put more prospects into our funnel, which helps my people write
more business, which helps everyone in my organization make more money, including me.
That's why I do it.
So I don't care that you don't like being on video.
Just do it.
All right.
So now we're past that.
So we've understood how to create a decent setup. We're going to use our phones. If we don't already have a super nice camera, we're going to use our phones to do the first 20 or 30 videos before we even consider something nicer. And what you're going to find is that this is, clean setup that you can do that is repeatable. Okay. So
that's the last piece of kind of the setup video is a place that is repeatable. You want a place
that you can just put a tripod up, have a backdrop and go. And the reason for that is if you have to
pull all this garbage out and set it up every time, you're not going to do it. You're just
simply not going to do it. You're going to get, you're going to, it's going to be like, Oh, I got 10 other things to do. I got to make some calls. I got to pretend like I'm working. I'm going to do it. You're just simply not going to do it. You're going to get, you're going to, it's going to be like, oh, I got 10 other things to do. I got to make some calls. I got to pretend
like I'm working. I'm going to follow up on email instead of doing video. You're going to make a
bunch of excuses, which I understand, but it's not going to happen. So have a nice repeatable
place that is simple to set up that in five minutes, you can be ready to produce video.
And then when you produce that video, produce eight to 10 videos at a time.
Now you can go even more. If you're feeling froggy, I've just found that after eight to 10,
sorry guys. Um, after eight to 10 videos, you kind of run out of steam. So, and you don't want
like the last few videos for you to be kind of, um, maybe your, your voice starts to get
scratchy. You don't have as much energy. You're not kind of, um, putting, putting yourself out.
You're not really like putting energy into it. You're kind of just getting through it.
No one wants to do business with someone who's just getting through it. So, um, you know,
batch the videos because doing one at a time is terrible. And it's the number one mistake that I
made when I was doing the 100 days thing is that I did one every day instead of doing 10 a day and then just scheduling them out.
And then, um, and, and batch 10. Okay. So we have our, we have our 10 titles. We're going to talk
to them and I'm going to talk just briefly how we, how we talk through content. Um, we have our 10
titles. We know how to create video, right? Very simple. We know we're
going to create a place in our office or in our home that we can, you know, is repeatable,
consistent. There's also some brand value there, right? If it looks the same, if every video looks
the same, they know it's you. They know that if they see you on YouTube or they see you on Google
and then they see another video from you, they know to watch that and you're building trust.
You're building a brand appreciation.
You're going to batch your videos.
You're going to do eight to 10 at a time to make sure that you,
that you get that many done and then you can schedule them out over weeks or
months.
And the last thing we're going to do is talk about how we template eyes,
our videos. Okay. So once, Hey, Ryan, real quick, inbound when people actually call us real quick, before you get into that,
Ryan, I did have somebody come in and Q and a, and ask about your process from getting the video
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You broke up there for a second, David.
I'm sorry.
Can you just hit me with that question again?
Yeah.
So I had a question from somebody wanting to know
when you're doing your video with your iPhone,
how do you get that to where you can edit?
Because I know that for myself, I just simply-
That's why I like the Apple ecosystem.
Okay.
So you're airdropping
because you're going Apple to Apple.
I'm creating the iCloud link
and just sending an email to myself
so I can download it into Premiere from there.
But that was the question.
So you're not editing your videos on your phone
and then shipping them out.
You're gonna do everything in Premiere
and you're just using airdrop to do it.
Got it. Yeah, Okay. I got the
question now. And I apologize guys that when David talks that my internet connection is a little
poor. So again, I'm at the Tropicana, which I apologize for, for like a million reasons.
So yes. So what I'm doing is recording it on my iPhone and then AirDropping it to my Mac. And then
I use Premiere Pro to edit them. And that's going to be part of the templated thing. And we'll talk about the reason I template every video is almost exactly the same.
