How to add a clickable link to a video across platforms

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How to add a clickable link to a video across platforms

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Key quotes:

  • "TL:DR; 1) Excellent media manager, 2) quick schedule a week’s worth of posts, 3) hashtag suggestions, 4) and link in bio management If someone was to ask you: “Hey, have you ever tried using a social media app to manage your social accounts?” — Likely you’ll respond with something like Hootsuite."
  • "There’s several ways you can go about quickly scheduling your social media posts with Later."
  • "Here you’ll select the social channels you want to publish to, drag a photo onto the calendar, and then put your caption in."
  • "For Instagram, you’ll want to remove any links you’ve placed and put that in the LinkIn.bio section — more on that Later! With Later, you can search for hashtags that you want to find content for, and then you can import the photo or video directly into your media library to reshare."
  • "Most other social media scheduling platforms will give you a recommended posting time."
  • "They still need to work on a few things though I think Later is one of the best social media management platforms out there, contending with the likes of Hootsuite, and my former pal, Buffer."
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  • "A new trend has developed on LinkedIn that borders on an insane solution to a problem they have created with their new algorithm."
  • "Almost everyone has noticed that simply sharing your content from other platforms, and even full-length articles on LinkedIn’s own publishing platform doesn’t get the reach it once achieved."
  • "It turns out that long form articles posted directly into a post on LinkedIn were getting more engagement, more reach, and having more impact than either: But of course, many of these same influencers still wanted to get the traffic off LinkedIn and onto their sites."
  • "This turns out to be impossible if you want to combine this trick with also pasting your link into LinkedIn as normal."
  • "They just opened up the content on LinkedIn to the search engines and encouraging that to be as full as possible with deep and meaningful discussion will be a huge boost for them in terms of traffic."
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Transcript: Hi everyone we're gonna start by opening our browser I'm using my phone so I'm just gonna click desktop so the layout can change then you click on your picture you scroll down to settings and the next thing you want to look for is view additional features we're gonna click on that alright you need to have your external annotations enabled if you don't have it enabled just click enable then we're gonna move on to video manager okay so then you choose which video you're trying to edit right now I'm gonna choose the second video going down and now we're gonna try to put you know the little links that people have coming across the videos at the top yeah click on cards and you're just gonna pull the little bar under here that it's the little blue bar that I'm moving right now put it to whatever time stamp you want it to appear I put it at two minutes press Add card and you click whichever video you want to show whichever suggestion you want to show at the top click create card and now I'm going to just kind of restart the video a... See more →

Key quotes:

  • "What I learned early in the process was that this is very simple, intuitive tool can get any new user started — much faster than other blogging platforms, such as Wordpress — and yet, to my delight, there are numerous features under the hood of the Medium interface that can boost your stories to cut through the noise of the internet."
  • "Update July 2017 Medium recently added a feature to select a featured image for each story: When you click the “Publish” menu, interface now shows the images in your post in a gallery."
  • "For example, a Medium story will usually get less eyeballs when shared on Facebook (as a link) when compared to the same content written as (a native) post on Facebook."
  • "Besides link building, importing blog posts and placing image credits on captions, there are a couple of functionalities built in on Medium for you to improve the odds of having your stories, profile and publication be found."
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Key quotes:

  • "64% of North American radio listeners don’t know why they should bother with podcasts."
  • "The Apple Podcasts app is not the right place to convince people to listen to podcasts."
  • "In order for more people to listen to podcasts, our starting position ought to be to stop talking about apps."
  • "Tip: Your website is the key to being listed on Google Podcasts, including Google Home, Google Assistant, and Google Pants.¹ Chances are, you’ve tried really hard to get into as many podcast apps as possible."
  • "It’s called Apple Podcasts, and it’s on every single iPhone and iPod."
  • "It’s called Google Podcasts, and it’s on every Android phone.² So, under the play button, we just need a simple and straightforward way to link to something that works on Android and iPhone."
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Key quotes:

  • "This platform gives a lot of possibilities: posts, stories, live video."
  • "If you take a closer look at the data over the time, you’ll see which content and way of its promotion (i.e."
  • "what kind of stories) was the most attractive for your audience."
  • "Look up for questions related to your blog posts or videos, answer with a short explanation and invite Quora users to find out more by giving the link to the whole material."
  • "You don’t even need to copy your article, just put it’s URL so the platform will take it from the website — of course, you can edit it, i.e."
  • "if you only want to share a part of an article and attract users to enter your blog for more."
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