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How to use an AI agent for SEO without losing control of your site
Give the agent real search data, fix your old pages first, publish slowly, and write down what it may never do.
How to test a video idea with five takes before you build a series
Nate Gaffney's five-take trial reel method, and how to turn the idea that survives into a series people follow.
How to make a six-second text reel from footage you already have
The format, eleven openers and caption shape behind our 52 text reels, with the numbers from their first month.
How to plan an Instagram carousel around the one response you want
What 100 carousels from @therishishine show about covers, slide counts and asking for comments, turned into a 12-slide plan.
How to plan a week of content in two hours
A weekly routine you can run in a spreadsheet: save posts with a reason, break them down, plan the week, and review what ran.
How a content team stays on schedule: one hub, short calls and clear escalation
How Tristan Kermode ran content for Iman Gadzhi, cut down to what a smaller business can copy this month.
How to film seven different ads in one session
One customer problem per take, two attempts each, and one correction between them: a filming method from Brandon Willington's ads course.
How to run a creator ad program on a small budget
The useful parts of Wispr Flow's creator ad program and Vadim Strizheus's format tests, resized for a company without venture money.
How to set up a comment-keyword lead magnet
Turn a post into a list: one matching asset, one word, one automated DM with one ask, and a simple count from comment to customer.
Answer the question your customers type into ChatGPT
New customers now say they found us through ChatGPT or Claude. A how-to help guide on trial reels brought signups within two days of going live.
Use trial reels to fix a reel you've already made
Change one thing per test, starting with the opening, and read the retention curve to find where viewers leave. Jamie Brindle tests several edits per post.
The small details that keep your team moving
When an editor stops to ask which opening you want, give them the decision and the reason behind it, and keep both with the script on the project page.
Let them see why it costs more
A stonemason's behind-the-scenes videos helped me choose him at a higher price. If you charge a premium, give customers something concrete to judge it by.
Give people something they already understand
We compare Clipflow to familiar products when it helps someone grasp the workflow. My rules: have a reason, don't run the other business down, be truthful.
Delete the content step you cannot defend
Hormozi asked who decided every video needed color grading, and the room went quiet. Run his three questions on your own pipeline in about an hour.
What was this post supposed to do?
Our broad reels got views, while plain talking-head videos seemed to bring more relevant conversations. I now name a post's job before I check numbers.
Give your team the context to keep content moving
Inline link previews keep a reference beside the script, Instagram collaborators let a partner co-author a post, and the planner now spans organizations.
Trial reels gave us room to experiment
When a concept shows promise, I'd change the hook, music or edit and post it again before moving on. Start with one or two versions.
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