Again, if you go to the Rogue Risk YouTube channel, you'll see every video sounds and looks
exactly the same, right? I am not trying to be Steven Spielberg. I'm trying to be a successful
agency owner. So I don't need it to be super high def with drone shots and panning shots.
All that shit does is distract people.
No one gives up about your agency or what it looks like or what a drone looks like when it flies over it or no one cares.
They don't care.
They want answers to their questions.
That's what they want.
It's that simple.
You are just a tool to them.
They have a problem.
How do I get workers compensation in Florida?
And they want a problem. How do I get workers compensation in Florida? And they want a solution.
And if they have to watch panning drone shots and all this kind of crap and music, you know,
all they're going to do is go back next video. That's all they're going to do. So why I do very
simply is I use my phone. I airdrop it to my Mac and I use Premiere Pro to edit the videos in a
template that I've used, you know, for almost every single video. Now I do not recommend Premiere Pro to edit the videos in a template that I've used, you know, for almost every single video. Now, I do not recommend Premiere Pro just so we're all on the same page. Premiere Pro is a heavy tool.
It takes a lot of practice. I've been doing video for 10 years. That's why I use Premiere Pro,
just because it was the thing. There just wasn't that many options a decade ago. So I don't want
you to go out and run out and get Premiere Pro. There will be a heavy learning curve. There are
way easier tools. I don't know what they are these days because I just haven't used them. I think like ScreenFlow, there's just
lots of easy editing tools. If you templatize your videos the way I'm about to describe.
Yeah. There's one called Filmora and another one that I hear people using, I think is native to
Apple and that's GarageBand. You hear me? We lose you. Yeah. Yeah. So I'd say, yeah, if that's the tool, that's the tool. I just I
haven't researched, you know, kind of beginner editing tools. I would go with a beginner editing
tool. You don't need anything fancy. OK, so when I when I do a video and I templatize it, the way I
do it is very simple. And it's it's actually a strategy. And I'm going to forget the guy's name. StoryGrid. If you Google StoryGrid,
S-T-O-R-Y-G-R-I-D.com, StoryGrid, there's a very simple formula for telling a story.
And I use that exact same formula. Beginning hook, middle build, ending payoff. Okay. That's
the formula for the video. Beginning hook. Today, we're going to talk about, let me start that again.
Today, we're going to answer the question, what is food truck insurance?
Let's go.
Boom.
That's it.
That's the beginning hook.
Because someone who is wondering, what is food truck insurance, now knows that what
I'm going to do is answer the question, what is food truck insurance?
I do a very simple, less than seven second logo bumper with free music
that I created. I bought the logo bumper, just takes my logo and moves, and I bought it for $7
on, what's that site? Fiverr. So that logo bumper is just for a tiny bit of brand value.
And then when we come back, it's, hi, my name is Ryan Hanley, founder and president of Rogue Risk,
where we do insurance differently.
Specifically, by giving you knowledge and information to make the right insurance decision.
So food truck insurance.
And I give them as quick as I can, 60 seconds, 90 seconds.
The truth is, talk until you're done adding value.
That's really the filter that I use.
Talk until you're done adding value.
But you want it to be as crisp and clean and punchy as you can.
I know some of you are going to want to write scripts and I appreciate that you're insecure about your ability to talk about the product, but you're in professionals talk like a human
about the product. That's what they want, right? It looks not awesome when people can tell that
you're reading off a script. It just does. people can tell that you're reading off a script.
It just does. I can tell when you're reading off a script. You can tell when you're reading off a
script. The people who are watching the video can tell you're reading off a script. And if you're
going to be the gangster killing commercial producer who writes all the business and knows
what you're talking about, but then you need a script, I don't understand why I would choose
you. Because what you're saying is I'm not confident enough in my own knowledge of the shit that I'm
saying on this video that I got to put it in a script. No. And if you're saying, well, Ryan,
I have funny jokes in there. You're not funny. You're an insurance agent. Get rid of it.
