1 1 00:00:00,150 --> 00:00:02,820 I use cards and end screens a lot with my videos 2 2 00:00:02,820 --> 00:00:04,900 and it's a lot of fun to do it as well. 3 3 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:06,350 And so, I was debating whether or not 4 4 00:00:06,350 --> 00:00:08,450 to sit down at the computer and explain this to you 5 5 00:00:08,450 --> 00:00:10,530 or walk in the forest, so I'm going to provide 6 6 00:00:10,530 --> 00:00:12,760 you with images or little video inserts here 7 7 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:14,860 as I describe how to do this. 8 8 00:00:14,860 --> 00:00:19,080 So, what you can do is, when your video is finished, 9 9 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:22,640 at the very end you can put up four or five 10 10 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:27,640 different videos that they can click on, your viewers. 11 11 00:00:28,020 --> 00:00:31,540 And what I usually do is, there's defaults for them, 12 12 00:00:31,540 --> 00:00:33,950 which is what is best for the viewer. 13 13 00:00:33,950 --> 00:00:37,480 Another one is most recent video, I usually do those two. 14 14 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:40,030 And I do two others usually, I think used four, 15 15 00:00:40,030 --> 00:00:41,390 that's right, yeah, four. 16 16 00:00:41,390 --> 00:00:42,847 Another one I like to use is, 17 17 00:00:42,847 --> 00:00:44,440 "Please subscribe." 18 18 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,780 And another one is, one of my cards for one of my products 19 19 00:00:48,780 --> 00:00:50,770 if I'm trying to make money from the video, 20 20 00:00:50,770 --> 00:00:52,640 which is not usually the case. 21 21 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,490 And what I do is, I list just one of my Udemy courses there. 22 22 00:00:56,490 --> 00:00:59,220 So, we've talked about end screens. 23 23 00:00:59,220 --> 00:01:01,290 Let's now talk about cards. 24 24 00:01:01,290 --> 00:01:04,530 So, you could put cards in your videos as well. 25 25 00:01:04,530 --> 00:01:08,370 And cards appear when you see that little I 26 26 00:01:08,370 --> 00:01:11,110 with a circle around it in the top right hand corner. 27 27 00:01:11,110 --> 00:01:14,350 And what happens is, you can set them up 28 28 00:01:14,350 --> 00:01:17,170 so that people will click on your cards 29 29 00:01:17,170 --> 00:01:20,260 when they see them, or click on the information icon. 30 30 00:01:20,260 --> 00:01:22,040 And when somebody clicks on it, 31 31 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,140 it'll take you directly to Udemy 32 32 00:01:24,140 --> 00:01:26,500 or elsewhere, to buy that course. 33 33 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:28,530 And I figured out a way to do this. 34 34 00:01:28,530 --> 00:01:31,629 See, what happens is, you're allowed to link back 35 35 00:01:31,629 --> 00:01:36,629 to your own website, but you're not allowed to 36 36 00:01:36,650 --> 00:01:40,060 link to another website unless it's approved by YouTube. 37 37 00:01:40,060 --> 00:01:42,920 And I hacked around that, and I found a solution. 38 38 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:45,020 And the solution is as follows. 39 39 00:01:45,020 --> 00:01:48,050 You use what's called a code injection, 40 40 00:01:48,050 --> 00:01:51,090 it's JavaScript, on your website. 41 41 00:01:51,090 --> 00:01:52,510 Don't click next video yet, because I'm going 42 42 00:01:52,510 --> 00:01:54,000 to show you how to do it, it's easy. 43 43 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,050 Attached to this current lecture 44 44 00:01:57,638 --> 00:02:00,450 is a file called JavaScript. 45 45 00:02:00,450 --> 00:02:04,410 And if you see here this little video I'm showing you, 46 46 00:02:04,410 --> 00:02:08,940 what you do is, you copy and paste that JavaScript 47 47 00:02:08,940 --> 00:02:12,160 into the header of one of your pages, 48 48 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,430 okay, on your website, if you have a website. 