Just talk about the coverage. If you have to stop for a second and collect your thoughts,
that's fine. If you use Amara, that's fine. If you don't
say exactly what you meant, as long as you're talking in high level generalities, you're fine.
There's no E&O concern. Stop scripting your videos. It is not authentic. It's not human.
It sounds terrible. It looks terrible. And I just, please don't. Now I say all that,
and my good buddy, Gordon Coyle, who is one of the best at
creating video to produce high, um, uh, like, like, um, high, high value accounts. Um, specifically
he goes after like DNO and cyber for, for large organizations. And he is one of the case studies
for, you can do this and bring in accounts that, that, that, that make you 10, 20, $50,000 in revenue.
Gordon's the best. I did a podcast with him. So go back into my podcast history and listen to the
one I did with Gordon if you want to learn exactly how he does it. So he scripts his videos. I bust
his chops about it all the time. Gordon could create, and I say this to him, so I'm going to
say it to you. He could have 50 to 100 more videos online if he didn't have to script them. I personally think just talk. What is food drug
insurance? I'm just using this as an example. Just talk about it because you're a professional
and you know this. If the person was sitting across the table from you, you would be banging
these answers out and absolutely crushing it. You decided to create a video on this topic. You must know about it. So stop scripting your videos because part of
this is they want their question answered. Part of this, they want to trust that you're the solution
provider. That is what video is about. What video is about at its core, the reason that the video
works so well is that people get to build trust with you on their own time. Right? So I go to work all day.
You know, I'm doing my thing and my, my food truck and I'm, and I'm looking to buy my first,
or I'm looking to hire my first employee. I'm not going to research that in the middle of freaking
day. I'm using, I'm doing my food truck thing. I'm driving around and I'm making burgers or
whatever the hell I'm doing. And what I do is I come home at 9 PM after a long day and I put the kids to bed
and I go, shit, I I'm hiring Johnny over here. I think I need workers comp. And then I type
how to get workers comp for food truck. And then video pops up and I just want an answer to it.
And I want to believe that the person who is delivering that information in that video,
that I can trust them. And if they're talking like this, because they're reading a script
and they're trying to be funny, but they're not because they're insurance agents and they're
talking for too long because they're insecure about their answer, then I'm not going to trust
that person. And I'm not going to pick them. And I'm going to go to Ryan's video where I talk this
fast because this is the way I talk. I am and they're punchy and they're
quick and I answer the question as simply and concisely as I possibly can and because I'm being
me maybe there's some ums and ahs there's been thunder and lightning in the background of my
videos there's been kids stomping on the floor in my videos I've had a kid come in my my my basement
while I was doing a video and I left it and And in the video, if you can find it,
I'm not going to tell you which one, uh, in the video, I just go, Hey, this is what happens when
you run an insurance agency, work from home. Boom. I kept going with my answer, right? So that's
real life. And, and, and maybe you're, you're, um, you know, you might not be comfortable with
being quite so authentic. I get that. Maybe you don't want your kid coming in the room, But the idea here is, guys, what people are doing when they watch their videos is they're building trust with you on their own time. So if you aren't you, then you're not building trust. Because we as humans have like authenticity, like filters. We can tell when someone isn't being them or someone's being too pro or someone's
being too, you know, kind of buttoned up. So, you know, if you're, if you're going for,
you know, if you're going for wall street stockbrokers or something, maybe you do need to
use it, wear a jacket and be super stuffy. I don't know. I don't, I don't know any wall street
stockbrokers, but I can't imagine too many industries today in 2022 where the work from
home environment and all the crazy stuff that goes on in the workplace now and how casual everything is that being super buttoned up, talking like a robot because you're reading a script in a very kind of like non-you way is going to be the best way to attract people.
So that's my personal opinion on that.
All right.
So I finish every video. So I've started with my hook. Hey,
today we're going to answer the question. What is food, drug insurance,
simple bumper. I introduced myself very briefly,
exactly the same way every time. And then I get to the crux,
to the meat and potatoes, to the, to the middle build.
Now we get to the ending payoff. Okay.
The ending payoff and the story grid is supposed to be for the person
watching the video for me, for the ending payoff for us is where is our call to action. So the
ending payoff at the end of every single video, again, you can watch them. I'm talking here.
I've delivered all my value. And I say, if this is the type of relationship that you would like
with your insurance professional, then we would love to do business with you. The best way to get ahold of us is to give us a call 518-960-6600.
You can text or call. We're in all 50 states or wherever you are, we'll come to you. You can email
us at gorogueatrogress.com. You can visit us online at rogress.com, or I'm sure there's a
link or a button somewhere around this video that I'll let you contact us. Whichever way you choose,
we look forward to doing business with you. Bam, ending payoff. Call to action. If you deliver
value in your video and you don't tell them what to do, they're not going to call you.
These people are dummies. We're all dummies on the internet. We need to be told exactly what to do. So at the end of every
video, you can even move it up to the front of the video. You can put your phone number on the video
and text if you want. I don't do that because it takes time. And I'm all about just banging videos
out and get them out into the world. But to the end of every single video, I give that same close
because I want people to call me, right? So every video,
every video is exactly the same. Beginning hook. Today, we're going to talk about what is food
truck insurance. Middle build. I briefly introduced myself and answered the question.
And then the ending payoff is tell them what to do if they like me and they need this thing that
I just talked about in the video. Every single video, exactly the same. It's how I'm able to bang out eight to 10 videos in a clip because they're
all exactly the same. Then when I go to produce them using my editing software, I already have
the logo bumper set up. I put the same logo bumper that I do at the beginning at the end as just
like a getaway screen. And I and I have my beginning hook and I
have my middle build and my ending payoff. And I just pop one in, put the thing in, put the middle
build in, put the backend, export the video. I don't even listen to the video. I literally just
watch. I just literally just watch where I'm talking, like where the, where the like sound
meter is. And I just clip, clip, put the, put the,
put the logo bumper in there, clip the front, clip the back, put it in. I don't even watch the video.
I don't even listen to the video. Honestly, I don't rewatch them. I just, I just look at where
the, where the sound is because I know when I'm talking and I just clip them, export them,
pop the next one in, clip them, export them, pop the next one in. Clip them, export them, pop the next one in.
It's just a factory.
Again, I'm not trying to be Steven Spielberg.
I'm trying to get videos out the door.
That's why we have 350 some odd videos
on our YouTube channel
is because we just bang them out.
We're just manufacturing content
so that answers questions for the consumers
that we want to work with.
That's it.
Do not overthink this.
Do not try to be Spielberg or whoever your
favorite director is. Just don't, don't overthink it. Just get it done. Okay. So that is my process
in a nutshell. It's not sexy. It's, it's simple. It's straightforward. I don't think about it in a
way where this is creative work. This is not my creative work, right? Podcasts. I do some, you
know, I try to write when I can, not as much lately. That's my creative expression. This is not my creative work, right? Podcasts, I do some, you know, I try to write when I can, not as much lately. That's my creative expression. This is not creative expression.
We are manufacturing content to get people to find us online and to do business with us. Okay.
So before I get to how do we actually talk to these people when they call, which is the most
important part of all this, I want to briefly explain where I put these videos and why I put them in the places that I do, because it's the last piece of the video strategy.
So I start every video on YouTube. So every video goes on YouTube. Nice title, nice description.
I put a link to our get a quote page, quote.rogrist.com in the first four lines of the description box on
YouTube. And the reason for that is that way they can see it when they're watching the video.
If you go below that, then it gets pushed down and they have to hit read more before they can
click the link. Okay. If that doesn't make sense, I can go back to it or just put in the chat or
whatever. I can go back. But basically, when you're writing the description,
if you're not in the first four lines of writing the description,
and if you put the link kind of below that,
then they don't see it when they watch the video.
They have to click the read more button, expand the description to see the link.
I want the link right there.