49 49 00:02:14,430 --> 00:02:18,520 And what will happen is, it will create a url forward, 50 50 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,820 so that when somebody clicks from YouTube, 51 51 00:02:21,820 --> 00:02:23,950 through a card or in-screen whatever, 52 52 00:02:23,950 --> 00:02:28,387 directly to your website, the JavaScript will say, 53 53 00:02:28,387 --> 00:02:31,770 "Hey, welcome to our website, I'm sending you here now." 54 54 00:02:31,770 --> 00:02:34,710 And so, a lot of times when people click on my commercials, 55 55 00:02:34,710 --> 00:02:36,800 my little cards in the corner, 56 56 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,590 what will happen is they're sent to Udemy 57 57 00:02:39,590 --> 00:02:41,850 to buy the course, or at least check out the course. 58 58 00:02:41,850 --> 00:02:42,920 How? 59 59 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:45,120 Well they're actually sent to my website first 60 60 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,030 and then with this JavaScript code injection here, 61 61 00:02:49,030 --> 00:02:51,450 you can see this little parameter, that url there, 62 62 00:02:51,450 --> 00:02:53,010 all you have to do is change that. 63 63 00:02:53,010 --> 00:02:57,680 And that is where the link will be redirected to. 64 64 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,854 In terms of how to design these cards, 65 65 00:02:59,854 --> 00:03:02,133 well, we've taught you in this course 66 66 00:03:02,133 --> 00:03:05,070 how to create thumbnail images. 67 67 00:03:05,070 --> 00:03:08,200 And the process is very, very similar for cards. 68 68 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,710 Except the cards, you gotta make it square 69 69 00:03:10,710 --> 00:03:12,720 instead of making it rectangle. 70 70 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,610 And so, go back if you want to, 71 71 00:03:15,610 --> 00:03:17,247 to the lessons where we explain 72 72 00:03:17,247 --> 00:03:20,076 how to use Photoshop, Pixelmator Pro, 73 73 00:03:20,076 --> 00:03:23,970 as well as GIMP and PowerPoint, to make images. 74 74 00:03:23,970 --> 00:03:26,620 And just make your images, those cards, 75 75 00:03:26,620 --> 00:03:28,670 squares instead of rectangles. 76 76 00:03:28,670 --> 00:03:30,210 And then what you can do is, 77 77 00:03:30,210 --> 00:03:34,173 you can have people click on them as they watch your videos. 78 78 00:03:35,010 --> 00:03:39,130 And what I'm gonna do is, later in the course, 79 79 00:03:39,130 --> 00:03:42,600 I'm gonna explain great plugins you can use 80 80 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:43,670 that will save you a lot of time. 81 81 00:03:43,670 --> 00:03:45,876 But I'm gonna explain how to do this right now, as well. 82 82 00:03:45,876 --> 00:03:48,810 So, there's a great program I use, 83 83 00:03:48,810 --> 00:03:50,620 I think it's 10 bucks a month or so, 84 84 00:03:50,620 --> 00:03:52,510 but you can get a free version as well, 85 85 00:03:52,510 --> 00:03:57,050 a great program that I use which is called Tube Buddy. 86 86 00:03:57,050 --> 00:03:59,070 Yeah, Tube Buddy, I remember it now. 87 87 00:03:59,070 --> 00:04:03,690 And what it does is it allows me to copy whatever cards 88 88 00:04:03,690 --> 00:04:06,400 I have on certain videos of mine, or end screens, 89 89 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,700 and paste that across all my videos, 90 90 00:04:08,700 --> 00:04:10,950 or just one video, or two, or whatever it is. 91 91 00:04:10,950 --> 00:04:12,040 So, you can set up templates. 92 92 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,190 It saves you a lot of time, a lot of time. 93 93 00:04:14,190 --> 00:04:16,763 So, check out Tube Buddy if you get a chance.