So if they're watching that video and they're like,
oh my God, this guy is brilliant. I can't wait to buy insurance from him. I want to make it easy for them to click the link. I want the link right there. So if they're watching that video and they're like, oh my God, this guy is brilliant. I can't wait to buy insurance from him. I want to make it easy
for them to click that link and come over and get into their, get a cool page. But just simple
description use. I use a tool called vid IQ. It's like 20 bucks a month or whatever. And it helps
me with the keywords because the keywords in YouTube still matter. Really, they matter from a search
perspective, but they also matter from a related video standpoint. We could get deeper into that.
I don't want to today. We could do a whole thing on YouTube SEO, but I use a tool called
vidIQ to get my keywords. I put end screen on it and I put all the related videos that kind of pop
up. If you watch a YouTube video,
they kind of pop up up here. People can click on those and go. And when you have a thousand
subscribers and 4,000 hours watched, which takes a lot of work, you can then put a link in. So I
can now put a link in that little gray bar that comes out. I can put a link in there to get a
quote, which people are using too. So that's kind of upped our quote amount, but that's all tactical shit. I start on YouTube. Then I use Vidyard to host our videos. For a long time,
I did not. It is not a requirement. Please, it's an expensive tool. I sold my business. I got a
little more cash in the business. I'm not saying use Vidyard. It's an awesome tool if you have the
money and are trying to go really gangster, but wait on that until you get 50, 75
videos, you're committed to a video strategy. If you're not committed to a video strategy yet,
do not pay for that tool. Okay. We're obviously committed to a video strategy.
So what I would recommend is then take that YouTube video and embed it in a blog post and
go to, we use rev.com. So I get the video transcribed. I embed the video on our website.
I take the transcription. I copy and paste it into the blog post. I kind of make it look nicer.
Now I have a video and I have a blog post. Next thing I do, so basically video goes out,
share the video. The next thing I do is I create the blog post about a week later,
blog post then gets shared. And then a week or two after that, I natively upload the video. So meaning I upload the video to say LinkedIn or whatever,
hopefully at this point, you'll understand what native upload means. And then I share that,
that I share that video natively in social media. So basically got three weeks of shared content
over one video. There's all there's other kinds of like chop and share strategies that I know
David uses, he does a whole bunch of he does a really good job with it, with the killing commercial
stuff. I'm not going to get too deep into that, but that's our basic strategy. One video, three
shares out into the world. Once on YouTube, once on our website, once natively in social media,
and that's how we get the content out there. So that's that. Okay. So let's say you're doing all
that and you're absolutely crushing it, right? You're just dominating. You're awesome, dynamic. And people start,
what's going to happen is surprisingly, people are going to start contacting you.
And here's how you're going to get up is you're going to treat them like referrals.
Guys, I don't know how to describe this to you. The people who contact you randomly or organically
online are not referrals. I know we all love referrals. I know we're describe this to you. The people who contact you randomly or organically online
are not referrals. I know we all love referrals. I know we're all awesome at referrals. I get it.
Everybody loves referrals and we love referrals because we're all super lazy. We're all super
lazy, right? Referrals are easy. We get referred to somebody. They already like us. They already
trust us. Our golfing buddy told their best friend they need to do business with us.
Referrals are awesome. When people call you organically online, they're not referrals.
They don't know you. They don't like you. They may have a small modicum of trust because they watched a video of you.
They certainly are hoping you have the answer to whatever question they have, but they're not a referral.
So what I mean by that is we cannot treat them the same way that we treat referrals when they call us.
Right. What you're going to want to do is you're going to want to immediately jump into info gathering.
You're going to immediately want to jump into cell mode.
But it can't work that way. These people don't trust you enough for you to jump immediately into sales mode. You can't, you can't just start going. I, you know, like with a referral, you guys are all assuming that you're just going to do
business with you. And I know you're all going, no, that's not what we do, Ryan. We do it differently.
We're amazing. Our process is different. Now you all just assume the person going to do business
with you. You jump into info gathering mode, and then you go right into insurance person.
Can't do that with an inbound organic opportunity because that person doesn't trust you yet.
They trust you enough to contact you. That's step one. They do not trust you yet. So when I was at
trustedchoice.com, we started doing, we did a thing before I left where we started recording
all the phone calls that come in that like when
we referred somebody in, we would record that phone call. And I get to listen to insurance
agents around the country, answer the phone to inbound organic leads. And as an industry,
we're terrible. We're just awful at it because we immediately go into filtering them down to,
are they this perfect account? None of them are
going to be perfect. If you take on this strategy and you go video, most of them are not going to
be perfect. They're going to have problems. So what I mean by that is people who are having an
awesome time with their insurance and their insurance agent, don't go onto YouTube and
search for how to solve the problem that I have with my insurance., don't go onto YouTube and search for how to solve the problem
that I have with my insurance. They don't do that. They just call their insurance agent, which is
probably you guys, since you're all here and most likely awesome at this. So here's the deal.
You need to, you need to treat them like what they are. They have a problem. They have a problem.
Their problem is I just hired my first,
I just hired my first employee. Their problem is I just bought my first commercial vehicle.
I'm starting a new business. My agent won't get back to me. The number of people who contact us
because independent insurance agents are terrible at responding quickly to COI requests is,
would blow your mind. It's just amazing. I did a whole series of videos on fast COI delivery because it's such a huge reason why people reach out to us.
People reach out to us because they've had a really terrible experience with direct writers,
like Next. Next is one of our biggest referral sources. I actually love Next because if it wasn't
for Next, we wouldn't do as much business as we do. So basically people go to next, have a terrible experience and then come to us. Let's see, why else do they call us?
They had a really bad claim. Their premiums went up. A big one is I can't get ahold of my agent.
We get a lot of, I can't get ahold of my agent. So they're coming to you with a problem, right?
They're always coming to you with a problem. They didn't go to YouTube because everything was
awesome. And this is my point. When you get a referral, most likely everything
is awesome. And just someone is coming to you because like you're a better option or you're
part of the country club or whatever, right? You go line dancing with them on Tuesday nights.
It's easy. There's not a problem. And if you're going to take on a video strategy,
people with problems are going to call you. So got it. Got to change our mindset.
So basically when someone calls me, here's how I answer the phone.
Hey, this is Ryan from rogue risk. This is, uh, you know, this is David from,
you know, wherever, Hey dave what's going on
and then i just let him talk or how can i help what's happening just a simple casual
open-ended question and then i just let them talk and here's what they'll do explain it with
friendly inflection in your voice when you do it
right like my standard is believe it or not i actually answer the phone every now and again
by accident and my standard is hey good to hear from you what's going on in your world that's it
now they're going to tell you everything you need to know and you're light-hearted you're friendly
you're immediately building trust you're not robotic robotic at all. Yeah. David, I love that. I actually love that. I'll tell you the one I use the most is how can
I help? Hey, this is Ryan from Rogue Risk. How can I help? That's it. And they will literally
tell you everything. Now, granted, sometimes the shit to tell you, you're like, I don't really
want to deal with this person. And that's perfectly fine. But most but most of the time it's, it's a, it's a, it's a very specific
problem. Hey, Ryan, I just hired my first employee. I'm a landscaper. I don't know. I'm pretty sure I
need workers comp. That's a, that's a really common one. Pretty sure we need workers comp.
And I'll be like, okay, well, Hey, what state are you in? And tell me, you know what, man,
you do need workers comp. Here's the good news.
We're going to get you squared.
That is my killer line.
We're going to get you squared.
And so I say to him, after they've talked and I've decided mentally, this is a problem we can actually solve, right?
I don't want to chase rabbits, but if this is a problem I can actually solve, I just
say to him, hey, Dave, I can get you squared.
Don't worry. We got you. Whether it's me or one of my team members, we got you. Don't worry about
it. We got you. Okay, cool. I have just, that person now goes, they take, I've heard them take
these big, like any of you do hot yoga, you do like that cleansing exhale. Like I've heard them
like cleansing exhale on the phone
because they went to YouTube
because they were scared and frustrated.
They had a problem.
And some random guy in upstate New York just said,
I got you, you're good, don't worry.
Whatever you were worried about,
you don't have to worry about it anymore, I got you.
That's it.
I listened to them.
And then I told them that they were good
and they're fine.
So now they're not gonna call were good and they're fine. So
now they're not going to call anybody else. They're good. Nobody wants the shop insurance,
guys. Nobody, like if you're looking for an accountant, you don't call seven accountants.
You just want to call one accountant and have that be the one. So it's the same thing with us.
Once you tell them that you got them, they're yours. Now here's, you're not done yet though.
Okay, you're not done.
Now you need to properly set expectations
for what's gonna happen during the process
because you are still a random voice on the phone.
Dave, I got you squared.
Okay, David, you don't have to worry about it, man.
I got you squared.
Cool, okay.
So here's what happens next.
I gotta get some info from you, all right? The info that I need is so that I can get you,
I can go out to the market and shop your insurance with the carriers that I have.
I have a good idea of the carriers that I'm going to use, but there's some things that I need. And
if I don't have it, I can't get you pricing. Okay. When are you looking to get this insurance?
If you don't ask this question, you will hate inbound marketing.
You have to ask, when do I need this insurance? Because if they say, well, I'm thinking about
hiring them like in April, I'm going to say, hey, David, thanks for the call, bud. You know what
I'm going to do? I'm going to put a little note in my system and I'm going to call you like in March
because right now, nothing I tell you means anything because April is a long
time from now. So I appreciate the call. We absolutely have you squared. I'm going to reach
out in March. And if you're still hiring Johnny, we're good. Okay. The reason for that is when,
when you use video, a lot of times you're getting top of funnel shoppers,
top of funnel shoppers means they're just kind
of figuring things out. Okay. So you can't, doesn't mean they're bad leads. A lot of people
will toss these on the ground and say, ah, that's a bad lead. The internet's the worst.
No, they're at the beginning of their journey. These are legitimate people, legitimate business
people who have a problem. The problem is the problem for you is that person is not ready
today. So just say, Hey, and this is why having a drip campaign or an agency zoom or a better agency or whatever
you, the freak you use is so important reminder tool, because then you just go, Hey, you're good,
man. We'll, we'll talk in March. Okay. Awesome. If they say, Hey, uh, uh, you know what, Brian,
I really want to get them hired by October. We're recording this in
September. Okay, great. No problem. We can get that done. Okay. And then I say to them,
I've gathered the information. I'm kind of skipping some. So key is let them talk,
tell them you got them, ask them when they need the business. And then the last piece is,
it's kind of finishing the expectations. what i'll say to them is okay
david i've got everything i need here here's the deal man um i'm gonna go out and shop this to my
carriers if i come back with a reasonable time you know i'll when when you need this buy right
oh i need it tomorrow okay great if i come back with um rates and everything in a proposal um by
tomorrow when you said you needed it,
are we good to do business? Like, are we going to do business together? This is don't take this
verbatim, but this is basically the concept, you know, are we, are we good? Yeah. Ryan. Hey man,
I just want to get this done. Awesome. Awesome. Here's what happens next. I'm going to go out and
do my thing. I'm going to come up with my best recommendation for what I think your workers
comp should be. You're then going to receive an email from me. That email is going
to have three bars. It's going to have a basic intro. I'm just going to tell you what's happening.
It's going to have a video in it where I break down exactly why I chose the company that I chose
and the rates and everything. And then I'm going to have the carrier proposal. What I actually get
from the carrier is going to be attached to the email. I'm going to send that over to you. I'm going to be able to see when you watch that video. And the reason for that
is I want you to have all the info I have. David, I hate, I hate when people just drop shit on me,
like a used car salesman. I'm just going to send you everything I have. So when we get back on the
phone, you know everything. I know we can have a productive conversation. How's that sound? That sounds amazing.
All right, dude, have a great day.
Peace.
Now I go do my thing.
I put my video proposal together.
I send out my email.
Guess what they don't want?
They don't want a phone call.
They don't want a phone call.
I just gave them everything I had.
I've just been completely transparent.
I just hit on the expectations that I sent. And I did it exactly the way that I said I was going to do it.
You know what we get? 89% of the time, a closed sale with no follow-up phone call.
The no follow-up phone call isn't 80% of the time, but 89% of the time when you use a video proposal
on an inbound lead, it closes. 89% of the time. That's exactly how we do it. That is our process to a T.
And they just respond, hey, this looks great, man. Let's do it. Okay. I'm going to send them
the doggie sign and a new customer. Last concept on this particular topic.
Do not try to round out the whole account. Do not try to round out the whole account.
Do not try to round out the whole account. That is going to blow your frigging mind. Some of you,
like there's your, you got the, remember that? What was that? Jet.com, like blue smoke is coming out of your head. Do not try to round out the whole account. They didn't call you to round
out the whole account. They called you because they have a problem. Problems, workers comp,
commercial auto.
Sorry, my allergies are starting to kill me
after an hour of talking.
They called you because they need a comp.
They needed fast certificates.
Whatever their problem is, solve the problem.
Solve the problem.
Once they're your client,
go back in and round out the account.
Get, you know, if it's comp, get the BOP,
get the auto, you know, upsell, cross sell, you know, do your insurance agent thing.
But in the moment, in this transaction, solve the problem. If you start trying to round out
accounts, it's going to take too long. They're going to start to think, I called this guy for
comp and he's freaking trying to sell me all this stuff. I'm just going someplace else. That's what they're going to do.
Cause if you've ever called somebody when you had a problem and all of a
sudden they try to sell you a whole bunch of other stuff feels kind of weird
and smarmy and no one wants to do business with someone who's smarmy. Right?
I get it.
You only do full package accounts because you're a professional agency and
you've been around for a hundred years. I'm just telling you inbound. it won't work. If you do that with inbound, it won't work.
It doesn't matter how big the account is. Solve the problem. Go back and round out the account.
That's it. That's the deal. Man, I timed that water break perfectly. All right, everybody.
Hanley is wrapped up. I've been answering questions in the Q&A as we have been going just
want to make sure nobody has any questions the one thing I want to go back and talk about really
quick only because I know there are people on here who probably don't know what the native player is
in the social platforms it's literally when you upload your video directly to LinkedIn or directly to
Facebook, as opposed to uploading it to YouTube or Vimeo and sharing the link. There are all kinds
of schools of thought on this process. I just watched Michael Janz put some long form piece
of content out in the last couple of weeks that says all of the rubbish that you
hear people talking about for reach on LinkedIn is exactly that. None of it matters. If you write
the right content, it's going to get to people. I'm going to push back and say that's 100% not
true. I can tell you because I have tested this stuff, whether it be text only posts,
posts with an image, posts with a video, using auto schedulers, sharing links,
all of that. And I can tell you, if you want your stuff to have the most reach possible for the
video portion, you got to get it in the native player. The way I do it is I will upload it
initially to the native player. And then for the two weeks in the trail, we will share it with a brief snippet of the video
and a link back to the full video on the YouTube channel, but you got to get it in the native
player. And that's what the native player is. So Ryan, I know you're on the road, man. I know
you're out at ITC. You're getting ready to shake hands, kiss babies and run that thing. I appreciate
you taking an hour out of your time to come join us today and actually this was like the perfect segue into mr land gill so uh hey pleasure man for you always for the
killing commercial community whatever you guys need love you guys all right brother take care
man thank you Take care, man. Thank you. Yeah.
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